THEY COULDN’T HAVE JUST SENT COAL? Pennsylvania Gets Christmas-Day Delivery of Illegal Aliens From Biden Claus.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
December 29, 2021
December 28, 2021
And some people thought I was kidding when I said I want to catch omicron.
Or maybe I have but just failed to notice.
YES, BUT…: Holiday shopping surged 8.5% despite Omicron, supply-chain snags. “While a strong job market and rising wages fueled the jump, some experts said surging inflation — which has jacked up prices on jewelry, apparel and electronics in addition to gas and groceries — also helped goose the figures.”
Ya think?
HOW ABOUT WE JUST DEFUND AND ELIMINATE HIS OFFICE, INSTEAD? Rep. Jordan Promises Investigations of Dr. Fauci When GOP Has Majority.
An investigation would be nice but eliminating those levers of power so the next petty tyrant can’t get hold of them would be nicer.
TO BE FAIR, WASHINGTON IS ILL-SUITED TO DEALING WITH MOST PROBLEMS: Ron Klain Said National Government Would Beat COVID.
HMM: China Is Becoming The Soviet Union.
Xi is borrowing from a well-used Chinese playbook. His isolationism and xenophobia evoke policies from the earliest years of the People’s Republic and during the two millennia of imperial rule. As Georgia Tech’s Fei-Ling Wang details in The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power, isolationism is inherent in Chinese totalitarianism.
Chinese rulers, as Arthur Waldron of the University of Pennsylvania told the Hoover Institution, have periodically avoided contact with other societies “lest that lead to disorder, as globalization is doing in China today.” These rulers throughout history relentlessly enforced their geliguojia — “separated country”—system, he points out. Today, Xi Jinping is going back to that approach.
Of course, as Chinese leaders closed off China from time to time, economic stagnation and failure inevitably followed. At the moment, the Chinese economy is probably contracting, mostly the consequence of Xi’s misguided views.
We’ll see. Gordan Chang has been predicting the end of the CCP any time now for more than 20 years, but Xi does seem more dogmatic than his predecessors.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: School Closures: CBS Censors Own Reporter for Telling the Truth.
Plus:
- Our nation’s mental health crisis explained in 13 seconds
- The most recent, bestest news about omicron
- It’s up to you, New York, New York developers
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
MATT WELCH: RIP, ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.’
The problems with the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” message pre-date the variant that rendered it factually ludicrous. On September 16, one week after Biden reversed serial administration promises by announcing an employer vaccine mandate (while using language such as “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us”), science writer Yasmin Tayag penned an Atlantic piece headlined “Stop Calling It a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.'”
“Bullying the unvaccinated into getting their shots isn’t going to work in the long run,” Tayag predicted, in a piece surveying a field of study (behavioral science) to which the White House seems oblivious. “The way the mandates are being presented is driving a wedge between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. If the goal is to inoculate enough people to reach herd immunity, this approach may eventually backfire.”
So how have mandates worked in practice? The New York Times on December 18 published a survey of all 50 states and the country’s largest 100 cities, and concluded that the government orders “have not provided the significant boost to state and local vaccination rates that some experts had hoped for.” To the contrary: “In most locations, the number of adults with at least one shot grew at a slower pace after states and cities announced mandates than it did nationwide in the same time periods.”
Clearly, the efficacy of the vaccines has been oversold. That’s particularly true about omicron, which spreads like nothing else — but isn’t that bad, either.
The mandates are about getting people to accept an unAmerican level of submission to arbitrary authority.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Republicans move to ban federal funds to states, cities that allow non-citizens to vote.
POSTMODERN PRAETORIANS: CNN Cries ‘Fake News’ to Accurately Say Biden Has More Covid Deaths Than Trump.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Biden Train Wreck Is All the Way Off the Rails Now. “I remember listening to a doddering old man drool his way through a presidential campaign last year promising to be the Great Covid Slayer. Unfortunately, the braindead Democrat masses bought Biden’s story. Now he’s been in office for almost a year and we’re still canceling sporting events and talking about wearing masks on airplanes forever.”
THAT’S NICE. NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO USE TO CHARGE ALL THOSE BATTERIES? 13 battery gigafactories coming to the US by 2025 – ushering new era of US battery production.
Previously: Elon Musk Says EVs Will Double World’s Need for Electricity.
I WISH I COULD FEEL BETTER ABOUT THIS: Google is dethroned as world’s most popular website.
The tech giant was pushed into second place as TikTok took the No. 1 spot as the most popular website in 2021, according to cybersecurity company Cloudflare.
In 2020, Google took the No. 1 spot while TikTok came in at No. 7, making the feat of reaching No. 1 by jumping six spots all the more noteworthy.
In September, TikTok hit a new record, reporting 1 billion monthly active users.
TikTok is CCP spyware masquerading as a social media site.
December 27, 2021
WAKE UP, IT’S A CHELSEA MORNING: Nearly 30% of New COVID Cases in America Came From One City. “I feel like this story would be framed differently if it were Florida.”
THERE WAS NEVER AN INSURRECTION: Prominent Dem Lawyer Predicts Lawsuits To Remove GOP Members From House Seats Next Year.
COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Following higher ed’s lead, K-12 schools deny Asian students’ achievement. “Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Chris Rufo posted an image last month of a presentation reportedly delivered by university president Darryll Pines, which separated the average scores and GPAs into two categories: ‘students of color, minus Asians’ and ‘white or Asian students.'”