RANDOM THOUGHT: Joe Biden on television looks exactly like the marionette he is.

NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING IF THE TARGETS ARE PROPERLY CHOSEN: Murder rates skyrocket.

However the targets have (so far) been ill-chosen....

IF YOU'RE SURPRISED, YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION: New exposé shows UK’s COVId response was rife with corruption and cronyism.

Think it isn't happening here? Think again.

POWERLINE: Reject woke civics.

In my mind, the only way to take back America is to take education back from government control. Make the money follow the student, not vice versa.

NONE THAT I CAN THINK OF: Is anyone more annoying or treacherous than Barack Obama?

HEINLEIN'S CRAZY YEARS are in full swing.

Linked from this Instapundit post. Follow the other links as well.

SO NOW WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BREATHE INDOORS? Coronavirus response should focus on ... indoor air.

'EXPERTS' OBLIVIOUS TO THE OBVIOUS: Study finds evidence of lasting immunity after mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 infection.

Note that the higher up the food chain the 'expert' moves, the more reality must bend to
his/her/(its) wishes....

COULD IT BE because people who can shoot back are a little harder to intimidate? New York City approving barely 10% of new gun permits.

THE COUNTERREVOLUTION BEGINS: There are some signs of active resistance starting to occur.

NOT MY GOP: Are 'Never Trumpers' the future of the GOP?

SEE THE NEW YORK TIMES' SHOCKED FACE: Big Technology censors progressives, too. When it interferes with their making money.

NOR MINE: Joe Biden will never be my President.

YOU CAN'T 'EXTRACT' WHAT AIN'T THERE: Wealth extraction in San Francisco.

I left permanently almost exactly 20 years ago, so you can't tax my wealth either. And personally I don't worry (too much) that the current émigrés will want to bring the California culture with them -- especially if you try to continue to tax them after they leave.

POWERLINE'S Geek in Pictures. Always a worthy read to find out what the fakestream media isn't telling you, and this one (last line) is particularly interesting.

Now go see the rest to see what you should know, but haven't been told.

WANTED: Warrior warriors; not social-justice warriors.

Pointy-end-of-the-spear warriors, not keyboard warriors....

OF COURSE there was no Democrat ballot fraud.

Not.

UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: Extended lockdowns will turn out to have cost more lives than they saved.

THE DIPLOMAD: So much progressive fakery.

You have to admit, though, that they are very good at it....

GOOD ADVICE FROM AMMO GRRRLL: Just say 'Thank you'.

Those who need her advice most are those who are incapable of taking it.

BUT OF COURSE: [Fake Dr.] Fauci lied.

Anything to remain in the good graces of his buddies in the virtue-signaling Kommissariat.

More Fauci: American can't handle the truth. No. What we can't accept are liars.

TO REUSE AN INSTAPUNDIT PHRASE, 'ANALYSIS, TRUE': Anti-racist education is neither.

YOU EXPECTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT? California governor 'Eat Me Last' Gavin Newsom picks an open racist for Secretary of State. Some progressives are more racist than others; but my personal experience has been that most are racist.

BREAKING NEWS: Biden says he is considering adding Metamucil to his Cabinet.

IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE. Especially once President 'Mandatory Masks and Lockdowns' gets inaugurated.

For proof, scroll down to the very bottom (the ILINet chart). The flu -- now coronavirus -- season has just begun.

TUCKER CARLSON: Words of wisdom. It's a video -- and a long one at that -- but one worth the time spent.

TRUMP ATTACKS: Sen. John Thune[R-SD] will be primaried in 2022.

Trump's right. The Republicans should be fighting with every available weapon all the way through Inauguration Day -- and for the 4 years thereafter if necessary. After the Democrats in 2016-2020, the Republican response must be "El Degüello".

COVID LOCKDOWNS are the communists Democrats' way of getting rid of the productive peasants.

Keep that in mind and prepare for the worst.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures explains why President Trump demanded a larger stimulus.

Now go see the rest.

I MOVED FROM LOCKED-DOWN VIRGINIA TO OPEN FLORIDA, and faces came back to life.

Here [Florida], life has felt incredibly normal. It's also revealed
how abnormal the lifestyle I followed in Virginia really was.

Welcome back to reality ... "Democrat-cies" are not democracies.

RESISTING IS NOT COWARDICE: An open letter to the American coward.

HERE'S WHAT America's largest manufacturer has to say about the ammunition shortage.

My take is that it's less about capacity than it is about competition.

NOPE. THERE WAS NO VOTER FRAUD IN MICHIGAN: Here are three separate reports regarding the Dominion Voting Systems software from the Antrim county audit.

From Red State.

From PJ Media.

From the Washington Examiner.

The report itself is here. Read it for yourself.

SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR: Why didn't you pick me to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate?

I'm black, female and incompetent, too.

BUT, BUT .... BEING 'WOKE' IS VALUABLE: Schumer Wants Biden to transfer wealth from auto mechanics to Harvard graduates.

Valuable to the Democrat party....

FEW OF US WILL: I won't be home for Christmas.

At least not home as we once knew it. (And maybe never again....)

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for December 25, 2020:

As with last week, the total number of coronavirus cases continue to climb; positive cases are climbing slowly, now about 14% of the total. Daily deaths remain high but are stabilizing. Hospitalizations (in Georgia) are climbing, but as a percentage of confirmed coronavirus cases death rates continue to decline.

My expectation is that the healthscaremongering will increase as the annual flu season continues. And as a (continuing) reminder, I still believe the data I'm seeing is mostly smoke and mirrors, political pandering. The numbers I track are both inconsistent from day to day and with a true pandemic given a consistent 99⁺% survival rate, lockdowns or not.

Take the data with a large grain of salt....

A NEW HOOD ORNAMENT FOR THE COVID HYSTERIA CLOWN CAR: Christmas should not be fun this year, okay?

Move over, Dr. Fauci.

THE DIPLOMAD WANTS YOU TO HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS ... [which are] fighting words in these times.

MERRY CHRISTMAS from your Uncle Sam:

Some presents need to be returned unopened....

'TWAS THE NIGHT BFORE CHRISTMAS. Skip the annoying commercial(s).

JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED: Supreme Court sets deadline for Trump team's election case after inauguration.

I didn't believe the Judicial branch was part of the Garbage State. It looks like I was wrong.

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE IT: Will Republicans kill democracy?

Whether it takes a year or 10 years or 100 years for the wheel of history to turn, the Republicans who chose “stability” over democracy will not be remembered kindly, if they are remembered at all.

It's a fair point.

ANDREW YANG files paperwork to run for New York mayor. I hope he wins and gets to test out his Universal Basic Income (assuming there will be anyone left in NYC to test it on).

NANCY PELOSI ANNOUNCES COMPROMISE ON THE VETOED STIMULUS BILL: Every $600 check will come with a free slice of cake.

I MUST BE THE MOST RACIST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Coffee is racist.

I assume black coffee is especially racist....

WOKESTERISM MAKES LUNACY LOOK ATTRACTIVE: Kentucky superintendent suspended for 40 days without pay for 18-year-old blackface photo.

ON POINT: The enemy is fragility.

WHY? HAVEN'T THE DEMOCRATS DONE A PRETTY GOOD JOB WITHOUT HELP? We must have a Special Counsel for voter fraud!

OUR CODDLED ELITES and all the pain they can't feel.

Now watch our coddled elites not feeling our pain....

IF YOU LIVE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., it's not Christmas Eve, it's Fauci Day.

'Idiots' isn't strong enough to describe the garbage government there....

HOW DO YOU SPELL CRAZY? ‘Xie, Ze, Yoself’.

I USED TO THINK THE IQ SCALE WENT FROM GENIUS TO STUPID: Fairfax County, Virginia judge decides black defendant can’t get fair trial in courtroom featuring portraits of white judges.

I was wrong. Below (way below) stupid, there's woke.

DENNIS PRAGER: The Sovietization of California.

SCOTT ATLAS: A pandemic of misinformation.

MORE GARBAGE GOVERNMENT: One chart shows how useless 'expert advice' is.

Reminder: It's not about Science^TM, it's about control, nothing more.

More: garbage government versus good government.

COVID HYPOCRISY: Rules for thee but not for me.

EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I'D EVER WANT TO: 10 Ways to Poop Like a Rock Star. [No link; it's one of those 'sponsored stories' that pop up on various web sites]

UNLESS THE GRINCH TRUMP STEALS IT: Americans excitedly anticipate getting paid with their own money.

BUT WILL HE ACTUALLY DO IT? Georgia secretary of state joins GOP push to end no-excuse absentee voting.

Maybe -- he's being pushed pretty hard. If he doesn't he'll certainly get primaried in the next election cycle.

GARBAGE GOVERNMENT: Rules are for little people.

DISAGREE AND YOU WILL BE CANCELED: California doctor fired after writing letter questioning county's coronavirus lockdowns.

Know your places, proles. You cannot be allowed to question us.

VETO IT! Put our garbage government out of work.

At least make the Biden administration responsible for the garbage.

RANDOM THOUGHT: As of today, about 300,000 Americans have died from (or with; mostly with, I suspect) the coronavirus. As of today, there are about 300,000,000 Americans alive. That means 99.9% of America did not die from/with coronavirus this year.

So why the pandemic panic?

Tell your fearless fearful leaders to go pound sand and go about your lawful business.

GEORGIA REPUBLICANS, we've got to win beyond the margin of fraud. Stay strong.

ANOTHER REMINDER FROM THE WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY (SO FAR) on the Georgia Senatorial runoff:

I WANT YOU ... to vote for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THESE SOBs get the coronavirus vaccine next week and and I have to wait until God knows when?

I'm 76, by the way....

HISTORY REPEATS: Democrats spent the last four years charging that Trump was an illegitimate president. Time to return the favor.

SINCE THEY CAUSED THE LOCKDOWNS, make politicians share the pain.

Retroactive to January 1, 2020. Better yet, to the date they were originally elected to public office....

I THINK SO TOO: As runoffs loom, Georgia's election integrity is a joke.

A bad joke. And I've told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger exactly that.

I WOULD ASK where are Gretchen Whitmer, Anthony Fauci, Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom, et.al., but it's pretty obvious that they're the ones who pushed the rock.

TRUTH WELL SPOKEN: "How do you tell the robbers -- the bad guys -- from the good guys?"

UPDATE: More truth well spoken.

CONTROL, BABY, CONTROL: It's firmly back in the Democrats' playbook.

I do find it somewhat amusing that the 'vaccination certificates' will be used to enable the anointed.

A BRIEF RESPITE FROM POLITICS: Baby Shadows. (If a political ad pops up, skip it or ignore it.)

Now back to life in the [un]real world.

AFTER WE'VE GOT THE PROLES UNDER FULL CONTROL: Biden's Surgeon general nominee gives his timeline for public vaccinations.

THE DIPLOMAD ON AMERICA: Heading not for a Good Place but a Necessary One?

I still have hope (for my children and grandchildren) that America can make it back to a 'good place' without passing through that 'necessary place' first.

But that hope is fading....

AMMO GRRRLL says to fight back with ridicule, which unfortunately probably won't work. Ridicule requires the target be minimally self-aware, a characteristic sadly lacking in the wokesters.

She does, however, endorse limited coercion, preferably of the legal variety (i.e., jail) when ridicule fails.

EXPERTS (!?): Elderly should be at the back of the line for the coronavirus vaccine because they're 'too white'. (And too old?)

I'd be okay with that if essential workers were defined as those who have paid the bills over the years and government employees - especially elected government employes - were declared nonessential and moved to the head of the line for inoculation with the coronavirus itself.

'Expert' is progressive Newspeak for 'idiot'.

THE WICKED WITCH OF THE NORTH plays Krampus with Santa Claus to further traumatize Michigan's children.

The response: "Any parent who lets their children watch this garbage from @GovWhitmer needs a visit from Child Protective Services."

TO CALL THESE PEOPLE BARKING-MAD CRAZY IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT: The 12 Days of Wokeness.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures asks "What else can go wrong in 2020?"

Now that you know, go see the rest.

I THOUGHT ESSENTIAL PEOPLE WERE TO BE VACCINATED FIRST: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shares her experience with the COVID vaccine.

And with a Trump vaccine, no less....

HERE COME THE POTHOLES: 'Mayor Pete' nominated for Transportation Secretary.

AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGIA SECRETARY OF STATE BRAD RAFFENSPERGER:

Mr. Raffensperger,

There is a Senate runoff election coming soon and I am very, very concerned that you're not front-and-center assuring Georgians (and all Americans, for that matter) that the election will be fair, honest, and transparent. I expect you to be out front, telling all of Georgia exactly how the absentee and mail-in ballots will be received, stored, safeguarded, and verified to be legal -- in all counties, in advance of and during counting. I want to be assured that there will be partisan poll watchers present at every counting location at every moment those stations are open.

So far I've been very disappointed.

Yes, you recounted the ballots after the Presidential election, but that was Kabuki theater and we all know it -- the horses had already left the barn before the doors were closed.

Yes, you told us that illegal voters will be identified and prosecuted, but to date I haven't seen or heard of a single prosecution.

Yes, you've told us your doing "a statewide review of signature match" to "help instill confidence in Georgia's absentee ballot system in future elections" but will it be in place on January 5th?

Given that track record, how can you assure me that the Senate runoff will be honest?

His office hasn't responded to earlier missives; I doubt he'll respond to this either.

YES! YES, YES, YES. It's high time elected officials forfeit their paychecks during lockdowns.

We have to forfeit ours; turnabout is fair play....

MAYBE THEY SHOULD TRY TEACHING INSTEAD. Bill de Blasio says mission is to 'redistribute wealth' in NYC school system.

Let's face it; the progressive Left is batshit crazy. They should be removed from any government office by any (legal) means possible and never ever be permitted to return.

INSANITY HAS TAKEN OVER THE LEFT: Pennsylvania health department issues safety tips for COVID-free orgies.

This from a man / woman / trans/ an it.

EXCELLENT QUESTION. If lockdowns work why is California a global COVID-19 hotspot?

Why don't you ask Gavin Newsom? He'll be - maskless - at the head of the table at the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley.

HELEN KELLER was just another privileged white person.

Perhaps Anita Camera should read this.

'Woke' is just a synonym for barking-at-the-moon crazy.

THE AIR FORCE introduces the first artifically intelligent copilot -- on a U-2 Dragon Lady. Prepping it, I suspect, for the RQ-4 Global Hawk.

The Popular Mechanics link is here.

RANDOM THOUGHT: On Twitter the URL [Uniform Resource Locator] is often longer and more informative than the tweet; it tells you more about the twit than does the tweet.

THE INMATES ARE TRULY RUNNING THE ASYLUM: Seattle waiting on judge’s decision on a lawsuit before clearing Cal Anderson Park. Read it and weep for America.

UPDATE: Finally the cleanup begins; and the anarchists simply move down the street.

WHY SMALL BUSINESS SHOULD STAY CLOSED:



It ends at about 5:50. Linked from PowerLine here.

I'M NOT SURE I LIKE THIS: I left New York for Florida in the 2020 pandemic and this is what happened to me. Be a Floridian or a New Yorker, but not both.

I'd rather not see Florida New York'd. But ... better Florida than Georgia where I live.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Pardon everyone.

Well, why not? In our political system the guilty will never get punished anyway....

GLENN [INSTAPUNDIT] REYNOLDS: It's time for the Deplorables to become the Unconquerables.

Mikhail Kutuzov, the Russian general who administered a crushing defeat to Napoleon, did so by realizing that as long as he kept his army intact, he didn’t have to win flashy victories. And he eventually ground Napoleon’s forces down to a nub. Likewise, so long as the ­Deplorables don’t give up in their opposition, they can’t really be ­defeated. By staying motivated, the Deplorables can become the Unconquerables.

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats" said H.L. Mencken. Now is that time.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for December 18, 2020:

As with last week, deaths remain higher but the growth rate is declining; as a percentage of confirmed coronavirus cases death rates continue to decline.

I expect the number of confirmed cases to continue to grow daily, as we're just now entering the annual flu season. I expect the healthscaremongering to increase, the number of daily deaths to increase, albeit more slowly than the growth of confirmed cases, and the death rate to continue its slow decline.

As a reminder, I still believe the data I'm seeing is mostly smoke and mirrors, political pandering to keep control. Take the data with a large grain of salt....

FAKE UNIVERSITY honors fake journalist.

LET'S PLAY 'THREE GUESSES' AGAIN: Modest and benevolent leaders or maniacs drunk on power?

As usual, the first two guesses don't count.

TAKE TWO BROMIDES AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING: What's the R_x for Dr. Jill?

For those of you interested in the history of doctoral degrees, the gist is this: (1) doctoral degrees are very old and (2) generally used only in professional settings. In other words, if I'm a doctor (MD, PhD, or other), I use the title professionally (i.e., at work) but not socially.

In modern times, the latter seems to only be honored in the breach.

UPDATE: PowerLine writes in defense of Dr. Jill.

CALIFORNIA'S JOLLY GREEN GIANT may soon be coming to a state near you.

Good luck. You're going to need it.

MAXINE WATERS: We're withholding COVID relief because the Rethuglians Republicans aren't cooperating with Joe Biden's "election".

PRESIDENT (ELECT) BIDEN: Nemesis may be coming for you.

Should the Republicans hold the Senate and take the House in 2022, they could do what the Democrats did in 2020. But if they were to impeach Biden as a possible beneficiary of his family's foreign influence-peddling, a Republican-controlled Senate might not so easily acquit him.

By 2023, Kamala Harris may become President ... not that that's a good outcome either.

UPDATE: Instapundit (Ed Driscoll) comments.

REMEMBER THE DEMOCRAT MANTRA -- NUMBERS LIE: Florida is open, New York is closed, and the latter has more COVID deaths.

If you choose to run the numbers (and I did), the death rate in New York is about double that of Florida and Texas.

RHODE ISLAND GOVERNOR: Obey COVID restrictions ... except for me.

Just another example of Democrat hypocrisy.

VODKAPUNDIT: Another hypocrite '#Defund the Police' supporter.

One of several nuggets of hypocrisy -- read the whole thing.

NOT ONLY NO, HELL NO! WHO urges families to wear masks at Christmas, says gatherings ‘should be held outside if possible.

And 'Eff U'.

IMPRIMIS: Learning from the American story.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Sex work is work.

I would say "She should know." but political prostitution isn't technically 'sex work'.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND COUNTRY, I hope and pray this is the narrative that is followed.

A pleasant thought, and possibly it could happen, but stock up on emergency supplies anyway.

THE NEXT FOUR YEARS: Plan on it.

Keep reading the tweets below.

BLUE STATE BAILOUTS? Nyet. No. Not. Never.

I'M NOT SURE: Is America still a democratic Republic?

But the real question is "Will it (still) be one in 4 years?"

SALENA ZITO: Our bender of political instability shows no signs of stopping.

One of the arguments I have made repeatedly is that the decision-makers in these political and cultural institutions need more diversity of thought and perspective in their boardrooms: more state school graduates, more people from impoverished city neighborhoods or rural small towns, more people who sit in a pew on a regular basis or work with their hands.

I'm reminded of the quote by William F. Buckley Jr. “I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”

But I wouldn't trust the Manhattan phone book either ... (and there probably aren't 2000 people left in Manhattan).

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Where did the new insane Left come from?

A TWITTER THREAD ON LOCKDOWNS paints a dismal picture for post-COVID-19 recovery.

Fortunately, news reporting for the last couple of days indicates that Americans are getting fed up with the kakistocracy.

CANADA'S NATIONAL POST: "The Biden administration ... will be a clangorous 'Gong Show'.”

I've noted more than once that to get sensible U.S. news and opinion, you have to look out-of-country.

THIS TIME I TRULY HOPE THE BABYLON BEE IS PRESCIENT: Nation relieved as politicians too busy bickering to push their terrible ideas on the country.

THE DIPLOMAD: Without shame and shifting blame.

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: Americans should not to see their kids for Christmas.

Go to a big box store instead....

I rather hope that someone is outside his house on Christmas to ensure he is not visiting or being visited by his own children.

ACE OF SPADES: an idea to mandate diversity in the newsrooms.

MAKING ME FEEL REALLY, REALLY SECURE (NOT): With Senate election runoffs nearing, Georgia's not prosecuting its unprecedented number of double voters.

IN MISSISSIPPI, ‘Academic Freedom’ v. the Law.

I would hope the law wins, but I don't think I'd put money on that bet....

YOU DON'T SAY: How 'expert' worship is ruining science.

Well, if they're government experts, you know they couldn't get real jobs. Fauci, anyone? Redfield?

ALL THE MORE REASON TO CANCEL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Unhinged teacher in Oregon goes mental on protestors.

It'd probably save money, too.

AMMO GRRRLL: A brave new world run by weeping ninnies.

HOW TRUMP CAN STOP the Biden administration from slush-funding Left-wing groups with our money.

ON VAPING: The new administration must embrace science, not fear mongering.

And not just about vaping ....

POWERLINE ON THE 'PERMANENT REVOLUTION': "One goes to war against the opposition one has."

Sarah Hoyt agrees: I do not consent. She argues of the Left:

Think of [us] as the victim of a serial killer that gives him the slip. The left has that left-of-crazy detachment from reality, compulsion to believe themselves superior, and absolute belief in their right to treat the rest of us as objects. That victim is likely to get tortured, humiliated, “erased” before being killed. Because now it’s personal.

These people have a hole where their thinkum should be.

She's right. Read both posts.

GET OFF MY LAWN! Texas Castle Doctrine bill is dead on arrival.

There is still intelligence is Texas ... though maybe not in San Francisco East (Austin).

AND THE IDIOTS look down on Democrats....

TWENTY PERCENT OF AMERICANS MILLENNIAL NINNIES have reportedly gotten hurt while setting up Christmas trees.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Television is teaching people to be afraid.

I originally had the thought after an evening of watching an endless evening of healthscare commercials peddling an endless number of prescription medicines guaranteed to kill you if they don't cure you.

And then I saw this: Research shows that America's media is pedaling fear, not news, on COVID-19.

Anything to keep the Kulaks fearful and under control....

POWERLINE on 'violence interrupters' and other amusing loose ends.

A PREVIEW OF THE NEXT FOUR YEARS: Dehumanizing Americans.

BLACK LIVES MATTER? Black Americans in NYC up to 40% less likely to suffer severe COVID-19.

Black people in New York City are up to 40% less likely to experience serious illness from COVID-19 and have a 30% lower risk for death than White people, according to an analysis published ... by JAMA Network Open.

This is despite the fact that they are 30% more likely to test positive for the virus, the data showed.

Obviously I'm going to get accused of racism, hate speech, and whatever the other progressive buzzwords for "you're not one of us so you must be evil" are, but ...

... as the article implies (but doesn't make explicit), the urban black population in NYC are more likely to live in crowded, relatively unsanitary conditions where they are much more likely to have strong immunity systems. I've asked the same question before with respect to California's homeless population -- why aren't the street people dying in droves?

No one in the chattering (or governing) class seems to be willing to address the question.

POOR BABY: Here's what Anthony Fauci wants to do once the pandemic ends.

So maybe he ought to think about ending the pandemic ... or is he waiting until Joe Biden is inaugurated and his 'job' assured? Or is he unaware he's a member of the hoity-toity?

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on California. And New York. And Minnesota. And Michigan. And ....

INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT: the first (and only) second gay Cabinet member.

And he's not even a Cabinet member yet....

DEGREED KARENS OF THE WORLD, unite!

SO WHEN ARE THE VACCINATION POLICE GOING TO SHOW UP AT MY DOOR? First coronavirus vaccine deliveries out to all 50 states in US.

BUT THEN COMES 2021....

OF COURSE -- IT'S ALL ABOUT CONTROL: California’s Health Secretary concedes there is no empirical basis for the State’s ban on outdoor dining.

And fear. And impoverishment. A fearful, impoverished citizenship is sooo much easier to control. And it will continue until a fed-up citizenry tells government to go pound sand.

HERE'S A THOUGHT: Tyranny ends when the tyrant’s enforcers won’t enforce it any more.

Antifa and BLM have been pretty successful in the past. Perhaps it's our turn?

COVERING MY ASS; NOT YOURS ....

WASHINGTON D.C. MAYOR: Inmates and the homeless will be among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine.

CALIFORNIA GOV. NEWSOM'S business interests received millions in PPP loans.

More politely, perhaps, Democrats believe government is about feathering their nest first. With our money....

THE SUPREME COURT rejects Texas lawsuit and Trump bid to undo election.

It looks like I was right in my assessement, so it's time for another:

RANDOM THOUGHT (this from H.L. Mencken): “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

The thought is strong in this one.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures asks "What do you want for Christmas?

I don't know why Santa asked "What color?" Everyone knows unicorns only come in blue.....

Now go see the rest.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for December 11, 2020:

Deaths are continuing to rise, the confirmed cases are rising faster, and the death rate is continuing to decline, down from 1.9% of confirmed cases to 1.8% today. The death rate as a function of total cases tested remains stable at 0.16%.

It's winter, people, so more people are remaining indoors (whether the government madarins like it or not), and the coronavirus is spreading more easily. The number of infections is increasing, the death rate is declining, hospitalizations (while higher) are still well below their peak in July (Georgia data) and declining, and you still have a 99.86% or better chance of surviving an infection.

Georgia data remains in line with the national data.

Finally I'm not sure I'm going to continue this weekly charade. The data I've been watching this last week is looking more and more suspicious. It's being revised backdated (at least) daily and the two national sources I use are often in disagreement. The Georgia data source I use has just today changed its reporting to add more 'information' that makes Georgia results look worse. Those items coupled with the weeks' news stories about mask mandates, lockdowns, etc,. have pretty well convinced me that the coronavirus pandemic is political, not medical.

I'll keep watching for another week or so, but right now I'm of the opinion that the reports are more smoke and mirrors than actual data. For an honest accounting I'd pay a lot more attention to Dr. Scott Atlas than the CDC and its government munchkins.

N.Y. LAWMAKERS CONSIDERING HIGHER TAXES ON WEALTHY to address pandemic budget deficit induce them to leave.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ explains 'remote learning'.

THE STATE CARES: Prisoners to get first crack at coronavirus vaccine.

That way they won't be infecting their victims after they're released by the Biden administration....

TEXAS FILES CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE suing Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin for unlawfully enacting last-minute election law changes, thus unlawfully disenfranching the other states.

SIX OTHER STATES have now joined Texas in its SCOTUS election lawsuit. Eleven others have filed supporting briefs.

Most legal experts seem to think the Texas suit is fatally flawed in several ways and nearly certain to fail, but ...

MY RANDOM THOUGHT: If the Supreme Court chooses not to take the Texas election lawsuit, it'll be like telling a bank robber that "Well, okay, you can keep the money you stole, but don't do it again."

Does anyone seriously believe they won't (do it again)?

MORE, PLEASE: Three Democrats having a very bad week.

IN MIDWINTER, NO LESS: Biden plans to defeat skin cancer by ordering Americans to wear sunscreen for 100 days.

If this weren't satire, I'd call it one of his better ideas.

2020 HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY DEPRESSING, SO FOR A MOMENT A STORY OF GOOD CHEER: Some memories of the real American story.

PROHIBITED.

WE'RE GOING TO NEED THEM IF DEMOCRATS REMAIN IN POWER: House relief bill will provide free 'Going Out of Business' signs to small business owners.

The cost will be deducted from their first unemployment checks....

EXACTLY RIGHT: "Nothing says, 'relax, everything is aboveboard' like censoring claims of fraud while they’re still being litigated."

I WISH IT WERE MINE: There's at least one honest county in Georgia.

LOOK OUT when the power-mad left takes a temperature.

'RESTORATIVE JUSTICE' BE DAMNED: Jail the bastard.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR on Fox News' media suicide.

FNC will have to do to three things get us back, but they would probably go bankrupt before doing one. First, apologize for betraying their viewer base and the vision that elevated them, the more grovelingly the better. Two, initiate a corporate Reign of Terror, firing Brazile, Wallace, Cavuto (whom I like), Fisher, Fox Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt, and other tainted anti-Trumpers. Third, place at the helm a young Roger Ailes-type who understands the original mission of FNC to be “fair and balanced” and not CNN lite. This would politically neutralize the Murdochs and their social justice warrior wives while still filling their coffers. Unfortunately for them, the usual outcome for progressive drift is to virtue signal all the way to bankruptcy.

Newsmax and One America News are now my top two news websites; Fox has dropped to #3. The 'others' aren't even bookmarked. I do tune in to Fox Business occasionally for the market chryon, but otherwise the television stays off.

CAN GEN. FLYNN SUE THE BASTARD? Michael Flynn case officially dropped, Judge [Emmet Sullivan] releases whiney, politicized 43 page opinion.

CAN THE SUPREME COURT do its job to protect and save the Constitution?

Hope springs eternal, but ....

THAT'S FUNNY; I THOUGHT MANCHIN WAS A DEMOCRAT: "I don't know anyone in my party who supports defunding the police."

DILBERT: I've noticed that with companies I'm forced to deal with.

BIDEN’S 3-PART PLAN TO TACKLE THE CORONAVIRUS: Masks, vaccinations, opening schools.

Masks: not only no, but 'Hell, no!'.

Vaccinations: encouraged, okay; mandatory, see above.

Opening schools: first semi-intelligent words that have come from his mouth.

If Biden stays on the crazy train, this election will go to the Supreme Court and then on to the Congress for sure....

PITCHFORKS. WHERE ARE THE PITCHFORKS?

School board won’t reverse fourth-grader’s suspension for BB Gun incident during virtual school.

This poor kid just wanted a Nerf gun for Christmas and liberal mall Santa decided to make him cry instead.

This is your progressive Left. Still looking forward to the next four years?

SO ... WHAT ABOUT SCHOOL BUSES? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests you avoid riding in cars with people who aren’t in your household.

So much for kids returning to school....

POWERLINE: Apocalypse now?

Hinderaker is right to believe America will resist; wrong to assume it won't get violent.

So ... How much ammo do you need and where should you store it?

HYPOCRITES GONNA HYPOCRITE. Here's proof.

WITH HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (HCQ), the second COVID wave was avoidable.

I'm pretty sure I'll never listen to mainstream [CDC] health 'science' again....

I AGREE: Voters should have to pass a civics exam.

My idea is simpler: a single multiple choice question on the ballot. The vote counts if the answer is correct; otherwise not.

If they can answer the questions, I might be talked into letting felons and illegals vote. Certainly they'd be less likely to choose as poorly as the current crop of wokesters....

ON THE FENCE NO MORE: This election stinks!

THEY CAN PAY THE DANEGELD; you can't.

Updated.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Masks, social distancing, and lockdowns are not to protect you; they're to keep the Left in power. Keep that thought firmly in mind over the next weeks and months -- and years.

I WOULD SAY YOU'VE GOT TO BE EFFING KIDDING ME, but by now I should know better.

The 'woke' Left hates everyone, including themselve. Especially themselves.

AMERICA’S TEACHERS’ UNIONS are a force for evil.

True. Even my wife, who taught elementary school for 30 years, agrees.

MICHAEL BARONE: Democrats are now reaping the whirlwind of their 2016 election ‘Resistance.’

Linked from Instapundit.

MANY EPIDEMIOLOGISTS want social distancing and masks forever.

So do our governing elites -- just not for them.

UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: Americans’ mental health hits 20-year low ahead of renewed lockdowns.

Replacing individual decision-making of hundreds of millions’ of peoples’ everyday lives with centralized government mandates intended to slow the spread of COVID-19 inevitably causes enormous ripple effects. Our retrospective analysis of lockdown policies—the effectiveness which is seriously disputed—must be weighed against the loss of life and human suffering they caused in their own right.

Obvious, but I would argue that it's more than the coronavirus; it's the increasing government control of the minutiae of American life in the name of safety, or health, or ... something.

'RIGHT STUFF' PILOT LEGEND Chuck Yeager Dies at 97.

Yeager was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973, and he kept flying into his later years, even breaking the sound barrier at age 89.

I was there when he broke the sound barrier for the last time. It was at an air show at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was back-seating in an F-15 as it broke the soundd barrier flying down the runway above us, then waving to the crowd as the aircraft taxied past us after landing.

Rest in peace, Gen. Yeager.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: The silent victims of this pandemic.

Notice that not one -- not one! -- of the victims is a member of the ruling 'elite'.

A DAY OF INFAMY: Today is the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, though you wouldn't know it from the mainstream media. It did make USA Today's top five, although only in the second position. First and third were coronavirus related; the other two only of local interest.

Here are the few that showed up on a quick internet search. Tops in the list are the White House proclamation and two from the United Kingdom. [Same story, one published in the US edition; the other in the UK edition.]

Hard to believe, but the British pay more attention than we do....

And now back to regularly scheduled programming.

'POLITICAL' SCIENCE [AND CONTROL] drives the lockdown lemmings.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ learns about hard work.

#REVENGE: The GOP is the party of civil war.

We're beginning to fight back -- using your tools and techniques.

Turnabout is fair play....

NOT ANY MORE: Rules are for the little people.

IT'S TIME TO SHOOT BACK! Michigan man says his support for Trump may have caused home to be targeted with explosives.

Personally I'm getting madder by the day. It's time for Americans to demand the the law be enforced -- even if it requires defiance of the politically-correct apparatchiks who seem to believe they control us.

OBAMA SEZ: The Georgia Senatorial debates were last night:

I WANT YOU ... to vote for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

(Thanks, Steve)

ANOTHER REASON TO GIVE UP ON FOX NEWS: Fox News' Chris Wallace told Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar twice Sunday to refer to Joe Biden as the "president-elect" rather than as "vice-president". Sorry (not really) Chris, but Joe Biden is not President-elect until and unless the Electoral College says so on December 14th. Stop promoting fake news.

THE SPACE-X UNCREWED FALCON CRS-21 RESUPPLY MISSION launched this morning to the International Space Station.

The video is approximately 40 minutes long. For those who only want to watch certain events within the video, launch occurs at minute 21; main engine cutoff (MECO) at minute 23; first stage reentry burn at minute 27; and the first stage landing on the barge in the Atlantic occurred at minute 29.

But watch the whole thing anyway.

WALKING ILLEGALLY: The dumbest time in American history.

With exceptions, of course. If you’re a liberal Hollywood type who needs to walk to your set to film, you’re exempt. If you’re homeless, you’re exempt. If you’re a crack addict walking the streets and stealing packages off of other people’s porches during this holiday season, you’re exempt. If you’re out on a nice day walking to fight the lockdown blues, you’re willfully defiant, apparently.

So go for an illegal walk. And give these dumbass government apparachiks their walking papers at the first (legal) opportunity.

We're leaving now....

TRUMPISM IS NOT A TURN AGAINST DEMOCRACY ... It is Democracy.

YES. ABSOLUTELY. Is America in a civil disobedience mood?

The only uncertainty is whether it will get violent.

And I fear it will.

NOW WE KNOW how much money she's stolen. More graft and corruption here.

PELOSI ADMITS COVID STIMULUS was blocked to get Biden elected.

SARAH HOYT proposes 'Operation Swamp Fox'. I've been thinking much the same -- and have already started, albeit in a so-far minimalist fashion.

And as I keep perusing the interwebs, I'm noticing more and more small starts like mine.

It's beginning....

CAN I DEMAND A WORLD WITHOUT [BUTTINSKI] LIBRARIANS? Ivy League librarians demand a ‘world without policing.’

JUST 100 MORE DAYS: Biden has figured out how to stop the virus, and boy, is it stunning and brave.

So it'll all be over April 1st? (April Fool!)

A TOUCHING GESTURE: Kamala Harris just sent Joe Biden 17 Get Well Soon puppies.

DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVE CALLS POLL WATCHER A LIAR; gets stomped on.

Click on the Twitter link.

HAVE YOU TAKEN your illegal walk today?

Linked from this RedState post.

THE DIPLOMAD sees dark days ahead.

Read it all, including the comments.

UNFORTUNATELY I'm not seeing any 'victim studies' departments being chopped up and discarded.

One bright note, though: if you read The Lancet abstract carefully, throw out all the dribble and goo, and what you'll find left is "capitalism works".

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, my favorite:

Let's hope it comes true. Now go see the rest.

IMPRIMIS: A sensible and compassionate anti-COVID strategy.

Unfortunately in today's politicized world it can't be implemented because there's no room in the strategy for victim shaming or virtue signaling.

CALIFORNIA SHERIFF sends a loud message to 'hypocritical' Gavin Newsom about 'ridiculous' shutdowns.

But, but ... only Republicans can be hypocrites.

YOU MUST WEAR A MASK to display your virtue for all to see.

LOS ANGELES MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI bans non-essential walking.

Obviously anything Garcetti does -- including walking -- is essential.

TESLA CEO ELON MUSK plans to move to Texas. I hope I'm wrong, but if Austin's history is any indicator, it will not be good for Texas....

I liked this comment: "I really wish socialists would stop moving to Red States. They should eat their own gruel."

TRUMP WON HIS OTHER CAMPAIGN -- to destroy media credibility.

Now it's up to us to ensure that it remains a win. Make them pay the butcher's bill: apologize to us, promise to reform, and hold their feet to the fire.

IF 'ESSENTIAL WORKERS' ARE TO GET THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FIRST, just who are the essential workers?

The answer, such as it should be, might surprise you.

RANDOM THOUGHT: To stop the coronavirus pandemic in its tracks, simply maintain social distance from Democrats. Keeping them in Purgatory is a good start.

THE BABYLON BEE STRIKES AGAIN: California to issue Democrat politicians special ID cards allowing them to break lockdown rules.

MAYBE THE QUICKEST WAY to convince Greenland to be annexed by the United States is to ... buy the prime minister a meal?

Based on our current political state, perhaps we should ask Greenland to annex us....

INTERESTING: The Geek in Pictures (2). Note that the data indicates that every liberal/progressive shibboleth is wrong.

The Geek in Pictures (1) is here.

TRUMP’S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT: The president has exposed the rot and corruption of our ruling class.

[H]is tenacity in confronting the ruling class’s members with their failures — and the fact he has threatened to rectify those failures — discredits and disempowers those responsible for them. Their response — a perpetual effort to destroy him — has shown the ruling class to be lawless and tyrannical.

Now that he's exposed the rot it's up to us to clean it out.

I DON'T THINK SO: Gun laws a matter of public health?

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Driving the green road.

Um, those EVs don't run on AAA batteries....

SIDNEY POWELL: Georgians should make it known that they won’t vote until their vote is secure. That's tempting, but not in the cards for me. Instead I wrote this to our Secretary of State:

Sidney Powell, in contesting the Trump election fraud once said "I think I would encourage all Georgians to make it known that you will not vote at all until your vote is secure."

While I disagree with Powell on voting, I think it is incumbent on you to have at least one publicly televised and widely reported press conference for Georgia voters to clearly and loudly state that the January runoff election will be fraud-free, transparent, and closely monitored by an independent agency to ensure all -- and only -- LEGAL votes are counted.

Given the obvious -- and massive -- fraud that occurred in Georgia and elsewhere, you owe us no less.

You can contact Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger here.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for December 4, 2020:

Since last Friday, deaths continue to rise. Even though the number of deaths are rising, so are the number of confirmed cases, and death rates continue their decline. On October 4th, 2 months ago, the death rate per confirmed case was 2.7%. Today that rate is 1.9%. On October 4th the death rate as a function of total cases tested was 0.19%; today it's 0.16%.

So the long and short of it is that we're going into winter (indoors), where viruses typically spread faster, and so the number of infections is increasing. But the death rate continues to decline.

Georgia data remains in line with the national data. Confirmed cases are still rising, but deaths have declined below the October 4th date noted above. Hospitalizations continue to rise.

MAYBE SO, but I think I'd rather be dead than live in Michael Moore's America.

More on the sheer lunacy of Moore and the 'woke' Left.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Progressives are no longer defenders of free expression.

They never were.

LEARN TO CODE and get priced out of a job.

Thanks, Democrats.....

TRUST FUND SOCIALIST: That Paycheck Protection Program [PPP] money belongs to us.

IF YOU THINK DR. ANTHONY FAUCI HAS THE SOUL OF A TINPOT DICTATOR ... you're right.

The anti-Trump Deep State swamp is deep, wide ... and dedicated.

IF YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT, please wear a mask!

THE MONOLITH EXPLAINED: Mysterious tower of missing Trump votes appears in Utah desert.

MORNING GREATNESS: Nevada Trump campaign presents vote fraud evidence in court.

OVERUSED, BUT 'UNEXPECTEDLY': Americans flocked to gun stores on Black Friday.

NO WAY IN HELL! Delusional never-Trump losers think we’re going to take them back.

Real elephants have long memories....

#RESIST! NO, #REVENGE! GOP group rolls out 'Biden Accountability Initiative' to counter incoming administration.

SUBJECTS, IF THE DEMOCRATS GET THEIR WAY. Will we be citizens or subjects?

SARAH HOYT: Point and make duck noises.

Read it all.

AMERICAN GOMORRAH ™ “Suddenly” Edition.

Read it. And act on it.

NO! CDC says to stay home for Christmas.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO DONALD TRUMP IN THE 2020 ELECTION: Money. Lots of it. Used to build structural bias into the core Blue-state urban electoral processes.

Read it all, then go to your state legislatures and demand one-day voting, on paper ballots, with proper photo identification.

Or kiss America as we know it goodbye....

'MISSING CONTEXT': USA Today's excuse for it's inability to 'fact-check' the truth.

A MESSAGE FOR OUR GOVERNMENT PANJANDRUMS: Risk is personal, not political. Mind your own business, not mine.

Linked from Instapundit.

THIS IS INTERESTING: Project Veritas has been listening in on internal CNN calls for months.

PowerLine has posted a few of the first releases.

CNN is not amused.

But I am.

TRUMP’S MICHAEL FLYNN PARDON: Justice was not served.

Too little, too late.

WELL, IT'S ONE WAY TO ENFORCE A PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN: D.C. Metro will eliminate weekend service and close 19 stations.

INSANITY WRAP: The madness continues.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Election fraud update (December 1, 2020).

Long, but worthwhile for all the detail. I don't think you can read it without being convinced the fraud was real and massive.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Violent carjackings spike in Minneapolis.

Because they can....

TRUMP'S OPTIONS: hard choices.

CNN'S OLIVER DARCY CALLS FOR CENSORSHIP; Jonathon Turley calls him out. Here's the gist:

[M]edia outlets like CNN are openly calling for the suppression of legitimate political stories/speech they think the public shouldn’t see – simply because those stories do not jive with the political narratives they’re trying to push. That’s the equivalent of state-run TV, not journalism. That’s not freedom of the press; that’s subjugation by the press.

Today's mainstream journalism isn't your father's journalism....

EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING: If When cable news dies, it'll be Trump's fault.

TODAY'S LONG READ: Today's Left is the same as yesterday's Left -- irredeemably destructive and dishonest.

[T]he “social justice” radicals ... call themselves progressives but are actually reactionaries. They call themselves liberals but are actually bigots. They say they’re for peace when they are organized for war. It is always the same war: to bring down the United States of America.

Read it all.

IRATE GEORGIA VOTING SYSTEMS OFFICIAL: Why aren’t Trump, Loeffler, and Perdue condemning the harassment we’re facing?

Maybe because you deserve it? Or maybe it's payback time for 4 years of Trump derangement?

Or, being generous, maybe you just got caught in the crossfire....

ACCORDING TO HOYT: Rude comments on the 'election' of the President.

Language alert: Amie Gibbons writes like I speak.

IT TOOK TRUMP ALMOST A FULL YEAR TO KILL THE FIRST 250,000. 'President-elect' Biden claims he can do it in only a month-and-a-half.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: the arrogance of COVID-19 dictators.

NORTH CAROLINA: support for President Trump; disdain for COVID-19 restrictions.

YEAH, RIGHT: "Just scattered bits of widespread fraud, not widespread fraud that could have affected the election outcome, so nothing to be concerned about."

WHEN IT COMES TO ARROGANCE, NARCISSISM, AND HYPOCRISY, no one can hold a candle to Barack and Michelle Obama.

TOO CONTROVERSIAL TO PUBLISH: Which values matter most to professors in academia?

About what one would expect, given that the study missed engineering, hard sciences, and agriculture -- all of which I'd bet would go with academic rigor and knowledge advancement.

JUST DON'T BRING YOUR DEMOCRAT EMPLOYEES WITH YOU: Hewlett Packard moving headquarters from California to Texas.

They've already ruined Austin....

REALITY, OR SATIRE? Buttigieg campaign office to become pole dancing studio.

Reality....

REALITY, OR SATIRE? Government prepares for next pandemic by taking away everyone's rights ahead of time.

Satire (for now)....

OUR ELITES STINK: All they're good for is incompetence, arrogance, hypocrisy, and virtue signaling.

OBAMA'S COVER SHOT for InStyle Magazine is the most cringeworthy thing you've ever seen.

Photographer: Can you make yourself look even more like a narcissistic ass?

Obama: You bet.

He suceeded....

WHAT A SURPRISE: A potential Potemkin presidency.

During the weeks following November 3, innumerable election experts and statistical analysts have pored over the voting data upon which former Vice President Joe Biden’s purported campaign victory ostensibly stands. A growing body of evidence ranging from straightforward ballot audits to complex quantitative analyses suggests that the tabulation of the votes was characterized by enough chicanery to alter the outcome of the election. Consequently, a consensus has gradually developed among the auditors of publicly available information released by the states, and it contradicts the narrative promulgated by the Democrats and the media. The more data experts see, the less convinced they are that Biden won.

Read it all.

GET YOUR TRUMP SHOT before January 20th. After that only Biden shots will be available....

VOTE FOR ME: I'll send you all the absentee/mail-in ballots you can use.

SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT votes on remote learning with his kid’s feet.

Another example of 'rules are for thee, just not for me'.

SARAH HOYT NOTICES the end of the world.

LIBERALISM: Why our universities have failed.

MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS have a new proposal to defund the police increase violent crime.

'TRUMPISM' MUST BE PURGED! Because ... reasons.

WELL, THAT'S A RELIEF: Attorney General Barr protects Durham probe with special counsel designation.

ELECTION POLITICS: Evolution in action.

MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: Joe Biden hopes for history with an all-female communications team.

Kayleigh McEnany pops his (trial) balloon.

OBAMA FLACK BEN RHODES should stay off Twitter.

But then, he is a twit....

NOT IF, BUT WHEN: The return of sanity in American politics.

OF COURSE NOT, THEY'RE DEMOCRATS: Will Democrats learn from their identity-politics disaster in California?

JOE BIDEN, job robber.

Well, the Democrats have already been busy robbing graves for votes. Why not move on to robbing jobs to buy votes?

FROM VODKAPUNDIT'S INSANITY WRAP, three items:

1. Another town tells its Governor to pound sand.

2. The number of Democrats and Independents who said they'd get the [coronavirus] vaccine right away spiked after the election.

3. This cartoon.

Go read the whole thing.

DON’T GO AWAY MAD, JAKE TAPPER. Just go away.

JON OSSOFF praises Bernie Sanders' 'advocacy' for socialized medicine.

I think this idiocy could easily be stopped by simply requiring that anyone proposing, voting for, working for, or supporting any lawmaker or government regulatory bureaucrat be required to live with the proposed law/regulation for a period of not less than one year before it can be imposed on the population at large.

And the penalty for not living completely and precisely within the limits of the law/regulation should include jail time.

NO, THEY'RE POLITICIANS. The exalted Dr. Fauci changes his mind again because our experts are cowards.

Lousy politicians.

DEMOCRATS: If you try to steal the House of Representatives, we'll steal the White House (back).

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Computer expert joins Sidney Powell's team.

New reports of election manipulation from outside the U.S.

There was a time when I would have dismissed reports like these out-of-hand.

Now? Remember the old line about truth being stranger than fiction?

THREE GUESSES; THE FIRST TWO DON'T COUNT: Four data dumps in the witching hour after the election gave Biden victory. Rand Paul has questions.

NOT FAKE NEWS: The media mask slips.

It didn't slip; it was ripped off and thrown away.

CALLING JOHN DURHAM: I suspect he'll remain in hiding until January 21st.

I’M STILL CALLING HIM TRASH. Obama still calling us bitter clingers.

'Trash' is being polite....

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THEM; make them afraid of you.

THE EVOLUTION of education in America.

AMERICAN THINKER: The COVID con continues.

COVID fear was used as an election campaign issue, blaming everything on Trump. It served as an excuse for mail-in ballots and last-minute changes to electoral laws favoring Sleepy Joe Biden. Shutdowns, masks, and distancing are a way of wannabe dictator governors to flex their power, lest the hoi polloi become restless and protest electoral fraud. In the quest for safety and security, American must relinquish freedom and liberty. It’s almost as if this was all planned out, part of a grand scheme for the administrative state to subversively take over the government, rather than through free elections seeking the consent of the governed.

Expect the beatings to continue until morale 'improves'....