AS SURELY AS NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY: Leftists Come Out in Support of Hamas Massacres, Send Money to Palestinians.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 9, 2023
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Lighter Side of Ethnic Cleansing. “We have to go through some dark places in today’s column, so please forgive the attention-grabbing headline.”
THE POSTMODERN LEFT LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE PREMODERN TRIBAL WARFARE: WaPo Columnist Celebrates Anti-Jew Terrorism As Exactly What ‘Decolonization’ Means.
Attiah boasted that she is the real deal, not someone who uses the terms as vague platitudes. “I studied race construction, human rights and global anti-colonial resistance in college and grad school,” she wrote. “Honey, we did the scholarship way before it was ‘cool.’”
She reposted on X: “Liberation, self-determination, and peace for all oppressed + colonized people. That’s my politics.”
She celebrated that what once got media personalities banned from TV is becoming OK to say.
From X:
“Winning” is slaughtering innocents.
UPDATE: She doesn’t realize it, but she’s helping boost support for “recolonization.”
SUPPORTERS OF TERROR FALL UNDER ‘TWANLOC’: Protestors Clash in the U.S., Synagogues Threatened Following Hamas Attack.
PRIVACY: 23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped.
Genetic profiling service 23andMe has commenced an investigation after private user data was scraped off its website
Friday’s confirmation comes five days after an unknown entity took to an online crime forum to advertise the sale of private information for millions of 23andMe users. The forum posts claimed that the stolen data included origin estimation, phenotype, health information, photos, and identification data. The posts claimed that 23andMe’s CEO was aware the company had been “hacked” two months earlier and never revealed the incident. In a statement emailed after this post went live, a 23andMe representative said that “nothing they have posted publicly indicates they actually have any ‘health information.’ These are all unsubstantiated claims at this point.”
23andMe officials on Friday confirmed that private data for some of its users is, in fact, up for sale. The cause of the leak, the officials said, is data scraping, a technique that essentially reassembles large amounts of data by systematically extracting smaller amounts of information available to individual users of a service. Attackers gained unauthorized access to the individual 23andMe accounts, all of which had been configured by the user to opt in to a DNA relative feature that allows them to find potential relatives.
Exit quote: “By now, it has become clear that storing genetic information online carries risks.”
Ya think?
HMM: We’re Ahead in the Polls? That Means We’re Losing.
According to a recent poll by UC Berkeley, a majority of California voters oppose reparations to black Americans for slavery. Fox News describes this opposition as a “strong rebuke.” But just how strong was this “rebuke”? An unimpressive 59% of Californians oppose cash payments. An alarming 29% support the idea. Apparently, the remaining 12% of undecideds can’t be bothered to form an opinion on the morality of stealing from people who have never committed a specific crime to “compensate” people who have never suffered a specific crime—the crime in question occurring centuries ago and nowhere near the state of California.
And by the way, this poll found that 5% of Republicans support reparations. So, either the McCain and Romney family trees branch out further than we thought, or we are losing ground even within our own party rank-and-file on this issue. Strong rebuke? I’d call it whistling past the graveyard.
I suspect blue states like California will eventually pay out some kind of “reparation” because once lefties get hold of a bad idea, they never let it go.
WELL, GOOD: Israeli Loosens Gun Laws After Unprecedented Terror Attack.
It will now be easier for Israelis to carry firearms for self-defense in the wake of the worst terror attack in the nation’s history.
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Sunday he has ordered officials responsible for issuing gun licenses to broaden its standards. As the death toll inflicted by terror group Hamas grew to over 600, Ben-Gvir said he wants more Israelis to be able to legally arm themselves.
“Today I directed the Firearms Licensing Division to go on an emergency operation in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves,” he posted, according to a Google translation. “The plan will take effect within 24 hours.”
After this, maybe Israel should try something like the Swiss model of allowing discharged servicemembers to buy and keep their service rifles
IF NOT “A RIFLE BEHIND EVERY BLADE OF GRASS” THEN ONE BEHIND EVERY OLIVE TREE: Hamas Attack on Israel Is a Lesson on the Dangers of Gun Control.
HE SURE IS TACKING TO THE CENTER HARD FOR A GUY WHO ISN’T RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: California nearly decriminalizes psychedelics – but governor hits brakes. “Newsom, a Democrat who championed legalizing cannabis in 2016, said in a statement on Saturday that more needed to be done before California decriminalized the hallucinogens.”
BATTLESWARM: The Final Solution To The Gaza Problem.
Let’s review how Israel had tried to deal with Hamas:
1. Israel tried occupying Gaza. That didn’t work.
2. Israel tried building walls and letting Hamas run Gaza. That didn’t work.This leads inexorably to the only viable solution for Israel to prevent Hamas attacking and murdering Israeli citizens from Gaza.
Palestinians will no longer be allowed to occupy Gaza.
No Palestinians in Gaza = No terror attacks from Gaza.
Occupation didn’t work. Coexistence didn’t work. But ethnic cleansing will.
Ralph Peters noted years ago that the dirty little secret behind ethnic cleansing is that it works — and that’s an observation, not an endorsement.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Forget the GOP—It’s the Biden Chaos That’s Getting People Killed. “Biden’s penchant for playing financial footsie with Iran is simply carrying on the work of his old boss, His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama. They’re both dumb enough to believe that there will be a net benefit for the United States when dealing with the monstrous regime in Tehran.”
CHANGE: German conservative opposition wins 2 state elections, with far-right making gains.
The far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has risen to second place in national polls behind the Union, won’t be a factor in determining the states’ new governments, as other parties refused to work with it.
But it looked likely to finish second in Hesse and possibly also in Bavaria. Projections showed it taking about 18% of the vote in Hesse and 16% in Bavaria, improving significantly on lower double-digit showings when the two states last voted in 2018.
They showed disappointing results for the three national governing parties — Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats, the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats. Hesse’s conservative governor, Boris Rhein, was challenged by both his current Green deputy and by the Social Democrats’ candidate, national Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
If AfD can at least scare the suicidal German establishment into switching the nuclear power back on, that would be a huge win.
BLUE CITY BLUES: NYC Felony Assaults on Women Spike 41% in 4 Years.
WELL, YES: Rep. Hageman to Newsmax: Biden’s Iran Handout Led to Attack on Israel
The Hamas terrorists’ attack on Israel early Saturday is “absolutely related to the Biden administration’s appeasement of Iran,” Rep. Harriet Hageman tells Newsmax.
“I just have to say my heart goes out to those folks. And I think what this demonstrates is that with a weak America, you have a very dangerous world,” the Wyoming Republican said on Newsmax’s “America Right Now.”
At least 40 people were killed and hundreds were wounded after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years. The assault included gunmen crossing into Israel and a barrage of rockets fired into the country from Gaza.
“This is something that I think that we have all been careful of in relation to empowering Iran, giving Iran billions of dollars,” Hageman said. “We have [been] turning a blind eye to their effort to get nuclear weapons [and] empowered bring them to continue to spread terror throughout the Middle East.”
What we got in exchange for no more mean tweets was an Iran with enough cash and enough confidence to risk what could escalate into a regional war.
THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S AN ADMINISTRATION MADE UP OF IDIOTS, APPEASERS, AND RADICALS: The Biden Administration’s First Reaction to Hamas Attack Was to Call on Israel Not to Retaliate.
October 6, 2023
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: The Villages’ 77-Year-Old Viagra Smuggler. “It’s your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have a riding mower that doubles as a brewpub, a flawless T.J. Hooker impersonation, and a tale from Atlanta too wild to believe.”
SURE. THEY AREN’T THAT MUCH MORE ARTIFICIAL THAN SONGS WRITTEN BY COMMITTEE TO BE PLAYED BY COMPUTERS AND SUNG WITH THE HELP OF AUTOTUNE: Can AI popstars make it in the real world?
HMM: Tesla slashes prices of Model 3, Models Y vehicles in U.S. “The carmaker missed market estimates for third-quarter deliveries earlier this week after planned upgrades at its factories to roll out the newer version of the Model 3 mass-market sedan forced production halts.”
HE JUST NEEDS TO APPEAR TO BE DOING SOMETHING LONG ENOUGH TO APPEASE ANGRY BLUE CITY VOTERS: Mexican President Calls Biden’s Border Wall a Publicity Stunt.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Bill Burr Predicts a ‘Revolt’ Against Cancel Culture. “Burr doesn’t actively define his political views, but if you listen to his stand-up routines and podcast it’s likely he’s a center-Left soul. He still understands how nefarious Cancel Culture can be and its impact on free expression.”
WELL, THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG: Disney Promises to Tone Down the Woke, Then Signs Race Huckster Ibram X. Kendi for ESPN Series on Racism in Sports.
BLUE CITY BLUES:
As if San Francisco wasn't dangerous enough, SFPD is experiencing an "unprecedented" staffing crisis. More than 700 officer jobs are currently empty, representing 32.4% of its intended size.
Another 350 officers are already eligible for full retirement.
Between recruitment… pic.twitter.com/kAfesfqm5D
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 5, 2023
As I wrote in 2020, the Left doesn’t actually have to defund the police to achieve their goal of low- or no-policing. It’s enough just to demoralize the police.