Sunday, January 31, 2021
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Kerry: Yet Another Last Chance To Stop The CLIMAPOCALYPSE!!!!1111
Friday, January 29, 2021
Did Lockdowns Cause More Deaths Than The Pandemic?
Maybe:
"1.37M more people will die than would have died without the unemployment shock the pandemic caused...excess deaths will disproportionately affect African-Americans."
— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) January 29, 2021
The pandemic didn't cause it. These lockdowns caused it, and will lead to more deaths.https://t.co/UpTTIxmLgU
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
More Panic Porn, This Time Re: Overwhelmed Hospitals
Biden Is Much, Much Worse Than I Predicted
Mulvaney/Grogan: Biden Gives Regulators A Free And Heavy Hand
I'm currently sympathetic with the conservative/deregulation side of this disagreement, but...actually don't understand the issues well enough to deserve much of an opinion. If, indeed, the Biden administration intends to throw off the cost/benefit calculations in this way, that would seem to be bad. I understand why one would generally favor not regulating. Not sure why one would generally favor regulating.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Victor Davis Hanson: The River Of Forgetfulness
Before we are all reprogrammed, remember for a bit longer that the reset of memory and truth is not just a political agenda, but a holistic effort to redefine our past, present, and future.
Many conservatives think that America has now lost its final war, the war against progressivism. America is over now. Every major institution is under their control. They control what we can say, and control what will be officially classified as truth... I continue to think that there's a remnant of liberalism out there that won't go quietly into that blue night...but more an more this seems more like an article of faith than anything else.
Angelo Codevilla: Clarity In Trump's Wake
As usual with Codevilla, I find a lot in here of interest...but can't quite pin a lot of it down.
Gabbard: Brennan, Schiff, Tech Oligarchs More Dangerous Than Capitol Mob
Place-of-Discovery Names For Viruses Were Always Fine...Then They Were Briefly THE MOST RAZIZT THING E-VAR...Now They're Cool Again
Prager: The Most Important Question About the 2020 Election
I agree with almost everything about this, and have said similar things here. My only differences with Prager are, first, I'm not merely agnostic about whether the election was stolen for Biden--rather I doubt that it was. I'd bet at least a moderate amount of money that it wasn't. Second, I'd add the lower-than-historically-average rejection rates for absentee ballots to the list of important anomalies. But I very much agree that the moral motive to cheat against Trump would be powerful in someone who believed all the progressive lies about him. In fact, even someone who merely had the true belief that Trump is/was unfit for the Presidency and too much of a loose cannon to be trusted with it would have a fairly powerful motive to cheat. At any rate: extensive investigations are needed. There's crazy afoot on both the left and the right on this issue. On the right, people commonly categorically declare that the election was stolen. On the left, they commonly categorically declare that there is no evidence whatsoever of cheating. In actual fact, we have weak evidence of shenanigans, much of it roughly circumstantial and statistical, and much of that can be explained by Trump's personal distastefulness and unfitness for public office--and by the progressive media's lies about him. Of course there should be investigations--there should be no doubt about that. But there's little reason to think they'll reveal anything earthshaking.
Noah Carl: COVID-19's Death Toll: A Historical Perspective
TWO MASKS BITCH
You f*cking ungovernable rednecks refused to bend the knee to sufficient depths when we told you to cover up your ugly mugs. So we now decree that you have to wear two masks. Wanna try for three? Of course one doesn't work...so two have to be better! Because 0+0 > 0. It's just common sense. Really, you people are lucky we elites deign to micromanage your lives. What would you do without us?
Dick Morris: Democrats Are The Most Vicious Winners
Your Blue Future: No Biofacts Plz
Joe Biden reversed Donald Trump's military transgender policy that required military recruits to serve in their biological gender. https://t.co/qALNGkPsDX
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 26, 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021
Biden Takes The Progressive Tack, Fanning Flames Of Climate Hysteria
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Stephanopalous Flips His Shit / Whatever Progressives Believe Is Incontrovertible Fact
The COVID-19 Investigation
To be clear: so far as I can tell on the basis of information available to hoi polloi, it's still possible that the batflu was modified in a lab.
Coach K Wasn't "Rude" To The Student Reporter
Total bullshit. I don't see anything at all wrong with K's response. I guess maybe you could say that he doesn't treat him exactly like a real, grown-up reporter...but, then, he kinda isn't one. Even I'm going to defend K on this one.
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Biden And The Blues Begin About-Facing On Some Of Their Kooky Positions
Science!:
Science yet again proves that progressive terminological preferences are science! and, like, super-sciencey and also thereby proves that you are a racist. It's science!, racist! You have to accept it or your against science!
Science. pic.twitter.com/dZbboRpWZn
— Philippe Lemoine (@phl43) January 22, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
Biden: Is There Anything He Can't Do?:: Biden Turns Racist Betsy Ross Flag Into Wholesome Symbol Of America
How does he do it???
Nike is yanking a sneaker featuring the "Betsy Ross flag" after Colin Kaepernick said he and others consider the symbol to be offensive https://t.co/eKVtPM6oTA
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 1, 2019
Like turning water into wine, the Betsy Ross flag, a symbol of racist oppression just yesterday, is suddenly good again. pic.twitter.com/Qyju2BY1hq
— Smatt (@mdrache) January 20, 2021
I didn't watch the inauguration...but word is that everybody stood for the Anthem, too... Amazing...but not as amazing, when you think about it, as turning a bunch of boys into girls and men into women with the stroke of a pen...
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Trump Leaves The White House Like A Failed Coup Leader
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Biden: "We Must End This Uncivil War"
Biden Signs 15 Executive Orders On First Day
Mostly bad. Some terrible. My relief at having Trump gone was short-lived. But, hey, no more mean tweets. And I guess that's what really matters.
Trump Gawn
Insty: Gaining Power Hasn't Made The Left Any Less Crazy
Agreed, but they've been running at maximum crazy-power for years now. It's still possible that they'll throttle back. I'm not saying I'd bet on it--I'm just saying it could happen. OTOH, they've been in power almost everywhere for a long time. It hasn't exactly filled them with benevolence, mercy and tolerance... The vanguard of the left is hopeless. The real question is whether the remnants of the liberal left will start standing up to the radicals. But it's not even clear there is such a remnant--i.e. it's not clear the center-left exists / disagrees anymore. They may have been assimilated.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
McConnell: Trump Provoked Capitol Mob
Secure The Vote
link. I agree that we should deal with this before it's an issue. Once such a thing is a hot disagreement, it's too late. My own view is that security / reliability / trustworthiness is more important than increased participation. In fact, I'm actually against any effort to persuade people to vote. Voters are ignorant enough as-is. Non-voters are undoubtedly even more ignorant. If you aren't engaged enough to be motivated to vote, then I don't want you to vote. I also think the Pubs should re-institute voter ID laws as soon as they're back in power, and nix mass mail-in voting in favor of the old system--if you have a good reason to vote via absentee ballot, you can request one.
Biden Appoints New "Science Is Real!" Advisor
Slow Joe's Inauguration Speech To Emphasize American Unity; He Will Then Repudiate And Undo As Much As Possible Of What His Predecessor Accomplished
Anti-Trump Inauguration National Guard Theater
Positive BatFlu News Has Been Buried...But For Mysterious, Inexplicable Reasons, Is Now Being Revealed
But don't stop wearing your mask, citizen! That has not been authorized! Continue to do as you are told until you are told to do otherwise. [And what a coincidence that this would happen just as Cuomo has declared that NY can't stay locked down anymore, and will unlockdown soon. So weird.]Left-wing gatekeepers now permitting positive news again https://t.co/IclCrg3xzY
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 18, 2021
Monday, January 18, 2021
Biden Appointees: "Systemic Racism" A Major Driver Of The Climate Apocalypse
Abject Apologies To Dominion Voting Systems Start Rolling In From Conservative Outlets
Those were of course, the craziest of the theories.
There's As Much To Learn From Trump's Success As From His Disgrace
More, actually. Especially: the good, commonsense policies and appointments. It's too bad he blew it all to hell in the final two weeks.
Henry I. Miller: Little-Known Facts About The COVID-19 Pandemic
Biden Set To Mandate Acceptance of Transgender Mythology In Schools
The Federalist is nutty when it comes to issues that impinge on religion, but they tend to get the other stuff right. Hey, ever notice how the left goes at young people with all their weird sex stuff? Not only their brainwashing--it's clear why they choose the young for that--but also with respect to the more intrusive and totalitarian of their policies? E.g. making rules at colleges for how people are permitted to have sex? For all Trump's crazy, he wasn't crazy enough to think that there are male women and female men. Transgender ideology and its policy repercussions are progressivism in a nutshell: radical re-engineering of society based on patently false, pseudoscientific, quasi-religious beliefs adopted on the basis of political preference rather than rational argument.
And, just a reminder: I think that sex-segregation of the facilities at issue is an institution one can reasonably question. Just not by making patently false claims about males becoming girls/women by fiat and whatnot. If we want to seriously reconsider such social arrangements, it's got to be done in a way that's at least f*cking minimally reasonable. But the left knows it can't win the debate if it's conducted reasonably. That's why they decree debate to be "hate speech" and advance their social reengineering plots through e.g. the Department of Education, lawfare, and indoctrination of kids.
Your blue future, ladies and gentlemen...er...and xirs and xers...
Biden Set To Do More Damage To The U.S. In One Day Than All Of Trump's Worst Screw-Ups Combined
Here’s the page from the Biden Transition book outlining plans to “rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit” among his priorities on Jan 20: #cdnpoli #KXL pic.twitter.com/bzysouUYuo
— Richard Madan (@RichardMadan) January 18, 2021
Crimestop Is A Cornerstone Of Political Correctness
Sunday, January 17, 2021
The Queen's Gambit
We finished watching it last night and thought it was great. Anya Taylor-Joy is an absolute knockout. No matter how much mileage they get out of those eyes of hers you always want more. I never really notice/appreciate sets in period pieces, but man, even I noticed and enjoyed all the late-50s/early-60s stuff. Some of the hotel rooms are nuts. The actual chess content's pretty light--that's really my only complaint. And they're always moving so quickly that it's basically speed chess. But I guess you can't really have a tv show in which everybody just sits around staring at the board for hours. Anyway. First tv show I've really enjoyed in quite some time, I think.
DoJ Walks Back Ridiculous Claims About "Kill-Capture" Teams At Capitol Riot
I didn't take those claims seriously enough to even post about 'em.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
"Crying 'Whataboutism' Doesn't Make The Left's Support For Rioting Go Away"
Biden Assistant AG Pick Wrote That Blacks Are Superior To Whites B/C Of Neuromelanin
Funny How Cuomo Et Al. Have Decided, A Week Before Biden's Inauguration, That Now It's Imperative To Reopen
Friday, January 15, 2021
Gleichschaltung Watch: Petitioning Harvard To Revoke Trumpista's Degrees
Trump's narcissistic insanity not only brought out the crazies on the right, it's provoked a kind of Operation Warp Speed of political correctness. More and more informal resources are being deployed to punish politically incorrect thought, speech and action. Not to deflect justified criticism of that disaster...but the backlash from the PC left is going to be much, much more destructive.
Lockdowns: No Benefit?
WSJ: COVID-19 Death Toll Even Worse Than It Looks
Thursday, January 14, 2021
World's Oldest Cave Painting Discovered In Indonesia
Pelosi: 2016 Election Was Hijacked
Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 16, 2017
Yet More Antiwhite Racism On The Left
It's barely even worth commenting on anymore. Of course the traditional view that everyone ought to be treated equally and that racism is bad no matter which group it's directed at...that's, like, super-racist.
Does The Timeline Show That Trump Wasn't Responsible For The Capitol Riot?
Progressivism In Yet Another Nutshell: The Psychotic Persecution Of Kyle Rittenhouse
A Wee Reminder: Left-Wing Riots Are Mostly Peaceful Protests; Right-Wing Riots Are White-Supremacist Insurrections
Trump Admin Misses Deadline To Deliver Apportionment Numbers
I don't understand this very well, but I'm inclined to agree with the administration, largely because I think it would add incentives for states and localities to discourage illegal aliens from settling there. The Democrats' way of doing this basically defrays the cost of illegal immigration. And, as for there being 11 million illegals in the country: contra Brookings, that's the low-end estimate. But, of course, any desire to enforce immigration laws of any kind is now racist, as you know.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Even Snopes Can't Bring Itself To Say That Trump Incited The 1/6 Rioters
Blue Destruction Commences Even Before They Officially Take Power
RIP electoral college, RIP America.
Next stop, D.C. statehood?
Questions About The Trump Riot Timeline
I don't have a view about all this. Though: I can tell you it's not a 45-minute walk from the Ellipse to the Capitol. Google maps says 35 and they run a bit long. OTOH: crowds, so. People could have left the Ellipse halfway through Trump's speech and hoofed it to the Capitol...still a bit fishy. Worth investigating, especially when conjoined with expert testimony that Antifa was present...but without more thought and evidence, I don't know what to make of this stuff.
Betsy DeVos And The Poisonous Politics Of Malice She Endured
Up is down, night is day, left is right...the problem with American education is Betsy DeVos...the solution is Educrats, indoctrination, and teachers' unions...
NPR: 1/6 Capitol Riot "One Of The Darkest Days In American History"
Turley: Snap Impeachment Could Shatter Our Constitutional Balance
Ian Miles Cheong Explains It All For You
I supported Trump. He did a lot of good things. His last two months were the worst of his presidency and he destroyed his legacy (with the help of insane people like Lin Wood and Ali Akbar).
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 13, 2021
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Your Blue Future: Notorious Racist Sarah Jeong Labels Anti-Antifa Journalist Andy Ngo "Real Threat," Urges Twitter-Censorship
Presumably I don't have to remind you that these people are crazed totalitarians.
Aaron Mate: Rundown Of Open Questions About The Anti-Trump Russiagategate Conspiracy
Mate has done absolutely fantastic work on this.
ET Interview With Japanese Journalist About Capitol Riot: Antifa APs Present, Active
link. She also has a kind of objectivity about the matter that it's difficult for us to have.
Michael Yon Says Antifa Agent Provocateurs Clearly Instigated Capitol Storming
Monday, January 11, 2021
Sen. Ron Wyden: The Capitol Riots Prove That We Have To Strengthen Our Democracy. That Begins With Voting Rights.
When They Admit It, Believe 'Em
DeBlasio admits he wants to take your money and give it to other people. (Which isn't "re"-distribution, because there was never any distribution, only earning/acquisition.) Reminds me of Biden and Beto admitting they want to seize our firearms. At least they're being honest about their hopes and intentions...that's worth something...
Biden-Harris Doing Basically What Trump Did: Spreading Provably-False, Violence-Conducive Lies
These lies, about race and the BLM/Antifa riots, are probably the most destructive kinds of lies one could currently tell. I mean, right now, around the election, Trump's are probably more dangerous. But in a broader sense of 'right now'--about 2018 on--the lies about race are probably the most dangerous and destructive. The blue team just keeps promoting these extremely volatile lies, pushing and pushing and pushing. It's the left's crisis --> change strategy. Come to think of it, that's not too far off from what Trump was doing...
Althouse: If Trump Knew There Was A Plan To Storm The Capitol, Then He Incited
Seems reasonable to me. Mmm...on second thought, maybe not. Just knowing that someone posted that tweet might not be enough. But--not a lawyer. I am inclined to agree with McCarthy, though: doesn't seem like incitement is the relevant standard here.
In other news: we're in big trouble. Regardless of what happens to Trump. the antiliberal left is now free to rampage across the land. My view about the two sides is that the left infiltrates institutions and slowly destroys the country...and the right snaps every now and then and does something f*cking insane (see, e.g.: James Alex Fields. Also: storming the Capitol). These acts increase the power of the left. Cycle repeats, worse each time.
Althouse: The 7 Most Violence-Inciting Statements In Trump's Speech To The Crowd On January 6th
I'm doing this because I realized I wasn't seeing quotes from Trump, just assertions that the speech was an incitement and cause-and-effect inferences based on the sequence of events: He spoke and then they acted.Just because Trump is acting crazy, don't forget that the MSM is the propaganda arm of the Blues. They've basically done nothing but lie about him for 4+ years. We're basically hearing reports from crazy people about a crazy person that the crazy people hate.
There are places where he clearly talked about a peaceful protest march. He says: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." And: "So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue."
I still think that--for once!--Holmes's "shouting fire in a crowded theater" analogy is actually applicable. The shouter in the analogy doesn't directly incite people to rush, panicked, for the exits. He doesn't say "Everybody rush the exist right now! Trample others if necessary!" Rather, he (in effect) knowingly makes a false empirical claim that will give rational people incentive to rush the exits. That's what Trump did, isn't it? If the election is being stolen, the republic being destroyed, the Constitution being shredded...isn't the rational reaction violence? This is the sort of thing that worried me about conservative claims that Obama was intentionally destroying the country: it seemed to provide people with rational grounds for violence.
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Trump's Conviction That He Won Is Impervious To Evidence
There's a helluva lot of that goin around on the right right now. I've never seen anything like it.
Dems Will Move To Impeach Trump
Symbols / Substance
Summer: AP: Don't Say 'Riot,' Say 'Protest'; Now: TREASONOUS SEDITIOUS INSURRECTION!!!!
I don't have a lot of inclination to defend the Capitol rioters--though I do think that some people who don't normally show a lot of sentimentality about America and its symbols are a lot more outraged by this than would be predictable from their past words and actions. I think outrage is fitting in this case. But it's also obvious that extra outrage is being produced/play-acted for political purposes. The degree of outrage infecting the left is clearly inconsistent with their excuse-making and heroification of riots....oh...wait...mostly peaceful protests...in the summer. AP, among others, said we shouldn't use the word 'riot,' and shouldn't even focus on the riots. Instead we should focus on the underlying grievance. Because something something "stigma" or something. The left, unsurprisingly, turned on a dime about this on Wednesday. Though I do find a lot of the outrage somewhat insincere, I'm not focusing on that. I'll just point out again that the cases are similar enough (ignoring Trump's role) that there's no way to justify the heroification of one and a total freakout about the other. Anyway:
In September, @APStylebook (AP’s rules book for Journos) tweeted that “focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people.”
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) January 10, 2021
If a non-lib wrote such a thing, Twitter would ban the person. pic.twitter.com/V6rmbqnNzU
McCarthy On The SSCI Trump-Russia Report
Every now and then you still run into some Russiagate dead-enders who vaguely wave at the SSCI report as some kind of evidence that, in the end, we DID prove that Trump was colluding with Russia. No. Not in any way true whatsoever, as you may recall. Not even close. It doesn't even undermine the Russiagategate theory that Dems colluded against Trump. Which they did...
COVID: 2.5 Million Years Of Life Lost In The U.S. Alone?
Jesus Christ. Not quality-adjusted years...but still... And this doesn't seem to take into account years lost as a result of lockdowns. An average of about 13 years lost per person who's died! I don't know why we don't see a lot of these much more informative measures in the media.
Lockdown Harms 10x Greater Than Benefits?
First, some background into the cost-benefit analysis. I discovered information I was not aware of before. First, framing decisions as between saving lives versus saving the economy is a false dichotomy. There is a strong long-run relationship between economic recession and public health. This makes sense, as government spending on things like healthcare, education, roads, sanitation, housing, nutrition, vaccines, safety, social security nets, clean energy, and other services determines the population well-being and life-expectancy. If the government is forced to spend less on these social determinants of health, there will be ‘statistical lives’ lost, that is, people will die in the years to come. Second, I had underestimated the effects of loneliness and unemployment on public health. It turns out that loneliness and unemployment are known to be among the strongest risk factors for early mortality, reduced lifespan, and chronic diseases. Third, in making policy decisions there are trade-offs to consider, costs and benefits, and we have to choose between options that each have tragic outcomes in order to advocate for the least people to die as possible.
In the cost-benefit analysis I consider the benefits of lockdowns in preventing deaths from COVID-19, and the costs of lockdowns in terms of the effects of the recession, loneliness, and unemployment on population wellbeing and mortality. I did not consider all of the other so-called ‘collateral damage’ of lockdowns mentioned above. It turned out that the costs of lockdowns are at least 10 times higher than the benefits. That is, lockdowns cause far more harm to population wellbeing than COVID-19 can. It is important to note that I support a focused protection approach, where we aim to protect those truly at high-risk of COVID-19 mortality, including older people, especially those with severe co-morbidities and those in nursing homes and hospitals.
Saturday, January 09, 2021
"Hang Mike Pence" Trends On Twitter
Conservatives lost it fast. For a couple of years now they've been markedly less loony than the progressive left. When I first started hanging out over there seriously I was struck by how much less doctrinaire and nutty the conversations were, how much wider the scope of ideas and positions could be discussed, and how much funnier they were. Sure, they had their problems. But they were nothing compared to the shrieking, rabid insanity on the left. Things started getting rockier as the election rolled around. I saw a lot of certainty expressed about Trump winning. Then he--seemingly--lost. Then came the deluge of reports of puzzles and anomalies. By this week, you could look straight down post comments places like Instapundit and see near-uniform expressions of certainty that the election had been stolen. I was one of the few to argue that--though I was suspicious enough to want an investigation--I doubted it'd change anything. And, I said, we certainly had no right to claim that Trump had won simpliciter. The most we had were some prima facie grounds for suspicion, some hearsay, and some statistical peculiarities--some of which could be explained away pretty easily, and some of which were readily debunked. I got a lot of responses claiming that I was an idiot. I got a couple that just said 'liar.' I was once told that we saw the election theft "with our own eyes."
My own view, often expressed here, is that we can't take anything like this for granted after Russiagate. But that there's a world of difference between We need an investigation and They stole it.
But it's too late now. People's pride and emotions are engaged now. People have said Trump is good or its near-equivalent with too much certainty and gusto to backtrack on that now.
Message Posted On Common App
link. As a friend of mine said: it's never too early to teach a lesson to the insufficiently woke.
DeVos: Controversial Legacy, Soon Reversed
Her most lasting legacy may be a sweeping directive governing how schools handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment. Those rules, which give more due-process rights to the accused, will be difficult to unwind, though President-elect Joe Biden has said he will try.
She also used executive authority to roll back Obama-era guidance on affirmative action, and to require college campuses to recognize free speech rights.
Obviously a monster.
"Whiteness Is At The Core Of The Insurrection"
Turley: Trump's 1/6/21 Actions Not Impeachable
McCarthy On Impeachment
The president was utterly irresponsible in his demagoguery. He plainly intended for thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol to create political pressure on Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans — i.e., to induce them to take what would have been lawless procedural steps to invalidate electoral votes that states had cast for President-elect Biden. There is no evidence, though, much less proof beyond a reasonable doubt, that Trump intended to instigate the Battle of Capitol Hill. He did not want anyone to be physically injured, let alone killed.
Yet the issue in impeachment is not criminal liability. As we extensively covered a year ago, impeachment concerns what Hamilton described as political offenses that call into question fitness for high public office. On that standard, the president’s incitement is indefensible, both for the undermining of our constitutional system that it promoted and the carnage it caused — however unintentionally. As someone who contended that the Ukraine kerfuffle was partisan theater masqueraded as impeachable offenses, I must say that this incident, to the contrary, is undeniably impeachable.
Nevertheless, I haven’t called for the president to be impeached and removed. Instead, to repeat what I said in the column linked above, while I would never argue that what he’s done is not impeachable, it would be a mistake to launch an impeachment now. There are only eleven days left in the president’s term. More important, removing him at this stage would gratuitously fan the flames of societal division that have intermittently exploded into violent rioting for the past year. Beyond that, I’ve opposed the caprice of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump because that procedure is reserved for grave medical conditions that render a stricken president unable to perform his duties. That is not our situation.
My emphasis. I'm inclined to agree with both conjuncts. The Dems are like a crazy D.A. that's repeatedly conspired against an innocent man...who then does something who then does something genuinely illegal on the way out of state.
Dems Try Impeachment...Again
Heather Mac Donald Gets It Exactly Right Once Again: The Capitol Riot And Its Context
I have nothing to add to this.
A Kind-Of Symmetry In Trump's Term Of Office; and: "If We Nominate Trump We Will Get Destroyed..."
Friday, January 08, 2021
House To Introduce Articles Of Impeachment On Monday
Lying Liars: Police Tougher On Capitol "Insurrection" Than On BLM/Antifa Rioters
Lying, lying liars.
And idiots.
Academia's Reaction Two Two (Sets Of) Riots
Nat'l Assoc. Of Realtors May Kick Members Out For Private "Hate Speech"
The sweeping prohibition applies to association members 24/7, covering all communication, private and professional, written and spoken, online and off. Punishment could top out at a maximum fine of $15,000 and expulsion from the organization.
Mary Wagner, a Buffalo real estate agent who is white and lesbian, says the move, announced in November, fits her vision for creating a fairer society. She predicts thousands of complaints this year, given the realtor association's enormous size and the overheated climate of social media.
“I was thrilled to hear it,” Wagner said in a phone interview. “I think it’s long overdue.”
NAR’s decision, allowing any member of the public to file a complaint, has alarmed other real estate agents, and also some legal and ethics experts, who say the hate speech ban’s vagueness is an invitation to censor controversial political opinions, especially on race and gender. While that’s not the association’s stated intention, the skeptics say their fears are justified by the hyperactive “cancel culture” online that has jettisoned hapless workers for posting “all lives matter” and objecting to gay marriage.
“The dam has broken and other organizations will look at this,” predicted Robert Föehl, a professor of business ethics and business law at Ohio University.
“If this is good for real estate agents, why not attorneys, why not doctors?” Föehl said. “They’re going to be pressured to do what NAR has done. And that pressure is going to be very real, because what organization wants to argue they should allow hate speech by their members?” [Emphases mine]