Archive for 2020
October 9, 2020
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Choose the Form of Your Acne-Covered, Purple-Haired, Face-Pierced Destructor.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is a violent anarchist actually a conservative Republican?
Answer: When the Party requires him to be, Comrade.
Also 2 + 2 = 5. Or 3. Or even sometimes 4. Whatever the Party requires.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- POTUS commands an army of racoons with his mind.
- What do you get when you put Anton Chigurh in drag? The answer will shock you!
- Cuomo and De Blasio force GOP-voting Jews into quarantine, and this map proves it.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
MORE EVIDENCE DEMS SHOULDN’T COUNT THEIR CHICKENS JUST YET: Real Clear Politics’ data wizard Sean Trende does a deep data dive and comes up with a couple of solid reasons polls showing an approaching Biden landslide should be taken with a grain of super skeptical salt.
DON’T GET COCKY. Oh look: 56% of Americans expect Trump to win the election vs. 40% for Biden despite lame polls showing Biden ahead by a zillion points.
As Glenn wrote on Thursday, “Really, don’t get cocky. You should be donating and working on this election, and putting out the max effort, because everything is up for grabs. And encourage your friends to turn out and vote too.”
GEORGE KORDA ON Chris Wallace’s Debate Failure. “There is a debate questioning technique that goes like this: ‘A is true, and B is true, so C must be true.’ However, that’s not necessarily true, particularly when the A and B are opinions or subjective judgments.”
I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN PUTTING LARGE SUMS OF DARK MONEY INTO POLITICS WAS INHERENTLY CORRUPT: Liberal Donors Pass Millions in Secret Election Cash Through Sixteen Thirty Fund.
THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S A SCAM: Public university won’t provide budget or details for its new ‘Anti-Racism Institute.’
END THE LOCKDOWNS: A White House Voice for Science. Scott Atlas, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, tweeted support for the Great Barrington Declaration: “Top scientists all over the world line up with the #Covid_19 policy of @realDonaldTrump. Protect the vulnerable and OPEN schools and society. That is the science!”
Nearly 175,000 people have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for a “focused protection” strategy instead of lockdowns.
GETTING READY FOR A DAWN PATROL: A B-1B Lancer sits on the ramp at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, preparing for a sortie in support of a Bomber Task Force mission. Photo taken Sept. 18, 2020.
A TREATMENT FOR LOCKDOWN MANIA: Is Vitamin D a Silver Bullet? Mikko Paunio, a Finnish epidemiologist, suggests an alternative to lockdowns: encourage everyone to take vitamin D supplements.
I consider it scientifically proven that high levels of vitamin D provide both protection against severe COVID-19, but even more importantly there is strong evidence that high vitamin D levels slow markedly virus circulation and might even provide ‘herd immunity’ to populations, according to a study published a month ago. It is as yet non-peer-reviewed but already can be considered a milestone study. It is a remarkable matched case control study of 52,405 COVID-19 cases and 524,050 matched controls picked up from Clalit Health Services (CHS), which provides comprehensive health services to over 4.6 million members in Israel.
His article appears at Lockdown Skeptics, an oasis of rationality amidst Covid hysteria.
DON SURBER: Andrea Mitchell redefines stupid. “The problem with her is her sense of feminist entitlement. By virtue of her sex, Hillary should have gotten the presidency in 2016. Failing that, Harris should get the vice presidency and then the presidency once Hindenburg, er, Biden is out of the way. . . . But I am really amused by Mitchell’s new definition on mansplaining: If he answers your question, that’s mansplaining. That’s pretty stupid even for a TV celebrity.”
Typical journalism: The biased moderator gave Harris more time than Pence, and she complains that Pence talked too much.
Related: Andrea Mitchell thinks Poland and Germany were allies in World War II.
As taxpayers tire of funding this stuff, we’re told it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Vote Trump or Have Your Freedom Die. “We are on the precipice as a nation right now. We’re faced with a choice between people who value life and liberty and people who want to take your guns, keep you from going to church, and criminalize speech.”
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? WaPo: Defund the Police movement backfiring in cities across the country.
Related: ‘I’m Worried He Will’: Trump Appears Poised To Win Obama Swing Counties North Of Detroit.
That probably explains the strained effort to blame Trump for the anarchist kidnapping conspiracy aimed at Gretchen Whitmer.
DIGITAL COUNTERTERROR OPERATIONS: US seizes Iranian government domains masked as legitimate news outlets.
JOE BIDEN TWEETS DEBUNKED CHARLOTTESVILLE ‘VERY FINE PEOPLE’ HOAX TO BLAME TRUMP FOR MICHIGAN.
Earlier: Suspect Charged in Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Plot Had Anarchist Flag.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): More:
This is a video of Brandon Caserta, one of the ringleaders of the group of men arrested for a plot where the group planned to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Caserta has an anarchist flag behind him and in YouTube videos trashes police. He’s not a Republican, he’s an anarchist. pic.twitter.com/J1vE2qGYL7
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 8, 2020
A STARTUP AIMED AT DISRUPTING HIGHER EDUCATION: OUTLIER.ORG. And note this guarantee: “If you’ve put in the time and effort to do all the work for a course but do not receive a passing grade, that’s on us and you will receive a full refund. You may also exit the course before the drop deadline to receive a full refund.” It’s $400 per course, and you get credit from the University of Pittsburgh. Interesting.
THIS SEEMS MORE RELEVANT THAN MOST POLLS: 56% say we are better off than 4 years ago.