YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: In Texas's Great Electricity Shortage, the wind turbines performed better than forecast.

PARALLEL WORLDS: "Do we [Republicans and Democrats], at this juncture, have not just enough shared experience, but even enough shared epistemology, to jointly govern a country?"

At this point, personally I think not. Republicans should govern the country; Democrats should be confined to institutions for the mentally deranged.

Read it all.

FROM MY EMAIL:

The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.

The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.

The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.

The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.

The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS.

And...

The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.

The amazing fact is, the higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. There must be a shit load of people in Washington D.C. playing marbles.

And in almost every instance, their brains are smaller than their balls. Which also explains the pea-brain knuckleheads in the Biden administration and Congress....

POTATO HEADS AND TATER BRAINS: The Jay Leno video is worth the price of admission.

WHY MASK MANDATES won't go away.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT, EVERYTHING IS FINE: In less than a month in office, the Biden administration has clearly defined itself and its party as a fascist vanguard, driven by a racist agenda, and unconstrained by constitutional principle.

Read it all.

OVERDUE: 'Fire Fauci' trends on Twitter.

FLYNN WAS PROSECUTED FOR RUSSIA TALKS. Should Kerry face charges for a questionable meeting with Iran?

Of course not. Kerry's a Democrat.

ELON MUSK AND TEXAS MAKE A GOOD MATCH: ‘Democrathy dythe in darkneth.’

SEEN ON THE INTERNET: The GOPe [Republican establishment] comportment is to gracefully lose so as to not upset their avenues of graft.

Analysis: correct.

THAT MIGHT HAVE HURT someone who's self-aware....

CRAZY, STUPID, AND VICIOUS: Former Governor and now Democrat political opportunist Charlie Crist wants Gov. DeSantis investigated for vaccinating the elderly who might be (gasp!) Republicans.

Will the Democrats' dumbfuckery never end?

NEAR REAL-TIME IMAGES of the Mars rover Persistence landing on the surface of Mars.

I've been watching the space programs since Sputnik and Project Vanguard in 1957. The progress has been incredible in that 70-something year span - from just barely putting a grapefruit-sized sphere in low Earth orbit to watching (almost) live as a semi-autonomous research vehicle lands on another planet.

Amazing.

INSTAPUNDIT: "Woke" is a synonym for "crazy, stupid, and vicious".

He's right.

NO, IT'S 'MOSTLY PEACEFUL' PROTESTS: It isn't terrorism when Lefties do it.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN:

From Fox News' daily cartoon page.

HE SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING AT THE WHITE HOUSE: Biden claimed he was arrested for trespassing at Capitol.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Have you noticed that, in blue jurisdictions particularly, the 1-to-10 priority scale for coronavirus vaccinations is 1) the woke, 2) ..., 3 ..., 4) ..., 5) ..., 6) ..., 7) ..., 8) ..., 9) ...,
10) everyone else?

I have.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE: the GOP bloodbath has begun.

HARVARD STUDY: Reparations for slavery could have reduced coronavirus transmissions and deaths. How, you might ask. Well, by

1) narrowing of the path-dependent racial wealth divide;
2) changes in the built environment, fostering the ability to social distance;
3) spreading out of front-line work across racial groups; and
4) decreased race-based allostatic load.

You'd have to have an IQ less than room temperature (in degrees Celsius) to believe that garbage.

THE BABYLON BEE IS PRESCIENT AGAIN: YouTube wins the 2020 Teacher of the Year award.

'BEHESTED' PAYMENTS: They should be called bribery with our tax money.

NOT STUMBLING; RUNNING FULL TILT: Is the Biden administration stumbling into war?

FROM MY CARTOON BACKLOG:

Numbers 3 and 8 are most appropiate today. Number 4 is a bit iffy, since the supply of idiots has increased so dramatically....

ALL SEVEN OF THEM: Harvard launching app to help students find [gender] inclusive bathrooms.

Anyone who willingly sends pays for their child to attend Harvard should be charged with child abuse.

FAUCI: Likely Americans will be wearing face masks until 2022 mid-term elections.

There. Fixed.

MEDIA'S CENSORIOUS GATEKEEPERS are mad because they're losing power.

Do the people have a “right to know” things in general? Or just the things [the Washington Post] would want them to know?

There's a difference between the 'right to know things' and an 'obligation to know the right politically correct things'.

IT'S THE POCKETBOOK THAT'S MOST VULNERABLE: How to push back against a bully.

EITHER THAT OR CUT HOLES FOR ICE FISHING: This guy replaced his bike wheels with circular saws so he could ride on a frozen lake.

AMMO GRRRLL 'circles back' to Where There Is No Man.

WEEKEND REMINDER:

Stay safe while you're out there shooting other people....

PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY WE WANT COLLEGES AND LAW SCHOOLS TO REOPEN: Students must be given vaccine priority so Colleges and Law Schools can reopen in the fall.

I suspect Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) already knows how to code....

MORNING BOMBHOLE: Joe Scarborough and our broken media.

Which explains why MSNBC is on my television's 'never (ever) tune to' list.

SATIRE NO LONGER POSSIBLE: To save time, The Babylon Bee will now just republish everything Biden says verbatim.

The Pseudodent is self-satirizing....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our descent into collective madness.

An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it threatens to drag us to the depths of unreason.

The coronavirus pandemic is a mere annoyance in comparison to this 'progressivitus' pandemic brought to fruition by the inauguration of the Biden(-Harris) administration.

IT MUST HURT TO BE THAT CRAZY: In California, Oakland names a street for Black Panther icon Huey Newton while San Francisco cancels Presidents Washington and Lincoln.

IF THERE IS ANY BRIGHT SIDE TO THE DEATH OF RUSH LIMBAUGH, it is to see the display of collective insanity of the progressive Left. Their venom is just another reminder that President Trump was right:

So was Rush. Keep this firmly in mind: they hate us. They truly hate us.

RUSH'S MONUMENT: Let us all speak, and fearlessly.

I CAN'T RECALL HOW LONG I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS: A freedom-loving people need to call the bluff of those instilling fear.

But I sure am glad that the thought is taking hold. Linked from Instapundit.

OH MY GOD! People are talking. And in places we can't monitor!

IT WOULD BE A STEP UP FROM DEMOCRATS: Insect brains will teach us how to make truly intelligent robots.

TEXAS MAYOR QUITS after saying residents are ‘lazy’ amid outages.

"Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves!" Boyd continued in the post. "Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!"

I agree with the mayor. It's my responsibility to take care of myself and my family; it's the mayor's responsibility to clear the way so I can.

My prediction is that Colorado City is going to miss him.

JOE SCARBOROUGH mocks business owners who suffered from the BLM riots.

I rather wonder how Scarborough's empathy meter would read if it was his personal studio destroyed by 'peaceful protestors' and his own studio employees sent to the unemployment line. Would he still believe it "not as bad as the United States Capitol being vandalized'?

Somehow I doubt it.

DID FROZEN WIND TURBINES impact the Texas freeze?

Well, yes ... just not to the extent that seemed apparent at the time. Mostly it's another example of unintended consequences -- in the rush to be environmentally correct, the "what if's" were never properly accounted for.

"All of the above" is a good energy strategy, and it's good risk management to develop compensation strategies for loss of one of the above -- one nuclear power plant, one coal-fired power plant, one natural gas power plant. one transmission line, etc. But one unforseen event affecting individual generators over several thousand square miles?

There's going to have to be a lot of rethinking about risk mitigation strategies for solar power and wind power generation.

Which we won't see. What we will see, I'm sure, is a political Kabuki theater of blame-shifting.

Watch for it.

SO LOW THAT THEY'RE NOW HAVING TO DIG: How low can the bar go for Illinois teachers?

RANDOM THOUGHT: So far all I've seen from the Biden(-Harris) administration is its worship of diversity.

Competence, not so much.

JUST ANOTHER SECOND FIRST: Biden is helping small business by appointing a woman to lead the Small Business Administration.

Wait. Wasn't Trump's SBA leader a woman? Why yes, yes she was.

YOU DON'T GET 'EDJUMACATION' POINTS FOR HAVING LIVED IN THE REAL WORLD: New report declares that GOP Hill Staff are less educated than Democrats.

WHITE HOUSE: We have no idea when America will be back to normal.

When the unicorns stop cavorting on the White House lawn?

COCA-COLA’S DIVERSITY DIKTAT falls flat. Help them fall flatter faster: just drink whiskey (or Pepsi or Dr Pepper) instead.

JUST SAY NO. How to save civics from the Left.

Better yet, say "Hell, no."

AND BILL GATES SHOULD MOVE TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION: ‘All rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.’

WOKE POLITICS: The Democrats’ plan for a permanent majority.

RANDOM THOUGHT: What's the over/under on Jen Psaki's tenure as Pseudodent Joe's Press Secretary?

UNFETTERED CONVERSATIONS? We can't have that!

REPARATIONS BY ANOTHER NAME: "Equity" is to "equality" what "social justice" is to "justice."

PARENTS SHOULD DEMAND THE PRINCIPAL REFLECT ON THE SIZE OF HIS UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK: NYC public school asks parents to 'reflect' on their 'whiteness'.

Let the parent revolt begin: When do Republicans in Congress start talking up an opt-out on education taxes for parents whose kids do not attend public schools? And as a parent whose children are no longer in school, how about allowing me to 'opt out' and donate my education taxes to a private school of my choice?

Go after the money -- it's the only way to be sure.

BUT, BUT .... THEY'RE MY STORM TROOPERS: Pelosi learns to love those ‘storm troopers’.

Don't worry; Pseudodent Joe is going to replace them with Border Patrol officers (and .50 caliber machine guns) soon.

‘MONSTER HUNTER’ AUTHOR shares cancel culture survival tips.

Gist: Don't back down. Ever.

Now go read it all.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Does anyone remember the MSM talking heads ever referring to the Trump-Pence administration?

'Nuff said....

ON PSEUDODENT JOE'S COTERIE OF GOVERNMENT THUGS: "They’re much more concerned about stopping theats to their power than about stopping actual crime."

NOW WE KNOW what happened to Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Baily: it moved to Washington D.C.

MAYBE HE SHOULD RESIGN FROM THE U.S. AND GO BACK TO CUBA: LA County DA Gascón resigns from state DA group, complains its board is all White.

I'm sure he'd be happier there....

FAST-FOOD WORKERS demand that their jobs get automated.

Question: How does removing that first step in the ladder of opportunity help our young people get that initial employment?

STEVEN HAYWARD writes on three deaths: Rush Limbaugh, democracy, and the Washington Post (where democracy died).

FORTRESS D.C.: A bad -- very bad -- look for democracy.

Venezuela is looking better and better.

Unexpectedly, of course.

OPPORTUNITY BECKONS FOR ENTERPRISING RED STATES: “Build some nuke plants. In 10 years you’ll be selling power to your unicorn-powered neighbors.”

Make their unicorn feed very, very expensive. Hitting them in the wallet is where it hurts the most....

HILARIOUS: Sen. Ted Cruz [R-TX] and the Babylon Bee collaborate to embarrass journalists and the Left.

I know, I know -- I'm repeating myself.

SEN. TOM COTTON [R-AR]: It's time to send our National Guard troops in the Capitol home.

More from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Georgia Rep. Jody Hice.

SHORT NEWS VIEWS from PowerLine.

SHIT OUTTA LUCK: Britain's National Health Service has decreed that Brits with learning disabilities who contract COVID will be denied resuscitation. It's called 'rationing healthcare'.

IS LEFTISM a personality disorder?

Yes. So is crazy. The difference is that crazy is treatable.

MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE CONSULTED THEM FIRST: Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R-IL] says his family is shunning him for his impeachment vote.

He's obviously been spending too much time in Washington D.C.

SARAH HOYT: "Keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."

RUSH LIMBAUGH, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70.

It seems that the good always die early, and always when their advice is most needed.

RIP, Rush, and we'll soldier on as best we can....

IT ISN’T ONLY MATH: America’s education establishment is officially pro-ignorance.

Surely they had to dig to get the bar that low....

LEFTIST LUNACY: San Francisco opts to focus on rebranding empty schools with 'offensive' names instead of reopening them.

BUT WILL IT STOP WANNABE DUMBOCRAT DEMOCRAT TYRANTS? Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D(umb)-CT]: We need a 9/11-type commission to stop future Trump tyrants.

Never let a crisis go to waste. And if you don't have a crisis, create one.

COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER BUNCH OF PEOPLE: 30 Taliban militants are killed in explosion during bomb-making class at Afghan mosque.

We should send them some of our progressive safety nannies to 'help' -- both us and them.

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: ‘I prefer not to comment’ on Gov. Cuomo mishandling coronavirus.

Not until he can put his finger to the wind to see which way it's blowing....

BECAUSE CORONAVIRUS: Italy won't open its ski slopes.

GLOBALISM SUCKS: The problems of the left-rich woke alliance.

WE'RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE THEY LOOK: You there in your nice suburb or quiet rural community are actually terrorists.

You could have fooled me ... so I'm a terrorist because I cling to my guns or my religion or my antipathy to people who aren't like me shut up.

DR. SCOTT ATLAS on the 'ludicrous' in-person safety measures for public schools: "We are off the rails".

SAD: Homeless, but dying with dignity.

Salena Zito is a real journalist.

THE CORRECT ANSWERS ARE 'JOE BIDEN' AND 'NO': Ask every Republican these two questions.

TIME FOR JOE MANCHIN TO LEAVE THE TITANIC? Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in West Virginia.

COVID RELIEF heading to the coffers of social justice warriors.

Of course. They have nothing to sell, so their main source of income is from taxpayers.

Don't give 'em any.

A FEW FINAL THOUGHTS FOR TODAY:

Back again tomorrow.

TWEET OF THE DAY:

Where is that wall when you really need one?

IMPEACHMENTICIDE: turning a hollow victory in November into a humiliation in February.

FROM MY EMAIL:

A truth well spoken.

A SUGGESTION for Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico:

The state governments should institute a policy, initially by executive order, then endorsed and reinforced by legislative action, that anyone who crosses the border from Mexico must be hustled onto a bus that, when full, is driven directly to Washington, D.C., emptied, and returned to the border for more passengers.

I'd be a little more generous: the drop-off points could be all the major cities in every state that voted for Joe Biden in 2020. With Pseudodent Biden's new immigration policies, there should be an abundant supply for all.

IT'S HAPPENING: Ammo company tells Biden supporters to pound sand.

Q: Are you really discriminating against people who voted for Joe Biden?

A: Yes, we are, and for good reason. Joe Biden ran on a campaign built on the most radical gun control platform we've ever seen. If it was up to him and his administration, companies like ours wouldn't exist. If it was up to them, firearms and ammunition manufacturing would become a nationalized industry meant to serve only the military and police.

We are a company who believes in the Second Amendment as a first principle. The right to use basic human technology to prevent your life from being taken is something that transcends politics, but unfortunately, there is one particular political ideology who seems hell bent on disrupting this balance of power between the citizenry and the government.

If you voted for Biden, we suggest you become familiar with his campaign promises as it pertains to gun control so you never do that again, or, we suggest you sell your firearms to someone who is more interested in preserving the rights that make up the fabric of our nation.

I'd buy from them, but unfortunately they're also out of stock.

Update: I guess they made their point; their website no longer asks who you voted for.

NBC NEWS DARES TO ASK: How are the Dakotas doing so well against the coronavirus pandemic?

The author of the piece, Hot Air's Jazz Shaw, suggested that the reason is the relatively low population density of the two states. While that is certainly a factor, I suggest the real answer is that both Gov. Noem and Gov. Burgum saw the pandemic as a problem to be addressed while their blue-state counterparts in California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, etc. saw it as an opportunity to exploit.

A DOCTOR’S VIEW about the new mRNA vaccines. So, if you're older it's probably a good idea to get vaccinated; if you're younger, maybe not.

SMOKING GUN: Comey told Clapper FBI unable to 'sufficiently corroborate' Steele dossier — then signed FISA application.

BIDEN'S BASE, OBVIOUSLY: Who are the real one-percenters?

THE DIPLOMAD RETURNS with thoughts about the impeachment trial, technology, and 'experts'.

BUT, BUT ... it's nice fascism.

POWERLINE has more 'Loose Ends' posted. Be sure to check out Reason's 'Great Moments in Unintended Consequences' video.

TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT: "I told you so."

A HELICOPTER running on fossil fuel spraying a chemical made from fossil fuels onto a wind turbine made with fossil fuels during an ice storm is awesome.

From Twitter here.

COMING NEXT FROM THE WOKESTERS, A FLAT EARTH: The Year of No Science.

BUT, BUT ...THE MAFIA HAS MORE HONOR AND DIGNITY: Fisking the Washington Post editor who is sad he doesn't get to act like the Mafia anymore.

Language warning: Larry Correia is blunt, and sometimes profane. This is both. But that said, dead-on accurate. Read it.

Linked from Instapundit.

BIDEN’S FEDERAL VACCINE SITES unwelcome in many states.

But of course. Who needs 'vaccination pods' inconveniently located when there are literally thousands available and conveniently located -- we call them pharmacies. What are needed are the coronavirus vaccines.

Vaccination pods without vaccines are about as useful as tits on a boar hog; pharmacies, at least, are still useful even without vaccines.

WINSTON SMITH HAS A NEW JOB: Orwell's Cookbook.

THE WAGES OF TRUMP HATRED: Three vignettes. It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read them all.

IT'LL BE LATER: Sooner or later Pelosi must answer.

As in never.

STUCK ON STUPID and doubling down on dumb.

The predictable response by the neoliberal establishment to the January 6 riot — cancel more people, ban more people, erase more voices, unpublish more books, fire more undesirables — is akin to seeking relief for hypertension by taking pills that raise one’s blood pressure.

Read it all.

ONLY IF THE DELINQUENTS ARE JAILED: Delinquency might just be the new normal.

MINNEAPOLIS decides to re-fund the police.

The city says it is looking for officers with degrees in criminology, social work, psychology or counseling. It occurs to me that the average police officer knows more about social work, psychology and counseling than most degree holders in those fields, but that is a topic for another day.

More from Fox News: Minneapolis move to defund the police backfires as residents complain about increased crime and slow police response times.

ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE: The cons are alright.

If freedom was easy, everyone would be doing it, and those of us who have read history from before 1619, and/or have resided outside this country can clarify for you that freedom as the natural state of man is mos def not the case.

No one is going to give us anything but serfdom – you can have as much of that as you want, and gratis. But freedom has to be taken, one GOP state reforming its election laws at a time, one new conservative-friendly social media venue at a time, one action-packed and conservative-oriented series at a time.

My guess is that Donald Trump has played his (crucial) role and will move on after humiliating the Democrats again by scoffing at their latest puny impeachment. He will be a kingmaker and an important asset in bringing forward the new blood we need to re-energize us. Populism had a tough four years. We’ll take a breather for a bit, then charge. Look at our bench! Ric Grenell, Kristi Noem, Ron DeSantis, Rick Scott, and many more. Look at our expanding network of media outlets, not least of which is Townhall. Look at the new voices we’re seeing, often from the world of podcasting, and often of people who became at least conservative-curious because they saw the failures of the left (Tim Pool, Michael Malice, Adam Carolla, Joe Rogan).

And look at the doddering, failing enemy, presiding over the collapsing Potemkin village that is the failed Establishment.

Yes, the conservatives are all right.

IT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE 'SCIENCE': An emerging and tragic side effect of COVID has hit San Francisco.

POWERLINE: If the Republicans win bigly in 2022 [they will], should they impeach Biden and Harris?

I am undecided. The answer will be determined by the landscape as it exists two years hence, which at present, we cannot foresee. What we can say for certain is that the Democrats, with their two absurd impeachments of President Trump, have decisively changed how we all must view impeachment, if not forever, certainly for the foreseeable future.

I'm inclined to say 'yes' for the simple reason that the Democrats need to learn -- the hard way, obviously -- that their light saber can be used against them as well. They didn't learn with the filibuster (twice!), so the Republicans might as well add the threat of impeachment to their toolbox as well.

Sometimes it takes a 2x4 to the head....

MY SISTER AMONG THEM: Historic winter storm freezes Texas wind turbines; millions without power.

I'M SURE TEXAS IS HAPPY TO OBLIGE: People who moved to Texas from California finally feeling at home now that power is out.

THE WIND, IT KEEPS A-CHANGING: Anthony Fauci's now flip-flopped on every major coronavirus issue (and flip-flopped-flipped on two issues).

BLACKS ARE THE LAB RATS FOR LEFTIST EXPERIMENTS – and keeping Blacks incompetent improves their value as foot soldiers.

It's not just blacks; it's the entire 'black, indigenous, and people-of-color [BIPOC]' spectrum -- except Asians, of course.

I WOULD HAVE CANCELED THEIR ENTIRE SEASON: Bluefield College president suspends players for kneeling during National Anthem, forfeits game.

Do what you want on your own time, but as college President David Olive correctly pointed out, when you're wearing the uniform, you're representing the college, the students, and the alumni. You don't have the right to speak for them.

ONE MORE THING:

Linked from this VodkaPundit post.

ONLY 5? HE'S BEEN IN OFFICE OVER 3 WEEKS: Biden's top 5 blunders as president so far.

REPUBLICANS: Stop fighting on behalf of a former president. Start fighting on behalf of parents and kids.

Honestly, I think the fights are flip sides of the same coin. President Trump is, I'm quite sure, making serious plans to smash the Democrats deeply back into the muck they created over the last 4-5 years. Help him by concentrating our part of the fight on the deeply flawed and uber-woke education bureaucracy.

THEY'RE NOT KIND: The Victory Girls and PowerLine have thoughts on the Lincoln Project.

I welcome its demise.

IF THEY WANT A CIVIL WAR, then they shall have one.

One they'll lose.

PUT A FENCE AROUND THE WHOLE DAMNED DISTRICT ...

There's more word on how long the National Guard might stay in D.C. It's starting to get crazy.

Washington D.C. has always been crazy; it's just that now they've dropped the mask.

... just make sure the padlock is on the outside.

HINT: THE SUN DON'T SHINE THERE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tells Biden's CDC where to put their school opening restrictions.

BUT, BUT -- THE ENVIRONMENT! Frozen wind turbines hamper Texas power output.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ recalls barely making it out alive of Ewok siege on Endor base.

WHAT'S UP WITH FOX NEWS? Nothing. A few of their closet liberals took off their masks.

So what?

I'M REMINDED OF HEINLEIN'S THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS: Why we still need a militia — and how to build one.

REGULATE EVERYTHING! Biden’s worst Executive Order went almost entirely unnoticed.

WEEKEND LONG READ FROM AMERICAN GREATNESS: Why establishment conservatives still miss the point of Trump.

OK, so it's not the weekend any more. It's still worthy.

NULLIFICATION: "Just say Noem."

RANDOM THOUGHT: Since when has God been spelled "G-d'?

LIBERAL COLUMNIST accidentally admits diversity isn’t a strength.

The world wrought by COVID-19 inspired many liberals to flee the big city to Trump country. No point paying expensive city rents when you work from home and everything is closed down. So they moved out closer to the rubes and saw their folkways and customs up close. Maybe these wealthy liberals will lose some of their disdain and appreciate the friendliness of Trumpites. Maybe they will begin to question the virtues of diversity.

Or, they may end up like Virginia Heffernan and cling to their cherished beliefs. They don’t want to become a deplorable — they’d just rather live next to deplorables than closer to Section 8 housing.

Diversity is so much better when it's in other peoples' neighborhoods....

Added thought: What use is diversity if you can't use it to signal your virtue by hiring some deplorable BIPOC to do your dirty work?

THE MORAL HAZARD of 'hazard pay'.

POLL: Most people unimpressed with their 2-week free trial of the New World Order.

DOUBLE-MASK MANIA Would you rather suffer from coronavirus (99% survival rate) or asphyxiation (0% survival rate)?

Yeah, I know. Both the question and answer are really dumb. But unfortunately the HealthScare^TM professionals take this crap seriously.

I WROTE ON THE IDIOCY of the 'math is racist' meme yesterday.

John Hinderaker has more thoughts, the gist of which is encapsulated in this quote: "I suppose it would be possible to come up with a better plan to destroy black academic performance than by telling black students not to worry about getting the right answer to a math problem, but I can’t think what it would be."

COCKBURN: a short, handy guide to the new political language.

STAR PARKER: Opt out of Social Security for racial equity.

With all due respect to Ms. Parker -- and she's absolutely right about opting out -- opting out is not about racial equity; it's common sense for everyone regardless of race or income.

I've written extensively as far back as 13 years ago that Social Security is a bad deal with respect to retirement. Here are those arguments once again.

THE ANSWER SHOULD BE OBVIOUS. Who does a minimum wage hike really help — the poor, or those who push it out of self-interest?

YES, PLEASE: Introducing the OMAR act.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: The callous COVID cruelty of our ruling class.

The beatings will continue until morale improves....

One final point: When it comes to schools 'reopening' how many student athletes are going to lose 1 to 2 years of eligibility? And how will that affect their futures?

REP. LIZ CHENEY [R-WY]: Trump shouldn’t have a role as the leader of the party going forward. No, it's Liz Cheney who shouldn't have a leadership role in Trump's Republican party.

The American Thinker takes her on. Gist: Cheney is a " voter-hating, lie-promoting, phony conservative bounder".

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Our animal farm. It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Brave New World, and other dystopian novels are the instruction manuals for the progressive Left.

POWERLINE: It isn't easy being blue.

No civilization lasts forever, and a society can be, simply, too stupid to survive. The “Defund the police” movement, which has been embraced by many mainstream Democratic Party politicians, is one of several phenomena that cause me to wonder whether we are dangerously close to that point.

It's John Hinderaker, and he's right.

BECAUSE SMALL BUSINESSES ARE A THREAT TO ITS CONTROL: The Left attacks Dolly Parton for her Super Bowl ad promoting small business.

SARAH HOYT writes on corrupted markets. It's long, but highly readable and well worth the time.

Read it all.

MORE PROOF - if any is needed - that departments of education need to be disbanded nationwide: Oregon Department of 'Education' promotes program to take racism out of mathematics. Read it (it's mostly unintelligible) and weep.

YES, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION really cared about the disabled.

Never mind the Trump administration; I'm sure the new Biden administration will care more....

FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT, EH? Former CIA Officer Brian Dean Wright: "I'm leaving the Democrats, they're 'committed to bigotry and violence."

BUT BUT BUT ... Climate crisis!:

Here's the sequence: fear mongering --> fear --> crisis --> control.

Which is the desired end.

GOOD FOR HER: Josh Hawley's wife files criminal complaing against protester outside home last month.

Better yet, lawsuits. We should be filing lawsuits against every identifiable wokester progressive who slandered us, broke into our businesses, shut down our streets, or otherwise interfered with our daily lives.

Sue George Soros and his ilk into oblivion.

AMMO GRRRLL returns with a question: Are there levels of deplorability?

EXCELLENT QUESTION: Why is it that when archeologists find human remains they're either male or female and none of the other 700 genders?

Taken from PowerLine's Week in Pictures.

IT'S NOT A STIMULUS, IT'S CALLED 'WELFARE', PEOPLE. And if you work for a living you can't have any. Stimulus check calculator.

Here's what your life will be like if the Biden administration gets its way. The lyrics are here.

DEFUND THE BASTARDS!

I tend to agree, but the bastards I want to defund are every member/institution of the 'woke' establishment. Let's start with the federal Department of Education, every state Department of Education, the teachers unions, and finally every federal funding to every Department of You-Know-What Studies at every college and university nationwide.

And then go on from there....

REP. ADAM SCHIFF [D(UMB)-CA]: If Trump runs again, who would believe he wouldn’t try to cheat and incite violence 'again'?

If by 'he' Schiff means himself, I would agree....

Added thought: You know, "We're in charge, we don't need you stinkin' Deplorables" doesn't seem like a winning message for the 2022 mid-terms.

I MISSED PowerLine's Week in Pictures last week. Here's the lede:

The catchphrase for the Obama Administration was “leading from behind,” which was easy to confuse with “leading with our behinds” if you just looked at their policies. And already we have our catch phrase for the Biden Administration: “Circle back.” Perfect really, since the Biden Administration is circling back to Obama policies, and then doubling down on them in an effort to encircle American freedom. And then there’s the Lincoln Project, concerning whom you neither circle back nor turn your back.

Now for my favorite:

Go see the rest.

MIDTOWN MADNESS: Violent BLM protest in NYC leaves two NYPD cops injured, 11 arrested.

"They who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind." Enjoy. And don't look to me for help.

BREAKING FROM THE CDC: Just because you got the vaccine doesn't mean you should go outside or ever experience joy in any way.

BREAKING NEWS: Red tape replaces duct tape.

(It holds up everything.)

WE JUST DID:

Only 3 years, 11 months until we can plug it back in....

SUPER BOWL AND COVID SCOLDS: Why Liberalism is a mental disorder.

ON CORONAVIRUS VACCINATIONS, liberalism meets reality.

If you want [an unworkable] process, task a Liberal; if you want something done, task a Conservative.

WHERE BIN LADEN FAILED,

Democrats succeeded.

WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?

Mine, too.

IS PARLER BACK YET? Monday (yesterday) looks good for Parler return.

WHERE DID THOSE ELECTRONS COME FROM, ANYWAY? The deep secret of electric cars.

Now go watch the video.

NO. THE BAR ISN'T EVEN THAT HIGH: Mediocrity is now mandatory.

WHY I DIDN'T WATCH: Conservatives sit down for a relaxing evening of being insulted by every major corporation in America.

OUR CHILDREN WOULD BE LESS IGNORANT IF WE DID: Time to close public schools forever?

ANOTHER JOURNALIST SELF-IDENTIFIES: Newsweek reporter posts photo showing porn tab in his browser.

Remember Jeffrey Toobin?

SO DOD IS TO BECOME DOBRD? Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin calls for a 60-day (!?) stand down to discuss 'extremism' in our military. That sounds less like a stand down and more like a purge.

(For those of you incapable of puzzling out an acronym, DOBRD stands for Department of Banana Republic Defense. As a pronounciation guide, I'd suggest 'dodo bird' as America's military capability will soon be just as extinct.)

ONLY IF YOU'RE A REPUBLICAN: It's not easy being Greene. (In case you haven't noticed, in the 'news' Congresswoman Greene [R-GA] is just another acronym - MTG.)

Updated: CNN has thoughtfully provided a list of Republicans to not vote for in 2022. (Assuming there will be an election in 2022....)

IT'S RATHER STUNNING how with a simple inauguration "Build Back Better" became Biden's Banana Republic.

THE POWER OF CARBON 'WOKE' OFFSETS: Top environmental groups mostly silent about Kerry’s use of private plane.

RANDOM THOUGHT: In 2020 America elected a government of trolls and fairy dust.

CRY PILLOW: David Hogg (remember him?) to release line of extra-absorbent pillows for liberal tears.

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP throws the Screen Actors Guild on the trash heap.

Hollyweird deserves no less.

WUHAN FLU UPDATE - 5 FEB 2021:

No comments tonight, other than to note two things. One, the daily deaths, though high, appear to have stabilized. And two, hospitalizations (not shown here) have steadily been decreasing for almost a full month.

TRUMP MOVES OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE and into the Left's [empty] heads.

They need Trump. Now go read the whole thing.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Does climate change exist without environmentalists?

IT DOESN'T COUNT if there are no bureaucrats. Sorry about that.

AMMO GRRRLL IS BACK to describe how 'easy' it was to get a coronavirus vaccination.

I'll consider it when the bureaucrats call me to ask if I want a vaccination (not demand that I get one).

REMEMBER WHEN former Director of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli reported that Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked for crew-served machine guns as part of calling up the National Guard following the January 6th insurrection riot mostly peaceful protest?

Well, this is how crew-served machine guns work.

Remember, this is the woman who wanted the nuclear weapon codes withheld from then-President Trump and given to someone else in the chain of command (like herself?).

NO KIDDING: Democrat governors have devastated their states.

And our Democrat 'government' is going to give them another $1.9 trillion of our money to pay for their incompetence.

SOLVING THE 'WOKE' PROBLEM: Make the United States plural again.

That's what the Electoral College was supposed to do.

MOSTLY FALSE: the rating Snopes is giving stories that point out AOC's lie about nearly dying at the Capitol.

Time to add an 'excuse ring' in the Clown Circus....

SOMETIME THIS YEAR, we taxpayers will again receive another 'Economic Stimulus' payment. This is indeed a very exciting program, and I'll explain it by using a Q & A format:

Q. What is an 'Economic Stimulus' payment ?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q.Where will the government get this money ?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money ?
A. Only a smidgen of it.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment ?
A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.

And of course once you receive your stimulus check, you should spend it wisely. Here's some helpful advice:

If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China or Sri Lanka. If you purchase a computer, it will go to India, Taiwan or China. If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea. If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan. If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales, or going to ball games, or spending it on prostitutes, or beer, or tattoos. (These are the only American businesses still operating in the U.S.)

So -- Go to a ball game with the tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day!

No need to thank me, I'm just glad I could be of help.

From my email.

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO SCARED OF DONALD TRUMP when they just defeated him?

Well, for one thing, he's now been freed from the strictures of the Presidency. And he fights.

IT'S COME TO THIS: First steps for surviving what’s coming our way.

Overwrought? I'm not sure, but I am at least halfway prepared.

HOSEA 8:7 “FOR THEY HAVE SOWN THE WIND, AND THEY SHALL REAP THE WHIRLWIND.” When (not if) comes the pushback.

MY CHOICE IS STUPID VS SPINELESS: The big difference between Democrats and Republicans.

ALL HAIL THE ‘REALITY CZAR’! Another great proposal from the New York Times.

I'm sure they know reality....

SO IMPEACH HIM. Chuck Schumer incited violence by threatening SCOTUS justices on steps of Supreme Court only 11 months ago.

Oh, right -- he's a Democrat. Never mind.

REP. NANCY MACE [R-SC] ON ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ's account of the Capitol 'riot': "She doesn't deal in realty."

BEING STRAIGHT AND WHITE IS NOT A PLUS, but Adam Schiff is certainly incompetent enough to serve as a senator from California.

I'M SURE that Shepard Smith is much happier now that he's working for the Fake News media.

It's so much more ... virtuous.

DEAR SPEAKER PELOSI: I doubt you would recognize healing and justice if they both hit you square in the jaw and knocked out your dentures.

THIS PRESUMES THEY CAN FIND REALITY: The New York Times calls for Pseudodent Biden to appoint a reality czar.

IT'S TIME TO GET ON BOARD: The Babylon Bee's list of updated terms for journalists, now that Biden is President Pseudodent.

BREAKING: Acronyms are now tools of white supremacy.

YGBKM (You gotta be kidding me). Nope.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE DEMOCRAT CALLS FOR 'UNITY'?

Los Angeles County Sheriff informs District Attorney George Gascón he will send deputies to parole hearings.

San Francisco suing its own school district to force it to reopen.

Oh, right. It's only Republicans who are required to unite (with Democrats).

RED SKY IN MORNING, SAILOR TAKE WARNING: If that old adage is true, we're in for one helluva day.

This was the view from our dining room about 7:30 this morning.

And this was the view from the outside.

Neither picture captures the true colors. Pictures from the California wildfires pale in comparison to what we saw as dawn broke this morning.

'SCIENCE' KILLS: Lockdown states suffer more Covid deaths on average.

I'M [NOT] SORRY, WE CAN'T TAKE THE BOOT OFF YOUR NECK JUST YET: Biden healthcare chieftain Anthony Fauci worried that people will be reinfected by new strains of the coronavirus.

It'll be at least another 4 years before we can be sure.....

IT'S THOSE PESKY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AGAIN: “Hero pay” forces store closures in California.

LIAR, LIAR, PANTS AFIRE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasn't even in the Capitol building during her 'near death' experience.

But, but ... a Capitol Police Officer was mean to her.

NO. NOT ONLY NO, HELL, NO: Your job from now on is to stay silent and follow orders.

THE SPACE-X STARSHIP SAGA:

ALMOST: Starship 8 explodes on landing. But otherwise flawless; the 'belly flop' descent and reorientation burn were proven stable.

STARSHIP 9 FLIGHT DELAYED by FAA safety review.

SPACEX VIOLATED ITS LAUNCH LICENSE in Starship 8 test, triggering an FAA probe. But the FAA refused to say what the violation was.

STARSHIP 9 again explodes on landing after flawless flight.

It does appear that there is a systemic problem in the Starship design related to the reorientation burn that occurs just before landing. Starship 10 is already on the launch pad but I rather suspect that the problem is more serious than let on publicly and the next launch will not be soon.

RANDOM THOUGHT: a good sales point by Tucker Carlson.

FREE SPEECH LIVES ON FOX NEWS

I'd like to see Newsmax and One America News adopt it as a tagline as well:

FREE SPEECH LIVES!

It beats the hell out of the Washington Post's tagline: "Democracy Dies in Darkness". Although I must admit that their tagline is accurate....

BE NOT AFRAID: Reducing an occupied country never works.

I'm not afraid; I'm pissed. Now go read the whole thing and 'be not afraid' as well.

MARCO RUBIO: Put students first and open schools.

If teachers refuse, fire them. And if they're unionized, get rid of the union.

JUST MORE EMPTY CALORIES: Don’t fall for Hollywood’s newest virtue signal.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Bezos to spend newfound free time bulldozing small businesses in person.

I wondered what he was planning.

INSTAPUNDIT excerpts Biden and the Greengrocer. (I'd post it all except it's behind a paywall I can't breach.)

BUT ... BUT VERBIAGE IS ALL WE'VE GOT. Minnesota responds to the coronavirus pandemic with more talk.

IS ANYONE WITH EVEN HALF A BRAIN SURPRISED BY THIS REVELATION? Newly-released video footage features Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives admitting they have "too much power" while expressing eagerness to work with the Biden administration.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ claims to be a sexual assault survivor.

Frankly, I find it hard to believe any man would want to be that close to her....

STEVEN HAYWARD AT POWERLINE on (not) studying history.

THE REAL STORY OF DR. ANTHONY FAUCI. It's a 20-minute interview, but well worth the time spent.

Clearly overwrought, but entirely consistent with my own observations of Dr's. Redfield, Birx, and Fauci since the pandemic began.

FRANKLY, THIS SOUNDS GOOD TO ME: California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff is quietly lobbying Gov. Gavin Newsom for state's AG vacancy.

It would get Shiftless out of Congress and at the same time hasten the demise of California.

SO CANCEL THE SUPER BOWL. Fauci: Don't let Super Bowl parties become super spreaders.

I won't be watching.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION is doing everything in their power to advance their agenda make Joe Manchin a Republican Senator from West Virginia.

I expect Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [DR-AZ] may be next.

WELL, TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY:

“The Democrats’ case against Marjorie Greene largely consists of the claim that she is a conspiracy theorist. Fine. If we are going to expel representatives who promoted conspiracy theories, let’s start with the Democrats who propounded the insane conspiracy theory that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election. Once all of those Democrats have been expelled or deprived of their committee assignments -– that covers pretty much all Democrats, including the House leadership -– we can take up the question of whether Marjorie Greene promoted unfounded conspiracy theories.”

Taken from this Instapundit post.

The Democrats have a fair number of nutcases (Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, to name a few) roaming the floor of the House of Representatives; in the name of fairness, shouldn't the Republicans be allowed to have one?

OUR COVID KAREN CLOWN PRESIDENT PSEUDODENT: With Biden, there is little hope of coherence, competence, or success in dealing with the coronavirus.

NANCY PELOSI'S CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF: Capitol needs ‘permanent’ wall to protect Congress.

I'd almost be okay with that if the 'wall' were built with the intent to keep the inmates inside (sans social media) for the duration of their terms.

UNFORTUNATELY (FOR 70 MILLION OF US) TRUE: We put the USA in the hands of dangerous imbeciles.

For the other 80 million, it's your (death)bed -- sleep well.

'PSEUDODENT' JOE BIDEN: The gun industry employee of the month year.

Maybe for 4 years running ... if we're lucky.

THE DISEASE is the human equivalent of rabies. Unfortunately the cure is currently unacceptable.

CAN HE BE INDICTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER? The karma cometh.

It should be for multiple counts of murder, but I'll take what I can get.

DR. FAUCI SPINS HIS HANDY 'WHEEL OF SCIENCE' to see what he should recommend today.

Yes, it's the Babylon Bee but based on past performance I'd bet that Fauci has already been spinning it.

THAT'S ALL SHE HAS TO OFFER: Joy Behar offers stupidity to fix schools.

Following up on her idea, let's just lock down the entire country for a full year, then start it up again and see what happens.

Starvation isn't pretty....

CHICAGO MOTHER: Public school shutdowns 'killing our kids mentally'.

Not just our kids -- shutdowns generally are killing us as well.

UPDATE: The Biden Approval Index sure doesn't look like the mandate Democrats think they have.

And Biden's still below zero today....

[PREVIOUS POST] NOT LOOKIN' TOO GOOD, JOE: Here are the Rasmussen Presidential Approval indices for the first 60 days of the Obama (blue), Trump (red), and Biden (green) administrations. The Approval Index is the difference between 'Strongly Approve' and 'Strongly Disapprove'.

Usually the highest approval index comes in the first weeks of a new administration.

Biden has yet to reach zero.

OUR GOVERNING ELITES are destroying the nation they're supposed to run.

Those who insist on governing us have spent decades shaking and shaking the world's largest can of carbonated Coke, and now they expect it somehow not to explode all around them.

Expect one helluva mess when it explodes. Prepare.

THE ‘BATTERY FAIRY’ AND OTHER DELUSIONS: The electric vehicle conversion emperor has no clothes on and the battery fairy just went on strike.

FUNNY, but not really.

NEW YORK POST: Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been down for two straight weeks.

Sounds good, right? But then read on for the gloom-and-doom spin needed to keep the pandemic controls in place.

A TSUNAMI OF HATE: "Our present political crisis is not the result of polarized views on policy, but rather is caused by the Left’s outpouring of vicious hate and determination to crush all opposition."

Read it all.

SURVEY: Mixing politics, business can hurt companies.

Agreed, but in my case it's rather simple. I won't do business with any company that uses my money to virtue signal, promote political or other causes unrelated to their business, or otherwise instruct me on how to live my life. I won't work for one, either.

It's my money you're spending and there are usually plenty of other companies to do business with that won't waste it on things I'm not willing to pay for.

FAUCI: If one mask won't work, two masks won't work even better.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Keep in mind as the Biden administration continues its 'boot on the neck' thuggery.

Linked from this Insanity Wrap post.

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN: Costly Congress members to be replaced with automated teller machines.

All Congress does is bleat and spend money. The ATM is more efficient in spending money, and to its credit, doesn't bleat.

SHAKESPEARE WRITES ON ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ:

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Now go read the whole post.

THE DIPLOMAD RETURNS: Chaos in the time of Biden.

And he mirrors my thoughts exactly.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR SUCCESS EMBARRASSES THE KAKISTOCRACY: First the FAA starts messing with them, now the DOJ.

ALREADY DONE: CNN’s Humpty Stelter keeps pushing to eliminate Fox News from cable.

Most cable channels have a means for the user to delete any channels they desire from ever appearing on the on-screen menu. I used it.

Only in my case it was Humpty Stelter's channel I eliminated.....

WHAT'S NEXT? Now food allergies are racist.

VERMONT: If you're not 'woke' you must be racist. Or worse.

JUST ANOTHER WEEK of campus insanity.

I have a granddaughter who just started college. I can only hope she survives this with her mind intact.

DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYIN' EYES: Claims that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube censor conservatives are 'not supported by the facts'.

Bull excrement.

AND YOU THOUGHT THE 'MOSTLY PEACEFUL' PROTESTS WERE OVER? Activists armed with hatchets, COVID relief demands arrested after 'taking over' Washington state hotel.

OH, COME NOW: "[T]he press is even worse at its job than ['Pseudodent'] Biden is at his."

ACCORDING TO HOYT: The poison pill of a $15 minimum wage.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Keep that in mind....

NOT LOOKIN' TOO GOOD, JOE: Here are the Rasmussen Presidential Approval indices for the first 60 days of the Obama (blue), Trump (red), and Biden (green) administrations. The Approval Index is the difference between 'Strongly Approve' and 'Strongly Disapprove'.

Usually the highest approval index comes in the first weeks of a new administration.

Biden has yet to reach zero.

EVIDENCE? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' EVIDENCE! We're the mainstream Democrat media.

THE LESSON OF THE PAST YEAR is that politics is apparently more important than any loyalty to professionalism that anyone in our professions might possess.

The post is about COVID and hydroxychloroquine but the lesson (still unlearned) is far more general and important to our civic well-being.

THE DEMOCRATS ONLY REAL OBJECTION TO McCARTHYISM was that McCarthy was on the other side.

Read it all and follow the links.

IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S IN TROUBLE: Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer has raised more than $1 million to oust California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving idiot....

WHEN THEY'RE ALL YOU HAVE: Double standards abound at The New York Times.

YOU, TOO, CAN BE JOHN GALT: Dare to be petty.

They're weakest in the wallet....

AFTER PENTAGON DECLARES CLIMATE CHANGE A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT, our Space Force announces a preemptive attack on the sun.

Watch for the Space-X starships to be nationalized for the attack....

WHY ARE PROGRESSIVES SO ILLIBERAL? It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION: "No one should have to choose between life and livlihood."

I am tired of hearing about how heroic teachers are. At this point, I would rather have my children taught by clerks at Total Wine stores than by members of teachers’ unions. At least the Total Wine clerks will show up.

The children would get a better education too....

UPDATE: Chicago mayor orders teachers to return to classroom as tug-of-war with union intensifies. But will she fire them? Don't bet on it.

YOU AIN'T SHIT IF YOU DON'T VOTE WITH US: Vice 'Pseudodent' Kamala Harris extends the middle finger to Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV].

What's the over/under on him becoming a Republican? It would take a bit of spine on his part, but I suspect he may be thinking about growing one....

MINNEAPOLIS HAS A NEW PROPOSAL to address their 'Defund the Police' goal.

Rather than rely on a one-size-fits-all system that relies on police to simply respond to crime after it happens, this improved approach would more proactively and holistically address the causes of crime before harm is done -- and ensure police response is complementary to the City’s proven prevention and intervention approaches....

Emphasis mine. I especially like the 'proactive' part (meaning keep the boot on the neck of the proles) ....