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Archive for 2022
April 14, 2022
A MASSIVE TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE WEALTHY: Schumer Says Biden ‘More Open’ to Canceling Student Debt by Executive Action.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Colorado Wants to Fine Schools $25K a Month That Don’t Drop Indian Mascots.
Why does the left want to toss Native Americans down the memory hole?
SPACEX’S STARSHIP: America’s Secret Weapon. “Dual-use technologies always turn into weapons.”
FROM THE IEEE: Including IEEE in Your Estate Plans Can Make A Difference.
From me: Including Glenn Reynolds in your estate plans can make a difference! Uh, certainly for me. Which is just like IEEE. . .
SO INSTAPUNDIT HAS ROUGHLY 50 TIMES THE AUDIENCE OF CNN+ I GUESS:
To be fair, I don’t have Chris Wallace.
JIM TREACHER: Elon Musk Seems Like a Cool Guy and Maybe He’ll Hire Me at Twitter. “Libs don’t want us expressing our honest opinions, because then it’s a lot tougher to control us. And they hate being ridiculed because, as Saul Alinsky noted decades ago, there’s no defense against it. If you make a joke about Richard Levine being a man — which he is, because that’s how chromosomes work and everybody knows it — libs will panic and try to silence you. In their minds, they have no choice. The truth is just too dangerous. Elon Musk is standing up for the Babylon Bee, wielding his astonishing fortune like a giant spiked baseball bat, and it’s a modern liberal’s worst nightmare. Tee-hee!”
LIVE AT 3 P.M. EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.
I MEAN SURE, MAYBE… The Twitterati are taking this whole “possible free speech” thing super well and I, for one, am glad they are the people who set the agenda for our public discussion.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Family structure associated with delinquency for adolescents. “Adolescents living in single-father, single-mother, father-stepmother and mother-stepfather families report more delinquency than those living with both their parents.”
THE GOVERNMENT PLOT TO KIDNAP A GOVERNOR: Inside the FBI’s infiltration and entrapment of a Michigan militia crew.
The FBI got walloped last week when a Michigan jury concluded that the bureau had entrapped two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Those men and others were arrested a few weeks before the 2020 election in a high-profile, FBI-fabricated case that Joe Biden claimed showed President Trump’s “tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such as this one.” But the jury verdict exposes how the feds have created the monsters they parade to vindicate their vast power over Americans.
Michigan was a swing state in the 2020 election. When the arrests were announced, Whitmer speedily denounced Trump for inciting “domestic terrorism.”
Biden won the 2020 election because of the early voting, and the Michigan kidnapping plot was one of the biggest stories in October 2020. Prior to the presidential election, Attorney General Bill Barr assured that news did not leak about multiple federal investigations into Hunter Biden. But the FBI felt no such constraints and trumpeted a ludicrous scheme that was shot down even by a jury that a federal judge had largely blindfolded. . . .
It was all a setup. Shortly before that excursion, an FBI agent texted instructions to Chapel: “Mission is to kill the governor specifically.” There were as many FBI informants and undercover agents as there were purported plotters in this case.
The conspiracy began unraveling even before the trial began last March.
From tech companies to the FBI, every single part of the establishment dedicated itself to ensuring that Biden was installed.
Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
JON GABRIEL: We Can No Longer Afford to Be ‘Respectable.’
Perhaps if you’ve made a lot of money, sold a lot of books, need to curry favor with media moguls, and have grown accustomed to a certain level of material wealth and social influence, these attacks spook you. After all, you have to pay for the house, the cabin, and your kids’ private school.
Or you’re less materialistic yet thrive on the speaking invites, conferences, and Beltway social connections. You think the primary goal of life is to be “nice” and “respectable.” Abandoning that belief horrifies you.
The rest of us no longer care about being respected, especially by people who despise us. We expect the insults, the bad-faith arguments, and attempts at cancellation. When attacked on social media, the only passion I can gin up is clicking the “mute” button.
Read the whole thing.
OUT ON A LIMB: Rent Control in St. Paul Totally Backfired and Hurt the Poor, Study Reveals.
Thomas Sowell, call your office!
IF MEN WERE LESS SATISFIED, WE’D BE TOLD IT WAS BECAUSE OF MALE ENTITLEMENT: Study underscores gap in sexual satisfaction for men, women. And that they should “man up” and look after their own needs or do without.
On the one hand, I’m sure plenty of men could raise their game. On the other hand, millions of women don’t know where their own vagina is located.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Democrat Operatives Warn Joe Biden Will Have 2024 Primary Challenger.
That should be fun: “[M]ost of the time, presidents who fend off a primary challenge wind up losing the general election. Here’s a look back at the major primary challenges against presidents in the modern era.”
NO: Fauci Fanboys on Chinese-style Lockdowns, Admits Real Purpose of Lockdowns. “Well, China has a number of problems, two of which are that the complete lockdown — which was their approach — a strictest lockdown you’d never be able to implement in the United States. Although that prevents the spread of infection — I remember early on they were saying, and I think accurately, that they were doing better than anyone else.”
STRANGERS IN A NORMAL LAND: WaPo Mounts Another Expedition To Darkest Redstate Texas.
WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS: Howie Carr: Biden out to empty your pockets.
Putin’s price hikes! Putin’s price hikes! Putin’s price hikes!
No matter how many times Dementia Joe Biden and his caregivers at the White House try to blame out-of-control inflation on the bogeyman du jour, not even low-info Democrat voters seem to be buying into this week’s Big Lie from Deep State media.
It’s all on Brandon, these “extraordinarily elevated” increases in the consumer price index, as Jen Psaki, his fork-tongued flack with the gasoline-colored hair, put it on Monday.
Tuesday’s headline: “Inflation surges 8.5% in March, hitting a new 40-year high.” . . .
What follows are just a few of this week’s stories about what are no longer the “unexpected” disasters being inflicted on the American population by Dementia Joe Biden and his regime.
From 339: “Good news: gas at Cumberland Farms is down to $3.84 from $3.86. So instead of paying $48 to fill up it’s now $47.50.”
From 603: “Market Basket Bedford NH had ZERO ground turkey today. Always have a bunch of it.”
Bruce: “Don’t forget shrinkflation. I bought a bag of air today and they threw in a few potato chips at the bottom of the bag.”
Speaking of which, when was the last time you saw a “pound” of bacon? A “pound” of coffee now generally runs around 11 ounces. Do they even sell half-gallons of ice cream anymore – even the store brands? The ever-diminishing packages remind me of that old country song about divorce: “I can’t afford to half my half again.”
From 617: “We’re renovating our bathroom. The price just keeps going up as lumber and other materials increase in price. The corner beads cost $5 when we bought them last year. Now they’re $14.”
Among Deplorables, Whole Foods has long been derided as “Whole Paycheck.” But its core constituency — the non-working classes — don’t care, because who worries about money if you’re just living off Uncle Sam or your trust fund.
But things are getting so bad that even the rich wokesters who patronize Whole Foods are beginning to feel the pinch. Consider this report last week from Politico on the results of a Democrat focus group:
“A woman from the Boston area who went first mentioned rising gas and food prices, food shortages at her local Whole Foods, and the increasing cost of housing. ‘It just seems like everything is going up, and there’s no end in sight,’ she said.”
From Boston, and she shops at Whole Foods! Hmmm, I wonder who this moonbat voted for in 2020. Truly, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at her plight. Perhaps she can demand a raise at the nonprofit where she works (from home of course because … the Panic).
That’s the thing. Even in the Great Depression, most people had jobs. But inflation hits nearly everyone, and the impact is hard for the government to hide.
Plus:
Of course Republicans are seizing, pouncing, weaponizing all these developments. So the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are accusing any GOP politicians who dare mention the calamity that is Biden of being “fully in lockstep” with Putin.
That was exactly the phrase one of Biden’s payroll patriots used Tuesday to describe Sen. Rick Scott of Florida when he pointed out the crushing effect of deranged Democrat demagoguery on the working classes.
So GOP Congressman felt compelled to point out that, according to recent polls, more than 60% of the American public blames Biden for their economic plight. In other words, close to two-thirds of the American electorate are “fully in lockstep” with Putin.
“That should work well in the midterms,” the Congressman said.
Ouch.
Related: Don’t pretend that high prices and American suffering are a ‘bug’ for the establishment — it’s a historic feature. “Sh*t is so fake that the minute an outsider took office we got cheap gas, cheap food, became energy independent, no wars and focused on our country’s own issues. Establishment hacks get back in and we have inflation, medical tyranny, world war 3, need to take a mortgage for gas.”
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING! JustTheNews digs deeper into the Hunter Biden files (you know, the ones everyone told us was Russian disinformation) and finds yet more shady sh*t:
“[M]emos gathered by the FBI show, the charitable discussions evolved into an expanding relationship between Hunter Biden and Chinese energy giant CEFC to include business deals that would eventually reap the Biden family millions of dollars.”
For those who think this is nothing, and has no bearing on the President, you need only answer ONE question to shut me up:
WHO IS “THE BIG GUY” WHO GETS HIS 10%?