NANCY PELOSI’S JANUARY 6TH SELECT COMMITTEE HOAX: “It’s a no-win situation. Either talk to the committee and risk perjury (the witnesses were deposed for up to eight hours) or plead the 5th and be prosecuted by the DOJ and spend your life savings trying to defend yourself from the full weight of the government in a venue that hates Republicans. Either sell out your friends and family or be in contempt of the committee. Stalin would be impressed.”
Archive for 2021
December 14, 2021
ABOUT TIME: Still No Deaths From Omicron, And Americans Are Getting On With Their Lives.
While corporate media outlets panicked and revived permanent pandemic narratives and talk of more lockdowns, a new poll from CBS News and YouGov found that of 1,731 people surveyed, 81 percent said they have not rearranged plans because of the Omicron variant or the hype surrounding it. In fact, a majority said they still plan to keep their normal holiday traditions and routines. Sixty-eight percent still plan to “gather with friends and family,” 64 percent said they will do their Christmas shopping in person, and 52 percent said they will eat in a restaurant.
Only 17 percent of those surveyed said they were “very concerned about Omicron,” while about 42 percent said they were not concerned at all about Omicron despite the initial media and bureaucracy-induced panic about it.
These Americans’ thoughts on Omicron are validated by the data. As it turns out, not one single COVID-19-related death in the U.S. from Dec. 1-8 was found to be caused by the Omicron variant. As of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that of the 43 people infected with the Omicron strain of COVID, most cases manifested only mild symptoms such as “a cough, fatigue, and congestion or a runny nose.”
I wonder how long the 17% — willing victims of a manufactured mass hysteria — will remain wedded to their masks.
Forever?
THEN IT ISN’T A MANDATE: New York Won’t Force Counties to Comply With Mask Mandate. “New York Governor Kathy Hochul undermined her own statewide mask mandate on Monday by revealing that she would not force counties to comply with the mandate.”
Translation: Enough counties wouldn’t comply even if Hochul did try to enforce a mask mandate that it would have been politically embarrassing.
SOUNDS INTERESTING: Don’t Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky. #CommissionEarned
JAMES LILEKS ON AMTRAK’S BUSINESS CLASS LUNCH:
That’s a plastic container of cheese spread and another of hummus, which you can apportion between your four flavorless crackers. There is a meat stick, a Slim Jim reject that reforms into an unmasticatable cud after you’ve bitten off a piece. It could be meat; it could be an extremely pliable pencil. A packet of almonds; a packet of dried apple shavings. A packet of something chocolate. It hit the spot, if you’re starving, and I was.
Business class, though.
I can still taste the horrid microwaved cheeseburger served on Amtrak’s “Amcafe” cars from when I used to commute from Trenton to Manhattan in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.
MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE: Alumni at prestigious college withhold donations as campus restricts free speech.
JUSSIE SMOLLETT AIN’T THE HALF OF IT: Armando Simon, writing for Issues & Insights, has a compendium of Hate Crime Hoaxes that likely includes several. you missed. Or were never told about by the Mainstream Media.
PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.
Matt Margolis: I Went Shopping Maskless in New York Despite The Mandate… Here’s What Happened.
Megan Fox: And Just Like That, Here’s Everything Wrong with the ‘Sex and the City’ Reboot.
Yours Truly: Biden and Yellen Are in Dangerous Denial About Inflation.
EPIC DAILY DEAL: Kitchen Mama Electric Can Opener. #CommissionEarned
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CULTURE OF HATE EDITION: UTSA teaching assistant ousted after threatening to ‘murder’ and ‘rape’ conservative personality.
BIDENFLATION: November producer price index rises 9.6%, sets new record.
Related: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
ENABLING CHILD MOLESTATION AND STATUTORY RAPE: Biden’s Education Dept. to stop collecting data on sexual assault allegations by teachers.
In an apparent move to appease teachers’ unions, the Biden administration’s Department of Education intends to repeal a Trump-era effort to collect data on sex crimes committed by teachers against their students.
The Department of Education said on Thursday that the Office for Civil Rights will not ask school districts any questions about teacher-on-student sexual assault allegations as part of its 2021-2022 Civil Rights Data Collection.
The change is supposedly designed to “reduce burden and duplication of data,” according to a department spokesman who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
They didn’t even bother coming up with a halfway decent excuse.
DUMPSTER FIRE: More On The Jason Kilborn Controversy At The University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School. “Over the past year, various academics have expressed support for a University of Illinois Chicago School of Law professor who faced student criticism after he used abbreviated racial and gender slurs as part of a hypothetical fact pattern for a civil procedure final exam.”
The students are ridiculous, but the administrative malfeasance here is unforgivable. At this point, honestly, the school’s accreditation needs to be pulled until it can remedy the problem.
PARTY OF YOUTH: Now We Know What Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 Plans Are.
QUESTION ASKED: Why won’t the White House take inflation seriously?
Rather than actually tackling inflation, officials are more interested in explaining why those prices aren’t the full story. Biden chief of staff Ron Klain decided that the best response was a flip chart explaining that everything was actually great. It is one thing to tout your economic achievements, it is another to deny the existence of any problems. On inflation, the White House too often finds itself telling voters not to believe their lying eyes.
To some economists, frustration among Americans at the state of the economy is a head-scratcher. GDP is surging, why aren’t people feeling better, they ask themselves.
But as the New York Times’s David Leonhardt explained on Friday, this really isn’t as much of a paradox as these economists seem to think. In his blunt assessment, “Americans think the economy is in rough shape because the economy is in rough shape.”
As Obama economic adviser Jason Furman told the Washington Post recently, “The typical family is spending an extra $4,000 this year because of excess inflation. It does not seem like much of a mystery why people are upset when they have to spend thousands of additional dollars more because of inflation.”
Exit quote: “Not long ago, Klain called inflation a ‘quality problem.’ He has learned not to say something like that again in public. But one can’t help but feel that, privately at least, that is still the White House view.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): My latest utility bill was higher than the same month last year despite using less gas and electricity. That’s because gas prices for me are up 19%(!) and electricity is up 5% over last year. For me that’s annoying, for people closer to the edge it’s brutal and demands real sacrifice either in things like heating and cooling or somewhere else. Then there’s the increase in food and gasoline.
YOU CAN’T PROTECT A NARRATIVE WITHOUT BREAKING A FEW GRANNIES: ‘Not fitting their narrative’: Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack.
NONSENSE, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME HE WAS WASHED UP: Trump endorsements win 137-3, ‘few parallels’ in history.
FORMER CHRIS CUOMO PRODUCER TRAINED GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 7 IN ‘SEXUAL SUBSERVIENCE’: Court Docs.
Insert Henry Kissinger Iran/Iraq War joke here.
GEORGE LEEF: “Judge rules for UNC in Admissions Case.”
One of my organizations–Californians for Equal Rights–has filed a brief supporting SFFA’s effort to pair this case with the Harvard case at the Supreme Court level. I’ll link to it as soon as it is posted.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Why Is Hillary Clinton Bothering Us All the Time Lately? “We have certainly been getting a faceful of Hillary Clinton in recent weeks. This has been a pattern of hers since being sent back to Chappaqua by Donald Trump: she spends long periods out of the public eye, buried deep in her box of breakfast Franzia. Suddenly, like a bad combination of creepy stalker and unfortunate body odor, she’s everywhere and you can’t seem to make her go away.”