Archive for 2022
May 6, 2022
TIM BLAIR: ‘Unchecked Speech’ Causes Racism and Censorship Somehow. “According to the New York Times, Elon Musk loves free expression because it was a feature of … apartheid-era South Africa.”
A well-deserved old-school style fisking occurs. Read the whole thing.
NEWS I HOPE NO ONE CAN USE: What is Russia’s Poseidon nuclear drone and could it wipe out the UK in a radioactive tsunami?
CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD: J.D. Vance And The New Right Are Racking Up Wins, While The Establishment Stabs At Their Backs.
In a world governed by imprudent and vindictive institutions, however, that claw, gnash, and tear at traditional wisdom — that usurp traditional values — the “process” merely fools us into believing that what these institutions are doing is normal, when in reality it is profoundly abnormal.
In the September 1961 issue of Young Americans for Freedom’s New Guard magazine, a young M. Stanton Evans asked, “Can a conservative be a radical?” Yes, he concluded: “Confronted with an established revolution, the conservative must seek to change the status quo; he has no other means of affirming his tradition.”
Vance understands this. That is why, Axios’s Jonathan Swan and Lachlan Markay report, “The Republican establishment privately regards [him] with the same disgust many felt toward Donald Trump when he entered the White House on Jan. 20, 2017.”
It’s why Senate Minority Whip John Thune looked forward to reading the coverage of Vance’s loss.
It’s why one “senior Republican aide told The Hill 70 percent of Senate Republicans share that sentiment.”
Read the whole thing.
SCIENCE! UK midwifery students taught males can give birth through their penises.
The workbook’s original section on catheterization made reference on how to handle male genitals, with specific instruction on catering to male “birthing people.”
“It is important to note that while most times the birthing person will have female genitalia, you may be caring for a pregnant or birthing person who is transitioning from male to female and may still have external male genitalia,” the workbook counseled.
In two separate sections, the workbook reminds students “birthing people” can be either female or male, and it contains a section noting students will need to be familiar with both female and male anatomy.
After an edit meant to correct a number of errors, the workbook added the suggestion a female to male transgender person could give birth through a surgically constructed “penis.”
Reduxx spoke with Elaine Miller, a Fellow of the Chartered Society for Physiotherapy, who expressed concern about the factual inaccuracies in the workbook.
“It is not possible for a male person to get pregnant,” Miller told the website, saying that even the edits were rife with misinformation.
Are you allowed to say that?
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: ‘We are nowhere near the bottom,’ top economist says as global markets crater.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Waterboard the Supreme Court Leaker. “I try not to be over the top with the headlines here but sometimes there is a point to be made.”
SCREEN-FREE SCHOOLS ARE COMING: Auguste Meyrat is a teacher who “sees rampant tech addiction up close.” That’s why the Meyrat kids are heading to schools without screens. This has the feel of a new movement. As Meyrat explains:
“Many of today’s children are ignorant, sad, and set up for failure. They lack the knowledge and skills to perform basic tasks. They are lonely and suffer from depression and anxiety. Also, as Mark Bauerlein explains in his book ‘The Dumbest Generation Grows Up,’ they are incredibly immature.
“The reasons for this are not a mystery. One top answer is actually incredibly simple: Screens. Instead of learning about their world and participating in it, the majority of young people are glued to their devices, playing video games, scrolling through social media, and streaming videos.”
I’m old enough to remember when there were actually liberals who advised Americans to “kill your TV.” That’s not what Meyrat is advising, but it won’t be long before today’s liberals accuse him of exactly that.
UNITY! Democrats, Republicans Agree: The Lincoln Project Sucks. “In fact, the super PAC schlubs are so annoying they managed to get Republicans to agree with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), the socialist Tesla owner who denounced the Lincoln Project as a ‘scam.’ (Fact check: True.) The super PAC might not have much to show for itself in terms of electoral success, but its founding members were able to pay off substantial tax debts after raising tens of millions of dollars from wealthy liberal donors in 2020. Founder Steve Schmidt said he saw the Lincoln Project as a vehicle by which to achieve ‘generational wealth.'”
MORE EVIDENCE RUSSIAGATE WAS ‘DEEP STATE’ INVENTION: Margot Cleveland has been one of the handful of journalists who have consistently from the beginning of the Russiagate scandal stayed on top of this increasingly unbelievable scandal.
Today in The Federalist, Cleveland points out evidence CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that claimed Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was itself “easily spoofed” by others connected to the plot to frame Donald Trump.
“Concerns over CrowdStrike’s analysis reemerged after Special Counsel John Durham indicted former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann for allegedly lying to FBI General Counsel James Baker. That indictment and other documents filed in the Sussmann criminal case revealed that cyber-security experts assisted tech executive Rodney Joffe in crafting deceptive data and white papers to create the false appearance of a secret communication network between Trump and the Russian-based Alfa Bank. Sussmann then fed this ‘intel’ to the CIA and FBI.
“After the election, Sussmann also provided the CIA with deceptively cherry-picked data to suggest a connection between Trump or his transition team and Russians, using cyber-tracking of a Russian Yota cell phone. To compile both the Alfa Bank and Yota phone hoaxes, according to the indictment, Joffe exploited proprietary information he had access to because of his positions in various tech companies. More troubling still was the revelation that Joffe used sensitive data from the Executive Office of the President in his attempt to frame Trump.”
There is more, much, much more to come.
HEY, REMEMBER UKRAINE? I know it’s not The Currrent Thing anymore, but here’s a roundup of what’s going on.
Related: Russia Denies New Warship Strike by Ukraine as Makarov Rumors Swirl.
FORMER CONGRESSMEN IN CCP’S BACK POCKET: Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross has the details on how Beijing uses the Association of Former Members of Congress (AFMC) to influence the U.S. government.
Ross reports that Beijing “has hosted multiple events since 2020 for the China-United States Exchange Foundation, the CCP’s leading foreign influence think tank. The Exchange Foundation sponsors the association’s annual awards gala, which will be held next month, and it has worked hand-in-glove with the Exchange Foundation’s lobbyist to host policy events where pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have been blamed on ‘foreign forces’ and the United States has been accused of directing ‘vitriol’ toward China.”
This should be a MAJOR story in the MSM. I’m not holding my breath.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites, lands Falcon 9 rocket at sea after record-tying 12th flight.
Related: Crew-3 astronauts on SpaceX Dragon Endurance splash down from space station.
MISSISSIPPI’S ABORTION LAW UNDER CHALLENGE IN DOBBS IS MORE LIBERAL THAN MOST EUROPEAN ABORTION LAWS:
A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE AND PRETTY SOON YOU’RE TALKING REAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Wall Street, tech investors back Musk Twitter bid with $7B.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: 2024 Shock: Biden 36%, Trump 50%.
The bad news for unpopular President Joe Biden continues to roll in, the latest from a new survey that shows likely voters, by a 2-to-1 margin, do not want him to run again.
Even more embarrassing for the Democratic president is one of the largest gaps yet between him and former President Donald Trump in a 2024 matchup. In the survey previewed by Secrets, Trump is up 50%-36%.
“A majority of voters think President Joe Biden shouldn’t seek reelection in 2024, and he would lose a rematch with former President Donald Trump by double-digit margins,” read the early analysis of the Rasmussen Reports poll sponsored by the Heartland Institute.
“Sixty-one percent (61%) of likely U.S. voters believe Biden should not run for a second term as president in 2024. Only 28% say Biden should seek reelection, while another 11% are not sure. If the next presidential election were held today, and Biden were running against Trump, 50% would vote for Trump while 36% would vote for Biden,” according to the Heartland/Rasmussen survey.
Trump has been coy about his plans, though most former aides expect him to run again. Biden has pledged to run for reelection, especially if Trump makes another try.
Trump is so dominant in GOP presidential polls that even critic and Sen. Mitt Romney this week said that the Republican nomination is the former president’s to lose.
Biden, meanwhile, isn’t dominant, and his base is breaking away and fast. In its analysis, the Heartland Institute said, “While 64% of black voters said they have a favorable opinion of Biden, only 39% want him to run for re-election.” And it added that “among Hispanics, just 43% have a favorable opinion and only 31% want him to run in the 2024 presidential election. Women voters — a key to Biden’s 2020 victory — have soured on the president, with only 26% wanting him to run again.”
Well, to be fair, Biden’s been a miserable failure, wildly underperforming even my low expectations.
IN VIRGINIA, PROTESTING AT PRIVATE HOMES IS A CRIME: And most of the Justices with any sense live in Virginia. “The left is blowing through the firewalls of decency. They have promised protests at Catholic Churches this weekend. They have vandalized other churches. They have behaved like other monsters throughout history who despise democratic institutions. There is no doubt more unhinged behavior to come. At least in the Commonwealth of Virginia, consequences can follow.”
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— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) May 6, 2022
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IT’S SO NICE HAVING THE GROWNUPS BACK IN CHARGE: Kamala Harris Snubs Biden, and Things Ain’t Fine in the White House.