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The Notion That the Tweeter Machine is the Place to go for Info on What's Happening — Destroyed by Twitter.

I would love to read an essay on the ever-morphing definition of misinformation/disinformation. Seems that it has gone from being a description of Holocaust denial/anti-vax to a word to tag any content that seems to help the political right? https://t.co/jdwLu2Uxdv

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) October 15, 2020

You're seeing the immense, unchallengeable, unaccountable power of Silicon Valley giants over the flow of information. Imagine if Google joins in.

What's so amazing is that they never wanted this role. It was foisted on them by people, led by journalists, demanding they censor: https://t.co/cFBfV97Ylt

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 14, 2020

Congrats to twitter on its Streisand Effect award!!! 👏 👏 👏 pic.twitter.com/xQXqIDqwFT

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 15, 2020

H/T Ann Althouse

 

The Barrett Death Star is Fully Operational.

Crazy Mazie Hirono

Does Amy Coney Barrett hate medicine? I'm not asking whether she dislikes swallowing pills and anything that smacks of what children refer to as "yucky medicine taste." I am thinking of something more visceral: seething rage at the thought that somewhere a child might be having his appendix removed instead of dying after it ruptures, or impassioned ranting against the iniquity of a widowed grandmother getting insulin for her diabetes.

I am asking because this kind of cartoon villainy is roughly the impression being projected as Judge Amy's character that one might get after listening to hours of loose babble from self righteous showboating Democrats during the early Senate hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court.

In Barrett's America, according to the psycho Hawaiian pineapple, Senator Mazie Hirono, who would have you believe bands of warlords will roam the streets shaking down St. Jude Mathathons and burning the results of screenings for testicular cancer. The funny thing about the absurd sounding hypotheticals raised by Hirono about the consequences of Barrett's nomination for her own health is that at no point did she acknowledge that she has spent most of her adult life eligible for the top tier, gold plated state & federal government health-care plans you and I payed for.

Apart from these absurd insinuations about judge Amy coming for your physical therapy pillow, the hearing was memorable largely for its technological mishaps. I have never felt more comfortable with the 17th amendment's insistence that the men and women of the Senate are the people's chosen representatives than I did seeing them struggle with Zoom like the rest of us.

Headlines like "Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has seven kids. And don't you dare forget it," which is unusually nasty even by the standards of Jeff Bezos' newspaper, tell the story of Monday far more succinctly than I could. Because I do not make a habit of attempting psycho-sexual readings of the behavior of those with whom I disagree, I will not comment on the bizarre media fixation on a certain science fiction novel that forms the basis for comments like these:

It’s a very weird thing to watch these old creeps congratulate a handmaid on her clown car vagina.

— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) October 12, 2020

Similar examples could be multiplied infinitely. But this bickering is pointless.

The Barrett Death Star is fully operational. The vacancy is there. The nomination has been made. Republicans have the votes, and on Oct. 22, ACB will be confirmed as the 115th Justice of the Supreme Court.

I for one will rejoice.

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The Toughest Job in America - Joe Biden’s Sign Language Interpreter.

Thanks to a Marie Claire magazine article published earlier this year, we know Biden isn’t a drinker.  But you wouldn't know it by his slurring of speech as he navigated his opening comments while addressing what looked like a small crowd of used car and trucks in Toledo, like a crazy scene one might expect to find in a Quentin Tarantino movie.

No one has ever accuse Joe of eloquence, he lacks it in every way, shape and form. Here it appears Biden was attempting to lament the decline of America’s automobile industry relative to where it was just a few decades ago. Or something......

“Well, I tell you what. I uh — my dad was a modelbile man. I got through uh — school, and we got through uhhh — being ableduleadt after we lost a job up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, eyadda move down to Delaware Because uh, by cause it’s Ellen General Motors products— and so uhhh, I’ve known and my state — used to have the largest percentage of auto workers of any state in the nation.” 

It was a bit hard to understand, probably mostly for Biden’s sign language interpreter. That’s gotta be a difficult job. God bless him. The look on the interpreter's face at times is golden.

Biden’s opening remarks, laughably, were delivered from a podium which read “Build Back Better,” which is a slogan Biden apparently ripped off from British prime minister Boris Johnson. 

I know it might seem a bit callous to rip a frail man for his syntax, or lack of lucidity. But remember, Joe Biden is the chosen leader of the Democratic Party, and that party has spent more than four years attempting to utterly destroy DJT with lies and vicious personal attacks. He's the leader of people who viciously attacked you too for your support DJT. 

As far as presidential remarks go, DJT's ad libitum approach to speaking is preferable to the empty speeches of politicians such as Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama and so many others. He’s a man bogged down by himself.

Something is going on in that head of his, and he can’t always tell us what it is. God only knows.....

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Spartacus Mansplains to Judge Amy

Cory Booker has really made a name for himself as the US Senate's leading drama queen. The senator, who laughingly ran a campaign for president caused a huge reaction as he screeched about “reproductive rights” and the Affordable Care Act in today's Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings. In fact, all the Democrats stayed on script beating up Coney Barrett over the ACA, the unafordable care act.

As Judge Amy sat there silently, she must have thought it was a damn circus and laughed a little under her mask at the spectacle of Democrats’ attempts to preach about legislation like the ACA, knowingly good and well that Supreme Court Justices don’t enact or write legislation. 

Although Booker might not wish to admit, acknowledge, or even consider this reality, abortion is not a “personal medical decision.” It isn’t medical at all. There is no medical procedure that has as its chief aim the destruction of a human life. Booker’s behavior toward Coney Barrett was so horrendous, actor James Woods tweeted out a pic of the Supreme Court nominee holding up a crucifix to ward Booker off:

pic.twitter.com/CEl2KetP5s

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 12, 2020

Woods’ also blasted the soft skulls at the leftist rag, Slate Magazine, who posted: “Barrett has established who she is: a shameless careerist who believes nobody can stop her.” 

What Spartacus was saying is that he’s got a sandy vagina and that makes him an expert on women’s reproductive rights. Or something. His performance as the biggest Democrat drama queen did not go unnoticed, as he got duly roasted on the tweeter machine.  His phony anger and his tearless sympathy for the “little people” made most of what he's learned from his actor girl friend.  Booker remains a shameless charlatan who gets paid $174,000 a year, and for what? So he can screech at Amy Coney Barrett, one of the best legal minds in America.

Amy Coney Barrett has forgotten more about the law and our justice system than Cory Booker has ever known.

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Never Seen This One Before

Looks like both Barky and Big Mike before their hormone treatments kicked in....