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LinkSwarm for April 15, 2022

Friday, April 15th, 2022

Greetings, and welcome to a smallish LinkSwarm! My taxes are done, but I’m playing catchup on just about everything else.

  • The Biden Administration is all-in on grooming and mutilating children.

    While testifying before the House Budget Committee yesterday, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Xavier Becerra affirmed that yes, his department was in favor of taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgeries for minors. “So for the record, you favor HHS funding . . . for sex-reassignment surgeries for minors?” Lauren Boebert, (R, Colo.) asked. Becerra answered:

    I will do everything I can to defend any American, including children, whether or not they fit the categories you have mentioned or not. And if they talk about gender-affirming care, I am there to protect the rights of any American.

    In other words: yes.

  • Related:

  • “Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House.” I’m shocked, shocked that people who encouraged riots to help out Democrats are corrupt. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
  • Biden: Surely Democrats everywhere will embrace my scaled-back Build Back Better bag of bloated bilge! Kyrsten Sinema: “LOL! Get rekt!
  • “Brian A. Benjamin, the lieutenant governor of the state of New York, has been indicted on federal bribery charges.”
  • Is Sri Lanka facing starvation?
  • Democrats on Twitter: “We’re totally going to defeat Ron DeSantis!” Deantis: [Raises $100 million for reelection.]
  • Neither snow no rain, nor gloom of night, shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But multiple assaults? Yeah, they’re drawing the line there. So no more mail for a block of Santa Monica, California, until they fix the problem. This is your mail on one-party Democratic control.
  • Get A Rope Part 1: “Hospital Refuses Father-To-Son Kidney Transplant Over COVID Jab.”
  • Get A Rope Part 2: Two puppies stolen at gunpoint in D.C.. Actually, never mind. Hangin’s too good for ’em…
  • Ken Paxton has a 30 point lead over George P. Bush in the Texas Attorney General runoff.
  • News of Our Media Elites: “WNYC’s Jami Floyd accused of plagiarism in 45 articles dating back to 2010.” Also: “Floyd, 57, was the director of New York Public Radio’s Race & Justice Unit.” What are the odds? (Hat tip: Dwight.)
  • Speaking of media elite follies, CNN+ is sucking the farts out of dead cats.

    In theory, at least, the role of an organization such as McKinsey is to ask, “Why?” Everyone wants to start a streaming service. Why does yours make sense? If CNN were run by thoughtful people, it might have taken the opportunity to ask some fundamental questions of itself before procuring a new toy: “Who are we?” “What do we do?” “Are we good at it?” “Why do our staff keep getting themselves embroiled in scandals?” “Has anyone heard Brianna Keilar utter a single sentence that might be termed useful?”

    Had these questions been asked, it might have dawned on CNN’s leaders that the way in which Brian Stelter sees the network is not, in fact, the way in which anyone else sees the network. Had these questions been asked, it might have become apparent to CNN’s leaders that Americans do not regard CNN and its staff as brave, diligent, indispensable firefighters, that consumers do not believe Jim Acosta to be a hero, and that, when people think about America’s turbulent democracy, the last person who comes to their minds as a fix is Jim Sciutto. Had these questions been asked, CNN’s leaders might have learned that the network’s obsession with Fox is annoying to viewers, and that launching CNN+ with a flagship documentary, The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, would probably send the wrong message. As for the network’s slogan: “The Most Trusted Name in News”? One might as soon call Chris Cuomo a wit.

    Thus, the entirely predictable disaster that is unfurling before our eyes. And, thus, CNN’s bafflement that it has become a joke. And what a joke! 10,000 people a day? That’s the size of the home crowd at a Durham Bulls minor-league-baseball game. It’s the number of people who attend “MerPalooza,” a “celebration of mermaids and mermen,” or the international UFO convention and film festival, or BronyCon.

    I think this comparison is unfair to BronyCon, which has historically attracted a much lower percentage of sex offenders than CNN…

  • Is Highland Park, Michigan, the worst city in America?
  • There are numerous local corruption stories involving payoffs, but few that involve a police chief’s Earth, Wind, and Fire cover band. Take a bow, newly convicted felon Tim Vasquez!
  • “Liberals Outraged To Learn 10% Of Twitter Now Owned By African-American.”
  • “Not To Be Outdone, Bill Gates Buys 9.2% Of MySpace.”
  • Friend-of-the-blog Michael Sumbera gets gets a profile of his store, Classical Music of Spring, which I encourage you to patronize.
  • Speaking of music:

    OK, not really…