Dorsey takes blame for Twitter while Musk takes charge
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Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:3
Unanimous
Who says there’s nothing that both parties can agree on anymore? Thursday, the Senate unanimously passed Sen. Josh Hawley’s bill to ban the Chinese spyware social media platform TikTok from all government devices. That’s what I’d call “a good start.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-on-government-devices
Pelosi leaves behind a haunting nightmare
You’ll probably be breaking out the champagne that Nancy Pelosi just made her last statement as Speaker and is about to be gone from the House leadership. But she left something behind to haunt the nightmares of all freedom-loving Americans: a giant portrait of herself that was unveiled at the Capitol.
As Nick Arama at Redstate.com observes, that portrait is sure to figure in a thousand coming Internet memes. A Twitter user named Nikki already has one at the link that’s pretty good, but whether it’s easier to look at than Pelosi is debatable.
Christmas bulletin from the Babylon Bee
Half the story on inflation
I reported this week on the latest inflation data, showing consumer prices were up by 7.1% annually as of November. But as Bonchie at Redstate.com reminds us, that’s literally only half the story. Biden has now been in office for two years, so when you add that to the inflation from his first year, prices are actually up by 14.4% since he took office.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/13/welcome-to-economic-hell-n673004
But that doesn’t even sound so bad when you consider that, say, eggs are up by 49.1% and airfare by 36%. In light of these dismal numbers, Bonchie has some questions for all the people who voted for more Democrat rule last month, like exactly how much does a dozen eggs have to cost “before voters stop valuing ridiculous arguments over personality compared to actual policy results?”
New RNC report: Not flattering
I’m not going to take sides in the current battle over leadership of the RNC, but I will say that this exclusive report from Redstate.com is not flattering, and it’s especially badly timed for the incumbents, coming on the same day as word that they refused to help fund Kari Lake’s election lawsuit (Mike Lindell’s LindellLegalFund.org has stepped up to raise money for it instead.)
Redstate.com found that since 2017, the RNC has spent over $2.6 million on such expenses as luxury travel, private jets, limo services, flowers, alcohol, entertainment, spas and cosmetics. They also found that “a significant number of transactions seem to be misclassified. For example, nearly $5,000 spent in 2022 at Lululemon, a luxury athletic apparel brand, was classified as ‘office expense,’ as were two expenditures totaling $9,300 at Madison Square Garden in 2017.”
I’d expect this from the DNC, but I would hope that the RNC would be a little better at handling money.
It was all talk
Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter, we've been subjected to endless caterwauling by leftist celebrities, media figures, politicians and other blue checks, loudly declaring that they were going to leave Twitter because it would now be filled with hate speech, violent threats and disinformation, other than theirs. That hasn’t actually happened, and guess what? Neither has the mass exodus of leftist attention hogs.
In the least surprising news of the day, a study by New Scientist found that out of 140,000 Twitter users who publicly declared that they were leaving to join the lefty social media site Mastodon, only 1.6% actually have. Come on, guys, how can we miss you if you won’t go away?
That article by Redstate.com contributor Sister Toldjah makes some great observations about how the people who claim to be the most tolerant and inclusive are actually the least tolerant of other viewpoints, while it’s conservatives who’ve learned to tolerate crazy leftists because we’re surrounded by them all the time.