I THINK YOU’LL FIND THAT’S A FEATURE:  Cuomo’s Clunky Vaccine Rollout Endangers The Elderly.

YES, IT IS CENSORSHIP:  Censorship.

AND THIS IS WHY I DON’T TRUST ANY OF THESE SENSATIONAL NEWS:  Fact Check: Was ‘TRUMP’ Carved Into a Manatee in Florida?

No word on whether there was a noose around the manatee’s neck, or whether the people who drew on him shouted “this is MAGA country.”

NOTE THAT THE RIGHT AREN’T SHUTTING DOWN THE LEFT:  A Nation Divided.

PLAIN AS THE NOSE ON YOUR FACE: It is all about controlling the public square.

DANG IT! TODAY I WAS GOING TO WASH AND STARCH MY SHOCKED FACE:  Leftist Journalists Collude With Big Tech To Attack Independent Journalists.

TO BE FAIR THE CONSTITUTION COULDN’T ANTICIPATE SHEER INSANITY:  Can Congress impeach and convict a president after the person has left office?

I HUMBLY PROPOSE THIS STRATEGY:  Dance to the Line.

At least for now.

YEP. GUYS. WE’RE THE ONES WE’RE WAITING FOR:  Conservatives — we have to be our own deus ex machina.

CHINA WOULD NEVER LIE:  China denies coercive birth control measures in Xinjiang.

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THAT “FELONY MURDER” THEY’RE TRYING TO STICK ON THE PROTESTERS:  If you look at this video from the totally non-partisan Lincoln Project. (Truly. Severe Conservatives, they say.)

And follow along with their outrage, you might miss some facts illustrated in a comment from one of my regular commenters:

If there is one thing you always have to remember, it is to read or watch things that purport to contradict your view of what happened.

There is another thing – whether it is contradictory or supporting, look at it with a critical eye, and verify it.

This is no exception.

This video shows people trying to enter the Capitol Building, against opposition from people (reasonably assumed to be officers, either DC Metro or Capitol Police). That is a truth.

What it also shows is that mace was being sprayed from inside. Reasonable. It also shows batons being wielded from inside. It shows what appears to be an officer down (there is a typical arm patch, although not completely identifiable). It shows him on his face, pointed OUT of the building entrance – which says he was struck from BEHIND. Ah. Who was behind him that might have struck him? Only other officers. Slightly later, as the batons were still being frantically wielded, it shows a protestor standing over the fallen officer, holding up his crutch as a makeshift SHIELD over the officer.

Doesn’t look at all like the claim that this was a beating BY the PROTESTORS, does it?

Then look at the source of the video. You have to go to the Twitter account of Hull, where he attributes it to one Ron Filipkowski. Hmm. Look up that name, and his posts elsewhere. Ah. This person is a rabid TRUMP HATER from Florida. Registered as a Republican, true – but that is meaningless in this day and age. What is he doing in DC, among the protestors, when he wants nothing more than to demonize and destroy Trump? No, he’s not a “journalist” either official or citizen – he’s a lawyer that had a political appointment to a judicial selection committee (which he resigned from when one of the CoViD panic scammers in his State was raided). There is also one INDIVIDUAL voice that comes clearly in the video – one that had to be very close to the camera, and most likely Filipkowski himself. That voice utters one phrase – “Get that son of a b**** out of there!” That was undeniably an incitement to further violence – but by WHOM?

REALITY OBSERVER

Honestly, I think I need to do a post on “reading news when your press is not truthful.” Trust me, you can still extract information, but it’s not the one the government and the press (BIRM) are trying to feed you.

And please, guys, very seriously, don’t fall for this crap and don’t go silent. Because without us, the republic truly is dead forever. And you don’t know how horrible things will get. I do.

TO WARN THEM OR RECRUIT THEM?  FBI agents visited extremists ahead of Capitol riots in DC: report.

THIS IS A SURPRISE? THEY’VE BEEN REMOVING ON KEY PHRASES ALL ALONG: Orwell Was Right – Facebook Will Remove Content With ‘Stop The Steal’ Phrase.

THIS SHOULD BE ENTITLED “THE DEEP STATE IS CLUELESS”:  The Deep State Is Rattled.

And yes, I am absolutely serious.

From the article:
Beyond the security question, this person told me the mob action has been a psychological blow on the DC bureaucracy which didn’t think such an open expression of tangible disrespect for the government was possible.

Wait, they think we respect the government? That we have respect for the people who work for us and who, frankly, over the last four years have done their best to to “punish” us for stepping out of script?
These poor idiots are going to find out Trump wasn’t protecting us from them. It was protecting them from us.  And their escalating the repressive measures and getting the potted plant to declare us thought criminals is only going make things worse.

They have no clue.  I used to keep a tiny fish. I think he had more brains than these people do. And probably a greater understanding of the world.  Buckle up. It’s going to get rough.

SO, WE HAD OUR LAST EVER STAY AT MARRIOTT SOMETIME LAST SPRING:  Marriott, Other Companies Vow to Suspend Donations to Politicians Who Voted Against Biden Certification.

And tomorrow I’ll go over those articles about this and make lists. And it will reduce our options for a bunch of things.

LOOK, THOSE OF US WHO ARE NUMERATE ALREADY KNEW THE ELECTION WAS FRAUDULENT:  Impeachment redux.

The fact that the courts then went on to refuse to even look at the case, on crazy technicalities, rather than allow discovery, was a huge, massive red flag too. Look, in a system like yours, if you think that the election was stolen, both parties should be interested in showing it wasn’t. This is why Trump allowed the entire Russia!Russia!Russia insanity to run its course.

But if you’re one of those terminally polyannish people who think “but maybe it was okay” this should be your biggest flag.  No one makes it a crime to talk about the election being fraudulent if it was above board.

I stand by my prediction. This will end in tears. And almost certainly blood. When the alleged victor is scared enough to want to silence everyone else?  It’s bad. They’re scared. They are also nearly invincibly stupid.

SAY HER NAME: ASHLI BABBIT

STOMPING ON FREE SPEECH IS A SIGN OF MASSIVE INSECURITY:  Why it doesn’t matter what Parler allowed.

It is also profoundly stupid, particularly for a party so sucker punched by the unexpected support for their opponent that they had to add last minute, clumsy fraud to what must already have been….. let me see if I remember “the most extensive and inclusive fraud organization ever employed in America.” Something like that.

Doing what they’re doing is akin to smashing the fire alarm and thinking this will keep you safe from fires.

HE’S NOT WRONG:  Political Reprisals and the Death of the Republic.

He is, however, missing the root cause of this.  When the electoral (and incidentally the judicial) system becomes so corrupt that a party can be assured of winning even if they run a potted plant and a blowup sex doll who campaign exclusively from the basement and promise to raise everyone’s taxes and keep them house arrest indefinitely, why not hold show trials? Why not cancel every “enemy’s” ability to access the net? Why not arbitrarily declare all ideas in opposition to your own seditious?

I mean — why not? If you’re utterly sure that you can retain power forever and the greatest danger is someone tumbling to the con, you are in fact going to move ahead with all the punishment, all the shutting down of speech, and the destruction of all opposition. Because that’s the only way you can retain power.

YES, I KNOW. A LOT OF YOU GO “BUT THAT’S NOT REAL FIGHTING.” YEAH.I GET IT. BUT INSURRECTIONS (WELL, THEY WANT ONE) NEED STRATEGY. IF YOU GO HOT NOW, AS THEY WANT, IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG, ARDUOUS MESS.  LET’S GET A LITTLE MORE SUPPORT. IT WON’T BE VERY LONG. I’M GIVING THIS THREE MONTHS:  Dance to the Line.

And if you think I’m just trying to hold people back? Not really. This thing is moving on its own train line, and what will happen will happen. I’m just advocating the tried and true tactics to make sure they’re over stretched and not functioning very well and that the majority of people actually know how evil they are.  Don’t believe me? Read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Remember Heinlein RESEARCHED. Doing this and not doing this could be the difference between the suppression of the Prague Spring or soldiers refusing to shoot on their grandmothers at the end of the USSR.  Making the beast show its hideous face is needed.

GUYS, APPARENTLY THIS IS ALL LARRY CORREIA’S FAULT FOR GETTING AWAY FROM THE INTERNET FOR 48 HOURS: bow before AppGoogleZOn

YES, WHAT AMAZON DID WAS UNCONSCIONABLE. AND I’M NOT GOING TO DEFEND IT. IN FACT, IF I CAN GET A FEW MINUTE WHEN MY HUSBAND IS NEITHER WORKING NOR ASLEEP, I’M GOING TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT WHAT WE CAN BUY LOCALLY, ETC.  But there is something you must understand. Not only are web hosting and the ebook/kindle division not the same, but ebooks account for somewhere between 2% and 0.5% of Amazon’s income.  Yes, that’s still income.  But think about it. Right now a lot of indie writers have nowhere to go. And most of the successful ones are on the right. If we Boycott Amazon ebooks, they’ll hurt very little, but you’ll destroy several people on our side.

Yes, we absolutely need alternatives, and right now I’m involved in three discussions about how to start competition in indie ebook platforms (the existing ones are either terrible or very lefty, or both.) We could use a lottery win. Like all projects on the right, capital is a huge issue, since we are as you know the side of the “rich” (spits.)

However till competition is up and running, do not abandon indies.  We creatives on the right are persona non grata everywhere else. Don’t make it impossible for us to make a living.  (And seriously, when I was on all the other platforms, all of them combined made a tenth of what Amazon made.) I explain why in more detail, and link to some decent writers:   Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Book Promo and Some Blather By Sarah.

And please, please, please, any techies out there, make with the alternatives. That’s what you can do to help in this mess. And it’s very important.

AND THE RIGHT CORRECT PERSPECTIVE, WITHOUT ARNIE’S LEFTY PROJECTION:  The Reichstag Fire, and “killing democracy in order to ‘save’ it”.

ROUND THEM UP, ROUND THEM ON, RIDE ON:  Roundup.

OKAY I DISAGREE THAT THERE WAS ANY RIOT. ALSO THE ONLY DEAD AS A RESULT OF THE PROTEST WAS ASHLI BABBITT AND SHE WAS ONE OF THE PROTESTERS. THE REST IS UNCLEAR AND WE SURE DON’T HAVE PICTURES. HOWEVER THIS IS CORRECT IN THE ESSENTIALS:  What Happened At Capitol About More Than Election.

This is not about Trump. As in, at all. At this point it’s about Americans being disenfranchised, ignored and told they don’t matter. And note the answer from the left is to double down.