IN ANOTHER POST I WENT ON ABOUT THE CULTURE WAR, AND HOW THE LEFT PREFERENTIALLY BUYS FROM THEIR OWN, HELPS THEIR OWN, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY REFUSES TO HELP US, BUY FROM US, OR EVEN TOLERATE OUR EXISTENCE.

I’ve reluctantly decided that the only way we turn this around is to apply the same principles to the left that they’ve applied to the right for decades.  I call it “not one red cent” — not if you can help it.
On the other hand, there are immensely talented people who aren’t leftists.  And we should support them as much as we can.  In recent days I was privileged to get two gifts from people who read my blog.  One was a set of hairsticks with….  Well, let’s just say that if you’re a woman who has to work in a dangerous yet inexplicably gun free zone, you might want to get a pair of these, and the same if you’re a man who loves a woman in that situation: Hair Stabbies. This is a review, and they also have the craftsman’s contact email.

AND…. King Harv Coffee sent me a bag of Mars Coffee.  I was hesitant to try it, because recently I’ve been having issues with bitter food and drink and my sense of bitter is much more sensitive than it ever was.  So I shared it with our son who is a coffee connoisseur over the holidays.  And I also had some.
I can honestly say that this is the least bitter coffee I’ve ever tasted. Son, who is fancy like that, (otherwise known as having a palate) made sounds about chocolate undertones and oak overtones (or the other way around, not sure) but I’m a simple woman. All I can tell you is that it was amazingly tasty but not bitter at all. In fact I could drink it with no sweetener or creamer and love it. This has never happened before.  (Oh, and my son stole the rest of the bag, which means I’ll need to actually buy some.) But anyway, if you are in the market to try a fancy coffee,  try King Harv Coffee.  It will be worth your while.

TODAY I WOKE UP IN A BLEAK MOOD AND IT HASN’T LIGHTENED:  There was an old skit by Bill Cosby before he fell from grace or was pushed, or whatever it was that described how his wife ruled the household.  Thinking about it, that was so politically incorrect it would have everyone today clutching their pearls. Don’t care. I have opinions on that too, but that’s something else.
Anyway, it described his kids misbehaving, and then his wife finally lost it.  “She takes the broomstick, she holds it like a Samurai sword. She announces the beatings are about to begin. And these brain damaged children look surprised!”  We’re not there yet. But I can see the broomstick from my house. And our brain damaged would-be elites will look SURPRISED: Attention Please!

THIS ACCORDS WITH EVERYTHING I’VE READ ABOUT THE VACCINES, AND ALSO WITH THE OPINION OF SCIENTISTS I TALK TO (WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT OUT OF THE POLITICAL CLOSET):  Help wanted translating article about coronavirus vaccines.

Is any of this true? I don’t know. We have a very short time to have seen much on this vaccine. But given my auto imune issues, I’m going to wait on this one. Maybe forever.  Look, the suspicious indecent rush to get this stuff into me? No.  At any rate I’m 99% sure I had Winnie in January. It was very unpleasant, but I survived. As do most people who catch it.

STRONG LANGUAGE, NO STRONGER THAN IT NEEDS TO BE: Larry Correia points the problem with the assumptions on the situation.

NICK FREITAS HAS OPINIONS. THEY’RE NOT FAR FROM MINE: Believe it or not, I don’t particularly like politics, and yesterday provides one more example of why.

HOLD ON! IS THAT THE MOST MASSIVE CASE OF NOT GETTING YOU’VE EVER SEEN? IF IT GETS ANY BIGGER, DO YOU THINK IT WILL CAUSE A SINGULARITY? Facebook, YouTube, Shopify All Move to Deplatform Trump and Questions About 2020 Election.

You know, maybe if Mark Zuckerberg weren’t a lizard person, and the rest of them didn’t put all their money up their nose, they’d get they’re dealing with Americans, and that they haven’t yet seen us get mad in public.

TRUTH, RECONCILIATION! LADY SNAPCASE:  Michelle Obama Wants Big Tech to Permanently Ban Trump.

NO, LADY. HE’S NOT RILING US UP. YOU GUYS DON’T GET IT. FOR FOUR YEARS HE’S PROTECTED YOU:  Education Secretary DeVos Resigns, Blames Trump’s Rhetoric for Capitol Hill Violence.

ALL IN ALL IT’S JUST ANOTHER, ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL:  Social Media to Mindwipe Capitol Events.

OH, IT’S NOT JUST BIDEN/HARRIS. NOW THE MEDIA IS INVENTING CASUALTIES:  Biden And Harris Gaslight Public Regarding Capitol Protests.

Soon, as many people will have died on Capitol Hill on the sixth as did of COVID-19.
Of course, actually a lot more people died from that vote on the sixth. It’s just the deaths will come in the years ahead. But never mind.

OPEN THREAD: Discuss the state of the nation.

THAT’S WHAT XI SAID: China Daily: Study says gender equality promoted among Uygur women, ‘making them no longer baby-making machines.’

Exit quote: “This reads like what a Nazi tweet in 1938 would have looked like.”

Well:

● Chinese spy found attempting to ‘influence and suborn’ Democrats.

● China’s tiny Jewish community in fear as Beijing erases its history.

● Over 570,000 Uighurs forced to pick cotton in China: report.

● China Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Uighurs.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Enough with the outrage.

Like pretty much all conservatives, I have consistently criticized riots and other forms of political violence for many years. That includes yesterday’s Washington, D.C. riot. You can’t say the same about liberals, however. Until yesterday, one might have thought that liberals consider rioting and other forms of political violence to be as American as apple pie.

You could write a book in support of that proposition, but for now let’s cite just a few examples. Do you remember when President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017? Leftist Democrats rioted in Washington that day. That riot was arguably worse, more violent and more destructive, than what happened in D.C. yesterday. The liberal rioters destroyed stores, set vehicles on fire and battled with the police. Six police officers were wounded.

I don’t recall a single Democratic office-holder denouncing the Democrats’ Inauguration Day riot, and the Associated Press came perilously close to praising the rioters.

Over the ensuing four years, Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioted countless times, bringing devastation to cities like Portland, Seattle, Kenosha and Minneapolis. Did any Democrats denounce these riots? Not that I remember. Many Democrats endorsed them, or seemed to do so. . . .

And let’s not forget James Hodgkinson, even though every reporter in America apparently has. Hodgkinson was the Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer who tried to assassinate the entire House Republican baseball team and very nearly succeeded, inflicting grievous and permanent injuries on Congressman Steve Scalise. Hodgkinson was not the usual 20-something loner, he was a middle-aged union official who was not insane, but just full of hate. His Facebook page was festooned with over-the-top attacks on Republicans, taken directly from speeches by Bernie Sanders and every other prominent Democrat.

Yeah, I was accused of “whataboutism” for noting this earlier. But “whataboutism” is just a deflection-word for when Democrats’ dishonesty is pointed out. If you’re going to stand up for “decency” and “principles” then you need to have some of both.

UPDATE: A friend writes:

Flipside of whataboutism:

When you endorse one group’s mob violence, you’ve endorsed all mob violence. Which means the Dems pretty much own what happened on Capitol Hill.

Well, I saw a purported libertarian on Facebook trying to argue that Black Lives Matter’s violence was okay but invading the Capitol was not because reasons, but it wasn’t very persuasive.

JIM TREACHER: Rioting Is Wrong, No Matter What You Think Lin Wood Wants.

Well, yesterday we had a riot the media can’t get behind. Finally, it was more than just “unruly.” It only took them seven months to catch up, but they finally agree with me that rioting is wrong. That’s something, I guess.

Just because they’re hypocrites doesn’t mean I have to be one, as if that somehow spites them. I unequivocally condemn the riot at the Capitol Building yesterday, and I reject all the excuses and conspiracy theories and other demented nonsense being used to downplay it. It’s a complete disgrace, and if you defend it, you’re a fool.

And Donald Trump is responsible for his part in inciting that violent mob. Those people thought they were doing what he wanted them to do. They listened to what he told them, and they stormed the Capitol. Even as he “called for peace” yesterday, he egged them on by insisting the election was stolen from him. I honestly thought he couldn’t get any worse, but once again he proved me wrong.

Read the whole thing.

Related: It Doesn’t Matter if a Few of Them Were Antifa.

EDUCATION SECRETARY BETSY DEVOS RESIGNS IN PROTEST.

SPACE: SpaceX’s Starship SN9 prototype fires its engines for the 1st time.

SCHOOL: Doctors’ group says open schools, with proper COVID-19 measures.

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THE EXODUS IS HERE: Techxodus: The flight of terrified techies from California to Texas marks the end of one era, and the beginning of a new one.

The “pull” factors of Texas and similar conservative states—the absence of a state income tax, a pro-business (and anti-labor) political climate—are real enough. But these factors are not new—and if they were the real causes of the flight from California of industry and population, that flight would have occurred long ago, in the 1970s or 1980s.

What has made California so repulsive that many of its star companies and most talented individuals are making like East Germans trying to scramble over the Berlin Wall? We can begin with the squalor of San Francisco with its streets littered with needles and human feces and its public parks turned into homeless encampments. Though the crisis of public order is usually blamed on low-density zoning restrictions, the homeless tend to be drug addicts or the deinstitutionalized mentally ill, not working-class people and professionals priced out of local home ownership. Meanwhile, a wave of woke education policy aimed at the ritual leveling of Bay Area’s few actual meritocratic institutions—like San Francisco’s sole merit-based STEM high school—augurs poorly for the prospects of the children of tech workers whose parents can’t afford private schools.

Whether they realize it or not, they’re fleeing Democratic governance. It’s important to make sure that they know it. Hence, my Welcome Wagon project.

No, really: “Will the refugees from the West Coast Californicate the rest of the country? My home town of Austin, once the laid-back home of outlaw country music and slackerdom, now reminds me of San Francisco circa 2010, with food snobs, arrogant bikers, and a city government at war against plastic bags and cars.”

I’ve actually started working on trying to make the Welcome Wagon project a reality. I hope to have some news later.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: NRA Celebrates 150th Anniversary in 2021.

IT’S GOOD THAT IT’S A HYBRID, SO YOU CAN SAVE MONEY ON GAS: 2021 Bentley Bentayga Hybrid Gets 449 HP and 31 Miles of Pure Electric Range.

‘SIT DOWN, JAKE:’ Self-righteously indignant Jake Tapper forgets to check his mirror before blaming ‘Trump-enabling media’ for where we’re at.

Related: Jake Tapper Tries a Moral Lecture on ‘Good People’ vs. ‘Bad People’, and It Backfires Big Time.

THAT’S AN AWFUL LOT FOR A GM PRODUCT: Almost Half of 2021 Cadillac Escalades Have Sold for over $100K.

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