YA THINK? Americans experience ‘pandemic fatigue’ as restrictions continue. It’s made worse by the way the public health community has been conflicting and politicized in its advice.
Related: Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry Outing Crystallizes the Arrogance of COVID-19 Dictators.
ROGER SIMON: The Plot Against Sidney.
Lee Smith wrote an explosive narrative of the Russia collusion hoax in the number one best-seller “The Plot Against the President” that became a hit documentary film.
Someone should now write “The Plot Against Sidney,” because Trump and General Michael Flynn attorney Sidney Powell is currently in the crosshairs and then some.
And the attacks are coming not just, predictably, from the left, but from people you would think would be her natural allies.
Tucker Carlson, until recently literally king of cable news, called Ms. Powell out for being unresponsive and repeatedly failing to produce evidence of her claims about Dominion and Smartmatic computer systems and software on his Fox show.
Respected conservative columnist Byron York asserted about Thursday’s Giuliani/Powell/Ellis press conference in his daily email:
“But Powell did not prove it. She did not even allege with any specificity what she believes actually happened in the election. Powell said the Venezuelan software has the ‘ability to flip votes’ and can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President [sic] Biden, which we might never have uncovered had the votes for President Trump not been so overwhelming in so many of these states that it broke the algorithm that had been plugged into the system, and that’s what caused them to have to shut down in the states they shut down in.”
Powell has already responded to Carlson early Friday morning on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show:
“Maria Bartiromo: How did you respond to Tucker Carlson? Did you get angry with the show because they texted you and asked you to provide evidence of what you’re alleging?
“Sidney Powell: No, I didn’t get angry with the request to provide evidence in fact I sent an affidavit to Tucker that I had not even attached to a pleading yet to help him understand the situation and I offered him another witness who could explain the mathematics of the statistical evidence far better than I can. I’m not really a numbers person. But he was very insulting, demanding and rude and I told him not to contact me again in those terms.”
I’m not going to speculate on what’s motivating Tucker and Byron. They are friends and they have their reasons. Apparently, they are not disturbed by such things as “weighted-voting algorithms” or the astonishing fact that Dominion does not even report vote totals, only percentages.
Nor will I wave a finger at them because representatives of Dominion did not show up as promised Friday morning for a fact-finding hearing with a committee of the Pennsylvania House. What did they have to hide?
Well, maybe they do have something to hide.
The biggest issue here is not the presidential election of 2020, gigantic as that may be. It is the integrity of electoral systems world wide.
It is, in a word, democracy.
Are computers subverting it? Have they made democracy obsolete?
If this is true, and she is able to stop it, Sidney Powell may deserve a monument the size of Washington’s.
For counterpoint, as Paul Mirengoff writes at Power Line, “If Powell has evidence to back this up, have at it. But so far, she hasn’t produced evidence. And she declined Carlson’s invitation to go on his show or to provide him with any. Powell has no obligation to litigate on television. But she’s already doing so to some degree. With her various utterances, including the highly dubious one that Trump won in a landslide, she’s made, in effect, her opening statement. It would be nice if she offered some evidence to back it up. If it turns out that Team Trump doesn’t have the goods to back up the claim of an international leftist conspiracy, the allegation will have to be considered demagoguery. And it will have caused profound damage to the nation.”
Which will have been compounded with damage done by the Obama administration in their own waning days: The Obama-Trump Transition Was More Like Sedition.
WHEN THE NEW YORK SCHOOL SYSTEM LOSES SUPPORT OF THE NEW YORK TIMES…The Problem With Coronavirus School Closures: When Trump Was Right and Many Democrats Wrong.
THIS SEEMS LIKE A NEW BID FOR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES: GM Accelerates Electrification Timeline, Plans 30 EVs by 2025.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: The Delirious Week the Whole Country Went Full Florida.
CHARLES LIPSON: Can Trump’s Lawyers Offer Real Proof of their Vast Allegations?
THE FALLEN STATE: You can watch my interview with Jesse Lee Peterson live at 3:00 eastern. You can watch the recorded version here.
WHEN I TALKED TO JIMMY LAI THE OTHER NIGHT, he said that AI is the censorship tool to be feared. But here the IEEE’s magazine is approving it. How Facebook’s AI Tools Tackle Misinformation: Facebook’s weapons against hate speech improve their aim, identify permutations of misinformation, CTO says.
“Misinformation” is just dictatorspeak for wrongthink.
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COLORADO: Color purple added to fear mongering dial in CO.
Most of the Front Range — where the majority of the population lives — just got categorized as “Red – Severe Risk,” whatever that is.
But it’s the VodkaBride’s birthday today and I still have a couple of last-minute things to pick up, so I’ll carry on as usual.
AT THIS POINT I DON’T THINK THEY WANT US TO RECOVER: Listen to the Science, Listen to the Students: Schools Can and Must Reopen. “Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term.”
YES. NEXT QUESTION? 2020 election polling: was it really as bad as they say?
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Joe Biden Glitches Again Mid-Sentence.
AT THIS POINT WE’VE HAD CONTACT-TRACING FOR EIGHT MONTHS. HUNCHES AND SKEPTICISM SHOULD BE REPLACED BY SCIENCE BY NOW. Disease experts skeptical on safety of indoor dining at restaurants. My own county health department has twice said that their contact tracing doesn’t show bars and restaurants as significant transmission sites, yet we continue to regulate them. Where’s the science?
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: ‘It’s a miracle!’ Paul Krugman spotted doing a quick economic one-eighty with ‘Biden boom’ prediction:
Exit quote: “The New York Times is just a humorless Babylon Bee.“
Obligatory flashbacks: PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
And from March: GIVEN HIS TRACK RECORD, THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I’VE SEEN IN WEEKS: Paul Krugman: Market signaling a ‘permanent recession.’
‘PANHELLENIC’: Duke sorority council bans events with male groups. “The Panhellenic Council at Duke University voted to ban chapters of member sororities from hosting ‘mixers’ with all-male organizations, vowing to place chapters that violate the rule on social probation.”
TAMING THE ADMINISTRATIVE BEHEMOTH BEFORE IT EATS US UP: Mike Rappaport offers a workable approach for identifying unconstitutional violations of the non-delegation doctrine.
SO GLAD WE HAVE TRUMP’S EFFICIENT COVID RESPONSE: HHS sends new rapid molecular COVID-19 test to 5 states.
And the people who spent the past four years telling us the 2016 election was “hacked” are now saying it imperils democracy to talk about fraud. But when 30% of Democrats think there was fraud, it’s not a crazy fringe theory.
WELL, GOOD: U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Pledges $32B Military Build-Up. “The pledge of about £24.1 billion — or just under $32 billion — supports Johnson’s vision of what he calls a freer and more independent “global Britain” following the United Kingdom’s protracted divorce from the European Union via Brexit.”
THE DEMOCRATS’ MEDIA APPARATCHIKS ARE TALKING ABOUT PROPRIETY AND IT’S NOT GOING WELL FOR THEM:
Not well at all:
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF YOUTH: Joe Biden turns 78 today, set to become the oldest US president.
SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS AREN’T SECOND-CLASS RIGHTS: Lawprof John McGinnis: Gun Rights Delayed are Gun Rights Denied.
WELL, CALIFORNIA: Gavin Newsom’s Latest COVID-19 Order Doesn’t Even Make Sense.
IN THE MAIL: From Kevin Williamson, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the “Real America.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why the SpaceX ‘ferry’ just truly launched a new Space Age.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Stacy Abrams Is the Governor of Georgia and You’re Not.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is it OK to celebrate the ranting delusions of someone still contesting an election they lost fair and square?
Answer: When she has a (D) after her name.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Gavin Newsom provides a shutdown carve-out for Hollywood
- Virginia Attorney General goes after guns (again).
- Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel (!!!) conspire against POTUS, lamely.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
CONSERVATIVES ARE GOING TO REGRET BUYING INTO NONSENSICAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT THE ELECTION: Kevin Williamson: The Dumbest Coup. Please note that no amount of past Democratic lies, distortions, conspiracy theories, or refusal to accept the results of the 2016 election justifies buying into bogus conspiracy theories. Let me put this as simply as possible: Trump lost. There is no plausible set of facts based on any evidence that anyone has presented that would reverse the results in several states and give him a victory in the electoral college. If you want the lawsuits to continue to ferret out whatever fraud might have occurred to improve things for the future, fine. But if you actually believe, as Sydney Powell has publicly claimed, that “President Trump won by a landslide,” you are being a sucker for a con man.
FORT APACHE MINNEAPOLIS, PART 2, AND ANTI-POLICE ANIMUS: Powerline continues to report on “the dramatic rise of violent crime in Minneapolis.” The post, written by Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff, reminds everyone that in October — before the election — the Trump Justice Department offered to help Minneapolis police “through a special partnership program.” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo supported the offer. At the time –before the election– Mirengoff also reported that Minneapolis’ mayor and leftist city council were quite unenthusiastic about receiving help from the Justice Department.” Did DOJ’s October offer get major media coverage? Of course not. Mirengoff concludes that the mayor and council rejected aid out of “raw anti-police animus and sympathy for violent criminals.” I think that’s right. Will Minneapolis’ mayor and leftist city council be held responsible for their inflammatory and destructive virtue signaling that has produced the rise in violent crime? That responsibility lies with Minneapolis voters.
SPACE RACE II: China rolls out Long March 5 rocket for Chang’e 5 moon sample-return mission launch.
Chang’e 5 is scheduled to lift off on Nov. 24, according to a NASA description of the mission. (Official Chinese sources have said only that the launch will occur in “late November.”) The 18,100-lb. (8,200 kilograms) spacecraft, which apparently consists of four modules, will then make its way to the moon.
Two of the Chang’e 5 modules will remain in lunar orbit. The other two — a sample collector and an ascent vehicle — will touch down in the Mons Rumker area of the huge Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”), a vast volcanic plain that has been explored by a number of other moon missions, including NASA’s Apollo 12 in 1969.
If all goes according to plan, Chang’e 5’s sample collector will use a robotic arm and a drill to snag about 4.4 lbs. (2 kg) of moon dirt and rock, including material that will be sourced from up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) underground. The ascent vehicle will then loft this cache to lunar orbit, where it will dock with one of the orbiting modules and then be integrated into the other, which will haul the stuff back to Earth, according to the NASA description. The moon samples are scheduled to land in China in mid-December.
This is an ambitious and complex mission to carry out.
BIDEN’S OPEN BORDERS PLAN SUBVERTS HIS COVID PLAN: Issues & Insights points out a serious flaw in the Biden approach: Why put Americans behind masks while inviting mass migration from Mexico, Central America and elsewhere?
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Federal court rules students’ pro-gun shirts are protected by First Amendment.
FROM THE HISTORY FILE: The Gato-class submarine USS Wahoo sails near Mare Island Navy Yard in California; Photo taken July 14, 1943.
TRUMP DEPROGRAMMING BEGINS: Faye Higbee, writing for The Lid, suggests we should take the Unhinged Left seriously when they talk about how to “deprogram” 70+ million Americans who voted for Trump.
SAD: The second-largest radio telescope in the world is shutting down. “The Arecibo Observatory’s 1000-meter telescope in Puerto Rico can’t be repaired without putting crews under enormous risk.”
THIS COP WON’T ARREST YOU ON THANKSGIVING: Name withheld to protect the innocent.
OBVIOUSLY SHE MEANT WHAT SHE SAID: University of Arizona linguist declares ‘words matter,’ then attacks ‘white evangelicals.’
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why the SpaceX ‘ferry’ just truly launched a new Space Age.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Recounts and Lawsuits Are Karma for 4 Years of Dems Lying About Russia. “After what the Democrats put this president and the country through with the Russia collusion hoax, the impeachment charade, and four years of flat-out saying that the 2016 election wasn’t legitimate I don’t care if the Left has to suffer frustration forever. Put simply: they’ve brought this on themselves.”
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Control of U.S. House of Representatives Delegations and yet-to-be called House races.
REPURPOSING: AI discovered an old arthritis drug that can help elderly people survive COVID-19.
The once-daily medicine, called baricitinib, was first identified as a potential treatment for the virus by BenevolentAI, a startup based in London.
The company used its AI software to comb through scientific literature for drugs that might block the infection process. The most promising treatment it discovered was baricitinib, which it predicted could stop the infection from entering lung cells.
The new study has now shown the drug’s safety and efficacy in the largest group of patients published thus far.
Scientists from Imperial College London and Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet gave baricitinib to 83 COVID-19 patients with a median age of 81 who were being treated in hospitals across Italy and Spain.
They found that patients receiving baricitinib had a 71% reduction in mortality compared to the 83 people in the control group who had not taken the drug.
Not a huge group, but amazing numbers nonetheless.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW:
I REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE DEFENDED HIGHER EDUCATION AS FOSTERING REASONED, CRITICAL THOUGHT: Berkeley Prof. Compares Trump Supporters to Germans Under Nazi Rule.
PERHAPS GOVERNOR NEWSOM COULD START BY SETTING AN EXAMPLE — FOR ONCE: California struggles with how to enforce coronavirus orders.
UNEXPECTEDLY: NBC Hides Radical Trump-Hating Rant From Ta-Nehisi Coates.
In a comment that was clearly not meant to be a compliment to President Trump, Melvin remarked: “There are some who have suggested that, in the long run, we’ll be better off as a country, as a society, because Donald Trump was in the White House.” Coates vehemently rejected the notion:
“Strongly disagree. Strongly, strongly disagree. I think the damage that has been done certainly will outlast my lifetime. Who knows how far it will go? Before Donald Trump, I think people believed that there were certain limits to what could be done and said within American politics. And I think that’s been obliterated. I think people thought there were certain norms for what presidents would and would not do….I think a great deal of damage has been done.”
“Before Donald Trump, I think people believed that there were certain limits to what could be done and said within American politics?” Coates has made his career violating those terms – not least of which a 2013 column in the New York Times, in which he condemned “The Good, Racist People” of Manhattan, which is quite a read, even now.
If the reliably Democrat-voting multicultural milieu of the Times’ subscriber base can’t pass muster with Coates, how can anyone else?
And as Glenn noted in 2017:
If you divide America along racial/ethnic lines, eventually the largest racial/ethnic group will start to think of itself as a racial/ethnic group and act accordingly. But in the meantime, it’s a good living for [Ta-Nehisi] Coates, and I guess an okay one for [alt-right founder Richard] Spencer.
And if you want more Trump, well, Coates will help you get more Trump, and a lot more effectively than Spencer ever has. Right after the election, John Podhoretz tweeted, “Liberals spent 40 years disaggregating [the] U.S., until finally the largest cohort in the country chose to vote as though it were an ethnic group.” That’s where “whiteness”-as-original-sin gets you. But hey, like I said, it’s a good living for some people.
Current protestations by Trump and his aides notwithstanding, I’m assuming there will be a Biden administration in January. (Sorry, a Biden-Harris administration.) That won’t stop the left from growing ever crazier, which will likely result in a very Trumpy successor to Trump running in opposition in 2024. (The strange new respect that Trump will receive from the media in order to attack his successor will be astonishing to watch.)
WATCH HIM WRIGGLE, WATCH HIM SQUIRM: Ossoff Dodges on Warnock’s Praise for Anti-Semitic Pastor.
Hey, Ossoff’s on the same side as Ilhan Omar: Omar Backs Warnock: ‘Nobody Can Serve God and the Military.’
FINGERS CROSSED: Immunity to the coronavirus may last years, new research suggests. Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University, said she was not surprised that the body mounts a long-lasting response because ‘that’s what is supposed to happen.’ Still, she was heartened by the research: ‘This is exciting news’.”
HEY, WE ALL NEED A LAUGH: And Now For Something Different.
HE’S OWNED BY CHINA. OF COURSE HE’S A FASCIST. WHAT DO YOU THINK CHINA IS? Joe Biden Bumbles Through Appearance, Vows to ‘Dictate’ to Companies.
THAT WOULD CERTAINLY BE CONVENIENT FOR JIHADIS: Biblical Scholar Ilhan Omar: Christians Shouldn’t Serve in the U.S. Military.
FAUX-RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE MAIN KIND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS DISPLAYED BY THE ACADEMY: The Faux Righteousness Of Test-Optional Admissions: Increasing U.S. News Rankings, Not Diversity, Is The Motivation.
You know, a long time ago I suggested that conservative billionaires should buy women’s magazines. But now I think they could have a bigger impact by simply buying U.S. News and fiddling with its ranking system. It’s become a huge point of vulnerability for academia, and someone should take advantage of it to work some positive changes.
MEANWHILE, REMEMBER YOU’RE OPERATING UNDER EXTREME STRESS. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AS THOUGH YOU WERE SOMEONE YOU LOVE FOR WHOSE CARE YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE: Sitting by the Sick Bed.
AOC, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED: Reagan biographer Craig Shirley has a message for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — aka “AOC”— and her comrades in “The Squad:” Don’t!
Don’t think, that is, that there won’t be massively unpleasant legal consequences if they or anybody else on the Left tries to deny a Trump appointee or supporter a future job, promotion, peaceful dinner, media appearance, etc. etc.
“If she is responsible for even one person in the United States not getting a job or getting fired and the boss says, ‘I’m not hiring you because of what AOC said,’ or ‘I’m not hiring you because of your politics,’ she has committed tortious interference and has opened herself up to massive litigation,” Shirley tells The Epoch Times.
The litigation will be launched by Citizens for the Republic (CFTR). If that name sounds familiar, it should because it’s the advocacy group Reagan formed after losing the 1976 GOP presidential nomination battle to Gerald Ford, and which was instrumental in Reagan’s 1980 win.
Shirley recently revived CFTR after it had lain dormant for years. Among the Reagan-era stars on the resurrected CFTR board are former Attorney General Ed Meese, former Reagan White House Communications Director Mari Maseng Will, and former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Dan Oliver.
CALIFORNIA CHURCHES IN COURT TODAY ON ABORTION MANDATE: A trio of California congregations represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) present oral arguments today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They will ask the court to declare unconstitutional the state’s regulation requiring their employee health insurance to pay for abortions.
Included in the evidence to be discussed are a series of 2014 emails in which Planned Parenthood specifically lobbied state regulators not to exempt churches from the abortion coverage mandate.
“We are asking the 9th Circuit to invalidate this unconstitutional mandate because California officials are required to follow the law and legal precedent, not the dictates of groups that have an axe to grind against religious organizations that don’t share their views on abortion,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jeremiah Galus.
ACROSS ALL THE US, 300! EDUCATORS HAVE DIED OF COVID. THAT’S ALMOST AS MANY AS ONE OF GOVERNOR CUOMO’S NURSING HOMES! MEANWHILE, SEVERAL MILLION CHILDREN ARE NOT GETTING AN EDUCATION: Empty desks: Coronavirus robs US classrooms of teachers.
To be fair, the chances of their getting an education in public schools factories of indoctrination were always fairly low.
I HAD BEEN ADVISED THAT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE MEANT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WAS UNPOSSIBLE: COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm Canada’s health system.
I DON’T WANT TO READ ANOTHER ANALYSIS OF “WHY TRUMP LOST” BECAUSE HONESTLY? ALL INDICATIONS ARE TRUMP NOT ONLY DIDN’T LOSE. HE OUTSTRIPPED THE WIN THAT THE DEMS COUNTED ON SO MUCH THEY HAD TO BE BLATANT IN THEIR FRAUD: Giuliani Highlights Vote Fraud as Well as Corporate Media Corruption in Fiery Press Conference.
And the reason I don’t want to hear it is because this is not remotely about Trump anymore. This is about us, and our right to representation. This is about a Republic if we can keep it. So stop rolling over, because rolling over is going to get you under the boot of the global oligarchy. You’re Americans. Remember that. Stand on two.
This is no time to be “reasonable.” Mr. Reasonable has left the room. And he’s taken Ms. Conciliatory with him.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE PSYCHOPATHS POWER. DON’T TELL ME I DIDN’T WARN YOU: ‘Road of Bones’ from Stalin era discovered in Siberia.
IF WE WANT TO KEEP THE REPUBLIC, CLEANING UP THE VOTE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, BUT EDUCATION MUST BE CLEANED UP TOO. TEACHING PEOPLE TO HATE THEIR OWN COUNTRY FUELS THE CORRUPTION OF OUR BUREAUCRACY. AND THE DEEPEST INDOCTRINATED ARE THE POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS: America’s Faulty Approach To Education.
THIS IS THE STUDY THEY TRIED SO HARD TO SUPPRESS: Landmark Danish study shows face masks have no significant effect.
They just want you to obey their inane commands. That’s all.
WELL, IT’S CONSIDERABLY LESS DAMAGING THAN THE STARVATION THAT’S ALREADY AFFECTING THE THIRD WORLD, BUT IT’S ONE MORE CONSEQUENCE OF THE STUPID LOCKDOWNS: Scientists: Major measles outbreaks likely because of COVID-19 lockdowns.
I SAW THIS COMING. I SAW THIS COMING BEFORE THE ELECTION. IT WAS THE ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR BIDEN’S POTEMKIN CAMPAIGN: US Elections 2020: shock and horror.
In this as in the covidiocy, it’s not that I’m smarter than most people, it’s that I KNOW communists and their tactics.
THE MASKS ARE OFF: John Kerry Talks ‘Great Reset’: ‘We’re at the Dawn of Extremely Exciting Time’.
BTW these idiots are so completely disconnected from reality they think this would work on ANYONE but suburban Americans.
ANYONE WHO KNOWS AN EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN KNOWS THIS: Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows.
WHAT NO ONE HAS TOLD US IS IF THEY DISAPPROVE: Whoa: Nearly a Third of Democrats Believe the Election Was Stolen From Trump.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why the SpaceX ‘ferry’ just truly launched a new Space Age.
I’M NOT SURE IRONY IS THE RIGHT WORD: Victor Davis Hanson: Irony Abounds as the Left Politicizes the Coronavirus. “Those who accused Trump of playing politics with the virus made him look like a relative amateur through their own machinations. Those who claimed they were guided by science proved unscientific in their partisanship. No wonder Americans remain so skeptical of the experts in general and the Washington administrative state in particular.”
JOHN HINDERAKER: Do Trump’s Lawyers Know What They’re Doing?
DEMOCRATS AND MEDIA ARE REAPING FRUIT OF YEARS OF ANTI-TRUMP CONSPIRACY THEORIES: As Mollie Hemingway asks, “If taking claims to court undermines democracy, how to defend Democrats’ vociferous and repeated claims that Donald Trump stole the election in 2016 with the help of Russia?”
Related: How Democrats tried to handcuff Trump from the start.
WOKE: Unhinged Leftists’ New Grand Idea: Deprogramming Trump Supporters.
Bespoke: Cuomosexual Conversion Therapy:
But in the last few days, more New Yorkers have enrolled in Cuomosexual Conversion Therapy. Their two major sticking points? Vaccines and schools.
There was widespread optimism when Pfizer-BionTECH and Moderna announced success rates of over 90 percent for their COVID-19 vaccines. For the first time in months it seemed as though there was hope for America. Enter Andy-Vaxxer Cuomo, using his platform as governor to undermine public trust in the FDA’s potential authorization of vaccine which we will all need to take. ‘We can’t let this vaccination plan go forward the way that Trump and his administration is designing it,’ he said last week, with all the scientific expertise of an Instagram wellness blogger. ‘I’m pushing hard to make sure that we have a process in place to check what the FDA says before people start getting the vaccine in New York.’
People were happy to put up with Cuomo’s pettiness when he was moving his daughter’s boyfriend to the Canadian border, or deploying the State Liquor Authority to target bars that mocked his dumb food rule by serving ‘Cuomo pizza’. But the prospect that his tussling with Trump might delay the climax of the COVID carnage has given many pause for thought.
The governor compounded his misstep with another display of logger-headed machismo posturing this week, clashing with Mayor Bill de Blasio over school closures. The mayor, after dithering for days, introduced an arbitrary 3 percent positivity rate to re-close NYC’s public schools. The governor contradicted this, saying at a Wednesday press conference that schools could remain open as the positivity rate was only 2.5 percent. A Wall Street Journal reporter expressed confusion on behalf of parents — and Cuomo, acting as hard as a pierced nipple in winter, snapped:
Heh. Read the whole thing.
RASMUSSEN SAYS MOST VOTERS WANT TRUMP TO CONCEDE, BUT NOTE THIS: “Forty-seven percent (47%) say it’s likely that Democrats stole votes or destroyed pro-Trump ballots in several states to ensure that Biden would win, but 50% disagree.”
Plus: “Just two weeks before this year’s Election Day, 94% said their vote would be correctly recorded and counted, with 73% who said it was Very Likely. Following the election, those findings fell to 71%and 47% respectively.”
GRANNY KILLER ANDREW, “GOVERNOR DEATH,” IS IN A SNIT: NY Governor “furious” that cops won’t enforce his Thanksgiving crackdown.
ONE WOULD THINK THAT GINNING UP A BOGUS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AIMED AT UNSEATING A NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT WOULD BE BAD FOR DEMOCRACY. But remember that when leftists talk about “democracy” it’s just a synonym for their political power. But it’s certainly rich to hear them talk about Trump trampling norms. The poison started with Al Gore’s un-concession in 2000, if not before.
Don’t ever expect them to admit it, though, or even realize it.
UPDATE: Related:
WELL, THAT WAS CONVENIENT: Humans simultaneously evolved the ability to use tools, teach tool usage.
SHOCKER: Switching to e-cigarettes from smoking reduces toxic chemical exposure. “Switching to pod e-cigarettes significantly reduced exposure to toxins which cause disease, [and] smokers who made a complete switch experienced the greatest reduction in exposure, [while those] who made a partial switch also experienced reduced harm.” Obviously, we need to ban these immediately.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Listen — strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!”
The New Hotness? Armed Medieval Soldier Found at Bottom of Lithuanian Lake.
AL GORE HAS YET TO COMMENT: Team Trump: Evidence Shows ‘More Than Double’ the Vote Margin in Swing States Is From Illegal Ballots.
THE WAY I SEE IT, THERE’S NO POINT HAVING ONE OF THESE UNLESS YOU ALSO HAVE A DRIVER: 2021 Mercedes-Maybach S580 Luxury Liner Has It All, and Then Some.
