SO THE DEMOCRATS ARE GETTING BACK THE SEGREGATION THEY FOUGHT SO HARD FOR? Today’s blacklisted American: College in Illinois establishes black-men-only academy, no others need apply.
Archive for 2022
May 11, 2022
AND SPEAKING OF LIZARD PEOPLE: Lori Lightfoot Issues “Call To Arms” Over SCOTUS.
In an ill-fitting human suit, made by someone who never saw a human.
OH, PLEASE, TELL US SOMETHING WE DON’T KNOW: The Taylor Lorenz ‘Lizard Person’ Scandal, Explained.
FOR PERSPECTIVE, The reality of the lizard people.
AND AGAIN, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE: Congress Investigates Biden Admin for Granting Visa to Iranian Ally of Terror Leader Soleimani.
Well, actually mildly shocked the scare crows of congress are investigating. But you know nothing will come of it.
THIS COUNTRY HAS A SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: MSNBC Guest Wants to Have Sex With the SCOTUS Leaker and ‘Joyfully Abort Our Fetus’.
Look, sometimes the old ways are best. Put the mentally afflicted in padded cells, not in front of television cameras. It’s just cruel to expose the crazy in that way.
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE! U.S.-Israeli Cyber Security Firm Exposes Chinese Regime-Linked Global Industrial Espionage Ring.
Inequality is a sign of freedom and life. The only way to ensure perfect equality, which is what these idiots mean by “equity” is to kill everyone. I hear the dead are really peaceful too.
But that’s not what we want. For us or for your children. Fight now or regret it later.
WELL, AS A RACIST HERSELF, SHE SHOULD KNOW. BUT SHE DOESN’T: Incoming Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in 2020: Fox News is Racist.
Can the Junta hire someone who isn’t a horror show?
Never mind. I don’t know why I asked.
BUT NOT THE WAY SHE MEANT IT: Hillary Clinton Says Something True and Accurate for Once.
I just don’t want you to get super-excited. It might be a sign of the apocalypse. But she was trying to lie, so probably not, okay?
THE USUAL CABAL OF INTERNATIONAL LEFTIST GRIEFERS: Who’s Paying Protesters to Harass Justices and Churches?
WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Former Kremlin mercenary: Russian army was not prepared for a real war; Kremlin propaganda’s Janus face.
Having found out how weak, unprepared and frankly defenseless the Soviet Union was — i.e. driving trucks with long tubes around to pretend to have a lot more missiles — I’ve begun to wonder if anything — any story ever told by international media — was ever true.
Now the smoke is dissipating, and the mirrors are broken. What comes next?
WAIT, IT SOUNDS LIKE…. INSURRECTION? Pelosi Encourages Protesters’ ‘Righteous Anger’ in Marching Illegally in Front of Justices’ Homes.
Shut up, peasants. Rules are for the little people!
May 10, 2022
TRANSGENDER THERAPY: A Cause, Not a Cure. Despite media claims, a new study provides further evidence that “gender-affirming” therapy creates or prolongs the very problem it purports to solve.
IF YOU’RE COMING TO MY CAMPUS, DON’T FORGET YOUR SH** KICKERS; YOU’RE GOING TO NEED THEM: “Can We ‘Long March’ Back Through the Institutions?“
OPEN THREAD: They, too, know what I know.
THANK YOU, DOCTOR!: “Doctor founds nonprofit to combat “woke ideology” in medical schools.”
WHAT IF THE STUDENT IS ONLY “BLACK IDENTIFYING”?: Degree program exclusively for “Black, male identifying” students launched at Chicago-area college.
HOME SWEET HOME: Remoting. Survey data suggest that more than half of the American workforce is working from home either all or part of the time.
ULTRA-MAGA! Ultra-MAGA takes Washington by storm.
The Ultra-MAGA label — they’ll take it!
Those who President Biden branded derisively “Ultra-MAGA” on Tuesday were quick to embrace it and warn Democrats that waging war on the Trump agenda was tantamount to waging war on the American dream.
“I’m proud to be an Ultra-MAGA,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida Republican. ”The president’s remarks signify a true shift. He’s moving away from an indictment of President Trump specifically to now trying to indict an entire political movement that they fear.”
Fans of former President Donald Trump have long rallied under the banner of MAGA, an acronym for the Trump campaign slogan Make America Great Again.
But Ultra-MAGA is something new in America’s political lexicon. It sprung not from Mr. Trump or his followers, but from the Biden White House to characterize a threat that Democrats perceive as more dangerous than the original MAGA movement.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted that Mr. Biden came up with it himself.
Only if the Adrenochrome was really flowing that day.
(I keed, I keed — if Psaki said it, of course Biden didn’t invent the term.)
David Cole (that one) is rightly frustrated with his fellow right-wingers for throwing what’s sure to be an epic electoral victory over abortion:
And that’s where I get nervous. Real nervous. If a couple of imbecilic statements about abortion can wreck two Senate campaigns (in red states, no less) when abortion was still safeguarded by Roe, imagine the damage once Roe’s gone and abortion criminalization is actually on the table.
If Roe’s overturned in June, getting from there to November with minimal losses will depend on the retard wing of the GOP not making idiotic statements about abortion and rape. Basically, the future of the country will depend on the stupidest people in D.C. not acting stupid.
Read the whole thing.
GARCETTI MISLED SENATE ON TOP AIDE’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti likely knew about persistent allegations of sexual harassment by one of his key aides, according to an investigative report from Sen. Charles Grassley’s staff.
Since Garcetti told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in December that he knew nothing about the allegations, Grassley’s report likely puts the LA Mayor’s nomination by President Joe Biden to be U.S. Ambassador to India in peril.
RIP: Nerve and Vision — Remembering Midge Decter.
A skilled writer, editor, and political activist, Midge Decter was a key figure in the movement of neoconservative, anti-Communist liberals away from the Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s.
Born in St. Paul in 1927, Decter attended multiple universities—the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and New York University—but did not receive a degree from any of them. In 1950, she began working at Commentary, then a liberal magazine published under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee. She left shortly afterward but returned in 1953, remaining for three more years, after which she left again for other professional pursuits. Even after that second departure, though, she never really left: she wrote 69 pieces for Commentary over 55 years. She also married Norman Podhoretz, who would become the magazine’s editor, and one of their children, John, would later become editor as well, as he remains today.
Commentary was part of Decter’s family, but it was also a key magazine of The Family, a collection of mostly Jewish New York liberal anti-Communist intellectuals of the 1950s and 1960s. Decter and Podhoretz were important figures in this group, and their apartment became a hub of activity and social events. In 1964, they hosted a party for Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the recently assassinated president. (Philip Roth referred to her as “the shiksa.”) Former attorney general William Barr’s father was in the Family milieu as well, and Barr recalled in his recent memoir attending “birthday parties at the home of power couple Norman Podhoretz, editor in chief of Commentary magazine, and Midge Decter, a prominent journalist and author.” Decter also wrote for magazines like Harper’s, where she served as executive editor from 1969 to 1971.
It was a charmed life, or so it seemed. But things changed in the 1960s with the growth of the New Left. This Left, with its rejection of tradition and authority, made her uncomfortable. As she wrote in Commentary in 1982, “The refusal to be bound by rules, any rules, turned children against their elders, impelled them to don rags and roam the country simulating poverty, destroy their brains with drugs, burn books, and rage against the very idea of responsibility, social, intellectual, or personal.”
She was also a staunch anti-Communist. As she would write, Commentary’s “true animating passion was a deep hatred for Communism in any and all of its manifestations.” She felt that the Democratic Party of the 1970s was wavering on that principle. Unlike many of her fellow neoconservatives, she had never had a Marxist phase. “The only grand posturing of my teens,” she once recalled, “had been a declared intention to die on the barricades in Palestine.” To her, the George McGovern Democrats of the early 1970s no longer upheld the liberal anti-Communist banner she held dear.
While it’s lost its paragraph formatting after the Weekly Standard collapsed and its archives were folded into the Washington Examiner, this 2001 review by Andrew Ferguson of Decter’s then-recent book An Old Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War illustrates her perception:
She is pitiless, for example, in her treatment of the earnest and conspicuously virtuous Stanley Kramer, who had meant to show the world the horrors of nuclear war when he made his high-minded film “On the Beach” (1959). In fact, she notes (as no one else did at the time), the movie is perversely rosy–a pretty picture from which the real horrors raised by the prospect of atomic Armageddon are squeamishly excluded. “Kramer has fallen victim to the most insidious seduction of our time–the seduction of the apocalypse,” she writes. “What he has given us is a fantasy in which all problems are solved by a single explosion.”
Three years later, she goes further, daring to criticize the uncriticizable “Dr. Strangelove,” a movie prized then and now by the verbal class for what was taken to be its bravery and anarchism. Midge Decter instead saw a funny movie limited by a timid devotion to “conventional political piety.” Look closer, she said: Beyond its excellent jokes and masterly technique, the movie is “strangely polite in its choice of enemies”–the right-wing general, the ex-Nazi nuclear scientist, the overzealous nuclear strategist, and so on. “No liberals are ridiculed in this ‘anarchic’ movie,” she writes. “To have poked as much fun at the inadequacy of pacifist thought in the face of the nuclear danger as it does at the absurdity of strategic thought would have involved the movie in a complexity–and an anarchism of spirit–quite beyond its basic intentions. And Kubrick in that case would probably not have been extolled for his courage by everyone from Robert Brustein in the New York Review of Books to the editorialists of Life. Everyone, after all, is against psychotic generals and Nazis.”
We’re grown used nowadays to seeing right-wing critiques of the conventionally left-wing politics of Hollywood movies, so it’s difficult to convey how extraordinary this criticism must have seemed in 1964, certainly in a magazine like Commentary, then a flagship for highbrow Democrats and liberals generally (and edited, as it happened, by Midge Decter’s husband Norman Podhoretz). But notice that her beef with Kubrick isn’t ideological; it’s artistic, or better, a matter of artistic character: A gifted moviemaker, he chose to sacrifice complexity and a deeper humor for an easy laugh and public acclaim. He passed up a chance to convey genuine anarchy (as the Marx Brothers dangerously did, she points out, in “Duck Soup”) so his movie would be safer and easier to take–and maybe also so it would be praised by an arbiter of elevated taste like Robert Brustein, dean of Yale Drama School, in a brainy fashion magazine like the New York Review of Books.
GETTING PRAISED in the New York Review is, at some time or another, the craving of every person who lives in New York and writes for a living, but one of the delights in reading her first book is watching Midge Decter get over it. Her essays show no evidence of status-seeking, bum-bussing, or any of the other fretful tics that wiggle through the work of people who so ambitiously call themselves “public intellectuals” (emphasis on the public). As the era progresses and she watches the new counterculture consume a genuine culture of taste and merit, consume it and render it trivial and silly, her stuff takes on a tone of exasperation that would later, in her most famous book, “Liberal Parents, Radical Children,” boil down into anger. But here it has an edge of wonderment to it: What is all this crap? Herself a liberal, she’s beginning to think that maybe the problem is with liberalism itself, and with liberals.
Exit quote: “In a review of a book of speeches released not long after his death, she is admiring of Adlai Stevenson–some early crushes you never get over–but scornful of his followers: ‘What they sought from him first and foremost was a public token of their superiority to their less educated countrymen.’ By the dawn of the 1970s, much of liberalism had degenerated into an affectation, a pose, a matter not of conviction but of style.”
Little has changed in that department in the decades since, except that the left’s desire to strike poses has accelerated exponentially in the “Woke” era.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: No, I can’t rent to you for less than my mortgage.