IN FASCIST LETTER, SALVADOR DALI CALLED FOR SLAVERY OF ‘ALL COLORED RACES:’

In the letter, which was written by Dalí in 1935, the artist proposed the enslavement of “all the coloured races” as part of a new world order that would be “anti-Christian and materialistic, based on the progress of science”.

“The domination or submission to slavery of all the coloured races” could be possible, Dalí wrote, “if all whites united fanatically”. He also insisted on the need for “human sacrifices”.

As Europe was threatened by the fascist regimes of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy, Dalí‘s letter to André Breton, the French writer and co-founder of the surrealist movement, speaks of the need for “new hierarchies, more brutal and strict than ever before” to “annihilate” Christianity.

Philip Johnson. Walter Gropius. Mies van der Rohe. Le Corbusier. Ezra Pound. H.G. Wells. Why did so many pioneering modernists know all the lyrics to “Springtime for Hitler?”

CHILEANS DODGE BULLET: Breaking: Chileans overwhelmingly reject new socialist constitution.

CHANGE: ABC News Is Now Asking Uncomfortable Questions About Biden, Shady Dem Tactic of Boosting MAGA Candidates.

MARK JUDGE: Fantastic Four: Full Circle: A Throwback to the Age of American Optimism.

OPEN THREAD: Upon what are you laboring this weekend?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: UK releases military ‘space power’ doctrine.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Spoken Insults Stir Up More Brain Activity Than Compliments And Linger For Longer, Too.

Hence the custom of dueling.

NEWS FOR THE BIDEN ERA: Financial Lessons From the Great Depression We Can All Use Today.

THE HARSHEST TWITTER BURNS AGAINST THE SAN FRAN* TECH BROS AT BURNING MAN:

For every passionate Burning Man attendee, there are three equally passionate haters waiting in the wings to fire off a tweet about the people who choose to spend a week on the playa.

And this year, after COVID-19 rendered Burning Man a digital-only festival, the festival is back in full force — and so are the dunks against its attendees.

BACKWARDS RAN THE PRONOUNS UNTIL REELED THE MIND. WHERE IT ALL ENDS KNOWS GOD: Say what? Time uses woke pronouns to describe controversial author of Gender Queer.

Time magazine published a glowing profile of a controversial LGBT author whose book, which features questionable illustrations of sexual activity, happens to be the No. 1 most banned book of 2021. The magazine’s tweeted description, however, is confusing social media users.

In describing the interview, the magazine used new, gender-neutral pronouns, calling the biologically female author by “eir” and “ey,” which operate the same as pronouns their and they.

“TIME spoke to ‘Gender Queer’ author and illustrator Maia Kobabe on about eir work, the efforts to restrict access to eir writing, and what ey make of the current cultural moment,” Time tweeted Wednesday night.

Flashback: We’ve Descended Into Some Sort of Bizarre Hell-World in Which Van Jones is a Voice of Sanity: ‘I’ve Never Met A LatinX:’ CNN’s Van Jones Tears Into Left-Wing Rhetoric.

He said the elites use strange rhetoric that does not appeal to working class voters.

“Those people talk funny,” he continued. “I’ve never met a LatinX, I’ve never met a BIPOC … There’s this weird stuff that all these highly educated people say. It’s bizarre, nobody talks that way at the barbershop, the nail salon, the grocery store, the community center. But that’s how we talk now, so that’s weird.”

It’s also a reminder of how radically Time has changed from moderate Republican Henry Luce’s original brief in the 1920s, in which he wrote, “Nothing will be too obvious. We assume nothing—e.g. that our readers know what 5-5-3 means, or who is John Masefield or Babe Ruth…. [It would] serve the illiterate upper classes, the busy business man, the tired debutante, to prepare them at least once a week for a table conversation.”

(Classical allusion in headline.)

TEN PEOPLE KILLED, 15 INJURED IN STABBING SPREE IN SASKATCHEWAN, SUSPECTS STILL AT LARGE.

THIS COULD BE A GAME CHANGER: Clinical Trials On Male Contraceptive With No Side Effects Prove To Be Successful.

ROGER KIMBALL: Biden Puts the ‘Total’ in Totalitarianism.

Joe Biden certainly set the punditocracy abuzz with his neo-totalitarian performance piece at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday. The significance of that speech can be broken down into three parts, two of which have already received abundant commentary.

The first has to do with the theater of the piece, its optics or stagecraft. As many commentators (myself included) noted, the feel of the event was distinctly, and distinctively, bombastic. The melodramatic red lighting, the presence of armed Marines flanking the president, and Biden’s hectoring, gesticulating delivery made the event seem eerily reminiscent of a speech by Stalin, Mao, or—the closest parallel—that diminutive former house painter who, for a few short years, mesmerized the world with his elaborately staged rallies before pushing ahead with more kinetic activities.

To those who object that I am flirting with Godwin’s Law by invoking old AH, I reply that the flirtation was not mine but the doing of Biden’s producers and puppeteers. The visual similarity between Joe Biden’s event and some nighttime events at Nuremberg are just too striking to be coincidental. Leni Riefenstahl, as someone noted, would have been proud. Those who point out that Biden’s speech took place on September 1, a fraught day on the Polish border anno domini 1939, may be too ingenious for this historically illiterate age, but who knows? Often these things are, as our Marxists friends like to say, no accident. There are wheels within wheels.

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: The Architecture of Doom.

HOW DID HE CROSS PUTIN? Bed, Bath & Beyond CFO Identified As Man Who Leapt To Death From Tribeca Skyscraper.

When Black Friday comes, I’m gonna stand out by the door. And catch the gray men when they dive from the 18th floor. It just got here earlier than I expected.

HOW WEED BECAME THE NEW OXYCONTIN:

“I started seeing people with the worst psychosis symptoms that I have ever seen,” she told me. “And the worst delusions I have ever seen.”

These cases were even more acute than what she’d seen from psychotic patients on meth. Some of the delusions were accompanied by “severe violence.” But these patients were coming up positive only for cannabis.

Stuyt wasn’t alone: Health care professionals throughout Colorado and all over the country were seeing similar episodes.

Ben Cort, who runs an addiction recovery center in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, watched a young man jump up on the table in the emergency department and strip naked, claiming he was the God of thunder and threatening to kill everyone in the room, including two police officers. A collegiate athlete Cort worked with also had a psychotic episode and was shot five times by the police with a beanbag gun before he was subdued. In Los Angeles County, Blue Stohr, a psychiatric social worker, had a patient who climbed a 700-foot crane and considered jumping off of it, not because he was suicidal but because he thought he was in a computer simulation, like The Matrix.

Those patients, too, were high only on cannabis.

Flashback: Second Thoughts on Pot: “‘Yeah, they all smoke.’ ‘Well . . . other things too, right?’ ‘Sometimes. But they all smoke.’”

GET WOKE GO BROKE – BIG RIG EDITION:

[US Xpress CEO Eric Fuller] offers contrition for being born a straight, white male, of course. But as a white savior, he is still not above using racist terms such as “Latinx,” a word that is well-documented as being a culturally offensive slur favored by affluent whites.

As a straight, white male, what I see as positive characteristics for opportunity within our industry is different than what a gay, Black or female person may see — or someone of Asian descent, someone who is trans or Latinx.

Unsurprisingly, this privileged white man who inherited his executive position from his daddy, accused truck drivers of being toxic people with white privilege.

Start talking to team members from minority communities within your organization and listen to them. Ask them to tell you how they view the openness and inclusion within our industry. Put yourself in their shoes. Think about the advantages that you have and how different their experiences are than yours.

CEO Fuller really, REALLY likes slandering his employees and his industry as being racist, doesn’t he?

In the previous year, I’ve interviewed multiple, highly skilled candidates for roles at U.S. Xpress. While each candidate has his or her own story, overwhelmingly I heard them talk about the lack of acceptance of diversity and perceived lack of opportunity within our industry.

While I admit that U.S. Xpress has a long way to go in developing a more inclusive culture…

Mr. Fuller made it very clear that the focus of his leadership had nothing to do with shipping goods, or making a profit, but instead on things such as creating “a safe space for open dialogue about important issues that impact women, the LGBTQ+ community…”

Exit quote: “You’ll never guess what happened next.”

IRISH TIMES: Rings of Power: The new hobbits are filthy, hungry simpletons with stage-Irish accents. That’s $1bn well spent. “After 20 minutes of this Lord of the Rings spinoff I’m having flashbacks to that EastEnders episode with the fightin’ villagers and donkeys walking the streets.”

BE PREPARED FOR PESTS: BUG-A-SALT Realtree Camo 3.0. #CommissionEarned

WOKE SCIENCE IS JUNK SCIENCE: FAKE WOKENESS: Two New Junk Science ‘Studies’ Suggest Racism, Fears of Blacks Drive Opposition To Gun Control.

READER FAVORITE: Vont 2 Pack LED Camping Lanterns. #CommissionEarned

“JUST ANOTHER BLESSING OF LIBERTY:” David French talks about the ‘OK groomer’ crowd getting upset over being called ‘semi-fascist.’

I’M ON THIS BOARD, TOO: Former governors Bredesen and Haslam named to University of Tennessee civics institute board.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Jeff Dunetz: I Cried Thursday Night, But Biden Made Me Feel Better On Friday.

[B]ased on his speech on Thursday, President Biden taught me that the MAGA goals were all evil. I felt horrible.

He even stopped calling us Ultra MAGA. Whenever a cleaning product introduces a more robust version of their product, they use Ultra as a prefix to the product’s name. When our President called us Ultra, I thought it was meant as a complement.

Thursday night President Biden, who campaigned on the basis of uniting the country, but never kept that promise, was at his most divisive. He singled out the people whose political positions were close to mine as evil and unAmerican.

I took the Presidents words to heart and cried all night long.

But on Friday, I felt so much better because the POTUS no longer thought I was a bad person. I was no longer very evil, maybe as bad as Generalissimo Francisco Franco ( who, I have been told is still dead).

On Friday, the President made me feel so much better.

President Biden on Friday said he does not consider any Donald Trump supporters to be a “threat” to the U.S. He said things that most people who supported MAGA goals would agree with.

He said the failure to condemn violence for political gains was “inappropriate.”

Holy Cow. I agree. People who use violence to make a political statement are wrong, and our leaders should condemn them publicly. I may have been sick with COVID and missed when the President scolded the people who encouraged and attempted to kill Supreme Court Justices after they ruled that abortion was a State rather than a Federal Issue.

As Byron York asked on Friday, “Huh? Biden’s remarks at the White House cast a cloud of confusion over what he said the night before. Did he mean it? Did he fully understand the kind of accusations he was making in Philadelphia? Was he confused? The president’s rhetoric was terribly serious and terribly divisive. It was hard to understand why he even gave the speech. Now, it is not clear whether he understands it, either.”

Dan McLaughlin compared Biden’s Philadelphia debacle to Jimmy Carter’s infamous “malaise” speech of 1979. But I don’t recall Carter saying “Whoops — never mind!” the day after.

HMM: Taking Rapamycin as a Young Adult Provides Antiaging Benefits.

LIBS OF TIKTOK RETURNS TO TWITTER, THREATENS LAWSUIT IF REMOVED PERMANENTLY: “Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik wrote in Human Events that ‘Mainstream media isn’t mad about gender surgeries on teens, they’re mad you found out.’ Twitter, WaPo, NPR, NBC and others aren’t looking into the hospitals themselves, or trying to uncover harms done to kids and teens for the purposes of medical gender transition, but instead seeking to blast the journalist who is working to expose it.”