Archive for 2021
February 4, 2021
ALEXANDRA OCASIO SMOLLETT: AOC faces backlash as critics point out she wasn’t in Capitol building during riot.
CIRCLING BACK TO NEVER: Reporter to Psaki: When will Biden make an effort to reach out to pro-life Americans?
GOOD NEWS, IF TRUE: Biden’s team faces the ugly facts on China.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent rebukes of China give hope that the Biden administration recognizes the truth about this vicious regime.
On NBC’s “Today,” Blinken called Beijing’s coronavirus coverup a “profound problem” that continues “even today,” accusing the Communist country of failing to live up to international obligations since the first cases popped up in 2019.
Before that, he said during confirmation hearings that China’s mass detention of Uighur Muslims qualifies as “genocide.” He even admitted that Team Trump was right to take a tougher stance against China.
Beijing is already whining that these words amount to “interfering in its domestic affairs and undermining its interests.”
The good news is that the Bidenites have also offered more than words, by rushing a US Navy group to support Taiwan during the mainland’s latest effort to intimidate the free, democratic island nation.
Let’s hope this attitude continues.
THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF AMERICA I WOULD NOT ADVISE YOU TO OPPRESS: Biden readies showdown on guns.
Former CIA Director John O. Brennan is an angry man, and his anger mismanagement issues emerge not in the preface to his memoir but in its title, which reads Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad. The CIA is an executive branch organization focused on foreign intelligence, intentionally headquartered across the Potomac in McLean, Virginia, separated from the White House, State Department, Congress, and all the other policy and partisan bodies. So, who are a CIA director’s domestic enemies—terrorist sleeper cells? Russian illegals? Shady companies aiding Iran’s nuclear procurement efforts? These would be valid targets for joint FBI-CIA attention, and probably anger too.
Four hundred pages later, the reader finds that Brennan’s list contains none of these but it is long, and he exhausts his thesaurus of abusive language against them: Arlen Specter, Richard Grenell, Devin Nunes, Lindsey Graham, Donald Rumsfeld, Michael Pompeo, Trey Gowdy, Michael Scheuer, and Gina Haspel (on and off; she didn’t invite him to CIA holiday parties), and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations generally. Pride of place goes, of course, to Donald Trump. Before Brennan has even met the newly elected Trump, but is en route to brief him in early January 2017, he records that the “mere thought” of the meeting “jarred my very soul.” Brennan’s meetings with, say, Yasser Arafat evince no such dread, and in fact are recounted pretty jauntily.
Brennan’s outbursts are a consistent theme in this memoir. They are often blamed on his “Irish temper,” as if his rage is something external, like an unruly Irish setter that jumps on strangers. Trump is “evil despicable, and vile,” with bad qualities—“incompetence, dishonesty, and cravenness,” especially when Andrew McCabe was fired from the FBI, on St. Patrick’s Day no less, when “my Irish dander was more easily ruffled.”
They often come at a cost: In late 2006, a hot-tempered draft op-ed piece attacking President Bush, while never published, found its way to the White House and would cost Brennan the job of deputy DNI a year later. His famous anti-Trump meltdown when McCabe was fired cost him a gig at Booz Allen Hamilton, and his implausible threat of a lawsuit when his clearances were pulled cost him a consultancy contract with Kissinger Associates.
Sod off, Swamp Thing.
WHY IS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SO FULL OF HATE? Biden Press Sec Used Insult Condemned by Dem Officials as ‘Homophobic.’
THE EXPERTS’ TRACK RECORD WAS BETTER A HALF-CENTURY AGO, BUT STILL A LOT WORSE THAN THEY PRETENDED: “Of the countless lies the American people are meant to believe, perhaps the greatest is the myth of expertise.”
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
SQUAD GOALS: ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush defended Antifa during summer riots.
Flashback: Bush tweeted in December that her goal was to “defund the police:”
But not all police: When asked by MSNBC’s Joy Reid after the Capitol Hill riot if the Capitol Police made her feel safe, “I did until today.”
HERE COMES $2 TRILLION WORTH OF PAIN: Hans Bader at Liberty Unyielding explains why the national response to the vastly more lethal Spanish Flu of 1918 was superior to the current lockdowns and multi-Trillion-dollar relief packages.
Or, to put it another way, when government says the solution to a problem is A, you know it’s almost invariably actually the precise opposite of A.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: Daimler to spin off trucks, change name to Mercedes-Benz.
From Mercedes-Benz to DaimlerChrysler to Daimler to Mercedes-Benz.
SO MUCH FOR BIDEN’S ERA OF NORMALCY: Nation buys guns at blistering pace.
SALENA ZITO: Billy Carter may have been ‘small beer’ in comparison with Frank Biden.
The same can be said of Biden himself: Our Biggest Liar? Joe Biden.
AGAIN, I’VE BEEN PUTTING UP THE IP THAT REVERTED:
FROM SARAH A. HOYT: Noah’s Boy.
Tom Ormson and Kyrie Smith are suffering the growing pains of young romance and young business people. Tom worries obsessively about the new fryer in the diner exploding.
As though he didn’t have enough on his mind, though, life decides it’s time for a sabretooth with vengeance on her mind to come to town, and for the Great Sky Dragon to try to arrange a marriage for Tom.
Meanwhile, out at the old amusement park, the one with the really good wooden roller-coaster, a series of bizarre murders is taking place.
And, as if that were not enough, Conan Lung, dragon shifter, ex-triad member and waiter extraordinaire starts his country singing career with an original song “If I Could Fly to You.”
When Kyrie is kidnapped, it’s all Tom can do to make sure he protects her while not eating anyone.
NOBODY WANTS TO KNOW. OR FOR YOU TO KNOW. Joanne Jacobs: How Badly Are Students Doing?
ARE THE OLD GODS RETURNING? Humongous wave appears to bear face of Greek sea god Poseidon.
THANK YOU MUCHLY, BUT WE ALREADY KNEW: A data maven says fraud affected the election outcome.
1) We remember the impossible numbers in the middle of the night (those of us who were awake.)
2) Even if we didn’t, the courts’ refusal to let anyone present a case often on bizarre, spurious “standing” grounds, would be a red flag.
3) The democrats trying to shut up anyone who even mentions fraud is as good as an admission of guilt. What the innocent do, like say the Republicans after 2016, is make sure the opposition gets all possible opportunities to show what they think is evidence.
4) The military-occupied capital is totally what people who didn’t steal the election would do.
AFTER THEY BLACKLIST EVERYONE, THEY’LL BE THE ONES ISOLATED: Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired from journal he founded.
We’re the majority.
COMMIES GOTTA COMMIE: John Brennan and the Aging Radicals
OF COURSE HE DOES: George Gascon Supports Parole For Charles Manson Cult Member.
OH, DEAR LORD: Leftist Pushing For Biden To Appoint ‘Reality Czar’.
a) stop with the Czars already. b) leftists couldn’t find reality with two hands and a seeing eye dog. That’s why they think they can remake reality with words.