THE #RESISTANCE IS EVERYWHERE: Boston:
Suburban Maryland, outside DC:
Vicksburg, Mississippi:
UPDATE: Greenwich, Connecticut:
Archive for 2022
February 23, 2022
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Recalled San Francisco School Board Member: I Hope the Asians Who Voted Me Out of Office Are Happy They’re Advancing the White Supremacist Cause.
Leftwing writer Lee Fang writes that the left is being given every warning there is that their woke agenda is absolute poison, but they seem intent on ignoring those warning signals:
Lee Fang
@lhfang
Feb 16
It’s easy to look at social media, NGOs or elite media/activists and assume wokeism is somehow popular. But every time it goes to a vote, a tsunami of opposition from regular people. Now from abolishing the police in Minneapolis to recalling the school board in SF.
Lee Fang
@lhfang
Feb 16
No one watches Fox News here. There’s no real right wing influence. The leaders of the recall are nonwhite immigrants. The media will lie nonstop about this but the fact that an overwhelming majority of Democrats recalled San Francisco’s ultra woke school board speaks volumes.
Lee Fang
@lhfangFeb 16
This volunteer says he collected over 12,000 signatures for the successful recall of San Francisco’s school board members. The backlash against woke bullshit in schools is a landslide.
We keep telling them “Life is not Twitter” and they keep answering, “OH YES LIFE IS TWITTER, AND EVEN IF LIFE IS NOT YET TWITTER, IT SHOULD BE MADE TO BE TWITTER.”
Not only isn’t America Twitter, but not even California is Twitter.
Biden is now underwater in the bluest big state — 47% approving, 48% disapproving.
In California.
And Kamala Harris? California is her home state (well… after Canada, I mean), and her approval rating there is… 38%.
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How unpopular is “this woke bulls**t”?
Unpopular enough that
The San Francisco Chronicle painted a different picture of the recall backers that gathered Tuesday night to celebrate their victory. One of the backers, David Thompson, who also reportedly goes by the name “Gaybraham” Lincoln, was described as being “dressed in head-to-toe rainbow drag and towering platform shoes.”“This is what happens when you try to rename the schools in the middle of a pandemic,” Thompson said. “We wanted to show the diversity of the community behind his recall. I knew they were going to say, ‘Oh, isn’t it just a bunch of Republicans?’ And I’m like, do I look like a Republican?”
As no one in history has ever said, until now: When you’ve lost Gaybraham Lincoln…
A high-ranking member of one of the largest teachers’ unions in California published a satirical letter Monday mocking parental calls for curriculum transparency, demanding a detailed report of the content and influences children are being exposed to at home.
Owen Jackman, a delegate to the California Teachers’ Union state council and a teacher in Sacramento City Unified School District, wrote a sarcastic Facebook post deriding parent concerns about progressive pedagogy, suggesting that parental rights are equal.
Addressing parents who advocate for their kids at school board meetings as “storm troopers,” Jackman jibed that “I have a reason to be concerned about the appropriateness of what your child is learning outside of school.”
Writing tongue-in-cheek, he requested parents provide a play-by-play of the television shows their kids watch, the social media they use, swear words and racial epithets their kids hear each day, the books being read to them, and activities they will participate in for the remainder of the year.
The teacher also asked for a “thorough description of how the relationships among the adults in your child’s life are displayed in front of your child” as well as “tallies” of the motivational vs. judgmental words said to kids in the household.
Mocking parents’ efforts to uncover the radical race and gender ideology being promoted in classrooms, Jackman warned that instructors would “set up a meeting” with parents who don’t report back.
And finally, From Mary Katharine Ham: The Parents Are Mad: An Explanation (video).
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Binghamton University Stops Prof From Prioritizing ‘Non-White Folks’ During Class Discussions.
A P.J. O’ROURKE FLASHBACK: Roadmaster Reruns: Sgt. Dynaflo’s Last Patrol.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 2 Prosecutors Leading N.Y. Trump Inquiry Resign, Clouding Case’s Future. “The resignations came after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, was said to have expressed doubts about the case, and amid a monthlong pause in the presentation of evidence to a grand jury.”
It’s a . . . Trumped-up . . . prosecution and everyone knows it. Some people do have a sense of shame.
BIDENFLATION MAY PLAY A ROLE: A Loaded Bronco Raptor Costs $82,550. “These numbers are eye-watering but sadly unsurprising at this point. The push for ever-more-capable and bigger trucks has lead us to this moment, where $60,000, $70,000, and $80,000 off-road trucks are the rule not the exception. Even more modest offerings, like the Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro, are in such high demand that people are paying nearly this much when you factor in dealer markups.”
THE POLLS MUST HAVE TURNED AGAINST HIM: ‘Immediate emergency situation is over’: PM Trudeau revokes Emergencies Act.
DEAL OF THE DAY: AVAPOW Car Jump Starter, 4000A Peak 27800mAh Battery Jump Starter. #CommissionEarned
HIPSTERS ARE IN EVERY INDUSTRY: The Craft of Artisanal Computer Manufacturing: Stefany Allaire has carved a niche in small-batch, retro-inspired computers.
HOT! HOT! HOT!: My latest opus: “The Roots of Wokeness: Title VII Damage Remedies as Potential Drivers of Attitudes Toward Identity Politics and Free Expression.”
CDC WITHHOLDING COVID DATA FROM PUBLIC:
The CDC has been withholding large portions of COVID-19 data from the public.
The New York Times reports that the CDC has published only “a small sample of the data” because it fears the public would not properly understand the data, that the public is too dumb.
“The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective,” the Times reports.
In other words, if there’s proof that the vaccines against COVID are less effective than promised — as each triple-vaxxed COVID positive individual proves — you don’t deserve to know about it. So don’t ask.
Among the hidden data points are the hospitalization rates broken down by age and vaccination status, in addition to the effectiveness of booster shots. Just the important stuff.
The CDC is simply trying to help the Times in its self-stated goal to “come out with the best version of the truth.”
MAYBE WE’LL RUN OUT OF COVID FIRST: Will the world run out of COVID vaccines?
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: AOC-Led ‘Squad’ Reveals Latest Strategy Designed to Give Joe Biden Midterm Election Nightmares.
At a time when rank and file Democrats are scrambling to contain the losses that are expected to take place in November, due in part to Biden’s disastrous “leadership” and the GOP playing it smart in the messaging wars by tying vulnerable members to the soft-on-crime far-left wing, it was announced Wednesday by the Working Families Party that Rep. Rashida Tlaib – an original to the “Squad” – would be taking the unusual step of giving a response to Biden’s upcoming State of the Union address:
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Though the speech won’t air on any of the major TV networks, it will be broadcast on the Working Families Party’s Facebook page, where GOP operatives will no doubt be combing for material to use in upcoming campaign ads.
As Glenn has joked, getting Tlaib and the rest of “the Squad” elected was Roger Stone’s last and greatest political dirty trick.
SLOWER, PLEASE: To slow cancer, close the cells’ tunnels.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: US Soccer caves to baseless ‘equal pay’ outrage, settles big with women’s team.
HAHA, ONLY WORKING-CLASS PROTESTERS GET THIS TREATMENT:
Protesters for and of the Gentry Class are immune. As always, consequences are for the little people.
DISPATCHES FROM THE HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS: The View Lies About Justice Thomas’s Wife Being ‘Part of the Insurrection.’ “The claim that Ginni was ‘very involved in’ the January 6 riot has been debunked for a while now. Even PolitiFact found the claims ‘false.’ ‘There’s no evidence that Thomas was involved in organizing the events that unfolded on Jan. 6,’ they wrote. ‘She has not been subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the attack and rumors that she helped organize busing for Trump supporters that day have not been supported.’”
AMERICA’S TWO PARTIES – GOP AND AUTHORITARIANS: Did you know two of every three Democrats in the U.S. surveyed recently support Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s repressive response to the Truckers’ Convoy protest. Issues & Insights has more.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: These 3 major cruise lines are set to lift mask mandates as COVID cases drop.
Two major cruise lines, Royal Caribbean International and Carnival Cruise Line, have announced plans to ease onboard masking requirements in the coming weeks.
Royal Caribbean plans to drop its indoor mask requirement for fully vaccinated passengers starting Friday. Carnival Cruise Line’s new policy, which will lift mask requirements in most venues, takes effect March 1.
A third cruise line, Norwegian Cruise Line, announced earlier this month that it would let passengers ditch their face masks starting March 1.
Royal Caribbean and Carnival’s updated policies were announced shortly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its voluntary COVID-19 program for cruise lines. Under the updated guidance, cruise lines that opt into the program can lift masking requirements if 95% of passengers and crew members are fully vaccinated or up to date with their shots.
Sure, that’s what they want you to think, when the real truth is obvious — my article from Thursday shamed Royal Caribbean so badly, they were forced to finally arouse themselves from their torpor: Fear and Loathing on the ‘Oasis of the Seas’: Cruising in the Era of COVID.
THE LONDON TELEGRAPH GOES OUT ON A LIMB: Wuhan lab leak theory ‘accepted as likely behind closed doors at No 10 [Downing Street].’
MARK PULLIAM: Unmasking the Nanny State. “On February 16, a Texas congresswoman, Beth Van Duyne (R-Irving), and the State of Texas filed a federal court lawsuit challenging the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enforce mask mandates for passengers using public transportation and hubs in the U.S., including air travel and at airports. (The CDC’s mask mandate also includes rail travel, buses, ships, subways, taxicabs, and rideshares.) The lawsuit, similar in concept to the pending legal challenge to employer vaccine mandates by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in which the vaccine mandate was stayed, alleges that the CDC lacks statutory authority to make or enforce regulations that amount to a blanket preventative measure.”