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THE SKY IS GREEN THEORY:

The wacko leftist on the street corner you used to mock as you drove by, he now brings you the news. He runs your FBI. He plays in the NBA. He pastors your church.

And because all the pillars believe the same thing, you no longer have a check and balance cultural system. If the government lies, the media should be there to expose it. A huge Hollywood star should expose it. The pillars check each other in a healthy society.

But we don’t have that. And because we don’t have that, they don’t feel the need to shade the truth or manipulate a story. They now can simply invent something out of thin air and they know no other pillar will check them on it.

Twitter thread by Jesse Kelly.

JAMES LILEKS: We’re Moving to a Faster Pace.

There will be mobs who attack Jews. No no not those guys, they’re angry about colonialism or acting out whiteness doctrines of otherizing, please keep up.

There will be throngs of white men in positions of authority demanding that Asians be suppressed in academic admissions –

What? No, no, that’s different. Please, you’re not conversant in the prismatic subtleties of the intersectional matrix, so maybe sit this one out? Once you’ve done the work, then perhaps you will be alert to the neo-Fascist elements who will restructure society to otherize those who do not have pure blood –

What? No, no, that’s different. That’s a matter of public health. Of course, you should have to show your papers. Point is, America is a lost cause. Soon, very soon, a group of people will try to burn down a city because they saw some tweets about a thing, and there will be a horrifying moment when the authorities prevent it. The nascent subterranean Fascist instinct ignites in the citizens, and they will join the police to prevent the people from smashing the store windows and burning down the legislature building.

Read the whole thing.

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THREAD: Anti-Lockdown Protests Around The World.

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THEY’VE HAD A VERY STRICT LOCKDOWN AND IT HASN’T WORKED: Tourism returns with a trickle as Cayman prepares for border reopening.

The Marriott Beach Resort has three overseas guests booked in for the night of 20 Nov. Just along Seven Mile Beach, the Westin has ten.

Cayman’s two largest private villa and condo rental companies, which collectively represent more than 150 properties across all three islands, have six bookings between them.

While the relaxing of quarantine restrictions from 20 Nov. has been viewed as “reopening day” for tourism in Cayman, the reality on the ground is that this is expected to be a slow recovery. . . .

He said the amount of tests and the lack of clarity around the practical application of the policy were still “quite restrictive” considering that all arriving visitors must be vaccinated and PCR tested as a condition of entry.

“This is a step in the right direction and we are excited to crawl before we can walk,” he said, noting that the Westin would likely need no more than 45 of its 343 hotel rooms, for both visitors and staycationers, in the first weeks of reopening. . . .

Beyond the cost and inconvenience for holidaymakers, he said there was anxiety from prospective guests about leaving the relative security of a private villa to go into the community and get tested at a time when Cayman is experiencing significant transmission and is classed at the highest risk level by the US Centers for Disease Control.

To be clear: Cayman closed up early and completely a year and a half ago. Its tourism industry was gutted. And in spite of that, “Cayman is experiencing significant transmission and is classed at the highest risk level by the US Centers for Disease Control.” It’s almost as if lockdowns don’t work.

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NOT AS FUNNY AS IT SHOULD BE, THESE DAYS: Prosecutors Find Mail-In Jury Votes At 3AM, Rittenhouse Now Guilty.

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I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Pandemic has made heart healthcare more difficult, doctors say at meeting. “One major study tracking more than 1.7 million patients found that efforts to control blood pressure dramatically slipped during the pandemic, increasing those folks’ chance of heart attack, stroke and heart disease.”

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ROGER KIMBALL: The Right Outcome for Rittenhouse, But…:

In the aftermath of the verdict, the meme was supercharged by all the usual suspects. Rep. Jerry “the Waddler” Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, was among the first to suggest the U.S. Justice Department bring federal charges against Rittenhouse since the state charges didn’t stick. I’m sure the ghoulish Merrick “the Moderate” Garland is considering it if only he can peel off enough agents from harassing parents attending school board meetings for the task.

For his part, Biden, though acknowledging his disappointment that the 18-year old wasn’t going to be thrown in prison for the rest of his life, did at first say that the trial vindicated the judicial process and that “the jury system works.” Aides soon began walking that back, however, perhaps in preparation for the Nadler gambit of trying the boy twice.

Neither response, I think, is right. The second response is simply surreal, if offered earnestly, and contemptibly cynical if offered as a Machiavellian ploy in the game of power politics. Overwhelming evidence, including abundant video and first-hand testimony, shows that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. Had he not shot the three men who were attacking him, first Rosenbaum, a seriously deranged chap, and then Huber and Grosskreutz, he would almost certainly have been killed.

But the first response, the “hallelujah chorus,” is not quite right either. Yes, it’s a good thing that the jury found as it did because any other verdict would have been a horrible miscarriage of justice. The trouble is, by the time that Rittenhouse was put on trial, a horrible miscarriage of justice had already been perpetrated.

Rittenhouse had already been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion. One swamp entity, GoFundMe, canceled a campaign to raise funds to pay for Rittenhouse’s bail and legal fees because, according to CEO Tim Cadogan, the company doesn’t support people charged with violent crimes. What about the presumption of innocence? GoFundMe said nothing about that.

Speaking of which: GoFundMe Denied Rittenhouse Fundraising While Crowdsourcing Funds For BLM Rioters.

ZOMG, LOCK DOWN EVERYTHING!! Second case of Monkeypox in the US confirmed. To be honest, I wasn’t worried until I saw this: “Health authorities say there’s no cause for alarm.”

FUN: Driving GM’s 1939 Futurliner. Yes, there are still a few that are drivable. Plus: “Forget the cost, the most poignant thing I have taken away from everything I’ve written about vehicles like these is the curiosity, interest, and inspiration people get from seeing them.”

JACK DUNPHY: Lessons from Kenosha.

Sadly, the news media are no longer staffed by people who see their mission as informing the public of verifiable facts. Instead, today’s newspaper writers and electronic media reporters are proud purveyors of “narratives,” the details of which are crafted in the tonier enclaves of New York City and Los Angeles. The employees of these outlets are ideologically aligned and virtually interchangeable with one another, reflecting the tastes and inclinations of those predominating in those same tony enclaves on the east and west coasts.

The narrative applied to Kyle Rittenhouse was that he was a “white supremacist” and a “vigilante” with no connection to Kenosha and no conceivable motive to be there other than a malevolent desire to shoot “peaceful protesters.” None of this was true, yet these claims were repeated endlessly on CNN, MSNBC, and in countless print pieces. And, lest we forget, as committed as these news outlets are to advancing the narrative, that commitment is subordinate to their desire to expand their audience. Nothing short of international warfare achieves this purpose better than the type of widespread social upheaval and racial unrest seen after the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha.

How else to explain the absence of evidence running counter to the narrative in the coverage of any of these incidents? How else to explain why both CNN and MSNBC aired the prosecution’s closing argument in the Rittenhouse trial but cut away from the defense’s argument? Put simply, they profit from riots, and in such selective, biased coverage they built up public expectations of a conviction even as they were losing confidence in its inevitability.

Read the whole thing.

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Flashback: Is Black Rifle Coffee About to Throw Its Customer Base Under the Bus for Fun and Profit? “Just as Black Rifle Coffee is on the cusp of changing its financial structure, it is also arriving at a philosophical decision point. Will it stay conservative and cater to the people that made it successful? Will it go ‘woke?’ Will it complete the transition from a cause to a grift? Unfortunately, the signs aren’t all that great.”

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If you want more “vigilantes” get rid of the police. Remember, the police aren’t there to protect the populace from criminals. They’re there to protect the criminals from the populace.