YOU CAN TELL WHO’S ON THE PAYROLL, OR AT LEAST ON THE TEAM: Dems Water Down China Provisions in Defense Bill.
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December 19, 2020
CANCEL CULTURE CLAIMS ANOTHER SCALP: NY Times Assistant Who Edited Cotton’s ‘Send in the Troops’ Column Resigns.
The New York Times staffer who edited Sen. Tom Cotton’s infamous “Send in the Troops” column has resigned from the paper more than six months after its publication.
Adam Rubenstein, a young editorial assistant who previously worked at The Weekly Standard, was thrust into the media spotlight last summer after the Times itself reported that he edited the notorious June submission in which Cotton called for the feds to deploy American troops into cities to suppress protests against police brutality. The column sparked a staff-wide revolt and prompted the resignation of opinions editor James Bennet.
Rubenstein left the newspaper this week, The Daily Beast has confirmed. His exit was announced—with little fanfare—in an internal Slack channel for Times staffers on Thursday. Neither Rubenstein nor the newspaper immediately responded to a request for comment.
I don’t know if Rubenstein considers himself a conservative, or merely worked at the Standard as a stepping-stone to the DNC-MSM, in the same way that Jennifer Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Dave Weigel, and Oliver Darcy all got their start at right-leaning outlets. But merely having the Standard on his resume and publishing an editorial with a viewpoint that 58 percent of Americans agree with made him a man with an enormous target on his back at the Times. Once again, the amount of acceptable opinion shrinks ever-tightly at the far left, and safetyism-obsessed Gray Lady, as Bari Weiss noted before she too departed:
Some thoughts from the Times’ new owner:
All is happening in accordance with the prophecy:
BIDEN EXPECTED TO GET CORONAVIRUS VACCINATION EARLY NEXT WEEK:
Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this month that he would be “happy to” receive a coronavirus vaccine once Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said it was safe, and that he would get the injection in a public setting to demonstrate his confidence in it. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris also said in the interview that she would get the vaccine.
“Unexpectedly,” look at what’s missing from this CNN article, Harris’ earlier anti-vax rants such as this one: “If Donald Trump tells us we should take it, then I’m not taking it.”
YOU KNOW HIS FOREIGN POLICY HAS BEEN A SUCCESS BECAUSE THE PRESS NEVER TALKS ABOUT IT: Trump’s Legacy of Peace.
Just imagine how this triumph would be reported if it had been achieved by a Democratic president. But they didn’t achieve it, partly because they didn’t actually want to. Remember, you can’t spell “triumph” without “Trump!”
December 18, 2020
OF COURSE NOT. ONLY AMERICAN CITIZENS WILL BE REQUIRED TO SHOW VACCINE PASSPORTS BECAUSE REASONS.
FLASHBACK: Jeb Bush: I intend to shake up Washington.
OPEN THREAD: Share your joy.
“BLUE DRESS PROOF:” What it takes to get the media to believe a Democrat did wrong.
Or at least to admit it. I think the Clinton/Lewinsky affair was a real turning point with the press. When it first broke, I remember Sam Donaldson saying that if it was true, obviously Clinton would have to resign. But within a few days the Democrats, very much including the press, had circled the wagons around Clinton and were willing to recycle any pro-Clinton talking point, and scoff at anything that hurt Clinton, in a way that was, at the time, unprecedentedly brazen.
SPACE FORCE CREW WILL BE CALLED GUARDIANS.
DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE. U.S. charges China-based Zoom executive with disrupting Tiananmen crackdown commemorations.
PROMOTED – RESEARCHERS GRAFT ABORTED BABY SCALP TISSUE ONTO RATS: This may come as a shock, but human skin and hair grafted onto a white rat will grow. Next question: Where does this go next … and where does it end, if at all?
ROGER SIMON: The ‘Deplorables’ Must Cement Control of the Republican Party.
Reading Glenn Reynolds’ heartening article in the NY Post —“It’s time for the ‘Deplorables’ to become the Unconquerables”—inspired me to say something I’ve been thinking for a while.
It’s time for the “Deplorables” fully to take over the Republican Party.
Some have suggested starting a new party—and I can understand that, given the frustrations—but why go to the trouble when you have the numbers to have all the power?
An existing party apparatus is sitting there and is there for the taking. Let’s do it.
Just to be clear—who do I mean by the “deplorables”?
They are the decent, hard-working Americans of all classes that revere our democratic republic and our founding documents and deplore (in the real sense of the word) the Deep State and the dominance of Washington DC over our lives.
They reject bureaucracy, the uni-party of insiders, and the dangerous Orwellian pervasiveness of Big Tech and its social media tentacles replete with censorship and thought control.
They also seek to preserve liberty and the capitalist system of open markets, while opposing, with all their strength, the incursions of socialism and communism into our country through the influence of the Communist Party of China and others on and in our media, religious institutions, entertainment and educational system.
Above all, they adamantly support our Bill of Rights with freedom of speech and worship and the right to bear arms impregnable.
As of now, these “deplorables” are at least seventy-four million strong—and are, in essence, more unified than any other group, even though sometimes they do not realize it.
This movement is only partly about Donald Trump. He can be looked upon as a founding father of this renewal of American values but, as he himself has said on multiple occasions, this is about us.
In any case, like all of us, Trump will not be here forever, even if he ultimately wins the 2020 election or runs again in 2024.
New leadership must be found and, in the tradition of Trump, we should be free to look outside the political class, just as our founders hoped.
In fact, that should be a hallmark of this renewed Republican Party, bringing forth candidates from all contributing walks of American life.
New perspectives will work to the benefit of all. In actuality, conservatives are the more natural innovators—as Trump demonstrated in the Middle East, for example—liberals and progressives the conformists.
This does not mean that professional politicians should necessarily be excluded. They should be evaluated, as all should be, and not given a laissez-passer to a position of power.
A good starting point in this evaluation of the existing political class is their reactions to the 2020 election. Those who quickly opted for a “business as usual” response that was and is not merited should be disdained and replaced.
Political power in our culture has become, has been for years, a passageway to wealth.
The new Republican Party should be the party Cincinattus, of those who come to serve the public good temporarily before returning to their private lives, not to profit from a lengthy sojourn in the nation’s capitol.
We should consequently encourage term limits.
In what now seems like a distant America, Democratic house speaker Tip O’Neill told us “All politics is local.” He was right then, but only partially right now in the internet age.
Nevertheless, we must act locally, taking over as many state and city Republican Party institutions as possible. This must be begun immediately as the forces of reaction and stasis—call them RINOs, NeverTrumpers or whatever you want—are moving in quickly to take advantage of a likely illusory Biden victory. . . . While many are depressed over a stolen election, as Reynolds pointed out in his article, a rebirth can come from it. Whatever evil has occurred, we—the “deplorables”—have shown ourselves to be the most united force extant and the most powerful, should we choose to take it.
They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.
LOCKDOWNS AND BANKRUPTCIES ARE BAD FOR MENTAL HEALTH: U.S. drug overdose deaths reach record highs.
THE EXPERTS KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING. JUST ASK THE EXPERTS. California Reports Record COVID Cases and Deaths—Despite Strict Lockdown.
INNOCENT PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS BEHAVE THIS WAY, OR COURSE. TOTALLY. THIS IS MY CREDULOUS FACE: Maricopa County election board defies state subpoenas.
What do you mean you have a right to check the integrity of the elections, peasant? Get on your knees and kowtow to your betters! They have nothing to hide. That’s why they won’t allow you to look at anything.
THAT’S JUST WHAT WE WERE ALL HOPING FOR: 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Gets a Lot More Expensive.
OPERATION WARP SPEED, ANOTHER TRUMP TRIUMPH: President Trump tweets the Moderna vaccine has been ‘overwhelmingly approved.’