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Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed to appoint local representatives in Turkey under a new social media law, according to decisions published on Tuesday.

When it comes to authoritarianism, the tech moguls are amateurs.

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Boy, that TSA is really on top of things, aren’t they?

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I only see one Blue state on that list.

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The United States could not make enough military equipment fast enough to sustain its military in the event of a major war. While much thought has been given to how a great power conflict might erupt or play out, far less has been written on how the U.S. industrial base could sustain U.S. wartime equipment losses in such a conflict.

Our study at the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that it would take many years to replace current inventories, even at surge production rates. And the situation is not getting better as industry consolidation has squeezed out excess capacity. The Navy would probably face the biggest problem. Each ship lost would be, effectively, irreplaceable during the conflict.

Audacious Epigone.

Washington Republican who backed Trump impeachment faces backlash back home  You don’t say.

Unscrupulous and aggressive, Pompeo plans to be the next Trump – but smarter OH NOES!

‘How Dare They?’: Sunny Hostin Slams Those Who ‘Enabled’ Trump For Daring To Quote MLK

FLASHBACK: More Than 200 People Rioted During Trump’s Inauguration, Most Charges Were Dropped

Depressed Brian Stelter Spends All Day Hitting Refresh On Trump’s Twitter Page  Babylon Bee.

Incoming CDC Director Says US Will Likely Reach 500,000 Deaths by February

Covid Fatalities Tend to be Past Their Primes: the Best Example of This Yet  Think of it as evolution in action.

COVID Fatality Rates: A Different Perspective

Over 50,000 Restaurants In Italy Declare “I Am Open” Defying Lockdown Measures

Incoming White House Climate Team Blames ‘Systemic Racism’ for Climate Change  And now it starts.

Man found ‘living in airport for three months’ over Covid fears

Cremation Limits Suspended For LA County To Keep Up With COVID-19 Related Deaths  Ask yourself why L.A. needs ‘cremation limits’.

1000s Denounce COVID Lockdown In Amsterdam As Chaos Unfolds At “Unauthorized” Gathering

REPORT: Violators Of Quarantine In Germany Will Be Sent To Refugee Camps And Detention Centers Just like the good old days.

US Scientist Who Led Charge Against COVID Lab Leak Theory Admits He Was Trying To Protect Chinese Scientists

25,000 Guardsmen Are In The Capital, Five Times The Troops In Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq Combined Makes you wonder what they’re afraid of. Banana republic, anyone?

Blocked from social media, extremists discuss turning to radios to plan attacks, FCC warns  Seriously?

Rallies ahead of Capitol riot were planned by established Washington insiders (Washington Post) Maybe even people who read the Washington Post.

Twitter temporarily suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for election misinformation No job too big, no job too small.

Far more Guard troops, police than protesters at the Utah Capitol

Vox: White Women Complicit in Capitol Riots and, Well, All Racism

ADL: Doxxing Is Bad Except When We Do It

CNN Calls to Ban Conservative Voices, OANN and Newsmax

CNN Touts O’Rourke’s Demand Cruz Be Removed from Senate for ‘Inviting’ the Capitol Hill Riot

The Exodus Continues: Point 72 Is Opening New Offices In West Palm Beach

Apple sued for not removing Telegram from App Store over violent content and hate groups  The whole point of Telegram is that it’s messages are encrypted, so there is no way an outside organization can determine what’s being talked about. This is pure cancel-culture fantasy.

Editor Daily Rundown: Biden Plans To Push Massive Amnesty Package For 11 Million Immigrants  Get those new Democrat voters on the rolls! Head ’em up! Move ’em out!

Blain: “What Will Be The Effect Of The $1.9 Gazillion Biden Spend-A-Thon On Inflation”

Mom Punched In Viral Video Video From Pro-Trump Rally Loses Hospital Job  The Great Purge continues.

FBI Vetting 25,000 National Guard Troops To Prevent Insider Attack, Finds No Threats So Far  What are they afraid of? Democracy?

Mika Brzezinski Rails Against Twitter, Facebook: ‘You Need To Be Shut Down … You Have Destroyed This Country’  The Revolution comes for its children….

Alyssa Milano, Dave Bautista Sign Petition Calling For Sen. Ted Cruz’s Removal From The Senate  Sure, we’ll get right on that.

AP Decries Apple, Google and Others for Hosting Podcast ‘Extremism’

“It Was A Non-Event” – MSM Forced To Admit Nationwide Pro-Trump Protest Panic Was Overblown

Most Popular President In History To Be Inaugurated In Secret Behind Giant Wall Guarded By Thousands Of Soldiers  Babylon Bee.

Feds walk back DOJ memo saying Capitol rioters sought to capture and assassinate

‘Rookie’s’ Young Black Officer Lectures Superior: ‘Silence Is Complicity’

Washington Post: the Racial Enemy Is Multiracial Whiteness

CNN’s Jim Sciutto Forced To Push Back On Idea ‘White’ Soldiers Represent Potential Threat

Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts

Trump Baby Blimp To Be Showcased At Museum As Part Of Protest Collection  Can’t get much more childish than that.

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Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley will have his book “The Tyranny of Big Tech” published by the conservative publisher Regnery after Simon & Schuster canceled their deal with him after the pro-Trump riot on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

Ought to have gone to them first. He’ll know better next time.

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Used to be, the major difference between Republicans and Democrats was that Democrats never forgot which side they were on. Maybe Republicans are waking up.

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Remember when we used to hear “check your privilege” from progressives about literally anything? Not so strangely, those calls from the Left have gone silent, just at the moment when they’re advocating for policies that glaringly highlight their privilege.

The example that most animates me is school closures, overwhelmingly in urban areas handicapping an entire generation of kids with parents unable to homeschool, hire a tutor, or form a “pod” with other children. These kids are left behind, most of them permanently.

ZMan sums it up.

As the military begins the process of installing The Pretender as the figurative leader of the American Empire, it is a good time to take stock of what has happened over the last five years. From the perspective of political psychology, the world all of us inhabit today is a vastly different one from the world of 2015. This includes the dissident right, which has been transformed by the Trump experience. In the before times, politics was all shades of gray, while today it is in black and white.

 

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Going forward, I think any president facing a House of Representatives in which his or her party is in the minority stands about a 50-50 chance of being impeached in such a session. If that’s true, then the odds of another president being impeached twice at some point in the next twenty years are pretty good.

It might even happen to Joe Biden, if he lives long enough.

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Do tell. I guess these people are new to how the government works.

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Great news, if you’re a paralyzed mouse.

Trump’s global games-playing needs fast undoing (Boston Globe)

Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up (The Guardian)

Alec Baldwin Says He Dreams of Hanging Trump

After Riot, NY Times Taunts ‘Law and Order’ Trump as ‘Hollow,’ a Mantra for Police Racism

House Democrat: ‘Assassination Party’ Was ‘Hunting For Nancy Pelosi’  Can you spell B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T? I’m sure you can.

Chuck Todd: Can’t See Trump-Era as Anything But a ‘Failed Presidency’  Guess he doesn’t own any stocks or pay any taxes.

Adam Schiff Says Trump ‘Can’t Be Trusted’ With Intelligence Briefings  Neither can Adam Schiff, who was caught lying more times than Donald Trump, an amazing achievement.

Former Facebook Official Calls For Verizon, AT&T, Others To Deplatform OANN And Newsmax

Nancy Mace Says Trump ‘Put All Of Our Lives At Risk’  Except that he didn’t.

Los Angeles Covid Cases Top 1 Million as Outbreak Worsens  Boy, those strict lockdowns really work, don’t they?

Peer-Reviewed Study “Did Not Find Evidence” Lockdowns Were Effective In Stopping COVID Spread

10,000 Protesters In Vienna March Against Coronavirus Restrictions  

It’s time for Republican elites to shut up and listen to the people  (Washington Post) What ‘Republican elites’? The Deplorables that Hillary complained about? Or the ones in ‘flyover country’?

Migrant caravan demands Biden administration ‘honors its commitments’

Dating apps are using images from the siege to ban rioters’ accounts

‘It is inexcusable’: Kansas City sues feds to shut down gun manufacturer

Biden To ‘Immediately’ Send Congress Bill That Would Offer Citizenship To 11 Million Illegals

Hondurans Hope to Storm Border in Honor of Biden

Recall Petition: Stop the Spread of the Newsom

On Bill Maher Show, Katie Couric Says Romney ‘Seems Like Nelson Mandela At This Point’ Nelson Mandela was a Mazrxist terrorist.

Newsroom Staff Revolts Become Common In The News Media’s War Against Intellectual Diversity

‘People Who Want The Lies … Go To A Different Channel’: Jake Tapper Defends CNN, Takes Veiled Shot At Fox News

Woke Crowd Whines about ‘Whiteness’ of ‘Cobra Kai’ Show

This Is How Conservatives Get Erased From the Internet

MSNBC’s Hasan Defends Portland Antifa Protesters As Peaceful

Just imagine. What would we have to talk about?

Unfortunately not.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing as ‘middle-class privilege’.

Left stranded: US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific, say scientists (The Guardian) Linked!

Relying on Lockdowns, Social Distancing and Masks Isn’t Working to Curb COVID-19

Teachers’ Union President Compares Push To Reopen Schools To Capitol Riots, White Supremacy

Four Illinois Restaurants Join Together In Reopening Against State Restrictions

US Steps Up Claims COVID-19 May Have Escaped From Chinese Lab

Dystopian COVID Tyranny in Quebec

Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks

UK To Close All Travel Corridors To Curb New COVID Variants

Germany To Put COVID-Rulebreakers In “Detention Camp”

Millions Of Workers Are Still Calling Out Sick Or Taking Leaves Of Absence Due To COVID

US Has Evidence Researchers In Wuhan Lab Fell Ill Before Coronavirus Outbreak, State Department Says

55 Americans Have Died Following COVID Vaccination, Norway Deaths Rise To 29

COVID-19 Found in Chinese Ice Cream Samples

4 Key Points About Trump and ‘Incitement’ Law

Surprise! Chicago Mayor Pushes To Loosen Lockdowns Days Before Biden Inauguration  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Republican senators shouldn’t flub this chance to show Trump his actions have consequences (NBC News) Flub!

A former president Trump won’t ‘need to know.’ Cut off his intelligence.  (Washington Post)

Trump Is on the Verge of Losing Everything (New York Magazine) Everything!

Bill Maher Delivers Final Insult to Kellyanne Conway

A small town seethes after learning one of its own says he joined Capitol’s mob (Washington Post) Seethes!

Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV: House Violated Constitution

The Lynch Mob Comes For Citizen Trump

Blogs Silenced: First, SSC, Now, SCC

Trump Was Just The Lightning Rod: Post-Riot Pivot Shows Democrats’ Plan To Attack All Republicans

Rush To Judgment On Trump? Multiple Leftists Arrested For Capitol Riot

Television isn’t gay enough, says New York Times

Parler CEO John Matze, family forced into hiding over death threats

Poland Set To Make Censoring Social Media Accounts Illegal???????

How China’s State-Sponsored Social Networks Control Misinformation–and Dissent

Parler GPS Data Shows Users Posting from Military Bases  BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!

INCITEMENT: Alec Baldwin Wanted to ‘Stone’ Republicans, ‘Kill Their Wives and Children’

Twitter Says ‘Bug’ Prevented Users From Searching Lincoln Project Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Woke Bullies at This Lefty Media Site Try to Deplatform Mandalorian Star Gina Carano

Welcome to DC, now show me your papers

Ocasio-Cortez and Her Media Ministry of Truth

Democrats and the Media (But I Repeat Myself) Are Trying to Destroy America

Leftist ‘Journalist’ Interviewed by Anderson Cooper Arrested for Capitol Rioting

Joe Biden’s racist civil rights nominee, Part Five

Woke Elementary: Critical Race Theory & California’s “Inconvenient Minority”

ABC Jacob Blake Interview Destroys Media Myth Blake Was ‘Unarmed’

Leo Terrrell: Democrats ‘Play Race And Hate Card 24/7’ While Donald Trump ‘Denounced The Klan As A Terrorist Group’

Washington Post Movie Critic Has a Creative Brainstorm: Movies Should Have White Male Christian Villains!

Economist: America Is Experiencing the Worst Recorded Increase in Its National Murder Rate

The Poverty of Identity Politics

Mike Huckabee: ‘If We’re Going To Impeach Donald Trump … Then We’d Better Impeach Kamala Harris’ For Bailing BLM Protesters Out Of Jail  Works for me.

Polar bears can come ashore any time of year and cause trouble: a timely reminder

This Tuesday, Jan. 19: Dr. Roy Spencer’s Friends of Science Society Livestream Talk: ‘Why There Is No Climate Emergency’

The Ocean Warming Enigma

What Global Warming? 148 New (2020) Scientific Papers Affirm Recent Non-Warming, A Degrees-Warmer Past

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The point of the Democrats seeking to impeach Trump for inciting sedition isn’t impeachment but to deep frame Trump supporters as traitors so the full weight of the Patriot Act can be wielded against us. They want to be able to say Trump was impeached for inciting sedition; therefore, Trump supporters are engaged in sedition. This isn’t about Trump. It’s about us. It’s about to be McCarthy on steroids: “Are you now, or have you even been, a supporter of Trump.”

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If this were a normal January, free from the specter of COVID-19, Davos would be bracing itself for an invasion by several thousand of the world’s most self-important people: pompous politicians, slick CEOs and — worst of all — freeloading journalists. Normally this pretty Alpine town is the venue for the World Economic Forum in the last week in January, but this year that annual schmoozefest is safely confined to the internet. ‘Key global leaders will share their views on the state of the world in 2021,’ forewarns the WEF website but, for the first time in the WEF’s 50-year history, they’ll be doing it remotely. Due to the pandemic, Davos rests in peace.

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On the heels of Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane threatening companies that hire Trump officials, we now have that periodical politically cleansing its own website of an article critical of their beloved social media monopolist that also engages in cracking down on free speech. Such was the case on Monday when Forbes deleted an article by frequent contributor, Jim Collins, that dared to strongly criticize Twitter which is now obviously a prohibited activity.

Collins pulled no punches in his strong criticism of Twitter as you can see just from reading the title of his article, “Twitter Is The Worst Company On Planet Earth. Here’s How To Bet Against The Stock—and Deactivate Your Account.” Since Forbes apparently found this to be heretical towards its increasingly woke attitude, the article was soon deleted and all that remains on the page is this message: “This page is no longer active. We regret any inconvenience.”

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How about the science that says that the average IQ of black people is 80? Will that science  be at the forefront of the Biden administration? Or will it be a case of ‘some science is more equal than others’?

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She can’t, literally can’t, be as much of a moron as she seems.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Democrats are making extraordinary efforts to suppress all discussion of whether Joe Biden actually won the 2020 presidential election. In fact, they go even farther: they want to suppress all discussion of the extent to which voter fraud occurred. That naturally makes me want to write about voter fraud, and who really won the election.

First, this question: why are the Democrats so hysterical in their insistence that fraud not be mentioned? One reason is obvious. Joe Biden will take office under a cloud, since close to half of all Americans doubt that he really won the election. The Democrats want to stamp out such doubts to preserve Biden’s authority as president.

But there is a second reason that may be more important. The Democrats want the lax voting procedures that prevailed in 2020 to continue in the future. They know that efforts will be made in many states to improve ballot integrity, and they want those efforts to fail. By rendering all discussion of voter fraud out of bounds, they hope to forestall reforms that would make it harder for them to cheat, or enable cheating, in the future.

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Now that the presidential election is behind us, Democratic governors and mayors will be happy to see the economy rebounding. And, of course, Joe Biden will take credit for all improvement that results from abandoning the lockdowns that have crushed our country for the last ten months.

Trump’s future looks rotten

What You Need to Know About Democrats’ 9 Impeachment Managers

‘An Audience Of One’: MSNBC Contributor Says Trump Video Condemning Violence Was To His Future Judge  Loserthink: Mind-reading.

The Media’s Gaslighting Intensifies: Trump Voters Are ‘Terrorists’? If 75m American voters were on the side of the Klan, Dom Lemon would be picking cotton somewhere in Alabama.

What ‘Unity?’ Media Tar And Feather Trump Supporters

Joe Scarborough Says Capitol Rioters Are No Different Than Hitler’s Brownshirts Or Mussolini’s Thugs  Or BLM or Antifa? Say it, Joe.

New Evidence Suggests Rioter Was Actually Trump Supporter Disguised As Antifa Disguised As Trump Supporter  Babylon Bee.

Twitter, Facebook Hemorrhage $51,200,000,000 Combined in Market Value after Trump Ban  Couldn’t happen to nicer people.

BLM Bail Fund Promoted By Kamala Harris Refuses To Share Records Of Criminals Sprung From Jail

Were Cops Too Brutal to the Mostly Peaceful Protesters or Not Brutal Enough?

NBC’s ‘Superstore’ Segregates Employees for Reparations: ‘No Whites Allowed! Beat It!’

Joe Biden’s racist civil rights nominee, Part Four

Charles Barkley Says Pro Athletes Deserve ‘Preferential Treatment’ With The Coronavirus Vaccine Because They Pay High Taxes

NBC Hacks Swoon Over Kamala Harris & Family ‘Saving the World’  Jambalaya is the New Obama.

‘Teaching Racism To My Eight-Year-Old’: What Critical Race Theory Looks Like In Schools

Erase And Criminalize

NRA Flees New York for Texas

A TV Documentary Shows the Deep Roots of Right-Wing Conspiracy (The New Yorker)

Drilling Holes in Proposed Credit Card Regulation of Gun Purchases

Kyle Rittenhouse accused of flashing white power sign at bar; prosecutors want him to stay away from Proud Boys (USA Today)

Feds Charge Left-Wing Activist Who Filmed Shooting Of Trump Supporter At Capitol

Prosecutors Try to Change Rittenhouse Bond Agreement Over White Supremacist Signs  And if he did, who could blame him?

Facebook Content Purge May Hamper Police

The Lincoln Project Appears To Scrub Team Page After Allegations That Co-Founder Offered Jobs In Exchange For Sex

Politico Staff Throw Hissy Fit Over Ben Shapiro One-Day Guest-Writer Spot

Facebook Blocking Ron Paul Shows Tech Censorship Is Not About Trump, It’s About Suppressing Dissent

Project Veritas Video Exposes Twitter CEO’s Censorship Plans: ‘Much Bigger Than Just One Account’

Rockefellers Bankroll China-Based Nonprofits with Ties to Communist Government

Tinfoil CNN Spins WILD Conspiracy Theory about Capitol Hill Police

NY Bill Would Outlaw Sale, Possession of Body Armor

Facebook is moderating posts about Signal

Microsoft, Big-Tech Coalition Developing Rockefeller-Funded COVID Passports

Colbert to Sanders: ‘Working Class’ Too Dumb to Support Your Socialism?  Or too smart.

Leftists Upset Facebook Censors Anti-Men Hate Speech

CNN, Dem AG Mock Comparisons to BLM Violence: ‘Unbelievably Different’  Skin color, for one thing.

Here’s How Much Your Income Will Change Under The Biden Tax Pla  If, of course, you are so foolish as to let that happen to you.

This Week in Washington: Everyone’s a History Professor  Even people who can’t find their butts with both hands.

Biden Is Under Pressure To Set Up A New ‘Domestic Terror’ Unit. Here’s What That Means

Country Star Says Others In The Industry Are Being ‘Muzzled’ When Expressing ‘Anger’ Over ‘Targeting Of Conservatives’

Harvard Students Petition To Revoke Degrees Given To Trump Staff And Supporters

Forced from Obama Admin for Praising Mao, Anita Dunn to Return to White House

California’s Continuing Collapse

CNN Bashes Facebook for Enabling Far Right, Argues Parler Can’t Be Fixed

Biden Adviser to MSNBC’s Ruhle: ‘Thank You for Your Advocacy’

Christian Photographer Challenges Northam’s ‘Wedding Cake’ Law

Liberal Education Group Uses Capitol Riots to Push Reparations

Rep. Eric Swalwell Rejoins Homeland Security Committee Despite Alleged Ties To Chinese Spy

REPORT: Ethics Board Investigating Denver Mayor For Traveling During Thanksgiving While Telling People To Stay Home

COVID-19 Surge Overwhelms SoCal Hospitals, Morgues and Funeral Homes  Let’s keep the panic alive!

UC San Diego Installs COVID Test Kit Vending Machines 

Stephen Moore: Biden’s Coronavirus Plan Will Kill 4 Million Jobs

Rep. Ayanna Pressley Says GOP Congressmembers Engaged In ‘Chemical Warfare’ By Not Wearing Masks

Report: Nets’ Kyrie Irving Fined $50,000 For Attending Party While Maskless

Biden Tees Up Senate Battle With Massive COVID Spending Bill 

Paul Ehrlich… Again?

2020 Was the One of the Hottest Years on Record  And yet I feel completely cool. How do you account for that?

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If I had his money, I’d do the same.

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The publisher of The Bulwark and executive director for one of NeverTrumper Bill Kristol’s get-rid-of-Trump campaigns is a donor to President-elect Joe Biden. Kristol’s Republican Accountability Project (RAP) is working to protect anti-Trump Republicans in Congress. It is guarding those who “vote to impeach, remove, and disqualify President Trump” by warding off primary challenges, according to the campaign’s webpage. RAP announced that it would also be looking to punish more than 100 GOP members who objected to certification of the Electoral College. Specifically, RAP would do this by “standing up primary challenges” to Republicans who didn’t toe the line and “promote Republicans in open contests who do not align themselves with Trump’s MAGA ethos,” according to Politico. The campaign had “pledged to amass $50 million” in its efforts to defend pro-impeachment Republicans. But it turns out that RAP Executive Director, Bulwark publisher and “Never Trump Republican” Sarah Longwell isn’t just anti-Trump. She’s pro-Biden.

One of the chief benefits of the Trump era is The Rectification of Names. The RINOs are revealing that they are actually proglodytes after all in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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My, what a surprise.

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Get a Mac.

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This is why God gave us trash bins. Recycling is for slaves.

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Your fancy-pants phone can kill you.

This is why old people stick with old technology.

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Now that The Pretender is about to be installed, I am assuming the Democrats will start demanding everything open back up. They are that shameless. Still, they spent a year convincing their drones that Covid is the black death. Lots of people are now deeply invested in being afraid. Turning the economy back on will not come easy. That and the damage is mostly done at this point. If you are a business that survived this, then you can keep surviving. It will take years for the lost to recover.

The Pretender’s script writers say he will ask for a trillion dollar relief bill, but given the mess that is Congress, that will not happen easily. Mitch McConnell is a massive d-bag to everyone, not just his voters. He will use every trick he can to hamstring it. The Dems are a fractured party right now and we’ll see that clearly over this bill. Even if they pass it, you can run a country this way. Throw in their efforts to criminalize dissent and our rulers look like they are carelessly smoking on a powder keg.