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March 31, 2022
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: History Should Be Our Guide in Ukraine.
That Ukraine is morally in the right and certainly deserves Western help does not mean that all Russians should be demonized or an often-corrupt Ukrainian government that just suspended its opposition parties should be deified.
Fifth, the Russian military abroad. The Russian army is historically unbeatable on its home soil. Charles XII of Sweden, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler all wrecked their once indomitable militaries once they crossed into Russia.
But the expeditionary armies of a multiethnic, disparate Russia have never done well abroad in major foreign invasions against determined enemies.
Moscow faced a series of embarrassing and utter defeats in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
The czar’s 1914 invasion of German East Prussia ended in catastrophe. Russia invaded Poland and lost the Polish war of 1919-1921.
Stalin’s attack on tiny Finland in 1939 soon turned into a bloody quagmire. The decade-long invasion and occupation of Afghanistan ended in defeat.
It’s VDH, so needless to say, read the whole thing. Incidentally, Stalin’s Finnish quagmire was the topic of a recent video by historian Mark Felton:
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA, PART ZWEI: Ratio on US Air Force’s tweet marking ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ soars to new heights.
An initial tweet was apparently deleted due to a grammatical error, so the above is the second attempt. The ratio that started on the first tweet picked up where it left off after the second offering.
There’s no way this message could be received badly by our enemies!
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth: Russians once again threatening nuclear war.
ELECTRIC MUSCLE: Tesla Model X: 1000 hp, 0-60 in 2.5 seconds.
I GOTTA FEVAH, AND I NEED MORE COWBELL! Rick Beato Breaks Down the Greatest Classic Rock Song with Buck Dharma (video.)
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: White House: ‘Early’ Trans Surgeries, Hormones Are ‘Crucial’ For Kids, Teens Who Identify As Trans.
KRUISER’S BRIEFING: Democrats See DeSantis Everywhere and They’re Terrified. “The greatest thing about DeSantis is that he seems to become even more bulletproof after every leftmedia attack on him. And there are a lot of attacks.”
STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT:
● Shot:
● Chaser: Cesar Chavez, whose bust is in Biden Oval Office, has history of anti-immigration comments and positions. “Chavez, born in Arizona in 1927, stridently opposed illegal immigration during his career as a community organizer and activist battling for the rights of farm laborers and low-wage workers.”
● Hangover: The Jonestown-like madness of Chavez’s final days.
ROBBING A GUN STORE IS A TERRIBLE IDEA: Security Camera Captures Gun Store Owner Opening Fire On Thieves Who Came in Shooting [VIDEO].
NOW OUT FROM BLOGOSPHERE LEGEND FRANK J. FLEMING: Superego: Betrayal. (Bumped).
LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.
HERE’S THE SUPPLY CHAIN WONDER IN HUMAN CELLS: One way of looking at the function of the Kinesin molecular machines is to see them as the Mack semis of the human body’s cellular supply chain. I find this among the most amazing things about the human body. Maybe you will as well.
KAROL MARKOWICZ: I’m quitting Disney after seeing it boast about pushing ‘gender theory.’
On Tuesday, Christopher Rufo, known for his exposés on schools and corporations under the critical-race-theory spell, released internal Disney videos in which those in charge discuss how they insert the “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” into children’s programming.
Those were the words used by Disney Television Animation executive producer Latoya Raveneau, who said she is “adding queerness” wherever she can — with Disney’s blessing, as the company is “going hard” to be supportive.
The shocking footage also featured Disney Parks’ diversity and inclusion manager, Vivian Ware, saying the company has “removed all of the gendered greetings” at its theme parks. No more “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.” No longer will a little girl in a gown be greeted with a “Hello, princess!” as my daughter had been so many times on our Disney World trips. Disney has been pushed to toe the leftist gender line, and it is doing just that.
The executives made the remarks in a company-wide virtual meeting Monday about Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, signed that day by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Disney had made headlines for denouncing the relatively staid legislation, which states, “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate.”
Offer void outside the United States:
UPDATE: From America’s Newspaper of Record: Corrupting Our Youth: Popular Disney Mascot Roaming Park Without Any Pants.
(Updated and bumped.)
THE LEFT HAS CAPTURED EVERY CRAPPY MAGAZINE IN AMERICA THAT ISN’T AVOWEDLY CONSERVATIVE: Teen Vogue attempts to persuade teenaged girls that affirmative action benefits “white women” most … forgets to mention that many liberal arts schools discriminate against them and in favor of men in admissions. Here’s a burning question that needs to be addressed: When will Popular Woodworking wade into the transgender issue?
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Democrat Rep. Waters tells homeless people to ‘go home,’ warns journalist during testy exchange.
Rep. Maxine Waters reportedly warned a journalist not to report on a story regarding an event she attended near a homeless encampment in Los Angeles where tensions boiled over amid confusion over Section 8 housing vouchers.
According to a report from the New York Post, Waters was present at a chaotic event where hundreds of homeless people showed up due to inaccurate social media reports that Section 8 housing vouchers were being distributed.
At one point, when it was clear that staff at the event were being overwhelmed, Waters reportedly said to the crowd, “I want everybody to go home.”
That comment reportedly triggered an angry response from the crowd, many of whom were homeless.
“We don’t got no home, that’s why we’re here!” one member of the crowd reportedly said back. “What home we gonna go to?”
Waters then grew frustrated and said, “Excuse me, there’s nobody in Washington who works for their people any f— harder than I do. I don’t want to hear this. No, no, no.”
When a Los Angeles Times reporter contact Waters about the event, the congresswoman reportedly tried to dissuade the paper from reporting the story.
“You’ll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together without background,” she told reporter Connor Sheets, according to the Los Angeles Times. “I don’t want you to start trying to write it, you won’t understand it.”
When Waters threatens you, remember that she means business:
● Rep. Maxine Waters Jokes About Threatening Trump Supporters ‘All The Time.’
● Maxine Waters: ‘Americans should be out in the streets screaming’ for Trump’s head.
BOOKS CHANGE LIVES: A long time Instapundit reader writes in to Glenn:
On January 7th, 2019 Helen posted on Instapundit about a book she ordered called Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain.
Your recommendation changed – and gave back – my son’s life. Long story short, a broken back 20 years ago led to surgery, infections, chronic muscle spasms and pain, putting him in a wheelchair. We tried everything to get back his life, including 3 weeks at the Mayo Clinic. They found nothing actionable.
It turns out he had major problems with his posture – and Pain Free describes the Egoscue method of posture therapy, which is way more effective than physical therapy. Jon worked hard to get better, and is now out of the wheelchair. This short video shows his path from wheelchair to playing sports again: From Wheelchair to Athletics: How to Conquer Chronic Pain. And Jon found his calling: he is now an Egoscue certified postural therapist, and he has just opened a business to help others.
Check out Jon’s video here and the book here. (Bumped)
AI IS TURNING OUT TO BE HARDER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT: Some AI Systems May Be Impossible to Compute: New research suggests there are limitations to what deep neural networks can do.
THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO QUOTE SANTAYANA: Progressive Dem candidates: Please don’t call us “progressive.”
Left-wing candidates from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Missouri are shying away from the P-word on the campaign trail, in messaging and online fundraising, and even in media blitzes, signaling an attempt to rebrand their wing of the party as Democrats debate how to win the midterm elections…
While some high-profile contenders still use the moniker, others want to be thought of in different terms. Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who’s seeking the party’s nomination for a coveted Senate seat, prefers a different word: populist…
A source close to another self-styled Midwestern populist described “two lanes of populism” taking hold as contenders look for more accurate ways to portray what’s unfolding in their regions. Voters in these areas, this person said, aren’t consumed with the detailed policy proposals that excite many national progressives in Washington, D.C., and prefer an anti-establishment, against-the-system sentiment…
“It is a reaction to progressivism somehow being attached to socialism or communism,” said [Dwight] Bullard. “You have a lot of apprehension, regression, people who just are scared.”
As Fred Siegel wrote in his 2014 history of the American left, The Revolt Against the Masses:
Liberals were those Progressives who had renamed themselves so as to repudiate Wilson. “The word liberalism,” wrote Walter Lippmann in 1919, “was introduced into the jargon of American politics by that group who were Progressives in 1912 and Wilson Democrats from 1916 to 1918.” The new liberalism was a decisive cultural break with Wilson and Progressivism. While the Progressives had been inspired by a faith in democratic reforms as a salve for the wounds of both industrial civilization and power politics, liberals saw the American democratic ethos as a danger to freedom at home and abroad.
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The best short credo of liberalism came from the pen of the once canonical left-wing literary historian Vernon Parrington in the late 1920s. “Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class,” Parrington insisted, referring to both democracy and capitalism, “and the artist and the scientist will erect in America a civilization that may become, what civilization was in earlier days, a thing to be respected.” Alienated from middle-class American life, liberalism drew on an idealized image of “organic” pre-modern folkways and rhapsodized about a future harmony that would reestablish the proper hierarchy of virtue in a post-bourgeois, post-democratic world.
Well, it is the twenties once again, so I’m not at all surprised to see the P-word retired being retired for a second time, to memory hole the excesses of the previous decade.
DON’T GET COCKY: Are Democrats Panicking? It Sure Looks That Way.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Engineering researchers develop porous nanoparticles for regenerative medicine.
NOT ONE SECOND BEFORE A NEW NARRATIVE DEMANDS IT. NEXT QUESTION? When Will Comedians Stop Protecting Kamala Harris?