HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEK FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
So far this week the Left has pushed:
– A Seditious message to our military – Fake story about the Chief of Staff getting fired – Fake story about the Attorney General getting fired – Fake story about the FBI Director getting fired.
HMM: Stopping GLP-1 drugs before pregnancy linked to complications. “Women who stop taking a GLP-1 weight loss/diabetes medication just prior to a pregnancy appear to be at higher odds for excess weight gain and complications while pregnant, new research shows. As the study authors pointed out, potential risks to the fetus of using a GLP-1 while pregnant remain unclear, so current recommendations advise discontinuing the drugs prior to or during a pregnancy.”
An abstract nude painting of scandal-clad journalist Olivia Nuzzi that is reportedly set to run in Vanity Fair has been revealed, according to an art-industry trade publication.
ArtNews published the colorful, modern portrait, which depicts a naked Nuzzi with her eyes closed, surrounded by images of the American flag, clouds and a possibly another human figure which could be a reference to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The painting is by artist Isabelle Brourman, who earned her own glossy profile in the pages of Vanity Fair last month for her sketches of celebrities including Johnny Depp and Amber Heard during their salacious trial, as well as President Donald Trump during his criminal indictment.
An image of Browman’s Nuzzi painting, entitled “How to Disappear,” is a magazine exclusive set to appear in its Dec. 2 Hollywood issue. It was not intended to run online, according to ArtNews, which added that the image “will be on view next month during Art Basel Miami Beach, as part of Jeffery Deitch’s presentation ‘The Great American Nude.’”
We’ve come a long way from Ben Hecht’s The Front Page. Say what you will about H.L. Mencken, Drew Pearson (no, not him, the other guy) and Walter Winchell, the cynical hard drinking journalists of the past were rarely featured in “nude portraits,” abstract or otherwise.
JUSTICE: DOJ cracks down on healthcare fraud in Michigan, charging three people who stole $20 million total. “The DOJ has recently focused on instances of healthcare fraud in Michigan that resulted in tens of millions of dollars stolen from Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan. In addition to the recent cases resulting in years-long prison sentences, another case from over a decade ago just ended with the denaturalization of a woman from Venezuela who defrauded more than $5.4 million from Medicare while in Detroit.”
It’s impossible to prove with absolute certainty who took the photograph in Trang Bang that day. Personally, I believe there should be a statute of limitations on photo-credit disputes. Once fifty years have passed — and many of the key figures are no longer alive — you shouldn’t be able to drag the reputations of people or organizations you clearly hold a grudge against.
Since The Stringer presents a one-sided case with virtually no counter-arguments throughout the film, the vast Netflix audience will likely come away from the movie believing its version of events. Therefore, it is important to scrutinize the evidence put forward by Gary Knight and the VII Foundation.
To my mind, it’s utterly reprehensible that you would wait for the deaths of Horst Faas, Tim Page, Yuichi ‘Jackson’ Ishizaki, and Hal Buell before airing these claims. At best, it makes you a coward, at worst it’s malevolent.
Robinson is hardly an objective player here; his axe to grind is unmistakable, yet The Stringer barely acknowledges his animosity toward Ut and AP.
Faas has always been a giant of press photography and has a reputation for compassion. Yet the film assassinates his character, labeling him a plagiarist.
As for Nghe, it is difficult to know what to make of him. Perhaps he really has been cheated out of a lifetime of accolades and adoration. Or, perhaps he did take a photo of Kim Phuc that day, just not the one he thought he did.
At the end of the film, Nghe’s daughter, Jannie, miraculously discovers a copy of the Napalm Girl photo that their mother supposedly kept after discarding the original print. But the image is actually a newspaper clipping from years later, identifiable by the accompanying photo of an adult Kim Phuc. The VII Foundation tells PetaPixel that the cutting is from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, published in November 1982.
It’s a strange ending, and after feeling misled for so much of the film, I found myself questioning whether the moment was even genuine.
ERIC FLORACK: More on the Sedition Six. “The six were carefully selected, as was the wording of the message, in an attempt to both add credibility to the message and minimize repercussions from it. If Taibbi is correct, and I do not doubt it, this operation, this setup, involved far more than just the six in the video.”
Can you tell I have contempt for this approach, as I did with all the COVID madness? Of course I do. It is yet another example of using scientistic language—”sciency,” not science—to make an absurd idea sound reasonable.
It’s bunk. It’s the same sort of bunk that the Smithsonian Institution was selling during the Biden administration. [Actually, that was during the left’s revolutionary fervor in the summer of 2020 — Ed]
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The irony, of course, is that everybody wants to enjoy the benefits of Western Culture that I outlined without any of the costs. As the Smithsonian decried “linear/rational thinking,” it was being funded entirely out of the wealth created in an economy based on all the characteristics it decried as evil.
I do not maintain that Western Culture is perfect. In fact, thinking critically and rationally and working to make the world better is a key quality of Western Culture, or what the University of Minnesota calls “whiteness.” I’m pretty certain that nobody who hates Western Culture wants to go back to Africa to cook on dung, as hundreds of generations have without any move to improve the practice of cooking.
The University of Minnesota, which gave us Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution that feeds billions of non-white people, really should reconsider imposing our Western-centric agricultural practices on the rest of the world. Borlaugh wasn’t just white, but a product of the whiteness pandemic.
Everybody wants the cars, the medicine, the abundance of modern farming, all the technology and modern science, all while undermining the very culture that produces these.
I don’t want a country or culture that is exclusive to white people, obviously. I don’t believe that white people are inherently better due to some purity derived from melanin deprivation.
As our “whiteness pandemic” professor admits, the “whiteness” she is decrying is cultural, not biological. And if that is really her position, I suggest she leave the University and eventually the country she so reviles. Universities are a product of “white culture.” The University of Minnesota is based in one of the whitest states in America, where people even eat Jell-O salads and Lutefisk, which are admittedly not the highest expression of our culture. (I like Chinese food, myself.)
As Michael Graham asked 25 years ago in Redneck Nation, why are Democrat-monopoly institutions so obsessed with race? Ryan Long, who produced the “When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything” video a few years ago might also want a word here:
The ‘club’ has already begun scheming against Schumer, sources said. The mutiny comes to light following an Oval Office meeting that insiders called an ingenious plot by President Donald Trump.
Trump’s surprisingly cozy one-on-one with with the Big Apple’s mayor-elect last week was dramatically warmer than many had expected given the months of hostilities.
But a veteran GOP operative who witnessed the spectacle unfold said the meeting was a political grenade lobbed directly into Democratic ranks.
‘To be honest, I think this pours gasoline on the internal war within the Dems,’ the source told The Hill’s Julia Manchester. ‘Further forces Dems to fully embrace Mamdani and his agenda.’
The ‘political grenade’ may have already exploded, as the ‘guerrilla group’ is now planning to challenge Schumer during primaries for the 2026 midterms, particularly in Maine, Michigan and Minnesota.
‘I can think of no historical example that would compare to this level of internal caucus fear and dissension,’ Josh Orton, a Democratic strategist, told The New York Times.
The first rule of Progressive Fight Club is to leak endlessly about Progressive Fight Club.
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP: The Left’s Family Problem: Marriage And Kids Cratering Among Liberal Young Adults. “Just as conservatives are marrying at higher rates, they are also more likely to have children during young adulthood. Indeed, we don’t see a large decline in the share of conservatives ages 25 to 35 who are parents from the 1990s to the present.”
Conservatives have been more likely to embrace a “family first” mindset that puts a premium on marriage and childbearing. The most recent prominent apostle on the Right for family was the late Charlie Kirk, who said that “Having a family will change your life in the best ways, so get married and have kids. You won’t regret it.” The recently assassinated founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) also told young adults that embracing “careerism and consumerism” at the expense of starting a family in your 20s is a big mistake. “Having children is more important than having a good career … my kids matter more than how many social media followers I have,” Kirk said on Fox News, just two days before he was killed.
This message isn’t just coming from TPUSA: many of the most popular podcast hosts and influencers on the Right—from Ben Shapiro and Allie Beth Stuckey to Matt Walsh and Brett Cooper—regularly deliver messages to their audiences celebrating the joys of marriage and parenthood. Meanwhile, rising stars in the broader conservative firmament, from Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary to the billionaire Lucky Palmer, are confessing that they wish they had married their wives earlier. And a growing crop of twentysomething conservative female influencers like Riley Gaines and Isabel Brown can be found celebrating young marriage and motherhood. “There’s nothing that could’ve prepared me for a love like this. God has blessed us beyond belief. Welcome to the world, sweet Margot,” Gaines recently wrote, after giving birth to her first child.
The bigger point is that the new media on the Right is building a family-first “plausibility structure” that now competes with the Left’s less-than-family-friendly messaging in the mainstream media, the Ivory Tower, and online.
And the occasional complaint about the cost of insuring a teenage boy to drive aside, the part that gets left out too often is that raising kids is a blast.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Bill Maher Needs to Swallow the Red Pill, Already. “He has moments of clarity that provide some fantastic fodder for people who are worn out by leftist lunacy in the media. It’s nothing entirely new for Maher. He’s been running afoul of the Democrats’ false narrative doctrine on Islam and terrorism for a long time.”
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