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Archive for 2024
June 20, 2024
THE PEOPLE WHO MOST OWE APOLOGIES RARELY DELIVER THEM: Greta & Co: An apology.
LUXURY BELIEFS ALWAYS HIT THE POOR FIRST AND HARDEST: The tragedy of Net Zero for the world’s poor.
THE WOMAN IS AN IDIOT STUDYING TO BE A MORON: V.P. Office Releases Cringey Video of Kamala Harris Meeting With ‘Queer Eye’ Cast Members.
WHEN EVERYBODY’S OUT OF STEP BUT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS: The myth of the ‘far right surge’ in Europe.
IT’S NOT AS IF IT WERE ANYTHING MORE THAN A PR STUNT: Remember Biden’s Failed $230M Humanitarian Pier in Gaza? Well…
THEY ARE SCARED OF A LITERATE POPULACE FOR ONE: How you know they’re scared of homeschooling.
And today is the last day of Tilting At Windmills sale for instapundit readers.
June 19, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Have fun, kids!
READER BOOK PLUG: Now out from Roger von Oech: A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative. Revised and updated and just out.
THE HORROR, THE HORROR: What They’ve Done to Star Wars, They’re Trying to Do to America.
Injecting lesbian sex into the origin story of the Star Wars franchise is the Bud Light debacle on crystal meth. Anybody could tell you that.
But Kathleen Kennedy, who has destroyed not just Star Wars but the Indiana Jones franchise as well from her perch atop Lucasfilm, can’t tell you that.
Amid unmitigatedly awful reviews by the public of The Acolyte — last I checked it was sitting at a 16 percent audience score at Rotten Tomatoes — Kennedy is now making the rounds not to apologize for the damage she’s done but instead to…
I think a lot of the women who step into Star Wars struggle with [toxic fandom attacks] a bit more. […] Because of the fan base being so male dominated, they sometimes get attacked in ways that can be quite personal…. Operating within these giant franchises now, with social media and the level of expectation — it’s terrifying.
Here’s an interesting thought experiment Kathleen Kennedy won’t undertake: someone puts you in charge of making and selling a product which has a well-defined, very loyal, and quite lucrative customer base, and you decide to change the product into something completely different which intuitively will not appeal to that customer base. And the result is that the customer base angrily refuses to buy your product.
Who do you think is at fault here?
Blaming the market for your failure to succeed in it has never, in the entire history of the market, produced positive results.
Disney won’t fire Kathleen Kennedy. It’s almost too late to fire her. She’s done so much damage that the rot has completely consumed its host.
It was necessary to destroy the franchise in order to save it.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA, Boeing delay Starliner astronaut landing to June 26 amid thruster issues.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Some Blacks on Social Media Don’t Want White People Celebrating Juneteenth.
There are too many to list, but all show an unbridled prejudice and racial bigotry by black people toward white people. After what was supposed to be a racial reckoning, at a time when the ideas of diversity and inclusion have become an integral part of society, there is a significant amount of anti-white bigotry that exists in this country that regularly gets ignored.
The kind of racist comments made above would cause significant controversy if they were made by white people talking about black people. The same should hold when it is black people talking about white people. Decades of radical indoctrination in schools and other cultural institutions in society have taught many black people to be resentful and hateful toward white people for something that happened over 150 years ago that affected no one living today. It’s indicative of just how radicalized many in the country have become.
White people should not be made to feel guilty or be the victims of resentment over things people did decades and centuries ago. Such rhetoric does nothing to promote racial equality.
It’s more than slavery, as the people supporting reparations like to point out. There’s an ongoing, 150-year, “systematic” racial bias, white privilege, unequal opportunity, Jim Crow, and racial oppression that needs to be dealt with. But you can’t assign guilt based solely on race. It turns the entire concept of “guilt” on its head.
Reparations and bribes won’t solve it. An apology by white people would be ludicrous. History is “history” for a reason: It’s in the past. Trying to elicit feelings of guilt from people who weren’t alive at the time that blacks were enslaved and who never consciously participated in any kind of black oppression is wrong.
Indeed.
SOD OFF SWAMPY: Climate Activists Vandalize Stonehenge with Spray Paint.
Supporters of the climate-activism organization Just Stop Oil sprayed paint on World Heritage Site Stonehenge and were arrested on Wednesday, just before thousands are expected to visit the historic structures for the summer solstice.
“Today’s action has come days after the Labour party’s manifesto has recommitted them to stopping all future licences for new oil and gas, should they form the next government,” reads a statement by Just Stop Oil. The United Kingdom will hold a general election on July 4, 2024.
Niamh Lynch, a 21-year-old undergraduate student at Oxford University, and Rajan Naidu, 73, began spraying orange powder paint on Stonehenge around noon, according to a press release by Just Stop Oil. The Wiltshire Police arrived at Stonehenge and arrested these two individuals on suspicion of damaging the ancient monument. In 2022, Naidu was one of 51 Just Stop Oil campaigners who was arrested for breach of an injunction, and because it was his third breach of the injunction, he was sentenced to 34 days in prison.
“Continuing to burn coal, oil and gas will result in the death of millions. We have to come together to defend humanity or we risk everything,” a spokesperson for Just Stop Oil said in a statement. “That’s why Just Stop Oil is demanding that our next government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.”
Video footage released by GB News shows bystanders grabbing the two demonstrators and attempting to seize the spray-paint cans.
Related: ‘Expect a Prison Sentence:’ Climate Goons Vandalize Stonehenge; May FINALLY Face Consequences.
Do they realize that they're the worst thing that's ever happened to "environmentalism"?
— Chow (@ChowRabbit) June 19, 2024
Or as the Onion headline went, a million years ago when it was still funny: Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years.
To be fair though, the meeting of Stonehenge and eco-loons is a perfect confluence, given that modern environmentalism is a pagan religion.
Exit quote:
Defacing Stone Henge is an assault on all humanity. It is absolutely disgusting behaviour from pathetic narcissistic morons.
— Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) June 19, 2024
When the son of John and Yoko are calling you “narcissistic morons,” it might be time to dial it back a few thousand notches.
QED:
It's like watching a 2 year old draw on the wall with Crayon pic.twitter.com/d2KMXIobKC
— 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕤 𝑜𝓃 𝕏 💭 (@thesonofbran) June 19, 2024
UPDATE: ‘You Look Exactly How I Would Imagine You’d Look — Stop Oil Trust Fund Dweeb Reveals Himself.
AI prompt: please create a video the most ludicrous possible trust fund poetry major from a family of posh British twits https://t.co/bMEa7as8XD
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 19, 2024
THE GASLIGHTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: You Do Know That Joe Biden’s Dementia Is 2024’s Hunter Laptop, Right?
In trying to cast doubt on the authenticity of the G7 and Hollywood fundraiser videos, [Rhona Tarrant, CBS’s resident “disinformation expert”] suggests that viral videos where Biden bumbles through sentences are also manipulated.
[CBS’s Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes], for her part, repeatedly wonders out loud about the impact these videos might have on the election. The end goal, as always, is to Protect the Precious.
In their collective firefighting against the cognitive decline videos, the Regime Media have gone far beyond obsequiousness and servility- descending into outright Orwellianism. The Media have taken on the role of The Party as depicted in George Orwell’s 1984, and like The Party, they now command you to “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears”.
It is very clear that the Regime Media thinks Biden needs to be protected from the impact of the endless flow of videos documenting his mental decline. And in so doing, they have signaled they will pull out all the stops. Just like they did in 2020, when Biden needed to be protected from Hunter’s laptop. Biden’s ongoing and well-documented cognitive decline is the 2024 version of Hunter’s laptop.
But Hunter’s laptop required a certain connect-the-dots ability by the public to understand. In sharp contrast, while Joe has never been the sharpest intellect in politics, we’ve all seen his decline in recent years:
But it’s CBS, and getting caught gaslighting their viewers is pretty on-brand for them. QED: WHOOPS! CBS News Explains Why ‘Wrong Version of a Video’ Was Removed From Biden ‘Cheap Fake’ Hackery.
CBS news edited the unaltered video to prove Republicans were editing videos https://t.co/2jdf2MMsFO
— Chris G (@ChrisGThree4) June 19, 2024
FUNNY, WHEN PEOPLE PREDICTED THIS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF OPEN IMMIGRATION THEY WERE CALLED BIGOTS: You Won’t Be Surprised to Learn What Group Is Responsible for Over 3/4 of Rapes in Paris.
THE EV BUBBLE DEFLATES: What’s Next for EVs as Market Turns Murky?
THE POLICE AREN’T THERE TO PROTECT CITIZENS FROM CRIMINALS, THEY’RE THERE TO PROTECT CRIMINALS FROM CITIZENS: Supporting Criminals? Chicago Tribune Frets Over Citizens Defending Themselves.
If police won’t defend citizens, citizens will.
“DESCENDS?” THAT’S BEEN HIS STATE FOR QUITE SOME TIME: Bowman Descends Into Lunacy.
He’s losing his mind,” Jon Lovitz’s character says in The Wedding Singer while watching his rival experience an emotional breakdown. “And I’m reaping all the benefits.”
I suppose that’s how George Latimer is feeling right now.
Latimer, the Westchester County executive and former New York state senator, is running against incumbent Jamaal Bowman in his district’s Democratic House primary next week. When Latimer first entered the race, his sanity relative to his rival’s eccentricity was the subtext of the campaign. Now it should be the text.
Bowman is the squadnik whose anti-Semitic obsessions have occasionally culminated in semi-violent fantasies about Israelis. From a policy perspective, Bowman has turned against funding for Iron Dome—a purely defensive system—and the Abraham Accords, which expanded normalization with the Arab world and increased Jewish integration in formerly hostile countries. He is against every instrument of peace and every expression of American allyship with our fellow democracy.
In other words, his voting record contains no redeeming qualities whatsoever. No one loses anything by Bowman getting booted from Congress.
But of course it goes beyond policy. Temperament-wise, Bowman is volatile. He was recently censured—a rather serious reprimand in the House—for trying to disrupt congressional business by pulling a fire alarm and then lying about it, even though the whole fiasco was on video. (Does Jamaal Bowman not think Congress has security cameras?)
As Bowman spins out, he keeps losing backers, such as the left-wing J Street and the progressive erstwhile ally Mondaire Jones. And so he has doubled down on whoever’s left in his camp, which he assumes to be exclusively made up of rabid anti-Semites.
His rhetoric has become indistinguishable from that of the Ayatollah Khamenei. Recently he was caught on video saying to a crowd of supporters: “Because I am fighting against genocide, I am being attacked by the Zionist regime we call AIPAC.”
A conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, Bowman can be seen ranting that the documented rape of Israelis on Oct. 7 by Hamas is made-up “propaganda.”
As Steve wrote last month, “Aside from CIA time travel, secret frequencies, and alien technology — plus his previously known predilection for terrorists, antisemites, and democratic socialism — Bowman seems like a perfectly reasonable fellow.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Why Did the White House Allegedly Kill an Anti-Corruption Bill? You Know Why! “Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) joined forces — and lined up the necessary votes — to push the bill forward. Then three Democrats did an about-face and pulled their support.”
THE SELF-IMMOLATION OF THE WASHINGTON POST:
The Washington Post has made several attempts to stanch the bleeding, including cutting its outlook section and offering mass buyouts for veteran staff. As Lewis told the newsroom, the Washington Post must “take decisive, urgent action to set us on a different path.” Part of that action will include setting up a “third newsroom” whose purpose, an internal memo said, “is to give millions of Americans — who feel traditional news is not for them but still want to be kept informed — compelling, exciting, and accurate news where they are and in the style that they want.”
However, as the old D.C. saw goes, personnel is policy. And in key respects, the Washington Post has ceased to offer “traditional news.” The newspaper has become so widely out of step with popular opinion in the United States, as well as common decency, basis in evidence, and an attachment to common sense and self-correction and critique. Nowhere is this truer of the Washington Post’s coverage than on Middle Eastern affairs, where the paper suggests the half-true slogan “go woke, go broke,” might be modified to “go Hamas, go homeless.” (“Go Khomeini, get no money”? Look, puns are hard. But the analysis holds.) WaPo’s coverage of the Israel-Islamist conflict, including the recent war against Hamas and other Iranian proxies, provides a harrowing look at how fringe the Washington Post has become.
On Oct. 7, 2023 — when Hamas terrorists, other Iranian proxies, and ad hoc groups of Gazans invaded Israel and murdered over 1,200 people, taking 240, including Americans, hostage, and beginning an attack that continues in the form of rocket barrages to this day — the Washington Post and its staff stood at the ready to put their resources and energies to work on the wrong side, the side that terms the country where the Washington Post is headquartered “the Great Satan.”
Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah “liked” and shared a post praising the attacks as “decolonization.” She later penned a column drawing equivalency between the pogromists of today and their victims. Prior to Israel’s response, Attiah warned that Jerusalem was about to commit an “atrocity.” She has since accused the Jewish state of “genocide” — overlooking numerous steps Israel has taken to reduce civilian casualties, including some of the largest evacuations of civilians ever undertaken in urban combat.
Related: Washington Post Foreign Desk, Accused of Pro-Hamas Bias, Teems with Al Jazeera Veterans. Six members of the Washington Post’s foreign desk previously wrote for Al Jazeera.
CHANGE: One Million Gun Sales for 58 Months Straight.
Well, okay, it’s not much of a change.