Archive for 2023
December 15, 2023
FEMINISM ISN’T ABOUT HELPING WOMEN, IT’S ABOUT ADVANCING LEFTISM: Phyllis Chesler: Modern Feminism’s Failure to Condemn Hamas.
If the narrative you’re advancing is “decolonization,” you can’t let a little rape and sexual torture get in the way.
IMPRESSIVE: Meet the Totally Badass Republican Mom of Seven Running for that Santos Seat. “Mazi Melesa Pilip is not your typical Long Island Republican. She is not, in fact, your typical anything.”
EVEN A FLATWORM IS SMART ENOUGH TO TURN AWAY FROM PAIN: Joel Kotkin: Across America’s cities, voters are driving out progressives: A recent spate of elections has sent a message to Left-wing leaders.
Related: Multi-Culti Reckoning: The Democrats’ appeal to racial resentment is wearing thin.
The explosion of support for Hamas’s assault on human decency could well turn out to be the high-water mark of the progressive Left. The authoritarian multicultural ideology generated on campuses and transmitted dutifully by the established media has reached its apex and may now begin to descend.
The signs are tentative but some are unmistakable. Corporate and university Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) departments are being slashed, and increasingly seen as both burdensome and discriminatory toward whites, Jews, and Asians. One-third of DEI professionals lost their jobs in 2022. Brands that posted Pride month messages in 2022, such as Lego and Miller Lite, have abandoned such posturing. Even the Navy deleted Pride-related messaging from Instagram and Twitter.
Perhaps more significant may be the rebellion of donors to the leading universities, prime movers of the ideology that drives everything from the DEI establishment. Money is the mother’s milk of politics and universities and foundations alike. The overt hostility toward Israel on campuses, and the resulting feeling of threat among Jewish students, makes Jewish and non-Jewish donors wonder where their money is going.
Even liberal Jews, such as Berkeley Law School dean Erwin Chemerinsky, have been shocked by the rise of racialized and antisemitic politics at prestigious institutions. A possible loss of Jewish voters matters little at the presidential level but could prove relevant in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Unlike their French, Canadian, and British co-religionists, they may function as a rearguard in reining in the far Left.
But the biggest loss may be financial, as well as intellectual. As William Domhoff pointed out in his 1972 book Fat Cats and Democrats, wealthy Jews have been, since the New Deal, major leading donors of the Democratic Party. Jews provide roughly half of all donations, and comprise many of Biden’s top contributors.
This shift, however, extends well beyond Jews, as many long-time Democrats recoil from the party’s embrace of an ideology—propounded by influential leftist intellectuals such as Frantz Fanon, Herbert Marcuse, and Michel Foucault—that justifies criminal violence if committed by an oppressed identity group, a policy calculated to spark ever more ethnic turmoil.
Calculated is right.
MAGNETIC FUSION PLASMA DRIVE? This Man Wants to Get Humans to Mars in 19 Hours.
HAMAS COULD ALWAYS JUST SURRENDER THE HOSTAGES AND GIVE UP “TO SAVE GAZANS”: Israel bombards Gaza Strip despite US worries about casualties — warns war will last ‘more than several months’.
DEREK CHAUVIN DIDN’T STAB HIMSELF: A very political prison stabbing.
HE’S NOT LYING ABOUT “ANYTHING” HE’S LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING: White House says Biden ‘not lying about anything’ in impeach probe, despite evidence: ‘Baseless political stunt’.
A USAIAN HOLY DAY: This Bill of Rights Day, Let’s Celebrate the Preamble.
Meditate on the preamble, fly your flag and stay ungovernable.
MEANWHILE HOMESCHOOLING GROWS BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS: The Rapid Growth of Educational Freedom Is Unprecedented.
FOR THE LEFT, ALL AMERICANS ARE: ‘We’re Not Last in Line’: Chicago Mayor Blasted by Black Community for Favoring Illegal Immigrants.
RECEIVING A DIPLOMA DOES NOT AN EDUCATED PERSON MAKE: The Abolition of Education.
THE MARXISTS DESTROY EVERYTHING: The long term deep-rooted bigotry at MIT, sadly typical of modern academia.
THEY’RE CREATING A LOT OF BACKLASH AGAINST PEOPLE WHO NEVER WANTED ANY PART OF THE WOKE: ‘Woke’ creating anti-LGBT backlash.
I’M WITH HER ON FEMINISM, ALL OF IT: Depth of Disgust.
Even though I came from a culture with a lot more restrictions on women when I was growing up, I realized early on Feminism had nothing for me.
I WISH HE WERE WRONG: Civilization Versus the New Nihilists.
December 14, 2023
THE FRUITS OF CORRUPTION INCLUDE DISTRUST:
The more Trump is indicted, the more he rises in the polls.
That correlation doesn't prove causation, but what it does prove is that most Americans have so much distrust in the justice system and DOJ that even felony indictments don't undermine Trump's standing with the public: https://t.co/1uHc1dttlz
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 14, 2023
Related: THEY WERE GOING AFTER TRUMP, WHEN ALL ALONG THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION WAS COMING FROM INSIDE THE FBI: Tough Sentence Punctuates Downfall of Former FBI Counterintelligence Chief: Judge sentences Charles McGonigal to more than four years in prison for accepting secret payments from sanctioned Russian oligarch.
OPEN THREAD: Thread it to the limit, one more time.
PLANETARY DEFENSE: Could we defend Earth against a ‘rubble pile’ asteroid?
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? California’s latest insane gender policy takes effect next month.
Parts of California are so downtrodden that people need to consult “ poop maps ” to avoid human feces while walking outside, homelessness is rampant in major cities, and the cost of living is out of control. But California’s state government thinks now is the time to … regulate Toys “R” Us.
A law passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in 2021 is set to take effect in the new year , mandating “gender-neutral” toy sections in large toy retail stores. As the Washington Examiner reported after Newsom signed the bill, “Retail stores that fail to comply with the mandate risk being penalized with $250 fines for initial violations and $500 fines for all subsequent violations.”
Hey, remember last year, when the Orwellian Newsom tried to gaslight potential voters that California was “the freedom state?” Good times, good times.