So… where’s the astronaut? See item 4. This is from the
I just got tired of saying, “Open Thread.” But to be true to the headline, I’ll try to stick to things that either happened, or I read or heard about, today:
- SCOTUS rules for Biden administration in a social media dispute with red states — I didn’t realize this was actually before our nation’s highest court. I had heard about the nonsense, though, on the podcast Hard Fork, I think. As I recall, somebody saw oppression, or something, in the fact that some social media outlets have rules against disinformation, and some people with the government had notifed the sites about disinformation that they might want to look at. That was the big conspiracy. The court gave the claim the heave-ho. Good.
- Assange Agrees to Plead Guilty in Exchange for Release — OK, so this broke earlier, but I was reminded today after he got home to Australia. Lucky Australia. As much as I might dislike seeing this guy leave custody, I’m happy that he admitted that what he did was a crime (watch; he’ll say he didn’t), and that he’s left Britain. Because I’m going there soon, and I’d just rather not even hear about him. But justice required that he plead that way, because to quote Doonesbury, well, see the image below… I actually have that book, somewhere.
- Bolivian Military Tries to Storm President’s Palace in Apparent Coup Attempt — Well, I suppose they should be applauded, because that Morales has got to go. No, wait. Morales has been out for five years. I didn’t realize. I’ve really got to do a better job of keeping up with Latin America, especially the Andean countries, since I used to live in one…
- China Becomes First Country to Retrieve Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side — Hey, way to go, China. Boldly picking up rocks where no man has picked up rocks before. Speaking of men, show us a picture of the guy you sent there to pick them up…
- Jamaal Bowman’s Loss — Fitting. The one bad thing about it is that his loss brings the Squad back into the public spotlight, if only momentarily. It’s been awhile. I didn’t even know any dudes had been admitted…
- France’s Far Right at the Gates of Power — This was The Daily today. Very interesting, although listening to a breakdown of current politics in France… or Britain… or the United States, for that matter… can be kind of creepy these days. Y’all keeping up with that? I’m trying to. I don’t want another Morales situation on my hands. Oh, yeah — I’ll be in France soon, too. More about that later…
- Jason Guerry to face Russell Ott — You probably didn’t pay any more attention to this than I’ve been paying to Bolivia, but I sort of kept an eye on this runoff because I’m hopeful for Russell, and because my neighbor across the street was a big supporter of Guerry’s oppponent, Chris Smith. Can’t say I know much about Guerry beyond the fact that he’s married to the Lexington County Register of Deeds. And wait — I just realized, he’s the son of former Lexington County Councilman Art Guerry. Anyway, maybe we’ll hear more from him now that he’s not overshadowed by the more interesting Ott-Harpootlian contest. Not that local media exactly set the world on fire covering that…
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Here’s another thing I meant to include, but forgot. Possibly the most interesting thing I’ve listened to the last 24 hours. It’s from The New Yorker:
John Fetterman’s War
If you have access, I do recomment listening…
The “disinformation” case is troubling for a variety of reasons. Why does the government get to define what disinformation is? Why is it done behind the scenes instead of out in the open so people can see who is making the request? One needs only look at how the Hunter Biden laptop story was handled with a combination of intelligence people putting out their own disinformation to suppress the story. Now those same people are saying “Oh no, we didn’t say it WAS Russian disinformation… we said it LOOKED LIKE typical Russian disinformation”… we are also now seeing how government agencies tried to control the narrative during COVID — either on purpose or incorrectly by claiming certain topics were disinformation.
Assange’s release (much like everything Biden’s handlers have done lately) is motivated by politics and pandering. A State Department spokesman yesterday couldn’t name a single actual person who was affected by Assange’s work… Hopefully Edward Snowden is exonerated next.
Bowman’s defeat was fantastic especially following his and AOC’s cringe worthy rally over the weekend. AOC is hopefully next… she’s a phony clout chaser who hasn’t done anything Squad worthy since her election. Shrill and dumb is a pretty useless combination. But I guess that worked for Elizabeth Warren.
As for “disinformation”, Anthony Fauci’s inner circle initially thought COVID came from a lab. Senator Rand Paul has had to use FOIA litigation to bring that to light. And in the process found that people working for Fauci would purposefully misspell words/names (for example inserting numbers to replace letters in words) so that they would not show up in FOIA requests. To think that the government is some sort of bastion of truth, ethics, and purity takes a certain level of naivete or ignorance or worse to promote.