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Archive for 2022
October 28, 2022
WINSTON SMITH, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Transcript of Embarrassing Press Briefing Is Missing from White House Website.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT IT MAKES POWERFUL PEOPLE MORE POWERFUL, while letting their supporters feel good about themselves.
SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LAY OFF 75% OF THE EMPLOYEES IN PUBLISHING, TOO: We Must Censor Amy Coney Barrett To Save Free Speech. “More than 350 literary workers—agents, editors, publicists, and writers—have signed an open letter demanding Penguin Random House drop publication of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s upcoming book. It should be noted, that there are some legitimate editors on the list, but many signees –-‘Leslie’ and editorial interns and so on –- are not exactly Nan Talese. And yet, the document, brimming with nonsensical, contradictory, confusingly reasoned claims, is a useful window into the increasingly authoritarian mindset of the cultural American left.”
VIDEO: Is China’s GDP Overstated By 60%? “I’ve long thought that, based on the fragmentary evidence we have (the huge debt load, the ghost cities, the known mismanagement and calculation problem of planned communist economies, etc.), the size of China’s economy is overstated by 40%. Now, according to the measurements of one pretty good proxy for economic activity, it appears that I was too trusting and optimistic about the size of China’s economy, in that it’s probably overstated by 60%.”
If you don’t have the time or inclination to watch a video, Lawrence Person has done his usual great job of breaking out the bullet points.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: The (Almost) All-Police Chase Edition.
LIVE AT 3PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest Kira Davis.
A FREE SPEECH HOLIDAY?
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If this video is any indication, Elon could fire 75% of Twitter employees and still won't be laying off anyone with a real job.https://t.co/khPvIsWniK
— Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 (@ConCaracal) October 27, 2022
MAN WHO ATTACKED PAUL PELOSI IS REPORTEDLY A “former Castro nudist protester.”
Plus: “Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) denounced the attack, and wished Paul Pelosi well while also noting that when he was attacked, Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Paul and Nancy Pelosi, tweeted ‘Rand Paul’s neighbor was right.'”
Not clear where the security was. Perhaps this guy was known to Paul Pelosi in some fashion.
IF POLITICIANS HAD TO UNDERSTAND THINGS BEFORE THEY REGULATED THEM, THEY’D NEVER REGULATE ANYTHING: Dementia Joe On Ammunition.
I BELIEVE THIS: Cutting carbs may help prevent diabetes, study suggests.
DON’T GET COCKY: Black Voters Are Shifting Right and the Left Is Losing It.
Let’s start with the insulting. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross slammed the Republican National Committee’s slate of “diverse” Republican congressional candidates, saying “faces of color do not always equate to voices of color.” She then tokenized minority Republicans, including those currently serving in Congress such as Senators Ted Cruz, Tim Scott, and Marco Rubio, and Representatives Byron Donalds, Mayra Flores, Nicole Malliotakis, Burgess Owens, and others, adding that they are “the political equivalent of ‘some of my best friends are Black.'”
Liberal elites often dismiss conservative minority candidates to avoid real debate. Hosts like Cross, elected officials, and political pundits don’t want minority voters to know that there are good reasons to consider non-liberal candidates, especially those of the same race. It undercuts the narrative that Democrats are the party of inclusivity. Increasingly, the criticism that Republicans don’t reach out to communities of color is proving as false as the belief that conservative values don’t resonate with minorities.
If Democrats were the party of inclusivity, they wouldn’t require minorities to toe the line on ideological purity.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Is This Joe Biden’s Biggest Lie Ever?
MOST “ARTISTS” WOULD RATHER BE APPARATCHIKS: The literary world comes out for censorship.
TOO CLOSE TO CALL: We Now Have the First Poll Since the Fetterman-Oz Debate.
WHAT I AM READING NOW: Decluttering For Dummies. #Commission Earned
HELPFUL BOOK: Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff. #CommissionEarned
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: Infantilization Of The Apocalypse.
The activists who keep degrading precious works of art, and themselves, claim to be concerned about food and energy supplies, but in opposing oil, gas and fertilizer production they are actively reducing both. Over the last several months, I have described the demands of climate activists as fanatical and pointed to a large body of evidence suggesting that nihilism, narcissism, and feelings of personal inadequacy are the primary motives.
But nihilism, narcissism, and personal inadequacy alone do not explain why climate activists have chosen temper tantrum tactics. After all, the greatest protest movements of all time engaged in far more grown-up and dignified tactics. Think of the Salt March led by Gandhi, the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King, and the anti-whaling protests of Greenpeace.
Where protesters in the past asked to be treated like adults, climate protesters today demand to be treated like children. Civil rights activists in the 1950s sat at lunch counters and demanded to be treated like full adults. Notably, it was racist counterprotesters who poured milkshakes over them. Today, it’s the protesters who are spilling milk and throwing food.
Why is that, exactly? Why have Left-wing activists regressed in their tactics?
When you don’t have facts or reason on your side, don’t care to learn the facts and can’t be bothered to reason — what’s left?
HIGHER EDUCATION WAS ONCE DEFENDED AS A RESOURCE FOR FREEDOM: University doubles down on reporting system only weeks after legal firm issues demand letter: Students accused of violating the policy are encouraged not to defend themselves and simply ‘take responsibility for their actions.’
I prefer to make educrats take responsibility for theirs.