ONE OF THESE PARTIES IS OWNED BY FOREIGN INTERESTS:  Biden Promised Toughness on Putin, But Asserts Latest Ransomware Attacks Caused ‘Minimal Damages’.

It is not the party of Trump.

I SEE WHY THE DEMOCRATS BELIEVE THE PARTIES SWITCHED SIDES:  Democrats Conveniently Revise History by Claiming They Were Never Against Voter ID.

Just in the last few months, they’ve switched on abolishing the police, voter ID, vaccines.  What else?

What they’re missing? No one else has “switched”. And no one else is buying their baloney either.

I HAVE BAD NEWS FOR THOSE “JOURNALISTS”:  Some Journalists Reportedly Afraid to Return to Capitol Building After the ‘Insurrection’

The rest of the country looks like the capitol on January 6th, minus Agents Provocateurs, plus a whole lot of anger accumulated over the last six months.  If they’re afraid to return to the Capitol, they should be terrified of crossing the street, leaving their homes, leaving their beds, or even being in bed.  If the existence of people who disagree with their bizarre delusions scares them, the only place safe is inside their own heads.

FASCINATING AS THIS IS TO WATCH:  Disturbing Reports From US Troops and ROTC Cadets of “Woke” Military Priorities.

How long are we going to let insane people stay in the positions they frauded themselves into? More importantly, how long are we going to obey them? And how far?
Has the history of the 1930s in Germany been lost?

THAT’S ADORABLE.  THE BRANCH COVIDIANS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR:  Biden: “Strike Teams” Will Go Door-To-Door Pushing Vaccine.

I’ve withstood years of Jehovah Witnesses and Mormon Missionaires. Both of which are less brain washed and far more knowledgeable of the real world and their own doctrine.  This will end well.

At least I won’t feel like I should offer the covidians cookies and lemonade. I might make them read books on basic biology though before I hear word one they have to say.

THE PROBLEMS OF DICTATORSHIPS IS THAT THEY ALWAYS END UP BEING ABOUT THE DICTATORS’ OWN PATHOLOGIES:   NY State Of Emergency Shouldn’t Be About Guns. It Should Be About Coumo Himself!

And this is why giving any individual too much power is a bad thing, okay? Class dismissed.

OR PERHAPS — WHO KNOWS? — TRYING TO BUILD A BETTER STUPID:  Left Cult Still Seeking Peak Stupidity.

There is no peak stupid. Peak stupid is a lie. For their next trick, they’ll eat dirt and try to walk on their own hair.

FASCINATING:  Hillary Clinton Invokes “Jim Crow past” To Blast Republicans.

How do the betting books stand? Memory loss or Chutzpah?

JOHN HINDERAKER: CRT, SKY NEWS AND ME.

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BYRON YORK: The Future of Hunter Biden’s Laptop. “Many — actually, most — big press and social media organizations have ignored and even suppressed news that has come from Hunter Biden’s laptop. They started the censorship just before the 2020 election, when Biden’s father Joe was on the presidential ballot and vulnerable to negative news, and they’re still censoring today. But in the past few weeks there has been a stream of stories, in the New York Post and a few other outlets, based on information contained in the Biden laptop. The stories are significant and suggest, but do not prove, shady financial dealings in the Biden family. The question is whether some media organizations will finally admit there is news on the laptop.”

Hunter’s laptop is being held for when they decide to get rid of Joe. The leaks are just to remind everyone it’s out there. Well, everyone except for Joe. He won’t remember for long anyway.

OPEN THREAD: Do a little dance, drink a little wine, don’t forget loud music is a forty dollar fine.

WHEN VIRTUE-SIGNALING IS INTERRUPTED:

There’s such a thing as “systemic racism.” It’s when you’re governed under the Democrats’ system.

AT A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PRESS BRIEFING, ACTUAL JOURNALISM BREAKS OUT: AP reporter stuns Biden State Department spokesperson during press briefing.

An Associated Press reporter challenged the State Department spokesperson over statements that the Biden administration has honored international agreements that were negotiated under the previous administration.

During Tuesday’s State Department press briefing, spokesperson Ned Price highlighted President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and the possibility of continuing negotiations with the Taliban despite their military offensive in taking back control in parts of the country.

Associated Press reporter Matt Lee pressed Price about the administration’s excuse that they were beholden to the Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban as a possible reason for U.S. troop withdrawal.

“This administration inherited plenty from the previous administration that it absolutely reversed. Are you saying that you’re not confident in your negotiating skills that you could have renegotiated with—that you couldn’t have renegotiated a deal with the Taliban and that the—and are you saying that the president, in fact, didn’t want to take troops out, didn’t want to withdraw?” Lee asked. . . .

“Yes, we changed quite a few U.S. policies across a number of fronts, but I think you would be hard-pressed to find an international agreement that the United States signed on to during the last administration that this administration has jettisoned, done away with,” Price responded.

Lee then mentioned several international agreements that the Trump administration joined that the Biden administration has terminated.

“How about the Geneva protocol on the anti-abortion stuff?” Lee pressed. “How about the agreements with the Northern Triangle, with Mexico and the Northern Triangle? Those are international agreements that you guys jettisoned.”

When Price looked visibly flustered, Lee continued, “I mean, you just challenged me to come up with an international agreement that the previous administration signed that you guys have walked away from, and I just gave you, I think, three.”

More like this, please. It’s not even hard. You just have to do it.

OH, CANADA. Canadian Civil Liberties Boss Says ‘Burn It All Down’ as Churches Torched. “Walia, a Bahrain-born South Asian based in Vancouver and described as ‘a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, feminist, anti-capitalist, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist movements’ in her profile at the left-wing Intercept, made the inflammatory intervention in response to a VICE report on two Roman Catholic churches being burned down in Alberta and Nova Scotia.”

This is genuine violence-promoting “hate speech,” but I predict no penalties because her politics and race are privileged.

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT SHOULD BE: Lunar Exploration as a Service: From landers to spacesuits, NASA is renting rather than owning.

NUTRITIONALLY, FAKE MEAT ISN’T REAL: “Several metabolites known to be important to human health were found either exclusively or in greater quantities in beef, including creatine, spermine, anserine, cysteamine, glucosamine, squalene, and the omega-3 fatty acid DHA.”

I DON’T THINK GOOGLE’S BAD RESULT IS AN ACCIDENT:

WELL, OF COURSE: Cuomo’s gun-violence emergency slush fund is all about saving… Cuomo. “By now you’d think Gov. Andrew Cuomo would be wary of declaring emergencies — can you say nursing homes, boys and girls? But apparently not. He was at it again Tuesday, but this time, he was all lathered up about guns.”

If his gun emergency kills as many people as his Covid policy, New York will lose another Congressional seat.

THIS IS THE BACKGROUND AGAINST WHICH TRUMP IS SUING BIG TECH COMPANIES:

Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters believe Big Tech companies actively supported Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that just 10% think they actively supported Donald Trump.

Twenty percent (20%) believe that the companies remained neutral and 23% are not sure.

In every measured demographic group, more voters believed that the companies supported Biden rather than Trump. Even Democrats, by a 3-to-1 margin, held that view.

Other data showed that 78% of voters believe tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google could swing the results of the election to benefit their preferred candidate. Additionally, 62% believe technology companies have too much influence on our politics and political campaigns.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives big tech companies special immunity from prosecution for things posted on their platforms. Since they received this immunity from the government, 63% of voters believe they should they be required to abide by the 1st Amendment guarantee of free speech.

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of voters believe it is more important to ensure that social media companies operate fairly rather than protecting the companies from government interference. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 19% disagree and believe protecting social media companies from government interference is the higher priority.

Big Tech has done a truly outstanding job of getting people to hate it.

BETWEEN THE BIRTH CONTROL HORMONES AND THE METH, THEY’RE HAVING A JOLLY GOOD TIME: Methamphetamine in rivers can turn brown trout into addicts.

More seriously, it’s become obvious that sewage treatment protocols need to address the presence of pharmaceuticals, legit and otherwise, in wastewater.

I REMEMBER WHEN POLYUNSATURATED FATS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD FOR YOU: More fatty fish, fewer polyunsaturated fats may ease migraines, study says.

ROGUE MALE: Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age. I dunno, our age has a lot of liars, cheats and toadies. They’re just less interesting versions.

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