Friday, January 22, 2021

A Plan Comes Together

 Psaki said that Biden had tasked the ODNI to request a “comprehensive threat assessment” of domestic violent extremism, including ways to strengthen government capabilities to monitor the threat. [More]

Yep, they're priming the public to accept police-state persecutions of political opponents as being necessary to state security. As opposed to the Founders' alternative.

[Via Mack H]

[Post updated for clarification]

Gun Maniacs Disappoint 'Commonsense Safety' Advocates When They Fail to Open Fire on Innocents

 Predictions of Doom Fall Flat as Virginia Pro-Gun Rally Proceeds Peacefully - Police say open carry crowd was 'nice and quiet,' 'no issues whatsoever' [More]

So peaceable gun owners who insist upon their rights aren't -- what did the grabbers smear them as -- violent insurrectionists? Who knew?

That won't stop "Blue Virginia" from demanding they be disarmed.

You know, Jorge's group.

[Via Mack H]

Meet the Self-Loathers!

 "For full disclosure, the people behind this reporting are white and benefit from numerous privileges that the disadvantaged populations highlighted in this project do not, ‘So we have blind spots.'" [More]

Hey, don't judge until you've crawled a mile in their kneepads.

[Via Mack H]

Bullet Dodged!

 Biden Skips Guns in Day One Executive Orders [More]

Whew! So we can go back to slee...

[Via Mack H]


No New Thing Under the Sun

 

Profs effectively seek to ban books from Trump admin officials [More]

Yet another terrible example of the ravages of  ATDS...

[Via Michael G]

Industrial-Scale Election Fraud

  Did It Happen?  [More]

Careful: Questions like that can get you destroyed these days.

Love the dog food analogy!

[Via Michael G]

Today's 'Truth'

Even More COVID-19 Narratives Shift as New Administration Takes Charge [More]

That's the great thing about controlling all sources of information and eliminating the ones that won't play ball! Give it a few days and no one will remember anything different!

TANGENTIALLY RELATED UPDATE:

 Oregon plans to give minorities preference over whites in access to the coronavirus vaccine, which is unconstitutional. [More]

Did they clear this with Emory U?

[Via Michael G]

The Only Leverage I Can See Appears to Rely on ATDS (Administrative Testicular Deficiency Syndrome)

U. Oklahoma ‘Black Emergency Response Team’ issues new set of demands [More]

What ever happened to "Go to class, get good grades, and obey the rules or we'll expel you"...? And "occupy" a  building and we'll have you arrested for trespassing?

Let me take the time, right now, to invite all those demanding citizen disarmament, to go on a hunger strike and not give in until they win.

[Via Michael G]

Embracing the Suck

Who is the media' biggest Biden suck up after inauguration coverage? [More]

Hard to say...

And which cult member will prove to be the most viciously fanatical attacking his critics?

[Via bondmen]

Not the Trusting Sorts

Biden’s militarized inauguration showcased Democrats’ insecurity [More]

Not to mention their utter hypocrisy.

[Via bondmen]

The Ties that Bind

‘Zip Tie Guy’ had 15 firearms, tactical gear in his home, court documents say [More]

If that doesn't prove he's a murderous terrorist, as opposed to low-hanging fruit, nothing will!

And Fudds: You caught that bit about the "sniper rifle," right?

Funny how you have to get almost to the end to find out he found those zip ties in a cabinet.

[Via bondmen]

♫ Reunited, and It Feels So Good ♫

 Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday she has “great plans for re-introducing Chicago to the nation” mid-summer and into the fall that includes a “reunion weekend” to encourage African Americans who have fled Chicago to “come back home.” [More]

Any bets on what I'll be posting about the following Monday?

Forget it, Jake. It's Chi-Town.

[Via bondmen]

The Gray Man

 FBI Still Can’t Find the DNC-RNC Pipe Bomber from January 6th — Why Is That? [More]

And what can be learned about being able to do that while under near-total surveillance, especially in this, the age of masks?

[Via bondmen]

More Things for the Media to Call 'Baseless'

 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Joe Biden [More]

Funny how none of the attacks against her that I'm seeing address the issues she raises, but instead attack her as a racist, for her teeth, and a host of other non sequitur logical fallacies...

[Via Jess]

UPDATE:


[Via Mack H]

A Management Problem

 Georgia teenager scammed over $980,000 from Kroger [More]

19 and he had that figured out? It sounds like the controller and the head of IT ought to be fired and the kid given a reward for creatively identifying an inexcusable system vulnerability.

[Via Steve T]

Doesn't Fit the Profile

 Cole James Bridges, who is stationed at Fort Stewart, is charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS and attempting to murder U.S. service members. [More]

Does he sound like a "right-wing extremist" to you?

[Via Jess]

Ah, Priorities!

 House Oversight Chair To FBI: Time For A “Robust Investigation” To Find The Russians Running Parler, Or Something [More]

Remember what happened -- or more to the point, what didn't happen -- when Democrats ran House Oversight back in 2009?

[Via Michael G]

Too Soon

 New York Times op-ed writer: If Biden wants unity he'll lynch Pence [More]

Uh-oh, looks like some associates would rather abandon him than take incoming for him.  He should have waited a bit and then he would have blended in with the crowd.

And Thank You for Your Service

 The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet, and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops, the person said. Temperatures in Washington were in the low 40s by nightfall. [More]

Not exactly Charlie's idea of great R&R, but it'll do.

UPDATE (via Michael G):

Trump Offers to Let National Guard Stay at the Trump Hotel D.C. After Parking Garage Outrage [More]

Ha!

White Lives are 'Despicable'

The company she keeps

 A "White Lives Matter" banner went up on Sunday at Smith and Dyer streets in Union City CA, just north of Oakland. It was immediately taken down and denounced by officials. "This is despicable and we removed it immediately," said Union City Mayor Carol Dutra-Vernaci. [More]

So White lives DON'T matter?

[H/T Wirecutter]

'Conservative' Commentator Peggy Noonan

 America Emerges Disunited but Intact - After an exhausting four years, a relatively normal inauguration offers hope that better days are ahead. [More]

This woman is such a f***ing idiot. If this is the best "moderate" Republicans have, no wonder the Democrats keep eating their lunch.


Rope-Selling Cheap Labor Capitalists

 U.S. Chamber to Biden: You can help Americans by importing foreign workers [More]

It's not like we've not got plenty of our own people out of work thanks to the utter China virus bungling and exploitation. And the demand is not just for white-collar workers.

What you won't see for tech "migrants" is an admission that many of those jobs can be done via remote access/telecommuting, something we're seeing many companies and government agencies rely on. That would also be much more humane in terms of not separating families, and also of having higher wage foreign workers pump their prosperity into their local economies.

But then they wouldn't get to come over here, jump onto that "pathway to citizenship" and vote Democrat, would they?

In terms of the blue-collar workers (i.e., amnesty for illegals) the treasonous Chamber is applauding, let's examine a case study:

Meet Instacart Founder Apoorva Mehta, a young and recent billionaire born in India, raised in Canada, and now heading a wildly successful grocery delivery service headquartered in that bastion of "progressive" economics, San Francisco. Talk about an American success story that's, as the Chamber puts it, "contribut[ing] to our economy driv[ing] growth, and in turn, creat[ing] jobs for hardworking Americans."

That must be why he's "firing every employee who voted to unionize" in a move that will "will impact nearly 2,000 of the company’s 10,000 grocery store workers."

Wait a sec: Aren't the Democrats supposed to be about "the working man"? Didn't "Biden promise... to be ‘the most pro-union president’" and doesn't he have a "PLAN FOR STRENGTHENING WORKER ORGANIZING, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND UNIONS"?

Who thinks these fraudulent bastards are sincere about anything except grabbing everything they can for themselves, and the hell with useful idiots they can swindle votes out of? Do you think if they cared about working Americans they'd be doing everything they can to destroy Mike Lindell and "My Pillow" because of his political beliefs, and to hell with the 1,500 American workers dependent on those jobs for their livelihoods, their rent, their food, their children...?

Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue"!

[Instacart tip via Steve T]

The Finest Votes Money Can Buy

 "A lot of the people in my district voted blue in the runoff for two main reasons. One: Loeffler and Perdue denying us relief during COVID while profiting millions themselves; and two, $2,000 checks," he said. [More]

In other words, they were bribed.

I suppose it would be "baseless" of me to point out that's proof there was enough voter fraud in Georgia to steal the election... or would that get me banned?

And that's quite the economist Ed Markey is, no, with his $2K/month for the duration? Although in fairness, there is a way to do what he's demanding.

One Ring to Rule Them All

 The video doorbell company Ring is taking some heat after it revealed that authorities can keep homeowners’ videos forever and share them with any party they choose. [More]

Is that what the economic fascists like to call a "public/private partnership"?

[H/T Wirecutter]

Promoting the General Welfare, Totalitrarian-Style

 The case involves violations of both the Second and Fourth Amendments, after firearms were confiscated during a welfare check, pursuant to the so-called “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. [More]

Sounds like the First Circuit is taking care of things, alright...

What's in YOUR Wallet?

 Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, saying they are mainly used for illegal financing [More]

Besides, who wouldn't prefer having their every transaction monitored and their economic survival depend on the Fed cranking up the presses? And haven't you always wanted to own a $100B note?

Maybe it's time we took a look at anyone objecting and see what it is they're trying to hide. Or just "canceling" them, the damned racist Nazis...

[Via Steve T

Setting the Stage

 Policing expert on both the immediate and lingering security changes after Capitol riot [More]

Sounds like they want to pre-justify taking out "deplorables" with anyone they can con into believing them.

[Via Mack H]