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The Youngkin team got an emergency directive sent out telling Democrat poll officers that masks were not mandatory -- as if they already didn't know that.

But how many thousands of Republican voters did they already turn away? Voters unlikely to come back on rainy, cold day?

Terry McAuliffe, who lost about, what, a 12 or 15 point lead due to his claim that teachers should have sole authority over what children learn, had a curious speaker for his final argument in his last speech to voters: Randy Weingartner, the woman responsible for shutting down the country's schools (in blue states, at least) for two years.

Similarly, McAuliffe sent out his surrogate -- repulsive partisan Larry Sabato, who used to pretend to be an objective academic -- to claim there's no such thing as critical race theory being taught in schools, and that the only thing that parents are responding to is "race," because they're white supremacists engaging in "white backlash, white resistance."

This is an actual McAuliffe surrogate -- he campaigned for McAuliffe in August.

And this is the message he's taking to market.

As you probably know, Terry McAuliffe's entire campaign consisted of two claims: that Glenn Youngkin was an "anti-vaxer" for opposing mandates, and that he was a Trump clone.

In fact, in his closing speech of the campaign, McAuliffe straight-up, no-wiggle-room lied and claimed that Youngkin's own closing rally was being held jointly with Trump. There isn't even some kind of "from a certain kind of view" argument for this one. Even the leftwing media admits it was an unmitigated lie.

But now the McAuliffe campaign thinks they've found the smoking gun of a secret communication between Youngkin and a computer in Trump Tower -- they can prove that before Youngkin took the stage, his stage managers played the Laura Brannigan song Gloria.

You know who else has played Gloria? That's right -- no, not Adolph Hitler, though you know he'd have loved to. Trump played it.

Q.E.D. -- that's Latin for Veni Vedi Vinci.

Greg Sargeant, one of the many indistinguished bloggers hired by the monolithically leftwing propaganda media because they hire only leftwingers, thinks he can explain a possible McAuliffe loss: See, it's because there's an "lopsided communications imbalance" between the two parties in their abilities to use the media to get their messages out.

He means Republicans enjoy an advantage on this front. You know, because Republicans control all the media.

Yahoo says they're all done accommodating themselves to the authoritarian, murderous Chinese Communist government-- but not after raking in millions and accommodating themselves for more than a decade, Mark Hemingway points out.

Mark Hemingway @Heminator

In September 2005, Hunan journalist Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sending the Chinese Propaganda Department’s directives to a website that advocates democracy.

Specifically, it was a memo warning journalists not to publish anything relating to Chinese dissidents marking the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
Mark Hemingway

It emerged that Shi Tao had sent the directives using a Yahoo email address, and that Yahoo ceded to the demands of Chinese police and revealed his identity.

When Yahoo's CEO was asked about his company's complicity, he responded, "We respect the customs of the countries where we do business." Indeed, Yahoo's did a lot of business in China.

That's just one example.

We need Truth and Reconciliation Boards for companies and individuals doing business with the murderous tyrants of China.

Biden again blames Russia and OPEC for rising gas prices -- for not pumping more oil -- and refuses to concede that his own restrictions on US drilling has anything to do with the reduction of supply.

Yesterday, Joe Manchin became Mad Manchin and essentially declared he was done negotiating with AOC and that he would not support anything close to what was being negotiated.

And certainly not anytime soon. Not without going through it line by line. (The Democrat leadership seems to want people to just vote for the shell of a bill, the rough guestimates of what the bill will ultimately say.)

"To be clear, I will not support the reconciliation legislation without knowing how the bill would impact our debt and our economy and our country," Manchin said during a Monday press conference. "We won't know that until we work through the text."

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"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward," Manchin said. "But I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country."

Actual principled conservative -- it's so weird to come across one -- Dan Bongino is out of work for the second week in protest of his syndicator Cumulus Radio's vaccine mandate. Bongino himself is already fully vaxed and is protesting in solidarity for those objecting to the vaccination.

posted by Ace at 04:55 PM

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