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Archive for 2021
October 21, 2021
I DON’T THINK WE GIVE HIS SERENITY ZHOE BAI-DEN ENOUGH CREDIT FOR UNITING THE WORLD! Protesters in Rome Chant F**k Joe Biden while Marching Past the American Embassy.
Let’s go Brandon!
October 20, 2021
SHE’S EDUCATED, ACCOMPLISHED, AND A REPUBLICAN, SO HER VIEWS DON’T COUNT: Inject Into My Veins: Condi Rice Stuns ‘View’ Hosts With Knockout Argument Against Critical Race Theory.
K.C. JOHNSON: “The Return of Catherine Lhamon Is Another Biden Betrayal.” (She was confirmed as head of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights today with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie vote.)
DON SURBER: They promised to destroy Big Brother. They became him. “Super Bowl XVIII is remembered not for the game (Raiders 38, Redskins 9) but for an ad: Apple’s 1984 ad. In one minute, Apple said personal computers would set us free. As Maury Povich would say, that was a lie.”
HMMM: Translating Netflix CEO’s Shooting Down of Every Demand LGBT Employees are Making.
Sarandos was then asked if he’s willing to adopt a list of demands he’s going to receive from transgender employees. His response was very middle of the road, but beneath it was a lack of guarantee:
Going forward, I want to make sure that everyone understands that we are deeply committed to supporting artistic freedom with the creators who work at Netflix. We’re deeply committed to increase representation on screen and behind the camera, and we’ll always learn and improve on how to address these challenges as they arrive.
In other words, “I want more people to feel like they can make content for us to attract a variety of people to our platform so I’m probably not going to cave to many, if any, of these demands, some of which will undoubtedly be a demand to limit what kind of content can be on Netflix.”
Sarandos was told that his employees want a disclaimer to be put up ahead of Chappelle’s special in lieu of it being taken down. His response:
The content is age restricted already for language, and Dave himself gives a very explicit warning at the beginning of the show, so I don’t think it would be appropriate in this case.
Translation: “If you’re not a child then you should be able to work out for yourself if you want to view this content or not.”
Meanwhile, the small group of Netflix employees protesting Chappelle end up overreaching, smashing the sign of a counter-protester that read “We Like Dave” and “Jokes Are Funny!” and looking ridiculous in the process:
Jokes really are funny. And chanting “jokes are funny” in the middle of progressive activists rending their garments over a few minutes from a Dave Chappelle routine is a funny joke. Or half-joke.
The guy with the glasses got under the crowd’s skin so much that one demonstrator grabbed his “Jokes Are Funny” sign and smashed it — and then accused him of having a “weapon” when the broken signpost was handed back to him. (Speech is violence!) That’s the woke id laid bare, but the guy with the sign didn’t let it faze him. Instead he couldn’t keep a straight face at the absurdity of protesters trying to drown him out as he yelled things like “I like Dave!” They came off looking ridiculous at seeming so threatened by him, which I’m sure was what he was going for when he showed up.
“‘There is no humor in Islam,’ Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini famously remarked. ‘There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.’”
The Ayatollah Khomeini had nothing on today’s woke crowd.
UPDATE: Speaking of the woke left not having a sense of humor, Twitter loses yet another fun account, the DPRK News parody:
OPEN THREAD: I know that there will come a day, when I have nothing more to say. I wonder if they’ll think I’ve lost my way.
But today is not that day!
THIS IS CNN: Sen. Joe Manchin has ‘committed violence’ on climate legislation before.
In an analysis for CNN, Zachary B. Wolf notes that this isn’t the first time Manchin has “committed violence” on climate legislation. No, really. He literally fired a bullet into climate change legislation.
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The headline is now, “What’s driving Manchin’s resistance to climate change legislation.” Wolf writes:
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin — a Democrat — appears to be intent on ripping the heart out of President Joe Biden’s climate change agenda.
With his all-powerful 50th vote as leverage, Manchin’s reported opposition to Biden’s plan for a $150 billion plan to pay power generators to further cut reliance on fossil fuels, kills the plan.
It wouldn’t be the first time he’s committed violence on legislation to address climate change.
Back in 2010, when he won as a Democrat in a red state in a very red year, Manchin did it by running an ad in which he literally fired a bullet into climate change legislation. That legislation, the last major attempt to enact climate change legislation, did fail.
If you’re trying to make us love Manchin more, it’s working.
The headline can still be seen in a cached version of a Mississippi TV station that picks up CNN’s feed:
For CNN, rejecting a climate change bill is “committing violence.” But when faced with actual violence, CNN lies about Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson not having a motive to shoot up a GOP baseball game and nearly killing Steve Scalise. Then there was this show-stopping moment:
PRETTY SURE BLUE ORIGIN’S LOBBYISTS ARE BEHIND THIS: Senate directs NASA to choose another company to build a lunar lander: report.
Well, some Americans. The self-identified “elite.”
PROGRESS: FDA issues proposal to create new category of over-the-counter hearing aids. “Once finalized, the rule would allow the hearing aids to be sold to consumers in stores and online without a medical exam or a fitting by an audiologist. It would apply to certain air-conduction hearing aids intended for adults age 18 and older who have mild to moderate hearing loss.”
SARAH HOYT: After the Wave.
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Goodbye Middle Class: 50 Percent Of All U.S. Workers Made $34,612.04 Or Less Last Year.
Income for the lower 50% was sharply up under Trump, which is a solid indicator of an incumbent president winning reelection.
The lockdowns changed that — even more more sharply — which, as far as I’m concerned, explains the lockdowns.
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Athena Thorne: ‘Rachel Levine Is a 4-Star Admiral’ Is Our ‘Caligula’s Horse Is a Senator’ Moment. “Comparisons between the United States and the collapsing Roman Empire are plentiful, and Tuesday’s swearing-in of Rachel Levine as the Historic First! (everyone do a shot) ‘female’ four-star admiral is a perfect modern-day version of Incitatus’ elevation.” (My nominee for Headline of the Year.)
AJ Kaufman: Howard Stern: Once a Rebel, Now a Bitter and Obedient Tool. “Stern, who used to stand up against his bosses, is now just an angry, selfish old man, who’d apparently rather use his megaphone to wish death on fellow Americans and demand people follow rules. Stern also brags that he’s barely left his house since the start of the pandemic.” (Coward.)
Yours Truly: China Paper Tiger: Communism Explained in 30 Words (And a Lot More). “Sometimes, at least from the comfort of an ocean away, the central planners’ follies can bring a smile to your face.”
GUN-CONTROL IS A MOVEMENT WITHOUT MUCH ACTUAL POPULAR SUPPORT: Northeast Anti-Gun Governors’ Dog and Pony Show is a Damp Squib.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Cancel Culture Already Won the Chappelle Fight. “So, of course, [Netflix CEO Ted] Sarandos finally backtracked on his initial stance. He gave a new interview to Variety in which he served up the three-word phrase the woke mob demanded.”
REPORT: Manchin Tells Associates He’s Considering Leaving the Democratic Party and Has an Exit Plan.
Manchin is denying it, but as one Red State contributor notes, “I don’t know whether Manchin floated that rumor as a negotiating tactic or if Mother Jones made it up. What I do know is that him denying it was always going to be his only answer. I don’t think that tells us anything.”
FROM THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PLAN THE ENTIRE ECONOMY: Democrats to Cops in 2020: You’re Evil Racists And We Want To Defund You! Democrats to Cops in 2021: We Need You To Enforce Vaccine Mandates. Cops to Democrats: Get Stuffed!