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Must We Now Hate ‘Hillbilly Elegy’?

Here’s a really punchy interview with Batya Ungar-Sargon, op-ed editor of the liberal-leaning Jewish newspaper The Forward, on the meaning of contemporary liberalism. Ungar-Sargon says that Covid has exposed a class divide:

There’s a huge Covid class divide. The economy has not just bounded back for upper income Americans; it’s given them higher housing values and lower interest rates. Meanwhile, 12 million service industry workers are still out of work. Small businesses are struggling. The affluent see Covid as a health problem, while for the working class it’s about economic survival. And liberals are doing the same thing they did with Trump: Clothing their class privilege as science and facts and morality.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•Culture Wars

Why I had to leave The Guardian – If you were bullied by 338 colleagues, what would you do?

It is March 2020. For several months now I have been trying to write something — anything — about the so-called “trans debate” in my Guardian column. But if I ever slip a line in about female experience belonging to people with female bodies, and the significance of this, it is always subbed out. It is disappeared. Somehow, this very idea is being blocked, not explicitly, but it certainly isn’t being published. My editors say things like: “It didn’t really add to the argument”, or it is a “distraction” from the argument.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•Big Tranny

‘In the Trump era, the media abandoned objectivity’

Donald Trump’s time in the White House is coming to an end. One of the most remarkable developments during his term was the transformation of the media into the ‘Resistance’. Many journalists no longer saw their role as to report the world objectively, impartially or even truthfully. Instead, they were possessed by an all-consuming desire to bring down Trump. Stories that could damage Trump were relentlessly pursued, even if there was little to back them up. Meanwhile, major stories, such as the worst rioting in 50 years in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests, were barely explored, seemingly in case they benefitted Trump. How did the media get here? And what does it mean for the future of journalism?

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Vatican Unveils Bizarre 2020 Nativity Scene

Seriously?

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•WTF?

The Return of Obama–Biden Energy Cronyism

Green lobbyists and other Obama favorites are about to enter a new golden age.

After 47 years in government, hundreds of relationships with Washington insiders, and a son who made millions off the family name from foreign regimes, the media is “shocked” that the incoming Biden administration is planning on filling dozens of high-level positions with lobbyists.

From pharmaceutical to Big Tech lobbyists, the Biden administration is placing the “Open for Business” sign at the D.C. trough. Among those most excited to start feasting are the energy industry lobbyists, who made millions during the Obama–Biden years.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•Green-Scam

“They’re very easy targets”: Old Order Mennonite churches, schools shut by public health

Old Order Mennonites have had their churches and schools forcibly closed following what the local health authority deemed an “outbreak” of COVID-19.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

The Stealing of the Presidency, 2020

The left-wing news media didn’t just poison the information environment with their incessantly negative coverage of President Trump going into the 2020 election. They also refused to give airtime to important arguments of the Republican campaign — both pro-Trump and anti-Biden — which meant millions of voters cast their ballots knowing only what the media permitted them to know about the candidates.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•"US Presidential Election 2020", The Media Lies

WTF?

Salvador, Brazil: Four men attempted to rob a convenience store at the moment a customer was paying for his goods. Forced to lay flat, one of the robbers attempts to check the man. A poor job at best and that cost him and his two idiot friends their lives as they exchange fire with the officer.

Long tumble

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•WTF?

Matt Drudge Logs Off

The Drudge Report has become a conformist shadow of its formerly bratty, oppositional self. Why?

It was the kind of story that would once have had Matt Drudge deploying font sizes that newspapers used to reserve for declarations of war. On Oct. 14, Twitter and Facebook blocked users from spreading a New York Post article alleging that Hunter Biden had brokered meetings between his father, then the vice president of the United States, and executives at a Ukrainian energy firm where the younger Biden held an $80,000-a-month sinecure. The Post’s article included photos of what appeared to be an exhausted and intoxicated-looking Biden in various states of undress.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•The Media

Canada’s climate-change child soldiers: The exploitation of children to front a climate-change lawsuit is ethically troubling

On Nov. 12 an Ontario judge refused to strike out a lawsuit by a group of two minor children and five youths alleging that the Ontario government’s 2018 reduction in its climate-change target by 15 per cent violates their constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of the person. This judgment conflicts with a judgment of the Federal Court two weeks earlier, striking out an almost identical claim. The Ontario court should have followed the Federal Court precedent.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•Green-Scam

Google Plots to Use the Biden Administration to Avoid Accountability

Biden’s administration will be packed with Big Tech insiders.

Google is crafting plans to convince the incoming Biden administration to allow it to continue its growing monopoly over the internet.

The company, facing an antitrust suit from the Department of Justice and heightened public opposition to its power, will conduct an aggressive campaign on the Biden administration, including deploying an army of lobbyists paid millions of dollars and mobilizing tech insiders within the administration.

Google will find it far easier to influence the Biden administration than the Trump administration.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•Google, Google is Evil

Bribed: Subverting American Universities

A recent governmental report exposes the “purchased” influence foreign nations have on America’s most prestigious universities and, as a result, on what America’s current and upcoming generations of analysts and policymakers will think and believe.

More than one-third of the nearly $20 billion in foreign donations and contracts made to American universities between just 2014 and 2020 were never disclosed as required by federal law, according to “Institutional Compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965,” a Department of Education report released on October 20, 2020.

Among those “gifts” were more than $3 billion from the Muslim Brotherhood’s number one state backer, Qatar; more than $1.1 billion from the chief disseminator of “radical” Islamic ideology, Saudi Arabia; and nearly $1.5 billion from China.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•Batshit crazy Universities

Trump pardons Michael Flynn

President Trump on Wednesday pardoned Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser who pleaded guilty to a charge in connection with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Trump announced the decision in a tweet, saying he was honored to grant Flynn a “Full Pardon.” He congratulated his former national security adviser and wished him a Happy Thanksgiving.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020•0•USA

New York Times still pushing Chinese propaganda, staffers still don’t care

Staffers at the New York Times are apparently still too exhausted from being angry about Sen. Tom Cotton to have any thoughts on their employer’s continued promotion of pro-communist agitprop.

On Tuesday, as President-elect Joe Biden continues his transition into the White House, the paper of record published an opinion article authored by a high-ranking Chinese government official titled, “Cooperative Competition Is Possible Between China and the U.S.”

The story’s subhead reads, “A former vice foreign minister of China proposes a way forward for the world’s two leading powers.”

China Joe approves.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", New York Times

Child Abuse? HBO Max Documentary Celebrates 4-Year-Old Boy’s Transgender Identity

This month, HBO Max released the documentary Transhood, a film celebrating transgender identity for children as young as age four. According to director/producer Sharon Liese, the film’s central characters — children ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 — “redefine ‘coming of age.’” Many conservatives rightly condemned the film as “child abuse,” launching a Twitter hashtag “#BoycottHBO.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•"They really do want your children", Big Tranny, WTF?