KINDA PROVING THE POINT: Smith College alumni demand ‘further training’ for white staffer who decried anti-white work environment.
OLD AND BUSTED: 15 Days to Slow the Spread.
The New Hotness? Joe Biden says he’ll ask Americans to wear masks for 100 days.
Flashback: Four Pinocchios for Trump’s claim that he has ‘total authority’ over the states.
—The Washington Post, April 14th.
I GUESS THIS TELLS US WHO’S IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT:
Kamala on the inside. pic.twitter.com/JQMoz28O37
— Doc (@DocteurNaunie) December 4, 2020
BLUE ON BLUE: Tulsi Gabbard Lets Joe Biden Have It For Choosing Neera Tanden For OMB.
Gabbard shared a screenshot of an old email, allegedly sent by Tanden, in which she appeared to support the idea of confiscating oil from countries in which the United States had participated in nation building. (RELATED: Tulsi Gabbard Bucks Party, Supports SCOTUS Decision That Reined In Andrew Cuomo)
“Neera Tanden thinks the way to reduce our deficit is to steal oil from countries like Libya to pay us back for bombing them, toppling their government, and turning them into a failed state. @JoeBiden Is this really the person you want in charge of managing our budget?” she asked.
Previously: ‘Don’t back down’: Tulsi Gabbard tells Trump he has her full support in terminating Section 230.
A PANDEMIC-INSPIRED BABY BUST? Experts are predicting ghost-town maternity wards for at least the next year, thanks to the Pandemic. But Breakpoint’s John Stonestreet and Shane Morris say hold on, there’s more to it than Covid.
HIGHER EDUCATION HAS CHOSEN SIDES: Double standard? University president fawns over Kamala Harris, while others reject Amy Coney Barrett.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ critics show they still despise ‘deplorables.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Taking Bets on the Jill Biden/Kamala Harris 2021 Hate Match. “Let us be clear about one thing: Joe Biden isn’t going to be president, even if he’s inaugurated.”
ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR TRUMP’S DIPLOMACY: ‘Embodiment of Peace’: First Israeli Commercial Flight Lands in Dubai. You know Trump’s foreign policy has been a huge success because the press never talks about it.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Pro-Biden effort offered Native Americans $25-$500 Visa gift cards and jewelry to vote.
THIS MAKES SENSE TO ME:
Calls to boycott the Georgia runoff are idiotic, if they aren’t actually coming from Democratic or Chinese sockpuppets.
UPDATE: Just got this email:
So there you have it.
MICHAEL MOORE TO MAGA FANS: ‘A Lot of You Are Going to Die’ From COVID.
Woke leftists will always make stupid statements (like how David Letterman claimed the press “educates” and “informs” people). It’s a fact of life. One can only hope that they are too dumb to understand what they are actually saying, or merely indulging in sarcasm.
Hopefully that’s the case for documentary filmmaker and Donald Trump hater Michael Moore, who wrote a lengthy post on his Facebook account addressed to “MAGA Nation.” In a tone that was dripping with condescension disguised as magnanimity, Moore made a plea to Trump supporters: “Don’t Die. Your love of and loyalty to Trump isn’t worth your life. With 73 million of you refusing to wear a mask and to social distance, there’ll be no way to eradicate this disease. And a lot of you are going to die in the next three months. Why do you want to infect your spouse, your parents and grandparents, your children?”
It is astounding that Moore assumes that every single one of Trump’s 73 million voters this year take zero steps to prevent the spread of COVID and that the virus only affects the red parts of the country. Maybe he should be lecturing the other side of the aisle with advice to wear a mask and social distance because leading Democrats don’t. Anyway, most COVID catchers will not die of it, as Alyssa Milano – and, well, science – can testify.
Moore continued: “If al-Qaeda started killing one American every 37 seconds, what would you want to do about that? Why are you doing NOTHING to stop this slaughter?”
If al-Qaeda resumed killing Americans at an alarming rate, Trump voters wouldn’t refer to them as the new Minutemen, as Moore did in 2004.
PRIVACY: CBP’s warrantless use of cell phone location data is under investigation.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of DHS, “has paid a government contractor named Venntel nearly half a million dollars for access to a commercial database containing location data mined from applications on millions of Americans’ mobile phones,” five Democratic US senators said in October.
“CBP is not above the law and it should not be able to buy its way around the Fourth Amendment,” the senators told Inspector General Joseph Cuffari while requesting an investigation into “CBP’s warrantless use of commercial databases containing Americans’ information, including but not limited to Venntel’s location database.”
Cuffari granted the request for an investigation, telling the senators that his office will “initiate an audit that we believe will address your concerns” in a letter sent November 25 and made public by the Democratic senators yesterday. The senators who requested the investigation are Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
It’s a motley crew, but Wyden is at least solid on digital privacy issues.
JIM TREACHER: AOC Sells ‘Tax the Rich’ Sweatshirts for the Low Low Price of $58.
I’m not rich enough to be able to afford a $60 shirt just to try to impress people who aren’t worth trying to impress. But I also don’t want to take stuff I haven’t earned from the people who’ve earned it. I’m one of those guys. AOC is never going to make a shirt for jerks like me, because nobody ever became powerful by leaving people alone.
Never let it be said that this isn’t the land of opportunity, though. Less than three years ago, all you could buy from AOC was an overpriced mixed drink. Now she’s got her own clothing line, just for winning an election and saying a bunch of nonsense that liberals want to hear.
As Treacher writes, “Using capitalism to sell anti-capitalism. God bless America!”
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Longtime Gavin Newsom aide Nathan Ballard charged with felony domestic violence.
SPOILER: IT’S ACTUALLY WORSE THAN THIS ACCOUNT. What it’s like in one of China’s detention camps in Xinjiang.
Then there are the forced 24-hour sessions filling out mail-in ballots . . .
UPDATE: From the comments: “Remember, this is what the left has in mind for us. And also remember that big tech has helped China in this.”
I LEARNED TO CODE BUT GOT PRICED OUT OF A NEW JOB, ANYWAY: Justice Department sues Facebook for alleged discrimination against US workers “The lawsuit suggests that Facebook, over a roughly two-year time span, knowingly favored H1-B and other temporary visa holders over US-based job applicants for more than 2,600 positions.”
TO BE FAIR, HALF THE TIME JOE BIDEN DOESN’T REALIZE THAT HE WASN’T JUST ELECTED TO THE SENATE: Joe Biden still doesn’t realize what the voters that Democrats have lost actually want.
I HOPE THESE AREN’T CORRECT. THE LEFT PROJECTS NUMBERS IT DOESN’T HAVE. OTHERWISE GETTING WOKE WOULDN’T MAKE YOU BROKE: In Accordance With the Prophecies…
IF THESE WOULD-BE-OLIGARCHS ACTUALLY BELIEVED THE VIRUS WAS DANGEROUS, THEY’D GO AROUND IN GIANT BUBBLE SUITS. IT’S A SCAM, AND YOU’VE BEEN TAKEN: Democrats’ Constant Violation of Their Own Lockdown Orders Becomes So Obnoxious That Even CNN Is Forced to Report On It.
But hey, it’s served to kill most of the world economies, and now they get to impose all sorts of crazy, arbitrary stuff on us because “there are people in need, you monster.”
You think I’m joking do you? Just you wait.
REALLY? SO THEY BELIEVE IN IT SO MUCH THEY’RE GOING TO STOP CHINA? NO? THEN IT’S ALL VIRTUE SIGNALING ALL THE WAY DOWN. STUPID AT THAT: We’re Saved! New Zealand just Declared a Climate Emergency.
AND IN CASE YOU DIDN’T REALIZE IT, THESE PEOPLE ARE SO IGNORANT THEY DON’T REALIZE THAT RENEWABLE ENERGY SIMPLY CAN’T COMPETE. (EXCEPT FOR HYDROELECTRIC, AND THEY HATE THAT): CNN: “most countries are still choosing fossil fuels over clean energy”.
YEAH. WE’LL PROBABLY LOSE IT TO FRAUD ANYWAY, BUT HELPING THEM BY NOT VOTING AT ALL IS CUTTING OFF OUR NOSES TO SPITE OUR FACES: Don’t Risk Losing the Senate as a Last Stand.
AGAIN, I ASK YOU, WHO GIVES THEM THE RIGHT TO PLAY KEEP AWAY WITH INFORMATION? Yes, CNN Did Bury The Hunter Biden Story.
AND THEN they had the unmitigated nerve to complain Trump called them enemies of the people! He was wrong too, they’re enemies of humanity, of civilization and of the truth.
OH, YOUTUBE IS THROTTLING DOWN THE HIT COUNT — DUH, LET’S PROVE THERE’S NO ELECTRONIC MANIPULATION OF RESULTS, BY MANIPULATING ELECTRONIC COUNTS! THE LEFT HAS PROBLEMS. MENTAL — BUT IF YOU HAVEN’T LISTENED, GO AND DO SO: The Most Important Speech Trump Has Ever Given.
Oh, and under “we on the left are completely honest and above board” anyone else wondering why the president of the United States couldn’t have this speech broadcast by every news station?
Oh. They don’t think he’s telling the truth? They don’t think we should hear this?
WHO elected them? Who gave them permission to control our information stream? Who made them the bosses of our minds?
THERE’S A FALLACY HERE. IF WE WERE THAT DIVIDED, THE LEFT WOULDN’T NEED TO CHEAT. THEY CHEAT BECAUSE THERE AREN’T THAT MANY OF THEM, REALLY. AND I SUSPECT FEWER EVERY MONTH WITH THIS NONSENSE: Donald Trump and the Avignon Presidency.
ABSOLUTELY: Enough Already: ‘Governor, May I?’ Must End.
IF IT WERE ONLY BIDEN’S NIGHTMARE I WOULDN’T MIND. BUT OURS WILL BE WORSE: If the Elections are Stolen, the Biden Nightmare Begins.
WHERE WE ARE: The Eye Of The Storm.
IN THE MAIL: From Michael Walsh, Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost.
December 3, 2020
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ critics show they still despise ‘deplorables.’
THIS WILL GET LESS CNN COVERAGE THAN IF HE WERE THE ASSISTANT TO A REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR IN ARKANSAS: Adviser to Gov. Newsom and prominent founder of Democratic PR firm charged with domestic violence, child abuse.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Delusional Never Trump Losers Think We’re Going to Take Them Back.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Trump Attorneys Produce Video Alleging Georgia Ballots Were Hidden in Suitcases.
SCHOOLS CLOSED, MINORITIES HARDEST HIT: Seriously. In my county, Arlington, schools closed in March and the geniuses in the public school administration told the teachers not to do online instruction, and not to teach anything new (lest there be some kid, somewhere, who couldn’t log in despite free county-provided Ipads and Internet, because that would be inequitable). Below is a chart showing how kids did on the test they give at the beginning of each school year. As you will notice, black and Hispanic kids have been really hurt, white and Asian kids not so much. I suspect you would see similar, maybe even more inequitable results if you just went by income status. Yet, oddly (not really), it’s the progressives in the county who have been shouting “equity, equity, equity” from the rooftops for the last several years and their allies among the teachers who have been most vociferously lobbying to keep the schools closed.
The gray line is Fall 2020, the lines before are 2019 and ’18, respectively.
THERE’S AN INTERESTING ANTI-BIG-TECH COALITION COMING TOGETHER: ‘Don’t back down’: Tulsi Gabbard tells Trump he has her full support in terminating Section 230.
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Exclusive: Oregon Gave Antifa Your CARES Act COVID Relief Tax Dollars During the Riots. Wait, It Gets Worse.
PARTY OF HATE: Rashida Tlaib’s all-too-telling anti-Israel tweet.
HANNAH COX: How The Government Broke Higher Education.
DISPATCHES FROM THE NORTH MINEHEAD BY-ELECTION: Politician named Adolf Hitler wins election in Namibia.
(Classical reference in headline.)
WHO’S READY FOR PRESIDENT JOE BREZHNEV? Biden’s Brezhnev vibes.
At least nobody in the Soviet Union voted for Brezhnev — the elections were a sham with Communist party candidates running unopposed. Everything was a sham, actually. In his mumbling, robotic tones, the general secretary delivered long-winded, heavy on Marxist cliches and utterly incomprehensible televised speeches. The economy flattered, dissidents were subjected to psychiatric torture, corruption proliferated, and the rate of substance abuse skyrocketed. That period of Soviet history is known as zastoi, or stagnation. It only made sense that the man on top was some sort of sclerotic.
Like Brezhnev, Biden’s rhetoric is ridden with clichés, but of a different, folksy kind. At the time when political slogans are catchy and provocative — Make America Great Again, Black Lives Matter — Biden’s yard signs read ‘Our best days are still ahead’, and ‘Build back better’. His Twitter account is full of platitudes like ‘This is our moment — ours together — to write a newer, bolder, more compassionate chapter in the life of our nation.’ He’s just a boring ordinary guy — until he lashes out at a voter, or bites on his wife’s finger.
Is Biden the candidate of American stagnation? His cognitive and physical decline is increasingly difficult to hide and it’s highly disturbing to witness it become a subject of speculation. I’ve lived through it before and it gives me the creeps. Free citizens of a free republic shouldn’t need a Kremlinologist to decipher what’s wrong with their president.
Read the whole thing. Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives getting a head start on their four year nap, and the need to study Biden like a Kremlinologist makes perfect sense.
A HAPPY ENDING FOR ROBERT KRAFT: Florida Masseuse Ordered to Pay $31,573 After ‘Soliciting’ Robert Kraft To ‘Commit Prostitution.’ Charges against Kraft were (rightfully) dismissed. The women he patronized now have criminal records.
MORE EVIDENCE THAT THIS IS A SIMULATION? Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled ‘asteroids’ arcade game.
QUESTION ASKED: Did Brexit lead to the UK’s vaccine success?
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Possible Biden Cabinet Pick Rashida Tlaib Shares Tweet Calling To Eradicate Israel.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH MATTHEW YGLESIAS IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Matt Yglesias takes radical lefty heat for criticizing #DefundThePolice as ‘a bad idea,’ but to his credit, he doesn’t back down.
I’VE GIVEN UP ON GOVERNMENT MAKING RATIONAL DECISIONS: Long-Term-Care Residents and Health Workers Should Get Vaccine First, C.D.C. Panel Says. Comment from my friend Kate Litvak:
This is unbelievably stupid. What is the point of prioritizing nursing home residents? They are stationary. They aren’t going anywhere. We should not spend vaccines on them, but instead, we should create safe bubbles around them by prioritizing the people with whom they have contact. That means all workers of nursing homes (not just medical workers). These workers are not only bringing disease into nursing homes, but after work, get on public transit to go home and spread the disease through the community.
We should prioritize people who have the highest number of (necessary) interactions with others — health workers, transportation, supermarket, police, workers of meat processing plants, etc.
And among the first should be TEACHERS!! This will destroy the excuse that the teachers’ unions use to justify not working while getting paid in full. Once we vaccinate all the teachers, we must open the schools. Teachers who will then refuse to show up should be fired for cause. Kids aren’t much at risk and are in low probability to spread the virus. Families who don’t want their kids to attend live classes can continue online, but that will be their choice — not the choice of the teachers’ unions.
When the kids are out at schools, we preserve their education and sanity, and also preserve the ability of their parents to actually work and get the economy back on track.
But instead, we are giving the vaccine to nursing home residents. Who are stationary, can be effectively isolated, and have little impact on the economy, education of kids, and our sane future. Sheer idiocy.
UPDATE: I’ve received some feedback that nursing home residents should be vaccinated early so they can receive visitors after months of isolation from their families. But do we think that the homes are going to let visitors in unless and until those visitors are also vaccinated? The vaccines are 90-94% effective, so given the liability issues involved, the odds that they would allow unvaccinated visitors to see vaccinated residents when a month or two or three later the visitors will also be vaccinated seem low to me. Not to mention that if staff aren’t vaccinated, the visitors could infect the staff.
UPDATE: The CDC has published the underlying report that their panel approved. The report suggests that “health care personnel” is defined very broadly, which means that nursing home staff will be vaccinated–which raises the question as why residents also need to be vaccinated quickly. A dissenting panelist raised an additional objection: Nursing home residents tend to be elderly and unhealthy, and generally safe vaccines might not be safe for that population, and we have no data on that. It’s also not clear to me why pharmacy staff are more of a priority than any other retail worker, unless they work in a medical facility.From the report:
Approximately 21 million U.S. health care personnel work in settings such as hospitals, LTCFs, outpatient clinics, home health care, public health clinical services, emergency medical services, and pharmacies. Health care personnel comprise clinical staff members, including nursing or medical assistants and support staff members (e.g., those who work in food, environmental, and administrative services) (8). Jurisdictions might consider first offering vaccine to health care personnel whose duties require proximity (within 6 feet) to other persons. If vaccine supply remains constrained, additional factors might be considered for subprioritization.*** Public health authorities and health care systems should work together to ensure COVID-19 vaccine access to health care personnel who are not affiliated with hospitals.
Approximately 3 million adults reside in LTCFs, which include skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. Depending upon the number of initial vaccine doses available, jurisdictions might consider first offering vaccination to residents and health care personnel in skilled nursing facilities because of high medical acuity and COVID-19–associated mortality (6) among residents in these settings.
CHANGE: Tamara Keel: The Handgun Red-Dot Revolution. “The ‘target focus’ allowed by the MRDS doesn’t constrain your field-of-vision the way a hard front-sight focus does. In a competition setting, this means that you can keep an entire target array in view. . . . We’re in a day and age where the possibility of a lone concealed carrier finding themselves faced by multiple threats is not a far-fetched hypothetical. In a situation where the defender is outnumbered by aggressive, mobile assailants, anything that allows them to keep their head up and their awareness spread across as wide an area as possible would be a big help.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Trump Legal Team: We Have ‘So Much Evidence’ of Fraud in Nevada ‘We Had to Rent a Separate Car.’
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” COLLECTS DIVIDENDS: Democratic socialist AOC gets destroyed for selling $58 ‘Tax The Rich’ shirts.
I keep waiting for actual evidence that restaurants and bars are a major source of infection. We’ve been contact-tracing for nine months. Either that’s been a total waste of time and money, or we should know the answer by now.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Austin Mayor Steve Adler Takes Democrat COVID Privilege Up a Notch.
THE REAL SYSTEMIC RACISM: Set-Asides Are Unconstitutional. Andrew Cuomo (among many other leaders) makes race the basis for dispensing money and opportunities to entrepreneurs and small businesses.
ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE FIASCO IN NEW YORK: New York’s Homeless Crucible. Bill de Blasio has doubled spending on the homeless, put a progressive activist in charge of policy, and created the largest affordable housing program in city history. And the problem has just gotten worse.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW — EVEN IF SHE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE 20TH: Baby born from 27-year-old embryo believed to have broken record set by her big sister.
Plus: “Gibson became pregnant with both Emma and Molly with the help of the National Embryo Donation Center, a faith-based nonprofit in Knoxville that stores frozen embryos in vitro fertilization patients have decided not to use. Families can adopt those unused embryos, which are then transferred to an adoptive parent’s uterus.” I’ve driven by that place many times — it’s out in Farragut — and wondered vaguely if it was real. Apparently so!
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Walter E. Williams, RIP.
IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE REASONS: Biden-Harris Campaign’s Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracy Theory’s Sad Epilogue: 3 Former Presidents Step Up for COVID Vaccine.
AS CASES RISE, A REMINDER: Most Americans have been wearing masks since spring, the C.D.C. says. But while masks aren’t worthless, the cloth “face coverings” that you see so often basically are. Surgical masks provide a modest amount of protection, at best, for the wearer and somewhat more for others. N95 masks provide substantial protection for the wearer, if worn properly. But a bandanna, or a cute cloth mask with your school logo on it, or a pulled-up neck gaiter, is basically just pandemic security theater. At most, they help keep you from touching your face, for whatever good that does. And masks don’t protect you if you don’t wear them, and most people in social situations don’t. (Even groups of employees at restaurants and stores usually pull their masks down when they gather to chat.)
Masks have been politicized as useless by some, and as magical talismans by others. They’re merely a tool, moderately useful at best. Cases are going up because that’s what happens in a pandemic until enough people have had the disease that it can’t sustain transmission. My guess is, we’ll reach that point before the vaccines are in wide distribution, notwithstanding the enormous dispatch with which Operation Warp Speed produced multiple vaccines.
MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WARTHOG IS FURIOUS RIGHT NOW: Emotional support animals on flights restricted to trained dogs: DOT.
IF SO, COULD SHE CAST TWO VOTES IN THE EVENT OF A TIE? Senator and Vice President of the United States: Can Kamala Harris Hold Both Positions at the Same Time?
SECRETARY OF INDOCTRINTION: Biden Education Lead: Chinese Communist Party Has Done ‘Magical Work.’
CHARLES LIPSON: The Georgia Runoffs and Our Embattled Constitution. “It’s understandable that the national debate should focus on which party will control the Senate and just how radical the Democrats’ program will be if they do. But just beneath the surface lurk potential constitutional issues, which have received almost no attention. The basic problem is this: although America’s Founders were deeply concerned about tyranny, centralized power, and the suppression of individual rights and constructed institutional barriers to prevent those abuses, they never envisioned the mechanisms that pose serious threats today.”
GEORGIA GOV. UNDER INVESTIGATION: Georgia group founded by Stacey Abrams under investigation for seeking out-of-state, dead voters.
BECAUSE THEY’RE INSANE AND/OR HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN LITERATURE: Lefty Law Profs See Handmaid’s Tale Lurking Behind Supreme Court Religious Freedom Ruling.
THOMAS SOWELL: Walter E. Williams 1936-2020.
Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom.
Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
He was my best friend for half a century. There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more. Since he was younger than me, I chose him to be my literary executor, to take control of my books after I was gone.
But his death is a reminder that no one really has anything to say about such things.
Read the whole thing.
IN THE MAIL: From Carnell Smith, TRAPPED BY LAW: Stop Paying Child Support for Paternity Fraud.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Wall Street Writes Off Biden’s Chances of Enacting His Crushing Tax Hikes.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: If he actually wins, would Joe Biden’s well-known “ability to f*** things up” be our country’s saving grace for four years?
Answer: Sigh, maybe, yes.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Barack Obama: Snake, charmer
- Twitter: Judge — and jury, and executioner — of political debate in this country
- Rick Wilson: Sad little lonely cowardly bully
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
DECOUPLING: U.S House Passes China Delisting Bill. “The U.S House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that threatens to delist Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com from U.S. exchanges unless U.S. regulators are able to inspect their financial audits within three years.”
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