PSYOPS, NOT PSYCHO: The Media Is Absolutely Wacko for Claiming Kamala Harris Is a ‘Moderate.’
Archive for 2020
August 14, 2020
FLASHBACK: U.S. Woefully Unprepared for a Blackout Like India’s: Analysis.
Last week, India suffered two huge blackouts. Tuesday’s cut power to 370 million people; another one on Wednesday blacked out 670 million people, making it the worst blackout in the history of humanity.
Talking about this with a colleague, I said, “Don’t worry. That can’t happen here.” “Why not?” she asked. “Because we don’t have 670 million people,” I replied.
This wasn’t the comfort she was looking for.
Think resilience.
YOU WENT FULL O’BRIEN. NEVER GO FULL O’BRIEN: Math Professor: The ‘2+2=4 Trope … Reeks of White Supremacist Patriarchy.’
OVER THE TARGET, TAKING FLAK: China accuses US of ‘smearing’ Confucius Institutes after designating them a foreign mission.
AS I’VE WRITTEN BEFORE, I THINK WE SHOULD OWN THE GADGETS WE BUY: Always read the fine print? GM Super Cruise only free for three years. “It turns out the advanced hands-free driving system requires a subscription.”
Here’s a Popular Mechanics column I wrote about this sort of thing, a while back.
HE HAS A PEN AND A PHONE: Can Trump Cut Taxes Without Congress?
WE’LL NEVER BE RID OF HER: Hillary Clinton says she would accept job in Biden administration.
THREAD: “The federal government’s premier nuclear research lab hosted a 3-day reeducation camp for ‘white males,’ with the goal of exposing their ‘white privilege’ and deconstructing ‘white male culture.’ Here are the leaked documents from the race-segregated, taxpayer-funded session.”
HOW YOU KNOW TRUMP’S MIDDLE EAST AGREEMENT IS A HUGE SUCCESS: Biden Seeks Credit for US-Brokered Israel-UAE Agreement: ‘I Personally Spent Time …’
Well, claiming credit for someone else’s work is exactly what we’d expect from a serial plagiarist, right?
Flashback, InstaPundit March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM, SEXISM, MISOGYNY, AND HATE? New Biden Arizona Hire Tweets Show Racist, Sexist, And Anti-Cop Tendencies.
Some examples:
Flashback: Obama speechwriter photographed groping Hillary Clinton likeness.
I mean, who could’ve seen that coming when it started out with things like this scene, involving Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau:
HAPPY TITLE IX DAY! Words I thought I would never write, but it is good news in Title IX-land today, as the new federal regulations, which protect free speech and due process for students, go into effect.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR: Why are Democrat-run cities such cesspits of racism?
“People talk about implicit racism or systemic racism: rhe racism in this country, look no further than our public education system,” Barr said during an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. “That’s a racist system maintained by the Democratic party and the teachers union, keeping inner city kids in failing schools instead of putting the resources in the hands of the parents to choose the schools to send their kids to. That’s empowering kids, that’s giving them a future.”
He’s right, you know.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Nuke Lab Goes Nuclear on White Men, Minneapolis Says ‘F— You, Pay Me.’
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s the fastest way to ruin a weekend getaway at a tony resort?
Answer: Turn it into a mandatory self-loathing session on race.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
• Minneapolis tries going full Goodfellas on property owners.
• BLM wants to indulge in a little ethnic cleansing.
• Hong Kong crackdown? What Hong Kong crackdown?
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
GRAND REOPENING: AMC movie theaters will reopen on Aug. 20 with 15-cent tickets.
ANTI-IMMIGRANT RACISM IS EVERYWHERE: Fordham University bans pro-freedom Chinese immigrant from campus without an escort.
U.S. “SEIZES” IRANIAN TANKERS: Why the italics? It’s a sanctions seizure, not a sailor boarding party.
…U.S. officials threatened ship owners, insurers and captains with sanction to force them to hand over their cargo, which now becomes U.S. property, the official said.
Prosecutors alleged the four ships were transporting to Venezuela 1.1 million barrels of gasoline. But the tankers never arrived at the South American country and then went missing. Two of the ships later reappeared near Cape Verde, a second U.S. official said.
Both officials agreed to discuss the sensitive diplomatic and judicial offensive only if granted anonymity.
More:
One of the companies involved in the shipment to Venezuela, the Avantgarde Group, was previously linked to the Revolutionary Guard and attempts to evade U.S. sanctions, according to prosecutors.
Venezuela calls it psychological warfare. Yes, and lawfare, diplomatic, economic and information warfare elements as well. Think of it as an American power cocktail.
I LINKED THIS STORY ON ECONOMIC DAMAGE FROM THE CORONAVIRUS EARLIER, but this graphic is worth breaking out, especially since there are some people trying to claim that the U.S. response has been uniquely bad because #OrangeManBad.
The U.S. has done much better than its peer and near-peer nations at limiting economic damage, and it’s done so without maintaining a higher death rate — in fact, there doesn’t seem to be any correlation here between economic damage and death rate.
