Category: The Deplorables

Ban All The Things!

To cook, or not to cook…

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm unveiled new climate and efficiency restrictions on air conditioners despite widespread criticism the Biden administration received after officials recently announced restrictions on gas stoves.

The new energy efficiency standards, which will apply to room air conditioners and portable air cleaners, will enter into effect next year. The Energy Department contended that the new rules will assist with “tackling the climate crisis,” as well as save consumers $25 billion over the next three decades. Room air conditioners are more commonly called window air conditioners.

The J6 Tapes

NY Post;

[w]hen you see what Carlson’s team has put together over the past two weeks of combing through thousands of hours of video, you will be struck by how different the reality was inside the building that day compared to the J6 committee’s deceptively edited primetime dramas, produced by a former ABC News president for maximum emotional impact.

For instance, Carlson’s team says the J6 committee added audio to silent CCTV footage, inserting screams and other crowd mayhem sounds, to make it seem more ominous. The bookmarks on the video trove show the J6 committee had access to the same footage yet chose to show America only what suited its divisive narrative.

The J6 Tapes

Also: About Ray Epps…

More: I was told the QAnon shaman was leading an insurrection not the one who is being led by police throughout the capital building. No wonder all the footage was kept from us for 2 years.

Our Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Now that Tucker has it;

The same corporate media that never showed any interest in seeing the full police video taken during the mostly-peaceful January 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol are now demanding all 41,000 hours of it.

That’s right; for over two years, the fake media knew there was a buttload of video that the rigged January 6 Committee was not showing them. Nevertheless, not once did this same media demand to see all the video.

Nope, instead of being interested in the full context and truth of what happened on January 6, the very same media outlets now demanding the full 41,000 hours spent two years dutifully broadcasted only the video Nancy Pelosi told them to broadcast.[…]

This is my favorite part:

“Without full public access to the complete historical record, there is concern that an ideologically-based narrative of an already polarizing event will take hold in the public consciousness[.]”

After TWO YEARS of bending over for Pelosi, look who’s suddenly interested in the “complete historical record.”

After TWO YEARS of bending over for Pelosi, look who’s suddenly concerned about an “ideologically-based narrative.”

New Rules

Axios;

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me. Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks.

Badge #5869

In depth report and unpixelized video at at Gateway Pundit;

A Forensics Video Analyst from “The People’s January 6th Commission” methodically put together video evidence that Morris is allegedly the officer seen beating Boyland a number of times to the body and the head with a stick. Interestingly, the original body-cam footage he found of Boyland being beaten was hidden in plain sight. The Department of Justice & FBI gave this body-cam video to mainstream media who continued to use it to paint their narrative. MSNBC and CNN had both played the footage repeatedly to illustrate Capitol violence and paint the picture of an “insurrection.” This is a glaring example of how negligent and irresponsible some mainstream media are to miss something like this in the videos they play for the American People and around the world.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

“There always has to be a centre of evil in the United States…”

Matt: Now, Walter, you’re in New York right now. But you’re not where you usually are, which apparently is a hotbed of Christian nationalism. Is that right?

Walter: Well, that’s right. I woke up last week in Livingston Montana, my home, to find out courtesy of the New York Times Magazine in an early edition which usually comes out on Sunday, that I live in a near theocracy, hard-right, Christian nationalist state.

Oh, and Yellowstone, of course. Audio here.

It’s January 6th, And Here We Are (Bumped)

Full thread here.
Rich Baris, 10:00 PM Jan 6, 2023: Gaetz joins Boebert to vote present. Paul Gosar voted for Kevin McCarthy. He will be the speaker of the House.

After considerable confusion… to put it mildly, McCarthy has 216 votes after Matt Gaetz abstains.

And a motion to adjourn until Monday has failed and I think there will be fisticuffs!

As another round of voting ensues, another “present” vote, and McCarthy looks to be headed to the speaker’s chair.

I Hope They Hold Out Until January 6th

In Overnight Vote, Buffalo Guy Elected Speaker Of The House

Kevin McCarthy has lost again, in the 8th round of voting.

And a 9th.

From Jordan Schachtel: Hearing that McCarthy is now offering major concessions to House Freedom Caucus in exchange for his seat. The “what’s the plan?” uniparty roosters are about to have major egg on their faces. He’s going to give up the farm BECAUSE THEY HELD THE LINE.

Tis The Fashion Nowadays

Of weak, woke, western governments to scrape together a “threat” and elevate it as a warning to the political opposition.

Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. […]

An estimated 50 men and women are alleged to have been part of the group, said to have plotted to overthrow the republic and replace it with a new state modelled on the Germany of 1871 – an empire called the Second Reich.

“We don’t yet have a name for this group,” said a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor’s office. The interior minister said it was apparently made up of an organisation “council” and a military arm.

Wednesday’s dawn raids are being described as one of the biggest anti-extremism operations in modern German history. Three thousand officers took part in 150 operations in 11 of Germany’s 16 states, with two people arrested in Austria and Italy.

Almost half of arrests took place in southern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.

Sure, whatever.

These Boots Were Made For Talkin’

“It’s deeply concerning for me that Albertans have a premier who doesn’t understand the real risks that Canadians and Albertans are faced with”.

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Bumped, for an update from @CoryBMorgan on a “fight for Democracy” protest at the Alberta leg today;

Now this is hilarious.

The anti-Sovereignty Act protesters only amounted to 20. That’s why Gil McGowan is having temper tantrums. He embarrassed himself with that turnout

So this guy films the pro-Sovereignty Act demonstrators and implies they are part of the opposition

Apple’s Tim Cook is an Anti-Freedom, Anti-Human Rights, Anti-Free Speech Disgrace!

Tim Cook is said to be a prominent member of the LGBT community and the Left. But when it comes to the human rights of a billion people in China, he is fully supportive of oppressing them:

What an absolute coward!!!

The New Class

Glenn Reynolds;

Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas called these party hacks the “New Class,” noting that instead of workers and peasants against capitalists, it was now a case of workers and peasants being ruled by a managerial new class of technocrats who, while purporting to act for the benefit of the workers and peasants, somehow wound up with the lion’s share of the goodies. Workers and peasants stood in long lines for bread and shoddy household goods, while party leaders and government managers bought imported delicacies in special, secret stores. (In a famous Soviet joke, then-leader Leonid Brezhnev shows his mother his luxury apartment, his limousine, his fancy country house and his helicopter only to have her object: “But what if the communists come back?”) . . .

But the New Class isn’t limited to communist countries, really. Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements. And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

If it wasn’t for fake news, there’d be no news at all.

Larry, a 71-year-old retired insurance broker and Donald Trump fan from Alabama, wouldn’t be likely to run into the liberal Emma, a 25-year-old graphic designer from New York City, on social media — even if they were both real.

Each is a figment of BBC reporter Marianna Spring’s imagination. She created five fake Americans and opened social media accounts for them, part of an attempt to illustrate how disinformation spreads on sites like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok despite efforts to stop it, and how that impacts American politics.

And they weren’t stereotypes at all.

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