Archive for 2020

YEAH. THE PEOPLE IN THE REGION REVERE HIM STILL. MAYBE WE SHOULD ASK WHY:  Rethinking Pinochet: In Praise of Strength.

And meanwhile, keep using those helicopter emojis. It angers and baffles the left, and that’s all to the good.

 

WE DON’T HAVE A LACK OF CONFIDENCE. WE KNOW FOR A FACT THIS FARCE OF AN ELECTION IS LEADING US TO PUT A FRAUDULENT (AND EXTREME LEFT) GOVERNMENT IN PLACE. WE KNOW THAT THESE PEOPLE WILL NEVER LET US HAVE AN HONEST ELECTION AGAIN:  Senator James Lankford Outlines Concerns With Voter Confidence in 2020 Election Outcome.

You know what could have fixed it? The courts taking the cases and allowing for an examination of the evidence. The fact that cases keep getting dismissed on “standing” issues, and/or delayed indefinitely, and that social media has banned any mention of fraud? It only makes absolutely sure we have no doubts at all that there was massive fraud. Because no honest system would behave the way the left and its surrogates are behaving.  Every time they ban mention of something? It’s because it’s a truth they’re trying to hide.

So, dear Senators, that horse is out of the barn. Now what you have to concern yourselves with is what We The People will do.  It will be multiple surprises. It will be amazing. Just wait.

OH, IT’S NOT OVER ELECTIONS. THOSE WILL BE PRO FORMA IN THE FUTURE, IF THEY PULL THIS OBSCENITY OFF. NO. IT’S TO START STAMPING DOWN ON US WITH THE IDEA THAT EVERYONE WANTS THIS, EVERYONE NEEDS TO OBEY, EVERYONE….  After More Than A Decade Of Divisiveness, Don’t Expect Calls For Unity To Work.

I’ll be the kulak in the corner, holding up my middle fingers till the end.  No unity. No submission. No buy in to the left’s bs.

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

A SHOCKING AND UNFORESEEABLE RESULT: Florida’s Unemployment Claims Decline Sharply As State Remains Open. The Insta-Wife and I spent some time down in Panhandle Florida last week talking to servers, cashiers and others who work in wage-and-tip jobs, and they were all rather smug about Florida remaining open, and they strongly preferred their situation to that in places like California and New York. Their attitude toward those places was a mixture of smugness, and pity.

Plus: “The California experience was especially perplexing. Despite strict COVID-19 rules, the state has set records for new cases all week, including more than 50,000 on Thursday. Florida, with no business restrictions, reported 13,148 new cases.”

#AMAZONSHITCARSHOW RETURNS: The Grand Tour: ‘A Massive Hunt’ gets surprise early release on Amazon Prime.

I watched it last night, and the 4K videography of Madagascar and Réunion Island is spectacular, and the ending(s) did a great job of subverting the show’s compulsory “And on that terrible disappointment” tagline. Lots of fun for fans of Top Gear/the Grand Tour.

COVERING FOR HUNTER BIDEN: Why Americans Distrust the Media.

A majority of voters say the media intentionally buried The Post’s October bombshell about Hunter Biden’s laptop to help his father Joe Biden’s political campaign, a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Tuesday.

The poll found 52 percent of likely voters believe media companies provided scant coverage of the laptop story — which shed light on Hunter’s Ukrainian and Chinese business activities and suggested Joe Biden knew about them, despite his denials — in order to boost Biden’s prospects in the election, then a few weeks off. Only 32 percent disagreed.

Among those who said they followed the news “very closely,” more than three in four (76 percent) say the media ignored the story to help Biden.

A clear majority of voters (56 percent) also think it’s “likely” the president-elect was aware of his son’s ties to a corrupt Ukrainian business and to China, including 43 percent who think it’s “very likely.”

Meanwhile, Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News reveal that top execs at Facebook and Twitter gave tens of thousands of dollars to Biden’s campaign — and “zero” to Team Trump. Many officials, like Facebook’s Erin Egan and Twitter’s James Kelm, gave the maximum, $5,600, to Biden during the primary and general elections. And this follows reports in October that found employees at the two companies sent more than 90 percent of their donations to Democrats.

Can it really just be some freaky coincidence that these plainly pro-Biden Big Tech firms also suppressed a story that might have hurt his prospects? Please.

Their aim was clear: They censored the story, with Twitter even suspending the accounts of those (including this newspaper) trying to share it, to protect him. (Their ideological bias also explains why they tend to “flag” or suppress pro-conservative content generally.)

Last week, Hunter Biden all-but-confirmed the laptop story by admitting the feds were probing him, and Fox News had previously confirmed that the laptop was part of an FBI probe. So there was never any good justification for burying this news. (The “this may be Russian disinformation” excuse never had any basis in fact.)

They’ve taken sides. Treat them like what they are.

ZOOM: 911 Porsche Turbo S does 0-60 in 2.2 seconds. “It’s as easy as turning the drive mode knob on the steering wheel to Sport or Sport Plus. Stop the car. Hold the brake with your left foot and hold down the accelerator with the right until the engine revs to 5000 rpm. Look as far down the road as you can before releasing the brake, and whooaa. Keep it floored for 21.4 seconds and you’ll be going 180 mph. . . . The last time expectations and reality were this tweaked was about a decade ago, and we were behind the wheel of a Bugatti Veyron.”