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Archive for 2022
January 15, 2022
MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Glenn Youngkin and Company Start Things off by Going Scorched Earth in Virginia. “On his first day in office, Youngkin is going to sign an order to eliminate the state-wide mask mandate for children in schools. That’s in response to the overwhelming amount of data that masks in schools have been one of the most useless, asinine policies of the COVID-19 pandemic. . . . Further, Youngkin also announced the hiring of outspoken anti-CRT voice Jillian Balow as Education Superintendent, which will hopefully help to rein in the state’s rogue school boards. Clearly, things aren’t going the way Larry Hogan’s administration went in Maryland.”
Good.
CAREER CIVIL SERVANT WORTH EIGHT FIGURES: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s financial disclosure shows $10.4M in investments. He’ll receive a $350,000/year pension upon retirement. Not that there’s anything wrong with having or making money, but I don’t think he’s worth it. In fact, I think his value to society is negative.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: The Navy’s next-gen destroyer concept involves powerful lasers.
WELL, CERTAINLY CHINLESS LEFTY SOYBOY TYPES: Face masks may make men more attractive, study suggests.
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE (WO)MAN: Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Over Alleged Wrongful Title IX Suspension Against UCLA Can Go Forward.
QUESTION ASKED: The Left Controls Almost Everything. So Why Are They So Afraid?
OUR DIVISIVE, FEAR-MONGERING MEDIA ARE THE INTELLECTUAL EQUIVALENT OF TOBACCO COMPANIES: Politics to blame for increased stress, fatigue, other health woes, survey finds.
NO, RAND PAUL ISN’T ‘PANDEMIC PROFITEERING’ OFF HIS #FIREFAUCI CAMPAIGN:
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump asked the same question on Thursday in a column titled, “How politically helpful have Rand Paul’s attacks on Anthony Fauci been?”
Using spikes in Google traffic each time Fauci and Paul have squared off, Bump determined that Paul had raised his media profile each time and, yes, that has translated into increased donations.
But this didn’t seem to lead Bump to the conclusion that Paul’s Fauci questions were merely or even primarily about political or financial gain.
“Paul was seeing higher weekly totals than he had been,” Bump writes, analyzing the two men’s exchanges. “From early May on, though, the level of fundraising was consistently at or above $100,000 a week, with only one exception. That pattern began when he got into the ‘gain of function’ fight with Fauci.”
Is Rand Paul’s Inquiry Still Legitimate?
But what Bump said next was most instructive.
“This is circumstantial,” Bump observed (emphasis added). “It’s clear that Paul is trying to generate contributions and attention from his fights with Fauci (the website to which Fauci referred is online, for example), but it’s not clear that this is central to Paul’s political efforts.
“Nor should one assume Paul’s confrontations are solely offered in bad faith,” Bump wrote. “While Fauci has repeatedly pushed back on his line of questioning, it’s a line of questioning that our fact-checkers consider to be in a gray area.”
Related: Doctor assures us that Anthony Fauci, an Italian from Brooklyn, ‘knows a guy:’
Porter is apparently the sister of Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), and has since locked her Twitter account, for some, um, behind the scenes waste management work.
Flashback: Why does Twitter allow the Left to encourage violence against Rand Paul?
To ask the question is to answer it.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Crime-Swamped Philly Issues Pamphlet on How To Survive Carjackings.
MAKES SENSE; THE IRISHMAN’S LAST HOURS WERE AS LONG AS A JERRY GARCIA GUITAR SOLO: Martin Scorsese to Direct Grateful Dead Biopic Starring Jonah Hill as Jerry Garcia.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: #WHYIMSINGLE.
2024 PRESIDENTIAL RACE OFFICIALLY BEGINS:
● Florida Democrat Nikki Fried compares Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to Adolf Hitler.
● Samantha Bee Labels DeSantis ‘Worse Than Trump.’
Flashbacks:
● American Politics Reaches Its ‘Worse Than Trump’ Phase. “This is simply how Democrats begin to talk about Republican candidates whom they believe are capable of winning a national election. When such candidates reach office, they’re Hitler. When they’ve left office, they’re bad, but not as bad as the ones in office. And when they’re dead, they’re the sort of Republicans whom the living ones should be more like — yes, even if, when they were alive, they, too, were deemed to be Hitler. The assertion that ‘DeSantis is worse than Trump’ was inevitable from the moment Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.”
● Every New Republican Is the Most Evil Republican Ever.
● Every Republican president or presidential candidate is the next Hitler — even Calvin Coolidge, who served before the Nazis came to power.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Biden’s top Supreme Court lawyer granted ethics waiver to argue for race-based college admissions. “The timeline is very curious, especially with such a clear potential conflict of interest that required not just one, but at least two waivers, only one of which is currently publicly available.”
KIDS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS: Watch: Kid accidentally calls out his woke mom for pushing him to be LGBT.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University lays off 100 professors due to COVID.
HAHA, “WHISTLEBLOWER.” Trump Impeachment Whistleblower Alexander Vindman Slams Biden Over Russia and Ukraine. But if you thought you were protecting America from a Putin puppet by getting rid of Trump then . . . well, to be honest, you’re just about as smart as I always figured you were.
WELL, THEY HATE HER, AND THEY HATE REPUBLICANS, SO THE CONFUSION WAS NATURAL: Whoops? CNN Chyron Labels Sen. Sinema a Republican During Anderson Cooper 360.
ALL OF OUR INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED: ‘Where Are the Jews?’: Scandal Erupts at the Academy Museum. “It’s sort of like building a museum dedicated to Renaissance painting, and ignoring the Italians. . . . You left the museum with the impression that the film industry was created 10 years ago. They erased the past. And I find it appalling.”
Plus:
But some feel that the damage has already been done.
“By not including the founding fathers out of the gate, they were making a massive statement,” says Triller CEO and Academy member Ryan Kavanaugh. “As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, it’s just shocking that they erased the contributions of a group who faced severe anti-Semitism — they couldn’t get bank loans, they couldn’t own homes in L.A., and yet they still created this industry that is the bedrock of the L.A. economy and touches people around the world. Instead of, ‘Look at what what they were able to do,’ it’s just wiped out. It goes against everything that our industry says they stand for.”
Why the museum made such a polarizing move is a matter of debate and intrigue. Sources say a small contingent of influential Academy members pushed hard for nonwhite cinema to be highlighted and white contributions to be de-emphasized. A review of the exhibits would seem to support this notion. Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, for example, received a retrospective, while there was no similar treatment for the genre’s godfather, Walt Disney.
Woke politics involves erasing those deemed undesirable, which certainly includes Jews.
THE OTHER 18% HAVE TUNED OUT THE MEDIA ENTIRELY: Stop it! Eighty-two percent say media fearmongering COVID-19.
JIM TREACHER: We Need a Maximum Age Requirement for President.
No offense to my older readers, but we need to amend the age requirement to run for president of the United States. It’s fine to keep the minimum age at 35, but we need a maximum age as well. I’d propose Joe Biden’s current age minus, oh, let’s say four years just to be on the safe side. So that would cap eligibility at 75 years young.
A natural-born American citizen gets 40 years to make it into the White House. If you can’t get it done by your 75th birthday, too bad. You had your chance. That seems fair, right? Four decades is more than enough time, isn’t it?
Because the alternative is… this.
Biden’s always had anger issues, but now that he’s in his dotage, they’ve only gotten worse. (Trunalimunumaprzure!) As Treacher writes, “Joe Biden should step down before he falls down.”
