UK STUDENTS COMPLAIN ABOUT BREXIT: “A really important decision was made for us by the older generation” . . . “Essentially people much, much older than us — and who won’t be around for the consequences — are giving us a future we don’t want.”

On Facebook, Richard Fernandez’s response is brutal:

Essentially people much older than you gave you what you now take for granted. They won World War 2, fueled the great boom, walked through the valley of the shadow of nuclear death — and had you.

You didn’t make the present, nor as you now complain, are you making the future. No children, no national defense, no love of God or country.

But that’s just it. You’ve brainwashed yourselves into thinking someone else: the old, the older, the government, the dead would always do things for you.

If you learn anything from Brexit, learn that nobody got anywhere expecting someone to do things for him.

Ouch.

ROGER KIMBALL: Why Brexit Is More Entrance Than Exit:

Pop psychologists tell us that grief proceeds through five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Have been blindsided by the stunning victory of Brexit on Thursday,  members of the camp of  the Remainders are now vibrating somewhere between anger and bargaining.

Read on for what could happen next.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Britain’s forgotten voters — and ours.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1144.

DON’T EXPECT THE LEADERS TO BELIEVE THIS: The Problem with Brexit is the Leaders, not the Voters: Elites have pushed policies that go against the basic sense of identity, security, common sense, and morality of many citizens.

What is more significant—and more worrying about the Brexit vote—is that it demonstrates just how deep the gulf has become that separates governing elites and the people they are meant to govern.

Whether in Europe or the United States, our ruling elites have pushed policies—political, economic and social—that go beyond what sits well with the basic sense of identity, security, common sense, and morality of many citizens.

Failure to control immigration? Amnesty? Social benefits for non-citizens when citizens are suffering? Nation-building wars abroad instead of nation-building at home? Massive debt? Failures to confront terrorism effectively? Businesses moving jobs overseas? Recession in the countryside while the capital prospers? Rapid changes in gender politics? Bizarre contortions of politically correct speech, which shout down what many see as common sense? It has left many in the electorate angry and disenfranchised. And when those in the public who feel this way have objected or resisted, elites have doubled-down, rather than listen and adjust.

The rulers of the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States—take your pick—are so convinced that they know better than the masses, and that they are building a better world, that even in defeat, they are bemoaning how wrongly the masses have voted. And that is the looming danger for the future that the Brexit vote foreshadows: that elites will still not address the concerns of a large proportion of their own citizens.

They see us as, at best, livestock to be managed.

OF COURSE HE DOES: Disgraced Homeland Security Adviser Mohamed Elibiary Scapegoats Egypt’s Christians — Again.

HUFFINGTON POST: I am A Gay Conservative, And I Think It’s Time You Met Me: Far too often LGBT on the right tend to be dismissed, mocked or demonized. “When we talk about seeing queer images of ourselves in media, I never see myself in actual queer media. To read, watch and listen to the gay world as it is presented today you would not even know that somebody like me exists. And there are many, many more just like me. The question is: Why is our community uninterested in our voice?”

Because the community — at least, the media/activist part — is just interested in agitprop for the Democrats.

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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Charlie Rangel Found Guilty on 11 of 13 Ethics Violations.

MICHAEL WALSH: Five things Trump must do to win the election.

Related: Poll: Hillary leads Trump by 14.

HEY MILLENNIALS … YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT! Cheers Alum John Ratzenberger: Millennials Can’t Build Anything (from their safe spaces).

THAT FIRING WAS AN EARLY SIGN OF THE GANGSTER GOVERNMENT TO COME: Gerald Walpin, inspector general fired by Obama, dies.

Gerald Walpin, the inspector general who was at the center of controversy in 2009 when he was fired by the White House amid an investigation of an Obama friend, died today. He was 84.

Walpin’s son-in-law, Allan Tananbaum, said Walpin was struck by a car while crossing a street in Manhattan.

Walpin was fired in June 2009 for his investigation of the misuse of money in AmeriCorps, the service organization that was part of the Corporation for National and Community Service, where Walpin served as inspector general. The investigation focused on Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who became mayor of Sacramento, Calif., and was a prominent Obama supporter.

Johnson founded a school called St. Hope, which received about $850,000 in AmeriCorps grants.Walpin discovered that Johnson and St. Hope had failed to use the federal dollars they received for the purposes specified in the grant and had also, as Walpin told me in an interview at the time, used federally funded AmeriCorps staff for, among other things, “driving [Johnson] to personal appointments, washing his car and running personal errands.”

Walpin recommended that Johnson and St. Hope be barred from receiving future federal funds.

It turned out to be an enormously controversial recommendation. As Walpin finished his probe, Johnson was elected mayor of Sacramento. If Johnson had been barred from receiving federal grant money, the city might not have been able to receive a share of the billions of dollars in federal stimulus money being handed out by the Obama administration.

There was enormous pressure on Walpin to back off. He didn’t. On June 10, Walpin received a call from a White House lawyer. “He said, ‘Mr. Walpin, the president wants me to tell you that he really appreciates your service, but it’s time to move on,'” Walpin recalled to me later. “[He] said, ‘You can either resign, or I’ll tell you that we’ll have to terminate you.'”

Walpin declined to resign and was fired on the spot. His firing was a violation of rules regarding the dismissal of inspectors general.

And it’s been stuff like this ever since, with barely a peep from the usual political-ethics watchdogs.

GREAT MOMENTS IN LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS: Obama previews stump speech: No time for ‘charlatans.’

Flashbacks:

• The styrofoam columns.

• Barry’s Imaginary Girlfriend from his college days.

• The multiple names he’s been known by.

• Obama’s bio while at Harvard listed him as “Born in Kenya.”

EU TO LAUNCH KETTLE AND TOASTER CRACKDOWN AFTER BREXIT VOTE.

And don’t get ‘em started on the shape of bananas…

CLEARING THE DECKS: Report: Lawsuit Against Tammy Duckworth Settled. “The civil case stemmed from a 2006 incident in which the plaintiff accused Duckworth of workplace retaliation. The trial had been set for Aug. 15 , little more than two months before Election Day.”

NOBODY COVERS THE BIG STORIES OF THE DAY LIKE THE HUFFINGTON POST!

Shot: Huffington Post is going to cover Trump as entertainment, not politics.

—Poynter.org, July 17, 2015.

Chaser: Huffington Post Has Written Just Three News Stories About Clinton’s Email Server in Three Months.

—Newsalert, yesterday.

THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT GUN CONTROL — WHICH IS A LOSER FOR THEM — THAN TALK ABOUT OBAMA’S FAILURES IN THE MIDEAST AND IN COUNTERTERRORISM AT HOME THAT HAVE KILLED SCORES OF AMERICANS: Democrats plan ‘day of action’ to keep spotlight on guns.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Home ownership at 48-year low.

CHANGE: The House unveils its Obamacare replacement plan—and have you heard about it?

SCOTT ADAMS: Why Gun Control Can’t Be Solved In The USA:

But we do know that race and poverty are correlated. And we know that poverty and crime are correlated. And we know that race and political affiliation are correlated. Therefore, my team (Clinton) is more likely to use guns to shoot innocent people, whereas the other team (Trump) is more likely to use guns for sporting and defense.

That’s a gross generalization. Obviously. Your town might be totally different.

So it seems to me that gun control can’t be solved because Democrats are using guns to kill each other – and want it to stop – whereas Republicans are using guns to defend against Democrats. Psychologically, those are different risk profiles. And you can’t reconcile those interests, except on the margins. For example, both sides might agree that rocket launchers are a step too far. But Democrats are unlikely to talk Republicans out of gun ownership because it comes off as “Put down your gun so I can shoot you.”

That’s poor salesmanship.

I THINK SHE’S RIGHT: And I intend to write about it.  Was Thursday the moment when the rise of the left began to slow…

THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE ELITES: Boston, Lincolngrad: I saw the seething resentment. Now it is time to finish the revolution, says PETER HITCHENS.

TIME TO PUT THE LEVIATHAN ON A DIET: Rights First, Government Second.

BUT WE STOLE IT FAIR AND SQUARE AFTER YOU MEANIES FOUGHT TWO WORLD WARS TO DENY IT TO US: Germany says ‘won’t let anyone take Europe from us’.