THAT’S NOT FUNNY: Big Tech Is Crushing Conservative Comedy. “It’s also constantly under assault by both Facebook and the mainstream media. The former routinely lashes out at the Bee’s Facebook page, threatening to throttle its reach, demonetize it or simply crush it.”
Given that leftwing comics seem more interested in generating clapter than actual laughter, it might be more accurate to say that it’s all comedy being crushed.
CRIMINAL ACTS: New Los Angeles DA Snubs Staff, Meets With BLM, Will Implement Radical Progressive Agenda.
Related: Last night on Fox News, Tucker Carlson didn’t mince words, warning that Los Angeles will “collapse” under Gascón’s policies that are virtually “legalizing” major crimes.
WON’T BACK DOWN: ‘The Big One’: Trump Will Join Texas Lawsuit to Block ‘Unlawful Election Results’ in Swing States.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Related: Tennessee joins other red states in legal brief supporting Texas voting lawsuit against swing states. I’m hearing that Roger Simon’s column made the difference here.
Statement:
“The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office has consistently taken the position that only a State’s legislature has the authority to make and change election laws,” Slatery said in a statement. “This Office pressed that argument in cases defending Tennessee’s election laws against pandemic-related challenges and in amicus briefs in cases involving similar challenges in other courts.”
Stay tuned.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: YouTube Says It Will Start Deleting Content Alleging 2020 Election Voter Fraud.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Nothing says, “relax, everything is aboveboard” like censoring claims of fraud while they’re still being litigated.
COVID-RELATED FATALITIES: Restaurant Industry in Free Fall; 10,000 Close in Three Months.
GOODER AND HARDER: New York City Shootings on Track to Hit 14-Year High.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Paxton’s Supreme Court Gambit. “My fear is that the very novelty of this lawsuit will work against it. I’m not sure any state has ever filed to alter election results from other states, or that the Supreme Court would grant standing in the lawsuit. But by making it a state suing another state, it makes it a clear Supreme Court case under Article III of the Constitution.”
Uncharted territory here, but that’s no reason not to venture in at full speed.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: It will take $130M to get more EVs on Colorado roads. Xcel wants its customers to cover the cost. “Consumer advocates and the PUC staff are troubled by how much influence Xcel Energy had in developing a $30 million rebate program funded by electric customers.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Embarrassing — Granny-Killer Cuomo Can’t Keep His COVID Numbers Straight.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: How are we supposed to follow the science when it’s jumping around like a meth-addicted jackrabbit?
Answer: Don’t ask questions and believe whatever Governor Cuomo needs you to believe at any particular moment.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- It’s like a scene from Prohibtion in… pot-loving Colorado?
- ACLU goes full BLM.
- How Governor Grinch Stole Christmas.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Still Searching for 1 CNN ‘Journalist’ Who Isn’t a Lying Scumbag. It is time once again to revisit my ever-growing dislike for the media company that is now permanently atop my Biased Evil list: CNN. CNN’s ascent to the top of the dirtbag pile has been an impressive one. The entire NBC News division — which includes the MSNBC prog squad — held the position for a very long time. Somewhere along the line, CNN decided that Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, and full time Trump Derangement Syndrome were a good idea and a new devil was born.”
THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Millions of smart devices vulnerable to hacking.
DECOUPLING: New Australia Law Can Scrap China Belt and Road Accords. “Prime Minister Scott Morrison has new powers to veto or scrap agreements that state governments reach with foreign powers under laws that could stymie China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Australia and further inflame tensions between the trading partners.”
The Belt and Road Initiative is the most naked imperialism since the European powers met in Berlin in 1885 to carve up Africa.
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg once ‘threatened to pull’ UK investment in a private meeting with a minister.
The minutes describe how Zuckerberg said the U.K. is the “obvious territory” for Facebook to invest in Europe, but he claimed the company was looking elsewhere due to the criticism the company had been receiving in Britain.
According to the minutes, Zuckerberg said he supported the U.K.’s decision to regulate the internet but he was “worried about the tone.”
Hancock reportedly explained to Zuckerberg that he wanted to “use the decision to legislate as a new beginning for U.K. government relationships with the platform” adding that the “tone can shift from threatening regulation to ensure legislation is proportionate and innovation friendly.”
I’m old enough to remember when innovation meant building a better mousetrap, not encouraging users to increase screen time and hoovering up more and more of their personal data.
I DID NOT SEE THAT ONE COMING: Matthew McConaughey Steps Up as a Voice of Reason.
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