LIFE UNDER BIDEN’S SUPPORTERS: Woman describes two years in a Chinese re-education camp. “This is something out of Orwell’s 1984 but it’s happening right now. Perhaps a million people have been through this dehumanizing process and many of them are not just being brainwashed, they are forced to work in prison factories.”
But China supports the “right” party in the United States, so shut up.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Look. The Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina is a private company. They can do what they want.”
I PREDICT IT WILL: If Global Corporations Walk Away from Republicans the GOP Will Have to Listen to New Voters. “A significant majority of Americans, 73%, have a negative view of China. Continued international integration will hurt working and middle-class Americans the most. If Republicans plan on winning elections, these are the voters they will have to both listen to and appeal to. The party will need to develop a slate of policies that increase these families’ prosperity and security to combat the destruction that Democrats and their allies in big business will do with horrible energy and trade policy.”
PERRY DE HAVILLAND: Take action now… because choices will be made for you if you do not.
If you do not hold the ‘correct views’, the time is rapidly approaching that you need to find alternative venues for expressing those views. So set up your own blog (& do NOT host it with a company owned by Big Tech) and/or set up accounts on alternative platforms that do not depend on the very worst of Big Tech.
It is only a matter of time before Twitter, Google & Amazon makes the decision for you, either kicking you off platforms they own directly or taking down other platforms they disapprove off by denying them hosting. Gab and Parler can be accessed via the web, and the Parler app can still be installed on Android devices. It’s a quick and easy process.
And if you are still using an iPhone and want the app… consider making your current iPhone your final iPhone.
Dissenting views are under attack and the people doing the attacks do not even need to hide the fact anymore.
Indeed.
“CAUGHT IN VERITAS STING” = “REVEALED AS A FASCIST.” PBS lawyer resigns after being caught in Veritas sting.
A lawyer for PBS resigned Tuesday after being caught describing President Donald Trump as “close to Hitler” in a right-wing sting operation.
Michael Beller, a contracts lawyer in PBS’ general counsel office, was recorded offering political opinions in what appeared to be a barroom conversation with a woman. It was released Tuesday by Project Veritas, a conservative group known for using undercover methods to reveal supposed liberal bias.
Beller is heard saying it was “great” that coronavirus cases were spiking in red states because they might infect Trump voters and suggested Republican voters should have their children put in re-education camps.
Nothing crazy or threatening about that. I think PBS may have a diversity problem. Also, “supposed liberal bias.” Heh. That’s how WaPo reports stuff nowadays.
OPEN THREAD: What’s happening?
CHRISTIANS AGAINST CHRISTIANS: Natasha Crain lays out three strawmen being used by anti-Trumper Christians to libel fellow believers who supported President Donald Trump.
MR. KISS KISS FANG FANG IS BACK WITH A BANG! Eric Swalwell named an impeachment manager by Nancy Pelosi.
MCCONNELL FURIOUS WITH PRESIDENT, SUPPORTS MOVE TO INITIATE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS: SOURCES.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell supports Democrats’ move to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump and is “done” and “furious” with him, sources familiar told Fox News.
It is unclear how McConnell would vote in an impeachment trial, should House Democrats vote to impeach Trump. It is not clear at this point whether McConnell would vote to convict.
One source told Fox News that McConnell has not made up his mind about what to do about impeachment, and does not see this as a partisan exercise like the previous impeachment effort against Trump.
Another source told Fox News that McConnell told associates that impeachment will help rid the Republican Party of Trump and his movement.
That’s not playing well with the GOP base, based on the reaction on Twitter at the time of this post. But it does raise a question: Can Congress impeach and convict a president after the person has left office? Neo finds a law professor at Loyola who says they can. The Washington Post has a column by J. Michael Luttig, a former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit from 1991 to 2006 who says: A Senate impeachment trial after Trump leaves office would be unconstitutional.
OCEANIA FINALLY SWITCHING OFF ITS TWO-WAY TELESCREENS: CNN Airport Network to Shut Down on March 31.
A modest proposal: Since everyone has a smart phone and/or tablet in their hands at airports, do away with forcing flyers to view television in the departure area.
UPDATE: In accordance with the prophecy:
(Updated and bumped.)
WAKING UP TO A GRAY DAY CERTAINLY AFFECTS MY MOOD: Study explores the effects of morning weather on people’s mood and wellbeing at work.
MICHAEL WALSH: An Ascendant Left Silences and Excludes Its Enemies.
The problem now is that the incoming Biden administration has no intention of going after its digital brownshirts and manufacturing partners, any more than Hitler would have gone after Krupp or Thyssen while they were supplying the means to rearm Germany, or punishing reporters for the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party newspaper. Getting the media on their side was crucial to both the success of the National Socialist movement in Germany and in its erstwhile ally, the USSR, where Pravda and Izvestia provided all the news that was fit to print according to the party commissars.
Like the journeymen who quickly adopted the party line in Germany after 1933, the American media has plainly chosen sides. Dissenters from the new orthodoxy will not only be kicked off social media, they’ll be branded as ideological lepers and denied further employment. Anyone so much as associated with or supportive of the Trump administration will henceforth be deemed an outcast, and headed for the re-education camps or worse.
“Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie,” wrote that magazine’s chief content officer, Randall Lane recently. “We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet.”
At a time when the Democrats are begging for a peaceful transition of power, this would seem an odd way to heal the country’s divisions. But who’s going to call them on it? A country that prides itself on the fiction that we’re a nation of laws, not men, is finding out the hard way what repressive ideologues have known not only since Weimar and Berlin, but since Babylon itself: power is all that matters, and the laws will follow.
Who’s going to stop them?
Read the whole thing.
CERTAIN EVANGELICAL ‘MEN WITHOUT CHESTS’ GET A WORD POUNDING: There’s just no other way to describe Larry Alex Taunton’s fine deconstruction in the American Spectator of social justice evangelicals Tim Keller, John and Barnabas Piper and others. Here’s a small sample:
“This is because evangelicals in the English-speaking world have confused Christ’s command to love others with being civil as if that were an attribute of God. (It isn’t.) As a consequence, a superficial, self-righteous, good-for-nothing pietism that prefers tone to truth and style to substance has displaced authentic Christianity in many of the roughly four hundred thousand churches in America. This doctrinal malpractice has given us a generation of men, Christian and otherwise, who are what Lewis called ‘men without chests.’”
ROGER SIMON: Suppose They Gave an Inauguration and Nobody Came?
The increasingly fascistic American left is setting a trap for the rest of their fellow citizens—often termed “deplorables” but more appropriately dubbed “normals” by Kurt Schlichter—by warning we intend violence all over the country during Joe Biden’s inauguration.
This is nonsense, of course, but any kind of demonstration can be declared violent by a complaisant media or, more ominously, manipulated in that direction by provocateurs, with the slightest incident magnified beyond recognition.
Part of their intent is clearly to undermine the Second Amendment, actually to disarm us.
Another part is to justify yet more censorship and “canceling,” furthering their assault on the number one principle that makes America America, freedom of speech.
Do not fall for it. There is a much better way to protest the inauguration.
Don’t show up!
When I say don’t show up, I mean really don’t show up.
Don’t protest the inauguration in any way, not in Washington, not at your state house, nowhere. Ignore the whole thing.
Don’t even watch the event on television or stream it on any of your devices.
Let Bret Baier blather away all by himself, with or without Martha McCallum. That means no Newsmax or OAN too.
And especially do not watch their “Virtual Inaugural Parade.” Turn it into a ratings disaster.
I know you will be tempted, but don’t do it. Not even a glimpse. Ignore, ignore, ignore.
You must have something better to do, like fix that leaky faucet in the guest bathroom once and for all or finally to install that second peg board in the garage that’s still in its shrink wrap.
Put another way: Suppose they gave an inauguration and nobody came?
This is the proper way to protest this particular inauguration, a just response to an election with serious allegations of fraud that were never remotely investigated, not even for the paltry ten days proposed by a handful of senators as a last resort.
A presidential inauguration is a celebration of democracy. There is nothing to celebrate here.
The proper visual image of this inauguration should be a cluster of lonely Democrat politicians and their media friends surrounded by… nothing… emptiness.
Well, not entirely empty. Maybe significant phalanxes of police and National Guard watching over violent disturbances that obviously never happened, an image—fittingly—out of North Korea.
So what do we do now?
Take notes. Remember everything they are doing and everything they say.
Just today, speaking of violence, we learned the lead attorney for one of their most “sainted” outlets, PBS, wanted to throw Molotov cocktails at the White House and have our children taken away by the Department of Homeland Security, Chinese Communist Party-style, to re-education camps.
It’s just more evidence so many in the left have already earned their MP degrees, as in Masters of Projection.
So, patience, grasshopper, this is not the time for demonstrations. That time will come. Give them a chance to hang themselves a little more, because, like the PBS attorney, they surely will.
Speaking of which, from David Goldman, aka “Spengler:” Here’s How We Flatten the Democratic Party During the Next Four Years.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Different behaviors could reduce death and health risks in regular alcohol drinkers. “A large study of UK adults who consume alcohol regularly has found that different patterns of alcohol consumption—including drinking wine, consuming alcohol with food and spreading alcohol intake over three to four days—could be associated with a lesser risk of alcohol-related negative health outcomes such as death.”
WHEN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS ARE ONE INTERTWINED BEAST: The New Cronyism: Big Tech Censors Conservatives – Democrats Deliver Crony Policies.
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NEVER-TRUMPER CHRISTIANS GET WHAT THEY VOTED FOR: Focus on the Family chief Jim Daly asks some uncomfortable questions of those who refused to vote for Trump.
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