Neil Young tried to cancel Joe Rogan but ended up ‘cancelling himself’

Sky News “ 'Ageing rocker” Neil Young tried to cancel Joe Rogan but ended up “canceling himself,” according to Sky News host Rita Panahi.

"The Canadian-American singer protested podcaster Joe Rogan’s presence on the popular streaming service Spotify, saying he would withdraw his music if Rogan remained on Spotify.". . .

. . ."“This attempt to silence dissenting voices reveals an unlikely totalitarian streak in Neil Young,”Ms Panahi said. 

" Ms Panahi said Spotify's decision to pull Mr Young’s music from the streaming platform “is not a great surprise,” given Joe Rogan's audience dwarfs “not only most musicians but a number of mainstream media outlets in the US”.

 “Neil is of course is free to criticise, mock or just ignore any content he doesn't like but trying to use his influence to deplatform Rogan was deplorable,” she said.

 “And, in the end, he only succeeded in deplatforming himself from the world's biggest audio streaming service. What an own goal.”

Why (Biden-trolling Putin) Has Not Been Deterred

 With Putin’s nemesis, Trump, gone, Russia assumes the appeasement years of the Obama-Biden Administration are back again. As in 2014, once more Putin is moving against his neighbors. 

Political Cartoons (townhall.com)

 Victor Davis Hanson – PJ Media  . . ."In a recent Pew Research Center poll, 70 percent of Germans voiced a desire for more cooperation with Russia. Most Americans poll the exact opposite.

"Worse, 60 percent of Germans oppose going to the aid of any NATO country in time of war. Over 70 percent of Germans term their relationship with the United States as “bad.”

"We can translate all these disturbing results in the following manner: The German and Turkish people like or trust Russia more than they do their own NATO patron, America.

"They would not support participating in any NATO joint military effort against even an invading Russia — even, or especially, if spearheaded by an unpopular United States.

"So, assume that NATO’s key two members are either indifferent to the fate of nearby Ukraine or sympathetic to Russia’s professed grievances — or both.

"Indeed, most Americans fear that if Ukraine ever became a NATO member, Putin might be even more eager to test its sovereignty.

"Putin assumes that not all NATO members would intervene to help an attacked Ukraine, as required by their mutual defense obligations under Article 5.

"If they did not, Putin could then both absorb Ukraine and unravel the NATO alliance all at once.

"There are more complications in the Ukrainian mess.". . .

Meanwhile, China smiles, hoping the Ukraine blueprint can be used against Taiwan. (Emphasis added; TD)

Putin Trolls Biden: Communists & Dems Share 'Common Values' While Trump Record Hard On Russia | ZeroHedge   . . ."Apparently seeing in this an opportunity for some epic trolling, Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV days ago said it was actually the Democratic Party and the Communist Party which have most in common. 

"Putin was speaking in terms of historic Soviet communism in the recent interview (Wednesday) detailed in Newsweek. "The Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called liberal values, closer to social democratic ideas," Putin began. "And it was from the social democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved.' ". . .

Tom Hanks’ latest project could be called “Saving President Biden.”

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Tom Hanks boosts Pres. Biden's first year in office - New York Daily News  . . ."Biden’s message to the nation generated plenty of buzz on the internet, in no small part because it somewhat mirrored a scene from the 2007 animated movie “The Simpsons,” featuring Hanks doing a public relations spot for the U.S. government.

"  'Hello. I’m Tom Hanks. The U.S. government has lost its credibility, so it’s borrowing some of mine,” a cartoon Hanks says, trying to explain that a newly created giant crater is actually a new Grand Canyon. “This is Tom Hanks saying, if you’re going to pick a government to trust, why not this one?”

"The Biden administration passed an historic trillion dollar infrastructure deal in late 2021 that’s expected to send billions of dollars to New York to strengthen roads and tunnels.

"Hanks last appeared on Biden’s behalf a year ago when he hosted a star-studded “Celebrating America” extravaganza, marking the inauguration of the newly elected president. That included performances by Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and the Foo Fighters." . . .

Where We Are: School District Addresses Whether It's Installed Litter Boxes for Furry-Identifying Students

 RedState

"Did a Michigan school district recently place kitty litter boxes in restrooms for those expressing their fecally feline identity?

"Per the New York Post, such a stinky question was recently posed online.

"And Midland Public Schools had to clear the air.

"The saga began last month with parent Lisa Hansen. At a December school board meeting, she claimed a Midland student had informed her that — in “at least one of [the] schools in…town, in one of the unisex bathrooms” — there had been placed “a litter box for the kids that identify as cats.”

"In footage posted online, she told the board she was “really disturbed.”

“I’m all for creativity and imagination, but when someone lives in a fantasy world and expects other people to go along with it, I have a problem with that.”

"Her horror refers to a sexual identity known as “furry.”

"From the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine: . ."

Buyer’s remorse versus the State of California

 I’d love to ask Boris Johnson in England why he just did an about-face. I’m guessing he looked at the readily available information, then decided to end all mandates for his country because they were counterproductive. Isn’t it time we did the same? Oh, wait…. We have a government that wants to perpetuate the delusion at all costs, including destroying our children’s lives.  TP

  Terry Paulding  "A new bill has been proposed in California’s legislature. State senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) wants to require COVID “vaccination” for all the state’s schoolchildren, K-12 ostensibly to make schools “safe.” Meanwhile, there’s reality, which dictates that buyer’s remorse is hitting the populace in heavily vaccinated countries. But still, the press ignores it all.

"In Israel, with a 95% vaccination rate, there are currently nearly 450,000 active cases. There are fewer than 10,000,000 Israeli citizens, so around one in 20 Israelis currently have COVID. Denmark is similar—highly vaccinated, with an infection rate higher than ever before. Higher, even, than before there were vaccines.

"Even as California doubles down on stupid, the case rate there is falling as Omicron runs thorough and the death rate, already low from the variant, is down even more. My county, Alameda, sits at -2 deaths for the last two weeks. I guess that means they decided two people didn’t actually die of the virus. Since January 11, nine people have died of COVID, and 11 have been eliminated from the death toll. In the last week, one person died in a county of just under 1.7 million residents. Yet we’re moving towards more restrictions.

"With the disclaimer that I am not really comfortable with statistics and math, I dig into the numbers. I looked up “all-cause mortality” for California and found a curious thing." . . .

Justice Kamala Harris Will Never Happen

I do fear for our formerly great nation with this Democrat Party in charge. TD

Settle down, everyone. Washington’s cackling mediocrity won’t be tapped for the Supreme Court vacancy.  

 National Review  "Close Twitter, turn off your TV, and suppress the palace whispering for a moment so that you might better understand a truth that obtains now, and for all time beyond: Vice President Kamala Harris is not going to be nominated for the United States Supreme Court. The idea is a joke, a reverie, a distraction. Harris has none of the qualifications for the job; she has none of the support she’d need to get there; and, as even her most ardent fans must by now intuit, her elevation would be a disaster for her own side. That President Biden has attached himself to such an anvil may be plausibly regarded as a misfortune. To attach himself twice would look like carelessness.

"As for the agreement of the Senate? Fuggedaboutit. The case in favor is that the Democrats — even Biden himself — are desperate to get rid of her. But the Supreme Court is for life, not for Christmas. At this rate, Democrats will be rid of Kamala Harris in just under three excruciating years. If, by contrast, she were to be parachuted onto the Supreme Court, she would blot their escutcheon for life. If you want a picture of a future in which Harris is wearing a black robe, imagine a cackling mediocrity dissenting fruitlessly from the bench — forever.

"Besides, there is such a thing as going too far with a ruse. The Democrats have become pretty darned unsubtle about their desire to treat the Court as a super-legislature, but adding the sitting vice president to its ranks would make their game clear to even the dullest of political observers. It is one thing to find the right to abortion in the emanations and penumbras of an 18th-century script, but it is quite another to find the unabridged text of Build Back Better. Imagine, if you will, an opinion that begins, “It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day,” and you’ll have the full measure of the futility that Harris would bring to bear. And for what? If the Democrats wanted a garrulous platitude machine who was willing to toe the line, they would have urged Justice Breyer to stay.". . .

Justice Breyer's Retirement May Not Be All Bad News for Conservatives | National Review

The New York Times reports that Justice Breyer intends to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of this term. If President Biden can pick a nominee who is palatable to the 50 senators who caucus with his party, he will be able to replace Breyer fairly quickly. Despite the fact that this will mean swapping Breyer for a younger non-originalist justice (not great, Bob!), I can think of at least four reasons that this is better news for conservatives than it might at first seem.

 The Shortlist for SCOTUS and How the GOP Could Block the Nominee – RedState

. . ."This may reveal some of that backbiting effort on the left to try to push Breyer out the door so they could get a younger appointee from Biden, something Breyer probably doesn’t appreciate. But the left wants him out the door before the possible change in Congress when Republicans could potentially take over the Senate and then pose a greater problem to a nominee. If they’re able to put through someone now, they likely would have Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and they might get the Republican squishes like Sen. Mitt Romney (RINO-UT) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (RINO-AK)" . . .