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Why Did the Media Suddenly Decide the Hunter Biden Scandal Is Newsworthy?

Posted on | December 10, 2020 | Comments Off on Why Did the Media Suddenly Decide the Hunter Biden Scandal Is Newsworthy?

Blazing Cat Fur:

On Wednesday, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, admitted learning “that the US attorney’s office in Delaware had advised” his legal counsel that they were investigating his tax affairs.
Yet, this was known long before last month’s presidential election, said Fox News host Tucker Carlson, opening the latest edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, and adding his programme had already covered a criminal probe launched into Hunter’s business dealings with China in the run-up to the vote. The latter can’t be said about other media outlets, which have maintained a wall of silence on the matter so as not to hurt Joe Biden’s chances of winning the election, Carlson went on.

Joel Pollak at Breitbart:

The revelation Wednesday that Hunter Biden is under investigation for tax violations relating to his foreign business affairs confirms that the media/Big Tech censorship of stories during the election about his laptop and emails was entirely without merit.
When the New York Post reported on October 14 that Hunter Biden had introduced an official from the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma to then-Vice President Joe Biden — contrary to the latter’s denials that he had ever spoken to his family about their businesses — Facebook announced that it would be suppressing the story, and Twitter prevented people from sharing it. Those who dared were suspended; the Post itself was locked out of its account for more than two weeks.
When the Post followed up with reporting that Hunter Biden had launched a joint venture in 2017 with the CEFC China Energy Co., and that he had reserved 10% for the “big guy,” the media deliberately ignored the story. Never mind that the intended CEO of the new company, Tony Bobulinski, corroborated the story. Never mind that Breitbart News reported independent emails that showed Hunter Biden’s associates bringing Chinese bigwigs to the Obama-Biden White House.
In the final presidential debate, Joe Biden called the story a “Russian plant,” citing a letter by 50 former intelligence officials, including some who spread the “Russia collusion” hoax. Biden lied to to America, as Big Tech and the media applauded.
Now, after the election, we are learning that the laptop is central to the case against Hunter Biden. CNN — which spiked the story in October — reported Wednesday that the tax inquiry included questions about a gift from Ye Jianming, CEFC’s founder. Fox News reported that the laptop, seized by the FBI last year, was central to the investigation against Hunter Biden.
Instead of investigating the story, Silicon Valley and the mainstream media censored it.

Well, why was this story — which was suppressed by social media as “Russian disinformation” when the New York Post published it two months ago — suddenly deemed newsworthy on Wednesday?

Two words: “Safe harbor.”

Tuesday was the deadline for states to certify their election results. Once that deadline had passed, the media deemed it acceptable to report the news it had previously suppressed. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.




 

Category: Joe Biden, Media Bias, Scandal

Help the Good Canadian

Posted on | December 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

Years ago, I dubbed Kathy Shaidle the Only Good Canadian.

My general hatred of Canada is so well-known I’m surprised the SPLC hasn’t taken notice, but that’s the thing about hating Canadians — it’s so commonplace that even liberals don’t object to it. Anyway, some of my readers objected that Kathy was not the only good Canadian, and I’m willing to stipulate that there may be a few others like her, but none of them could possibly be as good as she is. Her blog Five Feet of Fury was a regular read back in the day, and she’s been a columnist at various outlets — including a stint at PJMedia, another at Taki’s, and most recently doing film reviews at Mark Steyn’s place. Her most famous aphorism is, “You’re not smart enough to tell me how to live.”

Well, Kathy developed ovarian cancer, which is now in a very advanced stage, and her husband who blogs at Blazing Cat Fur has got an online fundraiser to which everyone should contribute.

Category: Kathy Shaidle

In The Mailbox: 12.09.20

Posted on | December 10, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.09.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Just warming up a joke for tomorrow…

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1196
357 Magnum: Frank Castle Comes To Chicago?
EBL: The Battered Bastards Of Baseball
Twitchy: MI State Rep Cynthia Johnson Clarifies It Was “Soldiers In Christ” She Wanted To Make Trump Pay
Louder With Crowder: James O’Keefe Says Project Veritas Is Looking Into Occasional Cortex
Vox Popoli: Yellow Fever Syndrome, also, A Canadian Take On The Texas Lawsuit
Stoic Observations: Guns Are Like Algebra
Jewish Voice: Prospect Of Biden Presidency Already Making The World More Dangerous For Jews (h/t Red Pilled Jew)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: YouTube Announces Ban On Videos Alleging “Widespread Fraud Or Errors” In 2020 Election, also, 18 States File Briefs At SCOTUS Supporting Texas’ Suit Challenging 2020 Election
American Power: If There Were War Right Now, also, The Peasants Are Revolting – Opposition To Lockdown Diktats Growing
American Thinker: How To Steal An Entire Country, also, Fake News In Hollywood
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Pope Francis Tells A Child Why Socialism In Cuba Is So, So Nice
BattleSwarm: Rand Paul – No Evidence That Lockdowns Affect Coronavirus Trajectory, also, Paxton’s Supreme Court Gambit
Cafe Hayek: Walter Williams’ Final Column, also, More Remembrances of The Late, Great Walter Williams
CDR Salamander: Biden’s Preliminary NATSEC Direction & Guidance
Da Tech Guy: One-Liners Under Other Peoples’ Fedoras, also, “Freedom Of The Press Is Guaranteed Only To Those Who Own One”
Don Surber: Go Away, Never Trumper
First Street Journal: Our Freedom Of Religion Was The First Freedom, also, Ironic – PA Gov Tom Wolf Contracts Coronavirus
The Geller Report: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Refuses To Explain Affair With Red Chinese Spy, also, SCOTUS – Tennessee Seeks To Join Texas Lawsuit
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Who’s On First
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan Is Having The Last Laugh, also, Big Tech Is Crushing Conservative Comedy
JustOneMinute: Stone Cold Lloyd Austin, also, “The Big One” – A Disgrace From Texas
The Lid: 48 State Attorneys General Sue To Break Up Facebook – FTC Files Separate Suit
Legal Insurrection: A Legal Civil War – 17 States Join Texas Lawsuit, also, Hunter Biden Under IRS Investigation
Michelle Malkin: COVIDGATE Part 3 – Attack On Informed Consent
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Harlot’s Way 3 – Magdala
Power Line: The China Factor, also, California’s Energy Fantasies
Shark Tank: State Rep Sabatini Takes Aim At Red-Light Cameras
Shot In The Dark: #Unity
The Political Hat: Struggle Sessions In San Diego Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Ralph Lauren’s Latest “Creations” Seem Familiar, also, Robert “Mr. Bob” Walker – Official Records
Victory Girls: YouTube Will Ban ANY Video Criticizing Biden Win
Volokh Conspiracy: How SCOTUS Can Quickly Dispose Of The Texas Lawsuit
Weasel Zippers: Sen. Durbin Admits Democrats Turned Down COVID Relief Bill “Because An Election Was Coming”, also, Fox News Cancels Judge Jeannine
The Federalist: Why Does Corporate Media Amplify John Brennan’s Neverending Lies? also, Schiff Won’t Disclose Why He Withheld Details On Swalwell’s Relationship With Red Chinese Spy From Intel Committee
Mark Steyn: China’s Friends In High Places

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How to Maintain Your Sanity

Posted on | December 9, 2020 | 4 Comments

Some readers have noticed that I have barely commented at all about the legal wrangling over the presidential election. My post on Monday (“The Margin of Theft”) laid out a few points of circumstantial evidence pointing toward fraud in “battleground” states. If you believe Democrats stole the election, I’m totally with you, but the real question is what can be done about it and, because I’m not a lawyer, I am not qualified to estimate the likelihood of success of efforts to challenge the results.

Nothing I might say here is going to influence the court decisions. We have on our side commentators who are eminent attorneys and law professors, fully qualified to speak on the subject, so that there is no need for me to contribute my two cents’ worth of uninformed opinion. You can go on Twitter and find plenty of ignorant opinions on the election. Personally, I’m avoiding the hair-on-fire screeching hysteria, which strikes me as irresponsible and unnecessary, and which also possibly might be harmful to my mental health. Not joking here.

Self-awareness is crucial to good mental health. You must be aware of your own vulnerabilities, the tendencies that might lead you down the escalator to the abyss of stark raving lunacy. And I have assessed that this post-election imbroglio is tailor-made to make me crazy.

First of all, it’s completely beyond my control. Nothing that I say or do is likely to have any impact on the final outcome.

One of the foundations of good mental health is a sense of agency, the belief that you control your own destiny, and that your individual actions make a difference. This election controversy inspires me with a sense of helplessness which is not merely an emotion, but is unfortunately an objective assessment of the situation. While I have a remarkably large and loyal blog readership, and while my audience is potentially much larger through my columns at The American Spectator, what could I possibly write about this subject that would not duplicate what others have written? It has never been my habit to engage in “pack journalism,” part of the media herd swarming around The Big Story. No, my preference has always been to find some story others have overlooked — a diamond in the dungpile — and turn that into The Big Story.

So there was a feeling that the post-election controversy offered no work opportunities, as it were, and this was connected to my sense that the whole thing was beyond my control — no agency, and therefore a source of needless anxiety. That kind of stuff can make you crazy.

Consider what happened to Melissa Rein Lively, the Phoenix businesswoman who fell into the rabbit hole of QAnon conspiracy theories. By the time people started expressing concern about her obsession, Lively was past the point of no return. The intricate web of shadowy QAnon allegations was perfectly designed to trigger Lively’s personal vulnerabilities as a trauma survivor, and once she started digging into it, she rapidly became fixated on the subject.

What drives people crazy? Paranoia is rooted in an urgent sense of threat, a belief that people are getting away with sinister activity, so that when you call attention to this threat, and other people seem to dismiss your concern, you feel isolated, alienated, marginalized. In the case of cult-like conspiracy theory, the True Believer builds a sort of echo chamber around themselves. They tune out any voice that does not share their sense of urgency about the threat — whether that threat is Satanic pedophiles (as in QAnon) or foreign intelligence operatives (as in the “RussiaGate” conspiracy theory) — and feed themselves on a steady diet of information that supports their cult worldview. What drives such people crazy is the belief that they are entirely sane, that the sinister forces are real, and that anyone who doesn’t share their concern is either (a) a deluded “sheep” too stupid to understand the threat, or (b) an active agent of the sinister conspiracy. So you must either buy into their conspiracy theory completely, or else you’re the Enemy.

Trust me, I’ve seen how this works. Remember Jared Loughner, the Arizona wackjob who shot Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011? He had become obsessed with a conspiracy-theory “documentary” called Zeitgeist. Part of that cult video’s appeal was its “9/11 Truther” angle, but it also wove this into a larger tapestry of conspiracy theories, including a critique of the global financial system, especially the Federal Reserve. No, there are legitimate critiques of the Federal Reserve, just as there are legitimate critiques of the international banking industry, but if you become obsessed with this subject, it can drive your crazy. Let us stipulate that Loughner was always a few french fries short of a Happy Meal; still, the impact of the Zeitgeist video on his vulnerable psyche was not trivial.

Loughner was a not-very-bright community college student, who had no effective means of acting on the information he got from Zeitgeist which, like all conspiracy theories, included a certain necessary amount of verifiable facts mixed into its far-fetched nonsense claims. There is no more reliable formula for mass paranoia than making ordinary people believe they are being victimized by forces beyond their control. That’s what “Black Lives Matter” is doing, for example, by telling black people they are helpless victims of “institutional racism.” Might as well blame it on the Rothschilds, really — it’s those cunning Jews! — in terms of any problem that people can actually do something about.

This same problem exists in relation to the election controversy. However much we might believe that Democrats stole the election, and however much actual evidence we can produce in support of this belief, what are the chances that the Supreme Court will agree with us? Even if I think it’s an ironclad certainty that Democrats cheated (they’re Democrats, and cheating is their historic modus operandi), I am not one of the lawyers working on the cases being sent to the Supreme Court, nor have those lawyers sought my advice. This means that it is beyond my control, and there’s no point getting myself all worked up about it.

A massive show of force — turning out Saturday for the #StopTheSteal rally in D.C. — is perhaps our only way of influencing the outcome. It is important to demonstrate that there is a large number of Americans angry about what’s happening, to petition for a redress of grievances, a right guaranteed under the First Amendment. What worries me, however, is that some people are teetering on the brink of craziness.

If indeed we are victims of a massive conspiracy to steal the White House, after all, what redress do we have? If our electoral system has been subverted, and if Republican Party leadership is complicit in this fraud, what can be done? For some weeks now, I have been struggling against the feeling that we have traveled round-trip, and are headed toward a familiar historical destination in Charleston Harbor.

Surely I am not the only one who perceives the danger here. And I’ve talked to others who share my sense of foreboding. Intelligent, well-informed people who aren’t the least bit crazy are very concerned about the prospect of violence that could explode into civil war. When I shared with one such person my fear that someone on “our” side might commit some kind of terrorist-type attack, this person replied flatly: “It’s not a question of when, it’s a question of how many.” That is to say, he was 100% certain that some kind of “right-wing” violence will happen, and the only question is how numerous such acts will be. In other words, some people on “our” side have already gone past the point of no return on their road to violent craziness, and that sizzling sound you hear is of a fuse burning inexorably toward an explosion.

Everyone who has seriously studied history must share my sense of dread about the near future. We may be only days or weeks away from an inevitable catastrophe which we are powerless to avert.

Here’s a taste of what’s driving this madness:

“Syndicated radio talk show host John Fredericks . . . reported that a GOP member of Georgia’s legislator told him that veteran members of the Republican party are afraid they are going to be harassed and attacked by the left. The older Republicans are worried BLM and Antifa are going to burn down Atlanta and they will be blamed for it.”

Yeah, you can’t have a civil war without burning down Atlanta.

If it’s truly beyond our control, then all we can do is try to keep from letting it drive us crazy. Do what I have done — turn off the TV and tune out any voice that might inspire you toward either homicidal rage or suicidal despair. However bad the situation gets, and it may get very bad, don’t let irrational fear consume your mind. Focus your attention on something that cheers you up, or at least will keep you occupied doing something pleasant and constructive. I should mention that I have an issue with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) so that I always get slightly depressed this time of year. The only thing that cheers me up is when you remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!




 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Election

No More Mr. Nice Kruiser

Posted on | December 9, 2020 | Comments Off on No More Mr. Nice Kruiser

Stephen Kruiser is normally a nice guy, a comedian, a joker. Humor is his natural métier, but yesterday he announced a new policy:

“I didn’t used to be this mean-spirited about politics but after what they did for the last four years I find myself a bit bereft of any charitable feelings for the Democrats.”

That got him a shout-out from Rush Limbaugh, referring to the massive Trump rally in Georgia over the weekend:

[Democrats] thought all this was gonna go away. They believed that the Republicans would give up, that they would recognize that they’ve been defeated and just go away. And it isn’t happening. . . .
The whole point of making America great again or putting America first, it is as important now as it was in 2016. And just because there’s been a potential electoral setback, it doesn’t mean that they’re gonna disband, and they’re not gonna become the Tea Party where you can’t see ’em anymore. They’re gonna be active. They’re gonna continue to be a thorn in the Democrat Party’s side. And that’s going to be fun.

This is not the kind of “fun” we might have wished for, but you have to take what you get and be grateful. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

Remember: There will be a giant #StopTheSteal rally Saturday in D.C.




 

Category: Election, Rush Limbaugh

In The Mailbox: 12.08.20

Posted on | December 9, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.08.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The helpful fox spirit Senko-san plays Firefox mascot

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Memphis Tennessee Hits The 300 Number
EBL: General Chuck Yeager, RIP
Twitchy: Rep. Kevin McCarthy Trolls Democrats Who Won’t Be Coming Back Next Year
Louder With Crowder: Texas Files Suit Against Four States Over Their Mishandling Of 2020 Election
Vox Popoli: Flynn Team Collects MI Dominion Data, also, The Election Is Moot!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Foreword – The Work Remains, also, A Populism Deferred
American Greatness: Georgia Gov. Kemp Awarded $107 Million Contract To Dominion Two Weeks After Meeting With Red Chinese Consul, also, Will This Texas Lawsuit Overturn The 2020 Election?
American Power: After 2020 Losses, Some Democrats Question Party’s Healthcare Focus
American Thinker: Where’s The Kraken? Where’s The Storm? also, How Google Falls
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Blue State Exodus News
Babalu Blog: Goya Names Occasional Cortex Employee Of The Month After Her Call For Boycott Actually Increased Sales
BattleSwarm: California’s Coronavirus Policy In One Video
Cafe Hayek: Drop The “It’s Guided By The Science” Pretext
CDR Salamander: Deadheading To Buy Time With Iran
Da Tech Guy: Red China’s Continuing Maritime March & The Coming Hard Reckoning, also, Report From Louisiana – Treading Water
Don Surber: Proof Red China Owns Congress
First Street Journal: Things Aren’t Just Bad In Philadelphia, They’re Getting Worse, also, A “Social Justice” Prosecutor In LA – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Geller Report: Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina & South Dakota Join Texas’ Election Fraud Lawsuit Before SCOTUS, also, Red Chinese Sex Spy Targeted Democrat Politicians, Including House Intel Committee Member Eric Swalwell
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Note What He Isn’t Saying
Hollywood In Toto: Critic Confessions – Missing Miller & His Signature “Option”, also, The Bitter Truths Behind Trigger Warnings
JustOneMinute: Nuke The President!
The Lid: Pelosi Creates Tiny 101-Day Working Schedule For 2021 Congress
Legal Insurrection: Red Chinese Professor – “We Have People At The Top Of America’s Core Center Of Power”, also, Judge Sullivan’s Petty Parting Shot At General Flynn
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rowan’s Way 3 – First Course
Power Line: A Christmas Diversity Grinch, also, MMT Gets A WWF-Style Smackdown
Shark Tank: Sen. Scott Warns Congress Off Blue-State Bailout
Shot In The Dark: House (Of Representatives) Poor
The Political Hat: LA DA To His People – Welcome To The Jungle, also, Missouri Vs. The Gaia Cult
This Ain’t Hell: General Chuck Yeager, 97, Departs The Fix, also, A Whopping 14 Officers At Fort Hood Get Fired
Victory Girls: Heidi Heitkamp & Cindy McCain Want Us To Kiss, Make Up, & Unite With Biden
Volokh Conspiracy: Statistical Nonsense At SCOTUS
Weasel Zippers: Tucker Carlson Delivers A Monologue So Good, POTUS Shares It On Twitter, also, Bernie Sanders Admits Democrats Blocked COVID Relief For Months
The Federalist: Time For Mass Civil Disobedience Against Lawless Lockdown Orders, also, FBI – Red Chinese Spy Penetrated American Politicians Including Russia Hoaxer Swalwell
Mark Steyn: Seven Days In Shenanistan, also, A Bureaucracy For Life

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Number Of States Joining Texas Suit Against PaGaWiMi Hits 7

Posted on | December 8, 2020 | Comments Off on Number Of States Joining Texas Suit Against PaGaWiMi Hits 7

by Smitty


Category: Uncategorized

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn Will Headline Saturday’s D.C. #StopTheSteal Rally

Posted on | December 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

Just got this press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jericho March and Stop the Steal will welcome a special guest speaker — Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn — and members of his family on December 12th at the “Let the Church ROAR!” Prayer Rally on the National Mall, in partnership with the “One Nation Under God” grassroots rally. Eric Metaxas, author, speaker, and conservative radio host will emcee the ROAR! Prayer Rally on the National Mall. The partnership among planners of the Jericho March, Stop the Steal, and the “One Nation Under God” Grassroots Rally shows the groups’ commitment to a unified effort to gather as patriots and people of faith in prayer for election integrity, transparency, and reform.
The Jericho March and Stop the Steal is supported by the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. Jericho Marches will take place from 9:30-10:45 AM simultaneously around the U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court, and Department of Justice as they march around the buildings seven times and pray for the walls of corruption and election fraud to fall down, just as Joshua and the Israelites walked around the walls of corrupt Jericho. Following the simultaneous marches around these buildings, patriots and people of faith will converge on the National Mall for the “Let the Church ROAR!” Prayer Rally from 11 AM-4 PM where they will hear from national faith leaders, political leaders, and musicians.
To register, go to: www.jerichomarch.org/national-march.
Prior to his speech at the National Mall Prayer Rally, Lt. Gen. Flynn will first speak at 10 AM at the Supreme Court, an event hosted by Alice Butler-Short of Virginia Women for Trump, Jo Reitkopp of California Women for Trump, and other affiliates with the “One Nation Under God” grassroots rally. This will be Lt. Gen. Flynn’s first public appearance since he has been pardoned by President Trump and the case dismissed.

Click here for the full list of speakers.




 

Category: Election
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