Archive for May, 2021
14th May 2021
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14th May 2021
Spies Somehow Failed to Get Trump Officials to Call Him Stupid on Hidden Camera (New York Magazine)
The battle for American democracy has just begun (CNN) Needless to day, they don’t use that word in the same sense as a dictionary would.
Palm Beach planning for possibility of Trump indictment: report (The Hill)
Ellen DeGeneres’ Farewell Tour Is Already a Whiny, Tone-Deaf Disaster (Daily Beast) Does that surprie you?
Cancel Culture Is Caste Culture
Lawmakers reach deal on bipartisan 9/11-style commission to investigate Jan. 6 No sign of any ‘bipartisam 9/11-style commission’ to investigate the ongoing insurrection in Portlandia, of course.
Vile Seth Rogen Smears Cruz, Conservatives as Murdering Fascist ‘Creatures’ Out to Destroy Country
Second Largest Teachers Union Encourages Members To Get ‘Enlightened’ Through Texts On ‘Antiracism’ And ‘White Fragility’
Party of Science? Gayle King Feels ‘Guilty,’ ‘Judged,’ for Going Maskless Outside
Rachel Maddow Says She Needs To ‘Rewire’ Her Brain So She Won’t View Unmasked People As ‘Selfish’ Threats As if that ever worked.
How politics ruined Instagram
‘You Don’t Tell Me What To F**king Do!’: Eric Swalwell Rebuffs Marjorie Taylor Greene Aide For Telling Him He Can Ditch His Mask But, of course, HE can tell YOU.
‘His Words Caused People To Die’: Actor Seth Rogen Calls Ted Cruz A ‘Fascist,’ Cruz Strikes Back
In Unprecedented Move, LinkedIn Censors UK-Based China Critic
What Bias? YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Denies Political Bias in Moderation
Three Women Arrested Over Decapitated Pig’s Head Left At Chauvin Witness’ Old Home, Police Say
USA Today Editorial Says Republicans Are Bigger Threat Than 9/11 Hijackers After Cheney Ouster Except, of course, that nobody died in the Cheney ouster. But aside from that….
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14th May 2021
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14th May 2021
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14th May 2021
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14th May 2021
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Jordan Peterson, a popular Canadian psychologist and author, dared his government to “just try and regulate [his] YouTube channel and see what happens.”
Peterson clashed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Twitter because of Trudeau’s support for legislation termed the “censorship bill” by The Post Millennial. If passed, the law could potentially regulate user-generated social media content and subject some users to broadcasting regulations if they have a substantial audience.
I don’t think that this is a pissing contest that Peterson can win — not against the Deep State.
But I admire him for trying.
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14th May 2021
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I don’t think that the Patriot is as capable a system. I suppose it’s too much to ask our military to buy and deploy these.
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14th May 2021
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After years of debasing himself in front of a camera, Jim Acosta finally got his very own show on CNN. Because his talent for making a scene far exceeds his talent for reporting the news, CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta is more of an extended sit-down comedy routine than an actual news program.
Over the past several weeks, Acosta has been using his platform on CNN to unleash a barrage of painfully crafted knee-slappers, most of them aimed at former president Donald Trump and Fox News host Tucker Carlson. His ratings might be in the gutter, but Acosta’s tortured comedy routine is presumably a smash hit with his target audience of #Resistance wine moms.
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14th May 2021
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Shhh…quiet. Can you hear that? Listen closely. That’s the sound of backpedaling. Beautiful, isn’t it? The left’s panic is conspicuous as their woke figureheads try to reverse course on the lockdowns.
The real unraveling began on Thursday morning when the New York Times ran a piece headlined ‘President of Key Teachers’ Union Shares Plea: “Schools Must Be Open” in Fall’. This ‘plea’ came from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. It likely came as quite a surprise for parents across America. After all, they had been pleading with the AFT’s head honcho to open schools for over a year now. But Weingarten was too busy flying all over the United States on Boutique Air flights to worry about valid concerns from desperate families.
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14th May 2021
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I’ve got ones I can sell but it will cost you.
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14th May 2021
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Today Mahle, a German auto parts company, unveiled a motor that’s free of both rare earths and of physical contact. Power is beamed into the rotor wirelessly, through induction, by a coil carrying alternating current. This induces a current in the receiving electrode, inside the rotor, which energizes the copper windings there to produce an electromagnetic field.
I’m sure it still has bearings, and those will eventually wear out.
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14th May 2021
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The truly multiracial coalition in the US these days isn’t the Democratic party. It’s the anti-Semitic mass movement that takes to the streets of blue-state cities every time Israel defends itself against terrorism.
Israel will no doubt survive the latest barrage of disapproval from people with a bottomless supply of personal pronouns and malicious memes. But this is a problem for American Jews today — and it will be all of America’s problem tomorrow, because the overrunning of the public square by anti-Jewish cranks and conspiracy theorists is a perennial warning sign of social breakdown.
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14th May 2021
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14th May 2021
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Violent crimes soared in most areas where police agencies are working under federally court-ordered reform agreements.
The finding comes from an Axios review of FBI and Justice Department data on all 12 agencies operating under consent decrees since 2012. The outlet found that seven of the areas where police agencies are under consent decrees experienced increases in violent crime rates in two years compared to the two years before they entered into the agreement.
Consent decrees are court-approved legal agreements reached without litigation. With it, a judge can keep tabs on a police department to make sure it is complying with court orders.
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14th May 2021
Zman’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.
A topic I keep returning to is how the new fads sweeping our elites are like primitive rituals rather than old time ideology. The Marxists really thought their economic policies would result in plenty. On paper at least, their plans made some sense. The new stuff is all mystery and magic. If people chant certain things at certain times or places, then something magical will happen. There is no attempt to create a logic that connects the dots or explains the logic. They just believe.
That is what lies behind the critical race theory business. Read through it and you see there is no plan of action or set of standards to be met. There is no list of things that need to be done or not done. It is a blend of graduate school jargon and feminized encounter sessions. If everyone sits in the room and hears the gibberish from the lecturer, somehow the fog of racism will lift. Or maybe it will never lift, and the struggle will continue forever. No one knows or thinks about it.
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Antiracism is a mystery cult. The insiders have learned the language and those who refuse to learn the language are the outsiders, the bad people stuck in the white supremacist mindset. That is the appeal of antiracism for the white people joining it. It is grace on the cheap. Learn some catchphrases, attend a seminar, and show some enthusiasm. The prize is you get a black person to bless you and bestow forgiveness. It is the prefect bourgeois religion.
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14th May 2021
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14th May 2021
Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Religion of ‘Peace’
Ayatollah Khamenei Calls Israel “Not A Country, But A Terrorist Base” As Vienna Talks Intensify Gee, I was going to say the same thing about Iran.
More than 170 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem
At Least 25 Killed In Kabul Bombing That Targeted Afghan Schoolgirls Muslim extremists think that females don’t deserve education, and are willing to kill them to make their point.
US Navy Seizes Weapons in Arabian Sea Likely Bound for Yemen
The weapons seizure so big it covered the rear deck of a 567-foot US warship
Anti-Israel Group IfNotNow Sides with Palestinians Demanding Destruction of Tel Aviv
Parts Of Southern Israel Go Into Lockdown, Knesset Evacuates, As Hamas Sends A Hail Of Rockets
Watch: Temple Mount Is On Fire Near Aqsa Mosque As Jerusalem Unrest Intensifies
Inconsiderate Jews Continue To Be Alive Against Palestinians’ Wishes Babylon Bee.
Times Square Shooter Turns Out to be Named Farrakhan Muhammad
Siding with Terrorists AGAIN: Nets Decry Israel Defending Itself from Hamas
Ilhan Omar Says It Is An ‘Act Of Terrorism’ For Israel To Defend Itself From Hamas Rocket Attacks
Lampedusa is Full Up
Israel Pounds Gaza Overnight As Death Toll Soars, Says Anti-Hamas Operation “In Early Stages” You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.
New Military Letter Warning Of Civil War In France Gains Over 220,000 Signatures
At Least 28 People In Gaza Dead As Israel Retaliates Against Hamas Attack Hamas doesn’t care, except for propaganda purposes.
Hamas and Israel Exchange Fire as Jerusalem Unrest Ignites Gaza
Rockets Hit Tel Aviv, Gaza Block Collapses After Israeli Strike
Watch The Moment Israel’s Iron Dome Intercepts A Barrage Of Rockets Over A Major City
SURFACE FORCES : Iran Stocks Up On Catamarans
MALI: Withdrawal and Relapse
Israel-Palestinian Clashes kill 55, Sparking Fear of ‘Full-Scale War’
Facebook, Instagram accused of bias by censoring Palestinian content You mean the parts where they tell everyone to kill all the Jews?
Twitter Takes Down Tweets From Hamas Leader Celebrating Rocket Attacks Against Israel
Senior Hamas Commander Killed as Israel Strikes Gaza, Palestinians Fire Rockets
Hamas Exploits Palestinian Unrest to Launch Rocket War Against Israel
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Joins Protesters In Support Of Palestinians It’s not like she’s an American or something.
Hamas Offers Immediate Ceasefire “On Mutual Basis” As Fighting Spirals Into Full-Scale War When you’re losing, it’s time for a hudna!
CBS Ignored Little Israeli Boy Killed by Hamas Rocket, Blames Jews for Violence
Pakistani actress quotes Adolf Hitler to 1.2 million Twitter followers as tensions flare in Israel
Facebook is manipulating the world and forcing people to like a pro-Israel page This is all due to Zuckerberg, the secret Jew! Oh, wait….
Zakaria: ‘Frustrated’ Palestinians ‘Have to’ Fire Rockets to Get Attention Yeah, well, be careful what you wish for.
Israel launches fresh Gaza attacks amid rocket fire – updates
Israel Sends in Ground Forces as Gaza Conflict Intensifies My, what a surprise.
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14th May 2021
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‘Food desert’ is Woke-speak for ‘I can only get groceries from a Korean-run convenience store’.
The problem, of course, is finding BIPOCs who are willing to work at raising food rather than just going out and stealing it.
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14th May 2021
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If you have not yet reached forty years of age, you had not until this last month experienced the rate of consumer price increases Americans experienced in April. We have to journey all the way back to 1981 for that. How, with the labor force participation rate so low and so many jobs unfilled, can the prices of everything–including wages–be rising? Stagflation isn’t supposed to happen, especially not with so much supposed slack in the labor market!
That’s what happens when the Fed prints money as if it were toilet paper and the government spends it as if it were water.
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14th May 2021
- Never buy a dictionary with ‘Webster’ in the name.
- Always buy a dictionary with ‘Oxford’ in the name.
That is all.
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14th May 2021
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Spare a thought for the joyless malcontents over at the Intercept, a website that once proudly defended journalists and fought government interference in the everyday lives of American citizens. Now the Intercept gleefully smears reporters who have dared to cover the protests-cum-riots of the past few years.
The site’s senior writer Robert Mackey and video producer Travis Mannion bothered to make a 25-minute-long video scrutinizing the coverage of ‘the Riot Squad’, a group of young journalists and videographers who film the violent aftermath of Black Lives Matter and antifa protests — among other riots. Some of these young reporters are, gasp, conservatives.
The Intercept is the org that Glenn Greenwald bailed from recently. Apparently they were too Woke even for him.
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14th May 2021
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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.
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13th May 2021
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13th May 2021
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13th May 2021
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13th May 2021
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13th May 2021
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13th May 2021
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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
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13th May 2021
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On the Laura Ingraham show last night, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that he will pardon all Floridians who have been charged with failing to wear masks or socially distance in compliance with COVID-related protocols imposed by counties. The immediate context was a criminal prosecution against a couple who own a Florida gym, and who refused to force customers to wear masks. They were facing jail terms of 120 days. The couple, Mike and Jillian Carnevale, were on the program with DeSantis.
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13th May 2021
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Think of it as evolution in action.
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13th May 2021
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Democrats such as Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar have become advocates of terrorists and murderers. To borrow the cliché, the silence here — the silence of the Star Tribune — is deafening.
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13th May 2021
ZMan does some analysis.
Often, the natural confluence of events results in something so elegant or complex that people see the hand of design behind the result. Even though the odds of there being a secret conspiracy or master chess player behind the result are very low, that just seems better than the odds of chance getting the result. Most conspiracy theories rely on this sort of logic. The official explanations seem so unlikely that they must be part of some conspiracy to shield the truth from the public.
A good example of this is the last election. No sitting president has seen a double digit increase in his vote, but still lose. In fact, no one has been able to find an example like this in other elected offices. That’s how rare it is. This once in forever thing could be accepted in isolation, but it is just one of such things. There are so many unexplained anomalies that people are naturally skeptical. The invisible hand of design, even without hard proof, seems like the more likely explanation.
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The question is, why? The fact is there is no market for fake meat. Dozens of efforts to create one, including the current fake burger idea, have flopped. The fact is the public is not going to voluntarily start eating bugs and grass clippings just because the climate loons say Gaia commands it. If the choice is between a real burger and the artificial alternative, people choose the real burger. In other words, there is no business opportunity here that the oligarchs are trying to exploit.
That is, unless the government plans to ban meat. Despite the organized media campaignby the regime to claim otherwise, the regime is plotting to ban meat. They will not do it outright, but instead regulate it out of existence. In the name of climate change, they will make the sale and production of meat products increasingly expensive. This is why the billionaires all see fake meat as an opportunity. It is also why recipe sites are now removing meat recipes from their websites.
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13th May 2021
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13th May 2021
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We have the technology.
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13th May 2021
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Massive Sand Crisis.
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13th May 2021
NPR.
Whenever Democrats lose their way, they come up with silly ideas to spend YOUR money.
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12th May 2021
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California is cruising toward a 100% “green” energy future, or so the state’s leaders tell us. But how, exactly, will that objective be brought about? In March of this year, the responsible state agencies issued a plan to achieve 100% carbon dioxide-free electricity by 2045. That is an achievable goal if you use nuclear power. Unfortunately, California is trying to do it with wind and solar.
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12th May 2021
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Well, if that’s what it takes….
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12th May 2021
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Like being called ugly by a frog.
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12th May 2021
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President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top State Department post runs a private organization that has received tens of millions from the federal agency.
Biden’s nomination of Lee Satterfield as assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has prompted concerns about the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Oh, ya think? Watch the Deep State in action.
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12th May 2021
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12th May 2021
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12th May 2021
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12th May 2021
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12th May 2021
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12th May 2021
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12th May 2021
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If there’s a phrase about journalism that should bowl people over with laughter in 2021, it’s the phrase “industry-wide standards of impartiality.” But there was Washington Post media reporter Jeremy Barr sounding like Rip Van Winkle in a gushy article on Wednesday about the “new CNN,” suddenly liberated from its stodgy objectivity. The headline was “The new CNN is more opinionated and emotional. Can it still be ‘the most trusted name in news’?”
Answer: No.
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12th May 2021
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Same-old same-old.
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12th May 2021
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Canadians pride themselves on their ultra-progressive reputation. In contrast to the gun-loving, war-mongering, big government-hating, get-off-my-lawn-you-commie reputation of Americans, Canadians see themselves as North America’s kinder, gentler half. But that smug politeness has seen us sleepwalk into an Orwellian nightmare.
We have never felt much of an affinity to free speech in Canada — saying what you really think is mean and individual rights are for people who don’t have a feminist drama teacher as prime minister. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that a new bill proposing to regulate speech on the internet is being pushed by our politically center-left Liberal party.
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12th May 2021
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Just days before Palestinian terror groups began bombarding Israel with rocket attacks, a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said the group’s funding and weapons are provided by Iran.
Ramez al-Halabi, a PIJ official, disclosed his group’s deep ties to the Islamic regime in a May 7 interview on Iraqi television just prior to the bombardment of Israel, part of a deepening conflict that threatens to throw the region into larger war.
“The mujahideen [terrorists] in Gaza and in Lebanon use Iranian weapons to strike the Zionists. We buy our weapons with Iranian money. An important part of our activity is under the supervision of Iranian experts,” al-Halabi said. “The contours of the victories in Palestine as of late were outlined with the blood of [former Iranian military leader] Qassem Soleimani, Iranian blood.” His remarks were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which tracks jihadist activity.
UPDATE: Tensions Rise In Middle East As One Side Wants To Kill Jews And The Other Side Are Jews Who Don’t Want To Die And Neither Will Compromise Babylon Bee.
UPDATE: Hamas Official Reportedly Tells People To Buy Knives And Cut Jews’ Heads Off
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