DON’T WORRY, THE NEW THUGS-AND-STATUARY CAMPAIGN WILL TURN THIS AROUND: The Hill: “The Republican National Committee (RNC) expanded its massive fundraising lead over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in July as the Democrats posted their worst July haul in a decade.”
Plus: “The vast fundraising gap gels with recent trends — the GOP has substantially out-fundraised its rivals since the start of 2017.”
WHEN IT’S OFFERED, IT’S PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS A SHAM: Do We Really Need “Moral Leadership” from the White House?
Officeholders are seldom very moral, as morality interferes with getting office, and with exploiting it for all it’s worth. So why look to them for moral leadership?
JOHN KASS: While we’re toppling offensive symbols, what about the Democratic Party?
History is important, but history can also be quite offensive.
But there’s one thing wrong with Sharpton. It’s not that he goes too far. It’s that he doesn’t go far enough.
Because if he and others of the Cultural Revolution were being intellectually honest, they’d demand that along with racist statues, something else would be toppled.
And this, too, represents much of America’s racist history:
The Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party historically is the party of slavery. The Democratic Party is the party of Jim Crow laws. The Democratic Party fought civil rights for a century.
And so by rights — or at least by the standards established by the Cultural Revolutionaries of today’s American left — we should ban the Democratic Party.
Not only get rid of it in the present, but strike its very name from the history books, and topple all Democratic statues of leaders who benefited, prospered and became wealthy by cleaving to the party. And shame Democrats until they confess the truth of it.
The Democratic Party’s military arm in the South was the KKK. The Democratic Party opposed the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, making the former slaves citizens of the United States and giving them the vote.
If the new Cultural Revolution was serious, wouldn’t it also demand that the Democratic Party be put in a museum somewhere, away from decent people, along with those Confederate statues?
We could put Democrats in exhibits, behind glass, watching white political bosses chomp cigars and pass out goodies for votes, as minorities were relegated, as they are today, to failing schools and lost educational opportunity and neighborhoods that have become killing fields for the young and old.
And in great museums, the Democrats could be studied, safely, without endangering the sensibilities of the children.
We might even peer down on an animatronic Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, once a leader of the KKK. And with him, prominent animatronic Democrats who, just a few short years ago, said wonderful, moving things about Byrd after his funeral.
I’m convinced.
NEO-NAZIS ARE EVERYWHERE, IT SEEMS: Watch: Trump supporter wearing Israeli flag told to ‘get the f–k out’ of Boston by hecklers.
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JULIETTE OCHIENG: Black Americans: The Organized Left’s Expendable Shock Troops.
STEVE BANNON IS GONE, BUT HIS PLAN LIVES ON: AP Notices That Dems May Be Launching Culture War They Can’t Win. “One of the problems is that the Democrats’ position on Confederate monuments is highly unpopular. . . . The AP’s fear is that Democrats’ obsession with President Trump will prevent them from communicating a positive agenda to voters.”
Plus: “Overlooked by the AP is the possibility that the Democrats have no messages of their own to communicate. Which reminds me–whatever happened to the Russia collusion story? It was of world-historical significance until it disappeared overnight, succeeded by a new opportunity for Trump-hatred. Which doesn’t seem to be of much significance to voters. Rasmussen finds that the president’s approval rating hasn’t been significantly affected by the hysterical attacks on him following the violence in Charlottesville. . . . Over time, the Democrats’ perpetual hysteria will only make them look silly. The biggest thing they have going for them is the timidity of Congressional Republicans. If the Republicans stop reading the Washington Post and the New York Times and get on with the business of governing, the Democrats have no answers on the level of policy.”
IRISH TIMES: Trump imperils Iran nuclear deal.
GET YOUR SHOTS: After daughters’ deaths, parents urged to consider Meningitis B vaccine. Because I’m asplenic and work on a campus, I’ve gotten the older meningitis vaccine for quite some time. I’m scheduled to get this new one next week. College-bound kids should get it too. And hey, it might protect them from gonorrhea, too.
STANDING UP TO THE SHAME MOB: Steven Mnuchin fires defiant message back at Yale classmates pressuring him to resign over Trump’s Charlottesville comments. I’ll bet that few of those virtue-signalling twits even watched Trump’s full remarks, rather than going by media summaries.
And speaking as the very first “Yalie of the Week,” let me say that a Yale degree offers nothing in the way of enhanced moral authority.
FLASHBACK: Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists:
The novelist Doris Lessing yesterday claimed that men were the new silent victims in the sex war, “continually demeaned and insulted” by women without a whimper of protest.
Lessing, who became a feminist icon with the books The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, said a “lazy and insidious” culture had taken hold within feminism that revelled in flailing men.
Young boys were being weighed down with guilt about the crimes of their sex, she told the Edinburgh book festival, while energy which could be used to get proper child care was being dissipated in the pointless humiliation of men.
“I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed,” the 81-year-old Persian-born writer said yesterday.
“Great things have been achieved through feminism. We now have pretty much equality at least on the pay and opportunities front, though almost nothing has been done on child care, the real liberation.
“We have many wonderful, clever, powerful women everywhere, but what is happening to men? Why did this have to be at the cost of men?
“I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men.
“You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives.”
Lessing said the teacher tried to “catch my eye, thinking I would approve of this rubbish”.
She added: “This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place and no one says a thing.
“It has become a kind of religion that you can’t criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.
“It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.
“Men seem to be so cowed that they can’t fight back, and it is time they did.”
Read the whole thing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Do We Really Want To Make It Easier To Go To Law School?
SURELY A CONTENDER FOR THE MOST WOKE SENTENCE YET UTTERED: “From Kansas, the eclipse goes to Missouri, still mostly bypassing black people.”
“Professor Ristroph is of course an educator, a graduate of Harvard.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why It’s SO Important For Women To Pee After Having Sex.
X-RAYTED VIDEO: Sex in an MRI machine.
JAPAN WILL ACCELERATE ACQUISITION OF AEGIS ASHORE ABM SYSTEM: The decision was made August 17. Deploying the anti-ballistic missile system in Japan had been under discussion for quite sometime, as this StrategyPage post from early July notes. The StrategyPage report also mentions AEGIS Ashore is deployed in Romania. That’s part of a system to defend Europe from Iran. Iran is a threat.
NICE WEBSITE YOU’VE GOT THERE. IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO IT: ProPublica, Working with Google to ‘Document Hate,’ Threatens Conservative Bloggers.
IT GOT AN “IN THE MAIL” LINK YESTERDAY, but I want to note specially that the photographs in Frank Lee Ruggles’ book, Chasing Light: An Exploration of the American Landscape, are really outstanding.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: How a Paraplegic User Commands This Exoskeleton: “Alexa, I’m Ready to Walk.”
KATHERINE MANGU-WARD: Let’s Give Out Genetic Testing Kits at the Next Neo-Nazi Rally.
It’s a great idea, though you might create almost as much consternation at a Black Lives Matter march.
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