Quick Hits

NYT: Oh no, Ray Epps, the January 6 provocateur so provocative you could say he fairly glows, and yet is strangely unmolested by federal law enforcement colleagues, has been so upset by right-wing allegations that he's some kind of plant that he barely has the remaining credibility to urge a mob to violently enter the Capitol any longer!!!

Adam Goldman @adamgoldmanNYT

Ray Epps has suffered enormously in the past 10 months as right-wing media figures and Republican politicians have baselessly described him as a covert government agent who helped to instigate the attack on the Capitol last year.
@alanfeuer

Obscure right-wing media outlets, like Revolver News, used selectively edited videos and unfounded leaps of logic to paint him as a secret federal asset in charge of a "breach team" responsible for setting off the riot at the Capitol.

Weird how the New York Times is so worried this Insurrectionist's "enormous suffering" and yet cheers other "insurrectionists" being jailed without bail in solitary confinement for a year.

It's almost as if they're on the same team.

I also enjoy how Adam Goldman -- a pure propagandist for the Deep State Ruling Class faction -- sneers that other outlets, like Revolver, are "fringe" and lack legitimacy.

You know, the legitimacy he incorrectly believes he and the NYT still have.

Still writing Prestige Checks on the Status of Twenty Years Ago.

Nothing says "I was an FBI plant" better than a glowing profile story in The New York Times. Posted by: Shooter McGavin

By the FBI's court stenographer at the NYT, no less!

Axios is stunned, stunned to discover that the Democrat coalition is more and more just a collection of wealthy white Karens and the Republican party is a working class coalition of actual racial diversity.

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

AXIOS: "We're seeing a political realignment in real time."

"Dems are becoming the party of upscale voters concerned more about" social issues.

GOP is "quietly building a multiracial coalition of working-class voters."

We're seeing or "We have seen"?

And they say "quietly building." They have to claim it's "quiet" to explain how they managed to not hear about it until two minutes ago.

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

While the corporate press pushes the self-serving narrative that the Trump-led GOP is a white supremacist party devoted to implementing a white nationalistic dictatorship, Latino voters are rushing to GOP while GOP has its most diverse class ever in 2022...

But that's the point. Dems rely on "a slice of well-off socially liberal voters, thus now have "a bigger advantage among white college graduates than nonwhite voters."

In other words, the exact kind of people who work in national media are Dems, hence these false narratives.

There is an uprising coming. "Quietly," of course. Meaning, the media is deliberately suppressing reportage about it.

As the US media continues pretending that the Dutch government is not deliberately forcing Dutch farmers into bankruptcy to end the "nitrogen crisis."

Because they don't want to show the American proles where their Davos Schemes are heading.

But while the Dutch people are on the side of the farmers, their elites are behaving much as they did in Canada and the U.S., and not just those in government. Media outlets are refusing to even report the protests, and when they do, they cast the farmers as extremists.

Why the disconnect? Every reliable poll of European newsrooms from Germany to the Netherlands show that climate change is a much more important topic for journalists than it is for ordinary people.

USA Today Assistant Editor Steven Porter: Saying that women get pregnant is *literally* the definition of transphobia, you transphobes. Star emoji, star emoji, star emoji.

Dear Steven Porter,

You're too chunky to be gay. You can either start eating salads or start eating p*ssy.

Those are your only two options. I don't know what else to tell you. I didn't make the rules. I'm just the guy trying to keep the gay kickball leagues looking jacked and aesthetic.

Don't call me a hero. I'm just a guy trying to make a difference in the world of gay kickball leagues.

You can get a second opinion if you think it's necessary.

And here's your second opinion: Tuck your shirt in. If your belly is too big to comfortably tuck your shirt in, see the first opinion I gave you.

Joe Biden routinely lies and claims, "I don't look at the polls."

The incompetent liar Karine Jean-Pierre just lied and said the White House as a whole doesn't pay attention to polls:

Try reconciling that claim with a more-lucid-than-usual Biden snapping back at a reporter saying that two thirds of Democrats want him not to run in 2024 -- which Biden implicitly concedes as true, meaning he knows that poll's findings -- and then dropping the very specific and accurate poll finding that 92% of Democrats would vote for him if he does run.

He doesn't say "if he runs against Trump. That's the only omission he makes here.

But he doesn't pay any attention to the polls, you know.

He's as honest as you can expect from someone the very honest brokers of NeverTrump swore to you was an honest and honorable man.

And speaking of not looking at polls, here's another poll Biden won't be looking at. Repeat the line.

The de-civilizing of America continues:

Sheila Qualls at AlphaNews:

It is a foreshadowing of poverty, prison, and even death. It tells the story of children -- who through no fault of their own -- have been corrupted and abandoned by a system that places no value on the traditional nuclear family.

When Minneapolis police officers showed up in St. Paul last week to execute a search warrant for a murder suspect, they were met by toddlers -- some still in diapers -- who punched, kicked, cursed, and threw rocks at them. (Alpha News is only publishing 30 seconds of the video, but it goes on for another two minutes.)

The behavior of these children is eerily similar to the behaviors of rioters who burned and looted Minneapolis two years ago.

It is not a kindness to cover up for very bad and self-destructive behavior which really must be addressed rather than pretended away, indulged, or even justified.

posted by Ace at 06:48 PM

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