THINK OF IT AS PROFESSIONAL COURTESY: How Far Will the Left Go to Keep Criminals Out of Jail?
Author Archive: Stephen Green
January 4, 2022
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Get Away From It All in Antarctica, Get COVID Anyway.
Plus:
- Crypto goes LBGTQ
- VIDEO: Biden takes unscripted questions from the press, forgets what to do with them
- NYC, there’s something awful about you
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
MEGAN FOX: Justice Roberts Talks Judicial Accountability But Fails to Acknowledge Huge Nationwide Problem. “Roberts also chalked up the inappropriate judicial behavior as ‘unintentional oversight.’ Maybe that’s because Roberts was recently caught in a similar scandal. The New York Times reported that Roberts failed to recuse himself from a case in which he had more than a $100,000 investment.”
IT EITHER IS OR SOON WILL BE: We must accept COVID-19 as an endemic disease.
As far as public policy goes, the lethality of COVID-19 is a second-order issue. The more immediate question is whether it is feasible to slow its spread and, if it is, whether there are advantages in doing so.
If we think, for example, that widespread vaccination might heap high a protective rampart, then there are arguments for vaccine passports, possibly even for compulsory inoculation. If we think that the disease can be eliminated, then there are arguments for stringent suppression measures. If we think that dangerous new mutations can be kept out, then there are arguments for border restrictions and quarantines.
But what if none of these things is true? What if COVID-19 is as ineradicable and endemic as influenza? What if it comes and goes seasonally, leaving its victims with a dollop of immunity that wanes over time? What if, like the flu, it regularly mutates, meaning that recovery from one version bestows only partial protection against others? What if it is checked rather than halted by vaccines — again, like flu rather than, say, polio?
If we are dealing with such a disease, a recurrent respiratory virus, then almost all the measures that we have put in place around the world are pointless.
Let me repeat that: Almost all of them are pointless.
They aren’t pointless to the power-hungry elites who established them.
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Matt Margolis: Trans Insanity: Now Babies Are Transphobic? “These are just unhappy people who think that, if they define themselves in some out-of-the-box manner, they’ll be happy.”
AJ Kaufman: 2022: A Busy Year for the Supreme Court. “It’s rare to have this full a plate, since the high court tends to be more reserved in case selection during election years, but 2022 will put the nine justices on the front lines before November’s midterm elections.”
Yours Truly: What the Hell Do I Have to Do to Catch Omicron? “‘Omicron may be world’s ‘natural’ vaccine that finally ends pandemic,’ reported the Daily Mail on New Year’s Eve Day. The story seems to have gotten a bit lost in the celebratory shuffle that 2021 was mercifully coming to a close.”
AB STODDARD: Democrats Face a Brutal Reckoning With Hispanic Voters.
Many Hispanic voters, long a reliable part of the Democratic coalition, have walked away. It is not — yet — a majority of them, but the numbers are dramatic. Biden won 750,000 fewer Hispanic voters in 2020 than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 — in an Electoral College victory he nearly lost by fewer than 45,000 votes in three states. Donald Trump improved his margin with these voters by eight percentage points in four years, according to an analysis by the Democratic firm Catalist — a larger swing than any among white, black or Asian voters.
It gets worse. Biden’s approval ratings are awful across the board, but his support has eroded more among Hispanic voters than with any other racial group. A Pew/Marist poll from December showed his approve/disapprove numbers with Hispanic voters were 33/65, a net -32, while they were 40/56 with whites, a net of -16.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll showed Hispanic voters splitting their support between both parties, with just 37% of them backing Democrats in the House of Representatives if the midterm elections were held today, compared to the 60% they gave Democrats last November. Republicans would also garner 37% if the election were today. While Biden won 63% of Hispanic voters in 2020, this poll showed they would split their support in a 2024 rematch, with 44% for Biden and 43% for Trump.
Don’t get cocky.
2022: Former White House Official and U.S. Army Vet Jumps Into Crucial Pennsylvania Race. “David McCormick stepped down from his role as executive officer at Bridgewater Associates Monday to run for the open Keystone State seat that will be vacated by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: US Manufacturing Slides To Weakest Since Dec 2020, New Orders Tumble.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems’ Love Affair With Backstabber Liz Cheney Will Sink Them. “There’s the most bizarre part of this entire charade: Republican Liz Cheney has become the face of this witch hunt for the Democrats. I have to pay attention to the news at least five days a week and almost every social media post or news story about this big anniversary is accompanied by a picture of Cheney. She is presently the most useful to them in their stable of Republican useful idiots (Sorry, Ana Navarro!) and they’re getting their money’s worth out of her.”
NEVER MIND, LIZ, WHAT THE VOTERS MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT: Liz Cheney Reveals the True Purpose of the J6 Committee. “I can tell you that the single most important thing, though, is to ensure that Donald Trump is not the Republican nominee and that he certainly is not anywhere close to the Oval Office ever again.”
CORN, POPPED: Hard Left Already Plotting 2024 Primary Challenge Against Biden. “Chatter about a challenge from Biden’s left flank suddenly erupted in recent days, likely because Sen. Joe Manchin killed the president’s social welfare bill two weeks ago.”
Well, it’s only mostly dead.
THAT’S STILL A LOT OF PEOPLE: Only the most brainwashed True Believers will cling to the failed narrative.
“DISRUPTIVE CONTENT”: Facebook Blocks Conservative Children’s Book Publisher from Advertising.
Here’s their website where you can still order their books.
“A NUCLEAR TRUTH BOMB”: Working-Age Deaths Up Whopping 40% Says Life Insurance CEO and NOT Just COVID.
CLEAN ENERGY: Chinese Utility Terminates ‘Green’ Energy Plant in Xinjiang Due to Pollutant Emissions. “In a Dec. 28 filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the company said that owing to the malfunction of an exhaust gas purification system, the operation of its Hami Xuanli Gas Power project had improperly discharged a considerable amount of wastewater containing phenol, or carbolic acid.”
THE PRECISION IS IMPRESSIVE, THE INTEL EVEN MORE SO: Satellite Imagery of Syrian Port After Alleged Israeli Strike Shows ‘Astonishingly Precise’ Attack.
ANOTHER ONE? Fauci Made a Terrible COVID Prediction Last Year.
PRIORITIES: The Fat Nag brings a tale for 2021, and hope for 2022. “Mayor Lightfoot introduced an ordinance to the City Council that would ban Chicago restaurants from automatically offering pop or other sugared drinks to kids.”
Meanwhile: Chicago Once Again Scores Most Homicides of Any City in America… More Than Most States!