April 16, 2021

Quick Hits: Leftist Propaganda Media Declares Genghis Khan a Hero and "Eco-Warrior"
— Ace

Because, by killing so many thousands of people, he reduced sinful mankin's carbon emissions.


Really.
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Where's Joe? White House Agenda States that Biden Was to Welcome Japan's PM, But Groper Joe Is Apparently Sick
— Ace

Putting a lid on America.


I've said this before, but to repeat: this is a violation of the most basic protocols of state-to-state summits. These are supposed to be meetings of equals: President meets PM (or President).

The head of state meets heads of state. Underlings meet underlings. Secretaries of State meet the counterparts, or the head ambassador to their country.

Period.

If Harris is to welcome anyone, it should be a deputy PM or something. Not the head of state.
 
But apparently Gropey Joe's Brain Pills aren't working again, and he's now sundowning around noon-ish.

And the press will of course cover it up.

I don't think this is a slight.

I think it's because Biden is simply not mentally nor physically able to work more than 6 to 8 hours *per week.*

So, this fresh disaster.


According to hisofficial schedule,Biden was to host Yoshihide Suga for an "official working visit” at 1:30.

At 2:10, Biden was scheduled to host the prime minister "for an expanded bilateral meeting.”

According to CBS News,the two are likely to discuss climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and North Korea.

Biden and Suga are scheduled to hold a press conference in the White House Rose Garden at 4:15 ET.

 
 

Harris began her comments at the meet and greet by addressing Thursday night’s mass shootingat a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that resulted in eight deaths.


 
But he's a no-show.

No explanation for his cancelling on the Japanese Prime Minister.

Oh well, no big deal. It's not as if Japan is an important country and ally or anything.


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Part 3 of Project Veritas' CNN Expose
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In this part, CNN Technical Director admits that CNN pushes stories with white killers and suppresses stories about black killers.


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Hunter Biden Got a $2 Million Advance for His Little-Anticipated Autobiography "The Crackhead Diaries." It Sold 11,000 Copies.
— Ace

It sold seventy-three copies on Amazon.


Seventy. Three.

This is money laundering. This is simply the media class making undisclosed campaign donations and payoffs to the leftwing politicians they favor, and who they may have to tap for favors in return.


As is everything else in the life of this grafting crackhead.

Hunter Biden’s new memoir sold less than 11,000 copies in its first week despite heavy promotion from CNN,CBS News and ABC’s "Jimmy KimmelLive!"

"Beautiful Things: A Memoir" sold 10,638 copies last week, according to Publishers Weekly. The book finished behind 11 other hardcover nonfiction books. Amanda Gorman’s "The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country," sold 42,318 copies to finish atop the list.

Fox News host Shannon Bream’s new book, "The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today," sold 32,686 copies during the same timeframe to finish second.


Note that Joe Biden claimed his family would not "cash in" if he won the presidency.

Well, he didn't win the presidency, so I guess YOLO.


This system of tolerated media bribery must end. I've mentioned before that anyone serving in public office and anyone working in the government at a high level must be covered by a law stating that it is forbidden to accept an advance for any book or project -- all monies must be based on royalties of books actually sold, or revenues actually generated.

I don't know how that would cover the crackhead loser and accused pedophile Hunter Biden, as he got drummed out of the Navy long ago.

But we can at least create a law stating that payments made to family members in excess of actual royalties will be treated as a campaign contribution to the politician they're family members of -- and that there will be penalties for exceeding the legal limit for donations.

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More Fallout from Deep State's "Russian Bounties" Information Op Against the American Populace [Ace]
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The Heritage Foundation’s Incoherent Excuse-Making For Biden’s Rising Gasoline Prices [Buck Throckmorton]
— Ace Open Blog

The Heritage Foundation is one of those faux-conservative institutions that suckered a lot of us for too many years, cashing our checks while writing about conservative goals and ideals.  When Donald Trump came along and started trying to actually <i>implement</i> conservative policies rather than just talk about them, The Heritage Foundation swung left, finding common cause with enemies of conservatism, including our tech overlords.

 

As Tucker Carlson noted about Heritage:

"They make deals with people who hate you. They secretly sell out your interests, then they beg you to tithe like it's the medieval church. Like you owe them your money. That's the system that we've had for decades. Maybe that's why no matter how much money you send, nothing gets more conservative. Just the opposite. You wonder just how long this system can continue."

 

Recenty, Heritage’s Nicolas Loris  had a syndicated column, "What’s Behind Rising Gas Prices?” (safe link – not to Heritage’s web site) in which he tried to make the argument that rising gas prices have nothing to do with Biden. Nothing at all. But here are some of the things Heritage does blame for gas prices rising so sharply since Biden became President just a few months ago:

 

·        OPEC production levels in 2020 (while ignoring 2021.)

·        A law passed in 1920.

·        A law passed in 2005.

·        Weather

·        A change of seasons.

·        Gas taxes - which are unchanged since Biden took office.

 

In trying to shield Biden from blame, here is what Heritage didn’t mention:

 

·        President Biden shutting down the Keystone Pipeline, which was scheduled to carry 800,000 barrels of oil per day to Texas refineries.

·        President Biden’s executive order suspending all drilling and fracking on government lands.

·        President Biden’s moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands.

·        President Biden committing the US to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, which merely seeks to destroy the oil and gas industry in the United States.

 

Here are a few highlights of Heritage’s embarrassing effort to protect Biden.

 

In an effort to boost prices when they began falling sharply a year ago, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia agreed to continue curtailing production. Now, however, demand is picking back up.

 

Heritage advises us that OPEC cut production a year ago. But prices only started rising a couple months ago. What’s going on with OPEC now? Oh."OPEC’s Production Rises In March As Iran Boosts Output”  Oh well.  That would explain why Heritage is dishonestly talking about year-old OPEC production cuts rather than current OPEC production levels now that their man Biden is in the White House.

 

Refining is the second-largest cost, making up a quarter of the retail price for gasoline. The recent severe cold snap in the Gulf Coast not only reduced domestic crude production by 10%, it also knocked 20% of the entire country’s refining capacity offline.

 

So, with the freeze in the rear-view mirror and production rapidly coming back on line, prices should head back down, right? Funny, but that part was somehow omitted.  Because Heritage knows darn well that gas prices are only going up under Biden’s anti-petroleum policies.

 

Federal and state taxes, on average, add another 30 cents per gallon and make up 22% of the retail price.

Wait. Is he saying that new gas taxes have suddenly appeared in the cost per gallon? No. Heritage is now just adding distractions. Those same taxes per gallon were in the price of gas before Biden took office and have nothing to do with the rapid increase in gas prices since Biden’s inauguration.

Americans pay higher "hidden costs” today from bad public policy decisions made decades or even more than a century ago. For instance, the Jones Act, passed in 1920, mandates that any goods shipped by water between two points in America must be transported on a U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged vessel with a crew that is at least 75% American.

Does the Jones Act have a provision that kicked in 101 years after being passed, affecting gas prices in 2021 in a manner that didn’t affect gas prices in 2020? Of course not, Heritage has completely abandoned trying to explain why gas prices have shot up under Biden, and is now simply trying to distract the reader by pointing out that there are other costs in a gallon of gas besides the petroleum.   

There are still more of these:

Another hidden cost is the Renewable Fuel Standard, passed in 2005 and expanded in 2007. The policy mandates that billions of gallons of ethanol (primarily corn-based) be blended into gasoline each year.

Again, Heritage is creating a distraction.  Do the Renewable Fuel Standards of 2005 and 2007 affect gasoline prices in 2021?  Sure. But no more so than they affected gas prices in 2020, or 2019, or 2018, etc.  The Renewable Fuel Standard Act has nothing to do with the spike in gasoline prices under Joe Biden.

In trying to protect President Biden from the destructive consequences of his anti-petroleum policies, The Heritage Foundation has published an illogical and incoherent piece. But it is a helpful reminder that Heritage is now our adversary in the battle for freedom against the governing class. Heritage, along with Democrats and anti-American globalists, wants to make you suffer with higher gas prices, reducing both your standard of living and your freedom. 

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The Morning Rant 04-16-2021 [OregonMuse]
— Ace Open Blog


The Democrats' latest proposal for expanding the number of Supreme Court justices is a good example of how we can never have an honest discussion of the issues.

First, they're calling it "court reform". Back when FDR proposed a similar expansion, it was called "court packing." As such, it has always carried a negative connotation, which no doubt the Democrats' spinners realized might work against them, so they decided to replace the negative term with one with a positive connotation. Hence "court reform."

Note that when Donald Trump was fulfilling his constitutional duty by appointing judges to fill existing court vacancies, the Democrats called this "court packing". Which totally turns the original meaning of the term upside down. Of course, redefining and repurposing commonly accepted terms into something completely different is a well-used instrument in the progressives' toolkit.

Anyway, by introducing the term "court reform", the implication is that the court is somehow broken or defective or inadequate for its appointed tasks, and so therefore it must be fixed. But the Democrats, to my knowledge, have never specifically stated what, exactly, is wrong with the Supreme Court that must be remedied. Other than complaints that it isn't "balanced", which, actually, isn't a constitutional requirement.

Also, if SCOTUS really did have a problem, you would think it would be apparent to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, not just Democrats.

Why is there a problem that apparently only Democrats can see? Because the problem they're having is that there are more SCOTUS justices appointed by Republican presidents than Democrat presidents. In other words, they're not getting the outcomes they want. SCOTUS has not yet been wholly transformed into another appendage of the progressive hive.

Only they don't want to admit this part out loud because then they'll be revealed as the partisan hacks they are.

And this is how dishonest the Democrat proposal is: it basically amounts to them saying: "we want more judges on SCOTUS, and we want them right away so our guy can make the appointments to insure things go our way."

I think it's obvious to everyone that there is not even a pretense of neutrality in the Democrats' proposal. This is just a straight-up grab for power. I cannot imagine even the most quisling Republicans, not even Romney, or Murkowski, or Ryan, actually "reaching across the aisle" to vote with the Dems. Not for something like this. I cannot imagine the proposal being passed by anything other than a straight party-line vote. 

Again, the Democrats should explain what the problem is that adding more SCOTUS judges will solve. But I haven't heard one explanation that doesn't boil down to "we want to appoint more judges who will decide things our way."

Another thing they could do to reassure the rest of us that this isn't just a partisan attempt at seizing control of SCOTUS is to include a provision that new judges won't get appointed to the expanded court until after the next election. This will give the people a chance to weigh in on the issue directly. The Democrats can push their proposal and Republicans should have legislation ready to annul the expansion should they win and the people can decide.

That's fair, isn't it? Why would that not be fair?

Of course, the Democrats would risk having it blow up in their faces if they went along with it, so they won't, but it would be fun if a Republican would propose this as an amendment and listen to the Democrats cry and squeal as they voted it down. And, if the Democrats succeed in their court packing, the institutional corruption would be ratcheted up another notch or two, and more people will conclude that we're not going to be able to vote our way out of this.

And perhaps that wouldn't be such a bad thing.


Looks Like He's Been Packing A Few Cheeseburgers:



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Mid-Morning Art Thread [CBD]
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Portrait Of The Artist A. Malman
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The Morning Report - 4/16/21 [J.J. Sefton]
— Ace Open Blog



Good morning kids. Friday and the weekend is here. At the top is the breaking story of a mass shooting that left 8 people dead at an Indianapolis FedEx facility, including the attacker. No real details as to the identity of the aforementioned or motives, but like the Nation of Islam DC Gumball Rally and jihad enthusiast, or the Boulder and Atlanta incidents, this too will be buried by the propagandists if the assailant wasn't a white male Christian MAGA supporter, or cannot be easily transformed into one by the NY Times editorial board. Prayers for the victims and their loved ones. 


Now, onto the continued drive to turn us into a totalitarian vassal state of either the Chi-Coms or the global ummah, whichever one gets the upper hand. So far, the Yellow-Red Peril is in the lead, certainly here in the land of the freebie and the home of the knaves, the latter controlling the instrumentalities of government while firmly in the pocket of Emperor Pooh-Xi.


In February 1946, George Kennan, then-deputy chief of mission in Moscow, responded to a request from the Treasury Department to detail the Soviet situation. The USSR had recently declined to take its supposed place in the postwar international order by declining to endorse the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, among other things.


Kennan's response was as unexpected as it was prescient. In a telegram that exceeded 5,000 words, now justly known as the Long Telegram, Kennan outlined the character of Stalin's regime: its "neurotic view of world affairs," its "instinctive Russian sense of insecurity," its Marxist-Leninist outlook -- "the fig leaf of their moral and intellectual respectability" -- that formed its fear of "capitalist encirclement" and justified the brutality of the five-year plan, and so on. Most importantly, Kennan predicted Soviet efforts to destabilize western nations via the exploitation of preexisting domestic conflicts and thereby erode trust in political institutions and processes. Kennan warned: 


Efforts will be made in such countries to disrupt national self-confidence, to hamstring measures of national defense, to increase social and industrial unrest, to stimulate all forms of disunity. All persons with grievances, whether economic or racial, will be urged to spelt redress not in mediation and compromise, but in defiant violent struggle for destruction of other elements of society. Here poor will be set against rich, black against white, young against old, newcomers against established residents, etc. 


This should sound familiar. China is now evidently adopting this playbook described by Kennan. Through well-timed social media blasts and carefully tailored opinion pieces, Beijing is both spreading its Communist message, (artificially) improving its international image, and exacerbating domestic fissures -- especially racial tensions -- in the American sociopolitical landscape.


Bingo. And whether they actually believe the crap they are spewing or just using it as a means to dupe an already alarmingly duped mass of the citizenry as a means to further consolidate power and accrue total, permanent control is irrelevant. If our so-called "sacred democracy" (puke) faces existential threats from white supremacist or other xenophobic violent fictitious bogeymen, then all bets are off in terms of not just correcting the problems and "restoring" order (as the so-called "moderates" of the tyrannical set allegedly want) but of actually wiping the slate clean and eradicating every vestige of America as founded. That is the goal of the Maoists and Marxists since they believe you cannot restore something that never existed or was evil/illegitimate at the outset. 


Hence, shambling lipid mass and purveyor of raw sewage Jerry Nadler's idiotic, yet still shockingly Orwellian proclamation: 


"Some people will say we’re packing the Court. We’re not packing the Court; we’re unpacking it.” 


No doubt, this turd of an aphorism is going to be repeated ad nauseam from the usual quarters in DC and its house organs. But unfortunately, like "No Justice No Peace" it's going to stick with far too many who don't know any better. Reason, rationality and facts don't distill into catchy little football cheers like "Ooh-Ongawa-Alexis de Tocqueville's got the powah!" Seriously, what good is it for me to shriek for the umpteenth time that we're not supposed to have "balance " on the court between conservative and liberal. We're supposed to have unanimous fealty and respect for the principles and words AS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN of the Constitution, regardless of the personal political preferences of those appointed to the bench. That means, no penumbras and emanations in order to get the outcome of a case that otherwise could never have passed muster either in the voting booth or in Congress, the completely FUBAR nature of both of those notwithstanding. 


One can look at all the horrendous decisions of SCOTUS since its inception, and the perverted pretzel logic used by some truly horrid people to get the political outcome they wanted. But given the state of the nation as it is today - essentially dead - arguably the worst of the lot was John "Julia" Roberts in upholding Obamacare. One can once again fulminate over William O. Douglas' magical "right to privacy" written in invisible ink or Hugo "once you go" Black's "separation of church and state" from the same inkwell, but Roberts literally took a red pen and re-wrote the law by declaring something specifically designed as a "penalty" as a "tax." No wordy rambling pretenses and interpretations of what the framers meant or flowery philosophical ramblings about justice and Magna Carta or the Bible. A naked, shameless and absolutely illegal action that should have jettisoned his career (and him) into the heart of the sun. That it did not speaks volumes of the amoral, unethical and power-mad attitude of 99% of the denizens of DC and other governments around the former United States.


So now, in order to transition to a more perfect disunion, anything goes and everything goes: Packing the courts, federalizing elections and creating the mechanism to insure Democrats win up and down ballot forever, ditto abolishing the electoral college, D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood, plus amnesty and reparations. 


It's funny how the meme that has been pushed for years is that America is or is rapidly becoming a majority liberal-left country. But if that were really the case they wouldn't need to steal elections, give amnesty and Democrat voter registration to millions of illiterate third world peasants. destroy our governmental institutions and push through massive changes that guarantee they control the whole shooting match forever. Yet that's exactly what they're doing. Meh, it's an insurance policy, right? 


And here we are: an overthrown government, a propaganda and educational system that indoctrinates and brainwashes, a corporate sector acting as enforcers to coerce compliance with the regime or ruin the lives of those who refuse, media platforms who readily censor any voices of dissent and opposition, a law enforcement and intelligence service that considers anyone who dissents a threat to national security and order, "vaccine passports" (!!!) and the demonization of an entire segment of the population (which is still the majority) as "enemies of the people."


George Washington warned Americans of this happening in his Farewell Address in 1796.  He said, "One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown."  This was true in Nazi Germany, and it is true in America today.  The Nazi Party couldn't win a de facto majority through elections, so the Nazis passed a bill to seize power.  The Democrat Party can't win a de facto majority through elections, so they propose H.R. 1 and packing the Supreme Court.


Frederick Douglass once said, "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."  We better tap into vast stores of endurance, because if not, we might as well say, "Heil the Democrat Party."


How do you say "it's deja-vu all over again" in German? Have a nice weekend.


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Daily Tech News 16 April 2021
— Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • A power outage halted production at TSMC's Fab14A on Wednesday. (Tom's Hardware)

    This is an older plant working on nodes from 40nm to 90m, mostly for the automotive industry - parts that are already in desperately short supply. Since a power outage is likely to ruin many of the wafers in production at the time - and wafers take weeks to complete - this is not going to help things.

    Apparently the outage was caused by construction workers (when you invest $100 billion in new factories you're going to have some construction) cutting through an underground power cable. Given how much electricity these factories use, this must have been exciting for those on the ground.

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