KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: America’s Looming National Divorce Is Beyond Couples Counseling. “I go back and forth between thinking that we’re perilously close to it and that we’re in the middle of it now. I did a podcast at the beginning of the month saying that we’ve already had it so, yeah, I’m all over the place on the subject. One thing is certain: the Democrats are determined to make sure that our differences are irreconcilable.”
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March 22, 2023
UNACCEPTABLE AS IT IS, IT’S STILL MORE OF A PEACE EFFORT THAN BIDEN AND BLINKEN HAVE MADE: Putin welcomes China’s controversial proposals for peace in Ukraine. “China last month proposed a 12-point peace plan for dealing with the war. The paper largely reiterated Beijing’s talking points on the Ukraine war, with calls for dialogue, respect for all countries’ territorial sovereignty, and an end to economic sanctions. It urged all parties to avoid nuclear escalation but critically did not suggest Russia withdraw its forces.”
MATT MARGOLIS: Biden’s Plan to Rig the 2024 Election for Democrats.
I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS: JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones. “It’s likely that Access World is going to bear the financial burden for the mix-up rather than JPMorgan Chase, the Journal said, because it was the company’s responsibility to protect the stores of metal in its facilities.”
March 21, 2023
SAD AND GROTESQUE: ‘I Just Want to Feel Like Myself,’ Tearfully Admits America’s Most Famous ‘Trans Kid’ Jazz Jennings.
(Posted earlier with wrong link — sorry!)
FIGHTING VAINLY THE OLD ENNUI: France’s Existential Crisis. “That old saw about democracies only lasting until people figuring out they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury is largely right, and in this, as in so many, many things, Eurocratic elites have decided the peasants simply can’t be allowed to derail the plans of their illustrious betters.”
MARGOT CLEVELAND: Grants Reveal Federal Government’s Horrific Plans To Censor All Americans’ Speech. “The federal government has awarded more than 500-plus contracts or grants related to ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ since 2020. One predominant area of research pushed by the Department of Defense involves the use of AI and ML technology to monitor or listen to internet ‘conversations.'”
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Professor Who Questioned Systemic Racism Sues the University That Fired Him.
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE: OSU requires DEI statements from mechanical, aerospace engineer job applicants.
TRUE SINCE AT LEAST 2020 AND PROBABLY GOING BACK TO OCCUPY WALL STREET: In Philadelphia, It Turns Out That Rioting Can Be Fun and Profitable.
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CONFORM: California Hospital Refuses Transplant Surgery for Unvaccinated Woman With End-Stage Kidney Disease.
THE SOROS DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT: Mark Levin SHREDS ‘Soros Prosecutor’ Alvin Bragg Over Possible Trump Indictment.
FINALLY, SPACE LASERS: Pentagon Space Mission Aims to Test Laser Power Beaming in Space.
YES, LEFTISM IS A RELIGION: University Gives Greta Thunberg an Honorary Doctorate in Theology.
SPACE: NASA just revealed revolutionary new spacesuit astronauts will wear on the next Moon mission. “The xEMU suits are designed to be adaptable to different body sizes, which means that they can be worn by both male and female astronauts. They are also modular, which means that different parts of the suit can be replaced or upgraded as needed, reducing the cost of maintenance and allowing for more extended use.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Jazz Jennings, the boy who tried to grow up to be a girl and is now a very unhappy man who will never “feel like myself” is the big crazy on today’s Insanity Wrap — an entire week’s worth of lefty nuttiness wrapped up in one easy-to-swallow medicated news capsule.
Plus:
- Is your pantry racist and/or pr0nographic?
- Eggs are too expensive for Dollar Tree.
- A North Korean defector learns about race and has everyone laughing
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
AND THEY DIDN’T GET SHADOW-BANNED OR BOOTED FOR DOING IT: Twitter Users Fact-Check Biden’s Billionaire Tax Lies.
FEAR, BURNOUT, INSUBORDINATION: Insiders spill details about life at the highest levels of FBI.
The FBI is no stranger to criticisms, both internal and external. For years, they’ve been piling up. A series of withering federal watchdog reports have faulted the bureau for slipshod compliance with everything from national-security surveillance procedures to its own rules limiting contacts with the media. A bipartisan assemblage of members of Congress excoriated the FBI for badly botching complaints of sexual abuse of teenage gymnasts. Trials spearheaded by a special counsel have exposed rivalries within the bureau and loose ends that investigators failed to run down.
Many of those issues have been compounded and thrust into public consciousness by Trump, who spent his entire presidency accusing the bureau of deep-seated political bias for pursuing cases against him or his allies — claims underscored by his abrupt and dramatic firing of Comey in 2017. To this day, Republicans in Congress are pushing charges that the bureau was “weaponized” by Trump’s opponents.
But unlike the blunt attacks by outsiders, which often go unrebutted by the bureau, the trial provided a forum for FBI insiders themselves to describe their own views of what has plagued the sprawling crime-fighting and intelligence agency. And their answers exposed fissures among factions of the FBI that have long been viewed in the Trump era as monolithic — divisions that FBI insiders said were more palpable during the handoff of the bureau from Robert Mueller to Comey.
Read the whole thing.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe Biden Lies a Lot Even for a Democrat. “Boilerplate socialist ravings aren’t going to be a soothing balm on the wounds that this lying, doddering fool has inflicted upon the country. We are in desperate need of regime change and maybe an exorcism.”
FALLOUT: Russia’s Space Program Is in Big Trouble.
Crippled by war and sanctions, Russia now faces evidence that its already-struggling space program is falling apart. In the past three months alone, Roscosmos has scrambled to resolve two alarming incidents. First, one of its formerly dependable Soyuz spacecraft sprang a coolant leak. Then the same thing happened on one of its Progress cargo ships. The civil space program’s Soviet predecessor launched the first person into orbit, but with the International Space Station (ISS) nearing the end of its life, Russia’s space agency is staring into the abyss.
“What we’re seeing is the continuing demise of the Russian civil space program,” says Bruce McClintock, a former defense attaché at the US embassy in Moscow and current head of the Space Enterprise Initiative of the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization. Around 10 years ago, Russian leaders chose to prioritize the country’s military space program—which focuses on satellite and anti-satellite technologies—over its civilian one, McClintock says, and it shows.
Russia’s space fleet is largely designed to be expendable. The history of its series of Soyuz rockets and crew capsules (they both have the same name) dates back to the Soviet era, though they’ve gone through upgrades since. Its Progress cargo vessels also launch atop Soyuz rockets. The cargo ships, crewed ships, and rockets are all single-use spacecraft. Anatoly Zak, creator and publisher of the independent publication RussianSpaceWeb, estimates that Roscosmos launches about two Soyuz vehicles per year, takes about 1.5 to 2 years to build each one, and doesn’t keep a substantial standing fleet.
While Roscosmos officials did not respond to interview requests, the agency has been public about its recent technical issues.
Plus this, which failed to make headlines here: “For crewed launches, Russia has long depended on its Baikonur spaceport in neighboring Kazakhstan. But the nation has charged costly annual fees, and in March Kazakhstan seized Russian spaceport assets, reportedly due to Roscosmos’ debt.”