The Gateway Pundit "Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana is a gem who has a way with words and a great sense of humor.
"During a recent appearance on FOX News, he called out Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and various other Democrats for constantly accusing other Americans of racism.
"He said that the American people are tired of it, and is he ever right." . . .
Apart from Trump, what other president, Democrat or Republican, acted upon closing the southern border? None. What other president promised and delivered moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? None. And what other president stood up to the one-sided trade practices of China? None.
American Thinker . . ."Such is the case with the election and rejection of President Donald Trump and the subsequent appearance of President Joe Biden.
"These men didn't just happen. President Trump was elected on the heels of eight disappointing years of President Barack Obama — a presidency that saw America embarrassed and diminished on the world stage, a sinking economy, and many Americans' dismal outlook of the future.
"Trump was seen as the antidote to the self-serving establishment. Always a threat as a true outsider, he became the establishments' kryptonite when he started to fight back, something Republicans had little stomach for. " . . .
Andrea Widberg . . ."I'm pretty sure that the people advancing the endless shots do not intend for everyone who had them to die, which is what some people fear. Instead, I believe that the pressure for vaccines lies in two things: profit and power. A lot of people are getting very rich thanks to vaccines and, now, an unending number of boosters. And across Europe and America, way too many small-minded, stupid political leaders are accruing terrifying amounts of power. At the end of the day, if I had to choose between a disease with a <1% mortality rate and a power-mad political class, I'll take the first every time."
The Top 10 COVID Villains of 2021 - American Thinker "Your humble correspondent hoped to have this retrospective completed by the start of the New Year, but a tussle with omicron intervened. Nevertheless, it still seems worthwhile to pause and remember the worst COVID offenders of 2021.
"As we do so, questions inevitably arise. When will these wrongdoers be held accountable for the death and destruction they have wrought on our world? What should their punishments be? How should they be made examples of — cautionary tales to dissuade those who might plot similar evils in the future?
"Without further ado, here are our Top 10 COVID-19 Villains of 2021."
UPDATE: Babylon Bee: Trans M&M
M&Ms Introduces New Trans Character Who Identifies As A Skittle | The Babylon Bee
"As part of a bold new marketing strategy to promote inclusivity and appeal to less than 1% of the population, Mars, Incorporated has introduced a new M&M character who identifies as a Skittle.
" 'I'm gonna be honest here. We basically are doing this because it's hip and makes us look cool," said Mars, Incorporated CEO Franklin Crunchy. "And that adds to the bottom line. I think we can make a decent fortune by comparing the hardship of real trans people to a wacky cartoon character."
" 'Trans people deserve to be represented by M&Ms," he continued. "Our Trans-Skittle character will help us break chocolate-covered barriers in your mouth and not in your hands."
"The new character, named Quinn, is an M&M that wears an "S" because they haven't had letter reassignment surgery yet. On the inside, Quinn has the same chocolate taste because it isn't able to change anything but its outward appearance.
" 'We just want to let the trans community know that M&M supports you and wants your money!" said the Mars CEO.
"The LGBTQ+ community took to Twitter to ask why there isn't a Latinx M&M. "Do better," tweeted user @ihatemyself.". . .
"Mars, Incorporated, the producer of the popular M&Ms, announced this week that its famed characters will get a "modern makeover" and that will include more "nuanced personalities," as part of a "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."
"Not Changing the Colors
"More than 400 million of the colorful, candy-coated chocolates are produced daily and eaten around the world. The original colors included red, yellow, green, brown, orange and violet. In 1949, tan replaced violet – only to be replaced by blue in 1995.
"However, those familiar colors won't be changing. Rather, it is the personas of the M&Ms that are getting a makeover.
"As TheHill.com reported, the current green M&M character, which has been seen in ads posing seductively and wearing white go-go boots, will now sport a pair of sneakers instead. In addition, the description for the green candy on the M&M's website noted that she enjoys "being a hypewoman for my friends."
"Via the M&M's promotional site, the green M&M character added, "I think we all win when we see more women in leading roles, so I'm happy to take on the part of supportive friend when they succeed."
"Another character, the brown M&M, described her motto as, "Not bossy. Just the boss."
"Social Media Reacts To The Change". . .
"The truth is going to keep coming out … and all roads are going to lead to big health care," he added. "Follow the money and you're going to see what's driving all of this."
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Fox News "Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, condemned the left's COVID response Thursday on "Fox News Primetime."
"Democrats are "making it harder to get a burger in Washington … than it is to get carjacked," Roy told guest host Pete Hegseth.
"A Centers for Disease Control & Prevention study suggested natural immunity against COVID-19 provided better protection against the delta variant than vaccination alone, Roy said.
"The study noted vaccination is still the safest preventative strategy against the virus.
" 'It's not about science, right?" he asked. "This is all about power.". . .
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DC RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT AFTER NIGHT OF BRAZEN SHOOTINGS: 'DEFINITELY AN INCREASE IN VIOLENCE'
Just in time for the State of the Union. Could Ms. Powers have been assigned this job by Zucker? What was her reaction upon being told to write these words?
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"It's hard to see this through the blizzard of over-the-top headlines such as, "
Biden Can Still Rescue His Presidency," "How the Biden Administration Lost Its Way" and "Biden's Epic Failures.". . .
It seems that whatever Biden's flaws, the country is in a better place than it was when he took office, something that was not a given considering the challenges he was up against. Like all presidents, he is clearly absorbing the lessons of the first year and recalibrating for the next.
This... is CNN!
CNN analyst implores Joe Manchin to leave Democrat Party: 'It would be better off'
During an appearance on "Don Lemon Tonight," Powers slammed Manchin over his lack of outright support for the bill and, appearing to forget that Democrats only maintain control of the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote, called on Manchin to either become a Republican or independent.
Which is worse: your grandparents being deported or being followed into a bathroom (bc you refused to stop and listen) by ppl desperate for your help? This is not a trick question.
Althouse "The obsessive emphasis on race is further dividing people, when the real fighters for civil rights dreamed precisely about erasing differences and refusing to divide people by skin color.... Incidentally... I think this should remind you of something that is happening. And we see what is happening in the Western countries. It is with puzzlement that we see the practices Russia used to have and that we left behind."
"Said Vladimir Putin, making the news last October (in the Boston Herald), but I'm thinking about them this morning because yesterday — prompted by YouTube's algorithm — we watched this new Jordan Peterson video:"
"He gets so emotional that you might feel that he's raving, losing control, but he is reading something that was already published — here — so the emotion is some combination of performance and a real-time reaction to his own words. The words are locked in by the pre-existing text. Excerpt:
[T]his is on you. Professors. Cowering cravenly in pretence and silence. Teaching your students to dissimulate and lie. To get along. As the walls crumble. For shame. CEOs:...Why the hell don’t you banish the human resource DIE [Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity] upstarts back to the more-appropriately-named Personnel departments, stop them from interfering with the psyches of you and your employees, and be done with it? Musicians, artists, writers: stop bending your sacred and meritorious art to the demands of the propagandists before you fatally betray the spirit of your own intuition. Stop censoring your thought. Stop saying you will hire for your orchestral and theatrical productions for any reason other than talent and excellence. That’s all you have. That’s all any of us have.
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New Rule: Losing to China | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube "Bill warns Americans that while they're busy obsessing over silly culture wars, China is overtaking them on the world stage." Be sure to read the comments: click on this subject below this. video here TD
"Only the Taliban is happy.
"A withdrawal from Afghanistan may have been necessary, but it didn’t have to happen this way. Only 2,500 soldiers were there anyway – about the same as in Iraq. As in Iraq, this small number kept relative peace. The last American soldier killed in Afghanistan was a year and a half ago. That’s one more dead soldier than I’d like, but it’s a violent world and soldiers keeping the peace have a dangerous job.
"Biden assured us just a month ago that this wouldn’t happen. He said the Afghan soldiers far outnumbered the Taliban, and there would be no “Saigon” moment where American embassy staff are helicoptered from the roof of the embassy as the barbarians bang down the gate." . . .
Our denier-in-chief would have us believe that no, he’s not losing it, the Ukraine situation is fine, and there’s nothing to see here in his dismal poll numbers.
"Thursday, on Hugh Hewitt’s show, Sen. Rand Paul summed up the Joe Biden one-year anniversary press gaggle accurately.
"Paul said that putting Biden out in public is now dangerous. It signals weakness to our enemies and it’s provocative.
"He’s right, you know. That press conference was awful in ways that shouldn’t be possible for the elected leader of the world’s indispensable nation.
"How bad was it? Well …"
Point #2 was, to me, the most significant as Democrats lay the groundwork to challenge any Republican victory predicted this coming year:
2. Pre-slandering the 2022 election "
"It turns out that Joe Biden is as bad as they accused Trump of being. In one of the lowlights of the speech, Biden attacked the legitimacy of the 2022 midterms in which his party is due to suffer a legendary rout. The latest Trafalgar poll has the generic congressional ballot in uncharted territory — 55.7 percent R, 42.2 percent D.
"Amid this, Biden says that if the Senate won’t kill the filibuster and give him his Banana Republic Vote Fraud Bill, then the 2022 midterm elections are bogus: . ."
Perception vs Reality: Leftist Journos See What They Want to See – RedState
"But objective facts are not in style with our betters. PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor couldn’t wait for Joe’s corpse to cool; she resurrected and pretended to reanimate Joe, like Weekend at Bernie’s. She alerted her followers that Biden had won the night, and won her heart. In a stunningly Bagdad Bob-like tweet, she lavished praise on Biden.
"If you wonder what level of leg-humping it was, Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain retweeted it. My colleague, Sister Toldjah covered and critiqued in full the absurdity of Alcindor’s adulation here, but suffice to say, Alcindor was looking through rose-colored glasses. She didn’t see what the rest of America saw.
"Alcindor and other leftist journos might see Superman, but the rest of America sees a doddering old man.". . .
Yes, the Tunnel Wall has been scathingly anti-Democrat just as our left-wing media has been anti-Trump and will be anti-any-Republican who comes next. TW sees America in great danger as the world sees us as a silly nation with our wokeness and ridiculous choices for national leadership. Our silliness may soon manifest itself in a Shift From U.S. Dollar As World Reserve Currency Underway - What Will This Mean for America? I see it as beginning with Obama and accelerating under left-ruled Joe Biden. TD
We want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations. Just as there are no minor casualties and little grief from the loss of loved ones. I say this as the President of a great power. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
‘You Know, If I Were You, I’d Go After Finland,’ Says Biden Trying To Dissuade Putin From Invading Ukraine https://t.co/5pWAwglrCq pic.twitter.com/UIdx0nm1ST
— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 19, 2022
"One wonders whether it is still possible to enjoy family entertainment that is not doomed to be turned into leftist agitprop. Perhaps a sad farewell and a kiss goodbye is all that’s left for us to give those who were once in the business of romantic, family friendly television such as Hallmark and GAC Family."
"Recently, Joseph Cotto and I discussed on our regular podcast the fate of the Hallmark Channel, which I have viewed periodically while moving with my remote button toward Turner Classic Movies. (On Turner I find old movies, popular during my youth, that have not yet been canceled.) What drew me, however briefly, to the Hallmark Channel were its two-hour romance stories starring photogenic young couples who radiate good will. After the predictable vicissitudes, these beaming young couples emotionally kiss during the last 30 seconds of each story and then express their desire to wed.
"Of course, I have never been able to watch the full unfolding of any of these budding romances, because in their sweetness they start to cloy after about 10 minutes. But it is nice to see normal young people on TV who hail mostly from small towns and possess courteous, kindly parents. Yet even these sickly sweet shows are not safe from diversity’s alleged fairy dust, and Hallmark’s move in this direction should cause those who support traditional values to stand up and protest, rather than to watch one last kiss cross the television—the kiss of death.
"Hallmark appears to pander to diversity in two different ways: racial and sexual. The first is evidenced by the increasing insertion of minority actors into these two-hour romance stories whether or not they fit the plots. Despite the incongruity of racial minorities filling hamlets that look as if they had been settled by Scandinavians, it is apparent that such moves are evidence of the harmless diversity the producers are trying to offer in a world hypersensitive to race.
"But it is the Hallmark Channel’s pandering to sexual diversity that is the real problem. In December of 2019, things began to change aggressively when the channel, under the guidance of its holding company Crown Media and its CEO Bill Abbott, decided to feature a lesbian couple in advertisements for Zola, a wedding-planning website. The ads showed the two women kissing and exchanging vows. This experiment in wokeness caused complaints to pour in, and the ads were pulled." . . .