STANDOFF REPORTED OVER: Twitter backs down, unlocks NY Post’s account.
Twitter backed down Friday in its battle with The Post and unlocked its main account after a two-week stalemate over its Hunter Biden exposé.
The Post never deleted the tweets during the standoff.
Jake Tapper hardest hit: Principled CNN Journalist Jake Tapper Tells NY Post to Bow to Twitter’s Demands, Gets Wrecked in Response.
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Yikes! Can You Translate Biden’s Latest Gibberish?
SO EVERYTHING WE SEE WAS THE PRODUCT OF A SORT OF MENTAL MASTURBATION? EXPLAINS A LOT. New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence.
PANIC A LIBERAL, SHOW THEM THIS VIDEO OF MINORITY KIDS FOR TRUMP: From Campus Reform. Might want to have an ER on hand, though.
ROSETTA WEPT: Yikes! Can You Translate Biden’s Latest Gibberish?
JOHN PIPER IS A FAMOUS THEOLOGIAN, KYLEE ZEMPEL IS NOT: Piper made a lot of disruptive waves in conservative and evangelical circles last week with his essay entitled “Policies, Persons and Paths to Ruin.” Essentially, Piper is mystified by Christians who vote for Trump despite his abundant and obvious character flaws.
Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist where her official bio says nothing about her holding any theological degrees. Be that as it may, Zempel takes Piper’s arguments apart and leaves them in a scattered pile on the floor. Her basic critique is seen in these two graphs:
“Piper’s framing is at best problematic and at worst intellectually dishonest, for he doesn’t make an appropriate comparison. Piper doesn’t juxtapose Trump’s character with Biden’s character or Trump’s policies with Biden’s policies. Instead, he compares Trump’s immoral character with Biden’s immoral policies.
“It’s here that he finds himself ‘baffled’ that Christians don’t take Trump’s character seriously. Many Christians, however, refuse to equate these two unequal realms. Character should be weighed against character, and policy against policy. Piper’s value judgment comes at the disposal of Trump’s policy victories, many of which are advantageous to those pursuing godliness, and at the oversight of Biden’s demonstrably depraved character.”
If the brutal clarity of this piece is indicative of what to expect from Zempel in the future, we should all take note and look forward to her future work.
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Watch a Self-Driving Race Car Crash before It Starts.
HERE WE GO AGAIN? Anti-Trumpers Worry About a Potential Repeat of 2016.
TODD HENDERSON: Court-Packing is Unconstitutional.
TO BE FAIR, HE’S A TERRIBLE PERSON AND THEY’RE PROBABLY BETTER OFF: CNN’s Don Lemon Brags About Abandoning His Friends for Disagreeing With Him. “Imagine being cut out of Don Lemon’s life for disagreeing with him. What a bad deal for his friends, huh? Who wouldn’t leap at the chance to repent and be welcomed back into the warmth of his embrace?”
ANDREW CUOMO, GRANDMA-KILLER: DOJ Expands Probe of COVID-19 Deaths in New York Nursing Homes.
“HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY PATRIOTISM!”: Remember when that question was on the lips of so many left-of-center elected officials? It turns out that almost a third of Democrats don’t have a positive view of the United States of America. By contrast, 95% of Republicans do, according to the poll conducted by YouuGov.
WELL, IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT BE LOOTED BY “PEACEFUL PROTESTERS,” THIS MAKES SENSE: Walmart Removes Guns and Ammo From Store Displays, Citing Potential ‘Unrest.’
Related: Two Birds With One Stone: Man Protests Racial Injustice, Completes Christmas Shopping In One Trip.
WHEN THE HEADLINE DOESN’T MATCH THE ARTICLE: “Biden did not eulogize former KKK ‘grand wizard,’” AP “reports,” but notes six paragraphs in that ‘As a young man in West Virginia, Byrd recruited members to a local KKK chapter and was elected to the post of ‘exalted cyclops’ according to his 2005 autobiography.”
It’s come to this: in order to help drag Biden over the finish line, AP is doing cleanup work for a former “grand wizard” “exalted cyclops” of the Klan.
THE CONSTITUTION GENERALLY AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT SPECIFICALLY WERE WRITTEN TO STOP WOULD-BE TYRANTS LIKE JOE BIDEN: Biden Pledges to Gut Religious Freedom Protections, Saying They Give ‘Hate’ a ‘Safe Harbor.’
WOW: Lockheed to research air-dropped packaged missiles in $25M contract. “Initial studies show that airlifters have the potential to deploy large quantities of Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range missiles, providing a significant increase in long-range standoff scale and complementing traditional strike and bomber aircrafts.”
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