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September 18, 2021
OBVIOUSLY, IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: Portland scraps Texas boycott plan over state’s abortion law.
NOTHING HE SAYS HERE IS WRONG: In Exclusive Interview, Trump Calls Sept. 18 Rally A ‘Setup,’ Says GOP Senate Should Fire ‘Disaster’ McConnell.
September 17, 2021
ADVICE FROM A FRIEND:
Also: “Conspiracy theory of the day: Democrats are planning to provoke a riot at the coming protest over the 1/6 detainees, and Bush is trying to protect himself.”
WHITE HOUSE: We offered to call Nicki Minaj and have her talk to one of our doctors about the safety of the vaccine.
Why are they worried? Nicki Minaj tweets spark protest outside CDC headquarters. “The demonstrators – who all wore masks and medical gloves – chanted, ‘Nicki Minaj told me the truth! Fauci lied to me!’ according to footage taken by WGCL-TV.”
So I guess banning her on Twitter didn’t work.
Plus, as a famous African-American leader said, get in their face, punch back twice as hard: Nicki Minaj Sics Her Fans on Reporters.
And: Nicki Minaj Just Tried to Dox Two Reporters.
Given the way the press — *cough* CNN *cough* — has gloried in doxing and smearing ordinary people who threaten the narrative, a bit of turnabout seems fair.
Related: Rose McGowan supports Nicki Minaj for standing up to ‘powerful elite’ amid White House drama.
So for the record, I’m not particularly concerned with the safety of the vaccines. The Insta-Daughter even took part in one of the clinical trials. But I am particularly concerned with the government-fostered bullying and intimidation aimed at anyone who doesn’t follow the party line. If Nicki Minaj can give them some heartburn over that, it’s well-deserved heartburn. And really — if you want people to believe you, don’t send Jen Psaki.
The real failure — and I’ve warned about it since the beginning — is that our “public health” establishment has been so obviously corrupt and politicized that people who would have trusted it a decade or two ago now don’t. And the reason they don’t is that it’s been so obviously corrupt and politicized as to be untrustworthy.
That’s a colossal institutional failure. It’s what you get when your institutions are controlled by people who are smug, inept, and lacking in moral fiber or self discipline. Which, sadly, is most of our institutions today. And that’s a much bigger threat to America than Covid, and one for which there are no vaccines.
Flashback: CNN Analyst and Yale Lecturer Asha Rangappa Under Fire For Doxxing A Journalism Intern.
Also: Journalists are having a meltdown over journalism being done to them.
Plus: Pro-Trump Memesmith Carpe Donktum says Buzzfeed is threatening to dox him and his family.
And: “In 2014, the Times published Officer Darren Wilson’s address at the height of the Ferguson riots.”
And: CNN Threatens To Reveal Identity Of Reddit Man Who Made Trump-CNN Bodyslam Meme If He Disobeys Them.
UPDATE: Oh, and the reporters in this case made the doxxing threats.
Journalists: If you don’t want to be treated like garbage, stop being garbage people from a garbage industry.
And, from the comments: “Don’t expect to hear any F Nicki Minaj chants.” Right?
Also in the comments, people are calling this “Ballsgate.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Via a friend:
MORE: From the comments: “Trump was right again. The press is the enemy.”
OPEN THREAD: Who’s got the pain?
AUSTRALIAN NEWS: “TOTALLY EMBARRASSING.” “I’ll personally write a check to anyone who can decipher what Joe Biden is trying to convey here.” “How is that man dressing himself, let alone leading the most powerful nation on Earth?”
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Remember when they told us Biden would restore respect from our allies? Related: France Recalls Its Ambassador.
Everything is going swimmingly.
CLOWN SHOW HAS TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES: Administration Admits Drone Strike Error.
NO ON BOOSTERS: FDA Panel Wants to Deny Adults the Right to Decide How Much COVID Protection They Want. “The Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisory panel recommended against approving Pfizer/BioNTech booster vaccinations for the general population aged 16 and above. The boosters are currently only approved for immunocompromised individuals and patients in nursing homes—patients who are more vulnerable than the general population to get breakthrough infections that result in hospitalization or death.”
FEMINISTS ARE ALWAYS YAMMERING ABOUT WOMEN’S UNPAID “EMOTIONAL LABOR.” IT’S TIME MEN GOT PAID TOO: China’s hottest new rental service: Men paid to actually listen. “The sessions cost over 400 yuan ($60) each time, but Zheng says they’re worth every cent.”
But note: “Some butlers, meanwhile, privately admit they dislike China’s feminist movement. Though they treat their female customers like royalty at work, several make clear they’re only doing so for money. Junxi hates when women talk about feminism online: ‘They’re too irrational,’ he says.”
Hence the need to be paid. Hey, nobody thinks the Hooters waitresses are listening for free.
OUR OVER-THE-HORIZON CAPABILITY IN ACTION: Biden’s Drone War in Afghanistan Seems to Be Killing More Civilians Than Terrorists.
SCIENCE: Refrigerator blindness: selective loss of visual acuity in association with a common foraging behaviour. “Three male offspring, aged 9–14 years, of one of the authors (M.B.) were observed to experience visual problems profound enough to imply functional blindness. The visual deficit was evident on almost every occasion when any one of the children of this physician went to the refrigerator and opened the door. The acute visual problem encountered was noted to be part of a consistent behaviour pattern, wherein a few seconds after the fridge door was opened a cry would be heard from the affected child of ‘Mum, where’s the milk [or any other item being sought]?’ This vocalization was made without regard to the physician’s distance from the fridge or engagement in any other activity. Shouted directions as to the location of the object only occasionally led to it becoming visible. Even with calm and constructive maternal encouragement and direction the desired object typically would remain unseen until the mother-physician attended the fridge-side and physically identified the precise location of the item.”
This is moderately humorous, and since it’s women making fun of boys it can’t be sexist.
TIN EAR: A Cheney imperiled. “Since her vote to impeach Trump and her appointment by Speaker Pelosi to the January 6 Committee, she has, to my knowledge, made no publicized visits to the state, save to attend the funeral of former senator Mike Enzi a couple of months ago. Word has it that she does fly occasionally into Jackson (which is to Wyoming what the Hamptons are to upstate New York), where she spends her time with friends, benefactors and perhaps a Republican politician or two while sedulously avoiding the rest of the state, 70 percent of which voted for Donald Trump last November.”
DON’T UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP: Biden’s Drone War in Afghanistan Seems to Be Killing More Civilians Than Terrorists. “On Friday, the Pentagon admitted that a drone strike in Kabul last month killed 10 civilians, not ISIS-K terrorists, as was originally claimed.”
More here: Pentagon acknowledges Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians. “The explosives the military claimed were loaded in the trunk of a white Toyota sedan struck by the drone’s Hellfire missile were most likely water bottles, and a secondary explosion in the courtyard in a densely populated Kabul neighborhood where the attack took place was probably a propane or gas tank, officials said. In short, the car posed no threat at all, investigators concluded…Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had said that the missile was launched because the military had intelligence suggesting a credible, imminent threat to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, where U.S. and allied troops were frantically trying to evacuate people. General Milley later called the strike ‘righteous.’”
THE NEW ANTIRACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: Woke English Opera Fires 14 White Musicians for Having Wrong Skin Color.
GREAT MOMENTS IN SIENCE: Medical School Hosts Seminar on ‘Body Terrorism’ Against ‘Fat LGBTQ+ People.’
It’s also a great moment in timing: More Severe Obesity Leads to More Severe COVID-19 in Study.
TAMARA KEEL: Better Guns Than Karate.
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE REASONS:
So are the mandates BS or does Los Angeles have a death wish for the homeless?
CORRECTION: I mis-ID’d the photo. That’s the Texas border crisis, not the LA homeless crisis.
HOW IS THIS NOT THE BEE? Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she is going to curb violence by SUING the city’s violent gangs.