SURPRISE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR GUN-TOTING REPUBLICAN WOMEN: Biden Admin to ‘Speed Up’ Efforts to Place Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill.
And the design work is all set to go!
Archive for 2021
January 25, 2021
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Budweiser will sit out Super Bowl, funneling marketing dollars to boost vaccine awareness. “Budweiser isn’t the only iconic brand sitting out the game. PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have said they won’t be running in-game ads for their namesake sodas.”
GO BROKE: NBC Sports Network Is Shutting Down.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Triple-Masker Looks Down On People Who Only Double Mask.
DUTCH ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTESTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Hundreds arrested after riots in 10 cities in the Netherlands. “Police in the Netherlands arrested hundreds of rioters, mostly in Amsterdam, as groups of young men in multiple cities vandalized shops and set fires Sunday night. . . . Earlier this week, the Dutch parliament announced new coronavirus restrictions including limits on social visiting and a 9:30 p.m. curfew.”
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS NO ONE IS ASKING: How Miley Cyrus’ ‘Preference’ Remarks Show Underlying Transphobia.
“Girls are way hotter. We know this,” the 28-year-old bisexual said in an interview with Sirius XM’s Barstool Radio. “Everyone I think can agree that from ancient times d*cks makes wonderful sculptures. Other than that, I’m not as interested. I like d*cks as art pieces. And sculptural, I love the shape, I think it looks really good on a table.”
The singer continued: “It’s good if it can just get in and go away, because I don’t want it eyeing me up. That’s how I truly feel. I felt really good about saying that.”
She dug in even deeper, adding, “everyone knows that tits are prettier than balls… That’s what ended up making female relationships make more sense to me.”
I wish I could say this news makes me excited and proud to be a woman and a lesbian, but Cyrus’ quote is littered with transphobia. This kind of gender essentialism was left behind by most of the queer community years ago. Genitals do not equal gender, and Miley should know this.
And from satiric* Twitter account “Titania McGrath:”
* Well, I’m pretty sure it’s satiric. In 2021 though, who can tell?
OF COURSE, THIS IS BASED ON LIKE, WHAT, 12 THEATERS OR SOMETHING? ‘Marksman’ tops North American box office for 2nd weekend. $2 million in box office for a #1 movie. “Few new movies have been opening in theaters this past year due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
JOEL KOTKIN: Making America California. Now that Californians are filling top spots in the Biden administration and Silicon Valley is an arm of the Democratic party, they’ll be working together to ruin the rest of the nation’s economy — and impose California’s new version of feudalism.
PETER HITCHENS: “Covid ‘denier’ is a disgusting, dog-whistle slur:”
[I]t’s a revolting, dog-whistle slur, designed to suggest the person involved is equivalent to those who deny the Shoah took place. One of the first principles of political argument is that if you are explaining, you are losing. So my response to this is not to explain. If anybody actually thinks I am a denier of the Holocaust, let them say so somewhere public, where we can deal with it.
He’s not wrong — it’s simply an extension of the old “climate denier” slur: In January 2007, CBS’s Scott Pelley “was asked why he refused to include global warming skeptics in his reporting. He responded, ‘If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?’”
REP. LAUREN BOEBERT EXPLAINS WHY SHE CARRIES IN D.C.: She’s only five-feet tall, but I wouldn’t mess with her. She’s Video #2 on Thom McKee’s Daily Gouge for today. A little further down, check out Thom’s response to NR’s David French.
NO. JUST NO. How Is This a Good Idea: Car Dashboard Video Games.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Nothing to see here, just Bay Area teachers impersonating health care workers to jump the Covid vaccination line: Bay Area hospital won’t receive COVID vaccine after teachers given doses before frontliners, elderly.
According to investigative news outlet San Jose Spotlight, Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos offered district Superintendent Paul Johnson and staff the vaccine as a “gesture” of kindness after the district raised funds for a program to provide frontline workers meals.
“The COO of the hospital says we can access the appointments … and has cleared [Los Gatos schools] staff to sign up under the healthcare buttons,” the email from Johnson to district staff obtained by Spotlight read. Educators are part of Phase 1B in California and Santa Clara County, behind frontline staff, nursing home residents and those 65 and older.
Teachers, per the email, were told to impersonate health care workers despite the threat of perjury — with the approval of COO Gary Purushotham — in order to obtain access to the vaccine. “Remember to register under healthcare initially,” Johnson’s note read.
The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE. Schools in the district are closed for in-person learning.
Now, Santa Clara County is withholding vaccines from the hospital after the offer was extended and an estimated 65 doses were offered to district teachers and staffers.
You stay classy, Bay Area teachers.
THIS REVOLUTION WILL BE BROUGHT TO YOU BY COSPLAY POLITICS.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF HIS EXECUTIVE ORDERS? Biden’s Trans Agenda Threatens the Military, Science, and Women’s Rights.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Washington Post ‘Fact Checkers’ Won’t Count False Biden Claims; ‘Assume’ He’ll Be Like Obama.
That’s quite an interesting comparison by the amnesia-suffering WaPo “fact checkers:” Obama’s repeated “If you like your plan you can keep your plan” lies were so outrageous, even his fellow Democrats at “Politifact” couldn’t ignore it, dubbng it their “Lie of the Year” in 2013.
THE “TRUMP ANTIBODY TREATMENT” ADVANCES: Germany to use corona meds that helped Trump.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PIVOTS: The Echo Chamber Era. Trust in media is down, but if journalists don’t listen to critics anyway, why should they care?
A day after Joe Biden’s inauguration, the headline in Axios read: “Trust in media hits a new low.” Felix Salmon wrote that “for the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media.” The Edelman survey showed overall faith in the press dropping to 46%.
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Balance isn’t about giving credulous coverage or equal time to Donald Trump or Josh Hawley or Ben Shapiro (though I think it’s crazy for news organizations to cut off all conservatives), it’s about being consistent. If you tell us on January 12th that all 50 state capitols are under serious threat — I was genuinely worried — you have to tell us what happens at the end of the story a week later. Was that threat real but deterred? Was it overblown? What happened to all of those warnings?
This has been an ongoing theme of coverage in the Trump years: hyping a threat for a news cycle or two, then moving to the next panic as the basis for the first one dissipates. How many headlines were aimed at our outrage centers in the last four years that were quietly memory-holed, once they’d outlived their political utility? We read dozens of stories before the election warning that Russia was already interfering in the 2020 election. A smattering of New York Times headlines alone:
- Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump
- Russia Continues Interfering in Election to Try to Help Trump, U.S. Intelligence Says
- ‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020
- F.B.I. Warns of Russian Interference in 2020 Race and Boosts Counterintelligence Operations
- Putin Most Likely Directing Election Interference to Aid Trump, C.I.A. Says
The Times almost weekly quoted people like the “American official” who said Russia was like a “tornado, capable of inflicting damage on American democracy now,” or FBI Director Christopher Wray, who said there was a “very active” campaign to influence the election and “denigrate Vice President Biden.”
Then Biden won the election, the story disappeared, and the near-immediate conclusion of the same New York Times was that the election had been “free of fraud.” They quoted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as saying the 2020 vote was “the most secure in American history,” and as for all of those pre-election scare stories?
A bipartisan consensus like this may tempt some people to conclude that the dire pre-election warnings were overblown, that the risks to the election were never that serious. The reality is the opposite…
Like the wider Trump-Russia story itself, which magically vanished from coverage before both the 2018 and 2020 election seasons, audiences were asked for a time to care about certain things as if their lives depended on it, then just as quickly asked to forget the issues ever came up. And they wonder why people feel manipulated?
Oceania has never been at war with Eastasia.