KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Reminder — Colin Kaepernick Can’t Throw a Football. “The only reason Kaepernick is ever in the conversation is because of the woke plague. He wasn’t a good quarterback when he was booted out of the NFL but he managed to turn his perpetual victimhood into the reason that he was out of work.”
Archive for 2022
March 18, 2022
THE LEFT IS OBSESSED WITH TRIBAL SIGNALING AND MEMBERSHIP TESTS. IT’S WHAT THEY HAVE INSTEAD OF ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
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Loveland grandmother Mickie Nuffer grew more concerned by the day as she watched people on television shouting about “defunding the police” and later, in her own county, when businesses required proof of vaccination to enter.
In Highlands Ranch, mom and former teacher’s aide Donna Jo Tompkins was growing increasingly frustrated with mask mandates, last-minute school quarantines and the latest curriculum controversy: critical race theory.
And in Arvada, Angela Marriott was alarmed by the way people on Nextdoor pounced on any conservative sentiment, especially against masks, and was exasperated pretty much every time she watched the news. “I would turn on the news and just be enraged within minutes, watching our police being abused, properties being destroyed and trying to erase our history with tearing down and damaging statues,” she said.
“I just decided one day I had had it. I was going to take this negative energy and put it into something constructive, to fight for freedom and my children’s future.”
None of the three women had ever been political, but said they were compelled by the 2020 COVID shutdown and other government policies of the past two years to get involved. Similar to the way Democratic women mobilized after the election of former President Donald Trump, conservative women who never before attended a caucus or canvassed a neighborhood are organizing in living rooms across Colorado.
Read the whole thing.
REMINDER: Wokeism Is Not The Law. “In a number of cases across the country, academics who have been fired or otherwise penalized for failing to go along with the ‘woke’ fad have successfully sought legal redress. It is remarkable how little understanding the academics who run our colleges and universities have, apparently, of the basics of constitutional law. They generally seem to think that they have free rein to impose wokeism on all those within their domains. . . . Wokeness may be a religion, but it isn’t the law. The more often university officials are forced to pay damages, preferably out of their own pockets, the better.”
Make them pay. In my experience, faculty and administrators worry a lot about being sued, it just never occurs to them that they can be sued for doing things the left approves of.
COLLEGE FIX: “Move Over Think Tanks. This Alumni-Donor ‘Action Tank’ Takes on Wokeness One Campus at a Time.” I hope it’s effective.
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Megan Fox: Idaho on Fire: Alleged Medical Kidnapping of Baby Cyrus Sparks Political Showdown. “A case involving the seizure of a 10-month-old called Baby Cyrus by child welfare officials and St. Jude Hospital in Idaho after a cancelled appointment has ignited a major political storm that has reached the governor’s office.”
Kevin Downey Jr: 5 Insane Lies Liberals Really Believe. “Why do die-hard libs always take the crazy bait? Because they need to believe they are better than you, you bigoty trans-homo-Islamo-Beto-phobe. They chomp on the insanity because if they don’t, they will be booted from the Kool-aid kids club, just like any other cult.”
Yours Truly with an open letter for Biden: The Things You Can and Cannot Get Done with a 50/50 Senate, You Dumb*ss.
IN A SANE WORLD THIS LETTER WOULD HAVE BEEN UNNECESSARY: Four members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urge Attorney General Merrick Garland to take rising violent crime seriously. (The Commission as a whole won’t do so.)
CONSISTENCY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Elaine Luria Wants a ‘Living Wage’ for All, Except Her Own Staff. “As a candidate, Elaine Luria said, “Everyone deserves a living wage.” But as a congresswoman, the Virginia Democrat paid multiple staffers less than the income required to reach a living wage in the Old Dominion. During her first run for Congress, Luria called the $7.25 federal minimum wage ‘criminal’ and said she thinks ‘that everyone deserves a living wage to raise their family in the community.’ At least two of her congressional staffers, however, earned less than the annual salary that marks a living wage in Virginia, payroll disclosures show.”
NOW WE COULD LOSE THE PETRODOLLAR:
Thanks to this catastrophically bad foreign policy team, our relations with Saudi Arabia and China have significantly deteriorated, resulting in them developing closer ties with one another. In fact, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that it looks like the Saudis could soon start pricing the oil that it sells to China in Chinese currency…
The U.S. dollar may be on its way out as the global reserve currency.
Saudi Arabia is actively engaging in negotiations with Chinese officials to price oil sales to China in yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, the Wall Street Journal reported.
If the two countries decide to conduct business using the Chinese yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, this could mean trouble for America’s dominance as the global economic hegemon.
This would be a tremendous blow to the U.S., and the Saudis know it.
So perhaps Biden should not have called Saudi Arabia a “pariah,” and perhaps his foreign policy team should not have angered the Saudis multiple times over the past 12 months.
As Jim Geraghty wrote last August, “Every four years, the message is the same: Trust us, we’re the ones who know what we’re doing. And yet, the oddest thing happens — the Democratic foreign-policy establishment gets in power, and a short while later, so many things go wrong.”
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 17:
Russian forces did not make any major advances and Ukrainian forces carried out several local counterattacks on March 17.[1] Russian forces made little territorial progress and continued to deploy reserve elements—including from the 1st Guards Tank Army and 810th Naval Infantry Brigade—in small force packets that are unlikely to prove decisive. Russian forces continue to suffer heavy casualties around Kharkiv, and Russian attempts to bypass the city of Izyum are unlikely to succeed. Russian forces continued assaults on Mariupol on March 17 but did not conduct any other successful advances from Crimea.
Key Takeaways
Russian forces continue to make steady territorial gains around Mariupol and are increasingly targeting residential areas of the city.
Ukrainian forces northwest of Kyiv launched several local counterattacks and inflicted heavy damage on Russian forces.
Ukrainian forces repelled Russian operations around Kharkiv and reported killing a regimental commander.
Ukrainian intelligence reports that Russia may have expended nearly its entire store of precision cruise missiles in the first twenty days of its invasion.
Russian forces deployed unspecified reserve elements of the 1st Guards Tank Army and Baltic Fleet Naval Infantry to northeastern Ukraine on March 17.
Russia may be parceling out elements of the reserve force that could conduct an amphibious operation along the Black Sea coast to support ongoing assaults on Mariupol, further reducing the likelihood of a Russian amphibious assault on Odesa.
Ukrainian forces shot down 10 Russian aircraft—including five jets, three helicopters, and two UAVs—on March 16, and Ukrainian forces continue to successfully contest Russian air operations.
That’s just yesterday evening’s executive summary from ISW. There’s much more at the link, daily.
JOE BIDEN COULD TRY THIS: Mike Kerrigan: A Thousand Silent Farewells: The ‘Irish goodbye’ is a great way to leave a party—and not only on St. Patrick’s Day. “For the uninitiated, an Irish goodbye is the silent and early departure from a large social gathering without formally alerting the host.”
KURT SCHLICHTER: The DeSantis Doctrine.
You gotta hand it to a guy who convinces Democrats to die on the hill of defending perverted groomers talking about sex with little school kids. It’s on-brand for their fellow travelers at The Lincoln Project, but you would think that Democrats actually want to win elections. But no – they want to make the schools safe for pedos, and they don’t care who knows it. But they’ll care plenty in November when parents around the country come out and vote for The Party of Not Hitting on Der Kinder.
Donald Trump has his record of achievement – economic success and peace abroad. But Ron DeSantis has the DeSantis Doctrine, sort of like the Monroe Doctrine, except instead of keeping shady foreigners out of our hemisphere, the DeSantis Doctrine keeps woke fascists out of our lives.
Exit quote: “He loves to crush his enemies, see them driven before him, and to hear the lamentation of their women-identifying persons. And those of us in the base love it.”
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
BRAD THOMPSON: When Bolshevik Schooling Came to America. “In this fourth installment in our series, I would like to carry the story forward from the nineteenth into the twentieth century. The topic is, of course, worth a volume or two, but I shall spotlight how early twentieth-century intellectuals viewed the purposes of government schooling, and how and why they turned away in the 1920s and 1930s from the Prussian to the Bolshevik model as their source of inspiration. Seen in this light, we can better understand what government schooling in America is today.”
CAN ALL OF US SAY WITH ONE VOICE: NOOOOO! He’s Baaaaaack! Fauci Emerges From His Lair To Let Us Know We Might Have To Put The Masks Back On.
POTEMKIN JOURNALISM: This graph from Andrew Stiles on conditions in the Courier Newsroom: “Several current and former employees complained that McGowan and other political operatives in leadership roles ‘have no news background’ and aren’t interested in doing actual journalism. On the contrary, these employees said ‘honest journalism’ was ‘actively discouraged’ in favor of “propaganda” that is ‘only concerned with the agenda of the progressive left’ and the overlapping interests of Courier’s billionaire backers, including George Soros and Apple widow Laurene Powell Jobs.
THIS, PRETTY MUCH: 10 Realities of Ukraine.
DEMS’ HILL OFFICES STILL CLOSED: Doesn’t really matter since members of the public are still unable to visit their representatives without a prior appointment, which they can’t make if the official’s office is closed.
Washington Free Beacon’s Joseph Simonson and Matthew Foldi remind that “the decision to work remotely is enabled by Democratic leadership, which put into place a proxy voting system that has allowed voters to vote without showing up to work. One Florida Democrat, Rep. Frederica Wilson, failed to register a single in-person vote in 2021. Her office remains closed.”
MODERATE HOUSE DEM TELLS PARTY LEADERS TO SHOVE IT: Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) sat down with Politico to discuss her decision not to seek re-election in 2022. Her description of what Pelosi and company did to her and the handful of other moderates is a devastating indictment.
IT’S BEEN EXPOSED FROM THE BEGINNING: Joe Biden’s crash-and-burn foreign policy exposed.
Ain’t a modesty wrap large enough to cover that elephantine disaster.
THAT’S A MIGHTY ODD WAY TO SPELL “CACKLING”: Kamala Harris set to travel the country touting Biden’s ‘accomplishments’.
MORE PREVALENT ON THE LEFT. IT’S ALL THE TV THEY CONSUME: YouGov: “Amercians tend to vastly overestimate the size of minority groups”.
AND DELIVERED US BOUND TO OUR FOES: Reports: Biden Admin Considers Removing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards From Terrorism List To Get Nuke Deal.
AND THERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN: Election Manipulation Unmasked: NY Times Finally Admits Hunter Biden Emails Were Authentic, Not ‘Russian Disinformation’.