Roundup
News stories that are not about Russia or Ukraine:
(1) Was the reason Trudeau pulled back from the Emergencies Act that there was a run on banks? That’s my leading theory, anyway.
(2) Biden names Ketanji Brown-Jackson as his SCOTUS pick:
Not a huge surprise — Biden just picked the most extreme left-wing SCOTUS nominee in our nation’s history. Ketanji Brown-Jackson will make Sonya Sotomayor look like Sarah Palin. She’ll become the most predictable vote on the court — pro abortion, pro gender ideology, everything.
— Terry Schilling ?? (@Schilling1776) February 25, 2022
I think that anyone Biden would have nominated would be a reliable vote for the left, however. Brown-Jackson might be the most leftist of all the possibilities, but does that really matter when any such nominee would very likely be voting the same way as she? Also, perhaps – and it’s a big “perhaps” – her extreme leftism may mean that she won’t get the votes of the usual GOP suspects (Collins, Graham, Murkowski, Romney, etc.). My guess is that she probably will get their votes, though.
(3) The CDC continues its retreat from mask recommendations.
(4) Another George Floyd case verdict has come down, and I believe that it’s a terrible miscarriage of justice. Here’s a piece at Legal Insurrection about it. An excerpt:
Three former Minneapolis police officers were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, as a federal jury rejected their arguments that inexperience, improper training or the distraction of shouting bystanders excused them from failing to prevent Floyd’s killing.
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were convicted of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care as the 46-year-old Black man was pinned under fellow Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee for 9 1/2 minutes while handcuffed, facedown on the street on May 25, 2020. Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back, Lane held his legs and Thao kept bystanders back.
Thao and Kueng were also convicted of failing to intervene to stop Chauvin in the videotaped killing that sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
I know that legally, because Chauvin was found guilty, the word “killing” would be considered appropriate. But I think that grave doubt remains as to whether it was a killing or not.
Also:
This is injustice. Finding guilt for Chauviun is one thing, but the other officers actually did express concern for Floyd and were overruled by a senior officer.
This is a media conviction. https://t.co/KPRGTyGnw6
— Rekieta Media (@RekietaMedia) February 24, 2022
I’m in agreement with that tweet.
This, of course, was pure politics by the Garland DOJ. Clinton did the same thing with the Rodney King cops after they had been acquitted by a local jury.
No-one who has bothered to think about the evidence in the death of the blessed martyr Floyd can conclude that it constituted anything other than a death brought about, almost entirely, by the ill-advised actions of the decedent, and the recent verdict in the same case (which has caused incalculable harm, by means of the lawless and often violent “racial reckoning” which ensued, to the body politic) is a disgrace, as is the abomination recently concluded in the federal “hate-crime” prosecution (legal sophistry aside, a clear case of double jeopardy) of the three already convicted in the Arbery case. No intelligent and rational person could possibly argue that our legal system is now anything but biased and corrupt, quite possibly beyond all hope of repair.
I assume the jury was stacked using Judge Cahill’s method.
It’s an indication of the rot in the culture of the bar and the general public in Hennepin County that his happens, but you saw another travesty at least as scandalous in Chatham County, Ga. Did you catch the encomium that the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature bestowed on the late Aubery?
The last couple of years have been analogous to the bank examiners arriving to audit the loan portfolio and discovering it’s like that of Angelo Mozilo’s Countrywide – 46% by value is non-performing. We see what our neighbors fancy and what they value and what are the buttons on them manipulative people can push. We see the same about our rulers, and the level of their scruples. It’s been most disorienting and distressing because the rot is everywhere and it’s top to bottom.
Clinton did the same thing with the Rodney King cops after they had been acquitted by a local jury.
Unjust, to be sure, but not as severely so. The four King case officers actually hit someone with nightsticks. The Floyd officers happened to be present when a rather troublesome person expired from an overdose of fentanyl. If the ambulance hadn’t gone to the wrong address and arrived earlier (with Floyd expiring on the way to the hospital or in the ER) or if the police had just missed him and he expired in his vehicle on the way to wherever else he was going, there would have been no controversy.
The thing is, the culture of much of the population being what it is, there can be no justice in these cases, because their disposition is fundamentally and systematically unjust. Remember those all white juries in the Mississippi Delta Ms. School-Administrator? Don’t be vain, because that’s you sister.
Liberals don’t care about justice. Haven’t for decades. Just as they reject the idea of truth. All that matters is power. All that matters is the narrative. Dishonest, corrupt and slanderous to the core. And all with an extreme dose of smug arrogance and provincialism.
At some point, honest, moral, patriotic Americans are going to have to rub their noses in their messes until they understand.
I’m following the Canadian bank run story and rooting for it to be true.
Governments keeping doing outrageous things. I wonder “How can they do that?” The answer is generally “They said they could and they did.”
It would be nice to see a government suffer consequences they can’t evade to learn different.
1) That does seem like the most likely explanation.
2) “her extreme leftism may mean that she won’t get the votes of the usual GOP suspects (Collins, Graham, Murkowski, Romney, etc.). My guess is that she probably will get their votes, though.”
That seems likely as well. What does it reveal about Graham and Romney who come from solidly republican states, that they approve, regardless of how extreme the radical? More importantly, what does it reveal that they may well be reelected?
4) Another nail in law enforcement’s coffin.
The Republican-controlled Georgia legislature’s bestowing upon the late Aubery an annual day of remembrance shows just how cowed the Republican establishment is of being called racist. They gave up long ago, while they continue to futility beg for ‘better’ terms of surrender from the traitorous democrats.
The other theory is that Trudeau’s people called around and found that there was a good chance the Emergency would not pass the Senate. To spare themselves the embarrassment they backed off. This story and the bank run story are not mutually exclusive.
tcrosse:
VivaFrei discussed the Canadian Senate and banking(?) problems facing Trudeau on his YouTube/Rumble vblog yesterday IIRC.
om:
Sorry I missed it.
Geoffrey Britain:
I don’t think there’s any chance of Romney being re-elected. I think he will be successfully primaried if he chooses to run.
“My guess is that she probably will get their votes, though.”
She could be a black female platypus and still get the votes. Balck and Female are the ONLY qualifications needed for this loyal rump soldier of the Party’s nomenklatura.
I also found this interesting observation on how American has been trained for this moment.
As Seen on TV – Untethered
“For years Black Lady Judge has been a fixture in film and television, a negro of extra numinosity* and implied wisdom, as part of the more than half-century-long and continuing propaganda campaign conveying black people as more capable and humane than they are in real life–the cultural tyranny long preceding the present social and political tyranny it has been essential in effecting, and which is now wildly, Wakanda-ly, out of control.
“Those of us of a certain age have long known Black Lady Judge, near relation to Black Police Chief (gruff but fair) and Black High School Principal (familiar enough to be parodied, when such things were still allowed): here she is pursing her lips at an insolent attorney; there she is raising her eyebrows and lowering her glasses to warn a line of questioning is straying, but she’ll “allow it” for the moment. See her? Serenely dignified, she always has the best posture.”
https://dennisdale.com/2022/01/27/black-lady-judge-land
Another day; another night and my once Great Republic recedes in the distance from me.
I voted in Michael Anton’s Flight 93 election: win or we lose the Republic.
We won and still lose. Too late for pity or second-guessing. Now.
(I’ve been re-reading various accounts of Time mag’s professions, taking credit for the Oligarch’s victory, by Molly Ball from a year ago.
I still cannot read these without getting violently bitter, and pissing angry.
neo,
I had that thought about Romney as well. I just don’t follow Utah politics enough to know if the unhappiness with Romney can overcome his GOPe backing. Hopefully not.
Re: Canadian Banks (Re-post)
Yes, the banks.
But not in the way most of us may have imagined…
/Conspiracy warning ahead/
The banks are part of the WEF conspiracy (to incorporate digital ID)…and their sinister plans were, in fact, endangered by Trudeau’s clumsy edict—as in, GIVING THE GAME AWAY TOO EARLY)—and so he was forced, by the WEF, to revoke it…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/boom-trudeau-reversal-motive-surfaces-canadian-banking-association-was-approved-by-world-economic-forum-to-lead-the-digital-id-creation/
Meanwhile as Biden’s mass distraction continues apace (actually, make that “mass distractions”):
…it’s important to keep one’s eye on the ball regarding the Durham investigation:
“The Clinton Campaign’s Two-Pronged Plan To Create The Trump–Russia Collusion Narrative”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/clinton-campaigns-two-pronged-plan-create-trump-russia-collusion-narrative
“Conspiracy warning” (continued)…
Caveat:
David Solway (always required reading) is NOT convinced by the “WEF theory”, finding it “IMPLAUSIBLE”, but I’m not sure if his reason/assumption—“must surely”??—is itself necessarily convincing:
“…[the assumption that] the undermining of the banking system…could not be allowed to stand because it obstructed the plans of the World Economic Forum…seems implausible to me [i.e., Solway] as Trudeau and his finance minister Chrystia Freeland must surely have been on the same page as their WEF masters….”
“Canada: The Crisis Is Not Over”—
https://pjmedia.com/columns/david-solway-2/2022/02/25/canada-the-crisis-is-not-over-n1561994
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+ Bonus:
“I walked to West Block for two weeks past these protests. If there was such a threat to public safety, how could you have allowed members of Parliament to walk by that protest every day?…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doesnt-really-add-canadian-mps-grill-public-safety-minister-use-emergencies-act
“Curiouser and curiouser”:
“US Govt Just Admitted This Is A War That Will Determine Who Will Rule The New World Order”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-govt-just-admitted-war-will-determine-who-will-rule-new-world-order
…wherein “State Department spokesman Ned Price said…
“…Russia and the PRC also want a world order… But this is an order that is and would be profoundly illiberal….”
IOW, the US (and presumably Canada along with several other countries) are touted as “LIBERAL” countries, perhaps even “PROFOUNDLY LIBERAL” countries….
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And just in case, the message isn’t clear:
“Pelosi Uses Invasion of Ukraine to Push Debunked Russia-Gate Hoax Again;
‘This is the same tyrant who attacked our democracy in 2016.”
“https://headlineusa.com/pelosi-use-ukraine-russia-gate-hoax/”
And so, “LIBERAL…”
And so, Orwell lives.
And for those who may have thought that the Democrats could not get any more disgusting than they’ve already themselves shown to be…(time and time again):
“Pelosi equates Russian invasion of Ukraine to GOP ‘assaults on our democracy in our own country'”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/pelosi-compares-russian-invasion-ukraine-assaults-our-democracy-us
+ Pelosi Bonus (special edition):
“Important to understand the ‘brilliance’ of Biden’s response to Russian invasion”—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-important-to-understand-the-brilliance-of-bidens-response-to-russian-invasion
‘”Liberal” countries’ (cont.):
“What You Need to Know About Vax Passports, Digital IDs, CBDCs”—
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/02/27/nick-corbishley-vaccine-passport.aspx
Key grafs:
‘A key concern that vaccine passports bring to the fore is related to privacy. If implemented, they will strip us of most of the privacy we’re used to, as they are a precursor to digital identity and a far more invasive digital surveillance apparatus;
‘Another key concern is that vaccine passports and digital IDs can force compliance in any area of life;
‘The vaccine passport is a platform to which they can add a digital ID and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This would give them near-total control over your life, as they can “cancel” your existence and ability to live if you dissent;
‘If we accept vaccine passports, we’re basically giving our consent to everything that comes after….’
And so…did Justin Trudeau in fact “jump the gun” on a carefully planned, coordinated, collusive, multi-national roll-out?
(And if so, does he deserve any thanks?)