SNOWFALLS ARE JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Fierce Cold Wave Sweeps East Asia, Chinese City Sees First Snow Since 1893; + “Dangerously Cold Temperatures” To Hit U.S. And Canada.
On my airline’s advice, I just bumped up my Wednesday morning flight to Tuesday afternoon.
MATT MARGOLIS: Did You Get On Trump’s Truth Social Platform Yet? I Did… Sort of… “I spent roughly an hour attempting to get through the account creation process Sunday evening, finally giving up shortly after midnight. I tried again in the morning and successfully created my account, although I’m not able to use it yet.”
I signed up this morning with little trouble, but was put on a wait list — #167,933 — to get access to my account.
If you’re interested, the app is only available on iPhone (Android is coming soonish) and signing up on the web doesn’t yet work, so for now it’s the iPhone app or nothing.
CHRIS BARRON: The End of the Pandemic.
In early January, my friend and Fox News superstar Greg Gutfeld announced that the COVID-19 pandemic would end on February 1st of this year. Not because Anthony Fauci or Joe Biden or the CDC would announce an end to the pandemic, but because average Americans all across the country would make it clear they were simply done with the pandemic.
Greg was wrong on the exact date – but not by much. It’s now mid-February and it is clear that Americans everywhere are declaring independence from the tyrannical and draconian lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine passports. This isn’t a red team vs blue team issue either, even blue State Governors are rolling back restrictions.
These rollbacks are happening not because of guidance from the tin pot despots over at the CDC but indeed IN SPITE of the guidance of the CDC.
To be fair, the CDC has proven itself worse than useless.
HMM: GOP Congresswoman Has an Answer to Trudeau’s Trucker Tyranny. “I am introducing legislation that would temporarily grant asylum to innocent Canadian protesters who are being persecuted by their own government. We cannot be silent as our neighbors to the north are treated so badly.”
I RARELY GET SICK BUT FIGURED IT MUST HAVE BEEN ALL THE VITAMINS: SCIENCE! More Attractive People Have Stronger Immune Systems.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, LITERALLY: NIH Sent The Intercept 292 Fully Redacted Pages Related to Virus Research in Wuhan.
With the global death toll from Covid-19 approaching 6 million, the need to understand the origins of the pandemic is both pressing and grave. But the National Institutes of Health continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on this question. This week, in response to ongoing litigation over public records related to coronavirus research funded by the federal agency, the NIH sent The Intercept 292 fully redacted pages rather than substantive material that could help us understand how the virus first came to infect humans.
At this point, no one can say for sure how SARS-CoV-2 set off the pandemic. It may have emerged naturally, jumping from a host animal to people, as many other deadly pathogens have. Or the coronavirus could have first spread to humans as the result of a research mishap — through bat capture and collection, risky experiments, or a host of other more mundane lab activities. U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed both theories as possible. But knowing exactly what led to the worst disease outbreak in recent history requires more information.
It’s pretty obvious that the NIH is trying to hide something they did that was stupid, criminal, or both.
OH, CANADA: Requiem for a Nation.
Justin Trudeau’s ineffable Justice Minister David Lametti is on record threatening those who hold the wrong political views that they are liable to have their bank accounts seized. “If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars, and millions of dollars to this kind of thing,” he said, “then you ought to be worried.” The assumption that Trump has something to do with Canadian trucker donations seems particularly unhinged.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who sits on the board of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum—an obvious conflict of interest—has moved to freeze the bank accounts and other financial instruments of the “protesters” and private citizens who have donated to the trucker fund. Hacked documents revealed the names of these offenders, some of whom have been “interviewed” by news media like the CBC and The Washington Post. Others have been doxed and menaced.
No less distressing, a substantial majority of the Canadian public have approved of the government’s jackbooted and manifestly illegal handling of the situation, taken in by the prime minister’s bought-and-paid-for media’s slanted and mendacious coverage. They are, to adapt a phrase from Daniel Goldhagen, Canada’s willing executioners, a compliant and unthinking populace presiding over the extinction of a once-democratic country. It couldn’t get any worse—though it probably will, with the assistance of the people’s sodden parliamentary representatives and a morally bankrupt media fifth column.
Read the whole thing.
To repeat: The silence coming from the other Western capitals is deafening. They must be watching Canada as a test case for just how hard they can push their own people.
LOTS? MORE? LOTS MORE? This Is the Exact Amount of Coffee You Should Drink, According to a Harvard Brain Expert. “In the last couple of years, more detailed research on coffee has sought to zero in on just how much coffee you should drink every day for maximum health and brain benefits. They’ve found the answer–you should drink three cups.”
I’ll make it four, just to be safe.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Are Democrats Wearying of The Squad’s Commie Chick Shtick? “Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up in the House of Representatives she and her cadre of loudmouthed mean girls have been a thorn in the side of crusty establishment Democrats. They couldn’t admit that, of course. Mustn’t let the public think that the hive mind is fracturing, after all.”
THEY’RE TOO KIND: ‘Looks Like Jimmy Carter’: ABC Panel Torches Biden Over Inflation, Economy.
Bad as Carter was as president, he was basically decent and did learn a bit on the job. He asked for big hikes in defense spending after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, and appointed inflation hawk Paul Volcker to chair the Fed.
Biden shows no willingness or ability to learn on the job, and given his increasing senescence, will only get worse.
THE SILENCE COMING FROM OTHER WESTERN GOVERNMENTS IS DEAFENING: Democracy Dies in Canada: Trudeau Government to Make Some of Their New Authoritarian Measures Permanent.
HMM: Russian Military Has ‘Received Orders Now To Proceed With The Invasion’ Of Ukraine, Report Says.
One of these times it might actually happen.
HE ISN’T ALL THERE: Even Some Democrats Want Biden To Take a Cognitive Test.
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Athena Thorne: SCOTUS Nominee Should Make History by Declining Biden’s Patronizing Handout. “Sure, her name will be in the history books. But every entry will begin, ;Supreme Court Justice Asterisk, who was appointed to the bench because she was a black woman…'”
Cameron Arcand: Thank You for Not Being a Squish, Glenn Youngkin. “Most bills typically do not go into effect right away, but the governor successfully pushed the General Assembly to approve an amendment that made sure children did not have to wait until July 1 to breathe freely again.”
Yours Truly: Dem Activist Says Obama DOOMED Democrats With Working-Class Voters. “It’s worth considering the pioneer of the current version of the Democratic party — which leans so heavily on identity and culture — and relies so little on working-class economics.”
GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Suspect reportedly shot by employee during jewelry store theft in Colorado Springs.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Biracial GOP Candidate Rips CRT in Front of North Carolina School Board. “If Echevarria was looking to jumpstart his campaign, I can’t think of a better or more timely way to do it.”
THEY USED TO TEACH BASIC COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS IN HIGH SCHOOL ECON: College doesn’t pay for 40% who enroll. “In addition to the dropout rate, colleges that offer low-tech, low-paying degrees do not set their students up for high earnings. The ROI on art school is very, very low.”
NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: The Insidious Historical Revisionism of ‘The Gilded Age.’ “The fact that the HBO version of Fortune has nothing to say about the corruption of the Democrats of the time, whose military arm became the murderous KKK, is unconscionable.”
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: YouTube Censors Mom Fighting School Mask Mandates.
Shortly after Jensen spoke to the Prince William County School Board, my colleagues Lauren Evans, Mark Guiney, and Philip Reynolds interviewed her. They thought our audience would want to learn more about what inspired this mom, and why she was opposed to mask mandates in schools.
In other words, they were acting like true journalists.
But YouTube has an issue with that.
The Daily Signal produced a compelling video, splicing Jensen’s school board speech with her interview. We let her explain how masks had affected her kids. “My son came home the first day of school with an extreme headache, and went to bed with a stomachache because he was so anxious,” she told us, adding, “For two weeks, he came home with a headache.”
“We took him to the doctor,” she recounted, and “it was all because of the mask.”
But now you can’t see that video on YouTube.
On Thursday, a YouTube representative emailed The Daily Signal, saying that the video had been “removed from YouTube for violating YouTube’s COVID-19 medical misinformation policy.”
There is no policy, only political expediency. Today’s “misinformation” will become tomorrow’s “received wisdom” before the midterms get rolling, and YouTube will roll with it.
THE ANTI-ASIAN HATE AND VIOLENCE ALL SEEM TO BE COMING FROM THOSE ENLIGHTENED BLUE ZONES: Memorial for NYC Asian Woman Murdered in Chinatown Is Vandalized.
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