THE GREAT PIVOT: Open Everything. The time to end pandemic restrictions is now.
Yascha Mounk should have written this in the summer of 2020, but remains “convinced” that shutting everything down for more than a year was “the right thing to do.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
February 9, 2022
PERSONNEL IS POLICY: Sarah Bloom Raskin, Biden’s Latest Anti-Freedom, Anti-Energy Nominee. “Raskin doesn’t see her potential new role merely as supervising a smooth-running economy and banking system. She sees her role as prophet and navigator of America’s future.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Vaccine Pusher Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Daughter-In-Law Is Top Lobbyist for Big Pharma.
THE TRIPLE LINDY OF PIVOTS: Democrats and the Corporate Media Are Trying to Rewrite the History on Their COVID-19 Response.
HE DID THAT: Study finds Biden’s climate policies added $1,000 to Americans’ energy bills in 2021. “Mr. Biden’s climate change policies coupled with rising inflation contributed to the highest single-year increase in energy costs in decades, found the analysis by the Heartland Institute.”
THESE ARE THEIR PRINCIPLES AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM… WELL, THEY HAVE OTHERS: Illinois College Students Want Hate-Crime Culprit Expelled — Until They Find Out Who She Is.
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: GOP Ad Yanked From Airwaves Due to Images of Illegal Border Crossings. “Karrin Taylor Robson, a Republican immigration hawk running for governor of Arizona, was notified Monday by FS1, a subsidiary of Fox Sports, that her ad could no longer air until she proved migrants shown crossing the border in it were in fact illegal immigrants. The channel informed her campaign that it must supply ‘an affidavit that the ad was filmed along the border, as well as proof of the citizenship status of any individuals depicted,’ she said in a statement.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems, MSM Busy Tossing Their COVID Failures Into the Memory Hole. “The Democrats have been pivoting so forcefully on various COVID-related things this past week that I’m surprised they aren’t all dizzy and nauseated, the poor dears. Ivermectin, natural immunity, the efficacy of cloth masks, you name it, they’ve been Team 180. And being the party of the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, they’ve been trying to erase the memory of their previous, horribly wrong policies.”
Remember in November.
BECAUSE THEY’RE UP TO NO GOOD: Why Have 14 of 15 US Cabinet Agencies Bought Phone Unlocking Technology? Few Will Say.
INVESTIGATORS WITH THE U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service frequently work to thwart a variety of environmental offenses, from illegal deforestation to hunting without a license. While these are real crimes, they’re not typically associated with invasive phone hacking tools. But Fish and Wildlife agents are among the increasingly broad set of government employees who can now break into encrypted phones and siphon off mounds of data with technology purchased from the surveillance company Cellebrite.
Across the federal government, agencies that don’t use Cellebrite technology are increasingly the exception, not the rule. Federal purchasing records and Cellebrite securities documents reviewed by The Intercept show that all but one of the 15 U.S. Cabinet departments, along with several other federal agencies, have acquired Cellebrite products in recent years. The list includes many that would seem far removed from intelligence collection or law enforcement, like the departments of Agriculture, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development; the Social Security Administration; the U.S. Agency for International Development; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cellebrite itself boasted about its penetration of the executive branch ahead of becoming a publicly traded company in August. In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that it had over 2,800 government customers in North America.
It’s for your own good, somehow.
February 8, 2022
NEVER APOLOGIZE TO THE MOB: Ron DeSantis Has Some Excellent Advice About the Mob After All the Joe Rogan Controversies. “No, he shouldn’t have apologized. I mean, you see what happens? The mob will come after people, and they’re targeting Rogan because he’s threatening to upset the apple cart on some of the things that they’re holding dear. And with COVID, he’s just bringing opposing views. He’s letting people decide. They say he’s against [the COVID vaccine]. I do not listen to his show, but then I read he specifically advocated for people with co-morbidities and elderly to get vaccinated.”
COMPLY, THEY EXPLAINED: Bombshell Email Reveals Plan to Arrest Maskless Loundoun County Students at School.
OH: Biden To Set Free Would-Be 9/11 Hijacker. “Mohammed al-Qahtani, who planned to hijack planes on Sept. 11, 2001, for al Qaeda but was denied entry into the United States, will be transferred to Saudi Arabia following the Biden administration’s decision late last week to set him free. He is scheduled to be flown to Saudi Arabia and placed in a ‘custodial rehabilitation and mental health care program for extremists.'”
GOOD: Jill Biden says $109 billion community college program off table.
At least for now, everything is off the table for Build Back Bolshevik.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Facebook’s Faceplant, Zuck Threatens to Cut Off Europe After HUGE Losses.
Plus:
- Video: Demonic possession comes to the border crisis
- Prepare for every Democrat in American do the Triple Lindy over COVID
- Wall Streeter wants to ban individuals from owning stocks
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
THE LONG MARCH: Red State Public Schools Encourage Kids To Go Transgender Behind Their Parents’ Backs. “A new report finds systemic racism, sexual obscenity, and anti-Americanism in U.S. public education, even in a deeply red state.”
CORRUPTION CAN’T BUY HAPPINESS: Crabby, Maskless Obama Tours His Controversial Hawaiian Waterfront Mansion.
What’s funny and/or strange about this is that Lieu’s chart ends with October, before omicron hit. It’s almost as though he’s so desperate to end restrictions that he’ll post anything.
Or as Ian Miles Cheong tweeted, “Polling must be really bad for Ted Lieu, of all people, to call for the recognition of natural immunity and an end to restrictions.”
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Can Politicians Quit the Power Habit? “To estimate the chances of the contenders, the strategic question to ask is: on whose side are time and trends? Will there be more Denmarks (which just lifted Covid restrictions), more Joe Rogans, more unseen protesters — or fewer of them? A few posts back I predicted there will be more of them because the potential energy stored up in the last two years of restrictions and mandates had to unwind. And when it unwound there will be considerable political heat and energy.”
SCHADENFREUDE: ‘Irate’ Chris Wallace Has Meltdown Over Jeff Zucker-Allison Gollust Scandal, Said To Be At War In D.C. Bureau With Jake Tapper. “He went over there for Zucker and now Zucker is gone. Wallace feels that he has been stiffed. He’s got no staff, no Executive Producer and the guy he gave up a prized gig for has just walked out the door.”
STACEY LENNOX: All Republican Candidates Must Learn a Lesson From Arizona Gubernatorial Hopeful Kari Lake. “When Lake threw her hat into the governor’s race in Arizona, she earned President Trump’s endorsement. After making a splash leaving her top-rated anchor position, being a Republican and a MAGA candidate made her a bigger target. That doesn’t stop her from engaging with the media and forcefully stating her positions. Recently she provided a master class for other Republican candidates on eloquently defending their voters.”