Author Archive: Ed Driscoll
January 7, 2022
Flashbacks:
—Business Insider after the debate between Harris and Mike Pence, October 7th, 2020.
—Not the Bee, September 11th, 2021.
Despite poisoning the well: As His Presidency Founders, Biden Scapegoats The Unvaccinated.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Eight Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy.
THIS IS THE REASON THE NFL MIGHT RELOCATE SUPER BOWL LVI: “According to the report, AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys, is being considered…omicron cases are climbing, and it’s probably a safe bet that Gov. Gavin Newsom will impose restrictions that will make the Golden State undesirable as host of the Super Bowl. So, like many residents of the left coast, the NFL is considering ditching the blue state for redder pastures. And who can blame them?”
OREGON OFFICIAL: NYT COLUMNIST NICK KRISTOF INELIGIBLE FOR GUBERNATORIAL RUN. “At some point, though, Kristof should reallllly consider whether any of this is worth the effort. Kristof’s reliably on the Left, but so will any nominee Democrats produce in this primary, and most of his competitors have more experience in actual politicking than he does. Spending decades as a newsman and columnist at the NYT does not provide a solid grounding for executive potential in managing vast bureaucracies in state government.”
Just a few weeks ago, the “View” hosts disagreed with guest Jedidiah Bila for saying coronavirus could spread regardless of vaccination status.
Bila was discussing how she disagreed with vaccine mandates and then said that the existing COVID-19 vaccine “does not prevent you from getting COVID and does not prevent you from transmitting COID.”
“Oh my goodness!” Joy Behar replied. “No, that’s not so. You’ve been at Fox TV too long,” which made the audience applaud.
After the appearance, Bila posted a clip of CDC director Rochelle Walensky acknowledging that “breakthrough infections” of COVID-19 for fully vaccinated people are possible.
Flashback: Vaccinated Whoopi Goldberg: ‘I’m Going to Wear My Mask’ Outside Probably ‘Into my 90s.’
Related: “Thousands who ‘followed the rules’ are about to get covid. They shouldn’t be ashamed.”
IT’S COME TO THIS:
UPDATE: AP in January of 2017: Lin-Manuel Miranda to play ‘Hamilton’ for Oscar Lopez Rivera. “‘Hamilton’ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda says he will play Alexander Hamilton at a Chicago performance in honor of the commutation of Oscar Lopez Rivera’s sentence by President Obama. Lopez Rivera, who grew up in Chicago, was convicted of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government in 1981 while leading the Puerto Rican independence group FALN. The group bombed buildings in the 1970s. With Obama’s action Tuesday, he is slated to be released May 17. The Chicago Tribune reports (http://trib.in/2jlrZtb) Miranda said he was ‘sobbing with gratitude’ for the reduction of Lopez Rivera’s 55-year sentence.”
According to the Politico in 2017, “from 1974, when the group announced itself with its first bombings, to 1983, when arrests finally destroyed its membership base, the FALN was the most organized, active, well-trained and deadly domestic terror group based in the United States. The FALN was responsible for over 130 bombings during this period, including the January 1975 explosion in Manhattan’s historic Fraunces Tavern, which killed four and wounded 63. In October of that year, it set off, all within the span of an hour, 10 bombs in three cities, causing nearly a million dollars in damage. In August 1977, the FALN set off a series of bombs in Manhattan, forcing 100,000 workers to evacuate their offices; one person was killed, and six were injured. In 1979, the group even threatened to blow up the Indian Point nuclear energy facility located north of New York City.”
(Updated and bumped.)
QUESTION ASKED: Whatever Happened to Alleged Capitol Rioter John Sullivan? “You may recall that John Sullivan was one of the people who went into the Capitol and encouraged others to do so. He also filmed the killing of Ashli Babbitt by Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd. He sold that footage for at least $90,000. Babbitt was the only person who was killed that day as a direct result of actions taken during the riot. But Sullivan also had been an organizer of BLM protests and run a website called Insurgence USA that sold Antifa black bloc gear. He’d been previously arrested for his involvement in a violent BLM protest in Utah where a driver was shot after his car was surrounded. Someone else was accused of that shooting but according to a police affidavit, Sullivan allegedly organized the action, encouraged people to block the roadways, threatened to beat a woman, and kicked her car.”
YOU CAN TUNE A PIANO, BUT YOU CAN’T TUNA FISH: Stuff of Nightmares: Scientists Train Goldfish to Drive a Vehicle.
GREAT MOMENTS IN TROLLING: Tim Kaine’s I-95 Traffic Ordeal His Own Damn Fault, Says Blackface Governor.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) and other drivers who got stuck for nearly 30 hours in a snowstorm-related traffic jam outside Washington, D.C., have only themselves to blame, Gov. Ralph “Coonman” Northam (D., Va.) told reporters on Thursday.
Northam said he was “sick and tired” of being asked to explain “what went wrong” regarding the massive backup on I-95 between Richmond and the nation’s capital earlier this week. “Why don’t you start asking some of these individuals that were out on the highways …? Why did you feel it was so important to drive through such a snowstorm?” the outgoing governor huffed.
Kaine was one of those individuals who thought it would be a good idea to drive through the storm on his way to Capitol Hill. The senator and failed vice presidential candidate posted about the ordeal on his Twitter account. “I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday. 19 hours later, I’m still not near the Capitol,” he wrote on Tuesday and included a photo of the highway gridlock. He would end up spending “27+ hours on the road” before arriving at his office.
The Youngkin era can’t kickoff soon enough in Virginia.
PEACE OUT: Antonio Brown finally released by Buccaneers.
THE MOONWALKING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: Governor Ralph Northam Angrily Responds to Question Over I-95 Backup: “Sick and Tired of People Talking About What Went Wrong.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: In 1983, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol.
Eventually, M19 turned to building explosives themselves. Just before 11 p.m. on November 7, 1983, they called the U.S. Capitol switchboard and warned them to evacuate the building. Ten minutes later, a bomb detonated in the building’s north wing, harming no one but blasting a 15-foot gash in a wall and causing $1 million in damage. Over the course of a 20-month span in 1983 and 1984, M19 also bombed an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, and the South African consulate in New York, D.C.’s Fort McNair and Navy Yard (which they hit twice.) The attacks tended to follow a similar pattern: a warning call to clear the area, an explosion, a pre-recorded message to media railing against U.S. imperialism or the war machine under various organizational aliases (never using the name M19).
Note this passage:
You write, “Despite claims by Fox News and others that Antifa activists are ‘terrorists,’ their street brawling and harassment of right-wing extremists hardly rise to the level of the left-wing political violence of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The same cannot be said about the Neo-Nazi and white supremacist violence.” Could you talk about the parallels or lack thereof between the left-wing terrorism you write about and some of the domestic terrorism we’re seeing today?
The above article was published on January 6th, 2020, before that year’s summer of leftist riots.
More: The New York Times, March 2, 1971: Bomb in Capitol Causes Wide Damage.
As Joel Abbott of Not the Bee writes, “They are gonna milk this for all its worth!”
Those ratings don’t drive themselves, you know:
GRAMMY AWARDS POSTPONED INDEFINITELY AMID OMICRON-FUELED COVID SURGE.
Sadly, our long national nightmare isn’t entirely over: “According to Variety, the Grammys typically require a 10-day or more lockout of the venue in which they are held. However, the Crypto.com [until very recently, the Staples Center] Arena’s schedule doesn’t appear to have that kind of opening until at least June. The Recording Academy will likely look to produce a full show with a live audience. The Grammys generate millions of dollars in revenue, even though — like many televised award shows — ratings have declined in recent years.”