Archive for 2024
December 11, 2024
MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING NANCY MACE OVER TRANSGENDER STANCE:
Capitol Police arrested a man Tuesday night for allegedly assaulting Representative Nancy Mace (R., S.C.) over her steadfast opposition to men using women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill.
James McIntyre, 33, of Illinois was arrested for the alleged incident and is now facing a charge of assaulting a government official. McIntyre’s alleged assault took place at the Rayburn House office building around 6:oo p.m.
“I was physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women. Capitol police have arrested him,” Mace said on X.
“All the violence and threats keep proving our point. Women deserve to be safe,” she added.
“Your threats will not stop my fight for women!”
Before the alleged assault, Mace repeatedly warned about the violent threats she had received from activists over her opposition to allowing males to use women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill. She has accused her political opponents of unsuccessfully attempting to bully her into silence because of her advocacy.
Even as it’s dying, old media will never call out its fellow leftists over their violence:
It will instead offer them cookies – and perhaps much more:
Related: ‘Wanted’ posters calling for violence against health insurance CEOs spotted in New York.
YEAH, THIS IS THEIR REWARD FOR LOYALTY OVER THE LAST 8 YEARS. ENJOY IT.
Hey CEOs of big companies that overwhelmingly support Democrats and leftist causes. Do you see how Hollywood and leftist news are making a hero out of a guy that murdered one of you? Do you see them making him a sex symbol? Do you care about your life or your families?
Stop…— Chris Loesch 𝕏 (@ChrisLoesch) December 11, 2024
Related:
Leftist “wanted"-style posters of health insurance leaders have been posted around New York City after the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and the arrest of suspect Luigi Magione. Read: https://t.co/x3jbMxkVbQ
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 11, 2024
HEATHER MAC DONALD: New York’s Government Is the Real Villain in the Daniel Penny Trial.
Americans who have never ridden a subway can only imagine the fear that grips someone sealed underground when a deeply disturbed person starts to act out. The near-universal reaction is to put one’s head down, avoid eye contact, and rush out of the car when it pulls into the next station. But on May 1, 2023, something archaic occurred: a passenger put his own well-being at risk to protect his fellow riders. Daniel Penny, now 26, stepped up to the screaming Neely, wrapped his arms around him, and took him to the subway floor, with Neely’s body on top of his, until help could arrive at the next station. Neely, who was high on a large dose of synthetic marijuana, subsequently died. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg—he who seeks not to “destroy lives through unnecessary incarceration”—charged Penny with second degree manslaughter—i.e., with recklessly causing the death of another person—and with criminally negligent homicide.
The Penny proceeding was more than a travesty of justice, however. It exemplified two intertwined traits of our time: government’s abandonment of law-abiding citizens in favor of the dysfunctional and antisocial, and the hatred of values associated with white males and the Western civilization that they created.
The Penny-Neely incident was racialized from the onset. News coverage invariably led with Penny’s whiteness and Neely’s blackness. (By contrast, black-on-white attacks are presented in a colorblind fashion on those rare occasions when the media report on them at all. Blacks commit 76 percent of all non-lethal interracial violence between blacks and whites despite being just a fifth of the white population.) New York’s leading race-baiters—Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Al Sharpton—demanded that Penny be prosecuted.
And post-trial: Jamaal Bowman Blames Daniel Penny’s Acquittal on ‘the Evil of White Supremacy.’
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LIKEWISE THE ARGUMENT THAT THE CONSTITUTION IS “FLAWED” OR “OUTDATED” BECAUSE IT WON’T LET YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT. Often it’s designed to stop you from doing that. It’s not flawed, it’s working properly. But leftists don’t believe there are legitimate constraints on their power.
The progressive critique of law was that it's inherently conservative and that's true. The way it ceases to be conservative is by ceasing to be law, while continuing to wield the authority of law. Making this happen has been the work of the last five decades in law schools. https://t.co/vdbOK0RHCw
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 11, 2024
STOCHASTIC TERRORISM IS REAL, IT COMES FROM LEFTIST RHETORIC:
A leftist tried to kill Steve Scalise.
A leftist tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh.
A leftist assaulted Rand Raul.
A leftist tried to assassinate Donald J. Trump. Twice.
A leftist violently assaulted Nancy Mace.
Are you seeing a pattern here?
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) December 11, 2024
NATE COHN: 2024 Review: A Few Misses, but the Polls Got the Big Stories Right.
There’s a decent case that the polls were the best they’ve ever been in 2024.
That’s not necessarily true by the usual measures. When judged against the final results, the polls missed by a more or less average margin. And, worryingly, they systematically underestimated support for Donald J. Trump for the third cycle in a row.
But by a less conventional measure — value more than accuracy — the polls excelled. They were fundamentally right about a surprising and important story about the election — a story we might not have imagined, let alone expected, without them.
As Joseph Campbell tweets in response, “Now that’s a stretch, as #polls understated Trump’s support for third successive election. Not to mention the Iowa Poll misfire and battleground state misses.”
Flashback: Disgraced Pollster Ann Selzer Retires After Iowa Poll Miss.
INEPT OR CORRUPT? THE QUESTION KEEPS COMING UP ABOUT ONCE-RESPECTED INSTITUTIONS.
On Tuesday, the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump released its final official report, determining that there were “failures in the planning, execution, and leadership” of the United States Secret Service (USSS)…https://t.co/68uQoo2Zma
— American Greatness (@theamgreatness) December 11, 2024
ALVIN BRAGG CAN’T BE TRUSTED, PERIOD: Alvin Bragg can’t be trusted to oversee trial of UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect.
THE WEST POINT PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE APPEARS TO BE EITHER INEPT OR DISHONEST. EITHER WAY, IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED NOW.
West Point public affairs lied to ProPublica, wrongly said Pete Hegseth never even applied to the academy.
Hegseth responded with a copy of his 1999 West Point acceptance letter, killing ProPublica's story.
Big error from West Point. https://t.co/sLpFDCoq3F
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) December 11, 2024
FORCE-FED THE RED PILL:
Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) says he attended “absolutely horrifying” meetings where Biden’s government vowed to take “complete control” over AI technology:
“They basically said AI is going to be a game of 2 or 3 big companies working closely with the government… We’re going to… pic.twitter.com/REjkfgJkyV
— Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) December 10, 2024
More:
[Bari Weiss]
What was their argument?[Marc Andreessen]
Why would- Well, it’s more, so this gets into this whole, all these debates around AI safety, AI policy. So there’s sort of several dimensions on it, and I’ll do my best to Steel Man it. So one is just to the extent that this stuff is relevant to the military, which it is, if you draw an analogy between AI and autonomous weapons being the new thing that’s going to determine who wins and loses wars, then you draw an analogy to the, in the Cold War, that was nuclear energy, that was nuclear power, and that was the atomic bomb.And the federal government, the Steel Man would be the federal government didn’t let startups go out and build atomic bombs, right? You had the Manhattan Project and everything was classified, and at least according to them, they classified down to the level of actual mathematics, and they tightly controlled everything and that, and look, that determined a lot of the shape of the world, right? And so there’s that, and then look, there’s the other, that’s part one, and then look, I think part two is there’s the social control aspect to it, which is where the censorship stuff comes right back, which is the exact same dynamic we’ve had with social media censorship and how it’s basically been weaponized and how the government became entwined with social media censorship, which was one of the real scandals of the last decade, and a real problem, like a real constitutional problem, like that is happening at like hyperspeed and AI. And these are the same people who have been using social media censorship against their political enemies.
These are the same people who have been doing debanking against their political enemies, and they basically, I think they want to use AI the same way.
Statists fear what might happen if they don’t have a monopoly on AI which is exactly why they can’t be allowed to have a monopoly on AI.
TODAY IN WAR AND OTHER ABSURDITIES: Putin Doesn’t Stand a Goat of a Chance Without North Korea. “What’s the value of a single North Korean soldier? Would you believe it’s approximately one percent of a goat?”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
Capitol Police has arrested 33-year-old James McIntyre of Illinois after the alleged assault of Rep. @NancyMace on Tuesday.
McIntyre is facing a charge for Assaulting a Government Official according to Capitol Police.
The incident happened shortly before 6 pm in Rayburn. https://t.co/UqvCViMXK9
— Beatrice Peterson (@MissBeaE on all platforms) (@MissBeaE) December 11, 2024
X seems to be the only place where a hate-motivated assault on a serving congresswoman is getting much attention.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
All you have to do is get rid of the commie Left in every country to fix everything fast. https://t.co/jzJkUkfCJs
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 11, 2024
For comparison, core inflation in this country is 2.8% — but maybe the DOGE boys can help with that.
CORRECTION: I missed that 2.7% is Argentina’s *monthly* inflation rate — big difference, and I apologize for the error. Still, our official core inflation rate is manipulated all out of reality, too.
BEEGE WELBORN: Has Winken Blinken Actually Met the New Boss?
Over and over again, the cluelessness of the Biden administration has people’s heads shaking, hitting desks, or simply thrown back in disgusted astonishment.
TELL ME HE DIDN’T SAY THAT
Their complete inability to grasp any given situation was on display again yesterday as our diffident and generally incompetent Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, wandered out to a podium to mumble a few words on the state of the insurgency that had just conquered Syria.
I don’t know what I was expecting from this misbegotten spore off the old White House mushroom, but it most assuredly wasn’t what came out of this idiot’s mouth.
TELL ME HE DIDN’T SAY THAT
Oh, but he did.
God bless America. How many days are left…?
What sort of deluded fool tells the world that the United States thinks it’s a wonderful thing to should be celebrated that, however gratifying it is to see a vile, barbarous dictator meet an ignominious end, that having a radical Islamic terrorist group doing the usurping is somehow ‘better’?
To be fair, the Obama crowd that runs this administration has always had a soft spot for Islamists.
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Hope Trump Isn’t Planning On Much Bipartisanship Next Year. “One doesn’t have to look long or far to find evidence of the American Left’s emotional unwellness.”
CHARLES HUGH SMITH: Grey Swans Are Circling. “A grey swan is an event that is known and possible to happen, but which is assumed to be unlikely to occur. The term derives from Nassim Taleb’s black swan theory, which describes an event that is unlikely but unknown.”
More:
Equally interesting is the mass of propaganda being spewed to cover up the systemic vulnerabilities that might have played a role in the Syrian regime’s collapse. The tsunami of propaganda is intended to bolster the everything is forever narrative, but the enormity and virulence of the propaganda effort suggests the opposite: extreme vulnerability and fear of other regimes that they could be next.
Discussions of what triggered the Western Roman Empire’s collapse shed some light on the ease of embracing an interpretation that misses the mark. Gibbon concluded that Christianity undermined Rome’s coherence; others view Christianity as the alternative structure that enabled Europe to maintain critical coherence in the centuries after Western Rome fell. (The Eastern Roman Empire–the Byzantine Empire–had a different set of circumstances and endured in truncated form for almost a thousand years after Rome fell.)
Moral and social decay are often listed as causal factors, but dismissed by those who see the increasingly capable Barbarian armies as the cause of Rome’s collapse. Others have widened the narrative from war and internal decay to climate change and the ravages of pandemics.
The relevance of all these factors leads to a diagnosis of polycrisis–the collapse cannot be attributed to any one factor but to the confluence of many factors, each of which undermined the status quo’s moral, financial and material bases which fatally destabilized the coherence of the regime’s military and political responses.
From the perspective of polycrisis, the collapse of Syria’s regime could be a harbinger of future collapses, not a one-off event. The reason for this is that many of the keystone/linchpin elements of polycrisis are visibly global in nature: they affect every region and nation-state, regardless of size or location.
As Glenn noted in yesterday’s substack, “one of the virtues of democracy is that it shakes things up, and allows preference cascades that don’t require leaders to be beheaded and masses to be slaughtered.”
Indeed.
One of the less obvious blessings of Trump’s election win last month is that (unlike in 2020) the country’s pressure valve was allowed to function as designed — no gray swans (much less beheadings or slaughters needed) to oust the Democrats. Even better for keeping the gray swans at bay, Trump is serious about undoing the damage done.
Authoritarian regimes like Russia, China, and particularly Iran appear strong right up until the gray swans start circling.