Academia’s DEI ‘Oppression’ Racket and the Demonization of Jews on Campus

Posted on | March 12, 2024 | 3 Comments

Harvard University alumna Dara Horn published a very interesting article in The Atlantic last month talking about the climate on elite campuses, the subject of congressional hearings:

The problem was not that Jewish students on American university campuses didn’t want free speech, or that they didn’t want to hear criticism of Israel. Instead, they didn’t want people vandalizing Jewish student organizations’ buildings, or breaking or urinating on the buildings’ windows. They didn’t want people tearing their mezuzahs down from their dorm-room doors. They didn’t want their college instructors spouting anti-Semitic lies and humiliating them in class. They didn’t want their posters defaced with Hitler caricatures, or their dorm windows plastered with F**K JEWS. They didn’t want people punching them in the face, or beating them with a stick, or threatening them with death for being Jewish. At world-class American colleges and universities, all of this happened and more. . . .
In Congress, all three university presidents offered some version of the platitudes that “Hatred comes from ignorance” and “Education is the answer.” But if hatred comes from ignorance, why were America’s best universities full of this very specific ignorance? And why were so many people trying to justify it, explain it away, or even deny it? . . .
Shortly after the [October 7] attacks, a Cornell professor publicly proclaimed the barbarity “exhilarating” and “energizing,” while a Columbia professor called it “awesome” and an “achievement.” Comparable praise percolated through America’s top universities, coming from students and faculty alike. On campuses around the country, students began gathering regularly to chant “There is only one solution: intifada revolution!”—a reference to a suicide-bombing campaign in Israel a generation ago that maimed and murdered well over 1,000 Jews. (If there is only one solution, perhaps one could call it the Final Solution.)
Students took these rallies inside libraries and other campus buildings. They vandalized university property with such slogans as “Zionism = Genocide,” “New Intifada,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”—referring to a geographic area that encompasses the entirety of the state of Israel, where half the world’s Jews live. . . . On some campuses, the exhilaration escalated into death threats and physical assaults against Jewish students. When a Jewish Tulane University student tried to stop an anti-Israel protester near campus from burning an Israeli flag, protesters attacked him and other Jewish students, breaking one student’s nose. . . .
Many public and private institutions have invested enormously in recent years in attempts to defang bigotry; ours is an era in which even sneaker companies feel obliged to publicly denounce hate. But diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have proved to be no match for anti-Semitism, for a clear reason: the durable idea of anti-Semitism as justice.
DEI efforts are designed to combat the effects of social prejudice by insisting on equity: Some people in our society have too much power and too much privilege, and are overrepresented, so justice requires leveling the playing field. But anti-Semitism isn’t primarily a social prejudice. It is a conspiracy theory: the big lie that Jews are supervillains manipulating others. The righteous fight for justice therefore does not require protecting Jews as a vulnerable minority. Instead it requires taking Jews down. . . .

Missed it by that much, as Maxwell Smart used to say.

“Diversity, equity and inclusion” programs — and the justification of such programs as necessary for “leveling the playing field” in the name “justice” — represent a simplistic misunderstanding of how the world operates, a misunderstanding directly related to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Ronald Reagan once famously described this worldview: “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.” Exactly so.

The Left believes that inequality is synonymous with injustice. Insofar as you have a nickel’s more net worth than your neighbor, this disparity proves that you are oppressing him. You may laugh at this as silly hyperbole, but it is the essence of the belief system that justifies DEI programs at universities, and which also justifies people claiming that Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza. How unfair it is — an injustice! — that Israel should be a wealthy nation while Gaza is poor, and how unfair it is that Israel has a powerful military with which to punish Hamas.

Viewed through the warped lenses of leftist thinking, nations that win wars are always oppressors and those who lose wars are always victims — unless, however, the winners are Communists, in which case how dare you speak of “victims” you capitalist swine! The Left’s formulaic conceptions of “justice” are always premised on the idea that successful people have somehow succeeded at the expense of others, and therefore failure is proof of victimhood. If the average annual income of Group A is X, while the income of Group B is X-minus-1, then Group B has been cheated out of its “fair share,” according to the Left.

The disparity between Jews in Israel and Arabs in Gaza (the essential casus belli of the October 7 Hamas attacks) may have a long history and involve many different factors, but the motives of Hamas terrorism are really just the same sort of whiny demand for “fairness” that grown-ups learn to expect from any five-year-old who’s been told “no.”

For nearly 40 years, the beef was the Israeli occupation of Gaza. So in 2005, Israel announced it was pulling out of Gaza, removing its settlements: “Here, you can have it. No more occupation.” The Palestinians could have turned Gaza into a luxury seaside resort community, but they’re Palestinians, you see. Success is not in their DNA; failure is the essence of their national character. The residents of Gaza promptly elected Hamas as their governing party and turned Gaza into a hive of terrorism, a base for launching attacks against Israel, which happened routinely — although the world at large seldom took notice — up until the big attack on October 7, which could not be ignored, and which led to Israel finally determining to destroy Hamas.

Dara Horn, bless her heart, cannot let go of her leftist conceptions of “justice,” even when these ideas are used as justification for Jew-hating. She speaks of DEI programs as necessary to “combat the effects of social prejudice,” without bothering to interrogate that premise.

What does “social prejudice” mean, and does such prejudice suffice as the all-purpose explanation for disparities and conflicts between various groups on the campus of Harvard or anywhere else? How much does it matter, in terms of an individual’s success and happiness in life, whether he is an object of “social prejudice”? Isn’t it better — as a matter of education, which is after all what Harvard is supposed to be good at — to teach young people to cope effectively with whatever disadvantages they may suffer, than to fill them with resentment and self-pity by lecturing them about how oppressed they are? Dara Horn has apparently never given much thought to this aspect of what’s gone wrong at her alma mater, and why? Because conservatives are, and have been for many years, persona non grata at Harvard and other Ivy League schools.

The Ivy League is Decadent and Depraved, as I have often remarked, and the reason for this depravity is simply that the Left has taken control and implemented a regime of ideological conformity, so that these campuses have become echo chambers, where never is heard a dissenting word. Occasionally, someone with faculty tenure will deviate from the Gospel of Social Justice — Amy Wax at Penn Law, for example — but these isolated heretics are swiftly purged or marginalized, since disagreement is now classified as “hate.” Because these schools now consider political indoctrination to be their primary objective, they must ensure that students are never confronted by any criticism of the Official Ideology.

The perverse idea of a world controlled by mechanisms of oppression, where victimhood is given prestige by demands for “social justice,” is now deeply rooted on elite campuses because of the political conformity that the Left has imposed not only in universities, but also in K-12 public education. If conservatives are effectively banned from university faculties, and if school teachers must obtain university degrees as credential for employment, it is predictable that the same political beliefs which prevail at Harvard will inform the curriculum and pedagogy in every public school classroom. It was perhaps not predictable that this process would ultimately result in college students chanting Hamas slogans and terrorizing Jews on campus, but now that this result has been achieved, we ought to be honest about how and why it happened.

Dara Horn and other liberal Jews are learning a bitter lesson, but many of them refuse to acknowledge how their basic worldview — their doctrinaire devotion to “social justice” — is implicated in the frightening rise of anti-Semitism at Harvard and other elite universities. Joe Biden is now pandering to Hamas because he’s afraid of losing support among Palestinians in Michigan. Can any Jew be so blind as to not see what this omen portends for the future? “The Corbynization of the Democratic Party” is too far along to be stopped now. At some point, this process will lead Jews to . . . Well, an exodus, so to speak. You can either support Israel, or you can be a Democrat. You can’t do both. And something similar could be said for the Ivy League and other elite universities. These institutions face a choice. They can either stop suppressing conservative dissent, or else they’ll be swallowed up entirely by the kind of politically motivated hatred that now expresses itself with murderous slogans borrowed from Hamas and Hezbollah. Ironic isn’t it? “Progressives” claim to be so intellectually and morally superior to the rest of us and yet, whenever they attain control anywhere — in academia, in Hollywood, in government — the results are always a disaster. Harvard University is now more anti-Semitic than a Klan rally, and it’s all because of progressives and their “social justice” ideology.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Country Girls

Posted on | March 11, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Currently on X, people are wrecking Lebanese cosmetics addict and e-thot Sameera Khan for calling noted catfish noodler Hannah Barron “masculine”, mocking her accent, and claiming that the only men who admired such “masculine women” are “gay”. I blocked her. Life’s too short to be giving attention to such losers.
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Hannah Barron looking hot.

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#DUUUVAL! Patriots Trading Mac Jones to Jacksonville; Now I’m a Jags Fan?

Posted on | March 10, 2024 | Comments Off on #DUUUVAL! Patriots Trading Mac Jones to Jacksonville; Now I’m a Jags Fan?

First, the news from ESPN:

The New England Patriots are finalizing a deal to trade quarterback Mac Jones to the Jacksonville Jaguars, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Sunday.
The Patriots will receive a 2024 sixth-round pick as compensation, sources told Schefter. The trade cannot be processed until the new league year begins Wednesday and Jones passes a physical.
New England owns the No. 3 pick in the NFL draft, where many around the league expect them to select one of the top-rated quarterbacks — likely a decision between LSU’s Jayden Daniels and North Carolina’s Drake Maye.
Jones, who grew up in Jacksonville, joins his hometown team as a backup to Trevor Lawrence — the first pick in the 2021 draft. Jones was selected 15th in the 2021 draft.
Mac Jones is the second quarterback selected in the 2021 first round to be traded before the end of his rookie contract. It’s possible that Zach Wilson and Justin Fields will have that distinction this offseason as well.
Jones is expected to compete with C.J. Beathard to be Lawrence’s primary backup. Beathard is in the final year of a two-year, $4.5 million contract he signed before the 2023 season.
Beathard has started just one game in his three seasons in Jacksonville, completing 17 of 24 passes for 178 yards to lead the Jaguars to a 26-0 victory over the Carolina Panthers in Week 17 last season. That was the only win for the Jaguars in their final six games, as they finished 9-8 and failed to make the playoffs.
Lawrence had started every game of his NFL career until he missed Week 17 because of a right, throwing shoulder injury he suffered the week before in a loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Lawrence battled multiple injuries last season: a left knee sprain, an ankle sprain, a concussion and the shoulder injury. He wasn’t a full participant in any practice over the last three weeks of the season.
Jones’ three-year tenure with the Patriots began with promise, as he was selected to the Pro Bowl as an alternate in his rookie season. Jones started all 17 regular-season games as the Patriots went 10-7 and clinched a playoff berth (losing to the Buffalo Bills 47-17 in the wild-card round).
Jones was 352-of-521 for 3,801 yards with 22 touchdowns and 13 interceptions as a rookie, but his production dipped over the next two seasons. The departure of offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to become the Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach was the first of several changes — both coaching- and personnel-wise — that affected Jones’ development.

Assuming the deal is done, so is my tenure as a New England Patriots fan. When they drafted my boy from Alabama, they acquired me as a fan, and now I’ve been traded to Jacksonville, and I’m fine with that. All things considered, it’s an ideal situation for Mac. He won’t have to deal with the crazy expectations in New England, where the fans seem to think they’re entitled to be in the Super Bowl every year, and Mac Jones was always faulted for not being Tom Brady 2.0. After the last couple of rotten years in New England, Mac needs to recover his confidence, and the low expectations in Jacksonville — where they’ve never won a Super Bowl, and have only made two playoff appearances in the past 15 years — will be very helpful in that regard. Plus, he’s only expected to be the backup to golden boy Trevor Lawrence, and he should be grateful for that opportunity, given the injuries Lawrence suffered this past season.

The way the NFL is nowadays, especially with their concussion protocols, having a backup QB who’s ready to go is absolutely essential. Last year, Joe Flacco was sitting on his sofa until November, when injuries forced the Cleveland Browns to sign him and, at age 38, led them to the playoffs. One could easily envision Mac Jones getting his chance to be QB1 for the Jaguars if Lawrence gets injured again, but even if that doesn’t happen, Mac might benefit from a year or two as a backup QB before making his way back to being a starter, if not in Jacksonville, then with some other team. He’s at a crucial juncture of his career, and now has a chance to redeem his reputation. So for 2024, I say, let’s go Jags!

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FMJRA 2.0: The Shame of Life

Posted on | March 10, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Shame of Life

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
Did you know Kid Rock wrote the chorus for this song? If you’ve listened to a lot of his music (and I have) it jumps right out at you, but I guess it was a big surprise for a lot of people. Wonder if he’ll ever do a cover version.
The draft in Pete’s league is over, someone finally volunteered to manage the Expos (poor bastard), and this is what my roster looks like now that the dust has settled. I think I’m going to do a little better than last year, but I don’t think the team is much better than last year when I wiped out in the first round of the playoffs.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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And on the Eighth Day, God Said, ‘Everybody Should Buy Evan Sayet’s Book’

Posted on | March 9, 2024 | Comments Off on And on the Eighth Day, God Said, ‘Everybody Should Buy Evan Sayet’s Book’

“Not liking something doesn’t mean that that something doesn’t exist. If it did, then there’d be no such thing as a Jennifer Aniston movie.”
— Evan Sayet, from his new book

Ten years ago, I credited Evan Sayet with having written “the most important book since Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type,” and now he’s topped even that achievement with his comprehensive demolition of the Darwinian worldview, Magic Soup, Typing Monkeys, And Horny Aliens From Outer Space: The Patently Absurd Wholly Unsubstantiated and Extravagantly Failed Atheist Origin Myth.

Evan and I go way back. It was at CPAC 2007 that I was wandering through the lobby of the Omni Shoreham Hotel after midnight and happened upon Evan in the company of a fellow I recognized, Andrew Breitbart, who had not then ascended to his status as the world’s most famous Internet provocateur. Because I knew that Breitbart was Matt Drudge’s right-hand man, and because I worked at The Washington Times — where getting Drudge links to our stories was essential to maintaining our profile — I immediately insinuated myself into this group, which also conveniently happened to have picked up a 12-pack of beer. So I ended up spending the night in their hotel room, where Evan tried to sleep while I listened to Andrew tell his amazing stories. Was this meeting a matter of mere chance? Was it a random accident? Or was it destiny — fate, kismet, or dare I say, the will of God in action?

Dear friends, there are no coincidences, and the same divine force that put me in that hotel drinking beers with Breitbart until 3 a.m. also brought forth other miraculous events that the godless would have us believe happened by mere luck. This is the crux of Evan Sayet’s attack on what he properly calls the Militant Materialist worldview of those atheists who claim that Darwinian theory disproves the existence of God.

Coincidence — chance, random luck, statistical probability — is what the atheists offer as the explanatory alternative to Creation. Evan Sayet grabs hold of this point with the ferocity of a pitbull and does not let go until the Godless Serendipity Theory is bleeding out from a loss of credibility:

Atheism is not a scientific belief. In fact, it is neither scientific nor a belief. Militant atheism is not an ideology. It is a weapon used by demagogues and would-be revolutionaries to clear the moral path to their rise to power and the godless way in which they intend to rule.

Evan’s book is crammed full of pithy paragraphs like that, as well as many laugh-out-loud punch lines like that gag about Jennifer Aniston movies. A veteran stand-up comedian and writer for TV comedy shows, Evan knows how to make his points with humor, but as much as you’ll enjoy his jokes, you’ll also understand that Magic Soup is a very serious project, given the totalitarian implications of the atheist worldview.

Ask yourself a question: “Why am I reading this?” Out of all the blog posts in the entire World Wide Web, why are you reading this one? Could it be that Almighty God wants you to buy Evan Sayet’s new book? Far be it from me to presume to speak on God’s behalf, but let the reader ponder the improbability of any other explanation for why you are, in fact, reading a blog post with such a headline. There are no coincidences.

Whereas I tend toward a Calvinistic explanation of how God’s will operates in human affairs, my good friend Evan Sayet is arguably closer to the original source of our monotheistic faith, IYKWIMAITYD.

When Evan contacted me to let me know he had a new book on the market, one of the first things he told me was that it had gotten a glowing review in Chronicles, to which I replied, “Wow.” Because, as I was aware, Chronicles has sometimes had a reputation as being not entirely friendly toward Members of the Tribe. It would be grossly unfair to say that Chronicles is, or ever was, anti-Semitic, but the magazine is proud of its status as the de facto journal of paleoconservatism, and thus the nemesis of neoconservatism, and if you’ve followed the history of that obscure conflict — as I have, by necessity — you perhaps understand why I was impressed to learn that Chronicles had heaped praise on Magic Soup.

How often must I repeat myself: There are no coincidences. Because you see, dear reader, that when I went to find the Chronicles review of Evan’s book, I discovered that it was written by none other than former Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter — who just happens to be the political hero of my co-blogger Smitty. What are the statistical probabilities of such a happenstance? Never mind — it’s the divine will at work, and you can believe whatever you want to believe, but as for myself, I’m 100% certain that it was none other than Jehovah who aligned this so perfectly.

We live in troubled times, my friends, and never has it been more urgent to rally the faithful to defend against the worldwide armies of godlessness that have now surrounded the Camp of the Saints (Revelation 20:9).

You can — indeed, you should, and I would argue, you must — click here to buy Magic Soup, Typing Monkeys, And Horny Aliens From Outer Space: The Patently Absurd Wholly Unsubstantiated and Extravagantly Failed Atheist Origin Myth for $15.99, and by purchasing it through this link, of course, you’ll provide a small commission to me, at no extra cost to yourself. It would be a mitzvah, and may God bless you for it.

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In The Mailbox: 03.08.24

Posted on | March 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.08.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Beginning Of The End For Disney Animation
EBL: Joe Biden’s State of the Union, Liz Cheney Lied, Truth Died, and The New Look
Twitchy: Civil Disobedience FTW – Indiana Students Defy High School’s Stupid “No American Flags” Rule, “Heal That Divide” – RFK Jr.’s Response To Biden’s SOTU Rant, and Today’s Installment of “You Don’t Hate Journalists Enough”
Louder With Crowder: Shopper orders three queer books from Target, hilariously gets sent a Bible instead, “On the inside, I am a lesbian”, Joe Rogan’s reaction is all of us when hearing what the NCAA forced women to go through to appease trans Lia Thomas, and Hero illustrates (mostly) proper way to stop stealing, catches pink-haired shoplifter in the act
Vox Popoli: The Specialist Always Wins, Convergence Kills US Semiconductors, and Is This Really News?
According To Hoyt: Confinement AAR, Tell It Again, and Kicks To The Teeth
Monster Hunter Nation: ‘You Should Be Writing’
Upstream Reviews: Escaping Infinity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Biden’s State of the Union Was a Declaration of War
American Greatness: A Response to Biden’s State of the Union Address, Decades Later, Hayek’s Warning on Planning Echoes Louder than Ever, and Gold Star Dad Arrested For Heckling Biden During State of the Union
American Thinker: Obama-Biden Administration Was Creeping Fascism
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Hydrogen Boondoggle Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Minister of the Economy purged by the Castro dictatorship now under criminal investigation, Venezuelan dictatorship bans German DW news network for reporting on its corruption and human rights abuses, and Senator Ted Cruz and Super Tuesday in Texas
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Cafe Hayek: Proletarian Capitalists
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
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Don Surber: America Wants Biden v. Trump
First Street Journal: “Queer Advocates” are alarmed that Uncle Sam isn’t going to pay for their kink parties
Gates Of Vienna: Not Even a Slap on the Wrist for a Culture-Enriching Murderer, also, Where Should Europeans Flee To When Our Countries Have Been Destroyed?
The Geller Report: There Are Terrorists In Congress
Hollywood In Toto: SXSW Cancels Cancel Culture Expert Rikki Schlott, also, Cabrini Stuns in More Ways Than One
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Outkick: NFL Quarterback Derby Begins And This Is How It Looks When 2024 Season Opens, Hannah Storm Pens Women’s History Month Essay, And It’s A Far Cry From Last Year’s Lia Thomas Tribute, Aaron Rodgers Wants To Play Four More Seasons In The NFL. Could He? Trouble In Paradise: The Dodgers’ Superteam Is Already Having Issues, NIL Based In-Season College Basketball Tournament Set To Pay $2 Million To Winning Team, FOX Looks To Cash In With New Friday Night College Football Package; Fight With ESPN Continues, and Warren Moon Says Russell Wilson Still ‘Very Effective,’ Might Follow Same Path As Joe Flacco
Power Line: How Illegal Can You Get? Thoughts from the ammo line, and The SOTU from hell
Shark Tank: Scott Condemns Earmark Spending In Senate Resolution
Shot In The Dark: Retirement Planning, An American Hero, and Mark Your Calendars
STUMP: Updated U.S. Lightning Deaths For 2023
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Question of Rhodesia
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Transterrestrial Musings: Libertarians Are The Real Liberals, also, A Fusion Breakthrough?
Victory Girls: Biden Performance Means No Excuses For Avoiding Debates
Volokh Conspiracy: Claim That University of Oregon Equity Blocked Twitter User for Tweeting “All Men Are Created Equal” Can Go Forward
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‘Fiery’ Is the Official Adjective for Joe Biden’s Angry State of the Union Speech (Because ‘Amped-Up on Adderall’ Wouldn’t Fit in the Headlines)

Posted on | March 8, 2024 | 2 Comments

President Joe Biden gives
fiery State of Union speech
— CBS News

‘Wake up’: Biden delivers fiery
State of the Union — sparring with critics
and swiping at Trump
— NBC News

Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump
on ‘democracy and freedom’
in fiery State of the Union speech
— Financial Times

State of the Union: Biden draws
election battle lines in fiery speech
— BBC

If ever you suspected the media were a herd of sheep, mindlessly repeating Democratic Party talking points — well, of course, your suspicions were correct, but seldom more clearly than in the way they “reported” Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech (which I didn’t watch, out of concern for my own mental health). After a nice sandwich for dinner — cracked pepper turkey with gouda cheese on whole-grain bread — I went to bed early then woke up about 12:30 a.m. to check in on my old buddy Stephen Green’s “drunkblogging” of the speech:

Jeebus. He’s so jacked up, he navigates a sentence like a 16-year-old boy unhooking his first bra. . . .
If the goal tonight was to prove that Grandpa can handle more juice in his veins than Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, then it’s Mission Accomplished.

Those are a few of the highlights, omitting Steve’s attempts to transcribe whatever INCOHERENT GIBBERISH JOE BIDEN WAS SHOUTING — and, I take it, Joe did an awful lot of incoherent shouting.

Just as an aside, Steve really does drunkblog those speeches. He’s been doing it for, what, 20 years now? After the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver, I spent the night at Steve’s house nearby and watched him drunkblog the speech in which Sarah Palin was introduced as McCain’s running mate. Steve went through a half-dozen martinis like it was nothing, and with seemingly no effect. The guy’s liver is a marvel of medical science. In the event of thermonuclear Armageddon, Steve’s liver will be the only thing to survive. And speaking of substance abuse . . .

Everybody knows Joe was pumped full of stimulants before that speech Thursday night. The idea was to show how energetic and vigorous the old guy is, which was why HE KEPT SHOUTING EVERYTHING. (Except, of course, when he was doing the Scary Joe whisper.)

Thursday night’s speech began late because a mob of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the presidential motorcade route from the White House to the Capitol. How many of those protesters will be sent to prison like the J6 Trump supporters? The answer is zero. There are no consequences for left-wing mayhem in Joe Biden’s America.

? BREAKING: Pro-Palestine protesters are BLOCKING Joe Biden’s Motorcade to the State of the Union

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 8, 2024

Here’s what we know about State of the Union speeches, historically: Almost nobody watches the whole thing. Most people who tune in give up after 20 or 30 minutes of boredom, so that very few people are still watching at the end. It is therefore significant that Joe began the speech with basically a 30-minute campaign-rally attack on Trump and “MAGA” Republicans, which prompted this reaction from MsEBL:

All I could think was, wow, this must be how German Jews felt listening to Hitler speeches in the early 30s.

Exactly. Biden campaigned in 2020 claiming that he was going to “unite” the country, and his apparent plan to accomplish this goal is to demonize everybody who didn’t vote for him as un-American traitors.

Something else we know about State of the Union speeches: The president always gets a poll “bump” afterwards, so that no matter how awful you think Biden’s speech was, prepare to be shocked next week when the TV talking heads are gushing about Biden’s “comeback” in the polls. By the end of March, he may actually be leading Trump in the RCP average, but don’t get discouraged by this because, as I say, it’s predictable, and the post-SOTU “bump” almost certainly won’t last. The White House physician can’t keep pumping Joe full of stimulants on a daily basis without risking the old guy dying from a stroke, so we can expect to be back to normal conditions — Sleepy Joe and his feeble approval rankings — by the time summer arrives.

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