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Must be satire: Mad Magazine Fact-Checked by Snopes, Denounced by the New York Times, Censored by Amazon, Banned by Facebook, and Slammed by SJWs

The Angry Ikea Guy, video montage

At MC:

 You can be sure that as soon as the Zoom cameras are turned off the Chinese representatives burst out in laughter among themselves at how they have humiliated the foolish U.S. leaders.

Answer here. (Thank you, reader). A quote:

... too many Americans have developed an acute fear of speaking up about social and political issues, especially those involving race. According to a recent Gallup poll, 77 percent of conservatives are afraid to share their political beliefs publicly. Worried about getting mobbed on social media, fired from their jobs, or worse, they remain quiet, largely ceding the public debate to those pushing these anti-American ideologies. Consequently, the institutions themselves become monocultures: dogmatic, suspicious, and hostile to a diversity of opinion. Conservatives in both the federal government and public school systems have told me that their “equity and inclusion” departments serve as political offices, searching for and stamping out any dissent from the official orthodoxy.

MacDonald: The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury’s verdict was reached dispassionately.

President Joe Biden took the occasion of the conviction to recycle his favorite “white supremacy” themes from his allegedly “unifying” inaugural speech and campaign rhetoric. Floyd’s murder “ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism . . . that is a stain our nation’s soul; the knee on the neck of justice for Black Americans; the profound fear and trauma, the pain, the exhaustion that Black and brown Americans experience every single day,” Biden said from the White House. The “summer of protest” had sent the message, according to Biden: “Enough. Enough. Enough of the senseless killings.”

Biden was not referring to the senseless killing of seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams, gunned down in a Chicago McDonald’s over the weekend. He was not referring to the four dozen black children who were killed last year in their beds, front porches, back porches, at barbecues and family birthday parties, and in their parents’ cars. He was not referring to the dozens of blacks killed every day in drive-by shootings—more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined—even though blacks are only 12 percent of the nation’s population...

 The Actual Number of Unarmed Black Men Shot and Killed By Police Every Year Will Blow Liberals’ Minds

Police shoot a lot more white people than black people. Who knew? It's not "news". Message to police officers is leave black people alone. However professional, they will tend to do that from now on.

Ace is not happy with the Dem reaction to the Chauvin case

Scott Adams seems to feel that the verdict serves the greater good. 

I call BS on that principle. 

Powerline reminds us of America's proud heritage of equal justice 

Good rules of thumb for life: Don't break laws, don't abuse substances, never resist arrest. Just be a good, useful, productive citizen.

Article here. Thanks, reader. Fast food, street food, bar food. Stews, mostly, and Greek pizza (flat bread with oil and herbs).

Stanford study quietly published at NIH.gov proves face masks are absolutely worthless against Covid

Regardless of that, from Powerline: Take the Damn Mask Off! 

Bill Maher: Why are Democrats so badly misinformed about COVID?

Bill Gates wants to spray dust into the sky to control the Earth's temperature.

Is that the ultimate "What could go wrong" idea? 

I would be afraid to be a police officer today. I would enjoy, I think, being a detective but you have to begin on the streets.

'We Were Creating A Story -- Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out': CNN Director Busted By Undercover Veritas Operative

Americans’ Worries About Catching COVID Drop To Record Low

It's been fun, but it's done. 

Amusing

Byron York was not impressed.

Kimball:  A tame press conference for a lame president. The air of unreality that suffused the Biden presser was stultifying

I felt that it was awkward and uncomfortable, but what do you expect?

What do you think? 

From A Wilderness of Lies

 Like the Soviet empire, the American empire is now a confusing black box. It does things and makes noises, but none of it can be accepted on its face, so the world is left to guess. As citizens, we are forced to rely on private networks and create our own narratives to explain what we are seeing. There is the public truth and then millions of private truths. This is the result of black-box government. It is a wilderness of lies.

The guy believed that his "Universal Card" would "solve all of the problems of organization life."

It's more or less what the Chinese government is doing now. 

After a year of restrictions, when can we declare that the pandemic is over?

I would say now, for sure. Around here, restaurants are full, pubs are full, and people seem back to normal other than the mask politeness when expected.  No need to scare some innocent phobic.

There still some phobics out there, so be nice to them because they are truly fearful. They do not believe Science.

How Do Big Media So Often “Independently” Confirm Each Other’s Falsehoods?

... there are lots of legends common across the political spectrum. Yet those of the Left are quicker to become fact. They become “truthful” because of the current appeasing progressive octopus of traditional media and Silicon Valley. In other words, some untruths become either “noble lies” that serve communitarian purposes or canonized lies that would cause too much collateral damage if exposed.

In 400 years, the city has been through a lot

From Taibbi: The Sovietization of the American Press - The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement