SURE WOULD BE NICE IF THAT DEVELOPMENT SPENDING AND OIL OUTPUT INCREASES WERE HAPPENING HERE: UAE Plans $150 Billion Spending Spree To Boost Oil Output To 5MM Barrels By 2027.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Don’t Be Fooled — Antifa Is America’s Nazis.

LET’S: Let’s Talk About Biden Corruption.

It was back in September 2019 that there sprang into the news the story of Hunter Biden and his million-dollar-per-year gig as a board member for Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter’s gig began in April 2014 — shortly after his dad Joe, then sitting VP, took on the role of “point man” as to U.S. policy toward Ukraine. The gig then ran until some time in 2017 — shortly after Joe had left office. It just happened that Burisma had gotten the lion’s share of Ukraine oil and gas lease deals under ousted (and Russia-aligned) President Viktor Yanukovich, and had strong reason to fear prosecution under a new Ukrainian President and chief prosecutor. In early 2016 VP Joe Biden got the new prosecutor fired, and later was caught on tape bragging about it.

Essentially the entire story about these events in the state media since 2019 has been the story of minimization and/or suppression of the facts and their significance. The suppression went to a whole new level a year later, in October 2020, when the New York Post broke the story of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that had been abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware. This was now just a few weeks before the 2020 election, with Joe Biden the Democratic candidate for President. The laptop contained extensive emails and other documents detailing Hunter’s business dealings in places where his father had major influence on U.S. foreign policy, including not just Ukraine, but also China, Kazakhstan, and other countries, as well as father Joe’s involvement in same.

Promptly, some 50 former U.S. intelligence officials issued a letter stating that the laptop had all the “earmarks” of “a Russian information operation.” The state media adopted that line as gospel. Most shamefully, all of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube (Google) explicitly suppressed the story by either banning any information about it or minimizing its distribution on their platforms.

Well, perhaps the time has finally come when this story can be discussed.

Read the whole thing, and remember: “The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.”

WAIT, WHAT? Legal Gun Purchases = Slavery?

BLUE STATE BLUES: California food stamp costs reach record highs.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Elon Musk Bought Twitter, Now the Left Will Destroy Them Both. “Onetime Democrat voter Elon Musk made the Left’s naughty list, and now they’re out to get him with everything they’ve got.”

• Thank you for explaining the magpie pronoun set
• DOCTOR Jill Biden lets the dirty truth slip out
• I just wrote Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign slogan and he’ll hate it because it’s true

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

THE VASSALIZATION OF RUSSIA CONTINUES APACE: The yuan’s the new dollar as Russia rides to the redback.

MEGAN FOX, FILLING IN ON KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Thanksgiving Hangover Edition. “All I want for Christmas is Jeffrey Epstein’s clients on trial. Is that too much to ask?”

AND ANOTHER ONE: Crypto lender BlockFi files for bankruptcy after FTX collapse. “BlockFi, which operates in a similar fashion to a conventional bank, paying interest on savings and using customer deposits to fund lending, says it has $256.9m cash in hand. According to court documents, its creditors include FTX itself, to which it owes $275m, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to which it owes $30m.”

OK, GROOMER: NBC Reporterette Defends the Sexual Grooming of Children But Accuses Parents Opposed to it as the Real Sexual Predators.

BRUCE ROTTMAN: The Case for Bringing Back Neckties (and Classical Liberalism).

This doesn’t mean that some sort of return to an Edwardian, hierarchical society is desirable. But we do need a world in which we respect and emulate those who know more than us or are wiser than we are, or who practice amazing generosity, humility, or self-sacrifice. We need to honor traditions that have evolved, rather than chucking each of these into the dustbin of history.

As faiths and families have faltered, what we have is a society of atoms. With civility torn asunder, local autonomy usurped, traditions upended and genders deconstructed, we should not be surprised that we are divided and drifting as well, like flotsam and jetsam in the ocean.

Think about California, which has always been what the United States will be in a couple decades. This state helped pioneer today’s new world, a world of egalitarianism, relativism, identity politics, avocado toast, surfing, free love and flip flops. Of course, not all of these are bad (though I never caught on to either surfing or avocado toast). But what emerged from California—think Hollywood and Silicon Valley for starters—has some responsibility for the cultural drift in our country and the loss of “forms” in our modern era.

Colorado is very much a “wear your best jeans out to dinner” kind of state. But I’ve taught my sons that if the event involves a judge, a bride, or a casket, then put on a tie.

THE OLD LEFT AT LEAST PRETENDED TO PROMOTE THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Ex-CIA Wonk Explains the Dangers of Free Speech

THANKS FOR NOTHING, TIM: Apple Blackmailed Developer Into Blocking COVID Searches… and Maybe Elon Musk’s Twitter, Too. “‘Secret suppression of free speech by Apple,’ Musk tweeted back. ‘Customers were never told. What the hell is going on here?'”

CYBER MONDAY: The Biggest PJ Media VIP Sale Ever.

LINCOLN BROWN: The Transing of the Christ. “This is an old heresy in new clothes.”

OH: Warnock sees massive cash advantage over Walker ahead of runoff election. “Warnock reportedly holds roughly $30 million in reserves, while Walker commands just under $10 million, according to FEC filings.”

LIKE THEIR BUDDY JOE BIDEN, THE CCP SPEWS A LOT OF NONSENSE: China Boasts About ‘Thriving’ Economy as Mass Protests, Police Violence Fill Streets.

THE RAIDER IS SHAPING UP TO BE ONE OF THOSE INCREASINGLY RARE PROCUREMENT WINS: The Public Finally Gets to See the B-21 Stealth Bomber this Week. “The company has used digital engineering and advanced manufacturing to build the plane, which has allowed it to move much faster than historic military development projects.”

CHINA PROTESTS: Xi Faces Toughest Test of His Social Credit Controls. “What happens when millions of people forget their lessons, take to the streets, and turn against the police, because they’re so desperate that it doesn’t matter any longer if they aren’t allowed to board a commuter train?”

RED VS. BLUE: Texas Vs. California Budgets: 2022 Edition. “For a while California’s tech and entertainment industry strengths were outrunning its massive blue state economic mismanagement and green energy delusions. That’s no longer the case.”

If Elon Musk can make Twitter run smoothly and profitably with a headcount 75-80% smaller than when he bought it, the employment shakeout at other Bay Area tech firms could kill off Sacramento’s golden-egg-laying goose.

THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO LIKE HIGH GAS PRICES ARE THE NOMENKLATURA WHO WANT THE PROLES FORCED ONTO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION WHILE THEY DRIVE THEIR ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Voters Say, ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’

THEY’LL STAY WOKE AND BROKE: ‘Bull***t’ — CNN’s New Chief Addresses Nasty Rumors That It Might Become ‘Centrist.’ “Though he’s rejiggered the lineup since replacing Jeff Zucker in May, viewers can still expect nothing close to a down-the-middle foray into facts.”

HMM: Chinese Anti-COVID Lockdown Protests Have Morphed Into Anti-Regime Demonstrations.

THAT PRETTY WELL SUMS HIM UP: Trump deems Kanye West a ‘seriously troubled man’ who ‘just happens to be Black’ after Mar-a-Lago trip fallout.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republicans Might Make House Takeover the Wrong Kind of Interesting. “The problems with not winning a decisive majority in the House are going to be rearing their ugly heads for quite some time. There is now a chance that they might get uglier than a Hillary Clinton Halloween mask.”