IF SO, TRUMP SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS ON JANUARY 20, 2017: Donald Trump’s spy chief pick John Ratcliffe is attempt to ‘neutralise’ US intelligence agencies, ex-officials warn.
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July 30, 2019
“GUN-FREE” IS SEMANTICALLY EQUIVALENT TO “EASY PICKINGS”: The Gilroy shooting is horrible reminder that gun-free zones are a dangerous illusion.
ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN: Is Another Recession Coming? Or Does Elizabeth Warren Just Want to Scare Us?
Well, even if we’re not facing a recession, the press will try to make people think we are.
HE PLAYS ON THEIR EMOTIONALISM AND LACK OF DISCIPLINE: Jon Gabriel: Dems, Media Keep Handing the Narrative to Trump.
There’s much to criticize about anyone, let alone a president, constantly flinging personal insults. It’s uncivil, tacky, and just not done. But, damn, if it isn’t politically effective.
What else has the political world talked about in the past week? Mueller and impeachment got 24 hours. Anyone discussing Kamala Harris? No. In fact, she’s lost her poll bump from the last debate. How about Biden? Haven’t seen him. Warren, Buttigieg, Beto? Nada.
If you’re a masochist and follow these candidates’ social media accounts, they’re trying to get attention. Oh, how they’re trying. Tulsi Gabbard just posted her Lion King workout video. But the only politician going viral lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What’s odd is that the Democrats and the media are helping Trump to control the news cycle. If Trump’s a rageaholic, the Beltway left are his enablers.
In the middle of an ugly Pelosi vs. Squad grudge match, the Donald praised the former and insulted the latter. DC Republicans wondered why he would step into a red-on-red battle. But establishment Democrats immediately tied themselves to their socialist wing, with Pelosi going so far as to sanction a GOP get-of-the-vote photo for the ages. Their feud might be papered over today but it boils just beneath that rictus grin.
Then, Trump mocks Baltimore, which everyone knows has been a tragic mess for years. All of a sudden, Dems and journalists insist Charm City is an urban paradise rather than the setting for “The Wire.”
By Monday, the political-industrial complex was praising the nobility of antisemitic grifter Al Sharpton. After all, if Trump doesn’t like someone or something, they must be beyond reproach.
Quick question: Do they know an election is coming up?
Read the whole thing. But I don’t think this suggests that Trump is a “rageaholic,” but rather that he knows how to capitalize on the rage of others.
SORRY, WHITE WOMEN, YOU’RE NO LONGER PEOPLE OF DIVERSITY: Top DCCC staffer out amid diversity uproar.
Might as well just vote for Trump, the Woke Mafia doesn’t want your kind anymore.
WHY ARE DEM-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES LIKE HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH CESSPITS OF FRAUD AND DISHONESTY? U.S. News Pulls Rankings Of UC-Berkeley (#22), Scripps (#30), And 3 Other Colleges For Misreporting Data.
FROM A FACEBOOK FRIEND:
Come on. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I LOLed so hard I scared the cats!
AND THEN THERE’S THIS: A Visit to Trigger Town.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. LOOK HOW SHOCKED IT IS: Democrats’ Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe.
AND THE WORST PART? THEY’RE MAKING ALL THIS OUT OF NOTHING: Rage Unhinged: The Celebrity Trump Edition.
AND YOU’RE PAYING FOR BOTH! Kids Still In Cages; Nancy’s Going To Africa.
ATTENTION, COLORADO:
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AND ALSO:
Because otherwise I’ll never remember to tell anyone, or type the wrong date, or something…
July 29, 2019
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OPEN THREAD: Happy Monday.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. College Does Not Make You A Better Person. “If we reach a point at which our elites — almost all of whom have college degrees, and almost all of whom credit those degrees as the reason for their success — begin to disdain and dismiss those who do not have degrees, we will reach a point at which we have created a de facto cultural underclass. In a nation premised upon equality, this would be a disastrous social development.”
We have reached that point already.
SAD BUT TRUE: Max Eden: “The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Embraces Alternative Facts.”
(My dissent is here.)
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘Sex and the City’ creator talks vaginal rejuvenation and finding ‘Mr. Bigger.’
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON WOKE RACISM:
The new racism is epidemic among those in the so-called squad, the self-referenced nickname for four media-obsessed, first-term congressional representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who without their daily charges of bias largely would be unknown back-benchers laboring away in obscurity.
Take Pressley’s recent formulation of the new racism at a recent Netroots Nation conference:
If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t come, because we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice. If you’re worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don’t even show up because we need you to represent that voice.
In sum, Pressley just outlined the classic anti-Enlightenment mindset: we are all permanent captives of our superficial race, religion, and sexual orientation. We must at all times think, act, and speak in such tribal fashion—and do so monolithically and collectively, in adopting the party line as set down by such elites as those like Pressley herself.
Blacks who oppose affirmative action, or Muslims who recognize Israel, or “queers” whose sexual preferences are incidental, not essential to their personas are thus declared not authentic and thus not to be welcomed by Pressley into the new racialist Democratic Party.
In practical terms, Pressley assumes that whites, reportedly about 70 percent of the population, tune her logic out. That is, they should never take her own racist advice and vote en masse according to their superficial shared skin color. If they did, the 55 percent of actual voters who are white in her otherwise minority-majority congressional district might never have elected someone who, according to her own rationale, is not part of their own tribe.
As John Podhoretz tweeted in November of 2016, “Liberals spent 40 years disaggregating [the] U.S., until finally the largest cohort in the country chose to vote as though it were an ethnic group.”
Which still isn’t enough to stop the identity politics left. At Power Line, Steve Hayward dubs Trump the tweeting equivalent of the infamous late 1970s pitchman for Crazy Eddie’s electronics store in Manhattan. And like that seemingly manic announcer, behind the outward fevered pitch, perhaps Trump knows what he’s doing as well: “Which means that if Democrats want to run on an identity-politics platform next year whose explicit premise is that America is a hotbed of seething nativist racism, guess who a lot of swing voters are likely to vote for? That guy on TV who seems crazy is actually offering some attractive deals.”
TODAY’S GLOBAL WARMING FEAR-MONGERING IS TOMORROW’S LATE-NIGHT CAMP TV:
This is CNN: “Americans will need to cut their beef consumption by about 40% and Europeans by 22% for the world to continue to feed everyone in the next 30 years, according to a new report.”
But why? As Jim Treacher noted on Friday: Now We Only Have 14-18 Months, Not 12 Years, to Save the Planet.
Does the enviro-doomsday cult not understand that we’ve been seeing headlines such as two above since the 1960s?
(Classical reference in headline.)
I BELIEVE THE FEMINIST ANSWER IS NO, BECAUSE RAPE IS ABOUT POWER AND MEN ALWAYS HAVE MORE POWER THAN WOMEN BY VIRTUE OF BEING MALE: If a woman forces a man to have sex, is that rape?
Plus, Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known.