ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Democrats’ Hidden Civil War. Plus a cameo by the New Socialist “It Girl,” Alexandria Occasional-Cortex:

What’s happening is that the energy in the Democratic Party now is coming from richer educated white liberals who are most motivated by issues that don’t resonate with the ethnic minorities who make up the Democratic base. For example, did you know that in the bellwether House race in which newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseated veteran incumbent Joe Crowley, the challenger’s strongest precincts were the whiter, wealthier ones, while the incumbent ran strongest in the most heavily minority precincts? It turns out that minority voters tend to care about who can deliver for them on bread-and-butter issues more than making symbolic identity politics statements. Politico reports that this is causing a growing divide within Democratic ranks.

Exit quote: “Never forget: in America, we do class warfare through culture war.”

Read the whole thing.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: “Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill sparked a fierce backlash from a Democratic legislator in her home state after listing her as an example of a ‘crazy Democrat.’ In a scathing series of tweets on Monday and Tuesday, Missouri Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal referred to McCaskill as ‘Dixie Claire,’ described her as a ‘piece of shit,’ compared her to a slave owner and accused ‘McCaskill and her racist democratic friends’ of alienating the party’s base voters. McCaskill raised eyebrows in the final weeks of the midterm campaign by running a radio ad that described McCaskill as ‘not one of those crazy Democrats.’”

All the Democrats have to do is not be crazy — and they can’t even do that, to coin an Insta-phrase.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: UN report calls Bay Area homeless crisis human rights violation — Special rapporteur cites SF and Oakland along with worst slums in the world.

Found via “Comfortably Smug,” who tweets, “We need a coalition of the willing to go into San Francisco for regime change.”

Earlier: California Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for Income Inequality. “Want a liberal utopia? This is what it looks like.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Whole Foods Forced To Get A Restraining Order Against Berkeley Vegans.

#METOO AUTOPHAGY UPDATE: Asia Argento files police report accusing Rose McGowan’s partner Rain Dove of ‘deception’ for obtaining texts about her underage sex with Jimmy Bennett.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Ian Buruma and the age of sexual McCarthyism — The New York Review of Books editor is the latest casualty of the identitarian mob:

My own theory is that a small minority on the identitarian Left have used various Maoist tactics, including public shaming on social media, to persuade people that their doctrinaire positions on #MeToo allegations and a range of other issues – gender is a social construct, masculinity is toxic, climate change is caused by misogyny, etc. – are much more ubiquitous than they really are, thereby stifling dissent.

Read the whole thing.

(Via Maggie’s Farm.)

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Feminists Call New iPhone ‘Sexist’ Because Its Screen Is Too Big for Female Hands.

Apple’s PR department could always just go with it and hire a James Brown sound-a-like to sing “This is a Man’s Man’s Man’s Phone…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rq9OvaJyRc

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Having quit Twitter, Wil Wheaton “still trying to process” how some people never gave him a chance.

Exit quote: “The exact kind of toxic call out culture that he helped spearhead has come back to bite him in the ass.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Shut Up, Wesley: Ceaselessly Annoying Social Justice Warrior Wil Wheaton Banned From Leftwing Social Media Site.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: No, Liberal Lefties are Not Right-Wing.

Left-wing liberals who are opposed to the identity politics developments on the left increasingly find ourselves accused of being right wing, referred to as “right wing” and scornfully urged to admit that we are right wing by identitarian lefties.

No. Because that is not true.

Heck, liberals who supported Hillary were considered rightwing in 2008 by both Obama and Hollywood elitists.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Antifa in Portland beat up a Bernie Bro because he was carrying a ‘fascist’ American flag.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Rahm Emanuel Comes Under Fire for Saying a Lack of Morals Behind Violence.

Related: Chicago Politicians Are In Bed With The Gangs.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: “Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, said Thursday that Democrats should cease campaigning for Democratic National Committee deputy chairman Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) after allegations of domestic abuse surfaced against the Minnesota Attorney General candidate.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Social Justice Warriors Drive Lesbian Actress set to Play Lesbian Batwoman on the CW Off Twitter For Not Being Lesbian Enough and/or For Being an Inauthentically “Hot” Lesbian.

These are Heinlein’s Crazy Years — we just live in them, to coin an Insta-phrase.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Antifa Tussles With Police and Media at ‘Largely Peaceful’ Vigil in Charlottesville.

“Why are you in riot gear? We don’t see no riot here,” student activists chanted Saturday evening.

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Police officer in Charlottesville beaten by Antifa gang members.

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An antifa agitator attacked an NBC reporter and his camera crew: “F*ck you, snitch-ass news b*tch!,” the agitator spat as he tussled with a cameraman.

Read the whole thing.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Nancy Pelosi on MSNBC: One of NBC’s Priorities Is to ‘Undermine My Prospects as Speaker.’

Just think of the media as Democratic operatives with bylines, and the subtext of her statement — that because she’s a Democrat, NBC should be acting as her PR agents — makes perfect sense.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Whoopi Slams Jake Tapper for Mocking Obama’s DNC Damage Toll.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Sarah Silverman Turns on PC Culture After It Comes for Her.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Blue-check libs light up James Comey after he takes a shot at ‘socialist left’ Dems like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE, LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY AND OIKOPHOBIA: Elitist Harvard Exec Gets a Taste of SJW Justice After Racist Encounter Goes Viral.

Cambridge resident Alyson Laliberte was playing outside with her daughter on the afternoon of July 14 when a neighbor she’d never met before approached her and asked her if she’d “move so her kids could nap.” And after Laliberte refused the woman sat on the curb and condescendingly (and with a smug look on her face) badgered her, asking her to prove she really lived there, and telling her to leave the property.

The kicker? When the woman asked Laliberte, whose daughter is mixed-race, “Are you one of the affordable units, or are you one of the Harvard units?” She didn’t even ask, “Do you live in…” one of the affordable units; she asks it as if Laliberte IS one of the units. The question is disgusting either way, but the way it’s asked implies that residents of “those” units are less-than.

Read Laliberte’s Facebook post below, and watch the video:

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She will go outside Laliberte’s window and scream so Laliberte can’t sleep. That’s mature, but not a surprising mindset from someone who obviously thinks because a person’s skin isn’t white they must live in an “affordable” unit.

In what’s one of the funniest twists of irony I’ve seen this year, it turns out that Lund is the Executive Director of – wait for it – the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative!

Read the whole thing.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Liberals Brand Richard Dawkins ‘Islamophobic’ for Saying ‘Allahu Akbar’ Is ‘Aggressive Sounding.’

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Rhode Island Progressive Democrats Threaten to Topple Party Leadership.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: It’s War! The Democratic Party Is Now A House Divided Against Itself.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: NBA’s Draymond Green, Praised for Skipping Trump Event, Gets Trashed by the Left for Israel Visit.