Archive for 2021
July 12, 2021
WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Billionaire Richard Branson Completes Successful Space Flight on Virgin Galactic.
SPOILER: HE ISN’T KOREAN. Meet the British Man Who Spent $200K To Become Korean.
GOOD LUCK; I WANT YOU TO KNOW WE’RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU: It’s Time to End 2020’s Emergency Tax Increases in California.
LOSER MENTALITY: Jenna Ellis Calls Out RNC for Abandoning Trump Camp After Election.
WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE MAN WHO FURLOUGHED WILLIE HORTON…: Defunding the police is ‘nuts;’ Just ask Mike Dukakis.
NOTHING’S SHOCKING: The G-20 Shock. “It is shocking to see President Biden cutting with the Group of 20 wealthy countries a deal to raise taxes on American corporations without first getting a mandate from Congress. On the contrary, Mr. Biden has to be well aware that the sentiment for such a deal might well not even be there in Congress. Never mind. Mr. Biden seems to imagine that the Constitution granted the taxing power to the president — of, say, France.”
NOW DO THE IMPACT OF CRIME: Study model explores impact of police action on population health.
THIS WAS ACTUALLY A GOOD STATEMENT, NOT THAT I EXPECT ANY ACTION: Biden Breaks His Silence on Cuba Protests.
HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE: Sleepless nights can quickly mess up emotions, study says.
JIM TREACHER: Yes, Kamala, Americans Can Make Copies — It’s 2021, Not 1921.
Kamala is so bad at this, she can’t get through an interview with Soledad O’Brien without making a fool of herself. Soledad O’Brien.
Country folks have access to copiers, Madam Vice President. Thousands of CVS stores have copiers, for one thing. And most of those hayseeds you claim to represent have internet access, so they can go on Amazon and buy an inexpensive scanner to use anytime they want. Come to think of it, they even have e-mail accounts and cameras on their phones, so they can just send copies of things that way. Dag gummit, some of ‘em are even technologically advanced enough to read these words right now. Because it’s 2021, not 1921.
Why, they’ve even got indoor toilets, Kamala!
This woman is a gift to the Republicans. The more she talks, the more Americans start to panic that she’s our backup for the doddering 80-year-old codger who’s supposed to be running this country. Whenever we start asking ourselves if anybody can be worse than Biden, she pops right back up again.
As the subhead of Dana Loesch’s 2016 book noted: You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been To.
ENABLING THEIR DESTROYERS: With T-Mobile Stores Favorites Of BLM Looters And Arsonists, Execs Told Workforce To Be ‘Respectful’ Of Those Who Want To ‘Burn This Whole Place Down.’
Sounds like T-Mobile execs have told their workers that T-Mobile stores aren’t a safe place to work.
Related: What Is the Great Resignation of 2021? (If You Don’t Know, You’ll Want to Read This).
YOU CAN TELL WHO’S ON THE PAYROLL, OR AT LEAST WHO’S ON THE TEAM: Jackie Chan Tells China: I Want to Be a Communist, Too.
Hong Kong action movie legend Jackie Chan is keen to satisfy a “longing” to join the Communist Party of China (CPC) and bask in its “greatness,” according to a report Sunday in the Global Times state news outlet.
It remarked he joined a symposium on Thursday in Beijing, “which invited Chinese film insiders to speak and share their thoughts regarding the keynote speech delivered by the top Chinese leader on July 1, the centennial of the founding of the CPC.”
The Global Times said Chan, also the vice chairman of the China Film Association, not only expressed his “proud feeling of being a Chinese,” but also showed his longing for the CPC.
“I can see the greatness of the CPC, and it will deliver what it says, and what it promises in less than 100 years, but only a few decades,” Chan said.
“I want to become a CPC member” he continued before lavishing praise on the Chinese Communist fighters who took on Japan during World War II.
Flashback: Celebrities will lecture America, but apologize — like John Cena — to China.
It’s a pitiful thing to see a strong man cry. It’s a sickening thing to see a man body-slam himself, then twist his own arm behind his back and make himself tap out.
Wrestler turned actor John Cena may look like the Rock, but when it comes to China he’s Pee-Wee Herman. Doing an interview for his upcoming film “F9” in Taiwan, he referred to that free and thriving democratic island, which has had a separate government since 1949, as a “country” instead of as a province of China.
When this led to an “outcry,” meaning it displeased the Communist Party of China, alleged tough guy Cena mewled and groveled and begged for forgiveness.
It would have been an embarrassing display of cowardice for an asthmatic muskrat. But for Cena, whose brand is brawn? Really, what is the point of having muscles carved out of granite if your moral fortitude rates at the same level as overcooked linguine? Is the point of muscles to look better than the weaklings while you’re surrendering? If the concept of strength means anything, it isn’t the ability to move metal doughnuts on a bar. It’s the quality of standing up for your values, opposing bullying, defending the truth. If Cena had been in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he would have strode up to the row of tanks, picked up the guy standing in front of them, and deposited him directly in the nearest police station for questioning.
Related: A Slow Kowtow to China.
Demanding obeisance has a rich history in Chinese culture. In 1793, British envoy Lord George Macartney was charged with opening permanent trade relations with China. The Chinese still clung to the old feudal demand of the kowtow. In the old days, the Chinese believed that the emperor literally ruled the world, which meant foreign rulers were more like vassals. And all vassals must acknowledge the supremacy of the emperor, the Son of Heaven. The problem was that Macartney was essentially a stand-in for the British crown, and he couldn’t in good conscience recognize the emperor as his sovereign.
Kowtowing requires three kneelings and nine prostrations—meaning the supplicant actually lies face down on the floor—in order to demonstrate total inferiority. Macartney agreed to kneel out of respect, but he wouldn’t put his head to the ground nine times.
The Chinese were offended and Britain and China didn’t get the trade deal. I bring up this anecdote for three reasons. First, it’s worth recognizing that the trade deal was in the interests of both countries. Lots of “realists” think that countries do things solely out of raw self-interest. That’s arguably true. But the definition realists use for self-interest is way too narrow. Notions of national pride and honor are also forms of self-interest.
Which brings me to the second reason. America should have some notion of honor. We don’t have a crown, but we do have certain ideas and ideals that we like to claim similar loyalty to. We also like to claim that these ideas and ideals are universal. When we figuratively kowtow to China, we are openly admitting to China that both claims are untrue—or at least negotiable. You can’t claim to believe human rights are universal and inviolable while simultaneously excusing or ignoring the mass violation of human rights that defines China under CCP rule.
Last, none of this is in our interest. It’s not like the Chinese respect us for our groveling. They enjoy watching us bend to their demands and mock our obsequious desire to gain favor as proof of their superior system. They use our self-flagellation over race as a cudgel in their propaganda and diplomacy. Such appeasement only buys greater demands and worse moral and strategic compromises.
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I whiggishly believe that one day China will be a free country. And when it is, the Chinese will not look back on America today as a spiritual ally the way those who were slaughtered at Tiananmen Square did. They will see us as a country that sought approval from the regime that persecuted their ancestors for the cheap at any price of Fast and Furious 9 ticket sales.
As Jim Geraghty wrote in October of 2019, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
QED: Disney Defends Mulan Filming Near [Uighur] Internment Camps In China.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Shocking Depths of Fauci-China Connection Revealed in New Documents.
Plus:
- Not even Alabama can rid itself of the CCP’s Confucius Institutes
- So Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey is a thing we have to be concerned about now
- The Trudeau-Castro connection you won’t believe
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
COLORADO: parents aren’t being paranoid, their kids are learning Critical Race Theory.
The Denver Post and other mainstream media outlets are on a quest to convince readers that educators are just teaching honest American history.
Chief gaslighter and University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Jennifer Ho explains:
“Saying you want to ban teaching critical race theory in K-12 is saying you want to ban electrical engineering in K-12,” she said. “… Yes, students may be learning about electricity, but that’s very different from saying that your seventh-grade science teacher is teaching electrical engineering.”
See the difference? Students are not being taught Critical Race Theory, they’re just learning that all whites are oppressors and all minorities are victims doomed to failure.
Even worse than lying to us, Ho treats parents like idiots.
AS ALWAYS, LIFE IMITATES AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
● Shot: Florida Democratic Lawmaker Uses Cuba Protests To Slam DeSantis’ Anti-Riot Law.
—The Daily Wire, today.
—The Babylon Bee, today.
On the flip-side though, President Klain has issued a surprisingly pro-freedom statement:
“We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime,” Biden said in a statement Monday morning.
“The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves,” the president added.
Americans should celebrate the moral clarity in Biden’s statement, although many may take it with a grain of salt, considering the increasing impact of “democratic socialism” within the president’s party.
Indeed: America’s Far-Left Silent As Cubans Cry Out For Freedom From Communist Dictatorship.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: Salon dubs Ashli Babbitt “the 21st-century Horst Wessel: Symbolic martyr to the fascist cause.”
Flashbacks:
● “Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle.”
—Salon.com, March 6, 2013.
—Salon.com, January 18, 2014.
● Like [the late communist Pete] Seeger and the FDR cargo cult, Salon also harbors turn-the-clock-back fantasies of their own: Last month, the publication called for the nationalization of the news media because it was uncomfortable with the glut of right-leaning news and opinion led by — you guessed it! — Fox News. (Hmmm — I wonder if someone in the FCC read that article?) Now the Website wishes to turn the clock back on the film industry because of a perceived glut of independent films.
—Easy Riders, Raging Stasists, Ed Driscoll.com, February 22, 2014.
—Salon.com, July 8, 2014.
As Charles C. Cooke asked the left in 2016, “Herewith, an under-asked question for our friends on the progressive left: ‘Has Donald Trump’s remarkable rise done anything to change your mind as to the ideal strength of the State?’”
WELL, THEY KNOW THEIR AUDIENCE: Thousands Protest for Freedom in Communist Cuba. The New York Times’ Framing Would Please Stalin.
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