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Archive for 2021
December 15, 2021
PUBLIC EDUCATION AS CHILD ABUSE: L.A. Schools Host LGBT Club For 4-Year-Olds, Promote ‘Two Spirit’ Sexuality And Child Mutilation.
BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION? HELL, I’VE SEEN IT DONE: Data indicate omicron is milder, better at evading vaccines. This is exactly the path you would expect a virus to take over time.
KAROL MARKOWICZ: Forget Kamala Harris’ likability, she’s can’t even do her job. “Anyone daring to suggest the obvious, that Harris is not good at her job, is met with insults. In November, Jimmy Kimmel said Harris’ low approval ratings were due to sexism and racism. It’s a layer of protection around an inadequate leader if pointing out her flaws is not allowed. But Democratic voters had made the same call in 2020 and Harris was forced to drop out of the presidential race before the Iowa caucuses. Maybe they knew first what we all know now.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: What Kind of People Would Fake a Hate Crime? Leftists! “In reality, hate hoaxes exploded. Leftists couldn’t wait to vilify Trump and his legions. If that means accusing 13-year-old white boys of holding down a black girl and cutting off her dreadlocks, so be it.”
Usually, Leftists love shortages.
STILL POPULAR: Kitchen Mama Electric Can Opener. #CommissionEarned
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: CDC: Fentanyl-related overdose deaths rose nationally during pandemic.
HE COULD BE PARTYING WITH SUPERMODELS ON A YACHT, BUT HE HAS A MISSION: Elon Musk says he’s single and basically living in a ‘technology monastery’ following his split with Grimes.
I HAVE TROUBLE ENOUGH SLEEPING AS IT IS: 7 Infrastructure Act Provisions Sure to Keep You Up at Night. “Indeed, the misleadingly titled Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is packed with a plethora of partisan surprises — some extreme, and some just plain bizarre. In fairness to the president’s attempt at bipartisanship, however, it must be admitted that there are some provisions in the law that, while not wholly partisan, are certainly wholly wasteful — and utterly stupid.”
TOP SELLER: How to Draw 101 Animals. #CommissionEarned
‘SENATOR KAREN:’ ELON MUSK JUST DESTROYED ELIZABETH WARREN. “As for the implication that he’s a fraud, Musk simply replied, ‘Stop projecting!’ with a link to a Fox News article detailing Elizabeth Warren’s long history of falsely claiming to be a Native American. Suffice it to say that Warren’s antipathy for Musk has no valid justification. He pays all the taxes he legally owes, and it’s highly misleading to look exclusively at income taxes when so much of his wealth and earnings come from capital gains and other alternative streams. Regardless of how much Musk pays in taxes, he has made massive advancements in space exploration and paved an electric vehicle revolution that will do exponentially more to help the United States reduce carbon emissions than Warren’s virtue-signaling ever will. Elizabeth Warren should never have picked a fight with Elon Musk. He absolutely destroyed Sen. Karen and reminded the world she is the real fraud and freeloader.”
HURTFUL THOUGHTS ON THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE: Howie Carr: Brace for waterworks as student loans come due.
Stand by for the next round of sob stories — what’s about to happen next, you will be told, is definitely a hate crime, maybe even genocide.
Here’s the scoop: Millions of deadbeats who have had a two-year vacation from having to pay down their student loans will now have to … start repaying the money they borrowed to get their absurd, worthless college degrees.
Being required to pay off debt you willingly accrued and signed binding legal contracts to repay — how un-American is that?
The feds’ not-so-dunning letters started going out late last week, and the story broke when Chasten Buttigieg, the spouse of the U.S. Transportation Security, posted the notice on social media with his response:
“LOL no thank you Merry Christmas next.”
Remember that Chasten’s, uh, better half makes $221,400 a year, and has a big Democrat (meaning, seven figures, like Andrew Cuomo’s) book contract. Pete just took a few months off with full pay. They own property on Lake Michigan, but have complained about having to spend $4,500 a month to rent an apartment in D.C. that, gulp, doesn’t have a den.
And now this latest indignity! Chasten, along with millions of others, is actually being asked to … pay back money he borrowed.
AOC, for one, feels his pain — she owes $17,000 in student loans and thus has only been able to afford one Tesla and a French bulldog designer puppy on her $174,000-a-year Congressional salary.
This latest round of sky-is-falling stories will all feature the usual “advocates” and “experts” predicting the end of civilization if the tattooed slackers have to pay down their loans at the rate of some $400 a month.
Whenever any of these multibillion-dollar Panic-related handouts is stopped, Armageddon is always predicted. Remember the end of the eviction moratorium last summer? The “advocates” predicted mass homelessness. Nothing happened.
Are you old enough to recall when the media used to cover real news? They had, you know, beats — City Hall, the State House, police, etc.
Now the only beat that matters is the Apocalypse Beat. Omicron! Delta! Global warming! Global cooling! Tornadoes! Evictions! Student loans! The same low-IQ “reporters” careen from one faux catastrophe to the next, citing “experts” who dolefully predict doom that never occurs.
They’re 27 year olds who literally know nothing, as Ben Rhodes famously observed.
“DEFUND IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE:” Frisco mayor: By golly, what this city needs is “aggressive” policing instead of “bull****.” “In a July 31, 2020, statement, Breed said that she was seeking to divert more than $100 million from the San Francisco Police Department to social justice programs.”
San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office at the beginning of 1964.
WELL, GOOD: Denver City Council Fails to Override Mayor’s Veto of Flavored Tobacco Ban. “The ordinance would have exempted hookah tobacco, premium cigars and pipe tobacco from the ban. But all other flavored tobacco products, whether vape juices or menthol cigarettes, would have gotten the ax.”
COVID IS OVER: The New York Mask Mandate Is a Spectacular Failure.
WOEING: Leaky valve issue forces Boeing to swap out Starliner’s service module. “NASA and Boeing did not hold a media event to announce their findings, and unfortunately some key questions remain. For example, it appears that Boeing has not yet fully identified the root cause of the valve failure, which was believed to be related to high humidity at the Florida launch site, which caused corrosion.”
From the comments: “It makes this all the more frightening that they don’t know what’s causing this… which means they can’t PREVENT it from happening again. ‘Swapping shit out’ isn’t a viable mitigation strategy.”
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Ethicist challenges university claim that asking for pronouns reduces LGBT suicides. “There are no reliable studies showing that pronoun use reduces suicide among persons with gender dysphoria.”
DAILY DEAL: THISWORX Car Vacuum Cleaner. #CommissionEarned
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: After outcry, professor canceled for not getting mad at fake racial bias incident has been reinstated.
JEFF DUNETZ: CNN’s Don Lemon Trashes FNC – Ignores CNN’s And His Own Unprofessional Reporting. “If you want to blame someone for inciting violence, let me jog your memory. You said on the air that it’s okay to hurl vile racist slurs against GOP Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).in private. In private? Don, I realize that CNN doesn’t have many viewers, but you said it to those viewers on national T.V. That’s not private. Was it promoting peaceful political expression when you told your audience, ‘we’re going to have to blow up the entire [American] system.’ How about when you accused the right of making Al Sharpton a bogeyman. Sharpton incited two anti-Semitic riots in NYC, Sorry Donny, but Al Sharpton made Al Sharpton a bogeyman. Wasn’t he telling a falsehood and isolating Caucasians and possibly angering them to the point of violence when he said if you grew up in America, it’s more than likely you’re a racist by default.”
THAT ’70S SHOW: Bring On That Double-Digit Inflation! Producer Prices Rise 9.6%.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
PROOF THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NO BENCH IS THAT THEY’RE FLOATING THIS IDEA: Hillary 2024? Given the competition, she may be the Dems’ best hope. “The Democratic bench is about as deep as the New York Jets’ these days. Vice President Kamala Harris? She’s at 28 percent approval, per USA Today. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo? No longer governor and thoroughly disgraced. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.)? He had to spend major time and resources just to avoid being ousted in deep-blue California during a recall election earlier this year. Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg? Not even 40 percent, and he has a supply chain crisis on his resume. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)? Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)?”
Nothing says “party of youth” like a retread Hillary campaign.
JOSH BLACKMAN & SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Is the President an “Officer of the United States” for Purposes of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment? Though it’s now moot with regard to Trump after two failed impeachments, one takeaway from this is that presidents aren’t subject to disqualification after impeachment.
Shorter summary of the argument here.