JASON WHITLOCK: Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special channels Patrick Henry and Malcolm X and lays bare the war between black men and the Alphabet Mafia. “I’m a writer. I can recognize literature even when it’s delivered verbally from a stage. Chappelle conveyed an essay, a letter from the prison cell social justice warriors have built for straight black men.”
Read the whole thing.
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: New York City Has Run Out of ‘Gifted and Talented’ Students. “The group of kindergarten students currently enrolled in the special programs will be the last to be offered the accelerated learning courses. The reason? Not enough black and Hispanic students are able to qualify for the program. So rather than offer accelerated learning to anyone who can qualify, the city is catering to the lowest common denominator.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: It’s Starting To Feel A Bit Like July 2008. “One of the theories seeking to explain the Lehman collapse and the ensuing financial crisis points to the record surge in oil prices which rose as high as $150 in the summer of 2008, and which combined with tight monetary conditions, precipitated a giant dollar margin call which in turn pricked the housing bubble with catastrophic consequences. In his latest note, SocGen’s resident permabear draws on that analogy and writes that ‘as energy prices surge with a backdrop of central bank tightening it’s starting to feel a bit like July 2008’ referring to that moment of ‘unparalleled central bank madness as the ECB raised rates just as oil prices hit $150 and the recession arrived.'”
CHRISTIAN TOTO HAS A NEW PODCAST: Right On Hollywood with Christian Toto.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE CARE OF US: FAA Fumbled Its Response To a Surge in GPS Jamming.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Hollywood Stands for Dave Chappelle and Against the Woke Gestapo.
Well, not all of Hollywood: Stop What You’re Doing, Because Dave Chappelle Offended a Trans Person. “A white person telling a black person what he should and shouldn’t talk about it is #whitesplaining… until you add the word ‘trans.’ That shifts the power dynamic completely. Classic crybullying.”
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record notes: Liberals Clarify They Only Want Black Voices To Be Heard When They’re Saying Liberal Things.
REPORT: Florida Redistricting Is GOP’s ‘Biggest Weapon’ for Retaking Congress.
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THE LOCKDOWNS WERE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE: Researchers find dramatic drop in vaccinations across the lifespan during early pandemic. “Stringent lockdown measures imposed in the spring of 2020 led to a dramatic drop in vaccinations among both children and adults, according to a new study led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The study, which focused on data from Michigan, also found a decrease in sites providing pediatric vaccinations, particularly those dedicated to caring for more vulnerable populations, like Medicaid-insured children. The results, which were published today in the American Journal of Public Health, underscore that there is a cost to COVID-19 beyond the direct effects of the disease, impacting primary care and prevention services.”
That’s not a cost of Covid-19, it’s a cost of the poorly thought out response to Covid-19.
BUT WHAT ARE THE 25 PERCENT THINKING? Poll: 75 Percent of Voters Disapprove of Kamala Harris’s Handling of Border Crisis.
SAVE THE PLANET — PROMOTE HUNTING! Eating hunted wild meat instead of livestock reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Reporter Just Embarrasses Terry McAuliffe During Heated Exchange on Critical Race Theory.
When [reporter Anita] Blanton questioned McAuliffe about CRT, he called it a “dog whistle” that’s dividing people but wouldn’t define what he believes it means.
“Anita, it is not taught here in Virginia,” McAuliffe said.
“But how do you define it?” Blanton pressed.
“Doesn’t matter. It’s not taught here in Virginia. So I’m not going to spend my time. I’m not going to even spend my time because the school board and everyone else says it’s not taught. It’s racist. It’s a dog whistle,” McAuliffe said.
“But if we don’t have a definition, how can we say it’s racist?” Blanton pressed again.
McAulliffe never did define it.
“McAuliffe is behaving like a guy who is on the ropes in this campaign, not someone who was ahead by a polling average of between 4 and 5 points before last Tuesday’s debate. It’s been a remarkable turn of events in a short amount of time, and with just a few weeks to go between now and Election Day, if he doesn’t get it together he may be in for a big surprise on November 2nd.”
Don’t get cocky.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.
BIDEN WEAPONIZES COVID VACCINE: Being discharged dishonorably from the U.S. military isn’t merely a matter of which box is checked on the separation papers. Here’s how His Fraudulency, or those behind him, is weaponizing the vaccine against service members who choose not to get the jab.
TODAY’S BILLY MITCHELL: Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, notes the multiple points of favorable comparison between Gen. Bill Mitchell — who was court-martialed for critiquing military leadership’s purposeful ignorance of air power — and Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller — who faces court martial for critiquing the lack of accountability for the Afghanistan debacle among military leadership.
I THINK IT’S SAFE TO SAY THAT THE VACCINES HAVE BEEN OVERSOLD: Studies show COVID-19 immunity from Pfizer vaccine wanes after 2 months. That said, I question whether antibody levels are a good metric for immunity, since we know that T- and B-cell mediated immunity seems to be the key to Covid resistance.
Plus: Vaccinating people who have had covid-19: why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
“Starting from back in November, we’ve had a lot of really important studies that showed us that memory B cells and memory T cells were forming in response to natural infection,” says Gandhi. Studies are also showing, she says, that these memory cells will respond by producing antibodies to the variants at hand.
Gandhi included a list of some 20 references on natural immunity to covid in a long Twitter thread supporting the durability of both vaccine and infection induced immunity.12 “I stopped adding papers to it in December because it was getting so long,” she tells The BMJ.
But the studies kept coming. A National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study from La Jolla Institute for Immunology found “durable immune responses” in 95% of the 200 participants up to eight months after infection.13 One of the largest studies to date, published in Science in February 2021, found that although antibodies declined over 8 months, memory B cells increased over time, and the half life of memory CD8+ and CD4+ T cells suggests a steady presence. . . .
Real world data have also been supportive. Several studies (in Qatar,15 England, Israel, and the US) have found infection rates at equally low levels among people who are fully vaccinated and those who have previously had covid-19. Cleveland Clinic surveyed its more than 50 000 employees to compare four groups based on history of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination status.18 Not one of over 1300 unvaccinated employees who had been previously infected tested positive during the five months of the study. Researchers concluded that that cohort “are unlikely to benefit from covid-19 vaccination.” In Israel, researchers accessed a database of the entire population to compare the efficacy of vaccination with previous infection and found nearly identical numbers. “Our results question the need to vaccinate previously infected individuals,” they concluded.
And yet.
THE ONLY THING WE AREN’T RUNNING LOW ON IS “UNEXPECTEDLIES”: U.S. Adds Just 194,000 Jobs in September as Hiring Slows to a Crawl.
Previously: ‘Stagflation is here,’ following months of rising prices, BofA analysts say.
And: Inflation has turned growth in wages into a setback.
At least we know whom to thank:
THIS IS AN ASSAULT ON MEDICAL AUTONOMY AND PHYSICIAN/PATIENT PRIVACY: Tennessee doctors who spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation could lose their licenses. “The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners adopted a new policy that says any physician who creates or spreads disinformation could face disciplinary action.”
And it’s particularly disgraceful given how confused and contradictory the “official” line of Covid has been.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT RACE: McAuliffe lead in Virginia cut to margin of error: 49%-45%.
SO NFTs ARE ACTUALLY GOOD FOR SOMETHING: Independent Chinese Language Media Turn to NFTs: “An NFT represents a collectible asset — digital or non digital — encoded with a unique identifier that proves its authenticity and its ownership. It lives on a blockchain, a digital decentralized ledger that also records the provenance of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. NFTs can be sold and traded but cannot be erased or altered.”
JOHN NOLTE: Hollywood Stands for Chappelle and Against the Woke Gestapo.
You see, it has always been my belief that 1) this era of Woke McCarthyism will not last because 2) it is a violation of human nature, and 3) most people, including Democrats, hate it.
The problem with the Woke Nazis has never been that the American people, or even the left, agree with them. Instead, the problem is that with the help of the fake media and social media (as Chappelle obviously understands), the Woke Gestapo can terrorize everyone into silence and fealty by pretending they represent a new wave of mainstream thought.
Well, they don’t.
Of course, this standing ovation was for Chappelle, but it was also something bigger, much bigger. Standing for Chappelle was a revolutionary act of rebellion, was the entertainment industry itself standing against the Woke Gestapo and rejecting the 21st-century version of McCarthyism. They stood for their own right to free speech and artistic expression.
You have to consider the environment in which this happened…
Currently, Chappelle is under withering fire as a transphobe and homophobe. He’s being accused of bigotry and “violence” and “perpetuating violence.” And Hollywood still stood up for him.
And now these 18,000 people know they are not alone.
The Woke Gestapo’s a mob of fucking monsters, but they do not represent the Democrat party. Hell, they do not even represent Democrats as far-left as those in Hollywood.
And they need to be chased back to the holes from which they emerged.
UNMERRY CHRISTMAS: Ho-Ho-NO! Xi Just Found Another Way to Ruin Your Christmas Shopping. “Scared Chinese manufacturers of Western electronics components are being starved of electricity by their own government, causing some to consider leaving the country — and putting a real pinch on this year’s Christmas shopping.”
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