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Archive for 2020
August 29, 2020
NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS: Trending: Trump’s odds of winning rise to 50-50, first time in 92 days.
But also, don’t get cocky.
MICHELLE OBAMA APPARENTLY NO LONGER PROUD OF HER COUNTRY: Michelle Obama: To white Americans, blacks “don’t exist. And when we do exist, we exist as a threat. And that’s exhausting.”
Related: “As of the 2016 presidential election [Barack] Obama’s total count of 69.5 million votes still stands as the largest tally ever won by a presidential candidate.”
BIAS BY OMISSION: Isn’t it odd that nobody heard about this horrific interracial double murder?
Well, it isn’t that odd these days:
NOT REALLY, NO. Are Social Media Good For Anything At All? “People who are addicted to Twitter are like all addicts—on the one hand miserable, and on the other hand very defensive about it and unwilling to blame Twitter.”
Well, Twitter mostly serves as an amplification system for toxic ideas.
PAUL KRUGMAN HARDEST HIT: Stock market news live updates: Nasdaq, S&P perched at new records; Dow reverses all of coronavirus losses.
Obligatory flashbacks: PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
And from March: GIVEN HIS TRACK RECORD, THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I’VE SEEN IN WEEKS: Paul Krugman: Market signaling a ‘permanent recession.’
YOU SCRATCH OUR BACK, WE’LL SCRATCH YOURS: California officials awarded a $35 million contract for “voter outreach” to a firm with deep ties to former President Barack Obama and his number two, Joe Biden.
The firm’s managing director is Anita Dunn, Obama’s former White House communications director and an admirer of the genocidal Chinese tyrant, Mao Zedong, aka “Chairman Mao.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES WORRIES: What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’? Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions about whether it will translate into electoral success in November. “Most days, the leader board looks roughly the same: conservative post after conservative post, with the occasional liberal interloper. . . . Maybe Mr. Trump’s ‘silent majority,’ in other words, only seems silent because we’re not looking at their Facebook feeds.”
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YES, AND I WANT TO SEE IT VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED: Looting Businesses in Part Because They Are Patronized By / Associated With Racial Group = Hate Crime.
JORDAN PETERSON COULD PROVIDE AN EXPLANATION OF THIS FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT: Survey says people who make their beds get better sleep, have more sex.
IT’S ALL RIGHT. THEY’RE MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Murder hornets and drunken wasps find ‘perfect breeding ground’.
GEE! WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THAT? UK pressures workers to return to the office as cities become ‘ghost towns’.
AT THE RATE THE DEMS ARE DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY, THEY’D BETTER BE: Is Gen Z more frugal than older generations?
OH, LOOK. THERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE! Joe Biden Finally Addresses Riots and Violence One Day After CNN Warns of Bad Polling.
TAKE THIS AWARD AND SHOVE IT, I AIN’T WRITING HERE NO MORE: J.K. Rowling returns Kennedy family award over ‘transphobic’ tweet controversy.
THIS IS A TIME OF WONDERS AND MIRACLES. WHO KNEW THE NYT COULD DO ANY KIND OF REAL JOURNALISM? NY Times reconstruction of Kenosha-Rittenhouse shootings points to potential self-defense.
NOT IF WE SEND THEM TO THE CORNFIELD: “It’s a Good Life” — the left is narcissism in action.
WELL, SHE WASN’T STUPID: Agatha Christie — the Nostradamus of the year 2020.
AS AN UNRECONSTRUCTED HEINLEINIAN, I KNOW THAT HUMANS WERE BORN TO STRIVE. IT’S NOT CHILDREN WHO GET RUINED BY HAVING THEIR LIVES MADE TOO EASY: That Universal Basic Income Nonsense.
HAVING BEEN PUSHED SO FAR OUT OF HER DEPTH THAT SHE’S SOMEWHERE MID-ATLANTIC, WHAT CAN SHE DO BUT FEEL RESENTMENT? Michelle O and the Giant Chip on Her Shoulder .
AS SOMEONE WHO STEPPED OUT OF LINE AND HAS PAID THE PRICE (AND HOW), THIS RESEARCHER IS MY BROTHER OF ANOTHER MOTHER. WE CAN’T LET THIS GO ON. YES, THE FIRST ONES TO STEP OUT WILL GET HIT HARD. BUT IF WE DON’T STEP OUT, THE WEST IS DOOMED. AND LIKELY HUMANITY WITH IT. IT’S TIME. COME OUT, COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE: “Civil War Brewing” at Sandia National Nuclear Laboratories as Scientist RebelS Over Racial Marxist Struggle Sessions.