Great moments from National Lampoon.

January 1971 Edition. A thread 🧵

1/n #NationalLampoon #Flashback Great moments from National Lampoon.

January 1971 Edition. A thread 🧵

2/n #NationalLampoon #Flashback

THE EV SCAM: @ElectrekCo just publisheed a delightful promotional article for China:

"Surprise! Electric cars are already making California healthier" electrek.co/2023/02/10/sur…

Response thread 1/n... Sorry, folks, but where do batteries come from?

The core components (like Cobalt) are mined by millions of slaves, from the Uighurs to Congolese children (see amazon.com/Cobalt-Red-Blo…)...

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How many elderly & infirm people will California's green energy policies kill this month?

Those dependent on AC, Dialysis Machines, I.V.'s... are at risk.

Failure to plan for realistic electricity demand is a natural outcome of Democrats' plans to address climate change...

🧵 U.S. share of CO2 emissions globally is already dropping rapidly due to increased use of clean natural gas.

Meanwhile, China is reportedly building 500+ _new_ _coal_ plants per year.

Democrats never seem to mention China in their "Green New Deal" marketing material...

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Interesting take from @mtaibbi, but one with which I disagree.

"To Stop War, America Needs a Third Party - The American political system has been captured by the military, and only an independent political power can prevent the next Afghanistan"

taibbi.substack.com/p/to-stop-war-…

THREAD> In the run-up to the 2016 election, it appears that the Obama administration cabal running the IC and LE communities (Brennan, Comey, et. al.) weaponized their surveillance tools to spy on and take out candidates they deemed too dangerous... >

video.foxbusiness.com/v/613379952800…

Questions for @ariabendix about her article pillorying Sweden for its Covid response.

1) Where is your data? I see lots of anecdotes, but not many real numbers or charts.

I've broken down the datasets from ecdc.europa.eu/en/publication… and have some observations.

A THREAD >>> Let's take a look at the last two weeks for instance.

Sweden has, by far -- BY FAR -- the lowest fatality rate per million residents.

Plus...

GRAPH: How the most powerful branch of government could control U.S. public policy. Hypothetically, of course.

A Thread. Another version with some discussion points...

Update: China just hacked a huge chunk of U.S. organizations, causing untold billions in damages and further compromising national security.

Using vulnerabilities in Outlook Webmail, the PRC-aligned APT group discovered at least 4 zero-days exploits. How many firms?

A THREAD Researcher Brian Krebs reports the number of hacked orgs is "at least 30,000" in the U.S. alone, but hints that the real number is much larger.

I've heard numbers like 100,000 to 500,000 mentioned.

It is a very, very, very damaging compromise.

krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/at-lea…

Anyone who is surprised by the Left's embrace of censorship and suppression of opposing political opinion has forgotten the Citizens United case.

You may recall Citizens United, which was decided in 2010 by a divided Supreme Court by a razor thin 5-4 margin.

THREAD >>> Citizens United dealt with the non-profit's attempt to broadcast “Hillary: The Movie,” a documentary it produced that was critical of then-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton prior to her run for the presidency.

Democrats argued the case was not about free speech...

Helpful hint. For any political search on the web, I recommend using duckduckgo.com ... Google is actively re-ordering search results, censoring news, and hiding damaging information against @TheDemocrats.

I proved it long ago here:

directorblue.blogspot.com/2017/11/more-p… Oh, interesting tidbit: I couldn't even find my own 2017 blog post using Google. It was #1 on DuckDuckGo (duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Adire…)