COMMIES ALWAYS HAVE TO BUILD WALLS TO KEEP PEOPLE IN, EVEN IF THEY’RE VIRTUAL: China’s billionaires looking to move their cash, and themselves, out. “China’s elites have long looked for ways to take their money overseas. Officially, individuals are only allowed to transfer $50,000 (£41,000) out of the country each year. But in practice wealthy people have a range of official and unofficial ways of shifting their funds, whether that is through money exchanges in Hong Kong, where capital controls do not apply, or funnelling cash into overseas businesses.”
Archive for 2023
October 31, 2023
You can always count on Code Pink to support the enemies of civilization, since that’s who they’re paid by. And now that there’s a GOP speaker, maybe some video will show how they got in, and which (no doubt Democratic) staffers helped them.
TO BE FAIR, IT’S ASTEROID DUST THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT. Dinosaurs likely brought down by dust, not asteroid, researchers say.
HE GOT A LOT OF BAD PRESS: Count Dracula: Undead Bloodsucker or Anti-Jihad Hero? “Before the world learned about fake news, there was fake history, and its goal was always the same: to demonize Western elements by exaggerating and stripping them of context and, above all, expunging or demonizing their Christian aspects while leaving aggressive Islam out of the equation.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: FDA warns to stop using eyedrops amid unsanitary manufacturing conditions.
I THINK WE KNOW HOW THIS TURNS OUT: California Democrats Disarm Synagogues. “Well, it’s not like any particular houses of worship are under particular threats from particular terrorist organizations, now is it?”
HEY, IT’S NOT LIKE IT WAS A PRO-TRUMP RALLY OR SOMETHING: On the Pro-Genocide Rally at George Mason University: Why didn’t university president Gregory Washington speak up? “The Hamas massacre in Israel has revealed that the the DEI norms embraced by most American universities don’t include protecting Jewish students from intimidation. Every day I hear new stories from friends about their college kids being threatened, ostracized, and bullied, because they object to the glorification of Hamas terrorists by other students. A good friend of mine, for example, has had to hire a civil rights attorney because other students in his daughter’s program have taken to referring to her as ‘the little Jew bitch,’ and the program’s administrators have not done anything about it.”
Make them pay.
I see that Washington is a big fan of “Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence.” But apparently this doesn’t apply to just anyone who’s a victim of racism or exclusion.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Welcome To The Party, Pal! Erwin Chemerinsky discovers that higher education is a hotbed of antisemitism. (Bumped).
DEAL OF THE DAY: BlissTrends Seat Cushion,Thick Memory Foam Cushion. #CommissionEarned
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: In Today’s Lefty Public Temper Tantrum News… “We might have a new winner in the ongoing Lefty-Hamas Alliance for Crybully Public Temper Tantrums contest.”
STILL WAITING: “Another month has passed without full release of Audrey Hale’s manifesto, which could reveal her motive for the murder of nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, daughter of Chad Scruggs, senior pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville. Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, also shot dead schoolmaster Katherine Koonce, 59; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61. On March 29, 2023, two days after the murders, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit took custody of the manifesto.”
If they aren’t telling us what it says, it’s because they don’t want us to know what it says.
LOL: Suddenly ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Terrible.
We warned you people you wouldn’t like the new rules. But you went ahead anyway. Enjoy your gander sauce.
THE ANTISEMITISM IS CONSIDERED A FEATURE NOT A BUG: Wall Street Journal: Democrats Risk Long-Lasting Rift Over Israel-Hamas War
To liberal Jews devastated by scenes of the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, the ensuing weeks have shattered illusions of solidarity, says Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and director of the Anti-Defamation League. College students and faculty, as well as local chapters of Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Socialists of America, have justified or even celebrated Hamas’s actions, while many others have emphasized the Palestinians’ plight and criticism of Israel over sympathy for the victims of the terrorist attacks.
“It has been an incredibly clarifying and terrifying moment at the same time for many progressive Jews,” Greenblatt said. “They’re calling me, tweeting, messaging, expressing shock and sadness that the people they marched with, the causes they marched for, have abandoned them in their hour of need.”
What left-leaning Jews Jews need to understand that the antisemitism they are seeing is partly but not solely ideological. While some Jews have drunk the far-left Kool-Aid, American Jews are an overall moderating influence on the left and the Democratic Party. In 2020, for example, Jewish Democrats supported Bernie Sanders at the lowest rate of just about any demographic, around 10%.
Jews were once much more drawn to the far left, but those days are gone—because Jews (and of course I’m generalizing here) thrive in meritocracy, because Jews are grateful to be Americans and see the US as a force for good in the world, because Jews can’t accept ideologically driven binaries that make Jews, in Israel and otherwise, into the inherent aggressors and because such binaries are secularized products of god/devil theology that is not part of Judaism, because societal instability is almost always bad for Jews, and because Jews are well-represented in the establishment that the far left wants to tear down.
So rather than try to extinguish antisemitism in their ranks, many on the far left want to fan it, to drive Jews out, so they can be replaced by Kendi-ites. The fact that Jews are repelled by antisemitism spewing from the far left is not a bug but a feature. It’s not a coincidence, for a while, that everyone of the “antiracist heroes” in Kendi and Reynolds’ Stamped: A Remix has a history of making antisemitic comments.
It might be possible to change people’s minds about ideology. But given that the far left thinks that the quest for political power runs through tossing all but the most extremist Jews from the movement, Jews need to understand that they are facing an implacable enemy, not the sincere but misguided. Once they recognize that, those who thought these folks were their “allies” should start to consider what else they got wrong…
MORE HOSTAGES: Hamas blocks foreign nationals from leaving Gaza. “The Egyptians are prepared to let Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza. The Israelis have no issue with that. But Hamas is preventing their departure and making a series of demands.”
JAW, JAW IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: Russia Finally ‘Ready’ for Ukraine Peace Talks.
Shoigu made the remarks at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, China’s largest military diplomacy event, saying that Russia is also ready for talks on further “co-existence” with the West, but said Western countries needed to stop seeking the strategic defeat of his country.
The prospect of peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow have been raised multiple times since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Kremlin has specified a few conditions that are non-negotiable for Russia, including that Ukraine must accept the September 2022 annexation of four of its regions—Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia—following referendums called by Putin that were deemed illegal by the international community.
Ukraine has said that any peace deal must invalidate the September 2022 annexations of its territory, and that the Crimean Peninsula, which Putin annexed in 2014, must once again be considered part of Ukraine.
Maybe there’s room for compromise now that it’s clear Russia isn’t going to conquer Ukraine and Ukraine isn’t going to win back everything Russia has taken since 2014.
But that’s a very slim maybe. Nationalists on both sides don’t want to compromise, and a “frozen conflict” that keeps Ukraine weak and unstable is much more in Putin’s interest than a formal peace.
ANNALS OF AUTOPHAGY: Muslim Democrats are now holding Biden as a hostage. Just The News reports that:
“The National Muslim Democratic Council, a nationwide group of Democratic leaders and activists, threatened President Joe Biden that if he does not force Israel to reach a ceasefire with Hamas, a U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization, by 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, they will work to mobilize against him in the 2024 presidential election.”
You know, if a group wanted to dispel certain “stereotypes” about themselves (in this case the Muslim “go-to” use of hostage-taking), this is not how you ought to go about it.