DESIGNER FACE MASK: $185; SIGNALLING YOUR VIRTUE AND WEALTH? PRICELESS!  Sensible and chic: the $185 luxury face mask from Belgium.

Who said Covid Karens can’t have more money than sense?

YOU KNOW, I’M WILLING TO MAKE THE SACRIFICE FOR MY HEALTH. AS, I’M SURE, ARE MOST WOMEN:  Eating chocolate weekly cuts risk of heart disease, study says.

THIS OUGHT TO DO WONDERS FOR CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY’S GRADUATE PLACEMENT:  Largest US public university system requires ethnic studies.

I REMAIN UNCONVINCED THAT CLOSING THE SCHOOLS HURTS AMERICANS. MOST KIDS CAN BE MORE LITERATE SIMPLY FROM HANGING OUT ALL DAY, AND NOTE I’M NOT SAYING THEY’LL LEARN TO READ THAT WAY, BUT THEN A LOT OF THEM DON’T LEARN THAT IN SCHOOL. HOWEVER THE LEFT’S WILLINGNESS TO HURT AMERICANS TO WIN HAS BEEN VERY OBVIOUS FOR DECADES:  Hurting Americans to Beat Trump.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  La La Land Congress Wants To Give Billions To Public Schools To Stay Closed.

LOOK HOW SHOCKED MY FACE IS. WHAT DO YOU THINK 2020 HAS BEEN ABOUT BUT KEEPING THE RIPE SEWER OF OBAMA’S MISDEEDS FROM COMING TO GENERAL ATTENTION?  Declassified Documents Show FBI Used ‘Defensive’ Briefing In 2016 To Spy On Donald Trump.

THEY’VE BEEN DOINGN THAT FOR DECADES. I THINK IT BACKFIRES:  Politicized Entertainment: Networks Launch TV Shows Inspired by Black Lives Matter.

I THINK THIS IS A MISTAKE:  Trump Cancels In-Person Jacksonville Republican National Convention.

IT’S ORWELLIAN LANGUAGE ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Media, Portland Mayor Mischaracterize Assault on Federal Courthouse as “Protests”.

CORN POP AND MORT THE WART…  I DON’T KNOW GUYS… IS HOLLYWOOD GOING CRAZY ON THESE REMAKES? I’M SURPRISED ONE OF THEM HASN’T DECIDED HE’S TRANS. ISN’T THE NEW HOTNESS GENDER-FLIPPING ROLES:  Socially Distant Biden/Obama Campaign Video.

THIS APPLIES TO ALL PARENTS. WAY BACK WE WERE TOLD TO STOP GIVING OUR KIDS WHITE PRIVILEGE BY BUYING THEM BOOKS ON WHATEVER THEY WERE INTERESTED IN:  Dear White Parents, Stop Caring About Your Children.

As you can guess, we didn’t listen.  (Even if my husband wouldn’t let me display my matched collection of middle fingers — two! two! — for the teacher’s benefit. Sigh. I had to marry a proper New Englander, didn’t I?)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS? WAGING WAR? TOOLS? I’M LAYING DOWN THE BET ON “LOVE” AS HOW WE BECAME HUMANS:  The Ape Who Loves.

MORE TYPOS THAN I’M USED TO FROM THIS POSTER, BUT ESSENTIALLY CORRECT:   How to Step in it By the Numbers.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, Larry Correia’s scorching reply to lefties who ask why gun owners aren’t rushing to confront feds in Portland, etc. Here’s an excerpt, but do read it all:

But I’ve seen this sentiment a lot too over the last few days, so please if you are so incredibly fucking dumb that you are actually wondering why America’s gun culture aren’t commuting into the democrat cities you have banned us from in order to get into gun fights with the National Guard on your behalf, allow me to elaborate.
Hypothetical Liberal “Ally” Who Lives in the Suburbs Which Aren’t On Fire – “Hey, gun owners! Here is some civil unrest! Why won’t you come and help us?”
Snort. Fuck off. 😀
“Pussies! Why not?”
Well, every single gun nut in America has spent their entire adult life being continually mocked, insulted, and belittled by the left. You’ve done nothing but paint us as the bad guys.
In Hollywood, we’re always evil, stupid, violent, malicious, redneck, racist, murderers. That’s so ingrained in the liberal religion that when “ally” Harvey Weinstein was trying to get out of being a sleazy rapist, his repentance consisted of promising to make more movies about how the NRA is bad.
In the news, everything is always our fault. If there is a mass murder, we can always count on the vultures to swoop in and blame America’s gun culture. They flog it for weeks on end, 24/7 coverage, hoping for gun control. And if the identity of the shooter doesn’t fit the narrative, it drops off the news in mere hours.
And then at the local, state, and federal level, legally speaking, the left fucks us at every opportunity. You ban everything you can get away with. You ban things that literally make no sense. You ban shit just out of spite.
When we fight back against gun control laws, you declare we are stupid because only the police should have guns (hey, aren’t those the guys you are protesting right now?)
“Stupid racist rednecks! We live in a civilized society! Don’t you realize the police will protect us?” until when your democrat cities are on fire, and you call 911 and the operator tells you sorry, the police can’t come to your house right now, please try not to get murdered… How is that strict gun control working out for you?
Then you did everything in your power to chase gun owners out of your sainted liberal strongholds. You passed laws. You banned everything we like. Forced all the shooting ranges to close. Forced most of the gun stores to close. And just generally let us know that our kind is not welcome there.
But now you’ve started some shit, YOU want US to go into democrat cities, with democrat mayors, and democrat police chiefs enforcing democrat policies which cause strife among democrats, in order to get into gun fights on your behalf?
How fucking gullible do you think we are? 😀 Like holy shit. Damn dude! . . .

Liberal “allies” are quick to call gun nuts the bad guys, but we’re not trying to disarm people. We want everybody to be able to defend themselves. It’s a common thing to see some meme on the internet, showing a black family shooting or posing with their guns, with some caption like “bet this offends the NRA”, which is liberal projection, because in reality in my social circles everybody is like, “fuck yeah, good for them”. And the harshest complaints I’ve seen have been about trigger finger discipline or lack of eye protection.
My side isn’t the one that wants the state to have a monopoly on force. We know the 2nd is for everybody, regardless of skin color or where you live. You fuckers are the ones who keep declaring we can’t fight the government with AR-15s because they have tanks and nukes, but then you bumbling fuckheads try it by throwing rocks?

So not only no, but hell no.

What he said.

Related: No, Gun Owners Aren’t Coming To Save You. “No, you don’t get to vilify millions of Americans, insulting everything from their intelligence to genital size, and then expect us to save you from the aftermath of your own decisions. That’s not how it works. That’s not our line in the sand.”

Also related: Rioters barricaded DHS officers in Portland courthouse and tried to set it on fire.

FAKE CROWDS: Fox Sports to add virtual crowds to MLB ballparks.

OPEN THREAD: You’ve had to hide sometimes, but now you’re all right.

I FEEL LIKE IF SOMEONE SHOWED UP AT YOUR DOOR WEARING ONE OF THOSE SHIRTS YOU’D BE ENTITLED TO SHOOT THEM: Arizona child welfare workers fired for wearing ‘professional kidnapper’ shirts. I mean, if you showed up at a politician’s house wearing a “Professional Assassin” t-shirt I wouldn’t expect a friendly greeting.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Meet Max Strasser, Israel Critic on Ascent at Post-Bari Weiss New York Times.

Elsewhere at the post-Bari Weiss Times: The Racism of Anti-Racist Education.

“[W]hen we look at how our schools are failing, we usually focus on who they’re failing: Black and brown kids,” the Times noted in announcing a new podcast series contemptuously entitled “Nice White Parents.” Indeed, we usually ask that question because those are the demographics public schools are failing—a condition that has gotten worse in the age of distance learning (an objective assessment rendered by no less a source than the New York Times itself). “If you want to understand what’s wrong with our public education system,” the podcast’s pitch continues, “you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in our schools: White parents.”

In truth, they’ve got a point, though not the one they’re intent on making.

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