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Archive for 2022
January 21, 2022
BE SURE TO REMIND THEM THEY’RE MOVING HERE AS REFUGEES, NOT MISSIONARIES: Openly right-wing Blue Line Moving ferries Northeast exiles to Florida.
FUNNY – THAT’S HOW I FEEL ABOUT YOUR SUPPORT FOR OPEN BORDERS: ‘The View’ Hosts Slam Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Over Anti-Vax Stance: “You’re Picking Other People’s Risks”.
Also, no. Other people, if they’re so terrified, can stay at home. You can’t mandate I stop driving to reduce your risk of being run over. You can however stay home, if life terrifies you. Go home, idiots. Go hide under the bed. You’ll be safe there.
WHAT DIFFERENCE – AT THIS POINT IN TIME, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? Prince Andrew’s ex says Clinton, Epstein were ‘like brothers’.
THE LEFT FINDS NEW WAYS TO FAIL: Privileges.
ONLY A SURPRISE TO THE WILLFULLY BLIND, BUT HEY, WE’RE GLAD HE ADMITTED IT: Hakeem Jeffries lets the cat out of the bag about Dems’ plan for America.
EVERY POWER GRAB THEY TRIED DESTROYED THEIR STRENGTH: After COVID, Never Again.
LIKE ALL TALES FROM THE MARXISTS, IT WAS NEVER PARTICULARLY RAVELLED: The January 6 Narrative is Starting to Unravel.
Good Lord, people. Look what they’ve done to publishing and Hollywood now it’s almost solid Marxism. These people haven’t had an original idea ever. Their secret hope is that communism will redistribute brains and creativity.
THE BIDEN JUNTA IS DANGEROUS TO THE WORLD: Rand Paul: Biden’s ‘Muddled Message’ is ‘Dangerous to the Country,’ He Probably Shouldn’t ‘Speak and Appear in Public’.
The vast conspiracy to “fortify” our elections turns out to have been a group of self-important imbeciles with delusions of grandeur. Of course, we already knew that, since that’s the definition of Marxist. But they are demonstrating it to the world in exquisite detail.
May the Lord protect fools, drunkards and the United States of America. We need it.
WELL, THEY DO HAVE THE BRAINS OF PEANUTS: M&M Candy Characters Going Woke To Be Inclusive.
ANY ATHLETES WHO GO TO CHINA ARE OUT OF THEIR EVER LOVING MINDS: China: Punish Olympic Athletes Who Engage In Wrong Speak .
IT’S VERY OLD STUPIDITY: Progressive View That “Kids Belong To Whole Communities” Not Parents Isn’t New, That Viral Video Is From 2013.
And of a piece with the left’s view of humans as widgets that fit broad classes. The truth is these people are not American inside their heads. Their every belief is against our founding.
ALL IN ALL IT’S JUST ANOTHER, ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL: THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF UTTER FAILURE.
#ISTANDWITHTRUCKERS: Truckers Stage Protest Against Mandates At The U.S.-Canada Border at Emerson Manitoba.
#solidarnosc!
January 20, 2022
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Biden acts much more like Putin’s puppet than Trump ever did.
UPDATE: From the open thread:
OPEN THREAD: Whenever I’m down, I call on you, my friend.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Youngkin Brings the Pain and Shows Republicans How to Win.
Dumb people think the secret of Trump was mean tweets. No, those were just an amusing fringe benefit. Trump’s gift to the party was to demonstrate how Republicans can win going forward. And it’s not with some warmed-over perversion of Reaganism that the consultant class pushes. It’s easy. Focus on the concerns of the voters, not the donors or the elite, and then keep your promises. Simple, but effective. That’s the recipe for GOP success in the post-Trump era.
And Youngkin did it. A Republican moderate is not supposed to attack the institutional racism of CRT in the schools even though the people are screaming about it. That kind of cultural issue is icky, and people at the country club will turn up their noses at you. Talk about tax cuts, about liking the cops, and about building a bridge across the aisle to a better tomorrow.
But Youngkin was having none of that. He smelled blood and went for the jugular. He listened to the people, instead of trying to tell them what they wanted.
And so far, he looks like he’s having fun doing it as well: Glenn Youngkin Masterfully Trolls Woke Establishment With Diversity Hire. “The governor has renamed the state’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer the Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion Officer. Further, he appointed a conservative to the spot and also listed one of the job requirements as being an ‘ambassador for unborn children.’ Democrats are not used to being fought on their own ground. By and large, the left has come to expect that while they may be opposed, the guardrails they’ve set up will be respected. That’s why a change like this makes them so upset, and to be sure, the wailing in response has been deafening. You aren’t supposed to actually retake territory when you fight the left. You are, instead, supposed to kowtow to their institutions and work around the edges. That’s what they’ve come to expect from Republicans like Larry Hogan. Youngkin continues to impress, though. Instead of playing by the left’s rules, he’s decapitating their sacred cows. The inclusion of unborn babies in the mission of the state’s Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion office is master trolling, but it’s also an incredible moral imperative.”
UPDATE: Loudoun County schools’ chief of staff axed over sex-attack scandal: reports.
(Via Small Dead Animals.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Jordan Peterson resigns from his tenured position at University of Toronto.
We are now at the point where race, ethnicity, “gender,” or sexual preference is first, accepted as the fundamental characteristic defining each person (just as the radical leftists were hoping) and second, is now treated as the most important qualification for study, research and employment…
And it’s not just the universities. And the professional colleges. And Hollywood. And the corporate world. Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity — that radical leftist Trinity — is destroying us. Wondering about the divisiveness that is currently besetting us? Look no farther than DIE. Wondering — more specifically — about the attractiveness of Trump? Look no farther than DIE. When does the left go too far? When they worship at the altar of DIE, and insist that the rest of us, who mostly want to be left alone, do so as well. Enough already. Enough. Enough.
Read the whole thing.
WELCOME BACK, CARTER! Is Stagflation Returning in 2022?
During the late 1970s, American families experienced stagflation—a combination of economic stagnation and significantly higher inflation. By the summer of 1980, unemployment hit 7.8% and the economy was actually shrinking. On the year, inflation spiked 12.3%.
Some fear that today’s slowing economic growth (2.3% annualized last quarter) and the steepest price hikes in 40 years portend a return to stagflation.
Real weekly earnings have plummeted more than 6% since the middle of last year, and the cost of living eclipsed wage increases. Dramatic price hikes in housing, rent, vehicles, gasoline, and some food staples have fueled the feeling that something in our economy is amiss.
Government mandates, regulations, spending, and borrowing are largely to blame for this painful increase in the cost of living. These governmental actions suppressed the supply of goods and services while spurring demand.
Read the whole thing.
Lastly, Freedom speaks directly to Ming. “Listen, Yao Ming, you or your Communist Party cannot buy me. I do not need a luxury tour of China,” he says. “I want the world to see the real side of China under [the] cultish Chinese Communist Party’s brutal rule, [with] slave labor camps and millions living in fear because of inescapable government surveillance.” Freedom concludes the video, saying he will certainly buy his own ticket to China if Ming will agree to show him the real China of the Uyghurs, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Shuai.
Kudos to Enes Kanter Freedom for such a clear and clever response. It’s refreshing to see a high-profile celebrity refuse to bow to financial or social pressures and instead do and say what is right. It’s a good bet Yao Ming and the Communists wish Freedom would quietly go away. As of publication time, Ming and the Chinese government have yet to respond.
To invert the Godfather, Kanter-Freedom is making him an offer he can’t accept.
TEXAS SYNAGOGUE TERRORIST RANTED ABOUT “F***ING JEWS” IN LAST CALL TO FAMILY MADE DURING SIEGE:
The disturbing 11-and-a-half minute audio recording, obtained from a security source, reveals a conversation between Akram and his brother, Gulbar, 43, who was speaking from a police station in Blackburn in an attempt to persuade him to surrender.
In a semi-coherent ramble about American conflicts overseas, the terrorist said: “Why do these f***ing motherf***ers come to our countries, rape our women and f*** our kids? I’m setting a precedent… maybe they’ll have compassion for f***ing Jews.”
When urged by Gulbar to end the siege, do time in prison and come back to his family, Akram shouted that he had been “praying to Allah for two years for this” and intended to die. “I’d rather live one day as a lion than 100 years as a jackal,” he said.
“I’m going to go toe-to-toe with [police] and they can shoot me dead … I’m coming home in a body bag.”
He added: “I promised my brother on his deathbed that I’d go down a martyr.” One of his younger brothers died three months ago, reportedly from Covid.
And as soon as it was over, the media were quick to forget the story, Eve Barlow writes:
The news of this incident broke as it was happening, spread by Jewish media outlets and Jewish activists on social media. As is typical for the Jewish news cycle, when mainstream media picked up the story, they doubted its authenticity. The BBC, Guardian and Telegraph all reported the situation with quotation marks around the word ‘hostage’, because apparently it wasn’t obvious enough that this was a hostage situation. Associated Press wrote: ‘Hostages apparently taken at Texas synagogue’.
The news did not make the front page of the New York Times the next day. It didn’t receive nearly as much coverage on rolling televised news as such events warrant. Why? It has no political use. It’s not on the agenda. The hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram – shot dead in the standoff with police and SWAT teams – wasn’t a white supremacist nor a neo-Nazi. He was avenging a Jihadi serving an 86-year sentence, who at her trial had asked that there be no Zionists or Israelis on her jury.
As for Twitter pundits, where the previous week people with zero interest in Jew hate were laying into JK Rowling over the question of whether or not her depiction of goblins in Harry Potter was antisemitic, causing it to trend with a hashtag. During this desperate moment for Jewish Americans? Crickets. The opportunists who used Jewish victimhood to attack a now controversial public figure had no business with this more prescient instance of antisemitism. Disappointing doesn’t cover the angering sense of betrayal and abuse.
The message was loud. Nobody cared. If they did, they were actively trying to minimise or justify the attack. Some blue tick voices made it about the Islamophobia that may or may not result from a scenario in which a terrorist was potentially going to kill four innocent Jews. Only a month prior to this, Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), had given a spine-chilling speech in which she warned against ‘Zionist synagogues’ and other Zionist organisations as ‘enemies’.
It’s evil that people have a hard time naming an attack on a synagogue an act of antisemitism. Wonder why a Muslim extremist would hold a rabbi hostage at gun point and force him to call another rabbi in a faraway state believing that other rabbi had some institutional power to free an imprisoned terrorist? It is because that terrorist believed Jews wield such power. It is because that terrorist spread the oldest antisemitic tropes. The terrorist didn’t walk into a Starbucks. He walked into a synagogue. If this had been a Black church or an LGBTQ+ nightclub, there’d have been no question calling the act what it was. But Jews are not granted the same ferocious collective protection.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and the story’s burial makes sense. In addition to there being no political use to the left, the media don’t want to remind voters, especially after Biden’s Afghanistan debacle, that, as Rabbi Michael Barclay writes, “It is a reality that there are wolves at the door.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Rejuvenation by controlled reprogramming is the latest gambit in anti-aging. “Startups are betting that partial reprogramming with Yamanaka factors may lead to age reversal, but hurdles remain.”