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Archive for 2021
January 19, 2021
COOL. NOW DO TWITTER AND FACEBOOK: Apple sued for not removing Telegram from App Store over violent content and hate groups.
ROGER SIMON: ‘Hell, No, We Won’t Go!’ — to the Inauguration.
Sorry to recapitulate my column of the other day—“Suppose They Held an Inauguration and Nobody Came?”—but recent events have made it even more necessary.
On the level of opéra bouffe farce, leading those events was a panic set off in the Capitol Jan. 18 that turned out to have been caused by a small fire at a homeless encampment outside a Whole Foods.
What more perfect symbolic image for America 2021!
How could Congress have missed it when they had as their speaker one of the great resident experts on the subject, Ms. Pelosi, whose own district probably has more homeless per capita than anywhere in the nation?
But this is only one small reason we should ignore the inauguration or, as we used to say in the sixties, “Hell, no, we won’t go!”
When I say ignore, I mean totally shut the event out. Pay no attention to it. Do not watch it or listen to it. Not a single word.
Pretend it’s not happening and do almost anything else. It’s a work day anyway. Do your work. And if you’re retired, read a book. Brush up on your Shakespeare.
When images appear, let them show no one there but thousands of National Guard troops—put there as a charade in the first place—with bored expressions on their faces, wondering when they will finally be able to go home and watch football reruns.
Resist the temptation to view the tedious rehashes of the banal speeches that will appear that night. You won’t have missed a thing.
When the ratings are published, let them be lower than an infomercial for the latest egg slicer.
This, of course, means no demonstrations of any kind, not in Washington and not in the state capitals.
Do not be like those gulled nincompoops that allowed themselves to be led by Antifa and BLM into the Capitol, only to become the subject of endless propaganda.
In other words, if you’re tempted, grow up. Remember the old saw: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE. Chinese Coal Output has Risen to 2015 Levels, Undermining Climate Pledges.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: ‘How I Switched From Never-Trump To Never-Biden.’ “It’s the story of why a hardcore anti-Trumper switched to being anti-Biden. The hook is that the writer is an ex-cocaine addict, and thus has an ideal vantage to talk about what the media is hiding from us about Hunter Biden.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM EDITION: UCLA mental health official identifies one of his biggest challenges: straight white males; Doesn’t mention challenges of black and brown males.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: NBC News Hack Says MAGA Terrorists More Dangerous Than al Qaeda.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is 3,000 dead in an attack committed by a well-funded, international terror organization less dangerous than a one-time riot that might have been partly instigated by leftists?
Answer: Never. But you knew that.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Katie Couric wants to reprogram you
- Antifa prepares to throw “pro-Trump” riots
- Lefties suddenly denying that the intern-grooming Lincoln Porject founder is one of their own
Bonus Sanity: That’s a man, baby.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
IT WAS A RIGGED “INVESTIGATION,” ALL ALONG. FBI Agent Quit Crossfire Hurricane Team After His Effort To Validate Christopher Steele Was Shut Down.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. VIDEO: Students say Big Tech is too powerful.
INSURRECTIONISTS: Celebs URGED Electoral College Members to Vote Against Trump in 2016.
HILLARY CLINTON SUGGESTS VLADIMIR PUTIN IS BEHIND “THE DAY INSURGENTS INVADED OUR CAPITOL.” Consider this your daily you-aren’t-the-crazy-one reminder. I thought we needed to clamp down on free speech to stop these damaging conspiracy theories!
Admittedly, if she’s right, that would be awful, but it also means we might as well surrender now because it’s over and we lost.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lays into Twitter after lockout for election fraud claims. “Without debate of ideas, opinions, and arguing truth, Twitter and similar police state platforms will eventually lose.”
INDEED: Our Mail-in Elective Dictator: The surge in mail-in voting is a sea change for American democracy regardless of whether widespread fraud occurred. “Prior to the Trump era, America was already an Attention Deficit Democracy where citizens’ ignorance and apathy often entitled politicians to do as they damn well please. But changes in voting procedures last year catapulted our political system downward.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump’s Last Full Day—What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been. “From a personal perspective, I’ll tell you what I said on my podcast that will be posted later today: the overwhelming relief of not having to endure a Hillary Clinton presidency is something that I have been grateful for every day since Trump took the oath of office. It’s also made it all worth it. This great nation really dodged a bullet when Trump stunned the world and banished Granny Maojackets to Chappaqua to spend her days cracking open boxes of Franzia and pulling the wings off of flies.”
THEY REALLY MAKE IT PRETTY OBVIOUS WHAT THEY WANT: Liberal Media Scream: Call to silence conservatives and kick OANN and Newsmax off air.
WHY MLK TODAY WOULD BE A MAN OF THE RIGHT: Re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 makes it crystal clear there was no room in his vision for the poisonous hate of Critical Race Theory. In fact, had he lived to the present day, I am convinced King would be the sort of American who reads Instapundit!
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