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Archive for 2022
February 1, 2022
WELL? THIS IS A SURPRISE? Taliban Killing Off Former US Afghan Allies, Says UN.
SOME NATIONS HAVE CAUGHT ON: Denmark Will End All COVID Pandemic Restrictions This Week.
OH, JUST TWO WEEKS TO FLATTEN THE CURVE: Truckers Still Bringing Canada’s Capital City of Ottawa to Standstill in Fight for Freedom.
EPISTEMOLOGICALLY, THE MARXIST CULT CAN’T PROCESS DISSENT: When They Honk People Off.
TRUCK OFF TRUDEAU, THAT NARRATIVE IS TIRED: Trudeau Denounces ‘Hatred and Division on Display’ at Canadian Truckers’ Freedom Convoy Demonstration.
WAIT, IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE? Joe Biden, enemy of America.
January 31, 2022
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Hispanic Students Were Forced To Learn Critical Race Theory. They Hated It.
I SIGNED this letter in support of Georgetown Law’s Ilya Shapiro. So did a lot of other eminent professors on the left, right, and center.
FROM GEORGE MASON LAW SCHOOL: Scalia Law School Faculty Statement of Commitment to Open Dialogue and Debate. “It’s becoming increasingly clear that other law schools are dearly in need of a similar commitment.”
Like the sadly diminished Georgetown Law School under disgraced dean Bill Treanor.
A FRIEND COMMENTS:
The main problem with MeWe is the lack of post threading, with the attendant impossibility of linking to a specific post. I am cut-n-pasting here instead:
“GoFundMe has frozen $4,700,000 raised by the Canadian truckers, and Facebook has just banned their 600,000 strong FB group, which was growing more than 100,000 followers a day!” (Source: Stephen Tambolas)
That’s an interesting development. Lessons learned:
1. Use sites other than GoFundMe for fundraising.
2. Facebook supports censorship (like that’s news…)
3. Eventually, blocking the peaceful redresses of grievances will promote deliveries of truckloads of rapidly exothermic hints to the rulers.
It’s very unwise to block peaceful protest. But our ruling class is very unwise. And you can always count on the tech companies to support the establishment, however sleazy the actions required to do so. They have no honor, no principles, and no shame. That will be their downfall in time.
AS WE PREP FOR A U.S. TRUCKERS’ CONVOY, SIMON JESTER IS PREPARING THE GROUND:
A reader sends this from Reno:
Another reader sends this from Norwalk, Iowa, just south of Des Moines.
And it’s not just gasoline pumps. A reader who got a note from SoCal Gas explaining high natural gas prices sent this back:
And this was spotted at Disney World:
The #Resistance is everywhere.
OPEN THREAD: Wear your suit and tie.
WELL, EXCEPT THAT I DON’T THINK PRESIDENT KAMALA WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT: Half of America Already Wants Joe Biden Impeached.
The Rasmussen Report sponsored by The National Pulse was conducted in January, and asked a collective of likely US voters whether they would side with Republicans in Congress who have endorsed articles of impeachment against the current U.S. President. Fifty percent of respondents stated they somewhat or strongly support impeaching Biden, with the remainder of respondents either stating they were unsure or that they oppose impeaching the current president.
When broken down by demographic, men and women were equal in their response to support an impeachment of Biden. Those aged 40-65+ had a slightly stronger support than those aged 18-39.
All racial demographics were united in their response. Almost 50 percent of White respondents agreed with impeaching Biden, 50 percent of Black respondents, and more than 50 percent of other racial minorities are in favor of impeachment.
But hey, he did say he was going to unite Americans.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: COVID Affects Your Memory.
When anti-lockdown protests began in the spring of 2020, national media outlets were quick to label the protesters far-right white supremacists whose concerns were the product of “ignorance, privilege, and anti-Black racism.” During this time, playgrounds and beaches were closed, park benches were taped off, and thousands of small businesses permanently shut down. As lockdowns dragged on, drug overdoses rose sharply, schoolchildren were cut off from basic services, and 1 in 4 young people reported suicidal thoughts. Hospital patients died alone, police broke up religious services, and funerals were restricted. Those who believed the costs of lockdowns outweighed any benefits were called “covidiots” and the civil liberties they appealed to were labeled “freedumbs.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, which had previously argued against coercive public health measures, was nowhere to be found. The American left, with which I’d always identified because of its claims to uphold workers’ rights and principles of bodily autonomy, now explicitly advocated for forced quarantines of healthy people and for policies that dramatically increased the wealth of the world’s richest at the expense of the working class. After spending four years checking every perceived authoritarian impulse from Donald Trump, the media suddenly called for strict enforcement of government decrees, denounced the noncompliant, punished dissenters, and advocated for Big Tech clampdowns on speech. On Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, users were censored and banned for expressing viewpoints that contradicted the ever-changing messaging from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. The simple act of sharing official data on the COVID survival rate among different age groups was considered an act of harm that could lead to thousands if not millions of deaths.
By January 2022, however, the failure of the previous two years of U.S. COVID policies has become undeniable. Vaccinated people were once promised that they would be “dead ends” for the virus, but 80% of the first omicron cases in the United States were double vaccinated and one-third had received a booster. Many cities that implemented mask mandates and vaccine passports are seeing some of their highest case counts of the pandemic. As a result, the original justifications for COVID restrictions are now being openly contradicted by the same people who once argued for them—but without acknowledging the pivot. With the 2022 midterms in sight, the narrative is simply shifting without apology, and many of the arguments once made by “covidiots” are now being backed by Anthony Fauci, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and the familiar cast of journalists and experts.
It was never social media “misinformation” that harmed people, but rather a coordinated attempt by public health officials and reporters to limit open discussion and skew coverage of COVID. This campaign manipulated the public into acquiescing to measures with catastrophic second-order effects but little epidemiological value. Now that the damage has been done, the old arbiters of truth and morality will not get back the trust or credibility they’ve squandered.
Seeing the goalposts move as triage before the midterms does little to engender the public’s belief in the health care system. Or should I say, seeing the goalposts move — again: At the Apex of the Pivot:
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Europe launches fund to invest in space startups.
The European Commission is rolling out a new program to offer investment for European startups to keep those companies on the continent.
Officials from the European Commission, European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund announced Jan. 25 they were committing at least one billion euros ($1.12 billion) over five years to Cassini, a program that will provide early-stage funding for European space companies.
The intent of Cassini is to provide European support for those startups to keep them from looking elsewhere, particularly the United States, for funding, which might lead those companies to leave Europe.
Competition is good.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: Joy Behar Is ‘Disappointed’ Because More People Should Have Cut Spotify Over Joe Rogan.
Joy Behar expressed her frustrations during Monday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC, complaining that not enough high-profile musicians or podcasters had removed their own work from Spotify over the platform’s failure to dump podcast juggernaut Joe Rogan.
Behar and her cohosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro — responded to the news that Joni Mitchell had joined musician Neil Young in pulling her music from Spotify over claims that Rogan was promoting “COVID misinformation,” and Behar said that she would have liked to see more artists follow suit.
If deplatforming talk shows on Spotify over misinformation is something Behar desires, let’s make that happen: Forget Joe Rogan … how can Spotify continue to host The View’s ‘dangerous antisemitism’?
FIGHT THE POWER: Canadian Trucker Protests Continue, Aussies Launch ‘Convoy to Canberra.’
When is this going to happen here? Well: “Organizers have said they’re well-positioned for now and hinted that protests will not be stopped until all mandates are lifted. This poses severe logistical problems for North America. Despite the Canadian Trucking Alliance estimating around 80 percent of its drivers as being vaccinated (government estimates are higher at 90 percent), Freedom Convoy organizers have repeatedly suggested that a majority of supportive members fall into that category and simply oppose the formal restrictions being instituted. They’ve also said that the convoy has only grown in strength this month — estimating that Canada is risking losing 20 percent of long-haul drivers, plus a sizable number of vaccinated drivers who support the cause. Similar protests are rumored to be in the works for the United States, with Canadian truckers again joining with U.S. teamsters to run another convoy between California and Washington D.C.”
Also, as long as truckers are protesting, they’re not hauling goods, so it’s a kinda-sorta strike. But of course the real problem for governments isn’t when truckers come out, it’s when truckers stay home.
UPDATE: Convoy To DC 2022 – American Truckers Awakening “The Fire-Breathing Dragon.”
DEFUNDED POLICE AND UNIONIZED SCHOOLTEACHERS SEEM TO BE WHAT EMPTIES CITIES NOWADAYS: The Lost City of Cahokia Was Mysteriously Abandoned, And We Still Don’t Know Why.
BREYER SHOULD RESPOND BY PUTTING IT OFF FOR A YEAR, BUT HE WON’T: Biden’s chief of staff leaked Breyer retirement to ‘limited’ group, Durbin says. “Breyer was not ready to make the announcement. Fox News reported that Breyer was ‘blindsided,’ while sources told the Washington Examiner that Breyer was just beginning the standard process of scaling back, with plans to announce his retirement at the end of the current term in several months.”
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Whoopi Goldberg: The Holocaust wasn’t about race because it involved two groups of white people.
I’ve watched this three times and have no idea what she’s getting at.
But I bet the Nazis would be surprised to hear that the Jews whom they tried to exterminate were part of the same racial group as the Nazis themselves.
The panel was discussing the decision made by one Tennessee school district to remove Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” from the eighth-grade curriculum due to, of all things, language and nudity. Evidently a story about people (represented in the novel by mice) being sent to Auschwitz wasn’t too mature for 13-year-olds to handle but a drawing of a nude anthropomorphic mouse crossed the line.
A Twitter pal watched this and asked, “Uh, is she really ‘all lives mattering’ the Holocaust?”
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Whatever she meant, I’m excited to see how Whoopi cleans this up on tomorrow’s show. Oh, and Behar is right about a burst in sales for “Maus” amid the coverage of what happened in Tennessee. The two volumes currently occupy the top three spots on Amazon’s list of bestselling comics and graphic novels. Nothing gooses interest in a book like some authority deeming it unfit.
Exit quotation from Steve Krakauer: “If Joe Rogan said ‘The Holocaust isn’t about race’ and that ‘these are two white groups of people,’ we’d never stop hearing about it from the Acela Media’s loudest anti-speech activists…”
Flashback: Whoopi Goldberg Entertains Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories.
Not surprisingly, as of the time of this post, there’s no reference to Goldberg’s meltdown on the CBS and NBC news websites, let alone ABC News itself, which co-produces the View, as the guild protects its own. (See also: Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings defending Dan Rather.)
SALENA ZITO: From Cover Girl to Guns and Elk Hunts.
Most folks would think it would be a herculean leap to go from leading client strategies for Sephora, Walmart, H&M, Walgreens, and Cover Girl to MeatEater, which had its inception with founder Steve Rinella’s Netflix flagship outdoors show.
Crane said the leap was perhaps not totally herculean and that doing something outside of one’s comfort zone is a good thing.
“I grew up in New York City — Upper East Side, Manhattan, to be specific,” she said. “Went off to college, then back to New York for another eight years. Then it was off to Los Angeles, where I spent the past six years. So I was never exposed as a young individual to a life outside the metropolitan environments of New York or Los Angeles. So in terms of what MeatEater embodies and stands for, it’s a far evolution from my experience and my background.”
MeatEater has grown into a lifestyle company with several wildly popular podcasts that include The MeatEater Podcast and Bear Grease, as well as audiobooks, cookbooks, a clothing line, and gear.
After meeting with Rinella and going hunting for the first time, Crane knew she was ready for a change. “I have always wanted to be connected to nature, to the outdoors, and more with our roots and with our food,” she said. “The first time I went out, I was terrified — on one hand, because it felt totally new, and when you’re an adult trying something new in that capacity, [it] becomes intimidating.”
Good for her.