Archive for 2021
March 26, 2021
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden Presser Takeaway—China Is Drooling for an Attack. “This drooling moron shouldn’t be in charge of a child’s ten piece jigsaw puzzle, let alone a country. They must be hoarse from cackling in Beijing and Tehran after watching the ‘leader of the free world’ fumble around and say things like ‘…this makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.’ In addition to be a an embarrassingly stupid line, it was also a lie. The Democrats are trying to permanently blow up election integrity and bring about one party rule in this country. Our enemies would love that because weak Democrats in the White House are their best friends.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How to beat the woke: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Understand That Some People Love the Pandemic.
The initial pandemic uproar broke people out of their rut, which is kind of an odd notion since most of the people in human history would absolutely love to be in the rut Americans were as a people. But as bizarre as it is, and as strange when you look at it closely, it’s still a real thing. People yearned, at some level, for some kind of excitement, and the pandemic had to do.
Now, the better adjusted among us put that nonsense aside pretty quickly. The novelty wore off fast and the stupid masks and inability to eat our bone-in ribeyes inside of restaurants like normal people got old quick. Not all of us had jobs we could do from our laptop in the rumpus room, and this whole thing is a lot less fun if you’re out of a job. But millions are not really put out all that much. They could do their diversity consulting or whatever at home alongside their many cats and allow themselves to be swept away by the excitement of the pandemic.
And now you can see them not wanting to give it up. They talk about nothing but the vaccines, but they also want to disregard their effect and make believe the plague is still sweeping the country. They chatter about herd immunity, but they also fear reaching it because that would mean going back to their old, boring lives.
Some also don’t seem to care much about the damage the big lockdown imposed on Americans and their businesses, as this Hill headline illustrates: It’s time to stop feeling sorry for restaurants.
WHY DOES KY. GOV. ANDY BESHEAR HATE CHILDREN? Kentucky Governor Caves to Special Interests, Vetoes School Choice Bill.
ANTIRACISM, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Man arrested by Boise police for defacing Lincoln statue. “Wilson, according to this online profile, is an associate professor at Boise State University, and he has been described as the spokesperson for the local Black Lives Matter chapter, according to the Idaho Statesman.”
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: No Surge in COVID Two Weeks After Mask Mandate Lifted in Texas.
THE REST OF IT, PEOPLE WASTED: Amazon: PlayStation 5 and women’s sex toy top coronavirus stimulus spending.
JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENCY IS A REALITY TV SERIES IN A CARE HOME:
Joe Biden is the face of the United States. But Joe Biden no longer looks like Joe Biden. And he no longer sounds like Joe Biden — especially in the long and excruciating silences when he forgets what he’s saying or fumbles for his cue cards.
The United States no longer looks like itself either. The sorry theatrical display of Biden’s first press conference is an accurate image of what has happened to American democracy. A carefully limited number of carefully selected journalists asked carefully vetted questions. A carefully chosen president read carefully written answers off his cue cards, and carefully avoided taking any questions from Fox or Newsmax.
The White House is no longer the home of democracy. It’s a reality TV series in a care home. Biden mused about how the country has lost its way, about how it used to be so much better, but he seemed fatalistically feeble, as if it was all too much and all too late, and he has already given up. As if the nation is in its twilight years.
‘We’ve got so much more to do,’ he said, as he continually does. But he also ad-libbed, ‘I’ve never been able to plan three-and-a-half, four years ahead.’
How funny. How sadly reflective of the senility of American democracy that he thought that was a smart answer. How shamefully embarrassing for the compliant, complicit media that not one of his questioners bothered to ask whether an inability to plan for the future was what the American people need in their president — especially a 78-year-old who says he expects to run, if that is really the word, in 2024, when he will be 82.
And the DNC-MSM are happy to prop up their doddering boss until it’s time to swamp him out for Kamala: WaPo media columnist warns journalists ahead of Biden’s first press conference.
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s first solo press conference on Thursday, Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan warned the media about their behavior lest they embarrass him.
“But when President Biden steps to the lectern Thursday, the pressure will also be on the White House press corps themselves, as reporters recalibrate after the tumultuous, misinformation-filled years of Donald Trump to a president who is far less showy and, to date, much more truthful.”
“It’s a major test for news organizations and reporters in covering Biden.”
“Covering” Biden: New photos show cheat sheets used by Biden during his first press conference. “Biden only took questions from a list of journalists whose names and outlets he read from a cue card. A photo of the card shows circled numbers around select reporters. In the early stages of the 62 minutes presser, in which Biden fielded 10 questions, the president appeared to repeatedly lose his train of thought, forgetting questions and asking reporters if they wanted him to give detailed answers.”
And like Pravda covering a speech by sclerotic general secretaries such as Andropov or Chernenko, their hilariously orgasmic response is pre-arranged: ‘You can’t be this stupid, right?’ NBC journo slobbering all over Biden ‘knocking it out of the park’ during presser backfires hilariously.
IT’S ALL ABOUT PROTECTING ENTRENCHED COMPANIES AND MAINTAINING A MONOPOLY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Parler Says It Informed FBI of Violent Content Before Capitol Riot: Social-media platform tells House committee it has been unfairly targeted by Big Tech.
The conservative-leaning social-media network Parler referred violent content from its platform to the FBI more than 50 times in the weeks before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the company said Thursday, following criticism that it failed to adequately police threats ahead of the deadly attack.
Parler in December began alerting the bureau to content suggesting the possibility of violence at the Capitol as Congress met to confirm President Biden’s victory, the company wrote in a letter to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is investigating Parler and its role in the siege.
The social-media site referred a number of posts to law enforcement, including one on Dec. 24 from a user who called for an “armed force” of 150,000 people to “react to the congressional events of January 6,” according to the letter, which included the post and communications with FBI officials among its exhibits and has been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Parler said it forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Jan. 2 a series of posts from a user saying he would be wearing body armor to the pro-Trump rally on Jan. 6. “It’s no longer a protest,” Parler quoted the post as saying. “This is a final stand where we are drawing the red line at Capitol Hill. I trust the American people will take back the USA with force and many are ready to die to take back #USA.”
In another post, a Parler user made clear that armed people would be at the Capitol that day, saying “they may be concealed at first but if congress does the wrong thing expect real chaos because Trump needs us to cause chaos to enact the #insurrectionact.”
The FBI declined to comment. FBI officials have repeatedly said they had no specific, credible threats about violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and had shared information they had as quickly as possible with other law-enforcement agencies. “What we did not have, as far as I can tell, is any indication that hundreds and hundreds of people were going to breach the U.S. Capitol,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told NPR last week.
The torrent of online and social-media communications also makes it difficult to distinguish online bravado from genuine threats, law-enforcement officials have said.
Well, yes.
AT LEGAL INSURRECTION: “Many of us were delighted with the news that former President Donald Trump was preparing to launch a social media platform that will allow free discussions of issues and topics of, by, and for independent conservatives. But Trump is not the only social media innovator. Instapundit’s savvy and multi-talented wife, Dr. Helen Smith, has led the development of a ‘safe space’ for those of us struggling in the current political environment: Welcome to Helen’s Page!”
THE DEMOCRATS ARE OUT TO MAKE SURE THAT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN: US Household Incomes Increased More in 2018 Than in the Previous 20 Years—Combined.
WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE: University of Cincinnati parts ways with professor who said ‘Chinese Virus.’
WHY NOT: Why Does American Infrastructure Cost More and Take Longer To Build Than It Used To? A series of laws passed in the 1970s may have permanently hamstrung American infrastructure development. “Brooks and Liscow pinpoint the early 1970s as the inflection point for increased spending on highway projects. What was happening around that time? The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires environmental impact review for federally funded projects, was passed in 1970. California passed its considerably more stringent CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) the same year, and it was signed by none other than Gov. Ronald Reagan. In 1972 and 1973, Congress added additional federal laws that provided key leverage in fighting construction projects on the basis of loss of species habitat and wetlands. The U.S. Supreme Court helped out with the 1971 case of Citizens To Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe, which multiplied the chances to go to court over development by curtailing judges’ deference to agency decision making. All of these laws and decisions have made it much easier for citizens to contest infrastructure projects, driving up their cost and delaying their implementation and completion.”
1970 was the year of the “Regulatory Explosion” under Nixon.
Plus, the higher the income the area, the greater the delay because richer people are better at delaying things:
Somewhere, though, the late William Tucker is smiling. In “Environmentalism and the Leisure Class,” an influential 1977 Harper’s Magazine essay later expanded into the 1982 book Progress and Privilege, Tucker argued that the environmentalist banner, when waved against local development, offers a conveniently genteel way to “favor the status quo” for those whose “material comfort under the present system has been more or less assured.”
Indeed.
FROM AMANDA S. GREEN: Jaguar Rising,
Life changed for Mackenzie Santos more than a decade ago when she woke on a slab in the morgue. If that wasn’t bad enough, then she started turning furry.
And that was just the beginning of the changes in her life and in the world around her.
Since then, Mac’s life has been filled with more twists and turns than a roller coaster. Her responsibilities as cop, mother, pride alpha and member of the Tribunal mean she’s seen the best and worst in both the human and paranormal worlds. . . and the worst is yet to come. It seems someone plans to celebrate her promotion with a real bang!
A monster stalks the streets of Dallas, It has targeted Mac and those close to her. Worse, this “monster” knows her. It spent years studying her, learning her strengths and weaknesses. Worse, it isn’t afraid of harming innocents in its quest to get to her.
Mac will do whatever it takes to bring down this new threat because failure means more than just death. It means all-out war between humans and paras.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: This May Have Been the Dumbest Line of Biden’s Painful Press Conference.
NOOOO! Toilet paper could face a new shortage. “Suzano SA, the biggest producer of wood pulp, used in the production of toilet paper, tells Bloomberg that the global crunch of shipping containers could clog supply lines.”
HEY, TURTLE, YOUR MASK IS SLIPPING: Where is GOP Outrage Over Justice Department’s Capitol Probe?
BIDEN UNHINGED: Since when are state legislative efforts to ensure that every legal vote can be cast and then accurately counted “sick” and “despicable” and so much more racist than “Jim Crow” that they warrant the label “Jim Eagle”?
When Joe Biden is plodding through his first news conference as President, selecting the favored reporters to ask softball questions for which his staff has prepared answers in his notes on the podium in front of him. It was all so obviously staged to minimize exposing Biden to those trick questions that evil Peter Doocy of Fox News was waiting to spring on him.
Here’s a HT to Issues & Insights for describing the facts about all those “despicable” Republican state legislative efforts to prevent Democrats from rigging future elections like they did the last one, using their H.R. 1 power-grab masquerading as something “for the people.”
AS THOUGH IT WEREN’T WEIRD ENOUGH THAT THE FAUX-DIMINISTRATION IS A SOAP OPERA: Curiouser and Curiouser, Secret Service Attempted to Cover For Hunter Biden Handgun Thrown in Trash Can.
Our secret services are now the Keystone Cops. This is what socialism/communism does to people. Remember kids, this is your life on Marxism. Marxism, not even once.
JUDGING BY HER NAME SHE’S SECOND GENERATION ASHAMED OF AMERICA: Charlottesville Mayor, Nikuyah Walker, Says Her City Is A Rapist.
And it’s okay. America frankly wants no part of her ilk. We’ve had enough of pretentious, demi-educated half wits.