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Archive for 2021
April 3, 2021
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Pass the popcorn — WA supreme court unanimously OK’s recall campaign against Seattle’s Socialist council member.
Remember Kshama Sawant? The Socialist politician first made waves eight years ago, just days after her election to Seattle’s city council, by urging Boeing workers to seize the company’s factories for themselves. Sawant later quarterbacked the head-tax proposal that prompted Amazon to leave the city, which the city council later reversed. Sawant spearheaded an effort to cut the police chief’s pay after Chief Carmen Best criticized Sawant’s effort to defund the police department, causing Best to resign in protest. Sawant also led a protest at Mayor Jenny Durkan’s home in favor of defunding the police and protecting the socialists’ seizure of several city blocks in the CHAZ/CHOP, despite Durkan’s home address being protected by a privacy statute.
For those and other reasons, opponents launched a recall effort against Sawant, which she sued to enjoin. Last night, a unanimous 9-0 ruling from the state supreme court approved the recall petition, holding that three of the four allegations listed are factually accurate and good cause for the recall:
We’ll always have the Summer of Love, though.
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: The Working-Class GOP: A Muddled Concept: A favorite Republican catchphrase deserves higher scrutiny.
The Banks memo, first reported by Axios, is part of a trend. Influential Republicans have embraced the notion that Donald Trump transformed the GOP into the vehicle of the proletariat. “We are a working-class party now,” Josh Hawley tweeted on election night. “The future of the party is based on a multiethnic, multiracial, working class coalition,” Marco Rubio said a week later. “The future of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the social, economic, and cultural interests and values of working American families of every race, color, and creed,” Trump told CPAC in February. Last month, Rubio announced his support for Amazon employees in Alabama who want to form a union.
Banks doesn’t go that far. The word union appears nowhere in his memo. He mentions “labor” only once, in a derisive reference to a Democratic special interest group. The lacuna is a reminder: Despite the emerging consensus that the GOP is a working-class party, there is little agreement on what such a party should stand for. Industrial policy? Trust busting? Family subsidies and financial transaction taxes? Banks sidesteps these trendy measures on the intellectual right. He suggests instead that Republican candidates adopt Trump’s posture of opposition to illegal immigration, offshoring of manufacturing jobs, COVID-19 lockdowns, Big Tech censorship, and political correctness.
It might take a second—or longer—to see how the issues Banks highlights relate to the material interests of Republican voters. What they have in common is an adversarial attitude toward the votaries of managerial liberalism. Indeed, Banks’s dichotomy isn’t between working class and capital, but between populism and elitism. Republicans, Banks writes, must “highlight the cultural and economic elitism that animates the Democrat Party.” It’s “Democrat elitism” that has driven working-class voters to the GOP. And “nothing better encapsulates Democrats’ elitism and classism than their turn towards ‘wokeness.'” Taxes, spending, welfare, and entitlements do not come up.
It’s the values of the liberal Gentry Class against those of the Working Class, a conflict made sharper because hatred of the Working Class is a key value of the Gentry Class.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR TRUMP, BILLIONAIRES WOULD RUN THE COUNTRY, AND THEY WERE RIGHT! “Ministry of Truth? Gates/Soros-Funded Org Starts Leftist ‘Information Disorder’ Commission.”
BUT HE ALSO KNOWS THAT THE DEMOCRATS’ PRESS APPARAT, WHICH IS NEARLY ALL OF THE PRESS, WILL PRETEND TO BELIEVE HIM: Hunter Biden’s full of it — he knows it’s his laptop, and he wasn’t hacked.
GOOD TO SEE ABBOTT GO STRAIGHT TO PRESIDENT HARRIS ON THIS ISSUE: Abbott Presses ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris for Answers on Trafficking of Children Amid Border Surge.
THAT WHOLE “WORKERS’ PARADISE” THING WAS JUST A SLOGAN: Cuba: Independent union members fired from their jobs, threatened for advocating workers’ rights.
OUT: “I HATE TRUMP BECAUSE OF ALL THE LYING.”
I LINKED HIS FIRST PUBLICATION LAST MONTH. THE YOUNG MAN HAS FOLLOW-THROUGH:
FROM SCOTT SLACK: By Three Moons’ Light.
Lieutenant Brown has a simple set of orders: Destroy a buried Karstian anti-orbital laser. If he does, the Strathar fleet he’s vanguard for can take the fight to the Karstian invaders who seized the planet from Strath.
Unfortunately, simple’s not the same as easy on the planet Jotunheim. First, his platoon has to make a long march undetected through the deep wilderness. If they survive, there’s still the hard fight against the military installation ahead. If he fails, the fleet and the invasion are at risk.
A story of The Ares March.
WHY, INDEED? Why won’t Biden target anti-Asian discrimination in the Ivy Leagues? #StopAsianHate.
ALL HUMAN LIVES. EVERY SINGLE ONE: Whose Lives Matter?
FLORIDA PULLS AHEAD OF THE REST OF FREE AMERICA IN LOTTERY OF PLACES TO GO: DeSantis Nixes COVID-19 Vaccine Passports In Florida.
IF IT IS ON FACEBOOK YOU CAN BE CONFIDENT IT IS (POLITICALLY) CORRECT: China using propaganda ads on Facebook to show oppressed Muslims happy.
About as valid as the Russians declaring Putin sexy, to be fair. Okay, maybe a little less though you know people who consider Putin sexy probably don’t remember what sex is.
IT’S A MISTAKE ANYBODY COULD HAVE MADE: Couple accidentally paints over $500,000 artwork.
OF COURSE HE IS… HE’S ALSO AN EX KGB DIRECTOR, SO HE KNOWS WHEN YOU SLEEP AND HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’RE AWAKE: Putin is Russia’s sexiest man, Russian poll finds.
Not that this would influence anyone’s poll answer.
THE ILLUSION SHATTERS: The legal situation of the Jan 6th Capitol “insurrection” defendants.
FORGET IT, JAKE. IT’S THE NINTH CIRCUS: 22 states fight California gun restrictions, urge Ninth Circuit to rule against large-capacity magazine ban.
TO BE FAIR, ALREADY 20 YEARS AGO THEY CRACKED DOWN ON MIDDLE CLASS KIDS, BUT GAVE A PASS TO THOSE THEY WERE SCARED OF: Colorado Bill Will Legalize Crime In Schools.
This just makes it clear and visible.
“I LOST MY HEART, IN CHICHEN ITZA”: Mexico closing Mayan ruin site because of maskless tourists.
Oh, sure, the biggest danger in Mexico IS maskless tourists. Sure. Whatever.
CNN DECLARES IT WILL BE SOME TWENTY YEARS BEFORE THIS BABY CAN BE DECLARED A BOY: Baby born with three penises makes medical history.
FROM CEDAR SANDERSON: The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack.
She was trouble, and from the moment she sailed into his office in search of a PI, Soldagh Dennessey was caught in her wake.
In a city where the streets started mean and went worse, Soldagh had carved a relatively solitary existence out between the goblins in their dens of minty iniquity, and the gnomes who’d snitch on their own mothers for rent money. Rough as it was, he’d come from worse family, and had no intention of going back.
As the case grows tangled and terrifying, Soldagh is starting to suspect the past he’s been avoiding lies at the bleeding heart of the matter. And only the few friendships he’s made and an unexpected ally might be enough to save them now…
THERE MIGHT BE A TIME FOR GLOOM. BUT THIS IS NOT IT: But The Lizard Will Surely Die.
Anger, yes. Rage, yes. Gloom? Oh, please.
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW? Build (and Patronize) Alternative Structures While We Can.
April 2, 2021
HE’S A HACK WITH SOME BASKETBALL TALENT: LeBron James gets dragged in epic fashion after declaring his support of MLB pulling the All-Star Game out of Georgia.