“To effectively invoke martial law in response to a protest demanding freedom necessarily inflames rather than extinguishes the controversy. It also indicates an obliviousness, almost like if politicians responded to Occupy Wall Street by taxing the projects to fund polo clubs. The answer satisfactory to a Freedom Convoy would seem to exclude martial law. Trudeau does not get his own irony.
“When you honk your horns in the neighborhood where politicians live and work, and block the bridge that essentially serves as the money highway between two nations, officeholders tend to take notice.”
https://spectator.org/after-victory-over-ottawa-premier-freedom-convoy-faces-angry-prime-minister/
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“It's been a long time since The Gray Lady has been printing anything but "All the News That Fits the Narrative," but a desperate attempt to tamp down questions about what the Clinton campaign was up to after those questions were already being asked in the White House briefing room is not going to quell interest in the latest revelations.
“So what was The Times' excuse? The revelations, according to national security and legal policy correspondent Charlie Savage, "tend to involve dense and obscure issues, so dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time."
“So because readers might need to think about what they're consuming from a news outlet rather than just uncritically accepting what an outlet tells them at face value, according to Savage, means "raising the question of whether news outlets should even cover such claims.””
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“[aoc]whined about her job and blamed the expiration of the expanded child tax credit for fueling crime in a new interview where she claimed that parents are stealing baby formula to feed their kids. The firebrand socialist ignored the fact that a thriving, nationwide black market in stolen baby formula was documented more than five years ago and that the item was being pilfered from city stores long before the tax credit expired, with cops calling it a favorite of the alleged “Man of Steal” shoplifter Isaac Rodriguez, who racked up at least 46 arrests last year.”
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“…the United Nations, UNHCR distribute cash debit cards to migrants. They’re providing food, basic necessities, prescription drugs. They call it movement assistance, which is to say they're providing, transportation money so that migrants can continue moving forward…he UN and several U.S. NGOs effectively underwrite the migrant pipeline, funneling thousands of individuals without skills or proper papers into U.S. cities using U.S. taxpayer dollars, undermining border security and overwhelming agents with unaccompanied children while cartels import drugs nearby….hese migrant advocacy groups, these nonprofits – they’re out there lobbying for money, for the migrants and for policies that increase the number of migrants. So when you say ‘We're doing this out of the goodness of our hearts and all in the service of the Lord’—[I]t’s also in the service of their bottom lines."
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“How did a leftism that once encouraged freethinking end up chiseling its own Ten Commandments? You know the one: “IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE: BLACK LIVES MATTER, SCIENCE IS REAL, WAR IS PEACE, MY LIFE FOR AIUR”…The sign has become so commonplace, so utterly oblivious to its own irony, that it feels less like a show of defiance than a profession of faith. Think of it as the left’s very own Nicene Creed… imagine[] a congregation of the pink-haired standing in pews: “I believe in Science, and in xis only son Dr. Fauci, creator of BIPOCs and TERFs”…while progressivism might be religion, it’s stupid, hypocritical bad religion.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-lefts-nicene-creed-signs/
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“By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. It’s a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don’t have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.”
PJ O’Rourke 1947-2022
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"In the United States, "if you're white, leave; it's really that simple," announced Regan de Loggans, an activist with New York City's Indigenous Kinship Collective, a "community of Indigenous womxn, femmes, and gender non conforming folx" who "denounce colonial power structures of leadership and blood quantum.""
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“The[ media] want[s] to divide the party in two, except the party is not divided in two in any real sense. There is the 99% of the GOP that wants to crush the Dems, and the 1% that wants to ogle the Liz Cheney centerfold in this month’s edition of Swamp Creature.”
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“The vice president of the United States tweeted this out on her Farsi account — which was shared by our embassy in Iran, according to Microsoft’s translate program []: “The truth is: There is segregation in America. Xenophobia exists in America. Antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, all exist. Wherever injustice is dealt with, there is activity ahead.”…Harris’s tweet is almost surely part of an effort by the administration to appease the Iranians and bring them back to negotiations. And one also assumes that part of this effort entails the vice president’s prostrating herself by insinuating that there is a moral equivalence between our systems. It’s just disgraceful.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-blink-twice-if-youve-been-kidnapped-by-the-ayatollahs/
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“Pervasive misuse of the term "disinformation" is currently the favored instrument for "progressive" organizations, politicians and media figures to stave off accountability by implying that detractors are aligned with or influenced by extreme ideas or dangerous prejudices. It's a clever sleight of hand that invalidates skepticism by casting it as a moral failure…It's rather brilliant: Turn legitimate criticism into a moral failure of the critic and evade having to respond to it. It's especially effective at hiding the fact that the criticism is coming from your own side.”
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“Zucker’s failure to disclose his romantic relationship with Gollust, as CNN’s Brian Stelter noted Tuesday, was “a violation of business conduct, not news standards,” journalistic shortcomings Kilar specifically referenced in his memo but did not specify further. “It is clear this was never about an undisclosed relationship. As Mr. Cuomo has stated previously, Mr. Zucker and Ms. Gollust were not only entirely aware but fully supportive of what he was doing to help his brother,” Cuomo’s spokesperson Steven Goldberg said in a statement. “The still open question is when WarnerMedia is going to release the results of its investigation and explain its supposed basis for terminating Mr. Cuomo." (Zucker “was never aware of the full extent of what Chris Cuomo was doing for his brother, which is why Chris was fired,” a spokesperson for the former CNN president told the Times.)”
https://apple.news/AVRBy13HCTfawWEsBGjI_qQ
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“The NAIS-approved core teaching about sex takes the experience of around 0.3 percent of the population, and bases the entire sex education of the 99.7 percent around an experience they do not have, will never have, and have never been faintly troubled by, and does this even before they’ve started kindergarten. You could, I suppose, call this trans inclusion. You could also call it a reductio ad absurdum. From the same NAIS workshop, a teacher confesses she once got a bit carried away: “It was my first year so I was like, ‘okay, we’re just super progressive;’ so I went in there guns blazing and I just went for it. And I ended up talking about the vulva and the labia with Pre-K’ers.””
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-backlash-against-trans-extremism-f09?utm_source=url
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