Author Archive: Stephen Green
March 9, 2021
GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO SKATES AGAIN: Hollywood’s Double Standard Strikes Again: Pepé Le Pew Cut from ‘Space Jam 2,’ Cuomo Keeps His Emmy.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Cancel Culture Comes for Cuomo.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you get when you combine Andrew Cuomo, a St. John’s University outrage mob, the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Bill Maher, and Pepé le Pew?
Answer: We don’t know, but it sure does stink.
Welcome to a special All Cancel Culture All the Time edition of Insanity Wrap.
Bonus Sanity: Bill Maher says “Liberals need a Stand Your Ground law… for cancel culture.”
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
HMM: Sen. Roy Blunt won’t run for reelection in latest blow to GOP. “The veteran Missouri lawmaker is the fifth Republican incumbent to say he won’t be on the ballot next year.”
Politico link, so of course the spin is relentlessly negative, but losing incumbents is always a concern.
AREN’T MOST THINGS? D.C. Statehood Is an Unconstitutional Democrat Power Grab.
21ST CENTURY WARFARE: Frontline Geek Squads: SOCOM’s Secret Weapon. “Deploying data scientists alongside special ops troops lets them solve intelligence-sharing problems ‘in minutes or hours,’ said Special Operations Command’s first-ever CTO.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Woke Liberal Assault On Female Athletes Is A Travesty. “There are very few things in politics anymore that get me angry. For those new to the Briefing, I actually wrote a book about not letting politics get to me. Today, however, I’m going to go over one of the few things that does bring me close to a boiling point: the Democrats’ transgender fetish, specifically as it applies to women’s athletics.”
HIS NEXT MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS: SpaceX moves to beam Starlink internet into cars, boats, and aircraft. “ Starlink could go mobile — if the FCC approves.”
Starlink has the potential to disrupt an awful lot of vested interests, while also providing SpaceX enough cash flow to stay ahead of would-be competitors like Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
Elon Musk had better put together a bigger, smarter lobbying effort before his competitors in internet services and space launches get organized.
STACEY LENNOX: James Clyburn Says the Quiet Part Out Loud While Insisting HR-1 Must Pass. “He is suggesting that there be a work-around on the filibuster as there is for the budget. Congress just passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus through reconciliation which requires a simple majority vote. Clyburn is suggesting a similar carve-out for civil rights and voting rights legislation. This change would allow the Equality Act and HR-1 to move through the Senate with simple majority votes. Both are exceptionally radical pieces of legislation that Democrats wish to pass with no consensus.”
March 8, 2021
WE WILL NOT BE CANCELED: Big Tech Censorship and Cancel Culture Are on the Rise. Here’s How We Fight Back.
GETTING WHAT THEY VOTED FOR, GOOD AND HARD: Biden Celebrates International Women’s Day by Forcing Girls to Share Bathrooms, Sports Teams, With Boys.
THOSE ARE THEIR PRINCIPLES AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM… WELL, THEY HAVE OTHERS: Senate Dems Drop For-Profit College Criticism to Appease Biden Nominee. “Elizabeth Warren ignores SEC pick’s for-profit college ties after attacking industry.”
ORDERS GIVEN: Chinese Regime Tells Biden to Reverse Trump’s ‘Dangerous Practice’ of Supporting Taiwan. “Top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have implored the administration to roll back Trump’s tough-on-China policies, focus on cooperation on issues such as climate change, and not to ‘interfere’ in what the regime dubs ‘red line’ issues, including its human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, the crackdown in Hong Kong, and military aggression toward Taiwan.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Burger King Cracks Joke, Woke Brigade Cracks Skulls.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is an eye-catching joke in service to a progressive aide program still a joke if no one gets it?
Answer: That’s not funny.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Minneapolis is about to feel the burn
- Joe and Hunter used your tax dollars to pay for the press services they could have gotten for free
- The only thing in the world worse than a rich and famous person complaining about their fame and fortune is three of them
Bonus Sanity: The CDC rediscovers the margin of error.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WELL, YES: Biden’s “Equity” Push Is Actually a Push for Unequal Treatment.
The new president is so determined to sell us “equity” that he sometimes can’t get the buzz word off the teleprompter fast enough. One day in his second week in office, Biden misspoke and almost said “equality,” but then backed up and repeated the new magic word: equity.
Why was he so punctilious? Why equity and not equality? Because the difference has become enormous under the Biden administration.
“Equity” may sound like equality, but in the hands of Biden, his team, and the professoriate dictating the terms from the faculty lounge, it has become its functional opposite. This drives a dagger into any hope of unifying around the foundational principle of equality.
RELATED, FROM CHARLES LIPSON: ‘Equity’ Is a Mandate to Discriminate.
It’s the difference between equal treatment and equal outcomes. Equality means equal treatment, unbiased competition and impartially judged outcomes. Equity means equal outcomes, achieved if necessary by unequal treatment, biased competition and preferential judging.
Those who push for equity have hidden these crucial differences for a reason. They aren’t merely unpopular; they challenge America’s bedrock principle that people should be treated equally and judged as individuals, not as members of groups.
The Left is inherently hostile to this country’s foundational principles.
“GO AWAY,” THEY EXPLAINED: Google HR reportedly advised mental health leave in response to complaints of racist or sexist behavior. “The workers described encounters with coworkers that included racist comments about skin color and hairstyles, as well as sexual harassment. When they contacted Google’s human resources department, each was encouraged to take mental health leave, even when their complaints were unrelated to mental health concerns.”
#BELIEVEALLWOMEN: The Five Women Who Have Accused Andrew Cuomo of Sexual Misconduct.
THAT’S NOT FUNNY: So This Conservative Comic Goes on Social Media and… “Openly conservative stand-up Nick Di Paolo got suspended from YouTube for supposedly sharing false information, after ridiculing the left’s exaggerations of the virus in attacking President Trump. Comedian Chrissie Mayr’s video mocking China’s handling of COVID-19 — ‘Kung Flu Fighting’ — was erased by Instagram, which deemed it ‘hate speech’ despite featuring a diverse lineup of comics. The Babylon Bee, the right’s online answer to the satirical site The Onion, has been at war with Facebook for years. The social media giant intermittently threatens to de-platform the site for spoof articles that moderators apparently take seriously, such as its 2018 report that CNN had purchased industrial-sized washing machines to better ‘spin’ the news.”