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April 15, 2022
NOW: Real Wages Plummet Nearly 3% Due To Inflation.
Then: Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years.
I could sure use some mean tweets right about now.
HITLER THOUGHT THE WEST WAS WEAK AND DECADENT, TOO. NAPOLEON THOUGHT THE BRITISH WERE A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS: “The Russian conservative elites currently in power supported war because they see Western power as decadent and declining.”
They may even be right, but that doesn’t mean the West is too weak and decadent to kick their ass.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Say, where did all that Black Lives Matter money go, anyway?
Black Lives Matter’s leadership had hoped to keep the house’s existence a secret. Documents, emails, and other communications I’ve seen about the luxury property’s purchase and day-to-day operation suggest that it has been handled in ways that blur, or cross, boundaries between the charity and private companies owned by some of its leaders. It creates the impression that money donated to the cause of racial justice has been spent in ways that benefit the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally.
On March 30, I asked the organization questions about the house, which is known internally as “Campus.” Afterward, leaders circulated an internal strategy memo with possible responses, ranging from “Can we kill the story?” to “Our angle — needs to be to deflate ownership of the property.” The memo includes bullet points explaining that “Campus is part of cultural arm of the org — potentially as an ‘influencer house,’ where abolition+ based content is produced by artists & creatives.” Another bullet is headed “Accounting/990 modifications” and reads in part: “need to first make sure it’s legally okay to use as we plan to use it.” The memo also describes the property as a “safehouse” for leaders whose safety has been threatened. The two notions — that the house is simultaneously a confidential refuge and a place for broadcasting to the widest possible audience — are somewhat in tension. The memo notes: “Holes in security story: Use in public YT videos.”
Related: Black Lives Matter used donations to buy $6 million Southern California home: report. Plus: Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real estate buying binge.
BLM = Buy Large Mansions.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: ‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade. “‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ is the motto of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post. It may sound like a warning, but more and more it seems like a summary of the left’s aspirations to control debate and shut down any opposition.”
My editor especially liked the end.
Media figures everywhere are openly complaining that they dislike the Musk move because they’re terrified he will censor people less. Bullet-headed neoconservative fussbudget Max Boot was among the most emphatic in expressing his fear of a less-censored world. . . .
In every newsroom I’ve ever been around, there’s always one sad hack who’s hated by other reporters but hangs on to a job because he whispers things to management and is good at writing pro-war editorials or fawning profiles of Ari Fleischer or Idi Amin or other such distasteful media tasks. Even that person would never have been willing to publicly say something as gross as, “For democracy to survive, it needs more censorship”! A professional journalist who opposed free speech was not long ago considered a logical impossibility, because the whole idea of a free press depended upon the absolute right to be an unpopular pain in the ass.
Things are different now, of course, because the bulk of journalists no longer see themselves as outsiders who challenge official pieties, but rather as people who live inside the rope-lines and defend those pieties. I’m guessing this latest news is arousing special horror because the current version of Twitter is the professional journalist’s idea of Utopia: a place where Donald Trump doesn’t exist, everyone with unorthodox thoughts is warning-labeled (“age-restricted” content seems to be a popular recent scam), and the Current Thing is constantly hyped to the moronic max. The site used to be fun, funny, and a great tool for exchanging information. Now it feels like what the world would be if the eight most vile people in Brooklyn were put in charge of all human life, a giant, hyper-pretentious Thought-Starbucks.
Heh.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Dual Dash Cam with Built-in GPS. #CommissionEarned
THE NYT HEADLINE WILL CALL THIS A “GROUNDSWELL OF OPPOSITION:” Around a Dozen People Show Up to Campaign Event for Ron DeSantis Opponent.
BECAUSE WE FINALLY LEARNED THE EXTENT OF GROOMING, AND INSTEAD OF GROOMERS CRAWLING FAR AWAY FROM SOCIETY, THEY BECAME CELEBRATED BY LEFTIES LIKE THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE: Why So Many Conservatives Are Talking About ‘Grooming’ All Of A Sudden.
CORN POOP: Is This the Dumbest Fact Check Ever?
NARRATIVE MANAGEMENT: Why You Won’t Be Hearing Much More About (Alleged) Subway Shooter Frank R. James. “This is the wrong sort of lunatic for the mainstream media’s taste. He doesn’t help them politically. A guy who looks like that is supposed to be a victim, not an aggressor. So they’ll find a way to either excuse it or dismiss it, and then they’ll get back to maligning their preferred enemies. Remember when that maniac in an SUV plowed down a bunch of old ladies and children at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year? It might as well have been 100 years ago. The libs couldn’t blame it on Trump or his supporters, so they’ve all moved on. And they’ll move on from this attack as well.”
Related: Media downplays accused Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James’ hatred of whites. “Just as they did with Darrell Brooks, the man charged with driving through a Wisconsin Christmas parade, the press is eager to bury a black suspect’s anti-white statements and ignore them as a possible motivation.”
AND THERE IS STILL SOME: Our Culture, What There Is of It.
MAYBE THEY OUGHT THINK ABOUT GETTING ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON? NASA testing futuristic spacesuits that keep astronauts safe on the moon.
Okay, never mind. Musk will.
YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO REPEAT OUR CRAZY! Today’s blacklisted American: Twitter blocks Libs of Tik Tok for the crime of reposting actual leftist statements.
ECONOMICS CAN’T BE IGNORED: We Told You So.
It can’t be gentled. It can’t be wished away. Contrary to what they taught yo in school, it’s a hard science. And the equations are always cold. Only fools and communists believe otherwise.
ANOTHER GAME CHANGER: Trump’s civil RICO suit against Hillary Clinton.
GAME CHANGER: The Moskva.
AND EVEN SO IT’S INFLATED: Joe Biden’s public approval craters to 33% — and it’s about to get worse.
MOSTLY HE’S CRAZY LIKE A FOX: Maybe Donald Trump wasn’t crazy to endorse Dr. Oz.
UNFORTUNATELY REGULATORS: Is There Anyone Taking This Green Energy Transition Thing Seriously?
STAGNAFLATION: Federal Reserve: Raise Interest Rates To “Curtail Growth”.
WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF WE HAD IMPARTIAL DATA COLLECTION? Does Vaccination Make You MORE Likely to Catch Covid?
THE DELOS D. HARRIMAN WE NEEDED: Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion: ‘Best and Final Offer’.