Archive for 2020
October 15, 2020
WELL, THAT’S NOT GOOD: Oxygen Supply Just Failed in Part of The ISS, But Everyone Is Safe So Far.
JIM TREACHER: Twitter Is Silencing Anybody Who Wants to Talk About Hunter Biden.
Although America’s Newspaper of Record may have discovered a workaround:
LARRY CORREIA: GEORGE ORWELL WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS WEEK’S PLOT IS TOO FAR FETCHED. “You’d think that the left changing the dictionary definition to make a commonly used term into oppressive hate speech (within 24 hours of the narrative deciding it must be!) would be the most Orwellian thing we’d see that day. But nope. Not even close!”
C-SPAN’S STEVE SCULLY SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY AFTER ADMITTING TO LYING ABOUT TWITTER ‘HACK.’
I was honestly surprised to see C-Span go on the record as believing that Scully’s account was “hacked” after the Joy Reid, Anderson Cooper, Anthony Weiner incidents:
But then, a lot of blue-checks went on the record claiming Scully’s innocence: C-SPAN suspends Steve Scully for lying about hacking claim (as blue check journo defenses quickly age horribly).
Meanwhile, CNN’s Brian Stelter is shocked – shocked! – to discover gambling going on in Rick’s Café:
That’s quite a take from Stelter considering that Dan Rather is a regular guest on his curiously-named “Reliable Sources” segment on CNN. And Scully will also likely bounce back; as Jamie Weinstein tweeted today, “We all know how this ends: The Steve Scully Report weekdays at 9pm on MSNBC.”
TWITTER IS GARBAGE (CONT’D): A reader emails:
Everyone I’ve talked to who is ‘minor’ on the right on Twitter (including me) is being blacked out. ‘Twitter is overloaded.’ ‘Sorry, we can’t post this right now.’ Etc.
I think that Twitter realized it couldn’t kill the big accounts without blowback so it’s trying to cut off the oxygen by killing the retweeters.
I don’t have any contacts with major players in this field. And because of how it’s happening, I’m not even sure they’re aware.
But people like me (100 followers) aren’t being allowed to post, comment or retweet. And it seems to be twitter wide.
If you’ve got contacts that can get the word out, so much the better.
Well, maybe this will help.
Related:
Related (From Ed): Twitter’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week Continues: Massive Outage Hits Right Before Presidential Town Halls.
REMEMBER WHEN THE INTERNET WAS OPEN? That was back in the days when Silicon Valley believed “Information Wants to be Free.”
I EAGERLY AWAIT PAUL KRUGMAN’S STERN CONDEMNATION OF THIS ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Colo. Dem Activist Threatens Violence, Murder If Trump Wins: ‘Guillotines, Motherf*cker.’
SPENGLER: Anne Applebaum’s Pride And Prejudice.
Anne Applebaum’s list of little Hitlers includes some ex-friends who came to her 1999 New Year’s Eve party in Poland, when her husband Radek Sikorski was a foreign ministry official, as well as former acquaintances like British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The renegade party guests somehow morphed from democracy activists into Nazis, because they suffer from “authoritarian personalities,” Applebaum avers. Also on her list are “the old Hungarian right, the Spanish right, the French right, the Italian right, and, with differences, the British right and the American right, too.” It is hard to separate Applebaum’s ideological rancor at friends who moved away from the liberal dogmas of 1989 and her personal disappointment over her husband’s career.
Boris Johnson a crypto-fascist? Who but the overwrought Ms. Applebaum noticed! She would have a pint at the pub with Johnson when she was Deputy Editor of the Spectator and he was Mayor of London, but since then she has discovered that the Prime Minister is a liar, a home-wrecking philanderer, and a budding authoritarian due to his opposition [Sic? — Ed] to Brexit. She claims that the rising fascists of the British Isles duped their compatriots into voting Leave by lying about money that might be saved for the National Health Service.
This account of Brexit, like everything else in the book, is utterly mendacious. Whatever one thinks of the “Leave” party’s case, Britain faced an authentic crisis over European Community-mandated immigration. Applebaum does not mention that Britain was inundated by 300,000 Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants after those impoverished countries joined the EC in 2014, nor that Britain petitioned the EC in vain for relief from mass immigration. Democracy appeals to Applebaum only when people vote the way she thinks they should. In a textbook example of what William Empson called unintended irony, she champions the imperious, unelected bureaucracy of the European Community as the savior of democracy against alleged authoritarians who won a popular plebescite by a margin of 52 to 48 percent.
Leo Strauss ridiculed the sort of polemical caricature he dubbed reductio ad Hitlerum, and if it is possible to write a caricature of a caricature, Applebaum has managed it. She trots out Hannah Arendt’s idea of the “authoritarian personality,” that is a lonely individual who “without any other social ties to family, friends, comrades or even mere acquaintances, derives his sense of having a place in the world only from his belonging to a movement, his membership in the party.’” Along with Arendt, Applebaum quotes the Marxist critic Theodor Adorno, who claimed that a bias towards authoritarianism stemmed from such personality traits as repressed homosexuality. Whether one takes Arendt and Adorno seriously or not, when they used the term “authoritarian personality” they meant to reference actual supporters of Hitler and Stalin who murdered tens of millions of people.
Of course, for Applebaum, some authoritarian personalities are more equal than others: The Atlantic Must Stop Covering For The Chinese Communist Party.
China does not just want to hide their mishandling of the outbreak, but they want to blame the origin of the virus on the United States and paint themselves as heroes saving the rest of the world from the pandemic they started. China’s Communist Party-controlled newspaper, People’s Daily, attributed shipments of masks and other medical equipment to countries like Iran and Italy as their love and care for all people. The Washington Post reported that those shipments were not donations, but exports purchased by those countries.
Not to be deterred by facts, however, Atlantic Staff Writer Anne Applebaum upheld the lie that China was “sending aid” to Italy out of the goodness of their hearts.
In an article titled “The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff,” Applebaum makes the case for why the Trump administration is just as bad as the Chinese Communist Party. Applebaum initially describes China’s failings in handling the virus, but then compares Trump to officials in Wuhan for being “concerned about the numbers—the optics of how a pandemic looks.”
She acknowledges China’s threats against it’s own doctors, but shifts blame away from the Chinese Communist Party because they did not instruct “anyone in the United States not to carry out testing.” She writes “many of those recounting China’s missteps have become just a little bit too smug.”
That’s what Xi said.
WHY ARE PEOPLE WHO TALK ABOUT “CULTURAL APPROPRIATION” ALWAYS SO UNCULTURED THEMSELVES? ACB Critic Doesn’t Know Difference Between New York / New Orleans Accent.
DEMOCRATS: Mark Kelly campaign spokesman apologizes for calling cops ‘worthless f—ing pigs.’
Related: C-SPAN suspends Steve Scully after he admits lying about Twitter hack. A friend on Facebook comments: “He burned a bunch of ppl who backed him. Even so, he’s going to keep his job for the long haul. Such is life inside the beltway.”
The great lesson of the Trump era is that pretty much all of the “nonpartisan” institutions are filled with corrupt, partisan hacks. Who are all on the same team, regardless of what flag they fly.
BREAKING NEWS FROM NOVEMBER 1938: Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Sue Cuomo for ‘Blatantly Anti-Semitic’ COVID Order.
SPACE: ‘Very High Risk’ Two Large Pieces Of Space Junk Will Collide This Week. “The two objects have a combined mass of 2,800 kilograms and if they were to smash into each other, the ‘conjunction’ could create thousands of new pieces of space junk that would put actual functioning satellites at risk. . . . There has been a growing concern among astronomers and others in the space community lately about the accelerating proliferation of space debris. The more objects there are orbiting Earth, the higher the risk of collisions. More collisions also increases the risk of future collisions further in a feedback loop that could end in a scenario known as ‘Kessler Syndrome,’ in which access to space becomes too dangerous.”
Rob Merges and I wrote on this a while back.
I KNOW I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MY WHOLE LIFE: You Can Finally Get a V-8 Bentley Flying Spur.
I’M NOT SHOCKED, I’M REPULSED AND DISGUSTED: Bari Weiss: Stop Being Shocked American liberalism is in danger from a new ideology—one with dangerous implications for Jews. Telling quote: “Young Jews who grasp the scope of this problem and want to fight it thus find themselves up against two fronts: their ideological enemies and their own communal leadership.” I’ve had Jewish college students call me, begging for advice on how to deal with leftist antisemitism on campus, explaining that their Hillel (Jewish student group) professional, their Hillel rabbi, or whomever else they would normally turn to is telling them to sweep the problem under the rug, less it harm their relationship with the woke groups on campus.
RIGHTS DELAYED ARE RIGHTS DENIED: Professor John McGinnis:The Right to Prompt Access to Guns in a Time of Unrest. Another in the Scalia Law School Liberty & Law Center’s series of papers on the Second Amendment in a time of civil unrest.
