IT TAKES A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:  Greta Thunberg sparks criminal conspiracy probe in India with accidental tweet.

YOU WON’T BE ALLOWED TO ESCAPE:  The Assault On Homeschooling.

OH, THEY CANCELLED HIM MONTHS AGO:  Today’s blacklisted American: Journalist Andy Ngo.

Doing your job and reporting the truth is bad, yo.

THIS:  The True ‘Citadel of Democracy’ Is Not the Capitol. It’s You..

YEAH. THIS:  Out: claims the election are rigged are conspiracy theories. In: TIME magazine article about why rigging the election was a good thing.

THE ONLY LOOPHOLES THEY WANT TO CLOSE ARE IMAGINARY:  Dems Aim to Close Mythical ‘Gun Show’ Loophole.

CONVERGING:  Fox News Cancels Lou Dobbs – Their Number One FBN Show.

ACTUALLY SHAFTING CIVILIZATION: Shafting The Poor.

WHY NOT. OUR LEFT BRAINWASHES OURS:  China Watch: Brainwashing Hong Kong Children.

ANYONE WHO THINKS THE ELECTIONS WASN’T STOLEN:  Left Admits Election 2020 Was “Fortified” The Democrat Way.

Look, guys, any honest person who knew math knows. I know the left and the right who hates Trump loves to lie to themselves that “everyone hates Trump.”

1- This is not true.

2- Most people weren’t crazy about Trump but liked the way he governed.

3-The election wasn’t only dirty, it was submerged in fraud.

4-People who haven’t stolen elections don’t fight having fraud looked into.

5- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t turn DC into occupied territory.

6- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t try so hard to gaslight the country.

7- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t try to turn opposing them into a crime.

8- People who haven’t stolen elections don’t try to destroy the country they just took over.

9- More importantly, people who haven’t stolen the election don’t tell us how they STOLE THE ELECTION.

There is that “consent of the governed.” The left doesn’t think they need it anymore. They think they have it all sewn up.

GOP GAINS ANOTHER CONGRESSIONAL SEAT: Judge ruling: Certify Claudia Tenney as winner in NY-22.

Life News.com notes that Tenney “is pro-life and gives Republicans 213 House seats, just 5 short of taking the House back from Nancy Pelosi.”

As Glenn wrote in November, “For a guy who supposedly lost, Trump sure had a lot of coattails. And for a guy who supposedly won, Biden sure didn’t.”

BYRON YORK: When The White House Can’t Handle the Truth.

On January 21, President Biden’s first full day in office, White House press secretary Jen Psaki began her briefing with this: “When the president asked me to serve in this role, we talked about the importance of bringing truth and transparency back to the briefing room.” Now, the administration’s position on opening schools shut by COVID lockdowns is testing that pledge.

Psaki’s problem started on Wednesday, when the White House COVID Response Team held a teleconference for the press. Among the group was Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the president’s new choice to head the Centers for Disease Control. A reporter asked Walensky about the CDC’s priorities for vaccination, and in particular whether “the federal government would be working more closely with states to kind of get more vaccinations to teachers in particular so that schools can reopen in the fall.”

Walensky said that a group inside the CDC, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, had created a priority list for those receiving vaccinations. In December, the committee included teachers in what was called the 1b category, meaning they would be among those who should be next in line. But that wasn’t law — it was the CDC’s guidance for states to follow, or not to follow.

“We’ve left that to the states to manage,” Walensky explained, “in terms of recognizing the prioritization of ACIP, but also manage at their own local level.”

And then: “That said, I want to be very clear about schools, which is: Yes, ACIP has put teachers in the 1b category, the category of essential workers. But I also want to be clear that there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. So while we are implementing the criteria of the Advisory Committee and of the state and local guidances to get vaccination across these eligible communities, I would also say that safe reopening of schools is not — that vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools.”

There it was: The head of the CDC frankly stating that the science shows schools can safely reopen, and that the reopening of the schools does not depend on vaccinating teachers. Given the current debate, in which teachers unions, the longtime allies and benefactors of Democratic politicians from Joe Biden on down, are demanding that schools remain closed and that teachers be vaccinated before any reopening can occur, Walensky’s statement was big news. Would Democratic officeholders listen to the science and break with the unions?

It was such big news that the White House immediately ran away from it.

Well, yes.

I DON’T REALLY HAVE ANY FAVORITES ANYMORE: A New ‘Eat the Rich’ Plan Asks You to Unfollow Your Favorite Celebrities and Corporations.

But it’s interesting to see a number of apparently-triumphant sectors being targeted from both the left and the right all of a sudden.

OPEN THREAD: It’s all you.

SPACE: NASA has a lot to tackle this as Biden takes charge. Here’s what the agency’s acting chief has to say.

Just leave Elon alone.

THE REAL BURIED LEDE IS THAT GAY PATRIOT HAS JOINED PJ MEDIA. Bruce Carroll: Country Music Rocked by Cultural Earthquakes This Week.

News broke on Tuesday of a drunken Morgan Wallen caught on video over the weekend being loud and disruptive outside of his home. Wallen has shot to country music stardom in the past few years and was named as New Artist of the Year at the 2020 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards in November.

Wallen and some friends came back to his home early Sunday morning from a rowdy night of partying in Nashville. His neighbors were angry at the early morning antics and began recording the events.  What happened next has resulted in Morgan Wallen losing his superstar-level status in country music overnight.

According to the neighbor’s videos obtained by TMZ:

As Morgan appears to stumble toward his house, he tells someone to watch over a guy in his group. He says … “take care of this “p****-ass mother******” — and then goes on to say, “take care of this p****-ass n*****” … before finally heading in.

Leading up to this incident, Wallen was at the top of the country music charts with his newly released album, ironically entitled “Dangerous.” That album currently sits atop the Billboard Country chart as do several of Wallen’s singles from “Dangerous.”

The 27-year-old Wallen did release and apology following the initial TMZ report stating: “I’m embarrassed and sorry. I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back. There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.”

However, the reaction to Wallen’s racial slurs caught on tape and his rowdy behavior was swift and severe throughout the country music industry.

There’s much better news afterwards. Read the whole thing.

SO IT’S LIKE POLITICS, THEN? Some sperm use poison to outrace their competitors.

CANCEL EVERYONE! SPLC Wants to Decimate the Conservative Movement.

NORMALCY IS A RED STATE THING: Reynolds removes restrictions on businesses, gatherings, masks. “The proclamation states, ‘I strongly encourage that all businesses or other employers remain open with in-person operations take reasonable measures under the circumstances of each establishment to ensure the health of employees, patrons and members of the public, including social distancing practices, increased hygiene practices and other public health measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19.'”

FASTER, PLEASE: Johnson & Johnson asks FDA to approve COVID-19 vaccine.

SAVAGE: Kurt Eichenwald took on Rep. Nancy Mace to defend AOC and it did not end well for him.

BUT IF WE DID IT WITHOUT BUREAUCRATS DOES IT EVEN COUNT?

I mean, where are the opportunities for graft here?

HMMMMM: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.

As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster.

A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

In a way, Trump was right.

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

Time’s article is going to anger a lot of Trump voters, giving them plenty of evidence that the system was rigged against them — and possibly firing the opening salvo of the 2024 presidential campaign.

UPDATE: From Ace of Spades:

OUT: The election wasn’t rigged.

IN: The election was rigged, but in a good, smart, upper-middle-class Wine Aunt way.

Any questions?

Well, yes, lots of them:Time Claims a Secret Cabal Manipulated the 2020 Election to Stop Trump, and People Have Questions.

(Updated and bumped.)

IT’S WHEN THEY START TALKING ABOUT BEING “WOKE,” ISN’T IT? Research establishes a new method to predict individual risk of cognitive decline.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Polar vortex ‘flash freeze’ may plunge US temps to bitterly cold -25 degrees.

(Classical reference in headline.)