TYLER O’NEIL: Five Reasons Why Trump Vetoed the Military Spending Bill.
JOEL KOTKIN: God and the Pandemic.
Although hardly as lethal as the ancient plagues, the current pandemic has taken an enormous toll on our sense of wellbeing. Gallup reports the highest levels of mental anguish for 20 years in the United States, a phenomenon also evident in the United Kingdom and Europe. Yet, historically, religions have expanded during periods of extreme stress, a trend that provides grounds for a spiritual rebirth. As church attendance has plummeted—two-thirds of US Protestant churches have suffered a decline this year of 50 percent or more—virtual church attendance is booming. According to Pew, a quarter of Americans say the pandemic has bolstered their faith, a finding confirmed by Gallup. Today, many online churches are flourishing, some with as many as 70,000 virtual attendees. Google searches for “prayer” and “Christianity” have “skyrocketed,” not only in the US but around the world. Danish researcher Jeanet Sinding Bentzen found requests for religious sources and prayers has grown dramatically, even in heavily secularized Europe. Similarly, one of the UK’s largest online Christian bookstores, Eden, saw physical Bible sales rise by 55 percent in April.
Hmm.
TWO MORE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE SLEEPER DIET:
● An Interview With Willie Nelson at 87: “I Didn’t Ever Think I’d Get This Old.”
● Keith Richards gets a cockroach named after him for his 77th birthday.
Classical reference in headline:
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Searching for the ‘Anti’ in ‘Antiracism.’
POLITICO MAKES IT OFFICIAL, GOES FULL PALACE GUARD: “At the very beginning of this interminable year, Justin Trudeau grew a beard. The beard was Significant, a symbol of a once-youthful prime minister who was now older and wiser and battle-scarred. Many headlines were written. It was a simpler time, when we had nothing better to do than debate the merits of facial hair as an indicator of gravitas. But beard or no, this year has changed Trudeau’s image.”
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
HEADLINES FROM 1960: IBM Makes Tape Storage Better Than Ever.
QUESTION ASKED: Who would want to be Joe Biden’s attorney general?
Whoever Biden nominates will face blunt questions about these issues from the Senate Judiciary Committee and will undoubtedly pledge to leave prosecutorial decisions about the Bidens to career professionals, not political appointees. If the nominee served in the Obama-era DoJ, he or she will have to explain the department’s role in the Russia collusion investigation and FISA-abuse scandals as well. Those questions will be much harsher if Republicans control the Senate after the Georgia runoffs.
Earlier: Perdue and Loeffler edge into lead in Georgia, ‘should’ win both. Don’t get cocky, to coin an Instaphrase.
THIS HASN’T BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR MODELS: Model predicts where Lyme disease-carrying ticks will develop.
COVERING THE IMPORTANT HISTORY: Getting It Right About the New York Sun’s “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”
GETTING WOKE, GOING BROKE? Can Fox News Turn Things Around?
It’s a bombshell allegation, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is all over it — with a pillow, as Iowahawk would say:
Evergreen:
FASTER, PLEASE: Ted Cruz, Preserving Trump Legacy, Heads Off Biden At The Pass On Rejoining Iran Deal, Paris Climate Accords. Cruz, “taking heed of Joe Biden’s public pronouncements indicating he would rejoin the Paris Agreement and rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, sent a letter to President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that would head Biden off at the pass, asking Trump to submit the deals as treaties, thus forcing any such actions by Biden to be submitted to the Senate for approval.”
JAMES BOVARD: 11th-hour COVID-19 relief deal proves again that Congress is unfit to govern.
After the pork-ridden “stimulus” bill of over a decade ago, the Insta-Dad commented that the political class had just figured out that the federal government could borrow a lot more money than they had thought, and that this was likely to end badly.
ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER: CA Dem Who Pushed Plum Contract to Biden-Linked Firm Tapped for Senate Seat.
HIGHER EDUCATION’S JACKBOOTED THUGS: Professors face firing for criticizing funding of ‘social justice’ activities at public college.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: New Mexico walks back ‘free’ college tuition promise, can no longer afford it.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: We Need a Vaccine to Save Us From Bipartisan ‘Relief’ Bills. “There’s the thing — all of the media chatter about this has been referring to it as a COVID relief bill. Yes, we’re all aware that this is how these spending bills get done. That’s the problem though, isn’t it? This little pork dance just gets worse with each new spending bill. Ninety-nine percent of the people who get elected to the House or Senate immediately become afflicted with brain damage that renders them incapable of understanding the meaning of ‘fiscal responsibility’.”
ASHEVILLE ON THE SURFACE: The U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine USS Asheville steams off the coast of Guam during a photo exercise with the French Navy’s nuclear powered submarine FS Émeraude. As the caption says, FS Émeraude is not pictured. The two subs were practicing what the Navy calls “high end maritime skills.”
“High end” translates as a war with a peer or near-peer adversary. This recent column, The Navy’s Robot War in the South China Sea, discusses a fleet battle problem designed to test unmanned combat systems and integrate them with manned warships.
…for years, USVs (unmanned surface vessels) and UUVs (unmanned underwater vessels) have served the Navy well in jobs like sweeping mines, anti-submarine warfare and intelligence gathering.
But now the Navy is experimenting with more complex unmanned systems. A sub like the Asheville could deploy with its own squadron of autonomous and semi-autonomous USVs and UUVs. Here’s a photo of an early version of a UUV (circa 2012). This is a 2016 photo of an experimental USV, the Sea Hunter. The caption notes it was a DARPA program.
The 2021 fleet battle problem will be held somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, but “no matter where the Navy conducts the exercise, the target audience and target adversary is China.” Read the entire column.
UPDATE: An article on unmanned aerial vehicles that are disguised as birds. The air is already a domain of drone and robot warfare. Jim Dunnigan wrote it last night and I’m just now reading it. He mentions the “silence” (low noise signature) and “invisibility” (low visibility) of the UAVs. The Navy wants to deploy unmanned vessels with these characteristics. For that matter, manned vessels as well. Submariners understand — low noise signatures and hiding are the submariners’ game.
JOEL KOTKIN: Peak Progressive?
In the minds of most progressives, as well as some horrified conservatives, California is the harbinger of America’s future. Governor Gavin Newsom sees his state as a model, claiming California is “the envy of the world” and the great bastion of social justice. “Unlike the Washington plutocracy,” he boasts, “California isn’t satisfied serving a powerful few on one side of the velvet rope.”
Yet it is ever more clear to ever more Californians that our state is becoming exactly the vast gated community Newsom warns about. As Ali Modarres showed in “The Demographic Transformation of California” (2003), the “shared prosperity” of the Pat Brown years were based on a broad-based economy spanning the gamut from agriculture and oil to aerospace and finance, software, and basic manufacturing. In contrast, the Newsom progressive model is built largely around one industry—high tech—which provides increasingly little opportunity for most Californians, and now shows disturbing signs of moving elsewhere.
Current progressive policies are chasing key companies out of the state—including, just within the last week, tech giants Tesla, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, and Oracle, all of which are heading to Texas. But the real problem lies in the state’s fading appeal to outsiders. It is losing domestic migrants and, increasingly, losing appeal to immigrants as well. California retains many of its great assets—a huge concentration of technical talent, a robust grassroots economy, unmatched physical beauty, and a remarkably pleasant climate—but these are being increasingly squandered. The question now is whether Californians will challenge the status quo.
Yes, it is.
Oulèye Ndoye, the now-ex-wife of Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock, told police officers following a March dispute in Atlanta that he is a “great actor” and that she’s been trying to hide his behavior from the public for “a long time,” according to newly aired bodycam footage.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired footage of the incident late Tuesday, which showed Ms. Ndoye tearfully telling a police officer: “This man’s running for United States Senate, and all he cares about right now is his reputation. I work at the mayor’s office. This is a big problem. I’ve been trying to be very quiet about the way that he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation. I’ve been trying to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line,” she continued in the video. “So that is what is going on here. And he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show.”
Eh, it’s not that great a show. But imagine the show the press would be putting on if this were David Perdue.
CONGRESS DOES A BETTER JOB OF LOOKING OUT FOR THEIR BUDDIES IN HOLLYWOOD THAN THEY DO FOR YOU AND ME: 10 years in prison for illegal streaming? It’s in the Covid-19 relief bill.
THE SUBMARINES THAT WANTED TO BE SEEN: U.S. and Israeli Submarine Transits Of Suez, Hormuz Were Signal To Iran.
BYRON YORK: The Democrats’ Eric Swalwell Problem.
House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. But it’s going to be an uphill battle. Republicans are pushing harder and harder to learn more about Swalwell’s relationship with Chinese spy Christine Fang. And the Democrats’ strongest ally — the New York Times, which has averted its eyes and so far refused to publish even one word about the matter — can’t hold out forever.
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is demanding the FBI brief all members of the Intelligence Committee on what the bureau knows about the relationship between Swalwell and Fang. That relationship began some time after Fang arrived in the U.S. in 2011, before Swalwell was elected to Congress, and continued through 2015, by which time Swalwell had won election to the House and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi picked him for a coveted spot on the Intelligence Committee.
U.S. authorities had Fang under surveillance and apparently picked up information about her having some sort of personal relationship with a member of Congress — Swalwell. In 2015, the FBI met with Swalwell — again, a member of the Intelligence Committee — to inform him that Fang was a spy. Swalwell says he immediately cut off all contact with Fang, who quickly left the U.S. in mid-2015.
In the next year, 2016, Swalwell started accusing the Trump campaign of collusion with Russia. He proposed a 9/11-style commission to investigate the alleged influence of Russian spy agencies with candidate Donald Trump and top members of his campaign. No one in the public knew it at the time, but Swalwell had just recently had some sort of involvement with a spy himself — one the FBI had actually warned him about. As 2016 and 2017 went on, Swalwell became one of the leading voices attacking President Trump and his Republican defenders on the debunked Russia issue.
Question: By pushing the divisive, destructive — and false — “Russian collusion” narrative, was Swalwell doing the bidding of the Chinese government, as it worked to destabilize the United States?
WE SURE COULD USE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF THIS: US strikes at the heart of China’s bid to become a tech superpower.
Washington announced Friday that it will require US exporters to apply for a license before they can sell to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). The US government claims that the chipmaker can use its tech to help China modernize its armed forces. SMIC (SIUIF) says it has no relationship with the Chinese military.
But in a statement on Sunday, the company acknowledged that while the restrictions are unlikely to hurt its short-term operations, its loftier goals are in doubt. The new US rules will have “a material adverse effect” on its ability to develop highly advanced chips, it said.
That’s because Washington has said that any request to export tech needed to produce super advanced chips “will be subject to a presumption of denial” — a major problem for SMIC, which uses American-made software and equipment to create its chips.
I guess we’ll see whether or not Joe Biden is the kind of politician who stays bought.
MICHAEL WALSH: Stimulus Bill Stimulates Congress’s Lust for Power.
They call it the “Great Reset,” an opportunistic power grab by the international oligarchy to finally destroy the nation-state in the name of global governance, whose motto, like the Left’s, is “by any means necessary,” which very much includes both COVID-19 and “global warming” in their tactical philosophy. As Matthew 7:16 says, “By their fruits shall ye know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
So it is with the thorn-and-thistle-strewn 5,593-page “stimulus” bill, which includes $10 million for “gender programs” in Pakistan and a whole section on “horseracing integrity and safety.” Their contempt for you is a bitter mockery of the Founders’ aspirations to republican democracy, pearls before swine except the “pearls” are faux and the swine are you. Trump should veto it immediately.
This is what comes of a country that purports to be “of laws, not men,” but is in fact a nation of lawyers, not men. Rather, America was first imagined and then created by European intellectuals, artists, statesmen—patriots with both taste and rifles. Men came first, then the laws that they made—not the other way around. That we are “a nation of laws, not men” is one of the stupidest clichés around, as is the idea that America is a “notional” country to which anyone can belong upon a pledge—however dishonestly made—to uphold the Constitution.
On the contrary, the United States of America was founded on the principles of the English and Scottish Enlightenment—settled not colonized (unlike the Spanish possessions in the New World)—with an eye to creating something never before seen in the history of the world: A self-governing land, ruled by neither by pompadoured potentates nor periwigged black robes but by the citizenry.
In other words, we are not subjects of a “notional” nation, but one with a direct, easily provable Anglo-European inheritance. A free country created by free men, who over the course of two and a half centuries have established laws to serve their vision of freedom and liberty within the framework of a Constitution written by dead white male property owners who put their lives on the line for the good of all.
When those laws or the “interpretations” thereof constrain freedom and liberty upon which the country was founded, they can and should be ignored and abolished.
What would the Founders have said to Covid? To panic? To fear? During a yellow fever pandemic, Americans moved our capital from Philadelphia to the new shining city on a hill, Washington. During the darkest hours of the War of 1812, President James Madison and, later, his wife, Dolley, fled a burning White House, taking with her copies of Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington and the Declaration of Independence. Can we do any less?
Now our elected representatives machinate against us. The Supreme Court, led by the moral and intellectual weakling John Roberts (a Bush appointee, of course), reject the plain language of the Constitution in order to preserve its “institutional legitimacy”—never mind the plain language of Article Three, which even a lawyer ought to be able to comprehend, but willfully won’t.
As Michael writes, “In short, they laugh in our faces and ask us to beg for more. And then they leave $600 on the dresser for us to shut up and go away. There’s a word for people who take that deal. Are you one of them?”
Apparently, President Trump isn’t: Trump Blasts Democrats for ‘Wasteful’ COVID Bill, Calls Out Its Most Ridiculous Spending, Threatens Veto.
MARK JUDGE: Who ordered the “code red” on me?
WHEN YOUR KID SAYS CAPITALISM IS GREED: Colson Center’s Brook McIntire offers three handy facts about free enterprise that will make the average college econ prof instantly turn apoplectic. Wouldn’t you love to be there to see it!
December 22, 2020
SEEMS FAIR. I MEAN, THEY’VE OBVIOUSLY FAILED AT THEIR JOBS. Commission Votes to Dissolve Board of Health: Even as Knox County COVID cases mount, the body that has guided the pandemic response may lose its authority.
WELL, HE’S RIGHT: Trump rips coronavirus stimulus bill as disgrace.
MARK CUNNINGHAM: De Blasio’s push for new ThriveNYC waste is latest low of his fake mayoralty. It’s not “waste.” It’s theft.
TRUMP ANNOUNCES SLEW OF PARDONS.
Among those pardoned by the president are George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign who pled guilty to lying to the FBI during the Russia investigation, and Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer who pled guilty and was sentenced to jail for lying to investigators during the Mueller probe.
The president also pardoned four Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians and former congressmen Duncan Hunter of California, Chris Collins of New York, and Steve Stockman of Texas.
Curiously, unlike the last three Democrats in the White House, no terrorists on the pardon list, so far.
HUNTER BIDEN’S FAMILY NAME AIDED DEALS WITH FOREIGN TYCOONS:
Hunter Biden ramped up business activities with European and Chinese tycoons as his father exited the vice presidency four years ago. For him it was a potential path to income; for the tycoons, the Biden family name promised to burnish their reputations.
The dealings got the younger Mr. Biden a discounted stake in a private-equity firm in China and consulting arrangements with a Romanian property magnate and overall allowed him to maintain a globe-trotting lifestyle, according to interviews, documents and communications reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. A Chinese energy tycoon gave Mr. Biden a 2.8-carat diamond, and entities linked to him wired nearly $5 million to Mr. Biden’s law firm, according to an investigation by Senate Republicans.
These arrangements now loom over President-elect Joe Biden. A federal criminal tax investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings is under way, with findings potentially trickling out in coming months. His business ties to well-connected people in China and other places could add to scrutiny of foreign-policy decisions taken by the Biden administration over possible conflicts of interest. All are likely to provide ammunition to Republicans.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), who has led the Senate Finance Committee whose Republican staff helped investigate Hunter Biden, has said he would continue to look into what he says are possible counterintelligence and criminal concerns related to Mr. Biden’s business dealings.
“Based on all the facts known to date, Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do,” Mr. Grassley said recently.
I’m sure Biden considers Grassley to be a one horse pony, as well.
IF YOU LIKE YOUR FRACKING, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FRACKING: Biden ‘czars’ spark GOP fears of unchecked climate agenda.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Future Biden Education Secretary Oversaw Creation of Critical Theory Class for High Schoolers.
FLASHBACK: How the Ruling Class Rules.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! “Joe Biden laughs when Fox News’ Peter Doocy asks if he still thinks the allegations against Hunter Biden are Russian disinformation: ‘Yes, yes, yes. God love you, man. You’re a one horse pony.’”
THE EXODUS IS HERE: Your Christmas Present: Our Political Leaders Are Killing Off New York City.
Up in the state legislature, the Democrats have just increased their majority in the state Senate. All the buzz is about a new “millionaire’s tax” of several additional percent for those with annual income exceeding $1 million. And in New York City, Mayor de Blasio on December 18 held a news conference where he blurted out these words:
“I’d like to say very bluntly our mission is to redistribute wealth,” the mayor said. “A lot of people bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.”
The purpose of the “redistribution of wealth” is supposedly to fix the City’s schools. Those schools currently spend about $28,000 per year per student on K-12 education, which is well more than double the national average. As usual, de Blasio takes no responsibility for the failure of New York City schools to achieve even near-average results for almost triple the cost elsewhere in the country, and just demands more and more and yet more money.
They are doing their very best to kill off our city.
And they’re getting plenty of help: Foreign and domestic (Antifa) terror threats continue against police in NYC.
All of which is contributing to this headline: New York Had Largest 2019-20 Population Decline of Any State.
Socialism: If you build it, they will leave.
SMALL SIGNS OF SANITY IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Antifa Rioter Tries to Weasel Out of Andy Ngo Lawsuit. This Judge Isn’t Having It.
MYSTIFIED MITTENS: Romney Baffled That 2024 GOP Contenders “are trying to become as much like Donald Trump as they can be.”
Romney accepting his 2012 pummeling by the DNC-MSM without fighting back was one of the key mile-markers on the road to Trump.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF GOYA’S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH AND ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: AOC has a left flank and it has already accused her of selling out.
SHE’S LOSING IT: Nancy Pelosi Goes on CNN and Has a Meltdown Too Amazing to Miss.
(Bumped.)
SENDING YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS PARENTAL MALPRACTICE: Cops Threaten To Arrest Mom Who Wouldn’t Show ID When She Picks Her Kids Up From School. “I pulled the kids and I’m homeschooling.”
Smart.
CARRY A SEMI-AUTO? What’s the Fastest Way to Reload Your Revolver?
AUGMENTED REALITY AND THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Things are getting spicy in Detroit! The city is suing BLM protestors for ‘civil conspiracy.’
Earlier this year a group of Black Lives Matter organizers won a suit against the city of Detroit alleging police had used excessive force against protestors. But now the city is suing them right back saying demonstrators were part of a “civil conspiracy.”
As a famous community organizer likes to say, punch back twice as hard.
SPACE RACE II: Biden Advisors Want ‘Cooperation’ with China. “Now we’re supposed to believe that cooperating with Communist China — flush with American dollars and far more technologically advanced and adept than the Soviets ever were — will buy us even more peace on Earth?”
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WOULDN’T IT BE SIMPLER, IF THE GOVERNMENT SIMPLY DISSOLVED THE PEOPLE AND ELECTED ANOTHER? Cornell Student Government Fails To Disarm Police, So They Expel Opposition Members And Vote Again.
IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE REASONS: Hypocrite Joe Biden Gets Vaccinated After Suggesting for Months It Might Not Be Safe.
SO WHEN WILL MUSK START PRODUCING A LINE OF SMALL ‘POWERX’ THORIUM REACTORS? Toyota CEO Agrees With Elon Musk: We Don’t Have Enough Electricity to Electrify All the Cars.
RICH LOWRY: Joe Biden’s climate agenda is all about creating a crisis — not actually fixing one.
As Thomas Sowell said in 2004, “There’s something Eric Hoffer said: ‘Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.’ There always has to be a crisis–some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinking masses. It doesn’t matter what the crisis is. A hundred years ago it was eugenics. At the time of the first Earth Day a generation ago, the big scare was global cooling, a big ice age. They go from one to the other. It meets their psychological needs and gives them a reason for exercising their power.”
Although today, 50 years after “Earth Day,” the left’s obsession with global warming is beginning to feel like a bad third season Star Trek rerun you’ve seen waaaay too many times: We’ve had FDR’s original New Deal (which itself was staffed with lots of WWI retreads under the motto of “we planned in war”), then LBJ’s Great Society, his Texas-sized version of the New Deal, then Obama’s “New, New Deal,” (which was dubbed the “Green New Deal” in some quarters in 2009), then AOC’s stillborn Green New Deal last year, which promised to ban “farting cows and airplanes,” and pretty much everything else, and now Biden’s version of the Green Nude Eel.
Also 50 years on, to paraphrase Kathy Shaidle on Trump as Hitler, I’m already on (at least) my fourth apocalypse:
Of course, as Nick Gillespie of Reason noted earlier this year, Joe Biden’s $2 Trillion Green New Deal Is Just a Worn-Out Democratic Jobs Program:
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Congress Agrees To Second Airline Bailout. United’s CEO Prepares To Ask For A Third.
GOYA’S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Why AOC should be next to lead the DNC.
On the other hand, she’s also making enemies on both sides of the aisle: Let them fight! Ilhan Omar torches young, healthy reps like AOC for getting COVID vaccination and we’re here for it. Some on the right also aren’t happy to see Sandy cutting to the head of the line: “All hail AOC, Death Panel Princess…”
On the gripping hand, given the large number of leftwing anti-vaccine truthers, there is something to be said for prominent leftists being photographed receiving the vaccine.
DENVER: Mayor Hancock Issues Pre-Apology for His Upcoming Christmas Travel. “To those of you who disapprove of my trip and believe it is hypocritical, I pre-apologize from the bottom of my heart for the way you’ll feel seeing me live it up with my family and friends on Christmas while you spend the holiday alone.”
Satire… or is it?
ART OF THE DEAL: Trump ‘Overturned’ Mideast Peace Assumptions, US Envoy Tells UN Security Council. “For decades, the prevailing assumption was that the world would only see normalized international relations with Israel following a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. But we have proven this assumption wrong.”
Plus: “All of us here should think long and hard about what else we may have missed or misinterpreted over the years.”
STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT: Pelosi calls $600 stimulus checks ‘significant’ but said $1k tax cut bonuses were ‘crumbs’ in 2018.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Pork Apocalypse COVID Relief Package Shows Washington Is Dominated by Progressives.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What is 900 billion American dollars divided by 330 million Americans?
Answer: $2,727. But you’re still only getting $600, rube.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Meet the non-binary hardcore SJW deciding who gets the COVID vaccine
- You can trust Chris Krebs this time, honest
- Dear Santa: Andrew Cuomo has been a very good boy this year. Love, Andrew’s mom
Bonus Sanity: Unity achieved — everybody hates Washington.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
2020 IN A SINGLE SENTENCE:
As a prominent Trump supporter famously asked, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
THE LEFT’S WAR ON ASIAN IMMIGRANTS CONTINUES: De Blasio to destroy New York’s top public schools to run an experiment in diversity.
REFILL THE SWAMP: Biden Taps Liberal Billionaire’s Acolyte for Top Econ. Job. “Incoming Biden adviser’s last project said capitalism ‘fundamentally broken’.”
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