October 8, 2020

SOMETIMES THE PAPER OF RECORD CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF OUR TIMES:  Man Who Agrees With The Media, Universities, Corporations, And Hollywood Thinks He’s Part Of The Resistance.

THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS, THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS:  Kerry Washington: Blacks ‘Seduced’ by Conservatism to Oppose Gay Marriage.

I DON’T KNOW…. THE LEFT WANTS TO IMPORT PEDOPHILES?  NY Times Columnist Wants UN Intervention, But The Result? 

Also, even if Tom is a personal friend, let me point out that his dyslexia gets the better of him in that article, when he says: “…they don’t seem to get the distrust many in this country have for the United Nations.”

Tom, d*mn it. L-O-A-T-H-I-N-G isn’t spelled “distrust.”

TO QUOTE A DIET THING IN THE NINETIES: STOP THE INSANITY:  A Failed Experiment. The lockdowns must end.

QUITE PROBABLY:  Is this where Black Lives Matter gets its money?

THE LEFTIST SHTICK IS TIRESOME AND TIRED:  Black Outreach Compared.

I WONDER HOW HISTORY WILL JUDGE THOSE WHO CURRENTLY CLIMB ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS AND P*SS DOWN:  The Founding Fathers.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID:  CIA in 2016 briefed Obama on Clinton campaign false Trump/Russian collusion claim.

THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE:  Jews can demonstrate, too.

THEY CAN’T SILENCE EVERYONE:  Government takes down pro-Trump sign on private property, without permission.

GIVEN THE SHENANIGANS AFOOT, IT MIGHT BE TOO LITTLE TOO LATE:  The Supreme Court and appellate courts are drawing back from voting madness.

AND LOTS OF OTHER LEFTIST CULTS. LIKE “ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING”  AND “REFUGEES” AND–  I JUST WANT THESE PEOPLE TO REMEMBER WHAT THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE AND DO:  The Cult of Covidism Has Invaded the Church.

IF HE DID NOTHING ELSE OF VALUE (AND HE DOES) TRUMP WOULD STILL BE A TREASURE AS OUR NATIONAL TROLL IN CHIEF. THOSE WHO THINK THEY’RE ARISTOS NEED THEIR *SSES EXPOSED:  Trump Orders Declassification And Heads Explode.

I’D WATCH FOR THE FRAUD. IT’S HOW THEY ACTUALLY TURNED COLORADO:  Beto, Failed Dems & Hollywood Elite Try To Turn Texas.

THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE ARE NOT REALLY SMART ENOUGH TO POUR PISS OUT OF A BOOT WITH INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN ON THE HEEL:   Mask Between Bites Latest Covidiocy In California.

WEIRDLY THERE IS EVIL, THOUGH:  VP Debate Verdict: Kamala Harris showed there’s still no there, there.

October 7, 2020

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MIKE PENCE WIPES THE FLOOR WITH JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS ON CORONAVIRUS: “Debaters, pay attention. Mike Pence just gave you a master class in how to demolish Democratic arguments on the coronavirus pandemic.”

BIDEN/HARRIS: CUI BONO?

A FORMER STUDENT’S TAKE ON THE DEBATE: “Pence did phenomenal. I didn’t think Kamala was horrible although she is in fact horrible.”

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

#WINNING: Colleges drop ‘diversity’ efforts after Trump bans critical race theory.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “I’m sorry but I can’t handle 4 years of Kamala Harris’ voice.”

WOW:

Well, it’s not happening for news organizations, the NBA, the NFL, universities, or Hollywood, so to the lefty apparat there’s no recovery.

OPEN THREAD: Have fun, kids!

BONEMANIA: THE NEXT GENERATION. Ken Bone Still Mildly Interested in Elections.

MINNESOTA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC:  It seems quite likely that the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office attempted to abuse its COVID19 authority to hassle people trying to put on a program that would criticize the Minnesota Attorney General for his failure to deal with voter fraud issues.

SPACE: SpaceX launches Starlink satellites as it deorbits original ones.

IT’S ALIVE, ALIVE! Drunkblogging the Pence-Harris Debate.

You have questions. We have cocktails.

THE BABYLON BEE SAVAGES ANDREW CUOMO: Man Who Believes He’s On The Right Side Of History Announces Crackdown On The Jews.

CHANGE: Puerto Rico Governor Endorses Trump, Says He Represents Puerto Ricans: ‘Nobody Is Perfect.’ “‘Use your vote and evaluate who represents and thinks about Puerto Ricans in their most difficult time,’ Vázquez Garced said in a Monday interview with Telemundo. ‘It is Donald Trump.'”

SIR ROBIN BRAVELY TURNED AND FLED: Biden Says No Debate if Trump Still Has Coronavirus.

The Veep debate is still on for tonight, and I’ll drunkblog it for the PJ Media mothership beginning at about 8:46pm Eastern.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Scrap the Small-Block V-8 Swap and Sub in This Literal Tesla Crate Motor. “Literally, that’s what this wonderful creation is. A crated electric motor. Even better, it’s a bolt-in setup gunning to replace one of the most common crate engine choices out there, GM’s small-block V-8. That is because the EV West Tesla powertrain bolts up to small-block V-8 engine mounts and can be hooked up directly to a driveshaft, so you can fit it into your small-block V-8 project and keep your rear axle as-is.”

END THE LOCKDOWNS: A Failed Experiment. The lockdowns are the most risky experiment ever performed on the public, and the results are horrendous. Study after study has failed to detect significant benefits beyond what was achieved from voluntary social distancing, as I document at City Journal. Now that the lockdowns appear much deadlier than the virus, particularly for the poor, there is no ethical justification for continuing this experiment.

THE BIGGEST SICK JOKE RIGHT NOW: Our old Stalinist friend Angela Davis has come to fame as a “prison abolitionist.” Which is strange, because she was perfectly happy to have dissidents in the USSR and East Germany, including Soviet Jews seeking to practice their religion, consigned to prison. It’s worth recounting this anecdote from Alan Dershowitz: Dershowitz appealed to Davis, with her very close relationship with the USSR (as she was a high-ranking member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party USA) to intercede on behalf of imprisoned Soviet Jewry activists. Dershowitz recounts, “Several days later, I received a call back from Ms. Davis’ secretary informing me that Davis had looked into the people on my list and none were political prisoners. ‘They are all Zionist fascists and opponents of socialism.’ Davis would urge that they be kept in prison where they belonged.” That anecdote is reasonably well-known, but I found a related anecdote from 1972: “Angela explained that the situation of Jews in Russia ‘has been totally blown out of proportion by the bourgeois press because they’re going to do everything they can to discredit socialism.'”

And here are a couple of pictures of her with her buddy Eric Honeker the dictator of East Germany, whose political prisoners Davis was at best indifferent do. I’ve searched for any evidence that Davis regrets these positions and her general support for Communist tyrannies and haven’t found any (and this source says it’s because she hasn’t expressed any remorse). Prison abolitionist my ___.

CRUZ, 33 OTHER GOP SENATORS FILE BRIEF CONDEMNING DC’S ANTI-CHURCH EDICT: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and more than half of the rest of the GOP Senate caucus submitted a blistering amicus brief to the Supreme Court supporting Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) and condemning Mayor Muriel Bowser’s unconstitutional edict against church gatherings with more than 100 attendees.

QUESTION: Why didn’t the remaining 19 Senate Republicans and all 47 of the Senate Democrats and Independents also sign the brief? Do they have a problem with church congregations larger than 100 attendees? Would they support an edict limiting Antifa riots in D.C. to no more than 100 rioters?

 

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Kamala Harris finds it bizarre that Pence won’t meet with women without his wife present. Oddly, if other men followed his example Kamala Harris wouldn’t be in Congress.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Ducati announces the entry into production of the world’s first motorcycle equipped with front and rear radar technology.

IN ENGLAND SURGEONS HATE BEING CONFUSED WITH DOCTORS. MAYBE THEY’RE RIGHT: Is Sanjay Gupta Telling the Truth About Trump’s Steroids?.

IN A HUNDRED YEARS THEY SHOULD BE REENACTING THIS WITH A RACE: Measles in DR Congo: By air, boat and foot to deliver the vaccine.

AS ARE WE ALL: Coronavirus: Europe experiencing ‘pandemic fatigue.’

ON THE BEACH: NHTSA Confirms What You And I Already Know, People Are Driving Like Idiots. Traffic fatalities dropped with COVID-19, but fatality rates soared.

At the beginning of our current unpleasantness, lots of intellectuals compared it to Nevil Shute’s 1957 post-apocalyptic novel On the Beach, and Stanley Kramer’s movie adaptation two years later:

WELL, I SUPPOSE THAT’S A TAKE: Mike Pence Simply Must Be Confronted About ‘Mulan’ at the Debate.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Are Bill De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo Targeting New York City’s Jews?

TAR. FEATHERS. PITCHFORKS. New Files Highlight Brennan’s Role Promoting Clinton’s Russia Collusion Narrative.

Related: ‘Russia hoax’ was lie created by Hillary Clinton and one of the dirtiest political tricks ever.

It was a seditious conspiracy to overturn a democratic election. People should be jailed, if not outright executed, which I don’t believe the law permits.

SPORTS WITHOUT POLITICS — IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK: After Ratings Crash, NBA May Go UnWoke.

CONGRATULATIONS TO BOOM SUPERSONIC on the rollout of their new XB-1.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Get Off My Lawn: Great WWII Guns for Home Defense.

TODAY AT 3:30PM EASTERN: VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Kruiser, and Preston.

Cold drinks, hot takes.

‘WILL THERE BE CAMPS, TOO?’ Chris Hayes’ ‘reasonable and humane way’ for dealing with political opponents sounds a lot like communism:

Fortunately, MSNBC’s plans for your kids will prevent such doubleplus ungood crimethink from ever occurring in the future:

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: An Open-Source Bionic Leg.

QUESTION ASKED: Is Warren Buffett the Wallet Behind Black Lives Matter? The Tides Network is a powerful instrument leveraged by billionaires working to change America, while shielding their philanthropic dollars from public scrutiny. Here’s how it works.

GOODER AND HARDER: Antifa Supporter Sarah Iannarone Leading In Portland Mayor Race, Poll Shows.

WASN’T THERE A LARRY NIVEN STORY ABOUT THIS? US Nobel winner’s 25-year odyssey to black hole at center of galaxy.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Denver City Council approves delivery fee cap.

Denver City Council voted unanimously Monday night to cap delivery fees that restaurants pay to third party services like Door Dash and Uber Eats.

The cap is 15 percent. The ordinance aims to help struggling restaurants in the midst of a pandemic.

The ordinance, which would apply for four months, would also require that 100 percent of tips go to the delivery driver, and that driver pay not be reduced in an effort to make up for the commission cap. Restaurants would also have to opt in to appear on the third-party ordering websites.

Pro Tip: Always tip your drivers cash.

As for the rest, reduced delivery options for the very people the Denver City Council is trying to help will be met with plenty of unexpectedlies.

SHOULD MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, AIDES HAVE MANDATORY COVID TESTING? Don’t miss the poll, no mail-in ballots accepted because this is honest voting. A mere 123 aides and contractors have tested positive or are presumed to be positive. But who knows how accurate that number is?

SPOILER: IT DIDN’T WORK. Christopher Wray Holds Press Conference to Project Confidence in Corrupt FBI No One Trusts.

SPACE JUNK: NASA, space industry seek new ways to cope with space debris.

A PULITZER PRIZE THAT SHOULD BE REVOKED.

WELL, THAT’S THE APPROVED METHOD OF PROTEST IN BLUE CITIES NOW, RIGHT? NYC Orthodox community holds large protest over new coronavirus restrictions.

The protests swarmed in numbers later in the night, with demonstrators shutting down 13th Avenue to vehicular traffic.

Things also turned unruly when the crowd lit a rubbish fire after midnight at the intersection of 46th Street and 13th Avenue and chased away two city sheriff’s deputies who responded.

The defiant crowd chanted “Jewish lives matter” as they held their ground.

The next step is to go mob the Mayor’s residence, arson optional.

Protesters to Democratic Mayors: “We learned it from watching YOU!”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Hyper-political Hollywood gives us little reason to return to theaters.

Twitter isn’t real life, but chances are the cacophony of vile, divisive messages coming from Celebrity Nation seeped into the national consciousness.

It’s one thing to swallow hard and watch a new Samuel L. Jackson film at home. It’s another to snag a sitter and/or fork over $30-plus for a Jackson movie knowing he just insulted anyone voting Trump on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

Think that sentiment isn’t a factor in the anemic box office receipts we’re seeing these days?

Stars got hyper-political, and nasty, at the worst possible time. The theatrical model is on life support thanks to COVID, and media outlets which have scared us silly by downplaying hopeful news and exaggerating terrifying tidbits.

Will anyone be itching to pay $15 for an overhyped sequel coming Spring time, knowing they can watch it on their big-screen TV in a few weeks?

Christian Toto, so read the whole thing.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee may reduce risk for Parkinson’s disease, study says.

DON’T DO THE CRIME IF YOU CAN’T DO THE TIME: Oklahoma detention officers charged with cruelty for torturing prisoners by cranking ‘Baby Shark’ on repeat.

“STEP BACK AND ADMIRE THE CATCH-22:” Iowahawk Returns to Twitter! Sort of.

OBAMA, HILLARY, BRENNAN AND THE RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA BIG LIE: Links to this Powerline post by John Hinderaker have already appeared on Instapundit. But the post is particularly thorough and incisive. Moreover, the Clinton campaign’s and the Obama Administration’s smear of Donal Trump continues. This link will take you to an essay I wrote for the New York Observer in July 2016: Tail Gunner Hillary and the Putin Hack. I wrote the essay shortly after Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook, in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, “yoked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to Russia’s neo-Czar Vladimir Putin: “I think that what’s troubling is how he (Trump) praised Vladimir Putin,” Mook said.” Mook’s innuendo — an insinuation of disloyalty– absolutely stank. Unsubstantiated accusations of treason was pure Stalinist Russia, but Joe McCarthy’s 1950 “Enemies Within” speech also came to mind. The accusation also struck me as highly suspicious. Four years later, we see hard proof that it was a conspiratorial crock.

WORSE THAN WATERGATE:

TRUST IS PUBLIC HEALTH’S GREATEST ASSET: ‘I Won’t Be Used As A Guinea Pig For White People.’ “Recruiting Black volunteers for vaccine trials during a period of severe mistrust of the federal government and heightened awareness of racial injustice is a formidable task. So far, only about 3 percent of the people who have signed up nationally are Black.”

But who are the real guinea pigs? “Historically, we test everything in white men.”

Now, however, large parts of the white population also distrust the public health apparatus and their vaccines. The media treatment of these folks, however, tends to focus on how they’re dumb rednecks who are endangering others.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Austin Hires Thief For Library, Shocked He Keeps Stealing.

HISTORY: What We Really Need Is a 490 B.C. Project.

ARIZONA SENATE RACE: ‘Everytown’ Gun-Grabber: ‘Stop Pretending We Aren’t Connected’ to Mark Kelly.

BEFORE THE WEB: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World. New video from Reason TV:

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VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: So Much Crazy We Don’t Even Know How to Headline It.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What happens to men who lock their stuff in a “chastity cage” with an internet-accessible lock?

Answer: Pretty much exactly what they deserved in this age of the Internet of Thingies.

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

  • Joe Biden: Ready to Cave to Foreign Despots from Day One!
  • Introducing the Great Barrington Declaration.
  • Did Donald Trump just self-own, or seal in his second term?

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

JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT FISKS A CNN ARTICLE ON “THE NEW NORMAL,” whose author believes “permanently severing ties with January is not necessarily a bad thing, psychologists say. The danger comes from hankering for normalcy again, rather than getting on with working out how to deal with whatever is ahead.” To which Lileks replies:

It’s as if January and Now are equally weighted as two possible modus vivendi, and our attachment to one over the other is irrational and counterproductive.

Well. No. I’m here to make a bold, counterrevolutionary assertion: January was better. And January is a standard we should hold up and remember and strive to regain. That doesn’t mean you don’t wear a mask tomorrow. It means you will discard it when it’s been a month since a case and the hospitals are empty, despite what the sign says. Despite what the sign says. It means you will not slump around in perpetual compliance for the rest of your life, and acquiesce with sad nods and shrugs when all the aspects of human interaction are forbidden and the world shrinks to a hive of bees in their cells. It means prudence and it means kicking the shins of those who revel in contraction.

It means being a Januarian.

As I have said: I have been masked up for a long time, and I carry hand sanitizer and keep my distance, but I will not live like this is Ebola. Live by the rules, for now, and regard every day as the penultimate day you’ll put up with the Wuhan fallout. Be safe, stay furious, and keep January in mind whatever you do and wherever you go. Anyone tells you to let it go, bark no.

Read the whole thing.

 

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Update On Student Tuition Refund Lawsuits Following Colleges’ Shift To Online Classes During COVID-19.

WALTER DURANTY SMILES: Pulitzer Board Must Revoke Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Prize.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Marquette explores blacks-only housing plan, hate speech punishment.

HEH: Massive Hollywood-Style Trump Sign Placed on the 405 in Los Angeles. Sort of like the Doolittle raid, telling the haters that they’re not safe even in their capital.

More:

I think it’s fair to say that Trump has the edge in enthusiasm among his supporters.

UPDATE: ALL DISSENT MUST BE SILENCED!

NBC NEWS IS FAKE NEWS: NBC News’ ‘Undecided’ Voters Previously Featured as Biden Supporters on MSNBC.

THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: Harvard lecturer pushes wild conspiracy theory about Russian spies at Walter Reed hospital.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: CAGE MATCH—The 2020 Life Or Death Veep Debate Is Upon Us. “The stakes got much, much higher once President Trump tested positive for the plague and headed to the hospital. Prior to that, the American public was only considering the fragility of Joe Biden, the candidate who’s been going to bed right after breakfast for several weeks now. Everybody has been in a dead panic about considering Kamala Harris’s worthiness to take over for Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep because we all know it’s going to happen soon if he wins.”

3,000 GALLON AIRBORNE FIRE BUCKET: A commercial CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter drops water on Los Alamitos Army Airfield, California, during a fire fighting demonstration. The caption claims the helicopter is the world’s largest helitanker. The chopper isusing the Army airfield as a base for fighting wildfires in Southern California. Photo taken September 30, 2020.

CHINA CONFRONTS THE QUAD’S DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY DOUBLE WHAMMY: The Quad — shorthand for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue –Australia, Japan, India and the U.S.

For Beijing, the Quad’s formation and solidification is a nightmare — and China’s communist government has only itself to blame.

The column includes a short history of the The Quad’s formation and its solidification following the initial and very informal meeting in 2007.

This week The Quad held a foreign ministers meeting in Tokyo. SecState Pompeo’s opening remarks about the Chinese Communist Party’s “exploitation, corruption and coercion” were dead on.

EVEN A FLATWORM IS SMART ENOUGH TO TURN AWAY FROM PAIN: Adam Silver: NBA Social Justice Messaging Will Be Largely Left Off the Court Next Season.

THE LATEST STRATEGYTALK PODCAST: Russia is a broken country but still a dangerous adversary. Assassins and special forces can still cause havoc, and Putin routinely threatens nuclear war. However, Putin didn’t factor in frackers. The link goes to youtube, you can find MP3 download here. If you like it, please subscribe.

CHARLES LIPSON: Who Wants to Blow Up Our Constitution? (It’s Not Trump). “The vitriolic conflicts surrounding Donald Trump have obscured two crucial issues, which voters ought to weigh carefully as they choose the next president. One is the difference between Trump’s impulsive, divisive personality and the policies he has actually pursued. The other is the Democrats’ threat to significantly change the structure of American government. The two issues are intertwined since Trump’s policies are, at bottom, an effort to restore America’s traditional federal structure and limit the power of unelected officials in Washington. His efforts to roll back the regulatory state also curtail the power of lobbyists and their powerful employers, since they hold the greatest influence over detailed rules and regulations, not general laws like tax rates.”

As I wrote the other day, a Biden win is a loss for deregulation.

CHANGE: Women, minorities rush to get concealed carry permits, up 34%.

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HEATHER MAC DONALD: President Trump’s handling of his coronavirus diagnosis models positive masculinity—rational and unbowed. “Under today’s safetyism mentality, sacrifice and risk-taking become unthinkable. The martial virtues of courage and stoicism have been sidelined and pathologized. When Trump briefly left Walter Reed on Sunday in a motorcade to greet supporters, a doctor at the hospital complained that the Secret Service agents in Trump’s limousine ‘might get sick. They may die.’ These are the same Secret Service agents who are expected to take a bullet for a president. They were behind a plexiglass barrier in the car; all occupants were masked. Under our feminized ethos, showing resoluteness during a crisis, reassuring the public about one’s well-being, are no longer positive traits in a leader; they are violations of maximal risk aversion.”

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