I’VE SAID FOR A LONG TIME THIS IS AN ATTACK ON US, ODDS. ON THE NAIL THAT STICKS UP: Rigid Conformity.
Archive for 2022
September 30, 2022
FOR THE TIMES, THEY ARE ACHANGING: Only the woke don’t know they’re over.
IS IT A SIGN OF BAD CHARACTER THAT I HAVE TROUBLE FEELNG SYMPATHY FOR ‘HOLLYWOOD HIPSTERS’? Notorious ‘Wall Street Whiz Kid’ con man now reportedly scamming Hollywood hipsters.
BUT, BUT, BUT LE LEMON REALLY WOULD LIKE TO: Acting NOAA Hurricane Director Tells Don Lemon Twice You Cannot Blame Climate Change for Hurricane Ian.
QUIETLY, INEXORABLY, THERE IS A GREAT MIGRATION GOING ON: Anti-CRT Parent Advocate Leaving New York City For The ‘Free State of Florida’.
PIERRE DELECTO HAS OUTSTAYED HIS WELCOME IN PUBLIC LIFE: Reports: Mitt Romney Trying to Undermine Mike Lee Re-Election Effort.
I DON’T THINK ANYONE CARES ABOUT BIDEN’S OPINIONS: Biden Puts Italy’s New PM Giorgi Meloni on the Same Level as Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping.
He puts half of American citizens (or more) on a level with Mussolini, after all.
QUIETLY SO AS NOT TO ADMIT THEY PUT YOU THROUGH H*LL FOR NOTHING: CDC Quietly Drops Universal Masking at Nursing Homes & Hospitals.
THE MAN IS AN INTELLECTUAL MIDGET: Obama On Immigration: GOP Fears People Of Darker Shades.
How about sane people fear people from broken cultures, who lack the skills to make it in a technological society?
And yes, people from broken cultures can acculturate and make positive contributions. But the likelihood falls with mass immigration, where they don’t need to adapt to the host culture. Let’s make immigration safe, legal and rare.
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THEY BOTH HAVE DEMENTIA? Kamala Harris Makes Joe Biden Gaffe On DMZ.
THIS ONE IS STUPID ALL THE WAY DOWN: Trans Army Major And Wife Attempted Russian Collusion.
September 29, 2022
DOESN’T THIS MEAN THAT CNN IS MISGENDERING THIS POOR DOCTOR?: The doctor who was billed as the first openly transgender officer in the Army is indicted for passing confidential information to the Russians. CNN forgot to mention the part about the doctor’s being a transgender celebrity in its article. (The Washington Free Beacon didn’t forget.)
OPEN THREAD: Come, ye jolly commenters bold.
BLAME FAUCI, ET AL.: State data offer further proof that school lockdowns were a disaster for NYC kids.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China seeks new partners for lunar and deep space exploration.
MY FRIENDS FROM THE SUPREME BEINGS OF LEISURE will be on Dublab at 8 pm ET tonight.
I’VE LINKED TO THIS BEFORE, but I was just rereading Arthur Allen Leff’s Memorandum From The Devil, and, well, it’s worth linking again. “Me too.” Hmm.
MANDELA BARNES: “I really could not care less about a 2nd Amendment ‘right.'”
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a classic millennial, loves social media.
Indeed, Barnes — a Democrat challenging Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson — has tweeted more than 18,400 times since joining Twitter a decade ago, an average of nearly five tweets a day.
“I would probably say I spend too much time online,” Barnes, 35, said in a February 2021 interview. “I can be reading too, but I spend a little too much time online.”
But what’s he saying on Twitter?
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Barnes asked in November 2016 if the presidential election had been “rigged.”* Months later, the first-term Democrat declared Donald Trump, then president, a “Russian spy.” More recently, he dismissed the notion that George Washington was one of the country’s top presidents.
Barnes once said he “really could not care less about a 2nd Amendment ‘right’” to bear arms. He also criticized House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana for not changing his position on gun control after being shot in the hip during practice for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017.
“Taking one for the team,” Barnes wrote even as Scalise was using crutches and a scooter to get around the Capitol. “I question how people vote against self interest but this is next level. He literally almost died on this hill.”
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
* I eagerly await Joe Biden denouncing this classic case of election denial, which fellow Democrat Mark Warner declared was the moral equivalent of terrorism on the anniversary of 9/11.
NO, THIS ISN’T A BABYLON BEE HEADLINE: Wife of Top Biden Aide Named Ambassador for Plants and Animals. “Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced that Monica Medina, wife of White House chief of staff Ron Klain, will serve as U.S. Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources. According to the Washington Post, which initially declined to note that Medina is married to Klain, the decision to promote her to the newly established role of ‘diplomat for plants and animals’ is one that ‘underscores the Biden’s administration’s desire’ to fight climate change.”
MUST-FLEE TV: “Was anyone asking for a five-part docuseries about the Lincoln Project? Whether you want one or not, Showtime unveiled the trailer yesterday. So fine, let’s talk about the Lincoln Project — its scandals, its bad decisions, its hypocrisy, how it embodies a lot of what it denounces, how it deserves no credit for Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, and how it is most useful as a cautionary tale for other ambitious minds in politics.”
Somehow I’m not holding my breath that the documentary makers will tackle this moment:
