There are some Americans out there who are actually *unhappy* when what normal people would think of as good news is revealed. They are upset and even in denial when it turns out that a horrific gang rape at U. Va or by the Duke Lacrosse team never happened, or that a bunch of white kids didn’t surround and threaten a “Native American elder,” or that the Trayvon Martin case didn’t involve a white man shooting a black kid unprovoked, or that a deranged Israeli, not a dangerous white supremacist cabal, was responsible for a series of bomb threats to Jewish institutions, because they want reinforcement for their worldview that demands that the U.S. be a dystopian hatefest. These are some of the worst people in the United States
Archive for 2019
January 22, 2019
GET IN THEIR FACE, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: David Hogg’s Appearance At Penn State Met With Protesters.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Donors stop giving to UGA in wake of ‘racist’ TA. “Alumni and donors who give money to the University of Georgia are threatening to no longer financially support the university if it does not take action against a teaching assistant who once said, ‘some white people may have to die.’ UGA philosophy TA Irami Osei-Frimpong posted the comment in the Overheard at UGA Facebook page but it has since been deleted, as Campus Reform previously reported. The TA had previously compared Southern whites to ‘sociopaths’ and ‘autistic kids.'”
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STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY IS HARD: Massachusetts MAGA Fans: Our political message is shouted down. “Massachusetts conservatives say the feverish piling-on that the MAGA hat-wearing teenagers in Washington, D.C. experienced is what they routinely face whenever they dare to show President Trump garb or bumper stickers in public — their right to political free speech is shouted down with taunts, foul language and even threats here in the Bay State.” Well, you shouldn’t have been wearing such a short dress a red hat.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: MAGA Hat-Gate Continues and Much, Much More.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Charles de Gaulle Saw Brexit Coming: He said U.K. membership would weaken the EU and divide Britain.
Britain’s problem with the EU goes back decades. From the 1957 Treaty of Rome to the present day, Europe has been both the opportunity Britain cannot embrace and the problem Britain cannot solve. In the 1950s, Britain stood aloof from the increasingly integrated Continent as it clung to the remnants of its empire. In the 1960s it applied, twice, to join; both times its application was scuttled, twice by the implacable, but arguably correct, French President Charles de Gaulle. In 1973 Britain finally succeeded in joining the club, but euroskepticism was already so strong in British politics that the country held a referendum on leaving in 1975. Remain won that round, but British ambivalence over Europe has never gone away.
De Gaulle—the leader of the Free French resistance in World War II who went on to found the Fifth Republic under which France still lives today—understood the problem best. He thought Britain would never truly be at home in a European union. “England in effect is insular, she is maritime,” he said in his remarks blocking Britain’s entry into what was then called the Common Market in 1963. “She has in all her doings very marked and very original habits and traditions.” He added that “the nature, the structure, the very situation that are England’s differ profoundly from those of the continentals.”
Moreover, from de Gaulle’s point of view, admitting Britain into Europe was like letting a Trojan horse through the gates. He believed Europe faced a choice between pursuing its original goal of a deep integration of the original six members and opting for a larger, looser association that included Britain. A larger and looser Europe, he believed, would be a weaker Europe. It would be unable to develop into a true world power that could face Russia and the U.S. as an equal.
Today de Gaulle looks like a prophet. EU membership has left Britain miserable and divided. The rest of the 28-member EU is overextended, stressed and geopolitically weak.
Yep. Though honestly, going beyond the Common Market was always more for the benefit of the political class than the citizenry. The Common Market brought prosperity, but the EU offered more opportunities for graft. And for the self-importance that is as important to the political class as graft. Well, almost as important.
WELL, BIGOTS GENERALLY DO SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE: If You Still Think Nick Sandmann’s Smile Is Proof of Racism, You’re Seeing What You Want to See: Some are incapable of viewing the MAGA-hat-wearing teens from Covington Catholic as anything other than pure evil. “Undoubtedly, it is a teachable moment for everyone who rushed to join the social media mob condemning the kids as abominable racists, including prominent journalists on the left, right, and center. To their credit, many have admitted their mistake. Others have doubled down.”
OH: Dems Who Slammed GOP Over Kavanaugh Attended Puerto Rico Trip with Tony Cardenas. “Cardenas faces allegations that he drugged and molested a 16-year-old.”
SMART DIPLOMACY: Richard Grenell, Trump’s top ambassador, ‘delivers again,’ blocking Iran.
A top Trump ambassador is winning kudos for his part in convincing Germany to ban Iranian airline Mahan Air amid allegations it ran weapons to Syria.
Officials said that Richard Grenell, U.S. ambassador to Germany, played a key role and scored his latest victory since landing last May when he warned, “German companies doing business in Iran should wind down operations immediately.”
Since arriving in Berlin, Ambassador Grenell has literally hit the ground running delivering on the president’s priorities,” said a key ally and senior Senate Republican aide.
“At the top of that list has been to ensure Europe doesn’t circumvent President Trump on Iran,” said the aide, adding, “Today is a massive win for President Trump. Because of Ambassador Grenell’s perseverance, this Iranian airline will no longer be able to fly to the largest economy in Europe. Make no mistake, Ric Grenell has become President Trump’s go-to diplomat in Europe. He delivers.”
I’m a fan.
YAWN: Twitter suspends account that helped ignite controversy over viral encounter.
The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher. Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil, CNN Business found. Twitter suspended the account soon after CNN Business asked about it.
The account, with the username @2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweets of a woman named Talia living in California. “Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020,” its Twitter bio read. Since the beginning of this year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers.
I’ll be impressed when Twitter finally goes after the big celebrity accounts who fanned the flames of hate far higher than some anonymous troll could ever have.
Think of them as Narrative Maintenance Technicians for the left and it all makes sense. The purpose of this is to quell any pangs of conscience lefties might have felt for going after those boys now that the truth is out, by telling them that even if these Covington boys were innocent, others, sometime, somewhere were guilty of something.
MARTA HERNANDEZ: Covington Outrage and the Enemies Within.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Hillary’s Dark Money Group Relies Heavily on Six Donors and Campaign Money. I remember when political money from a few shady rich guys was considered evil.
HMM: Venezuela Puts Down Mutiny With National Guard Unit.
The armed forces in a statement said that it had captured all those involved in what it described as “treasonous” acts motivated by “obscure interests tied to the far right.”
It said at around 2:50 a.m. (06:50 GMT), a small group of guardsmen took captive a captain in charge of a police station in western Caracas and then moved across the capital in two military trucks to the poor neighborhood of Petare, where they stole a cache of weapons from another outpost.
They met resistance and were caught hours later at a national guard outpost 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Miraflores presidential palace.
The armed forces said all the weapons had been recovered and the mutinous troops captured.
A few hours earlier, a group of heavily armed national guardsmen published a series of videos on social media saying they won’t recognize President Nicolas Maduro’s government, which has come under increasing domestic and international pressure over a newly launched second term that the opposition-controlled congress and many nations consider illegitimate.
Authoritarian regimes often look impervious to change, right up until they collapse.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: It’s the new final countdown! Ocasio-Cortez on Millennials: ‘We’re Like the World Is Going to End in 12 Years if We Don’t Address Climate Change’
Mankind has made remarkable progress — 12 years is two years longer than the last final countdown:
But isn’t it all academic? In addition to everybody dying from Trump’s tax cuts, net neutrality, and Brett Kavanaugh being seated on the Supreme Court, all these earlier final countdowns surely finished civilization off:
● President Obama ‘has four years to save Earth.’
—The London Guardian, January 17, 2009.
● Warming expert: Only decade left to act in time.
—NBC News, September 14, 2006.
● U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked:
A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco- refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
—AP, June 29, 1989.
And finally, this classic:
WORST “WHERE’S WALDO” EVER: What Happened to the Texan Who Became the Goebbels of ISIS? “John Thomas Georgelas was their highest-ranking American.”
JIM TREACHER ON THE COVINGTON HATE-FEST: Liberals Are Bigots, But It’s Okay Because That Kid Had a MAGA Hat. “They saw a white kid wearing an enemy uniform, and they projected all their fears and hatreds onto him. . . . Back in the old days, white supremacy meant burning crosses, threatening and hurting and killing people, saying racist things, etc. Now all you need to do is stand in one spot, literally saying nothing, and that’s white supremacy. It’s a lot less work, I guess? . . . This was a highly successful propaganda effort. It’s completely unfair to this kid, but the people who created and disseminated the propaganda don’t care. They don’t care about people as individuals, and they know their target audience doesn’t either. They just see a face they’re supposed to hate, underneath a hat they’re supposed to hate. So that’s what they do. They hate. Then they congratulate themselves on standing up to ‘bigotry.’ Orwell was an amateur.”
Plus: “And in a day or two, the seething mob will get bored and move on to a new target. Anything or anyone will do. Their anger must be fed constantly, and it’s not a picky eater. Well, at least now we know what it takes for the media to pay attention to the March for Life!”
I CAN’T SAY I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO 2020: “Five reasons Kamala Harris is the Brand-New 2020 Democratic Frontrunner.“