NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Ohio School District Spent $24,000 Instructing Educators on How to Hide Kids’ ‘Gender Transitions’ From Parents.
Archive for 2023
July 12, 2023
RIP: Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being author, dies aged 94.
Exit Quote: “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.”
—Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1979.
READINESS: Nearly 40% of US Attack Submarines Are Out of Commission for Repairs. “As of this year, 18 of the US Navy’s 49 attack submarines — 37% — were out of commission, according to previously undisclosed Navy data published by the Congressional Research Service. That leaves the US at a critical disadvantage against China’s numerically superior fleet.”
DON’T MISS IT ON THE BIG SCREEN: The VodkaPundit Review of ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.’ “The short version is: This is a perfect summer popcorn flick. Continue on for the slightly longer review with only the tiniest of spoilers that you might already have gotten from the trailer.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (CHINA EDITION): China’s economic downturn is more shocking than outsiders realize, says former Chinese property mogul.
According to Desmond Shum — once at the head of a multibillion-dollar development firm that he left in 2015 upon tighter control by Beijing — sales across industries, even those thought to be insulated from any slowdown, are falling, and the economic outlook among Chinese consumers is so dire that executives are reporting blatant acts of theft by employees.
“Several things have shocked me in conversations I’ve had with businesspeople in China,” he said. “A big dairy company is producing more milk powder because people are cutting back on buying milk. Normally this is one of the last things you would cut out.”
Shum’s description of conditions on the ground in China provide an inside look at stagnating growth, as the country’s post-pandemic recovery has fizzled dramatically since the first quarter.
Plus: “People talk about ‘deglobalization,’ but the proper term is ‘reglobalization minus China.'”
I suppose it’s some small comfort to know that China’s elites are doing as bang-up a job as our own.
THAT’S STUFF FOR AFFLUENT WHITE WOMEN: Very few HBCUs offer a major in women’s studies, research shows. The ability to major in “women’s studies” or “gender studies” or the like is white privilege in its most refined form.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Air Force Suspends Bonuses and Personnel Moves Due to ‘Funding Shortfall.’
And that’s with the first major land war in Europe since 1945 and Communist Chinese navy larger than our own.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: LA Times accused of reinforcing right-wing plan to ‘dumb-down America’ after outlet reveals lackluster ROI from elite schools.
The dumbing down of American education isn’t coming from the right. It’s coming from inside the house.
WHEN YOUR HOT TAKE IS JUST TOO GOOD TO CHECK:
This is the current headline and editor’s note above a completely rewritten story: We got it wrong: More people moved out of New York and California than Florida in 2021. “This story has been updated to correct an error regarding Census data. In 2021, an estimated 469,577 people moved out of Florida, while 674,740 people relocated to the state. An earlier version of the story switched those numbers.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Team Biden Doubles Down on Its Soviet Censorship Freak Flag. “Then the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu came ashore in America. The Dems found it impossible to hide their fondness for totalitarianism. It’s been one headlong rush to the commie cliff ever since.”
RESTORING TRUST IN OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS: 56% Of Voters Agree Biden ‘Likely’ Took Bribes In Office.
Whistleblowers allege President Joe Biden and his family have taken up to $30 million in illicit bribes and payments from foreign sources tied to China, Russia and Ukraine. Biden denies it. Do Americans believe him? No. By more than 2-to-1, they say they believe the whistleblowers, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
The online poll of 1,341 adults, taken July 5-7, asked respondents how likely is it that the claims are true? The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.7 percentage points.
The results weren’t close. Americans, by 56% to 27%, called Biden bribery charges “likely,” rather than “unlikely.” Further broken down, the “likely” responses included 34% who called it “very likely” compared to 21% who called it “somewhat likely.” Among the “unlikely” responses, only 12% said it was “not at all likely,” while 15% termed it “not very likely.”
He didn’t get rich selling books, Jack.
THAT’S NOT EVEN THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING HE’S SAID. OKAY, MAYBE IT IS. Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Zakaria tells Biden, ‘You’ve been a great president.’
DE-GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS BEGINNING: Montana drops woke library association.
BIG BROTHER REALLY IS WATCHING YOU: Massachusetts Health Department Covertly Installed COVID Spyware on Phones.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! ‘Woke or KKK’: NYU Hosts Whites-Only ‘Antiracism’ Workshop for Public School Parents: Experts say workshop violated multiple civil rights laws.
Civil rights laws are like a bus — when you reach your stop, you get off.
YEP: Brain Rage: Biden’s Violent Temper a Common Symptom of Dementia, Alzheimer’s.
Related:
Everyone can see that we've now reached the "pretend he's an angry alpha instead of an Alzheimer's patient" stage in the news cycle. Anyone who's cared for a loved one with dementia knows exactly what's going on here. https://t.co/2nu5gWqPIR
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 10, 2023
FIGHT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Jim Caviezel: I Lost Two Agents Over ‘Sound of Freedom.’ “I lost my agents over this. Yep, 17 years, 15 years. I lost my lawyer over this, and now I understand why all these actors didn’t want to do the movie because of this. Listen, you do ‘Schindler’s List’ 50 years later, you’re a hero. Try doing ‘Schindler’s List’ when the real Nazis are right there. Understand how that becomes more dangerous?”
AT AMAZON: Prime Day Deals Continue. #CommissionEarned
“RULE OF LAW:” Whistleblowers: The FBI ignoring Doughty’s injunction on censorship.
A lawless regime has no legitimacy and rules — or falls — by force. That seems to be where they want to go. But you know, being accountable to the citizenry probably counts as “white supremacy” or something nowadays.
FINE, FINE, FINE, BUT CAN THEY NOT FLEE TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD? Citizens are fleeing cities run by Democrats in record numbers.
An amazing number of them bring their “my dog bites racists” t-shirts (Something only someone who knows there are no actual racists around would wear) and their “in this house we believe signs.” And some of us would like to not have to move again. Thank you.
EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Byron York: When investigators won’t investigate Joe Biden. “Republicans suspect the FBI did nothing to investigate and instead buried the allegation. And now they are focusing on who in the Justice Department might have stymied any investigation. In a new letter to David Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware who handled the Hunter Biden investigation, Grassley suggests that a senior official in Weiss’s office, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, repeatedly took steps to frustrate the investigation of Hunter Biden’s, and Joe Biden’s, financial dealings.”
THET CAN’T EVEN COUNT ALL THEIR OWN GRANDKIDS: How Many Bidens Live in the White House, Anyway?