Category: New Rules

Mugabe rules from the grave

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Consumer prices rising too fast while your currency craters? That citadel of sensibility, Zimbabwe, has discovered the solution: just stop all bank lending. What could possibly go wrong?

President Emmerson Mnangagwa ordered banks to stop lending with immediate effect on Saturday, saying the unprecedented move was meant to stop speculation against the Zimbabwean dollar, which has been rapidly devalued on a thriving black market.

Before Mnangagwa’s announcement, the Zimbabwean dollar was officially quoted at 165.94 against the U.S. dollar, but had been trading at an exchange rate of between 330 and 400 to the greenback on the black market.

When Politeness Becomes Unhinged

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Leor Sapir on transgender swimmer Lia Thomas:

The Human Rights Campaign warns that “contrasting transgender people with ‘real’ or ‘biological’ men and women is a false comparison” that “can contribute to the inaccurate perception that transgender people are being deceptive or less than equal, when, in fact, they are being authentic and courageous.” This is a strawman wrapped in a non sequitur. Critics of gender self-identification do not argue that people like Thomas are “being deceptive,” but rather that they are themselves deceived. HRC’s use of “authentic” here really means “sincere”: transgender women are being sincere, not deceptive, when they say they have a strong inner sense of being a woman. But that sincerity is irrelevant unless one first assumes that what makes a belief true is the fact that it is sincerely held, rather than its correspondence to objective reality.

One of these.

A Lively Exchange

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Readers may wish to ponder the assumption that Mr Ennis’ transition to an approximation of womanhood is something to applaud, and applaud wholeheartedly, as if brave but never selfish, as if such behaviour could have no hurtful consequences for others. One wonders, for instance, how the actual mother of his children feels about her erasure, her usurpation. Likewise, have his children not lost a father? Have his parents and siblings not lost someone who is, or was, as real to them as any professed identity?

When a feminist and a transgender person argue about public bathrooms.

The DeSantis Doctrine

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You gotta hand it to a guy who convinces Democrats to die on the hill of defending perverted groomers talking about sex with little school kids.

DeSantis is now, as he slowly gains parity in popularity with Donald Trump, worse than Trump. They fear him because he does not have the mean tweets aspect that allows the left to attack him for something other than his actual deeds. They have to defend their freakshow agenda because he gives them nothing to change the subject to. And if they want to make it a fight over whether or not skeevy sex pests can have at your little kids, well, that’s a battle we’re delighted to fight.

But here’s the thing. They do want to fight over the bizarre and repellent pillars of modern liberalism. They do want to fight over whether perverts can groom your kids. They do want to fight over whether you can abort your kid 30 seconds before they’re born. They do want to fight over the need to strangle our energy industry so that you are paying $10 a gallon for unleaded. They want to fight over their desire to coddle criminals, let hobos defile our sidewalks, and send your kid to fight their war in Whogivesadamnistan.

They want to fight over a bunch of things that are awful, and far too many Republicans have shied away from not merely saying so but from actually doing something about them. Every GOP governor talks about wokeness or boys dominating girls’ sports. But far too many, like Kristi Noem, default to the Chamber of Commerce agenda and do zip. Not DeSantis. He not only wields power; he enjoys it.

Communications Upgrade

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You may have noticed a truck in front of the parliament buildings in Ottawa that has a wooden shack on it. It has kind of a Beverly Hillbillies vibe to it. The other day they built a deck on the roof of that shack and installed one of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite dishes. They are now livestreaming from the location and there is no way anyone can block them from doing so or shut them down via cell towers. Its totally self contained.

Behold: Fruits of The Great Honkening

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Quebec scrapping vaccine passport system. 

Suddenly, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is “done” with it. 

Meanwhile: Federal “Conservatives” with leadership aspirations blather about housing  and are so very, very butch about mandates two years into this thing, and now that the truckers have done the heavy lifting. Stunning and brave!

If any Canadian “Conservatives” MPs or MPPs have denounced dictator Prime Minister Justin Poutine’s invoking of the Emergencies Act let me know-and I mean really denounced. Not a qualified “well, it’s really not nice and most truckers are peaceful BUT some of those nasty truckers are very mean and bad” kind of thing.

Gonna do some freedoming, people. 

The honking will continue until the freedom has improved. 

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Gonna Need A Lot More Honk in Ontario

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Brian Lilley with the scoop because OF COURSE.

“It’s expected that barring any unforeseen incidents, like a new wave of infections threatening hospital capacity, Moore will recommend an end to all restrictions before March 31.”

“Masking could stay in place in high-risk settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and possibly schools until the end of March, while being dropped earlier as a requirement for the rest of the public.”

Not good enough. Too little, too late. Schools are not “high risk settings”. The correct time to end all of this is now. Right now. 

The honking will continue until the freedom is improved. 

Windsor Open?

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Looks like this morning the police cleared out the small handful of protesters that stayed through the night in Windsor.  The number of police officers and all the resources used could be called massive by comparison.

You can see for yourself. There’s a good synopsis of everything on video here. 

The question now is can police keep control of the area and how many people will it take to do so? A slightly bigger, slightly more organized protest group could easily gum everything up again for a longer time. Similar smaller groups can reappear sporadically and spontaneously in the area.  It also looks like it will be nearly impossible for the police to duplicate this effort elsewhere.

A good clip here. 

They’re Not Going To Stop

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Rupa Subramanya- What Truckers Want

I’ve spoken to 100 of the protestors gathered in the Canadian capital. What’s happening is far bigger than the vaccine mandates.

In the latest press release video from the trucker/protester movement last night their spokesperson spelled it out in as plain and as simple a way a possible. It’s not complicated you just have to listen.

Update: In case there’s any lingering doubt, they started a “slow roll” at the Ottawa airport this morning.

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