Archive for 2022
August 18, 2022
HOW’S THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” FROM THE “RESPONSIBLE ADULTS” GOING? It sounds like India doesn’t want to be our ally anymore.
POLITICAL THUGGERY: Read Letter From NY Attorney General Letitia James Threatening Church Hosting Trump-Friendly Event: Pastor Paul Doyle: “It feels like she’s trying to intimidate me.” To be fair, that’s just because she is.
The Democrats now treat political opposition as a more-or-less criminal act.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Should the GOP Hit the Panic Button About November? “Even my hard heart has been softening in recent months about the party’s chances of winning back control of the House. I’ve evolved from agonizing about how the GOP might blow it all to thinking that we’re in rarefied political air this year because Biden is such a trainwreck and that even they couldn’t muck this one up.”
THE PRESS IS TRYING TO PRETEND IT NEVER HAPPENED: Biden is still climbing out of his Afghanistan-shaped hole.
OK, GROOMER: ‘Terror Campaign’: Trans Activists Push for Censorship of Discussions on Child Sex Changes.
Activists accused the accounts of “stochastic terrorism” and demanded Twitter take action to censor the conversation and take down their accounts.
“In the last 5 days, Libs of Tiktok has tweeted and retweeted 14 posts about Boston Children’s Hospital. As a result, BCH providers are being inundated in death threats and harassing calls and emails,” Alejandra Caraballo wrote. “It’s now affecting their services. This is stochastic terrorism, full stop.”
The post was retweeted by Ari Drennen, LGBTQ program director at the left-wing activist organization Media Matters, along with several other posts expressing concern about criticism of the hospital posing a potential safety threat.
The truth is only a threat to people hiding behind lies.
LEFTIST VIOLENCE IS ESTABLISHMENT-SANCTIONED: Catholics rip Biden as no JFK in post-Roe church attacks. “A top Catholic group revealed plans today for a $1 million campaign to urge President Joe Biden to be more like the last Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, and condemn attacks on churches sparked by the Supreme Court’s reversal of the abortion case Roe v. Wade. In a new ad, CatholicVote reminded viewers that during an outbreak of church burnings in the early 1960s, Kennedy said, ‘To burn churches, I consider both cowardly as well as outrageous.'”
Omar didn’t get to where she is by reconciling any of these contradictions but by making them work to her advantage. For most politicians, it would be a humiliating rebuke to have thousands of members of their ethnic and religious community rain boos upon them at a major public event held on their home turf. The smiles and laughter with which she greeted the opprobrium of young Somalis didn’t come from nervousness or surprise. This was the kind of confrontation that had helped turn her into a political star.
Omar’s instincts are rarely wrong, however polarizing a figure they’ve made her. In 2020, she ran 16 points behind Joe Biden, underperforming the president-elect by more than every one of the other 200-plus Democratic members of the House of Representatives up for reelection. But she still won 64% of the vote on the strength of a firm base of support that included far-left activists, college students, left-wing children of culturally conservative Somali immigrants, and the social-justice-minded bourgeois, newly activated by the protests and riots that broke out after the killing of George Floyd, which occurred in Omar’s congressional district. The Target Center incident might have looked like an ugly scene to people who knew little about her life and career, or like an opportunity for political opponents wrongly convinced that she’s beatable this year. Omar is up against former city council member Don Samuels in August’s Democratic primary, an unexciting alternative from an earlier political era who is likely headed for the same double-digit defeat that an earlier and even more promising challenger suffered in 2020. It’s unclear that any attack on Omar has ever landed particularly hard.
Being a lightning rod would have harmed Omar if she hadn’t proven to be such a skillful manager of her own story and her own image. That’s especially true when it comes to the more sensitive aspects of her dizzyingly complex life, which she has either ruthlessly neutralized, cleverly spun, or kept scrupulously out of view.
THEY’RE REALLY CLIMBING DOWN FROM ALL THE COVID BS BEFORE THE MIDTERMS: Biden admin quietly ends COVID-19 testing targeting unvaccinated fed workers.
IT’S FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WHO HAVE BROUGHT THAT INTEGRITY INTO QUESTION: Yes, We Will Question the Integrity of Our Federal Law Enforcement Officials. “Strzok’s commentary is a microcosm of the mainstream media’s approach to coverage of the Mar-a-Lago raid, about which we still know precious little— except, we are told, that the integrity of our law enforcement officials shall not be questioned!”
If you don’t want people to think of you as corrupt political thugs, don’t be corrupt political thugs.
CONSERVATIVE GROUP TAKES AIM AT DEMOCRATIC ‘WOKEISM’ WITH ADS TARGETING LATINO VOTERS:
According to Politico, which first reported on the group’s plans, Citizens for Sanity has been working with Republican operatives to place ad campaigns in contested congressional districts, beginning with those in Latino-heavy districts in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona.
A mission statement on its website says the group wants to “defeat ‘wokeism’ and anti-critical thinking ideologies that have permeated every sector of our country and threaten the very freedoms that are foundational to the American Dream.”
Beyond South Texas, Citizens for Sanity has been buying billboards in major markets that poke fun at progressive shibboleths such as criminal justice reform, transgender issues, and climate change.
A billboard that appeared alongside highways in Philadelphia and Detroit reads, “Violent criminals deserve our passion and respect. This fall, stand strong for progressive values.” Another, in Philadelphia and Chicago, reads, “Protect pregnant men from climate discrimination,” and one in Atlanta says, “Open the jails. Open the borders. Close the schools. Vote progressive this November.”
The Merry Pranksters smile.
BIDENFLATION: Sky-high inflation is here to stay — so brace for the Fed to stick to its guns on tightening, renowned economist says. “I don’t think a very soft touch of very mild increases in interest rates will put a stop to what is going to be an ongoing inflationary pressure.”
JULIETTE OCHIENG: A Conversation Becomes A Revelation.
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GOODER AND HARDER, MANHATTAN: New York’s 9/11 museum to close down permanently after COVID revenue loss.
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Matt Margolis: Can We Talk About the ‘Good Republicans’ the Liberal Media ‘Loves’?
Kruiser: Dear MSM: Enough of the ‘Liz Cheney 2024’ Nonsense, Already.
Yours Truly: Putin Wants a Fleet of Aircraft Carriers and Has Also Maybe Eaten Shrooms.
THIS SEEMS UNWISE, TO SAY THE LEAST: Scientists Have Re-Created The Deadly 1918 Flu Virus. Why? “Insiders may recognize Kawaoka’s name: he and Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier are widely known for their gain-of-function research that aimed to give deadly bird flu the ability to infect mammals. I’ve called them out on this in the past, and I’ve openly asked why NIH was funding this work.”
Plus: “The 1918 flu disappeared long ago, and there’s no way it could possibly re-appear naturally. There’s only one way that the 1918 flu becomes a threat to human health again: through a lab leak. Re-creating the virus in a lab makes that possible. We’re still trying to figure out if Covid-19 had a natural origin or whether it started as a lab leak. Even if it turns out to have a natural source, the intense discussions about the lab leak hypothesis have been useful, because they made it clear that lab leaks happen, and that they should be considered a genuine risk. In recognition of this risk, scientists and non-scientists alike have called for a worldwide ban on gain-of-function research.”
Gain-of-function research is just biowar research with a prettier name.
August 17, 2022
@wesaustincomedian Liz Cheney Loses Primary #greenscreen ♬ original sound – Wes Austin
Love the pic choice. . . .
THE BANNINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: I’m Just Going to Go Ahead and Say It: Twitter Is Objectively Pro-Groomer.
Pro-groomer social media platform Twitter has permanently suspended the Gays Against Groomers organization from their account.
Describing themselves as “a coalition of gays against the sexualization and indoctrination of children,” Gays Against Groomers was founded earlier this year by Jaimee Michell. A gay woman who describes herself as “based” and “strayed” from woke culture, Michell has compared “gender-affirming” surgery on minors to the works of Nazi butcher Dr. Josef Mengele.
That’s probably because Michell is unafraid to speak hard truths. She told OAN last month:
I created the coalition because, you know, there are many of us within the gay community that have been speaking out against what’s happening now to children in our name for a long time. But we never had a unified voice. We never had a unified front to really tackle this stuff head-on. So, I thought it would be a very powerful thing to do to band together and unite behind this message that we oppose it, that we don’t want anything to do with these people. And it’s very important.
I contacted Michell to find out how many followers her organization lost with the suspension, but haven’t heard back from her yet. Their backup account — however long it lasts — is here and after a few hours already has 6,400 followers. Growth of the suspended account had been described in one recent article as “viral.”
Related: Twitter Is Blocking Links to PJ Media Articles About the FBI Raid.
UPDATE (9:55 PM EDT): Facebook permanently cancels Libs of Tiktok and refuses to explain why.
UPDATE (10:17 PM): Facebook restores Libs of TikTok, and this highly objective NBC journalist is not happy:
(Updated and bumped.)
OPEN THREAD: Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to problems that upset you.
LIZ CHENEY GOT EXACTLY WHAT SHE DESERVED: Cheney’s downfall came as a result of her participation in the January 6th investigations, rather than as a result of her warmongering, but there’s cause to celebrate no matter what.
Ezra Miller is a terrible person, and Variety is very careful to make sure this garbage person isn’t offended by using the wrong pronouns. So much so, they shamed a woman who Ezra ATTACKED for using the wrong pronouns.
Ezra Miller identifies as non-binary. A family in North Dakota identifies him as a pedo grooming their daughter. The woman he choked in Iceland identifies as a woman who Ezra Miller CHOKED AND ATTACKED and was sharing her exclusive story with Variety. The magazine was very careful to make sure we knew the woman who was being choked by a dude wasn’t enlightened enough to know the dude looks like a non-binary.
“At the time of the interview, it was unclear whether the woman was aware Miller uses they/them pronouns.”
Riiiiight. Or, maybe, the woman who Ezra attacked didn’t give a shit as she was describing Ezra attacking her. That could be it, too. She wasn’t confused. A dude attacked her, and she identified him as a dude.
Related: The ongoing farce of Ezra Miller.
Yet it’s also tempting to wonder whether Miller’s showily non-binary status is also frightening an industry that has been bending over backwards not to offend an increasingly politicized and vocal section of society. While most LGBTQ people look at Miller’s actions in the same aghast way as everyone else, there are inevitably those who will defend Miller on the grounds that they are somehow being persecuted and that their extraordinary behavior is in fact nothing more than a manifestation of this complex.
This is plainly bogus; otherwise, the entire non-binary community would be doing their best impersonation of a gang of feral savages at all times. But Miller’s strange ability to cling onto their career and public reputation, with an indulgence unoffered to the likes of Depp and Armie Hammer, may suggest that there are different calculations at play than simple commercial expediency. In any case, we shall find out two things before long: whether The Flash is any good, and if Miller can somehow restrain themselves from actions that will land them in prison before their film is released.
I get why Variety is pronoun-obsessed — they wallow in the L.A. show business culture, and they have to keep their subscribers happy, or risk having the social media mob descend upon them. But why is Tory house organ the Spectator using they/them in their article on Miller?
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Trump Voter Excited To See Whether He’ll Get Raided By FBI Or Gunned Down By IRS.