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December 21, 2020
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Welcome to the Miserable Soviet Vaccine Mandate Hell. “Let me be clear: I’m pulling for every version of the COVID-19 vaccine that’s approved. I want these things to work so that we might be able to get back to living somewhat normal lives again. At least that’s how I would prefer it all work out. It’s beginning to look like the availability of the vaccine might just be a continuation of the dystopian freak show we’ve been living in.”
UNEXPECTEDLY: At 10 Years Old, the Affordable Care Act Is Aging Badly. “By almost any measure, the law has fallen short of its objectives. It included features that proved unpopular or unsustainable, led to a decade-long court battle with—of all groups—an order of Catholic nuns devoted to the poor, and it subsidized elective abortion without subscribers’ knowledge in violation of what the law plainly requires.”
Much more at the link.
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Convicted identity thief working at Massachusetts unemployment office scammed benefits, feds say.
FREEZE, PERSONALIZE, ISOLATE: Tables Turned: Restaurants Organize To Ban Gov. Cuomo From ‘all New York City establishments.’ “He can dine at Gracie Mansion if he wants hospitality in Manhattan. He ain’t getting it here!”
Why just stop at the City?
FASTER, PLEASE: Google’s antitrust case won’t go to trial until Sept. 2023
SALENA ZITO: Livelihoods and Liberty Left in the Lurch. “Years from now, when we walk past the graves of the restaurants, shops, and gyms that didn’t make it, will we ask ourselves how we let this happen? Or will we have accepted that we laid down our liberties one day to flatten a curve and never fought to get them back?”
TRUMP’S DOJ NEEDS TO NAME A SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE HUNTER ANYWAY: Aide: Biden Won’t Talk About Son Hunter with AG Candidates.
A friend comments: “In fairness he hasn’t discussed it with anyone but Hunter, and then only to demand his cut, as far as we know.”
GOALPOSTS, MOVED: The Left Redefines Resistance as ‘Sedition.’
It was inevitable that the Democrats would overreact to legal challenges by President Trump and other Republicans to corrupt election practices in swing states, but some responses have been unhinged even by their standards. One recurring refrain is particularly disturbing — that lawyers, members of Congress, and state attorneys general who supported post-election litigation are guilty of sedition. At least one Democratic congressman insists that attorneys representing the president in such challenges should be disbarred and that House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court shouldn’t be seated in Congress. One of the defendants in that ill-fated lawsuit described it as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
This dangerous view of dissent has a long, sordid history among progressives. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, for example, was the driving force behind the notorious Sedition Act of 1918, passed by his fellow Democrats at a time when they controlled both houses of Congress. This anti-democratic outrage made it a felony crime to criticize the government and, by extension, Wilson himself. A violation of the Sedition Act was punishable by a fine of as much as $10,000 and imprisonment for as long as 20 years. More than 2,000 American citizens were arrested and prosecuted pursuant to the Sedition Act. This crime against democracy was at length repealed by the Republicans after the GOP won majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1918 midterm elections.
Considering its ignoble history, one would think journalists would avoid a term like “sedition.”
Considering journalism’s ignoble present, there’s no surprise in journalists abusing a term like “sedition” for partisan gain.
HMM: Study reveals UV LED lights effectively kill the human coronavirus.
Due to the hazards of chemical methods, professionally designed UV LED disinfection systems may be a safer solution — one that can disinfect surfaces, air, and water.
According to Prof. Mamane, the researchers “killed the viruses using cheaper and more readily available LED bulbs, which consume little energy and do not contain mercury like regular bulbs.”
“Our research has commercial and societal implications, given the possibility of using such LED bulbs in all areas of our lives, safely and quickly.”
Exposure time varied between 60 and 90 seconds, which isn’t long at all.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: The Fall 2020 Law School Class … And An Early Look At The Incoming Fall 2021 Class. “As of today, the total number of JD applicants is up 38.2% compared to this time last year.” Trump saves another industry! But there will be no gratitude . . .
BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO: Biden space advisers urge cooperation with China. “They assert that despite China’s pattern of stealing American technology and diverting it for military purposes, a limited space partnership between Washington and Beijing could reduce tensions and the likelihood of a destabilizing space race.”
DEMOCRACY DIES IN ANTISEMITIC TROPES: WaPo Publishes Cartoon Depicting Republican Lawmakers As Rats Who Tried To ‘Subvert The Constitution.’
From Ann Telnaes, whose cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as monkeys was pulled by the Washington Post in 2015.
VERY FEW AND FAR BETWEEN: CDC Tracking Severe Allergic Reactions to New COVID Vaccine.
WHY THE FUTURE IS TRUMPIST: “You can see that public opinion toward China has turned sharply negative all around the world over the last few years. Trump did that. And it will leave a residue that Biden will have to deal with. Biden—and craven corporate America that doesn’t want to see its lucrative Chinese market shrink—may try to go back to business as usual. But it will come at a political cost. Trump forever shattered the complacency of the China-accommodationists of both parties over the last 20 years.”
ANOTHER FREE FAIRY TALE ON MY BLOG: Blizzard.
And I’ll try to be on every night, but might miss occasionally over the next two weeks, for family commitment reasons. So, don’t worry.
YES, THE WAR IS EVERYWHERE. BUT YES, IT HAS BEN EVERYWHERE A LONG TIME. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF IT TEN YEARS NOW. IT’S PART OF THE REASON I JOINED THE FIGHT: 2020, The Invisible War.
BUT the good news the article mentions is true, also. You might feel despondent because of how corrupt our institutions are. But they’ve been if not this corrupt pretty close to it for 20 years. You should rejoice because Trump caused the fraud and corruption to come to light. “As in the day of judgement, when the secret of every heart shall be laid bare.” Or if you prefer, he has painted targets on the enemy. All we have to do, now, is fight it. And that’s much easier when we can see.
WE’RE JUST ABOUT AT THE TIPPING POINT. THESE IDIOTS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY’RE DOING: Forbes Climate Crisis: “Lock in lifestyle changes brought about by COVID-19”.
They think of real human beings as some kind of mental construct that they can move around and position, with no consequences. Do you think they ever met human beings?
LISTEN MITCH, TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS SEEN THE LEFT UNFETTERED AND IN ACTION MORE OFTEN THAN YOU HAVE, EVEN IN CONGRESS: THE PEOPLE WHO CROSS RIGHT TO LEFT AND TRY TO KOWTOW FAVOR GET EATEN FIRST: Leftists accuse Mitch McConnell of election fraud.
It’s very simple, see: unlike the right, where people at least tried to pretend to be honest and trustworthy, the left knows itself for what it is. They know they’re a bunch of backstabbers. But at least there’s honor among thieves. None of them betrays their comrades on the left. So, why should they trust someone who blatantly betrayed their own side? Think on that, Mitch. Think on that very carefully. Because the order of purges is always: Rightists who betrayed the right to curry favor; leftists who are insufficiently conformist and pliable. Only after that do they get to people like me. And that’s honestly kind of hit or miss because they always have trouble with target acquisition, plus find themselves confused by people who can stand up for themselves. So, overall? It’s safer to stay on the right and be real resistance than to try to lick the feet of those you identify as your new masters. Remember that, Mitch. It could save your life, not just your job.
NO, BUT HE TRIES: The Attorney General cannot exonerate the CIA.
IF CITIZENS AREN’T LINING THE STREETS OF NYC TO PELT HIM AND BILLIE THE RED WITH ROTTEN PRODUCE WHEN THEY POKE THEIR NOSES OUT IN PUBLIC? THEY’RE GETTING OFF LIGHTLY: Tables Turned: Restaurants Organize To Ban Gov. Cuomo From ‘all New York City establishments’.
GRAND THEFT YEAR: 2020: The Year of the Big Fraud.
GET IN LINE AND BOW TO YOUR BETTERS, PEASANT! Dr. Deborah Birx Applied COVID Holiday Travel Restrictions to a Nation of Proles, Then Ignored Them Herself.
WE ARE IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT MONEY IS A MEASURE OF VALUE AND NOT VALUE ITSELF: Jumping Ju Ju Bones, Congress Agrees to 2.3 TRILLION Spending Package, 900 BILLION COVID Bailout Plus 1.4 Trillion Omnibus Spending.
WELL, THE LIBERAL FASCISTS DO HATE ISRAEL AND ARE REALLY ANTISEMITIC, THOUGH THEY USED TO TRY TO DISGUISE IT: Obama’s Latest Autobiography Rewrites Israeli History to Make You Hate the Jewish State.
EXCEPT THESE DAYS I DO PAY ATTENTION TO THE POLITICS OF THOSE I HELP. HORRIBLE? WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY’VE BEEN DOING THIS TO US FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, WHENEVER THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IT. THE LAST TEN YEARS, THEY’VE DONE IT OPENLY: Americans, Extend A Hand To Those In Need.
After the last four years and the “you will take the massive fraud in the election and like it?” Not. One Red Cent to the left, either in purchase or charity. Not if I can help it. A lot of the leftI do have to do business with, particularly given my profession and the lockdown. But if I can avoid it, I do. And if I can direct money to my comrades in the fight for liberty? I do.
SPEAKING OF, IF YOU’RE IN THE DENVER AREA: Do consider this restaurant for your take out needs.
And if readers want to recommend their own, or decent restaurants in other locked-down areas, in the comments, I’m sure it will be appreciated. Remember that we’re much, much worse than then left at tear down revenge. But we build! We create! We support! Let’s do it consciously!
TRY IT BUCKO. JUST TRY IT. THIS IS LIKE THE IDEA OF MAKING PEOPLE SIGN IN AT RESTAURANTS, WHICH IS DROPPED VERY FAST, BECAUSE THEY GET A LOT OF FAKE NAMES AND NUMBERS. (I HEAR JOHN GALT AND SUCH EAT OUT A LOT. UNFORTUNATELY A LOT OF CHURCHES SEEM TO BE STICKING WITH THIS IDIOCY. MAYBE PEOPLE DON’T GIVE CHURCHES FAKE NAMES. SHRUG) IT WORKS IN EUROPE. EUROPEANS ARE PROUD OF THEIR COMPLIANCE. IN THE U.S. A MILLION HACKERS WOULD RISE TO BOTH MAKE SURE NO DEMOCRAT OF THEIR ACQUAINTANCE EVER SHOWED AS VACCINATED, AND THAT EVERYONE ELSE WAS: Andrew Yang Has a Horrible Vaccination Idea.
BUT WE EACH SHOULD DO WHAT WE CAN: We Are Not Alone.
WE CAN’T ALL DO THE SAME: An Open Letter to the American Coward.
HONESTLY, THE FRAUD WAS SO BLATANT AND IN YOUR FACE THAT 75% OF AMERICANS KNOW IT. OR MORE, OF COURSE, CONSIDERING THIS POLL IS LIKELY TO BE SKEWED THE USUAL WAY. BUT WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE ASHAMED THE RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA PEOPLE CALL US RUBES? YEAH. THE ONLY RESPONSE FOR THAT IS DOUBLE MIDDLE FINGERS ALOFT: Resentment, Marcotte and Republican M.O.
December 20, 2020
LATINX IS WOKE AND STUPID, BUT I REPEAT MYSELF: “‘Latinx’ was created in America by people apparently not happy that Spanish is a gender-specific language. It’s a fake-Spanish word that wasn’t created by and isn’t used by Latinos to describe themselves. It’s a shortcut used to identify a huge and very diverse group of people. That term is offensive and people need to stop using it.”
SO YOU’RE SAYING EARTH IS ONLY LIVABLE BECAUSE OF . . . CLIMATE CHANGE? Ancient Earth had a thick, toxic atmosphere like Venus — until it cooled off and became liveable.
REPUBLICANS NEED TO WELD THESE PEOPLE INTO AN ANGRY MOB AIMED AT THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SITUATION: Pain, despair and poverty reach fever pitch for unemployed workers.
A SIDE BENEFIT OF TEACHING: One of my students just got her first journal publication.
WELL, GOOD. IT’S UNSCIENTIFIC GARBAGE. ‘Unconscious bias training’ to be scrapped by ministers. “The training, intended to tackle patterns of discrimination and prejudice, is used in many workplaces. The government says there is no evidence it changes attitudes – and is urging other public sector employers to end this type of training.”
THIS H.L. MENCKEN ESSAY ON GUN CONTROL FROM 1925 is still gold.
The new law that it advocated, indeed, is one of the most absurd specimens of jackass legislation ever heard of, even in this paradise of legislative donkeyism. Its single and sole effect would be to exaggerate enormously all of the evils it proposes to put down. It would not take pistols out of the hands of rogues and fools; it would simply take them out of the hands of honest men. The gunman today has great advantages everywhere. He has artillery in his pocket, and he may assume that, in the large cities, at least two-thirds of his prospective victims are unarmed. But if the Nation’s proposed law (or amendment) were passed and enforced, he could assume safely that all of them were unarmed.
Here I do not indulge in theory. The hard facts are publicly on display in New York State, where a law of exactly the same tenor is already on the books—the so-called Sullivan Law. In order to get it there, of course, the Second Amendment had to be severely strained, but the uplifters advocated the straining unanimously, and to the tune of loud hosannas, and the courts, as usual, were willing to sign on the dotted line. It is now a dreadful felony in New York to “have or possess” a pistol. Even if one keeps it locked in a bureau drawer at home, one may be sent to the hoosegow for ten years. More, men who have done no more are frequently bumped off. The cops, suspecting a man, say, of political heresy, raid his house and look for copies of the Nation. They find none, and are thus baffled—but at the bottom of a trunk they do find a rusted and battered revolver. So he goes on trial for violating the Sullivan Law, and is presently being psychoanalyzed by the uplifters at Sing Sing.
With what result? With the general result that New York, even more than Chicago, is the heaven of footpads, hijackers, gunmen and all other such armed thugs. Their hands upon their pistols, they know that they are safe. Not one citizen out of a hundred that they tackle is armed for getting a license to keep a revolver is a difficult business, and carrying one without it is more dangerous than submitting to robbery. So the gunmen flourish and give humble thanks to God. Like the bootleggers, they are hot and unanimous for Law Enforcement.
Read the whole thing.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: School Choice Reduces Teen Suicide, New Study Finds. When students who face bullying at their public school can go elsewhere, it literally saves lives.
I thought the left was pro-choice and (at least posed as being) against bullying? But curiously, the incoming administration (including what’s left of the cerebrum of their elderly frontman) isn’t happy with school choice: Joe Biden reportedly to be tough on charter schools.
MAYBE. OR MAYBE WE’RE THE FORERUNNERS, THE ANCIENT ONES, THE FIRST GALACTIC CIVILIZATION. The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations. If so, I hope that enough Star Wars / Star Trek stuff survives to leave successors scratching their heads over our lost technological wizardry.
LORDING IT OVER THE REST OF US IS THE ENTIRE POINT: Dr. Birx Took Family Trip to Delaware After Thanksgiving, Despite Her Own COVID Advice.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, traveled to a family vacation home in Delaware the day after Thanksgiving, despite her own guidelines recommending that people avoid travel and large family gatherings. Members of Birx’s family from two different households were in attendance, the Associated Press reported on Sunday: her husband, daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. Birx told the AP that she did not travel for the purpose of celebrating the holiday, but was there for the “winterization of the property before a potential sale.” She also argued that everyone there was in her “immediate household,” while acknowledging that they lived in different homes.
Flashbacks:
● Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry Outing Crystallizes the Arrogance of COVID-19 Dictators.
● San Francisco Mayor London Breed had her own French Laundry party — the night after Gavin Newsom’s.
As Stephen Kruiser suggested: Let’s Start Jailing Lawmakers Who Violate Their Own COVID Restrictions. “Imagine the pure, poetic justice of seeing Newsom, Cuomo, and some of the other Hitler youth (stole that from Animal House) cooling their heels in a holding cell after being caught with their masks off and their pants down.”
MARK JUDGE: The World’s Worst Self-Help Guru.
Saying this honestly is what makes Hollis’ work [James Hollis, author of Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times] so bracing. Hollis would understand why he was one of the first people I sought out in the fall of 2018, after becoming he target of one off the most vicious and evil political hits in recent history. I was tossed into a maelstrom of false accusations, rumors and lies involving a claim that I witnessed a sexual assault, a story that no one who was apparently involved with was able to corroborate.
Soon after the fiasco ended, Hollis was giving a series of lectures at the Jung Society of Washington. I knew that Hollis would understand what I was enduring. I’d survived, as a friend said, “the entire world projecting its shadow onto you.” According to Jung, the work of our lives is not accolades or sunny happiness, but finding our destiny while “integrating the shadow”—i.e., confronting and accepting our dark sides. If we don’t, we wind up projecting our shadow onto others. For several weeks, the media, political activists, and anyone with anger or psychological issues transposed their shadow onto me.
Still, it seemed the culmination of something I’d been preparing for. I’d gotten sober in 1990, a change that forced me to listen to my soul as well as see the evil in the world with clear eyes. I abandoned a promising freelancer position at The Washington Post because I could see the censorious, totalitarian direction that the media and its liberal cheerleaders were going in. Better to live freely and die poor.
By the time the enemy arrived at Helm’s Deep in 2018, I’d no illusions of what I was up against, or what was about to happen. It was to be a Maoist-style mauling. Faced with extortion, career ruin, a shame storm and the threat that my lifelong friends would be destroyed if didn’t lie, I answered with the words Aragorn offered as the orcs approached and he was told his people were about to get wiped out: I will stay and die as one of them.
Read the whole thing.
OLD AND BUSTED: We Are All Socialist Now.
—The Washington Post, through then subsidiary publication Newsweek, February 16th, 2009.
The New Hotness? We Are All National Socialist Now:
I’m so old, I can remember the DNC-MSM getting the vapors over imagined “rats” in a Republican campaign ad in 2000: “Democrats smell campaign rat.” Who knew it was merely a case of projection?
In 2015, Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who drew the above image, “published (then unpublished) a disgusting piece depicting Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s daughters as toy monkeys and ‘fair game’ since they appeared in a campaign ad, ABC’s Good Morning America ignored the story completely while CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today excused it as merely a ‘feud’ and part of ‘increased scrutiny’ for Cruz as he ascends in the polls.”
THE LATE NIGHT PALACE GUARD IS BACK! Jonathan Turley: Joe Biden is proud of Hunter — Stephen Colbert’s embarrassing interview misses the mark.
As original Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts liked to quip, “you can only be avant-garde for so long, before you become garde,” or palace guard, as in the case of today’s late night hosts.
“AS A RESULT OF PREGNANCY TERMINATIONS:” Prenatal testing has halved the number of babies born with Down syndrome in Europe.
I BLAME DIEBOLD: What Happened to the Democrats Who Never Accepted Bush’s Election. The 2004 vote-fraud conspiracy movement never really died. What does that mean for Trump’s true believers—and America?
(Classical reference in headline.)
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THE DEMOCRATS ARE PARTNERED WITH: China conducting mass sterilization on Muslim minorities that could amount to genocide. But, to be fair, progressives have a long history of supporting eugenics.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Son wins US lawsuit after parents destroy his porn collection. David Werking can seek damages after parents got rid of films and magazines worth $29,000.
LIVING IN MONTANA — THINGS THEY DON’T TELL YOU:
Much of his advice is universal for those fleeing locked down and/or riot-torn urban areas for the country.
Exit quote: “Because so many people from California, and they’re turning it into northern California. So that’s the one thing: If you’re moving here from out of state, the reason you’re moving here is why people love it here, so don’t change it. People like it the way it is and they don’t like to be told what to do, and they’re willing to let you do the same thing. Just don’t push where you came from onto the people here, and you’ll get along just fine.”
GOP governors better get cracking on Glenn’s Welcome Wagon kits ASAP, if they want to keep their states in the red column.
I SENSE THAT UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS ARE GROWING LESS TOLERANT OF STUDENT POSTURING: Johns Hopkins students miffed at officials’ reaction to revelation school founder owned slaves.
A CALIFORNIA PLAN TO CHASE AWAY THE RICH, THEN KEEP STALKING THEM: “California’s Legislature is considering a wealth tax on residents, part-year residents, and any person who spends more than 60 days inside the state’s borders in a single year. Even those who move out of state would continue to be subject to the tax for a decade—a provision that calls to mind the Eagles’ famous ‘Hotel California’ lyric: ‘You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.’ The California Constitution probably allows a statewide wealth tax on residents, but any effort to create a tax capable of reaching across state borders is likely to run afoul of the U.S. Constitution. Taxing someone who spends only 60 days in the state in any single year—and extending that tax over an ensuing decade—would be something new under the sun.”
CHUCK TODD: WH’s Historic Failure Responsible For More Deaths Than WWII.
Is Todd saying that fighting the Wuhan coronavirus is the moral equivalent of war? If so, to paraphrase Tim Blair last year, when AOC and Bernie Sanders were playing the “moral equivalent of war” card to sell her “Green New Deal,” Fair enough — nuking Beijing it is, then.
AND PROBABLY MUCH LONGER: COVID-19 reinfection unlikely for at least six months, study finds.
CALIFORNIA: Despite strict lockdowns, ICUs are filling up.
Note, however, that the NYT changed its headline from this:
To: As California I.C.U.s fill up, the dead are counted by the hour.
I guess too many people were noticing the contradiction.
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34 billion in lost income -study. That’s just the beginning.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
I HOPE THAT VENUSIAN HUMMER DEALERSHIP IS HAPPY NOW: World Economic Forum reminds everybody that climate change made Venus uninhabitable.
TAMARA KEEL ON Doomscrolling. “Stress hormones are stress hormones, and extended exposure to them is detrimental, but most folks don’t recognize this, which is why all this PTSD is going to go undiagnosed.”
I’M SO SORRY THIS IS HAPPENING TO YOU. Director James Gunn Throws Tantrum After Pence Announces Space Force Personnel Will Be Called ‘Guardians’: ‘Can We Sue This Dork?’
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Lying Minneapolis Council Members Now Say ‘Defund the Police’ Was Never Their ‘Framework.’
I’m so old, I can remember Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender uttering this in June to a CNN newsreader:
Note the text on the CNN Chyron as well.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children.
The pandemic is seriously damaging many of the left’s key institutions. The right should be taking advantage of that.
IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT THAT TIMES DOESN’T VIEW THROUGH A RACIAL PRISM? NY Times Says Order Of Who Gets Vaccine Should Be Based On Race.
THE EXODUS IS HERE: How Going Soft On Drugs And Crime Has Turned Seattle Into Another American Wasteland.
“WOKE” PUBLIC HEALTH: To Mitigate Racial Inequity, the CDC Wants To Vaccinate Essential Workers Before the Elderly: Vaccinating by age would save many more lives.
Obviously, saving lives isn’t the priority here.
December 19, 2020
LAUNCHING A FAULTY SPACECRAFT AND RELYING ON THE BACKUPS TO MAKE IT RIGHT: NASA to skip repair of Orion electronics unit.
HUMAN GARBAGE: LA DA George Gascon slams victim’s family as they protest sentencing plan.
Los Angeles’ controversial new district attorney told the family of a murder victim they should “keep their mouth shut” — unwittingly, he later said — as they protested his office’s kid-gloves handling of the accused killers.
“It’s unfortunate that some people do not have enough education to keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk,” George Gascon said in a video obtained by FOX 11 Los Angeles.
“My son can never speak again because he was murdered,” shouts a woman identified as the mother of Joshua Rodriguez, who was kidnapped and killed in 2015.
“My son matters!” she screamed as Gascon walked away. “And you’re going to do nothing about it!”
Gascon — who was elected last month promising a sweeping left-wing overhaul of the criminal justice system — was speaking to the press in front of a Pomona courthouse Friday when he was confronted by the family about his intention to drop the punishment sought against Rodriguez’s killers, eliminating the chance they could receive no-parole life sentences.
Why does he hate Hispanic victims and their families? Also, why does he look like a Disney villain?
LOCKDOWN’S LEGACY: U.S. drug overdose deaths reach record highs.
THIS IS SO WEIRD SINCE THEY HAVE NEAR-UNIVERSAL MASKING AND EXTENSIVE LOCKDOWNS: California Hospitals Struggling as Coronavirus Cases Explode.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Are There Anti-Semitic Tropes in Obama’s Memoir?
“If anti-Semitism involves using the label ‘Jew’ to evoke, emphasize or explain an interrelated complex of unattractive attributes, Obama’s description of Sarkozy is unquestionably anti-Semitic,” Ergas contends, before noting that “not one of the gushing reviews” from left-wing papers like the New York Times or the Washington Post, “considered Obama’s statement even worth mentioning.”
He makes a valid point. The political left assumes a moral high ground on diversity, so ready to be offended at words so innocent they have to be dubbed “micro-aggressions” so they can virtue-signal their own “anti-racist” bonafides.
In fairness, Obama’s casual anti-Semitism during his eight years at the White House makes his unflattering depiction of Sarkozy seem trivial by comparison, but imagine if Donald Trump wrote such a thing.
As PJM’s Matt Margolis noted in an article last year: The Democratic Party’s Anti-Semitism Problem Is Obama’s Legacy.
Prior to being elected president of the United States, Obama spent twenty years in the congregation of Jeremiah Wright. Wright’s anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks became a liability for Obama during the 2008 election but didn’t matter enough to the people who voted for him. Obama may have been forced to quit his church and distance himself from Wright, but that didn’t change who Obama was at heart—and it presented itself once he showed up to the White House.
And the Corbynization of the Democratic Party continues apace: Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock defended anti-Semitic pastor Jeremiah Wright.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: The Dalton Gang Shoots Itself.
Here is a link to the original text of the ransom note, which most of the Dalton faculty have signed. As Scott Johnston, who broke the news on his blog, comments:
The demands for additional staffers alone would add millions of dollars to Dalton’s annual budget. Siphoning off 50% of donations would dry up funding. Eliminating AP classes (referred to as “leveled courses”) would destroy college admissions. It’s not an exaggeration to say these demands, if implemented, would destroy Dalton altogether. According to insiders, much damage has already been done.
But if they don’t agree to the demands, what will happen? Don’t get me wrong, the protesters cannot be allowed to succeed. Yet if they don’t, knowing how insane progressives are on these issues, will they choose to destroy the school? After all, if Dalton is as racist as they say, how can they let it continue forming racist graduates to go out into the world and spread Evil?
Insert Kissinger joke on the Iran-Iraq War here.
BRUTAL, FACTUAL HONESTY ABOUT HOMELESSNESS: Discovery Institute Research Fellow Christopher Rufo takes a little more than 12 minutes in a compelling vidumentary to dissect why the homelessness problem keeps getting worse even as officials spend increasing billions of tax dollars on illusory solutions, then points to the actual causes and how to make measurable progress. Genuine compassion begins with facing reality.
SQUAD OWN GOALS: ‘Squad’ Member Calls Perdue And Loeffler The ‘Bonnie And Clyde Of Corruption.’
Rep. Ayanna Pressley told Georgians to vote for Democrats in the special runoff election and blasted Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Pressley, a Massachusetts member of the “Squad” that includes Democratic lawmakers such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut on Friday evening, in which she discussed the Jan. 5 contest.
“Georgia, do your thing. I know we’re asking a lot from Georgia, but do your thing, Georgia. Do what you do. All eyes are on Georgia,” she said.
“Mitch McConnell, Loeffler, Perdue — they are the Bonnie and Clyde of corruption. They are all the same,” she continued. “We need to regain control of the Senate. Georgia, do what you do.”
Does Pressley know that her fellow leftists consider Bonnie and Clyde (thanks in large part to the Warren Beatty movie) to be populist good guys?
INDUSTRY EXPANSION: Wilson Combat Expands Manufacturing, Adds Jobs.
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