Friday Grab Bag

I'm tired and I can’t think of a headline

Here are some odds and ends and whatnot, no big deal.

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Journos hate the Washington Free Beacon, because they don’t like being reported about the same way they report about everybody else:

Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon

A NYT opinion writer encouraged pro-abortion activists to escalate their illegal protests against Brett Kavanaugh. In a tweet that violated the paper's social media policy, @lindsaycrouse told activists to target the Chevy Chase Club. Via @SaysSimonson

freebeacon.comNYT Writer Called for Pro-Abortion Activists to Escalate Protests Against Brett KavanaughIn violation of the New York Times’s social media policy, an opinion writer at the paper called for the illegal pro-abortion protests outside the home of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh to be moved to his country club.

Here’s the missive in question:

If I encouraged people to harass public officials, I’d get kicked off Twitter. But then, I’m not a journalist for the New York Times. The rules don’t apply to our betters.

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jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL

Day 264 of Americans stranded in Afghanistan.

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It’s probably just a coincidence that within hours of Elon Musk declaring he’s now a Republican…

Elon Musk @elonmusk

In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … 🍿

…the journos started accusing him of sexual harassment.

Rich McHugh @RichMcHugh

This is a story I’ve been working on for quite some time. Thank you to the all the people who contributed to this reporting.

businessinsider.comA SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her s…SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 in severance after she accused Elon Musk of exposing himself and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for a sexual massage.

Maybe it’s true. I don’t know. But why is the story coming out now?

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Apparently I’m supposed to have an opinion about Madison Cawthorn?

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I freaking love science!

Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explains Pfizer's new tech to Davos crowd: "ingestible pills" - a pill with a tiny chip that send a wireless signal to relevant authorities when the pharmaceutical has been digested. "Imagine the compliance," he says

I am imagining the compliance. I’m also imagining how the libs would sneer if it were Alex Jones saying this instead of some pharma exec onstage at Davos.

Today’s QAnon crank $#!+ is tomorrow’s reality.

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Morning Joe @Morning_Joe

Breaking: @BilldeBlasio announces his run for Congress

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Presented without comment:

House Judiciary GOP @JudiciaryGOP

Q: "Do you believe that men can become pregnant and have abortions?" -@RepDanBishop A: "Yes." -Democrat witness

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Nina Jankowicz is still whining:

Kevin Tober @KevinTober94

Nina Jankowicz: "unfortunately and ironically we were undone exactly by a disinformation campaign coming from folks who apparently want to put our national security behind their own personal political ambitions."

Jankowicz wasn’t brought down by a disinformation campaign. It was an information campaign. Her reaction to the collapse of her moronic “Disinformation Governance Board” just proves that she was the worst possible candidate to run it.

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Congratulations to Ben Domenech, who was sued over a joke tweet and won.

Ben Domenech @bdomenech

FYI @FDRLST first one of you tries to unionize I swear I'll send you back to the salt mine

Humor is not a crime.

Yet.

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Earlier this week Netflix laid off 150 staffers, including the people behind Netflix’s “diversity” social media accounts like @strongblacklead, @contodonetflix, and @Most. Netflix got woke, and now they’re trying not to go broke.

That means whoever came up with this immortal nugget of prose is now out of a job:

Lesbian objects. Lesbian pizza.

Is Julia Roberts gay? Did I miss that announcement somehow? Or had this kid just watched Mystic Pizza and got all horny for Julia Roberts? Either way, this is genius.

I’ve been a harsh critic of Netflix, but I’m genuinely sad that the anonymous Netflixer who got paid to come up with “lesbian objects” is now unemployed. Those execs will throw hundreds of millions of dollars at any mediocre script Ryan Reynolds doesn’t hate, but they’ve just fired the true artists in their midst.

And here’s another piece of bad Netflix news:

Daily Wire @realDailyWire

Netflix Axes Ibram X. Kendi Show Called ‘Antiracist Baby’ — And Other Woke Projects dlvr.it/SQhz8B

If you’re worried that your baby is a racist, you won’t be getting any help from Netflix!

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Watched the first episode of Night Sky on Amazon Prime, and it’s an odd, lovely little show. Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons play an older couple in a small Illinois town who’ve been married for 50 years and are dealing with the indignities of age. She took a nasty fall recently and needs help getting around, and he’s starting to forget stuff and is an exasperating nuisance in a grocery checkout line. But they’ve still got each other. And they’re played by Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons, so I’d watch them sitting around for an hour silently reading the phone book.

Oh, and they’ve got some sort of teleportation portal hidden in their garden shed that sends them to an observation outpost on a distant planet or moon, clearly built by an alien civilization, where they like to go sometimes and just hang out.

Yeah. It’s that kinda show.

So far, the toughest part to accept is Simmons playing an old guy. He’s obviously no spring chicken, but he was a credible action dude on Counterpart just a couple of years ago.¹ Hell, he went shirtless on Goliath just last year, showing off his shredded physique. He’s really keeping it together for a man of 67. So it’s jarring to watch him shuffle around like an old coot.²

There are eight episodes, all available now, and I want to see what happens next. At this point I’m mildly dreading yet another J.J. Abrams-style “mystery box” show, and I assume by the end of the first season we still won’t know what the hell is going on. But Simmons & Spacek are terrific as always.

Oh yeah, and it also stars Adam Bartley, AKA Ferg from Longmire. Ferg!

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1. Two action leads, actually!

2. Nothing against old coots. Some of my favorite people are old coots!