The lesson here is you can call yourself anything you like. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. What you can’t do is force anyone else to share in your fantasy.

And by the way, the government can’t do it, either. I have that because with this case as president, there’s no other possible outcome.

Eric Florack on April 19th, 2022
There’s a photograph that we find on Hunter Biden’s laptop. This one’s worth 50 points. Who’s the guy in this picture?

From Amac, and Shawn Harris:

On April 4, Musk, a longtime critic of Twitter policies like permanent bans on users and perceived targeting of politically disfavored content, revealed that he had purchased a 9.2% stake in the company, making him the largest individual shareholder. Shortly thereafter, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced that Musk had been offered a seat on the platform’s Board of Directors. But just hours later, Parag posted a message to Twitter saying that Musk had declined the Board position, leading many to speculate that the world’s richest man had decided that perhaps the platform was beyond saving.

But then, on Thursday, Musk offered to buy Twitter outright for $54.20 a share (considerably higher than the current stock price of around $45, which itself was artificially high due to speculation following Musk’s investment). In his offer, Musk stated that the site needed to be “transformed as a private company” – a move that was celebrated by conservatives and free-speech advocates. Notably, Musk added that if his offer was not accepted, he would need to “reconsider” his position as a shareholder.

My read is that Elon Musk is going to be taking over Twitter regardless of what the board has to say about it initially.

It’s not the poison pills are all that unusual in the world of corporate takeovers. It happens all the time. The problem in this situation is that the board has to prove to any lawsuit that might be coming down the pike that what they are doing is honoring their fiduciary responsibility to grow the stock for the shareholders. Since Musk has already offered a price way above market value it’s going to be more than a little difficult to prove that continuing to muzzle free speech as they have been doing for their own political reasons is going to serve that purpose at all, much less well.

While I acknowledge that the securities and exchange commission is dominated by leftists as well, it’s my view that this poison pill plan is not going to withstand any kind of a court challenge.

As to the reaction on the streets, and the why of the Twitter boards reaction, that’s pretty much obvious, also;

The Left intuitively understands, though, that in order for this to work, they must control the dissemination of information. If their narrative is challenged, it will quickly crumple, and along with it their hold on power. Censorship and cancel culture thus become survival mechanisms, in part explaining the assertions from the Left in recent years that speech which runs counter to the leftist worldview is tantamount to physical violence and grounds for expulsion from every public platform. By promising to return some modicum of free and open debate to the platform, Musk has threatened to bring the whole thing crashing down.

And that’s really what this is all about. Control of the public square. That’s what it’s always been about. Zucker book, Twitter, these supposed mainstream media, all of them run and filtered by the left. Controlled by the left. Anyone who dares threaten that control, (which would include Donald Trump, on down to yours truly)… elicits a visceral hatred from the usual suspects, who instinctively understand that without total control over the message, they will lose.

And when this all settles out that’s exactly what’s going to happen here.

Eric Florack on April 18th, 2022
All we have seen from the mainstream media from the White House from the Democrats in Congress is that the current prices of gasoline and for that matter everything else that’s transported by it which means everything you have, are all Vladimir Putin’s fault.

What would you say if I told you, however, that there is proof that the Democrats and their finger pointing are pure garbage? Here comes your proof of

That vertical line is the day that the Democrats were sworn in and took their seats in the White House.

This report mesh is very nicely indeed with the report I put up a while ago saying that Disney insiders were saying they’d never seen the part so empty…. Read the whole thing, but pay particular attention to this portion:

During the Morgan Stanley’s 2022 Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Disney CFO Christine McCarthy stated that Park’s capacity would never return to normal as they are “managing things differently now”. She went on to explain that they do “not want to have the Parks bursting at the seams”, and by keeping a reduced capacity in place, Guests can have a more enjoyable time.

As far as I can see the context of this claim can be found on any stable floor in lesser quantity, and smelling a great deal better.

I am reminded of a scene in The Lord of the rings where Gimli mishandles his horse, and then falls off and tells everybody not to panic, it was deliberate.

This story from Disney was concocted for the simple reason that the brass at Disney didn’t want to admit that people don’t like the direction they’re taking the company.

I’m waiting for investors to level lawsuits against the company for mishandling it.

Eric Florack on April 16th, 2022
Seems just a short while ago we were being told that federal energy policies weren’t creating shortages, it was all Putin’s fault.

Well apparently, somebody’s gotten the message. The administration has finally recognized reality, and decided to start drilling domestically again. “Drill, baby, drill…” Wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

The announcement was so quiet though you would believe that the administration hopes nobody will notice.

The Biden administration quietly announced Friday that it was restarting the sale of oil and gas leases on federal land next week — almost exactly 15 months after President Biden imposed a moratorium on such sales upon taking office.

The announcement of the pending sales by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) represents an about-face by the White House, which had resisted pressure from energy companies to open up more land for drilling, instead insisting that thousands of previously approved leases were going unused.

Another thing that Donald Trump was exactly right about. It seems everyone knew it except the Democrats until just the last few days.

Apparently idiocy has its limits.

But here’s an interesting bit of research for you to do for yourself. Who among the mainstream media is actually reporting this in the manner that such a turnaround deserves?

And who among them is suggesting that Trump was absolutely right about this?

Eric Florack on April 16th, 2022

In yet another example of governmental screw up, the Chinese as it turns out, have been over counting their population by over 100 million for years.

Their population of childbearing people has diminished rather dramatically to the point where their population peaked about 15 years ago.


And they didn’t know it.

The implications here are staggering, both for China and for the remainder of the world. It should also shake to the core the mental foundation of big government types.

Video:

https://youtu.be/h-3kIsW4KEM

The New York Post observes a trend:

Just as they did with Darrell Brooks, the man charged with driving through a Wisconsin Christmas parade, the press is eager to bury a black suspect’s anti-white statements and ignore them as a possible motivation.

Look, I’m going to be the first one to say the man is deranged.

But the trend we see here of covering up anti-white racism or at least attempting to, is in fact a trend among the liberal press.

It’s almost like they’ve got an agenda to promote.

Eric Florack on April 14th, 2022
Let’s ponder the situations around the apparent hostile take over bid of Twitter by Elon musk.The left, of course, is losing its bloody mind over this and is emitting a good deal of noises about how we shouldn’t trust “the rich” .You know what? Let’s try a little thought experiment. There’s supposedly 29 different people in the world that could match the offer being made here. Let’s just take two of them. Replace the name Elon musk with the name George Soros, or maybe Bill Gates.Does anyone really suppose that the reaction wouldn’t be completely different? Yeah, me neither.So much for the complaints about “the rich” and their power over the common man.Addendum:This one pretty much speaks for itself.
It seems they never saw this one coming

Employees working the Disney parks in Orlando say they’ve never seen the parks so empty, a result of the company’s new “go woke” policy.

When the policy was announced last week, the parks started clearing out “almost immediately,” according to one girl who runs It’s a Small World. Another employee, who gives the thumbs-up when the 7 Dwarfs Mine Train is ready to roll, says they send empty cars out all day long to give the illusion of activity for the scarce amount of guests that actually do show up.

It amazes me that somebody would have to explain to these idiots that when your business is about kids, you probably want to cater to people that can actually make babies.

In light of that I suspect and suppose that ‘No White and the Seven Genders” ain’t going to cut it.

Eric Florack on April 8th, 2022
I just spent five unfortunate minutes waiting through some enviro whack job and his diatribe of wanting to reduce the Earth’s population to give the earth a chance to heal.

I asked him if he was willing to off himself to help give the earth a chance to heal.

Of course as I expected he was unwilling to do that. He also angrily informed me that if it was the end result that we were unable to save the planet it would be because of me and “my type”.

I told him:

“Your lack of enthusiasm for the plan shows a disappointing lack of commitment to the goal of saving the planet. ”

I also told him:

“This goes directly to a long-standing point of mine. That being, it’s always somebody else that has to pay for the left and it’s grandiose schemes. And when those grandiose schemes don’t work it’s not because the ideas weren’t worth the powder to blow up… it’s always somebody else’s fault.”

I thanked him for playing the game. I rather doubt I got through to him, such people tend to be immune to reality.

Eventually, the truth will out.

Assuming the voting machines don’t magically kick in 8 million votes for Democrats again, there’s a hard rain going to fall in the midterms.

That’s right, I said acquittal.

It turns out, you can’t be breaking and entering if the police are standing there and holding the door open for you. Who would have thought?

This acquittal points out why the Democrats were pushing for plea deals… They didn’t have a case and they knew they didn’t have a case.

Eric Florack on April 6th, 2022
The Washington Post is finally decided to admit what everybody already knew:

In a Sunday editorial, the Washington Post recalled how major social and news media platforms actively censored an October 2020 New York Post exclusive about the curious contents of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop. Dismissed at the time as “Russian disinformation,” Twitter and Facebook dampened the ability to share the story and media giants said that it wasn’t even a story, that the emails in the laptop could not be verified as coming from Biden.

The New York Times was the first media institution to admit the story was legitimate in mid-March. The Washington Post admitted the same last week.

But no major news outlet has admitted after this context that suppressing factual stories because they don’t fit a particular political narrative is wrong—until now.

“The Hunter Biden story is an opportunity for a reckonin the headline from the Washington Post editorial board, who, after explaining why many had good reason to be suspicious of the validity of the Biden story, also acknowledged that the “lesson learned from 2020 may well be that there’s also a danger of suppressing accurate and relevant stories.”

The fact of the matter is the mainstream media sat on this story for one reason, and one reason only: Orange man bad.

The hell with everything else but winning the election.

Once again, there’s a large number of people who until just recently have been chanting the everlasting mantra of “conspiracy theory”… All evidence to the contrary. Almost without exception such people should have known better, but held their silence because the political winds were blowing in their direction.

And here’s the thing, it’s nowhere near the first time the mainstream media has sat on a story because it didn’t bode well for the left and it’s power.

At this point, few questions remain:

Does this admission mean that the mainstream media is going to stop tilting left at every opportunity?

Doubtful.

Assuming that they manage to stop tilting left at every opportunity, will the trust in the mainstream media ever be re-established?

Again, doubtful.

Since the election in all likelihood, would have gone the other direction had the mainstream media not been sitting on this story, will there be legal consequences against those responsible? I can remember a time when Democrats used to refer to throwing elections as a crime.

Apparently, that’s only true however, when Democrats lose power.

I mean, that’s not racist or anything.

And these people are supposed to be smarter than the rest of us?