TALCUM X UPDATE: Shaun King Threatens Reporters: ‘I Know Where You Live.’ “If King weren’t a privileged member of BLM, perhaps law enforcement would consider his stalkerish, potentially violent behavior of concern. As the media warns, white men are dangers to society.”
Archive for 2022
August 5, 2022
MADE IN THE USA: New Balance Men’s Sneaker. #CommissionEarned
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Biden Still Testing Positive While His Doc Hides…What Gives?
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “My husband is now my wife.”
OLD AND BUSTED: Follow the Science!
The New Hotness? “Don’t Test, Don’t Tell.”
Senate Democrats, some of whom have decried their G.O.P. colleagues’ lenient attitude toward masking, have adopted an unofficial “Don’t Test, Don’t Tell,” protocol of late, particularly as they endeavor to pass the historic Inflation Reduction Act this weekend. One senior Senate aide told me, “They’re not going to delay it if a member has gotten Covid. Counterparts are saying they’re not going to test anymore. It’s not an official mandate but we all know we’re not letting Covid get in the way. The deal is happening. Less testing, just wear masks and get it done.” When Chuck Schumer was asked about a plan B today in case someone drops out with Covid he said: “We’re not talking about a plan B. We’re going to stay healthy.” Another source said that if you catch Covid “you can bring your ventilator and still vote…”
Why does the Covid-obsessed Democratic Party keep creating superspreader events?
I LOVE HIS OPTIMISM: After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws. “The gun rights movement has been given a weapon of mass destruction, and it will annihilate approximately 75% of the gun laws eventually.”
THE WAR ON FOOD: Why Dutch Farmers Revolt. “The Dutch government seems to be escalating their violence at the same time Dutch farmers are hanging themselves.”
GENDER WARS NOT GOING AS PLANNED: “I see some fear rising these days from libs over losing a cultural war they thought they could suppress: manhood. Dems will never be the party that makes a man feel good about his manliness. It’s anathema to their big agenda but also simply an ideology that won’t allow it. The feminization of society can only work after men have built and secured it. And it can only last until their beta males collapse into a puddle of goo. The cycle is always, ever: Strong men build strong societies, strong societies create weak men, weak men create weak societies, weak societies create strong men. We’re at that last phase. Expect a bright future.”
Well, eventually.
HARSH BUT FAIR: Lefties Are Objectively Pro-Monkeypox.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Polio virus found in another New York county, officials say.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Desperate California Anti-Gunners Wreck Junior Shooter Clubs. “Of course, A.B. 2571 wasn’t sold as an attempt to prohibit passing an appreciation for shooting sports from one generation to the next. It was peddled instead as a restriction on marketing guns to kids, as if there’s a danger of tiny tots disguising themselves as their parents to get through the background checks at sporting-goods stores.”
I’LL TAKE HEADLINES FROM 2020, ALEX: Fueled By Two-Tiered Political Justice, The Left’s 1960s Violence Is Back.
The violent bear it away. That title of Flannery O’Connor’s 1960 novel still resonates. Some relentless atavism is at work in our culture, a monstrous irrationality that awakens what O’Connor called “the stuff of which madmen and fanatics are made.” Violence, no longer shunned, is now an accepted political tool.
The attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh—preceded by U.S Attorney General Merrick Garland’s refusal to enforce federal law against protesters at justices’ homes—exposed the fragile divide between constituted order and willed anarchy. In effect, the attorney general’s inaction acquiesced to mob intimidation and signaled a willingness to risk further lawlessness.
The descent into Third World-like threats against the judiciary did not come suddenly. The slouch toward selective law enforcement and politicized violence has a history. By whatever name we call it—wokeism nowadays—adversary culture has been loosening essential restraints for some six decades. Like the lifecycle of a parasite, the passion for repudiating established order mutates and reappears in successive stages. Today’s recurrence of the New Left virus keeps the inherited infection alive in a new generation of hosts.
When did it ever go away? Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO TELL ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: San Francisco to Still Hold Kink Festival Despite Declaring State of Emergency Over Monkeypox.
IT ALREADY HAS: The DEI DIE Revolution Will Transform Tenure.
JOHN MCGINNIS: Prison Abolitionism and the Academy’s Decline.
Its prominence and the arguments deployed its favor show the willingness of the legal academy and the intellectual class in general to tolerate foolish arguments so long as they conform to current fashions on the left. Rather than build a framework for incremental reform based on empirical evidence, such legal academics are now paid to engage in utopian—even nihilistic–rhetoric. It might be thought that these kinds of ideas—from abolishing prisons to defunding the police to eliminating standardized tests—mark a return to the radicalism of the 1960s.
But then the radicalism came from students against the establishment. Here the radicalism comes from the educational establishment itself. The better historical analogy is to nineteenth-century Russia. There the intelligentsia contained substantial radical elements, offering not to reform but to destroy the institutions of its society. Fyodor Dostoevsky memorably captured their perfervid meanderings in his great novel, The Possessed. . . .
The prevalence of leftist ideas in the academy is predictable, because as Thomas Sowell has observed: “The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.” But it is only recently that ideas that are absurd both on their face and on reflection have become an important part of the conversation. And the academics who get status and tenure from the ideas will hire people like themselves who can replicate more of them. The result will be greater alienation from the public, who will regard the legal academy more than ever as a bastion of folly.
Not without reason.
INTERESTING BOOK: Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid.
HMM: Walls close in on Zuckerberg as executives desert Meta.
This increasing disconnect at Meta’s highest level comes as Zuckerberg’s ideas to keep his company at the top of the social media pile begin to look increasingly unsteady.
Facebook insiders hold mixed views on the executive flight, both through the medium of pink slips and through self-directed corporate postings to far flung locations.
According to one source, Sir Nick’s promotion in February to president of global affairs displayed that Zuckerberg’s trust in him had reached an all-time high: “it’s pretty important that a figure like him has good connections in Europe.”
Good as those connections may be, what Meta needs is good ideas and they are in visibly short supply.
I logged into Facebook this week for the first time in months — maybe longer — and the UI was a hot mess. The website looks like a platform that doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be, and I guess you could say the same of the company as a whole.
STANDING UP TO THE MOB: Regents refuse to fire tenured professor accused of racial insensitivity.