A PLEASANT SURPRISE: State Farm Stands By Aaron Rodgers Despite Hysteria Over His Vaccine Stance.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
November 9, 2021
HAVE THEY CHECKED THE FRENCH LAUNDRY? Californians Left Wondering As Rumors Swirl Over the Whereabouts of Gavin Newsom.
DAVID CATRON: The Kamikaze Party. “The Democrats respond to last week’s defeat with a series of futile suicide missions.”
Such ominous data, combined with last Tuesday’s rebuke by the voters, signal that the Democrats are in real trouble and members of the party are sounding the alarm. The New York Times quotes Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) thus: “We were so willing to take seriously a global pandemic, but we’re not willing to say, ‘Yeah, inflation is a problem, and supply chain is a problem, and we don’t have enough workers in our work force.’” Yet party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) aren’t listening. She still intends to push passage of the Build Back Better (BBB) social spending and climate bill that only 34 percent of the voters favor, according to the latest Emerson poll.
Pelosi, President Biden and other prominent Democrats have made it clear since last Tuesday’s debacle that they believe it was caused by their failure to pass this fiscally irresponsible legislation. As the editors of the New Hampshire Union Leader put it, “Biden, Nancy Pelosi and company were convinced that gifting the people with billions and billions of dollars of their own money and massive debt would have bought enough votes to push their gubernatorial candidate to victory.” But the Emerson poll is by no means the only poll that says precisely the opposite. An ABC News-Ipsos poll released two days before Election Day found that the majority of voters were not sold on BBB.
Read the whole thing.
JONATHAN GARTHWAITE: America Is Hanging on by a Thread. “Republicans won the Virginia governor’s race by only 66,000 votes when over 3.2 million were cast. Joe Biden got his monstrous “infrastructure” boondoggle spending bill passed because 13 weak Republicans in the House and 19 in the Senate caved and voted for it. One… maybe two senators stand in the way of the second, even more disastrous multi-trillion-dollar spending bill that D.C. liberals want to decimate us with. Everywhere I look, it seems like America is hanging on by the slimmest of margins. If liberty-loving Americans don’t band together, it’ll be lost. Lost for our kids, our grandchildren, and generations to come. Our great-grandchildren won’t even know what America really stood for if we don’t stop this gang in control right now.”
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Nearly a Dozen Medical Schools Undergo an ‘Antiracist Transformation.’
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Prof Canceled for Not Having the Real Feelz About Fake Hate.
Plus:
- COVID cultism comes to Christmas
- America’s celebrities, the Left’s sockpuppets
- UFC fans can’t get enough of Brandon
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WELL, THAT IS ITS JOB: The Constitution Just Keeps Frustrating Obama and the Dems. “It takes some nuclear-powered audacity for Barack Obama, of all people, to whine about unilateral governance. The only reason Donald Trump was able to ‘unilaterally’ withdraw from any international agreement was that the previous president had enlisted the nation in said agreement without the consent of Congress. The Paris Accord is allegedly the most critical international agreement ever forged by mankind, and yet it wasn’t quite important enough to be subjected to genuine national debate or the checks and balances of American government.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Don’t Look Now, But There’s a Nuclear Nightmare A-Brewing. “MAD is dying, strangled by Chinese and Russian arms, and we invite our own destruction when we can no longer make it mutual.”
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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Biden Admin Amassing Millions of Records on US Gun Owners Amid New Crackdown on Firearms.
The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government’s hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy group, and provided exclusively to the Free Beacon. When a licensed gun store goes out of business, its private records detailing gun transactions become ATF property and are stored at a federal site in West Virginia. This practice allows the federal government to stockpile scores of gun records and has drawn outrage from gun advocacy groups that say the government is using this information to create a national database of gun owners—which has long been prohibited under U.S. law.
They don’t give a damn about the law — only power.
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Your Escape Pod From Zuckerberg’s Metaverse. “Imagine a world in which PJ Media, Instapundit—what is sometimes called alternative journalism—never existed. Would there be a largely seamless, superficially predictable place where white and black hats in stories are assigned by editorial boards from the outset? Or would it be something grimmer, what Mark Zuckerberg calls the ‘metaverse’?”
(Re-bumped — a little trouble on the backend.)
ONE OF OUR VICE PRESIDENTS IS MISSING! Have You Seen Kamala Harris? Neither Has Anyone Else. “How does a Veep turn things around when the more people see her, the less they like her? The solution seems to be to keep her looking busy doing things that A) No one cares about and B) Not even Harris could screw up (probably, maybe).”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Americans Who Matter Are Opposed to Vaccine Mandates. “The soy boy betas who pollute politics, academia, and the mainstream media are the strongest proponents of vaccine mandates, and we really don’t need any of them to continue functioning. They’re all busy jackboot-stomping all over our freedoms and not contributing anything else to society.”
THIS IS CNN: Broken Record CNN Won’t Acknowledge Republican’s CRT Proof: ‘Not in Curriculum!’ “A CNN host refused to acknowledge her guest’s evidence of Critical Race Theory in Virginia schools Monday, resorting to repeating, ‘it’s not part of the curriculum’ like a broken record.”
November 8, 2021
THEY’LL PUSH IT ANYWAY: Biden’s Plan to Compensate Illegals Is Ridiculously Unpopular.
LINCOLN BROWN: A Letter to My Grandson. “My prayer for you that is that you will rise above the sound, fury, and utter nonsense that is part and parcel of today’s world. My prayer it that you will reject the parasites and sycophants who will tell you that because of your skin color or gender you are guilty of crimes that you never committed or, for that matter, never dreamt of committing. My prayer is that you will not succumb to the voices telling you to destroy yourself for a world that cares nothing for you. My prayer for you is that you will not be led to burn, but to create. My prayer for you is that you will grow up to be an honorable, compassionate, and dignified man.”
This is lovely. Read the whole thing.
LEONARD PITTS: Good riddance to 34 New York City cops. “It was reported last week that 34 New York City police officers took unpaid leave rather than comply with that city’s vaccine mandate. For this, New Yorkers should thank them. And then, find a way to fire them.”
Someday, Pitts might need to dial 911 — and find there’s no one there.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Nice Infrastructure Bill You Have There, Joe — Too Bad It Might Have Destroyed Your Presidency. “While you might be shocked, shocked to learn that a Jonathan Chait-endorsed stratagem went down in flames, that’s exactly what happened.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Mainstream Media Are Lying Liars Who Win Pulitzers For Their Lies As Long As Their Lies Help Democrats. “They sleep well because they believe doing The Will of the Party is far more important than telling the truth.”
JOANNE JACOBS: Learning about risks at the playground. “In the U.S., many ‘play scholars’ want more exciting playgrounds, writes Skenazy. ‘Unfortunately, that runs smack into our culture’s habit of underestimating kids, overestimating danger, and hiring trial lawyers.'”