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Dissident Thoughts

9th December 2022

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Years ago I did a show on what it means to be on the dissident right, but it was long enough ago to revisit the topic. Back when I did the show, hardly anyone used the term so it was a different conversation than today, when lots of people use it. In fact, far too many people recklessly throw around the label. Just because you got booted from your Facebook group for using the N-word does not make you a dissident.

What you see is lots of people who used to claim the label alt-right having stopped using that now discredited term and picking up this new label. Their opinions have not changed and their understanding has not changed. They just needed a new label so they scanned around and found one that had not be ruined yet. In many cases, these people have no coherent politics at all, just grievances.

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Non-Binary Biden Nuclear Official Sam Brinton Accused in Second Luggage Heist

9th December 2022

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A Biden administration Energy Department official who allegedly stole a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport in September has been accused of another luggage heist at a Las Vegas airport.

A felony warrant on grand larceny charges was issued for Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, 8 News Now reported Thursday.

Brinton, who made history as one of the federal government’s first gender-fluid officials, allegedly stole luggage from another traveler at Harry Reid International Airport in Vegas on an unknown date, according to the outlet.

Details about the alleged theft are scarce, but 8 News Now stated that Brinton, 35, was charged with grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000.

Hey, everybody’s got to have a hobby, right?

UPDATE: Biden Admin’s Airport Panty Raider Strikes Again

 

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Police Move on Suspected Influence Peddling at EU Assembly

9th December 2022

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Police launched 16 raids across Belgium’s capital Friday as part of a probe into corruption and money laundering involving the European Union parliament and an unidentified Gulf country, the federal prosecutor’s office said.

Four people were detained for questioning, and investigators recovered around 600,000 euros ($633,500) in cash and seized computer equipment and mobile telephones during the Brussels raids, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The statement did not name the four but said one was a former member of the European Parliament.

The raids targeted in particular assistants working for EU lawmakers, the statement said. The EU assembly has 705 elected members from the bloc’s 27 member nations. Each lawmaker has a number of assistants.

Centralizing power makes corruption that much more profitable.

The European Deep State is even more corrupt than that in D.C.

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Sinema Leaving the Democratic Party and Registering as an Independent

9th December 2022

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Just couldn’t take it any more.

UPDATE: “Tired Of The Partisanship” – Senator Kyrsten Sinema Abandons Dems, Goes Independent

UPDATE: Sinema’s sayonara  Scott Johnson at Power Line points out that it makes very little difference, especially if she’s going to be an Independent In Name Only like Bernie Sanders and Angus King.

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Top French Central Banker Steps Down After Being Ensnared In Corruption Probe

9th December 2022

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Christine Lagarde is no longer the only (alleged) criminal in charge of a money-printing operation: on Friday, French prosecutors said they had opened a corruption investigation into top central banker Sylvie Goulard, who simultaneously stepped down from the Bank of France.

The probe covers suspicions of accepting bribes, influence peddling, illegal conflicts of interest and breach of trust, the national financial prosecutor’s office said, confirming a report from daily Liberation. Graft-fighting group Anticor triggered the probe by filing a criminal report in June, with the investigation launched in September.

Centralizing power makes corruption more profitable.

So what’s next for the corruption-tainted Goulard? Will she quietly ride off into the sunset of retirement? Why of course not – she will do what so many alleged criminals ends up doing: work for the government.

According to the Bank of France, Goulard Se wished to “return to the foreign ministry” where she started her civil service career.

Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

As John Derbyshire likes to say: ‘Get a government job!’

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Thought for the Day

9th December 2022

Wondermark Comic Strip for December 05, 2022

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Palestinian President Threatens Return to Terrorism

9th December 2022

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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas indicated the Palestinian Authority may turn to terrorism, saying “armed resistance” against Israel could commence any day.

“I do not endorse armed resistance at the moment, but I may change my mind later,” President Mahmoud Abbas said in a recent Arabic-language interview translated into English on the Elder of Ziyon website, a blog that tracks Israeli-Palestinian issues. “I do not adopt military resistance at this time, but it is possible that I change my mind tomorrow or after tomorrow, or any time.”

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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Key Provision of Constitution in Play as Supreme Court Hears Election Case

9th December 2022

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The state legislators, in what Justice Elena Kagan acknowledged is a “novel challenge,” are contesting the actions of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The lawmakers claim it is unconstitutional for state courts to override the decisions of state legislatures in passing election laws and drafting congressional maps that fully comply with all the requirements of federal law.

State courts shouldn’t be able to change such laws or devise their own legislative maps—often to reach a partisan result—based on novel and unprecedented interpretations of state constitutions, the legislators argue. This, they say, is barred by the Constitution’s elections clause.

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

8th December 2022

Gosar tweets, then deletes, support for Trump’s Constitution termination statement (The Hill)

Rep. Paul Gosar Endorsed Trump’s Call to ‘Terminate’ Constitutional Rules (Rolling Stone)

Michigan church sues state over LGBTQ civil rights protections (Fox)

Twitter’s makeshift hotel rooms show just how broken US work culture is (CNN) Specifically, Elon Musk’s work culture.

Author of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is Indicted for Fraud (Daily Beast)

Mar-a-Lago judge faces ‘serious reputational damage’ for appointing special master (MSNBC) According to the Narrative.

Colbert on Herschel Walker: ‘self-aware cinderblock’ who ‘didn’t belong in the Senate’ (The Guardian) No word on Fetterman, though.

Stephen Colbert Dusts Off Old Jokes In Epic Takedown Of Herschel Walker (Huffington Post)

It’s official: Kari Lake, Kelli Ward and the Arizona GOP have lost their minds (AZCentral) No, it’s just the Narrative.

Transgender Activists Attack Feminists Protesting Men In Women’s Prisons  They must be Republicans because, after all, only Republicans engage in political violence.

Inside the turbulent, doomed campaign of Herschel Walker (NBC) The jackals gather to pick the bones.

Former Employees Say Twitter’s Mass Layoffs Were Sexist

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

8th December 2022

As China moves away from zero-Covid, health experts warn of dark days ahead (CNN)

New York experiences worst influenza season since 2009 swine flu pandemic (WSYR)

How To Stay Safe During The Holidays Amid Severe Flu Season (TODAY)

Rollback of covid vaccine mandate met with furor at Pentagon (Washington Post) The vaccine mandate is how they’re getting rid of the non-Woke.

Discriminatory attitudes against the unvaccinated during a global pandemic

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

8th December 2022

Congress pushes TAPS Act as Border Patrol agents feel ‘abandoned’ by Biden administration (N.Y. Post)

Biden says ‘more important things’ than border visit, despite 59 trips to Delaware, 8 stops for ice cream (Fox)

Biden’s latest student loan payment extension is unlawful (The Hill)

Biden admin drags its feet on TikTok security deal as Republicans sound alarms (Fox)

White House pressed on Biden comparing Georgia voting law to ‘Jim Crow’ despite record turnout

The Fed may wreck one of the greatest booms in history of Main Street America (CNBC)

Biden Appeals Ruling Invalidating COVID Curbs for Migrants at Southern Border

Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax: Biden’s Staff Shielding Him from Border

Who’s Really Facilitating America’s Border Crisis? Biden Isn’t Acting Alone

Biden: ‘We Can’ Ban Assault Weapons Before GOP Leads House

Border Patrol Agents Eviscerate Biden For Saying He’s Got “More Important Things” To Worry About

‘Endangering Our National Security’: Senator Launches Inquiry Into Biden’s $200M Grant to China-Based Battery Company

Biden had a ‘painful’ decision to make to secure Griner’s release. He made it. (Politico) It wasn’t painful at all. He caved. He traded a terrorist for a narcissistic Fashionable Minority that would get him fawning headlines (like this one) and meanwhile a white mail veteran rots in a Russian prison.

Biden Releasing $36 Billion to Aid Union Pensions  Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Biden Grants Historic Federal Bailout to Union Pension Fund Struggling in His Economy

Biden’s Student Loan Bribe in Midterms: Unconstitutional But Successful

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

8th December 2022

MORE Classified Docs Reportedly Found in Trump’s Storage Unit (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

Trump told crowd to ‘fight like hell’ before riot. Can he be sued? (Washington Post) No.

After Georgia Loss, G.O.P. Stares Down Its Trump Dilemma (N.Y. Times) As does the Narrative Media.

Donald Trump and His Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad 3 Weeks (N.Y. Times) No matter who wins, no matter who loses, it’s all about Trump.

Trump’s Jewish Allies Are ‘Begging’ Him to Condemn Kanye. He’s Refusing (Rolling Stone) What are the chances that a writer for Rolling Stone knows what Trump’s ‘Jewish allies’ are aying to him, or what he’s saying back? Less than zero, I’m thinking.

Trump’s isolation deepens as Georgia loss adds to 2024 bid’s rocky start (Washington Post) This ‘isolation’ obviously doesn’t include the Narrative Media, who spend as much of their days reading Trump spoor as they think they can get away with.

US NATO Ambassador Not Concerned for Alliance if Trump Wins in 2024

FLASHBACK: Lib Media Bemoaned Trump Getting Hostages out of NoKo

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

8th December 2022

‘Fate of the living world’ will be decided at Cop15, say scientists (The Guardian) How can proglodytes make it through the day in the face of this constant drumbeat of doom & gloom?

COP15 UN biodiversity summit opens in Canada (BBC)

U.S. floats new steel, aluminum tariffs based on carbon emissions (Reuters)

Violet Coco is in prison meanwhile the fossil fuel people are really getting value for money (The Guardian)

EU announces price hikes for airline permits in bid to combat climate change

EU agrees law to make airlines pay more to pollute (Reuters)

The Guardian view on biodiversity collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore (The Guardian)

The Other Half of the Ecological Crisis We Are Ignoring (Carnegie Endowment)

Aluminum plants in the U.S. are releasing tons of a highly potent greenhouse gas, unlike their counterparts abroad (NBC)

Want to Help Reduce PFC Emissions? Recycle Those Cans (Inside Climate News)

Cumbria coalmine approval shows Sunak does not care if he is seen as green (The Guardian) And being ‘seen as green’ is all that’s important.

The EPA Is Hunting Performance Shops and Diesel Tuners Are to Blame (Road & Track) No,  it’s the EPA that’s to blame.

Venice may get a temporary respite from rising seas by 2035 (New Scientist)

Big Oil Is Once Again Throwing Money at Sucking Carbon From the Sky (Gizmodo)

World Economic Forum: Hydrogen Boron Nuclear Fusion Anticipated by 2030

Americans Are Moving Into Danger Zones (Wired ‘Science’) Guess they ain’t buying your ‘climate change’ con.

How Protests and Crackdowns Can Exacerbate Climate Change

 

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‘Act of Love’: Lib Men Surge To Get Vasectomies In Abortion ‘Rights’ Protest

8th December 2022

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And we encourage them to do so.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Who Is Viktor Bout, the ‘Merchant of Death’ Arms Dealer Biden Traded to Russia For Brittney Griner?

8th December 2022

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U.S. officials under the Bush administration captured Bout during a 2008 sting operation in Bangkok, where the arms dealer believed he was meeting with Colombian narco-terrorist group FARC to secure the sale of 100 surface-to-air missiles and rocket launchers. Bout was extradited from Thailand to the United States in 2010 on terrorism charges including conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, and conspiracy to kill U.S. officials. A U.S. jury sentenced Bout to 25 years in prison in Manhattan in 2011.

So we gave the Russians a convicted terrorist and got a drug-using America-hating lesbian BIPOC in return? Sounds as if the Biden people got rolled.

UPDATE: Woke Athlete Released By Russia; Former Marine Whelan Left Behind

UPDATE: Score One for Putin

 

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Vanuatu Has Been Knocked Offline for Over a Month

8th December 2022

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Tell the truth: You didn’t miss them, did you?

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Watch: Mass Riots Hit Europe After Morocco’s World Cup Victory Against Spain

8th December 2022

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Following Morocco’s shock World Cup penalty shoot-out victory over the Spanish national team on Tuesday, Moroccan fans have once again rioted across multiple countries, including Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

The scenes of chaos mark the third time Moroccan fans have rioted following a World Cup victory, with the first two times last month already drawing condemnation.

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Germany: Eritrean Asylum Seeker Stabs Girl (14) to Death; Injures Another (13)

8th December 2022

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Open the borders! What could possibly go wrong?

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The Absurdity of California’s Reparations Proposal

8th December 2022

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You can always count on California’s progressive contingent to mix lunacy with hypocrisy. The state’s nine-member Reparations Task Force last month recommended large state payments to descendants of slaves, now living in California.

The task force estimates compensation of around $569 billion, with $223,200 per person: estimates of a national reparations total could top $14 trillion. California, which was never a slave state, although there were some instances during the Gold Rush, is a strange place to start. Given few Californians were enslaved, the expansive policy is justified by the legacy of discrimination that followed Emancipation.

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Thought for the Day

8th December 2022

Happy Santa

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

7th December 2022

FBI wouldn’t discuss Hunter Biden probe after convincing Facebook to suppress laptop stories (N.Y. Post)

Judge tosses Jamal Khashoggi suit against MBS after Biden gives prince immunity: court docs (N.Y. Post)

Biden faces press outcry after ‘petty’ and ‘punitive’ Christmas party snubs (N.Y. Post)

Doug Emhoff emerges as the face of Biden’s fight against antisemitism (Politico)

The Biden Official Overseeing Georgia Poll Watchers Defended Black Panthers in Voter Intimidation Case

MORE Twitter Files: Taibbi Says Former Top FBI Lawyer Complicated Hunter Biden Docs Release

House GOP Announces Investigation Into Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal

‘He Claims To Be Pro-Labor But He’s Not’: Buttigieg’s Focus On Midterms During Stalled Rail Negotiations Strains Relationship With Unions

Team Biden’s 401(k) heist could raid your retirement for a woke agenda (N.Y. Post)

Nicaraguan Migrants Dropped at Home of VP Harris

Biden’s DOJ Is Investigating an Accidental Death in Israel. A Watchdog Wants To Know Why.

Border Patrol Agent Killed During High-Speed Pursuit of Migrants

Biden’s IRS Commish Pick Covered Up Obama’s Targeting of Conservatives

How the FBI got the Hunter laptop story suppressed while attempting to preserve plausible deniability for itself

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

7th December 2022

A possible watershed moment for valuing nature (The Hill)

The biodiversity crisis in numbers – a visual guide (The Guardan)

From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing (Reuters)

IOC delays decision on 2030 Winter Games host, citing climate concerns (Washington Post)

Scientists thought carbon emissions had peaked. They’ve never been higher. (Washington Post)

You’re not going to stop shopping for new clothes. Here’s what to do instead. (Washington Post)

13 pro-fossil fuel states seek to block Vanguard utility buys, cite ties to green ‘activism’ (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Climate protesters told to pay National Gallery £1,000 for damaging painting (The Guardian)

Green Energy Construction Company Collapse Triggers Aussie Government Crisis Talks

Saving the World With Electric Vehicles

Biden’s Climate Change War Picks Up Steam In More Ways Than One

The Mirror Makes Ludicrous Claim That Large Parts of England Will Be Under Water By 2100

Claim: Indoor Farms can Solve Climate Crisis Weather Disruption

Climate Analysis: There’s No Denying the Next Greta Thunberg Is a Total Babe

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

7th December 2022

The incredibly unsubtle Amy Coney Barrett response that should worry LGBTQ Americans (MSNBC)

Amy Coney Barrett Warns Gay Rights Case Has Future Consequences (Newsweek)

BlackRock chief Fink pressured to resign over ESG ‘hypocrisy’ (Financial Times)

With Power Grid Under Attack, U.S. Struggles to Pursue Far-Right Extremists (Newsweek) No attempt is made to pursue Far-Left ‘extremists’, of course.

As Trump’s image fizzles, Obama tribute makes waves (MSNBC) All hail the Magic Negro!

San Francisco legislator receives another bomb threat

‘Would He Be Able To Perform Job As Senator?’ Was Mika Speaking of Herschel, or Fetterman?

NYT Uses Leftist Groups to Claim ‘Hate Speech’ Rising on Musk’s Twitter

‘January 6’ Trials Remind Us Why We Must Abolish Seditious Conspiracy Laws

Not Funny: Liberals Are Furious Conservative Supreme Court Justice Has Sense of Humor

DNC TV: ABC, NBC Hype Walker’s Scandals, Ignores Warnock’s Anti-Semitic Ties

The “Crazy, Right-Wing Shooter” Myth

MSNBC’s Reid: ‘Champion Vote Suppressor’ Kemp No Different Than Trump

Democrats ramp up investigation of Kushner family business dealings (Washington Post) Trump cooties! They’re everywhere!

MSNBC’s Hayes Alleges Twitter Was ‘Ideological Purchase’ For Musk  Is that supposed to be news?

Jan. 6 committee plans to issue criminal referrals along with its final report (NBC)

ACLU Threatens Hospital Reluctant to Mutilate Genitals

CNN Tries to Warn GOP Not to Investigate Hunter, Wokeness

YouTube Censored Footage of Anti-CCP Protests with Age Restrictions, Demonetization

Fox News Host Mark Levin’s War on ‘Imbecile’ Far-Right Congressmen Just Got Uglier (Daily Beast) And the warthog said, ‘Damn, you’re ugly!’.

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

7th December 2022

College degree value plummets as woke insanity spikes (Fox)

Number of ‘top’ surgeries performed on trans children has risen 13-FOLD in last decade — with girls as young as 12 getting irreversible ops (Daily Mail)

Internal documents reveal Oregon teachers union exodus is a crisis of its own making

ABC Claims SCOTUS Backing Religious Liberty Would Undo ‘Long’ ‘Settled’ Civil Rights

Raphael Warnock: I Support Abortion Because “It’s Exactly What Jesus Would Do”

“My Jaw Hit The Floor” – Musk Fires Twitter’s ‘FBI-Russiagate’ Lawyer Over Vetting Debacle

Walmart CEO Warns Retail Thefts Will Lead To Price Hikes, Store Closures

PBS Gushes Through Democrats Week In Review

The Hijacking of Pediatric Medicine

Walmart CEO Warns of Higher Prices, Store Closures Over Shoplifting

AP’s War on Plain English: Don’t Use the Term ‘Late-Term Abortion’

All Four College Football Playoff Teams Gain LGBT Approval

James Cameron Releases Testosterone-Free Cut Of ‘T2’ Where Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Replaced By Kip From Napoleon Dynamite  (Babylon Bee)

House Republicans ‘May Dig Their Own Grave’ With Fringe Political Investigations (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew are sounding more and more like garden-variety Democrats.

The View: ‘White Guys’ in GOP Vote Women/Minorities to Control Them

Florida Town Tightens Up Code of Conduct Rules After Pride Festival Fiasco

AOC Under Investigation by House Ethics Committee

Rantz: Beloved Seattle restaurant suffers 18th break-in by thieves the Democrats enable

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

7th December 2022

The US has never recorded this many positive flu tests in one week (Vox)

Worst Flu Outbreak In A Decade Overwhelms Hospitals (TODAY)

Immunity’s down. Infection rates are up. And what happened to everyone’s masks? (L.A. Times)

Fauci doesn’t remember that study he based hydroxychloroquine COVID treatment claims on was retracted

Top Marine Corps General Admits COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Has Led To Decline In Military Recruitment

Fauci Says He Dismissed Lab Leak Theory to Placate China

The Vax and Heart Health

Confession and Apology First, Then Amnesty

COVID-19 Boosters Provided Little Added Protection For People With Natural Immunity: Study

Fauci criticizes ‘extreme’ ideological divide that has led to disproportionate Covid deaths (NBC) How about the extreme persistent lying he’s subjected us to over the last two years?

 

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

7th December 2022

Petition challenges could narrow field of Black candidates for Chicago mayor (Chicago Sun-Times)

Ottumwa Community School District violates Civil Rights Act according to the US Department of Education (KCCI)

Georgia’s U.S. Senate race pits the Black church against white Christian nationalism (NPR)

Why Are More Black Men Voting Republican? (Rolling Stone)

California Teacher Refuses to Teach Grammar, Calls it ‘White Supremacy’

The Death of Daniel Prude and the Birth of a Thousand Lies

Amazon, Uber ads appear on Twitter pages of white nationalists restored by Musk (Washington Post)

A New Gun Right Group — Black Guns Matter

 

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What Have You Got to Lose?

7th December 2022

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We treat those inside differently than we do those outside. This is necessary and good. The disaster at the southern border is an illustration of what happens when a community refuses to police its boundaries. A nation simply can’t exist without them. But neither can any human organization, whether it’s the family, a neighborhood, a corporation, or a school of thought. Knowing who’s “in” and who’s “out” is essential for allocating resources, building consensus, and organizing effectively to pursue goals.

At the same time, policing the wrong boundaries—or policing them too severely—can lead to paralysis and death. From the 1960s until the end of the Obama Administration, the borders of the conservative movement were very clearly understood. This was true even as, or perhaps in part because, the movement was growing more and more sclerotic. Trump played a key role in breaking up this ossified Republican establishment, but he wasn’t the initiator. The structure was already hollowing out, and Trump’s victory in the 2016 primaries only administered the final push.

The rain came down, the floods rushed in, the winds blew and beat against that house, and great was the fall of it. After the collapse, we didn’t simply aim to re-build. We set ourselves to the work of building a new movement—leaner, stronger, and custom-designed for the powerful new storms we face. Elements of the old guard have recognized the need for something new and brought their wisdom to bear on the new coalition. But many have “self-deported” or been replaced. The old priests of the commentariat—Boot, Kristol, French, etc.—have been cast, teeth gnashing, into the outer darkness, and a great diversity of new voices and ideas has risen to prominence.

In the last six years, we have made enormous progress. So much, in fact, that some are feeling the urge to begin marking our new borders and policing who is inside and outside. This is a natural impulse, and it is a task that will need to be done eventually—but in my view, it is too early to begin gatekeeping. There is still much building to be done, after all, and our progress to this point has been a product of a vigorous dialogue among a broad array of thinkers with divergent ideas and common interests. Nevertheless, we do need strategies that allow us to best allocate our resources. We need some criteria by which to evaluate where effective alliances can be made—a way to know the people with whom we can have a productive dialogue, and a way to know when we’re wasting our breath. I propose two criteria by which to make these determinations: honesty and sacrifice.

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The Purge

7th December 2022

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An examination of the “gatekeeping” that has taken place in the American conservative movement will bring me sooner or later to the subject of purges. This theme has engaged my interest as an historian of the conservative movement because it is key for understanding the vicissitudes of American conservatism. Purging unwanted dissenters has often been presented as the movement’s sensible reaction to extremism. It has supposedly allowed conservatism to become respectable—or at least so it seemed before the American media ceased to recognize anything as being respectable that was not recognizably part of the Left.

As late as October 27, 2005, on the fiftieth anniversary of National Review, Jonah Goldberg praised his magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley, Jr., for “throwing friends and allies off the bus from time to time.” Further: “The Randians, the Rothbardian anarchists and isolationists, the Birchers, the anti-Semites, the me-too-Republicans: all of these groups in various combinations were purged from the movement and masthead, sometimes painfully, sometimes easily, but always with the ideal of keeping the cause honest and pointed north to the ideal in his compass.”

Curiously, Goldberg’s praise was echoed in the New York Times and elsewhere in the national press, which depicted the by-then venerated WFB as a high-minded conservative who had dealt heroically with right-wing extremism among conservatives. Only a handful of commentators, either libertarians or on the far Left, bothered to notice that Buckley’s targets in the 1950s and 1960s were hardly neo-Nazis. Most of them were Jewish isolationists who differed with his view of foreign policy.

Any prospect that the ‘Conservative movement’ might escape from being the Washington Generals of American politics is met with an instant and scorched-earth pogrom. One need only look at the Kristol Krew (The Bulwark) and the Goldberg Group (The Dispatch) and the doddering relic of National Review (and don’t get me started on David French) to see that this syndrome is healthy and vigorous.

The main difference between proglodytes and ‘movement conservatives’ is that proglodytes never forget which side they’re on.

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Thought for the Day

7th December 2022

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The Case for Trump

7th December 2022

Trump at his worst is still better for the country than any Democrat at his (or her) best.

That’s all you really need to know.

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Pearl Harbor Day

7th December 2022

Some of us remember.

In Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Address, Kamala Harris Urges Nation Not To Forget January 6  (Babylon Bee)

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Good King Wenceslas

7th December 2022

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I have always thought that Good King Wenceslas was about a benevolent old gent trying to spread a little happiness. Wrong. According to the Guardian ‘it glorifies a patriarchal definition of charitable giving that belittles the value of a properly funded welfare state’.

Well, we can’t have that.

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The Times and WaPo Take Up Arms

7th December 2022

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Well, no, of course they don’t. The idea that liberal news outlets might contribute to our national defense, rather than undermining it, is laughable. And yet, here they are: the defense authorization bill is being held hostage to the Democrats’ insistence that the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act” be included in it.

Whatever the merits of the JCPA, it has absolutely nothing to do with national defense, and should be stripped out of the defense appropriations bill and considered independently on its own merits. Obviously, the Democrats wouldn’t have tried to slip it through in this manner if they thought it could withstand scrutiny.

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Still Against the ‘Dead Consensus’

7th December 2022

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In the aftermath of the Republican Party’s recent midterm elections debacle, right-liberal sharks are circling. These devoted acolytes of what a prominent 2019 First Things manifesto called the American Right’s “dead consensus” think they see blood in the water. Indeed, the “dead consensus” praetorian guard has apparently decided that now is the time for a counterattack against the more nationalist- and populist-inclined forces of what has broadly been dubbed the “New Right.” A recent anti-national conservatism fusillade from The Federalist‘s David Harsanyi is reflective of the broader subgenre.

The opportunistic timing of this ascendant strand of argumentation is as obvious as its logic is facile. The basic argument is: Trump the individual is largely inextricable from the substantive political commitments of the “New Right”; Trump was primarily responsible for the GOP’s ballot box losses last month; therefore the “New Right” is at “best” vicariously responsible itself, and at “worst” is merely hurting badly. Either way, Republicans’ midterm election disappointments present for beleaguered right-liberals a perfect opportunity to turn the tables and go on the offensive.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

6th December 2022

Top evangelicals are backing away from Donald Trump (Semafor)

Trump’s committee paying for lawyers of key Mar-a-Lago witnesses (Washington Post)

Court Implodes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Defense (and the Errant Judge Who Bought It) (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues to punch right.

Even Evangelicals Are Sick of Trump’s ‘Drama’ (Daily Beast) But the Narrative Media just eats it up.

John Bolton Threatens Presidential Race Challenge to Trump

Trump did not disclose $19.8m loan while president, documents show (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH. So what?

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Owed Hidden Debt While In Office (Forbes) Not very exclusive if The Guardian knew about it.

White House asks Republicans to condemn Trump remarks on U.S. Constitution (Reuters) Specifically, condemn what they claim are Trump’s remarks.

Claire McCaskill: The biggest lie Trump told was his oath of office (MSNBC) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Trump’s slow 2024 start worries allies (CNN) I guess this will be the Narrative going forward. Of course, CNN has no clue as to what might or might not be ‘worrying Trump’s allies’.

Did Trump Really Call For Termination Of The Constitution?  What do you think?

Trump Special Counsel Smith Issues Subpoenas in Several States

Trump’s explanation

Trump Organization Convicted in Executive Tax Dodge Scheme

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

6th December 2022

COP15: Why does the UN biodiversity conference matter? (Al Jezeera)

U.N. summit aims for global pact to protect nature (Reuters)

December serving up baked Alaska and warming most of Arctic (Associated Press)

SFO and Bay Area airports face even bigger risks from sea level rise than we knew (S.F. Chronicle)

The U.S. wants to slash carbon emissions from power plants. Natural gas is in the way (NPR)

Want to save the planet? Focus on wild cats. (Washington Post)

Sale jumpstarts floating, offshore wind power in US waters (Associated Press)

‘We need to be braver’: young naturalists on the world beyond Cop15 (The Guardian) Translation: ‘We need to be more obnoxious’.

Climate misinformation explodes on Twitter (The Verge) Translation: Disagrees with the Narrative.

Czechia Admits EU’s EV Charger Network Plan Will Probably Fail

Tenn. Could Triple EV Fee to Pay for Infrastructure  Electric vehicles are fine – for rich people.

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

6th December 2022

Report: Germany Political Parties Still Advocate Public Masking

Contradictions, Lies, And “I Don’t Recalls”: The Fauci Deposition

Worst flu outbreak in more than a decade spikes hospitalizations (Axios)

Mayor Adams, American College of Lifestyle Medicine Announce $44 Million to Offer Lifestyle Medicine Foundational Training to Every NYC Health Care Practitioner  At taxpayer expense.

Covid-19 can live on these 5 grocery items for days—here’s how to consume them safely (CNBC) What fool doesn’t wash vegetables before they’re eaten?

Drug Price Hikes Drive Revenue Up $805 Million

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

6th December 2022

Navy to Accept Recruits with Lowest Test Scores as Recruiting Goal Grows

Biden State Department’s Outrageous Betrayal of Nigeria’s Suffering Christians

FBI Held “Weekly Meetings” With Big Tech Ahead Of 2020 Election, “Sent Lists Of URLs And Accounts” To Be Censored

Fired Twitter Exec. Vijaya Gadde Nearly on Biden’s ‘Misinformation’ Panel

Fearing Scandal, Air Force Blocked Generals’ Foreign Consulting Deals (Washington Post)

6th bus of asylum seekers arrives in Philadelphia (ABC)

There’s Nothing Stranger Than the Right’s Fixation With Hunter Biden (The New Republic) Except maybe the Left’s avoidance of exposure for the Biden Crime Family.

DOE Touts $200M Grant to Lithium Battery Company as Boon to American-Made Clean Energy. The Company Operates Primarily From China.

Comedy Hosts Think Twitter Censoring Hunter Story Is About Nude Photos

Biden Defends Not Visiting Border on Arizona Trip  Don’t confuse him with facts, his mind is made up.

Twitter lawyer who blocked Hunter Biden laptop story helped ignite Trump-Russia probe (Washington Times)

Navy to Lower Admission Standards

Blinken Elevates Palestinian Claims to Jerusalem at J Street Conference

Biden Is Still Separating Immigrant Kids from Their Families

Biden Ducks Border Visit, Says ‘More Important Things Going On’

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

6th December 2022

Top 9 Ways Politicians In Washington Are Helping Minorities (Babylon Bee)

CNN Equates Religious Liberty with Denying Black People Mac & Cheese

U of M should welcome diverse views on ‘1619’ (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) I.e. ought to agree with the Narrative.

Stacey Abrams’s Georgia Nonprofit Could Face Criminal Investigations for Unlicensed Fundraising  Could, but won’t.

Georgia’s runoff system was created to dilute Black voting power (Washington Post) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH. So what? No matter why it was created, how else would you do it?

Not Again! Media Call For Return Of Super-Woke Kaepernick

New Black Panther Party Sending Armed Guards to Georgia Polling Centers

 

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Apple Car on Track for 2026 Release, Under $100K Price, Custom Chip, and No Full Self-Driving at Launch

6th December 2022

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Yet another rich person’s toy.

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Remote Work Guts Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453 Billion

6th December 2022

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Since cities are the base of Democrat cronyism and corruption, which is in turn the foundation of their electoral power, they would appear to be in trouble.

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The Great Delusion

6th December 2022

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

The reason our elections are meaningless, of course, is that no human society ever subjects important things to democracy. The old joke about if voting mattered, they would not let us do it was funny because it is true. There is no correlation between public opinion and public policy. This study from 2014 went through 1800 issues and found no link between what the people told the politicians they wanted and what the politicians eventually did.

If nothing important is ever subjected to democracy and democracy never results in the public will manifesting in public policy, then why are people hooked on the act of voting and why is democracy an object of worship. Based on observation it appears there is no argument that can be made to convince the bulk of the people to end this absurd charade we call voting. Suggest a boycott of the process and the typical suburban peasant gives you a sermon about democracy.

Compounding this bizarre worship of democracy is that most modern people live a third of their lives as fascists. The self-employed person has almost disappeared from the labor market. Small business is following the self-employed into the abyss as big business dominates the marketplace. That means most people work in companies that operate along fascist principles. If half of your waking life is committed to fascism, how in the world has democracy become an object of worship?

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Safe Sex: The World-ending Consequences

6th December 2022

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Babies are a huge opportunity cost. Financially speaking, they are like winning the lottery but backwards. You can’t even think of having one without cancelling your subscription to a good night’s sleep. And if you take into account inflation, economic recession, and the rest of the news cycle’s highlight reel, even a one-child family can seem to have one too many mouths to fish Lego pieces out of. Honestly, I don’t see how babies could possibly come back as the preferred lifestyle choice for couples in their 20s unless they start powdering their own butts and side-hustling on Fiverr to cover some of their expenses.

And don’t get me wrong, I love a childless plane ride as much as the next coach-flying light sleeper, but at this pace, the world’s population is going to flatline at around 10 billion in 50 years, and then what? We’re all gonna smell of damp old book by then, and if we don’t spawn enough young blood now we’re gonna see the extinction of the soccer mum van — for there won’t be enough kids to even fill up the seats of a Vespa moped.

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Lost in translation

6th December 2022

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A few days ago, the New York Times had an opinion piece by Huw Green, a clinical psychologist, which said “A clear causal link between psychiatric illness and gun violence has not been established…” I followed the link, which was an interview with Ragy Girgis, a professsor of psychiatry at Columbia University. That story had a caption saying “Findings from the Columbia database help dispel the myth that having a severe psychiatric illness is predictive of who will perpetrate mass murder.” It also contained a link to an article by Dr Girgis and others using the database (an attempt to compile a comprehensive list of mass murders since 1900), which said “the prevalence of psychotic symptoms among mass murderers is much higher than that in the general population (11% v. approximately 0.3-1%).” That is, people with psychotic symptoms were between 10 and 30 times more likely to commit mass murder than people without psychotic symptoms.

How did we go from 10 to 30 times more likely to “dispel the myth”? The interviewer asked “Are people with mental health disorders more likely to commit mass shootings or mass murder?” The answer started “The public tends to link serious mental illnesses, like schizophrenia or psychotic disorders, with violence and mass shootings. But serious mental illness—specifically psychosis—is not a key factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder..” That is, it didn’t answer the question that had been asked, but a different question: whether most mass murders are committed by people with severe mental health disorders. The answer to this second question is no, according to the information in the database. But the answer to the question that the interviewer had asked was yes (at least for one kind of mental disorder, psychosis). Apparently the interviewer didn’t notice the difference, and followed up by asking “why does the public erroneously link mental illness with mass shootings and with violence in general?”

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Will Berlin’s Debt-Bomb Explode?

6th December 2022

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Berlin is known for some of the most generous social programs in the entire country, and many hold the German capital up as an example of progressive policies that should be implemented elsewhere. However, there are some major catches.

For one, Berlin benefits from wealthier areas of Germany, with taxpayer money funneled into Berlin at the expense of states like Hessen or Bavaria. In fact, Bavaria alone pays up to €9 billion into the state fiscal equalization scheme, while Berlin takes in €3.6 billion. These payments are partially related to Berlin and other Eastern German states’ economic setback following the end of communism, which served as a major economic shock to the east of Germany at the time.

This money, in part, helps Berlin afford free daycare and schools along with free school lunches. “Afford” is a term used loosely though, as the city is currently sitting on a time bomb of debt amounting to €66 billion, with few signs of this debt slowing. From 2019 to 2021, the total debt level rose €8.3 billion, moving up 13 percent.

One of the most debilitating proglodyte myths is that Money Comes From The Government And That Money Is Free. Then reality, which sticks around even when you wander off into fantasy-land, arises to bite you in the butt. Hard.

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Thought for the Day

6th December 2022

Exploding Phones - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tesla Semi truck at night in front of Tesla factory

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Our Lying Idiot Media Really Is That Dumb

6th December 2022

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Broke-ness follows wokeness because it’s invariably the incompetent, lazy, corrupt and otherwise failed institutions that radicalize to avoid doing their jobs. From the federal government to corporate monopolies to financial gimmicks like FTX to the media to massive charities, institutional wokeness is a red flag that an organization is incompetent or a scam.

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Spain Braces for Football Match Against Morocco

6th December 2022

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Following riots in Brussels and elsewhere, Spanish police are taking preemptive measures to deal with potential disturbances in the wake of the Spain-Morocco football World Cup match scheduled for Tuesday, December 6.

These will focus on the cities with the highest Moroccan population, including Barcelona.

The regional Catalan security forces, for example, have told La Gaceta de la Iberoesfera that they have been working to ensure the maximum number of agents are on call during and after the match.

Other cities considered to be at risk for rioting include Bilbao, Cartagena, and Valencia.

It remains to be seen whether any violence will, in fact, result from the game, and how effective the police have been in preparing.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

5th December 2022

WashPost Editor: MSNBC Firing Tiffany Cross Shows Blacks Are ‘Still Disposable’

NBC Marks 1 Year Since Waukesha Attack, Omits Racist Motive

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

5th December 2022

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #531

Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action? (Inside Climate News)

European Union Chief Ursula Von Der Leyen Urges Members To Act Against Climate Change (CNN)

World leaders have 2 weeks to agree on a plan to save nature (Vox)

Canada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite rifts (The Guardian)

North Dakota’s gas flaring rate 7 times higher than next-highest state, study finds (Inforum)

What can cities do to survive extreme heat?

Claim: Clouds Less Climate-Sensitive than Assumed

MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen Rejects ‘Climate Change’ As ‘A Quasi-Religious Movement Predicated on An Absurd ‘Scientific’ Narrative’

Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers

Jabal: the new wheat scientists say can withstand extreme heat and drought (The Guardian) Cue eco-Nazis losing their shit.

Claim: We Must Allow More Inflation to Address Climate Change

No, America Does Not Owe the World Climate ‘Reparations’

South Australia Pushes for Zero Carbon Civilian Nuclear Power

 

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