When it comes to decrying the concept of “vaccine passports,” conservatives have company. The idea’s detractors now include certain business owners, who fear customer backlash and the hassle or danger of enforcing the policy, and even prominent public health advocates, too.
The proof-of-vaccine concept is gaining traction in some circles globally and within the U.S., including among some professional sports teams, a major university, and highly vaccinated countries like Israel. In New York and Hawaii, among other states, governors have pitched the idea as a means of returning to normal life.
Damn it Todd!
In an upcoming 17-part series entitled “R is for Racism”, Todd appears in multiple educational scenarios including a math teacher forcing minority puppets to learn 2 + 2 = 4, an ignorant puppet who thinks some cops might be good, and in a particularly jarring sketch, a shady character teaching kids to face life’s unfairness with hard work, self-sacrifice, and hope for the future.
More at the Bee.
Pepé Le Pew Apologizes
Ask your lefty friends if Pepé Le Pew was their woke breaking point?
The New Yorker
Questions have been raised about some of my past interactions with cats and dogs whom I perceived to be highly attractive lady skunks. I never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm. It was all about the amour, non? But, still, my actions are not—how do you say—appropriate. Pepé is très sorry.
It would be easy to blame my behavior on having been insulated by privilege—the privilege of being a well-known celebrity skunk. But I will not do this. It would also be so easy to make some excuse. Like, other skunks have engaged in disreputable behavior for decades without getting caught.
Read the whole thing.
If someone offered you a bullet proof coffin…
The Insanity of the Modern World
Tamika Mallory, Grifter
Why are we still paying taxes?
From Mises Wire
If you’re not familiar with modern monetary theory, they think governments should print more money because deficits aren’t a big deal. At one point in the show, Wiesenthal asked, “If we don’t need to worry about deficits, why do we have taxes?”
Kelton’s response was illuminating. Kelton’s answer? Taxes would still be needed, because they make us poor. And because they can punish people she doesn’t like.
Specifically, Kelton likes that taxes “remove dollars from our hands, so we can’t spend them,” leaving more purchasing power for the government. So taxes make the people poor, and that’s a selling point to her, presumably because she thinks governments are really good at lifting people out of poverty. Anybody who’s spent time in America’s inner cities, where government money is pretty much the only money, might disagree.
Ah, but it’s not just about spending our money more wisely than we ever could, Kelton adds two secondary reasons she loves taxes: to punish particular people by redistributing their money, and to punish people for doing things she doesn’t like. Such as failing to buy energy-efficient appliances (no, really). In other words, social engineering with carrots for your friends, sticks for your not-so-friends.
Translation, taxes have nothing to do with funding governments anymore.
Diggin’ the Pandemic Lockdown
They might be your neighbours. They might be family members. They might be colleagues. Whoever they are, rest assured that some people are loving this endless lockdown:
It might not occur to you, because you are not a bizarre wierdo, but a lot of people really love the pandemic. Not just the little fascist gnome who changes his #science advice more often than a Wellesley girl changes her preferences during her sophomore year experimental phase, and not just the fascist pols who get off on exploiting their emergency powers to boss people around, but even some regular people. The masks, the paranoia, the constant talk about vaccines – some people love this stuff.
This is their Woodstock.
And they never want it to end.
Behold!
Who are you going to believe? Your moral and intellectual superiors or your own lying eyes?
A Filipino man is berated as a “Chinese” by a White supremacist on a train. Stop Asian Hate! https://t.co/IOxEvYtzVA
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 22, 2021
Press Release from Donald J. Trump on Telegram
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
We proudly handed the Biden Administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot. Instead, in the span of a just few weeks, the Biden Administration has turned a national triumph into a national disaster. They are in way over their heads and taking on water fast.
The pathetic, clueless performance of Secretary Mayorkas on the Sunday Shows today was a national disgrace. His self-satisfied presentation—in the middle of the massive crisis he helped engineer—is yet more proof he is incapable of leading DHS. Even someone of Mayorkas’ limited abilities should understand that if you provide Catch-and-Release to the world’s illegal aliens then the whole world will come.
Furthermore, the Mayorkas Gag Order on our Nation’s heroic border agents and ICE officers should be the subject of an immediate congressional investigation. But it’s clear they are engaged in a huge cover-up to hide just how bad things truly are. The only way to end the Biden Border Crisis is for them to admit their total failure and adopt the profoundly effective, proven Trump policies.
They must immediately complete the wall, which can be done in a matter of weeks—they should never have stopped it. They are causing death and human tragedy. In addition to the obvious, drugs are pouring into our country at record levels from the Southern Border, not to mention human and sex trafficking. This Administration’s reckless policies are enabling and encouraging crimes against humanity. Our Country is being destroyed!
“Being There” – A Preview of the Biden Presidency
As seen in Cortez, Colorado yesterday
Imagine someone wearing this shirt in Berkeley, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, etc.
This is how it’s done
Hitting back harder.
… And you would make a fine chief lobbyist for SNC-Lavalin, the next time they need help with the law. https://t.co/Oi1nrPw8yy
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) March 21, 2021
Tyranny in Michigan
Phony Fauci and his Falacious Fibs
Does anyone still believe Tony Fauci?
To Learn Who Rules Over You
… simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Wuhan Flu: Follow The Science
Dear America: Why are you so interested in the states that are “reopening”? Your control group is right here, in the center of the nation. We were never ordered to shut down, and we never did. And it turns out that we’re no more afflicted than you are. Indeed, in many ways, we are far healthier.
The Left’s Greatest Hero
In the upside-down thinking of Clown World, Florida governor Ron DeSantis is a callous villain and New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is a caring hero. Of course there’s this:
The latest from “success story” New Zealand, which is now in its 4th lockdown (this 1 because of 1 case):
They’re debating whether to punish people for getting infected with COVID-19. It must be “rule-breakers” causing these repeated lockdowns, they say.
But hey, if the entire population supports endless destruction of their freedoms then good on ’em!
Wanna Bet She Votes Liberal, Green, or NDP?
In Ottawa, this is what Project Fear has done to some people:
Stop Complaining About Illicit Foreign Investment in Vancouver Real Estate, You Racist!
A severely woke activist journalist has published a screed in the Georgia Straight, essentially calling anyone who complains about high real estate prices in Vancouver a racist:
When people in Metro Vancouver started feeling the pain (or pleasure) of rising housing prices, the focus immediately fell on foreign buyers, especially Chinese people.
The 2010s coincided with China’s growing assertiveness under President Xi Jinping, and the increasing presence of “Asian-looking” people in Metro Vancouver that included old-stock Chinese Canadians as well as the rising number of students, businesspeople, new immigrants, and affluent travellers from across the Pacific.
The author conveniently ignores an endless stream of news stories about money laundering from assorted “foreign” investors. So get it straight, Canadians, if you work hard in your middle class job, pay your taxes, and try to be a good citizen, any anxiety you have about the fact that you’ll never be able to afford to buy a home in Vancouver is merely an extension of your “white privilege” and inherent racism. In other words, shut up.