WELL, YES: Levin: ICC Further Inflamed Jew Hatred — and Biden Is Behind It.

I AGREE THAT THIS IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION: Apparent Suspension of Student Groups at Wisconsin for Pro-Hamas Chalking. “Note that, even if the government could forbid chalking in various places (and it’s not clear whether it can, at least as to public sidewalks), it can’t specially punish chalking that conveys particular views, including advocacy of foreign terrorist organizations and support for violence in foreign conflicts.”

Being pro-Hamas makes you garbage people, but garbage people have free speech rights too.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING IF “HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERING” WAS A SCAM: Amal Clooney Played a Key Role in ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu, Others. “The fact that Israel is accused of crimes against humanity when it is fighting for its survival against the internationally recognized terror organization that massacred Israelis and others on October 7, 2023, is unbelievable. Equating Israel and Hamas is unacceptable. How would any reasonable person argue that Israel is the same as Hamas unless that person was an anti-Israel, anti-Jew antisemitic? Is that a description of Clooney’s wife? . . . Does that mean ISIS is bad but Hamas is not? We truly live in an upside-down world. Israel is a country that values life. Israel goes out of its way to warn civilians in Gaza when attacks are imminent. Israel helps move Gazans to safety and it moves humanitarian aid into Gaza. It is Hamas that hijacks supply trucks while Gazans go without food, water, or other supplies.”

How would the United States have responded to a similar warrant naming FDR in World War Two? That should guide Israel’s response.

PAULA BOLYARD: Ann Coulter: Long COVID ‘Total B.S.’ Made Up by ‘Neurotic Liberal Women.’ “Well, good for you, Ann. I’m glad you haven’t had to deal with the effects of COVID long after being infected by the Wuhan virus. The fact that you don’t know any conservatives who have long COVID is perhaps more a reflection of who you hang out with than anything else. (Yeah, I said ‘Wuhan virus.’ Go ahead and demonetize this column, Google.*)”

It isn’t that Long COVID is a myth but its effects don’t seem to be any worse than those caused by other respiratory infections.

BUT THERE ARE NO GENETICALLY MODIFIED INGREDIENTS, SO THERE’S THAT:  Nightmare ingredients of Bill Gates’s Impossible Burger.

STILL TRUE, I’D SAY: Flashback: Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions, and operate at a lower level than average, according to a new study.

CLOWARD & PIVEN SMILE ON THEIR ACOLYTES:  Immigration, Islam and the deliberate crashing of the welfare system.

ASTRAZENECA, NOT ARIZONA:  Carry on regardless – AZ keeps pushing dodgy vaccines.

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN OR IRREVOCABLE TRUST ARE YOUR (HEIRS) FRIEND:  Elvis Presley’s iconic Graceland to be auctioned amid foreclosure, granddaughter Riley Keough ‘traumatized’.

WELL, THAT WAS PREDICTABLE!   Thieves Targeting EV Charging Stations Across the Nation for Copper.

THE QUESTION IS ALWAYS: WHO WANTS YOU BLACK PILLED? We Are Not ALone.

GOOD MAN!  Jerry Seinfeld Laughs Off Anti-Israel Protesters: ‘Jew-Haters Spice Up the Show!’

SOME POINTS OF SANITY HERE AND THERE:  University of London Professor Loses Racial Discrimination Claim Over a Recommendation of a Local Sushi Restaurant.

AND NONE OF THEM WERE A CONGRATULATIONS CARD, I BET!  NATO, UN, and State Department Offer ‘Condolences’ for Death of Iranian President Raisi.

Or perhaps a very large container of candy, if that ports across cultures to Persians.

I SUSPECT MORE IRANIANS ARE THINKING THIS THAN NOT:  I pray this is the beginning of the end of the Islamic regime and that all Iranians will see the true God.

THIS IS BOKUM FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND FOR IT TO BE TRULY HARMFUL YOU PRACTICALLY NEED TO SHRINK WRAP THE HOUSE AND STOP ALL VENTILATION:  New research shows gas stove emissions contribute to 19,000 deaths annually.

But, hey, sure, we’re supposed to “trust the science” after all the lies they’ve told.

THERE IS NO WAY TO SPIN THIS AS A STUTTER:  BIDEN: “When I was vice president, things were kinda bad during the pandemic…”

AND AGAIN, BEHOLD HOW SHOCKED MY FACE IS:  Testimony of Top Public Health Official During COVID Is Made Public – This Undermines Everything Fauci Said.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Reuters is reporting that most of the aid coming into Gaza from the U.S. military’s pier since Saturday was stolen by Palestinians as it made its journey to the UN’s warehouse in nearby Deir El Balah.

FLASHBACK: That 1938 Feeling.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

ANYTHING YOU PUT ON THAT TELEPROMPTER, RON BURGUNDY WILL READ:

ETHNIC ORIGIN ALERT: Biden ditches the Puerto Rican, Greek and Irish communities, now claims to come from the Jewish community pic.twitter.com/UNmGxCX62l

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 20, 2024

Even the sign language reader seems pretty astonished at Joe’s latest whopper in the above frame capture. Here are flashbacks to some of the Joker’s many other origin stories:

Biden was raised in the Puerto Rican, Greek, Irish, Catholic, Jewish, Italian, Polish, Palestinian, Persian, and Black communities of Delaware. Incredible! pic.twitter.com/O5rX3TYuZi

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 7, 2024

President Peter Lemon Moodring strikes again!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Beyond blueprints: DoD’s commercial space strategy leaves industry wanting more.

ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II: The real story of Bauhaus and the Nazis.

This confluence of competing styles was reflected most of all in architecture. The architecture of the Third Reich is generally regarded as reactionary, but the reality is more complex, and Weimar provides one of the best examples. The city’s monumental Gauforum (which now houses governmental offices, and a sombre museum about slave labour in the Third Reich) is one of the largest surviving buildings of the Nazi era. Its style is traditional but streamlined, a blend of old and new. We’re generally inclined to regard Nazi buildings as ugly because the tyranny which made them was ugly. If only life – and art – were so simple. In fact, a lot of Nazi architecture wasn’t so far removed from modernist styles like Art Deco. Hardly surprising really, when so many Bauhaus architects ended up working for the Nazis.

The work of Bauhaus alumni during the Third Reich demonstrates that a lot of artists, then as now, were actually pretty apolitical, happy to focus on the job in hand rather than fretting about the morals of their paymasters. Yet a good many actively embraced the new regime: 188 joined the Nazi party, 15 joined the SA and 14 joined the SS. One SS man, Bauhaus graduate Fritz Ertl, was one of the designers of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Most Bauhaus biographies are more nuanced. Herbert Bayer, a student and then a teacher at the Bauhaus, designed jolly brochures for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, celebrating the achievements of Hitler’s Reich (he called himself ‘the anonymous favourite of the propaganda minister’). He left Germany in 1937, after his work featured in the Nazis’ infamous ‘Degenerate Art’ show (a crude propagandist display designed to denigrate modern art).

The case of Bauhaus graduate Franz Ehrlich is even more complex. Imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp (a few miles from Weimar) after he was caught producing pamphlets for the Communist underground, he was put to work inside the camp, furnishing the commandant’s office and designing the creepy motto on the camp gates. Inmates did what they had to do to survive and only a fool would dare to judge them, but Ehrlich continued working for the SS at Buchenwald even after he was released.

In his 2015 book, Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany, Jonathan Petropoulos wrote that Bauhauslers far higher up on the school’s food chain than Ehrlich were “unexpectedly” more than a little eager to work with the post-Weimar socialists. and very likely they would have, if only the former art student leading the regime hadn’t so hated modernist aesthetics.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Los Angeles County Officially Celebrates an American Traitor’s Contribution to the Communist Defeat of South Vietnam.

In my experience, there are two Americans, whom most Vietnam veterans regard as the most deserving of utter contempt, if not downright hatred, for their role in connection with the Vietnam war. They are LBJ’s Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara and Jane Fonda.

McNamara earned his well-deserved high standing in any Vietnam veteran’s list of despicable Americans because of his, incompetent micro-management of that war at the highest levels, combined with his egotistical refusal to accept professional military advice.

Hanoi Jane and Los Angeles’ Resolution of support for an American Traitor

Jane Fonda earned her place in the Pantheon of American traitors by giving aid and comfort to the enemy while our men were still fighting and dying, and while prisoners of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton were routinely tortured to force them to meet with visiting American propagandists such as Jane Fonda, Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and other fellow travelers. Despite that record, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution proclaiming “April 30 of each year as Jane Fonda Day.”

As with Earth Day each year, reminding otherwise naive 21st century citizens of Fonda’s early ’70s perfidy isn’t necessarily a bad thing: Jane Fonda’s Vietnam Actions Were Worse Than You Think.