Sunday, February 21, 2021
Michael Smith-- "Given what we know, what does that Brave New World look like?"
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"Given what we know, not based on theory, prediction, or opinion, but what has been openly expressed and demonstrated as to what sort of world progressives wish to create/are creating, what does that Brave New World look like?
Let us list a few aspects that seem self-evident to anyone paying attention:
- Chaos: the constantly changing rules of pseudoscience, coupled with social mores based on political objectives, and an ever-evolving set of laws, rules, and regulations, creating constant agitation, uncertainty, and confusion in the populace.
- Fear: Agitation and confusion of the chaos lead to anxiety and anger, and constant fear of running afoul of the arbitrary and capricious application of voluminous and incomprehensible laws, rules, and regulations.
- Suppression: the conscious inhibition of any impulse, especially in speech, expression, or action related to anything and everything the state opposes. The legalization of cancel culture and the creation of a surveillance state to enforce it, with neighbor spying on neighbor.
- Caste system: Identity politics becomes official state policy. The state will award preferences, not just on race, but on whatever best advantages the groups that support the state and disadvantages those who do not. Status within the state becomes the prime motivator, replacing commercial success in the private sector...Read all!
Nolte: Rush Limbaugh's Greatest Virtue
As far as those of us who were not able to listen as much as we would have liked…? Well, we always felt better and more secure knowing he was out there — that someone, in the most persuasive way possible, was out there making the case for America remaining America.
There was never anyone like Rush Limbaugh. There will never be anyone like him. The loss to the conservative movement is incalculable.
Report: Biden Administration Is Teaming Up with Big Tech to Censor Vaccine Skeptics
History for February 21
- 1804 - The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was demonstrated in Wales.
- 1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
- 1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
- 1904 - The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI.
- 1916 - During World War I, the Battle of Verdun began in France. The battle ended on December 18, 1916 with a French victory over Germany.
- 1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Nolte: Celebrating Rush's Death Is Acceptable to Media, Big Tech, Hollywood, Democrat Party
These wicked and vicious people enjoy verified social media accounts and social status. These godless people who brim with bitterness and hate, who feast off death as some sort of cosmic retribution against us, have been normalized and accepted and embraced by the establishment media, big tech, academia, Hollywood, and the Democrat Party.
'Really f***ed up': Progressive writer blasts Democrats for playing politics, cowering to unions, and ignoring science in refusal to reopen schools - TheBlaze
Parents across the country have been clamoring for state governments to reopen schools, yet in blue states those calls are largely being ignored, while red states are far more likely to have reopened schools.
One Bay Area writer — and admitted left-wing progressive — is taking her fellow leftists and the Democrats they support to task for playing politics with kids' lives by cowering to teachers' unions and ignoring science in their refusal to get schools open again.
‘We’re throwing in the towel’: The Babylon Bee makes an important announcement about future coverage of Joe Biden
"The Babylon Bee’s got their work cut out for them, thanks to the seemingly endless supply of American politicians who have absolutely no sense of shame.
Since things are only going to get stupider and more insane, they need to find ways to work smarter, not harder.
This should help them immensely going forward:
More from the Babylon Bee:
We at The Babylon Bee realized we were spending all this time trying to satirize Joe Biden when, frankly, he just can’t be satirized. He’s doing all the hard work for us with statements like “You ain’t black!” and, of gun violence, that “150 million people have been killed since 2007.”
Every day is a real grind when we arrive at the sprawling Babylon Bee headquarters, settle in on our throne of Chick-fil-A sandwiches, and boot up the ol’ PC to check what Biden said over the past 24 hours. We’re tired of trying to out-parody things like “I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun and the kids used to reach in the pool and rub my leg down and watch the hair come back up again” and “Corn Pop was a bad dude.”
Like, what do you do with that? Seriously. Go ahead. Try to satirize it. Anything you do just doesn’t have that perfect mix of absurdity and reality that makes satire work so effective at communicating truth. So we’re throwing in the towel.
It’s a wise move."
LA Times editorial board tells city's superintendent of schools 'to put on his big-boy pants' and reopen schools - TheBlaze
From New York to Chicago to Portland, elected leaders are instead cowering to teachers' unions and refusing to get teachers back in classrooms even as state and federal health officials repeatedly declare that it's safe to return to in-person instruction.
In Los Angeles, teachers have been fighting going back to work for months now — and the cries of parents and students seemingly have been ignored by the bigwigs of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Minnesota Nasty | National Review
- Minneapolis is a nice city no longer
- Let’s talk about the crime first.
Always trust the government to take care of you-----Some Texans' electricity bills skyrocket as high as $17,000 during winter storm | Fox News
WH Adviser Challenged on FL Handling COVID Better Than CA - Louder With Crowder
The "baby-steps" to 1984.
"I’m trying to think my way through something. As people who read my posts know, I sometimes use social media as a yuge, bigly chalkboard to refine my thought process through comments. Tell me what I am missing here – I’m trying to define the past, present and future process of the decay of our First Amendment rights:
1. We begin with constitutionally protected free speech and free expression for all.
2. Social propriety forbids certain subjects to be discussed in “polite company”, but even those matters can be openly discussed in smaller, private groups appropriate to the subject.
3. Political correctness extends social self-censorship to public forums.
4. Cancel culture physically enforces political correctness when non-state actors ruin reputations, end careers and generally exclude people from public debate by public pressure on employers and organizations.
5. Speech bans extend cancel culture when private and public non-state entities codify rules that forbid the use of certain language and expression of certain ideas.
6. Tyranny begins when the state begins creating and enforcing laws and regulations expressly forbidding the public expression of certain words, phrases, or ideas.
7. Indoctrination begins when only non-banned speech and ideas can be taught in state funded and controlled schools.
8. Oppression is the final stage when the state begins to police speech and people fear to write, speak, or think in ways prohibited by law, even in private settings."
Friday Funny: nature makes a mockery of month-ahead model forecasts.
- The best we are able to forecast into the future with and skill is about 7 to 10 days.
- 30 years ago, the best was 5 days...
