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Just read that cartoon/cucking post on the Insta wall… Jesus H. Christ on a chariot; you’re right, they want us to go crazy and form a circular firing squad while Biden/Schumer/Pelosi ram thru their agenda.

And the left does want to destroy voices like yours… like the PowerLine post you shared, now the left will attempt to make all aspects of conservatism “Trumpism” and discredit them/us/any dissent from their messages.

This week I recalled (sadly) your lament of how Rs in Congress spent most of ‘17 incredulous that this Trump fellow had won, and should have had legislation (your words) “lined up on the runway ready to go.”

Schumer, Pelosi et al certainly will not be doing that.

Nope. No Paul Ryans in charge on the Democratic side.

FLASHBACK: NO ENEMIES ON THE LEFT: Bernie Bro with Van Full of Guns and Explosives Plotted to Assassinate Biden. Media Buries the Lede, as Usual.

What was Treisman’s motive? He must be one of those evil Proud Boys or crazy QAnon freaks we keep hearing so much about, right?

Wrong. But to find out the actual motive, you have to go all the way down to paragraph 15 of the WaPo story (emphasis mine):

The 19-year-old’s focus on Biden started in the spring, according to the order… Days after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign, Treisman, who had suggested in a Reddit post that he had to “save bernie,” posted a meme with the caption questioning whether he should kill Biden.

Oh. He’s a Bernie Bro. He wanted to kill Biden to somehow help Bernie.

But you sure wouldn’t know that by reading the headline (“A 19-year-old with a van full of guns and explosives plotted to assassinate Biden, federal officials say”) or the first 14 paragraphs. Isn’t that kind of important?

No, it isn’t, because WaPo wants you to think a conservative or a right-winger or some other designated villain did it. That’s the game.

They all did the same thing in 2017 when a Bernie Bro named James T. Hodgkinson shot up a baseball field where some Republican congressmen were practicing. Steve Scalise was seriously wounded and almost killed. And the media bent over backwards to avoid mentioning that Hodgkinson was a staunch supporter of Bernie Sanders. Hell, within two months of the shooting, they had quit mentioning Hodgkinson at all.

Read the whole thing.

Evergreen:

FLASHBACK: Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun.’

APPLE MAKES IT OFFICIAL: Apple suspends Parler from App Store.

UPDATE: Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service. “In a post on Sunday evening following publication of this story, Parler CEO John Matze said it is possible ‘Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch.’”

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I don’t know if you can buy Parler stock, but it should be rising on the strength of its private antitrust suit against a bunch of deep-pocketed tech firms.

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NEWS FROM 1990: Future astronauts could use methane to make rocket fuel on Mars. I mean, Bob Zubrin’s whole Mars Direct mission architecture, which dates to the late 1980s, was based on methane fuel manufactured in situ on Mars.

I WAS TOLD THAT MARIJUANA IS NON-ADDICTIVE: More than half of people using cannabis for pain experience multiple withdrawal symptoms.

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WAS BIDEN INAUGURATED WITH AN ACT OF POLICE BRUTALITY? Federal Prosecutor Opens Excessive Force Investigation Into the Death of Ashli Babbitt: Report. “Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said that his office has started a federal, excessive force investigation over the shooting and killing of former U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol on Jan. 6. Sherwin confirmed the investigation with CBS News. His civil rights section will lead the prosecution, which is being investigated by D.C. police and the FBI.”

It’s hard to tell without an investigation, but it’s not at all obvious that Babbitt was offering a threat of death or great bodily injury to anyone.

FLASHBACK: Government drops charges against all inauguration protesters: “The solidarity we showed as defendants won out,” said one activist whose charges were previously dropped.

Federal prosecutors on Friday moved to drop charges against the last 39 people accused of participating in a violent protest on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The motion to dismiss charges by the U.S. attorney’s office seemingly ends an 18-month saga that started with the Justice Department attempting to convict more than 190 people.

That effort saw the government facing off against an intensely coordinated grassroots political opposition network that made Washington the focus of a nationwide support campaign — offering free lodging for defendants, legal coordination and other support.

That’s how the left does it. And the press plays along.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Pinterest Joined The List Of Social Media Sites Banning Or Limiting Trump, And People Were A Little Confused.

I THINK IT LOOKS LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO BE A 1999-ERA TECH COMPANY: What Do You Think of GM’s New Logo?

MAZDA’S LUXURY-BRAND AMBITIONS: Tested: 2021 Mazda 3 2.5 Turbo vs. Audi A4 45. I’ve liked the Mazdas I’ve owned — an MX-6 and an RX-7 and RX-8 — and they’ve managed to feel kinda luxurious for a non-luxury brand.

Bottom line: “As it stands now, the Mazda 3 2.5 Turbo offers a hell of a lot of car for the money, while the Audi A4 offers an appropriate amount of car for the money.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The New Wave Generation Gap: Can the Boomers win a rhetorical battle with the Millennials?

When was the last time you heard or read the once-common term “generation gap”? No, I can’t remember either. Perhaps, if we’re lucky, in a short period of time the noxious three words “not so much” will be consigned to an even worse category of forgotten clichés. I thought about this last Friday when my 20-year-old son Nicky wrote an exuberant article about the wretched “classic rock” band Fleetwood Mac (the Nicks/Buckingham/Christine McVie version, not Peter Green’s). Attempting to stifle acute nausea upon reading his praise for this “amazing” band that featured “brilliant popsmiths,” I realized that this was an example of a present-day “generation gap.”

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And there were worse bloated and outrageously substance-abusing groups in that time period. It could be my contempt for Fleetwood Mac is rooted in the 90s, as my son points out. He writes: “Maybe that’s why the music of Fleetwood Mac is seeing such a strong surge in interest among the Millennials. A friend made a good point: ‘Don’t Stop’ is embedded in the consciousness of 90s kids from the ’92 and ’96 campaigns, so the sound has been in our heads even if we didn’t know the material well.” Well, there’s another reason to dismiss the Bill Clinton nostalgia.

Rumours was just for pikers. True lovers of avant-pop much prefer Tusk.

(And thank God for small favors: As far as we know, Russ Smith’s son hasn’t gotten drunk and changed his name to Celine Dion yet.)

BIDEN’S NEXT STEP: Outlaw Support for President Trump as “Terrorism.”

ANDY NGO: Rage at Capitol assault makes excuses for summer riots all the more disgraceful.

Wednesday’s mob assault on Capitol Hill was shocking and brazen: Hundreds of MAGA-hat-wearing rioters broke into the seat of American democracy. They stormed the halls, looting property and assaulting law enforcers, all in service of an absurd political demand: reversing the outcome of an election.

Now where had I witnessed such scenes before? The answer: in blue-governed cities in my native Pacific Northwest throughout last summer and into the fall and winter.

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The upshot should be clear: The deadly storming of the Capitol building is the logical outcome of norms set by the left in 2020. By winking at and apologizing for Antifa, liberal elites telegraphed that political grievances ought to be resolved through violence.

And the left’s riots are still ongoing. I wonder if the leftist mob is angry at the pro-Trump rioters and/or the DNC-MSM sucking the oxygen out of their own stories?

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GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: MSNBC Dismisses GOP Denunciation of Violence, Whole Party Is Now ‘Violent,’ ‘Fascist.’

That’s awfully rich coming from the network with an anchor who has stoked anti-Semitic street fights, which has run promos declaring “your children aren’t your own,” defended the violence of Antifa, and went all-in to agree with Obama’s “you didn’t build that” attack on entrepreneurialism.  And has never met a strongman imposing socialism on a national scale it didn’t admire. QED:

As Jim Treacher adds, “I can guarantee you Chris does not realize what he just admitted.”

BIG TECH SELF-DESTRUCTS: Will Alphabet’s Unionization Effort Spread to Other Big Tech Companies? Engineering unions are rare, particularly those organized around social instead of economic issues.

Get woke, go broke.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: ‘Hang Mike Pence’ trends on Twitter after platform suspends Trump for risk of ‘incitement of violence.’

HMMMM: The Most Definitive Video Yet of Capitol Police Letting the Protesters In.

WELL, THAT’S NOT GOOD: IPhone12 will stop your implantable defibrillator.

IRAN NGO CANCELS THOUSANDS OF PFIZER VACCINE DOSES AFTER KHAMENEI BANS THEM.

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