CORN, POPPED: Popular Detroit Police Chief Craig Resigns, May Go After Whitmer’s Gig. “Chief Craig, who is black, is popular with his cops, the citizens of Detroit, and the largely white suburbanites that encompass Detroit on three sides. His friends call him ‘Hollywood’ because he is comfy in front of news cameras, where he spends a lot of time. Then-president Trump called Craig, ‘terrific.'”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 11, 2021
THAT WOULD BE AS NICE AS IT IS UNLIKELY: Fauci Must Be Held to Account for His Role in Funding Wuhan Lab Research.
THE NEW ANTIRACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: To Fight Racism, Should White Children Be Made ‘Uncomfortable’?
Not unlike how if a vaccine makes you feel a bit sick that shows it is working, this discomfort is supposedly evidence that progress is being made. White people unwilling to experience this discomfort are viewed as part of the problem.
Proponents of these methods insist that encouraging these painful emotions is not punitive, but rehabilitative. The pain is meant to be the door white people pass through to truly embrace antiracism and deconstruct white supremacy.
In the end, you will love Big Brother.
LAME MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: White House Denies That Paying Workers to Sit at Home Is a Disincentive to Work.
To be fair, if Democrats understood incentives, they wouldn’t be Democrats.
TALES FROM THE SWAMPLAND: Big Media-Backing Special Interests, Lobbyists Flood Ken Buck’s Campaign Coffers as He Pushes Bill to Benefit Them.
Buck is leading this charge while taking thousands and thousands of dollars this year from special interests and lobbyists backing the legislation. In total, in just the past two months, recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show Buck has raked in at least $18,000 from lobbyists, special interest groups, and PACs for organizations that support the legislation he is championing that would fundamentally change the media and technology landscape.
The bill, opposed by both the full Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who warned the bill would give establishment media outlets “cartel power,” as well as House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who called it “the antithesis of conservatism,” is called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA). It would create a special legal exemption in antitrust law for media companies to allow them to band together in a manner that would otherwise be illegal so they could collectively bargain with big tech companies.
The controversial legislation is the brainchild of a special interest group called the News Media Alliance (NMA). NMA, which is technically a 501(c)6 as classified by the IRS, is a membership-based advocacy organization with top establishment media organizations as leading board members.
Plus: “Backers of the legislation believe it may rein in big tech companies by forcing them to pay news organizations for content they use on their platforms, but as Breitbart News has demonstrated, the legislation has a number of flaws and loopholes that would actually end up empowering big tech and big media companies, while still hurting independent and smaller publishers.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Putin Takes Biden’s Lunch Money, Gives Atomic Wedgie.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s another way of saying, “Thank you, sir, may I have another?”
Answer: “The Biden Doctrine.”
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Stu Rothenberg has breaking news from 2001
- Biden appoints actual insurrectionist as Deputy Director for Political Strategy
- Is this video from 1979 or 2021? YOU make the call!
Bonus Sanity: At last, somebody has noticed that the new CIA Director is a CCP sympathizer.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
CHANGE: Boris Johnson Is Redrawing The Political Map Of England. “North East England is becoming a Conservative stronghold after a century of Labour dominance. Northumberland’s local council is under Conservative control for the first time since 1970 and Labour lost control of Durham County Council for the first time since 1925 after the Conservatives gained 14 seats. The Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley was re-elected with almost 73 percent of the vote. Across the rest of provincial England, the Conservatives also gained new council seats. There were even swings towards the Conservatives in London where Labour was expecting an easy victory.”
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS (HISTORY): History or Misinformation: Did Santa Anna Have an All-Black Regiment Fighting In the 1836 Texas Revolution? “Salas has made the claim before, and it seems to be part of an effort to somehow rehabilitate Santa Anna. Rehabilitating Santa Anna is a woke and revisionist political project.”
COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: Huawei’s ability to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile users is a wake-up call for the telecoms industry.
Chinese technology provider Huawei was recently accused of being able to monitor all calls made using Dutch mobile operator KPN. The revelations are from a secret 2010 report made by consultancy firm Capgemini, which KPN commissioned to evaluate the risks of working with Huawei infrastructure.
While the full report on the issue has not been made public, journalists reporting on the story have outlined specific concerns that Huawei personnel in the Netherlands and China had access to security-essential parts of KPN’s network – including the call data of millions of Dutch citizens – and that a lack of records meant KPN couldn’t establish how often this happened.
It’s easy to say how this happened. They f****** up, they trusted China.
IT’LL BE TOUGH TO SPIN THIS ONE AS WORKPLACE VIOLENCE: Three Bystanders Shot in Broad Daylight in Times Square by a Man Named Farrakhan Muhammad.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: White House official fesses up that Biden admin ‘had a plan from the beginning’ on migrant surge. “ It appears that the plan was to allow the flood of illegal border crossings and get the migrants to sponsors or family members as soon as possible. Tobar also mentioned that the ‘plan is working.’”
Instapundit readers have been aware of this for months.
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Is Anheuser-Busch Drunk? The Beer Behemoth Is Forcing the Woke ‘Gender Unicorn’ on Its Employees.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK:Combined capital gains tax rate in New York would hit 54.3% under Biden plan.
To be fair, Biden’s tax plan is punitive (and won’t raise the projected revenue) no matter where you live.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Pathetically Biased CNN’s Ratings Are In Free Fall. “Let’s be clear: CNN didn’t do any journalism during the Trump years. It was a televised tantrum that went on for four years. When Trump was in office, the vitriol being spewed about him on CNN worked well for its numbers. While the MSM hacks are all still letting Trump live rent-free in their heads, the audience apparently doesn’t care anymore.”
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“MOST RELIGIOUSLY OBSERVANT COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN HALF A CENTURY’: Catholic Groups Scorch ‘Catholic’ Biden Over Anti-Catholic HHS Directive.
PARTLY BECAUSE THE LEFT WON’T ALLOW IT: Why We Need to Keep Talking About Election Fraud.
MORE THAN A CENTURY OF CRISES BY DESIGN: The Tyranny of Experts and the Great Unlearning.
May 10, 2021
NO. SEE MITT ROMNEY, JOHN MCCAIN, AND GEORGE W. BUSH. NEXT QUESTION? Will the Left Respect Liz Cheney in the Morning?
CHILD ABUSE: Biden HHS Lays the Groundwork for the Chemical Castration of Children.
Even the Swedes now say that’s going too far.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Union Leadership Evaded Pay Cuts as Pandemic Devastated Membership.
GOOD SENSE FROM ACROSS THE POND: Queen to Announce Voter ID Requirements in UK to Tackle Election Fraud.
WELL, THEY ARE AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: The Babylon Bee predicted the Elon-Musk-doge-moon-mission 6 months ago with freakish accuracy.