Archive for 2021
September 14, 2021
HMMM: Richard Grenell Calls Report About Milley Helping the Chinese ‘Gossip and Innuendo:’ “Bob Woodward has become the Michael Wolff of Washington, DC. It’s hard to believe anything the two of them write. Trump isn’t a war starter and I don’t believe Milley thought he was.”
Flashback: Bob Woodward Has A Trail Of Accuracy Issues That Nobody Is Talking About.
UPDATE: This quote by Woodward is accurate, however: “To say that the press brought down Nixon, that’s horseshit.”
(Updated and bumped.)
HONG KONG UPDATE: Problems With Political Prisoners: “A juxtaposition of SCMP headlines shows how, in just 11 short months, Hong Kong’s prison service has changed. What had been a confident and manly institution embracing rapid-fire guns and expanding shields has become a panic-stricken wreck, petrified of chocolate and hairpins. The city’s justice and penal system is still learning how to handle prisoners of conscience.”
THE ARGUMENT THAT YOU CAN’T WIN AGAINST PREDATOR DRONES SEEMS UNSUPPORTED BY HISTORY.
J.D. VANCE IS NOW OFFICIALLY RUNNING FOR SENATE. I just donated. I’ve known him for years, I think he’d do a lot of good, and while he was initially anti-Trump, he showed himself capable of learning, which puts him ahead of most politicians.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study offers more evidence that stress can drive blood pressure higher. One of my lawyer friends who hated practicing law quit it to become a studio drummer and his BP has dropped from the 160/90 range to the 120/80 range. Of course, he’s also getting some excercise now, but that too is a byproduct of quitting the law biz.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Nevada Dems Violated State’s Mask Mandate at 9/11 Costume Party Honoring Casino Billionaire.
Two senior Nevada Democrats violated the state’s indoor mask mandate by attending a costume party on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Photos obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show Sen. Jacky Rosen (D., Nev.) and Rep. Susie Lee (D., Nev.) decked out in boxing gear while attending a benefit gala honoring billionaire Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of casino magnate Steve Wynn. Neither politician was wearing a mask, even though Steve Sisolak, Nevada’s Democratic governor, had imposed an indoor mask mandate that went into effect the previous day.
The Democratic lawmakers were wearing personalized boxing robes—Rosen’s, for example, reads “Jolting Jacky”—while schmoozing at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, an “urban chic” venue that mandates “all guests … wear masks while indoors on property.”
I’ll take mask mandates seriously when the people telling me to take mask mandates seriously start taking mask mandates seriously.
TAMARA KEEL: Review: Smith & Wesson Shield Plus. “It’s bigger, it’s badder, but it’s not too much to handle.”
WHAT COULD GO WRONG — OTHER THAN EVERYTHING THAT ALREADY HAS? Retreat From Afghanistan Makes Taliban Best Armed Islamist Group on Earth.
OLD AND BUSTED: Establishment leftists fear a Seven Days in May moment:
The New Hotness? Coup: Milley Secretly Took Control of the Military, Despite Not Being Elected to Any Office; Totalitarian Press Cheers.
THE WATER NEARS THE BOILING POINT: Did you see that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) demanded that Amazon revise its algorithm to stop promoting books and other products with messages that contradict the official Covid narrative? Next, Fox, Newsmax, OAN required to pre-clear program transcripts with CDC?
WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR FREEDOM TO SURVIVE IN AMERICA: Bradley Prize winner Mollie Hemingway provides a bracing meditation on what must be done if we are to preserve this great Republic.
EMILY JASHINSKY: The Revolution Will Be Bureaucratized.
Why, wondered Chris, should we spend a second worrying about deficits while the culture is crumbling around us? Why should we waste precious time fretting over the growth of the state when children are being mutilated in the name of social justice, with the full support of our institutions?
Chris came around. President Biden’s new federal vaccine requirements show the dangers of treating these issues as mutually exclusive. Indeed, many on the right are increasingly tempted to treat them as such, exhausted by the useless Republican establishment and animated by the swift radicalization of our institutions.
It’s boring and sounds tired, I know, but ballooning state power is not a silly fear of “Zombie Reaganites” and insufferable libertarians. It’s a vehicle of cultural tyranny as much as economic. It’s a tool for the political establishment to bulldoze our culture from their sad office buildings here in Washington.
Read the whole thing.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMERICA’S TOP GENERAL AND A CHINESE SPY? “Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. ‘General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.'”
If true, this explains a lot about the decisions our “leaders” have been making lately.
TWITTER WAS LIT LAST NIGHT: Nicki Minaj Calls MSNBC’s Joy Reid A ‘Lying C**n,’ Tells Meghan McCain To ‘Eat Sh*t’ In Vaccine Rant.
Rapper Nicki Minaj called MSNBC host Joy Reid a racial slur Monday night and told Meghan McCain to “eat shit” Tuesday after Minaj expressed hesitancy to get the coronavirus vaccine.
Minaj first accused Reid of racism Monday after the political analyst criticized the songwriter for her thoughts on the coronavirus vaccine.
“To people like Nicki Minaj, I have to say this,” Reid said. “You have a platform, sister, that is 22 million followers, okay. I have two million followers. You have 22 million followers on Twitter. For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives, my God, sister, you could do better than that.”
Reid then accused Minaj of putting people in death’s way.
Minaj shot back in a tweet.
“This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets. ‘My God SISTER do better’ imagine getting ur [sic] dumb ass on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman.”
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As Jim Treacher responds: “I was told that only Trump voters and other rednecks1 are vaccine-hesitant, but here’s a famous rapper saying things that will shock the liberal intelligentsia. Much like Busta Rhymes rejecting all this masking hysteria. I actually got suspended from Twitter for a week just for quoting him. It’s only ‘misinformation’ when us lowly proles say it, right?”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: ‘New York Times’ Quietly Removes Claim That Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was ‘Unsubstantiated.’
DOMESTIC TERRORISM UPDATE: Two far-left activists convicted of interfering with track control systems in Washington.
Last year I wrote about two far-left activists who had been caught tampering with train tracks near Bellingham, Washington. Samantha Frances Brooks, 24, and Ellen Brennan Reiche, 28, were caught placing what is called a shunt on the tracks. A shunt is basically just a piece of wire which is connected from one side of the track to the other. That action mimics the electrical signal that is generated when a train passes over the tracks and confuses the automatic control system which is designed to prevent trains from crashing into one another.
As I noted when the pair were caught, there had been more than 40 such shunts were placed on tracks nearly Bellingham last year. In one case a train carrying hazardous materials was fooled into automatically braking (thinking there was another train up ahead). The breaking was so sudden that one of the couplings came apart and the train was separated into two parts. Authorities noted that this could have led to a derailment in a residential area. Fortunately, that didn’t happen.
I wrote several blog posts in the mid-naughts linking to articles with concerns that middle-eastern terrorists would begin to attack America’s rail system. Even I didn’t think America’s left would beat them to the punch.