Archive for 2020
December 6, 2020
OLD AND BUSTED: Is Paris Burning?
The New Hotness? When Isn’t Paris Burning? Windows have been smashed and cars have been set on fire in Paris as protests erupt against a new security law.
DAN CRENSHAW HAS AN EPIC RESPONSE TO AOC’S DIG THAT REPUBLICANS DON’T UNDERSTAND HARD WORK:
“AOC says Republicans just ‘sit around on leather chairs all day’ while she has had a ‘difficult working-class job’ as a bartender,” Saavedra said. “Republicans Dan Crenshaw, Brian Mast, and Jim Baird all lost limbs for this country while AOC cried in a refrigerator because she got an order wrong.”
“One of the hardest decisions I ever had to make in the mountains of Afghanistan: still or sparkling? That was the moment I knew true hardship,” Crenshaw quipped.
“As one Twitter user commented, AOC may ‘need medical help for this burn.’”
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: China is creating “biologically enhanced super soldiers” and has already done “human testing.”
#JOURNALISM: USA Today Is Now Using Liberal College Kids To Censor Media They Dislike. “An alliance between Big Tech and leftist papers to suppress dissent is a deeply sinister thing. The amount of scorn required for this already troubling work to then be outsourced to partisan college kids is incredible.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: Biden, Harris pledge to keep politics out of DOJ.
—The Hill, Thursday.
● Chaser: Kamala Harris: Violent attack on ‘Empire’ star [Jussie Smollett] is ‘attempted modern day lynching.’
—The Hill, January 29, 2019.
MICHAEL BARONE: DEMOCRATS SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISED THAT TRUMP SUPPORTERS AREN’T ROLLING OVER:
In 1960, Richard Nixon chose to observe that norm and not challenge results in multiple states. In 2000, Al Gore contested the results in Florida but conceded after the final court ruling and segued to issue advocacy.
Not so in 2016. In violation of longstanding norms, Obama administration intel and law-enforcement agencies spied on the opposition party campaign. Officials proffered the dodgy Steele dossier before the FISA court without revealing it was paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
In violation of longstanding norms, Democrats refused to accept the result as legitimate. “I will not accede to this. I will resist,” tweeted liberal think tank head Neera Tanden (President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to head the Office of Management and Budget) five days after the election. Democrats took to calling themselves “the Resistance,” suggesting the Trump administration was morally equivalent to the pro-Hitler Vichy regime in France.
Again and again, leading Democrats — Hillary Clinton, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the late Rep. John Lewis, Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter — called Trump an “illegitimate” president. For three years, Democrats advanced the Russia-collusion hoax without finding or producing any evidence except for the discredited Steele dossier.
Joe McCarthy had the limp excuse that at some point, there were some communists in the State Department. Democrats and their many allies in the news media lacked a similar excuse for propagating the Russia-collusion hoax.
“I learned it from you!”
More (From Ed):
December 5, 2020
OBVIOUSLY, IT’S BECAUSE MEN ARE MORE PUBLIC-SPIRITED AND SELF-SACRIFICING THAN WOMEN: Why Are Fewer Women Than Men Planning to Get a Covid-19 Vaccine?
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OPEN THREAD: Don’t seem right, I’ve been commenting here all night.
MEANWHILE A CHINESE PROBE IS RETURNING SAMPLES FROM THE MOON: Japan is bringing pieces of an asteroid to Earth this weekend.
MICHAEL YON ON MEDIA: Take the handle off the Broadstreet Pump.
GO AHEAD, JUMP! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LIVE FOR ANYWAY: Coaxing cancer cells to commit suicide.
NOW SHIPPING FROM AMAZON, Joe Pappalardo’s Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner’s Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History.
HAVE YOU TOLD VAN MORRISON LATELY THAT YOU LOVE HIM? “‘I’m not telling people what to do or think,’ Morrison noted in a statement, ‘the government is doing a great job of that already. It’s about freedom of choice, I believe people should have the right to think for themselves.’ Not everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone agrees.”
WE ALL WANT THINGS: Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine. “Epidemiologists are free to take whatever precautions they deem necessary in their own lives, of course—as are the rest of us. But for too long, their pessimistic dictates have provided cover for politicians and government employees to make people’s lives miserable.”
MICHAEL BARONE: Democrats are now reaping the whirlwind of their 2016 election ‘Resistance.’ “Democrats who are dismayed that many Americans aren’t meekly accepting the legitimacy of the Biden presidency are in the process of learning a lesson taught a very long time ago. You reap what you sow.”