DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING: ‘This Is On You!’ Woman With Same Name As Doxxed ‘Libs Of TikTok’ Reveals Threats, Blasts WaPo’s Taylor Lorenz.
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April 21, 2022
IT’S ANOTHER INSURRECTION… NEVER MIND: U.S. Capitol Evacuated After Mixup With Army Golden Knights Parachute Team.
Plus, the usual histrionics from Nancy Pelosi.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Ukraine: Chechen troops executed Russian fighters who rebelled.
Lesson for the next bunch: When you rebel, kill the Chechens first.
April 20, 2022
BE PREPARED: Augason Farms Lunch and Dinner Variety Pail Emergency Food Supply 4-Gallon Pail. #CommissionEarned.
NPR CATCHING UP WITH INSTAPUNDIT: It’s planting season in Ukraine, and that means problems for global food supply.
Turn the camera off,” Trump says at the close of the video clip as he appears to rise from his chair. “Very dishonest.”
But the audio of the end of the interview appears to tell a different story. The two men laughed and thanked each other, the recording shows. There are no signs of Trump’s storming off set.
“That was a great interview,” Morgan says in the audio at the end.
Trump agrees with a “yeah.”
“Thank you very much. I really appreciate it,” Morgan says.
That’s when Trump says, “Turn the camera off.” By then, the former president had already risen from his chair, according to his communications director, Taylor Budowich, who supplied the audio to NBC News.
Budowich alleged that the show’s producers deceptively edited the video by splicing the sound of Trump saying “turn the camera off” to make it falsely appear as if he made the statement while he was rising in anger.
As for Trump’s saying “very deceptive,” he made the comment after a frustrated Budowich called out Morgan for dragging out the interview and falsely and repeatedly saying he had one last question, only to ask more.
As Glenn wrote in the New York Post in September 2008, after Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin was edited like a ransom note, always make your own recording of your interviews (preferably with video as well).
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Biden considers delaying Title 42 repeal.
The White House is looking for ways to buy time to avoid a massive influx of migrants that would add to already-historic border numbers. That already endangers Democratic incumbents in states that could decide the Senate majority in November.
Biden officials recognize they’re in a jam: moderate Democrats are pounding on them to delay the repeal but doing so would inflame the party’s progressive base. That includes members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who are scheduled to meet with the president next Monday.
Meanwhile actual Hispanic voters are trending Republican because they don’t want open borders, and are unmoved by trans- and gender-related politics.
OPEN THREAD: You can’t cover up the truth with duct tape.
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, KIDS: Pilot cousins to attempt 1st ‘plane swap’ in midair. The pilots will attempt to skydive into each other’s planes live on Sunday.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: ConservativesofTikTok Formed To Share Videos Of Conservatives Sharing Sensible Opinions Everyone Agrees With.
“THE SAUSAGE FACTORY”: Hot! Hot! Hot! Race-preferential admissions policies are like sausages. The more you know about how they are made, the less they should inspire your respect (or the Supreme Court’s deference).
(This essay is now available for the first time on the internet. It’s also part of my anthology.).
“THE BIG GUY” SAYS WHAT, NOW? Irony Alert, as Biden Preaches: ‘You Shouldn’t Make Money While You’re in Office.’
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: “US Capitol Police issues alert to evacuate buildings due to ‘tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol complex’. UPDATE Police say ‘no threat’ at US Capitol after evacuation. Evacuation at the U.S. Capitol caused by U.S. Army team skydiving into stadium for the Washington Nationals.”
AMERICA’S GOVERNOR KEEPS ON WINNING: Florida Senate Passes Bill Stripping Disney World of Special Status.
“Other developers have to play by different rules, Universal Studios has to play by different rules and so Disney really does have an unfair business advantage,” Rollins College Professor Emeritus Richard Foglesong told the NBC affiliate.
The liberal media, as usual, continues to read the situation entirely wrong as seen Wednesday from MSNBC’s Symone Sanders who just recently was a senior communications staffer in the office of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Sanders said “my money is on the Disney lobbyists, honey” on Meet the Press Daily. “Do you think those state legislators down in Florida are going to bend to the will of the governor? No,” she said confidently.
Host Chuck Todd then pointed out that Florida’s Senate “just passed this bill.”
Oops. Fascinating to see Bernie Sanders’ former press secretary defending a global mega-corporation, but then corporatism has always been a driving force among the institutional left.
And speaking of Bernie: Bernie’s Latest Socialist Propaganda Video, Debunked.
NOT SOON ENOUGH FOR ME: When Will Humanity Become a Type I Civilization? A New Paper Explores Our Limits.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College: The Warning to Wokesters. “It thus looks pretty likely that with accumulated postjudgment interest, Oberlin will have to fork over in excess of $34 million to the Gibson family. This is on top of the millions Oberlin has spent on attorneys fees, and millions more that the negative publicity has and will likely cost Oberlin. The eight-figure disaster should serve as a timely object lesson to universities and administrators: surrendering to wokeism and cancel culture (in Oberlin’s case, embracing and participating in it) can have very real, very expensive repercussions.”
I believe a lot of cancellations could support lawsuits under the conspiracy-to-deprive-civil-rights statutes and under various business torts like tortious interference with contractual relations. What’s more, even a moderate threat of being sued would make individuals and organizations much more hesitant to engage in these mobbing attacks.
JUST IN: CDC APPROVES BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S APPEAL TO BRING BACK AIRLINE MASK MANDATE.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle filed a 59-page ruling to end mask mandates on airline travel and other public transportation, defining the restrictions as an infringement on Americans’ rights.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their statement Wednesday afternoon:
To protect CDC’s public health authority beyond the ongoing assessment announced last week, CDC has asked DOJ to proceed with an appeal in Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., et al., v. Biden, et al. It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health. CDC will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine whether such an order remains necessary. CDC believes this is a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health.
CDC continues to recommend that people wear masks in all indoor public transportation settings. CDC’s number one priority is protecting the public health of our nation. As we have said before, wearing masks is most beneficial in crowded or poorly ventilated locations, such as the transportation corridor. When people wear a well-fitting mask or respirator over their nose and mouth in indoor travel or public transportation settings, they protect themselves, and those around them, including those who are immunocompromised or not yet vaccine-eligible, and help keep travel and public transportation safer for everyone.
Americans reacted positively when they were alerted that masks were no longer required. Still, the Biden administration’s nudging of the CDC may be the catalyst in bringing back the masks.
Notice though, that the CDC isn’t asking for the ruling to be stayed. This seems more like a way to placate Biden’s mask-obsessed base, than to seriously attempt to overturn Judge Mizelle’s ruling. As NBC reported yesterday, “The Justice Department will not, however, ask the court to stay the decision, meaning passengers will be able to continue traveling maskless while the decision is litigated.”
As Ed Morrissey writes, “Congress could impose a federal mask mandate on air and train travel, at least, on the basis of the Interstate Commerce Clause, and predicate it on CDC recommendations in pandemics. That wouldn’t require the CDC to do anything in a regulatory sense. So why doesn’t Congress act? Because it would be tremendously unpopular, for one thing. And for another, Congress loooooves regulation through grants of authority to agencies because it allows them to avoid responsibility. If Gottlieb wants the CDC to be able to create these mandates, then he should be hitting up Congress to expand their statutory grant of authority or, better yet, deal with the issue directly. Appealing this decision won’t fix the statutory authority issue, it certainly won’t fix the APA defects that Gottlieb acknowledges, and it will be in pursuit of a policy that Gottlieb concedes should have been ended by now anyway. So what’s the point, other than to protect arbitrary and capricious abuses of power at the CDC?”
Here’s a working link, and it does indeed show Lorenz as “excluded from the Wayback Machine.” It’s amazing what can be accomplished with Bezos bucks behind it.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I remember when the folks at the Internet Archive, which hosts the Wayback Machine, were raising money after the 2016 election based on their vows to resist Trump’s looming censorship. But to paraphrase Tom Wolfe, Fascism is always coming from Republicans, but always actually comes from Democrats.
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: Come On! “PolitiFact” Claims Biden’s Invisible Handshake Was ‘Gesturing at the Audience.’
GOT WOKE, GOING BROKE: Netflix Stock Price Drops 35%, Posting Biggest Fall Since 2004.
Netflix Inc. shares recorded their worst day since 2004 after the streaming giant reported that it lost subscribers in the first quarter.
The shares shed more than a third of their on Wednesday, finishing down $122.42, or 35.1%, to $226.19. The stock was the S&P 500’s worst performer of the day. Investors had expected that the company would add new users in the quarter. Instead, Netflix said it ended the first three months of the year with 200,000 fewer subscribers than it had in the fourth quarter and said it expected to lose two million global subscribers in the current quarter.
The fall represented Netflix’s biggest single-day percentage drop since Oct. 15, 2004, when it fell 41%. It slashed $54.3 billion from the company’s market capitalization, its largest one-day market cap loss on record.
It is the second time the shares have tumbled this year. In January, Netflix shares slid more than 20% when the company said it expected to add a much smaller number of subscribers than it did one year prior.
The stock is down 62% this year including Wednesday’s fall.
Several other streaming stocks fell Wednesday. Paramount Global finished down $3.12, or 8.6%, to $33.16, and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. was off $1.48, or 6%, to $23.01. Walt Disney Co. retreated $7.33, or 5.6%, to $124.57, while Spotify Technology SA lost $14.92, or 11%, to $122.49.
More than 100 million Netflix shares traded hands on Wednesday, the first time it had crossed that milestone since 2015, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Some individual traders appeared to be buying the dip: The company was by far the most-purchased stock on Fidelity’s brokerage platform, according to the firm’s website. Buy orders for the stock far outpaced the number of sell orders tied to the shares.
As Western Journal notes: Elon Musk Diagnoses Netflix with a Fatal Disease as Stock Plummets on News of Subscriber Loss.
Gadfly Elon Musk on Tuesday waded into the troubled waters of Netflix as it appeared to be going down the drain.
The company announced Tuesday that its streaming service had lost about 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, with the crepe-hanging prediction that 2 million more would flee in the second quarter, according to CNN.
Netflix had been predicting it would gain 2.5 million subscribers in the first quarter.
The news sent the company’s stock down 25 percent in after-hours trading.
Enter Musk, who took time from his playful courtship of Twitter to serve as culture doctor and diagnose what’s ailing the streaming service.
“The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable,” he tweeted.
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In 2020, its show “Cuties” was accused of sexualizing preteen girls, leading many to sever ties with the service.
Last year, Netflix revealed “Q-Force,” a cartoon about LGBT spies. “We’re the first queer agents in the field ever,” a character said in the trailer.
“Dear White People” also turned away viewers who perceived it as racist against white people.
And this week, Netflix subscribers will be treated to “He’s Expecting,” whose synopsis reads, “When a successful ad executive who’s got it all figured out becomes pregnant, he’s forced to confront social inequities he’d never considered before.”
The streaming giant isn’t just driving away subscribers with divisive and offensive “woke” programming. Some say much of the content is just plain bad.
“Netflix spent more than $13 billion on original content last year, and people apparently aren’t watching it all that much,” Kevin Dugan wrote in New York Magazine on Tuesday.
Via I Hate the Media, who writes, “Netflix discovers the truth of Get Woke Go Broke.”
Then there’s the massive amount of product all of the various streaming services, and the cable networks are cranking out. As Sonny Bunch, then of the Weekly Standard (before their own digital demise) asked in 2018: Overload: Will any shows from the Golden Age of TV endure? “The flood of television programming from Netflix et al. since 2013, and the shotgun-blast manner in which new seasons are released, have combined to make it virtually impossible to keep up with everything worth watching. As recently as 15 years ago, a discerning TV watcher only needed to keep tabs on a handful of shows—a Sunday-night drama from HBO or AMC or Showtime; a Tuesday-night drama and a Thursday-night comedy from FX or maybe a broadcast network. But now it feels like there are nigh on infinite offerings from a nearly limitless number of channels. With thousands of hours of new TV coming out every year and an increasingly fractured marketplace demanding customers keep track of several different streaming services, how do we keep the truly excellent programming from being lost in the flood of mediocrity?”
STASI NATION: NYC Anti-Idling Bounties Are Making People Rich.