And while I'd love to pay more attention to these Hamas adjacent f*ck-knuckles paying 80k a year for their education, I have to scoot out the door before daybreak and get in a good 12 hours of work framing out the addition my customer is paying a 9.5% HELOC loan on so that I can make enough that after the government taxes the shit out of me and sends it over to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, I've got enough left over to get a half basket of groceries at the Walmart neighborhood market and $85 bucks in gas for my pickup truck that hopefully will hold me for the next week and a half.
Everyone try to remember to keep an attitude of gratitude :-)
Well, except that our Black brothers and sisters are slowly catching on that Biden still hates them and is importing in millions of illegal invaders to replace them.
alan, CAPTIONING is merely for making a point. I do it here ALL THE TIME with my comments, expecting no one is interested in checking our grammar, etc., etc.
Bruce, A LOT of Blacks are catching on, and Biden’s worried!
His Regime best hurry up and figure out a way to grant amnesty to all the “ILLEGALS” - uh, I meant “Undocumented” immigrants, so they can vote for Biden!
I wish I could believe they are catching on, but I can't. I believe it is myth. I believe they will never catch on, never leave the plantation. We are circling the drain
I'll tell you a good way to help them "catch on," regularly tell them that the only reason they have a job is because of DEI and that they are on a plantation.
Now, as far as self-interests, if you think voting to make sure the Affordable Care Act doesn't come to your state and tax cuts for billionaires with make YOU rich is the way to go, have at it.
Sorry, Dan. The DEIs are on a plantation. They are stupid and have been totally imagining what has been said and done since 1964. That is to be expected when they busy stealing all the college admissions from white and Asian students, causing doors to fall off of planes and crashing ships into bridges.
It doesn't have to be "droves," Prof. When your brothers and sisters voted 90% for Dems of more that gave a nice comfortable margin of victory for the KKK president. But what if 20 or even 30% wake up and figure out the scam? Bye, bye, DNC. And more and more young Black guys are getting wise to the race hustle.
Uh, I only have 2 brothers and no sisters, so not sure where you're getting "brothers and sisters" from. That's weird. Are you related to all white people?
KKK President? Lol. Ok, Bruce.
What exactly is the "scam/race hustle" Bruce? Claiming DEIs are talking all the college admission seats from Asians and whites? Causing all the plane doors to fall off? Crashing ships into bridges?
What's your over/under on the DEIs voting percentage for Trump?
This isn’t difficult. Just as in a company where the CEO establishes rules that employees must adhere to or face termination, universities should operate similarly. The presidents need to establish clear rules and ensure they are enforced.
What we're witnessing is a breakdown of authority and a lack of willingness to act. Clearly define the rules, state the consequences for professors and students who violate them—whether it's termination for professors or suspension, expulsion, and even the revocation of foreign student visas for students—and then follow through without hesitation. The expulsion of the first student will signal the end of this tent city.
For universities unwilling to take action, alumni must demand the removal of university administrations.
The clear rules they want, they don't want to advertise. They WANT this. They just don't want to admit it. If this were a bunch of conservatives sitting in to stop abortion or for gun rights, you can bet they would be long gone by now.
Oh, they are plenty willing to act. If someone uses the wrong pronoun, or says Black people can be racists, too, or maybe students who can correctly answer questions should get better grades regardless of their ethnic background, they will be gone in a minute. The administration agrees with the protesters.
For the first time in my long life I found myself yesterday musing that maybe America is hopelessly lost and wondering where on Earth I might find hope and liberty to live out my last days.
I have come to that conclusion myself recently. And I know that bygone generations felt that things had changed beyond recognition but this is truly fundamental change. To the chant of "save our democracy" no less. As I listen to Mayor Pete drone on about airline fees as we run the risk of faulty planes taking flight. But the good news is it is oddly freeing. I no longer feel I have much of a stake in the future so I am going to focus on my well-being.
You are making me laugh. Yes, America does seem irretrievably doomed unless a major event (and God forbid because probably that means a major war) forces a correction.
Oh well, I am not in charge of history, and though I'm doing pretty well at 68 there's a time limit on my presence. Aging does give you perspective, there's really a beauty to it.
But not only are friends passing on, but the people one knows are fragile. Quite daunting, who could be worthy to give them all they need?
On the one hand all my Xmases have come at once; on the other hand when America sneezes... ; on the gripping hand, Man City will probably win the League again, so it's still all gravy. ;-)
It all happened by very slowly, then all of a sudden. I can’t put my finger on when “all of a sudden” happened, but I am confident that it is clearly in the past.
I don't think that was it. He was a symptom not a cause of what was already going on. And (prepare your brickbats) not that bad a pres., much worse now that he can express his own opinion.
The pres. can't do much the culture doesn't already want to do.
Hmmm. So are American tax dollars subsidizing protestor lifestyles and spaces that in turn enable protest encampments against the spoon that feeds them? Divestiture can go in many directions.
This young adults, because they are no longer kids, are so clueless it’s beyond amazing. Eventually reality is going to bitch slap them so hard.
Their parents should be completely shamed for raising such anti-semitic, lazy, worthless members of society.
Other parents should be raving mad and calling the school demanding reimbursement of their children’s tuition who aren’t part of this nonsense.
But this is where we are today. This is what DECADES of progressive Democrat entrenched bullshit in schools in the media, in corporations have done to this country. Everything has come to fruition for all to see. Anyone who is surprised by this is truly clueless.
Voting for Biden and any Democrat is an absolute continuation of this disgraceful continuation of where this country is going.
Other parents are not raving mad because they're liberals who raised these little spoiled brats to begin with. Go check out Robert Reich's Substack on the same topic and the comments from his followers. It's night and day from here. I really cannot understand these people.
How in God's name did we elect that creep? And more to the point why does he still get respect and acclaim.
In a February 2008 interview with the New York Times, Mr. Obama said the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” He then recited it, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.” The opening of the Adhan contains the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith, proclaiming, “There is no god but God and Muhammad is the prophet of God.” Stating this before two Muslims is the traditional requirement for joining the Islamic faith. What were we thinking????
Obama was the thing that finally made me vote Republican. I remember the first time I saw him, he had just been elected junior senator. He was so impressive that I thought, "cool--maybe he'll run for president one day." And two years later, there he was, running for president. And I thought, "okay, that was sooner than I expected, but still kinda cool." Then I started reading up on him and the people he surrounded himself with, and I thought, "well, that's not cool AT ALL." And then I saw how the media practically deified him, never asked him any hard questions, or even covered up for his mistakes (?), such as when he mentioned his "Muslim faith" and George Stephanopoulos gently corrected him, and I thought, "holy SHIT! WTF is going on here?!?" And when I asked my liberal friends that question and raised my concerns, I was told I was a racist. And at that point, I thought, "well, fuck it. I guess I'm a Republican now."
The people who voted for him were thinking he was "the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
We weren't thinking and we aren't now. We're done. The problem the dems and the left is going to have is that there are millions in this country that are armed, and the vast majority of them will not go quietly into the night. This will not end well for anyone. Ever heard of the French revolution?
We were thinking we were the 'good' guys. See how all liberalized and 'inclusive' we are. We put a black man in the white house who honors other religions and peoples. Ha Ha Ha. The joke is totally on us. They figured out how to make our desire to be 'good, fair and just' work against us and Obama was their tool. The folks I know that still Revere Obama, just cannot admit that they invested in a well spoken corporate stoolie crook who also just happens to be a person of color. I think it would crush their image of reality and by exentenion crush them, so they just cannot go there. I have been so disappointed, on so many issues these past few years, by the craven cowardice of so many of my old community that I used to respect.
Rep. Omar already is a domestic terrorist, given her daily incitements to this mob. A real country would deport her back to Somalia, where she belongs.
It’s so funny you mention his Substack. I actually just visited his stack yesterday and laughed, sadly, at the comments. This is state we are living in with this country. It’s truly amazing. I fear this country is too far gone for any help in steering the ship back to the right ways.
The WSJ comments section has become a toilet. It used to be even liberal comments added to the discussion. It's beyond that now. The WSJ will pick and choose which articles to open the comments section on. Any article about Trump the comments section is blasted with liberals seniors posting childish, immature jokes. Enter one wrong word and your comment goes into moderation. A few days later get an email one of your comments was removed by the moderators.
Definitely felt like an alternate universe. I'm sad to hear WSJ has gone the way of woke too. Every last line of defense of common sense in big media is crumbling
I did that a few days ago. The overt, mask-off, actually gleeful Jew-hatred of his progressive followers was alarming even though it was somewhat to be expected. Anti-Zionists are simply cretins.
It's shocking their total lack of self-awareness. These are the same people who screamed "safe space" 4 years ago so they could protect minorities who they want to treat as their little pets from white people for being white. They're the same people who screamed "safe space" to protect fragile mentally-ill men in dresses and fetishists from women who say they don't want men in women's locker rooms. Now it's ok to create a hostile atmosphere against Jews, and if some are actually shouting antisemitic speech at Jews, then it's just "a few bad apples" and they're still entitled to free speech. The hypocrisy is astounding!
None of them even mention this all would end, right now, if Hamas return the hostages. It's all Israel's fault. They don't want Hamas to surrender. Hamas is their liberator. The moral inversion really sickens me.
I actually wish the hypocrisy was astounding. But these past few years I have come to expect it as the norm. I could make a list but am sure you already know. I think they just want scapegoats because they cannot deal with real reality as everything is falling apart around them. The lack of plain ole resilience and strength to face what is actually truly happening, is what astounds me. Folks have become so weakened that they will create a hellscape of the world around them rather than face real time truth and their own bullshit. 'Soooo lookee here, we have the perfect scapegoats, first privileged white males and now goody goody that ole standby, the generationally hated jew can be our whipping boys. How accomodating of Israel to fall right into our crazy agenda by daring to fight back against a barbaric invasion. Whee lets all jump on the bandwagon even if we have no idea what the hell is actually going on' . That's my take anyway.
They are drinking the Kool aid over there at Robert Reich's substack. Looked there once, thought about posting dissents, nah, not worth it.
People on both sides are now so thoroughly siloed it is two different countries. I like to try and appeal to the reasonable liberal people, there are some and democracy functions at times. The true believers are a hopeless cause.
I am 100% in agreement with you, but I am going to add some "complexifying" (if it's not a word it should be, and if you understood me it is) thoughts.
What these kids--and they are kids, of roughly the developmental level of an average 10 year old 100 years ago--are doing is nesting. All this could be viewed as the complex manifestations of essentially very, very primitive instinctual behaviors. Seen ethologically (note: not ethically) human beings, like all primates, are social animals. We evolved to live in close proximity to one another, to bond with one another, to share good times and bad times together, in direct physical proximity. A phone is not even remotely an equivalent. I think most Americans have this sense of lack that is deeply rooted in our very remote past.
So even if the outer trappings are fully and completely absurd, the underlying unconscious impulses DO have their own inner logic. These ARE needs that need to be met. But we need to do it in open, rational, pro-social and emotionally intelligent ways.
All the madness has a logic to it. But that logic is not cognitive, not constructive, and is extremely tribalistic to the point that it could be viewed as intrinsically aggressive and violent, both in intent and outcome.
I will add that I LITERALLY--which is the word I think we use now to mean something like really really, no seriously I'm not joking--think Columbia Anthropology students should embed themselves in these groups and study the tribal dynamics of this ephemal but for those involved meaningful public flash mob, or cultural Pop Up.. The whole thing is shallow, silly, childish. But it comes from an honest place.
All of us are honest at some level of our being, but for some that honesty is buried so far down it won't see the light of day in this lifetime. Truth is a habit. So is lying.
And those nesting opportunities; most notably the Boy Scouts, were killed off (with a bit of self-help, sadly) or have withered to oblivion. Or even Device-free play.
Yes, thank you good points. And helpful to understand other dimensions happening simultaneously in this situation. But the basic primitive and unconscious needs of these kids are being blatantly manipulated by adults who do have various quite conscious toxic agendas. Those who are orchestrating this need to be held accountable . Same as how Hamas has indoctrinated and manipulated Palestinian kids for the past twenty years. These kids on campus have been manipulated and indoctrinated a bit more subtly from every direction, through multiple trojan horses such as CRT, DEI, guilt for being white, anger for being of color, guilt for being American. Shame and guilt for daring to want to live in a culture that reflects your own core values. Fear that climate change is going to destroy the world before they ever get a chance to live. Fear that you will never be able to use your college degree for anything worthwhile or won't be able to pay off your debt. Fear that WW 3 is inevitable and we are going to blow ourselves up. So blaming everything and anyone that it can possibly be framed as 'righteous' to blame, is a very predictable response. These kids are acting out the terrible stresses and fears that the entire world is feeling like never before and the time honored way to handle overwhelm is to scapegoat and lash out at the most convenient targets. Those manipulating this whole mess know this. They are very very good at tweaking human social response because it is very predictable and think tanks have studied this stuff forever.
I agree. Its a bad situation. But you know, Churchill probably should have given up after France fell virtually overnight.
But he didnt, and it made a large difference. As he said, in one of his dozens of memorable quotes (that I will paraphrase) we dont need to know what lies at a distance to do what we can here and now. Speaking out, thinking, and retaining some residual sense of individuality in the face of hate filled mobs, treachery by our leaders, and generalized madness are all things we can and should do.
I agree with what you say and have no intention of giving up. I don't think we have a prayer of defeating the enemy tho if we cannot name and recognize the multiple faces of that enemy. Churchill had an advantage in that in spite of a divided Briitan, which was devestated by the previous war and did NOT want to go to war again; Hitler's blatantly aggresive actions unified England into naming and fighting Germany as the enemy. We, however, still cannot agree on who the enemy actually is. I don't think it is these kids, who while they may be considered legal adults, they really aren't. I think it is the actual adults who are allowing the kids to continue acting out this way and who filled them full of this toxic rhetoric to begin with, who need to be held accountable. But even many of those adults are just useful patsies who have themselves been indoctrinated and who are afraid and have thus surrendered themselves to the system. Behind all of that is an even darker agenda that is manupulating us. That is the real enemy to me. The ones who consciously and deliberately want to destroy america from the inside out and are using our fear and our confusion and our kids to do it. It's very effective because while we are busy fighting amongst ourselves, they are slyly taking over.
It's worth taking a trip to the Man of Steele substack and watching his documentary, Killilng America, that explains how this irrationality came to be.
I'd like to believe that reality will be the karma they need, but given the levels that people who espouse this crap rise too (I'm thinking about Bud Light, Target, Disney, Levi's, Google and on and on) that no, they'll be allowed to live in their own echo chambers right up until the point that one of these terrorists or criminals cuts their throat.
I don’t know if this is funny (as in funny not funny), satirical, sardonic, or just bat guano crazy, BUT,
Would someone please explain why we give the right to vote to anyone chanting and holding placards, IN PUBLIC no less, proclaiming "Death To America?" Not to mention one of our closest allies.
Oh yeah, I get the freedom of speech issue, but they’re calling for the overthrow of the Constitution, the dismantling of the Amendment(s) ensuring and protecting that right; I just don’t think that demanding the protection of that right why advocation for burning it all down - should go without consequences. They want no more American, then I think America divesting itself of these parasites would only make them happy (then deport to, say, Gaza or Iran).
Students for Justice in Palestine has been a threat to Jewish students for 2 decades. Many have tried to point it out but were rebuffed and ignored by not only the universities, but the legacy Jewish organizations. (I know I harp on this topic, but people need to be held to account)
Don't fool yourself, none of these protests are spontaneous. This has been planned for along time and it is not students organizing these protests. There are professional agitators involved. These groups are also funded by the Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Alex Soros' foundation.
At least Fordham University saw the antisemitism associated with this group and banned them. BTW-Brandeis which got an A from the ADL, has an SJP chapter and welcomed Jew haters to its campus, but banned Ayaan Hirsi Ali, so not sure how they got an A.
CAIR, which condemned USC for its handling of the protests, is aligned with Hamas, and its leaders are unindicted coconspirators in the HolyLand terror financing trial . But still Obama and Biden welcomed these groups to the White House and if anyone forgets the Biden Administration had CAIR chime in on its antisemitism task force, despite their leaders spouting virulent antisemitism calling for the destruction of Israel for decades. At least they were removed from the task force for their support of the Oct 7 pogrom. Even Biden's most Jew-hating apparachicks couldn't make excuses for that.
Saying UNRWA should be disbanded and folded into UNHCR is also not new. UN Watch has been pointing out, again for decades, how Hamas controls UNRWA from distribution of food to schools. Also, Einat Wilf cowrote a very detailed book about UNRWA and how it perpetuates the conflict in her book The War of Return.
And surprise surprise, young people are not radical, they are not commies, they don't hate the US. They only want what everyone else wants, a good life and to be able to build a future.
And yes, young men are in danger...again the warnings have been there for 20 years at least. Maybe it's time to do something about it.
As a counterpoint to the pro-Palestinian little Nazi’s demands to divest from Israel, Jewish students should demand the universities divest of all contributions provided by Islamic countries. That would be billions.
Brandeis put out a statement this week that they have created a fast track acceptance track for Jewish students from these hostile Universities who want to transfer to Brandeis.
The Biden White House rolling back Title Nine protections so that anyone can accuse anyone of sexual misconduct-assault without the accused having any die process is only further harming these young men in society. It’s a disaster for individual rights as well as for society as a whole
Brandeis may have finally woken up. But it doesn't take away from the past where they did everything they could to remove itself from its Jewish and Zionist legacy. They went wholly in for the progressive, antisemitic, antiAmerican politics of the moment and this is for decades not just since George Floyd.
If my child was college age, I would quicker send them to Yeshiva University than Brandeis.
The rolling back of due process while screaming about democracy is gaslighting in the extreme.
"This is how they will defeat us. It’s these little assaults on the sane that will make us the minority and ensure that the lunatics stay in charge. Why else would Brandeis University in Massachusetts have produced a list of “oppressive language” that students and staff must avoid at all costs? This was in the summer of 2021, but such measures are now so common that they’ve almost become unremarkable.
Some of Brandeis’s prohibited phrases included “long time no see” which was seen as mocking the broken English of non-native people. “Sold down the river” apparently had connotations of slavery. And “female-bodied” and “male-bodied” dangerously implied that men and women have bodies." " - https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/beware-of-terry-and-june
American men are in crisis, says everyone, but also—importantly—surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy. Young men and boys feel “unmoored,” and “lost,” according to the doctor, and that people are “pointing their fingers at them and telling them you are the problem.”
Well, of course, they are. What red blooded American young man wouldn't be if the dating pool consisted of "Ariella [who] goes by they/them pronouns) [and] likes to organize stuff. Most of these young women at Columbia would have been shipped off to lunatic asylums in a saner America.
This generation and unfortunately many of my own (millennial) have lost the plot, and I maintain that social media is a huge part of the problem. I'm in a parenting group on Facebook where people post about various parenting struggles they're having. The other day one woman wrote in that her 3 year old son enjoys wearing tutus sometimes, and while he doesn't seem to have any issue being referred to as a boy, she's wondering if she shouldn't be more thoughtful about the pronouns she uses to describe him. Someone make it make sense how this movement is simultaneously telling us to abandon gender stereotypes (like pink is for girls, blue for boys), and also that if you have a boy who likes pink, he's probably a girl.
Sure and sometimes little girls pick up sticks and engage in sword fights. Soon enough they sort things out. Of course social media is destructive but I also wonder why we permit the most idiotic and mentally unstable to have the loudest megaphone.
Very true...my daughter went through a phase around age 3 where she wanted to wear tshirts and would say "I feel like a boy." We'd smile and ask what she meant by that, gently reiterate that girls can wear tshirts just like boys can, and move along with our day. Now at age 5, she only wants to wear fancy dresses. I feel like for many parents today, their toddler stating that they felt like the opposite gender would prompt a total crisis and a trip to a gender affirming therapist.
Yup 1950sGood Houskeeping and such magazines decided that no longer would blue be a 'girl color' (from Catholic Marian traditions) and should be pink. So now blue was now that 'boy color' for decor and--and as always, we do we fall for ads and influence!
Oof, it should sound like a joke, but horrifying that it's not!
My 3 year old son asks for his nails to be painted and to wear little sticker earrings because his big sister does it. It really is that simple. He's as boy as a boy can be.
Yes, the Biden administration’s Surgeon General seems primarily concerned that our alienated young men who have been subject to decades of institutional discrimination and condemnation by the enlightened class will become aligned with “demagogues” and unsavory political movements. I think he vaguely comprehends that these young men know fully well which political faction has screwed them over and which might offer a path to respect and equality. That doesn’t bode well for the left.
The Columbia descent into spoilt-brat-mobstering raises (for me anyway) a long-overdue question........how can the worst of these SJW blots on our civilisation be suitably be brought to account. For 50+ years we Western liberals have indulged them and indulged them and, in effect, encouraged more of same. Now it's time to ask how can they be brought to account for:
* their gall and presumption in thinking they have any rightful place in institutions of 'higher learning.'
* their wilful aquisition and nurture of ignorance at the taxpayers expense
* their passive-aggressive spite and bile towards their fellow man thinly dressed up as virtue.
It may seem very non-pc but one can't help feeling that some kind of retribution (punishment even) - something akin to the stocks of former times - is what this kind of academia wokerati behavior richly deserves....I wish I knew how it could be brought about but I've no idea.
Agreed. Also need to stop sanctifying 'Protesting' which in the liberal West (unlike scary regimes like Iran and Afghanistan) would be better re-named Spoilt-Bratting. I think the shutting down of a very large part of non-STEM academia would be a dream come true (although one I can't see happening in my lifetime). As I wrote in this piece: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
"If the defenders of ‘traditional values’ (presumably a re-invigorated GOP) ever did really get their act together (and the votes to back it), what kind of fight-back could they mount? They have left it late. It would need to be an unashamedly sledgehammer legislative approach and pursued with Machiavellian sleight of hand. It might include:
- ending the decades-long absurdity of left wing proselytising organisations (including in academia) being actually funded by the taxpayer.
- a clear-out of the kind of senior academics who have so cravenly caved in to spoilt-brat ‘radicalism’.
- a complete clear-out of the multi-billion ‘diversity’ bureaucracy racket.
- a complete overhaul of teacher training (that has long been allowed to become a training ground in progressive ideology).
- an end to public sector security-of-tenure unrelated to performance.
How can the worst of these SJW blots on our civilisation be suitably be brought to account? 9mm double-tap and the parents pay for the ammunition. I'm not joking; only annoyed you can only kill them once.
Student protests ... Two days ago, I watched a Fox News reporter who interviewed a protester. When asked to identify the "river" and the "sea", the student protester was unable to name either. Only one example, but a confirmation that some (and probably many) students involved have no understanding of what they are protesting.
Other people interviewed said that the events of 7 October never happened!
Furthermore, as indicated in this FP report, the protests have been infiltrated by people who are not students. Where are they coming from?
There are organizations that provide protestors for a client’s causes. This is “No joke!” as our diapered dictator would say. One is called Crowds on Demand which offers services for “Protests, rallies and advocacy.” From its website;
“Crowds on Demand is your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR
And the news just in from Scotland -- Yousaf has terminated his power sharing agreement with the Greens.
Although some commentators will mention the abandoning of the climate change targets being the fissure, it was more likely that Ash Regan (the former contender for the SNP leadership but)the now Alba MSP) petition for a vote of No Confidence in Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Greens after his science denying remarks re the Cass Report which made Yousaf act. Apparently many of the SNP MSP backbench were willing to go along with the NC vote. Lorna Slater, the other co-leader of the Scottish Greens rather game away with her final statement Slater "ends the statement by urging SNP members who cared about the climate, trans rights and independence to consider whether they were in the right party."
Why mention trans rights if they had no part in the spilt.
ANd for those who have been watching Mr Bates v the Post Office on Masterpiece Theatre, Angela van den Bogerd is giving evidence today. She is truly sorry but doesn't think she has done anything wrong because she never knowingly does anything wrong. The KC has pointed out the Orwellian language she used and the fact that she received an email about the remote access in 2010, not 2011. One can only hope that the subpostmasters get some justice. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/25/post-office-inquiry-live-latest/
Thank you to Michelle Styles for the pertinent news from the UK.
For the first time that I’m aware of , a member of Congress publicly questioned a White House official about the Cass Report! Dan Crenshaw took Secretary of Health and Human Services Beccera to task about sterilizing kids- gender affirming care- with zero evidence! Beccera actually tried to say that his Dept follows the guidance of the vaunted medical Associations.
The US is so far behind the UK and rest of Europe in addressing this scandal. That is yet another scandal in itself.
thanks for reminding me of that again, too! i'm not going to renew my FP subscription next month and instead follow several folks from here who comment regularly.
If Beccera and the various Medical Associations have the robust evidence about the efficacy of the gender-affirming approach, why couldn't Cass find it? She did look for it and did include the medium quality as well as the high quality studies.
Beccera is smarmy and looked the fool he is lying to Congress. There has never been any evidence to trans minors and they know it. His defense was “ we defer to WPATH and the American pediatrics soc and the Osychiatric and endocrine societies.
Crenshaw held up the chart that showed that they all deferred to one another in a circular fashion with no one caring that there was no data.
I suspect that all the guilty involved parties including the government are hoping it will blow over . We can’t let tha5 happen
It is up to the grassroots not to allow it to 'blow over' and to demand answers. Why is there no good evidence? Why weren't the records properly kept? Why have so many studies relied on circular reasoning? What has such a vulnerable cohort done to deserve unlicensed and unevidenced based medical experimentation on this scale?
And this is a story about the Green co-leader Patrick Harvie and the joke he made about when he used to work on a 'sex line.' NB He managed to get his seat at the Scottish parliament because of proportional representation.
Have you watched Mr Bates v the Post Office? If so, you will know who Angela is and why her testimony is so important/breath-taking. She should be held to account for what she did.
If you can watch it (I think the whole thing is on Masterpiece Theatre now) -- it is actually hugely watchable. It is rare for a tv programme to have as big an impact as this one did. Toby Jones is a brilliant character actor.
I hope Angela gets prosecuted. We should get Paula in the next few weeks -- someone who should also get her comeuppance.
It's streaming on PBS Passport (available to anyone who donates at least $5/month to their local PBS station, which they assured me does not help fund NPR). The series is definitely must-watch TV.
The problems in Scotland appear wholly self-inflicted. By a governing elite that hates is own people, their customs and their national pride. Same with England. Everything that has made Western Civilization an incredible jewel is being squandered by these fools.
I don't know that the porridge scoffers can be all that intelligent; after all the SNP are a national socialist party and even you lot can join those dots! :-)
Such low-hanging fruit Some of Us find irresistible. But I'm not agile enough this morning to pluck it without being excessively crudely injudicious. An exercise for the student, I guess.
"They’re camped out on a lawn in front of the main library, making friendship bracelets, painting scraps of cardboard, and gossiping about the Zionists on campus."
This makes perfect sense.
Years before I retired, I was inflicted with having periodically to accept individual and/or group art projects in lieu of written work; and so I had to preside over English classes that saw the kids drawing, coloring and, above all, chatting. Entire half-days were sometimes given over to such busy work all in the name of "shaking it up" and school spirit. Math, history, English -- kaput.
Some of what they produced was, of course, very good. These were intelligent kids. But the school does have an art department.
I did keep one particularly clever project produced by my advisees.
My students are past their college days. Still, I hate to think any are involved in these idiot protests. It would mean I didn't do my job.
These kids at Columbia seem to have way too much time on their hands, think way too much of themselves and zero sense or self awareness. I’m concerned so many parents are paying a ton of money for these kids to look like a Halloween Party is every day. Also, thinking…lazy narcissists who won’t work or study.
I was thinking the same thing. Isn't the term ending next week aka this is finals time? During this time of the semester in my college days, I remember being barricaded in the library by day, chugging coffee in the lounge of my dorm by night as I frantically studied. My GPA hung in the balance with finals looming that accounted for 30% or so of my grade in each class. Or do they not do grades and GPAs anymore because it conflicts with a safe space?
We have to keep in mind, these little dummies don't represent all of the gen z'ers who are busting it right now to finish the semester. This is a fraction of the student population and while probably lingering on most American college campuses, it doesnt represent all, or even most, of the students. Keep in mind, there are MANY MANY hard working kids just trying to get through their classes to start that summer job or internship. A lot of these kids look at their fellow classmates holding the signs and think the same exact thing we think, " those fucking idiots." We need to quit paying so much attention to these stupid asses and they will crawl back to their holes. Attention is their fuel. Narcissists to the core.
And then to hear the anguish in the poor mothers words to her only son, trapped in Hamas hell, missing his arm, dying before her very eyes. This young 20 something man tortured while these American students praise Hamas. If I was their parent, not a single penny to them forever. Cut off completely! I would hope that my asshole child would not only get kicked out of college, but spend some time in jail. And they better damn well know what river and what sea.
Thank you Jenny! We must maintain perspective and not let these protesters live rent-free in our heads. Stay cool, maintain awareness of the big picture and where this over-covered set of events fits in.
John McWhorter had some recent words about it, sorry, too hard to link from my phone, but I appreciated his cool headed perspective.
Homework is institutionally racist and perpetuates the white patriarchy. It assumes you have a home and that you must do work with no remuneration to fulfill your masters (degree).
Funny that “Masters” degree, studies, programs etc…is still allowed on campus.
I think I have a simple solution for all these wanna be activists. Make them take a competency test. if they actually know the facts about what they're protesting they get a wrist band and can participate. If not then back to the dorms.
if they actually know the facts about what they're protesting they get a wrist band and... taken round back and shot. If not then back to the dorms... and shot.
With all of our technology and medical advancements, shouldn't we be able to make a medical pill that when taken, makes absolutely stupid people like the Columbia protesters heads explode? Just think of how great things would be with that kind of results. Oh, and make sure their parents can take it also.
Dykes for Divestment? They need to hook up with my charity Homos for Hamas. Or how about Idiots for Islam? I saw one yesterday “Freedom and Equality in Palestine” and I thought “I know the drugs have gotten stronger since I was an undergraduate but really? I don’t think there is enough THC and LSD on Mother Earth for me to believe that delusion. Fortunately it appears as if at least my alma maters (UT and USC) have some sense and have sent the state troopers to crack down on these deluded clowns. If I were the Guv, I’d have the Lege empower me to load them all in a transport plane and drop them off in “Palestine” or further to Iran or Saudi Arabia and enjoy a lived experience of the freedoms and equality practiced there
“Americans’ top two long-range foreign policy goals are protecting the U.S. from terrorist attacks and reducing the flow of drugs into our country. (Pew) “ - how can this be true if the government allows and supports an open Southern border?
What’s the best case for the elite East Coast schools? The delusional and solipsistic matriculate there, are taught by the same types, and that keeps other colleges mostly free of crazies? So long Columbia, Hillsdale here we come!
Funniest line about the student protesters aligning with Hamas came from the Babylon Bee.
"Death to America! ... but pay off my student loan first!"
It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
And while I'd love to pay more attention to these Hamas adjacent f*ck-knuckles paying 80k a year for their education, I have to scoot out the door before daybreak and get in a good 12 hours of work framing out the addition my customer is paying a 9.5% HELOC loan on so that I can make enough that after the government taxes the shit out of me and sends it over to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, I've got enough left over to get a half basket of groceries at the Walmart neighborhood market and $85 bucks in gas for my pickup truck that hopefully will hold me for the next week and a half.
Everyone try to remember to keep an attitude of gratitude :-)
And if y'all don't vote for me yo ain't Black.
Well, except that our Black brothers and sisters are slowly catching on that Biden still hates them and is importing in millions of illegal invaders to replace them.
I totally enjiy your comments but please dont capitalize black. White and black are standard lowe case
alan, CAPTIONING is merely for making a point. I do it here ALL THE TIME with my comments, expecting no one is interested in checking our grammar, etc., etc.
Just sayin’ 😊
Bruce, A LOT of Blacks are catching on, and Biden’s worried!
His Regime best hurry up and figure out a way to grant amnesty to all the “ILLEGALS” - uh, I meant “Undocumented” immigrants, so they can vote for Biden!
LOL!!!!!
Did you miss Nellie's article a few weeks back about the massive "racial realignment" that was supposedly happening?
I wish I could believe they are catching on, but I can't. I believe it is myth. I believe they will never catch on, never leave the plantation. We are circling the drain
I'll tell you a good way to help them "catch on," regularly tell them that the only reason they have a job is because of DEI and that they are on a plantation.
Good point.
Then again, Democrats routinely tell us we vote Republican because a) we don't know enough to vote in our own self-interest; and b) We are stupid.
Probably not a successful strategy.
Actually I think if one is black there are some good reasons to vote Rep. and some good reasons to vote Dem.
Now, as far as self-interests, if you think voting to make sure the Affordable Care Act doesn't come to your state and tax cuts for billionaires with make YOU rich is the way to go, have at it.
Sorry, Dan. The DEIs are on a plantation. They are stupid and have been totally imagining what has been said and done since 1964. That is to be expected when they busy stealing all the college admissions from white and Asian students, causing doors to fall off of planes and crashing ships into bridges.
"Black brothers and sisters."
"DEI brothers and sisters". There, fixed it for you.
Didn't you see The Free Press article a few weeks back about the "massive racial realignment"/Blacks flocking to Trump in droves?
It doesn't have to be "droves," Prof. When your brothers and sisters voted 90% for Dems of more that gave a nice comfortable margin of victory for the KKK president. But what if 20 or even 30% wake up and figure out the scam? Bye, bye, DNC. And more and more young Black guys are getting wise to the race hustle.
Uh, I only have 2 brothers and no sisters, so not sure where you're getting "brothers and sisters" from. That's weird. Are you related to all white people?
KKK President? Lol. Ok, Bruce.
What exactly is the "scam/race hustle" Bruce? Claiming DEIs are talking all the college admission seats from Asians and whites? Causing all the plane doors to fall off? Crashing ships into bridges?
What's your over/under on the DEIs voting percentage for Trump?
I think you should be more appreciative of your privilege
:/s
Well, at least no one is blaming them for doors falling off planes or ships crashing into bridges, so that's a plus.
You and me both. I wish my irritation at these imbeciles would fuel my truck.
Hmmm.....upset about money to Zelensky, but not about Netanyahu....
Perhaps if you had paid 80k for education you would not be doing additions on houses?
Yes, instead of doing something useful he could then be a DEI administrator.
"Nigger administrator."
There, fixed it for you.
I am genuinely grateful for Babylon Bee. It truly IS fake news you can trust.
I loved the recent Bee headline about Jewish Columbia students attending classes remotely from the attics they are hiding in.
This isn’t difficult. Just as in a company where the CEO establishes rules that employees must adhere to or face termination, universities should operate similarly. The presidents need to establish clear rules and ensure they are enforced.
What we're witnessing is a breakdown of authority and a lack of willingness to act. Clearly define the rules, state the consequences for professors and students who violate them—whether it's termination for professors or suspension, expulsion, and even the revocation of foreign student visas for students—and then follow through without hesitation. The expulsion of the first student will signal the end of this tent city.
For universities unwilling to take action, alumni must demand the removal of university administrations.
The clear rules they want, they don't want to advertise. They WANT this. They just don't want to admit it. If this were a bunch of conservatives sitting in to stop abortion or for gun rights, you can bet they would be long gone by now.
Oh, they are plenty willing to act. If someone uses the wrong pronoun, or says Black people can be racists, too, or maybe students who can correctly answer questions should get better grades regardless of their ethnic background, they will be gone in a minute. The administration agrees with the protesters.
Great idea! And who will hire these paragons?
Paying off those student loans is arguably a nail in the US' coffin.
Among how many other nails?
For the first time in my long life I found myself yesterday musing that maybe America is hopelessly lost and wondering where on Earth I might find hope and liberty to live out my last days.
The coffin is entirely nails at this point.
I have come to that conclusion myself recently. And I know that bygone generations felt that things had changed beyond recognition but this is truly fundamental change. To the chant of "save our democracy" no less. As I listen to Mayor Pete drone on about airline fees as we run the risk of faulty planes taking flight. But the good news is it is oddly freeing. I no longer feel I have much of a stake in the future so I am going to focus on my well-being.
That is all we can do at this point.
You are making me laugh. Yes, America does seem irretrievably doomed unless a major event (and God forbid because probably that means a major war) forces a correction.
Oh well, I am not in charge of history, and though I'm doing pretty well at 68 there's a time limit on my presence. Aging does give you perspective, there's really a beauty to it.
But not only are friends passing on, but the people one knows are fragile. Quite daunting, who could be worthy to give them all they need?
Who indeed?
Inward focus is perfectly fine.
Since actually caring about others only gets you a smack in the face.
Who cares at this point.
Fuck em.
Me, me, I.
I think the same daily, friend.
Did you ever imagine we'd get to this place?
A co-worker and I used to discuss these topics back in 1999. I had no idea it would get this bad.
On the one hand all my Xmases have come at once; on the other hand when America sneezes... ; on the gripping hand, Man City will probably win the League again, so it's still all gravy. ;-)
It all happened by very slowly, then all of a sudden. I can’t put my finger on when “all of a sudden” happened, but I am confident that it is clearly in the past.
Obama.
I believe you are correct. Obama was the inflection point and catalyst for sure.
He planted the seed and sure enough, some time later he “transformed America.”
I don't think that was it. He was a symptom not a cause of what was already going on. And (prepare your brickbats) not that bad a pres., much worse now that he can express his own opinion.
The pres. can't do much the culture doesn't already want to do.
Of course! Typical Democrat
Jim, I LOVE the Bee!!
They also have a new one out. A poster of Biden and his new campaign slogan “Death to America” across the top!
Plus, one of Trump with Hunter, announcing Trump choosing Hunter as his VP running mate. Captioned, THIS WILL STOP THE INVESTIGATION!!
Hmmm. So are American tax dollars subsidizing protestor lifestyles and spaces that in turn enable protest encampments against the spoon that feeds them? Divestiture can go in many directions.
What a bunch of Hamas-holes!
What's even funnier is that is not what is happening.
I laughed at Communist Coachella at Columbia 😂
This young adults, because they are no longer kids, are so clueless it’s beyond amazing. Eventually reality is going to bitch slap them so hard.
Their parents should be completely shamed for raising such anti-semitic, lazy, worthless members of society.
Other parents should be raving mad and calling the school demanding reimbursement of their children’s tuition who aren’t part of this nonsense.
But this is where we are today. This is what DECADES of progressive Democrat entrenched bullshit in schools in the media, in corporations have done to this country. Everything has come to fruition for all to see. Anyone who is surprised by this is truly clueless.
Voting for Biden and any Democrat is an absolute continuation of this disgraceful continuation of where this country is going.
Other parents are not raving mad because they're liberals who raised these little spoiled brats to begin with. Go check out Robert Reich's Substack on the same topic and the comments from his followers. It's night and day from here. I really cannot understand these people.
Like Ilhan Omar’s daughter.
These kids remind me of the rich kids who formed The Weather Underground in the ‘60s and became domestic terrorists.
And got pardoned by Obama.
Of course, since he had his first fundraiser at Ayers’ and Dohrn’s home.
How in God's name did we elect that creep? And more to the point why does he still get respect and acclaim.
In a February 2008 interview with the New York Times, Mr. Obama said the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” He then recited it, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.” The opening of the Adhan contains the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith, proclaiming, “There is no god but God and Muhammad is the prophet of God.” Stating this before two Muslims is the traditional requirement for joining the Islamic faith. What were we thinking????
Obama was the thing that finally made me vote Republican. I remember the first time I saw him, he had just been elected junior senator. He was so impressive that I thought, "cool--maybe he'll run for president one day." And two years later, there he was, running for president. And I thought, "okay, that was sooner than I expected, but still kinda cool." Then I started reading up on him and the people he surrounded himself with, and I thought, "well, that's not cool AT ALL." And then I saw how the media practically deified him, never asked him any hard questions, or even covered up for his mistakes (?), such as when he mentioned his "Muslim faith" and George Stephanopoulos gently corrected him, and I thought, "holy SHIT! WTF is going on here?!?" And when I asked my liberal friends that question and raised my concerns, I was told I was a racist. And at that point, I thought, "well, fuck it. I guess I'm a Republican now."
The people who voted for him were thinking he was "the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
We weren't thinking and we aren't now. We're done. The problem the dems and the left is going to have is that there are millions in this country that are armed, and the vast majority of them will not go quietly into the night. This will not end well for anyone. Ever heard of the French revolution?
We were thinking we were the 'good' guys. See how all liberalized and 'inclusive' we are. We put a black man in the white house who honors other religions and peoples. Ha Ha Ha. The joke is totally on us. They figured out how to make our desire to be 'good, fair and just' work against us and Obama was their tool. The folks I know that still Revere Obama, just cannot admit that they invested in a well spoken corporate stoolie crook who also just happens to be a person of color. I think it would crush their image of reality and by exentenion crush them, so they just cannot go there. I have been so disappointed, on so many issues these past few years, by the craven cowardice of so many of my old community that I used to respect.
Rep. Omar already is a domestic terrorist, given her daily incitements to this mob. A real country would deport her back to Somalia, where she belongs.
DJT broke Robert Reich's brain in 2017. He'll never recover no matter how much antipsychotic medication he takes.
Trump Derangement Syndrome broke many liberal brains lol
I think it’s cognitive dissonance
My father had it
He believed in small government,against confiscatory taxes and an ardent supporter of Israel but voted democrat
And he saw this coming 50 years ago and still vited democrat
It’s so funny you mention his Substack. I actually just visited his stack yesterday and laughed, sadly, at the comments. This is state we are living in with this country. It’s truly amazing. I fear this country is too far gone for any help in steering the ship back to the right ways.
I’ve read those comments before. Alternate fucking universe for sure. The WSJ comments section is alarmingly similar.
The WSJ comments section has become a toilet. It used to be even liberal comments added to the discussion. It's beyond that now. The WSJ will pick and choose which articles to open the comments section on. Any article about Trump the comments section is blasted with liberals seniors posting childish, immature jokes. Enter one wrong word and your comment goes into moderation. A few days later get an email one of your comments was removed by the moderators.
I recently gave up my WSJ subscription after 35 years because the comments section went to hell.
I gave up too
Definitely felt like an alternate universe. I'm sad to hear WSJ has gone the way of woke too. Every last line of defense of common sense in big media is crumbling
Reich... it is all in the name.
I did that a few days ago. The overt, mask-off, actually gleeful Jew-hatred of his progressive followers was alarming even though it was somewhat to be expected. Anti-Zionists are simply cretins.
It's shocking their total lack of self-awareness. These are the same people who screamed "safe space" 4 years ago so they could protect minorities who they want to treat as their little pets from white people for being white. They're the same people who screamed "safe space" to protect fragile mentally-ill men in dresses and fetishists from women who say they don't want men in women's locker rooms. Now it's ok to create a hostile atmosphere against Jews, and if some are actually shouting antisemitic speech at Jews, then it's just "a few bad apples" and they're still entitled to free speech. The hypocrisy is astounding!
None of them even mention this all would end, right now, if Hamas return the hostages. It's all Israel's fault. They don't want Hamas to surrender. Hamas is their liberator. The moral inversion really sickens me.
I actually wish the hypocrisy was astounding. But these past few years I have come to expect it as the norm. I could make a list but am sure you already know. I think they just want scapegoats because they cannot deal with real reality as everything is falling apart around them. The lack of plain ole resilience and strength to face what is actually truly happening, is what astounds me. Folks have become so weakened that they will create a hellscape of the world around them rather than face real time truth and their own bullshit. 'Soooo lookee here, we have the perfect scapegoats, first privileged white males and now goody goody that ole standby, the generationally hated jew can be our whipping boys. How accomodating of Israel to fall right into our crazy agenda by daring to fight back against a barbaric invasion. Whee lets all jump on the bandwagon even if we have no idea what the hell is actually going on' . That's my take anyway.
They are drinking the Kool aid over there at Robert Reich's substack. Looked there once, thought about posting dissents, nah, not worth it.
People on both sides are now so thoroughly siloed it is two different countries. I like to try and appeal to the reasonable liberal people, there are some and democracy functions at times. The true believers are a hopeless cause.
Bobby Reich always comes up short.
I am 100% in agreement with you, but I am going to add some "complexifying" (if it's not a word it should be, and if you understood me it is) thoughts.
What these kids--and they are kids, of roughly the developmental level of an average 10 year old 100 years ago--are doing is nesting. All this could be viewed as the complex manifestations of essentially very, very primitive instinctual behaviors. Seen ethologically (note: not ethically) human beings, like all primates, are social animals. We evolved to live in close proximity to one another, to bond with one another, to share good times and bad times together, in direct physical proximity. A phone is not even remotely an equivalent. I think most Americans have this sense of lack that is deeply rooted in our very remote past.
So even if the outer trappings are fully and completely absurd, the underlying unconscious impulses DO have their own inner logic. These ARE needs that need to be met. But we need to do it in open, rational, pro-social and emotionally intelligent ways.
All the madness has a logic to it. But that logic is not cognitive, not constructive, and is extremely tribalistic to the point that it could be viewed as intrinsically aggressive and violent, both in intent and outcome.
I will add that I LITERALLY--which is the word I think we use now to mean something like really really, no seriously I'm not joking--think Columbia Anthropology students should embed themselves in these groups and study the tribal dynamics of this ephemal but for those involved meaningful public flash mob, or cultural Pop Up.. The whole thing is shallow, silly, childish. But it comes from an honest place.
All of us are honest at some level of our being, but for some that honesty is buried so far down it won't see the light of day in this lifetime. Truth is a habit. So is lying.
And those nesting opportunities; most notably the Boy Scouts, were killed off (with a bit of self-help, sadly) or have withered to oblivion. Or even Device-free play.
Agreed. We used to find ways to meet these needs in healthy ways.
Yes, I agree with your comment.
Yes, thank you good points. And helpful to understand other dimensions happening simultaneously in this situation. But the basic primitive and unconscious needs of these kids are being blatantly manipulated by adults who do have various quite conscious toxic agendas. Those who are orchestrating this need to be held accountable . Same as how Hamas has indoctrinated and manipulated Palestinian kids for the past twenty years. These kids on campus have been manipulated and indoctrinated a bit more subtly from every direction, through multiple trojan horses such as CRT, DEI, guilt for being white, anger for being of color, guilt for being American. Shame and guilt for daring to want to live in a culture that reflects your own core values. Fear that climate change is going to destroy the world before they ever get a chance to live. Fear that you will never be able to use your college degree for anything worthwhile or won't be able to pay off your debt. Fear that WW 3 is inevitable and we are going to blow ourselves up. So blaming everything and anyone that it can possibly be framed as 'righteous' to blame, is a very predictable response. These kids are acting out the terrible stresses and fears that the entire world is feeling like never before and the time honored way to handle overwhelm is to scapegoat and lash out at the most convenient targets. Those manipulating this whole mess know this. They are very very good at tweaking human social response because it is very predictable and think tanks have studied this stuff forever.
I agree. Its a bad situation. But you know, Churchill probably should have given up after France fell virtually overnight.
But he didnt, and it made a large difference. As he said, in one of his dozens of memorable quotes (that I will paraphrase) we dont need to know what lies at a distance to do what we can here and now. Speaking out, thinking, and retaining some residual sense of individuality in the face of hate filled mobs, treachery by our leaders, and generalized madness are all things we can and should do.
I agree with what you say and have no intention of giving up. I don't think we have a prayer of defeating the enemy tho if we cannot name and recognize the multiple faces of that enemy. Churchill had an advantage in that in spite of a divided Briitan, which was devestated by the previous war and did NOT want to go to war again; Hitler's blatantly aggresive actions unified England into naming and fighting Germany as the enemy. We, however, still cannot agree on who the enemy actually is. I don't think it is these kids, who while they may be considered legal adults, they really aren't. I think it is the actual adults who are allowing the kids to continue acting out this way and who filled them full of this toxic rhetoric to begin with, who need to be held accountable. But even many of those adults are just useful patsies who have themselves been indoctrinated and who are afraid and have thus surrendered themselves to the system. Behind all of that is an even darker agenda that is manupulating us. That is the real enemy to me. The ones who consciously and deliberately want to destroy america from the inside out and are using our fear and our confusion and our kids to do it. It's very effective because while we are busy fighting amongst ourselves, they are slyly taking over.
Agreed. Ironically (or perhaps not), perhaps the better metaphor is ordinary Germans watching the Nazis take over.
All we can do is speak the truth, organize as well as we can, and accept that the chips are going to fall however they fall.
For sure. And as Niall Ferguson pointed out in his essay 'The Treason of the Intellectuals', it was the universities that fomented Nazism.
Now JJ, do not fear. They ARE learning. They are learning to be comfortable and happy living in tents.
Living in tents with charging stations and catered meals. They don't even know how stupid they look.
They are like frogs in the pot. Utterly clueless.
LOL. The NEW homeless group.
Unhoused*
It's worth taking a trip to the Man of Steele substack and watching his documentary, Killilng America, that explains how this irrationality came to be.
I’ll check it out thank you
I'd like to believe that reality will be the karma they need, but given the levels that people who espouse this crap rise too (I'm thinking about Bud Light, Target, Disney, Levi's, Google and on and on) that no, they'll be allowed to live in their own echo chambers right up until the point that one of these terrorists or criminals cuts their throat.
Part of me thinks that as well
I don’t know if this is funny (as in funny not funny), satirical, sardonic, or just bat guano crazy, BUT,
Would someone please explain why we give the right to vote to anyone chanting and holding placards, IN PUBLIC no less, proclaiming "Death To America?" Not to mention one of our closest allies.
Oh yeah, I get the freedom of speech issue, but they’re calling for the overthrow of the Constitution, the dismantling of the Amendment(s) ensuring and protecting that right; I just don’t think that demanding the protection of that right why advocation for burning it all down - should go without consequences. They want no more American, then I think America divesting itself of these parasites would only make them happy (then deport to, say, Gaza or Iran).
Students for Justice in Palestine has been a threat to Jewish students for 2 decades. Many have tried to point it out but were rebuffed and ignored by not only the universities, but the legacy Jewish organizations. (I know I harp on this topic, but people need to be held to account)
Don't fool yourself, none of these protests are spontaneous. This has been planned for along time and it is not students organizing these protests. There are professional agitators involved. These groups are also funded by the Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Alex Soros' foundation.
At least Fordham University saw the antisemitism associated with this group and banned them. BTW-Brandeis which got an A from the ADL, has an SJP chapter and welcomed Jew haters to its campus, but banned Ayaan Hirsi Ali, so not sure how they got an A.
CAIR, which condemned USC for its handling of the protests, is aligned with Hamas, and its leaders are unindicted coconspirators in the HolyLand terror financing trial . But still Obama and Biden welcomed these groups to the White House and if anyone forgets the Biden Administration had CAIR chime in on its antisemitism task force, despite their leaders spouting virulent antisemitism calling for the destruction of Israel for decades. At least they were removed from the task force for their support of the Oct 7 pogrom. Even Biden's most Jew-hating apparachicks couldn't make excuses for that.
Saying UNRWA should be disbanded and folded into UNHCR is also not new. UN Watch has been pointing out, again for decades, how Hamas controls UNRWA from distribution of food to schools. Also, Einat Wilf cowrote a very detailed book about UNRWA and how it perpetuates the conflict in her book The War of Return.
And surprise surprise, young people are not radical, they are not commies, they don't hate the US. They only want what everyone else wants, a good life and to be able to build a future.
And yes, young men are in danger...again the warnings have been there for 20 years at least. Maybe it's time to do something about it.
As a counterpoint to the pro-Palestinian little Nazi’s demands to divest from Israel, Jewish students should demand the universities divest of all contributions provided by Islamic countries. That would be billions.
Brandeis put out a statement this week that they have created a fast track acceptance track for Jewish students from these hostile Universities who want to transfer to Brandeis.
The Biden White House rolling back Title Nine protections so that anyone can accuse anyone of sexual misconduct-assault without the accused having any die process is only further harming these young men in society. It’s a disaster for individual rights as well as for society as a whole
Brandeis may have finally woken up. But it doesn't take away from the past where they did everything they could to remove itself from its Jewish and Zionist legacy. They went wholly in for the progressive, antisemitic, antiAmerican politics of the moment and this is for decades not just since George Floyd.
If my child was college age, I would quicker send them to Yeshiva University than Brandeis.
The rolling back of due process while screaming about democracy is gaslighting in the extreme.
Yeah, the Brandeis A grade surprised me. They’ve long been nursing vipers in their bosoms.
"This is how they will defeat us. It’s these little assaults on the sane that will make us the minority and ensure that the lunatics stay in charge. Why else would Brandeis University in Massachusetts have produced a list of “oppressive language” that students and staff must avoid at all costs? This was in the summer of 2021, but such measures are now so common that they’ve almost become unremarkable.
Some of Brandeis’s prohibited phrases included “long time no see” which was seen as mocking the broken English of non-native people. “Sold down the river” apparently had connotations of slavery. And “female-bodied” and “male-bodied” dangerously implied that men and women have bodies." " - https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/beware-of-terry-and-june
Brandeis can suck my left nut.
You mean your left male-bodied reproductive thing?
American men are in crisis, says everyone, but also—importantly—surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy. Young men and boys feel “unmoored,” and “lost,” according to the doctor, and that people are “pointing their fingers at them and telling them you are the problem.”
Well, of course, they are. What red blooded American young man wouldn't be if the dating pool consisted of "Ariella [who] goes by they/them pronouns) [and] likes to organize stuff. Most of these young women at Columbia would have been shipped off to lunatic asylums in a saner America.
This generation and unfortunately many of my own (millennial) have lost the plot, and I maintain that social media is a huge part of the problem. I'm in a parenting group on Facebook where people post about various parenting struggles they're having. The other day one woman wrote in that her 3 year old son enjoys wearing tutus sometimes, and while he doesn't seem to have any issue being referred to as a boy, she's wondering if she shouldn't be more thoughtful about the pronouns she uses to describe him. Someone make it make sense how this movement is simultaneously telling us to abandon gender stereotypes (like pink is for girls, blue for boys), and also that if you have a boy who likes pink, he's probably a girl.
Sure and sometimes little girls pick up sticks and engage in sword fights. Soon enough they sort things out. Of course social media is destructive but I also wonder why we permit the most idiotic and mentally unstable to have the loudest megaphone.
Very true...my daughter went through a phase around age 3 where she wanted to wear tshirts and would say "I feel like a boy." We'd smile and ask what she meant by that, gently reiterate that girls can wear tshirts just like boys can, and move along with our day. Now at age 5, she only wants to wear fancy dresses. I feel like for many parents today, their toddler stating that they felt like the opposite gender would prompt a total crisis and a trip to a gender affirming therapist.
As someone I read said, children are more or less genderless until puberty.
Pre-1945, pink was the boys colour.
I was there and I never saw that. What do you mean? Some kind of metaphor? Besides, for me, out in the yard, my color was dirt.
Yup 1950sGood Houskeeping and such magazines decided that no longer would blue be a 'girl color' (from Catholic Marian traditions) and should be pink. So now blue was now that 'boy color' for decor and--and as always, we do we fall for ads and influence!
Yup, a pastel version of manly red.
And the histories making this point illustrate it with pictures of young boys in pink dresses. Folk and society can be very, very odd and confusing.
Or maybe the faded color of blood from skinned knees and elbows?
Oof, it should sound like a joke, but horrifying that it's not!
My 3 year old son asks for his nails to be painted and to wear little sticker earrings because his big sister does it. It really is that simple. He's as boy as a boy can be.
Doesn't the craziness astound you? And how fast this trans madness has become mainstream opinion.
Yes, the Biden administration’s Surgeon General seems primarily concerned that our alienated young men who have been subject to decades of institutional discrimination and condemnation by the enlightened class will become aligned with “demagogues” and unsavory political movements. I think he vaguely comprehends that these young men know fully well which political faction has screwed them over and which might offer a path to respect and equality. That doesn’t bode well for the left.
The only group that skews majority Democrat is younger women, but they do so by a large percentage.
The Columbia descent into spoilt-brat-mobstering raises (for me anyway) a long-overdue question........how can the worst of these SJW blots on our civilisation be suitably be brought to account. For 50+ years we Western liberals have indulged them and indulged them and, in effect, encouraged more of same. Now it's time to ask how can they be brought to account for:
* their gall and presumption in thinking they have any rightful place in institutions of 'higher learning.'
* their wilful aquisition and nurture of ignorance at the taxpayers expense
* their passive-aggressive spite and bile towards their fellow man thinly dressed up as virtue.
It may seem very non-pc but one can't help feeling that some kind of retribution (punishment even) - something akin to the stocks of former times - is what this kind of academia wokerati behavior richly deserves....I wish I knew how it could be brought about but I've no idea.
And now they demand the college just drop all suspensions. Their sense of entitlement needs a good hard fixing.
I would have turned the sprinklers on them on the quad and then booted them from school. Give their spots to nice Jewish kids majoring in STEM.
Then the universities need to shut down every Islamic organization on campus.
Agreed. Also need to stop sanctifying 'Protesting' which in the liberal West (unlike scary regimes like Iran and Afghanistan) would be better re-named Spoilt-Bratting. I think the shutting down of a very large part of non-STEM academia would be a dream come true (although one I can't see happening in my lifetime). As I wrote in this piece: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
"If the defenders of ‘traditional values’ (presumably a re-invigorated GOP) ever did really get their act together (and the votes to back it), what kind of fight-back could they mount? They have left it late. It would need to be an unashamedly sledgehammer legislative approach and pursued with Machiavellian sleight of hand. It might include:
- ending the decades-long absurdity of left wing proselytising organisations (including in academia) being actually funded by the taxpayer.
- a clear-out of the kind of senior academics who have so cravenly caved in to spoilt-brat ‘radicalism’.
- a complete clear-out of the multi-billion ‘diversity’ bureaucracy racket.
- a complete overhaul of teacher training (that has long been allowed to become a training ground in progressive ideology).
- an end to public sector security-of-tenure unrelated to performance.
I agree with all your statements, however, to reinvigorate the GOP as you say, there is an awful lot of empty suits to send packing!
Oh I'm huge on the liberal arts, it just has to be revamped so it's not a course in progressive indoctrination.
With any luck these protestors will be the death knell of these colleges. In the end, we may owe them a debt of gratitude...
Mommy and Daddy forking over $79K tuition at Columbia so their kids can sit on lawns.
I disagree with only your last point. I wouldn't shut down any Islamic org that follows the rules.
Prophetic! 😂 the sprinkler thing actually happened in Harvard apparently.
I think beating them with hammers might be a start. Then, move on to the sickle...
How can the worst of these SJW blots on our civilisation be suitably be brought to account? 9mm double-tap and the parents pay for the ammunition. I'm not joking; only annoyed you can only kill them once.
Student protests ... Two days ago, I watched a Fox News reporter who interviewed a protester. When asked to identify the "river" and the "sea", the student protester was unable to name either. Only one example, but a confirmation that some (and probably many) students involved have no understanding of what they are protesting.
Other people interviewed said that the events of 7 October never happened!
Furthermore, as indicated in this FP report, the protests have been infiltrated by people who are not students. Where are they coming from?
Yet their parents are paying over $100 K per year for an Ivy League education.
Hint to parents -wake up. Send your kid to a good state school with a quality STEM department.
Yes. Most of these student protesters are truly DUMB
That’s what so striking about these kids. Now when I see an Ivy on a CV, it’s not impressive. More like: who’s your daddy, or, what’s your DEI status.
What's amazing is it costs thousands more today than it did years ago and it was worth more then. It's worthless today. Truly sad.
I'd venture to guess that a majority of these miscreants are NOT students.
There are organizations that provide protestors for a client’s causes. This is “No joke!” as our diapered dictator would say. One is called Crowds on Demand which offers services for “Protests, rallies and advocacy.” From its website;
“Crowds on Demand is your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR
stunts, crowds for hire and corporate events.
Services available nationwide.
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And the news just in from Scotland -- Yousaf has terminated his power sharing agreement with the Greens.
Although some commentators will mention the abandoning of the climate change targets being the fissure, it was more likely that Ash Regan (the former contender for the SNP leadership but)the now Alba MSP) petition for a vote of No Confidence in Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Greens after his science denying remarks re the Cass Report which made Yousaf act. Apparently many of the SNP MSP backbench were willing to go along with the NC vote. Lorna Slater, the other co-leader of the Scottish Greens rather game away with her final statement Slater "ends the statement by urging SNP members who cared about the climate, trans rights and independence to consider whether they were in the right party."
Why mention trans rights if they had no part in the spilt.
Will Yousaf survive? Or he is fatally weakened? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz5dy15grjnt
In Westminster, Gillian Keegan has apologised for using the phrase 'trans women are women'. She has done her research and now knows better. Keegan is the Education Secretary. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/24/gillian-keegan-will-stop-saying-trans-women-are-women/
ANd for those who have been watching Mr Bates v the Post Office on Masterpiece Theatre, Angela van den Bogerd is giving evidence today. She is truly sorry but doesn't think she has done anything wrong because she never knowingly does anything wrong. The KC has pointed out the Orwellian language she used and the fact that she received an email about the remote access in 2010, not 2011. One can only hope that the subpostmasters get some justice. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/25/post-office-inquiry-live-latest/
Thank you to Michelle Styles for the pertinent news from the UK.
For the first time that I’m aware of , a member of Congress publicly questioned a White House official about the Cass Report! Dan Crenshaw took Secretary of Health and Human Services Beccera to task about sterilizing kids- gender affirming care- with zero evidence! Beccera actually tried to say that his Dept follows the guidance of the vaunted medical Associations.
The US is so far behind the UK and rest of Europe in addressing this scandal. That is yet another scandal in itself.
In case you don’t know, Michelle Styles has a very informal but informative substack that is definitely worth the read and follow.
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll follow .
thanks for reminding me of that again, too! i'm not going to renew my FP subscription next month and instead follow several folks from here who comment regularly.
Brilliant that Crenshaw is asking questions.
If Beccera and the various Medical Associations have the robust evidence about the efficacy of the gender-affirming approach, why couldn't Cass find it? She did look for it and did include the medium quality as well as the high quality studies.
Transgender Trend published something yesterday about the data from the Adult Clinics -- there are reasons why they tried to keep the rock firmly down. It does make for shocking reading. https://www.transgendertrend.com/adult-gender-clinics-withhold-data-cass-review/
Beccera is smarmy and looked the fool he is lying to Congress. There has never been any evidence to trans minors and they know it. His defense was “ we defer to WPATH and the American pediatrics soc and the Osychiatric and endocrine societies.
Crenshaw held up the chart that showed that they all deferred to one another in a circular fashion with no one caring that there was no data.
I suspect that all the guilty involved parties including the government are hoping it will blow over . We can’t let tha5 happen
It is up to the grassroots not to allow it to 'blow over' and to demand answers. Why is there no good evidence? Why weren't the records properly kept? Why have so many studies relied on circular reasoning? What has such a vulnerable cohort done to deserve unlicensed and unevidenced based medical experimentation on this scale?
Did you see the intervention from Reem Alsalem UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls welcoming the Cass Report. She is particularly concerned about the changing cohort of those suffering from gender dysphoria and how it is suddenly skewing towards young women, instead of middle aged men. She is a lone voice at the UN but I am glad she there. https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2024/04/uk-implementation-cass-report-key-protecting-girls-serious-harm-says-un-expert
And this is a story about the Green co-leader Patrick Harvie and the joke he made about when he used to work on a 'sex line.' NB He managed to get his seat at the Scottish parliament because of proportional representation.
https://twitter.com/scotfamparty/status/1782837607228953014?s=08
One Tory wag quipped that the dog's tail has been docked today. (The Greens were supposed to be the tail wagging the dog which is the SNP)
The Cass report. Isn't that something about the Mamas and the Papas?
"She is truly sorry but doesn't think she has done anything wrong because she never knowingly does anything wrong."
The end of civilization in one sentence.
As C.S. Lewis wrote: "Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Exactly.
Have you watched Mr Bates v the Post Office? If so, you will know who Angela is and why her testimony is so important/breath-taking. She should be held to account for what she did.
But I agree she is v much of a type.
I haven't, but I've read up on the story. I hope Angela will experience serious consequences.
If you can watch it (I think the whole thing is on Masterpiece Theatre now) -- it is actually hugely watchable. It is rare for a tv programme to have as big an impact as this one did. Toby Jones is a brilliant character actor.
I hope Angela gets prosecuted. We should get Paula in the next few weeks -- someone who should also get her comeuppance.
Thanks. I'll ask a teenaged son to try to find it for me on our various streaming subscriptions.
It's streaming on PBS Passport (available to anyone who donates at least $5/month to their local PBS station, which they assured me does not help fund NPR). The series is definitely must-watch TV.
Can we replace Oliver with you? Seriously asking.
LOL. I am pleased you find my comments interesting.
I've said the same... the only downside: It'd draw attention to how bad much of the rest of TFP is too.
Have seriously wondered the same for a while as well.
The ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce are weeping for their nation. Have the Scots lost all semblance of pride and honor?
As Ash Regan said -- finally some of the SNP MSP rediscovered their backbone. And the name of that backbone was Hillary Cass.
Ash Regan may now hold the balance of power in the Scottish parliament btw. Her vote may be needed to get any budget over the line.
The SNP do not want to have to call an early election as it is likely Labour will be resurgent.
The problems in Scotland are now deep - -education, health, the ferries, the scandal over the missing 700k from the ring fenced Indy 2 fund etc
The problems in Scotland appear wholly self-inflicted. By a governing elite that hates is own people, their customs and their national pride. Same with England. Everything that has made Western Civilization an incredible jewel is being squandered by these fools.
I can certainly see why you have reached this conclusion and sadly share it.
And that is the goal of western “elites”.
I don't know that the porridge scoffers can be all that intelligent; after all the SNP are a national socialist party and even you lot can join those dots! :-)
"Gillian Keegan... has done her research..."
Such low-hanging fruit Some of Us find irresistible. But I'm not agile enough this morning to pluck it without being excessively crudely injudicious. An exercise for the student, I guess.
Remember when Pelosi wanted to reduce the voting age to 16?
"They’re camped out on a lawn in front of the main library, making friendship bracelets, painting scraps of cardboard, and gossiping about the Zionists on campus."
This makes perfect sense.
Years before I retired, I was inflicted with having periodically to accept individual and/or group art projects in lieu of written work; and so I had to preside over English classes that saw the kids drawing, coloring and, above all, chatting. Entire half-days were sometimes given over to such busy work all in the name of "shaking it up" and school spirit. Math, history, English -- kaput.
Some of what they produced was, of course, very good. These were intelligent kids. But the school does have an art department.
I did keep one particularly clever project produced by my advisees.
My students are past their college days. Still, I hate to think any are involved in these idiot protests. It would mean I didn't do my job.
These kids at Columbia seem to have way too much time on their hands, think way too much of themselves and zero sense or self awareness. I’m concerned so many parents are paying a ton of money for these kids to look like a Halloween Party is every day. Also, thinking…lazy narcissists who won’t work or study.
I was thinking the same thing. Isn't the term ending next week aka this is finals time? During this time of the semester in my college days, I remember being barricaded in the library by day, chugging coffee in the lounge of my dorm by night as I frantically studied. My GPA hung in the balance with finals looming that accounted for 30% or so of my grade in each class. Or do they not do grades and GPAs anymore because it conflicts with a safe space?
We have to keep in mind, these little dummies don't represent all of the gen z'ers who are busting it right now to finish the semester. This is a fraction of the student population and while probably lingering on most American college campuses, it doesnt represent all, or even most, of the students. Keep in mind, there are MANY MANY hard working kids just trying to get through their classes to start that summer job or internship. A lot of these kids look at their fellow classmates holding the signs and think the same exact thing we think, " those fucking idiots." We need to quit paying so much attention to these stupid asses and they will crawl back to their holes. Attention is their fuel. Narcissists to the core.
And then to hear the anguish in the poor mothers words to her only son, trapped in Hamas hell, missing his arm, dying before her very eyes. This young 20 something man tortured while these American students praise Hamas. If I was their parent, not a single penny to them forever. Cut off completely! I would hope that my asshole child would not only get kicked out of college, but spend some time in jail. And they better damn well know what river and what sea.
😡
Thank you Jenny! We must maintain perspective and not let these protesters live rent-free in our heads. Stay cool, maintain awareness of the big picture and where this over-covered set of events fits in.
John McWhorter had some recent words about it, sorry, too hard to link from my phone, but I appreciated his cool headed perspective.
Exactly what a sad juxtaposition.
Of course they have too much time. Schools don’t give out homework anymore!
And everyone passes! We wouldn’t want someone who did no work and learned nothing to feel bad!
Homework is institutionally racist and perpetuates the white patriarchy. It assumes you have a home and that you must do work with no remuneration to fulfill your masters (degree).
Funny that “Masters” degree, studies, programs etc…is still allowed on campus.
Massas' degree. It's more white supremacy!
Unfortunately, most of those parents are not paying Fools graduate with massive debt and we taxpayers get the bill
Vote Trump!!!
I think I have a simple solution for all these wanna be activists. Make them take a competency test. if they actually know the facts about what they're protesting they get a wrist band and can participate. If not then back to the dorms.
if they actually know the facts about what they're protesting they get a wrist band and... taken round back and shot. If not then back to the dorms... and shot.
With all of our technology and medical advancements, shouldn't we be able to make a medical pill that when taken, makes absolutely stupid people like the Columbia protesters heads explode? Just think of how great things would be with that kind of results. Oh, and make sure their parents can take it also.
In some places, like Columbia, that could get very messy...
Terry Gilliam, of Monty Python fame, could create the animated version of this and it would be brilliant.
Dykes for Divestment? They need to hook up with my charity Homos for Hamas. Or how about Idiots for Islam? I saw one yesterday “Freedom and Equality in Palestine” and I thought “I know the drugs have gotten stronger since I was an undergraduate but really? I don’t think there is enough THC and LSD on Mother Earth for me to believe that delusion. Fortunately it appears as if at least my alma maters (UT and USC) have some sense and have sent the state troopers to crack down on these deluded clowns. If I were the Guv, I’d have the Lege empower me to load them all in a transport plane and drop them off in “Palestine” or further to Iran or Saudi Arabia and enjoy a lived experience of the freedoms and equality practiced there
“Americans’ top two long-range foreign policy goals are protecting the U.S. from terrorist attacks and reducing the flow of drugs into our country. (Pew) “ - how can this be true if the government allows and supports an open Southern border?
This Pew survey is either balls - the US take; or confirms the thoughts of the rest of us that 75% of Americans are wankers.
What’s the best case for the elite East Coast schools? The delusional and solipsistic matriculate there, are taught by the same types, and that keeps other colleges mostly free of crazies? So long Columbia, Hillsdale here we come!
Anti-Zionists are the new Nazis.