December 15, 2020

GOOD: Unexpected discovery leads to better understanding of migraine.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Study: High blood pressure speeds cognitive decline in middle-aged, older adults. Get it checked.

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HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS: Trump was right about the vaccine release.

“SMOKEY ROBINSON CAN PRONOUNCE IT ANY WAY HE DAMN WELL PLEASES:” Smokey Robinson wishes fan ‘Happy Cha-nooka’ in Cameo video.

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AT THIS POINT, I THINK IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT THE “INTEL COMMUNITY” IS A CANCER WITHIN OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: US intel veterans lied about ‘Russian plot’ — and the media bought it hook, line and sinker. “In this case, it was former US ­intelligence officials who were spreading disinformation in an ­attempt to mislead the American public about a consequential matter touching on the front runner in an American presidential campaign. The call came from inside the house. Anyone believing the officials, who used their past titles and long experience to lend credibility to their letter, would have been shocked to learn last week that Hunter Biden is under federal investigation for tax crimes.”

Plus: “This is the kind of story voters should be aware of when choosing a president. And they would have been if there hadn’t, in effect, been an American conspiracy to misinform people, led by former US intelligence officials who shamefully abused the public trust.”

There was disinformation here all right, just not from Russia. And many people will regard the collusion involved in suppressing this story pre-election as rendering a Biden presidency illegitimate.

THIS WILL END WELL: NYC Seeks To Bar Police From Any Interaction With Homeless. “Having already slashed the budget for the NYPD, the City Council in the Big Apple is looking to enact even more restrictions on the actions of the police department. Multiple members of the Council have drafted a bill that would bar the police from any interaction with homeless individuals on the streets. That would include both responding to complaints about possible criminal behavior and outreach efforts where officers attempt to get the homeless into shelters.”

TOP GEAR/THE GRAND TOUR’S RICHARD HAMMOND DRIVES THE NEW FORD MUSTANG MACH 1 (Video):

WE TAKE HARASSMENT SUPER SERIOUSLY AROUND HERE, FELLAS. A student re-attached a fallen note of support to a staff member’s door. Then her university investigated her for harassment.

Weird, it’s like unmooring harassment from any reasonable definition of the term turned out to be a tool for those in power to abuse the plebs.

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VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Pray That Joe Biden Isn’t an Honest Politician Who Stays Bought by the CCP.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: If an honest politician is the kind who stays bought, can we hope that Joe Biden is the kind of politician who would take the money and run?

Answer: Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please let it be so.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • Sick: Trans activists want ALL children on puberty blockers
  • Twitter and YouTube apparently blocking search results unfavorable to Biden
  • Wall Street prepares to abandon Wall Street

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

ALL COMEDY IS CONSERVATIVE: Family Guy Trashes Transgender Ideology.

Meanwhile, not only is real life in 2020 stranger than we imagined, it is stranger than we can imagine: Transgender activist calls for all children to be put on puberty blockers until they can determine identity.

(Classical reference in headline.)

SATIRE… OR IS IT? Governor Polis Enables “Auto Renew” for Colorado’s Mask Mandate.

Exhausted by having to manually extend Colorado’s mask mandate each month, Governor Jared Polis logged into the “Governor’s Dashboard” section of the state’s website and set the mandate to automatically renew each month for an additional 30 days.

“I just found this feature. I should’ve done it months ago,” Polis admits. “Everyone knows I’m going to keep extending the mandate, but this way I don’t even have to think about it, it just happens.”

“Come over here and take a look,” exclaimed Polis, as he excitedly offered The Oyster a glimpse of his computer. “All I did was click this button here and, boom, another 30 days with the masks.”

“Two weeks to bend the curve” seems like an awfully long time ago.

IT’S COME TO THIS: The absurdity of the ‘broken glass’ Brexit row. Remoaner loons are accusing the government of ‘dog whistling’ about Kristallnacht.

As Mark Steyn wrote, “On the matter of those racist dog whistles all these middle-age white liberals keep hearing, the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto put it very well: ‘The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else,’ he wrote. ‘The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.’”

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