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Archive for 2022
March 20, 2022
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Pete Davidson will no longer be on next Blue Origin flight.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Libs of Tik Tok Founder Faces Death Threat.
JOHN NOLTE: The Corporate Media Owe Emma-Jo Morris an Apology. “Almost 18 months after the New York Post ran the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, on Thursday, the far-left New York Times admitted the story was true — that the laptop was real, that the contents of the laptop as reported out by the New York Post were real. Please note that I used the word ‘admitted,’ not ‘confirmed,’ or ‘verified.’ That’s an important distinction.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF METRIC FOOTBALL: Protester ties himself to goalpost during Premier League match.
An ecological protester forced a stoppage in play and took center stage during a Premier League soccer match on Thursday night.
The man bound himself against a goalpost at Everton’s Goodison Park, wearing a bright orange shirt that read “Just Stop Oil.” A web address to the Facebook page of an ecological group bearing the same name was seen in white lettering on the shirt.
He stood with a zip-tie around his neck as officials rushed the area. The soccer match was halted for approximately eight minutes, according to The Mirror.
A plastic zip-tie, curiously enough.
DON’T GO FULL ‘LIBERTY CABBAGE’ ON RUSSIA: Yuri Gagarin’s name censored from Space Symposium conference.
The first man in space, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, has been stripped of his honours by the Space Foundation, which censored his name “in light of current world events.”
The organization, which runs its annual Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs, sees attendance of top-level representatives from the international space community, including 160 space companies, 100 speakers, and thousands of participants.
In a now-deleted note, highlighted by Futurism, the Space Foundation said that it was removing Yuri Gagarin’s name from its annual “Yuri’s Night” and replacing it with “A Celebration of Space: Discover What’s Next” at the conference.
Plus: “‘It’s a rather dubious show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, especially considering that Gagarin worked for the USSR, a completely different country from modern day Russia. And the icing on the cake? Ukraine actually appears to be rather fond of Gagarin and his monumental achievement,’ noted Futurism.”
UPDATE: Do You Remember 9/11 And How They Cleansed World History Of All Mention Of Muslims? Neither do I.
(Updated and bumped. Classical reference in headline.)
ROGER KIMBALL: Biden’s Handlers Are Preparing to Eject Him (and Kamala).
The news is full not only of stories about the New York Times fessing up, sort of, about the contents of Hunter’s laptop, but also of stories about how Hunter is likely to be indicted for tax fraud. In one sense, that is not news. I wrote about it at the end of 2020 when Hunter announced, sotto voce, that he had been informed that he was being investigated by the tax authorities. But in another sense, I suspect, that news, like the revelation from the New York Times that, what do you know, all that stuff about Hunter’s laptop was on the level, like Joe Biden’s bizarre suggestion a couple of days ago that “everybody knows somebody” who has taken nude pictures of some lover and then used them to “blackmail” the person—all that has a different valence now that the Biden Administration is seriously underwater and there are no lifelines in evidence.
The issue is never the issue. I suspect that Joe Biden is being prepped for ejection. Exactly how it will happen I do not yet know. But he is on the threshold, or possibly has even passed the threshold, where he could appear to govern. His minders understand this. They must be the ones to replace him, otherwise they themselves risk being replaced, which would be intolerable. As I say, it’s not entirely clear yet how the defenestration will take place. Obviously, Kamala will have to be dealt with first, and she will be. Look for some ground softening stories such as the Times just served up about the laptop. They won’t be long in coming.
Stay tuned.
Related: America’s Newspaper of Record reports: New York Times Announces They Have Finally Confirmed The Watergate Tapes Are Authentic.
STILL POPULAR: Business for the Right-Brained: (A Guide for Artists, Writers, Musicians, Dancer, Crafters, and all the other Dreamers). #CommissionEarned
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard closes police station because students felt the sense of being ‘policed.’
BIDEN BLAMES PUTIN FOR HIGH GAS PRICES — BUT THIS TIMELINE PROVES IT’S THE PREZ’S OWN FAULT.
Well yes — just ask him:
The next time someone tries to say Biden isn't why gas prices are so high, show them this clip. pic.twitter.com/mfNs8kvs9Y
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) March 17, 2022
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UMich anti-racism advisor: Whites ‘colonizing,’ ‘oppressing’ campus multicultural center.
SERIOUS AMERICANS ARE BEGINNING TO QUESTION THE LEGITIMACY OF THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY: Psaki: We have no idea if Hunter Biden got a ton of money from China and Russia. “We recently learned that the huge group of “intel experts” who signed a 2020 letter essentially declaring the Hunter Biden laptop story to be Russian disinformation have all come down with a sudden case of either amnesia or laryngitis. Not even an admission by the venerable New York Times that the story was legit seems to have helped jog their memories or loosen their tongues. The New York Post, who first validated and broke the Hunter Biden laptop story 17 months earlier, has been taking a well-deserved victory lap and they’re not done yet. A reporter for the Post brought a series of related and quite relevant questions to White House spokesperson Jen Psaki this week. They specifically wanted to know what she had learned about potential conflicts of interest for Joe Biden, given his son’s lucrative business dealings with China and Russia. Strangely, despite these stories showing up all across the media spectrum, Psaki didn’t appear to have any idea what the reporter was talking about.”
The last several days have been full of wonder at the New York Time’s admission that, guess what, Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” was not—as Joe Biden claimed—“Russian disinformation.” Nope, everything that Donald Trump said to Leslie Stahl about it was true. Everything the New York Post said about it was true. Twitter and the rest of the regime media pronounced a damnatio memoriae on the Post and anyone who dared publicize the scurrilous story. The poor computer repair chap who found and publicized the dirt, political as well as sexual, on Hunter’s laptop was hounded and driven into bankruptcy. (Remember Jonah Goldberg on that poor fellow? I do. “Wait you believe the computer repair shop story? Like at face value?”)
Yeah, Jonah Goldberg hs been a disappointment on so many fronts.
And: “The issue is never the issue. I suspect that Joe Biden is being prepped for ejection. Exactly how it will happen I do not yet know. But he is on the threshold, or possibly has even passed the threshold, where he could appear to govern. His minders understand this. They must be the ones to replace him, otherwise they themselves risk being replaced, which would be intolerable. As I say, it’s not entirely clear yet how the defenestration will take place. Obviously, Kamala will have to be dealt with first, and she will be. Look for some ground softening stories such as the Times just served up about the laptop. They won’t be long in coming.”
J. WESLEY BUSH: What’s Really Happening in Ukraine? “As with most Russian nationalists, Putin cannot be happy with a country; Russia can only be great as an empire. The alternative theory, that Putin is afraid of having NATO and the EU on his border, simply doesn’t fit the data. NATO members Latvia and Estonia already border Russia. No serious person thinks Europe has a military interest in Russia — Germany, the largest country, could not muster 44 tanks for NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force. It also fails to explain his aggression elsewhere on Russia’s borders.”
MUCH FASTER, PLEASE: Fauci hints at retirement: ‘I can’t stay at this job forever.’
MISERABLE FAILURE: White House Report Card: No dazzle, just baffle from Biden & Co. “This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden matching his lowest mark in approval polls and struggling for an answer to inflation and the war in Ukraine after a direct challenge by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ‘be the leader of the world.'”
Lowest mark in approval polls so far.
WILLIAM VOEGELI: “A TALE OF TWO PROPOSITIONS.“
WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON PUTIN: Amid Ukraine invasion, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour remove music from streaming platforms in Russia and Belarus.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, HUNTER BIDEN AND THE SUICIDE OF MEDIA CREDIBILITY:
The Fox story began: “Twitter faced unrelenting backlash after blocking the spread of a New York Post bombshell that was highly critical of Hunter Biden on Wednesday, as critics pointed out the platform gave no such treatment to stories from CNN, The New York Times and other media with highly questionable sourcing.”
And now? Over a year after The Times — and others in the mainstream media — tried to discredit the Post story? The Times runs this story — buried way inside on page A-20. The headline:
Hunter Biden Paid Tax Bill, but Broad Federal Investigation Continues
The Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president’s son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world.And, lo and behold, buried in this Times story is this admission:
People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
In response to The Times red-faced admission the Post runs this editorial, doubtless laughing all the way:
Now that Joe Biden’s president, the Times finally admits: Hunter’s laptop is real
The editorial began:
Forgive the profanity, but you have got to be s–tting us.
First, The New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is legitimate.
“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” The Times writes. “Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”
Authenticated!!! You don’t say. You mean, when a newspaper actually does reporting on a topic and doesn’t just try to whitewash coverage for Joe Biden, it discovers it’s actually true?
The shorthand here is that The New York Times went out of its way not to report or investigate the facts in the Post’s story. No, The Times response and that of all manner of “mainstream” media figures was to pooh-pooh the Post scoop, to pretend that it was all discredited garbage and Russian information.
There could have been only one reason: to protect then-candidate Joe Biden. As noted, Big Tech went even further, simply blocking the story altogether.
QED:
Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.