December 15, 2020

SHOULD WE CARE THE DURHAM PROBE IS EXPANDING? The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz is skeptical. Why? Well, for one thing, once his or her work is completed, a Special Counsel submits a confidential report to the Attorney General.

“What if Trump is no longer President after January and there is a Democratic Party appointed Attorney General? Under that scenario, if the Durham Report concludes that Russiagate was all a Democratic Party hoax (which it was), do you really think America will find out what is in the report,” Dunetz asks.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: The Myth that Americans Were Poorly Educated before Mass Government Schooling.

Related: Marvin Olasky on C-Span Booknotes discussing The Tragedy of American Compassion.

JOHN FUND:  California’s Business Climate Deniers.

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COLD WAR II: South China Sea: US warned Beijing of ‘major military breakthrough’ in bid to secure area.

“We’re shooting for early 2021 to be able to run a fleet battle problem that is centred on unmanned [technology].

“It will be on the sea, above the sea and under the sea as we get to demonstrate how we can align to the [U.S. Indo-Pacific Command] directives to use experimentation to drive lethality.”

The decision has been hailed as a “major breakthrough” for the US, according to Eurasiantimes.com.Training operations routinely occur in the waters, by all nations who lay claim to the region.

The US Navy regularly runs fleet battle problems, which allow the military to test how it would deploy its forces should conflict erupt.

It reportedly also wants around $2bn (£1.5bn) to produce 10 unmanned surface vessels during the next five years, a request Congress is currently raising objections about.

Will President Biden continue standing up for freedom of navigation the way President Trump has?

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OF COURSE THEY DO:  Media still largely ignore Hunter Biden story.

CRAZY IVAN: Russian hackers hit US government using widespread supply chain attack.

EPOCH TIMES EDITORIAL: With Our Election System Under Assault, Americans Need to Speak Up.

Many of us here at The Epoch Times have lived under communist regimes, both in China and other parts of the world, and know firsthand its tyranny. Our freedoms in America have allowed us to flourish and also to warn our fellow citizens that these very freedoms are now at risk.

If we don’t take a stance and speak out at this critical moment, we will see the CCP and its allied communist forces complete their decades-long quest to subdue American freedom.

During the Sept. 11 attacks, 40 Americans on Flight 93 fought the terrorist hijackers to defend the nation’s capital. These were ordinary people taking extraordinary action. They were brave Americans. Before they took action, they voted. Even at the moment of a life-and-death test, on a hijacked plane, they voted.

They voted, prayed, and then acted. This is the American spirit. This is the American belief and the American tradition. We take each vote as sacred. We vote to make a decision, believe in the result, and act on it.

The 2020 general election is exposing the true position of every individual, every company, every media outlet, and even every country across the globe.

At a hearing on election fraud in Michigan on Nov. 27, witness Melissa Carone was asked why more people had not come forward to testify. Her answer: “My life has been destroyed, my life has been completely destroyed, because of this. I have lost family, I have lost friends. I have been threatened. My kids have been threatened. I have had to move. I have had to change my phone number.”

But in spite of having faced this hostility, she came forward to publicly testify. She bravely put the country’s good above her own situation.

During our War of Independence, Thomas Paine said, “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

So, too, is today.

Read the whole thing.

HEH: “When I first started teaching at Stanford, someone remarked to me that he had never met a physicist who used ‘Dr.,’ and never met a Ph.D. from the Education school who did not. This has held true in my experience for decades now.”

Plus, from Ann Althouse: “I’ve elided some of the text, but there’s nothing in it that goes after women in particular. It’s not misogynistic at all. Epstein is right to advise non-physicians to eschew the ‘Dr.’ honorific. He could be criticized for not showing any concern for how women in particular have used this mode of demanding respect and dignity. But in a way, he’s showing respect by talking to Jill Biden the way he’d talk to a man: It’s ridiculous! Cut the crap!”

WHY ARE LEFT-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Warner Bros. Concludes Misconduct Investigation Of Joss Whedon And Other Producers, Says ‘Remedial Action’ Taken.

WELCOME MARK TAPSCOTT TO PJ MEDIA’S LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS: Justice Samuel Alito’s Gift to America Will Keep Giving Year-Round.

ICYMI: REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: With U.S. Senate Runoffs Near, Georgia’s Not Prosecuting Its Unprecedented Number of Double Voters.

AT LEAST HE WASN’T BEHEADED: Tennessee Lawyer Fired for Saying Islam Isn’t a Peaceful Religion.

LEFTISTS DESERVE TO BE MOCKED, ESPECIALLY THESE LEFTISTS: Four Student Groups Demand That Harvard Discipline Law Prof Adrian Vermeule For Tweets Mocking Leftists. Frankly, this call suggests a lack of intellectual and moral fitness to practice law. These students’ behavior is both risible and fundamentally indecent.

His response should be “Go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.”

IF THEY’RE VACCINATED, WHY WEAR THE FACE DIAPER OF SUBMISSION AT ALL.  YO, LEFTIES, HAVE YOU ALL LOST YOUR FRIGGING MINDS?  A former Facebook exec suggested people who get a Covid vaccine should wear special masks “so that they can signal to others that they are vaccinated.”

… Our so called tech lords look like lizard people and crackheads…. because they are. Prove me wrong.

HOWEVER, TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO’S LIVED THROUGH INSURRECTION AND MASSIVE NATIONAL INSANITY (IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, GRANTED), MOST INSURRECTION AND INSANITY, MOST SYSTEM CHANGE, MOST UNSTABLE AND VIOLENT TIMES, ARE STILL — LIKE RIOTS! ;) — MOSTLY PEACEFUL. AND YOU NEED TO HAVE A NORMAL LIFE, IN BETWEEN ALL THE INSANITY. EVEN THE FOUNDING FATHERS — OR THEIR WIVES, AT LEAST — PLANTED AND HARVESTED: Keeping Your Feet In An Avalanche.

WE’RE ALL EXHAUSTED AND FURIOUS, AND WONDERING IF THEY REALLY THINK WE’RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE OUR LYING EYES. ORGANIZE? LISTEN, IT’S GOING TO GET REALLY UGLY, REALLY FAST, EVEN IF THE INDIVIDUALISTS NEVER ORGANIZE:  Where things stand at this hour.

THEY WANT TO TURN US ALL INTO SHEEP, BECAUSE SHEEP ARE EASY TO SHEAR:  The Dehumanization of the Non-Compliant.

WAIT, I’M SUPPOSED TO BE SURPRISED?  China Watch: Leaked Database Shows CCP in US Companies.

IF YOU’RE A BELIEVER, PRAY. IF YOU’RE NOT A BELIEVER PRAY ANYWAY. THE NOVELTY JUST MIGHT GET HIMSELF’S ATTENTION: Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Absentee Ballot Distribution Violated State Law, Opens Door For Challenges.

I’M SARAH A. HOYT AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE:  Moving Back to America Episode 0: UP FROM DESPAIR. [VIDEO]

DOCUMENTARY ON THE CURRENT MESS:  Who Is Stealing America?

[mirrored from The Epoch Times, no login required]

Partly an overview of assorted fraud evidence, but some I had not seen/not presented in the various state hearings, primarily focused on China’s involvement. Takes a while to get going.

December 14, 2020

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OPEN THREAD: If you have a doctorate in education, sing out in the comments.

OPERATION WARP SPEED: Trump was right about the vaccine release.

NBC hardest hit:

BOB MCMANUS: NYC’s suffering from delusion that you can maintain order without coercion.

I think they’re fine with the coercion so long as it’s aimed at ordinary citizens and not criminals.

RIP: Tony-winning choreographer, actress Ann Reinking dies at 71.

HMM: Exclusive: Firefly Reboot Coming To Disney+. Given what Disney has done to Star Wars, I’m not sure we should celebrate.

WELL-DESERVED, IF SO: With his star dimmed, California’s Newsom could face recall.

ONE SIMPLE STATISTIC SHOWS CUOMO IS DESTROYING NYC’S RESTAURANT INDUSTRY FOR NO REASON:

Cuomo’s decision to follow through on his threat to shut down restaurants has received enormous backlash, in part because its very basis is undercut by the governor’s own data. Restaurants and bars have driven only 1.4 percent of New York’s COVID-19 cases, according to the state’s contact tracing program. Meanwhile, private personal gatherings have driven nearly 75 percent of the state’s COVID-19 spread.

So Cuomo is shutting down an industry—crushing small businesses and putting service workers out of a job—that is only making a minuscule contribution to the spread of COVID-19. (After all, restaurants have operated at reduced capacity, required mask-wearing, heightened sanitization protocols, and more.)

Understandably, restaurateurs were infuriated by the governor’s arbitrary and baseless order.

No reason? But why does Cuomo need one? When Oliver Stone wrote Gordon Gekko’s line at the climax of Wall Street that he was wrecking Martin Sheen’s small airline company “because it’s wreckable,” it was just another moment of leftwing projection.

BIDEN: RELAX, THE CHINESE ARE OUR FRIENDS. Sprawling hack of federal agencies spurs alarm in White House.

Utterly unrelated: Rep. Crenshaw: Media, Democrats Won’t Dig Into Swalwell Scandal.

HONESTLY, THIS NUMBER SEEMS LOW TO ME. One in five with COVID-19 passes it to others in household, data shows. At least, lower than I expected. But a nephew who was pretty sick with Covid for a couple of weeks never did infect my sister or brother-in-law. He did isolate himself in his room, which is an addition with separate HVAC, and I sent them one of these HEPA/UV air filters, but still. And a high school friend whose family caught it in NYC in early March never did get it; 3 out of 6 in her family were sick and the others just never came down with it despite being in constant proximity.

Plus: “Households are favorable environments for transmission.” Interestingly, our whole strategy seems to have involved keeping people in their households as much as possible.

DISPATCHES FROM THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA: Stacey Abrams: Challenging Election Results Is OK When She Does It.

BREAKING: Attorney General William Barr Resigns.

HIS FRAUDULENCY REACHES 270: Biden Officially Passes 270 Vote Threshold As Electors Cast Their Votes.

MARK STEYN ON ONE OF ERIC SWALWELL’S PREDECESSORS: Monsieur Butterfly.

How quaint it sounds: the “honey trap”. But it can be a lonely life out there on the diplomatic circuit, and. for an enterprising intelligence agency, the wallflower at the embassy ball is still a reliable way to access your enemy’s secrets. As it happens, Mr. Hudson’s career self-detonated only a few days after the death of one of the most famous honey traps of the post-war era, the Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu.

Shi was a he, although for a while that wasn’t entirely clear. As a famous headline in Le Monde wondered: “Espion ou espionne?” Spy or spy-ette? James Bond or Pussy Galore? When Bernard Boursicot first saw him across a crowded room at some enchanted diplomatic evening in Beijing in 1964, the espion was certainly a he – a slip of a lad in his mid-twenties but already an accomplished singer and actor, and socially assured.

By contrast, M Boursicot was the French Embassy’s accountant, a 20-year-old schnook from the wrong side of the tracks whom the career diplomats already figured for a loser. The girls in the typing pool called him Bouricot – “Donkey” – and not as a compliment. He was a virgin, lonely and longing for love. And there, at the centre of attention, was the glamorous young Chinaman, if that’s the word.

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

I BLAME #ORANGEMANBAD AND STUPID ANTI-SCIENCE RED-STATERS: Japan halts travel campaign amid record surge in COVID-19 cases.

Related: South Korea closes schools, opens new testing sites amid COVID-19 outbreak.

FIVE REASONS NOT TO THROW MORE MONEY AT COVID STIMULUS: The Heritage Foundation’s Rachel Grezler and Adam Michel line’em up like ducks.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: In 2017, CBS’s Scott Pelley had this exchange with blogger/tweeter Mike Cernovich during a 60 Minutes interview that ultimately went quite badly — for Pelley:

Scott Pelley: How would you describe what you do?

Mike Cernovich: I’m a lawyer, author, documenter, filmmaker, and journalist.

Scott Pelley: And how would you describe your website?

Mike Cernovich: Edgy, controversial content that goes against the dominant narrative.

Scott Pelley: What’s the dominant narrative?

Mike Cernovich: The dominant narrative is that there are good guys and there are bad guys. The good guys are liberals. Everybody on the right is a bad guy. Let’s find a way to make everybody look bad. Let’s tie marginal figures who have no actual influence to anybody we cannot overwrite. That’s the narrative.

Scott Pelley: That’s not a narrative I’m familiar with. Who’s narrative is that?

CBS’s, of course:

Exit question: Does CBS News “have a right to bear arms access reporter? How about a freedom of religion reporter? Activism from a major news network is fine but it is weird when they claim to be unbiased.”

ROBERT HEINLEIN ON the value of an education doctorate.

SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: ‘Full Speed Ahead’: Durham Expands Russian Collusion Hoax Investigation.

THE DEVILS WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, THEY WERE LOOKING FOR AN ELECTION TO STEAL: Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib star in Raphael Warnock vote-a-thon event. Having these three come down to defend Warnock against charges of anti-semitism is as if Lester Maddox had brought in George Lincoln Rockwell to defend him against charges of racism.

JUST THINK OF THEM AS CCP OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: NYT has not covered the Swalwell Chinese spy honeytrap scandal a single time.

ANOTHER REASON FOR ALUMNI TO STOP GIVING: What’s Up, Doc?  Northwestern University hastens to cancel Joseph Epstein for advising Jill Biden to drop her favorite honorific. How dare he question a doctor of education?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): It’s good to see the weight of our journalistic and academic establishments being brought to bear to protect the self-esteem of a rich, powerful white woman.

HEH: The COVID Vaccine Is a Trump Miracle, Experts Said So.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Proper Training After Changing Your Everyday Carry Gun.

FREE THE MARKETS: How to Fix Capitalism. Why do half of younger Americans want to live in a socialist country? It’s not just because of the nonsense spewed in schools, says Edward L. Glaeser.

Over the past 40 years, insiders have increasingly captured the American economy—from homeowners opposed to new housing construction near them to incumbent firms that benefit from the overregulation of employment to interest groups that have transformed the federal government into the equivalent of a pension system with a nuclear arsenal. The young are usually outsiders; the bill for the insiders’ triumph has been laid in their laps. The Covid-19 pandemic reinforces this dynamic. Middle-aged teachers, protected by powerful unions, Zoom their classes from the comfort of their homes, and students get lost in the shuffle. The mortality risk of the disease to the young is tiny; yet they are told to give up the freedom of their youth to protect the rest of us. . . .

What many young people today don’t realize is that socialism is a machine for empowering insiders.

Capitalism, from its inception, was designed for outsiders, but it’s been corrupted by politicians and special interests. To make it attractive again to young outsiders, Glaeser proposes restoring four fundamental freedoms.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Solar-based Electronic Skin Generates Its Own Power.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: NFL ratings plummet as networks slash ad prices. “Average NFL viewership has dropped approximately 8 percent from the 2019 season, but a week for week comparison shows a much worse situation. The NFL had 14.5 million viewers for Week 13 of the season, which is a 29 percent drop from the same week last season.”

MOON RACE 2020: Chinese capsule with moon rocks begins return to Earth.

MATT MARGOLIS:Poll Shows Why Church Is Essential During a Pandemic.

COMMUNISM, FASCISM, JUST OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE SAME COLLECTIVIST COIN: China’s tiny Jewish community in fear as Beijing erases its history. “Despite numbering only a thousand, China’s Jews are falling foul of Beijing’s campaign against non-sanctioned religions.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village.

FANG FANG MEETS CHIN CHIN:

(H/T.)

 

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Our Electoral Processes Need To Be Fixed Well Before 2024.

The problem is that too many positions within the nomenklatura are dependent on those processes not getting fixed.

THIS WILL GO SWIMMINGLY: Russians Are Being Told Not to Drink Before And After Their COVID-19 Vaccinations.

WAIT, I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL DEAD BECAUSE OF NET NEUTRALITY: “Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock described members of the U.S. Senate as ‘gangsters and thugs’ whose votes for a 2017 tax cut exposed their willingness to ‘kill children.’’

I’m so old, I can remember comparing a politician to a gangster was the height of coolness:

● CNN: “Time for Obama to go ‘gangsta’ on GOP.”

Don Cheadle On Obama: “I Wanted To See A More Gangsta President!”

● The Financial Times: Obama needs a gangsta to lay down the law.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Hit By Covid-19, Colleges Do The Unthinkable And Cut Tenure.

Now do the really unthinkable and cut administrators. Ha, as if that’s going to happen.

ARTHUR CHRENKOFF: Gone In 60 Weeks. “The battlespace preparation has already begun, with two independent lines of probing attack launched through the mainstream media: the question of age and infirmity, and the controversy over potential family corruption. On one level, these can be seen as completely innocent: Trump has been defeated – the media having faithfully played its part – so certain issues that were untouchable during the election campaign can now be safely aired. That, after all, is the media’s role in our political system, shining the light and holding those in power accountable. No one can accuse them of not doing their job – finally, now that it won’t help Trump. But on another level, the two lines of attack also serve to soften up public opinion, start constructing the necessary narrative, and prepare the country for the inevitable change of guard at the top, much sooner rather than later, as would normally be expected.”

Anything disposable eventually will be thrown out.

COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES: Songs that Changed Music: Genesis’ ‘Turn It On Again.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The defense-industry swamp is eager to engulf the Biden administration.

LEFTWING THUGS HAVE NEVER BEEN FRIENDS OF THE FREE PRESS: Portland MSM Shocked When Antifa Attacks Them for Covering Armed Takeover. Mike Strickland and Andy Ngo Say Told Ya So.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Facebook Fact-Checker Busted for Trashing Trump, Conservatives on Russian Propaganda Site.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is it Russian collusion to trash talk an American president on a Russian propaganda “news” outlet?

Answer: Not when the right people do it, comrade.

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

  • We just had the most secure election ever…
  • …and the firm providing cybersecurity to Dominion was part of that massive hack
  • Yes, you’re supposed to believe both of those things

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

ROGER SIMON: The Tragic Failure of William Barr.

That was the same AG who promised, what seems like decades ago, he would get to the bottom of the reprehensible, treasonous to many, origin of the Trump-Russia investigation, known hereabouts as Spygate.

He assigned John Durham, a reputedly hard-nosed U.S. attorney from Connecticut, to uncover the sources of this outrage and bring the miscreants to justice.

Unfortunately, within that promise soon emerged a hint of trouble to come. Barr informed us that higher officials—meaning, of course, President Barack Obama and Vice-President Biden—were not in Durham’s brief to investigate, although they had attended a fateful meeting in January 2016 from whence much may have flowed.

Some people were evidently above the law.

As justification for this, Barr made it seem he was trying to put an end to the politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI—and maybe he was …to himself.

Meanwhile, Durham’s investigation dragged on, taking much longer than expected, putatively because of COVID.

But was that so?

Certainly the pandemic caused some inconvenience, but couldn’t grand juries be convened with social distancing and masks? So many other institutions found ways to muddle through.

Some people, we are told, have actually been more productive working from home offices. Surely there was some way of making Zoom secure or other telecommunications as well for Durham’s purposes.

Apparently not enough. The delay continued and continues to this day.

And then the Hunter Biden affair broke into the headlines with the discovery of Hunter’s laptop and the so far uncontested testimony of Biden family business partner Tony Bobulinski, implicating Joe as the “big guy” in dealings with the communist Chinese.

More news broke shortly thereafter that the FBI had had the laptop in its possession for over a year.

This was followed by a leak a couple of months later, interestingly after Joe Biden had “won” the presidential election, that Hunter and James Biden (Joe’s brother) had been under investigation by the IRS and presumably the DOJ for tax evasion and money laundering for some time, much of this involving those same Chinese communists.

William Barr had been mum throughout.

The mainstream media, reliable neo-Stalinists that they are, never reported on any of this when Bobulinski went public. Even now, after the leak, they barely discuss it.

A large portion of the American public had no idea of the Biden Family Scandal when they went to vote on Nov. 3, 2020 or, even more, when they dropped those endless mail-in ballots in whatever boxes.

Polls have appeared indicating a significant number would have voted differently had they known. It was a close election, assuming Biden actually won.

Yet William Barr has remained silent.

His excuse again is that the DOJ should not get involved in politics. Or was he too angry at Donald Trump for meddling in his affairs?

Or perhaps it was a devotion to an institution rather than the American people for whom transparency is needed more than ever.

Whatever the case, that is exactly what he has done, inadvertently or not and despite his denials—get involved in politics.

Bill Barr put his hands on the scale of a presidential election!

By remaining silent on a lengthy investigation of public corruption of the family of a man who would be president, some of which involves that man directly with our principal enemy, William Barr has weighed in heavily on the election, whether he chooses to believe it or not.

He let the electorate continue in ignorance, straight into the voting booth.

Related: Barr reportedly called President Trump a ‘deposed king ranting.’

BELIEVE IN SCIENCE! SCIENCE IS REAL! FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Also: Ohio allows high schoolers to wrestle, but forbids shaking hands before, after matches.

ANOTHER HISTORIC TRUMP TRIUMPH FOR WORLD PEACE: Burj Khalifa lights up for historic Dubai Hanukkah celebrations.

HEALTH: Covid-19 vaccines raise hope for cancer, throw open new field of medicine.

The first vaccines against Covid-19 aren’t just a landmark in the fight against the pandemic. They’re also the stepping stone for an unconventional technology that could one day defeat other ailments that have eluded doctors, from cancer to heart disease.

The shots from Moderna Inc. and a partnership of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE use genetic material called messenger RNA to effectively transform the body’s own cells into vaccine factories. The approach had never been used outside of clinical experiments, and just how well it worked against the coronavirus stunned even some of its most enthusiastic backers.

Now, with one vaccine having gained U.S. clearance and the other close behind, the pandemic validation could wrench open a whole new field of medicine.

Remember when Vice President Joe Biden was supposed to cure cancer? President Donald Trump’s Warp Speed could prove to be more than just another laughable promise from the Obama Administration.

JUSTICE ALITO’S CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR AMERICA: Look what’s happened on the religious freedom front since his November address to The Federalist Society. It’s the gift that really could keep on giving year-round.

NOTE TO THE DESPONDENT: Yes, the Supremes blew it on the Texas case. But, just as the seeds for the first American Revolution were planted from a hundred church pulpits during the Great Awakening (See this from Ellis Sandoz), maybe Alito has watered the seeds of a new rebellion.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Kamala Harris’ husband lands teaching gig at Georgetown University.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Apocalypse Soon—Brush Up On Your Mandarin for the Biden Years. “The tangled, dysfunctional relationship that we have with China right now has been kept in check during the Trump years. The media’s October cover-up has now practically given the CCP a seat at Cabinet meetings.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: After Trump, The Flood…

Most of the other November 2020 Biden supporters are destined to be on a collision course, and they will soon enough realize that their differences are much stronger than what united them and that they were taken for fools. None will be disappointed more than the so-called ‘Progressives’.

The definition of the term progressive has morphed quite significantly over the last decade or so. Currently, it seems to include any one who stands up against Trump; and this is the primordial cause of the confusion and reason for future conflict between them. In reality, what defines the term ‘progressive’ in any existing progressive movement can be totally different from that of another movement; and the difference is not necessarily marginal. Being ‘progressive’ in the 21st Century implies the presence of a very specific agenda or slogan that may or may not be compatible with other ‘progressive’ agendas.

Take the Assange supporters for example. The moment they wake up from their deep slumber, they will realize that the man they supported to become President is actually the leader of the political party that has put Assange in jail for exposing his party’s dirt. I hope that Trump pulls the rug from underneath their feet and pardons Assange before the 20th of January 2021. But will this show the Assange supporters who is who? Not necessarily because if they wanted to open up their eyes and see, they would have seen from day one that Assange’s biggest enemy is none but Hillary Clinton and that she is the one responsible for his demise; not Trump.

But the Assange supporters did not play a major role in the elections; at least not directly, and at least not as much as their closest ‘progressives’; the peace activists.

The Democrats and their cohorts have portrayed Trump as a warmonger. When peace activists eventually see that Biden will have to serve his warlord masters and start new wars across the globe, they will have to think again. He is already touting hiring well known hawks in key positions in his forthcoming cabinet and team of advisors, with his Defense Secretary reportedly selected.

When it comes to street power however, none has been more powerful and effective as the combination of BLM and the environmentalists.

BLM activists have just fallen a tad short of blaming Trump for an American five-century long history of racism. But how much do BLM activists really care about Climate Change and specifically about Greta-type environmental vision of how the world should run? Moreover, most environmentalists, if not all of them, are anti-vaxxers. When they see that Biden is the trump card for the vaccine empire, they may wish they didn’t take to the streets to unseat the Trump card they had in the Whitehouse. If there is/was one person standing up against the malevolent “Gates vaccine”, it has to be Trump, and the single-issue anti-vaxxers are against Trump. Try to make sense of this.

This is not to forget and ignore that the Climate Change activists will soon find out, the hard way, that Biden will not come clean on the zero-emission promise; not only because he doesn’t want to, not only because he goes to bed with the petro-dollar lobby, but also because he does not have the alternative technology to replace fossil fuel with.

Read the whole thing.

 

IT’S COME TO THIS: After 105 Years, Cleveland Will Drop ‘Indians’ From Baseball Team Name.

Flashback: Scott Ott of Scrappleface: ACLU: Effort to Marginalize Indians Succeeding.

NO, THE MAJORITY-MINORITY DEMOCRATIC DOMINANCE IS NOT INEVITABLE: Morris Fiorina, writing for The Federalist, points to CUNY Professor Richard Alba’s “The Great Demographic Illusion” as essential reading for anybody who talks, writes or thinks about U.S. elections.

DIGITAL SAMIZDAT: Russia’s New Guerilla Media Are Going After Putin.

Some remarkably audacious Russian-language investigations of President Vladimir Putin and his next of kin have hit the web in recent days. In the not-so-distant past, such explosive stuff would have, and did, cost editors their jobs and publications their livelihoods. The Kremlin considers these investigations part of an organized campaign. But if so, Putin himself is its unwitting number one organizer — not only because there’s plenty to investigate, but because his ostensibly successful campaign to control the Russian media is backfiring in a technological environment that has left Putin far behind. He must now contend with an emerging group of independent outlets that are both more nimble and less vulnerable to institutional pressure.

Up until recently, the private life of the Russian leader and his close relatives has been mostly a no-go zone for Russian media. Editors knew that entering it would have consequences. In 2008, the newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent was hastily closed down by its wealthy owner, Alexander Lebedev, after it published allegations that Putin was about to marry former rhythmic gymnastics champion Alina Kabaeva and Putin himself angrily denounced the article as an “erotic fantasy.” In 2016, a series of stories about Katerina Tikhonova, who has been identified as Putin’s younger daughter by various media though the Kremlin has not confirmed her identity, and the Russia-related materials in the Panama Papers affair resulted in the dismissal of the top editors of RBC Daily, a leading Russian business newspaper. The paper’s owner, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, had his business premises searched by law enforcement agencies. After the editors were gone, the pressure ceased.

Now, the taboo has been broken spectacularly by two websites that have emerged in recent years — proekt.media and istories.media.

There’s a lesson in this for getting around Google, Facebook, and Twitter’s censors.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Richard Fernandez:

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT LEFTISTS AND PRISON RAPE? Debra Messing Issues Homophobic Insult To Trump: ‘I Hope’ You Become ‘Most Popular Boyfriend’ In Prison.

(Classical reference in headline.)

#HIMTOO: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former Adviser. There’s less outrage over this than over Jill Biden’s honorific.

UGH: Foreign hackers breach US Treasury Department using Microsoft Office 365 flaws. “A breach was alleged to have taken place, affecting both the U.S. Treasury Department and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an agency that works on policy relating to the Internet and telecommunications. While details of the attack are unknown, it is thought to be serious enough to have forced a meeting of the National Security Council on Saturday.”

PAUL GIGOT: The Biden Team Strikes Back: Its strategists promote an identity politics campaign against an op-ed on Jill Biden’s use of ‘Dr.’ “Why go to such lengths to highlight a single op-ed on a relatively minor issue? My guess is that the Biden team concluded it was a chance to use the big gun of identity politics to send a message to critics as it prepares to take power. There’s nothing like playing the race or gender card to stifle criticism.”

Well, and doing it in defense of a wealthy white woman with a less-than-stellar advanced degree is spot-on for today’s Democrats. Degreed Karens of the world, unite!

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