Monday, November 30, 2020
Sunday, November 29, 2020
A Wave Of "Anti-racist" Teaching Sweeps K-12 Schools Targeting "Whiteness"
It'd be a miracle if there were nothing in all of this that was worthwhile...but it would be almost as much of a miracle if there were much of it.
" 'The Smartest Man In The Room' Has Joined Sydney Powell's Team"
David Brooks: "The Rotting Of The Republican Mind"
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Gilad Atzmon: "The Interpretation Of (Left) Dreams
This is pretty near the target (even the Zizek bits!?!)? (Beware! Unz Review...superduper wrongthink!)
“Why do we dream? Freud’s answer is deceptively simple: the ultimate function of the dream is to enable the dreamer to stay asleep.” Slavoj Zizek (2006)...
Traditional Left Ideology sets out a vision of how the world ‘ought to be.’ The Left’s view can be summed up as the belief that social justice is the primary requirement for improving the world, and that this better future entails the pursuit of equality in various forms. The Left ideologist believes that it is both ethical and moral to attempt to approach equality in terms of civil rights and material wealth.But if the Left focuses on ‘what could be,’ the Right focuses on ‘what is.’ If the Left operates where people ‘could be,’ the Right operates where people ‘are’ or at least, where they believe themselves to be. The Right does not aim to change human social reality but rather to celebrate, and to even maximize it.
Left ideology, accordingly, is shaped like a ‘dream.’ Aiming for what ‘ought to be’ rather than ‘what is’ induces a level of utopian illusory detachment and depicts a phantasmal egalitarian world often removed from our abusive, oppressive and doomed reality. In this phantasmic future, people will just drift away from greed and gluttony, they will work less and learn to share, even to share that which they may not possess to start with.
This imaginary ‘dream’ helps explain why the (Western) Left’s ideology rarely appealed to the struggling classes; the masses, consumed by the pursuit of bread and butter, were hardly going to be interested in utopian ‘dreams’ or futuristic social experiments. Bitten by the daily struggle and chased by existence, working people have never really subscribed to ‘the revolution,’ usually because they were just too busy working. This perhaps explains why so often it was the middle-class and bourgeois agitators who became revolutionary icons. It was they who had access to that little bit extra to fund their revolutionary adventures.
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Back in 2006, Zizek provided a Lacanian insight into the reality that we currently see in the USA. “Reality,” Zizek wrote, “is for those who cannot sustain the dream.” It is always the hard-working people struggling for bread and butter who can’t sustain the fantasy of social change. It is always the working classes that push for concretization. They want America to be great again (Trump), they want Great Britain to be as ‘Great’ as implied by its name (Brexit), they want France to be French (Yellow Vests). Before it is too late, those who watched the so-called ‘Trumpsters’ yesterday in Washington DC should accept that the patriotic reality embodied by the flag must at least be as meaningful as the Identitarian ‘dream’ of ‘others united.’
Sowell: If Biden Wins, "That Could Be The Point Of No Return For This Country"
Old (?) CNN Expose On Smartmatic Machines, Venezuela, and Voting Shenanigans
Was a hard-hitting expose...now an alt-right ultra-fascist conspiracy theory:
Friday, November 27, 2020
Pubs Flip Another House Seat--CA 21
Journalism Basically The Least-Trusted Profession
Seems mostly prima facie reasonable:
Journalists are one of the least trusted professions — only politicians are worse. Congrats guys! pic.twitter.com/bhylmKRSWe
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) November 27, 2020
But, um, we probably need to have a talk about professors...
In fact, that rating of professors makes me wonder whether my judgment above is just the Gell-Mann amnesia effect...
The MSM Is Truly Loathsome
LOL these people are disgusting morons.
The funniest bit is adding in the completely irrelevant bit about Don Jr. having the bat flu. ZOMG! He caught a cold that has a 99.5-99.9% survival rate!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!
Michael Tracey Remembers When Lefties Begged For Electors To Vote For Clinton Rather Than Trump
I knew it would be widely denied that prominent liberals floated an Electoral College coup in 2016, which is why I contemporaneously saved a bunch of examples pic.twitter.com/7gvape3ba2
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 25, 2020
Kraken: Released
Powell files lawsuit in Michigan.
I don't really have a view about this. I just want the truth to out and justice to be done.
Avoiding the wreck of a Biden presidency would be a bonus...but we really shouldn't think about that at all.
Thursday, November 26, 2020
More Evidence Of Widespread Mental Illness Among American Liberals (Esp. White, Female, Young)
Climate Hysteria, Mission Creep, And The Medicalization Of Everything
Already posted this. Doing it again.
Shelby Steele: The Inauthenticity Behind BLM
MSM Election Propaganda In A Nutshell
via insty:
What a difference 4 years makes. pic.twitter.com/vBUcftsKu3
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 25, 2020
Obama Is Increasingly Full Of Shit
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Biden Turns To "Polite And Orderly Caretakers Of America's Decline"
Trump Pardons Flynn
Good. And MSDNC can stick that headline up its ass. Lying sons a bitches. (Not, of course, that Flynn didn't plead guilty. But: anybody who knows anything about this case knows that the headline is intentionally misleading.)
Conservatives Right Once Again?
Bat flu hysteria refuted?
Message from an expert: "In just one week, we’ve had 4 major peer-reviewed studies refuting masks, asymptomatic transmission, pre-symptomatic transmission and PCR tests . House of cards is falling."
— Denis Rancourt (@denisrancourt) November 24, 2020
Jordan Peterson Makes The Penguin Random House In-House Snowflakes Go Menopausal
“He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him,” a junior employee who is a member of the LGBTQ community and who attended the town hall told VICE World News.
Another employee said “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father and another talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.“The company since June has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things and them publishing Peterson’s book completely goes against this. It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative,” the employee added.A third employee told VICE World News the company’s diversity and inclusion committee received at least 70 anonymous messages about Peterson’s book, and only a couple are in favour of the decision to publish it.
Lockdowns Are Stupid *Even If We Consider Only Health*
"Lockdowns now present the greatest threat to population health .. plummeting vaccination rates .. not getting diabetes treatment .. not attending for cancer screening, cardiovascular disease outcomes are worsening, and .. a huge strain on mental health.”https://t.co/M0371aWmOd
— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) November 25, 2020
Now add in the economic damage...
Peak Stupidity = Peak Virtue-Signaling
Hi. I’d like to take this moment to formally disassociate myself from the human race. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/dhpseGMtwk
— Joey B. (@joeybtoonz) November 24, 2020
Greenwald: "Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress “Hyper-Partisan Sites” in Favor of “Mainstream News” (The NYT) is a Fraud"
What An Honest Request To Wear Masks Would Be Like
Yep:
If public health experts wanted to be honest about masks, they’d say:
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) November 25, 2020
We’d like you to wear a mask inside. We think it’s neighborly. It won’t protect you, but we hope - on the basis of very marginal evidence - it might slow transmission a little.
That’s not what they’re saying.
The Sydney Powell Theory Is Starting To Sound Like The Steele Dossier
James Freeman: The Transition Begins...Though We Still Don't Know What Happened In PA
I take a liberty with the title. It does seem that we're moving inexorably, incrementally toward a much bluer near-term future, unfortunately.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
CNN: "Trumps Effort To Steal The Election Is Done"
God those people are loathsome. Not linking to the story, though. Not going to give them the clicks. Whelp, I guess Sydney Powell's outlandish claims are just about our only hope at this point. Funny that CNN never mentioned the blue team's four-year-long effort to steal the election of 2016...
Monday, November 23, 2020
Trump Approves Transition Resources For Biden Team
Seems like the right thing to do. I don't think it constitutes conceding anything. A dark cluster of timelines looms ever closer...but they're not unavoidable yet.
Christopher Rufo On Dave Rubin
It's kinda surprising how fast people on the right learned about critical theory and CRT in particular:
More Sydney Powell
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Turley On Sidney Powell
The press conference held by the Trump legal team was not for the faint of heart. The team alleged a global, Communist-backed conspiracy to “inject” and “change” votes through the use of the Dominion computer system. It was exhausting and breathtaking. I was critical of the press conference as being long on heated rhetoric and short on hard evidence. Dominion issued a statement categorically denying the allegations. The question is whether Dominion itself will now sue. The company denied the allegations but I often measure such denials by whether anyone actually sues. Dominion could do so and force the Trump team to reveal the evidence supporting their allegations or face potentially significant liability. I assume that counsel like Sidney Powell would not make such allegations without proof, but the press conference did not make such evidence public. But these are not just colorful but criminal allegations against named companies and by implication corporate officials and political allies.
The claims are so huge that they almost have to be false...but... again...post-Russiagategate...I'm not willing to simply dismiss them on those grounds.
Trump's Legal Options Nearly Exhausted
Turkey-Grinch, Notorious Granny-Killer, and Blue-Team Hero A. Cuomo Sends Cops To Cancel Thanksgiving
National Dem Party Official Suggests Re-Education Camps For Trump Supporters?
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Incidentally: This Is The Trajectory I Most Feared
Friday, November 20, 2020
Andrew Cuomo To Win "International Emmy" For...Having The Highest Death Rate In His State And Being A Lefty On T.V.
Hollywood Idiots Urge Electors To Abandon Trump In '16
Things That Didn't Happen: Bat Flu Patients Denying The Reality Of Bat Flu As They Die From Bat Flu
Australia Loses Its Mind: S.A. Police: People Can't Leave The House To Walk The Dog Or Exercise
Prison Continent returns to its roots
— Razor (@hale_razor) November 19, 2020
What's Trump Getting Wrong?
Mostly the tone / rhetoric / talky-part...as usual. Yes, there's more than enough evidence, so far as we plebes can tell, to investigate / go to court. So, as is so often the case, he's right about the substance. But the talky part matters, too. A lot. Getting that part wrong--like getting the other part wrong--can lead to disaster.
Thursday, November 19, 2020
To Repeat Myself Repeating Myself: Pubs Got Mad About The Wrong Things At The Wrong Time...Probably
It is, of course, possible that there was a shit-ton of election fraud. Again: there's nothing to do but investigate. And investigate we must. But I say the Pubs got mad too late, and about the wrong thing. They should have gotten mad(der) about the Russiagate conspiracy/hoax--possibly the biggest political scandal...and certainly the biggest metaconspiracy...in American history. But they didn't. In their defense, they were waiting for Durham--they had faith in the process. But Durham apparently isn't going to happen now. Ever. The media poured all its propaganda powers into creating and propagating lies about Trump. And it did likewise to protect Biden and stifle stories of Hunter's depravity and dishonesty. Oh and: influence peddling. I think Pubs thought that it couldn't be done--that the bullshit was so obvious and so outrageous that the media couldn't pull Biden across the finish line. The Pubs thought that the polls were just more journalism--just as dishonest, and intended to manipulate rather than predict. Maybe Pubs had faith in the fundamental level-headedness of their fellow--if blue--Americans. Though God knows why... You would have thought that the massive "systemic racism" hoax and the riots and mob violence would have been the last straw(s)...would have been the last straws long ago...but they weren't. Perhaps Pubs should have gotten mad and physically fought back during the summer...but they didn't. They trusted the system, and they trusted their countrymen, and they trusted that sanity would win out. And all that trust was misplaced. And now they face the horrifying prospect of an increasingly unhinged blue team controlling the Presidency and the House...and maybe the Senate, too. And so now all that righteous anger--along with incredulity and horror--has got to go somewhere. And it's transmogrifying into a red-team version of Russiagate--a conspiracy theory about a vast, tentacular, international effort to steal the election... Which theory, er, could actually be true...but probably isn't. Oh, red team. You were so right, and so close. And the blue team propaganda operation will continue to act as if Russiagate was for real...but Russiagategate wasn't...and they'll be sure that your wild conspiracy theories are never forgotten... That may actually be worse for the country than the election conspiracy thing...
The Election Absolutely MUST Be Investigated...But The Pubs Are Starting To Sound Like Russiagate-Era Dems
Rove Stops Just Shy Of Calling Giuliani / Powell Accusations Crazy
Karl Rove stops just short of calling the conspiracy theories espoused by Giuliani and Powell crazy pic.twitter.com/8uqFhQ3AAC
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) November 19, 2020
"The Baseless 'Great Reset' Conspiracy Theory Rises Again"
Thanksgiving
Starting To Really Look Like Four Years Of Biden-Harris
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Trump's Refusal To Concede: The GOP View
On the first point, I agree: I'd bet that there were Democratic shenanigans. There's prima facie reason to believe that, and there were much, much worse Democratic shenanigans at this point four years ago: the blue team was cooking up Russiagate. Were the shenanigans this time big enough to change the vote totals enough to change the outcome? I'd guess not. But my guesses are shit. What's needed are audits and investigations. On the second point--is it harmful to refrain from giving the Biden team briefings?--I don't know. Again, the blue team withheld absolutely critical information last time--that they believed that Russians had infiltrated the Trump organization. (They withheld it because they also believed--or wanted to believe--that Trump himself was an "asset.") Anyway, I don't have a view about the second point. Overall, I've adopted a view that you largely have to judge individual clusters of political actions against the status quo. Against the way things were run last time, anyway, nothing Trump's doing looks that bad. Well...except for some of the things he's saying. He always talks worse than he acts. I'd rather have a president with intemperate words but defensible actions than the other way around. And I'd say that's what we have with Trump. And we have evidence that we had the opposite with Obama-Biden. Though the evidence is non-conclusive.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Biden Aims To Destroy The Country
The Left Was Right And The Right Was Wrong On Russiagate...So Who Got Twitter-Warned?
The Daily Caller had it right. The Times & Post had it wrong. So whose tweet got the warning? https://t.co/3S76JpEbaZ
— Brit Hume (@brithume) November 13, 2020
So...Both 'Rise Up' and 'Stand Down' are Violent? Also: F***K Whitmer
The sooner they impeach her sorry ass the better:
Now the wolves are baying for Scott Atlas. Does anyone truly think he was calling for violence when he asked people to "rise up"? Does anyone think he's doing this for any reason but a genuine belief that lockdowns are a terrible strategy? https://t.co/Fp4luZfaES
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) November 17, 2020
Berenson: The Atlantic Is Still All For Team Apocalypse...But It Gets Other Stuff Right: Masks Don't Help, Virus Spreads Indoors
Biden Fills Economic Posts With Experts On Systemic Racism
America, you just do not make good decisions. Or, well, half of you don't. Too bad you're not just fucking up your own country and blowing your own money. You're fucking mine up and losing mine too. I really, really wish we could see our two possible futures--Trumpian and Bidenian--so that I could more poignantly ridicule you for your patently shitty decision. But rest assured--I'm cussing you out in my mind...
Questioning "Systematic Racism" Is Itself Racist, Racist
That systemic racism exists is not a matter that should be ‘up for debate’, any more than climate change or the tenets of epidemiology should be.
If you'd put such a line in the mouth of a character in an academic novel, it'd be ridiculed as hackery...and rightly so.
Richard Stengle On Biden Transition Team Responsible for e.g. The VOA and Radio Free Europe
Coup Hysteria On The Left
We've been told that Trump = Hitler from the beginning. It's always been laughable.
Why So Little Interest In Existing Anti-BatFlu Measures?
I didn't know about BCG, but I've been baffled that there's been so little interest in UVC. link
Your Blue Future: Biden, Dems Fail To Criticize Violent BLM / Antifa Thugs
Here's what 73 million Americans (allegedly) voted for.
PUBS ARE THE AUTHORITARIAN ONES!!!111
That used to be true...but you'd have to be a damned idiot to think that's even vaguely plausible today...but wait...FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, BIGOT!!!11
Monday, November 16, 2020
Darth Jar Jar, Again
With a few notable exceptions, I'm not that into movies. One such exception is, of course, the original Star Wars movies. As for the later crap, I think I've seen them all once-ish. That is, I think I've seen every scene 0-2 times--though some of the movies I've never seen all the way through in one sitting. Rogue One was pretty good, I thought. But anyway: though I'm indifferent to most of the later stuff, I freaking love the Darth Jar Jar theory. In fact, I love it so much that I think it's probably right. It really is a great little theory. If I'd have thought of that thing, I'd never stop crowing about it.
Skepticism About Transgender Ideology Is Politically Incorrect: Virtual Book-Burning
Target removes Shrier's Irreversible Damage after two online complaints. The surprising part, though, is that then they un-removed it. So: happy ending, I guess. Though it's hard to be all that happy when somebody does something totally fucking nuts and then undoes it when pressured to do so...
Summary Of Alleged Evidence Of Alleged Voter Fraud From Insty's ONT
George
Turner • 43 minutes ago
I've been debating some liberals elsewhere, and they were sticking to the line that there are no signs of fraud. So I hammered out a list of red flags, which you might find handy as a springboard for your own arguments. The last few concern what Gateway Pundit just found in the floating point Virginia balloting, so I tossed it in. So this was my reply to some guy on the Internet.
Bat flu And Vitamin D
Incidentally, if vitamin D does turn out to be as important as some suggest for fighting off the bat flu: all the mask bullshit is likely to be making things worse, especially in winter. Apparently vitamin D synthesis from UV exposure is a very important source of the stuff. In winter, in normal climates, only your face and hands are normally exposed to sunlight in winter months. Face diapers, what, cover up half of the relevant real estate? I don't really have nor deserve a view about masks beyond (a) seems intuitively like the ought to help at least somewhat, and (b) fuck right off if you think you're going to force me to wear one. Of course the benefit from masks may outweigh their costs...but if we do find out that vitamin D is really important, and we don't get any corresponding information about masks, and if having your face exposed to sunlight really is (as I've assumed) an important source of vitamin D, then this would at least be some reason to fight/ignore/eliminate mask mandates...outdoors, anyway...
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Durham Shutting Down Russiagategate Investigation? Afraid Of Biden Blowback?
Snopes.com Is Full Of Shit: Amy Coney Barrett / Merriam-Webster / 'Sexual Preference' Edition
"If All The Fraud Is Uncovered, Trump Will Win"
Did Dem Allies Use Dominion Voting Systems To Steal Votes?
I doubt it, but obviously there's no alternative: we need investigations, audits, and recounts. I don't see that this would be much worse than Russiagate--though I do think it would be more difficult to cover up and ignore. If the blue team was willing to do Russiagate--and obviously they were--then they would be willing to commit election fraud. So they have motive. And they may have had opportunity as well.
Our Orwellian MSM
The “news” pic.twitter.com/rfCoXbzskp
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 14, 2020
Piece of Utter Shit From The AAUP: "In Defense Of Knowledge And Higher Education"
The AAUP was converged long ago. It still does some good--our local chapter does great work. But the national organization seems to see advancing progressive bullshit as its primary objective. This document is a complete piece of shit. It's salvo in the battle over expertise and pseudo-expertise pretending to be a defense of knowledge. It starts off by distorting something Betsey DeVos says, and doesn't get any better from there. There's something to be outraged about in almost every paragraph. And I'm not complaining about matters of opinion; I'm complaining about objective lies and distortions. My favorite part is where they pretend that there's no freedom of speech problem in higher education... In general, the document pretends that all the relevant problems in higher ed come from the right--and the root of the problem is that conservatives simply reject the idea of expertise...mostly in order to achieve their nefarious political ends..but also because they're stupid and hate knowledge...
I probably won't be able to resist the urge to go through that piece of shit in detail at some point...
Leftists Attack Trump-Supporters...Yet Again. Plus: The Washington Pravda Gives Its Take
The Washington Post is now merely a propaganda organ. Althouse quotes the following:
"Scuffles [Physical assaults against Trump-supporters who were exercising their First-Amendment rights] continued into the night as the provocateurs [anarcho-communist gangsters] overturned [destroyed] the tables [private property] of vendors who had been selling pro-Trump gear and set off dozens of fireworks [fired large, often commercial-grade fireworks--i.e. explosives--at Trump-supporters and police], prompting police to pepper-spray them. At 8 p.m., violence broke out five blocks east of the White House between the president’s supporters, who wielded batons [the anarcho-communist gang apparently had no weapons...for the first time ever] , and his black-clad detractors, [Trump supporters "wield batons"...the gang that initiated the violence is merely "clad" in black...] many of whom had participated in racial justice rallies [aka the mostly peaceful social-justice riots for peace and justice] throughout the summer. As the groups approached the same intersection, they charged each other, [see? It was mutual!] brawling for several minutes before police arrived and cleared the area.... [A]lmost none of [Trump's] backers wore masks. [LOOOOOL] Among their ranks were white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and far-right activists carrying signs demanding action that was already being taken: 'Count the legal votes.' [This is just plain propaganda by this point] Trump had thrilled them when his motorcade appeared on Pennsylvania Avenue shortly after 10 a.m., prompting fans to scramble to the side of Freedom Plaza to catch a glimpse.... 'Trump, pack your [shit]! You’re illegitimate!' [counterprotesters] yelled into their megaphone... [Wow. They really are bad at rhyming.] A family of four on Capital Bikeshare bikes — the father with an American flag tied around his neck like a cape — were cut off by a line of counterprotesters as they tried to leave a tense scene outside the Supreme Court about 1 p.m. 'Get out of our city!' a young woman in black yelled. 'You lost, losers!' shouted a man. The father and his teenage son began to chant 'U.S.A.!' and raised their fists as police officers surrounded the family and pushed them out of the crowd." [I'm surprised they included this bit about Pantyfa surrounding and menacing a family...but they almost manage to make the family sound like the aggressors...]
The anti-American anarcho-communist gang that initiates violence against its political opponents whenever it can get away with it...it's made up of "racial justice" "activists"...at worst they are "provocateurs". The other side...well...: "Among their ranks were white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and far-right activists carrying signs demanding action that was already being taken: 'Count the legal votes.'" How does the Post know such people were included? How many of them? It doesn't matter, apparently, that the "black-clad" "racial justice" "protestors" include anarchists, communists, anti-white racists and other anti-American totalitarians of various stripes. See 'cause that's fine.
What actually happened was: Antifa did what it always does: it found small groups of Trump supporters and attacked them. Some fought back. The Post refuses to report on the cowardly assaults on lone individuals and small groups, including women and old people. Because roving leftist gangs terrorizing and assaulting people is just fine...so long as those people are Trump-supporters. Only when some fight back does the Post report on it...and, of course, anyone who would dare fight back against gangs of "racial justice" "activists" must be "white supremacists" and...well, you know the list of horrible-things-they-must-be. Here's just one incident the Post decided not to report on. Videos of such incidents are everywhere on conservative sites--nowhere on mainstream/progressive sites.
What signs were Antifa carrying, incidentally? And what were they chanting? Because it's usually something about ending the United States...which is what they want. Maybe you should have mentioned those things... Because you could just as easily have said the same thing you said about the signs of the other guys: they're "demanding action that [is] already being taken." We're getting closer to the totalitarian, post-American world for which Antifa is fighting. Funny how the roving gangs of anarcho-communists aren't described as "far-left"...but the guys fighting back against them in order to exercise their First-Amendment rights are "far-right"
This is your blue future, my friends. And the Washington Post and the rest of the MSM are now "activists" themselves, working hard to bring it about.
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Politico Suggests Quasi-Exile For Trump
The Dems Will Go After Trump Once He Leaves Office
That seems to be the plan, anyway. And they've already made it clear that they're also going to go after members of his administration, donors, and supporters. Totalitarians want to control every aspect the culture and use it to achieve their nefarious ends.
Biden And Big Government
Charles Koch Has Second Thoughts About Partisanship
Anti-partisanship is good. But I'm not sure it's a great idea right now, just after the crazies have taken over the Dems...who have, you may recall, just engaged in a 4-year campaign of conspiracies and lies to more-or-less overturn both the Presidential election of 2016 and that of 2020... Tribalism is bad. But it seems to me that our two political tribes tend not to be equally bad all the time. Only one of them is currently afflicted by climate hysteria, only one of them believes in open borders, only one of them believes that people can change their sex with word magic, only one of them is anti-First-Amendment and anti-Second-Amendment, only one of them is promoting the antiliberal, anti-American brainwashing of children, and only one of them is dedicated to promoting lies that seems rather clearly intended to foment something like a race war... So... though I'm passionately anti-tribal...what that means is that one shouldn't get particularly attached to one's own tribe merely because it's one's tribe. Some tribes are better than others. And this can fluctuate over time. The reds dragged us into the Iraq disaster. 20 years on, the blues have just flat-out lost their f*cking minds. You've got to be prepared to make temporary alliances with whichever one is best...or least-bad...at the moment. Well, I may be missing the main point here. I hope Koch does more good than bad with this new plan.
Friday, November 13, 2020
Escort BTS Bullpup
The APA Continues To Be An Embarrassment: Opposing Trump's EO against CRT Indoctrination
My God The APA is an embarrassment.
Biden Will Wreck Education "On Day One"
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Biden Is Probably Going To WIn
Leftist Philosophers Explain The 2020 Election To You
I stay away from the Daily Nous, and online philosophy in general--especially when it intersects with politics. It's virtually guaranteed to be embarrassingly biased and stupid. I don't know why I'm linking to this...it's just godawful depressing. Long ago I admitted that philosophers are just as likely as everyone else to get trapped in shitty worldviews. I'm starting to think they might be more likely than most. Oh, and don't miss the comment that praises the range of different perspectives! I suppose they're thinking of the one modest not-overtly-leftist essay...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
WaPo: REPUBLICANS HAVE DECLARED WAR ON DEMOCRACY ITSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!1!!!!!1111
Translation into Saneglish: Republicans on track to do what Democrats have been doing for four straight years. And in fact that's not even true. What they're in danger of doing is counting the damn votes correctly.
Facebook and Twitter Still Suppressing Posts About Benford's Law And Biden's Vote Tallies...
I'm no statistician, but within about two seconds of looking at some of those charts floating around, I thought: whelp, that's exactly what I'd think shenanigans would look like...
Our Electoral/Political Situation In A Nutshell
Fear The Turtle: Cocaine Mitch Explains It All For You
“According to preliminary results, voters across the nation elected and reelected Republican senators to a degree that actually stunned prognosticators,” McConnell noted. “Likewise, the American people seem to have reacted to house Democrats’ radicalism and obstruction by shrinking the House speaker’s majority and electing more Republicans. And then there’s the presidential race.”
“Obviously, no states have yet certified their election results. We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount. And I believe the president may have legal challenges underway in at least five states,” the majority leader began.
“The core principle here is not complicated,” McConnell insisted. “In the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted, any illegal ballots must not be counted. The process should be transparent or observable by all sides and the courts are here to work through concerns.”
“Our institutions are actually built for this. We have the system in place to consider concerns and President Trump is 100 percent within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,” the majority leader added.
“Let’s not have any lectures, no lectures, about how the president should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election and who insinuated that this one would be illegitimate too if they lost again — only if they lost,” the majority leader added. In fact, millions of Americans signed a petition urging the electors to vote for Hillary Clinton after Trump won in 2016.
“The people who push this hysteria could not have any more egg on their faces than they do right now,” McConnell declared.
The majority leader is correct that no state has certified its election results. Election results are not considered conclusive until the “Safe Harbor” date (December 8) six days before the Electoral College votes for the president (December 14). President Trump has a window in which to litigate his concerns, and he is exercising that prerogative.
While Trump’s challenges should be taken seriously, at this point, Biden’s leads seem too considerable for recounts or specific complaints — like post-Election Day ballots in Pennsylvania — to overturn the expected result. It is premature for news outlets to call Biden the president-elect, but Trump has a rather large hurdle to cross.