THE BREXIT PARTY ON 29 SEATS ARE NOW THE LARGEST SINGLE PARTY IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.
So naturally, it’s deja deep state all over again: EU fraud watchdog considering Nigel Farage investigation.
Archive for 2019
May 26, 2019
COLLUSION IN NEW ZEALAND: China’s communists fund Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party: What the United States Congress was told.
Weird that that party supports censorship, disarming citizens, etc.
REPORT: DECLASSIFIED DOCS WILL SHOW THAT SAMANTHA POWER’S 2016 UNMASKING EFFORTS WERE RELATED TO ISRAEL: “According to a December 2015 Politico report: ‘One senior U.S. official described the discovery of the swept-up communication as an ‘Oh s— moment’ and feared that the executive branch would be accused of spying on Congress.’ Gee, ya think?”
OUT ON TUESDAY: My The Social Media Upheaval.
AS ANDREW SULLIVAN SAYS, THE POPULIST RIGHT IS WINNING EVERYWHERE THESE DAYS: Massive Victory for Conservative Nationalists in European Elections.
A #METOO PROBLEM for Martin Luther King? This is David Garrow’s research: “King’s philandering has long been suspected, however Garrow, who spent several months digging through the archive material, said he had no idea of the scale or the ugliness of it and his apparent indifference to rape until he saw the files.”
On the other hand, the FBI has lately shown itself willing to accept extremely thin stories that support its desire to smear popular leaders it dislikes.
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WHO IS BORIS JOHNSON, THE MAN POISED TO BE THE NEXT BRITISH LEADER? NBC dubs him “one of the most divisive political figures in the United Kingdom,” (as if the same thing couldn’t be written about Jeremy Corbyn), which means he’s angering all the right (read: left) people.
He also posted a pretty good time during his turn on Top Gear’s “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” segment, so he’s got that going for him as well, which is nice.
ARE YOUNG AMERICAN JEWS MORE SUPPORTIVE OF TRUMP THAN YOUNG AMERICANS IN GENERAL?: Some surprising news from the world of politics: An outfit called the Jewish Electorate Institute conducted a survey of American Jews’ attitudes on politics. The resulting headline was that American Jews prioritize domestic issues over Israel, which wasn’t a surprise to anyone who pays attention to such things.
Much more surprising, and not in the headlines, was that the survey found that 31% of Jews under 30 (and at least 18) approve of President Trump, higher than any other Jewish age demographic except for slightly higher approval among millenials. But wait, there’s more.
The summary published by the JEI mysteriously excludes Orthodox Jews from its data on Trump approval by age group, but only from the younger cohorts. Thanks to high Orthodox birth rates, Orthodox outreach efforts, and widespread assimilation among the non-Orthodox, Orthodox Jews are a much larger percentage of the younger Jewish cohort than of older Jewish cohorts. 20% is a reasonable estimate of the percentage of American Jews under 30 who are Orthodox. And 57% of Orthodox Jews approve of Trump, but let’s round that up to 60% for the younger cohort, since younger Jews in general are more approving of Trump. That means approximately 37% of American Jews under 30 approve of Trump. By contrast, a recent poll showed that only 33% of Americans ages 15-34 approve of Trump.
If true, this would be especially remarkable because young American Jews tend to not be “religious” and live in coastal urban areas, two demographic indicators that strongly predict hostility to Trump.
Of course, the JEI poll needs to be confirmed by other data. But I should note that JEI hired the Greenberg firm, a liberal Democratic polling outfit, to do its polling, so there was no incentive to exaggerate support for Trump.
OPEN THREAD: Make merry in the comments.
CNN LAYS OFF ALMOST ENTIRE DIVISION, SURPRISES EMPLOYEES AS ‘CRAZY RUMOR’ COMES TRUE.
Think of it as CNN reducing their carbon footprint to help advance the goals of the Green New Deal.
THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: “Gaming Disorder” Now A Recognized Illness According To World Health Organization.
“THAT SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE A COUP AND IT COULD WELL BE TREASON:” Liz Cheney defends AG Barr investigation at the House of Stephanopoulos.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: German government warns Jews not to wear skullcaps for their own safety.
AT AMAZON, save in Dining and Entertaining.
THE EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS ARE A HUMILIATION FOR MACRON: “Today, after six months of civil disorder, with a president seemingly incapable of communicating with ordinary voters, Macron is humiliated, although his tame media will try to spin it was less bad than it might have been. The bottom line though is that he has failed to renew his mandate and that fewer than a quarter of French voters support him. Macron is now is a world of pain. His clumsy national debate in which he never stopped talking, his ham-fisted response to the Gilets Jaunes, his failure to address the national economic crisis, his estrangement from Germany, his aggression towards the UK, have left him practically friendless.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN ECO-HYPOCRISY: Canadian Green Party Leader Elizabeth May parades in a gas-guzzling 1994 Dodge Viper but wants Canadians to switch to electric vehicles.
As Glenn likes to say, I’ll believe that global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves.
(Via Small Dead Animals.)
ROGER KIMBALL: Let’s Call the Russian Collusion ‘Hoax’ What it Really Is.
Perhaps the best way of summarizing my disagreement is by suggesting an alternative to the word “hoax.” It’s not a novel suggestion.
On the contrary, it’s often been used in concert with or as a synonym for “hoax.” But I think it is a better word in this context because it expresses the malign intention behind the multifarious activities directed against candidate Trump and then President Trump. The word I have in mind is “coup.”
Again, I know that that is a dramatic, maybe a melodramatic, word. But I think it accurately expresses the deliberate effort by actors in the Obama Administration, including by President Obama himself, to assure Hillary Clinton’s victory by destroying the reputation of Donald Trump. “Most Presidents leave office,” the commentator L. J. Keith recently wrote, “and essentially step back from public life. Not Barack Obama. Shellshocked by Hillary Clinton’s loss, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and Clinton set in motion a series of events that will forever tar his presidency, and decimate the concept of a peaceful transition of power.”
Read the whole thing.