ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Left Eats Its Own After High-Profile Activists Accept Medals From ‘Genocide Joe.’

Online progressives and leftists attacked humanitarian activists Bono and chef Jose Andres for accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden on Saturday, claiming the pair were endorsing genocide.

Bono, the world-famous Irish frontman to the rock band U2, and Jose Andres, a Spain-born chef who has risen to prominence for his charity work with his World Central Kitchen program, were two of the 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor attainable in America, on Saturday.

While both celebrities have previously been on the receiving end of liberal praise for their charity and compassion, pro-Palestinian activists on X ripped them for appearing with President Biden amid what the activists claim is a presidency that has supported a genocide propagated by Israel.

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“Biden is giving the award because Bono is the only Irish Catholic who doesn’t care at all about the Palestinians,” Jeet Heer, writer at the left-wing magazine The Nation, said on X.

Many of Bono’s own countrymen signaled their disdain for his actions.

“Irish rock star Bono shows 15 months of managing to ignore the Gaza Genocide really pays off,” one Irish blogger wrote.

“As an Irish person I’m disgusted by this image. We stand with the oppressed. We don’t stand with imperialist evil murderous monsters. Tens of thousands of us have been protesting here against this evil. Shame on you Bono,” Irish musician Martin Leahy tweeted Sunday.

Flashback: Antisemitism has made life in Ireland unbearable, say Israelis.

THE DALAI LAMA HAS OFTEN SEEMED SURPRISINGLY BASED:

Update (from Steve): Not so surprising, really. The Dalai Lama comes from an occupied country where the native Tibetans are becoming outnumbered by colonizers from Communist China.

WHY WE MUST EXPOSE THE CRIMINAL FRAUD OF THOSE BEHIND BIDEN’S DISASTROUS PRESIDENCY:

I have, as you can tell, too many questions, but I will limit myself to the two big ones.

The first one is: What actual persons in the administration — names and addresses, please — made the calls in the persistent trampling on our citizen rights?

Someone ordered for Catholic groups and anti-transgender parents to be treated as terrorists by the FBI and Homeland Security. Someone erected and allocated funds for a tentacular online censorship structure that silenced or downranked opinions distasteful to those in power.

Someone “debanked,” or cast out of the financial system, persons lawfully working on artificial intelligence and crypto. Someone perverted the prosecutorial authority to hound and persecute political opponents, particularly of the Trumpist variety.

We know Joe Biden didn’t commit any of those unconstitutional acts. He was too far gone.

So who did? And what should be their penalty?

My second question is: Where the heck were the news media while this clown show was going on?

Acting as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, thrilled, like pre-Internet smalltown newspaper movie critics, to be so close to the action and the spotlights that they would accept any scrap of info the White House fed them. Because of their party allegiance, they were terrorized to bite the hand that feeds them, no matter how snotty Biden has always been with reporters, long before his brain completely withered away. And were equally terrorized that if they spoke up about Sundown Joe’s enfeebled condition, the other party’s presidential candidate would use their words in a campaign ad.

Old and busted: “Speaking truth to power.” The new hotness? Terrified of being the person who begins the preference cascade.

Related: The Biggest Media Story of Biden’s Presidency. They failed to cover the cognitive decline of the commander in chief until it served them to do so.

REFORMERS ASK: WHAT’S THE ACTUAL GOAL OF HIGHER ED? Students overwhelmingly say it’s to get a job. But it’s not efficient at delivering on that, and that’s not the traditional goal of higher ed (nor, in my opinion, should it be–that should be K-12 and tech schools.) So what are we going for? Interesting thoughts here.

BIDEN’S PARTING GIFTS: In its final days, the Biden administration announces new water-heater ban. “Under the policy, new non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters will be prohibited for sale starting in 2029 due to concerns about carbon-dioxide emissions. The policy comes during President Biden’s twilight days in the White House and was quietly announced without a press release.”

Previously: Schumer mocks GOP: ‘Nobody is taking away your gas stove.’

GOOD ADVICE: ‘Give yourself a break’ is bad advice: Do difficult things!

Jake wonders why liberal arts colleges “center” their black students by “encouraging them to experience college as a source of ‘racial battle fatigue’.”

I envision kids watching the The Little Engine That Couldn’t on their phones: “I think I can’t. I think I can’t. It’s too hard. Climbing mountains is a vestige of white patriarchy! Look how brave I am for being able to say that I can’t! I thought I couldn’t!”

American culture treats “successful people like they somehow cheated to get there and poor people as if they’re noble by virtue of being poor,” writes John Hawkins, in another response to Vivek Ramaswamy’s “culture of mediocrity” critique.

Parents should be pushier, he writes. Kids aren’t “pieces of glass that will break if they’re pushed too hard.”

Kids usually live up to — or down to — expectations. “The soft bigotry of low expectations” was one of George W Bush’s few memorable (and correct) phrases and of course, the Left hated him for it.

Just a rant: 
LOOKING BACK (A bit long): I’ve studied an awful lot of history in getting a degree in political philosphy, and that through the very left-leaning CUNY school system. On reflection, it has become clear to me that anyone who uses the word “insurrection” descibing the idiocy of Jan. 6 has no idea what they are talking about.

Was it a riot? Yep. Were many of the particpants dopes? Yep. But read how John Adams, Robespierre, Lenin, Mao and Castro pulled off genuine “revolutions” and you’ll see that mobbing a capitol building isn’t even close. You need to control central information and transportation hubs, get the army to back you, and bring weapons.

None of that happened on J6. If you use the word “insurrection” to describe J6: You have zero credibility.

SHE LEFT OUT “RUTHLESSLY YET CLUMSILY EXECUTED,” BUT, YEAH:

Trudeau won’t be missed but it remains to be seen whether Canadians can go MCGA.

DON’T BLOW IT:

As Elon Musk said, “It’s now or never.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Canada’s Commie Soy Boy Trudeau Slithers Off to Ignominy. “The timing of Trudeau’s announcement is delicious. Democrats are already weeping and gnashing their teeth because Trump is about to be inaugurated. The proggie loons here in the United States were Trudeau’s biggest fan club, so his departure has got to be hitting them pretty hard. The Dems’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media did more to create and perpetuate the myth of Justin Trudeau the studly feminist than their counterparts up north.”

BILL WHITTLE ON J-6 PLUS FOUR:

THOUGHTS ON SPORTS AND PARENTING.

ANARCHY IN THE U.K.

CHECKBOOK IN HAND? Donald Trump Jr takes personal trip to Greenland after president-elect floats purchasing country.

Donald Trump Jr. is expected to travel to Greenland Tuesday after his father, President-elect Trump, signaled an interest in U.S. “ownership and control” of the country, Fox News Digital has learned.

A source familiar with Trump Jr.’s plans told Fox News Digital that the president-elect’s son, who is traveling in a personal capacity, is set to arrive in Nuuk, Greenland, midday Tuesday for meetings with locals, to visit cultural sites and more.

“As someone who has traveled to some fascinating places across the globe as an outdoorsman, I’m excited to stop into Greenland for a little bit of fun this week,” Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News Digital.

A source familiar told Fox News Digital that Trump Jr. is “popping in for a quick day-long trip to shoot some fun video content for podcasting.”

Meanwhile, Trump Sr: “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State.”

Maybe we could let Alberta in on a trial basis. Maybe.