BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T POSSIBLY GET RID OF THE DIRTY ANTI-SEMITES? Pomona College moves graduation to Shrine Auditorium as encampment enters 5th day.
May 14, 2024
WELL, YOU KNOW IT’S AN ELECTION YEAR! Who Had Chinese Ebola Hamsters on Their 2024 Bingo Card?
SANITY SEEMS TO BE CATCHING ON SOUTH OF THE BORDER: New Panama President Wants to Shut Down ‘Crucial Migration Gap’.
Not in Mexico, yet, of course. If Mexico turns itself around, I’ll call it a miracle.
YEAH, BUT THAT’S WITHOUT FRAUD: New Poll Shows Trump Winning Key States, Including Michigan and Pennsylvania.
IT’S RELATED TO THE EFFORTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED TO JUSTIFY OR IGNORE 9/11. BREAKS FROM REALITY: Anti-Israel campus protesters have experienced “some kind of psychiatric break”.
SUFFICIENT EVIL IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM STUPIDITY: Progressives Are Mentally Defective.
TEACHERS’ UNIONS WHO DEMANDED SCHOOL CLOSURE NOW REAP THE CONSEQUENCES: Public education’s watershed moment.
WAR IS NOT A GAME. THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT OF PROPORTIONALITY. ONLY PEOPLE POISONED WITH STORY WOULD THINK SO: “Disproportionate”.
I WOULDN’T CALL ANY OF THIS LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISM. IT IS AN ATTEMPT AT TRADITION BY TURNING CURRENT EXCESSES ON THEIR HEAD: Under the Digital Eye of Sauron.
The opposite of Marxist insanity isn’t reality. It’s just another form of insanity. Humans and human societies are far more complicated than that. Civlilization requires some degree of understanding the past. This means making an effort to study history and see beyond the Marxist contamination, not merely pretending it was what the Marxists said it was.
WE ARE EMBODIED CREATURES. PHYSICAL RITUALS ARE IMPORTANT TO BRIDGE THE WAY TO WHAT WE CAN’T QUITE CONCEPTUALIZE: Faith and Ritual.
I think the sixties stripping of ritual and “senseless” tradition, pretty much across the board of most Western religious observation was a grave error and an example of removing Chesterton’s fence. Turned out we hadn’t evolved away from needing it.
PERHAPS BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE TRENCHES? AND WE ALL KNOW ABOUT ATHEISTS IN THE TRENCHES. BUT HIS HYPOTHESIS ALSO WORKS: The Disappearance of Secularism.
BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE SAID: In Praise of Populism.
SOMEONE WROTE A BOOK EXPLAINING THAT HE WAS ON A TEAM OF PROSECUTORS WHO WERE TASKED TO FIND A CRIME COMMITTED BY TRUMP AND THEN PROSECUTE HIM FOR IT: And the guy is amazed that other prosecutors, real ones not political hacks, thought this was bad. Mark Pomerantz Revealed the Madness of the Trump Cases, While Trying to Do the Opposite
May 13, 2024
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?: The Times of Israel has an important piece about how the Biden administration wants to end the war in Gaza with Hamas still in place and intact. The article is filled with delusionary statements, on and off the record, by administration officials, but if you can imagine the dumbest think Biden State Department spokesman Matthew Miller might have said about Gaza, it still won’t be as dumb as what he actually said, apparently reflected administration policy:
Notably, the US has signaled its tepid support for China’s recent efforts to strike a long-elusive deal between Hamas and Fatah. “If China wanted to play a productive role in bringing this conflict to an end, that is something that we would welcome,” Miller said last week.
It was bad enough that the Obama administration let Russia have free reign in Syria. But *inviting* China to gain influence in Gaza? Are they completely insane?
My best guess here is that they are expecting wall-to-wall pro-Hamas craziness from now until November from the leftist base, and are so desperate to get the conflict to end and focus on the messaging the Biden campaign wants, that they are willing to invite America’s greatest geo-political rival to take up residence right on Israel and Egypt’s doorstep. Which, ironically, is exactly the sort of thing they accuse Trump of doing.
THE TRUTH HURTS:
You are the party of runaway inflation, you are the party of "crime is fine," you are the party of suffocating regulations, you are the party of DEI failure, you are simply the Party of Misery.
Stop complaining. You're responsible for ALL of it. https://t.co/I2fObLUrwj
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 14, 2024
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Ashley Biden Wrote Letter to Judge Confirming That Diary Reporting That Biden Showered With Her Until a ‘Not Appropriate’ Age Is Real. “Snopes has been denying this for years — and this is one of the ‘fact’ checking outfits which social media companies use to decide whether to censor/throttle accounts. It was false for years, now it’s true. No apologies. No explanation of how or why this error (or ‘error’) was made.”
Oceania has never been at war with Eastasia.
FRUITS OF BIDENOMICS: A “Restaurant Apocalypse” Is Starting To Sweep Across America, And That Is Really Bad News For The U.S. Economy. “Our ongoing inflation crisis is the primary reason why this is happening. Consumers simply have a lot less discretionary income now.”
FORGET THAT A FEW DUKE STUDENTS WALKED OUT ON JERRY SEINFELD: Pay Attention to His Speech.
Seinfeld did not acknowledge the students as they walked out. He went to the podium and began his speech like nothing was happening. His opening line was, “Thank you. Oh my God, what a beautiful day.”
The beauty of Seinfeld’s speech was that it was not political at all. No politics, no virtue-signaling about current progressive opinions on hot-button topics. He sounded like a dad advising his son or daughter about leaving college behind and entering real life.
Plus: “Many in the audience booed the students as they left. The Duke audience was refreshingly receptive to Seinfeld.”
WESTERN DEMOCRACIES RUNNING PSYOPS AGAINST THEIR OWN CITIZENS.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, monday.
BRENDAN O’NEILL: Bambie Thug has exposed the rottenness of the new Ireland.
To my mind, Bambie Thug sums up everything that is rotten about Ireland’s new elites. Yes, that’s right, she (not ‘they’, FFS) is the embodiment of elite culture, however much she might fantasise about being a zany witch sticking it to The Man, or whatever post-sex term these tossers use to describe manifestations of power. ‘Do you know what makes me special? I’m a queer’, she says, giving voice to the self-absorption of identity politics with its post-Enlightenment belief that your identity counts for more than your character. (And this is leaving aside the fact that Ms Thugs seems mostly to have boyfriends. Is this another bourgeois straighttrying to sprinkle a little exoticism on her missionary-position life by saying ‘I’m queer’?) There’s also her cloying sense of victimhood. She says she had a ‘horrible’ time at Eurovision – diddums – and even accused an Israeli broadcaster of ‘inciting violence’ against her. Eden Golan was met with protests by an army of haters drunk on their disdain for Israel and you want us to feel sorry for a talentless gremlin who got a bit of bad media coverage? Grow up, Bambie. You’re 31.
This, sadly, is what Ireland is all about these days. Well, Ireland’s elites. Woke, identitarian, slavishly devoted to the gender cult, ‘pro-queer’, convinced they’re the perma-victims of history. It is hilarious that Bambie considers herself a daring outlier when, in truth, she’s a chief priestess of this self-regarding elite. If you were to invent in a laboratory an individual who embodied the warped values of the post-Catholic, post-nationalist, post-self-respect movers and shakers of the Dublin chattering class, you’d get Bambie. A ‘queer’ writhing about on a Satanic star and then blubbing like a baby when someone criticises her – it’s 21st-century Ireland in a nutshell. A toxic mix of arrogance and fragility. A showy denunciation of the old religion of Catholicism combined with a feverish embrace of the new religion of victimhood. Out with the cult of God and nation, in with the infinitely worse cult of the self and the suffocating realm of emotion. Bambie’s the finger-wagging nun of the new regime.
We need to talk about the Irish upper classes’ hatred for Israel. It’s intense. Alongside Bambie crying because the Jewish State got to the final of a song contest – this isn’t normal, folks – we’ve also seen Irish politicians noisily denounce Israel and Irish sports teams refuse to shake the hands of Israeli sports teams. Well, you never know what you might catch. Ireland is considered one of the most anti-Israel countries in Europe.
Jim Treacher adds: Bambie Thug Proves Antisemites Can Be Boring.
Once again, a lefty critical darling is spewing the exact same rhetoric as these guys:
But because she wraps up her antisemitism in transgender ideology and liberal crybullying, it’s acceptable to our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters.
Well, if her music career doesn’t pan out, I’m sure she’ll find something else to do. Like gluing her hand to the counter at Starbucks to protest the price of oat milk. White women, am I right?
Exit quote: “In terms of sheer horror: Alice Cooper > Marilyn Manson > the guy who greets you at Walmart > Bambie Thug.”
It’s so much harder to epater les bourgeoisie when in 2024’s Europe, you’re firmly in the camp of the bourgeoisie. Or at the least, bourgeois camp.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH THE U.N.(!) IS A VOICE OF SANITY: U.N. Cuts Gaza Death Toll Figures by Half, Confirming Hamas Is Lying About Casualties. “These figures have been used by the U.N. and American government for months to accuse Israel of intentionally targeting civilians, including women and children. But the massive revision indicates Hamas’s figures are riddled with inaccuracies, even as the Biden administration claims they are generally reliable and cites them as evidence that Israel may have committed war crimes during its seven-month war. These inflated figures are also being used by the Biden administration to justify its decision to pause American arms sales to Israel and threaten to withhold more military aid if the Jewish state moves forward with a full-scale incursion into Gaza’s Rafah neighborhood.”
