OPEN THREAD: Sometimes you close your eyes, and see the place where you used to live.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

FLASHBACK: The Big Bang Theory’s entire team share support for Jussie Smollett after brutal ‘hate crime’ attack.

Of course everybody went along with it — who’d want to risk blacklisting yourself, to paraphrase Roger Simon’s autobiography?

Related: There’s no end to tweets dunking on Jussie tonight, but here are a couple of good ones:

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: NIH: No Documents Available on Removal of ‘Gain-of-Function’ Definition From Website.

I CALL IT JUSTICE: Cruel: Jussie Smollett Will Be Forced To Share A Jail Cell With His Attacker.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF DEMOCRATIC CONTINUES APACE: AOC goes full Jeremy Corbyn.

For a party whose members hear supposed racial dog whistles in even the most mundane language, it’s amazing Democrats never seem to notice their own actual dog whistles.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York went full Jeremy Corbyn  this week in defense of a fellow New York House Representative, Jamaal Bowman, who has been targeted by the Democratic Socialists of America for being insufficiently committed to the cause of Palestine.

Bowman, whose district is heavily Jewish, “has been an incredible champion [for Palestine] given the community that he’s in,” Ocasio-Cortez told Politico this week.

Well, this is subtle!

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Yes, Bowman’s district has a large Jewish population. So, go ahead and determine for yourself what Ocasio-Cortez meant by “given the community that he’s in.” A faithful paraphrasing could easily read, “He’s doing a pretty good job advocating for Palestine, considering he’s at the mercy of the Jews in his district!”

Ah, where are those dog-whistle experts when you need them?

Ocasio-Cortez blames Jewish constituents and sets forth a double standard when it comes to Israel. You probably won’t hear her complain about the genocide China is conducting, but Israel is somehow perfidious for even just defending its civilian population from indiscriminate missile attacks.

“What he is doing is walking a very difficult path, quite alone,” the congresswoman added. “I think the goal here is to stand with and advocate for Palestinian human rights. And so what’s really important for us is to transform the communities into supporting that.”

Flashbacks:

● AOC BLASTS CRITICAL RACE THEORY CRITICS: ‘Why Don’t Republicans Want Us To Learn How To Not Be Racist?’

Nice try, but the calls are coming from inside the house:

● AOC rocks Black Panthers shirt, touts group’s free food program.

● AOC chief of staff criticized for wearing shirt touting Nazi collaborator:

As one wag joked on Twitter at the time, “Look just because she’s favorably comparing herself to the lady that Franco liked a lot who sheltered Mengele doesn’t mean… OK, I forgot where I was doing with this.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Development Agency to acquire 28 missile-tracking satellites to launch in late 2024.

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Just Got Switched On.

HOW BAD CAN IT BE? Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever. “Everything tasted like fish, even the non-fish courses. . . . I’ve checked Trip Advisor. Other people who’ve eaten at Bros were served food. Some of them got meat, and ravioli, and more than one slice of bread. Some of them were served things that needed to be eaten with forks and spoons. We got a tablespoon of crab.”

Also: “Recommendation: Do not eat here. I cannot express this enough. This was single-handedly one of the worst wastes of money in my entire food and travel writing career bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha oh my god.”

Plus: “The next day, one of the staff tried contacting the only single female member of our party via Instagram messages. ‘Hey, I served you last night!’ he wrote. She immediately blocked him.”

BREAKING: Jussie Smollett Declared Guilty on 5 of 6 Counts.

CRITICIZING CHINA IS RIGHT OUT BECAUSE REASONS: “The school’s theory appears to be that criticizing a foreign country and its government is somehow inherently improper.”

Well, when it’s China, anyway. Plus: “This is also part of a broader trend that I’ve seen where criticisms of China—indeed, in context clearly criticisms of the Chinese government—have led to punishment or demand for punishment on the theory that they may offend some Chinese-Americans or might unintentionally encourage violent attacks on Asian-Americans.”

Weirdly, you’re also not supposed to talk about who’s actually engaged in making most of the violent attacks on Asian-Americans.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Titleist Goes Woke, Bans ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ From Personalized Golf Balls.

WEIRD HOW GUN CONTROLLERS CAN’T SEEM TO MAKE AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT LYING: Ammo Ban Activists Attack NSSF With Selective Editing, Shoot Themselves in the Foot.

OH, THAT WAR ON CHRISTMAS: Fox Christmas tree arson suspect released without bail.

TOP SELLER: GOOLOO Jump Starter. #CommissionEarned

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

REVIEW: 2021 BMW M4.

THE INTERNET OF VULNERABLE THINGS: Amazon’s outage just locked people out of their homes, scrambled their refrigerators, and shut off their Christmas lights.

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ Live Chat with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest(s).

Hot takes, cold drinks.

BUILD STRENGTH: GD Hand Grip Strengthener Premium Iron Grip Light 80 Adjustable Hand Gripper. #CommissionEarned

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: California Considers Funding Abortion Tourism as Part of Plan to Become ‘Sanctuary’ If Roe Overturned.

WHY DON’T THEY BELIEVE US? You’re struggling to understand where all this vaccine hesitancy comes from. Let me help you.

OUR UNUSUAL EMPLOYMENT MARKET: Employers roll out ‘stay’ interviews as record number of Americans walk off the job.

THEY’LL PUT A KNIFE IN YOUR BACK, OR AT LEAST IN YOUR DELMONICO STEAK: Inside the cutthroat world of competitive meat judging. “Competitive meat judging’s highest stakes are in the intercollegiate circuit, where a number of schools send students on a whirlwind tour of the nation’s most hallowed meat lockers to prove their stuff. It’s not easy: Competitors spend hours on their feet in frigid rooms, trying their best to evaluate qualities like the size of a cut of meat, its degree of fat marbling, and the age of the animal it came from using nothing but visual cues.”

HE’S CAUSED THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Newsom Abandons Struggling Californians to Take Yet Another Personal Trip.