Author Archive: Stephen Green
January 12, 2021
IMITATING? The New York Times Keeps Imitating A Chinese Propaganda Outlet.
Imagine, that during the height of Stalinism, as millions died from a Communism-induced famine, an American publication ran headlines like “Russians Hungry, But Not Starving?”
Imagine, that during the height of Nazism, as Adolf Hitler worked to exterminate the Jewish people, an American publication consciously downplayed and buried coverage of the Holocaust?
The New York Times did precisely these things. Now, it appears it wants to complete the trifecta of effectively shilling for the world’s most monstrous regimes by glorifying that of Communist China as it seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s preeminent power.
Read the whole thing.
‘SHUT UP,’ SHE EXPLAINED: NYT Reporter Warns Conservative Writer Andy Ngo is a ‘Real Threat’, Should Be Censored on Twitter.
BLUE STATE BLUES: Colorado youth corrections system sees biggest spike in violent offenders in a decade. “Even more startling: In the past four years, the number of youth in the Colorado Division of Youth Services for the offenses of homicide and manslaughter has risen by 141%.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘War Is Peace,’ CNN Goes Full Orwell.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What the hell was CNN thinking aping George Orwell almost word-for-word?
Answer: Maybe they were hoping to get Brownie points for honesty.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Predictions are hard, except about the Law of Unintended Consequences
- Cancel Culture comes for Cruz
- Gov. Cuomo is done holding his state hostage (maybe)
Bonus Sanity: A complete guide to alternate social media where free speech is still respected.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
DOXXING GOES WHOLESALE: Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived.
FASTER, PLEASE: Trump bans by Twitter, Facebook will trigger Big Tech giants’ ‘downfall,’ says ‘Social Dilemma’ star.
“They just pulled the trigger on what now amounts to them saying, ‘We do feel accountable for content,’” Joe Toscano, a former Google consultant, told Fox News.
Following Trump’s brief suspension after the violence that took place on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Twitter announced on Friday evening that the president will no longer be able to tweet. Trump has also been removed from other social media platforms, including Facebook, Reddit and Instagram
“I think the fact that all these companies have made the moves to ban Trump proves that they now realize they are responsible for the content and now it’s time to talk about Section 230,” Toscano said.
The Swamp extends all the way to Silicon Valley, or maybe it’s the other way around.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Andrew Cuomo Reminds Us That He’s the Worst Ever. “Andrew Cuomo — Fredo the Elder — crawled out of the cave where he spends his days pulling wings off of flies and smelts participation trophies for his handling of the pandemic in his state to remind us that he is perhaps the worst governor in America.”
THIS WOULD MAKE FOR ONE OF TRUMP’S EXCELLENT ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ MOMENTS: ‘Disgruntled Staffer’ Reportedly Posted Trump Resignation Time On State Dept Site.
SHOT: On the Day Twitter Banned Trump, Parler Downloads Surged by More Than 500%.
CHASER: Bartiromo Says Parler ban coordinated effort ‘to put a competitor out of business.’
How convenient that “doing the right thing” dovetailed with squashing a rival just as they were gaining traction.
CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL: The Great Purge Begins. “As for myself, I’m just going to keep talking about the things they don’t want to talk about on Twitter (like Biden family corruption and fraud in the 2020 presidential election) until they kick me off.”
January 11, 2021
KAROL MARKOWICZ: Florida puts New York to shame in rational pandemic policies.
It’s a lie, though, that Floridians aren’t taking the novel coronavirus seriously. What they have done is discard the policies that don’t work, while retaining the ones that do.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on the day he closed indoor dining in New York City, noted that COVID spread in restaurants amounted to 1.4 percent of cases. In Florida, they decided numbers like that meant indoor dining stays open. In New York, we foolishly didn’t.
In Florida, DeSantis prioritized school openings. In New York, Cuomo puffed out his chest and said he was in charge of schools but then washed his hands of them when it was time to do the hard work of getting them open.
And Florida’s policies bore good fruit. On Jan. 9, New York reported 17,839 new cases. Florida, with about 2 million more people than New York, had 15,445. An open state like Florida having fewer COVID cases than a mostly closed state like New York proves protracted lockdowns are a failure.
And that disparity has led people like Rich Azzopardi, a senior adviser to Cuomo, to spin bizarro conspiracy theories on Twitter that Florida has “cooked the book on case numbers.” It’s much harder to admit that his boss destroyed restaurants and other businesses for no reason.
Hell, the United Arab Emirates has a better handle on public health than Cuomo does:
While the American Left shrieks about “fairness” in distributing the vaccine, the UAE is just distributing it.
LOCKDOWNS TODAY, LOCKDOWNS TOMORROW, LOCKDOWNS FOREVER: UK Government May Only Let People Out ONCE A WEEK. “Most chilling, however, is the revelation that cabinet ministers have privately debated preventing people from talking to each other in the street and in supermarkets, and even preventing people from leaving home more than once per week, and introducing curfews.”
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Teacher suspended for ‘election integrity’ video. “A Wisconsin teacher was suspended for telling students to watch a video questioning the integrity of the presidential election.”