Dark Days Diary – 21 feb21

George Rebane

Litmus test for liberal mentality.  There is a very reliable test to identify a person sporting a well-developed liberal persuasion.  It can be administered within the comfortable confines of a casual conversation about almost anything socio-political.  A few questions about the person’s viewpoint or perspective, which can then be mildly challenged, will quickly reveal if that person ever considers that there may exist prima facie reasoned and valid viewpoints other than his.  If such a rejection turns out to be the case, the likelihood is very high that you are talking to a liberal.  If your discussant responds with a reasoned defense of his position, especially one that identifies well-formed weaknesses in the counter-position, then the likelihood is low that you are in the presence of a liberal.  In these pages we have years of such evidence.  As an example, a most prominent liberal commenter continues repeating the same pejorative assessment of Donald Trump with the surety that his viewpoint is the only one brought down the mountain on stone tablets.  The counter-arguments don’t exist, since for him they have been invisible.

The country’s disastrous response to the Covid pandemic continues unabated.  Established medicines that would have greatly or even wholly mitigated the health impact of C19 were abolished by the Left from public access during Trump’s administration in order to enable policies that maximized body counts and the destruction of our economy, and established government controls that may have become ensconced destructors of our liberties.

The ‘party of science’ did everything unscientific that was possible to spread unfounded fear across the land, and it continues to this day.  As examples, the early banishment of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin along with mandated draconian lockdowns guaranteed the distress we all have witnessed.  Re-evaluating the effectiveness of HCQ and IVM, our FDA, NIH, and CDC have now begrudgingly permitted their qualified use in treating C19.  (e.g. here)

But the Dems still talk of keeping masks and lockdowns in place until the end of this year, and some even into 2022. ('masks don't work' here)  More reasoned professionals who can read and understand the relevant literature and C19 data have long predicted that lifting lockdowns will quickly bring about herd immunity (the only way ALL infectious diseases abate).  Given the mass vaccinations now taking place, the most recent estimate is that effective herd immunity will most likely arrive some time in April (more here).

The disaster of 2020 foisted by the Democrats, lamestream media et al, was all ballyhooed in the name of ‘following the science’.  As in the climate change policy debacle (more here), consensus science was again hoisted up the flagpole and celebrated.  Any counter scientific arguments and evidence was overwhelmingly quashed as ‘denialism’ along with the endless repetition of the mesmerizing meme that Republicans were unscientific knuckledraggers.  The reality has been and continues to be exactly the opposite as pointed out by Prof John Staddon in his 20feb21 WSJ interview ‘Science Needs Criticism, Not Cheerleading’.  As was made clear all last year, the Dems schooling in science matriculated from Stalin’s Lysenko Academy.

So during these dark days, the Biden administration is doing everything possible to rapidly remove the nation’s ramparts in our foreign policy, border security, against stifling regulation, insane green goals, and new levels of confiscatory tributes in the futile attempt to pay for it all.  To enable these destructive diktats, our advancing autocracy must now instill a sense of permanence for the enhanced population control measures it has put in place.  These range from the visible fortification of the nation’s capital down to the regulatory minutiae prescribing every aspect of life at the local level, both in the home and public square.

A good dissertation on all this is ‘The Greatest Fear of Those  Who Rule Us’ from the Charlemagne Institute.  And an even more forward-looking piece and major essay promoting a beneficial restructuring of open market capitalism is found in the Foreign Affairs piece by Oren Cass, ‘Freeing the Right From Free-Market Orthodoxy’.  There he argues for a more centrist-oriented “new conservatism” that would attract the culturally conservatives from both parties.  Of these ideas we will have more to say.

I close with some quotes from Cass’s essay =

• The hallmark of conservativism is not, as is often thought, opposition to change or the desire for a return to some earlier time. The misconception that conservatives lack substantive preferences and merely reflect their environments leads to some confusing conclusions—for example, that the conservative of 1750 would oppose American independence but the conservative of 1800 would support it, or that today’s conservative must favor rapid globalization and deregulated financial markets because that has been the recent tradition. What in fact distinguishes conservatives is their attention to the role that institutions and norms play in people’s lives and in the process of governing. “When the foundations of society are threatened,” wrote the political theorist Samuel Huntington, “the conservative ideology reminds men of the necessity of some institutions and the desirability of the existing ones.”

• As Burke himself put it, “a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.” This same disposition is easily identifiable in conservatives today.

• … conservatism, more so than other ideologies, sees progress as a process of accumulation rather than disruption, recognizing what is good in society and striving to build on it. Conservatism approaches the project of governing with particular humility, grateful for whatever order a society’s traditions have managed to wrangle from imperfect human nature. The problems it identifies and the solutions it proposes give relatively less weight to guaranteeing individual freedom and choice and more to reinforcing obligations and constraints, relationships and norms, and the mediating institutions that shape and channel people’s energies toward productive ends.

• Critically, however, a conservative skepticism of markets is equally natural. Markets reduce people to their material interests and reduce relationships to transactions. They prioritize efficiency to the exclusion of resilience, sentiment, and tradition. Shorn of constraints, they often reward the most socially corrosive behaviors and can quickly undermine the foundations of a stable community—for instance, pushing families to commit both parents to full-time market labor or strip-mining talent from across the nation and consolidating it in a narrow set of cosmopolitan hubs. For conservatism, then, markets are a valuable mechanism for sustaining and advancing a flourishing society. But they should never be an end unto themselves. And their quality is contingent on the norms and rules by which they function and the vitality of the other institutions operating alongside them.

• Three major trends seem responsible for the fall of the old orthodoxy, and all point toward the promise of a conservative resurgence. The first is a changing world. …; The second trend responsible for the failing consensus is overreach. …; The third factor undermining the old economic orthodoxy is its failure to update its own rules.

• The same thing has happened in the U.S. economy, except that the rule-makers haven’t kept up.

• Surging profitability may signal success for the capitalist, but as Smith recognized in The Wealth of Nations, the opposite holds true for capitalism. “The rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension, of the society,” he wrote. “On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.”

Comments

[Don Bessee]

Dont worry about all that training for violence but get woke. WTF! -

Consider this pledge proposed by Task Force Navy One, which was formed in June to develop strategies to combat discrimination in the Navy:

"I pledge to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every sailor in the Navy. I pledge to engage in ongoing self-reflection, education and knowledge sharing to better myself and my communities. I pledge to be an example in establishing healthy, inclusive and team-oriented environments. I pledge to constructively share all experiences and information gained from activities above to inform the development of Navy-wide reforms."

So, should this pledge be instituted, we will soon have a brainwashed military spouting largely partisan ideological nonsense. Members will be told their survival in the military and their chance for promotion is dependent on learning left-wing baloney.

This isn’t what we want in a military.

We want a military dedicated to war fighting, learning the lessons of military history, and preparing to defeat our opponents if we are militarily threatened. The kind of potentially heroic young men and women who rally to the flag to fight for America are not going to be strengthened in their dedication to winning by having to learn an ideology that has been foisted on a gullible country by woke flim-flam artists (the modern grifters of phony sociology and politics).

What if you are a fundamentalist Christian or an Orthodox Jew who joined the Navy? Do you think this new pledge means people are supposed to listen to and support you? What if your life experiences include a belief in the right to life and a deep commitment to marriage between a man and a woman? Do you think trying to explain that is going to be applauded by the woke fanatics? Do you think they will "advocate for and acknowledge" your lived experience?

Finally, this proposed Navy pledge is insane because of the signals it sends to our potential enemies.

Can you imagine Xi Jinping – who is in the middle of simultaneously orchestrating the genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the suppression of the pro-freedom movement in Hong Kong – being briefed that the U.S. Navy has decided to become a social work experiment in feeling warm and understanding about each other? Do we think this will make the Chinese Communist dictatorship more or less likely to test our resolve in the South China Sea or the Taiwan strait? Do we think this newly emerging sensitive U.S. Navy will lead them to stand down because they realize what nice people we have become?

Similarly, can you imagine Vladimir Putin – in the middle of planning the poisoning of one or more opposition leaders – being told that the new woke American Navy was prepared to contest the Black Sea or the Baltic? Do you think he would be more likely to back off or more likely to test this new social sciences experiment?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/woke-american-military-danger-us-newt-gingrich

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[fish]

Hey Punch.....what’s up with this?

What Ever Happened to Daniel Dale? CNN Fact-Checker Has Disappeared From Air Post-Trump

Benevolent Xho Bai Den will fill Iron Rice bowl of former fact checker if not to cause any more trouble over unpleasant facts.

You go....go now

[Don Bessee]

Emperor gavin has no cloths -

California ex-mayor slams Gov. Newsom’s use of ‘behested payments’ as recall threat nears 1.8M signatures
Data from the California Fair Political Practices Commission shows behested payments jumped to $226 million in 2020 – up from $12 million the year before.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-ex-mayor-gov-newsom-behested-payments-recall-threat

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[Show-Me Kid]

Down in Roseville today and decided to fill my truck with fuel at Costco. Regular at $3.08 a gallon. I was down there about ten days ago and fuel was $2.85. Thank you to the Air Force Reserve Boy Scout, chris Peterson and all the idiots who voted for Biden. This is what you get when you close down pipelines in addition to the loss of high paying construction jobs. Way to go boys....

[Don Bessee]

Watch the socialist dems open the borders to everyone without a test or vaccine and watch others learn the hard lessons -

"It's just common sense," says Mette Thiesen, the New Right's citizenship spokesperson. "There are specific countries that we have had very bad experiences with: a lot of them have got citizenship in the last 40 years, and we can see in the statistics that both the citizens of these countries and their children are more criminal."

It's not just the populists. Under their new leader Mette Frederiksen, the Social Democrats have swung decisively to the right on immigration, winning large numbers of working-class voters back from the Danish People's Party, and grabbing the attention of ailing left-of-centre parties across Europe.

"For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid by the lower classes," Ms Frederiksen wrote in a biography published in the run-up to the 2019 election.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/why-denmarks-immigrants-losing-hope-140603069.html

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[George Rebane]

DonB 512pm - But perhaps Denmark's celebrated (by PaulE) nationalized healthcare system can also lend a hand to fix their unregulated immigration policies.

[Don Bessee]

Those mutha mullahs are already eating weak ass creepy grampa joes lunch -

Instead of signaling to the Iranians, as President Trump did, that the U.S. will hold them directly accountable for the actions of the militias under their control, the new team appears to have let it slide without a direct warning to Iran.

And as Yemen’s Houthi rebels continued their assault on civilian areas, Biden lifted the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation of the Iran-backed group.

Worst of all, though, the Biden administration has extended this olive branch to Tehran following a report this month revealing that the International Atomic Energy Agency found new Iranian uranium-metal production in excess of JCPOA limits. Meanwhile, Iran is threatening to curtail IAEA inspections following a February 23 deadline set by parliament if the U.S. doesn’t cave.

Contrary to what some Iran appeasers argue, this bad behavior is not the result of the Trump-era maximum-pressure campaign. Tehran is escalating now because it sees an opportunity to strong-arm Biden into lifting sanctions first.

Since Thursday, the calls for talks by Jake Sullivan, Blinken, and the president himself have been taken less as a sign of magnanimity than of weakness. Already, Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif has reiterated his demands for sanctions relief as a prerequisite for any talks about U.S. reentry into the JCPOA.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/biden-policy-weakness-toward-iran-210731710.html

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[Don Bessee]

A sliver of sunlight from all the down ticket losses by the socialist dems come 2022 -

https://www.oann.com/strong-showing-for-republicans-in-state-legislatures-poise-republicans-for-big-win-in-redistricting/

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[Don Bessee]

Bought and paid for , you bet your ass -

It seems very wrong to me that a private oligarch, a billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg, or any other billionaire, I don’t care what their politics are, they could be the Koch Brothers… I just don’t think that they should be funding election offices. That’s a function of our government of our states… I know that there’s a proposal in Georgia that they’re considering to make it illegal for local election offices to accept such money. It seems like that’s a common sense thing. Elections should be run by our governments at the state level, and local level, not funded by whatever… special interest donors exist out there,” Boyle said.

In contrast, Merrill noted, “In the 15 counties in Arizona, the 16 counties in Nevada, the 67 counties in California, the 67 counties in Pennsylvania, the 46 counties in South Carolina, and as everybody knows, the 159 counties in Georgia, they are not following their own laws in their own local jurisdictions.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/21/gop-election-integrity-leader-every-state-in-the-union-should-ban-private-election-administration-funding/

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[Don Bessee]

The worm turns -

But the nursing home issue exploded onto the political scene with two recent revelations. First, the state's Democratic attorney general chastised the Cuomo administration for minimizing the death toll at nursing homes by excluding certain fatalities from the count. Cuomo's administration then revealed at least 15,000 people living in long-term care facilities have died of COVID-19, nearly double the number Cuomo had initially disclosed.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/legal-experts-new-york-gov-cuomos-nursing-home-scandal-federal-criminal-offense

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[Bill Tozer]

“Litmus test for liberal mentality:”

I knew this day would come. I hate it when I was right and a bad prediction comes true. Ok, sometimes I derive some sick egotistical pleasure out of saying, “I told you so. You could see it coming a mile away.” Sad day, nonetheless. It’s not easy being Green. Diplomatic Immunity has been revoked.

KERMIT CANCELED? Disney Slaps ‘Offensive Content’ Label On The Muppet Show
"Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact..."

https://www.dailywire.com/news/kermit-canceled-disney-slaps-offensive-content-label-on-the-muppet-show?
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https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-18-at-8.39.26-AM.png?

https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-9.46.13-AM.png?

[Don Bessee]

Harmful impact' Its just funny unless you apply the micro aggression party approved thought filters. Will they stop selling Red Foxx, Karlin, Murphy and Richard Pryor much less dice? Any one want a bootleg cheech and chong comedy audio disc? ROFLOL

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[Bill Tozer]

It all depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is.

Fauci On If U.S. Will Return To Normal By Next Year: ‘It Really Depends On’ How You Define Normal’.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-on-if-u-s-will-return-to-normal-by-next-year-it-really-depends-on-how-you-define-normal

[Don Bessee]

Well it was nice to be the largest producer and energy independent for awhile -

Stephen Moore: Biden’s ‘Climate Change’ Policies Erase U.S. Energy Independence, Lock Down Trillions in Natural Resources

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[Don Bessee]

Oooopsie! Link lol

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/02/21/stephen-moore-biden-climate-change-policies-erase-us-energy-independence/

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[Bill Tozer]

re: opps, those are really her goggly eyeballs and the reliabity of the grid: Blame the CA model.

'Daily Beast Contributing Editor Accuses Tucker Of Adding ‘Googly Eyes’ To AOC Photo, Apologizes And Acknowledges It’s Real'

First, them eyes are real.

"Every day you log onto Twitter, you hope to get through it without being it. Tonight, I was it. And I absolutely deserved to be.”

“Word of advice — if you don’t want to be IT, make sure you don’t send out factually inaccurate tweets that can be easily verified and debunked,” he added.
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Second, the grid

"This subsidized (state and federal) wind and solar have pushed reliable thermal operators out of business or prevented new generation from being built as operators can’t make money off of the market. This reduced the capacity margin – grids must have excess capacity to ensure stability. Texas is experiencing what California has – with California affecting the entire Western Interconnection due to its policies. Blackouts are a feature of the push to have more unreliable renewables on the grid. Must pay $$ for reliable backup w/ renewables"

https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-beast-contributing-editor-accuses-tucker-of-adding-googly-eyes-to-aoc-photo-apologizes-and-acknowledges-its-real?

[Walt]

Now why can't Crabby Draw some truth in like this?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow

[Don Bessee]

Swell heads blow it bigly -

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-school-renaming-in-person-learning-apology-recall

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[Walt]

Dear diary.. This clown they call a President sure know how to pick'm.
Don't now a thing about the special counsel investigating "Crack" Hunter,
and has no clue about MEX drug lords gaming our system.
He looks just as old as Biden.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/22/garland-says-he-is-unaware-that-cartels-game-us-asylum-system/

[Don Bessee]

Gee what was that thing that the pony tail of ignorance wanted Flynn prosecuted for???? -

John Kerry 'colluded' with Iran to undermine Trump, report says
Report from 2018 said Kerry engaged in 'shadow diplomacy' to save Iran deal

Biden administration officials, including John Kerry and Robert Malley, had meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during the Trump administration that were orchestrated to undermine President Biden's predecessor, a recent report from The Washington Times claims.

Zarif held meetings with Obama administration veterans who could return to power "to devise a political strategy to undermine the Trump administration" and usher in softer diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran, according to an unnamed former senior U.S. official cited by The Washington Times.

The official was discussing face-to-face meetings between Zarif and influential Democrats in 2017, 2018 and 2019, according to The Washington Times.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-iran-trump-biden-washington-times

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[Don Bessee]

The woke police in the uk are bonkers and wrong on the law -

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/22/being-offensive-is-an-offence-uk-police-mocked-for-hate-crime-awareness-event/

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[Don Bessee]

The fix is in -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/22/watch-merrick-garland-refuses-to-say-he-will-keep-special-counsel-john-durham/

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[Don Bessee]

Now creepy grampa joes team is an apologist for those mutha mullahs -

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-u-plays-down-iran-184332187.html

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[Walt]

Garland... Isn't that the one Proggys got all pissy about, not getting a hearing for SCOTUS? Judging by his current shuck and jive,,, for good reason.

[Walt]

Oh... Sounds like an Emery excuse.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/22/watch-merrick-garland-capitol-riot-domestic-terrorism-not-portland-courthouse-riot/
"Judge Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that Antifa’s attacks on the U.S. courthouse in Portland last year may not have been “domestic terrorism,” because unlike the Capitol riot, they took place at night when the court was not “in operation.”

So only during normal business hours would that be different.. 🤣

[Bill Tozer]

‘Biden stimulus bill: tax relief for wealthy, subsidies for high-tax states, critics say‘

https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/biden-covid-bill-would-give-new-tax-breaks-millionaires-ripping-cap-property-tax

[fish]

Posted by: Walt | 22 February 2021 at 03:25 PM

Oh... Sounds like an Emery excuse.

It really does......

[Bill Tozer]

Worth a read. By the book, Obama said he wants it done by the book.

‘Twenty days of infamy: the January 2017 red flags the FBI blew past on Russia collusion
Declassified memos details evidence that devastated FBI theories on Trump ... but did not stop the probe.’

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/thu-twenty-days-infamy-january-2017-red-flags-fbi-blew

[Don Bessee]

The honeymoon is over when it comes to claiming others work -

At Monday’s press conference, Price seemed to suggest that the Biden administration’s efforts. That the aforementioned entities have wound down their activities in the pipeline project, Price said, demonstrated that Biden and Congress’s strategy "has been working to good effect."

Associated Press reporter Matt Lee piped in, telling Price that all of this work had begun under the Trump administration.

"You guys have only been in office for a month, right? Are you telling me that in the last four weeks these 18 companies all of the sudden decided to say, ‘Oh my God! We better not doing anything with Nord Stream 2," Lee said. "You guys are taking credit for stuff the previous administration did. Yes or no?"

Price, noticeably flustered, said he was merely speaking on behalf of the State Department – occupied by the same people since before Biden took office.

The heated exchange came after the Biden administration on Friday added a layer of sanctions to a Russian vessel and the shipowner for their work on the pipeline project.

Senior Republican lawmakers criticized the move as inadequate, noting that the administration had not penalized any additional companies or individuals for work on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. They also said the new sanctions were redundant as they duplicate existing penalties that the Trump administration had imposed on the pipelaying ship Fortuna and its owner KVT-RUS in January.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-dept-briefing-reporter-asks-biden-admin-taking-credit-trump-accomplishment

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[George Rebane]

Whatever they accuse other of doing, Team Biden is riddled with gold-plated scumbags.

[Walt]

Dark days indeed... Where is that fiscal hawk Emery?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/22/aanalysis-democrat-coronavirus-bill-contains-at-least-312-billion-in-policies-unrelated-to-pandemic/

"The Committee released an analysis of the House coronavirus bill, stating that it: …is much larger than the needs of the economy, much of its spending is poorly targeted, it includes a number of measures unrelated to the COVID pandemic and economic crisis, and it would abruptly cut off aid to unemployed workers at the end of August."

[Don Bessee]

Where is the pony tail of ignorance ranting about putin cuddling -

Russia's adversaries in central and Eastern Europe are worried President Biden isn't willing to fight hard to stop the Russia-Germany gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 — one of Vladimir Putin's core priorities.

Why it matters: The fight is the first significant test of whether Biden's tough rhetoric against the Russian leader will be matched by action. Russian opponents fear Biden doesn't want to antagonize Angela Merkel and won't inflict serious costs on the Germans.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/russias-enemies-fear-biden-wont-014507387.html

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[Don Bessee]

She is not wrong -

Ex-Clinton adviser Naomi Wolf warns US becoming 'totalitarian state before our eyes' under Biden

https://www.foxnews.com/media/naomi-wolf-tucker-clinton-adviser-biden-lockdowns

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[Don Bessee]

Have a giggle at creepy grampa joe expense, he is after all just a puppet for the lefties of team 0-

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow

[Scott O]

DB 8:27 - Biden only stops 'dirty' energy projects in the US.
He wouldn't dream of putting Putin's boys out of work in Europe.
Don't expect Paul to weigh in on this issue. He hasn't got a clue.

[Scott O]

It's laugh-a-minute these days!
https://news.yahoo.com/us-reverts-targeted-immigration-enforcement-191256948.html
Grrrr...
Joe gets tough!
No more Mr Nice Guy.
No more 'everyone welcome'.
If you have a nuke in your back pack when you sneak in, Joe's gonna make you leave it at the border!

[Bill Tozer]

Asian is the new White.

Activists Protest ‘White Supremacy’ After Black Man Arrested For Attack On Asian Man In San Francisco

https://www.dailywire.com/news/activists-protest-white-supremacy-after-black-man-arrested-for-attack-on-asian-man-in-san-francisco
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Feb 3, 2021
In Biden administration reversal, Justice Dept. drops discrimination suit against Yale

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/biden-administration-reversal-justice-dept-drops-discrimination-suit-against-yale-n1256597
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[Bill Tozer]

‘Building America’s Tower of Babel’

“In That Hideous Strength, those seeking to transform the world employed euphemism to hide their final objectives, as the organization leading the totalitarian takeover is the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments, or the N.I.C.E. In1984, The Ministry of Truth is a propaganda organ for the state, the Ministry of Love the place where the Thought Police interrogate and torture dissidents.

Some of our politicians indulge in these same antics. Google “Truth Commission USA,” and you’ll find many commentators telling us we need to have the truth filtered to us. Member of Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezadvocated for such an organization to sort out what she regards as misinformation, meaning viewpoints antagonistic to her own.

The ongoing assault on language is corrupting thought in this country, and twisted thoughts and words are corrupting our politics and our culture.“

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/building-america-s-tower-of-babel/

[Randy]

No "Libs" in comment stream to defend the indefensible. Why am I not surprised?

[Bill Tozer]

repost from the past (2017); Camrllia Page hears of Jordan Peterson for the first time. 2:30 minute video, recommended.
Its always good to hear from views of old school transgender feminists such as Page and Dr. Renee Richards. They have the bonefides to address the Tower of Babel...albeit they are being pushed to the side like Dr. MLK.

https://youtu.be/pksHjddXp6k

[Walt]

See Emery? Not the "great choice" for SCOTUS. And your and yours tarred and feathered Kavanaugh?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/23/pollak-america-dodged-a-bullet-when-merrick-garland-was-blocked-for-scotus/

"Garland’s testimony — shaky at times, radically left-wing at others — made clear that America dodged a bullet when Republicans blocked him"

[Walt]

See what can happen anti pipeline ECO bastards,?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/train-texas-18-wheeler-explosion

[George Rebane]

As pointed out again by Randy @819am, our liberal commenters will be few and far in between during the Biden years. This is because Team Biden and the Dems will have at least two years of foisting disastrous anti-American policies on the nation. These are horrendous, as we have already seen off the starting blocks since the inauguration. At the detailed level we dissect issues here on RR, Biden's policies will not be able to attract any reasonable defenses from leftwingers, hence crickets. But never fear, looking for an opportunity, they will still read every word we write.

We note the same happening on the lamestream outlets. All their talking heads can do is sing empty hosannahs to what Biden and the Democratic Congress are doing. There are no material details given to argue the benefits save the occasional insertion of another blatant Big Lie. And for lack of reasoned response, there are no counter-arguments countenanced. Orwell's prophesy has been realized.

[Bill Tozer]

‘House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms’
Democrats' justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media -- "they are spreading fake news and inciting extremism" -- is what despots everywhere say.

“But corporate media outlets and Democrats (excuse the redundancy) who spent the last four years posturing as virulent defenders of press freedoms never meant it. Like so much of what they claimed to believe, it was fraudulent. The proof is that they are now mute, if not supportive, as Democrats use their status as majority party to launch an assault against press freedoms far more egregious than anything Trump got close to doing”

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/house-democrats-targeting-right-wing

[George Rebane]

BillT 1029am - The most important part of your good comment Mr Tozer is almost lost in its last phrase. With such reports we must always remind the naive readers (and the progressive scumbags) that such leftwing policies to silence the Right are always asymmetrical and reveal the real agenda of the Left as insipient totalitarians. Nowhere has the Right wanted to silence the Left, no matter how egregious has been the Left's propaganda against liberty, property, and security.

[Don Bessee]

Creepy grampa joe is going into overdrive kissing those mutha mullahs asses -

The Biden administration is working to free billions of dollars in Iranian assets currently frozen in South Korea, the country’s Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.

There is currently about $7 billion in Iranian assets frozen in two banks based in Seoul, blocked by U.S. economic sanctions. Korea’s foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday that a deal had been reached to free those assets.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/biden-admin-consulting-south-korea-203210855.html

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[Bill Tozer]

Parallels with the USSR way of doing it.

‘Death to Me!’
‘The New York Times’ and the creepy personal and ideological logic of public confessions

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/public-confessions

[Bill Tozer]

NEERA TANDEN’S NOMINATION IS SINKING, XAVIER BECERRA’S SHOULD SINK TOO

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/neera-tandens-nomination-is-sinking-xavier-becerras-should-sink-too.php

[Don Bessee]

Throwing a life line to those mutha mullahs just as they are drowning -

Iranian dissidents urge Biden to keep up pressure on Tehran, say regime at ‘weakest point in history’

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-biden-pressure-on-tehran-weakest-point

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[Don Bessee]

In the its only bad if you do it category -

Pelosi-linked PAC pumps $300G into Dem gerrymandering effort, despite claiming to oppose gerrymandering
Pelosi has been an outspoken critic of gerrymandering.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-gerrymandering-eric-holder-redistricting

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[George Rebane]

DonB 534pm - As far as lying politicians go, Team Pelosi has the highest hurdle for membership. As we have seen for the last four years. To become a member of that team of scoundrels and scumbags, your lying skills literally have to be unsurpassed. Only scumbags like Schumer, Nadler, and Schiff can really make the grade. Pelosi herself is the grandmaster of the Big Lie. Right now Bumblebrain's lying has not even qualified him for the entrance exam.

[Don Bessee]

How many times do we have to bust those mutha mullahs before the socialist dems hating israel pause and recognize 0 and creepy grampa joe got played hard and still are?? Will it take a mushroom could over israel? URANIUM WHERE IT SHOULDNT BE says the IAEA -

The UN nuclear watchdog said on February 23 that it is "deeply concerned" that Iran secretly kept "undeclared nuclear material" at an "undeclared location" as the agency warned that Tehran continued to exceed "many limits" set by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also confirmed in a pair of reports that Iran was already enriching uranium up to 20 percent purity, and that its enriched-uranium stockpile had reached 14 times the limit established by the 4-year-old Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA).

"The agency is deeply concerned that undeclared nuclear material may have been present at this undeclared location and that such nuclear material remains unreported by Iran under its safeguards agreement," the IAEA said.

Iran "has yet to provide answers" on the discovery of "anthropogenic uranium particles" found at two sites inspected last year.

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi then reiterated that Iran "needs to give answers" on the traces "in places they shouldn't be." He said the process with Tehran "has not yielded positive results for now."

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/iran-under-fire-undeclared-nuclear-013000808.html

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[Randy]

Anyone following the "Diversity: kerfuffle of Linkedin & Coca Cola? So being any/all of the following is the purview of "whiteness" - being: oppressive, arrogant, certain, defensive, ignorant, not being humble, not listening, not believing, being apathetic & not breaking from "white solidarity." Sheesh and someone gets paid big bucks to teach this drivel. Sorry but when did being an upstanding, law abiding, personal responsibility taking individual become a sign of being an "oppressive white person?"

[fish]

No terrorism here......nuh uh! Not for lefty lawyers! We might need them to help spring our shock troops one of these days!

FIREBOMB A COP CAR, GET A PLEA DEAL: Apparently, that’s how it works for radical lefty lawyers in New York City these days, reports Washington Free Beacon’s Kevin Daley.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/prosecutors-offer-deal-to-nyc-lawyers-who-firebombed-police-vehicle/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email

[Walt]

Randy,,, you forgot showing up to work on time, paying your bills, and not knocking up as many women as possible and not paying child support.

[Walt]

Emery has stated before that he's a "King and country" kind of guy.(revolutionary war was illegal)
Maybe this explains his constant "Q"anon postings he manages to find.
"Those QAnon believers, along with several other groups of conspiracy theorists, believe that in 1871, the United States became a private corporation owned by the City of London"
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/23/well-have-you-talk-him-about-that-later-klobuchar-shuts-down-questioning-new-qanon-rally-march-4/

So many will show up that that's the reason D.C. is still a military occupied compound?
March 4th is the new inserection?

Speaking of insurrection,, The BLM crowd is on the march again.. and yelling "Join the revolution!"
Now is that NOT inserection speak??

[Don Bessee]

As if we did not already know -

Biden adviser called coronavirus pandemic 'best thing that ever happened' to the president, new book reveals
Anita Dunn's comment was something 'campaign officials believed but would never say in public'

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-coronavirus-pandemic-best-thing-anita-dunn

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[Don Bessee]

Not even trying to say if you like your doctor or insurance you can keep it -

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/becerra-no-guarantee-private-health-insurance

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[Walt]

So that's how it works? Just delete all the incriminating tweets,, and it's all better?
DAMN..... Missed one.....
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/24/neera-tanden-tweets-lisa-murkowski-confirmation-office-management-budget/

[Don Bessee]

If it were not for double standards they would have none -

Bongino highlights double standard over Biden using same migrant facilities press criticized under Trump
Fox News contributor: 'Waste of time' to expect mainstream media to cover issue honestly

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bongino-double-standard-over-biden-migrant-center-trump

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[Walt]

Just like "asking" your elder Pappy to hand over his car keys...
"Sorry Pops,, your too damned old to drive anymore. You might cause an accident."
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/24/democrats-joe-biden-surrender-keys-nuclear-launches/

I say,,, NOPE,, Your not going to take away the the ability of future Presidents to defend the nation.
There is a reason the President has that power.

[Don Bessee]

Ya what about that? -

John Kerry meetings with Iran and Michael Flynn talks with Russian officials: Two different treatments?
Trump said Kerry should be prosecuted under the Logan Act

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-iran-michael-flynn-logan-act

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[Don Bessee]

How long can they save frados brother after the staffers sexual harassment bombshell? Strip poker really? -

ABC, CBS, NBC avoid explosive sexual harassment claims against Andrew Cuomo on evening news broadcasts
CNN and MSNBC also declined to address the scandal on their air Wednesday

https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-cbs-nbc-andrew-cuomo-lindsey-boylan-sexual-harassment

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[Bill Tozer]

‘The Fascist Democrats & the Fake Insurrection’
Why Americans should be afraid. Very afraid.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/fascist-democrats-fake-insurrection-david-horowitz/

[Bill Tozer]

With half their brains tied behind their backs just to make it a fair fight. Gunning for VDH, Atlas, and Ferguson, vastly outnumbered, and still it’s not a fair fight.

SHAPES OF THINGS (21)
Hoover Institution fellows Scott Atlas, Niall Ferguson, and Victor Davis Hanson were the subject of diatribes in a recent meeting of the Stanford Faculty Senate. The four professors who disparaged them (Joshua Landy, Stephen Monismith, David Palumbo-Liu and David Spiegel) “then subsequently published a farrago of falsehoods directed against various fellows of the Hoover Institution.” To wit:

“Their complaint was, first, that the Hoover fellows’ views were unapologetically conservative and, second, that they appeared antithetical to the majority of those of the Stanford community—and were therefore properly subject to some sort of institutional and personal censure.”

The Stanford professors handed up a multi-count indictment against Hoover and its fellows. My favorite count is this one: “HOOVER AGAINST DIVERSITY, GENDER, SUSTAINABILITY.” One somehow begins to suspect that the indictment seeks the enforcement of a party line. It is only unintentionally funny.........

......When Hoover fellows Atlas, Ferguson, and Hanson team up, it’s not a fair fight. It’s not a fair fight when any one of them speaks up on his own behalf. It’s a mismatch. That is of course why their prosecutors seek to silence them in the service of the party line.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/shapes-of-things-21.php

If you can’t beat them, silence them.

[Don Bessee]

Soros worms in structure are doing his political bidding like this -

Hurst’s parole is the second of a convicted cop killer Foxx has dropped her opposition to since a wave of anti-police protests across the country over the summer.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-prosecutor-parole-cop-killer

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[Don Bessee]

Talk about putin cuddling, how much did the chi coms pay for it? -

Hannity reacts to Dems' letter pressuring Biden to give up nuclear authority: 'Must be totally humiliating'
'They didn't propose this even when Donald Trump was president -- and they all hated Donald Trump'

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hannity-reacts-to-dems-letter-pressuring-biden-to-give-up-nuclear-authority-must-be-totally-humiliating

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[Don Bessee]

Fredo's brother might want to give the Emmy back stat! -

Former Cuomo Aide Accuses Governor of Sexual Misconduct: ‘Kissed Me on the Lips’

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/former-cuomo-aide-accuses-governor-172405586.html

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[Bill Tozer]

Biden Considering ‘Every Tool’ To Attack Second Amendment As Leftists Push ‘National Emergency’ Declaration

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-considering-every-tool-to-attack-second-amendment-as-leftists-push-national-emergency-declaration

Of the four targeted “tools” against firearms, is line line stood out: “He also wants to end gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, which would likely devastate the firearms industry quickly.”

Yes, it would devastate the entire firearms manufacturers’ industry. Imagine if someone took a pickup truck or an electric car and plowed into a group of folks on the sidewalk. Would/ should Ford or Tesla be held liable for the misuse of their product by someone with big time issues? Should a manufacturer of a toaster oven be held liable for someone who decided it was a grand idea to toast bagels while in the bathtub and ended up electrocuted when the toaster oven fell into the water? Should any business be held liable for the intentional misuse of their product?

Should the fish tank cleaner manufacturer be held liable because some adult with zero common sense died because they drank the cleaning fluid on purpose??

[Scott O]

BT 7:17 - same article: "Some gun control activists “are urging the administration to begin disbursing money to 40 cities across the country plagued by gun violence through discretionary agency grants or by declaring a national emergency,” the report added."

It's the Democrat Way - start handing out money. If that's going to be of any use, why hasn't it worked in the past?
So, for the cities with people who illegally own and mis-use firearms - hand them money. For the cities with low crime rates, start criminalizing other-wise law abiding citizens.
Yeah - that'll work.

[Bill Tozer]

Amazon isn’t talking about its suppression of Ryan Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally, but it has referred an inquiring reporter to its new hate speech policy. So Daniel Payne reports at Just the News.

I infer that Amazon isn’t talking, however, because there is nothing that can reasonably described as hate speech in Anderson’s book. Anderson himself comments in his First Things essay “When Amazon erased my book.”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/shapes-of-things-22.php

[Bill Tozer]

Hell hath froze over. The NYT reported facts. A day that will live in infamy.

THE WORST COLLEGE PRESIDENT IN AMERICA

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/the-worst-college-president-in-america-2.php

[Bill Tozer]

‘DeSantis Leads the Way on Election Integrity’

“In his dissent, joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, Justice Clarence Thomas highlighted the pusillanimity of his fellow justices. “The Pennsylvania Legislature established an unambiguous deadline for receiving mail-in ballots: 8 p.m. on election day,” Thomas wrote in his dissent. “Dissatisfied, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended that deadline by three days. The court also ordered officials to count ballots received by the new deadline even if there was no evidence — such as a postmark — that the ballots were mailed by election day. … These cases provide us with an ideal opportunity to address just what authority nonlegislative officials have to set election rules, and to do so well before the next election cycle. The refusal to do so is inexplicable.”

Not inexplicable. Explicably and explicitly corrupt, and columnist C. Edmund Wright explains the tortured logic that enabled it. “Those trying to challenge Pennsylvania’s obviously corrupt and rigged election system have been told that they cannot challenge the laws ahead of the election, because there is not yet a victim,” he writes. “They’ve been told that fellow Americans impacted by Pennsylvania’s corrupt system cannot challenge, because of standing. Now they’ve been told that they cannot challenge after the election, because it’s after the election — and therefore moot.”

Columnist Michael Walsh was even more on point, describing the 2020 vote as a “free-for-all election in which you could vote without ID, vote months ahead of the election, vote days after the election, ‘cure’ your ballot if you made a ‘mistake,’ allow a complete stranger to ‘harvest’ your vote, and never have to prove provenance.”

He then sounded the ultimate warning: “One more election under these rules and the Republic is dead.””

https://patriotpost.us/articles/77990-desantis-leads-the-way-on-election-integrity-2021-02-25?

[Don Bessee]

Well that fits with what we see here from the frishies of the world -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/25/poll-shows-republicans-care-issues-democrats-hate-republicans/

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[George Rebane]

DonB 434pm - And that is a major dimension of the asymmetry between the Right and the Left. The Left's fundamental transformation issues for the nation were already poured in concrete by Lenin and Hitler. What was left in the interval was to promote a visceral hatred of your political opponents in the hearts of your followers.

[Bill Tozer]

Let’s all join hands and watch them go through their daily ritual of Two Minutes of Hate. They be seeing red.

[Don Bessee]

So lets kill off Americans to save south America, God do they hate us and themselves. -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/25/house-democrats-free-border-crossers-into-u-s-to-stop-coronavirus-spread-in-foreign-countries/

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[Bill Tozer]

‘House Democrats Against Free Speech’
They say they’re combatting “misinformation,” but what they really want is to destroy conservative media.

“The First Amendment, my friends, starts with four words, ‘Congress shall make no laws,’ ” Eshoo said. And how dare anyone question the probity of House members “asking questions.”

Actually, that’s five words, congresswoman. And if the letters merely asked questions, no one would raise an eyebrow.

“Making a statement and putting a question mark at the end of it, doesn’t change the import of the statements,” Turley testified. The House Democrats’ questions sent “a rather audible statement.”

“What if you succeed?” Turley asked. Voters would lose access to Fox News, the most watched news network last year because House Democrats decided they could decide what other people read or watch.

They’re book burners, and they don’t even know it. Or they just don’t care.

https://spectator.org/democrats-censor-conservative-media-free-speech/?