I COULD CARVE A BETTER BACKBONE OUT OF A BANANA: Brown University caves to pro-Hamas mob, promises to consider cutting ties with Jewish State: Students who violated the school’s rules and regulations will ‘not be subject to suspension or expulsion, provided they abide by the terms of the agreement.’
Hey, they just disrupted campus and destroyed university property — it’s not like they were a fraternity that served a 20 year old a can of Keystone Light.
ARI ARMSTRONG: Colorado at the precipice.
To some degree, the sometime-libertarian Polis checks the hard-left contingency of his party. He uses threats of vetoes to does some arm-twisting upfront to limit the number of horrible bills begging for his signature. And once in a while he does veto an especially bad bill.
Here is the problem. Polis is term-limited out in two years. Republican leaders busy themselves, like vultures, with picking clean the bones of their party. The Democrats’ strongest candidate probably is Phil Weiser, the central-planner wannabe who proudly endorses Democratic Socialists and gleefully harasses Colorado businesses for not operating the way he thinks they should.
Do you think someone like Weiser is going to oppose or veto a single bill from the socialist wing of his party? Ha! He’s going to cheerlead such bills from the starting line.
Democratic Socialists and their fellow travelers never will say that producers are taxed and regulated enough. However many controls they impose, they will always want to impose more. Whatever problems they find or imagine in society, they will always find a way to blame owners of businesses and properties. However much harm government does through poorly conceived interventions, they will steadfastly imagine more power in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats as the solution to what troubles us.
But here’s the thing. There is no Berlin Wall keeping businesses and liberty lovers from fleeing the state. California has become a net out-migration state, and the socialistic Progressives seem determined to drive Colorado down the same path. Colorado’s geese who lay the golden eggs do not have to place their necks on the chopping block; they can fly to somewhere like Texas. Once Colorado starts to spiral downward, the trend may become irreversible.
Flashback to 2014: Magpul Moving Headquarters to Texas Over Colorado Gun Laws.
Magpul should have been the canary in the coal mine but all their departure did was make Democrats hungry for more.
YES, IT IS:
This is very bad. https://t.co/8AG4lfKPNj
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 3, 2024
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Donald Trump Had a Better Week Than Joe Biden Did. “The plan, no doubt, was to have Joe Biden safely tucked away from the spotlight in a modified basement strategy, hiding behind the news of Trump being in court and finally having the walls close in on him. The lawfare abuse was intended to distract from the fact that Joe Biden is the worst president in United States history.”
PITHY:
Watching woke spoiled brats destroy their indoctrination centers is hilarious.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 30, 2024
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JOSH BARRO: Stop Letting Histrionic Children Drive Our Politics. “I cannot believe this emotionally incontinent young person and his friends are driving a national news cycle. Perhaps I am just especially used to people saying nasty things to me online,3 but I can’t even believe they were able to drive a shift to virtual classes at Columbia. I think these protests could have been 90% less disruptive if the protesters’ detractors had reacted with less fear and more disdain, working harder to ignore these people as they preen about their “liberated zones,” which aren’t even very large. These protesters are the sort of people who are terrified of bananas and banana vapor, and some of them aren’t even lying when they say the reason they wear masks outside is that they’re afraid of COVID. Letting them scare you away gives them too much credit; brushing them off is a sign of maturity and should be encouraged.”
Alinsky’s Rule 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
SHE’S AMUSING AND DELIGHTFULLY FREE OF MANY LEFTIST PIETIES, BUT I DON’T WANT HER A HEARTBEAT FROM THE PRESIDENCY: Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump’s Best Choice as a Running Mate.
ICYMI: SHE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:
These are the chads I would have rolled my eyes at in college for yelling at my friends and I to show them our boobs while we ran by their houses and now they’re … our last line of sanity. https://t.co/SsQvovRm7P
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) May 1, 2024
And you know what looks prophetic? Anthony Bradley’s book from last year, Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America.
UPDATE:
Free Palestine activists just tried to pull off a protest on the Ole Miss campus. It didn't go according to plan. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Lj3szEyzRe
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 2, 2024
OF COURSE NOT: Outside Instigators: Nearly Half of Those Arrested at Columbia and CCNY Were Not Students. Lisa Fithian was involved in a lot of Black Lives Matter’s “spontaneous” protests too, if I recall correctly.
ALL PART OF THE PLAN FOR AMERICA: Salena Zito: Steel plant falls in West Virginia, but no one hears a sound. “The question is why? The answer is simple: They have no political power. The plant is in West Virginia, which has a small population, with no major political figure nor any major industrial figure to lobby for them. This is what happens when your lives are expendable to the rich and powerful.”
STANDING UP TO HATRED AND ITS ENABLERS: Jewish UCLA Student Says Pro-Hamas Encampment Was Never Peaceful, Calls Out School’s Antisemitism. “This was never peaceful. Jews were not allowed to go into the campus. Jews were not allowed to go into the library. Jews were not allowed to go to classes. It was never peaceful. They’re vandalizing the entire quad.”
HE WAS JUST CHANNELING AL FRANKEN AND BILL CLINTON: Sexual Violence Prevention Association Slams Dem Rep Eric Sorensen Over Rape Joke: Illinois Democrat’s rape joke ‘disgusting and disgraceful.’
JOE BIDEN, RESTORING AMERICA’S STRENGTH ABROAD: Russian troops enter base housing US military in Niger, US official says. “The U.S. and its allies have been forced to move troops out of a number of African countries following coups that brought to power groups eager to distance themselves from Western governments. In addition to the impending departure from Niger, U.S. troops have also left Chad in recent days, while French forces have been kicked out of Mali and Burkina Faso.”
HAMAS’S SECOND FRONT: Iranian Professor’s Chilling Words on American protests: “We Like What We See.”
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Unredactions Reveal Early White House Involvement in Trump Documents Case.
IF WE’RE GOING TO EXPLORE WHY ALEC BALDWIN CALLS ANYBODY AN A-HOLE WE’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER INTERNET: Why Alec Baldwin blatantly called Paul McCartney an ‘a–hole’.
LAWFARE WORKS BOTH WAYS: Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the filing of a lawsuit by victims of Hamas’ October 7 Massacre in Israel against two of the radical Pro-Palestine “student” groups fomenting chaos on U.S. campuses.
“The suit marks the first time terror victims are taking aim at campus anti-Israel groups for their alleged role in bolstering Hamas propaganda on campus and driving a series of increasingly violent protests that have endangered Jewish college students across the country,” according to Kredo.
Every contributed dollar these radical groups get from George Soros that is diverted to legal defense is one less dollar to pay for the agitators, equipment, printing, transportation, etc. etc. required to stage the kind of coordinated madness seen on dozens of campuses for the past two weeks.
TRUTH-IN-LABELLING: HE’S NOT PRO-HAMAS, HE’S ANTI-ISRAEL: Anti-Israel protester arrested at Columbia, CUNY raids declared Oct. 7 Hamas attack one of the ‘greatest days of my life’.
He’s also anti-humanity, decency and civilization.
IT’S ALL A SINECURE FOR THE PARTY OF GOVERNMENT’S LEGIONS: Billions blown on a regiment of regulators.
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