THEY WEAR THE WRONG KIND OF POLO SHIRTS? Today’s blacklisted American: Biden administration purging conservatives from FBI.
Can’t dream up a “Patriot Front” if you have real patriots in the organization…. They might object to the maligning of the nation’s people
FORGET IT, JACK, THEY’RE A CULT: Why the left doesn’t handle disagreement.
ACTUAL AND FOR REAL TERRORISM: Jane’s Revenge Plans More Pro-Life Center Attacks.
I WANT BIDEN’S CLIMATE CZARINA HELD UP BY HER ANKLES UNTIL ENOUGH BLOOD RUSHES TO HER BRAIN: Biden’s Climate Czarina Wants Big Tech Censorship of Climate-Related Debate.
I mean, one hopes she would then have one rational thought. No?
DUDE, YOU JUST CALLED US THE COOLEST THING, EVER! ‘Old Politics’: Biden Recycles ‘Ultra-MAGA’ Scare Tactics Over Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Your consultants are dumb.
Ultra maga, assemble! Let’s rock.
SOMEONE GET SCHIFF OUT OF SIGHT. HE MAKES ME NAUSEATED: Democrats’ January 6th Show Trial Episode 2 Falls Dramatically in Ratings and Episode 3 is Postponed.
If he had any idea how much he looks like a self-satisfied and yet moronic evil pixie, he’d never go out without a paper bag over his head.
YE-HAA, THERE’S SOMETHING STUPIDER THAN THE BIDEN JUNTA: EU Releases Frozen Funding To Palestinian Authority for Textbooks Inciting Antisemitism and Jihad.
HOW CONVENIENT: China Uses COVID-19 App to Prevent Run on Rural Banks.
Covid=Tyranny flu.
IN 3-4 MONTHS WE CAN BUY THAT GRAIN FROM THE RUSSIANS: Biden calls Zelensky as Poland says US grain plan may take 3-4 months.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. McConnell is going the wrong way on guns. “With all due respect to Mitch McConnell, Republicans shouldn’t even be talking about a gun-control deal unless that deal includes doing something about the fundamental problem: The utter refusal of the federal government and most Democrat-run states and counties to prosecute ordinary, common gun crimes.”
Democrats don’t want to disarm criminals, they want to disarm Republicans.
DEM DOMESTIC TERROR UPDATE: Feds indict man found with gun, pepper spray, knife near Kavanaugh’s home.
UKRAINE: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 15.
Russian forces launched ground assaults in Severodonetsk and settlements in its vicinity but have not taken full control over the city as of June 15.
Russian forces launched largely unsuccessful offensive operations around the T1302 Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway in an effort to cut Ukrainian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) to Lysychansk.
Russian forces continued efforts to advance along the E40 highway to Slovyansk and southeast of Izyum.
Russian and Ukrainian forces continued to fight in northeastern settlements around Kharkiv City.
Russian forces continued to fortify fallback positions in Zaporizhia and Kherson Oblasts, while undertaking defensive measures to strengthen Russian presence in the Black Sea.The Kremlin and proxy republics continue to pursue ad hoc annexation policies in occupied territories.
Much more at the link.
OPEN THREAD: Relax. You’re quite safe here.
THE BBC’S TOMORROW’S WORLD IN 1979: Will word processors start a home working revolution? (Video):
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Woodward and Bernstein didn’t bring down a president in Watergate – but the myth that they did lives on.
However popular, the heroic-journalist myth is a vast exaggeration of the effect of their work.
Woodward and Bernstein did disclose financial links between Nixon’s reelection campaign and the burglars arrested June 17, 1972, at headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in what was the signal crime of Watergate.
They publicly tied prominent Washington figures, such as Nixon’s former attorney general, John Mitchell, to the scandal.
They won a Pulitzer Prize for the Post.
But they missed decisive elements of Watergate, notably the payment of hush money to the burglars and the existence of Nixon’s White House tapes.
Nonetheless, the heroic-journalist myth became so entrenched that it could withstand disclaimers by Watergate-era principals at the Post such as Graham. Even Woodward has disavowed the heroic-journalist interpretation, once telling an interviewer that “the mythologizing of our role in Watergate has gone to the point of absurdity, where journalists write … that I, single-handedly, brought down Richard Nixon.
“Totally absurd.”
With the upcoming 50th anniversary of Watergate on Friday, here’s a related anniversary as well: 60 Years Ago This Week: the Birth of the New Left.
If a New Left emerged in 1962, that means there had to be an Old Left. The Old Left was dynastic — think Roosevelts and Kennedys — and aristocratic. More importantly, it was anticommunist.
Mohler points out that there wasn’t a ton of difference between the Old Left and conservatives in the first half of the 20th century.
“One of the things I often do with my graduate students is show them the 1960 platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States,” he says. “You go to a year like 2016? They are radically different. But in 1960, you’ll have a hard time drawing distinctions between the Democratic and the Republican parties on many policies. Because during the era of the Cold War, and in the wake of the New Deal, the two parties were pretty close together.”
By contrast, the New Left, as the SDS represented, was populist, youth-led, and radical. The SDS itself stemmed from campus socialist organizations. It took advantage of the youthful energy and idealism of that generation in order to push for change.
At the time, the SDS didn’t make much of a splash. The media didn’t herald it as a major event, and it didn’t create immediate ripples. But what came after it did change the decade of the ’60s and the era that followed.
The SDS and the Port Huron Statement begat the anti-Vietnam War movement, the activism of earnest young civil rights activists, and the “free-speech movement” on college campuses. They also served as the genesis of the Weather Underground, the Chicago Seven, the sexual revolution, and the gay rights movement.
As radical as the New Left was at the time, its tenets are mainstream in today’s Democratic party (and some of its ideas might even come across as outdated to this crop of leftists). Mohler puts it this way: “many of the ideas that were considered radical 60 years ago are now absolutely mainstream, and for that matter, nowhere near the left of what we might call the New New Left in the United States. In particular, taking a snapshot of the Democratic Party.”
Flashback: Amity Shlaes’ ‘Great Society:’ How Poverty Won America’s War on Poverty. There’s a reason why its epigraph is, “Nothing is new, it is just forgotten.”
THE ARTICLE IS PAYWALLED, BUT THE HEADLINE SAYS IT ALL: Europe, In Panic Over Energy, Is Suddenly Cozying Up To Israel.
DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN CALLS ELON MUSK ‘WHITE SUPREMACIST’ FOR THE DUMBEST REASON IMAGINABLE:
Another day, another absurd example of identity politics run amok. Far-left Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York just blasted Elon Musk as a ‘white supremacist’ for what might actually be the dumbest reason imaginable.
“Elon Musk is not a leader,” Bowman wrote on Twitter. “He’s just another Republican billionaire who supports white supremacy and authoritarianism because he doesn’t want his workers to unionize or to pay his fair share in taxes. The GOP just tried to end democracy and now he’s supporting them.” (Emphasis mine).
What triggered this little Twitter meltdown? Musk tweeted that he had voted for a Republican candidate—who is Hispanic.
“Elon Musk Proves White Supremacy By Voting for Hispanic Congressional Candidate’: You might honestly think this was a parody Babylon Bee headline if you didn’t know better.
In sharp contrast: Ron DeSantis Has the Perfect Response to Getting the Elon Musk Nod. “I welcome support from African Americans. What can I say?”
Heh, indeed.
ROGER SIMON: Liz Cheney and Jan. 6 Committee Demonstrate How Hate Makes You Stupid.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo., for now) is an object lesson. Cheney comes from a rich conservative tradition. Her mother Lynne wrote an estimable biography of James Madison. Early in her career, Liz herself consistently voted for and advocated for conservative causes.
Then, along came Mr. Hate.
The instigator: Donald Trump said mean things about her father, blaming him for the Iraq War. I will admit that Trump’s statements were a tad excessive since Dick Cheney, although clearly a key player, was far from alone in supporting that ill-conceived war. An extraordinary percentage did, including most of Washington, the pundit class (yours truly included), and, on occasion, Trump himself.
We were hoping the war would turn Iraq into Denmark. We couldn’t have been more wrong. Trump used that as a lynchpin in his 2016 campaign, attacking Dick Cheney, among others, but Liz reacted to Trump with a level of hate out of all proportion to the situation. A political campaign was underway, the likes of which she had participated in since childhood, and like it or not, insults were part of Trump’s political style. The businessman had insulted all sorts of people, many of whom (like Sens. Rubio and Cruz) now play ball with him on a regular basis.
Not Liz. She made an alliance with people whose views she considered anathema for all of her previous life just to get Trump. It was hate taken to the nth power.
As it turns out, those people she made an alliance with—the Jan. 6 Committee of Democratic Reps. Bennie Thompson, Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Zoe Lofgren, and so forth—themselves also permeated with the most obvious hate— have failed miserably at their endeavor and now have abruptly postponed their third Show Trial telecast. The previous telecasts were a ratings disaster and, in some cases, they got caught lying. (“Adam Schiff lie?” Mon Dieu!)
Further, if you believe that eventually, the truth comes out, and I do (mostly), sooner or later the supposed “insurrection” of Jan. 6 will be seen by a majority of our citizens as an FBI put-up job. Many do already.
Liz Cheney, whether she knows it or not, is headed for oblivion after the Wyoming Republican primary. She has no real political friends—does she think the likes of Raskin will support her after this is over? He’s politically closer to Pol Pot. And as of this moment, it looks as if Trump will still be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024 with a good chance of victory. Everything Liz did was for naught.
Speaking of January 6th: Democrats Demand We Care More About Jan. 6 Than They Do. “What Democrats are engaged in today is far more cynical. Opposition to the reckless myth-making that convinced thousands of Trump-backing Americans to ransack the Capitol is, we’re regularly told, something that should transcend partisan politics. The Democratic Party’s electoral tacticians are conceding that the unprecedented attack on the seat of government is just another political football. Most troubling, there’s no guarantee that the paranoid MAGA-backed candidates that the Democratic Party is promoting will lose their respective races. In a political environment that produces wave elections, surprises happen.”
SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD:
Earlier: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. An Elephant Is Not a Legal Person, New York Court Rules in High-Profile Case.
Then again, in a legal environment in which a bee is a fish, not to be taken for granted.
IT’S CLOWNS ALL THE WAY DOWN: J6 Committee Throws Temper Tantrum After Capitol Police Debunks One of Their Claims.
FIGHT THE POWER:
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