The Morning Report - 2/9/22

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and I just realized something that, frankly, I'm embarrassed I didn't see right away. Before I get ahead of myself, the set up is that it looks like Cuomo hench-hag Kathy Hochul and bloated Illinois blivit J.B. Sitzpritzker, along with Oregon's Kate Brown-shirt as well as Pelosi relative Newsom are the latest blue state tyrants to relent (to one degree or another) on mask mandates. It's obviously a huge political albatross among the ever-expanding lei-wreath of dead and rotting sea bird carcasses around the necks of the Democrat Party as midterm election season starts heating up.

The memo has gone out: It is time for every cultural institution, politician, and corporate media outlet to pivot on [Chinese] COVID-19. They must reverse their Covidstan policies, advocate a return to normal, and make excuses for the missteps of the health bureaucracy. The speed and shamelessness with which the narrative shift happened are breathtaking, and it can only mean one thing. The internal polling for Democrats in the midterms is beyond dismal, and areas assumed to be safely in the "D" column are at risk. We mustn't let them get away with the rewrite of history they are attempting. . .

. . . Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, California, and Oregon have set timelines to end their indoor mask mandates. Some are ending school mask mandates as well. Just last week, Virginia school districts were fighting Gov. Glenn Youngkin's executive order allowing parents to choose whether or not their children wear masks. Meanwhile, images of Hochul and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams going maskless in photo ops with masked school children went viral. . .

. . . Not all that long ago, [Mengele fan girl Leana] Wen suggested making the lives of the unvaccinated painful and requiring N-95 masks for children. She has also said vaccines protect well against omicron infection, which is not true. The vaccinated are getting infected in large numbers. Wen credits her change of heart to the wide availability of vaccines. Vaccines have been widely available to people in high-risk groups for over a year.

She also pretends that information on "one-way masking" is new. "Even if other people around you are not wearing masks, if you wear a high-quality mask, that also protects you, the wearer, too." This revelation is not new information. However, if you had suggested it before this week, Twitter and Facebook may have banned you. Wen saying that government mandates should end and that individuals should determine how to protect themselves best is such an abrupt reversal that she should have whiplash. . .

. . . the Covidstan authoritarians are trying to convince you something has changed. The only word for this is lying. Nothing substantial has changed. Democrats, the health bureaucracy, and the corporate media cannot be allowed to retcon the [Chinese] COVID response over the last two years. We are only beginning to understand the damage to our children and society. The wreckage must be laid directly at their feet.

So, here's my big lightbulb moment which does not make me the sage of the ages either. As we rub our hands with glee over the fact that the mask mandates seem to be going the way of the dodo, how much you want to bet that yet another variant of General Tso's Sickness will magically descend upon the land and all those mandates reappear? One can argue they'll happen just before the elections in key swing districts where ballot harvesting, mail-in voting etc. are in place, or just afterwards if miraculously (wink-wink) the Dems hold on to their majority in one or both chambers as well as in local elections.

Honestly, aside from being sadistically drunk on power for the sake of having it and wielding it, what possible other benefit does prolonging this insanity have? I don't give them credit for being intelligent, but I do credit them for being smart and devious enough to manipulate and grift themselves into permanent elective office. Is there really an actual plan to use this as a means to collapse society, seize absolute power, ???, profit! Or are these fiends just winging it? They are absolutely correct in their assessment that the people are fed up with this and their rank hypocrisy that's figuratively and quite literally in your face when they go maskless yet impose masks on you.

Seriously, I am sick to fucking death of these tyrants and you can multiply my anger by orders of magnitude at our alleged fellow citizens who act as their enforcers and vote for them over and over again. And tyrants they are. It may be cold up there in the great white north but our Canadian brothers and sisters have had it up to here (several parallels above 49 figuratively speaking) with what Justin "Castreau" and his minions have done. The premier of Alberta has told the bastard son of Fidel to take his vaccine mandate and shove it. Psaki-Psircling back to tyrants and Castro, vis a vis, Justin, the estimable Lloyd Billingsley gives us a timely recap of his pedigree:

Earlier in his brilliant career, Justin was fond of performing in blackface, singing "The Banana Boat Song," a hit for Harry Belafonte. Trudeau now considers this racist but the revelation prompted no resignation. So no surprise that Justin Trudeau criticized "racist flags" in the convoy and spoke out over a perceived slight to a war memorial.

During World War II, Justin's père Pierre Trudeau was a "zombie," one of those who declined to serve though of age and in good health. After the war, as David Frum recalled in 2011, Pierre Trudeau "traveled to Josef Stalin's Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities. He wrote in praise of Mao's murderous regime in China. Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro, Julius Nyere, and other Third World dictators." Trudeau also praised the Siberian city of Norilsk "unware or unconcerned that Norilsk had been built by slave labor."

Prime Minister Trudeau, "tried to reorient Canada away from the great democratic alliance." As Frum also notes, hours after the Communist Coup against Solidarity in Poland, Pierre Trudeau said: "If martial law is a way to avoid civil war and Soviet intervention, then I cannot say it is all bad," adding, "Hopefully the military regime will be able to keep Solidarity from excessive demands. . .

. . .[Fidel] Castro persecuted homosexuals and his regime held large numbers of black political prisoners. Even so, Justin Trudeau called him a "remarkable leader," who "made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation." And as Trudeau fils said in 2013, "There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime. . ."

. . . Pierre Trudeau was not a fan of Poland's Solidarity movement, but he did support the martial law imposed by Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, correctly identified by Caspar Weinberger as a Soviet general in a Polish uniform. This is what happens when a crypto-Communist zombie becomes prime minister of Canada.

When embattled Canadians take to the streets in a peaceful protest, Justin Trudeau smears them with lies. Ottawa police are now threatening to arrest those bringing fuel and other supplies to the protesting truckers, which is not a crime. This is what happens when Pierre Trudeau's son becomes prime minister of Canada.

All things considered, and as bad as things are here, it could be a hell of a lot worse, as it is in Austria, Australia and in Canada. At least there, people are taking mass action. And although it's a really good sign that the government of Alberta is standing with the truckers in no uncertain terms, at this point, it's a Mexican standoff in Canada. For sure, the junta in DC is paying attention. What lesson it draws, in terms of compromise and reconciliation, or pressing the jackboot down even harder on our throat, is TBD. My gut tells me, it's the latter.

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The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

Special long distance "def" dedication to Justin "Castreau."

UPDATE: Mitch McConnell, go die in a fire.

McConnell Calls Jan. 6 a "Violent Insurrection," Pushes Back on RNC Censure of Frauds Kinzinger, Cheney

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "'The scaffolding of lies is crumbling before our eyes' and we are observing the gradual 'disintegration of the [old] narrative.'"
  "Pandemic" Truths: Time for a New Narrative
  
• "One can only hope that when the music stops on November 8 that there will be a plurality of seats into which Republicans can put themselves."
  And the Band Played On
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "Hereditary rule is the most risible - and the most loathsome. . . This is what happens when a crypto-Communist zombie becomes prime minister of Canada."
  Truck Trudeau

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• "The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe," The Federalist added.
  GOP Congressman Accuses Capitol Police Of Spying on Him
  
• "They're now the subject of an official investigation but I doubt anything will change."
  The Capitol Police Have Been Fully Weaponized Against Republicans
  
• "They bragged on Tuesday that they had the number but couldn't legally do anything with it. However, they gave anyone who was interested in obtaining it detailed instructions on how they got it. The implication was that if you wanted to break the law by revealing Sinema's most personal information, you were welcome to do so."
  The "New" Gawker Brags It Has Senator Krysten Sinema's Social Security Number
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "The January 6 Committee engaged in 'Abuse of prosecutorial power.'"
  The RNC Censures Cheney, Kinzinger
  
• "For all the company's efforts to shut down freedom-minded Canadians, GoFundMe has done plenty to help unsavory fundraising campaigns on the left."
  18 Fundraisers Aiding Riots, Crime, Abortion, and Genital Mutilation That GoFundMe Didn't Shut Down
  
• "The perpetrator, it turns out, is also the victim. . . Clark-Mabins stirred up the campus with the hoax and created division among the community. A fellow student's reputation was sullied because she was wrongly accused. Her peers wanted her tossed off campus. Where does she go to get her reputation back?"
  Illinois College Students Want Hate-Crime Culprit Expelled -- Until They Find Out Who She Is
  
• "It is time for the G-d and country loving, flag-waving, baseball playing, hot dog and apple pie eating, and Chevrolet driving crowd to get off their blessed assurance and get a little more involved." (open to suggestions, Mr. Ferguson; except to vote harder - jjs)
  When It Comes to Marxism, Bad Ideas Don't Get Better with Age
  
• "The former vice president seems to have betrayed MAGA nation. Why?"
  What's the Deal With Mike Pence?

  AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS
  FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "The Ottawa police have begun arresting Canadians providing material support to the Freedom Convoy truckers. They've been specifically targeting people delivering gasoline, diesel, propane, and food. They've also started seizing gas and diesel while truckers are in the process of refueling their trucks"
  Let the Seizures Begin!
  
• "Police appear in multiple videos twisting the elderly man's arm around his back and shoving him into the side of a car."
  Ottawa Police Brutalize 78-Year-Old Man for Honking
  
• "There are no clear off-ramps for the protesters, and no one in a position of authority seems to know how to deescalate the situation."
  Canadian Elites Created the Ottawa Crisis, and They Have No Idea How to End It
  
• This is the first in a three-step plan to eliminate the majority of [Chinese] COVID-19 rules by the end of February and comes after weeks of massive protests throughout Canada against the government's response to the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic." (it ended at midnight local time - jjs)
  Alberta, Canada, Ends Vaccine Passport Requirement
  * * * * *

• "The speed and shamelessness with which the narrative shift happened are breathtaking, and it can only mean one thing. The internal polling for Democrats in the midterms is beyond dismal, and areas assumed to be safely in the "D" column are at risk. We mustn't let them get away with the rewrite of history they are attempting."
  Democrats and the Corporate Media Are Trying to Rewrite the History on Their Chinese COVID-19 Response
  
• Putting the "hack" in Hakeem, Jeffries seems to be telegraphing the end of the political pandemic. It's a Tank Abrams-sized albatross around their necks and they know it.
  Democrat Rep. Credits "Biden's Leadership" For Vanishing Mask Mandates
  
• "Hochul's mandate was set to expire Thursday, and according to the NYT she will let it lapse without renewal. She reportedly isn't yet decided on the mask mandate for students across the state, though, which is set to expire in two weeks." (the next variant is sure to strike on election day - jjs)
  New York Reportedly Dropping Mask Mandates For Businesses, But Not Yet Schoolchildren
  
• "The fact that Hochul has a member of her own family drawing a big paycheck from Big Pharma for lobbying lawmakers in New York in order to approve (and often mandate) their products on the populace should be a big problem for everyone." ("should be" is one of the most annoyingly meaningless phrases - jjs)
  Vaccine Pusher Gov. Kathy Hochul's Daughter-In-Law Is Top Lobbyist for Big Pharma
  
• "Pritzker joins other Democrat governors who are repealing their mask mandates ahead of the November midterm elections. Pennsylvania and Delaware announced the end of their mask mandates, with New York and Connecticut also weighing the option." (after November, the mandates return, am I right? - jjs)
  Report: Illinois Gov. Sitz-Pritzker to End State Mask Mandate "Before March 1"
  
• "Because of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden's power-hungry, anti-science [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccine mandate, hundreds of valuable American service members are being forced out of our military, taking with them years of subject-matter expertise, careers of selfless sacrifice, and lifelong dreams of military service. This is strategically foolish, profoundly un-American, and completely unacceptable."
  Rep. Chip Roy Introduces Bill to Reinstate Troops Discharged over Vaccine Mandate
  
• When a full-on power-mad Marxist like Kate Brown does this, they're reading the tea leaves and it doesn't look good politically anymore.
  Oregon to Lift Mask Requirement "No Later Than" March 31
  
• "However, if you're in Los Angeles, you will still need to mask up -- because reasons."
  Gov Newsom Says California's Indoor Mask Mandate Ends Next Week for Vaccinated People
  
• "This bombshell comes days after Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler claimed that reports that the district was seeking legal action against maskless students were false."
  Bombshell Email Reveals Plan to Arrest Maskless Students in Loudoun County
  * * * * *

• "A longer period between the first two shots of the mRNA [Chinese] coronavirus vaccines appeared to lower a person's risk of myocarditis, a rare form of heart inflammation that occurred in some individuals upon receiving the shot, Boston 25 reported Monday."
  CDC Considers Increasing Time Between Vaccines to Cut Risk of Heart Inflammation
  
• "It is now ILLEGAL in the country to be unvaccinated."
  Austrians Being Stopped Randomly by Authorities and Forced to Prove They Are Vaccinated
  
• "'Effective immediately, all forms of child abuse will no longer be tolerated in my office, this includes the masking of children,' the letter starts. McDonald then goes on to cite the impact on child development that's been noted over the past 24 months."
  Dr. Mark McDonald to Parents: No More Child Abuse, Unmask Your Children!

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "In every year since 2012, the U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China has exceeded $300 billion, according to the Census Bureau, hitting an all-time high of $418,232,900,000 in 2018."
  $355,301,700,000: U.S. Trade Deficit With China Tops $300 Billion for 10th Straight Year
  
• "Just four large conglomerates control the majority of the market for beef, pork, and poultry products, and the data show . . . that there have been increases in meat prices while the companies have generated recent record profits." (". . . and they're all owned by the weather-controllers," she added - jjs)
  Piss-Hockey Psaki Still Blaming Meat Companies For Skyrocketing Grocery Bills

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "The media are again ready to push a narrative about cops gunning down innocent black men without giving the facts a second to see daylight."
  Was Amir Locke Helping a Murder Suspect? Leftists In Media Won't Like That Critical Question
  
• "No neighborhood is safe."
Crime Up in Nearly Every NYC Precinct: Latest Stats
  
• "When only chasing guns just might not be the answer."
  Biden Bails Out on Solving the Real Crime Problem
  
• "We've had this war on cops and, quite frankly, a war on the justice system really since 2014, since the justified police shooting of Michael Brown. But for the last 19 months, since the death of George Floyd, we have had this vilification of law enforcement."
  Police Group Blames "Left-Leaning Policies" for Deadly Crime Spikes, "Vilification of Law Enforcement"
  
• "Lemon reportedly was opposed to a jury trial and had asked for a bench trial, which would have left his fate up to a judge."
  Jury Trial Ordered for CNN's Small, Bitter Fruit Don Lemon Over Sexual Assault Allegations

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Emhoff, who is married to Vice President Kamala Harris, was visiting Dunbar High School for an event celebrating Black History Month, according to NBC News."
  Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff Ushered Out of School By Secret Service Due to Bomb Threat
  
• "They come as state legislatures seek to pass laws requiring schools to be transparent about what kids learn by disclosing curriculum materials."
  Amid Demands For Curriculum Transparency, Poll Shows Americans Want Parents To Shape Schools
  
• "By never apologizing and refusing to comply with the unreasonable demands of the blacklisters, Gallegos and her cohorts in that Turning Point USA chapter were able stiffen the spine of many other students, who might have run and hid otherwise. The result was a write-in election victory and a court victory that came from the student body, not higher authorities."
  Pushback: Conservative Hispanic Student Defeats Effort to Blacklist Her
  
• "Progressive complaints over 'book bans' in schools misconceive the relationship between democracy and public education."
  Defining Censorship Down

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Stated another way, foreign-born residents could begin to account for 3 in 20 of all U.S. residents. Already, the nation's foreign-born population continues to hit historic highs, now standing at 46.2 million. Compare that figure to 1970, when the foreign-born population was just 9.6 million."
  NY Times: Immigration, If Not Reduced, Driving U.S. to Records Last Seen in 1890
  
• Robert Spencer: "Biden's handlers' extraordinarily irresponsible administration of the settlement of Afghan refugees in the United States is going to have dangerous and unpleasant repercussions for years, and maybe decades, to come. One thing is certain: Muhammad Tariq and Matiullah Matie are only the beginning."
  Wisconsin: Mediagenic Afghan Arrested for Sexual Assault, Mayor Says "This Doesn't Define All Afghan Refugees"

  THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

• "The lawsuit cites the Public Disclosure Provision of the National Voter Registration Act and explains in great detail how ERIC violates that provision. The suit also details how PILF asked Ardoin's office for access to the data from ERIC for 2019, 2020, and 2021. The state asked for repeated 30- and 60-day delays and ceased replying to PILF's requests in January, hence the lawsuit."
  Louisiana's Secretary of State Faces Lawsuit Over Election Integrity
  
• "The Democrat's latest tactic is to accuse Republicans who dare secure the ballot box against illegal votes of engaging in voter suppression." (how about she engage in appetite suppression?)
  Tank Abrams and Voter Suppression

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "You don't know a lot of the people that you have accused online in front of millions of people. You have engaged in the malicious poison. You've accused people you don't know, a very vile thing. I mean wouldn't you agree that probably calling somebody a racist is just a shot under murderer and rapist." (he reamed her out but good; sadly, she'll get confirmed and she's one out of thousands running this shit show - jjs)
  Sen. Ron Johnson Confronts Biden Nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt Over Her "White Supremacy" Tweet
  
• "Whoopi Goldberg just can't be bothered with the killing of the Holocaust because because she is now playing a more promising victim game."
  It's Not Anti-Semitism, It's Blanket Hatred of Whites
  
• "NYPD data shows a spike in hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers."
  Anti-Semitic Crimes Spiked Nearly 300% In NYC Last Month Since Last Year

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION

• "A very strange -- and telling -- 'request.'"
  Peter Schweizer Video: Hunter Biden Tells Secret Service Not To Accompany Him Oversees
  
• "Biden [junta] 'improperly' classified document about Hunter Biden's Ukraine work."
  State Department Impeding Investigation Into Hunter Biden, GOP Senators Claim
  
• "Although the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was initially targeted at gangsters, it equally applies to corrupt government practices involving low-level crooks led by the top players."
  The Biden Family is a Criminal Enterprise as Defined in the RICO Act

  OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "These Democrats appear to believe that [Chinese] COVID-related restrictions do not apply to important people such as themselves, but rather solely to the unwashed rubes they represent. That is presumably why most Democrats have responded so indignantly after getting caught in violation of a Democratic-imposed mask mandate or some other [Chinese] COVID policy they claim to support."
  10 Most Absurd Excuses From Democrats Caught in Mask Scandals

  SUPREME COURT VACANCY

• Robert Spencer: "Who will ask the Senate Majority Leader to clarify and correct his remarks?"
  Stupid or Dishonest? Cuck Schemer Falsely Claims Supreme Court Was All White Until 1981

  POLITICS

• "'The index includes questions on presidential job approval, favorability measures of the president's handling of domestic and foreign policy issues, and whether the president is providing strong or weak leadership,' noted IBD." (Stalin had 99.8% approval 29 years in a row - jjs)
  Poll: Joe Biden Job Approval Rating Crashes to 38 Percent
  
• "Biden's inability to get things done is unfortunate for Democrats, but a big win for Republicans who hope for a red wave in the 2022 midterms." (and after the "red wave," what? - jjs)
  Biden's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Agenda is Setting Republicans Up to Win Big in November
  
• ". . . as I have repeatedly said, I don't aspire to be a senator, and that fact has not changed."
  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Announces He Will Not Run For Senate
  
• "Jones, a former Democrat, said he is endorsing former Sen. David Perdue, who will run against Gov. Brian Kemp in the primaries, Just the News reports."
  Former Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones Abandons Governor Bid for Congressional Run
  
• "The state's Democrats enact an unapologetic gerrymander."
  A Raw Deal for New York Republicans
  
• "Democrats manipulating race for political gain is black history."
  Black History and the Democrats

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Press is taking pages from its hateful 'Tea Party' coverage playbook."
  Media Covers Itself in Shame With Its Coverage of Canadian Freedom Convoy
  
• Margot Cleveland: "This case offers the best chance to remind our elected leaders that they cannot issue veiled threats to punish those offering a platform for protected speech."
  Publisher Sues Lie-awatha Warren For Attempts at Censoring Chinese COVID-19 Book
  
• "Wear a damn mask."
  Suspected Intern Killer Scarborough, MSNBC Contributor Call Out Democrats Going Maskless in Photos
  
• "Spotify has been trying to have its cake and eat it, too, and that isn't good enough."
  Joe Rogan Ought to Take Rumble's Offer
  
• "If this is the new standard for censorship, you can kiss free speech goodbye."
  Why the Joe Rogan/Spotify Fight Will Define Free Speech for Us All
  
• Nick Sandmann says "pfft."
  Fredo Cuomo Wants as Much as $60 Million XiNN Amid Jeff Zucker Exit
  
• "Content creators are scared to discuss certain topics out of fear their livelihood will be taken from them."
  The Chilling Effect of Big Tech Censorship
  
• "E-mails between the Times and the Interior Department, obtained by The Federalist through a FOIA request, reveal a stark contrast in coverage between Biden and Trump."
  E-Mails Show New York Times Doing PR For Biden's Interior Department After Harassing Trump's
  
• "We have an ethical responsibility to dismantle the narrative machine."
  All the Lies That Are Fit to Print: A review of The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

  BIDEN-CREATED UKRAINE CRISIS

• "Is he putting personal politics first or endorsing a New World Order?" (personal finances, more likely - jjs)
  Why is Biden Undermining the Ukrainian Resistance?
  
• "The talk of sanctions and crushing defeats from Antony Blinken and Joe Biden has an air of unreality, like Baghdad Bob's claims of the Iraqi Army's victories during the U.S. assault on Iraq in 2003."
  Blinkmanship

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Using natural gas supplies as a political weapon, though, could ultimately backfire on Russian President Vladimir Putin if European utilities choose to purchase supplies elsewhere, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said, according to The Guardian. Russia is responsible for approximately 46% of European gas imports, European Union data showed."
  "Tectonic Shift": Putin Could Crush European Energy Market By Withholding More Gas, Top Energy Group Says
  
• "The 33 senators, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), warned that they were committed to using all options and leverage available to them to ensure Biden meets his statutory obligations, 'and that the implementation of any agreement will be severely if not terminally hampered if you do not.'"
  After Biden Waives Iran Sanctions, Senators Remind Him They Must Sign Off on Any Deal
  
• "This is the second time in a week that Lee has had a war of words with Price. On Thursday, Price bristled when Lee pressed him on reports that Russia was planning a false flag propaganda video to use as a pretext for invading Ukraine." (Lee was grilling needle-nose Ned "Ryerson" Price about Iran - jjs_
  "Don't Need To Raise Your Voice": AP Reporter Matt Lee Gets Into It With Ned Price During Press Conference -- Again
  
• "Biden Iran envoy grilled about preemptive sanctions relief for Tehran."
  Classified Iran Nuclear Deal Brief Leaves "More Questions Than Answers," GOP Lawmaker Says
  
• "When you're willing to violate international law to please the Palestinians."
  Blinken Takes a Call From Abbas
  
• "More lethal ammunition for the campus cognitive war against Israel."
  Amnesty International's Pseudo-Scholarship

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Can we stop playing nice and admit Islam is hundreds of years behind the rest of the world?"
  Iranian Man Decapitates Teen Wife, Smiles as He Strolls Neighborhood With Her Head
  
• Robert Spencer: "When was the last time a house was set on fire in Aurora, Colo. in the process of burning 'idols?' I'd venture to guess that this has never happened before at all, in Aurora or likely anywhere else in the United States . . . The Left is creating an America in which someone such as Muhammed Afia could be set free without charge in the future, on the grounds that he was simply practicing his religion and that prosecution would be 'Islamophobic.' That day is closer than you might think."
  Colorado Man Sets Fire to His Own House Because "Allah Told Him To"

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Move angers Beijing, CCP-mouthpiece Global Times telling the U.S. to 'correct mistake.'"
  U.S. Red Flags 33 Chinese Companies, Charges China-based Telecom Giant With Stealing Secrets
  
• "Mahnken's strategy would lessen China's confidence in its ability to prevail."
  A Maritime Strategy for Deterring or Defeating China
  
• "For those liberals who want to reallocate defense spending to other priorities, like global warming or economic relief, the events in Ukraine show the danger of taking the eye off national defense. When voters feel threatened by foreign adversaries -- all other issues get sidelined."
  Biden's Ukraine Conflict Shows Need for Efficient Defense Spending
  
• "If the U.S. power grid is taken off line for weeks or months, people will die. Many people."
  Keeping the Lights On

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

• "Alleges union threatened him days before his termination." (hello? Janus decision? - jjs)
  NY Mechanic Says Employer Fired Him for Refusing To Join Union

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• ". . . Not where prices are highest."
  Can Mark Cuban Slash Drug Costs?

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Democrats held their second hearing Tuesday in their campaign to smear American energy producers as 21st century variants of big tobacco."
  Democrats Are Struggling To Defend High Energy Prices

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Launcher -- along with Momentus, Spaceflight, Astroscale, and several others -- are all rushing to build and launch the first tugs for transporting satellites from orbit to orbit, or to remove space junk. Launcher's deal with SpaceX suggests it is tailoring its system for satellites launched from the Falcon 9."
  Space Tug Company Picks Falcon 9 for Test Flights
  
• "There are a lot of uncertainties in this scenario. It has been decades since Lockheed Martin built rockets. ESA has not yet built an operational Mars rover. It is also unclear who will build NASA's lander and capture/return payload. Thus, do not expect this mission to launch "as early as '26," as the press release says. I predict it will launch at least five, maybe ever ten years, later."
  Lockheed Martin Wins NASA Contract to Build Mars Rocket

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Activists are promoting the idea that pedophilia is a sexual identity that should be destigmatized, not an activity. . . Some commentators see a relationship between this effort and the push to indoctrinate children about LGBTQ issues."
  Activists Are Trying To Normalize Pedophilia And Corporate Media Is Helping Them

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Why did a top American athlete who claims to be socially conscious, who benefited tremendously from growing up in the United States, choose to play for a brutal totalitarian government with one of the worst human rights records on the planet? Why does a young women who claims to be devoted to female empowerment support a regime that forcibly sterilizes Uyghur Muslim women? Why are so many American media outlets unwilling to put those questions to Gu, or even push for a firm answer on whether she renounced her American citizenship to play for China?
  Meet Genocide Barbie: Woke American-Born Eileen Gu Ditched Team USA to Win Gold for China
  
• Some suspect the bad food is meant to sabotage opposing athletes. Kasnetsova "did a little detective work" according to the Associated Press, and discovered that other isolated honchos were getting better food than the athletes in the [Chinese] COVID hotels. "[H]er team doctor, who had also tested positive and was living two floors below. He had fresh fruit, a salad and prawns with broccoli," AP reported.
  Welcome to the Hunger Games: Olympic Athletes Complain of Horrible Conditions in China's Chinese COVID Gulag
  
• "Eleven of the 12 minutes that were edited out in the cut were restored, including the original ending. However, nude scenes remain censored."
  Fight Club Ending Restored in China Following Backlash
  
• "A love that should have lasted years -- but Hollywood had to wear out its welcome."
  The Decline and Fall of the Hollywoke Empire
  
• "As Spotify mulls the fate of Joe Rogan, Netflix is facing pressure over Jimmy Carr's latest stand-up special."
  As Jimmy Carr Stares Down the Mob, Remember: It Won't Stop With Joe Rogan
  
• "You can't help the faithful to be saved if you sell your soul."
  Will the Churches Follow Mark Zuckerberg into the Metaverse?
  
• They went woke, IIRC.
  Peloton Offers Laid Off Employees One Year of Free Exercise Classes
  
• Salena Zito: "Bill Penzey's 'Republicans are Racist' rants weren't just insulting. They are dangerous because they continue an elite-think that does true damage to the psyche of America."
  The Covenant Between the Main Street Consumer and Big Corporations Is Collapsing

  HITHER & YON

• Christian Toto: "Old school series strikes chord with audiences exhausted by handwringing heroes." (just started watching it and it's pretty engaging - jjs)
  Masculine Reacher Earns Swift Second Season
  
• "Set your DVR for a real treat being shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) at 8:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, February 10. American commies exposed in a long-neglected 1949 film that is actually quite a good movie."
  A Rare Showing of an Anti-Communist Movie Thursday Morning on TCM

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