I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE:
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Archive for 2022
February 20, 2022
MARK FELTON: Erasing Hitler — How The Allies Cleansed Germany of Nazism (Video).
Felton notes that in West Germany, “It would take until the 1960s and 70s for attitudes to change as the old Nazis retired and a new generation of Germans unconnected with the crimes of the National Socialist period came to power and influence.”
That transition would be delayed for quite a bit longer in East Germany, however.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: #BlackfaceHitler Trends As Justin Trudeau’s Government Cracks Down On Truckers.
Speaking of which: A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada. “Last summer, I warned readers of [Bari Weiss’s Common Sense Substack] that financial deplatforming would be the next wave of online censorship. Big Tech companies like PayPal were already working with left-wing groups like the ADL and SPLC to define lists of individuals and groups who should be denied service. As more and more similarly minded tech companies followed suit (as happened with social media censorship), these deplorables would be deplatformed, debanked, and eventually denied access to the modern economy altogether, as punishment for their unacceptable views. That prediction has become reality. What I could not have anticipated is that it would occur first in our mild-mannered neighbor to the north, with the Canadian government itself directing the reprisals. It remains to be seen whether Canada will be a bellwether for the U.S. But anyone who cares about the future of America as a place where citizens are free to protest their government needs to understand what has just occurred and work to stop it from taking root here.”
UH-OH: Queen Elizabeth II, 95, Tests Positive for COVID.
Related: As the Queen Prepares for Transition, Camilla Steps Into the Spotlight. According to palace sources, Charles and Camilla will take on a key role in the upcoming Jubilee celebrations.
ELIZABETH NICKSON: The Reason for the Police Violence in Ottawa Isn’t What You Think: It’s Way Worse.
The black clad army of mercenaries and police brutalizing a peaceful protest in Ottawa this weekend has been planned for years. It is overkill for a reason. It is theatre. It is an othering, a willful flagrant statement on the future of the working class everywhere. It instructs them: you will die. If not now, then sometime in the next ten years. Your towns will be gutted, your jobs will evaporate, you will scramble for pennies until you fall over dead and your children will have nothing to look forward to. You are Tutsi, you are Jew, you are Kulak, you are compromador, you are Othered. You are headed for the slagheap of history. Fight back and you will be deemed domestic terrorists and encamped indefinitely.
It’s funny, the gradualistic approach was working but now they seem desperate, like a window is closing somewhere.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S BECAUSE THINGS ARE WORSE THAN THEY LOOK: “Exhausted, confused, isolated and depressed Americans are not buying the Democratic line that things are better than they look.”
Plus: “I’m reading the comments over there and it’s overflowing with denial: Stop trashing Biden! I’m tired of attacks on Democrats!”
DEAL OF THE DAY: Duco Mens Sports Polarized Sunglasses UV Protection Sunglasses. #CommissionEarned
LET ME JUST GET OUT AHEAD OF THE STORY AND SAY THAT GHISLAINE MAXWELL DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Family ‘Fears For Her Safety’ After Epstein “Pimp” Jean-Luc Brunel Found Hanged. “Brunel, 74, was found hanging in his cell in La Santé, Paris, at 1am during a night time check in. Video cameras in his cell were not running at the time he died.” (Emphasis mine.)
THE DEMAND FOR WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA VASTLY EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: Black student found responsible for ‘disturbing’ racist graffiti.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Drudge is Dead.
Durham, probably the most straight-shooting, apolitical lawyer in the federal government, now years into an exhaustive probe, revealed that Hillary Clinton’s campaign sought out both the FBI and the CIA in peddling lies that Trump was colluding with Russia, so as to get every news outlet it could to keep that false story at the top of the news during the 2016 campaign, and then, when that failed, to use it to cripple the Trump presidency.
But if the Drudge site is your go-to news source, you might never have known on Monday that Durham did anything.
The site offered its readers nary a link nor a word – though it did serve them up about a dozen links to sensationalist stories on the Super Bowl and off-field pro football escapades; three stories on Elon Musk having too much self-made money; the mandatory half dozen or so negative stories on either Donald Trump, his allies, or Jan. 6; three links – in red – gloating about Sarah Palin losing her case against the New York Times; and naturally a half dozen headlines on which to click to get your sex, drugs, or Hollywood bizarre news fix.
In early January, Steve linked to an article headlined, “Matt Drudge confirms he still runs Drudge Report.” As he wrote in response, “Could Have Fooled Me.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Why does everything have to involve race?’: Students react to that NPR article about ‘white privilege’ emojis.
BE PREPARED: Augason Farms 30-Day 1-Person Emergency Food Supply. #CommissionEarned
DEEP THOUGHTS FROM KAMALA:
I HOPE THEY STAY THAT WAY, I’M NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO KING CHARLES: Queen Elizabeth II tests positive for COVID; mild symptoms.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University sides with white, trans student against Hispanic feminist scholar’s right to speak and organize for women’s rights.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: White House Report Card: A bad potion of misery, confusion, and war.
#RESIST: Seen in Blue Ash, Ohio.
UPDATE: Plus, from the comments: “It’s working. I read my local subreddit occasionally to see what the Lefties are saying, and it warmed my soul to see them whining about the stickers. Many Lefties remove the stickers; however, it really bothers them.”
IS THERE MEANING TO LIFE? Hey, it’s Sunday, you’ve had your first cup of coffee, we’re trapped in that dull moment between the end of the football season and the beginning of baseball and Indy/F1 racing, it’s the Same-Old/Same-Old on the Sunday talk shows, and you aren’t going out till later in the day anyway.
So take a few minutes with HillFaith to sit back, listen, and just think about the basics. Or should I say the essentials?
SHE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED: The New York Times takes aim at J.K. Rowling.
A new YouTube ad introduces us to ‘Lianna’, who, we are told, has subscribed to the NYT since 2020 and is described as a “harmony of flavors.” We are introduced to her various passions for articles on themes such as “a week in crossword land” and “queer love in color” before another suggested newspaper title flashes up: “Imagining Harry Potter without its creator.” It’s the only implicit reference in the thirty-second clip to any notable individual and is clearly something of a deliberate swipe at She Who Must Not Be Named, the outspoken author whose critics have indeed tried to erase her works.
Indeed, the line has been carefully picked out to adorn advertising boards in New York and DC too, suggesting that the paper knows exactly what it is doing by highlighting Rowling. The NYT is running its campaign under the tagline of “independent journalism” — even though by blindly following the herd on this one it doesn’t exactly suggest much in the way of independent thought.
Clearly, being well-informed isn’t one of the benefits of subscribing to the NYT. For, without its creator, “Lianna” wouldn’t be imagining anything about Harry Potter at all.
Also at the New York Times: Study Finds Severe Obesity Raises Risk of Covid-19 Hospitalization and Death.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, MANY LEFTIST TROPES ARE: “Whiteness” is an Antisemitic Trope.
Pretty much anyone who uses the term “whiteness” in a non-ironic fashion is either a monster, or a dupe.
WELL, THAT’S HER JOB: Psaki Pushes Chinese Propaganda From White House Podium.
JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘What-aboutism’ — Ruling against Trump leaves more questions than answers on free speech.
Despite a lengthy, detailed discussion of issues like presidential immunity, Mehta becomes more curt and cursory over Trump’s constitutional claims. When Trump’s lawyers said his language was largely indistinguishable from that of many Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Mehta chided them for playing “a game of what-aboutism.”
That “what-aboutism,” however, is precisely the point. The selective imposition of liability for speech is the very thing that the First Amendment is designed to prevent.
As rioting raged in Brooklyn Center, Minn. and nationwide in 2020, Congresswoman Waters went to Minnesota and told protesters there that they “gotta stay on the street” and “get more confrontational.” Others have used language very similar to Trump’s in declaring elections to be invalid (including Hillary Clinton calling Trump an “illegitimate president”) or urging supporters to “fight” or “battle” against Republicans; Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) once said, “There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives.”
All of those statements arguably were reckless but clearly protected speech.
Free speech demands bright lines. While this is a “one-of-a-kind case,” Trump’s comments were hardly unique. And Judge Mehta does not clearly establish why Giuliani’s “trial by combat” remark or Brooks’ “taking names and kicking ass” exhortation are not calls for imminent violence or lawlessness — but Trump’s “fight like hell” would be.
Because the Constitution, in far too many of our courts, ends where Trump appears. Trumps “Great Reveal” revealed quite a lot about the limited impartiality of our judicial system.