WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH AL SHARPTON IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Sharpton: “Latte Liberals” want to defund NYPD, “but people living on the ground need proper policing.”
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September 9, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS: Cold Feet On Police Defunding? “It turns out that Minneapolis City Council is incompetent as well as insane.”
Harsh, but fair.
WHILE THEY LECTURE US ON RACIAL SENSITIVITY, THEY COZY UP TO A DICTATORSHIP THAT’S WAGING GENOCIDE AGAINST A MINORITY POPULATION: LeBron, Disney, and the Uighur Muslims.
Also: ‘Mulan’ is the latest proof Hollywood has become a Chinese propaganda factory.
And, from America’s paper of record: Disney Editing Blunder: An Uighur Concentration Camp Can Be Clearly Seen In The Background Of ‘Mulan.’
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: Biden Questions His Own ‘Leadership,’ Flips On His National Mask Mandate.
RICHLY DESERVED: Norwegian Lawmaker Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, submitted the nomination, Fox News reported.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News.
In his letter to the Nobel Committee, Tybring-Gjedde wrote that the Trump administration has played a key role in the establishment of relations between the two nations.
“As it is expected other Middle Eastern countries will follow in the footsteps of the UAE, this agreement could be a game-changer that will turn the Middle East into a region of cooperation and prosperity,” he wrote. . . .
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, submitted the nomination, Fox News reported.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News.
In his letter to the Nobel Committee, Tybring-Gjedde wrote that the Trump administration has played a key role in the establishment of relations between the two nations.
“As it is expected other Middle Eastern countries will follow in the footsteps of the UAE, this agreement could be a game-changer that will turn the Middle East into a region of cooperation and prosperity,” he wrote, Fox News reported.
We can hope.
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Will Joe Biden ever face tough questions during this campaign?
Joe Biden is a proud retail politician, a man who believes the personal touch is how elected officials cement a connection with us. So I’ll share my personal story about how he cemented a connection with me, back when I and a few hundred thousand other troops were preparing for war, and Joe wafted in to warn us we were all to get our collective ass kicked.
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Biden’s voter pitch is this: Ignore a half-century record of dishonesty, incompetence, and wretched judgment and think only this: “Joe’s a nice guy who reaches across the aisle.” It may work, given exogenous circumstances, but then again, as Barack Obama reportedly said in private during this year’s primaries, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”
With the aid of the electronic media that have no time to delve into the longest record any presidential candidate has ever had because they’re too busy sounding the alarm about what tweets cause Eric Trump to hit the “Like” button, Biden hopes we will turn a blind eye to how he turned a blind eye to how his family got rich dangling access to him. The corruption of these acts was comically undisguised: “Don’t worry about investors,” his brother James “Jimmy” Biden reportedly said after taking over Paradigm Global Investors. “We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” He added, according to a former colleague, “We’ve got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company.” Politico’s grueling exposé “Biden, Inc.” is sordid and thorough, and Biden’s campaign declined to comment on its swampy details.
Read the whole thing.
USA TODAY: Listen to science, my fellow Democrats: Diversity training does not cure bias and racism.
But here’s what almost nobody on the left would admit: As best we can tell, these interventions don’t make people less biased or racist. After dutifully quoting Fox News’ attacks on the trainings, The Washington Post reported that “other experts” say diversity trainings “are essential steps in helping rectify the pervasive racial inequities in American society.”
But the lone “expert” it cited was an attorney named M.E. Hart, who — surprise! — gives diversity trainings himself. The Post noted several studies showing that federal contracts are disproportionately awarded to white-owned businesses. Diversity trainings will help federal employers to overcome their biases and “see each other as human beings,” Hart said.
I wish he was right. Racism and discrimination are real and destructive forces in our country. And if diversity training made us less likely to think or act in racist ways, I’d be foursquare behind it.
Alas, the great bulk of evidence suggests the opposite. Analyzing more than 800 companies that used diversity trainings over three decades, sociologists Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev found that improvements fostered by the trainings were rare and short-lived. More commonly, diversity training reinforced precisely the negative behaviors it was designed to reduce. . . .
It’s not hard to see why. When people feel pressured into acting or thinking a certain way, they often recoil. Even more, instructing people that racism is everywhere in our society can actually normalize it in their own minds, making them less inspired to take action against it.
Science is real. Follow the science.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Antifa/BLM Launch ‘Bring Your Daughter to Riot Day.’
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What kind of parent brings their small children to a riot?
Answer: One who thinks indoctrination is more important than their child’s safety and wellbeing.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
Is Portland finally getting serious about prosecuting rioters?
ABC News says mostly peaceful protests are still mostly peaceful even when they’re somewhat murderous riots.
Joe Biden has been sniffing the gaslight.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Madden Now Allows You To Select Greta Thunberg As Your QB.
Yes, but how does she compare to Blaine Gabbert?
HAS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ENDED CLINTON’S LESS-THAN-SPLENDID BALKAN WAR?:
No, it’s not a peace treaty between Serbia and Kosovo; it’s an agreement to reach a deal. But the positive small step that makes possible larger steps is proving to be a trademark Donald Trump diplomatic and peace-making technique. Trump emphasizes economic progress that diminishes the negative effects of divisive ethnic, religious and cultural differences, and neuters destructive historical grievances as the harmful excuses for hate they are.
Check it out.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northwestern law faculty refuse to explain why they introduced themselves as racists. They’ve admitted it, and they won’t explain, so I guess we’ll have to fire them.
SOMEONE SHOULD PUT SOME MONEY INTO THIS: It’s time to start a new university. Seriously, campuses can be had right now, cheap!
THE TAX CUT FOR THE RICH DEMS LOVE: Wait, how did this get in The New York Times? This is a crime against the Revolution! The comrade-editor responsible should be shipped to Siberia (or is it San Francisco these days?) for letting this revisionist piece of subversive analysis be published.
NO, SWEDEN DOES NOT PROVE COVID LOCKDOWNS WORK: Critics, including some in Sweden, contend the decision to remain mostly open during the Covid pandemic has unnecessarily cost thousands of Nordic lives.
But hold on there, buckaroos, because three guys at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) say Sweden has lots of other factors that are more explanatory of its losses, not the least of which is the one it shares with New York.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Texas A&M prof who called Trump ‘fat klansman’ disparages conservatives & Christians in class, multiple students say. As taxpayers tire of this, we’re told that they’re “anti-intellectual.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats Keep Letting BLM Rage Mob Ruin Police Careers. “The anti-police sentiment in cities run by Democrats is getting worse by the day. Those of us who write about this stuff all the time have been speculating for months about how many law enforcement officers would be leaving the profession altogether because of this crap. As we saw in Seattle, cops are getting abandoned and thrown under the bus by progressive loon politicians who would rather side with rioters than law enforcement.”