IF IT COMES TO THAT, DO YOU KNOW THAT’S BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? BUREAUCRATS: On Being Useful.
They’re also bad for children and other living things. In fact, cutting back on government is good for everyone. Do it for the children.
Archive for 2021
July 1, 2021
IT’S TIME TO REIN IN THE NONSENSE: Generally Speaking.
AT THIS POINT WE NEED HERCULES TO CLEAN THESE AUGEAN STABLES: Can trust in our election integrity be undermined any further? New York shows how it’s done.
HURRAY AND THERE SHE BLOWS: The Top Ten Pending Eruptions.
IT KILLED 100 MILLION IN THE 20TH CENTURY: The truly scary China Virus variant.
Fools really want to give it another chance.
GUYS, COME ON. SHE’S MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN MICHELLE OBAMA: Vogue declares Jill Biden ‘a goddess’ and puts her on its cover as the epitome of style.
And she doesn’t dress like an overenthusiastic kindergartner with an unlimited budget. On the other hand she’s probably more corrupt.
THEY THINK IF THEY REPEAT IT ENOUGH WE’LL BELIEVE IT: Democrats, White House Double Down on Bogus Claim That Republicans Wanted to Defund Police.
ENTRAPMENT IS ENTRAPMENT: Pennsylvania’s Highest Court Overturns Bill Cosby’s Sex Assault Conviction.
BEHOLD, MY TOTALLY SHOCKED FACE: Insiders Reveal Kamala Harris’ VP Office Is A Toxic Abusive Mess, Just Like Her Campaign.
JILL BIDEN IS A BARELY LITERATE MORON, WITH THE MORALS OF A JACKAL: Vogue: Jill Biden Is The Best Mrs. Wilson!
WEAK SAUCE. WERE THEY OUT OF ROTTEN EGGS? Jim Acosta Booed For Asking Trump About January 6.
June 30, 2021
“BULLY WHO OPPOSED DIVERSITY EFFORTS” / “VOICE FOR COMMON SENSE” — YOUR CALL: Bill Gates was an office bully who opposed diversity efforts, report claims. It’s fun to see all the company politics disguised as morality going on here.
OUR ENDLESS DINNER WITH ROBIN DIANGELO:
“The ideology of individualism is dependent on a denial of the past as relevant to the present… Individualism denies the significance of race.”
— Robin DiAngelo
“Individualism is for f*gs.”
Unexpectedly! It’s as if the mainstream left and the alt-right are mirror images of each other:
UPDATE:
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Ilhan Omar Knows What She’s Doing.
It is also the latest indication that the party is following in the footsteps of the British left, led until recently by Squad ally Jeremy Corbyn. A report from the United Kingdom’s Equality and Human Rights Commission implicated not just Corbyn, whose offenses are legion, but the Labour Party itself, which “at best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it.”
To the extent there is resistance in the Democratic Party to Omar’s relentless attacks on Jews and her condemnations of American power and influence, surely it is driven at least in part by the shellacking the British left took in the last national election there.
Should the Democrats continue down this path, we have faith that the outcome for the left will be the same here as in Britain, and that the more they see of Omar and her allies, the dimmer their prospects become.
Read the whole thing.
HAHA: CNN: Biden should probably stop telling this story about Amtrak that can’t possibly be true. “If we really had the kind of aggressive media we had during the Trump years, someone would ask why Biden keeps getting this wrong and how much of the story is even true. But the media has no interest in digging into anything which might suggest Biden’s memory isn’t what it used to be.”
And to be fair, even when his memory was better, he told a lot of stories that couldn’t be true. But I saw a bit of Tucker tonight, and he had a 2006 clip of Biden talking about NSA spying, and the contrast between 2006 Biden and 2020 Biden was actually kinda painful.
Related: CNN, MSNBC’s ratings collapse due to ‘serious credibility problem’ covering Biden, experts say.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: NFL Clarifies That The Entire League Isn’t Gay, Just The Dallas Cowboys.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OR CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE? Dems, GOP agree: DOJ abused secret subpoena power.
OPEN THREAD: It’s down to me and you, and the skeleton crew.
INSIDERS TO POLITICO: KAMALA HARRIS’S OFFICE IS DYSFUNCTIONAL, ABUSIVE, “NOT HEALTHY.”
There may be a common reason for poor morale in both operations, though — bad strategy by Harris herself. Read the Times piece to revisit some of her blunders in 2019 during the primary campaign, then reflect on the fact that she’s now been tasked with “solving” one of the most intractable policy quagmires that the United States faces in immigration. Maybe she felt she wasn’t in a position to tell Biden no when he asked her to take charge of the border crisis but she should have probably resisted — if not for her own sake then for the party’s, since she may well end up at the top of the ballot in 2024 and will now have to answer for the administration’s immigration failures. Harris has blundered within the parameters of her portfolio too, though, taking waaaaay too long to visit the border and blowing off Lester Holt’s question about it a few weeks ago. (According to Politico, her own staff were blindsided when she announced her trip to Texas, further evidence of bad communication.)
All of which is to say is that an office is bound to be unhappy when it’s flailing in its mission, a Harris specialty since 2019. Even if [Chief of Staff Tina Flournoy] were more relaxed in managing aides and there had been clearer lines of authority on the campaign, the fact is that staffers would have been stuck scrambling to clean up strategic and rhetorical messes made by their own boss. How is morale supposed to thrive in those circumstances?
As alluded to above, Biden’s weird treatment of Harris, originally touted as his logical successor, is adding to her staff’s pressure, of course. As Jim Geraghty wrote a few weeks ago, “I floated the somewhat-tongue-in-cheek theory that Joe Biden has set Kamala Harris up to fail, a passive-aggressive form of revenge for her shivving him in that first Democratic presidential-primary debate.”
I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS, BUT IT’S ALIENS: Could there be a link between interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua and unidentified aerial phenomena?
READER BOOK PLUG: Savannah 1.0: The Quest for Love Just released today.
Dan Mitchel is a lonely guy, plagued with OCD and terminal social awkwardness, at times so severe he seems robotic. Raised by a cold, overbearing mother, he fails at every romantic relationship and resigned himself to growing old alone–until he buys Savannah, a sexbot, the first one able to pass as human. In many ways, his problems are finally over, but in others they are just beginning. Can a robot teach a man what it means to be human?
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“I may be terminated over Monday’s incident.”
They had watched both Schwarzenegger movies, and he’d explained that a “terminator” was a killer robot. She had enjoyed both of them, but had cheered for the terminators, calling herself “Team Robot.” He’d found it funny, and cheered with her. But it was her only reference to the word, so she looked confused as she asked, “They’re going to kill you?”
HOUSEHOLDS FACE UP TO $14,000 IN ‘HIDDEN’ FEDERAL TAXES EVERY YEAR, NEW REPORT REVEALS: “Of course, when it comes to the ever-expanding federal government, the most obvious cost is what the politicians in Washington, DC take from us in taxes every year. But this new report further proves that the unseen, hidden costs of the federal government’s growing involvement in economic life are even more drastic than what comes directly out of our paychecks.”
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Nets Blasted Georgia’s Elections Law, But Bury New York Debacle.
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