IT’S COME TO THIS:
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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 16, 2024
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January 17, 2024
SURE, THIS WILL WORK: China Goes All In on Green Industry to Jolt Ailing Economy. Nothing boosts your economy like pouring money into unproductive activities.
RAPE IS ONLY IMPORTANT IF YOU CAN USE IT TO ATTACK THE RIGHT, OR TRADITIONAL SEX ROLES. OTHERWISE SUCK IT UP, SISTERS: ‘Bigoted’ Rape Survivors Not Welcome at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Center.
OPEN THREAD: Try to stay warm.
QUELLE HORREUR! Lefty Media Freak Over Conservative Exec Saving Baltimore Sun.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Japan’s SLIM spacecraft lowers orbit ahead of Friday moon landing attempt.
SO MUCH FOR THE BELICHICK ERA IN DALLAS: Mike McCarthy will be back for another season with the Cowboys.
More: “‘I believe this team is very close and capable of achieving our ultimate goals and the best step forward for us will be with Mike McCarthy as our head coach,’ Jerry Jones said in a statement released Wednesday night. ‘There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach.’”
IN CASE ANYONE EVER TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT DEI IS NOT A THREAT TO FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS.
I was on @RisingTheHill w/ @robbysoave & @briebriejoy this morning: https://t.co/AC1hGC3Tbw
— Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) January 17, 2024
We discussed whether DEI administrators are threats to #freespeech on campus — &, well, yes, they are. But it’s not ONLY them. It's administrators & the bureaucratization of higher ed…
I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Experts Confirm: Icelandic Faultline Has Awakened After 800 Years.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Director of California LGBTQ+ center busted in child sex sting.
These graphic anti-Jewish accusations lend visual force to the further demonization of Israel, a process that has been going on for many years now and has become reenergized since Hamas’ assault on Oct. 7. The atrocities that took place on that day should have provoked a sharp sense of horror and outrage. In some, it did. In others, something weirdly akin to elation occurred, and it continues to this day with robust shouts of “Israelis are Nazis,” “Hitler was right,” and “gas the Jews.” Add the formulaic denunciations of Israel as a “racist,” “apartheid,” “settler colonial,” and “genocidal” state unworthy of a future, and we confront questions similar to those provoked by the “swastika epidemic” of 1959-60.
What brought on this wave of open hatred? How long is it likely to last? How much damage will it cause? And what can be done to restrain it and forestall a repeat?
It is too soon to answer all these questions, but the first one may be clarified by what we know about who triggered the events of 1959-60. After the worst of that seemingly spontaneous torrent of raw Jew-hatred subsided, it was discovered that some of the neo-Nazis responsible for the spread of the swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans had been recruited by the KGB, which had launched an ambitious disinformation campaign against West Germany carried out by Soviet secret agents in East Germany. The Russian aim was to expose the newly denazified German state as still incorrigibly infected by Nazi ideology and thereby weaken its alliance with Western nations. For a short time, the operation succeeded, as questions were raised about the true character of West Germany: Was the successor to Hitler’s Germany in fact a liberal democratic state worth supporting or not?
Plus ça change: American multimillionaire couple funds Marxist group coordinating anti-Israel protests.
SMART. “THERE GO THE PIANO LESSONS!” IS AN OLD NEUROSURGEONS’ JOKE. Musician plays guitar while surgeons remove his brain tumor.
MEGYN KELLY: ‘I Can’t Stand the Sense of Entitlement:’ Megyn Slams Employee Who Filmed Herself Getting Laid Off in Viral Video.
Below is a portion of the exchange:
PIETSCH: I disagree that my performance hasn’t been– I haven’t met performance expectations, when I certainly have, just because haven’t closed anything officially.
HR REP: I hear you. Thank you.
PIETSCH: Also, why are you doing this and not my manager? We’ve never met, so this seems a little odd… Yeah, I would love like an explanation that makes sense…
HR REP: Just for clarification, you are not being singled out in this. Your peers are also being collectively assessed on performance. This is a collective calibration for Cloudfare…
PIETSCH: Well, yeah, no, can you explain for me why Brittany Pietsch if getting let go?
HR REP: I won’t be able to go into specifics for numbers.
PIETSCH: Wait, why though? I just started. I’ve been working extremely hard. Just because I haven’t closed anything, that has nothing to do with my performance… And so I really need an answer and an explanation as to why Brittany Pietsch is getting let go not why Cloudflare decided to hire too many people then are now actually realizing that they can’t afford this many people and they’re letting that go. If that’s the real answer, I would rather just you tell me that instead of making up some bullshit… It’s just very, very shocking. Very, very shocking. I have like really given my whole energy and life over the last four months to this job and to be like go for no reason is like a huge slap in the face from a company that I really wanted to believe in…
I have news for Brittany: It’s none of your f–king business. Unless you have an employment contract, I can fire you because I don’t like your ugly sweater. I don’t have to tell you why. Companies often don’t tell you ‘why’ these days because it just sets them up for a lawsuit. If you didn’t sign a deal promising you ongoing employment, you can be fired at any time unless it’s an unlawful reason like your age, your gender, or some other protected class.
You’re not calling the shots here, Brittany. You’re an employee. You don’t get an answer because you’ve demanded it from HR. I am sick of these young, entitled people trying to play the victim when something happens to them. This has happened to all of us in the course of our lives and we used to understand that it sucks, but I go on with my life.
The CEO of Cloudflare is making the rounds and doing plenty of damage control using the therapeutic language the 21st century outrage mob demands, but it will be interesting to see who hires Pietsch after she videotaped her layoff, grandstanded throughout it, and made herself go viral for 15 minutes.
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, JORDAN PETERSON’S NEXT BOOK IS ABOUT TO WRITE ITSELF: “The war has barely started:” A Canadian court ruled against Jordan Peterson on mandated re-education classes but JP says he’s not going down without a fight.
SHOOTING ILLUSTRATED interviews Larry Correia.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG VS. AARON RODGERS: A Tale of Two Media Narratives.
The subject? The Jeffrey Epstein Files
Rodgers, whose NFL season ended on Week One after rupturing his left Achilles tendon, referred to the list’s potential release on McAfee’s show.
“A lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, are hoping that doesn’t come out,” Rodgers said.
Stop the presses!The media went into overdrive, skewering Rodgers for his fact-free suggestion that Kimmel should be personally worried about the contents. Story after story. Outlet after outlet. Kimmel joined the fray, and understandably so, knowing the media machine had his back and he had been personally besmirched.
Finally, McAfee vowed to cut ties with Rodgers following the media melee. One comment from a quarterback caused all of the above.
And, ultimately, Rodgers was wrong. He misused his media pulpit although the punishment hardly fit the “crime.” Even if some of his recent statements were more accurate, that initial comment deserved scrutiny.
Now, let’s see what Goldberg has said in recent days.
On Jan. 8, the “Sister Act” star ranted against the usual suspects – Donald Trump and the GOP in toto.
You’re worried that you can’t pay your bill? Wait until the other guy becomes president, and you won’t have to worry about it because you’ll be in some camp somewhere because that’s his promise. His promise to us is he’s going to force people to do his bidding. That’s what he said. I’m going to be good on day one, and I’m going to turn into this other person.
She wasn’t done.
And the hits keep coming at the long-running highly-factual ABC News show: Joy Behar slams Gen Zers who complain they’re ‘left behind’ by the economy: ‘Boo-hoo,’ get a job.
“Every single thing you see is anti-aging, don’t actually look the way that you are,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed. “No one’s actually body positive.”
“They are not hitting the milestones the way every generation before them did,” added Griffin. “They’re owning homes at a lower rate, this is wild. Forty-five percent of people between 18 to 29 still live with their parents.”
“They feel left behind by the economy, and they also see everybody trying to not age,” Griffin, 34, said.
Though Griffin’s comments were backed by fellow co-hosts Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin, Behar was left unmoved.
“Oh please, get a job,” Behar, 81, said dismissively. “There’s a million job openings in this country. Get a job.”
Paris Hilton, to the white courtesy phone, please!
READER FAVORITE: Alimens & Gentle Mens Solid Oxford Shirt Long Sleeve. #CommissionEarned
HOLLYWOOD KEEPS REMINDING US WHY WE NEED PHYSICAL MEDIA MORE THAN EVER:
As mentioned previously, Paramount+ has incurred the wrath of sci-fi nerds by taking down the first 10 Star Trek films and moving them over to Max. Trek may be one of Paramount’s most popular franchises, but it appears the studio is not above licensing it out to other platforms, even if it undermines their own. This is not the only instance of Paramount allowing Star Trek media to spill away from “the home of Star Trek.” Last year, Paramount canceled the children-oriented show Star Trek: Prodigy after one season and removed it from the service. The show eventually moved to Netflix, where a second season was assured. Sure, the Star Trek movies will likely wind up back on Paramount+ eventually, but even then it can’t be the definitive place to watch everything from the franchise.
Even if Star Trek isn’t your bag, there are other examples. Disney+ took over distribution for new seasons of Doctor Who outside the UK, with their tenure starting with three specials starring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. But the previous revival seasons are on Max, and if you want to delve into the (26!) seasons of classic Who, then I hope you know what BritBox is. Speaking of British sensations, Amazon may have purchased MGM, but are all of the James Bond movies on Prime? Not quite. These are wildly popular franchises with massive back catalogs, exactly the sort of thing streaming was supposed to make it easy to watch in one go. Instead, audiences have to go digging through “where you can watch” articles and hope nothing changes by the time they can get through it all.
To be fair, Amazon, much like HBO-Max before them, may simply be protecting delicate young audiences from themselves: James Bond slapped with ‘trigger warning’ as modern audiences warned 007 franchise may ’cause offense.’
Your dad or granddad went through WWII; nothing he saw 007 do on a big screen in 1966 was going to phase him. Today’s “modern audiences” are infinitely more fragile.
ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: Police in Elyria, OH Toss Destructive Devices At Wrong Home, Injuring Baby.
THE ONLY DOWNSIDE TO WINNING THE COLD WAR PEACEFULLY WAS THAT RUSSIA WAS NEVER DECOMMUNIZED THE WAY GERMANY WAS DENAZIFIED: Russia’s Creeping Rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: I Know Exactly Who Trump (Shouldn’t) Pick for Veep.