PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Salon Magazine Warns of ‘Democracy’s Last Thanksgiving’ If Trump Becomes President.

[Salon politics writer Chauncey Devega] even argues that Trump is faring better than Biden in the polls because Americans are stupid.

“Journalists, pundits, the mainstream political class, other experts, and everyday Americans who follow politics and current events closely assume that the average member of the public does so as well,” the Salon author writes.

“There are decades of research by political scientists and other experts, however, that shows this to not be true.”

“In reality, most Americans are politically disengaged, lack a sophisticated understanding of political matters, are imagistic and emotional, have a difficult time retaining and understanding complex information, do not pay close attention to elections until they decide to vote, and more generally are civically illiterate,” he continues.

“More than half of the American public reads below a sixth-grade level.”

“In all, the average voter also makes political decisions based on “calculations” and concerns that mainstream professional politics watchers — especially liberals and progressives — would find ‘irrational.”

Devega even claims that foul play will tip the election in Trump’s favor.

“Given the Electoral College, voter nullification and voter suppression, gerrymandering and other structural failings in American “democracy” there is a very real and growing probability that Donald Trump will return to power in 2025,” he notes.

Devega goes on to lament that the media and ‘experts’ have failed to persuade the public into believing “Dictator Trump” is fascist.

“The sum effect is that these discussions and warnings about America’s ‘democracy crisis’ and ‘fascism’ are often ignored or filtered out by large portions of the public as being just more ‘partisan bickering’ and ‘politics as usual,’” he writes.

—The Daily Fetched, yesterday.

It’s a bit late for Salon to pretend to be anti-“fascism” based on their previous fever swamp wishes, such as these greatest hits over the years:

● Democrats have a massive opportunity with Capitol riot committee: Shove it down the GOP’s throat.

—Salon.com, July 27, 2021.

● “Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle.”

—Salon.com, March 6, 2013.

● “Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media…Excerpted from ‘Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.’

—Salon.com, January 18, 2014.

● “Like [the late communist Pete] Seeger and the FDR cargo cult, Salon also harbors turn-the-clock-back fantasies of their own: Last month, the publication called for the nationalization of the news media because it was uncomfortable with the glut of right-leaning news and opinion led by — you guessed it! — Fox News. (Hmmm — I wonder if someone in the FCC read that article?) Now the Website wishes to turn the clock back on the film industry because of a perceived glut of independent films.”

—Easy Riders, Raging Stasists, Ed Driscoll.com, February 22, 2014.

● “Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech. They’re huge and ruthless and define our lives. They’re close to monopolies. Let’s make them public utilities.”

—Salon.com, July 8, 2014.

As Charles Cooke asked the left in 2016, “Herewith, an under-asked question for our friends on the progressive left: ‘Has Donald Trump’s remarkable rise done anything to change your mind as to the ideal strength of the State?’”

And as far as ‘Democracy’s Last Thanksgiving,’ that concern was raised and acquitted a few years ago:

● Give it a rest, Republicans — no one wants to take away Turkey Day. The imaginary “war on Thanksgiving” is just Republicans grasping for post-Trump bulls**t to rile up the base.

—Salon.com, November 24, 2020.

WELL PUT:

Dolly Parton is an American icon, she crushed it yesterday, and she can dress however she wants https://t.co/FtqQHLTMkp

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 24, 2023

CYBER MONDAY DEAL: Dyson V8 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. #CommissionEarned

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Hunter Biden Disappointed To Learn White Powder All Over White House Just Fake Snow.

LOL: Museum collections ‘deeply entrenched’ in violence, colonialism, professor says.

HARVARD PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: Harvard Crimson’s antisemitism disturbingly echoes Oxford in the 1930s.

On a cold February evening in 1933, the students of the Oxford Union debated and passed the motion “That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.” The debate, which took place a week or so after Hitler was named chancellor of Germany, became an international sensation.

The students’ pacifism and lack of patriotism was viewed as emblematic of the degeneracy of an ungrateful and self-indulgent young intellectual elite. Winston Churchill called the vote “abject, squalid, shameless,” and “nauseating.”

The Oxford Union debate was not simply an academic exercise. At the time, many observers claimed it reinforced the view in Germany that the English were soft.

Alfred Zimmern, professor of international relations at Oxford, wrote to the former Oxford Union president who organized the debate: “I hope you do penance every night and every morning for that ill starred Resolution. … If the Germans have to be knocked out a second time it will be partly your fault.” Churchill would later write that as a result of the “ever shameful” motion, “in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in Japan, the idea of a decadent, degenerate Britain took deep root and swayed many calculations.”

In our own time, just 18 months ago, the academic aristocracy at the Harvard Crimson endorsed the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement that targets Israel. The BDS movement arose in 2005 as a policy advocated by Palestinian civil society groups to delegitimize and isolate Israel, similar to the anti-apartheid fight against South Africa.

And speaking of higher education partying like it’s 1939: The Shame of Academe.

Nor is it only geopolitics that resembles the interwar period. The intellectual climate does, too. As Allan Bloom observed in his 1987 classic The Closing of the American Mind, German universities in the 1920s and 1930s were seedbeds of fascism. The most prominent German philosopher of the age, Martin Heidegger, belonged to the Nazi Party. He never apologized for his affiliation or behavior. Heidegger’s abstruse thought laid the foundations for the postmodern “critical theory” that has dominated the academy since the early 1990s. The result: Two generations of students cannot tell right from wrong, good from evil, justice from terror.

Also, they are functionally illiterate. The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at the University of Virginia wrote on Instagram that it “unequivocally supports Palestinian liberation and the right of colonized people everywhere to resist the occupation of their land by whatever means they deem necessary.” Whatever means? Does that include rape and baby-killing? Is that what they teach to international-relations majors in Charlottesville? Suffice it to say that none of these young adults have ever read a book on the laws of war. They are too busy mainlining Islamo-fascist propaganda on Tik-Tok.

All the way to the big guy himself: Osama bin Laden’s infamous ‘Letter to America’ after 9/11 promoted by TikTok influencers, goes viral.

SO NO, THEN: Harvard won’t say whether anti-Semitic students will be punished under anti-discrimination policy.

Flashback:

Harvard Crew Team Unveils New U-Boat https://t.co/JXpDmKtKmT pic.twitter.com/Tnnc0bO2H8

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 3, 2023

AT AMAZON, Cyber Monday Deals. #CommissionEarned

THE WAR AGAINST NORMALITY: “I think of ‘permacrisis’ as as a political strategy to make people feel that we are always in special dire circumstances, justifying unusual emergency measures, and warranting the sacrifice of our personal pleasure and freedom. I can’t help thinking: ‘Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.'”

HOW IT STARTED: Defunding the Police Is Not Nearly Enough.

—New York magazine, June 12th, 2020.

How it’s going: Over 2,500 Cops Have Quit The Job In Blue City Just This Year.

—The Daily Caller, yesterday.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Trump lead grows as 84% say Bidenomics hurting them.

WHY IS THE AMERICAN LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Attack on Israeli-Owned Business in Merrimack, NH Denounced by Both Parties.

If the antisemitic activists of Palestine Action US were hoping to rally support in the Granite State with their attack on an Israeli-based defense contractor in Merrimack, it appears they miscalculated.

Elbit Systems of America’s parent company – Israel-based Elbit Systems – is the largest defense contractor for Israel. Palestine Action US, which previously launched an attack on Elbit Systems’ Cambridge, Mass. location just five days after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack, says its mission is “dismantling Elbit Systems and the Zionist War Machine.”

The group brought that mission to Merrimack on Monday around 8 a.m. when, according to local authorities, reports began rolling into the police and fire departments of an issue at the Elbit facility on Daniel Webster Highway. Protesters were blocking the entrance, and smoke was billowing from the roof. According to a Merrimack Police Department press release, “Officers discovered the front of the building had been spray painted with red paint, windows had been smashed, and at least one of the main lobby doors had been locked shut via a bicycle anti-theft device.”

Protesters also lit flares and took them to the roof, where more damage was later found.

Palestine Action US immediately took to social media to celebrate its success in temporarily shutting down the facility.

“Elbit NH has been hit. Actionists are currently on the roof. More to come,” it posted in X, later adding, “THIS is direct action. New Hampshire wasn’t ready.”

Perhaps not, but state and local police quickly had three protesters in custody.

Sophie Marika Ross, 22, of Housatonic, Mass., Cala Mairead Walsh, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., and Bridget Irene Shergalis, 27, of Dayville, Conn. They now face charges including criminal trespass, riot, and sabotage. They were held on preventative detention overnight.

Say, one name there rings a bell: New York Times sweetheart Calla Walsh turns violent.

It’s not often that the New York Times has a prophetic vision. In 2021, the paper ran a fawning profile of Calla Walsh, a high-schooler leading an “army of sixteen-year-olds” against Massachusetts’s Democratic establishment. Now all grown up, Walsh has become a general to a violent group of diligent protesters.

Walsh, now a committed communist, was arrested on Monday morning at a defense contractor facility in New Hampshire along with two other women. The three were arraigned on Tuesday on charges of riot, sabotage, criminal mischief, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.

The women, along with a larger group of pro-Palestine protesters, had surrounded the Elbit Systems facility, which is allegedly involved in Israel’s military campaign. Police said protesters badly damaged the building, including smashed windows and spray paint that read “free Gaza” and “genocide profiteers.” Police noticed smoke coming from the roof, where they found the three women with an incendiary device and smashed skylights and HVAC equipment.

Exit quote:

“Fascism is alive and well and unbothered in Boston?” It sure is; it sure is.

STUPID MEDIA: Video of Massive Terror Complex Under Al Shifa Hospital Makes Media Look Ridiculous.

WATCH: Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Caught on Hidden Camera Admitting January 6 Was a Hoax.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: POTATUS Heckled by Pro-Hamas Demonstrators at Xmas Tree Lighting in Ritzy Nantucket.

TWO BIDEN ADMINISTRATIONS IN ONE! Biden Calls for Unity as his White House Released Thanksgiving Guide on ‘Crazy MAGA Nonsense.’

“We have to remind ourselves how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on the face of the earth,” the president said. “Today is about coming together, giving thanks for this country we call home. And thanks to all the firefighters, police officers, first responders and our troops, some of whom are stationed abroad.”

“We can have different political views, but … we have one view — the one view is we’re the finest, greatest nation in the world. We should focus on that … We have to bring the nation together and we have to treat each other with a little bit of decency and so — and I think that’s who the vast majority of the American people are.”

Jill Biden said it was “important that we all commit to an act of kindness today” and asked Americans to “call someone and wish them a Happy Thanksgiving or do something kind.”

It was boilerplate and it was adequate. It would have not be noteworthy except for the fact that the Biden-Harris campaign went the opposite direction. Before Joe and Jill attempted to do the right thing, the Biden-Harris campaign released “Your handy guide for responding to crazy MAGA nonsense this Thanksgiving.” According to the post on X, it went out at 7:58 a.m. Thanksgiving Day.

Your handy guide for responding to crazy MAGA nonsense this Thanksgiving

A thread pic.twitter.com/rf0hFRXa80

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) November 23, 2023

There is no way that Joe and Jill didn’t know such a guide was posted. There is no separating them from the campaign. Joe Biden is a puppet president who is too dazed and confused to know what is happening from hour to hour. Those around him, including Jill, are controlling the narrative. Remember the dramatic blood red background when Biden went all Dark Brandon on us and demonized Republicans in a televised speech?

And remember when Joe Biden called Tea Party members “terrorists” in 2011, only months after his fellow Democrats were on a “new civility” tear in their attempt to blame an attack on Gabrielle Giffords and a Reagan-appointed judge by an apolitical lunatic on Sarah Palin and her clip art? Nothing has changed among Joe and his fellow Obama-associated cronies since.

I’M SEEING A NUMBER OF PEOPLE BEING AT LEAST A LITTLE RED-PILLED:

Since October 7, I have experienced a significant shift in my political beliefs towards the right. I am not alone. This is happening to most Jewish friends who are horrified by the call from the left that goes “from the river to the sea” asking for the end of the state of Israel.…

— Martin Varsavsky (@martinvars) November 25, 2023

Related:

I really don’t think the people who live in an online bubble understand how the silent majorities are processing the large pro-Hamas rallies. Expect a lot of political upheaval, especially in Europe, in coming years.

— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 23, 2023

WELL, THE BBC: BBC To Jewish Staff: Don’t Attend AntiSemitism March Today. “Racism is racism and something we should all abhor — but not when it comes to anti-Jewish racism it seems.”

YES, THIS IS MY PEN-NAME: The thing is it was supposed to be on sale next week, but I fumble-fingered it into sale this week, so it’s 1.99 for the next three days. (And yes, there is another one — actually two — almost ready, but weird things happened this year. Hopefully 24 will be better on the personal level. Less death would be good.)

BY ELISE HYATT: Dipped, Stripped and Dead (Daring Finds Book 1)

#CommissionEarned

A Dyce Dare Mystery When she was six, Dyce Dare wanted to be a ballerina, but she couldn’t stop tripping over her own feet. Then she wanted to be a lion tamer, but Fluffy, the cat, would not obey her. Which is why at the age of twenty nine she’s dumpster diving, kind of. She’s looking for furniture to keep her refinishing business going, because she would someday like to feed herself and her young son something better than pancakes. Unfortunately, as has come to be her expectation, things go disastrously wrong. She finds a half melted corpse in a dumpster. This will force her to do what she never wanted to do: solve a crime. Life is just about to get crazy… er… crazier. But at least at the end of the tunnel there might be a relationship with a very nice Police Officer.

 

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