“INTERNAIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS” WON’T RECOVER, NOR SHOULD IT: “Human rights” NGOs have longed lean left, but in the couples of decades they have shed relatively mainstream liberal views to be propaganda agents and lawfare warriors against the West. This has been clear for a while, but the way these organizations have gone to bat for Hamas since 10/7 should have made it obvious to even the dullest observer.
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February 21, 2025
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH UNITED HEALTHCARE? Billionaire Bill Ackman is over here doing deep dive journalism that the media won’t do. The way United Healthcare is acting about its rep calling a doctor out of surgery to hassle her about coverage is weird, any way you slice it.
COLLEGE CLOSURES: A BLESSING IN DISGUISE? I’d love to see a few conservative billionaires pick up some campuses for cheap. The demand for a place where people can just be “normal,” 80s-90s-type college kids is far greater than the supply.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: JD Vance Keeps Groin-Kicking Dem Sacred Cows. “For far too long, the Republican party has elected people who were more worried about upsetting the editorial board at The New York Times than they were about failing the people who voted for them. President Trump has assembled a team full of people who don’t suffer from that problem. The anti-Romneys, if you will.”
WINNING: Panama says many migrants deported from the US agree to be returned to home countries.
Panama’s security minister said on Tuesday that more than half of the migrants deported from the United States to transit point Panama in recent days had accepted voluntary repatriations to their home countries, largely in Asia or the Middle East.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration deported the migrants on three flights, part of his crackdown on unlawful migration.
The 299 migrants have been staying at a hotel in Panama City under the protection of local authorities and with the financial support of the United States through the International Organization for Migration and the U.N. refugee agency, Security Minister Frank Abrego said.
“Today I can tell you that 171 of the (migrants) have accepted to return voluntarily,” said Abrego, adding that the others will leave gradually when the U.N. provides them with their return transportation.
In the interim, those migrants will likely be transferred to a shelter near the Darien Gap jungle in southern Panama that connects Central America with South America.
The New York Times, of course, had to make “camps” the focus: Migrants, Deported to Panama Under Trump Plan, Detained in Remote Jungle Camp.
Passing through the Darien Gap on your way to the U.S. is a human right but passing through the Darien Gap on your way back home is some kind of torture.
BASED ON PAST PERFORMANCE, I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Can Germany rise to the challenge of protecting Europe?
RELIGIOUS ATROCITIES THE WESTERN MEDIA DON’T CARE ABOUT: 70 Christians Beheaded In Congo Church: “We don’t know what to do or how to pray; we’ve had enough of massacres.”
If you’ve had enough, arm yourselves and kill the offenders.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) has once again managed to enrage some very annoying people by writing and publishing a collection of words. Almost five years after liberal journalists whined about feeling “unsafe” because the New York Times published Cotton’s op-ed about restoring law and order in American cities, the Republican senator has just released a new book about China that has thoroughly aggravated a handful of Chinese communists and other joyless incels, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of book reviews on the Barnes & Noble website.
Dozens of first-time users flocked to the site last month to leave angsty one-star reviews of Cotton’s book, Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, which came out on Tuesday. The vast majority of comments appear to have been written—with the help of artificial intelligence or Google Translate—by goons loyal to the communist regime. Several users didn’t even bother to translate their rants into English. “Tim should not earn any income from this book,” first-time user TikTok Refugee wrote in Mandarin. The poorly translated English reviews were far more colorful and creative.
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“Complete Garbage Don’t Waste Your Money,” wrote Mot Nottoc, who described himself or herself as a casual reader. “Tom can’t even point China out on a globe so I highly doubt he knows anything at all about it, let alone enough to write an actual book. Money is his only concern. He holds greed superior and doesn’t care who he tramples on. One Disgusting human being.” Another aggrieved customer, a “highbrow reader” called Agamidae94 from Baton Rouge, said Cotton’s book was “Worse Than Mein Kampf.”
To borrow a pun from acclaimed Korean War surgeon Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce, “Agamidae94 from Baton Rouge” is going to bite his Mao Tse-Tung when he discovers who was really worse than Hitler: Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao?
LOS ANGELES NUKED, TRANS AND NONBINARY HARDEST HIT, HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS “REPORTS:” How a community rallied for trans and nonbinary recovery homes following LA fires.
But what about the women, children, Red Indians, spacemen, and a sort of idealized version of the complete Renaissance man?
RUY TEIXEIRA: One Simple Question for Democrats.
Democrats are roaming in the political wilderness and seem bewildered on how to find their way out. More resistance? More moderation? More lawfare? More denunciations of fascism/authoritarianism/lawlessness? Look for ways to compromise? Don’t look for ways to compromise? Shut down the government? Don’t shut down the government? Better messaging of Democratic positions? Actually change Democratic positions? It’s all so confusing!
It needn’t be. There’s one simple question—a sort of test—that would illuminate the path forward for Democrats.
What would the working class say (WWWCS)?
Let me explain.
The WWWCS test is not so hard to do but it does entail getting outside of the liberal college-educated bubble so many Democrats live within, particularly as experienced on social media, in activist circles and within advocacy, nonprofit, media and academic institutions. Look at actual public opinion data—not as summarized by someone you know or something you read. Look at focus group reports. Talk to actual working-class people—there are lots of them! Listen to your intuitions about how working-class people would likely react to policies and rhetoric currently associated with the Democrats —not how you think they should react. Think of family members or people you grew up with who are working class. Try to get inside their heads. They are less ideological, more focused on material concerns, more likely to be struggling economically, less interested in cutting edge social issues, more patriotic and generally more culturally conservative. All this makes a difference.
It’s solid advice, straight out of the Trump playbook.
But the reason Trump was able to copy the Democrats’ playbook is that today’s “liberal college-educated bubble” Democrats signal their virtue to one another via their disdain for the working class and working-class concerns.
Dana Loesch wrote a decade ago that “You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been To,” and nothing has changed since.
READER FAVORITE: Under Desk Elliptical Machine. #CommissionEarned
LIZ TRUSS: Britain Is A Failed State.
IS IT A DAY THAT ENDS IN “Y?” Watch: Did a Senate Democrat Just Call for an Insurrection?
Do you remember when Democrats accused former President Trump of incitement for telling his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” march to the Capitol to make their voices heard? Well, fast forward to today, and we have a sitting senator engaging in rhetoric that does far more than make a call for peaceful assembly. Earlier this week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) advocated for “revolution” while standing outside in snow-covered Boston, a site steeped in revolutionary history.
“Massachusetts is where revolutions are born,” Markey began. “And the revolution against Donald Trump and Elon Musk starts here.”
“This is the city of revolutionaries from the American Revolution to create checks and balances in the United States Constitution so that we did not have a dictator — a king — the way those colonists were living under it. And they fought all along Massachusetts Avenue. All coming out, the men and women to say, ‘no taxation without representation.’ We want to have a balance, we cannot have a king.”
Markey’s choice of words raises an important question: is “revolution” just a dog whistle for “insurrection”? His post on X proudly calls for this upheaval, and he pinned it to his account to make sure people see it. Perhaps he believes this kind of incendiary language is acceptable when those on the left wield it.
Markey’s words also raise another important question: Why is Markey now talking about the American Revolution and “no taxation without representation” and “we want to have balance,” when in 2019, he was in full “ban all things!” mode when he backed AOC’s infamous Green Nude Eel:
While Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a Green New Deal bill in the U.S. House in February 2019, Markey introduced a Senate version of the same bill.
Here’s the sort of “balance” that AOC and her colleagues was calling for at the time:
● The Green New Deal’s War on Cows.
● Cory Booker: ‘This Planet Simply Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat.
● “The authors state that the GND would like to replace every ‘combustion-engine vehicle’ — trucks, airplanes, boats, and 99 percent of cars — within ten years. Charging stations for electric vehicles will be built “everywhere,” though how power plants will provide the energy needed to charge them is a mystery.”
● Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Aims to Eliminate Air Travel.
As Jim Treacher wrote earlier this week, Apparently, the Green New Deal Runs on Gaslight.
The following year, Markey also didn’t sound very keen about America’s founding:
On Thanksgiving Day in 2020, Markey tweeted the following about the Thanksgiving holiday:
“While we celebrate all that we are grateful for today, we must also remember the true history of Thanksgiving and recognize the atrocities committed against Native Americans, as well as the widespread disease brought by European arrival which decimated the Native population. In Massachusetts, on this 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival, we continue to stand with the Wampanoag people who first met the Pilgrims and celebrate their continued sovereignty and land rights.”
Given the Covid restrictions still in place in Massachusetts, and a governor who was saying, “The science on this one’s pretty clear — gathering in groups indoors for an extended period of time with family and friends is likely the worst possible scenario for spreading the virus…If you gather with people outside your household, limit guests as much as possible and keep it to your limited social network, who you see on a regular basis,” I’m sure Markey’s boilerplate leftism sold particularly well that Thanksgiving.
THIS IS HOW THE WAR ON BOYS ENDS, OR AT LEAST BEGINS TO END: JD Vance to Young Men: Don’t Let Them Turn You Into ‘Androgynous Idiots.’
#CommissionEarned
The capper to Siobhan Miller’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day was a dog, tied to the stop sign. She hates dogs. She’s terrified of dogs, and that was a big dog. Looking sad and lonely, tied to a stop sign. That was not okay. She was the only one around, so she took him home. Only to find that he wasn’t a dog, but one of the Good People, under a curse. And there were more of them.
And they were all after her. And all she had was the dog (who wasn’t a dog) to help keep her from being taken away from all she’s ever known. Because that dog? He and his twin sister are family that she didn’t know she had, and their appearance has upended everything she’s ever known about herself. Including that she was human to begin with. She has a lot of questions.
Starting with curses, and how and why they sometimes spread.
WHEN YOU POINT ONE FINGER FOUR POINT BACK AT YOU: Pritzker’s Nazi Germany Remark Prompts Backlash From Illinois Republicans.
DEMOCRAT ACTIVISTS WITH BYLINES: The Associated Press’ Latest Statement About Trump Gave the Whole Game Away.
HEH. A SINGER FROM CANADA’S HAT HAS DELUSIONS! 4 Nations anthem singer intentionally changed ‘O Canada’ lyrics over Trump’s 51st state comments.
If changing their own anthem in a grammar-abusing way makes the poor woman feel powerful, who are we to stand in her way?
FLUSH THE NONSENSE DOWN! Low flow no more? Trump to roll back rules on toilets, showers and lightbulbs.
THE END OF NATO? NATO RIP – Ukraine, Europe etc.