Archive for 2019
December 14, 2019
REMY: FULL HOUSE (San Francisco Real Estate Edition): New video from Reason TV. “You can’t watch Full House reruns without getting nostalgic (for the good old days when a San Francisco townhouse wasn’t $6 million):”
WHO DOES HE THINK HE’S FOOLING? Mike Bloomberg’s decision to lopsidedly cover only Trump (and no Democrats) has my old friends in the newsroom pretty ticked off. But leaving his own name off of the “Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index” is just dumb.
Not that I’m cheering for anyone of these people, but he’s giving Fauxcohoantas and Grumpy Socialist a stick with which to hit him over the head.
LEFTIST HATE IS EVERYWHERE: Semester of violence: physical attacks on conservative college students keep piling up.
On the one hand this makes me angry. On the other it’s just an in-kind contribution to the Trump2020 get-out-the-vote operation.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: FBI: UNM student from Saudi Arabia had kill list.
WHEN FACULTY ATTACK THEIR OWN STUDENTS: The faculty association at California State University-Chico released a statement slamming the College Republicans group on campus. The statement called their ideas “white supremacist” while also calling Trump re-election signs a “racist provocation.”
Keep this stuff up and people are going to conclude that higher education isn’t worth supporting with taxpayer dollars.
I’M NOT SURE I’D CALL THIS LOOK “MORE YOUTHFUL.” What is the secret of Hillary Clinton’s strangely plumped-up-cheeks? Fillers could be behind more youthful look. Besides, to be more youthful, don’t you have to be at least a little bit youthful to start?
But this cosmetic work, ill-advised as it is, suggests that Hillary’s thinking about running — or at least wants people to think she is. You’d think she could afford better, though.
PUTIN PUPPETS, UNMASKED:
● Al Gore: 2020 Democrats Should Run on the Green New Deal.
● Michael Bloomberg would shut down coal plants if elected president.
In addition to advancing Putin’s goals, Gore is also advancing the goals of the ultimate example of Big Oil, Qatar, which bought the former radical environmentalist off in 2013.
As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added at the start of the month. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS IS LITERALLY THE STATE MOTTO OF VIRGINIA: VA National Guard Issues Statement Over Calls To Enforce Gun Control. “If you read between the lines of the adjutant general’s statement, it’s clear that McEachin’s comment is already causing a stir within the Guard itself. The men and women of the Virginia National Guard signed up to defend freedom, not establish a police state on American soil where soldiers search for scofflaws who refuse to register their rifles with the Virginia State Police.”
“HAS BOOMERANGED?” CNBC SPELLED “IS WORKING AS DESIGNED” WRONG: California’s new employment law has boomeranged and is starting to crush freelancers.
Why, it’s as if California’s “Progressive” policies hurt the working-class and middle-class or something.
BECAUSE THEY’RE MORE LOYAL TO LEFTY POLITICS THAN TO JUDAISM: Caroline Glick: Why Leftist Jews Slander President Trump.
In its Twitter feed, the New York Times reported Trump’s action thus: “President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, thus bolstering the Education Department’s efforts to stamp out “Boycott Israel” movements on college campuses.”
This tweet was so off-base that it is impossible to view it as a mere misunderstanding by the paper of record for the liberal establishment. The assertion that Trump’s move “defined Judaism” smacks of cultural appropriation, and as such, it sounds like an act of aggression against Jews.
By falsely claiming Trump defined Judaism as a nationality, the Times made it sound like Trump was saying that Jews aren’t American nationals.
And by writing the purpose of the effort was to “stamp out ‘Boycott Israel’ movements on college campuses,” rather than protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment, the Times made the order seem like a political ploy rather than a civil rights action long supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Liberal Jews pounced on the message and ran with it. Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America accused Trump of being “partially responsible” for the rise of anti-Semitism in America.
“If President Trump truly wanted to combat anti-Semitism,” she said, “he would accept responsibility for his role in perpetuating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and emboldening white nationalism.”
“We said it before and we’ll say it again – Donald Trump is the biggest threat to American Jews,” she added.
J-Street’s executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami echoed the criticism of BDS advocates in Congress and on campuses by claiming that the executive order harms the free speech rights of anti-Israel activists. In his words, “The executive order, like the stalled congressional legislation it is based on, appears designed less to combat anti-Semitism than to have a chilling effect on free speech and to crack down on campus critics of Israel.”
Undoubtedly, Soifer and Ben Ami were directing their statements towards the “a-political” Jewish establishment in the hopes of mobilizing them against the pro-Jewish executive order.
In the event, they failed. The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee both applauded Trump’s executive order.
But Soifer and Ben Ami had grounds to think the ADL and AJC would join them in characterizing Trump’s friendliness and support for Jewish people as anti-Semitism. Earlier this week they did.
Which ties into Ken Stern’s (below) bogus comments about Trump’s use of “anti-semitic” tropes.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Oh: Neighbor Says that Jersey City Black Nationalist Terrorist Attack Was Inspired by Democrat Ally and Friend of Obama Louis Farrakhan.
Related: Mayor: Jersey City Shooters Intended To Attack Jewish School Adjacent To Market.
VIRGINIA DEM MAKES SURPRISE IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN: Virginia Dem Says May Have To Call Out National Guard To Enforce Gun Bans.
WHAT A TOOL: In which lefty Ken Stern complains that right-leaning Jews are turning his definition of anti-semitism into a campus speech code that can stifle dissent. Welcome to the party, pal.
It’s not that this isn’t, at some level, a legitimate complaint. But if anti-Israel speech is the only kind of speech you’re worried about stifling, I don’t give you much credit.
December 13, 2019
IT’S ONLY “DEMOCRACY” IF THE LEFT WINS: “Tonight there was a rather large demonstration against Boris Johnson and the Tories in central London, I believe near Downing Street. Of course, Johnson hasn’t done anything since yesterday to justify the angry demonstration. Basically, the leftists were protesting the fact that they lost the election. Any outcome other than a left-wing victory is, to them, unacceptable.” Just like here. It’s amazing how bourgeois liberalism is unable to admit a political defeat.
OPEN THREAD: You’re on.
THE HEXAGON PATTERN IS INTERESTING: NASA Spacecraft Spies Huge New Storm on Jupiter After Death-Dodging Maneuver.