LEFTIST HISTORY MYTHS DEBUNKED: “The historical premise that Indian land in the U.S. was by and large stolen by the white man is false.”
Archive for 2021
November 25, 2021
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Happy Thanksgiving…No, Really. “Thank you, dear readers, for checking in on this great holiday morning. Yes, the United States of America is in a bit of a pickle, but we still have much to be thankful for. I would like to spend a few words dwelling upon that.”
A MISSOURI JUDGE DRAWS THE LINE: “Missouri’s local health authorities have grown accustomed to issuing edicts and coercing compliance. It is far past time for this unconstitutional conduct to stop.” And awarded attorney’s fees to the plaintiff.
BLUE STATE JUSTICE: Dorchester murderer set free amid pandemic is accused of Boston road rage stabbing.
A Dorchester murderer who was set free last year amid the coronavirus pandemic is now accused of stabbing a man during a Boston road rage clash.
Joseph Irizarry Sr., 41, who was on parole from a murder conviction stemming from a 2000 gang-related shooting in Lawrence, is now facing charges in connection with last week’s stabbing in the area of Boylston Street and Charlesgate East. . . .
Irizarry had been convicted of second-degree murder and was granted parole in 2020. The Massachusetts Parole Board in the decision to release the murderer said it was an “abbreviated administration decision issued in an effort to render an expedited resolution in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The Parole Board wrote that they concluded he was a “suitable candidate for parole,” and he had “made substantial rehabilitative progress and his release would not be incompatible with the welfare of society.”
Well, okay then.
Related: Democratic cities that enacted bail reform see rise in crime, repeat offenses.
JOE BIDEN’S COMMON TOUCH: Let Them Eat Cake: Biden Crows That Those Who Bought Electric Cars Aren’t Hurting From High Gas Prices.
THREE YEARS IS A LONG TIME, BUT DEMOCRATS MUST BE WORRIED: 2024 blowout brewing: Trump 45%-Biden 32%.
To be fair, this poll only sampled people who are alive and actually exist.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: ‘Tragic milestone’: Philadelphia marks 500th homicide in 2021 after woman fatally shot.
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICANS: Notes on Thanksgiving.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Three and a half days into the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack, the Washington Post apparently still thinks they can use the self-driving car angle to downplay the driver’s role.
BE PREPARED: TASER StrikeLight Rechargeable Self-Defense Flashlight. #CommissionEarned
OPEN THREAD: Yep, a special Thanksgiving morning open thread. Disport yourselves here throughout the day.
MUST BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACIES: Irony On Steroids: Hillary Laments People Not Being Held Accountable for Their Actions.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Thanksgiving: How to Discuss Politics — If You Must.
A FRIEND WRITES, “MAN, RUY TEIXEIRA HAS BEEN REDPILLED.” Ruy Teixeira: Democrats Can Reach More Working Class Voters: But They’ll Have to Ditch the Woke Stuff.
The woke stuff is wildly unpopular, even among most Democrats. It appeals mostly to the credentialed froth at the top of the party, and their wannabes. But those are the people running the party now.
Times are tough for the historic party of the working class. The divorce between Democrats and the working class just continues to grow. Despite a slight improvement, Democrats still lost white working class (noncollege) voters in 2020 by 26 points (Catalist two party vote). Since 2012, nonwhite working class voters have shifted away from the Democrats by 18 points, with a particularly sharp shift in the last election and particularly among Hispanics.
In the recent Virginia gubernatorial election, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe lost working class voters overall by 7 points, with large swings against the Democrats among the overwhelmingly working class Hispanic population (the same basic pattern can be seen in the New Jersey election results).
Recent generic Congressional ballot results show Democrats’ working class support as the mirror image of their college graduate support—strongly negative among working class voters, strongly positive among college graduate voters. But there are way more working class voters than college graduate voters.
It’s not a good look for the party of the working class to be losing so much working class support that it’s no longer, well, the party of the working class. But of course it goes way beyond the look to the realities of electoral performance and political power. Put simply, there’s just no way Democrats can maintain a consistent hold on political power with this level of working class support. And if there’s no consistent hold on power, the economic and social transformation they claim to be promoting cannot happen.
Well, good, because the transformation they want is somewhere between stupid and evil.
Flashback: Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues.
Plus: Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering.
Also: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: DC Public Schools offers guidance on ‘decolonizing’ Thanksgiving.
AT THIS POINT I TRUST RANKINGS AS MUCH AS ANY OTHER MEDIA PRODUCT: Yale Dean Finds ‘Something Fishy’ In B-School Rankings, Highlights Need For Greater Transparency. “The way Jain sees it, one of two things happened. Either the weights were applied to the data before it was normalized — a mathematical process that can be used to ensure that data sets are being compared on the same numerical scale — which would be a statistical error, he said. Or the ranking was calculated accurately, but after the fact some sort of ‘mysterious manipulation,’ as Jain put it, took place.”
November 24, 2021
“ANTHONY AND JO-JO.” Hollywood Worships the Criminals Shot By Kyle Rittenhouse.
“JoJo” refers to Joseph Rosenbaum, the convicted child molester who threatened to kill Rittenhouse, and whose last act on earth was chasing an armed man around a parking lot. That’s who these moronic celebrities have chosen to worship.
SO I DIDN’T FOLLOW THE ARBERY CASE THAT CLOSELY, but the verdict seems reasonable. There was no self-defense, and while the Georgia citizens’ arrest statute is vague, I very much doubt that the trio in this case had simply parsed the law incorrectly. Lots of non-nefarious people check out construction, and nobody was in danger from Arbery. But note this: Ahmaud Arbery Case Highlights Problem of Insider Favoritism in Law Enforcement. This is a very real problem.
UPDATE: This is a very real solution:
Watch faces of race-baiters-for hire Benjamin Crump and Al Sharpton, when Ahmaud Arbery’s father tells media “All lives matter—Not just Blacks!” pic.twitter.com/2SqryigtH4
— @SassyConservativeGirl45 (@SassyConservat1) November 24, 2021
SAY HIS NAME: ‘You couldn’t help but love him’: Waukesha remembers Jackson Sparks, 8, latest victim of parade tragedy. It wasn’t a tragedy, it was a crime, a crime enabled by Democratic prosecutors and politicians.
But it’s already being memory-holed:
The Waukesha parade attack is gone from the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The day after the suspect appeared in court and the death of another child was announced. Sent from a *source pic.twitter.com/cBXIDOxxlA
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 24, 2021
Well, yeah, but the wild turkey story.
OPEN THREAD: It’s going to be a fine night tonight, it’s going to be a fine day tomorrow.
SPACE DEBRIS: More Problems Ahead in Orbit.
Here’s a piece Rob Merges and I wrote about space debris a few years back.
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA: The Wikipedia page titled “Mass Killings Under Communist Regimes” is being considered for deletion.
Live view of the airbrushing, already in progress:
MATHEMATICS IS THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE: Did Humans Invent Mathematics, or Is It a Fundamental Part of Existence?