DEMOCRATS’ GOVERNANCE PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE: The most dangerous cities in America, ranked. Weirdly, that isn’t discussed in this CBS News feature.
CHINA IS THE DEMOCRATS’ PARTNER: China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC. Like usual for the Democrats’ partners, China is literally forcing people to pick cotton.
AND THAT’S JUST MICHIGAN: A New Warning That International Pandemic Responses Are Eroding Freedom.
THERE MUST BE A LEGAL PHRASE FOR 100% BULLSHIT: As Ed Driscoll first raised here, Democratic Mayor of Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot actually directed her personally-appointed city lawyers to block CBS’ Chicago TV station from airing police body cam footage of them arresting and cuffing the wrong woman.
FFS, how can this woman say she believes “Black Lives Matter” when she tries to suppress footage showing potential police misconduct or incompetence? How can any Democrat say they support her and the idea of BLM? She was rightly laughed out of court. Worth noting:
“This isn’t the first time CPD attempted to shield body camera video from public view. Last year, police denied CBS 2’s FOIA request for video that would show how officers handcuffed 8-year-old Royal Wilson during a bad raid. The department said it would be “unduly burdensome” for police to collect, review and redact 16 hours of video.”
Next time some simpleton tells you all Democrats are good and all conservatives are evil, show them this and ask them to explain it. Then ask them if there should be a federal law denying federal funding to any department who does not release body cam footage to the public within, say 3 or 5 hours.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Which Type of Shotgun Load is Best for Home Defense?
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Chinese Communist Party’s members have infiltrated UK firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants: Report.
Meanwhile, on this side of the pond: NBA Stays Quiet on Chinese Slave Labor.
GIVE SOME TO BIDEN, DISAPPOINT KAMALA: Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. They Stole It Fair And Square.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Colorado’s public school enrollment has dropped by 30,000 students. That could spell financial disaster for districts. “Public schools reported a decrease in the number of students for the first time in 30 years, many of them in early grades.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University of Texas at Austin J-School introduces…The Dan Rather Medal for News & Guts!
No word yet if University of Texas journalism students are also taught courses in typography, font choices, and the history of the teletypewriter.
GOYA’S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Steve Schmidt’s new announcement means he’s AOC’s problem now.
Alt Headline: Lincoln Project member fully endorses party of slavery:
But shouldn’t the Lincoln Project be changing their name to make it official, particularly in light of this announcement? San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because ‘black lives didn’t matter to him.’
Possible alternatives:
● The Woodrow Wilson Project.
● The Franklin D. Roosevelt Project.
● The Robert C. Byrd Project.
Or for real truth in advertising: The Joe Biden Project.
MOVING AT THE SPEED OF GOVERNMENT: The Orion spacecraft is now 15 years old and has flown into space just once.
Congress has pumped $23.7 billion into Orion for that single flight.
On the other hand:
SpaceX is generally considered one of the most efficient space companies. Founded in 2002, the company has received funding from NASA, the Department of Defense, and private investors. Over its history, we can reliably estimate that SpaceX has expended a total of $16 billion to $20 billion on all of its spaceflight endeavors. Consider what that money has bought:
• Development of Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy rockets
• Development of Cargo Dragon, Crew Dragon, and Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft
• Development of Merlin, Kestrel, and Raptor rocket engines
• Build-out of launch sites at Vandenberg (twice), Kwajalein Atoll, Cape Canaveral, and Kennedy Space Center
• 105 successful launches to orbit
• 20 missions to supply International Space Station, two crewed flights
• Development of vertical take off, vertical landing, rapid reuse for first stages
• Starship and Super Heavy rocket development program
• Starlink Internet program (with 955 satellites on orbit, SpaceX is largest satellite operator in the world)To sum up, SpaceX delivered all of that for billions of dollars less than what NASA has spent on the Orion program since its inception.
Impressive.
THAT WAS DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: FLASHBACK: Biden Was Concerned About Manipulated Voting Machines, Called for Paper Ballots.
SECOND AMENDMENT WEBINAR THIS WEDNESDAY AT 1PM EST (BUMPED–Happening Now!): Register here. The Future of the Second Amendment and the Right to Carry In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and again in McDonald v. Chicago (2010), the Supreme Court established the individual right to possess a firearm in the home for self-defense. Since then, the Court has been urged to review whether laws imposing restrictions on carrying guns in public and prohibitions on assault weapons violate the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court had consistently declined to take on cases addressing these issues, leaving the scope of the Second Amendment uncertain. The confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett has raised hopes (and fears) that the Court may be poised to once again address the Second Amendment. To discuss what may lie ahead, the Liberty & Law Center will host a live webinar on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Experts will include Professor Nelson Lund and Assistant Professor Robert Leider from the Antonin Scalia Law School. The discussion will be moderated by Liberty & Law Executive Director, Professor David E. Bernstein.
ANOTHER OBAMA-ERA RERUN: Remember Boko Haram? “Well, they just kidnapped 300 boys.”
WHERE DID THE VACCINE COME FROM, THOUGH? NBC, AFP: Say, why are the wealthiest nations “hoarding” half of COVID-19 vaccine doses?
Hoarding? In the first place, how do you “hoard” what hasn’t even been produced yet? In the second place, the US doesn’t plan to “hoard” anything — they plan to vaccinate the entire population. They’re not buying it to keep it in freezers forever.
But even that is a minor issue in a profoundly dishonest approach by both NBC and AFP. These nations didn’t “snap up” vaccines by elbowing their way into line. The reason these vaccines will exist at all in 2022 is because the wealthier nations pumped billions and billions of dollars into the pharmaceutical companies in order to accelerate their development. The fastest development cycle for a vaccine before this was four years, and that was for mumps in the early 60s.
The nations that did this bought tens and hundreds of millions of doses up front without even knowing whether they would be safe or effective, essentially buying hundreds of millions of pigs in pokes and hoping for the best. They accelerated reviews and approval processes to make R&D less costly for the pharmas, also enhancing their speed to final product. That was the entire purpose of Operation Warp Speed, a multibillion-dollar gamble by Americans in the hope of accelerating the path to an effective vaccine. Other countries, notably the UK and Germany, put similar strategies in place with the same goal. Those efforts are the reason why a vaccine exists at all, and likely why it exists before 2022, too. The nations that took the financial risks of that moonshot should benefit from their investment — especially since it took the form of buying those unknown doses in the first place.
Nowhere in the AFP or NBC reports does this extraordinary program even get a mention. That’s stunningly dishonest, and it’s tough to conclude anything other than these news agencies made the deliberate choice to exclude that information from its readers.
Operation Warp Speed was a triumph. But they don’t want to admit that, because you can’t spell “triumph” without Trump. . .
NOW IT’S COVID CANCEL CHRISTIANS CULTURE: New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell will not abide the presence of Christian performing artist Lauren Daigle in the Dick Clark Productions’ New Years’ Eve show.
THE DISASTER IS ALREADY IN MOTION: ‘We need a disaster plan’ for failing students. “Ruby Rodriguez, 14, is a ninth-grader at a Catholic school in Milwaukee. All classes are remote. ‘She doesn’t know what her classmates look like, because nobody ever turns on their cameras,’ and there’s no student conversation in class, writes Richards. She claims not to know her English teacher’s name. Ruby’s ‘grades have dropped from A’s and B’s to D’s and F’s’.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Social Media Bans Video Of United Airlines Kicking Off Toddler Crying Over Mask.
LEAVING CALIFORNIA: Flight of the Icons. Anti-business policies are driving flagship firms and young residents out of California. Once the ultimate land of youth, the state is now aging faster than the rest of the nation.
Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that he would never start Facebook in today’s California. Yet he seems unconcerned about the fate facing smaller firms. His foundation gave millions to Proposition 15, a measure that would have increased property taxes on businesses and was opposed by most legacy businesses, and particularly by minority-owned firms. In a letter to Zuckerberg, the business owners noted: “Unlike Facebook, restaurants, dry cleaners, nail salons and other small businesses can’t operate right now and many may never open again. The last thing they need is a billionaire pushing higher taxes on them under the false flag of social justice.”
Not to be outdone, New York City has been chasing people out of town by stifling housing and industrial development. Many are crossing the Hudson River to Jersey City, which built seven times more housing per capita as Manhattan last year.
UPDATE: Headline link was incorrect before. Should be working now.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Traditional marriage roles make for much better sex.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Listen to Tom Cruise’s Obsessed Social Distancing Rant.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is the first openly-gay cabinet secretary not the first openly-gay cabinet secretary?
Answer: When he’s Republican Richard Grennell and needs to be shoved aside so Pete Buttigieg can enjoy the media spotlight.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- It’s Cuomo vs Be Blasio for who’s the biggest dictator
- Fox News outdoes CNN on Wuhan Flu scaremongering – you can catch it from the Happy Birthday song
- Biden campaign deputy chief wonders why you Republican “bunch of f-kers” aren’t showing any unity
Bonus: Ayn Rand was right about the Left again.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
ROGER SIMON: Michigan Legislators Blow It Big Time Questioning Dominion CEO.
We live in a complicated time for democracy, to say the least.
As the world becomes increasingly technological, the less knowledge most of our legislators have with which to make their judgements.
In many cases, they are essentially flying blind.
When it comes to understanding the computer-based voting systems dominating our elections this can be perilous indeed.
This was painfully and, I regret to say, tragically in evidence Tuesday when John Poulos, the elusive CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, finally appeared in front of a panel of Michigan Republican state senators to answer questions about the Nov. 3 election.
It was in Michigan’s Antrim County where, because of a supposed computer “glitch,” a forensic audit of Dominion equipment was undertaken last week by Allied Security Operations and its co-founder Russell Ramsland.
Ramsland found the Dominion machines rejected an unheard of 68 percent of the ballots, making them subject to the manual process of “adjudication,” easily subject to fudging.
He deemed the situation a “national security issue.”
Ramsland was not at Tuesday’s hearing, nor were, astonishingly, any information technology professionals at all to ask questions of the Dominion CEO.
The legislators were, as noted above, flying blind—and it sure sounded that way as they read questions fumblingly off cards (from staffers?) and didn’t seem to know how or what to ask in follow-ups.
Given this unprepared performance (I will give my explanation for this later) I reached out to an actual qualified professional—Garland Favorito of VoterGA who has been deeply involved with the situation in Georgia—to see what he thought about the Michigan proceedings (viewable here).
Mr. Favorito took a look and replied via email:
“The opening statement by CEO John Poulos claiming it is technologically impossible for a voting system like Dominion to flip votes in real time has already been proven to be BLATANTLY FALSE by many American computer scientists. I can state categorically based on my career IT experience and 16 years of non-partisan voting system research that any voting system can be programmed in advance to flip votes in real time. Mr. Polous may be able to fool members of a legislature or the media but he cannot fool Election Integrity advocates who are IT professionals.”
So, I ask again, why wasn’t a computer scientist or scientists there at the hearing to interrogate Poulos? This may have been their only chance.
Favorito continued:
“Mr. Poulos further claimed that vote switches have not occurred on Dominion systems. It is fact that hand count audits proved Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 voting systems swapped votes from President Trump to former Vice President Biden in both Michigan and Georgia. We don’t know what component of the system caused this to occur in Georgia because the Secretary of State [Raffensperger] is blocking forensic system exams in multiple counties. However, we now do know that for the 2020 Presidential election to be considered legitimate, properly conducted hand count audits must be completed by any counties running the Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 system.”
Now I will respond to the question I just raised as to why this crucial hearing was conducted in such a perfunctory manner.
Earlier William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection on Where things stand at this hour.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Hunter Biden Appears To Have Known About Investigation Into Business Dealings Long Before He Claimed.
“One of the FBI documents from the laptop published by the Post ‘included a case number that had the code associated with an ongoing federal money laundering investigation in Delaware, according to several law enforcement officials who reviewed the document. Another document — one with a grand jury subpoena number — appeared to show the initials of two assistant U.S. attorneys linked to the Wilmington, Delaware, office.’ Hunter Biden claims he only learned of the investigation this past week, but these documents suggest otherwise,” Hemingway wrote.
As The Daily Beast reported late last week, much of what is now being reported about Hunter’s scandals began with the New York Post’s report that was suppressed by social media companies ahead of the 2020 election.
Yes, but the election is over now, and there’s a much more reliable hardcore progressive — Kamala Harris — waiting in the wings.
A REPUBLICAN NEVERTRUMP POSTMORTEM: How history will view these self-proclaimed conservatives and protectors of principle.
Most important, this bipartisan guild believes in the “rules-based international order,” the congeries of multinational institutions whose rules and regulations should limit and hinder our own national sovereignty, which feeds a dangerous “nationalism” sure to mutate into fascism. And they endorse the narrative of “moralizing internationalism,” the century-old, dubious belief that all peoples across the planet want to be Westerners and enjoy our goods like prosperity, peace, human rights, religious tolerance, sex equality, free speech, and all the other cargo of the Western way.
These are the stale ideas that created the “endless wars” in the Middle East that Trump decried and began to end, even as he brokered normalization of relations between Israel and several Muslim states. And he did it by ignoring one of the foreign policy guild’s most cherished narratives: only a Palestinian Arab state, created at Israel’s expense and a threat to her security, could resolve that long bloody crisis––another reason for the RNT, foreign policy and national security division, to hate the president so intensely.
Of course, Trump’s seeming failure to get reelected has no doubt excited the RNT. Now Joe Biden, if elected by the Electoral College, will be running the government according to the decrepit protocols of the traditional postwar ruling class. That Biden will have won likely with the help of widespread electoral fraud won’t matter, any more than the degradation of journalistic professional standards, or the debasement of the FBI and DOJ, bothered the RNT. Their anger, bitterness, and outrage will be assuaged, and they can return to being the Dem’s “good” Republicans, the ones who will sacrifice conservative interests and principles to progressive ones.
If you think that’s an exaggeration, consider this tweet from Steve Schmidt to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the radical New York Congressman. Schmidt is a high-profile RNT who heads the RNT Lincoln Project. Seeking a partnership with AOC to delegitimize the “other side,” Trump supporters smeared as “white supremacists,” Schmidt tweeted, as reported in PJ Media:
“I have an idea. Let’s approach each other and our points of view with good faith. We say the following with respect and seriousness Ma’am. Our hand is open and we need to work together or we are going to lose America,” Schmidt wrote. “We will not yield and we will never break. We are the side opposed to autocracy.”
Schmidt described Never Trumpers and AOC as “the left and right flanks of a broad coalition. Should we buckle, they will win. We must not. We are together. We pledge to listen. We pledge to learn. We pledge to be open to your ideas and we pledge to compromise. We have no such offer for the other side.”
And Schmidt takes his “togetherness” with the Democrats pretty seriously!
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “So, by my reckoning if Joe Biden took the Pfizer vaccine today, and the second dose on schedule, he would be close to full immunity by Inauguration Day. I would think there would be bipartisan support for him to do this (for different reasons), and the only reason not to do is pandering to populists. I think he should do it today, and do it on TV with his winning smile. A great opportunity to send the right public health message and to ensure he doesn’t begin his presidency with the Commie virus coursing through his nervous system.”
Anything to delay a Kamala Harris presidency.
And you should be focused on the Georgia Senate runoff, as keeping the Senate in GOP hands will make things much harder for Biden in this area.
THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS: Top business school profs say student loan forgiveness, is a ‘highly regressive policy.’ “Full cancellation would distribute $192 bn to the top 20% of earners, and only $29 bn to the bottom 20%.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Americans Revolt Against Life in COVID-19 East Berlin. “As I write this, my hometown is under curfew from 10 PM to 5 AM. There is no logic or science to back this up as being in any way effective to combat the ‘rona, but many ‘Listen to scientists’ Democrats are fond of the curfews.”
WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS: The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle: Progressives are all too happy for Americans of more modest means to subsidize relatively high-income Democratic households.
Related: Top 20% Gets 6x More Benefits from Student Debt Cancellation than Bottom 20%, New Study Finds.
SURE, THEY COULD, BUT WOULD THEY GIVE UP ALL THAT REVENUE HE GENERATES? Could Twitter Ban Trump Once He’s a Private Citizen?
JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:
Threading through this predictable scrum, every day: a retweeted word of warning from somehow pleading everyone to stay home, because they got COVID despite doing everything right. Masks, distancing, sanitizing, everything – and they still got it. This is held up as a possibility so dire it becomes the default assumption under which everyone else should live.
If you go to a restaurant, you deserve what you get.
But if you just go out, and do everything right, and you get it, do you deserve it?
No! Because they weren’t going to a restaurant! But they did leave the house. Or they did let someone into their house. They should have known better. So they’re slightly deserving, right?
No.
What if no one’s guilty? What if no one deserves it? I don’t blame anyone, except China. If you’re hoping someone gets it and drawing up fantasy rules whereby they’re forbidden medical treatment, there’s something askew with you. There always was. This just brought it out.
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It’s fun to make up lists.
Some people just love lists.
Read the whole thing.
(Incidentally, if you’re curious about your own potential place in the line, the Gray Lady has you covered: Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line.)
KISS KISS FANG FANG: House Republicans Call For Eric Swalwell’s Removal From Intelligence Committee Over Relations With Chinese Spy.
“HPSCI handles some of the most sensitive information our government possesses, information critical to our national defense. As such, we urge you to immediately remove Rep. Swalwell from his position on the House Intelligence Committee,” it continues.
Citing Pelosi’s willingness to call for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ resignation and a broader commission to “investigate his ties to Russia” following a series of meetings between him and a Russian ambassador, the letter calls out Democrats’ hypocrisy in pursuing issues related to national security.
“By your own standards, Congressman Swalwell is unfit to serve on the Intelligence Committee,” the letter states.
Democrats enjoy a different set of standards, if you could call them standards.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP: Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Is About to Change the Game for Americans.
DAMMIT, WHO TYPED A QUESTION MARK ON THE TELEPROMPTER? HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU? ANYTHING YOU TYPE, RON BURGUNDY WILL READ! Hot Mic: Ontario top doc caught saying health information she delivers is ‘whatever they write down for me.’
CYBERSECURITY: Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems.
At the core of the AIR-FI technique is the fact that any electronic component generates electromagnetic waves as electric current passes through.
Since Wi-Fi signals are radio waves and radio is basically electromagnetic waves, Guri argues that malicious code planted on an air-gapped system by attackers could manipulate the electrical current inside the RAM card in order to generate electromagnetic waves with the frequency consistent with the normal Wi-Fi signal spectrum (2,400 GHz).
In his research paper, titled “AIR-FI: Generating Covert WiFi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers,” Guri shows that perfectly timed read-write operations to a computer’s RAM card can make the card’s memory bus emit electromagnetic waves consistent with a weak Wi-Fi signal.
This signal can then be picked up by anything with a Wi-Fi antenna in the proximity of an air-gapped system, such as smartphones, laptops, IoT devices, smartwatches, and more.
It looks like you’d need a friendly within feet of the corrupted system, or a dupe carrying a smartphone, laptop, etc, that had also been corrupted.
Still, a fascinating hack.
HOW IT STARTED: Framed and Guilty. The last word on Trump and Russia.
How it’s going: The 2020 election and groyper osmosis.
THIS IS NOT INDICATIVE OF A CANDIDATE WHO GOT 80 MILLION VOTES: Looks Like Sleepy Joe Only Had 52K Live Stream Viewers for His Boring Speech.
GOOD: Tech Giants Risk Breakup Under Strict EU Digital Rules.
U.S. and other major tech platforms that treat their own services more favorably, at the expense of rivals, could be forced to sell businesses and pay billion-dollar fines under strict rules unveiled by the European Union.
Under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act, companies deemed to be so-called “gatekeepers” won’t be allowed to rank their offerings above rivals on their own platforms, or use competitors’ data to compete with them, according to the proposed regulation released on Tuesday.
Companies like Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc. or Alphabet Inc.’s Google could face fines of as much as 10% of their revenue if they don’t comply, while a company that has repeatedly breached the rules could face orders to divest businesses, confirming a Bloomberg report on Monday. Gatekeepers will also need to inform regulators about smaller acquisitions that would otherwise fall below traditional merger-review thresholds.
The U.S. needs to do more on the antitrust front too.
I DOUBT CASES WILL BE BELOW LAST SUMMER’S: Five Jurisdictions With COVID-19-Related Diploma Privilege Are Shifting Back To Bar Exams In February.
AND BY FRAUDING THEIR WAY INTO POWER IN THE US, THE GLOBAL LEFT IS ABOUT TO PUT AN END TO ALL THEIR BELOVED CLIMATE PLAY ACTING. AS THIS GUY HAS FIGURED OUT, AND IN MORE HOMEY LANGUAGE, ALREADY “AIN’T NOBODY GOT ENOUGH MONEY FOR THAT.” IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GLOBAL LEFT PUTS A SABOT IN THE ECONOMIC ENGINE OF THE WORLD: Former environment senator Fritz Vahrenholt: “We are threatened by a dramatic loss of prosperity”.
Lately this has been running through my mind at odd moments, and it seems to fit here: The heathen are sunke downe in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid, is their own foot taken.
You want to take America, because it kept showing up how ridiculous your policies were? Fine and dandy, but you’ll fall first. And harder.
BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE! BUT IT’S OKAY, AS THE DEMS TAKE CONTROL, THE CROSSINGS WILL START GOING THE OTHER WAY: Border Official Warns of ‘Full-Blown Crisis’ as Illegal Crossings Into U.S. Rise Dramatically.
END TEACHERS’ UNIONS. END THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. GIVE LOCAL AREAS CONTROL OF SCHOOLS. WHAT’S THE WORST THEY CAN DO? HOW CAN THEY BE WORSE THAN OUR INFERNAL SYSTEM? Chicago Schools Hiring People to Supervise Kids in Class While Teachers Work Remotely.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT TRUMP. IN A WAY IT WAS NEVER ABOUT TRUMP, THOUGH HE TURNED OUT WAY BETTER THAN I EXPECTED. THIS IS ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE WORLD IS NOT A TECHNOCRACY TO BE USED AND ABUSED BY WOULD-BE TECH LORDS WITH THE MINDS AND MORALS OF CRACK WHORES: The Road to Hell.
Ultimately this is about “we the people.” And removing our ballot box and thinking this makes the self-proclaimed elites safe is like removing fire alarms from a house and thinking it will never burn down.
YES, WELL, YOU KNOW EVERY STATE THAT GOES ALL VOTE BY MAIL (EXCEPT UTAH, PROBABLY DUE TO ITS UNIQUE CULTURE) GOES LEFT. IT MUST BE JUST A COINCIDENCE! Texas AG Paxton: “We Have to Fight” Mail-in Ballots “or We Lose Credible Elections Forever”.
MEANWHILE, I’D LIKE TO WARN THAT THERE TURTLE THAT WE’LL REMEMBER THIS: Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Warns Republican Senators Not To Challenge 2020 Election Results.
I know his Chinese and dem friends tell him they have it all sewn up. Only a fool would believe those fools.
HE’S NOBODY’S PRESIDENT. HE’S A FRAUDULENT: An angry, coughing Joe Biden wants you to know he’s a ‘legitimate’ president, winning his election ‘free and fair’.
ARE THEY FINALLY GOING TO GET NANCY HER RABIES TAGS? GOP Rep. Davis Calls on Pelosi to Vaccinate, Reopen Congress.
SURE, BUT WE’RE BEING HERDED INTO ‘INEVITABILITY’: Election Outcome Unclear Amid Legal Challenges.
HIS GAME IS VERY SIMPLE. SINCE THE SYSTEM IS GOING TO LET THE DEMS GET AWAY WITH IN YOUR FACE FRAUD NATIONALLY, HE KNOWS THE FIX IS IN, AND HE’S LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE: What’s Raffensperger’s game in Georgia?
OH, WHY NOT. FRANCIS IS LETTING WINNIE-THE- XI DO IT. (AND YES, THE POPE HAS LOST HIS MIND, TOO): Biden Will Define What It Is To Be a ‘Good Catholic’.
DEMOCRATS HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS: Jon Ossoff: ICE Should Verify Illegal Wages.
AMERICA’S HAT HAS LOST ITS MIND: New Canada Tourism Ad Urges People to Visit Canada to Enjoy Its… Stultifying Social Justice Warrioring.
December 15, 2020
A MESSAGE FROM A FORMER STUDENT:
I was appointed to three DUI cases involving the same arresting officer earlier this year and noticed several alarming patterns. The officer tended to move the defendants just off camera for the allegedly damning bits and he tended to provoke the defendants into blind rages by the time they were arrested, which got them to refuse a blood draw. Anyways, I got together with some local attorneys and they checked their videos and saw the same issues. The local bar decided to fight all his stops. We lost the first two, but put the judge and the DA on notice about these patterns and we won the next four in a row. Last week, my remaining cases with this officer were all quietly dismissed. So were all his cases. I’ve been asking with attorneys in surrounding counties who are now noticing the same issues and setting all his cases for trial. Looks like we may have successfully blackballed him.
I’m counting that my good deed for the year.
Notwithstanding the jokes, lawyers do a lot of good. I mean, it’s not as if the police will police the police.
SPEAKEASY OF SECRETS: Forgotten tales of debauchery from NYC’s ‘21’ Club. “The Post reported that the restaurant, New York’s last remaining eatery that once served as a Prohibition-era speakeasy, is closed indefinitely and may shut down for good in March. ‘I find it incredibly tragic,’ McInerney said, acknowledging that the real sadness is for suddenly unemployed workers there. ‘It is a loss to New York. There is so much history ensconced in that place.’”
GOYA’S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: New Yorkers Still Angry With AOC Over Amazon Loss.
PAGING DR. FREUD. PAGING DR. FREUD:
WHEN DOES THE ANGRY MOB BURN DOWN GRACIE MANSION? NYC could face ‘full shutdown’ beyond indoor dining, de Blasio warns.
On the upside, he doesn’t appear to be enjoying himself.
CHICAGO CITY ATTORNEYS ATTEMPT TO BLOCK LOCAL CBS AFFILIATE FROM AIRING BODYCAM FOOTAGE OF POLICE RAID ON WRONG HOME. ‘You Have the Wrong Place:’ Body Camera Video Shows Moments Police Handcuff Innocent, Naked Woman During Wrong Raid.
Last year, Anjanette Young filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the video to show the public what happened to her that day. CBS 2 also filed a request for the video. But the Chicago Police Department denied the requests.
Young recently obtained the footage after a court forced CPD to turn it over as part of her lawsuit against police.
“I feel like they didn’t want us to have this video because they knew how bad it was,” Young said. “They knew they had done something wrong. They knew that the way they treated me was not right.”
Hours before the TV version of this report broadcast, the city’s lawyers attempted to stop CBS 2 from airing the video by filing an emergency motion in federal court.
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CBS 2 quickly found, through police and court records, the informant gave police the wrong address. The 23-year-old suspect police were looking for actually lived in the unit next door to Young at the time of the raid and had no connection to her. CBS 2 also found police could have easily tracked the suspect’s location and where he really lived because at the time of the raid, he was wearing an electronic monitoring device.
Twitchy notes that “If Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot were a Republican, every Dem in America would be calling for her resignation right now.” Particularly given that as ZeroHedge spotted in June, “As BLM Protests Raged, Chicago Saw Highest Black-On-Black Murder Rate In 60 Years.” Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, to understand why Mayor Corona Destroyer will likely have no pushback from old media.
Chicago’s last Republican mayor left office in 1931.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: If You Are Looking for Reasons to Be Happy, You’ll Probably Find Them. And vice versa.
WILLIAM JACOBSON: Where things stand at this hour.
2020 MORPHED INTO YEAR ZERO SO QUICKLY, EVERYBODY NOTICED:
● Shot: For Obama, Lincoln was model president.
—CNN.com, January 17th, 2009.
● Chaser: San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because ‘black lives didn’t matter to him.’
—The Post Millennial, today.
GOOD: Right to Get Guns Back Once Temporary Anti-Stalking Injunction Is Dismissed. “We certainly would not fault a trial judge’s desire to ensure public safety. But judicial concern, understandable as it may be, does not confer judicial power.”
I WAS MORE SYMPATHETIC TO THIS TAKE PRIOR TO THIS SUMMER’S ENDLESS RIOTS. New Study: Militarizing the Police Doesn’t Reduce Crime.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Rick Scott: Biden Appointees Are Weak on China.
THE FIRST RULE OF GUNFIGHTS: BRING A GUN. Why the Most Important Part of Being Armed is Being Armed.
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