Archive for 2025
January 11, 2025
ROLLING BACK THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: The climate scaremongers: Net Zero? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
THEY’LL STILL TRY TO FILTER, BUT YES: The old media logjam has broken: Even the left is now getting its news from new media.
WE DON’T HAVE TO IMAGINE THEM: Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?
DISINFORMATION MEANS “THINGS DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW”: Newsom Complains About ‘Disinformation’ as Wildfires Destroy Los Angeles Area.
IT’S THE RETURN OF FREE SPEECH – ELON’S JUST FACILITATING: In Elon Musk, Britain has cause for hope.
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CERTAINLY SOCIALIST: Adolf Hitler, Communist.
AND IT’S TIME WE GOT THEM STRAIGHT: It’s all about priorities.
DUMB OR CALLOUS? LAFD Assistant Chief Says Dumbest Things Imaginable.
IT’S EVERYWHERE. THE LA FIRE IS JUST THE CANARY IN THE COALMINE: A crisis of competence.
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE: Marriage ages are up — but these Gen Zers are bucking the trend with ‘startup’ unions.
THE LEFT’S SCHADENFREUDE WAS… PREMATURE: A miracle has happened. We managed to get to our property and our home, that we were told is gone forever, is still standing.
January 10, 2025
IT’S A NEW WORLD: A (female) friend who’s partying with the girls in Key West writes: “Drag queens making Kamala jokes. Fantastic. It’s a new world.”
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
UNDER THE BUS WITH YOU: LA Fire Chief is dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass after lashing out over department cuts as deadly blazes devastate city.
Of course, now she has no incentive to keep quiet.
UPDATE: Hmm.
#UPDATE Statement from @MayorOfLA office: “The Mayor and Chief met. The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelenos.”
— Josh Haskell (@abc7JoshHaskell) January 11, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX rolls Starship out to pad ahead of Flight 7 test launch (photos).
Sked to fly Monday afternoon.
THE TECH BROS ARE NOW UNITING IN FAVOR OF CHANGE. You had Zuckerberg on Rogan. Meanwhile you also have Peter Thiel in the London Financial Times, calling for deep investigations of government misconduct and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The link works for me, and I’m not a subscriber, so I hope it’ll work for you. But exactly what he says is not as significant as the fact that so many tech lords are coming out together against the abuses of the outgoing regime. Keep an eye on Bill Gates, though personally I think he’s too compromised to join the movement.
HMM: High THC, High Risk: The Cannabis-Psychosis Link.
Related:
A far higher percentage of cannabis than alcohol users wind up using daily and/or meet guidelines for addictive or problematic use.
But cannabis culture celebrates "wake and bake" use; people who need a drink to get out of bed know what they are, and what they are is alcoholics. https://t.co/xYXZjdxmHU
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) January 9, 2025
LOL, LIZ WARREN:
My neighbors are not paying $11 billion in taxes this year. https://t.co/VyxR2re5Dv pic.twitter.com/JQTZUD9XLZ
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 10, 2025
CHANGE:
BREAKING: Columbia University law professor, Katherine Franke, has left Columbia after an investigation found that she had discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students.
In the complaint, it was found that Franke repeatedly violated Columbia’s anti-discrimination policy. pic.twitter.com/dqICF8mqGI
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 10, 2025
EH, TELLING ANY WOMAN TO “CALM DOWN” RAISES BLOOD PRESSURE, APPARENTLY. Telling new mothers of color to calm down can raise postpartum hypertension, study finds.
DANIEL GREENFIELD: The LAFD is Run by Three Lesbians Named ‘Kirsten.’
Mayor Eric Garcetti had promised to bring the number of women up to 5% from 3.5% and now the LAFD is approaching 8%. No one was allowed to ask if this was going to make the LAFD any better at fighting fires now that it was hiring in order to hit a diversity target.
Beyond DEI, every stupid woke idea found a home under Crowley’s regime. After taking over, Crowley debuted the first “electric fire engine” to fight “pollution”, instead it was sidelined by a water leak. The vaccine mandate ousted some firefighters and suspended others. Last year, with a shortage of firefighters, the LAFD began trying to bring some of them back.
Los Angeles and the LAFD fought the Firefighters4Freedom Foundation group which represented 500 members of the LAFD. Now the LAFD has been reduced to begging for volunteers with firefighting experience. The DEI LAFD seems to be a whole lot more diverse, but also a lot less competent at deploying manpower than the old organization used to be.
While the LAFD might have lost a whole lot white men who knew how to fight fires, it gained a lot of DEI hires who knew how to pursue diversity, inclusion and all the pronoun stuff.
And while LA might have lost a lot of buildings, it gained a lot of lesbian fire chiefs.
Exit questions from center-left comedienne Whitney Cummings:
I love a lesbo but LA fire is run by THREE lesbians? Are you allowed to just only recruit people in your dating pool? pic.twitter.com/ZA3ez92aUA
— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 10, 2025
UPDATE:
Remember, if you're a man and you end up trapped in a fire, you got yourself in the wrong place. If you're a criminal and you got sent to jail, you're a victim of systemic racism. Welcome to Los Angeles! https://t.co/86bq5XVX41
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 10, 2025
RED-PILLED:
Massive news: Meta is ending DEI. Only days after @finkd promised to end biased fact checks, now his company is ending DEI.
I warned Meta in October that they were one of my DEI targets for 2025.
Here’s what’s changing at Facebook & IG:
• Meta will no longer have a DEI team.… pic.twitter.com/owBeg7zIbV
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 10, 2025
I’VE BEEN SAYING THAT ESG IS A BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY FROM THE BEGINNING: Texas court rules against American Airlines in ESG 401(k) plan case: The presiding judge found the airline breached its fiduciary duty under federal law by prioritizing non-financial considerations in its employee retirement plan.
This was obvious, but the obviousness was overridden by the sense that anything that’s a fad among the ruling class must be okay.