TO BE FAIR, AT LEAST THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO PRODUCE FICTION: ‘No Man’s Land’s’ Own Studio Lies About the Immigration Drama.
Still, CNN is not likely to appreciate the competition.
Archive for 2021
January 26, 2021
WE’VE LEFT THE REAL WORLD BEHIND: Journalists Mobilize Against Free Speech.
We’re living in the drugged fantasies of some LSD addict. It’s still 1970 and any minute now we’re going to wake up on the green shag carpeting next to some guy who has been growing his chest hair since before he was born. And I’ll be wondering what I’m doing there, at eight.
THE LEFT WOULD CANCEL ALL OF US: Today’s blacklisted American: A blogger about babies.
So they’re not constantly reminded of their miserable and petty smallness.
IT IS NEEDED: The Battle for Moral Authority.
Let me put it this way: morality is not race. When you start investing any race with moral worth, while stripping it from another, you’re the one who has no morality. The end.
THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: ‘More like a snack for a toddler than a meal for an adult’: How our National Guard troops are being fed at the Capitol.
AMERICANS DO EVERYTHING DIALED TO 11: Rule by Decree: Joe Biden Sets Record for Executive Orders in First Week.
Not even the Romans had an Emperor this senile proclaim so much crazy stuff. At this point saying he’s marrying his daughter and declaring his dogs citizens would be piddly stuff.
THIS REGIME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: A genocide, by any other name.
This regime holds the leash on vice-roi Bi-Den-Zhou.
TODDLERS, RUNNING WITH PLASTIQUE: Schumer: Biden Should Consider Declaring ‘Climate Emergency’ So He Can Do Things without Congress.
January 25, 2021
REALCLEARPOLITICS: Democrat Prospects of Convicting Trump in Senate Fade Away. Drag it out as long as possible, waste their momentum and make them look dumb on TV. Then crush it.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK:
JUST SENT OUT THANK-YOU NOTES TO PEOPLE WHO DONATED VIA PAYPAL. Sorry that some were a bit late; I got a bit behind with the Covid and other stuff. I very much appreciate your support, especially now that the Amazon stuff is no longer happening as before.
(Bumped).
COOL: Elon Musk Is Leasing Land to Drill for Natural Gas In Texas. Near SpaceX’s launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.
TRUMP’S NOT PRESIDENT. THEREFORE HE CAN’T BE REMOVED, WHICH MEANS HE CAN’T BE IMPEACHED. AT LEAST, THAT’S MY TAKE. Did Chief Justice John Roberts decline to preside over the Senate trial of the Trump impeachment? “I think it means John Roberts arrived at the view that there was no occasion for the Chief Justice to preside, and therefore he has a duty to refrain from participating. That’s not ducking and it’s not skipping. When he presides, it’s because he must, and when he refrains, it’s because he must. It’s based on an interpretation of law. But I can’t tell, reading this article, if he was asked to preside and communicated a refusal, or if Senate Democrats decided that the Constitution, Article I, Section 3, does not provide for a role for the Chief Justice.”
The thing is, if you’re not impeaching Trump as President, then you’re impeaching a private citizen. And you can’t impeach a private citizen. If you’re impeaching Trump as President, then the Chief Justice must preside. And since he isn’t . . .
WHEN YOU PUT CLOWNS IN CHARGE, YOU’RE GONNA HAVE A CLOWN SHOW: If You Thought the First Impeachment Was a Circus, Just Wait for Impeachment 2.0.
WELL, OBJECTIVELY THEIR PLATFORMS PLAYED A BIGGER ROLE: House GOP: If the FBI Is Investigating Parler for the Capitol Riot, Let’s Include Facebook and Twitter.
Though the notion that a communications platform is responsible for what its users say, even aside from Section 230, is pretty novel and unAmerican here.
OPEN THREAD: Be happy.
WAIT, IF TRUMP INCITED IT, HOW COULD THE SON HAVE TIPPED OFF THE FBI ABOUT HIS FATHER’S PARTICPATION BEFORE IT HAPPENED? “Weeks before the riot,” in fact. Son Tipped Off F.B.I. About His Father, Who Is Charged in Capitol Riot.
What sort of awful crime did the father commit? “The elder Mr. Reffitt, who was arrested on Jan. 16, faces charges of obstruction of justice and of knowingly entering a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.”
Also, I’d disown the little turd. He’s 18, he needs to move out and support himself. No home for Stalinists. . . .
A FRIEND EMAILS: “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Trump Mar-a-lago wgah’nagl fhtagn.” Heh.
UPDATE: From the comments: “That is not politically dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even deplatforming may die.”
Plus, something stirs.
FLASHBACK: The Cautionary Tale of Samantha Power.
UPDATE: Now that Joe Biden is President, COVID is Over and California Will Re-Open. Well, also Gavin Newsom’s “looming recall election.”
NO THANKS, I’M STILL SOCIAL DISTANCING: Meet the Woman Behind Salon’s Sloppy Tom Cotton Piece. San Francisco-based researcher Michelle Pettigrew was renovating her Georgian mansion while Cotton was in Iraq.
NO ONE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE: Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen.
(MUCH) SLOWER PLEASE: Why the Biden Agenda Might Come to a Screeching Halt in the Senate.
Related: Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) “is against eliminating the filibuster, and she is not open to changing her mind about eliminating the filibuster.”
More: Report: Trump Impeachment DOA in Senate.
Which likely dovetails with this announcement: Sen. Leahy Expected to Preside over Senate Impeachment Trial, Not Chief Justice Roberts.