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Pro-Hamas ‘Liberals’ and Other Thoughts on the Binary Nature of Choices

Posted on | November 17, 2023 | 1 Comment

Antifa thug punches Richard Spencer, Jan. 20, 2017

“I remember,” says Professor Glenn Reynolds, “when all the best people told us it was okay to punch Nazis.” Some of the same people were chagrined this week when a pro-Hamas mob attempted to storm the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Excuse me, but if you lie down with dogs, you can’t complain about waking up with fleas, and when Democrats — in a mood of derangement and despair after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 — decided to embrace the violent Antifa mob, they made a choice that had consequences.

It turns out the vicious anarchists have ideas about foreign policy that most Democrats consider to be (pardon the phrase) not kosher.

For several weeks — months, perhaps — I’ve been turning over in my mind some ideas about the nature of choices. Many people seem not to understand the binary nature of the choices they make in life. Their way of thinking has become vague, clouded by prejudices, preferences and sentiments that they’ve never bothered to analyze in any kind of critical or objective way. Those of us trained in a more categorical way of thinking are at a loss to comprehend the foolish and often self-destructive choices made by people who seem to believe they can do whatever they please, as it suits their fickle moods, without having to deal with consequences that any prudent person would consider predictable.

Someone once referred to this as the “Nerf life,” where there are no sharp edges and everything is padded with foam. Academic standards are lowered, to prevent stupid or lazy students from encountering bad grades that might damage their fragile self-esteem, and we can’t lock up criminals because “social justice” or whatever, and such projects aimed at protecting people from the consequences of their choices are everywhere advocated by “all the best people,” as Professor Reynolds might say.

It is this tendency toward “Nerf life,” I would argue, that has caused many people (particularly the young) to avoid the kind of categorical thinking wherein we distinguish between A and not A, between truth and error, between wisdom and folly, between right and wrong, good and evil.

Perhaps you and I have different moral belief systems. Perhaps we have different ideas of what is beautiful, what is good, what is just. But so long as we are each free to act upon our beliefs — to put our values in action in our daily lives — then others may observe and judge our values based upon the outcomes we produce. If one of us ends up in a situation of misery and squalor, while the other finds happiness and success, there can be no doubt in the mind of an objective observer which of us has the superior value system. Whose behavior should we emulate? Whose example should we study? Whose advice should we seek? This is why consequences matter, and why trying to protect people from consequences is a bad idea. Why should anyone take care to avoid errors, if they experience no harm from their incorrect choices? And how morally confused must people become, if they’re constantly told that people who make bad choices are victims of unjust “oppression”?

Do I need to explain how this applies to Gaza? Hamas made a choice in their October 7 mass, and the people now demanding a ceasefire are trying to protect Hamas from the consequences of that choice. And they’ll say, “Oh, but what about the innocent civilians?” Well, the people of Gaza elected Hamas, a choice which anyone might have predicted would have bad consequences, the same way the German people had to deal with the consequences of electing Hitler as chancellor in 1933.

The Gods of the Copybook Headings could not be reached for comment.

This evening I watched a YouTube video of a police chase in Savannah, Georgia. Cop pulled over a guy because his tag was expired. Ran the guy’s name through the computer, found out there was a warrant for his arrest on charges of domestic violence and aggravated stalking. The cop asks the guy to step out of the vehicle, instead the guy takes off at high speed, and the cops give chase. A Georgia State Patrol trooper hears the radio call and joins the pursuit. Folks, if you’re ever in Georgia, do not try to outrun the state patrol. This is a choice so bad, you may not live to regret it, because under certain circumstances, state troopers are authorized to conduct PIT maneuvers at any speed. And thus did VanQuan Jaquel Scott join the choir invisible: “He that fucketh around shall findeth out.”

Is the analogy clear enough? Like the people of Gaza, who made a choice in electing Hamas, VanQuan Scott made a choice to run from cops, rather than to submit to arrest and have his day in court. This is how dangerous the world can be, without Nerf foam covering up all the sharp corners: Make the wrong choice, and death is the consequence.

What about the mob that tried to storm the DNC headquarters?

THEY ARE BAD PEOPLE.

See, this is the kind of categorical thinking that is discouraged nowadays. We aren’t supposed to distinguish between “good people” and “bad people.” We aren’t supposed to make judgments like that, according to liberals. The armed carjacker isn’t really a bad person; no, the liberals insist, he’s a misunderstood juvenile who is disadvantaged, suffering from low-esteem, a victim of “systemic racism,” blahblahblah.

You might notice, however, that liberals have no trouble deciding that you are a bad person, if you disagree with them. The liberal has no trouble making categorical distinctions when it comes to politics — people who vote for Democrats are good, and people who vote for Republicans are bad. The confusion comes, however, when the liberal encounters opposition from radical scumbags like that pro-Hamas mob, who are obviously not Republican voters. This was the kind of conflict that tore the Democratic Party apart in 1968 and, indeed, didn’t discontent among the left-wing “Bernie Bros” have something to do with how Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016?

Let the hitherto loyal Democrat ponder the consequences of his choice of allies. Was it really a good idea to cheer Antifa as your chosen bully boys, acting out your post-election rage after Hillary lost? Was it a good idea to applaud the arson and vandalism and looting in the summer of 2020?

You’ve made your choices, see, and if you don’t like the consequences, who’s going to bail you out? Y’all kept telling us Trump was a wannabe Hitler, but which party is now embracing a mob of Jew-hating thugs?

“SQUIRREL!” screams the liberal, pointing to something Elon Musk said on The Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter.

Yes, of course, the really dangerous Jew-hater must be someone else, some “right-wing” billionaire you can demonize easily, and thereby distract the public from your own Jew-hating allies. You think nobody will spot this for the cheap tactic it is, and perhaps most people will overlook it, but not all of us are blind or stupid.

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil . . . I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
— Deuteronomy 30:15, 19 (KJV)

It’s all about choices. Be careful what you choose.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Further thoughts on the theme of choices and consequences: “Real Wrath of God Type Stuff.”



 

Category: Israel, Liberals

In The Mailbox: 11.16.23

Posted on | November 17, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.16.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Coming soon: the big Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Books Sale!

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

Unsolicited plug for the parallel economy.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Electric Vehicles Were No Match For Winter, also, Great Moments In Unexpected Consequences
EBL: The Killer, Ben Shapiro and Candance Owens – Get A Room You Two!, and I did not know this about casting Aragorn in Lord of the Rings
Twitchy: Journalist Claims DNC Building Wasn’t “Completely” Surrounded By Protesters, Sen. Tammy Duckworth Gets Schooled On Bidenomics, and Oilfield Rando Notes The Radicalization Of AWFLs
Louder With Crowder: Watch: Bud Light paid Dylan Mulvaney A LOT more to tank their company than previously reported (Exclusive), Scientists Want Meat Labeled With ‘Cigarette-Style’ Warnings About Climate Change, Hair Salon Owner Accused Of Telling Trans Clients To, Quote,  “Seek Services At Local Pet Groomer”, and Joe Rogan gets The Rock to admit he doesn’t have any friends who like Joe Biden: “Thank you, that’s a good check”
Vox Popoli: The Vanishing Letter, Live By the Big Two, and Why Gen Z Rejects the Jews
Ammo.com: Gun Ownership By State

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’
American Greatness: When Has War Even Been ‘Proportional?’ also, GOP Lawmaker Asks Wray About ‘Ghost Buses’ ‘Filled With FBI Informants Dressed as Trump Supporters’ on J6
American Thinker: The Catastrophic Death of Fairness
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Iran is Asshoe News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship adds 16 more political prisoners in October, total rises to 1,062, Castro dictatorship’s ‘exploding croquettes’ claims another victim in Cuba, Reports from Cuba: ‘What he wants is green,’ not Cuban pesos, and Norah Jones’ ‘cultural exchange’ with her Cuban manipulators
BattleSwarm: Second Mistrial Declared in Garza Political APD Prosecution
Behind The Black: Red China launches ocean observation satellite, Biden White House proposes major expansion of the regulations governing commercial space, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot continues to shrink, possibly to its smallest size ever measured, Amazon’s first two Kuiper satellites in orbit worked exactly as planned, and Starship/Superheavy test launch delayed to November 18, 2023
Cafe Hayek: On Hayek and His ‘Constitution of Liberty’
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Three interesting Hospital Videos from the Israel Hamas War, also, I’m am proud to be on the FBI’s Anti Government Antiauthority Violent Extremist List
Don Surber: Jewish Group Bets $100 Million Against The Squad
First Street Journal: Has your income increased 58.39% since November of 2020? Gasoline prices have increased that much!
Gates Of Vienna: The Silence of the Muslims, Rolling Out the Red Carpet for the Culture-Enrichers, “Swedes” in Gaza Will Have to Take Their Chances, and The Puir Wee Migrant Bairns of Hamburg Are Packing Heat
The Geller Report: Ahmed Mohamed Nassar Who Shot and Killed Hero Austin SWAT Officer Was On FBI’s JIHAD TERROR Watchlist
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, NGC 1556, When Your Customer Base Becomes More Selective, Everything Is Proceeding As I Have Foreseen, and The Past Few Weeks, The Next Couple of Days
Hollywood In Toto: Dan Aykroyd on The Blues Brothers – ‘You’d Never Make It Today’
The Lid: A Federal Judge Just Falsely Declared That There Is NO Right To Acquire A Gun
Legal Insurrection: Republican Lawmakers in Florida Target Scholarships and Grants of Students Who Support Hamas, NYC Mayor Adams Cuts School and NYPD Budgets Due to Migrant Crisis, Jewish Students Escorted From Meeting at Arizona State by Police After Protesters Throw Rocks, “Multiple Organs in Transit for Multiple Patients” Delayed By Pro-Hamas Shutdown Of San Francisco Bay Bridge, IDF Found Hamas Weapons, Including Rockets, Hidden in a Child’s Bed, George Washington University Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine Over Anti-Semitic Projections on Building, and TikTok Influencers Encouraging People to Read, Embrace Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fr. Pavone
Outkick: The Chiefs Can Have Taylor Swift, Tennessee Has Dolly Parton: Tennessee’s Tony Vitello Is Stoked For Saturday, With Dolly In Knoxville, JimMichigan’s Jim Harbaugh Accepts Suspension, Will Not Fight In Court After Big Ten Agrees To Close Inquiry, Deion Sanders Claims Coaches Are Lying To Recruits About Him Amid Texas A&M Rumors, Rob Gronkowski Calls Out Whining Diggs Brothers Worried About Bills: ‘Just Suck It Up’, Georgetown Basketball Coach Ed Cooley Tells Young Reporters To ‘Grow Up’ And Ask Questions, Trouble In LSU Women’s Basketball Paradise? Angel Reese May Have Been Suspended After Benching, And Social Media Drama, and MLB Tacitly Admits Defeat, Awards 2025 All-Star Game To Atlanta; Commissioner Apology Next?
Power Line: Will America Lose the Next War? The Fall of Minneapolis: The film, and Canceling Magellan
Shark Tank: Rep. Aaron Bean Introduces Bill Targeting Campus Anti-semitism
Shot In The Dark: The Army of Davids, also, Want To Feel Depressed Out of Your Mind?
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – “DEI”: Diversity Failing Science; Excluding Biological Reality From Medicine; Inequality Mandated For Faculty Statements In Aerospace Programs
This Ain’t Hell: Wrongthink vs. rightthink? Coasties Rescued, and Senators ask the VA to stop needless foreclosures on veterans
Transterrestrial Musings: THe WHite House’s SPace-POlicy PRoposal
Victory Girls: Commie American Millionaires Funding Death Celebrations
Volokh Conspiracy: Bans on Approaching or Videorecording Hunters Struck Down by Seventh Circuit
Watts Up With That: India To Increase Coal Production By 60%, Lions and Tigers?  No, Beavers and Wolves, and How China Dominates the World – And Lies about Climate Commitment
The Federalist: How Congress Can Do Away With Spendy Government Shutdown Theater For Good, Special Counsel Lets Biden Off Scot-Free In Classified Docs Case While DOJ Tries To Imprison Trump For The Same Thing, What This Pro-Life Ohioan Learned From Losing To Pro-Abortion Radicals, Mike Lee Blasts GOP Colleagues Protesting Tuberville Hold, ‘I Can’t Believe Anybody Buys This Crap’, The Media Aren’t Quite Hackish Enough For The Biden White House, FBI, CDC Ignored Concerns Over California-Based Chinese Biolab Containing Deadly Pathogens, and Don’t Trans The Tomboys
Mark Steyn: Buyer’s Remorse, also, Suits Across the Atlantic

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Can You Guess Which One of These Men Is (Allegedly) a Homosexual Pedophile?

Posted on | November 16, 2023 | 3 Comments

Let me begin by thanking Ace of Spades for inspiring this little contest.

Both of the two men pictured above are liberal journalists. One of them is a frequent guest on the MSNBC program Morning Joe, and the other one was recently arrested on child pornography charges:

Court documents cited by the Berkshire Eagle earlier this week allege that [the suspect’s] phone contained disturbing video clips showing boys believed to be as young as 3 years of age being raped and forced to perform sex acts by adults.
Assistant District Attorney Marianne Shelvey said this was one of the most “egregious” cases of its kind she has come across.
If convicted, [the suspect] faces mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years in state prison if convicted of dissemination of child pornography and five years if convicted of possession of child pornography.

While I could keep you in suspense a while longer, I’ll go ahead and tell you that the suspect charged with child pornography is Slade Sohmer (the one in the photo on the right above), and not frequent MSNBC guest John Heilemann (in the photo at top left). However, the two men had a past business relationship. In 2019, Heilemann co-founded a video-news website called The Recount. Slade Sohmer was editor-in-chief of The Recount. More than $30 million in investment capital was plowed into The Recount before it went broke in December 2022. Two months later, it was announced that The Recount would be acquired by another video-media startup, the News Movement. Burning through $30 million in venture capital in four years is not a crime, but it certainly raises questions about Heilemann’s judgment, beyond the fact that his choice to be the site’s editor-in-chief is now facing child pornography charges.

By the time Sohmer was arrested, however, Heilemann had apparently exited The Recount — a site so obscure that I hadn’t even heard of it — and I wouldn’t have known of his connection to Sohmer if Ace hadn’t stuck Heilemann’s mugshot into his post. It seemed important to me to clarify that John Heilemann is not a homosexual pedophile who allegedly possessed “hundreds” of videos of young boys being raped.

As far as we know.

You’re welcome.



 

Category: Crime, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 11.15.23

Posted on | November 16, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Cow and Horse Hoof Repair, also, Cow and Horse Hoof Repair
Twitchy: Tensions Between Candace Owens & Ben Shapiro Explode In Fiery Exchange, Gawker Co-Founder Tries To Go Toe-To-Toe With Noam Blum & Gets Ratioed Into Oblivion, and Rolling Stone Whines That Speaker Johnson Flies A “Symbol of Insurrection” Outside His Office
Louder With Crowder: Female boxer takes a stand, refuses to fight after finding out last minute opponent was “not a woman by birth”, GQ Names Kim Kardashian 2023 Man of the Year, and Nikki Haley attempts to walk back career-killing social media comments, and Elon Musk is NOT having it
Vox Popoli: Interview with John Julius Norwich, The Defunding and Decline of the Media, and Number Six Video Essayist
Stoic Observations: How Israel Makes You Stupid
Gab: The Parallel Economy Podcast

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Coming War in the Caucasus
American Greatness: MTG Tells Mayorkas to His Face: ‘We Are Going to Impeach You–Very Soon’
American Thinker: ‘In the Old America, This Would Provoke an Uprising’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Repression in Cuba has increased since the last UN Human Rights Council Periodic Review, Leaked documents reveal how socialist Venezuela has been turned into a narco-state, and Reports from Cuba: What Norah Jones should know before going to Cuba
BattleSwarm: Reminder: Hamas Seeks The Death Of All Jews Everywhere
Behind The Black: ESA firms up space station partnership with Voyager Space, Rocket Lab wins military hypersonic suborbital launch contract, Japan to spend $6.6 billion over ten years to develop its space industry, Gamma ray burst 1.9 billion light years away was powerful enough to affect Earth’s atmosphere, FAA and Fish & Wildlife approve further launches of Starship/Superheavy at Boca Chica, and The right’s general lack of unity and support
CDR Salamander: A Tale Of Three Frigates
Da Tech Guy: What’s Anti-Semitic and What’s Not
Dana Loesch: We Had A Speaker Revolt Over Nothing
Don Surber: Illegals Vamoose & Self-Deport
Gates Of Vienna: “We Are in the Middle of the Fight for Our Lives”, also, “First We Cut the Throats of the Jews, Then the Gays and Finally the Christians”
The Geller Report: Jew-Hating Bus Drivers Refused to Drive Jews to Pro-Israel Rally in DC, also, BBC Forced to Apologize for Another Inaccurate Report on IDF in Gaza, Admits They LIED and Falsely Made Claims Against IDF (Again)
Glenn Reynolds: The Clock Ticks
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Hubble and JWST Look at Galaxy Cluster MACS0416
Hollywood In Toto: Beltway Letter Makes Perfect Sense on Possible China Censorship, Alyssa Milano Demands Ceasefire (No Mention of Israeli Hostages), and Theo Von, Dana White Mock Peloton for Silencing RFK Jr.
The Lid: Joe Biden’s Border Crisis Costing U.S. Taxpayers $451 BILLION Annually to Care for Illegals
Legal Insurrection: Biden Administration Renews Sanctions Waiver, Opening $10 Billion to Iran from Iraq, Anti-Israel Rioters Attempt to Breach the Democratic National Committee in D.C., Indiana U. Student Govt. Members Resign Due to Student Body President’s Anti-Semitism, *UPDATE* IDF Discovers ‘Several Stockpiles of Weapons and Munitions’ Inside Shifa Hospital, and Retiring Sen. Manchin ‘Absolutely’ Considering a Run for President
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Week in Anti-Semitism
Outkick: ‘Upstanding’ NBA Player Draymond Green Puts Rudy Gobert In A Chokehold, Kirk Cousins, In A Walking Boot, Volunteers To Hand Out Thanksgiving Dinners At Salvation Army, Jimbo Fisher Set To Receive $19 Million Check Within 60 Days As One Of Many Fired Coaches Paid Millions NOT To Coach, Rory McIlroy Seems To Have Accepted He’s Lost The Fight Against LIV And The Saudi PIF, Which May Only End Up Helping His Career, Giancarlo Stanton’s Agent Warns Free Agents Against Signing With The Yankees, and Former Michigan Staffer Connor Stalions Covered His Tracks, Did Not File Expense Reports Related to Sign-Stealing: Report
Power Line: Don’t know much about Middle Eastern history, $17 a Gallon to Charge an EV and Thought for the day
Shark Tank: Luna Says U.S. Funding Hamas Through U.N., Senate Democrats Not Taking Israel Seriously
Shot In The Dark:  The Machine, Things I Didn’t Have On My Bingo Card For Today, and Open Letter To Modern-Day Nazis
This Ain’t Hell: B-21 Raider takes off, Once a Marine, Three More Accounted For, and Mayor’s Fraud – From 51% to 0% Veteran-Owned Business
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship On Friday? also, Against Safetyism
Victory Girls: Randi Weingarten Is Shockingly Ignorant For An “Educator”
Volokh Conspiracy: Washington Court Refuses to Enforce Saudi Child Custody Decree
Watts Up With That: Green Bloodbath: Major Industries Closing Down As German Energy Prices Soar, Nobel Prize Winner Blows Up Climate Alarmism — The Vortex, and Net-Zero Targets: Sustainable Future or CO2 Obsession Driven Dead-end?
The Federalist: How Dark-Money Megadonor George Soros Hides Behind ‘Democracy’ PACs To Sabotage It, Reject The Rainbow Mob’s Farcical Transgender ‘Awareness’ Celebrations, Why Are People In Denial That Urban America Is A Dystopian Hellscape? Here’s The Silver Lining In Last Week’s Virginia Elections Democrats Don’t Want You To Know About, and Libertarianism Had Its Moment But Is Ill-Equipped For The Task Of Saving America
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Wednesday November 15th

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Married, carnivorous, pro-life, athletic, heterosexual, male, combat veteran, NRA life member, stick-driving, Trump-supporting, Messianic Jew CEO awarded “ScapeGOAT”

Posted on | November 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Married, carnivorous, pro-life, athletic, heterosexual, male, combat veteran, NRA life member, stick-driving, Trump-supporting, Messianic Jew CEO awarded “ScapeGOAT”

by Smitty

Married, carnivorous, pro-life, athletic, heterosexual, male, combat veteran, NRA life member, stick-driving, Trump-supporting, Messianic Jew CEO awarded “ScapeGOAT” title by spokesman Ibinhamburger Ken’doll of the Beyond Original Leftist Signaling Hub Integrated Elite Squad (BOLSHIES):

“My intensive scientific research into the Unbearable Whiteness of Being has finally located the universal epitome of privelege: the ScapeGOAT.
Alfred Dreyfus represents every aspect of the colonial tyranny that we have been taught to hate since the Communists infiltrated American colleges. The meritocratic idea that individual effort, initiative, creativity, and devotion to traditional Western values can succueed must be rejected. If the BOLSHIES can engineer at least one counter-example, then the West must be rejected. Fortunately, at this revolutionary moment, the BOLSHIES will step in and sieze power. For the good of the workers, the marginalized, and the oppressed, obviously.
Now that Dreyfus has been located, we can rhetorically crucify him and get on with the revolution.
Those not grasping the fullness of this simple effort to make the world safe for BOLSHocracy will be afforded a pleasant education in our principles in a camp of sufficient latitude to help them get their mind right.
When we say we ‘mean business’ we mean the business of reducing everything to the mean. Anything landing off of the average points to a lack of equity. BOLSHIES will eliminate all oppression and liberate all oppressed by re-arranging everything at the mean. Anyone caught noticing how the BOLSHIES excuse themselves from the re-arrangement will be sent to an education camp of substantial latitude, say, Thule, Greenland. Where you might meet Dreyfus.
With the ScapeGOAT located, we can welcome you to the Glorious Future. If you notice imperfections, be aware that the ScapeGOAT has left some wreckage for us to tidy. Fix that debris in silence. Or else.”

Category: Uncategorized

Not Rule 5: ‘Intersectional’ Craziness

Posted on | November 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Not Rule 5: ‘Intersectional’ Craziness


Say hello to Amanda Gelender, who in various articles has discussed her psychiatric problems — depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). She’s a pancake stack of craziness, covered with insanity syrup. She’s got so many mental illnesses, it’s like the index of the DSM-5. But don’t worry, she’s found an effective treatment — psilocybin mushrooms. Based on my personal experience with psilocybin, I’m dubious about this “treatment,” but if she says she feels better, who am I to argue? However, some readers may be reluctant to turn to Amanda Gelender for insights on foreign policy.

(Hat-tip: James Lileks via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

With ideas like this, Amanda Gelender could probably get hired as a senior advisor for the Biden administration. One hundred State Department staffers are pro-Hamas, after all, so what harm could this Jewish queer anti-Zionist magic mushroom tripper do?



 

Category: Intellectuals, Israel

In The Mailbox: 11.14.23

Posted on | November 14, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.14.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

Wouldn’t you?

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Shifty Schiff’s “Primary Home” is in Maryland, also, Joe Biden Calls David Axelrod a Prick 
Twitchy: Jon Lovitz Sets John Oliver Straight On America’s Relationship With Israel, Nicolle Wallace & Jonathan Karl Discuss Trump’s [Alleged] Affinity For Hitler, and Jamaal Bowman Goysplains The True Meaning Of What It Means To Be A Jew
Louder With Crowder: Female Pool Player Refuses To Play Trans Opponent, Takes A Brave Stand And Walks Off At Start Of Match, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean announce co-headlining music festival guaranteed to trigger the Left, and Miss Universe Files For Bankruptcy Just Days Before Two Trans Contestants Have Opportunity To Shatter Glass Ceiling
Vox Popoli: US Casualties in Middle East, Endgame Ukraine II, Mailvox: the Secret is Out, and Not So Fast, Skater Boy
Draw & Talk: Playing To Win v. Playing For Peace – We Did It!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Car Lights, Kill Switches, and Daily Popcorn
American Conservative: Yes, Disruptive Students Can Be Deported
American Greatness: House GOP: Mass Migration Crisis has Cost Taxpayers $451 Billion
American Thinker: Nazi Revivalism in America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Shoulder Brace News
Babalu Blog: Military ceremony in Havana exposes Russian official in charge of Kremlin spy operation in Cuba, Some blockade! Cuba imports $722,526 worth of cars, trucks, motorcycles from U.S. in September, and Cuban dictatorship signs agreement with French company to harvest coffee and export it all to France
BattleSwarm: Hamas’ Hospital Hideout
Behind The Black: Musk: Government approval for 2nd Starship/Superheavy launch expected before Friday, NASA “pauses” Mars Sample Return mission, The caldera wall of a Martian giant volcano, November 14, 2023 Quick space links, and Real pushback? 1600 Harvard alumni demand the university take action against campus anti-Semitism
Cafe Hayek: Protectionism Assaults Producers
CDR Salamander: Deindustrialization In The UK Is Almost Complete
Da Tech Guy: Pope Francis divides the Catholic Church, also, A Point Concerning Christianity, Truth and Culture (with an assist by Chesterton)
Don Surber: October 7 Revealed The New Nazis
First Street Journal: Couldn’t we build something like this in Kensington?
Gates Of Vienna: German Tax Dollars to Pay For Mosques? A Socialist Patriot, It’s Worse Than You Thought, Brown Border, and A Final Warning
The Geller Report: Children as Young as 10 Took Part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 Terror Attack, Survivors Say, also, LIVE FROM DC: Hundreds of Thousands March for Israel in Washington DC
Hogewash: Supernovae
Hollywood In Toto: Can’t-Miss Sports Drama Next Goal Wins Comes Up Empty, Top 10 ’80s Punk Movies, Is Hunger Games Prequel a Bust Already? and Patriot Awards Comic Jimmy Failla Salutes Real-Life Heroes
The Lid: Via TikTok, China Helps Spread Antisemitic Ignorance
Legal Insurrection: Gov. Hairgel Declares State of Emergency After Massive Fire Shuts Important LA Freeway, Cornell graduate student workers vote to join anti-Israel national union, Climate Cultists Get Roasted After Suggesting Climate Warning Labels Should be Slapped on Meat, “Racial doctrines such as ‘critical race theory’ and ‘intersectionality’ are the mother’s milk of antisemitism on campuses”, Rutgers University Disbands Student Bar Association for Targeting Jews and Anti-Semitism, MIT Declined to Expel Anti-Israel Students Because They Would Have Been Deported, and UNH Prof Likens Hamas to Polish Jewish Victims of Nazis in WWII
Nebraska Energy Observer: Now here’s a thought
Outkick: Micah Parsons Says Fans Should Be Patient With Bryce Young, Arizona Wildcats Have A $240 Million Deficit Due To Financial Modeling ‘Mistake,’ Could Mean Cutting Teams, Dana White Told Sponsor To Go “F-Yourself’ For Asking Him To Take Down Trump Video, Deion Sanders Shoots Down Texas A&M Coaching Speculation: ‘I’m Here’, San Diego Padres Owner Peter Seidler Dies At 63, and Michigan May Win 1,000th Game Saturday Without Jim Harbaugh, Who Could Be Feeding Chickens And Cutting Grass
Power Line: Corbyn for the many Hamasniks, Memo to the AP, and If Only the Conservative Party Were Conservative
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Rejects Government Services Bill
Shot In The Dark: Controlled Demolition, Multiculturalism in Action,  and A Certain Resonance
The Political Hat: Grooming Students Into Furry Fandom
This Ain’t Hell: People Dressed in Military Uniforms to Get Early Boarding, also, Crappy Tuesday posts
Transterrestrial Musings:  Bari Weiss, also, ULA
Victory Girls: Trust Fund Baby Big Hamas Supporter
Volokh Conspiracy: Supreme Court Adopts Ethics Code, also, Bari Weiss’s Olson Lecture: You Are the Last Line of Defense
Watts Up With That: Heat pumps ‘too noisy’ for millions of British homes, Government told, Hoboken Wisely Improved Water Management, Even Though the New York Times Got the Reason Wrong, and Coalition Files Notice of Intent to Sue Federal Agencies to Stop Whale-killing Virginia Wind Project
The Federalist: California Jeopardizes Pharmacists’ Livelihoods To Export Abortions Out Of State, WaPo, New York Times Make Dumb Fake News Out Of Very Perfect, Very True Trump Quote, How Obama And Biden’s America-Last Ethos Demoted The U.S. From World Leader To Loser, Margaret Sullivan Rewarded For Being On Wrong Side Of Every Major News Story With A Gig Teaching ‘Ethics’, The Conversion Of Ayaan Hirsi Ali To Christianity Is A Dire Warning To The West, The GOP Is A Fake Opposition Party With No Vision For The Country, and House Republicans Propose Gutting Pentagon Censorship Regime In Defense Reauthorization Bill
Mark Steyn: Onward, Christian Soldier!

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Secret Service Agents Open Fire on D.C. ‘Youth’ Breaking Into Their Car

Posted on | November 14, 2023 | 1 Comment

Washington Free Beacon nails it here:

The national mainstream media pounced, finally noticing the crime wave wreaking havoc on the vast majority of D.C. residents who aren’t related to the president of the United States and don’t have Secret Service protection. . . .
There have been 863 carjacking incidents in Washington, D.C., this year. That’s a 106 percent increase compared with last year and a 600 percent increase compared with 2019. Nearly three in four carjacking incidents in 2023 involved a firearm, and the majority of individuals arrested were juveniles.

Of course, no one is permitted to mention the ethnicity of these juvenile car thieves. Let’s just say they’re not Amish. When the media try to explain this crime wave, they generally try to blame it on the COVID-19 pandemic. OK, it’s possible there’s also been a 600 percent increase in carjacking in Pennsylvania Dutch country since 2019, but I rather doubt it. The real explanation isn’t the COVID-19 virus or the lockdowns in reaction to the pandemic. No, the real explanation is the anti-law-enforcement crusade by Democrats in the wake of the race riots caused by the death of Saint George of the Blessed Fentanyl.

Democrat-run cities and states have acted upon the belief that it’s racist — “RAAAAACIST!” — to put criminals in prison, if the criminals happen to be black. And anyone who has actually paid attention to crime rates (and who isn’t afflicted with “social justice” delusions) knows that the Democrats’ turn-’em-loose policy is a formula for mayhem.

Democrats make excuses for criminals, minimizing the harm done by these “urban youth.” Democrats say car theft is just a “property crime,” as if having your car stolen was a minor inconvenience. Then Democrats will say, “Oh, they have insurance,” but insurance costs money and when you have a 600% increase in carjacking — SIX HUNDRED PERCENT! — what do you think happens to car insurance rates? The increased cost of insurance is, in effect, a crime tax imposed by Democrats.

What are the secondary and tertiary consequences of Democrats enabling criminality? Isn’t it likely that more people will simply avoid cities? Won’t this in turn cause economic harm to the residents of cities? But thinking in terms of long-term consequences isn’t something Democrats do. It’s much easier for them to point fingers at Republicans and yell nonsense about “systemic racism,” as if somehow those evil white people in the suburbs were forcing black teenagers to steal cars.

By the way, why do you think those Secret Service agents decided to shoot at these thieves who were “breaking a window on a parked and unoccupied government vehicle”? Isn’t it likely that the intent of the thieves was to steal what was inside the vehicle, rather than stealing the vehicle itself? And what do you think Secret Service agents might have kept locked up in their vehicle? Oh, yes — GUNS!

How do you think criminals get guns, anyway? There are laws against selling guns to convicted felons, and this creates an incentive for criminals to steal guns. A lot of people (not just Secret Service agents) keep a gun in their car, and criminals know that if they break into enough cars, they’ll find some guns to steal, not to mention whatever other valuables they might obtain by their crimes. God only knows what kind of weapons the Secret Service may have had in that “unoccupied government vehicle,” but I’m glad the smash-and-grab got foiled. Just too bad the Secret Service agents didn’t aim well enough to send them to an early grave. Death is the most effective form of crime prevention.



 

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