Archive for 2023
November 9, 2023
85 YEARS AGO TODAY.
Kristallnacht.
And people wonder why we say “Never Again.”
THESE MEDS JUST KEEP COMING: FDA authorizes use of diabetes drug tirzepatide for weight loss.
THE CORE EVIL THAT IS DEI: Bari Weiss of The Free Press began grappling with the rottenness now known as the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion (DEI) movement two decades ago as a college student. Early on, she recognized it for the threat it has become:
“What I saw was a worldview that replaced basic ideas of good and evil with a new rubric: the powerless (good) and the powerful (bad). It replaced lots of things. Color blindness with race obsession. Ideas with identity. Debate with denunciation. Persuasion with public shaming. The rule of law with the fury of the mob.
“People were to be given authority in this new order not in recognition of their gifts, hard work, accomplishments, or contributions to society, but in inverse proportion to the disadvantages their group had suffered, as defined by radical ideologues. According to them, as James Kirchick concisely put it: ‘Muslim > gay, black > female, and everybody > the Jews.'”
Even today after 20 years of aggressive Woke infiltration and infection of the academic, political, philanthropic and corporate worlds, otherwise sane people still often fail to recognize that DEI is a disease that threatens civilization itself, not just one particular ethnic group.
“End DEI,” which is part of the “What Now?” Tablet symposium featuring a number of thoughtful authors with something significant to say one month after the Hamas massacre in Israel, will go a long way to further public recognition of this reality.
MICROBIOME NEWS: Study looks at ties between anxiety and gut bacteria.
NOT ANTI-WAR, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE: Six Tlaib Fundraisers Linked to Terrorism, Report Says.
READER FAVORITE: Wrangler Authentics Men’s Classic 5-Pocket Relaxed Fit Cotton Jeans. #CommissionEarned
BECAUSE THE RUBBLE HASN’T BOUNCED FAR ENOUGH YET AND THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE OF IT: Israel should not stop bombing Gaza.
CNN CUTS TIES WITH FREELANCER AFTER PHOTO EMERGES OF HIM SHARING A KISS WITH HAMAS LEADER:
CNN cut ties with a freelance photojournalist based in Gaza hours after a photo emerged purportedly showing a top Hamas leader kissing the photographer on the cheek.
Freelancer Hassan Eslaiah can be seen in the photo being friendly with Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7 massacre that killed 1,400 Israelis. The photo came to light after HonestReporting, a pro-Israel media watchdog group, published a report Wednesday claiming Eslaiah and other photojournalists were embedded with Hamas terrorists on the day they attacked Israel last month.
And holding a hand grenade on a motorcycle on the way to the 10/7 massacre:
In accordance with the prophecy:
PROPAGANDA WORKS:
Have you noticed that Republicans have been losing a lot lately?
This, in an environment where most Americans think that Democrats are screwing up the country. Why do you think that is?
Sure, hatred of Trump has something to do with it. Abortion politics has something to do with it. A lot, actually. Each of you can name an issue where Republicans are in bad odor with ordinary people, but add them all together and one thing becomes clear: propaganda works.
Why is Trump so unpopular? Was it because things got worse under his presidency? Uh, yeah, no. Things got immeasurably better, and even a lot of people who hate him will say that.
Is abortion such a drag on Republican prospects because people don’t agree that late term abortions are immoral, except in extreme circumstances? That’s not what the polls say.
Why do people think Republicans are all-in on banning books? Has anybody suggested making the publishing of any books illegal? Of course not. Democrats actively campaign to prevent the publication or sale of books they don’t like, but Republicans don’t.
So what is it?
It is the steady drumbeat of propaganda portraying Republicans as Nazi White Supremacists who want to force 11 year-olds to birth babies, schoolmarms who hate gays, and White Supremacists who hunt minorities in the dead of night. We wanted to kill grandma and deserved to be put in camps.
You can’t escape the propaganda. It is everywhere. In the schools, in the classrooms, on every university campus, and in the MSM.
And it works. I had a conversation with a friend who hates Trump and asked him what Trump actually did to make his life worse, and he stared at me. He is Trump!
January 6. Russia. Muh democracy. Orange man bad!
Honestly, he admitted things were better under Trump, but he bought every lie the Left pushed about Trump. The propaganda worked.
I remember when “serious” figures on the right mocked some of us for our alleged obsession with media bias.
LEFTISTS DEMAND THAT YOU TOLERATE THEM. THEY DO NOT RETURN THE COURTESY:
BREAKING:
Anti-Israel protesters are physically attacking Jews attending a screening of the Oct. 7th Hamas Massacre organized by actress Gal Gadot at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 9, 2023
THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR IS BACK (ALTHOUGH IT NEVER REALLY WENT AWAY): Brazil nabs Hezbollah operatives said to be planning attacks on Jews. “This counterterrorism operation has already led to the apprehension of two individuals in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state and home to the biggest local Jewish community. One was apprehended at Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport having just landed from Lebanon.”
YOU CAN’T “PRETEND” AWAY SEVERE DISABILITY: Amy S.F. Lutz is talking sense over at WaPo: It is asinine to pretend that a severely autistic adult could waltz into a job that pays minimum wage or better if only the special Section 14c program, which allows them to be hired for less, were eliminated. They will be unemployable.
This program doesn’t “take advantage” of severely disabled individuals for profit. Overwhelming the 14c certificates an employer needs to participate in the program are held by non-profit community rehabilitation organizations. They are just trying to give severely disabled individuals a little dignity (and their parents a little break.) The 14c program is overwhelmingly supported by the parents of the severely disabled.
I dissented from the report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that Lutz rightly criticizes. If you haven’t done so already, please take a look at that dissent. Send it or the Lutz article to your favorite state legislator. I don’t think I get frustrated all that easily. But when red state legislators don’t get this and prohibit the program in their state (as some have done), I start wanting to bang my head against the wall … which could eventually make me unemployable.
100 MILLION BROKEN EGGS AND NOT A SINGLE OMELET: Victims of Communism Memorial Day.
BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: Credit card balances spiked in the third quarter to a $1.08 trillion record. “Steadily, persistently higher prices have caused consumers to spend down their savings and increasingly turn to credit cards to make ends meet.”
BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION ARE EVERYWHERE: Kendi’s ‘Antiracist’ center mostly fired black and Latino employees: analysis.
DOES HE UNDERSTAND ANYTHING? Does Joe Biden Understand He Did Anything Wrong?
HMM: Dick Morris to Newsmax: Biden Will Drop Out Before Convention.
Best-selling author Dick Morris, a current adviser for President Donald Trump, predicted Wednesday on Newsmax that while President Joe Biden will remain in the primary elections, a different person will end up getting the nomination at the Democratic National Convention when he drops out of the race.
According to the theory, Morris told “Wake Up America” he developed with his friend, pollster John McLaughlin, Biden would run in all the primary elections, and being largely unopposed, he’ll get the delegates for the convention.
“They will keep them until a few days before the convention and then he would announce he’s not running, release his delegates, and there would be a floor fight for the nomination,” Morris said. “But at least there wouldn’t be a long primary battle.”
On the one hand, a floor fight would solve the can’t-get-rid-of-Kamala problem and high-level Dems have made it known they think Biden needs to step aside. On the other hand, Morris says a lot of wild stuff that makes for entertaining news but maybe not-so-great predictions.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: House Republicans Want to Chat With Some of the Biden Crime Family. “While it is unclear where any of this will lead, it is refreshing to see the Red Trickle Majority in the House doing what it can to figure out how the extended Biden clan keeps getting its grubby paws on so much foreign cash.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: BaoFeng BF-88A Walkie Talkies for Adults. #CommissionEarned