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Archive for 2022
December 7, 2022
PUHLEEZ: Jumping the researcher: Shark Week lacks “diversity.” “For the record, this is so NOT a Babylon Bee story. In fact, in would have been better had it died in darkness. But I guess someone making a whole lot more money than I do decided it had something to do with democracy, because that’s who published it. Even tweeted out a link for the whole world to see like it was muy importante or. . . something.”
JEFF GOLDSTEIN: On Censorship and Its Discontents. “So Camus had it partially correct. Still, at final glance, he strikes me as something of a whiner who — though he found meaning in engaging the travails of existence — portrayed that engagement as an act of great psychic trauma. He made coping into a form of gritty, fraught heroism. And he did so because he spent years accommodating his own narcissistic introspection, when what he really needed to do was find a stiff drink and an iPhone loaded with Jimmy Buffet songs.”
December 6, 2022
LIVE RESULTS: Georgia Senate Runoff.
UPDATE: Dave Wasserman of Cook Political Report calls it for Warnock:
UPDATE: “CNN’s Manu Raju reported that Walker was planning on conceding the election to Warnock and not contest the results.”
STUFF SOMEBODY’S STOCKING WITH THIS: Edible Dehydrated Zebra Tarantula.
A SMALL VICTORY FOR PRESS FREEDOM: Ninth Circuit Orders Press Pass for The Gateway Pundit, Pending Appeal.
OPEN THREAD: Treat one another with respect and kindness.
NEW VIDEO FROM AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Californians Move to Texas FINALE; Episode 6: Return To California.
TOM COTTON TO KROGER CEO: Don’t come crying to us.
"I'm sorry that's happening to you. Best of luck."
Senator @TomCottonAR blasts woke Kroger CEO for expecting Republicans to come to their defense. pic.twitter.com/L9j82kDraA
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 6, 2022
MATT TAIBBI DROPS MORE INFORMATION ON THE ‘TWITTER FILES’ AND EXPOSES AN ATTEMPTED COVER-UP:
Matt Taibbi, who authored the first release of the infamous “Twitter Files,” is back for round two. Or at least he’s back to provide a supplement to round one while round two is still being worked on.
According to Taibbi, James Baker, who was general counsel for Twitter and a former top-level FBI official, inserted himself into the disclosure in an attempt to “vet” the files that were ultimately released. Elon Musk was not notified of Baker playing middle-man.
As RedState reported, Baker was fired on Tuesday, and with Taibbi’s latest thread, we now know why. I normally try to not flood my articles with long strings of multiple tweets in a row, but it’s important to get all the information out there.
More details about Baker from Jonathan Turley: Six Degrees from James Baker: A Familiar Figure Reemerges With the Release of the Twitter Files.
Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department, including the hoax involving the Russian Alfa Bank. When Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann wanted to plant the bizarre false claim of a secret communications channel between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, Baker was his go-to, speed-dial contact. (Baker would later testify at Sussmann’s trial). Baker’s name also appeared prominently in controversies related to the other Russian-related FBI allegations against Trump. He was effectively forced out due to his role and reportedly found himself under criminal investigation. He became a defender of the Russian investigations despite findings of biased and even criminal conduct. He was also a frequent target of Donald Trump on social media, including Twitter. Baker responded with public criticism of Trump for his “false narratives.”
After leaving the FBI, Twitter seemed eager to hire Baker as deputy general counsel. Ironically, Baker soon became involved in another alleged back channel with a presidential campaign. This time it was Twitter that maintained the non-public channels with the Biden campaign (and later the White House). Baker soon weighed in with the same signature bias that characterized the Russian investigations.
As Howie Carr wrote before Baker’s ouster: Howie Carr: Newly liberated Twitter blows lid off Democrat tainting of 2020 election.
As they attempted to prevent Americans from learning about the Biden family’s racketeering enterprises, the Democrats of Twitter turned to a veteran of the previous attempt by Democrats to steal a presidential election — the Russian collusion hoax.
James Baker had worked for the corrupt FBI in 2016 on, among other frame-ups, the phony-baloney surveillance FISA warrants. For his unstinting efforts in trying to railroad POTUS and everyone around him, Baker’s Democrat comrades rewarded him with a big job at Twitter.
Soon the bent G-man was assuring his fellow travelers that “caution is warranted” in preventing any real news about Democrat corruption from being disseminated to the electorate.
It was the same BS being peddled by 51 other Democrats in the “intelligence community.” They had claimed that Biden’s laptop bore the “hallmarks” of Russian disinformation, which gave the Big Guy cover to lie about it at one of the debates against the racist tangerine.
I could go on, but I’ll close by repeating an earlier statement.
Elon Musk did not commit suicide.
Heh, indeed.
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: The Brains of Teenagers Look Disturbingly Different After Lockdown. “The stress of living through pandemic lockdowns has accelerated aging in the brains of teenagers. The effects are similar to those previously observed as a result of violence, neglect, and family dysfunction.”
ON THE OTHER HAND, PUBLIC TOILETS IN SF ARE PRETTY PRICEY: How much did San Francisco’s ‘killer robots’ cost? Less than a public toilet.
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP: South Korea spent $200 billion, but it can’t pay people enough to have a baby.
South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate. Figures released in November showed the average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is down to just 0.79.
That is far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population and low even compared to other developed countries where the rate is falling, such as the United States (1.6) and Japan – which at 1.3 reported its own lowest rate on record.
And it spells trouble for a country with an aging population that faces a looming shortage of workers to support its pension system.
You can’t subsidize kids enough to make them financially worthwhile, especially when the culture points the other way.
Flashback: The Parent Trap.
Related: Montesquieu’s Warning About Our Childlessness.
Also: car seats as contraception: “Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back. Using census data and state-year variation in laws, we estimate that when women have two children of ages requiring mandated car seats, they have a lower annual probability of giving birth by 0.73 percentage points. Consistent with a causal channel, this effect is limited to third child births, is concentrated in households with access to a car, and is larger when a male is present (when both front seats are likely to be occupied). We estimate that these laws prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017. Simultaneously, they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980, with 90% of this decline being since 2000.”
STATE DEPT HIDING INFO ON ATHEISM GRANTS: Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), the chairman of the House Republican Study Committee (RSC), and several of his House GOP colleagues held a recent conference call with Biden State Department officials to discuss U.S. tax dollars being awarded to protect atheism overseas.
But, as is happening with increasing frequency with all GOP congressional requests since the November 8 election, none of the information sought was provided. Meanwhile, Biden and his cronies on the Hill are pushing for passage of one of the most destructive bills in recent memory regarding freedom of religious expression and practice here at home. Check out my latest PJ Media column.
WAPO: SHARK WEEK LACKS DIVERSITY. It’s about time Discovery got called out on this. It’s always Hammerhead shark this, Great White(!) shark that. When do undrerepresented Zebra and Pyjama sharks get their due?? #TimesUpGreatWHITEs
Just kidding, it’s about people. This self-jumping article is paywalled, but it’s exactly what you think if you are familiar with Clown World. H/T to my colleague Samantha Harris for this link.
FAFO: Chicago: Concealed Carry holder surprises three would-be robbers.
Shooting robbers is a virtuous act. Not only do you protect yourself, you make it less likely that others will be robbed. Basic economic theory says that this production of positive externalities should be subsidized.
DE-COUPLING OR DE-PRESSION? Sinking ship: U.S. manufacturing orders from China collapse.
GIVE PEOPLE LESS REASON TO SPEND TIME ON FACEBOOK? YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE: Meta threatens to remove US news content if new law passes.
HOWIE CARR: Newly liberated Twitter blows lid off Democrat tainting of 2020 election.
To recap, in 2016 the DNC and Hillary Clinton concocted a fake scandal about Donald Trump and then peddled it to Democrats in the media, who hysterically promoted it for years knowing that it was 100 percent false.
In 2020, after the discovery of Hunter Biden’s X-rated laptop, the Democrats, knowing that everything on it was 100 percent true, peddled the fantastic tale that it was Russian disinformation.
And the same corrupt Democrats in the media, who four years earlier had promoted a bogus scandal about Republicans, now refused to cover a real, far worse scandal about Democrats.
As one person summed it up Friday night on the newly liberated Twitter:
“They stole the election. And they tried to make you think you were crazy for thinking you knew they stole the election.”
Now the Democrats are busted. Their new fallback alibi is that it’s really no big deal to steal an election, at least as long as they’re the ones stealing it.
Thank you, Elon Musk, for your courageous attempt to get the truth out. I don’t care how much money he’s got, what Musk has done could be hazardous to his health. So let me just state the obvious:
Elon Musk did not commit suicide.
Most of the information about Twitter’s Orwellian operation to install a senile vegetable in the White House was already well-known. But the release of the documents (through journalist Matt Taibbi) fills in a lot of the blanks.
All of which answers the question: Why is the mainstream media ignoring the Twitter Files?
