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June 19, 2019
RESPONDING TO OCCASIONAL CORTEX WITH LOGIC IS LIKE SMOTHERING A FIRE WITH MARSHMALLOWS: AOC’s Petulant Response To Concentration Camp Criticism.
WE NEED HEINLEIN’S THIRD CHAMBER WHOSE SOLE PURPOSE IS TO REPEAL LAWS: Here are some of the goofiest federal laws still on the books.
WHAT A WONDERFUL MEMENTO TO SHOW THE GRAND KIDS (YES, THAT IS SARCASM): YouPorn offering ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to propose marriage on adult website.
SYMBIOSIS: ‘Puppy dog eyes’ were developed to appeal to humans: study.
I swear Greebo-cat in addition to following at my heels like a canine has the ability to do this, including the “really?” look with the impression of raised eyebrows.
TRUMP SAYS HE WOULD GET THE ‘ELECTRIC CHAIR’ IF HE DELETED EMAILS LIKE HILLARY CLINTON.
Given the anger on the left these days, he’s likely not wrong.
SOCIAL MEDIA HAD BETTER WORRY: Glenn Harlan Reynolds v Social Media. “Suppose Social Media and Social Networking were not the ultimate flowering of internet freedom, but rather an attempt by the Establishment to impose an iron cage of bureaucracy on the New Frontier of the World Wide Web? Whether by accident or design, that is exactly what has taken place.” It was no accident.
OPEN THREAD: Share the joy.
VIOLENT RHETORIC ALERT: Joe Biden’s fight behind the gym with Donald Trump might involve brass knuckles.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says that the way he would deal with Senate Republicans who oppose his agenda is with a “brass knuckle fight,” later adds: “Let’s start a real physical revolution if you’re talking about it.” *
Curiously, Joe has abandoned his former boss’s advice:
“At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do,” he said, “it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
* Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
TRUMP IS THE NEW NORMAL: New Quebec law stresses migrants’ skills, thousands must reapply.
The Quebec provincial legislature on Sunday approved a controversial immigration bill that will replace a first-come, first-served standard for accepting migrants with one tied to an applicants’ skills.
The law is similar to a proposed plan from US President Donald Trump that would shift his country’s visa system from family-based immigration towards bringing in more skilled workers.
The law will attempt to more closely match the skills offered by would-be immigrants with the needs of the labor market in Quebec, Canada’s second most-populous province.
Under the new law, some 18,000 applications now on file will be shredded, affecting as many as 50,000 people, many of whom already live in the province.
Get used to it.
THE PROBLEM WITH OCASIO-CORTEZ’S SHAMEFUL IGNORANCE OF HISTORY:
It’s indeed strange to hear a leftist who champions anti-Israel causes and anti-Semitic politicians using this phrase, since the Jewish state is the most successful and enduring manifestation of Never Again.
The appearance of “Never Again” also undermines her later contention that she wasn’t talking about the Nazi camps.
We’re forced to take someone seriously who believes vegetables are a tool of colonial oppression because Ocasio-Cortez is both a charismatic elected official with many impressionable fans, and a person bestowed with a huge media platform. Only last weekend, she appeared on “Meet the Press” praising socialism—the other scourge of the 20th century.* Yet when we need our media to ask her to explain her profoundly childish and destructive statements, they are nowhere to be found.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.
Regarding AOC’s disastrous roll-out of her Green New Deal fantasies at the start of the year, ultimately, they would be enforced with the barrel of a gun. As Virginia Postrel noted about 20 years ago when discussing The Future and its Enemies with Brian Lamb on C-Span:
The Khmer Rouge sought to start over at year zero, and to sort of create the kind of society that very civilized, humane greens write about as though it were an ideal. I mean, people who would never consider genocide. But I argue that if you want to know what that would take, look at Cambodia–to empty the cities and turn everyone into peasants again. Even in a less developed country, let alone in someplace like the United States, that these sort of static utopian fantasies are just that.
Although socialist North Korea begs to differ:
WHY IS ANTI-TRUMPISM SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM AND HATE? Black reporter harassed at impeach Trump protest: ‘Go back to Fox News to pick cotton.’
JONATHAN TURLEY: Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way. “Across the country, academics have caused lasting damage to their institutions by failing to stand up to, or actively supporting, extreme demands for speech codes, limits on academic freedom, and tenure changes.”
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AOC: FASCIST TRUMP IS RUNNING “CONCENTRATION CAMPS” ON SOUTHERN BORDER. At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey pushes back:
The Trump administration doesn’t call then concentration camps for the same reasons the Obama, Bush, and Clinton administrations didn’t — they’re not concentration camps. With thousands of people flooding across the border, the US and Mexico both have to set up facilities to house them while their status gets adjudicated. Their presence in those facilities are necessarily temporary and ends when their cases are finally decided, at which point they’re either admitted or sent out of the country.
The term “concentration camps” is more accurately used for facilities meant for ethnic-cleansing purposes rather than control of immigrants and refugees. This is not a situation in which citizens and residents of a country are being relocated en masse into detention facilities, as happened to the Japanese by FDR in World War II, where the term applies even with its historical baggage. It’s certainly not the situation created by actual fascists in the 1930s and 1940s to isolate, enslave, and then exterminate ethnic minorities within their own citizen populations, intended as a permanent policy. That ethnic cleansing from an existing population is precisely what the term “concentration” connotes, in fact. Regardless of whether a handful of historians use the term to engage in histrionics, the two situations aren’t equal, analogous, or even exist in any connectable context.
Is this an anti-Semitic remark? Possibly some will feel that way, in terms of watering down the term “concentration camps” and minimizing the industrial slaughter of the Jews into an immigration issue. (Jeff Dunetz has a nuanced take on that issue.) What should be more disturbing is the incredible ignorance and idiocy being spouted by an elected representative, who acts as though the world was created when she first began paying attention to it in January 2017.
Not to mention her stenographers defenders in the media. Or as Twitchy notes: It’s come to this: Auschwitz Museum has some advice for journos and alleged ‘historian’ defending AOC.
WHY ARE LEFTIST-DOMINATED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF PREJUDICE? At Harvard Business School, Diversity Remains Elusive.
WAIT. WHAT ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING? DON’T THEY CAUSE THAT TOO?: “New Research Links Affirmative Action Bans with Increased Smoking Among Minority Teens.”
I WAS EXPECTING A MARS-SHATTERING KABOOM: Bam! Fresh Crater Spied on Mars — and It Looks Spectacular.
SAYONARA TO GOOD SENSE: “Campus Food Service Worker Hit with Bias Complaint After Saying ‘Hello’ to Student in Japanese.” This one is from the University of Minnesota (a state formerly famous for its “Minnesota nice”).