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I’m a victim
You’re a victim
He’s a victim
She’s a victim
Wouldn’t you want to be a victim too”

This isn’t about the son, it’s about the parents organizing a pity-party for themselves.

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I guess she felt she wasn’t getting enough sympathetic attention.

‘Assault’ I can believe; ‘sexual assault’, not so much.

UPDATE: AOC’s body politics

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For those of you who don’t know, law enforcement can issue various secret warrants that have some kind of gag order attached. You cannot tell anyone for any reason. You cannot even acknowledge that it exists. The workaround is to set up a warrant canary. This is some kind of flag that says “I have not received” a National Security Letter or something with a gag order. Since they cannot force you to lie, you can always remove the canary when you have received one of these legal notices. The absence of the canary informs people that something changed.

If you find this disturbing, welcome to the club.

Read it. I wasn’t able to get the video to play but the concept is still entertaining.

Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

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Yes, I would consider getting an Apple car, if it ever sees the light of day. (Not an electric but maybe a hybrid.)

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A New York bill aimed at confiscating body armor would also force parents to hand over safety products designed for school shootings.

Democrat assemblymember Jonathan G. Jacobson wants to make New York the first state to outlaw bulletproof vests, but his far-reaching legislation would also end up seizing protective backpacks from students and parents. Two bulletproof backpack makers and one local retailer said the bill damages an industry created to protect children from school shootings.

Democrat politicians keep stepping on their base.

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In November, the previously unknown Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected to Georgia’s open 14th Congressional District seat in a landslide. Now, after being in office less than a month, she is the object of a hate campaign by the Democrats, who are demanding that she be stripped of all committee assignments, and preferably kicked out of the House. It is reported that the Democrats’ press arm is trying to make Greene the face of the Republican Party.

What exactly has she done? Greene’s Facebook page apparently is a disaster. Even before the election, Politico investigated Greene on behalf of the Democratic Party and found Facebook videos that expressed “racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.” That was Kevin McCarthy’s characterization, not Nancy Pelosi’s, and Greene was denounced last June by the Republicans’ House leadership. But Georgia’s voters apparently were unimpressed.

Obviously Emmanuel Goldstein got to her at some point.

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

Earlier today, I took note of how the “extremist” label is being used by the media to smear all opposition to the Biden administration, as a pretext for silencing all criticism of the Biden administration. And as I noted, this accusation of “extremism” is a Kafkatrap — a sort of circular argument, whereby denying guilt is taken as proof of guilt.

Liberals argue this way habitually, and never get called out for it. They will claim that a certain policy proposal is intended to help a certain category of (allegedly) oppressed people and, if you dare criticize or oppose their policy for any reason, you will be accused of Thoughtcrime, i.e., some sort of hate toward the oppressed victim group. Anyone who objects that such accusations are unfair — “I’ve known Tom for years, there’s not a prejudiced bone in his body” — will be accused of sympathizing with the haters. You are just like a “good German,” complicit in the Nazi murder six million Jews. No protest of innocence can save you, once you are so accused.

In cancel culture, allegation is as good as proof.

Why Phoenix may be uninhabitable by the end of this century (Salon) I’d guess because of Democrats moving in from California.

Who Will Tell the Greens There Is No Battery Fairy?

Claim: Important climate change mystery solved by scientists

Claim: Marine heatwaves becoming more intense, more frequent

One year later: The path to carbon negative – a report on our climate ‘moonshot’  Think of a polar bear showing you his butt.

How Will Climate Regulations Impact The Economy? Experts Are Divided  But normal people are not: ‘negatively’.

Unexpected ice

The So-Called Climate “Health Emergency”

New York Times Reviews Book Advocating Blowing Up Pipelines to Combat Climate Change

Disproportionate number of current and former military personnel arrested in Capitol attack, CNN analysis shows Just in case you were wondering why they used National Guard rather than regular troops for Biden’s Nuremberg rally inauguration.

Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control (Yawn) What, again? How many is it this time?

Republicans should police their own. Then we can talk about unity. (Washington Post)

SNL skewers Marjorie Taylor Greene, the vaccine rollout and GameStop, reminding us that things are still very bad (Washington Post) For Democrats.

UN WHO Asks Rich Nations to Pause Covid Vaccination, so Others can Catch Up

Why Hasn’t The House Held Hearings To Establish “Incitement To Insurrection”?  Because it’s not about facts, it’s about punishment of the heretic and sinner Trump.

US Corruption Hits Highest Since 2012 Amid COVID Bailouts & Democracy Doubts

America’s Trust In The Mainstream Media Hits An All-Time-Low (And “Journalists” Are Shocked)

Stelter: Trying to Crush Fox News Isn’t ‘Censorship,’ It’s ‘Harm Reduction’  Harm to whom? Why, the Narrative Media, of course.

India plans national digital currency plus a ban on ‘private’ crypto-cash  Statism thrives in the Turd World.

Lincoln Project: ‘Sunk in a Swamp of Complete Moral and Personal Cowardice’

Hollywood whinge-fests undermine contemporary feminism  As if that weren’t what ‘contemporary feminism’ is all about.

Left Wing Media Is Gearing Up For An All Out War On Fox News Now That Biden Is In Office

Mika Coddles George Conway on Lincoln Project/Weaver Sex Scandal

Forget Unity: CBS Hacks Tout Biden as ‘Not Interested’ in ‘Watered Down’ Bill  ‘Unity’ for Democrats means ‘Republicans surrender’.

Voting Rights Activist Stacey Abrams Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize  After all, we can’t have some filthy Jew like Kushner or the Literal Hitler Trump win, can we?

TSA Set To Fine Travelers Who Refuse To Wear A Mask Following White House Executive Order  An excellent excuse not to subject yourself to the Gestapo TSA.

Homeless Activists Wielding Knives And Hatchets Arrested After Attempting To Take Over Hotel

Screed: CNN Host Blames Fox, Newt, Palin, and Trump for Ruining American Unity

Google Deletes 100,000 Negative Reviews Of Planned Parenthood From Unborn Babies  Babylon Bee.

Veritas Leak: Facebook Execs Discuss Crushing Free Speech Under Biden

Lincoln Distances Self From Lincoln Project  Babylon Bee.

Never Enough: New Zealand Set For Second Gun Confiscation  New Zealand isn’t Middle Earth; it’s the Shire under Saruman.

GOP Officials Ask FEC For Permission to Use Donations for Bodyguards

Frank Sinatra’s Daughter will ‘Never Forgive’ Trump Voters and Worries it may ‘Kill Her’  Poor snowflake.

13 Members Of Congress Join Chip Roy In Demanding Ocasio-Cortez Apologize To Cruz For Saying He Almost Had Her Murdered

House Dems Seek to Strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Committee Assignments

CNN’s Gloria Borger, Who Hates Reagan Comparisons, Compares Biden to Reagan

Bountiful Briefing: Journos Urge Dems to Be ‘Ruthless,’ Psaki Mocks ‘Conservative Twitter’

‘I Vaccinated 3 People’: NYC Stopped Workers From Giving Out More Shots

‘That hurricane is coming’: expert warns US to brace for virulent Covid strain (The Guardian) Gotta keep that panic goin’….

Los Angeles County Bans TVs At Bars Just In Time For The Super Bowl  Can’t let the Dirt People get ahead of their pandemic panic.

Chicago Schools Delay Reopening Amid Teacher’s Union Battle

Medical Tyranny: CDC Announces All Travelers Must Wear Two Masks, Threatens Arrest

The Case Against Fauci

Facebook Oversight Reverses Hydroxychloroquine Censorship Decision  Now that there’s no point.

Variants Spreading in US Fan the Need to ‘Crush’ COVID-19 Quickly  Head ’em up, move ’em out….

Defense Department To Drop $230 Million On First Ever At-Home COVID-19 Test

A Week After Saying “Wear Two Masks”, Fauci Says It “Won’t Make A Difference”

9 Health Officials In New York Have Resigned Because Of Andrew Cuomo: Report

Scientists fear pandemic’s ‘hyper hygiene’ could have long-term health impacts

The US finally has a national mask mandate  (Popular ‘Science’)

Should individuals who already had a SARS-CoV-2 infection receive 1 or 2 shots? [pdf]

Andrew Cuomo Warned New Yorkers To Avoid Travel During Snowstorm — And Then He Drove To NYC

Cuomo Put Vaccine Distribution Into The Hands Of Hospitals, AKA Some Of His Biggest Donors

To Ride the Bus You Must Wear the Corona Hijab

Scientists Predict Humans Will Simply Be Giant Rolling Balls Of Masks By 2024  Babylon Bee.

Showdown In Chicago As Teachers Defy Mayor’s Orders, Ignore Science; Strike Imminent  It’s all about dat base, ’bout dat base…. (Democrats Now Face A Showdown With One Of Their Biggest Backers: Teachers’ Unions)

Oregon Mayor Blasts Criminal Culture In Portland  That’s pretty rich.

CRT Is Sacrosanct and May Not Be Questioned

A Tale of Two Car Thieves  But they were Mostly Peaceful.

Apple Inches Ahead of Google in Their Race to be Most Obsequious About Black History Month

Fewer Blacks Getting Vaccinated

How Much Blood Does Black Lives Matter Have on Its Hands?

What Twitter Rules? Rapper Cardi B Tweets It’s ‘Ok’ to ‘Choose Violence’  As long as it’s Mostly Peaceful.

ACLU Elects Organization’s First Black President  So it will be All Black Privilege All The Time from now on.

REPORT: Man Shoots Father In Head After Argument Over Hair Clippers  But it was Mostly Peaceful.

Washington Team President Confirms Nation Guilty Of ‘Systemic Racism’

Apple Says ‘We Have an Urgent Responsibility to Dismantle Systemic Racism’  And if we can sell come computers while we’re doing it, that’s okay too.

White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past

CBS Still Selling Books for Race-Baiter Kendi After His VILE Attack on Justice Barrett

Vaccinate NBA Stars First, Says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What to expect from Biden’s envoy to Iran

SNL’s No Joe Zone

US Calls on Myanmar’s Military to End Coup ‘Immediately’  Oh, yeah, they’ll listen to that.

Devout Catholic? The Media vs. Biden’s Real Record

BARR: Biden’s Executive Actions Will Raise Nanny State To New Heights

Biden’s Big City Elite Agenda Will Harm Poor And Rural People

Some Of Biden’s Top White House Economic Advisers Are Reportedly Pushing Back On His Stimulus Package  He must have gotten some real economists by mistake.

Biden Cancels ‘Major’ Foreign Policy Speech Due to Two Inches of Snow  Pity party….

Biden Threatens Sanctions Against Burma Following Military Coup — Press Secretary Says It’s A ‘Message’ To China, Other Countries Ooooooo, I’ll bet they’re all scared….

‘I Hate To Disappoint Conservative Twitter’: Jen Psaki Continues To ‘Circle Back’ To Unanswered Press Questions

Biden’s Middle East Policy Might Stumble, And Beijing Smells Blood

American Petroleum Institute: Biden Admin ‘Heading In The Wrong Direction’ With Recent Energy Order

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They still make you look like a refugee from an LGBTQRSTUVWZYZ convention.

I’ll do anything for comfort, but I won’t do that.

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A study released by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights decided that the argument that conservatives are being censored by Big Tech is “not legitimate.”

“False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives,” levied the accusation that conservative censorship is a myth. Deputy Director Paul M. Barrett and Law + Research Fellow J. Grant Sims wrote that “the claim of anti-conservative animus is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.” The study referred to the overall bans of former President Donald Trump on Facebook and Twitter as “reasonable responses to Trump’s repeated violation of platform rules.”

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The study relied on NewsGuard’s classification of “manipulators.” It noted, “All of the top five manipulators, in terms of their engagement levels on Facebook, were right-leaning: Fox News, The Daily Wire, Breitbart, The Blaze, and Western Journal.”

Furthermore, Barrett and Sims relied on the leftist Oxford Internet Institute’s report on “junk news.” That report had classified several conservative websites as “junk news,” including Drudge Report, NewsBusters, CNSNews.com, MRCTV, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Washington Free Beacon, LifeNews, National Review, the Red State, and The Federalist. These sites were smeared as “unprofessional,” “counterfeit,” “biased” and “emotionally driven.”

The study, coming from the center currently run by former Obama administration Assistant Secretary Mike Posner, had several recommendations for the new President Joe Biden administration.

I’m sure they did. I’m sure they did.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

(With Trump gone, apparently the News Just Stopped.)

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If the Nobel Peace Prize really followed Alfred Nobel’s wishes, the next winners should be Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Mohammed bin Zayed of the UAE. In reality, this is comically impossible. The mock-outrage elicited by Alan Dershowitz’s nomination of Kushner and his aide Avi Berkowitz shows how far the Nobel has drifted into a partisan theater in which every entrance and exit comes from stage-left.

A few weeks ago, the London Spectator published my review of Betraying the Nobel, Unni Turrettini’s exposé of the Nobel’s institutional rot. A member of the Nobel Committee took a break from patronizing the world and sent an outraged complaint to the editor. He accused me of misinformation, disinformation and unspecified yet unforgivable malice towards his high-status, free-lunch side-gig. In other words, he accused me of telling truths that he didn’t like, and expected them to be altered accordingly.

Bear in mind that Barack The Magic Negro got the Nobel Peace Prize just for being black and winning the Presidential election, not for, you know, actually doing anything — the ultimate participation trophy.

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

A few recent headlines:

Republican extremists could doom party
to endless defeats
— CNN, Jan. 26

Rachel Maddow: GOP has become party of a
‘fringe, violent, extremist criminal movement’
— The Hill, Jan. 27

“This Is War”: Inside the Secret Chat
Where Far-Right Extremists Devised
Their Post-Capitol Plans
— Pro Publica, Jan. 28

Extremists Emboldened by Capitol Attack
Pose Growing Threat, Homeland Security Says
— New York Times, Jan. 29

Republican Ties to Extremist Groups
Are Under Scrutiny
— New York Times, Jan. 29

Domestic violent extremists will be harder
to combat than homegrown jihadists
— The Hill, Jan. 31

‘It’s endemic’: state-level Republican groups
lead party’s drift to extremism
— The Guardian, Jan. 31

Perhaps you notice the similar theme and you might wonder if all these journalists are operating in collusion to promote the idea of a dangerous “extremist” GOP threat. However, if you don’t trust the media, that’s a “conspiracy theory,” which means you’re an “extremist.”

ZMan nails it.

In a democratic system of government, there are supposed to be rules to punish those who do not argue in good faith. Politicians who take bribes, for example, are removed from office and sent to prison. Interests that misrepresent themselves or defraud the public see their interests destroyed as a way to discourage the practice. There are laws that allow the media and the public to examine the claims of the various parties in order to root out corruption and deception. That is the theory, leastways.

That is clearly not where America is right now. Liberal democracy has evolved into one giant game of liar’s poker. Much like the financial markets, the big players in the system no longer have respect for the spirit of the rules. They never come to any deal in good faith and they are never open to reason. They want to “win” the deal by getting all of what they want at the expense of the other parties. In modern liberal democracy, no one is acting in good faith and no one is open to reason.

It is not just the big interests gaming the system. The system itself has been gamed to the point where only a sucker operates in good faith. The politicians, instead of operating as brokers and negotiators, are middlemen facilitating the looting of the system by the big players. Public debate is now a game of shadows, because the mass media lies about everything and is always pushing an agenda on behalf of the big players or their politicians working on their behalf.

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President Joe Biden’s latest climate-focused executive order promises a bustling clean energy sector backed by “good-paying union jobs.” That sector’s supply chain, however, is largely dominated by China.

Issued on Wednesday, Biden’s order calls on the federal government to purchase union-built, American electric vehicles. But both Chevrolet and Nissan’s top electric offerings fall well below the federal government’s domestic “component test” to determine American-made status, and Ford’s latest electric SUV, the Mustang Mach-E, will be built in China and Mexico. China also controls much of the world’s lithium battery supply, including 77 percent of global cell capacity and 60 percent of global component manufacturing, a September BloombergNEF report shows.

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Impeachment fever has struck Kentucky, where grievances over coronavirus restrictions and the outcome of the Breonna Taylor death investigation have spurred petitions to oust both the governor and the attorney general.

It’s a card rarely played in any serious way in the Bluegrass State, though Kentucky has had its share of provocative elected officials. In the two new cases, the effort to impeach was triggered by disagreements over policy or executive decisions at the highest levels of Kentucky government.

Steve Sailer.

… because the newspapers fill up with long articles about America’s most trivial and dull issue, black farmers, in order to grease the skids for billion dollar handouts.

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Democrats don’t have this problem because Democrats never forget which side they’re on. Plus the ‘activists’ in the Democrat party would run any candidate out of town who was insufficiently Woke; there are no Republican activists to speak of, except the Trumpists, and you can see how they are treated.

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Nominated by Alan Dershowitz. All of them are Jews so it will go into the Memory Hole in modern Culturally-Enriched Norway, along with Trump’s two nominations.

USA Today.

And you can’t get more juvenile than that. By that logic, the Democrat governors ought to pay for the trashing of Portland and Seattle.