THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE WHY OF THE BLATANT ELECTION THEFT AND INSISTENCE WE ALL ACCEPT IT: Their purpose is not to convince us, but to humiliate us and break our spirit.
Repeat after me, so you know what to say when the left insists that you shut up and cosplay one of their true believers: “Behold my middle fingers. I have a matched set.”
YEP, INDEED. ALL MASKS ARE OFF: Cyber Big Brother: Conservatives Silenced, Trump Deranged Stars Given Pass.
I NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME IN MY ACCOUNT THERE: The Domino Effect of Mark Levin Leaving Facebook For Parler.
REMEMBER YOU’RE AMERICANS: When The King Comes Home.
FIGHT THE POWER: One Knoxville bar owner’s fight against the 10 p.m. curfew.
There’s no science or data to support the curfew.
CHINA’S BIO-ECONOMIC WORLD WAR: Communist China Lied; Millions of Human Beings Died.
The Chinese Communist Party’s COVID-19/Wuhan virus disinformation campaign (cover-up) rates as 2020’s biggest Big Lie. By any measure, especially body count, the CCP committed 2020’s most consequential and deadliest falsehood.
Read the whole thing.
NASHVILLE JUST ISN’T VERY WELL RUN: Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows.
OPEN THREAD: Why? Because I like you.
Imagine a scenario, if you will, in which Dr Anthony Fauci is your personal physician, and he comes to you with news about your sickness. It could be pneumonia. It could be cancer. His first assessment is to inform you that you aren’t really that sick and this treatment won’t really do much for you. Then six months later, as you get sicker, he tells you to strenuously begin treating yourself with the very thing he said you did not need. Now imagine another scenario in which the good doctor tells you he was not being truthful with you because he tells you in his gut, you were not ready to hear the truth about how sick you were, but now that you are further along in your sickness and treatment, he can finally be honest with you about steps needed to mitigate your sickness. This would not be acceptable for you or your family. It should not be acceptable for the country as a whole. We shouldn’t live in a health-propaganda state.
I’m willing to give President Joe Biden and his newly appointed team of professionals a chance to come in and manage the response to this virus. That is what the country chose and voted for. But like Deborah Birx before him, Fauci has proven himself untrustworthy. Let him retire or go fully embrace his media darlingdom. He seems more intent on pleasing than being honest with his patients. However, his patient this year has been the country, and he’s lied to us too many times.
Flashback: Fauci resists Republican effort to turn testimony against protesters, as Reuters approvingly noted in July.
BIGOTRY IN DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: The War Against the Haredim: Yeshiva education and the last bastion of legitimate prejudice.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Pennsylvania Republicans find ‘alarming discrepancy’ twice the margin of Biden’s victory. “According to the GOP analysis, county election results showed 6,962,607 total ballots were reported as being cast, while the SURE system indicated that only 6,760,230 total voters actually voted, which is a difference of 202,377 votes. The Republicans said this 202,377 gap, coupled with 31,547 fewer presidential race votes seen in county data, amounts to ‘an alarming discrepancy’ of 170,830 votes, which is more than twice the reported statewide difference between Biden and Trump.”
MICHAEL WALSH: A Perfect Storm Seeks Destruction of the US.
As I’ve long said, on the left there is no idea too stupid or inimical for them to take seriously and act upon—that’s the very essence of so-called Critical Theory—and we ignore these lunatics at our continued peril. For them, too much is never enough, and once they’ve fixed a destructive “principle”—Homer must go!—in their minds, there is no other cultural destination than straight off the cliff and into the wine-red sea for everybody.
Again, no surprise: The ideological bowdlerization of our cultural patrimony has been going on for decades; as a young critic nearly 50 years ago I observed that, once started on their project of revisionism and revenge, the iconoclastic cultural sappers wouldn’t rest until they had exhumed all the deceased objects of their animosity and hanged their corpses. I stand by the prophecy.
I’m often asked: Once they’ve accomplished the destruction of Western civilization in the name of the “marginalized,” with what do they propose to replace it? Ancient Chaldea? Ming Dynasty China? Wakanda? Or the Amazonian wonderland of Wonder Woman?
My answer, like Michael Corleone’s to Senator Geary, is this: nothing. Or, to quote another famous movie line, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
And so, in the name of “health,” they mask and muzzle us, restrict our freedom of movement and faith in the open defiance of the Constitution, vilify our culture, proscribe our words and thoughts, erase the canons of our arts and literature, destroy the middle class and their sources of livelihood, and tell us it’s for our own good. Because we’re so incorrigibly bad.
They’re not just trying to cancel Odysseus, or Shakespeare, or even Trump anymore, they’re trying to cancel you. What are you going to do about it?
Michael’s new book is Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost, and is currently Amazon’s #1 new release in Military Strategy History. As Richard Fernandez writes in his review, “The central idea in Walsh’s book is that a civilization’s ability to find meaning in its particular existence is a proxy of its capacity to survive. For without this sense of meaning, death would be truly victorious unless one could still cheat it with transcendence in ‘the hope of something afterward.’”
YOU MAY THINK YOU’RE AN EXPERT IN THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT, BUT ACTUALLY YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT: The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real: The darling of those who wish to explain why incompetent people don’t know they’re unskilled, the Dunning-Kruger effect may actually just be a data artefact.
CHANGE: The Domino Effect of Mark Levin Leaving Facebook For Parler. “The follower count is key. Levin has 4.2 million followers on Parler, which is more than his 2.8 million on Twitter or 1.6 million on Facebook. While Twitter and Facebook have more accounts, Parler’s users are highly engaged and responsive. To figures like Levin, engagement and monetization are of much greater importance than the raw number of accounts a platform reaches.”
Should I put InstaPundit on Parler?
FIGHTING THE POWER: Shunned, Shattered, Shamate: A New Film Spotlights China’s Most Hated Subculture. “Other figures in the film tell of how factories would treat new recruits to parties and meals during the first few weeks after their arrival, encouraging them to message friends back in their home villages and explain what a great time they were having. Once a new influx of workers arrived, the parties and meals abruptly stopped and they were put to work in often dangerous, unfailingly monotonous conditions.”
Comedy gold like this needn’t worry too much about being cancelled.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Quadriplegic patient uses brain signals to feed himself with two advanced prosthetic arms.
THE LOCKDOWNS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: California stay-at-home order update: Southern California, San Joaquin Valley restrictions extended indefinitely as ICU capacity remains at 0%.
CALIFORNIA SENATE: California Legislative Counsel Legal Opinion Disputes Constitutionality Of Alex Padilla Appointment Without Election. “Notably, Sen. Kamala Harris has not yet resigned her U.S. Senate seat.”
I’VE NOTICED THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CHECK BOTH ARMS ARE THE EXAMINERS FOR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES: Blood pressure often differs widely between two arms. “Blood pressure readings between the two arms can be different, and that disparity can sometimes be a warning sign of heart trouble down the road. That’s the finding of an analysis of 24 past studies: When people have at least a 5-point difference in blood pressure between the two arms, their risk of heart attack, stroke or premature death inches up. And the greater the difference, the more those risks climb.”
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