SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “*Flicks cigarette after a long drag* ‘Here’s the thing. If Santa knows when kids are naughty or nice then he knew Rudolph was being bullied.'”
NOBODY HAS HANDLED THE CHINESE CORONAVIRUS WORSE: How Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order Trapped My 89-Year-Old Mother in COVID Limbo for Weeks.
TATER TAUNTED:
JOHN LENNON: THE FIRST AND LAST GLOBAL ICON.
Lennon was killed on the cusp of that change, as symbolic as only a crowd symbol can be. His killer, the thwarted fan Mark Chapman, disapproved of the comments that had contributed to the end of The Beatles’ touring career, Lennon’s musings of March 1966: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary.”
The hysteria that followed the publication of Lennon’s claim supplies the central panel of the historical triptych. From the fascism of the European Thirties (stadium rallies, radio broadcasts, students burning books), to the mass entertainment of the American Sixties (stadium concerts, television broadcasts, young Christians burning Beatles albums), to the rise of globalized Islam in the Eighties (more stadium rallies, satellite television, young Islamists burning The Satanic Verses).
Lennon did not cross the historical frontier of 1980 along with the other three Beatles and his most ardent admirers, the Boomers. This prevented him from vitiating his appeal by ageing or making rubbish records in the decades of Rock music’s apparently interminable senescence. It could not prevent him turning into the horror that he had already become and could never escape: a modern celebrity.
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“The dream is over,” Lennon sang on “God” in 1970. “I don’t believe in Beatles.” But the copyrights live forever. Lennon escaped from one brand, the moptopped cartoon that were the early Beatles, but now he is more tightly imprisoned in Yoko’s franchise than he ever was in one of Brian Epstein’s suits.
This, to the evident and unending chagrin of Paul McCartney, is what Lennon now means, at least to those born after in the era when music was the dominant modern art form. He is the icon of a consumer substitute for religion and morality in the post-Christian West. This is everything he had attained by the time of that fateful interview in March 1966, and everything he tried to escape by breaking himself down in the following decade. Imagine if Lennon had lived, and seen how Yoko, his saviour and true love, his “Mother”, had turned his tormented life and great tunes into a parodic cash cow. It’s easy if you try.
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I think Lennon might have fit in better in the 1980s than the above suggests: Working class hero? John Lennon ‘was closet conservative and fan of Reagan.’ “But by the time he died, John Lennon was a closet conservative embarrassed by his radical past, according to his former personal assistant. Fred Seaman claims that the former Beatle was a fan of Ronald Reagan, who went on to become America’s Republican president in 1981 and forged a close political alliance with Margaret Thatcher. ‘John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on [Democrat] Jimmy Carter,’ he says in a documentary film.”
A COUPLE OF COMMENTS FROM FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK ABOUT LAST NIGHT’S SUPREME COURT OPINION:
“We lost. Treating that as the end of the world and saying everything is hopeless is exactly what the other side wants us to do.”
“I don’t trust the Dems. Nor do I trust the Republicans. But I do trust people like Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas. SCOTUS has ruled. I think they are erring on the side of leaving states alone, which from a certain standpoint is the right call. But man, people, there is so much work to do in the next four years. To ensure the *next* fraud is not nearly so easy for the DNC. They exploited a unique situation: the Covid Panic. Circumstances will not always align for this. And, they’ve cheated before. It’s how Kennedy won in 1960. It does not mean we’re destined forever to be disenfranchised. It just means the Prole Rebellion has to go GROUND GAME in precincts and in the state legislatures. Nothing is permanent. Biden-Harris can be survived. Gotta make sure the Prole Rebellion doesn’t exit with Trump. It should never have been about one man anyway. It should be all about the idea: of the Little Man wresting back control of his government from would-be oligarchs and technocrats.”
“Consider. Tammany Hall once ruled New York City. It was utterly corrupt, and utterly controlled that city for a long time. Until . . . it shriveled and bled and died of its own necrotic rot. Something the Tammany crew would have thought unthinkable in their prime. To echo what I have already said: corrupt systems often seem at the height of their power, right before they collapse. Did anyone guess in 1988 that the Soviets would collapse and be done for within 24 months? Did LBJ or Kennedy believe Nixon would come back to win big? The ballot box took a hit. It’s smoking. It is not destroyed. Now the Dems get to spend four years with Biden-Harris doing a clown show in the White House.”
“Stop. Even if all you do is make them cheat harder, you will vote. Don’t let the lying, cheating, stealing bastards get you down. Time to fight. Or fight harder. And prepare. Because sh*t will get real soon enough. Make sure you are ready.”
UPDATE: Another friend sends this: “A discussion of all lawful means to oppose the near certain incoming Biden administration and to organize to prevent the same fraud occurring in future elections, including in Georgia in a few weeks, would be good. People on the right are so irate that some small number are virtually certain to do spasmodic and foolish things, that would provoke a very destructive crack down. In fact, I have to believe this is what the Ds snd the nomenklatura want. Giving people a lawful and potentially affective outlet for their legitimate anger would be helpful. I really don’t know what the answer to this is at all, myself, and I’d like to start hearing ideas.”
TECH HAS CHOSEN SIDES: YouTube Blocks Trump Campaign Video.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: You Have to See This NBC Hunter Biden Sub-headline to Believe It. It’s Real and It’s Really That Awful.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Big Tech, Big Media Conspired To Hide Biden Corruption From Voters.
ANOTHER INDUSTRY SAVED BY TRUMP: The Red-Hot Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 38%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands.
THERE IS NO SCIENCE BEHIND THIS: Cuomo’s New Ban On Indoor Dining In NYC Is Abject Madness.
On Wednesday, I wrote a column in the New York Post urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to release contact tracing data on the spread of the Chinese virus in New York restaurants before closing them down. My logic was that the owners of these establishments, their employees, and their patrons deserved to see the evidence that proves that indoor dining is a major driver of virus spread.
On Friday, the governor released that data. It does not show that restaurants are a major driver; it shows they accounted for 1.4 percent of spread. And yet, in a move that defies even the basic tenets of common sense, Emperor Cuomo is closing down indoor dining anyway.
In mid-December, when it is too cold to eat outside and a week before a Christmas, this order will directly lead to thousands of more unemployed New Yorkers.
This decision is insane. It is also cruel and arbitrary. For two months Gotham’s restaurants have done everything asked of them: created outdoor dining areas, bought heaters, run at 25 percent capacity, had customers fill out tracing forms, and enforced masks. And guess what? It looks like it worked. Fewer than 2 in 100 infections can be traced back to eateries. So why are they now being punished? . . .
There is no excuse for this decision. Not only is the infection rate for restaurants and bars a meager 1.4 percent, the rate for households is 74 percent.
So let me posit a simple question. Now that friends are to be banned from sharing time together at a restaurant or pub, where will they gather? Oh, right, in households. Brilliant, governor, just brilliant. Don’t let us go where almost no one gets COVID, but shove us into the places where almost everyone does.
Tar. Feathers.
December 11, 2020
KAROL MARKOWICZ ON FOX NEWS: Cuomo, Democrats didn’t want to give Trump any credit for vaccine: NY Post columnist.
Thought experiment. There are five Democrat justices on the Supreme Court. There was a Democrat president who just ran for reelection. He supposedly lost, but virtually all Democrat voters believe that massive fraud in several Republican controlled states caused him to lose. Many Democrat attorneys general file a lawsuit in the US Supreme Court, essentially identical to the one that is pending now.
Does anyone believe for a second that those five Democrat justices wouldn’t do absolutely anything necessary to make sure the Democrat control of the presidency was maintained? Democrats care about power. Democrats do not care about process, or rules. Now we are being asked to be so meticulous about adhering to the rules, that we are to allow a laughably egregious fraud to succeed, and to permit our own throats to be cut by turning over the executive branch to the people who just committed the biggest political crime in history. I hope five US supreme court justices will show just a tiny bit of the creativity, to put it politely, which Democrat justices had when they, for example, found an imaginary abortion right in the US Constitution. We’ll see what happens.
People always take for granted that the liberal justices will stick together, and rule for the Democrats. Even Democrats take that for granted.
TRUMP GETS RESULTS: US Allows Emergency COVID-19 Vaccine in Bid to End Pandemic. “While the FDA decision came only after public review of data from a huge ongoing study, it has also been dogged by intense political pressure from the Trump administration, which has accused the agency of being too slow and even threatened to remove FDA chief Stephen Hahn if a ruling did not come Friday.”
IT’S REALLY ABOUT RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL TRADITIONALISTS FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM TO BE JEWS AGAINST ENEMIES WITHIN AND WITHOUT: If you want to know what Hanukkah is NOT really about, watch this video from Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff explaining what they think Hanukkah is about. At least Harris knows how to pronounce the Hebrew “KH” that starts Hanukkah, unlike her Jewish husband. But really, the way American Jews have been dumbing down Hanukkah to make it universalistic is to emphasize the Maccabees fight for religious freedom, which is at least, unlike Harris/Emhoff talking about “tikkun olam,” not wildly inaccurate and anachronistic.
HOMER HICKAM: Chuck Yeager Was A Hero’s Hero. “The World War II fighter pilot who broke the sound barrier and lived for the thrill of punching into the air was the man every hero wanted to be. . . . But perhaps the most important thing about Yeager, in terms of why he was chosen to fly the X-1, was that he knew generators, pumps and pressure regulators. He knew how they worked, he knew how to take them apart and he knew how to put them back together. He knew them because he worked with his daddy on gas wells in the hills of West Virginia that used machinery similar to the ones used in jet and rocket engines. Even though he didn’t have an engineering degree, Yeager knew what he had to know to dig into the guts of modern aircraft and rockets and be confident enough to be dropped from the belly of a bomber, light the engine and fly with consummate skill — not only faster than the speed of sound but straight into history. . . . In that, he was a lot like our country during the years following World War II, an era when men like Yeager were not afraid to try and die and laugh while they were doing it.”
I WON’T BE ABLE TO GET TO SAAVEDRA, CHILE FOR THIS: The only total solar eclipse of 2020 occurs Monday. Here’s what to expect.
TEXAS IS GOING TO NEED SOME SORT OF NATURALIZATION TEST SOON: Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas.
REMINDER THAT MUCH OF OUR POLITICAL CLASS ASPIRES TO MAKE AMERICA MUCH MORE LIKE CHINA: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under security law.
I spoke to Jimmy Lai a couple of weeks ago.
Related: The Silence of Pope Francis: Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai goes to jail—and his shepherd is missing in action. “Mr. Lai’s jailing has provoked condemnation from figures as diverse as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky and New York Rep. Eliot Engel. They have been joined by journalists, activists and politicians such as the Labour Party’s Sarah Champion and other members of Parliament who on Monday raised Mr. Lai’s plight in Britain’s House of Commons. But there is one place where China’s bullying elicits only silence: the Vatican. Which is strange, because Jimmy Lai is not only Hong Kong’s most well-known champion of democracy; he is also its most prominent Catholic layman. At a moment when he and his family most need their shepherd, Pope Francis is MIA. The silence might be understandable if Pope Francis were in the tradition of pontiffs who hold themselves aloof from worldly affairs. But Pope Francis is a man who readily weighs in on outrages wherever he finds them, whether it be modern air conditioning, American capitalism or Catholic moms who breed ‘like rabbits.’ But on China . . . silence. It’s the deliberate consequence of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, just recently renewed, that gives the Communist state extraordinary say over the selection of Catholic bishops—and whose terms Rome insists on keeping secret.”
I don’t think he’s a very good Pope.
HMM: Flu cases lower than normal so far this year, COVID-19 likely the reason. “Flu activity remains ‘unusually low’ in many parts of the United States, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and experts say masking and social distancing to prevent spread of COVID-19 may be the reason. Just 40 of more than 22,000 specimens evaluated at U.S. hospital labs and 16 of more than 16,000 evaluated at public health labs in the country during that week tested positive for the flu, according to the agency. In addition, less than 2% of all doctor visits across the country over the same period were related to the seasonal bug, the CDC said.”
So why are there so many Covid cases? Related:
WELL, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO FOREGO LYING, ARROGANCE, MANIPULATION, AND CONDESCENSION: We Know How to Curb the Pandemic. How Do We Make People Listen? But it’s too late for that now.
IT’S OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF #ORANGEMANBAD AND ANTI-MASK REDSTATERS: Covid in Europe: Death tolls soar and hospitals struggle as containment unravels.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Rejects Texas Election Lawsuit. “The Supreme Court, 7-2, voted to deny Texas AG Paxton’s motion for leave to file its election complaint. Justices Alito and Thomas would grant Motion for Leave, but provide no other relief.”
The statement that Texas lacks standing would seem to implicitly overrule Massachusetts v. EPA, a case that found expanded standing for states, though in the “Climate Change” context. But then, I’ve told my students that I doubt that case stood for more than climate change hysteria’s ability to influence John Roberts Anthony Kennedy.
The appeal of dismissing on standing grounds, of course, is that the Court won’t have to deal with any of the factual allegations.
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Test shipments for COVID-19 vaccines exposed problems, official tells Senate.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Use This One Weird Trick to Double Your Social Security Benefits.
DOGS ARE SMART: Proof-of-concept study shows dogs can detect COVID-19 in human sweat. Well, my friend’s dog who ate his leash, had emergency surgery, and then ate a pair of panties necessitating a second emergency surgery the next week may be an exception.
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND DEMOCRATS: Biden Urges Dems To Conceal Their Defund the Police Agenda Until After Georgia Runoffs.
I PREDICT A BANNER Q4: Smith & Wesson Posts Another Record-Breaking Quarter.
TO BE FAIR, THEY ALSO DON’T REALLY WANT TO RETURN TO THE OFFICE: Tech Workers Want a Vaccine Mandate Before Returning To the Office.
NOW THEY TELL US: We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time.
You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial. This is — as the country and the world are rightly celebrating — the fastest timeline of development in the history of vaccines. It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it .
To be clear, I don’t want to suggest that Moderna should have been allowed to roll out its vaccine in February or even in May, when interim results from its Phase I trial demonstrated its basic safety. “That would be like saying we put a man on the moon and then asking the very same day, ‘What about going to Mars?’ ” says Nicholas Christakis, who directs Yale’s Human Nature Lab and whose new book, Apollo’s Arrow, sketches the way COVID-19 may shape our near-term future.
To be fair, that’s exactly what’s lots of people were saying on the day of the moon landing, from Spiro Agnew on down.
IT IS UNWISE TO ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, COMRADE: Is It Dangerous to Fight Voter Fraud? (The Dems And MSM Believe Investigations Are Bad).
KIM STRASSEL: Judge Sullivan’s Final ‘Verdict.’
Judge Sullivan positioned himself as prosecutor, judge, jury and lord high executioner. He went so far as to hire a former federal judge, John Gleeson, to make the case against Mr. Flynn—and Mr. Barr. Mr. Gleeson gave it his all, filing a 30-page brief asserting there was “clear evidence” the motion to dismiss “reflects a corrupt and politically motivated favor unworthy of our justice system.” That implies a grand conspiracy and impugns the reputations of dozens of Justice Department professionals. Yet it turns out the only evidence Mr. Gleeson had for such an outrageous claim was Mr. Trump’s tweets expressing interest in justice for Mr. Flynn.
Meanwhile, have pity (or not) on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which in August naively provided Judge Sullivan the opportunity to dig out—which he disrespectfully declined. A three-judge panel in June ordered Judge Sullivan to drop the case. He appealed, and the full D.C. Circuit agreed to hear his plea. That was a mistake, establishing joint ownership of Judge Sullivan’s malpractice.
The court made a second mistake by wrapping itself in legal knots (with Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan ignoring his own 2016 precedent, known as U.S. v. Fokker Services) to give Judge Sullivan an out, claiming he should at least be provided the opportunity to rule. The appellate court made clear this was a face-saving exercise; it expected Judge Sullivan to dismiss the case quickly. Instead he made fools this week of his higher-court colleagues. He sat on the case for months, and only when forced by a pardon did he issue a ruling in which he made clear he had no intention of granting the Justice Department’s dismissal motion. (Judge Srinivisan’s willingness to remake law at the behest of a rogue judge is worth remembering if his name comes up for elevation to the Supreme Court.)
It was Mr. Comey’s arrogance that dragged the country into the three-year Russia-collusion saga, so perhaps the Sullivan ruling is a natural bookend. It’s a reminder that for all the caterwauling these past four years about the breaking of “norms” and “standards,” the unhinged critics of Mr. Trump have done the most damage to the system.
Earlier: Kamikaze Trump: If Trump is going down, he should take the swamp monsters down with him.
BEFORE THE ELECTION, MY USA TODAY COLUMN ON THIS WAS SPIKED BASED ON NEBULOUS HANDWAVING ABOUT “JOURNALISTIC ETHICS.” The Disgraceful Hunter Biden Cover-Up. “It’s now clear that the Hunter Biden story was real, with Hunter himself acknowledging a federal probe into his taxes — one that reportedly began in 2018. Really, it was always clear. Yet, when the New York Post broke the details, virtually the entire journalistic establishment and left-wing punditsphere defamed the newspaper, claiming it was passing on Russian ‘disinformation’ or partisan fabrications.”
Many voters will — with basis — regard a Biden presidency as tainted by this concerted effort on the part of both Big Media and social media companies to keep voters uninformed pre-election.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Can you imagine the howls of outrage if Don Jr. had been under federal investigation for tax fraud and nobody had told the voters while the media looked the other way? This Hunter Biden cover-up stinks.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Face the Fact that Masks Aren’t Working.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When mask compliance is in the mid-to-high 90s but the virus is spreading like crazy anyway, is it time to admit that masks aren’t working?
Answer: Lock yourself back in your room with your mask on and don’t come out until next summer, sweetie.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- The War on Christmas comes to Minneapois, anonymously
- Alleged President-elect Joe Asterisk suffers another bout of projectile word-vomit
- Good news! Experts say COVID make women more promiscuous
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST, NO REALLY, THIS TIME WE MEAN IT — HONEST! NO FOOLING — CRUSADE: Harrison Ford to reprise ‘Indiana Jones’ role for fifth and final movie.
JOANNE JACOBS: It’s relevant, but is it really math?
A new book with equity-based lessons for high school math teachers has become a bestseller.
Some districts are looking at teaching math through a “social-justice lens,” writes Gewertz. “The Seattle school district developed a framework last year that weaves questions of power and oppression into math instruction, along with explorations of ethnic identity, but it hasn’t been adopted.”
2 + 2 = whatever the Party requires it to.
WORKFARE FOR LEFTY APPARATCHIKS: Ohio State employs more than 100 diversity workers, costing $10 million-plus per year.
IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Reps. Tulsi Gabbard And Markwayne Mullin Introduce Bill That Would Allow Only Biological Females In Women’s Sports.
JIM TREACHER: So, Hunter Biden’s Laptop Was Real After All, Huh?
Well, they did it. They swept the story under the rug because they knew it was bad for the guy who wanted to replace Trump, and they didn’t care about anything but replacing Trump. They weren’t worried about integrity, reputation, professionalism, or anything else that might have kept them from lying.
After all, who’s gonna stop ’em? You? Me? They don’t care about us. All journalists care about is giving each other awards and basking in the praise of their bosses in the Democratic Party.
Now they’re doing the same thing with Eric Swalwell. He’s embroiled in a huge scandal, and they’re just pretending it isn’t happening. After all, he has a (D) after his name and they’re team players.
I don’t believe the Democrats stole the election. But via their enablers in NYC and Silicon Valley, they covered up the truth about the Biden family to sway the outcome of the election.
If you didn’t trust them before Election Day, all they’ve done is prove you right. And now they’ll hate you even more for it.
THESE ARE THEIR REASONS. IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM… THEY HAVE OTHERS: Both Of The Media’s Reasons For Suppressing The Hunter Biden Story Turned Out To Be ‘False.’
GAVIN GETS SLAPPED DOWN BY CALIFORNIA JUDGE: The Golden State’s chief executive has issued anti-Covid regulations that are likely the most discriminatory against Christians in the nation.
But late Thursday, California Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp waved the red flag, specifically citing the Supreme Court’s recent comeuppance to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s similarly bigoted regulations aimed at Jewish and Catholic gatherings in Brooklyn.
It takes time for Supreme Court precedents to be applied as widely as needed, but this decision suggests that Justice Alito’s efforts on behalf of the First Amendment and religious freedom are bearing fruit rather quickly.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Another Middle East Trump Triumph for the Media to Ignore. “This is how utterly despicable the journalist class has become. What President Trump has accomplished diplomatically this year should be celebrated by all Americans. It takes a special kind of emotional stunting to not be able to admit that. The MSM is so riddled with Trump Derangement Syndrome that it can’t praise an accomplishment of his even when they think that they’re about to kick him out of the door.”
HOW THE “NEUTRAL NEWS PROFESSIONALS” AT NPR WRITE A NEUTRAL NEWS HEADLINE: Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Join Widely Scorned Texas Election Lawsuit.
So widely scorned that 18 other states have joined it.
GOYA’S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Goya CEO Triggers AOC So Badly She Tries Revising Her Goya Boycott Call, but Receipts Tell the True Story.
Related: AOC knocks Joe Biden’s agenda as ‘a little hazy.’
After last year’s legendarily disasterous Green Nude Eel rollout, I have to give her points for chutzpah on that one.
TWO WEEKS TO BEND THE CURVE, EIGHT MONTHS TO RIG THE ELECTION: Biden COVID Adviser Said Hospitals Would ‘Collapse’ In Three Weeks. That Didn’t Happen.
THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT BASED ON SCIENCE: Open it up: More want COVID restrictions cut.
“‘ALL ENTITIES THAT ARE NOT EXPLICITLY RIGHT-WING WILL BECOME LEFT-WING OVER TIME,’ AND FOX NEWS PROVED THE RULE:” Fox News’ Media Suicide.
THE QUESTION IS WHETHER CHRISTIANS WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS RULE, OR JUST MUSLIMS: Supreme Court Puts Agents on Financial Hook for Religious Freedom Violations. If it’s extended to Christians — and sadly I’m only sort of joking about the uncertainty of that, alas — then Gavin Newsom could be at considerable risk.
WILL NPR AND CNN FOLLOW THE FACTS? Don’t hold your breath. That said, JustTheNews.com’s John Solomon has been following and breaking news about Hunter Biden since at least October. And what the lapdogs insisted was “Russian disinformation” turns out to be pretty well-supported. Solomon details an email from Biden’s lawyer and partner at the time warning him that:
“The January 2017 email suggests Hunter Biden made anywhere from $833,614 to more than $2.5 million a year in the second term of the Obama-Biden administration as he and his partners pursued global business deals in Ukraine, Russia, China and other foreign countries. But it also raised questions about his finances and accounting beyond the alleged Burisma tax payment that was overdue. Schwerin’s email suggested Hunter Biden borrowed money from his company, and also had claimed as income monies he did not receive. “You didn’t receive this in cash and it is in reality ‘phantom income,'” Schwerin wrote Hunter Biden in explaining some transactions.”
Like the Good Professor says: “Read the Whole Thing.”™
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: China Seems Ready for a Fight Over Taiwan. “For decades China-watchers have debated what form a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) offensive against Taiwan might take. An onslaught seems to be coming. Saying no to a cross-strait union is not an option Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supremo Xi Jinping means to grant the islanders. Beijing wrote its threat to use force into law back in 2005. Xi regularly reminds everyone that the party’s patience is finite. It seems the only question is timing.”
SO 19 STATES TOTAL: 18 states join Texas lawsuit challenging four states’ election results.
At this point, many Americans — possibly a majority — are likely to regard a Biden presidency as fundamentally illegitimate.
UPDATE: ‘The Big One’ Gets Bigger: 15 Michigan Legislators Join Texas Election Lawsuit.
A SETBACK FOR POLITICAL PERSECUTION: Judge dismisses prosecutor from McCloskeys case. “A judge on Thursday disqualified the St. Louis prosecutor and her office from the case involving Mark McCloskey, who along with his wife pointed guns at racial injustice protesters marching on the private street near their home in June. Circuit Judge Thomas Clark II dismissed Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, citing two campaign fundraising emails around the time she filed felony gun charges against the couple in July. ‘In short, the Circuit Attorney’s conduct raises the appearance that she initiated a criminal prosecution for political purposes,’ Clark wrote.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 21.7% Fewer High School Graduates Enrolled In College This Fall Due To COVID-19. The core left-dominated institutions outside government — Hollywood, higher education, K-12 — have been severely damaged by the coronavirus. The right needs to follow up on this. And the government’s credibility has also been severely damaged.
INVESTIGATE ALL THE BIDENS! Joe Biden’s brother is reportedly also being investigated by federal prosecutors.
If Joe doesn’t pass away from, err, food poisoning or pulling on his dog’s tail, his impeachment will nicely clear the decks for President Harris.
NARRATOR: “DON’T UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO FUCK THINGS UP.” The Big Thing That Trump Got Right and Biden Can’t Afford to Screw Up Again.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Defund the Police.”
The New Hotness? Declare a cop the “Person of the Year!” Time magazine names Biden, Harris its Person of the Year in profile fiercely critical of Trump.
THE SMOKING GUN in the Facebook antitrust case.
OH, THANK HEAVENS, NOT THE ENERGY DRINK. I’D HAVE TO STOP DRINKING THEM: Essential Facts About Covid-19.
(Indeed, yes, if you live in Denver and can’t grab one of the no sugar ones at the 1 for $1 sale, I’ve probably been there. Used to be worse when older son lived here too. Now, depending on how I feel at the time, you might still find some.)
IN OTHER WORDS, WE’VE BEEN HAD. THE QUESTION IS: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Essential Facts About Covid-19.
Because the statists won’t let go of the whip as long as we let them use it. My preferred solution would be to take the whip from their hands and shove it somewhere interesting. However, in the interest of civilization, let’s just go for massive civil disobedience. Come out, come out wherever you are. They can’t arrest us all.
OH, GROW UP. AND MAKE YOUR FRIENDS GROW UP WITH YOU: Chicago Mayor Stomps Foot and Demands Cash Now.
AGAIN, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU’VE BEEN HAD. NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Oh, that Hunter Biden, says CNN and the FBI.
NOT USUALLY THE WORK OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY CLAIM IS TRUE: YouTube Will Ban ANY Video Criticizing Biden ‘Win’.
MY FRIENDS ARE STILL AWESOME, AND NOW A BIT TERRIFIED: The Supreme Court and the Electoral “Safe Harbor.” – by Amie Gibbons.
AND THEN THERE’S THIS…. AND I KNOW A LOT OF YOU ARE GOING “BUT THAT’S CRAZY. IT CAN’T BE TRUE.” I’LL REMIND YOU I HID FOR ALMOST A DECADE AMID LEFTIST INTELLECTUALS. I’VE HEARD THEM. YEAH. THIS IS TRUE AND THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO PULL IT OFF. IT WON’T WORK, OF COURSE, BUT THEY GET TO FILL MILLIONS OF GRAVES, SO IT’S ALWAYS A GOOD DAY’S WORK FOR THEM: The Usefulness of COVID-19 Fear.
When people tell you they want to kill your country (and you by extension) BELIEVE them.
I’M GLAD HE FOUND A SOURCE OF THE ODOR AND PUZZLED HE THINKS IT’S THE ONLY ONE. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE VERY SURPRISED WHEN THINGS BLOW UP. BUT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN’T KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO BELIEVE THEIR LYING EYES. SOONER OR LATER THEY’LL IGNORE YOU: This Election Stinks .
THIS IS NOT THE SIZE OF THE OXFORD DICTIONARY THAT COMES WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS, SO IT’S INCOMPLETE: The Washington Post’s Lies.
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