Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 25, 2022
YOU’LL OWN NOTHING, TAKE WHAT YOU’RE TOLD, AND BE HAPPY: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tells WEF crowd about new microchipped pills: ‘Imagine the compliance.’
IT ISN’T DISINFORMATION WHEN THEY DO IT: Illinois Gas Station Owners Sue Over Having to Post Democrat Propaganda.
THEY’LL JUST FIND SOMEONE LESS CONSPICUOUSLY NUTS TO RUN IT: Biden Is Already Plotting To Restart His ‘Disinformation Board.’
CAN YOU BLAME HIM? Eyewitness Says Johnny Depp Was ‘Cowering’ and ‘Afraid’ of Amber Heard.
KIMMEL IS A PROTECTED MEMBER OF THE WOKE TRIBE: GLAAD Calls Out Ricky Gervais, Ignored Homophobic Kimmel Jokes.
GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO: Hochul Pledges New Investigation of COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths. “Since assuming power on 24 August 2021, replacement NY Governor Kathy Hochul has done very little to address Andrew M. Cuomo’s COVID nursing home deaths scandals. This report, dated exactly nine months later, indicates Hochul is finally taking her first serious steps toward investigating the systemic and leadership failures that led to the excess COVID deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of New York nursing home residents during the period Cuomo’s deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect.”
Well, good — but the cynic in me says Hochul’s investigation is more about kneecapping rival Cuomo’s attempted political rehabilitation than it is about justice.
I’D LIKE TO HAVE THE MURDER HORNETS BACK, PLEASE: Jumping worms, the evil twin of earthworms, showing up in California. “Gardners beware — the invasive Amynthas agrestis, also known as the Asian jumping worm, could be wiggling around a garden near you. These worms are known for their insatiable appetite and ability to jump a foot in the air.”
Fortunately, few are dying as the follow-on variants increase their transmissibility but decrease their lethality.
ENDANGERED SPECIES: The Last Stand of the Last Pro-Life Democrat in the House.
LOOK, UP IN THE SKY! Walmart to begin America’s first large-scale drone operation in 6 states.
SELF-AWARENESS IS NOT GENERALLY A FEATURE OF WOKENESS: Black Commentator Barred From Becoming a Priest Because He Doesn’t Think the Church of England Is Racist.
WEIRD, IT’S USUALLY THE OTHER WAY AROUND: China Is Doing Biden’s Work for Him.
If President Joe Biden’s trip to Asia—marked as it was by his comments on the defense of Taiwan, announcements on a proposed new regional trade pact, and meetings with leaders who exhibit similar levels of concern about a rising China—has shown the persistence of American global power, it has also revealed something of equal importance: Beijing’s failure to translate economic might into political dominance, even in its own backyard.
Biden today concluded a summit of the leaders of the Quad—a security partnership including Australia, India, Japan, and the United States—who issued a joint statement chockablock with references to promoting democracy, a rules-based global order, and peaceful resolution of disputes. That came a day after Biden announced the formation of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, a partnership with 13 countries as diverse as South Korea, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Notably absent from all of this was China. Biden’s trip exhibited Washington’s continued ability to rally other nations behind its standard, and in initiatives overtly targeted against the region’s supposedly rising superpower.
The script wasn’t meant to read this way. As China grew in economic importance, its smaller neighbors would, the thinking went, inevitably and inexorably be drawn into its orbit, while U.S. power would correspondingly fade, ushered along by its own political divisions and percolating isolationism.
That’s Michael Schuman writing for The Atlantic, where bad ideas often go to achieve immortality.
Most sensible people watching Communist China’s rise predicted that its smaller neighbors — from whom China historically expected tribute and vassalage — would be drawn to the US as a counterbalance. More importantly, a counterbalance with no territorial ambitions or desire for tribute.
It took a concerted effort on the part of Barack Obama and his Administration to throw a monkey wrench into that process, and a brief show of American resolve from Donald Trump to get it underway again.
Joe Biden has yet to screw it up again, but don’t underestimate his ability to do so.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Politicians Can’t Heal What’s Tragically Broken in America. “Democratic politicians and celebrities waste no time in reacting to horrific tragedies because they are, for the most part, godless people who have never encountered a corpse they won’t trip over on their way to pimping a tired political agenda.”
LEGAL TO DO, LEGAL TO TALK ABOUT, TWITTER DOESN’T CARE: Twitter Locks My Account Over Defending My Right To Use Lethal Force In Self-Defense.
May 24, 2022
UPDATED: 14 Children, One Teacher Dead in Texas Elementary School Shooting.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott identified the shooter as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at the local high school.” I knew the shooter wasn’t a white male Trump supporter because all my lefty friends on social media are going on about guns, instead of racism and blame for Tucker Carlson.
WHAT THEY REALLY THINK OF PARENTS: NSBA letter drafts called for National Guard and military to be deployed. “Early demands from the National School Boards Association to the White House included calling for the deployment of the Army National Guard and the military police to monitor school board meetings, according to an early draft letter the organization’s independent review released Friday.”
BLUE CITY BLUES: ‘The City is Not Safe’: Suspect in NYC Subway Shooting Had 19 Prior Arrests. “As part of a progressive criminal justice reform effort, New York abolished cash bail in 2019 for most misdemeanor and nonviolent charges. Opponents of the bail law have credited it with an ongoing rise in crime in municipal areas as the law permits more repeat offenders.”
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Stupid Is Whoopi Goldberg, Really?