Archive for 2021
August 17, 2021
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS INSANITY WRAP: Xi’s Up, Joe’s Down.
Plus:
- The CCP takes a board seat in Facebook’s factchecker
- Biden’s Pentagon has a plan for everything except the things it needs to do
- Face the Nation: Ford shows Biden how it’s done
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why did a ‘Blue Alert’ pop up on cellphones all over Texas late last night?
HE’S GOT YOUR BACK — WITH A KNIFE: Biden Goes Full America-Last, Won’t Prioritize Getting Americans Out of Kabul Over Afghans.
Although to be completely fair, Biden extended the Trump agreement by three months yet still managed to do that thing Barack Obama warned us about.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College students giving up on their degrees in significant numbers: report.
JAMES LILEKS: “By the way, yes, I was vaccinated. I am a breakthrough case, one of 7,000 in Minnesota. That’s the official number. I’m sure it’s 3X, at least, because people don’t get tested. Why would they? They got the poke, they feel fine, on with normal life. I wouldn’t have thought I had it. The happy prospect: when I was tested, I was at the end portion! Seems unlikely I was starting fresh on Saturday, after all. This was not how I expected the summer to conclude, to say the least. Last summer, yes. This summer, no.”
Plus some thoughts on the 1977 Burt Lancaster movie Twilight’s Last Gleaming: “[T]hat dark and malevolent all-powerful government with a shadowy cabal of brilliant and ruthless men dedicated to national security sure seems like a relic of another time, doesn’t it? Also: unless you sat through a long string of movies in those days that ended with their version of the President Shot to Death, you have no idea why Star Wars felt so bright and clean at the end.”
BRYAN PRESTON: Biden’s Speech on Afghanistan Was Terrible, But This Part Made the Least Sense of All. “Not only is Biden withdrawing U.S. military forces from Afghanistan relatively early in his presidency, he’s withdrawing during the country’s well-known fighting season. Withdrawing in winter, instead of summer, would likely have led to a different outcome, especially if the withdrawal had been planned well and that plan executed in concert with our NATO allies.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UMich prof says math and science classes are racist. “The professor was previously dean of University of Michigan School of Education.”
PROGRESSIVE ENTERPRISES ARE CESSPITS OF RACISM, EXHIBIT #1,000,006: A Twitter exec told an Asian-American employee she could pass as white if she wore sunglasses after she spoke out about the company’s lack of diversity, a report says.
SO A FRIEND IS TRYING TO GET SOME AFGHANS WHO HELPED US OUT OF THE COUNTRY. IT’S NOT GOING WELL:
ECP = Entry Control Point at the airport. SIV = Special Immigration Visa, given to Afghans who helped us. He adds: “The son in the wheelchair was injured by a taliban IED. That family came [to] Farah on Biden’s promise.”
HERE’S THE HUB OF THE MATTER: The matter being why is Gen Z such a confused, wandering, preoccupied mess:
“The fluidity of gender is predicated on the fluidity of truth, which itself demands moral relativism. This is the postmodern muddle. Alongside failed wars, a Great Recession, and ambient tech addiction, it’s the world our experts hath wrought. It’s the only world Gen Z knows.”
It’s The Federalist’s Emily Jashinsky. Don’t delay, click right over.
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Matt Margolis: The Price of Incompetence: Biden Is Losing the Never-Trumpers. “Perhaps the most interesting criticism comes from Meghan McCain. While Trump will never be in her good graces, her endorsement of Joe Biden for his character and experience just imploded in epic fashion.”
Kruiser and KDJ: ‘Unwoke’ With Kevin and Kruiser #7: A Family Farewell, a Cuomo Conspiracy, and a Classic Highball.
Yours Truly: Oh God, Not Like This. “Presidentish Joe Biden told people just like the ones being shed from that cargo plane like so much detritus that he had a plan for getting them out. He did not.”
NO, DIVERSITY IS NOT OUR STRENGTH: Writing for The Federalist, Chris Bedford offers a great deal of common sense wisdom about the Left’s familiar bromide proclaiming “Diversity is our strength.”
If it were, why, among so much else, would nearly two decades of constantly being told that it is produce these depressing results:
“In 2004, 74 percent of white Americans and 68 percent of black Americans told Gallup that race relations in America were good. This year, those numbers are 43 percent and 33 percent, respectively. It turns out that a decade and a half of relentlessly racializing every issue in American politics just made everyone feel less happy, less trusting, less like they are part of a unified American whole.”
Bedford is smart, often deeply perceptive, and a competent writer who is definitely worth following.
REMEMBER WHEN BIDEN’S ADMINISTRATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BRING COMPETENCE BACK? Virus blundering cuts Biden approval to lowest point.
MAYBE NEXT TIME EVACUATE CIVILIANS FIRST, THEN THE TROOPS? Biden Blames Everyone but Himself for Afghanistan Withdrawal Fiasco: Biden never addressed why it all went haywire this weekend.
JUST THINK OF IT AS YET ANOTHER CRISIS BY DESIGN:
I try my best not to underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up but his talent is boundless.
HE HASN’T HIT BOTTOM YET ON THIS: Disaster for Biden: 69% blast handling of Afghanistan.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Oldest President Ever But There’s No Adult In Charge. “I recently read something that referred to America as being ‘rudderless’ at the moment. That’s not entirely true. The above-mentioned cabal of progressive special interests is in charge, but it’s focused on a lemming run off the leftist cliff.”
UNUSUAL FLURRY OF AMICUS BRIEFS: Fourteen state Attorneys General submitted an amicus brief supporting College of the Ozarks’ challenge of His Fraudulency’s Day One executive order that mandates unisex campus bathrooms and showers.
Four more briefs were also filed in the case, which cheers the school’s attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). It’s a bit unusual to see briefs accumulating at the appeals court level, they say. Keep an eye on this case because it spotlights the egregiously dishonest legal analysis underlying one of Biden’s top priority initiatives.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Two Hawaii Gun Regulations Struck Down.
NOW BEGINS THE RE-FUND THE POLICE CAMPAIGN: Businesses in Harlem, according to The Truth About Guns, are calling on New York City authorities to bring back plain clothes cops to help deal with the surge in shoplifting, assaults on customers and the climate of fear. Watch this one spread.