YEAH, WE’RE DONE:  Biden, Harris Skipping Weekly COVID Calls With Governors, Leaving Cuomo in Charge.

GOOD:  Recall CA Gov. Gavin Newsom Effort Qualifies for Ballot.

IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE ANY STANDARDS:  Hypocrisy Grandmaster Joe Biden To Go To Atlanta.

DUH:  Iran Leak Shows Soleimani Death Hurt The Regime.

ROLL LEFT AND DIE:  Hollywood Collapses Under Weight Of Woke Ego.

IT’S NOT PARANOIA IF THEY REALLY ARE OUT TO GET YOU:  The Junta’s Abolition of the Constitution.

EVERY SUNDAY I LINK (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS FOR PROMOTION: Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s a vignette-challenge as well.

THIS IS BOTH VERY, VERY FUNNY AND INCREDIBLY INFURIATING:  Libs on Twitter offered advice on how police could’ve handled the Columbus knife-attack shooting in a non-lethal manner and it’s hilarious.

From things I’ve read, I’ve been asking “Do these leftists know how difficult it is to hit someone anywhere at all, much less to make sure it’s non-lethal?” But after reading that, I’ve started wondering “Do leftists live in the real world, or at least look at it through telescopes, once in a while?”

“EQUITY” IS THE SHORTER, SNAPPIER WAY OF SPELLING “PROCRUSTES BED”:  How Equity Pulls People Down Rather Than Lifting Anyone Up.

Because humans aren’t equal, ie. interchangeable widgets, but are in fact individuals, the only way to make sure they all end up the same cannot be to make them all perform at the highest level. This is obvious, since the highest level is always “exceptional” — that is, the exception — so the only thing you can do make them all “equal” in results is to pound down those that stand out, and to reduce everyone’s performance to the lowest possible point.

Time and time again, socialists have managed this, and congratulated themselves on perfect “equality” while people starved in the dark.

How about we give them equality under the law, and let those who perform exceptionally lift circumstances for everyone else?

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  Neat, plausible, and wrong: Mencken’s Observation and how people embrace ideologies divorced from reality.

AH. BUT THEY BELIEVE THEY’RE ABOVE THE LAW:  Unaccompanied Alien Children Given Copy of Kamala Harris Book Upon Arrival – Same Process Baltimore Mayor Was Arrested For.

THIS IS PROPAGANDA-DRIVEN INSANITY:  Michigan State Rep Threatens Police During DUI Stop – Police Release Dashcam Footage.

When you believe the law is against you, and you’re above the law, you’re drinking poison-laced koolaid.

INSANITY IS THE NORMAL STATE OF RUSSIA; UNFORTUNATELY WE’RE ALSO DOING OUR TURN IN THE PADDED CELL:  Russia Has Two Americans In Prison, But Why?

THE ONE THING AMERICA SEEMS UNABLE TO SUPPLY IS THE AMOUNT OF RACISM THE LEFT DEMANDS:  Fortnite: My Grandkids Call Smolletting on Salon Writer.

SOCIALISTS THINK ECONOMICS IS DREAMS AND UNICORN FARTS:  De Blasio Uses Stimulus Money To Repay Furloughed NYC Workers.

HOW DARE HE FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!  Obama administration scientist says climate ‘emergency’ is based on fallacy.

Fallacy is a weird term for “deliberate panic mongering.”

THERE IS SOMETHING BOTH THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT SEEM INCAPABLE OF SEEING IN THE CURRENT SITUATION:  Cersei Lannister and the Democrats.

I feel very much about this, as I felt about the early covidiocy, when I was screaming from the rooftops “look at the Diamond Princess numbers. This mostly affects the very old, and even with them it’s not that contagious” while people were coming up with creative reasons that the Diamond Princess wasn’t representative, my favorite of those being “you get the best medical care possible in a cruise ship.”  Uh. No. You don’t. Of course you also don’t in our hospitals, when doctors put you on ventilators without regard for the effects of forced ventilation on the very old, which is why the death toll is what it is, but never mind.

Listen to me now, please: the democrats are not at the beginning of a 1000 year Reich. They’re not even at the beginning of a 70 year USSR. Or at the beginning of the decade-plus of Nazi rule.

What all totalitarian regimes have in common is that they screw up economies beyond belief.  And I mean that. If you haven’t lived through it, you won’t believe me, but let’s say that communists managing the desert will run out of sand. And socialists will too, but slower. (And our current afflictions are not socialists. No. Shut up. Don’t care about the textbook definition which, at any rate, only the Marxists ever cared about. For all practical applications, communists are socialists in a hurry. And boy, is the Junta in a hurry. Because they are scared. And they should be.)

Do you know why the USSR and the other tragic post-World-War II Marxist regimes survived as long as they did?  The US.
Because America is wealthy and can’t stand to see people starve, through humanitarian aid (and the usual traitorous would-be socialists here) we sent aid to those regimes. We kept them afloat.

In doing their best to take over the US all the left is managing is to kill the golden goose. Even if everything they plan came to pass, their regime woud last less than 5 years, because Americans will not starve peacefully.

They don’t understand that because — since China pays a lot of them directly or not — they think China can replace the US in financing their lavish lifestyles and our not-quite-starving.

They don’t get that China is already in American terms close to starvation themselves.

This is because to the left economics is not real. It’s a fantasy they can spin any way they like, and it will keep them going on unicorn farts and dreams.

But if you’re not a leftist, you know economics is “the study of how humans live and eat.” And the democrats are breaking that.

Which means it will get very, very bad in the US. Probably briefly. It will be much worse in the rest of the world.

And the left is bringing this on us, because yes, they believe they can set up the new USSR.

What I can’t understand is why the right also buys into this illusion. Just as I couldn’t understand why no one was looking at the Diamond Princess numbers.

Looking, being scared and buying into apocalyptic scenarios can be fun. Briefly. But we don’t have time for that nonsense. We have a Constitutional Republic we must rebuild. Because otherwise we’re going to be in serious trouble. Not communism, but communism is not the only kind of bad trouble.  And for the rest of the world, civilization will be over.

Be not afraid, and do understand that even if the left gets everything it wants — or rather, for sure if it does — it will lose very fast.  But we still need to win.

MOSTLY I JUST HIT MY FINGERS A LOT AND HANG EVERYTHING CROOKED:  DAILY ART FIX: Mastering the Art of Hanging Art, Artistically.

WEIRD. I DON’T REMEMBER A SUPER HERO CALLED WHORISH MCCLOWNLAUGH:  Migrant Kids Get Kamala Superhero Book While She Visits New Hampshire,

UPDATE: Story retracted.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO:  Media Plays Games With Body Cam Video.

NOT NEARLY AS BAD AS EPIDEMIC OF BRAINLESS LEFTISTS IN THIS COUNTRY:  Salon Strikes Again: Gun Violence An Epidemic In This Country.

THIS WOULD BE EASIER TO DO IF SOME IDIOT HADN’T SHUT DOWN THE GOOD JOBS BY EXECUTIVE FIAT:   Biden: Fossil fuel workers should get new jobs ‘where they live’.

HE MIGHT WANT TO ADD A TALK ABOUT SELF-AWARENESS:  Biden to talk climate change awareness at very non-green ‘drive-in rally’.

NYAH – THAT SORT OF THING IS ONLY MALICIOUS WHEN CONSERVATIVES DO IT:   Joy Behar’s Caitlyn Jenner pronoun mixup was not malicious.

DEMOCRATS WHO OBJECTED TO EFFORTS AT ELECTION SECURITY DECRY ABSENCE OF BALLOT AUDIT SECURITY:   GOP-backed recount of Maricopa County ballots appears on track to move forward after initial pause ordered by Arizona judge.