The lede from the AP’s story about what happened last night is unbeatable: “The gold medalist said she felt empty. The silver medalist pledged never to skate again. The favorite left in tears without saying a word.”
Congratulations to Russia, which took first, second, and fourth places in women’s figure-skating while turning the competition into a sh*tshow so repellent that sportswriters were using terms like “child abuse” afterward to describe what went down.
A group of anti-pipeline protesters attacked a pipeline worksite in British Columbia, Canada early Wednesday morning in what appears to be a highly coordinated assault with axes and blockades that resulted in widespread destruction.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they are “investigating an incident where individuals allegedly engaged in a violent confrontation with employees of Coastal GasLink, and with attending police officers along the Morice River Forest Service Road near Houston, BC.”
The Canadian truckers are expressing the universal human aspiration to act like an American even if you aren’t one
An op-ed in the Washington Post about the Canadian truckers’ protest tells us that the idea of freedom is “White” with a capital W and that the truckers’ belief in freedom is “a key component of White supremacy.” This is about as sensible as saying that the idea of gravity is “English” or that the Post reports the news. True, Newton’s apple fell in England and the Post looks like a newspaper, but gravity is universal. The same goes for stupidity, though that takes many forms, and for the impulse to be free, though that too takes many forms, some of them stupid.
Taylor Dysart, the author of this insult to reason, is a white PhD student at private Ivy League university. Color me shocked.
“NBC’s primetime coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics averaged 7.87 million viewers on Monday,” reports Sports Media Watch, “8.70 million on Tuesday and an all-time low 6.93 million on Wednesday[.]”
To put that 6.93 million number into perspective, 7.4 million tuned in to the cable TV show Yellowstone last November. That wasn’t even the season finale. That was the fourth episode of the fourth season.
Washington DC police have nixed officers’ leave over the next week to prepare for a caravan for Freedom Convoy protesters currently headed toward the nation’s capitol, sources close to the DC police department have revealed.
According to the insiders, the department is currently mobilizing hundreds of its officers to spearhead a large response plan against truck convoys across the nation poised to travel to the US Capitol next week in support of vaccine mandate protests started in Canada late last month that have since spread across the globe, NewsNation reported.
Next week, according to the outlet, forces of 500 officers each day will be formed to comprise civil disturbance units, set to quell the planned demonstrations, if needed. Protests in Canada have remained largely peaceful, with liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted as an authoritarian for his attempts to stomp out the protests and stop them from being funded.
One of the most shocking claims to surface from the tragic incident that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust came from Alec Baldwin, one of the stars of the western.
During a recent ABC News interview, the actor said he “didn’t pull the trigger” of the gun that fatally wounded Hutchins, even though he was pointing what he thought to be a harmless prop in her direction when it fired during a rehearsal for the film. New details from the ongoing investigation suggest this assertion is not as implausible as one might think.
Large groups of police officers moved in on protesters in downtown Ottawa Friday, making more than 100 arrests—including high profile organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber and Pat King—during intense clashes with the demonstrators who refuse to leave the area.
Interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell called the effort to move in on protesters “methodical” and “well thought out” during a Friday afternoon press conference, commending officers for maintaining control of the situation on the ground.
“We will run this operation 24 hours a day until the residents and community have their city back,” Bell said.
Several hundred protesters are still out in downtown Ottawa, where the eastern police line has inched forward, now spanning between the Senate and Chateau Laurier. Lots of chants of “Freedom!” Lots of weed. I saw two media crews withdraw after being swarmed by protesters. pic.twitter.com/Qy7cRIXhhk
— Marc-André Cossette (@MarcCossette) February 19, 2022
A grandmother with a heart condition who had welcomed Freedom Convoy protesters at her border home, has told how she was violently arrested and jailed in a dramatic police raid.
Joanne Person, 62, said she was in her pajamas falling asleep when Canadian Mounties stormed into her house in Coutts, Alberta, just after midnight Valentine’s Day and hauled her off to jail along with 10 other people she was hosting near the border blockade.
Back home after two nights behind bars, the substitute teacher spoke exclusively with DailyMail.com Thursday, describing the horror of being slammed on to a car hood with arms cuffed behind her back, then deprived of her medication in a concrete cell smeared with feces.
Wild! Still I will not be surprised to find RCMP fingerprints.
Twitter confirmed it plays by partisan rules when the left’s agenda is threatened by refusing to take down the accounts of several corporate media propagandists who shared personal information from admittedly hacked donor lists on the social media platform.
The Freedom Convoy has shaken Canadian politics to its core.
On Monday 14 February, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau sent an unlikely Valentine’s gift to his citizens, invoking rarely used emergency powers, which came into effect the next day. This was in response to the ‘Freedom Convoy’ of thousands of truckers and protesters who have gathered in the nation’s capital, Ottawa. Trudeau claimed that the protests were not peaceful, implying that the crisis could not be solved by normal policing under existing statutes. The reality is that, during more than two weeks of protests, Ottawa’s protesters are guilty of little more than municipal traffic and noise infractions. There has been no violence. Nevertheless, two of the protest leaders, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, have been detained by police under the emergency powers.
We have a serious mental health crisis in this country pic.twitter.com/tcdmeuPpM7
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 18, 2022
Kudos to NBC News, which not only covered the bail release for Quintez Brown but also noted Brown’s appearance on MSNBC as well. As Media Research Center’s Nicholas Fondacaro points out, the other two broadcast networks barely mentioned the case at all, and left out how Brown got his bail money.
In 1988, as Parliament was studying the bill that would become the Emergencies Act, MPs spent a great deal of time defining the term “national emergency.” In the end, Parliament set forth exacting criteria that would, it was hoped, prevent the invocation of the legislation in all but the gravest of situations. The reasons advanced this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government meet none of those benchmarks.
Here’s the tweet, thought it best to preserve the pic for posterity.
Some more … #ConvoyForFreedom #PoliceBrutality @OttawaPolice @sureteduquebec @rcmpgrcpolice we are officially under a fully active police state in Canada 🤮🤮🤮 pic.twitter.com/rTMkFaOIpa
— Unacceptable.Luna.et.Astra (@MagaNoctis) February 18, 2022
h/t SDMATT
Hillary Clinton slammed former President Trump, the GOP and Fox News while speaking at New York Democratic Convention on Thursday.
“We can’t get distracted. Whether it’s by the latest culture war nonsense or some new right-wing lie on Fox or Facebook,” Clinton told the crowd in New York City.
The former secretary of State and presidential nominee went on to allude to Fox News’s coverage of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
