Open thread 12/8/22
Make sure you hear the elderly man’s story through to the end:
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How the FBI got the Hunter laptop story suppressed while attempting to preserve plausible deniability for itself
You can’t call the FBI dumb. It was clever – very very clever. The story is somewhat complex, but Miranda Devine of the NY Post has done good reporting on this from the start. I highly recommend reading her latest … Continue reading →
Divided party, united party
The divided party is the GOP and the united party is the Democrats. Oh, I know the Democrats aren’t really united. Not completely – just nearly completely. In recent decades and especially since Obama became president, they have purged their … Continue reading →
More post-Georgia-runoff musings
Fewer people on the right and left voted in the Georgia runoff than in the general – why? Yes, I know that’s pretty much always true of runoffs, but this was no ordinary runoff. Are people more interested in their … Continue reading →
Remember Pearl Harbor
[NOTE: This is a somewhat-edited version of a previous post.] Today is the eighty-first anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The generation that reacted to it by mobilizing and fighting World War II is on its very … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/7/22
I used to do some of this but definitely not all of it. I notice that this dancer has long toes and a long toe box. I have short toes and had a short toe box. Each situation presents its … Continue reading →
Warnock wins re-election
Of course he did. Of course he did. Although I knew this election was going to be happening Tuesday, I couldn’t bring myself to analyze it ahead of time because a Warnock win seemed a foregone conclusion. It felt as … Continue reading →
Trump’s explanation
Trump has attempted to explain what he meant and didn’t mean by his recent statement that caused so much controversy, about Twitter and the 2020 election. An excerpt: “The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that … Continue reading →
On being a Democrat voter
Commenter “Richard Aubrey” asks: …[T]he dem/lib/prog and anti-Trump folks are…..strange. If one mentions a fact inconvenient to their views, they’ll say, “Fox” or “Trump” with the self-satisfied air of intellectual triumph. Logic and facts are meaningless… Shrug. “Faux news”. I’m … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/6/22
Trump as Lear, raging against the vast left-wing conspiracy
And I mean really really vast. Many many people think that Trump’s gone past the point of no return with this quote: “So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, … Continue reading →
The Twitter files and the smoking gun
I’m in complete agreement with this from the NY Post, by Andrew C. McCarthy: Just don’t look for a smoking gun. We’re not going to see an FBI document that says, “Tell Twitter the Biden evidence is Russian disinformation.” When … Continue reading →