NATE SILVER: Why liberalism and leftism are increasingly at odds. “The old left-right coalitions have long been under strain as America has moved away from materialist politics to the politics of cultural grievance. The clearest manifestation of this has been intense polarization based on educational attainment (the more years of schooling, the more likely you are to vote Democrat). If, however, higher educational institutions and the ideas associated with them continue to become more and more unpopular, I’m not sure what happens next.”
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December 13, 2023
I NEEDED MY ACTUAL SHOCKED FACE FOR THIS ONE: Amazing! Biden DOJ Successfully Prosecutes Antifa Terrorist Who Firebombed Pro-Life Office.
FROM INSTAPUNDIT’S EARLIEST DAYS — AND BEFORE — I’VE BEEN CALLING FOR THE NONPROFIT SECTOR TO BE CLEANED UP: RealClearInvestigations: How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON? It’s not every day that an ink-stained wretch gets to publish something by his son, but I just enjoyed that privilege. It’s “my” latest PJ Media column but in fact was written by my amazing son, Marcus Tapscott, making the case for elite universities sitting on $810 billion cumulative endowments help pay off student loans instead of taxpayers.
JUST FOR THE COOL: A tour of Blue Origin’s Huntsville Machine Shop & Manufacturing Facility.
BUT THAT’S WHAT FEMINISM WAS DESIGNED TO DO: 38-year-old woman decides she wants a baby, claims she’s been ‘betrayed by feminism’.
REMEMBER: SILICON VALLEY INHABITANTS ARE MORALLY SUPERIOR TO US: San Francisco tech CEO Christian Lanng accused of forcing assistant to sign ‘slave contract,’ sexual torture.
YEAH. WE’VE NOTICED: Niall Ferguson on the parallels between academia in 1920-30s Germany and 2020 USA.
THAT’S THE JOB, TAKING OUT THE TRASH: Bodycam captures terrifying moment IDF soldier comes face-to-face with Hamas terrorists — and takes them out.
TRULY, THIS IS THE CLOWN TIMELINE: Yale Drops ‘Israeli’ Salad From Cafeteria Menu.
SHE’S NOT WRONG: Birthright Citizenship for $500: What Is, America in Jeopardy!
AL GORE HAS MORE FAILED PREDICTIONS THAN PAUL EHRLICH: Al Gore Melts Down Over an “Inconvenient Truth” in X-Rant about UN Climate Summit Failure.
ARE WE FOR REAL NOW? WE’RE GOING WITH THIS? Syracuse ‘Pro-Palestine’ Students Protest Jerry Seinfeld, Who is Jewish, Comedy Show.
This has to be the stupidest timeline.
HARVARD THREATENED THE POST? THAT’S AS DUMB AS TRYING TO BLACKMAIL ELON MUSK WITH MONEY: Harvard covered up a secret plagiarism probe into president Claudine Gay during antisemitism storm — threatened The Post.
SHE WASN’T HIRED FOR HER COMPETENCE OR SCHOLARSHIP: Harvard Attorneys Protected Claudine Gay After New York Post Confronted School in October About Possible Plagiarism in Her Works.
Hey, the big advantage of irrelevant characteristics like race and sex is that you can’t plagiarize them, right?
FREE SPEECH FOR THEM, BUT NOT FOR THEE: Harvard is so pro-free speech they canceled critic’s talk.
THEY SHOULD. BUT SHAME IS A THING OF THE PAST: Why university presidents should be dropping like flies.
December 12, 2023
WELL, HE WAS DUMB ENOUGH TO MARRY KAMALA, SO . . . How could our Jewish Second Gentleman get the Hanukkah story so CRINGINGLY wrong? It’s so typical of this blundering White House – and just as Biden rolls back support for Israel!
DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Outrage at French School After Muslim Students Refuse to Look at Renaissance Painting. Just tell the students it’s a painting of Hamas fighters raping Israeli teens and they’d be happy.
I WONDER IF THEY’RE GOING TO CALABRIA?
Hamas depart Qatar, destination unknown.https://t.co/zmeEu8SKw9
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 12, 2023
Yes, that’s an obscure musical reference.
OPEN THREAD: Discourse freely.
DECLINE IS A CHOICE, AMERICA: Drink your Doritos? Nacho cheese-flavored liquor is now a thing.
