FEAR IS ALWAYS THE CURRENCY OF THE LEFT:  Expect Fear To Be The Presidential Currency.

THE LEFT ARE POOR LOSERS AND HORRIBLE WINNERS:  Unity and Healing Low Priorities For Biden And Media.

SUPPOSEDLY THIS FACEBOOK LETTER TO BIDEN WAS WRITTEN BY TED NUGENT: I can’t tell you if it’s true or not, but Snopes rates it as “not proven.” I grant you it would be more sure to be true if they said it was false, but still, it’s pretty good.

Dear Vice President Biden,

Although I refused to listen to it, I understand that during your presidential acceptance speech, you were calling for the unity of Trump supporters.

I remember four years ago my President Trump also called for unity. I remember how Congressional members of your Democratic Party responded by boycotting his inauguration. I remember how you and your Democratic party cheated and used the greatest law enforcement institution of this country to spy on my President Trump’s campaign. I remember how you and your Democratic Party created a fake Russian dossier to try and impeach my President Trump. I remember how your speaker of the house ripped up my President Trump’s beautiful State of the Union speech on National TV. I remember how you and your Democratic Party tried to impeach my President Trump over a Ukraine phone call. You accused my President Trump of pay to play. Come to find out Joe, it was really you and your son Hunter.

I remember how you and your Democratic Party blamed my President Trump over a pandemic that he had nothing to do with. I remember how you and your Democratic Party encouraged rioting and looting of my great United States of America. I remember how you and your Democratic Party used the media to spread lie after lie about my President Trump. I remember how you and your Democratic Party stole the election from my President Trump. This Trump supporter remembers all that Joe, and will NOT be unifying with your Democratic Party. Your abject criminal dishonesty is treasonous. You belong in prison along with the rest of the Swamp.

Ted Nugent

WE WERE ALL LIED TOO:  ‘I Was Lied To’: Meghan McCain Lashes Out At Biden, Fauci And Amazon Over COVID Hypocrisy.

As the re-openings now that they have managed to fraud the FICUS in should show everyone, we were all lied to. A slightly more dangerous cold virus was lied into a storm of fear that killed our economy so they could steal the election.
And yes, they lied and they despise us so much they didn’t care if they destroyed every small business and every working family in the service of their will to power. Remember that.

But remember too that we knew the truth, or should have, despite their gaslighting simply by examining the numbers of the Diamond Princess.  Instead, early on when I pointed this out, I was told that people — on that floating petri dish of a cruise ship — “had the best health care in the world.”

Next time the left starts screaming their bit of gaslighting, remember Heinlein: Again, and again what are the facts. Not the facts they’re telling you, but the true facts.

Ignore their stomping. Or their will to power will take us all over the cliff.

BEI-DIN ZHOU SEEKS TO FAVOR HIS OWNERS:  Biden Rescinds Trump Order Banning Chinese Communist Involvement In US Power Grid.

IT STARTS:  Texas Files First Major Lawsuit Against Biden Administration.

Always remember the craven cowards of the Supreme Court — all but Roberts who is a two-faced leftist hyena — could have stopped this, and prevented what is to come.  When it comes, remember who caused it.

HE WASN’T PROTECTING US FROM THEM:  The Donald was their final warning.

He was protecting them from us.  Like Anne Boleyn, the left has had a miscarriage of their savior. And they’re happy about it.

THEY NEVER LEARN:  3 Unions That Endorsed Biden Seem Like They’re Already Regretting It.

THE SO CALLED FEMINISTS ARE JUST MARXISTS:  Critics Say ‘Biden Erased Women’ With Transgender Order.

A FRIEND COMMENTS: “When one of the implications of this article sink in—QAnon adherents are not especially white, male, conservative, or Republican—we will start to see a concerted downplaying of their significance in the Capitol riots.” How the QAnon Cult Stormed the Capitol.

SUCKERS! Biden’s pause on oil cause for big concern in New Mexico.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Nothing says, “This was a perfectly normal election, and now it’s time to come together as a united nation,” like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt.

EMAIL FROM A FRIEND:

Trump showed that the annihilation of the American middle class was not the result of inevitable forces. Technological change and globalization are not weather or the movement of tectonic plates. The economy, and who gets what from whom, is embedded in political choices. Who pays the costs and who reaps the benefits are political choices. Who is crushed by the legal system and who benefits from it, and who is insulated from it, are also political choices. Trump will never be forgiven for showing normal people that their destruction, and the enrichment of other people, who despise everything that they love, believe in, and care about, is a policy decision. Trump showed other choices are possible.

Having seen once how it actually works, we can never unsee it.

That is Trump’s greatest achievement.

Indeed, and it won’t be forgotten.

DON SURBER: The Donald Was Their Final Warning.

BIDEN’S FIRST DAYS IN OFFICE GOING SWIMMINGLY: National Guard Kicked Out Of The Capitol, Forced To Sleep In A Parking Garage.

Earlier,  from Glenn at the New York Post: Biden’s militarized inauguration showcased Democrats’ insecurity.

Related: “One does wonder if the decision to piss off both their armies was well advised.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Troll level — ex-Presidential! Trump Offers to Let National Guard Stay at the Trump Hotel D.C. After Parking Garage Outrage.

UPDATE (From Ed): ‘Packed us together like sardines:’ Guard deployed to Capitol struggles to contain Covid.

Leave it Joe to kick off his administration with a super-spreader event.

UPDATE: MSNBC Host Admits: Trump Would’ve Been ‘Crushed’ for Holding ‘Super-Spreader’ Inaugural:

[Stephanie] Ruhle told never-Trumper Steve Schmidt, “It will be a smaller inauguration ceremony, but they’re still having one in person and, let’s be honest, you know if President Trump did this, he would be getting crushed for holding a super-spreader event. We’d all be saying it.”

But they won’t complain about Biden and the National Guard. Evergreen:

(Updated and bumped.)

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!

SPACE CHALLENGES FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN.

CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR WILL WILKINSON. It’s always wrong, but some might spot an irony here. “And thus a noted doubter of cancel culture has been canceled for a problematic tweet—ironic, but also regrettable.”

Plus:

This affair has produced several hypocrisies. First, if the Niskanen Center “draws the line at statements that are, or can in any way be interpreted as, condoning or promoting violence,” then it would have to fire its president. Taylor has arguably used Twitter in a manner that suggests he condones violence. He rooted for antifa to punch out Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who waved their guns at protesters encountered on their private street. “If I were in that march, and these racist lunatics were waiving [sic] guns at me, I’d like to think I’d rush them and beat their brains in,” said Taylor. “And I wouldn’t apologize for it for one goddam [sic] second.”

Unlike Wilkinson’s tweet, there’s little reason to assume this was meant in jest. And unlike Wilkinson, Taylor is the president of the organization and sets the tone for what is permissible. If the boss can tweet an unapologetic call to “beat their brains in,” his employees might very well think that edgy humor is okay. Perhaps that’s why Taylor deleted his statement regarding Wilkinson’s firing—he realized that it impugned him as well. (Neither Taylor nor a spokesperson for the Niskanen Center responded to a request for comment. Wilkinson declined to comment.)

No comment.

WHEN ATTITUDES SHIFT OVERNIGHT: Is ‘first dose first’ the right vaccination strategy?

What a difference a couple of weeks makes. In mid-December, I asked a collection of wise guests on my BBC radio programme How to Vaccinate the World about the importance of second doses. At that stage, Scott Gottlieb, former head of the US Food and Drug Administration, had warned against stockpiling doses just to be sure that second doses were certain to be available, Economists such as Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University had gone further: what if we gave people single doses of a vaccine instead of the recommended pair of doses, and thus reached twice as many people in the short term? . . .

The concept was roundly rejected. “This is an easy one, Tim, because we’ve got to go with the scientific evidence,” said Nick Jackson of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. “And the scientific evidence is that two doses is going to provide the best protection.”

My other guests agreed, and no wonder: Jackson’s view was firmly in the scientific mainstream three weeks ago. But in the face of a shortage of doses and a rapidly spreading strain of “Super-Covid”, the scientific mainstream appears to have drifted. The UK’s new policy is to prioritise the first dose and to deliver the second one within three months rather than three weeks. Cynics argue that this change is a wearingly familiar display of dishonesty and short-termism, designed to produce flattering figures about the number of people vaccinated. Yet the recommendation comes not from ministers but from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Strikingly, many scientists have given the move their approval. Others remain sceptical and are alarmed both by the shift in policy and by the way it was announced. There are several different issues to untangle here.

More at the link.

FIGHT THE POWER: Texas Strikes First, Seeks To Block Biden Administration’s 100 Day Moratorium on Deportations.

SPACE: SpaceX plans record-breaking launch with 143 satellites.

WAR ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION: Chaucer to be scrapped as British university ‘decolonises’ curriculum.

THIS IS THE TRIPLE LINDY OF FLIP-FLOPS: Biden Flip Flops on COVID: ‘There’s Nothing We Can Do to Change the Trajectory’ of the Pandemic.

(Classical reference in the headline.)

FLASHBACK: Irish Democracy.

JOHN COCHRANE: Low Interest Rates and Government Debt. “Default is not impossible, just because the US and eurozone print our own currencies. Imagine my scenario and add policy chaos. The US is just getting going on political chaos. Bond markets are demanding 5% or 10%. Are the US Congress and Administration, really going to put interest payments to the Chinese central bank, ‘the rich,’ and ‘Wall Street’ ahead of writing checks to needy Americans? Don’t bet on it. It won’t be a simple default. It will be a complex restructuring, as it always is. T bills may get forcibly rolled over to low-coupon long term debt for example.”

Related: My thoughts: “Right now, yearly deficits are going up, but the debt — essentially the sum of all previous deficits — is skyrocketing. It has done that for a decade, except for a couple of years when it briefly leveled off due to the influence of the Tea Party movement. I’m sorry to say I’ve kind of given up talking about it because nobody seems to care, and I’m afraid the politicians in both parties will kick the can down the road until something really drastic happens. I’m guessing that might happen in the next decade, but although the rule is something that can’t go on forever, won’t, there’s no guarantee as to when it will stop. I feel safe in predicting, though, that it won’t stop due to a sudden infusion of virtue and self-control into our political class.”