Heap o' Links Fri Mar 12, 2021

On Thursday night, a masked Biden tottered down a long, empty hall to a podium. He then gave the most bizarre presidential address in American history. After a grim recital of "facts" about the last year, Biden emphasized multiple times that Americans had better take the vaccine — and be grateful to him for his amazing ability to get the vaccine to Americans. He also insisted that, vaccines or not, the government's in control and can lock all of us up all over again.

Here, in no particular order, are the points that struck me…

…Boy was Mad King Grandpa’s drug-induced address to the nation full of unintended symbolism.

Toward the end, as the drugs were starting to wear off, Grandpa let us all know that if we are obedient subjects, come July 4th, he just might grant us permission to gather together to celebrate America’s Independence from tyranny.

Not large gatherings, mind you. King Grandpa won’t permit that. No sir. But you will have his royal permission to get together with a handful of people.…

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— ilDonaldoTrumpo (@ilDonaldoTrumpo) March 12, 2021

…All along, Cuomo’s state has led the U.S. with the highest coronavirus death rate in the country, a feat accomplished in no small part by Cuomo’s nursing home policy, which is estimated to have sent nearly 6,500 patients to an early grave.…

Yet Cuomo is far from the only U.S. governor who implemented a deadly nursing home policy forcing coronavirus-infected patients into close contact with the population’s most vulnerable. And it’s become clear that the reason for this policy is money: “The hospital lobby directly engineered this approach, and these governors obliged.”…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom…
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz…
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf…

“Anti-semitic platforms like Gab have no place in Texas,” the Texas Governor proclaimed in a Twitter video announcing legislation to tackle the ideology.

Abbott, however, has met with and praised officials from the genocidal Chinese Communist Party.

In 2017, Governor Abbott met with Chinese Consul General in Houston Li Qiangmin, Madam Zeng Hongyan, Deputy Consul General Liu Hongmei, and Commercial Counselor Zhou Zhencheng.

The officials from the consulate, which was closed by the Trump administration over spying and intellectual property theft fears, “shared views on cooperation between China and Texas in the fields of energy, agriculture and medical care, and cooperation between Chinese cities and Austin on creativity.”

The FBI is holding him until trial because he was seen speaking with two other members of the Oath Keepers that day.

The Federal Bureau of Intimidation