IT SURE FEELS LIKE ONE: Is This The Biggest Financial Bubble Ever? Hell Yes It Is. “If you’re over 40, you’ve lived through at least three epic financial bubbles: junk bonds in the 1980s, tech stocks in the 1990s, and housing in the 2000s.”
Don’t you worry, the experts have it under control this time for sure.
SHAMELESS: Democrats Present ‘Doctored’ Video of Capitol Riot During Trump Impeachment Trial.
Remember, it isn’t an impeachment without the Chief Justice: Senator Leahy, not chief justice, to preside over Trump’s second impeachment trial.
It’s a show trial, run by and for the benefit of Democrats.
THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT: Tech Community Turns Against the New York Times. “BlockNYT app bars 800 Times reporters from Twitter feed.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Mark Cuban’s Ugly ChiCom Mating Ritual Is Now Complete. “Cuban has now taken the next un-American step and unilaterally decided to stop playing the National Anthem at Dallas Mavericks home games.”
FEAR OF BACKLASH: Reopening politics are shifting. “Reopening schools is the top priority for Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, writes Dana Goldstein in the New York Times. She pleads for more time to persuade teachers that going back to classrooms will be safe.”
THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Six Republicans Join Democrats in Ruling Trump Impeachment Trial Constitutional.
DON’T WORRY, JOE HAS A PLAN FOR THAT: Trump Defeats Castro Communists: Cuba Set to Open Up Its Economy.
SPOILER: IT WILL NOT END WITH REMOVAL FROM OFFICE. What to Expect in Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial.
GROWING THE ANGLOSPHERE: B-1B Makes First US Bomber Visit to India Since 1945.
If Beijing doesn’t like closer Indo-American military ties (and they don’t), they have no one to blame for it but themselves.
COMPANY TOWNS, DIGITAL EDITION: Tech Companies Could Form Their Own Governments Under a New Nevada Proposal.
RULE OF LAW OR WHATEVS: Biden prepares rules to limit ICE arrests, deportations. “They’ve abolished ICE without abolishing ICE.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Calls Up ‘Ordinary American,’ Cringeworthy Conversation Ensues.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Who the hell needs a script just to have a nice conversation with one of your constituents?
Answer: If we have to tell you, you must have slept through the last year — lucky you.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Progress! From “driving while black” to “walking while Asian” in Los Angeles
- Australia set to outlaw praying for transgenders
- Five million cellphone accounts disappeared from “We’re All Fine Here, Thanks”, China
Bonus Sanity: We had to import some from France, but we found it for you.
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
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BLUE CITY BLUES: Facing Deficit, Met Considers Selling Art to Help Pay the Bills.
DON’T BE EVIL: Terraria canceled on Stadia after developer gets locked out of his Google accounts. “Andrew Spinks gave the ultimatum early Monday, after getting no response from Google since YouTube locked him out of his account in mid-January. The lockout has also cost Spinks access to apps he’s purchased on Google Stadia, wiped data he stored in Google drive, and terminated a Gmail account he’s used for more than 15 years.”
HERE WE JUST POST EVERYTHING ANY SNOOP MIGHT WANT TO KNOW RIGHT INTO FACEBOOK OR TWITTER: Iran ‘hides spyware in wallpaper, restaurant and games apps.’
LIKE SO MUCH ELSE, YES: Twitter and Facebook are going to ruin newsletters, aren’t they?
Can’t they please just let us have this one thing?
This was the thought that came to mind last week, when Twitter announced its acquisition of the newsletter platform Revue, and when three sources told The New York Times that Facebook is planning its own newsletter tools for journalists and writers.
For Twitter and Facebook, getting into the newsletter business makes sense. Alongside Google, their platforms have come to dominate the distribution of journalism and online discourse in general, using their news feeds and search results to monetize a never-ending flow of content. With newsletters, a growing number of writers are trying to get off that treadmill and establish a more direct relationship with readers. Some prominent journalists have even quit their staff jobs to make newsletters full-time, and some budding newsrooms now publish primarily to readers’ inboxes.
By offering newsletter tools themselves, companies such as Facebook and Twitter are clearly hoping to pull the flow of information back onto their own platforms.
You will be assimilated.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Impeachment 2.0 Is Dems Giving the Finger to Unity Forever. “The Democrats are getting underway with yet another public exercise of daddy issues, wasting time and taxpayer dollars in what will amount to nothing more than an on camera diaper filling. They get to spend more time complaining about the man who is now developing prime, rent-free real estate in the heads of every Democrat in Congress.”
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Unity is submission.
DECOUPLING: French constitutional court backs provisions of ‘anti-Huawei law.’ “The French Constitutional Council backed the law’s aim of ‘safeguarding the interests of national defence and security and protecting mobile radio networks from the risks of espionage, piracy and sabotage’.”
RECOUPLING? Cruz blocks vote on Biden Commerce secretary nominee over Huawei concerns. “”I’ll lift the hold when the Biden admin commits to keep the massive Chinese Communist Party spy operation Huawei on the Entity List.”
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Biden Threatens America’s Dominance in Space. “On many fronts, it seems the Biden administration is downplaying the threat to the United States from China — both on Earth and beyond.”
Joe’s an honest politician — he stays bought.
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