WHITE SUPREMACISTS COME IN SO MANY COLORS THESE DAYS THAT IT’S DIFFICULT TO KEEP TRACK: Democrat Who Equated Muslims With White Supremacists for Opposing LGBTQ Curriculum Apologizes.
Archive for 2023
June 12, 2023
WELL, YES, THAT’S THE GOAL: “You’re seeing the destruction of our standards because we are using so-called equity instead of equality”.
“Equity” is a term chosen because it sounds kind of like “equality,” which Americans support. But it means the opposit of equality. Equality constrains authorities by forcing them to treat everyone the same. The whole point of “equity” to to break authorities free of that constraint, so that they can favor those they wish to favor, and disfavor those they wish to punish.
DISTRACTED BY THE DISTRACTION: “While the press and politicians are screaming at each other over that indictment, the Chinese are expanding their pre-existing spy bases in Cuba. Why we continue to allow a communist regime to operate 90 miles off our coast with spies in the United States is beyond me. Now, they’re expanding collaboration with China. It won’t be long before the Chinese have their own naval base in the area.”
BLUE CITY BLUES: Hotel Owners Start to Write Off San Francisco as Business Nosedives.
Hotel owners in New York and Los Angeles are filling nearly as many rooms this year as they did in 2019, according to hotel-data firm STR. Their revenue per available room exceeds what it was before the pandemic.
But in San Francisco, hotels are still struggling badly in both occupancy and room rates compared with before the pandemic. Revenue per available room was nearly 23% lower in April compared with the same month in 2019.
The city’s lodging business has been squeezed by crime and other quality-of-life issues that have kept many convention bookers away. Tech companies’ embrace of remote work also undercuts business travel to the city and hotel activity.
Now, a growing number of San Francisco hoteliers are signaling they may be ready to give up. In recent months, the owner of the city’s Huntington Hotel sold the property after facing foreclosure and the Yotel San Francisco hotel sold in a foreclosure auction. Club Quarters San Francisco, which has been in default on its loan since 2020, may also be headed to foreclosure, according to data company Trepp.
Other lodging properties in the city are also vulnerable. More than 20 additional San Francisco hotels are facing loans due in the next two years, according to data company CoStar.
In San Francisco’s biggest potential hotel default yet, Park Hotels & Resorts last week said it has stopped making loan payments on debt secured by the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 San Francisco. The two hotels, with nearly 3,000 rooms between them, are in the heart of San Francisco’s shopping and cultural district.
Decline is a choice and San Francisco keeps choosing it, again and again.
NOBODY CARES EXCEPT FOR THE SAD HOLDOUTS STILL DOING THESE THINGS WITHOUT WHITE HOUSE GUIDANCE: White House Sends Out Guidance Mandating Face Masks and Social Distancing for the Unvaccinated.
IMPRESSIVE: SpaceX Hires 14-Year-Old Prodigy Who Dismisses Notion Of ‘Missing Out On Childhood.’ “I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability.”
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Report: Sandbag That Tripped Biden On Stage Also Participated In Jan 6 Capitol Riot.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Adjunct who failed student for using term ‘biological women’ confirms story, plays the victim.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF WEIMAR AMERICA AND THE K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:
Parents of kids at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California say this video was played to their kids in math class. The kids clearly didn’t want to watch this pride video so the teacher threatened them with Saturday school to get them to watch it. pic.twitter.com/FUnB9DKYrN
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 11, 2023
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE: Blue Jays Cut Pitcher Who Shared Video Supporting Bud Light & Target Boycotts. “The team manager, Ross Atkins, claims that the primary factor behind the decision was Bass’s performance on the field. However, he also acknowledged that the distraction caused by the video was a contributing factor.”
DON SURBER: Why LGBTQQIAAP2S+ is losing. “LGBTQQIAAP2S+ has turned Americans off. . . . The LGBTQQIAAP2S+ Marxists began losing support when it forced schools to accept boys in girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. When one of those boys raped a girl in Virginia, the school refused to prosecute and merely transferred him to another school, where he did it again to another girl. When the father of the first girl complained at a school board meeting, the schoolboard had him arrested for trespassing — at a public meeting in a public building. School boards continue to defy the public and the law to promote transsexuality. The pushback now includes people Democrats take for granted.”
FALLOUT: India picks Germany to supply new submarines as Russian arms exports wane. “Germany will build six submarines for the Indian Navy in its largest weapons deal with the South Asian country in 42 years. It makes Germany the latest Western nation to nibble at India’s vast arms import market as supplies of Russian weapons dry up.”
IT LEANS TO THE LEFT, WHICH IS WHY IT’S DESTINED FOR COLLAPSE. . . . The tilt of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower has deepened as engineers work to reverse lean. “The Bay Area’s 545-foot-tall Millennium Tower has only continued to tilt further and sink deeper west in spite of architects’ best efforts to steady the ritzy building. The multimillion-dollar-per-unit tower is leaning more than 29 inches at the corner of Fremont and Mission streets — a slant over half an inch deeper than previously revealed.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Blind Rage Trump-Haters Want to Exhaust Us With Their Antics. “Here’s one thing I know from the anecdotal department: there’s been a lot of change in opinion among my Republican friends and relatives who are, shall we say, Trump-weary. The people who have generally been sick of all of the drama surrounding him and hoping he’d just go away are now getting sick of his haters who create the drama. I’ve talked to quite a few people since Friday who may not have become overnight MAGA enthusiasts, but they’re warming up to the old boy a bit.”
BLASPHEMY, then and now. “The original movie was controversial because it mocked the God-man, the central truth of the Christian faith. Now it is controversial because it mocks the man-god, the central truth of our contemporary world. That it is ‘Loretta,’ not Brian, who is now the most offensive character in the story is indicative of a sea-change in our cultural understanding of what is holy and what laws must therefore not be transgressed.”
#JOURNALISM:
Where do these folks think Chernobyl is ??? 🤨🤦🏻♂️
The incident happened when the USSR was around….when the USSR was divided into a bunch of countries, Chernobyl ended up in Ukraine.
Time has no idea WTF it's talking about 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/DPnyL2TOpx— 🔥Blake🔥 (@LastOutlaw1993) June 12, 2023
I would say that history and geography are their weak points, but actually they know about as much about those subjects as they do about everything else . . . . As Ben Rhodes said, they literally know nothing.
HE’S NOT WEARING THE RIBBON! BUT YOU HAVE TO WEAR THE RIBBON! Texas Rangers Refuse to Celebrate ‘Pride Month.’ The Texas Rangers is the only Major League Baseball team refusing to give into pressure and publicly schedule a “Pride night.”
PRIORITIES: White House accused of US Flag Code violation over Pride Month display. “The flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.”
THEY’VE WANTED THAT SINCE AUGUST 2016, AT LEAST: President Biden Wants To Give Trump ‘Death Sentence For Documents,’ GOP Rep. Says.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. It’s Scary How Badly They Want Trump in Prison.
(Via RCP.)
“THE FAILED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CAMPAIGN THAT SHOOK DEMOCRATS“: G*d help me, I know that pride is a sin, but there has never been a New York Times story that pleased me more:
The 2020 campaign to restore race-conscious affirmative action in California was close to gospel within the Democratic Party. It drew support from the governor, senators, state legislative leaders and a who’s who of business, nonprofit and labor elites, Black, Latino, white and Asian.
The Golden State Warriors, San Francisco Giants and 49ers and Oakland Athletics urged voters to support the referendum, Proposition 16, and remove “systemic barriers.” A commercial noted that Kamala Harris, then a U.S. senator, had endorsed the campaign, and the ad also suggested that to oppose it was to side with white supremacy. Supporters raised many millions of dollars for the referendum and outspent opponents by 19 to 1.
“Vote for racial justice!” urged the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
None of these efforts persuaded Jimmie Romero, a 63-year-old barber who grew up in the working-class Latino neighborhood of Wilmington in Los Angeles. Homelessness, illegal dumping, spiraling rents: He sat in his shop and listed so many problems.
Affirmative action was not one of those.
“I was upset that they tried to push that,” Mr. Romero recalled in a recent interview. “It was not what matters.”
Mr. Romero was one of millions of California voters, including about half who are Hispanic and a majority who are Asian American, who voted against Proposition 16, which would have restored race-conscious admissions at public universities, and in government hiring and contracting.
The breadth of that rejection shook supporters. California is a liberal bastion and one of the most diverse states in the country. That year, President Biden swamped Donald Trump by 29 percentage points in California, but Proposition 16 went down, with 57 percent of voters opposing it.
On behalf of all the wonderful people who worked with me on defeating Prop 16, I am reliving that cock-a-hoop feeling I got in November of 2020 after co-chairing the campaign. I’ll get back to worrying about all the ways universities cheat on Proposition 209 (which Prop 16 was intended to repeal) tomorrow.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Trump Indictment Undermines Democracy.’
PRETTY MUCH: ‘Climate Change’: A New Form of Paganism.