Archive for 2023
March 27, 2023
YA THINK? Recession Odds Rising. We’re basically already in one, though all the money-printing has produced distortions that make it less obvious.
OUR DOTARD-IN-CHIEF: “And who are those good-looking kids back there?” Yes, he really says that.
BREAKING: Fox News cuts to Joe Biden expecting him to speak on the Nashville shooting, instead finds him ranting about eating Jeni’s chocolate chip ice cream.pic.twitter.com/6rJsFL2dAN
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 27, 2023
Related: The shooter was identified as Audrey Hale, 28, of Nashville, according to the chief, who said she identifies as transgender. A Christian school shot up by a trans person. How will the press handle this?
THE PAST IS ALWAYS CHANGING, ONLY THE FUTURE IS CERTAIN: ‘Indigenous Studies’ lecturer denies historical brutality of Native American tribes, blames ‘white people.’
There’s more racism in wokeness than there was in Woodrow Wilson.
Also, when you have to say “I’m not a parody account.” . . .
JOHN TIERNEY: A California Covid Postmortem.
No state was in a better position than California to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. It had a relatively young population, a climate that encouraged people to spend time outdoors, a tech industry that profited from the pandemic’s surge in online traffic, and top-flight medical and research institutions with some of the world’s leading experts on public health and epidemiology. But no state inflicted so much needless suffering for so long on its children and adults.
When the pandemic began, researchers in California were the first in the United States to analyze the threat accurately and offer sensible advice, urging focused protection for the elderly, while warning that school closures and lockdowns were futile and destructive. But instead of heeding their expertise, the progressives dominating the state’s public and private institutions launched campaigns to defame, ostracize, and silence them. These experts, like so many other fleeing Californians, had to leave the state to find leaders who embraced scientific analysis and rational policies.
No other state infringed upon individual liberties more zealously. California was the first to lock down and the last to end its state of emergency (at the end of February of this year). It closed not only schools and businesses but also playgrounds, parks, and beaches. A police boat in Malibu chased down a solitary surfer so that he could be arrested and handcuffed; another surfer was fined $1,000 for endangering precisely no one. Church gatherings were outlawed for nearly a year, until the Supreme Court finally overturned the ban. Other courts had to intervene to keep public schools in San Diego and Los Angeles from mandating vaccines for students.
As Juliette “Baldilocks” Ochieng wrote yesterday, “I-10 West leads to the 405, and obviously to all points west of that like Santa Monica, Venice Beach, and Beverly Hills. And the 405 North leads to cities where people of means live: entertainment professionals, actors, producers and the like — in other words, rich people. So, all these fine, working gentlemen were heading out to service the houses of these people — to cut their grass, to service their swimming pools, to fix any construction and plumbing issues, and so on. You have to remember how afraid everyone was back then — that some kind of new, virulent disease was destined to kill us all. But the rich did not believe it, and neither did I.”
FLORIDA, MAN! DeSantis Makes Universal School Choice a Reality.
READER FAVORITE: Van Heusen Men’s Dress Shirt. #CommissionEarned
FRED HOYLE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Astrobiologist suggests we look for signs of life from elsewhere in the galaxy by studying space dust.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Is GenX the Last Generation of Americans?
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I WANT ROOM TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS, BUT I REALLY WANT REACTIONLESS THRUSTERS AND A SUPERLUMINAL DRIVE: Room-temperature superconductors could zap us into the future.
CHANGE: 32 states and counting: Why parents bills of rights are sweeping US. “The proposed laws have fueled questions about the role parents should play in their children’s education. At the same time, they have fanned partisan flames, weaponizing a longstanding concept – parental rights – that academic experts and advocates alike say should not be politically charged.”
By and large, “academic experts and advocates” seem to believe that parents should just sit down and shut up.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Study reveals map of moon’s water near its south pole. “It’s clear, however, that even at its lowest limit, the moon contains much more water than we once believed.”
HMM: Scientists show that odors from other people’s sweat can help treat social anxiety. I wonder if the rise of air conditioning and deodorants has anything to do with the increase in social anxiety?
Just to be safe, as an experiment let’s ban air conditioning in DC!
APPARENTLY THIS IS THE NEXT DAMN THING WE’RE SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT: CNN Accuses White Users of ‘Digital Blackface’ for Sharing Memes.
THIS IS UNSURPRISING: Women with mental illnesses may be at higher risk of cervical cancer.
MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR THE SILENT GENERATION AND THE FIRST-WAVE BOOMERS TO STEP ASIDE: Trump troubles, McConnell absence create GOP leadership vacuum.
JOSH BLACKMAN IS UNIMPRESSED BY JOAN BISKUPIC’S LATEST: “In the old days, when Biskupic published a bombshell, it went kaboom. We learned things that we couldn’t figure out on our own. Now, her exclusives are barely there. At most, she confirms things that are fairly obvious. Or she tells us things that are sort of novel, but do not get to the heart of the Court’s decision-making process.”
HEY, YOU KNOW WHO ELSE BURNED BOOKS? Now trans activists burn Harry Potter books: JK Rowling ridicules Australian campaigner over video showing copy of the ‘Goblet of Fire’ being torched — as Brit women’s right’s protester Kellie Jay-Keen leaves Down Under after violent clashes.
JK Rowling has ridiculed a trans rights activist who posted video of a Harry Potter book being burned, mocking the firestarter’s copyright mark as ‘Just in case people try and submit to the Academy Awards without your approval’.
The disturbing footage from Tess Hall was put on a public Twitter feed and showed a fire pit before the novel was added in.
It came in the wake of violent scenes as women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen -also known by campaign name Posie Parker – was attacked in New Zealand.
Over video of the fourth book in the series Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire being torched, without a hint of irony Hall bemoaned ‘hate we’ve been seeing of late’.
Earlier: Brendan O’Neill: The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand.
Next time you’re reading a history book and find yourself wondering how Salem came to be consumed by such swirling hysteria, watch the clips of Posie’s persecution in New Zealand. This is how it happens. This is how the fear of witches can overrule reason and unleash the darkest, most punitive passions of the mob.
And what is Parker’s crime? What did this witch do? She said, ‘A woman is an adult human female’. That’s it. Parker, whose real name is Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, is well known for her criticism of the ideology of transgenderism. She thinks a man never becomes a woman, no matter how many hormones he takes or surgeries he undergoes. She thinks if you were born male, you will die male, and in the time in between you have no right whatsoever to enter any women-only space.
This is heresy. Dissenting from the gospel of gender ideology is to the 21st century what dissenting from the actual gospels was to the 15th. And so Parker must be punished. It was a modern-day stoning, so mercifully they only threw soup and water and planks of cardboard at the blasphemer.
Parker organises public events called ‘Let Women Speak’. She has done it across the UK, in parts of the US, and for the past couple of weeks she’s been doing it in Australia and New Zealand.
It’s a genius initiative. She knows these gatherings of women who merely want to give voice to their profane belief that sex can never be changed will draw out crowds of intolerant trans activists and their allies. She knows the ‘Be Kind’ mob will do everything in its power to stop women from speaking. And she knows it will all brilliantly illustrate her core belief: that trans activism is misogyny in disguise, misogyny in drag, if you like, and that it has devoted itself to silencing women who believe in biology.
Why is the left such a cesspit of misogynistic hatred?
Somebody needs to ask themselves, “Are we the baddies?”
GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: Escape from L.A. – Dispatches from a once-great city in decline.
In my very first Substack essay, published here a little over a year ago, I argued that Decline is a Choice. That many of the public and private sector Oligarchs running Big Blue cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, along with the braindead government fucntionaries who do their bidding and the Press who covers for them, assume that the days of TAXI DRIVER and DEATH WISH have been forever buried in our past, never to return. But they haven’t yet learned that history isn’t always an arc… sometimes it’s a circle. And the policy choices being made in America’s bluest cities are indeed bringing the DEATH WISH era back, like a zombie from a very different kind of movie.
Worse, the choices that these Oligarchs and their Government lackeys make are done without much input from the public… a public which nevertheless must suffer the consequences of those choices when they inevitably fail.
Enter, Los Angeles… A once great city, something like a paradise on earth, really… now in the grips of a terrifying and, I suspect, irreversible decline.
Read the whole thing.
CUOMO ISN’T RED-PILLED SO MUCH AS LOOKING FOR A WAY BACK INTO POLITICS: You’ll Never Guess Who Is Ripping the Investigations Into Trump as ‘All Politics.’