IT ALWAYS IS, BUT CONSIDERING THE SOURCE, IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CHINA! CHINA! CHINA! TO REPLACE RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! Blinken: China Trying to ‘Influence and Arguably Interfere’ With 2024 Election.
April 27, 2024
OH, SWEETIE. AIN’T NOBODY DONE TOLD YOU THAT IN AMERICA JEWS GOT GUNS? Columbia U. Encampment Leader Says ‘Be Grateful That I’m Not Just Going Out and Murdering Zionists’.
IT’S A MESS ALL OVER THE WEST: Why is Education Such a Mess?
And probably at the back of the profound decay in our “ruling class.”
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: George Soros-Connected Groups Paying for Antisemitic Campus Protests, Calling for Revolution.
April 26, 2024
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THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Shenzhou-18 crew arrive at Tiangong space station.
OH, THAT LIBERAL FASCISM: Meet the new Left, who think Hamas are good and that Swastikas are woke.
It’s narcissistic identity politics on steroids, one where specific conditions and geography melt away completely. It’s no longer enough to have solidarity with the people of Palestinians in their time of plight; you must be them. Are you fat, trans, and live in, say, Evanston, Illinois? You are somehow in a shared position with starved and bombed-out citizens of Gaza. “Palestine is a flat circle,” you can almost hear True Detective’s Rust Cohle murmur if he were a contemporary campus radical.
I witnessed All One Thingism in the flesh in Atlanta while reporting on the “Stop Cop City” saga. What began as a very specific protest against the construction of an expensive new public safety facility in a Georgia forest by environmentalists, police, and prison abolitionists got subsumed into “Free Palestine.” After October 7, anarchists marching in the streets of Atlanta increasingly donned keffiyehs, waved Palestinian flags, and held signs that said: “From Atlanta to Palestine” (which I believe is a fairly big 6,400-mile line).
There’s no better embodiment of this trend than James “Fergie” Chambers, the wealthy tattooed Left-wing heir in Atlanta. Last summer, Chambers helped bankroll the Stop Cop City movement with millions from his Cox family fortune and attended protests in person. Then, in December, he announced he was converting to Islam. He’s currently living in Tunisia and directing his big bucks into anti-Zionism causes.
And lest you think it’s just blue-haired college baristas with these views, consider the author with the worst book title of all time who recently posted among the most despicable Tweets of all time. That would be courtesy of Malcolm Harris, the author of S— Is F—ed Up and Bulls— and veritable Napoleon Dynamite of communist writers.
Earlier this month on X, Harris responded to CNN’s Jake Tapper’s report that the Pennsylvania synagogue he had bar mitzphaed at had been vandalised with a swastika. Harris didn’t condemn the anti-Semitic graffiti but indirectly praised it. The meaning of the Nazi symbol had been reversed from bad to good, Harris said, “from a Nazi threat to a condemnation of genocide.”
America is evil, Hamas is good, and swastikas are now woke. This is your brain on All One Thingism.
Woody Allen tried to warn us in Sleeper that swastikas were the Radical Chic symbol of the future:
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Take Columbia’s Khymani James — please.
Well, they may be ignorant or stupid, they may be evil, but they may also need help. Take, for example, Columbia undergrad Khymani James — please. James may be in need of help, but he appears to be busy negotiating with the authorities at Columbia to stand down.
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“Be glad — be grateful — that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists. I’ve never murdered anyone in my life, and I *hope* to keep it that way.” This is a top leader of @Columbia’s encampment, with whom the school is “negotiating,” expanding on his thoughts about how Israel… pic.twitter.com/ugodO4O7M5
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 25, 2024
“Unexpectedly,” CNN broke out the airbrushes to protect James:
HOLY CRAP. So @CNN had done an interview with Khymani James Thursday night where he "repeatedly declined to apologize for the video" where he said "Zionists don’t deserve to live"… and CNN didn't report it!https://t.co/EyouyhAjdn pic.twitter.com/zn20shchsQ
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) April 26, 2024
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines and a Jeremy Corbyn-esque worldview, and it all makes sense.
Evergreen:
UPDATE: Report: Anti-Israel Protester Thrown Out of Columbia After White House Condemned ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ Statement.
THE STIG CRASHES AN EXPENSIVE LEMON: Most Dishonest Reporter in America Buys The Onion.
I used to love The Onion, but as with so many things that lean Left, it lost its sense of humor and basic connection to reality in the past decade or so. It used to poke fun at both the Left and the Right, and it could make you guffaw about politics and the absurdities of the world.
In the old days it published some real zingers, poking fun at everybody.
In Focus: Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years http://t.co/AZxoYxHW0t
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 30, 2013
Alas, those days are long gone, and the Ben Collins era promises to drive a stake through the heart of The Onion.
One great irony is that Collins is one of the big promoters of the “disinformation” narrative. He never saw a story that the Left found inconvenient that he didn’t want to pretend to “debunk,” censor, or slander. He called his beat at NBC “News” the “Dystopia Beat,” implying that living in a world with Orange Man and his supporters was a living hell.
He certainly worked hard to slander us.
Collins was, of course, one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation on planet Earth, lying about everything. He did revel in being a punching bag for the right, largely because he could slander us with impunity from his well-paid perch at NBC.
Think of him as a better-looking but less charming Joe Scarborough. He has Karine Jean-Pierre’s wit, Nina Jankowicz’s temperament, and Sam Bankman-Fried’s integrity and ethics.
Expect The Onion to become even less funny and even more biased. I don’t mind bias in my humor as long as it is, well, funny. Everybody needs to have his ego prodded, and by God the Right deserves as much ridicule as the Left. If you can’t laugh at Donald Trump selling Bibles in the same way he sold only OK steaks and crappy wine, then you need to get out more.
But The Onion is now focused on calling Republicans Nazis and similar names, and that isn’t funny. It’s stupid. You can make fun of people for being stupid, but being stupid is not funny. It is sad.
The Onion’s humor is closer to a Robert DeNiro rant about Trump than a Babylon Bee headline. It has gotten so unfunny that Elon Musk probably would not have noticed if Twitter had deplatformed them. He famously bought the platform in order to return The Babylon Bee to it.
It’s a calm, genteel 2024 — if only the Onion had more material to satirize these days:
This is why The Onion will fail. They won’t touch something like this.
A bit where aides were strategically tripping or wandering off in the wrong direction to make Biden appear normal would be great. https://t.co/LNNOo9a7g5
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) April 26, 2024
(Classical reference in headline.)
YOU WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: University of Washington anti-Israel encampment postponed over lack of diversity. “A planned anti-Israel encampment at the University of Washington was scrapped at the last minute because of a lack of diversity — following fierce backlash for not involving any Muslim, Palestinian or Arab students.”
It’s clown shows all the way down.
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NEW HOPE FOR NON-SELECTIVE COLLEGES: VOCATIONAL TRAINING. They might be woke too, but it won’t be 80 grand a year, and maybe you will learn a useful skill. Beats being on the receiving end of a quarter-million dollar mostly peaceful eye-stabbing.
ALL THE REPUBLICANS HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO JUST THAT: Kristi Noem describes killing dog after bad hunting trip in new book.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) in a forthcoming book describes shooting a family dog after a hunting trip, according to a report in The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.”
In the book, Noem, who has been discussed as a possible running mate for former President Trump, describes growing angry with the nearly 14-month-old “Cricket,” a wirehaired pointer, during a hunting trip.
Noem shot the dog after taking it on a pheasant hunt.
She writes that she had taken Cricket on the hunt hoping she would learn from older dogs, but that instead the younger dog ruined the hunt by “chasing all those birds and having the time of her life,” per the Guardian.
On the way home, the dog escaped her truck and attacked a local family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another,” Noem wrote.
When Noem tried to grab the dog, she wrote that it whipped around to bite her. Noem said she wrote the family a check for their chickens and helped them dispose of the carcasses “littering the scene of the crime.”
“I hated that dog,” she wrote, adding that Cricket was untrainable, dangerous and worthless as a hunting dog.
“At that moment,” Noem wrote, “I realized I had to put her down.”
After Jim Treacher’s classic “Obama ate a dog” discovery in 2012, and all of Biden’s woes with Commander, I’d assume that publication of this is battlefield prep by the Democrats to reduce the odds that Trump picks Noem as his veep nominee (“Kristi Noem puppy” is the first autocomplete upon entering her name into Firefox’s Google search bar and according to the search engine, “about 261,000 results” immediately pop up). But why on earth would Noem put this detail into her de rigueur election year book and give them the ammunition?
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY, PART DEUX: Top advisor to D.A. Gascón charged with illegal use of deputies’ confidential records.
California’s attorney general filed criminal charges Wednesday against one of L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s top advisors, who supervises high-profile and sensitive cases including police misconduct, fraud and public corruption.
Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced the 11 felony counts against Assistant Dist. Atty. Diana Teran in a press statement. He accused her of improperly downloading confidential records of law enforcement officers in 2018 while she was working for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Teran then “impermissibly used that data” after joining Gascón’s office three years later, Bonta said.
The confidential records concern 11 sheriff’s deputies, according to a criminal complaint filed in L.A. County Superior Court. The deputies’ names were not included in the court filing.
The announcement of criminal charges against one of Gascón’s top advisors — particularly one so closely tied to his agenda of law enforcement accountability and criminal justice reform — sent shock waves across the state’s legal community and was expected to have a far-reaching impact on active and future criminal cases handled by Gascón’s office, while also fueling fresh controversy as he pursues reelection this year.
As New York Times owner Tom Cotton wrote in December of 2021: Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.
DID IT EVER REALLY GO AWAY? The long-range precision rifle has found new life.
AS LONG AS IT’S NOT MADE OF CARBON FIBER: Newest luxury submersible offers ocean explorers champagne and blackjack.
IS THERE ENOUGH ADRENOCHROME* AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD FOR THIS TO HAPPEN? Biden Says ‘I’m Happy To Debate’ Trump.
On Friday, President Biden stated that he is willing to debate former President Donald Trump.
Speaking to radio host Howard Stern, Biden reportedly said, “I am somewhere. I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him.”
In late February, after special counsel Robert Hur’s report stated that Biden exhibited memory problems, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), a co-chair of Biden’s re-election campaign, responded to the consistent verbal gaffes committed by Biden, saying, “If Joe Biden commits a gaffe, a guy who stuttered all of his childhood, into his adulthood and everybody knows his stuttering is what caused a lot of his speech impediments, and we know that. It has nothing to do with his brain, he stumbles one time and everybody says, ‘He’s too old to be the president.’”
Of course, Biden’s “stuttering” is a recent invention by the DNC-MSM designed to explain away his brain dissolving into tapioca:
* No. No there is not, which is why Ed Morrissey writes, “Expect a walkback on that toute suite. The last thing Team Biden wants is their cognitively impaired candidate on stage in a live debate with a verbal pugilist like Trump. They won’t even allow Biden to do a live interview with the NY Times, and that would be a tongue-bath.”
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Antimicrobial-resistant hospital infections remain at least 12% above pre-pandemic levels, study finds.
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ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Inside the failed White House coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has learned.
Jean-Pierre, who made history in May 2022 by becoming the first black and first openly gay person to hold the position, had developed the exasperating habit of reading canned answers directly from a binder to reporters at her regular briefings — offering what her superiors viewed as a less-than-compelling pitch for the 81-year-old Biden as he readied his re-election campaign.
De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.
“There were a number of people she asked to engage Karine,” said one source who heard of the strategy directly from Dunn, whose role as senior adviser has been filled during the past three presidencies by Jared Kushner (Donald Trump), Valerie Jarrett (Barack Obama) and Karl Rove (George W. Bush).
The source also told The Post that Dunn had claimed White House chief of staff Jeff Zients knew about and supported the cloak-and-dagger scheme to push Jean-Pierre out of the West Wing.
“There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career,” the source said, calling it an “effort to encourage her to move along.”
It’s easy to ask the joking question, why is the left such a cesspit of racism and homophobia? But why is the Biden administration trapped in an identity politics box canyon of its own making? “Jean-Pierre is protected not by her stellar performance on the job, but by the identity boxes she checks. They can’t fire her without being eviscerated by the far left and its adherents in the mainstream press…Biden went woke instead of hiring a press secretary based on merit, and now he’s stuck with her during the most contentious presidential election campaign in history. That’s another self-inflicted wound committed in his dogged pursuit to please his left flank.”
And one more question, via our sister site, Twitchy: Will Peter Doucy ask Jean-Pierre about this story?
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