THE THREAT WITHIN: Vets Battle Critical Race Theory Invasion of Military. “There’s a culture of fear within the military now. On the one hand, it’s okay to cheer on Black Lives Matter [on a military base], but if you speak out against this Marxist ideology you’ll be relieved of your duties. Ask yourself, ‘Is this what China and Russia are concerned about?'”
I’d say that Beijing and Russia can’t believe their good fortune, except that they paid cash up front for some of it.
STACEY LENNOX: Here’s the Most Interesting Thing in the CDC Data About Post-Vaccine COVID Breakthrough Infections. “I have been railing against the context-less reporting of death counts since the beginning of the pandemic. While writing for another outlet, I noted the bizarre instructions issued by the National Center for Health Statistics after CNN reporter Jim Acosta called any questioning of the counts a conspiracy theory. If Acosta is attacking an idea, there is almost certainly some truth to it. As testing protocols blossomed to the point where every inpatient received one, and the number of asymptomatic individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 became clear, there was even more reason to question the counts.”
I was writing about this a year ago, and all it achieved was to get people’s ability to share and discuss it throttled by Facebook.
JUST ANOTHER DEVELOPING CRISIS-BY-DESIGN: House Republicans Probe Biden Admin for Ignoring Syria Sanctions To Appease Iran. “They also demand to know whether the administration has held talks about lifting sanctions on the Assad regime. This includes potentially issuing waivers to exempt the Syrian regime from crippling sanctions. Waivers also are being used to unwind pressure on Iran.”
WHERE DOES PJ GO TO GET OUR REPUTATION BACK? PJ Media Demands an Apology for the Damage Facebook’s Dishonest Partisan Fact-Checkers Have Done to Our Reputation. “For the last two years, we’ve tried to work behind the scenes with Facebook and Science Feedback to resolve scurrilous fact checks on everything from COVID-19 to climate change. Facebook and Science Feedback have not been honest brokers in our discussions. It’s bad enough that they’ve throttled our Facebook traffic and reduced our revenue, but they’ve also harmed our reputation and credibility by repeatedly calling us liars when we report something they don’t agree with, often on topics where the scientific community is deeply divided.”
Read the whole thing.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Xiaomi is no longer designated as a ‘Communist Chinese Military Company.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats’ Pre-Election Lies Are Unraveling. “We entered a truly disturbing and bizarre phase where the American mainstream media was willing to take at face value any claims made by agents of the Chinese Communist Party all the while rejecting and denigrating anything that was said by the President of the United States. It was a new low even for that group of professional bottom-dwellers.”
YET ANOTHER WORTHLESS ARTICLE ON ELECTRIFICATION — OUR INSUFFICIENT POWER GRID WASN’T MENTIONED: Ford announces goal of 40% all-electric sales by 2030 – here’s why it’s going to have to revise that.
No need to click, but as our grid comes under increasing strain I want to have an “I told you so” collection of Instapundit posts to refer back to.
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Stacey Lennox: Biden’s Legacy Could Be Dooming Us to Relearn the 20th Century’s Ugliest Lessons in the 21st. “The fascists and communists had far more in common than either group would like to admit. Both are authoritarian, view people as collective groups rather than individuals, and excuse or encourage violence against those who reject their ideology. The minor differences in the economic systems do not overshadow the carnage and human suffering their ideology demands. Perhaps the most significant common ground between the two is pure hatred of the West. That is probably why some commentators are calling what we are witnessing now a red-green alliance.”
Bryan Preston: America’s Maoist Moment Comes to Texas. “The Maoist moment commands the heights with Joe Biden in the White House. The U.S. State Department, Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration — all have come under the sway of Maoist critical race theory. The damage being done to the American self-image may be permanent.”
Yours Truly: Facebook Is Circumventing Your Privacy Settings, But You Can Stop Them. “Requiring users to opt in for cross-app tracking might be the biggest privacy protection in the smartphone’s relatively brief history, but when it comes to sharing photos, even iOS 14.5 left a door wide open for Peeping Toms like Mark Zuckerberg.”
IMPRESSIVE: Falcon 9 completes its 100th successful flight in a row. “Under bright blue skies, the Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida on Wednesday afternoon and promptly delivered its Starlink payload into orbit. This booster has truly become the workhorse of the global launch industry.”
Even more impressive: It took just under six years for SpaceX to make those 100 successful launches, and their op-tempo is only increasing.
Maybe it’s because SpaceX isn’t woke.
PROBABLY NOT, BUT WE CAN STILL HOPE: Is the End of Dr. Fauci’s Reign Coming Soon?
INTRODUCING THE NYT’S POSTMODERN WALTER DURANTY: New York Times health reporter: Wuhan lab leak coronavirus theory has ‘racist roots,’ isn’t ‘plausible.’
UPDATE (From Ed): ‘Someone got a phone call:’ NYT COVID reporter who thinks someday we might admit the racist roots of the lab leak theory explains again why she deleted her tweets.
(Updated and bumped.)
HE SHALL TAKE CARE THAT THE LAWS BE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED: Shocking New Data Shows Joe Biden Has Practically Abolished ICE. “After years of the left demanding the abolishment of ICE, they may have gotten their wish, if not technically, at least practically. Deportations dropped to under 3,000 total last month. That’s the lowest number on record for an agency that ostensibly exists to enforce immigration laws.”
KRUISER: Media Pathetically Creates a Biden We All Know Isn’t There.
With George W. Bush, journalists lied a lot and kept reminding people that he was stupid. Barack Obama came along and they giggled like ditzy school girls who spent their nights writing prom fantasies about him in their feelings journals. With Trump they lied about everything and attacked like vicious, rabid animals. Then they’d go off whimpering about the fact that Trump supporters hated them.
Joe Biden presents challenges to the journo hacks the likes of which they’ve never encountered.
Read the whole thing.
THE LOCKDOWN CURE WAS ALWAYS WORSE THAN THE WUHAN DISEASE: Children’s Hospital Colorado declares ‘state of emergency’ for pediatric mental health.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Austin City Hall Is Now Occupied by a Tent City With Machete-Wielding ‘Security.’ “As per usual, Mayor Steve Adler, Democrat, is allowing the situation to get out of control. He is allowing what amounts to an ‘autonomous zone’ to occupy Austin city hall by calling it a ‘protest.'”
PRIORITIES: Schools aren’t funding tutors, learning time. “School districts are getting $81 billion from the federal American Rescue Plan: 20 percent is supposed to be spent to help students catch up academically. But most spending plans aren’t focused on learning recovery.”
“For the children” was always a lie.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Terminated Trump Admin Investigation Into Wuhan Virus Origins.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s worse than the possibility of Communist China getting away with waging undeclared global biological warfare?
Answer: The Biden administration refusing to even look into the possibility.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- This was CNN
- Will the real antisemite please stand up, then sit down and shut up?
- John Cena gets the five-knuckle shuffle
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
NEVER PAY THE DANEGELD: Bose Hit By Ransomware, Refuses To Pay Ransom.
JUST THINK OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T GET SHOT: Chicago’s Sees Its Worst Mostly Peaceful Weekend Since 2015.
JAMES ANTLE: Surging crime rate spells trouble for Democrats in 2022 elections.
A rise in violent crime during the 1960s, and growing public sentiment that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party was too soft in confronting it, helped fuel Republican victories in the 1970s and 1980s. This culminated in the 1988 presidential election, in which Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis saw a 17-point national lead evaporate due in part to the “Willie Horton” ad about Massachusetts’s furlough program for convicted violent criminals. Dukakis ended up losing 40 states.
Liberals are fearful of a repeat. Left-wing commentator Ezra Klein acknowledged the crime wave “is a crisis on its own terms” but also described it on Twitter as “a crisis for the liberal project.”
Don’t get cocky… but take cover and stock up on even more ammo.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Are Democrats Trying to Kill Colorado’s Charter Schools?
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