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Archive for 2021
January 20, 2021
SO TIRED OF THIS NONSENSE: Star Wars Virtue Signaling Gets Slammed.
NO, SERIOUSLY: Reading Suicide Notes.
They’re like evil bug-aliens, wearing an Edgar suit.
DON’T LET THEM IN YOUR HEAD: PsyOps In The War Against The Right.
AND THIS LATEST EDIT WILL NOT STAND: Our American Story Is FREEDOM.
I WAS RELIABLY INFORMED MASKS AND LOCKDOWNS HAD DEFEATED THE VIRUS IN CHINA: Chinese cities further tighten epidemic control measures amid COVID-19 resurgence.
You mean China lied to us? Un-possible!
January 19, 2021
OTHERS ARE NOTICING THAT THE MEDIA NARRATIVE DOESN’T FIT THE FACTS: Trump has a +3 approval rating in the new Rasmussen poll.
From the comments: “Few people believe that protesting against voting fraud is wrong.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Gaining power hasn’t made the left any less insane. “One promise of the Biden campaign was that after the craziness of the Trump years, electing the ex-veep would return the country to normal. Instead, Democrats are doubling down on crazy.”
UPDATE: From the comments: “It was the Democrats who made the Trump years crazy, not Trump. Why would electing the crazies return the country to normal?”
I HAVE TO ADMIT, I WASN’T EXPECTING THIS:
Here’s her statement.
When your revolutionary program goes so far that The Squad objects . . .
IT’S LIKE THEY WANT A BANANA REPUBLIC:
But that’s just because they do.
For comparison, Lyndon Johnson sent a total of 13,600 federal troops and D.C. Army National Guardsmen to quell the race riots in Washington that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Those riots injured hundreds of people and killed at least 13. In 1864, as the Civil War raged on the other side of the Potomac and Americans died every day in large numbers on the battlefield, there were fewer federal troops protecting Washington, D.C., than there are right now.
But according to our leaders, the so-called “insurrection” of Jan. 6 was much worse than any of that. So in response, they have assembled the largest military presence in Washington in all of American history during peacetime.
And they’ve made clear that they don’t fully trust those troops. Which is both crazy and destructive for the nation.
FAILING UPWARD IS THE DEMOCRATIC WAY: Biden To Nominate Transgender Doctor Rachel Levine As Assistant Health Secretary.
Flashback: While sending Covid-19 infected patients into nursing homes, Levine’s mother was moved into a hotel.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF: Judge: Maxwell’s sex relationships with adults can be secret. “Testimony by Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend about her sexual experiences with consenting adults can remain secret when a transcript is released next week, a judge said Tuesday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska in Manhattan pertained to a July 2016 deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell in a civil lawsuit brought by one of Maxwell’s accusers that has since been settled. . . . Lawyers for the 59-year-old British socialite had objected to the transcript being made public on the grounds that it could damage her chance at a fair trial on charges that she recruited three underage girls in the 1990s for Epstein. Preska said Maxwell’s lawyers had failed to show how the unsealing of the deposition transcript will jeopardize a trial that isn’t slated to begin until July or why publicity about the document cannot be overcome through a fair jury selection process. The judge also ordered the release in eight days of dozens of other documents sought by the Miami Herald.”
JUST NBC THE HYPOCRISY: Ali Velshi Doesn’t Condone Rioting (Unless It Gets Him What He Wants).
UPDATE: New York Times Conveniently Revises History on the 2020 Antifa/BLM-Led Riots.
(Updated and bumped.)
OPEN THREAD: The last Open Thread of Trump’s term. Use it well.
DR. RACHEL LEVINE, FAILING UP: “There is nothing inspiring about a record or a person like this. It should frighten and alarm you. Dr. Levine should never have been nominated and should have been fired as Pennsylvania’s health secretary months ago. Now it is time for Americans and the media to hold Senators accountable for the confirmation process and to watch their votes carefully.”
Read the whole thing.
HMM: Senate’s top Democrat, Republican seek path to guide 50-50 chamber. “Facing a 50-50 partisan split in the U.S. Senate, the chamber’s top Democrat and Republican discussed adopting a power-sharing deal similar to one struck two decades ago in similar circumstances, a Democratic spokesman said on Tuesday. Democrat Chuck Schumer, set to become majority leader on Wednesday thanks to incoming Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote, told the chamber’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, that he favored adopting a deal along the lines of the 2001 arrangement “without extraneous changes from either side,” a Schumer spokesman said. Recognizing that the vice president could not be a constant presence in the chamber, the 2001 agreement split committee memberships evenly and mandated that both leaders seek to attain an equal balance of the two parties’ interests when scheduling and debating legislative and executive business.”
McConnell’s holding out to preserve the filibuster.
SPACE: Policy directive on GPS issued in closing days of Trump administration. “Space Policy Directive-7 highlights the United States’ ever growing dependence on space-based positioning, navigation and timing. It suggests government and commercial organizations should have access to backup PNT technologies as GPS signals are likely to be disrupted. SPD-7 repeats many of the points and recommendations made by Trump in a February 2020 executive order.”
CANDLE IN THE WIND: The Biden inaugural committee has encouraged all Americans to participate Tuesday by lighting a candle in their windows.
No word yet if the Biden inaugural committee has issued any instructions regarding the type of candle their supporters should choose. Best to avoid this one: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Vagina Candle Reportedly Exploded, Starting an “Inferno” in a Woman’s Living Room.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Money matters to happiness—perhaps more than previously thought.
RASMUSSEN DAILY TRACKING POLL: 51% of likely voters approve of President Trump; 48% disapprove. I guess this is the last one of these for Trump, and it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the way he’s being portrayed as a pariah in the press.
A LITTLE MORE FROM THAT STACY MCCAIN PIECE I LINKED EARLIER:
What we are actually confronting is the boomerang effect of political paranoia. Democrats began flinging around this weapon during the Clinton years, when Hillary claimed that her husband’s sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky was actually a plot by a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” The American Spectator played an instrumental role in that saga and was subsequently targeted by the IRS. Just a coincidence, I’m sure. Democratic paranoia further escalated after the 2000 election recount fiasco in Florida, and many Democrats also claimed that George W. Bush somehow defrauded John Kerry in the 2004 election.
Over the years, Democrats used a series of demonized bogeymen to inspire fear and loathing among their grassroots “base.” During the Clinton presidency, the chief bogeymen were the Religious Right and Richard Mellon Scaife. Once Bush was elected, liberals decided chose as their new bogeymen White House adviser Karl Rove and war-mongering “neonconservatives,” the latter term being a liberal code word for Jews. Any researcher concerned about anti-Semitism in America would do well to examine how leftists exploited the “neoconservative” conspiracy theory to demonize Jewish Republicans during the Bush era. What’s remarkable is how swiftly Democrats can switch targets, choosing a new bogeyman to replace the old one almost instantaneously. A few months into the Bush administration, the much-demonized Scaife was utterly forgotten, and the Bible-thumpers of the Religious Right faded into the background, while liberals ranted on cable TV about those treacherous neocons!
Now, 12 years after the end of the Bush era, this seems like ancient history, but the point is that Democrats must always have a right-wing enemy with which to frighten their grassroots constituency. During the Obama years, the enemy was first Sarah Palin — remember when Joe McGinniss moved in next door to her place in Wasilla? — and then it was Andrew Breitbart for a while. By 2010, however, Democrats and their media allies had decided that the Tea Party was the real enemy, which in turn led to the Koch brothers becoming the scary bogeymen. Charles and David Koch had long supported libertarian causes, without provoking any great controversy, until their sponsorship of the Tea Party movement made them a Dangerous Extremist Menace.
In November 2011, I saw first-hand consequences of the Left’s demonization of the Koch brothers, when a mob of “Occupy” protesters stormed a D.C. event hosted by Americans for Prosperity where one of the Koch brothers was in attendance. Another reporter and I found ourselves trapped between the mob and the glass front doors of the building, with one D.C. cop to protect us from hundreds of angry “Occupy” maniacs (see “The Mob Who Came to Dinner,” Nov. 7, 2011). Trust me when I say, no Democrat in Congress had more reason to fear the unruly mob of Trump supporters at the Capitol than we had to fear that screaming scrum of deranged “Occupy” protesters in 2011.
All that Democrats and their allies have done over the years to foster a climate of hatred and paranoia in America has conveniently been forgotten by the media in the two months since the last election. We are not supposed to compare the riot at the Capitol two weeks ago to the riots that wrecked several major U.S. cities last summer. The media worked overtime to convince Americans that George Floyd’s fentanyl overdose was a “murder” by racist police. Anyone who doubted that narrative was labeled a “white supremacist” — facts are now hate, according to our media overlords — and this same label has since been used to smear all Trump supporters as complicit in what CNN viewers are told was a right-wing terrorist attack on the Capitol. More than 100 participants in that riot are now facing federal charges, and at least one Trump supporter has committed suicide after he was “doxed” by left-wing activists trying to get him fired from his job as a bank executive.
Read the whole thing.
NO, AND IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE: Mike Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is “not who America is.”
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF MEDICINE: Panel finds world not prepared for COVID-19; China, WHO acted too slowly.
Flashback: Time to put China on lockdown for its dishonesty amid coronavirus crisis. “China’s response was inept, dishonest and utterly inconsiderate of the world. We need to teach the Chinese government a lesson.”