THAT REVEALS MORE ABOUT HIS CAUSE THAN IT DOES ABOUT ISRAEL: Former CNN Contributor Brags That His Pro-Hitler Tweet ‘Contributed to the Palestine Cause.’
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May 18, 2021
COLORADO: Polis pushing mandate on employers to regulate workers’ commutes; rulemaking bypasses legislature.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is proposing to implement new regulations that would force companies in the Denver Metro/North Front Range area with more than 100 employees to create “Employee Transportation Reduction Plans (ETRP).” This is part of the “ambitious” 2019 law that requires a 26% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and a 90% reduction from 2005 levels by 2050.
CDPHE is a cabinet-level state agency that falls under the purview of Governor Polis. The new regulations would be implemented under the authority of the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC), which is controlled by Polis appointees.
“That’s the most alarming part of what they’re trying to do,” Patrick McConnell, Coalitions Director for the Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity told Complete Colorado. “Legislating through the rule-making process is not the way to go about this. It needs transparency and accountability. This is something they should put through the people’s elected representatives.”
If Polis is bypassing the people’s elected representatives — Democrats, mostly — it’s because he knows his plan would get them unelected.
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: China-Owned TikTok Is Banning Satirical Impressions That Mock WHO Apologist Anthony Fauci. “Comedian Tyler Fischer, whose impressions have gone viral, wrote on Twitter Monday TikTok banned his mocking of Fauci, the face of America’s detrimental lockdowns, over violations of its ‘community guidelines.'”
It might not be as debilitating as the Wuhan Flu, but TikTok is every bit as much a virus out of Communist China.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: White People Even Walk Racist.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is it true that Northwestern Uniservisty students can’t even use the sidewalks without being shoved off by white supremacists?
Answer: No. Was there anything else?
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Save the Earth! Shoot yourself in the foot!
- Doxxing the doxxers
- Impressive video of what happens when a shoddy Hamas missile hits a well-built Israeli highrise
Bonus Sanity: A call for Congress to spend… less? A plan so crazy it might just be sane.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
OLD SCHOOL: There’s a New Beast on Wall Street: Carnivore. “They are a group of experienced traders who had long careers on Wall Street, and some of them are still there, secretly and silently sharing information on trades with an anonymous personality who goes by the name of Dutch. It’s a clandestine, secretive group of Wall Street traders who have all known each other for years, worked together side-by-side trading at hedge funds and some of the largest Wall Street firms. A very private group that shuns the limelight and has no desire for fame, they are exposing the lies that Wall Street has told investors for decades, according to Dutch.”
UPDATE: Elevators aboard USS Gerald R. Ford to be fixed after shock trials. “The trials are a specific combat preparation exercise in which a range of weapons is fired at or near the ship, to indicate whether vibration can cause problems. It is unusual for a ship to enter the trials without essential working components such as elevators.”
That’s because it’s a bad idea that ruins the point of the shock trials.
LEFTISM IN ACTION: BLM Crashes Wisconsin Memorial for Fallen Officers, Shouts Obscenities.
SHE HAS A LITTLE LIST: Kamala Harris Keeps Enemies List of Journalists Who Don’t ‘Appreciate Her Life Experience’
Some aides have been “surprised at how much work there is to be done” when it comes to educating Harris on policy issues. Even journalists have grown tired of the VP’s tendency to “retreat behind talking points and platitudes in public.” Dovere writes that, at times, Harris “comes off as so uninteresting that television producers have started to wonder whether spending thousands of dollars to send people on trips with her is worthwhile, given how little usable material they get out of it.”
In many ways, Harris is merely a non-white version of Hillary Clinton. Both women are possessed by ruthless ambition, yet lack the necessary skills to succeed in politics at the national level. They are most comfortable when regurgitating talking points and platitudes. Objectively speaking, they share a knack for unsettling laughter and launched their political careers by dating powerful men.
Harsh, but fair.
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Twitter Suspends Spanish Politician for Tweeting ‘A Man Cannot Get Pregnant.’
DANEGELD: Hacker group behind Colonial Pipeline attack claims it has three new victims.
Over the past 24 hours, the group posted the names of three new companies on its site on the dark web, called DarkSide Leaks. The information posted to the site includes summaries of what the hackers appear to have stolen but do not appear to contain raw data. DarkSide is a criminal gang, and its claims should be treated as potentially misleading.
The posting indicates that the hacker collective is not backing down in the face of an FBI investigation and denunciations of the attack from the Biden administration.
That last part comes as no shock, given Biden’s fecklessness in responding to Russian cyberattacks — despite a stern warning in March that the US would reply in kind.
NOT AN INSURRECTION: Video Shows U.S. Capitol Police Gave Protesters OK to Enter.
The video directly contradicts what government prosecutors allege in a complaint filed January 8 against Chansley: “Robishaw and other officers calmed the protestors somewhat and directed them to leave the area from the same way they had entered. Chansley approached Officer Robishaw and screamed, among other things, that this was their house, and that they were there to take the Capitol, and to get Congressional leaders.”
Chansley later is seen entering the Senate chambers with a police officer behind him; he led several protesters in prayer and sat in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair. (The man in the yellow sweatshirt is William Watson, who was out on bond for allegedly trafficking marijuana and LSD. He was arrested in January.)
Chansley is not charged with assaulting an officer; he faces several counts for trespassing and disorderly conduct. He has been incarcerated since January, denied bail awaiting trial. He has no criminal record.
Developing…
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Why Are We Still Pretending That Andrew Cuomo Isn’t a Moron? “Frequent fodder here at the Briefing during this time has been the bumbling gubernatorial triumvirate of Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, and Andrew Cuomo. Make no mistake, I would love to be able to stop writing about them but they just won’t go away. Few people have benefited more from a toxic combination of liberal media bias and the participation trophy era than these three. The fact that they’re all still employed is kind of stunning when you think about it. Back when this country had more backbone shame would have made each of them tuck tail and resign.”
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MATT MARGOLIS: Is Dr. Anthony Fauci a Vaccine Skeptic? “Why is he wearing a mask outdoors? If the CDC says it’s safe to be maskless when you’re vaccinated, and Fauci himself says the risk, even if you’re not vaccinated, is minuscule, why wear the mask? Is Fauci a vaccine skeptic? Does he not believe the vaccine works? What kind of message does it send when the nation’s top infectious diseases expert won’t go maskless when he’s been vaccinated?”
STACEY LENNOX: Time to Change How PCR Testing Is Deployed for COVID-19 and Reinstate the Doctor-Patient Relationship. “Throughout this entire time, testing was divorced from primary medical providers, severing the doctor-patient relationship. There were testing sites, and many times patients were receiving their results electronically. A doctor did not assess those who received PCR testing for symptoms, and the CDC has never issued treatment guidelines for symptom management outside of hospitalization.”
YOURS TRULY: Solving the Mystery of Blue Origin’s Failure to Launch. “Blue Origin isn’t stuck on the launch pad because they don’t get enough practice. They’re stuck because they’re trying to do the impossible: To compete with NewSpace firms using an OldSpace business model.”
May 17, 2021
FRACTURED FAIRY TALES: True love’s first kiss or rape culture? “Disneyland’s Snow White ride, redesigned to be less scary, shows the kiss. The prince kisses Snow White ‘without her consent while she’s asleep, which cannot possibly be true love if only one person knows it’s happening,’ write Julie Tremaine and Katie Dowd on SFGate.”
SWIFT JUSTICE: Israel Kills Islamic Jihad Leader Behind Missile Attacks.
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: The Lab Leak Hypothesis Revisited. “The considerable evidence in favor of the lab leak hypothesis is why numerous medical researchers have signed an open letter in science asking that the lab leak hypothesis be seriously explored.”
WELL, YES: The Hamas Rocket Attacks Are Based on a Lie.
ONLY IF WE LET THEM: Will Democrats mask America forever?