I HOPE WE GET A CHANCE TO HAVE A SAY AGAIN:  Why the Right will Neither Forgive nor Forget.

IF I HAD KIDS CURRENTLY IN THE SCHOOLS:  Spirit Murder, Lizard Brains and the Abolition of Whiteness.

I wouldn’t. In the same way I wouldn’t send my kid to drill with the Hitler Youth. And no, that’s not invoking the Nazis for no reason. This is precisely the same nonsense the Nazis believed in (minus hollowed Earth) with the races sort of reversed. (If the white race is the eternal oppressor, they must be ultra-capable, otherwise they could be stopped, right? And note that’s what they believe, not what I believe.)

Yes, I do know how much hardship this would impose on some of you. I did send my kids to school mostly so I could work in peace, and then homeschooled after school. (But the schools weren’t this bad, in the nineties.) But there are work arounds and arrangements you can make, including forming co-ops and teaching pods.  BTW anyone in Denver who wants someone to do a creative writing thing with your pod or group, ping me. I put my time where my mouth is.

Normally I’d say just teaching after school is good enough, but right now? I’d yank those kids out of the indoctrination factory.

BUT YOU KNOW, TRUMP WAS MEAN AND RUDE TO JOURNALISTS:  AOC and other progressives have a new goal: Silence the press.

OF EVERYTHING I’VE WRITTEN:  How To Read The News In Totalitarianism. this post, which I thought was somewhat bland, and just informative, got my facebook page invaded by an army of trolls and people I’d never interacted with before calling me crazy and acting like idiots. They also obviously hadn’t read any of the posts they were responding to, and fanned back three days.  They also, after I started responding, denounced me for “bullying” and got me suspended for 24 hours.

According to one of the commenters on my blog, who is also in the science fiction community:

That was really disturbing. I go on FB this morning and see several entries on my f-list urgently warning people to defriend and block you.

Now, guys, I’ve written posts in which I called them names; blog posts in which I denounced the working of their cliques; blog posts in which I excoriated them in the most blunt terms. But this is the post they go militant on?
Could it be because I mention in passing the obvious false flag action planned for this weekend? The one to prepare for which this poster was distributed and local police forces warned to expect “insurrection” or a “coup”?  Sort of makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

TIME TO JUMP-START THE ECONOMY FOR INCOMING PRESIDENT BIDEN: Mayor Lori Lightfoot pushing for Chicago bars and restaurants to reopen for indoor dining ‘as quickly as possible.’

As Noah Rothman tweets, “Major metro mayors are on a mission to retroactively validate everything lockdown skeptics have said for months only to have their motives questioned and characters impugned.”

TWITTER INSIDER VIDEO SHOWS JACK DORSEY ADMITTING POLITICAL CENSORSHIP WON’T END SOON.

LEFT-WING ACTIVIST CHARGED IN CAPITOL RIOT AFTER SAYING HE WAS JUST THERE TO ‘DOCUMENT:’ John Sullivan “faces federal charges of civil disorder, entering a restricted building and violent entry or disorderly conduct…As protesters climbed over a wall near the Capitol entrance, he allegedly exclaimed in the video, ‘You guys are f—— savage. Let’s go!’ ‘There are so many people,’ Sullivan’s voice can be heard saying as the camera shows a large group of people making its way toward the building. ‘Let’s go. This s— is ours! F– yeah. I can’t believe this is reality.’ ‘We accomplished this s—,’ he said at another point ‘We did this together. F— yeah! We are all a part of this history…’ While he has denied ties to Antifa in recent interviews, his group Insurgence USA had advertised an event called ‘Kick These Fascists out of DC’ on Wednesday around the same time as a pro-Trump rally near the National Mall that preceded the Capitol chaos.”

“After the rioting, Sullivan was invited onto CNN to discuss what he witnessed at the U.S. Capitol,” the Blaze adds.

However, Curtis Houck of NewsBusters tweets, “Guys, just because the BLM/Antifa guy has been charged doesn’t mean that they planned this and it was a false flag. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but facts don’t care about your feelings.”

And as Dan McLaughlin wrote a week ago: It Doesn’t Matter if a Few of Them Were Antifa. “But the hunt to find a few false-flaggers in a mob of the most deplorable segment of Trump supporters is a red herring. Even if some of them were there, it does not change what happened, or why. And if you’re trying to sell the theory that left-wingers were a driving force in all this, you better have hard evidence for that, because you are swimming against the tide of simple common sense, basic human experience, and what we can see with our own eyes.”

UPDATE: On the other hand, “Maybe this is why you don’t do one-day show trials masquerading as impeachment,” GOP spokeswoman Liz Harrington tweets.

OPEN THREAD: Share your feelings.

A QUICK WAY TO COUNTER BIG TECH CENSORSHIP?:  It’s worth considering.  North Dakota appears to be already doing so.

SPACE: Next-generation Dragon cargo spacecraft returns from space station.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Octopus of Big Tech is strangling America. “Two days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Earlier last year, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted out a call to his followers to destroy Israel. Both tweets passed the censorship rules of Twitter’s 20-something judges in San Francisco.”

It’s all about being on the right team, or the wrong one.

TIME IS MUSCLE: Acting quickly after heart attack symptoms start can be a heart saver. “The longer the time between when heart attack symptoms start and a patient has an artery-clearing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the more damage to the heart muscle.”

Hospitals have worked to cut “door to balloon time” — the lag between when you show up and when they’ve got you under a cath — but they can’t do anything about how fast you get to the door. If in doubt, go: If you’re wrong you’ve wasted a few hours. If it’s a heart attack, delaying can kill you, or leave you a heart cripple unnecessarily.

SO DON’T BUILD ONE: Calculations Show It’ll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI.

TIME FOR ANOTHER EMMY: Andrew Cuomo’s vaccine blunder is yet one more reminder of his pandemic failure.

FLASHBACK: Elizabeth Nolan Brown: The Phony Feminism of Kamala Harris: Harris only cares about other women’s rights when those rights don’t conflict with her career ambitions.

NEVERTHELESS, HE PERSISTED:

Donald Trump will be an ex-president like no other because he is a political force like no other — at least since Theodore Roosevelt. Trump will not just be an ex-president. He will be the leader of a powerful movement, one that is very much alive and still very much in control of the Republican party.

Trump is not a man who accepts oblivion. Like TR, he rankles at the thought of retiring from the great game show. His businesses went bankrupt six times but he kept coming back. When The Apprentice ended, he turned to politics and won the White House. Even that wasn’t quite the overnight success that it seemed: he had contemplated running in 2000 and had talked about it even earlier. He knew what he wanted, and he dared the impossible to get it.

What will Ex-President Trump want next? Revenge — and a second term. If ambition is a hallmark of his personality, a deeply personal rivalry is a hallmark of his politics. Victory over Hillary Clinton was personal; so was dismantling Barack Obama’s legacy. Trump insisted that he had beaten Clinton in the popular vote too, or would have if not for fraud. He insisted that the crowds and online viewership for his inauguration outnumbered Obama’s. The rivalry he felt with Clinton and Obama pales next to what Joe Biden represents in Trump’s eyes: the man who unfairly denied him reelection; who will do to Trump’s legacy what Trump did to Obama’s; quite simply, the man who fired him and took his place.

Biden hardly fills a Trump-like space in the Democratic party — a party decades farther to the left today than its 78-year-old president. Trump, by contrast, has a party, and he almost certainly intends to use it. After the ludicrous but deadly pantomime coup at the Capitol last week, a pundit-class consensus says that Trump cannot possibly win again. But the pundit class is usually wrong about everything. If Trump wants the Republican nomination in 2024, who or what, exactly, will stop him from getting it?

It won’t be the DNC-MSM, that’s for sure:

For all political media’s frustrations with the Trump years, they’ve also been lucrative and a source of identity. Trump gave the Washington Post its slogan. Entire beats that did not exist prior to Trump have been incepted as a result of his presidency. The journalists who’ve covered this White House are the subjects of innumerable profiles reflecting on their enterprising work and the trauma these “beleaguered chroniclers” suffer as a result.

In a New York Times dispatch detailing the thinking within cable news networks like CNN and MSNBC, the lean years ahead in which viewers will “no longer need their nightly therapy sessions with Rachel Maddow or Don Lemon” is a frightening prospect. Equal and opposite forces are at work on Trump-friendly outfits. Fox News Channel has seen its ratings decline after the president declared war on the network for failing to uniformly advance his preferred narratives about election fraud. There is no shortage of less responsible competitors in the conservative cable news space willing to satisfy their audience’s demands for misinformation. So, what are these media ventures to do? The simplest, most commercially viable approach is not to let Trump go. And the president will almost certainly give these institutions every reason to do just that.

QED: NY Times Compares Trump Election Claims to Stalin, Hitler’s ‘Big Lie.’

And yet the Gray Lady’s obit for Trump will be nowhere near as glowing as the one they wrote for Stalin.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Tom Cruise Uses Robots to Patrol Mission Impossible Set for COVID Violations.

OUR RULING CLASS WANTS US TO BE CHINA: A Lesson From 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media. But even overt state control would be better, or at least more honest, than what we have, which is state control implemented indirectly through corporate tools of the state.

THE VAUNTED OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT IS REALLY FALLING DOWN ON THE JOB: Biden’s Heralded COVID Board Has No Idea What His Plan Is Either.

NEW NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS REPORT:  Freedom to Learn:  Amending the Higher Education Act.

GERMANS VEXED AS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE ROLLOUT LAGS.

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: A Glock Drum Magazine.

LIVE AND ON THE AIR, EVEN IN THE TINY REPUBLIC OF TOGO: VIP Gold Live Chat with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

WHO KNEW? Sexual Anorexia: Why Having Too Little Sex Is A Real Disorder.

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WOULD HAVE FOUND THIS CREEPY: How Facial Recognition Technology Is Helping Identify the U.S. Capitol Attackers: Huge databases and powerful AI algorithms enable a law enforcement panopticon.