ANTI-SEMITIC GARBAGE PEOPLE AREN’T A PROBLEM FOR THE DEMOCRATS, THEY’RE A CORE CONSTITUENCY NOW: College Democrats Leader Under Fire For Anti-Semitic Tweets.
Democrats used to push the “punch a Nazi” line, but now they’re pushing people who think of Jews the way Nazis did.
I’VE HEARD THIS MESSAGE BEFORE, BUT I’M NOT SURE WHERE…Message to GOP: ‘Don’t get cocky’ from Biden failures.
UNEQUAL JUSTICE: Federal Judges Failed to Recuse in Hundreds of Cases. “Over 100 federal judges failed to recuse themselves from cases involving firms in which they held stock or other financial interests between 2010 and 2018, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. All told, the investigation identified 685 cases in which the judge or a family member owned stock in a company involved in a case before them.”
PUNCH A NAZI COMMIE: Biden Banking Nominee Proud Recipient of Collegiate ‘Lenin Award.’
LIFE IN THE BIDEN ERA JUST GETS WORSE: Bacon prices have skyrocketed to record levels, and they might not go down anytime soon.
BECAUSE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTING FROM THE AGREED-UPON STORY IS THE ONLY CRIME: WHY IS MARINE LT. COL. STUART SCHELLER IN THE BRIG AND NOT GEN. MARK MILLEY?
THEY’VE ALREADY MOVED ON TO THE NEXT CRISIS THEY’RE TRYING TO CREATE AND/OR EXPLOIT: So Where’s That Crisis the Left Predicted After Eviction Moratorium Expired?
ABOUT A DOZEN PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT NEED TO BE GIVEN A BOTTLE OF WHISKEY AND A REVOLVER WITH ONE BULLET: Milley’s blunt private blame for the State Department.
But instead they’re blaming each other and hoping this will pass over, because that’s how a corrupt bureaucracy works.
ANTI-DESANTIS AD THAT READS LIKE A MOVE TO FLORIDA AD:
Stop what you are doing and watch this immediately. If you are ready to remove Ron DeathSantis from office retweet this new ad and make sure everyone can see it. pic.twitter.com/AyaHQ77fqs
— Remove Ron (@RemoveRon) September 29, 2021
RACISM, STRAIGHT UP. Charles Blow: “When I see those Black bodies at the border, I am unable to separate them from myself, or my family, or my friends. They are us.”
When you feel empathy for people solely because of their race being the same as yours, that’s racism. Straight up.
Plus, from the comments: “Well, good heavens, if you feel your individuality is being erased, first try not referring to your fellow black people as ‘bodies’ instead of people!”
Also: “I know it’s a trendy locution on the left, but referring to these people as ‘bodies’ always sounds dehumanizing. It strikes me as the language of a slaveowner.”
Talk of “black bodies” or “brown bodies” is a tell that the speaker is peddling racist nonsense.
Plus, a question for Charles Blow: “Why do so many Black people around the world want to leave their Black governed countries, free of the evils of racism, to come to a nation where they will be oppressed by the systematic racism?”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Workers Who Maintain Supply Chains Warn of Worldwide ‘System Collapse.’
Several industry groups have warned world leaders of a worldwide supply-chain ‘system collapse’ due to pandemic restrictions, coming as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the current period of higher inflation will last until 2022.
The International Chamber of Shipping, a coalition of truck drivers, seafarers, and airline workers, has warned in a letter to heads of state attending the United Nations General Assembly that governments need to restore freedom of movement to transportation workers amid persistent COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines.
If nothing is done, they warned of a “global transport system collapse” and suggested that “global supply chains are beginning to buckle as two years’ worth of strain on transport workers take their toll,” according to the letter. It was signed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which represent some 65 million transport workers around the world.
“All transport sectors are also seeing a shortage of workers, and expect more to leave as a result of the poor treatment millions have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat,” the letter said. “We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the U.N. General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now,” they wrote.
Meanwhile, retailer Costco said it’s chartering its own container ships between Asia and North America amid supply chain issues worldwide, Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said in a recent conference call.
Nothing to see here, move along.
UPDATE: Flashback, via the comments: Black Swans, Butterflies And Supply Chains: Predicting The Unpredictable.
ACCURATE HEADLINES AREN’T WHAT THE NARRATIVE IS INTERESTED IN:
OPEN THREAD: She likes to play for double or nuthin’.
I DON’T WANT TO LIVE FOREVER I JUST DON’T WANT TO GET OLD AND DIE: Want to Live Forever? There’s No Theoretical Limit to Human Lifespan, New Study Says. At present I’m hoping to maximize my healthspan.
WHAT’S BEHIND China’s Power Crunch.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? NASA’s Lucy science mission will fly by eight asteroids. I hope at least one of them turns out to have diamonds.
MANCHIN TO SWITCH PARTIES? Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) sounds like a man who is preparing to become a Republican:
“Overall, the amount we spend now must be balanced with what we need and can afford — not designed to reengineer the social and economic fabric of this nation or vengefully tax for the sake of wishful spending.”
West Virginia is turning solidly red and Manchin knows it as well as anybody.
According to [Kenneth] Minogue, around the sixteenth century in the English-speaking world emerged Lockean liberalism—a political philosophy that rests upon the natural rights of man. At its birth, this liberal morality was tolerant, egalitarian, and peace-loving; liberals exercise great self-control and excel in compromise. For Minogue, this was a political system that unleashed previously repressed individual energy and allowed for responsible political opposition, which led to prosperity and stability.
Modern liberalism, in contrast, “is a new understanding of politics;” it treats politics “as a technical activity like any other.” All social problems are thus turned into political problems, “inviting a solution by state activity.” Plan, control, command, and mobilization, all those large-scaled and all-encompassing state activities, have turned liberalism from a political philosophy, one built on the doctrine of natural rights, to a political movement that sees political life only as a struggle aimed at ultimately making society more just and equal. Or, to use the 21st-century parlance among our cultural elite, “we” are building a DEI world: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Cynicism and sentimentality are the trademarks of the modern liberal mind.
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When reading Minogue’s anatomy of the moral character of the liberal mind, I recalled an exchange I had with a classmate three years ago. She is a former journalist and proudly-avowed global citizen—a modern liberal one might say. She mentioned that her home country, Switzerland, accepted most immigrants but her countrymen rarely interacted with them or helped them. When I asked her why individual Swiss exhibited so little personal compassion, she shrugged her shoulders: “there is government.” The truth is, as Minogue reveals, the people who focus on cultivating feelings or crafting images that provoke either hatred or tears are usually not those who actually help the needy around them. Thus, an unintended consequence of the excessive exploitation of real or crafted “suffering situations” of the classes of people taken to be “oppressed” is apathy among the masses.
A puzzle remains, namely, what has transformed liberalism from the staunch preserver of liberty, with John Stuart Mill being its most celebrated spokesman, to “St. George,” the righteous zealot, who vows to slay all human sufferings. Minogue’s devastating dissection of the liberal mind offers us some hints.
Read the whole thing, although what Minogue defined as modern “liberalism” is really a massive stolen base by “Progressives” in the 1920s to rehabilitate the brand after Woodrow Wilson had soiled it completely during WWI, as Fred Siegel wrote in his 2014 history of the American left, The Revolt Against the Masses:
Liberals were those Progressives who had renamed themselves so as to repudiate Wilson. “The word liberalism,” wrote Walter Lippmann in 1919, “was introduced into the jargon of American politics by that group who were Progressives in 1912 and Wilson Democrats from 1916 to 1918.” The new liberalism was a decisive cultural break with Wilson and Progressivism. While the Progressives had been inspired by a faith in democratic reforms as a salve for the wounds of both industrial civilization and power politics, liberals saw the American democratic ethos as a danger to freedom at home and abroad.
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The best short credo of liberalism came from the pen of the once canonical left-wing literary historian Vernon Parrington in the late 1920s. “Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class,” Parrington insisted, referring to both democracy and capitalism, “and the artist and the scientist will erect in America a civilization that may become, what civilization was in earlier days, a thing to be respected.” Alienated from middle-class American life, liberalism drew on an idealized image of “organic” pre-modern folkways and rhapsodized about a future harmony that would reestablish the proper hierarchy of virtue in a post-bourgeois, post-democratic world.
So from that point of view, “liberalism,” while changing its spots somewhat over the past decade to encompass “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” is still working as the original “Progressives” redefined it.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: VP Harris to student who accused Israel of ‘genocide:’ Your truth must be heard.
ROUGHLY A THIRD OF PEOPLE ON BLOOD-PRESSURE MEDICATION aren’t properly controlling their blood pressure. “All told, nearly half of adults in the United States have high blood pressure, increasing their risk for heart attack, stroke, kidney disease and other health complications, including severe COVID-19, according to the American Heart Association.”
I suspect the numbers are so high because the new guidelines are too low.
MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE COL. KURTZ AGAIN! Marines Departing Kabul Airport Were Forced to Clean up the Graffiti Insults They Left for Taliban.
Departing U.S. service members were told to destroy equipment at the Kabul airport, so as not to leave things behind of which the Taliban might make use. They smashed electronics, shattered windows, and stripped armored vehicles to render them useless to the Taliban. They had also strewn trash around the airport to interfere in any takeover by the Taliban.
“Many said they found that experience cathartic, particularly in the wake of the August 26 ISIS-K suicide bomb at one of the airport’s gates, the Abbey Gate, that killed 170 Afghans and 13 US service personnel,” according to the Daily Mail.
That wasn’t hard to believe. But, what happened next is.
Marines who were still angry about the suicide bombing attack which killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghan civilians also left some graffiti messages for the terrorists. There was “F**K ISIS + Taliban” graffiti, including what looked like a penis painted in purple. Another message showed several troop members in front of a wall painted with “F**K ISIS, AFG 2021.” There was also a picture of service members holding a sign, which read: “F**k the Taliban.”
But the top brass ordered the Marines to clean off the messages and clean up the debris before they departed the airport.
“My boys had to go….pick up every last piece of….trash for who? The Taliban?” said a Marine to The Washington Post. “It was a slap in the face to us,” he said.
Marine spokesperson Lt. Jack Coppola claimed the trash had to be picked up so as not to interfere with flights but didn’t explain why they made Marines erase the graffiti.
As always, life imitates Apocalypse Now (Language warning):
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? MLB Ships Jobs to China To Build Closer Relationship With CCP.
Major League Baseball is expanding its partnership with the Chinese Communist Party, coming at the expense of U.S. jobs and growing Chinese influence over America’s pastime.
The country’s leading propaganda outlet China Daily on Aug. 20 touted the MLB’s attempts to build a “baseball ecosystem” within the country. The league has grown its network to more than 100 Chinese baseball teams in 20 cities, with a growing fanbase of millions. The league’s operations in cahoots with Beijing are not just limited to play—quality U.S. jobs are also at stake. Miken Sports, a baseball equipment brand that provides business to the league, folded a Minnesota production plant and moved its nearly 70 jobs to China.
The league’s interest in exporting jobs and resources to China is drawing fierce rebukes from lawmakers. Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R., Minn.), whose district includes the Miken plant, introduced a resolution on Wednesday obtained by the Washington Free Beacon blasting the MLB for taking away American jobs.
”Baseball is considered to be America’s national pastime, so it is completely outrageous that the MLB has decided to shut down the Miken Sports plant in Caledonia and outsource American jobs to communist China—directly defying the MLB’s position as an American sports league,” Hagedorn said. “Miken has been one of the largest employers in Caledonia for decades, and this community will face major hardships and job losses due to this closure. We are urging the MLB to reverse this decision, purchase products that are made in America, and work to keep these jobs at home.”
Curious that the MLB is getting deeper in bed with Beijing after the CCP-NBA debacle in the fall of 2019, and China’s role in the events of last year. It likely won’t end well for professional baseball — as Jim Geraghty wrote in 2019 after the CCP-NBA connection was exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
Related: A Slow Kowtow to China.
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