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Archive for 2022
December 3, 2022
THEY’RE CERTAINLY LOOKING BETTER THAN THE 2020S: Mark Judge: The 1980s On Trial.
WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE POOR PEOPLE? Chairwoman of Warnock’s Church Sits on Board of Firm Accused of ‘Shamelessly Profiting’ Off Low-Income Tenants.
EPIC HOLIDAY DEAL: Folding Utility Knife. #CommissionEarned
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Systemic Racism: Students Downplay Stereotypically Asian Hobbies To Boost College Admissions Odds.
HUGO KRUGER & JOEL KOTKIN: Welcome to the New Era of Environmental Colonialism. “Today’s colonialists are Left-wing environmentalists exporting their vision of “climate justice” as a way to deal with global inequality. But despite the high-minded morality implied by the latest green agenda, just like older forms of colonialism, it creates a relationship of dependency that undermines the true interests of the colonized.”
CHINA IS THEIR MODEL AND TYRANNY IS THEIR AMBITION: The Ministry of Truth was far more sinister than we were told.
It would appear that Alejandro Mayorkas has “some ‘splainin to do,” as the kids like to say these days. As you may recall, the Biden administration briefly attempted to set up a Ministry of Truth under the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year. The quickly abandoned office was fancifully named the “Disinformation Governance Board” and it was planned to be headed by Nina Jankowicz, who quickly left the government after the effort was curtailed and went on to register as a foreign agent for Great Britain. When Congress looked into the attempt to establish the board, Mayorkas offered lengthy testimony as to what had been going on and sang lofty praises of Jankowicz. But newly revealed documents presented by Senator Josh Hawley and others strongly suggest that the board had progressed far further than Mayorkas testified and he seemingly lied under oath about some of the details. . . .
During his testimony in May, Mayorkas claimed that the Ministry of Truth had only been in its planning stages and that the board “had not yet met” to plan any actions. But the leaked documents show that the board had initially met on Feb. 4, 2022, and had continued to schedule weekly meetings thereafter, despite not having been formally approved or established.
Further, the documents indicate that the board’s plans to partner with the Big Tech companies were “far more extensive” than Mayorkas or the Biden administration ever revealed. The Disinformation Board planned to meet with Nathaniel Gleicher of Meta, who was in charge of the company’s security policy group when they acted to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
These revelations only serve to add another layer to the cake of badness surrounding the Biden administration’s coordination with social media platforms in an effort to suppress free speech in the name of “battling disinformation.” These efforts to enlist the aid of Big Tech to silence voices critical of various government policies are a clear violation of the First Amendment’s assurances of the right to free speech. They should be seen as obvious justifications for the impeachment of not only Mayorkas but Joe Biden himself. Of course, with the Democrats still controlling the Senate, that will almost certainly not happen, but this is a worrisome sign of how vastly the federal government has grown out of control and how the fundamental rights of citizens are being trodden upon or simply disregarded.
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December 2, 2022
WHY ARE BLUE STATE GOVERNMENTS SUCH CESSPITS OF ABUSE? Chief of staff to NY AG Letitia James resigns after allegations of sexual harassment. “There must be something in the water. Back in 2018, New York’s Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman resigned after being accused of violence by at least four women. And then last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned after being accused of sexual harassment by a series of women. Today, Ibrahim Khan, the chief of staff to current Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, has resigned after allegations of sexual harassment.”
Plus: “Leititia James was just reelected last month. No doubt this would have proved embarrassing if it had come out sooner.”
OPEN THREAD: Experience the magic.
IT’S NOW OBVIOUS WHY THEY DIDN’T WANT ELON MUSK TO HAVE CONTROL OF TWITTER, AND OF THE EVIDENCE OF WHAT THEY DID:
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Shenzhou 15 astronauts arrive at China’s space station for first crew handover.
JULIETTE OCHIENG: The Dahomean: First Part of Chapter 1.
HOW TWITTER HELPED ELECT JOE BIDEN:
As Elon Musk promised, Twitter is releasing internal documents about how and why they suppressed information about Joe Biden’s corruption, as documented on his son’s laptop, in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign. Twitter apparently outsourced the task to liberal (but not crazy) commentator Matt Taibbi. You can follow Taibbi’s thread here.
I will have more to say when it is over, but here are some highlights as we go along.
The Biden campaign communicated directly with Twitter to get objectionable tweets censored.
Here’s the Taibbi link. “Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party.” Well, one political party, mostly.
HUH: Wild New Hypothesis Suggests IBS Could Be a Form of ‘Gravity Intolerance.’ “The nice part about Spiegel’s hypothesis is that it’s easily testable and doesn’t exclude other theories of IBS.”
RATS ON THE WESTSIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: Two veterinary drugs may help eliminate bedbugs.
GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Riedel O Wine Tumbler Happy, Set of 4. #CommissionEarned
COLD CASE HEATS UP: “On the one hand, proving that the .40 round had been cycled through that particular gun beyond a shadow of a doubt is going to be tricky. A lot of that sort of ballistic evidence has turned out to be science-y guesswork. On the other hand, that’s an awful lot of circumstantial evidence.”
READER FAVORITE: MyPillow Premium Bed Pillow 2 Pack. CommissionEarned
NOT CADILLAC’S BEST YEAR: Throwback: 1983 Eldorado Biarritz.
TIM COOK: Apple CEO Gives Fox News Reporter Silent Treatment When Questioned About China. “Do you support the Chinese people’s right to protest? Do you regret restricting Airdrop access that protesters used to evade surveillance from the Chinese government? You think it’s problematic to do business with the Chinese party when they suppress human rights?”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: He Was Nearly Transitioned by Gunfire. “This week we have the world’s most painful non-surgical procedure, how not to make a getaway, and the assault weapon no police wanted to collect for evidence.”
ONE SMALL STRIKE AGAINST ESG INVESTING: ‘I Don’t Trust BlackRock’s Ability to Deliver’: Florida’s CFO to Divest $2B in Investments.
ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE:
