May 1, 2024

KURT SCHLICHTER: Will Jewish Voters Stop Voting for the Democrats Who Want to Kill Them?

Jewish Americans are going to have to make a decision – the famously Democrat-leaning minority has a big problem because many of its fellow Democrats want them dead. That’s not an exaggeration – the chant of the Democrat’s left wing is not, “From the river to the sea, the Chosen People should be happy, safe, and free.” Kind of the exact opposite. These scumbag commies are so promiscuous with lies about the Jewish people like “apartheid” and “genocide” they ought to hand out rhetorical condoms on the many college quads these loathsome heirs of the Nazis have infested.

Yet Jews in America overwhelmingly vote Democrat. You know, this might be a good time to rethink their traditional leftist voting habits, but that conundrum represents a conflict in human nature – the conflict between self-preservation and self-identity. I don’t know which one is going to win out, but I know what’s going to happen if the Hamas-huggers win out.

I’m not in the business of telling any particular ethnic group how to vote, and I don’t think any particular ethnic group should vote in any particular way. The whole idea of ethnic voting is stupid. But other people seem to have other opinions. Some groups vote as a bloc. Black Americans almost always vote Democrat – something like 90%, though this time Donald Trump seems to be earning a better percentage. Similarly, Jewish Americans are famously liberal voters, with the vast majority supporting Democrats in the past. But things have changed. The position of the Democratic Party is aligned with the far left, which pretty much wants to kill all the Jews. And Biden really, really wants to win the states with large number of Muslims like the despicable Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, whose daughter/niece was recently suspended from the University of College for her hate crimes. The Democrats are not show about excommunicated groups they find to be no longer useful to their goal of attaining power. They famously dumped the white working class in recent decades. Guess we know who’s the next to get the boot.

Think of the dilemma that all voters will face in November!

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden Speaking on Camera about Columbia Is Too Much to Ask, Huh?

If Biden feels so strongly that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach, is it too much to ask that Biden step to the podium and say so on camera? Apparently so. The only event on President Biden’s schedule today is a “digital town hall campaign event” that occurred at 3 p.m.

We’re six months from Election Day. It’s Tuesday. Biden had no public events yesterday or Sunday. Biden’s lone public event on Saturday was the White House Correspondents Dinner. His lone event on Friday was his interview with Howard Stern.

He’s an 81-year-old man and he’s maintaining the schedule of a retiree.

While Trump became infamous for his “bad tweets,” are there enough scheduled tweets by John Gill’s comms shop to get him over the finish line in November?

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Mesha Mainor Discusses Her Quest for Justice and Accountability in Fulton County. “On Tuesday, we brought you the news about Georgia State Rep. Mesha Mainor (R-56th District) filing a lawsuit against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and others over the failure of Willis’ office to prosecute a stalking case against Mainor. PJ Media received the video of Mainor’s press conference, and the statements from that video reveal more about the suit and the problems that plague Fulton County’s legal and law enforcement establishment.”

Posted at 1:15 pm by Stephen Green

NO, CRIME ISN’T DOWN: Enduring Lawlessness in Our Cities. Crime continues to plague the American urban core at much higher levels than before the pandemic. Jeffrey H. Anderson, a former director of the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, rebuts the claims of Biden and the legacy media that the crime wave is over.

Posted at 1:05 pm by John Tierney

THIS MEANS THE ESTABLISHMENT HAS DECIDED TO SAVE ITSELF, AND THROW THE PROTESTERS UNDER THE BUS: College protests updates: NYC mayor blames ‘outside agitators’ for protests.

Related: UCLA falls to anarchy after counterprotesters confront anti-Israeli encampment: ‘Horrific acts of violence:’ The unrest started at 11 PM and continued for two hours before law enforcement officers arrived at the scene. Well, the police probably were in no rush to save the “defund the police,”/”All Cops Are Bastards” crowd.

Of course, protest violence doesn’t become a serious problem until it stops being one-sided.

UPDATE: UCLA protester says ‘Zionist thugs’ released rats into anti-Israel encampment. Meh, who’d notice? They’d fit right in.

Posted at 12:31 pm by Glenn Reynolds

REMINDER THAT TODAY IS VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM DAY. It’s disgraceful that this dishonest, murdering ideology is still celebrated in academia and in our media. When you see someone celebrating that, remind them that they’re apologists for mass murder and theft.

Meanwhile:

Posted at 12:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IF THE WEST’S RULING CLASS WANTED TO WRECK THE COUNTRIES IT RULES, WHAT WOULD IT DO DIFFERENTLY?

Posted at 12:06 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THEODORE DALRYMPLE: Orwell’s Arresting Ambiguities.

Occasionally [Orwell biographer D.J Taylor], whose own judgment is pretty good, misses something important. For example, he describes the effect that Orwell’s time in Spain had on him:

Spain, it is safe to say, politicised Orwell in a way that his exposure to homegrown socialism in the previous five years had not. To begin with, it offered him a vision of how an alternative world, founded on the principles of freedom and equality, might work.

Orwell told the general litterateur, Cyril Connolly, who had been with him at Eton, that he had seen “wonderful things” in Barcelona, then a revolutionary city in the control of the Trotskyist POUM. Taylor continues:

It was, he declared, “the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.” Churches were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Shops and cafes bore inscriptions saying that they had been collectivised. Tipping was forbidden by law, all private motor cars had been commandeered, and all the trams and taxis had been painted in the anarchist colours of red and black. “In outward appearance it was a town in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist.”

Everyone dressed the same too, in drab overalls, Maoist avant la lettre.

Barcelona, then, was a Catalonian Pyongyang: and it is important to recall that Orwell approved of it. At this stage of his development, he was an enthusiastic totalitarian, and the shallowness of his belief that such uniformity was a triumph for freedom and equality is rather startling in a man who, a very few years later, was to be the greatest literary scourge of totalitarianism in the world.

In his 2000 essay, “In the Land of the Rococo Marxist,” Tom Wolfe wrote that the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the subsequent publication of the Venona transcripts “made it damned hard to express your skepticism, your cynicism, your contempt, in Marxist terms… Not to mention the Spanish Civil War—archives! Turns out the Loyalists secretly called in the Soviets at the very outset of hostilities—and if they’d won, Spain would have been the first Soviet puppet state!”

In “Orwell’s Bad Republicans,” a 2007 book review at the American Spectator, Hal G.P. Colebatch noted:

When the heroics of the Spanish Civil War come up — Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Hemingway’s fictions or the effusions of various poets — there is a very large and usually unremarked elephant in the room: Orwell, who actually fought, and Hemingway who wrote about fighting, were on the wrong side.

The strategic point is simple: had the Stalinists won war, then during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact from 1939 to mid-1941, they would have allowed Hitler to cross Spain and seize Gibraltar. Had this happened, the British forces in the Mediterranean, including the British Empire’s last remaining field army in action, would have been cut off. The British army and fleet could probably have been supplied through the Suez Canal, at least for a while, but their positions would have been immeasurably weakened, and the enemy’s position immeasurably strengthened.

Fortunately, as Dalrymple wrote, “It was all to the credit of Orwell that he changed his opinion of totalitarianism so diametrically, but had he died just after the publication of Homage to Catalonia, not living long enough to write his anti-totalitarian masterpieces, he would have been remembered, if he was remembered at all, as a literary forerunner and praise-singer of some of the worst features of communist regimes.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

ONCE THE STRONGEST CONSTITUENCY ON CAMPUS, COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE BY AND LARGE TURNED THEIR BACK ON FREE SPEECH. Take a step back from the recent campus turmoil and dig into the data with Sean Stevens and me in the latest chapter in our ongoing series, ‘The skeptics were wrong, Part 3.”

Posted at 11:04 am by Greg Lukianoff

INDEED:

There’s a lesson here, one young Gen Z men are already learning.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

HOUSE THEM IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DORMS: White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from war-torn Gaza as refugees. “Top U.S. officials have also discussed getting additional Palestinians out of Gaza and processing them as refugees if they have American relatives, the documents show. The plans would require coordination with Egypt, which has so far refused to welcome large numbers of people from Gaza.”

Egypt has good reason for its decision — what is the Biden administration’s reason?

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ‘Free Palestine’ Brownshirts Need a Heavy Dose of Consequences. “These administrators, professors, and their youthful charges happened to be throwing their ignorant hatefests the city that has the largest municipal police force in the United States. It was never going to work out well for them.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green