MENTALLY IMPAIRED TODDLERS RUNNING WITH PLASTIQUE: House Delivers Article of Impeachment, Trump Warns GOP of Primary Consequences.
SURE: Teen Suicides Major Reason For Schools To Reopen.
But making asthmatic kids wear masks while attending is going to take those same schools to the cleaners, when the madness passes and everyone remembers ADA.
WHICH MEANS WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO RESIST: American Exceptionalism Is Our Birthright. We’re Keeping It.
Because actually Bai Den Zhou’s puppet government is inimical to everything America is.
TO BE FAIR, AT LEAST THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO PRODUCE FICTION: ‘No Man’s Land’s’ Own Studio Lies About the Immigration Drama.
Still, CNN is not likely to appreciate the competition.
WE’VE LEFT THE REAL WORLD BEHIND: Journalists Mobilize Against Free Speech.
We’re living in the drugged fantasies of some LSD addict. It’s still 1970 and any minute now we’re going to wake up on the green shag carpeting next to some guy who has been growing his chest hair since before he was born. And I’ll be wondering what I’m doing there, at eight.
THE LEFT WOULD CANCEL ALL OF US: Today’s blacklisted American: A blogger about babies.
So they’re not constantly reminded of their miserable and petty smallness.
IT IS NEEDED: The Battle for Moral Authority.
Let me put it this way: morality is not race. When you start investing any race with moral worth, while stripping it from another, you’re the one who has no morality. The end.
THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: ‘More like a snack for a toddler than a meal for an adult’: How our National Guard troops are being fed at the Capitol.
AMERICANS DO EVERYTHING DIALED TO 11: Rule by Decree: Joe Biden Sets Record for Executive Orders in First Week.
Not even the Romans had an Emperor this senile proclaim so much crazy stuff. At this point saying he’s marrying his daughter and declaring his dogs citizens would be piddly stuff.
THIS REGIME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: A genocide, by any other name.
This regime holds the leash on vice-roi Bi-Den-Zhou.
TODDLERS, RUNNING WITH PLASTIQUE: Schumer: Biden Should Consider Declaring ‘Climate Emergency’ So He Can Do Things without Congress.
January 25, 2021
REALCLEARPOLITICS: Democrat Prospects of Convicting Trump in Senate Fade Away. Drag it out as long as possible, waste their momentum and make them look dumb on TV. Then crush it.
JUST SENT OUT THANK-YOU NOTES TO PEOPLE WHO DONATED VIA PAYPAL. Sorry that some were a bit late; I got a bit behind with the Covid and other stuff. I very much appreciate your support, especially now that the Amazon stuff is no longer happening as before.
(Bumped).
COOL: Elon Musk Is Leasing Land to Drill for Natural Gas In Texas. Near SpaceX’s launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.
TRUMP’S NOT PRESIDENT. THEREFORE HE CAN’T BE REMOVED, WHICH MEANS HE CAN’T BE IMPEACHED. AT LEAST, THAT’S MY TAKE. Did Chief Justice John Roberts decline to preside over the Senate trial of the Trump impeachment? “I think it means John Roberts arrived at the view that there was no occasion for the Chief Justice to preside, and therefore he has a duty to refrain from participating. That’s not ducking and it’s not skipping. When he presides, it’s because he must, and when he refrains, it’s because he must. It’s based on an interpretation of law. But I can’t tell, reading this article, if he was asked to preside and communicated a refusal, or if Senate Democrats decided that the Constitution, Article I, Section 3, does not provide for a role for the Chief Justice.”
The thing is, if you’re not impeaching Trump as President, then you’re impeaching a private citizen. And you can’t impeach a private citizen. If you’re impeaching Trump as President, then the Chief Justice must preside. And since he isn’t . . .
WHEN YOU PUT CLOWNS IN CHARGE, YOU’RE GONNA HAVE A CLOWN SHOW: If You Thought the First Impeachment Was a Circus, Just Wait for Impeachment 2.0.
WELL, OBJECTIVELY THEIR PLATFORMS PLAYED A BIGGER ROLE: House GOP: If the FBI Is Investigating Parler for the Capitol Riot, Let’s Include Facebook and Twitter.
Though the notion that a communications platform is responsible for what its users say, even aside from Section 230, is pretty novel and unAmerican here.
WAIT, IF TRUMP INCITED IT, HOW COULD THE SON HAVE TIPPED OFF THE FBI ABOUT HIS FATHER’S PARTICPATION BEFORE IT HAPPENED? “Weeks before the riot,” in fact. Son Tipped Off F.B.I. About His Father, Who Is Charged in Capitol Riot.
What sort of awful crime did the father commit? “The elder Mr. Reffitt, who was arrested on Jan. 16, faces charges of obstruction of justice and of knowingly entering a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.”
Also, I’d disown the little turd. He’s 18, he needs to move out and support himself. No home for Stalinists. . . .
A FRIEND EMAILS: “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Trump Mar-a-lago wgah’nagl fhtagn.” Heh.
UPDATE: From the comments: “That is not politically dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even deplatforming may die.”
Plus, something stirs.
FLASHBACK: The Cautionary Tale of Samantha Power.
UPDATE: Now that Joe Biden is President, COVID is Over and California Will Re-Open. Well, also Gavin Newsom’s “looming recall election.”
NO THANKS, I’M STILL SOCIAL DISTANCING: Meet the Woman Behind Salon’s Sloppy Tom Cotton Piece. San Francisco-based researcher Michelle Pettigrew was renovating her Georgian mansion while Cotton was in Iraq.
NO ONE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE: Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen.
(MUCH) SLOWER PLEASE: Why the Biden Agenda Might Come to a Screeching Halt in the Senate.
Related: Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) “is against eliminating the filibuster, and she is not open to changing her mind about eliminating the filibuster.”
More: Report: Trump Impeachment DOA in Senate.
Which likely dovetails with this announcement: Sen. Leahy Expected to Preside over Senate Impeachment Trial, Not Chief Justice Roberts.
SURPRISE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR GUN-TOTING REPUBLICAN WOMEN: Biden Admin to ‘Speed Up’ Efforts to Place Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill.
And the design work is all set to go!
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Budweiser will sit out Super Bowl, funneling marketing dollars to boost vaccine awareness. “Budweiser isn’t the only iconic brand sitting out the game. PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have said they won’t be running in-game ads for their namesake sodas.”
GO BROKE: NBC Sports Network Is Shutting Down.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Triple-Masker Looks Down On People Who Only Double Mask.
DUTCH ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTESTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Hundreds arrested after riots in 10 cities in the Netherlands. “Police in the Netherlands arrested hundreds of rioters, mostly in Amsterdam, as groups of young men in multiple cities vandalized shops and set fires Sunday night. . . . Earlier this week, the Dutch parliament announced new coronavirus restrictions including limits on social visiting and a 9:30 p.m. curfew.”
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS NO ONE IS ASKING: How Miley Cyrus’ ‘Preference’ Remarks Show Underlying Transphobia.
“Girls are way hotter. We know this,” the 28-year-old bisexual said in an interview with Sirius XM’s Barstool Radio. “Everyone I think can agree that from ancient times d*cks makes wonderful sculptures. Other than that, I’m not as interested. I like d*cks as art pieces. And sculptural, I love the shape, I think it looks really good on a table.”
The singer continued: “It’s good if it can just get in and go away, because I don’t want it eyeing me up. That’s how I truly feel. I felt really good about saying that.”
She dug in even deeper, adding, “everyone knows that tits are prettier than balls… That’s what ended up making female relationships make more sense to me.”
I wish I could say this news makes me excited and proud to be a woman and a lesbian, but Cyrus’ quote is littered with transphobia. This kind of gender essentialism was left behind by most of the queer community years ago. Genitals do not equal gender, and Miley should know this.
And from satiric* Twitter account “Titania McGrath:”
* Well, I’m pretty sure it’s satiric. In 2021 though, who can tell?
OF COURSE, THIS IS BASED ON LIKE, WHAT, 12 THEATERS OR SOMETHING? ‘Marksman’ tops North American box office for 2nd weekend. $2 million in box office for a #1 movie. “Few new movies have been opening in theaters this past year due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
JOEL KOTKIN: Making America California. Now that Californians are filling top spots in the Biden administration and Silicon Valley is an arm of the Democratic party, they’ll be working together to ruin the rest of the nation’s economy — and impose California’s new version of feudalism.
PETER HITCHENS: “Covid ‘denier’ is a disgusting, dog-whistle slur:”
[I]t’s a revolting, dog-whistle slur, designed to suggest the person involved is equivalent to those who deny the Shoah took place. One of the first principles of political argument is that if you are explaining, you are losing. So my response to this is not to explain. If anybody actually thinks I am a denier of the Holocaust, let them say so somewhere public, where we can deal with it.
He’s not wrong — it’s simply an extension of the old “climate denier” slur: In January 2007, CBS’s Scott Pelley “was asked why he refused to include global warming skeptics in his reporting. He responded, ‘If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?’”
REP. LAUREN BOEBERT EXPLAINS WHY SHE CARRIES IN D.C.: She’s only five-feet tall, but I wouldn’t mess with her. She’s Video #2 on Thom McKee’s Daily Gouge for today. A little further down, check out Thom’s response to NR’s David French.
NO. JUST NO. How Is This a Good Idea: Car Dashboard Video Games.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Nothing to see here, just Bay Area teachers impersonating health care workers to jump the Covid vaccination line: Bay Area hospital won’t receive COVID vaccine after teachers given doses before frontliners, elderly.
According to investigative news outlet San Jose Spotlight, Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos offered district Superintendent Paul Johnson and staff the vaccine as a “gesture” of kindness after the district raised funds for a program to provide frontline workers meals.
“The COO of the hospital says we can access the appointments … and has cleared [Los Gatos schools] staff to sign up under the healthcare buttons,” the email from Johnson to district staff obtained by Spotlight read. Educators are part of Phase 1B in California and Santa Clara County, behind frontline staff, nursing home residents and those 65 and older.
Teachers, per the email, were told to impersonate health care workers despite the threat of perjury — with the approval of COO Gary Purushotham — in order to obtain access to the vaccine. “Remember to register under healthcare initially,” Johnson’s note read.
The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE. Schools in the district are closed for in-person learning.
Now, Santa Clara County is withholding vaccines from the hospital after the offer was extended and an estimated 65 doses were offered to district teachers and staffers.
You stay classy, Bay Area teachers.
THIS REVOLUTION WILL BE BROUGHT TO YOU BY COSPLAY POLITICS.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF HIS EXECUTIVE ORDERS? Biden’s Trans Agenda Threatens the Military, Science, and Women’s Rights.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Washington Post ‘Fact Checkers’ Won’t Count False Biden Claims; ‘Assume’ He’ll Be Like Obama.
That’s quite an interesting comparison by the amnesia-suffering WaPo “fact checkers:” Obama’s repeated “If you like your plan you can keep your plan” lies were so outrageous, even his fellow Democrats at “Politifact” couldn’t ignore it, dubbng it their “Lie of the Year” in 2013.
THE “TRUMP ANTIBODY TREATMENT” ADVANCES: Germany to use corona meds that helped Trump.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PIVOTS: The Echo Chamber Era. Trust in media is down, but if journalists don’t listen to critics anyway, why should they care?
A day after Joe Biden’s inauguration, the headline in Axios read: “Trust in media hits a new low.” Felix Salmon wrote that “for the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media.” The Edelman survey showed overall faith in the press dropping to 46%.
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Balance isn’t about giving credulous coverage or equal time to Donald Trump or Josh Hawley or Ben Shapiro (though I think it’s crazy for news organizations to cut off all conservatives), it’s about being consistent. If you tell us on January 12th that all 50 state capitols are under serious threat — I was genuinely worried — you have to tell us what happens at the end of the story a week later. Was that threat real but deterred? Was it overblown? What happened to all of those warnings?
This has been an ongoing theme of coverage in the Trump years: hyping a threat for a news cycle or two, then moving to the next panic as the basis for the first one dissipates. How many headlines were aimed at our outrage centers in the last four years that were quietly memory-holed, once they’d outlived their political utility? We read dozens of stories before the election warning that Russia was already interfering in the 2020 election. A smattering of New York Times headlines alone:
- Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump
- Russia Continues Interfering in Election to Try to Help Trump, U.S. Intelligence Says
- ‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020
- F.B.I. Warns of Russian Interference in 2020 Race and Boosts Counterintelligence Operations
- Putin Most Likely Directing Election Interference to Aid Trump, C.I.A. Says
The Times almost weekly quoted people like the “American official” who said Russia was like a “tornado, capable of inflicting damage on American democracy now,” or FBI Director Christopher Wray, who said there was a “very active” campaign to influence the election and “denigrate Vice President Biden.”
Then Biden won the election, the story disappeared, and the near-immediate conclusion of the same New York Times was that the election had been “free of fraud.” They quoted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as saying the 2020 vote was “the most secure in American history,” and as for all of those pre-election scare stories?
A bipartisan consensus like this may tempt some people to conclude that the dire pre-election warnings were overblown, that the risks to the election were never that serious. The reality is the opposite…
Like the wider Trump-Russia story itself, which magically vanished from coverage before both the 2018 and 2020 election seasons, audiences were asked for a time to care about certain things as if their lives depended on it, then just as quickly asked to forget the issues ever came up. And they wonder why people feel manipulated?
Oceania has never been at war with Eastasia.
CHARLES LIPSON: Biden’s Biggest Decision.
How will President Biden resolve tensions between his party’s left wing and its establishment-corporate center? His first day in office showed one way. He will signal his virtue to progressives on hot-button issues like Keystone XL pipeline, the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and the Paris climate accord. He won’t build another new mile of border barrier. He wants a higher minimum wage. Those gestures are meant to please party activists without, he hopes, costing too much with average voters. Best of all, they don’t require any pesky, time-consuming procedures, like passing actual laws or ratifying treaties. They will be implemented by presidential orders and bureaucratic regulations
More broadly, President Biden will use EOs, bureaucratic regulations, and sub-Cabinet appointments to placate his party’s vital interest groups in education (teachers unions), criminal justice, race relations, immigration, and the environment. Important as those policies are, Biden has no intention of meeting the far-reaching socialist demands of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
They seem more or less happy to wait him out, which might not take all that much waiting.
WELL, YES, CALLING PEOPLE BIGOTS IS HATE SPEECH. Did it ever occur to the people accusing others of “hate speech” that what they are saying is interpreted as hate speech?
Plus: “I will say it again. If you are a conservative or libertarian; if you are an elected Republican at any government level; if you are a conservative or libertarian publication; delete your Twitter ($TWTR) account and end your share link with them. Go to another social media platform to spread your views. I wrote about Fascist Jack but read wealth manager Josh Brown’s take on Twitter here. Sometimes to create momentum and a movement you need to take a scalp. Twitter is a scalp that is there for the taking. Take it.”
I quit Twitter a long time ago — and, TBH, should never have gotten on it and provided them with free content to begin with. I’ve never once regretted leaving it.
AUDIO: On Hugh Hewitt, former commander of Ranger Regiment slams Salon for attacks on Sen. Tom Cotton. “I don’t know Senator Cotton. I mean, I’ve looked at a lot of his statements. And to your point, to my knowledge, he’s never claimed to have been in the Ranger Regiment, or one of the Ranger battalions. He’s always clearly stated he was in the 101st and the Old Guard. And he was a graduate of the Ranger school. So I think, and this is not the first time it’s come up.” You can be a graduate of the Ranger School and not be a member of the Ranger Regiment. In fact, lots and lots of people are.
Plus: ” I think, you know, if you really want to understand this, there’s one Ranger Hall of Fame, and that Ranger Hall of Fame is comprised of two different groups of people – people that served in the Ranger Regiment and the battalions, and people that are Ranger qualified. So clearly, the Rangers who created the Ranger Hall of Fame believe they’re both inside that umbrella.”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The River of Forgetfulness.
We are expected to forget that for over 90 summer days, there was utter havoc in dozens of American cities. Downtowns were ravaged. Stores were looted. Arson was customary. More than 700 police were injured and spat upon. In all, those “mostly peaceful” protests did billions of dollars in damage, leaving thousands of business owners bankrupt, and at least three-dozen people dead.
In other words, the visuals were the same old, same old we had seen during the violent 2017 Inauguration Day protests in Washington, the rioting in Ferguson and Baltimore, in New York during the final stages of the Occupy Wall Street take over, and the WTO violence over two decades ago in Seattle—with one major exception. This time the authorities saw far more election-year political advantage in defending the violence than in suppressing it, and so made the necessary adjustments, at least until Election Day.
The mayors of the targeted cities like Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and Minneapolis contextualized and supported the mayhem (“block party” and “summer of love”). They cared little for the thousands of lives that were wrecked by the destruction.
Joe Biden excused Antifa as a mere “idea” (a presidential ante facto impeachable offense?)—largely because millions of his supporters condoned or explained away the violence, and they said so publicly. The New York Times architect of the “1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones boasted at the height of the unrest, “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.” She’s lucky none of the oppressed took her literally or seriously enough to storm the New York Times. One wonders what is the further utility of BLM and Antifa after the Biden election, and whether erstwhile dead-ender “protestors” may now be recategorized as “rioters” given the suddenly bad optics.
Of course, some of us haven’t forgotten: Pelosi and Biden Get Hoisted on Their Own Petard With Latest Antifa Video.
DO NOT TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE. China: America Probably Created The Virus, You Know.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Rand Paul smackdown of George Stephanopoulos is what media deserve.
REFILL THE SWAMP: Hickenlooper Taps Lobbyist to Lead Senate Office.
ANIMATED POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY: It’s a jointly produced product from the Capitol Research Center (CRC) and Dangerous Documentaries, and it’s first episode of the first season (10 episodes, each 10-12 minutes long) debuts this week.
While we’re here, don’t miss CRC’s recent vidumentary on George Soros funding radically lefties seeking local prosecutorial offices. Soros has had a lot of success in this particular effort and is in part responsible for the spiraling crime rates in those jurisdictions, including Philadelphia and Chicago.
PORTMAN OUT: Ohio’s U.S. Sen. Rob Portman won’t run for re-election; Republican cites ‘partisan gridlock.’ “Portman still has $5 million in his campaign account and would’ve been a heavy favorite to be re-elected in 2022. He has never lost an election, winning all of them by double-digit margins. It’s expected to remain a safe seat for Republicans, who’ve been tightening their grip on Ohio for the past decade. Potential GOP candidates for Portman’s seat include: Congressman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican Party Chairwoman Jane Timken, former state treasurer Josh Mandel and ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author J.D. Vance.”
THE CORPORATE STATE: Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House. “The Biden administration will need to tread carefully to avoid Big Tech taking over functions of government. Early in Obama’s presidency, Google representatives attended more than one White House meeting a week, leading some to jokingly call the administration Google.gov. More than 250 Google employees moved back and forth between the company and government during the Obama years. Schmidt is now poised to have even more sway within the new White House.”
Everything is worse in reruns.
IF YOU SEE MONKEYS AND THINK OF BLACK PEOPLE, YOU’RE THE RACIST: University axes ‘three wise monkeys’ from conference promotion due to ‘racial stereotypes.’ “Experts in the field differ: ‘The monkey is a sacred being. They are vehicles of delight.’”
Universities are now largely run by ignorant people concerned that other people might be offended by things they don’t understand.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘CCP Joe’ Welcomes Communist Firms Back into U.S. Energy Grid.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is it good news that President Joe Biden turns out to be one of those honest politicians who stays bought?
Answer: Not when he’s a majority-owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party, it isn’t.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Prime Minister Zoolander feeds the mouth that bit him
- Woman who knitted those Bernie Sanders meme mittens driven out of business by feds
- Who turned off the lights at the White House?
Bonus Sanity: You aren’t losing your mind — Joe is.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
THE CDC IS A FAILED ORGANIZATION THAT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED BECAUSE OF ITS RECORD OF FAILURE: Reuters: CDC’s early COVID response “marred by . . . career scientists and frontline staff.”
THEY ALREADY HAVE, AND HE’S JUST GETTING STARTED. NEXT QUESTION? Will Biden’s Policies Lead to Job Losses? Here Are Possible Economic Impacts of 4 of Them.
HIS PEOPLE DON’T WANT HIM TO: Biden’s Not Healing the Nation.
PRIVACY: WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update. “The exodus was so large that WhatsApp has been forced to delay the implementation of the new terms, which had been slated for 8 February, and run a damage limitation campaign to explain to users the changes they were making.”
WhatsApp claims they won’t share data with parent company Facebook, but for some reason, no one seems to believe them.
I’M SURE THESE TWO EVENTS ARE ENTIRELY UNRELATED:
Shot: California Governor Gavin Newsom expected to lift strict stay-at-home orders, sources say.
—Central California’s ABC 30, today.
Chaser: California campaign to fire Newsom nears threshold needed for ballot.
—Fox News, today.
CAN BIDEN CONTINUE TRUMP’S TOUGHER APPROACH ON CHINA?
President Joe Biden’s incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken, agrees former President Donald Trump’s administration got communist China right.
During his Jan. 19 Senate confirmation hearing, Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China. I disagree very much with the way that he went about it in a number of areas, but the basic principle was the right one. And I think that that’s actually helpful to our foreign policy.”
But Hunter Biden’s China investment scandal lurks in the diplomatic and criminal background.
The mainstream media and social media magnates who stifled preelection public examination of the Biden family’s involvement in what looks like and smells like a multimillion-dollar political payoff racket may have gotten Joe Biden elected.
However, until the Biden-China scandal is fully vetted, we won’t know if Beijing has inside information (blackmail leverage) that might soften Trump’s tougher approach.
Knowing matters. Given China’s documented record of pervasive spying, global intellectual property theft, a huge military expansion program, imperialist seizure of territory, bullying of neighbors, violations of treaty commitments, police-state terror and genocide of Muslim Uighurs, a softer approach at this moment in history ultimately puts American security at risk.
Read the whole thing. (bumped)
ECO-TOURISM, KIND OF: Oklahoma lawmaker proposes ‘Bigfoot’ hunting season. “Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state.”
LEAVING IN A MIST: Somewhere in the eastern Pacific a U.S. Navy Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) leaves the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Joe Biden Is the Worst 5 Day President Ever. “I almost have to hand it to Ol’ Gropes, he’s spreading the pain all over the place. There have already been multiple moments for schadenfreude but that feeling is fleeting when I realize that I’m going to be miserable too. It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m sure there will be a knock at the door.”
RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: President Biden to reinstate COVID-19 travel rules, add South Africa, sources say.
ANOTHER INDUSTRY SAVED BY DONALD TRUMP: Halfway Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 22%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands. It’ll be interesting to see what happens next year, with no “Trump Bump.”
SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY: New Evidence Implicates FBI Higher-Ups in Dishonesty of Anti-Trump Lawyer.
The court filings reveal, among other things, that Clinesmith knew much earlier than has been reported about Page’s cooperation with the U.S. government, and was not alone in knowing that he had provided information on the Russians to the CIA — or in covering up that knowledge.
Several officials within his tightly compartmentalized chain-of-command — including former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, his counselor Lisa Page and counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok — learned of Page’s role with the CIA before they first sought to wiretap him during the 2016 presidential campaign. The CIA had confirmed his role two months earlier in an August 2016 memo it sent to the FBI. And Page’s status as a CIA contact had been documented in the FBI’s own electronic files going back to 2009.
Yet they all withheld this critical information attesting to Page’s loyalty from the spy court.
A rotten organization, headed by rotten, corrupt people.
SOMETIMES THEY ADMIT THINGS: Shocker: MSNBC host admits ‘Trump would be getting crushed’ if he had done what Joe Biden did.
BIG TECH BLUES: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia.
Australia is introducing a world-first law to make Google, Facebook and potentially other tech companies pay media outlets for their news content.
But the US firms have fought back, warning the law would make them withdraw some of their services.Australian PM Scott Morrison said lawmakers would not yield to “threats”.
Australia is far from Google’s largest market, but the proposed news code is seen as a possible global test case for how governments could seek to regulate big tech firms.Tech firms have faced increasing pressure to pay for news content in other countries, including France, where Google struck a landmark deal with media outlets on Thursday.
In Australia, the proposed news code would tie Google and Facebook to mediated negotiations with publishers over the value of news content, if no agreement could be reached first.
On the one hand, this might be a case where the cure is worse than the disease — at least according to the man who invented the world wide web.
On the other hand, Google and Facebook.
NOT SATIRE: A confounding kimchi kerfuffle shows the CCP has made people at home hungry for news of China’s dominance. “When China came for their kimchi, South Koreans knew they had had enough. Over the past several weeks, China’s state-backed Global Times has turned its crosshairs on Korea’s beloved fermented cabbage dish, running a provocative series of pieces asserting a version of the dish from China’s Sichuan province is the authoritative version, and pointedly reminding Koreans China was the world leader in the kimchi industry.”
ICYMI: Reuters: Special Report: How U.S. CDC missed chances to spot COVID’s silent spread.
Critics have widely asserted that the CDC fumbled key decisions during the coronavirus scourge because then-President Donald Trump and his administration meddled in the agency’s operations and muzzled internal experts. The matter is now the subject of a congressional inquiry. Yet Reuters has found new evidence that the CDC’s response to the pandemic also was marred by actions – or inaction – by the agency’s career scientists and frontline staff.
Also.
THE MEDIA — AND ESPECIALLY SOCIAL MEDIA — ARE BASICALLY THE INTELLECTUAL EQUIVALENT OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY: How the Media Monetarized Polarization.
EVERY SUNDAY: I do a promo post for (mostly) indie writers on my blog. Yes, the links are to Amazon. I’m assured AWS (data storage) is the bulk of Amazon business. Ebooks are barely a blip, and for now the best hope of indie writers, and writers on the right. Btw, did you know you could pick Project Veritas in the Smile program? I mean “Everyone does business with authority like everyone does business with gravity” but…. doesn’t mean we can’t put it to use. Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Book Promo.
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES? D.C. Mayor Bowser: Dem-Led House, Senate Will Pass D.C. Statehood, Bring It to Biden’s Desk.
We don’t need to address no stinking constitutional issues! What are you going to do? Vote them out?
THIS IS GOING TO END WITH WAR WITH CHINA: Sunday Talks, Tom Cotton Discusses China Targeting Trump Officials With Targeted Economic and Financial Weapons.
One way or another. But you knew that.
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