HISTORIANS HEAL THYSELVES: There is perhaps nothing crazier in the modern historical profession than the refusal of people who really should know better to acknowledge that Lee Harvey Oswald, a Communist, murdered JFK for political reasons. (He was also unhinged, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive.)
Let’s review. Oswald was a Communist. He had previously defected to the USSR, but was allowed to return after growing disillusioned. He then became a partisan of the Cuban Revolution, and visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico, trying to defect to Cuba. He was very angry about hostile U.S. policy toward Cuba, and before he killed JFK tried to kill well-known anti-Communist Edwin Walker.
Yet somehow, every November, instead of reminding us of these facts, “mainstream” historians gaslight us with stuff like the tweet below, implying, and sometimes explicitly stating, that JFK was the victim of “right wing hate.” They then complain in other contexts about how conservatives purportedly won’t accept “reality.”
I have a theory about why liberal historians do this re JFK. The left spent the 1950s and early 60s decrying McCarthyism as a “witch hunt,” i.e., not just that McCarthy was a lying demagogue (which he was), but that there was no domestic Communist threat, whatsoever. Acknowledging that a domestic Communist, albeit a lone nut apparently acting on his own volition, assassinated a beloved Democratic president ruins the witch-hunt narrative. That narrative has been a huge propaganda advantage for decades, and they don’t want to let it go.
PUSHBACK IN KNOXVILLE: Seen on Facebook:
KNOX COUNTY RESIDENTS!!
IMPORTANT!
Tomorrow evening (Monday 11/23)
5PM
We will be peacefully protesting at the Knox County Health Department. They’re voting Monday evening on a new Lockdown that will destroy businesses and the morale & mental health of the residents.
It includes:
1. No more than 8-10 people in a group
2. New Curfew at either 8 or 9 pm
3. Gyms closed
4. Restaurants at either 25% capacity or no indoor dining (takeout only)Please join us at the Health Department. Feel free to bring a sign.
I’ve twice heard Knox County officials say that their contact tracing data doesn’t indicate that restaurants or bars are a significant source of infection. I’ve heard no evidence that gyms are a source of spread. I don’t think these plans are scientifically based — we’ve been contact-tracing for 8 months — and I don’t think they’ll hold up in court if challenged. Businesses have already been devastated by lockdowns and the pandemic, and we’re in what, month 8 of “15 days to slow the spread” now?
To quote Judge Stickman in the Pennsylvania case: Population-wide lockdown orders are “such a dramatic inversion of the concept of liberty in a free society as to be nearly presumptively unconstitutional.”
UPDATE: The local small business community is getting organized. A friend sends this message, which is circulating:
We are trying to get all small business/service industry to close from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm so all staff can attend in solidarity the Health Department protest. We also ask that in lieu of being able to be there in person that you at least make emails from the [circulated] list of public officials.
This is the first organized resistance I’ve seen, but it won’t be the last.
ROGER KIMBALL: Waiting for Sidney.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Joseph Stalin To Receive International Emmy For His Outstanding Hunger Relief Efforts.
(To be fair, America’s wannabe newspaper of record wouldn’t have a problem with that idea, either.)
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DEMOCRATS ALWAYS WANT TO CRIMINALIZE THEIR OPPOSITION: Criminalizing Politics: Michigan GOP Lawmakers Threatened With Criminal Investigation For Meeting With Trump On Certification.
2020 WON’T QUIT: The US is running out of wasp venom. That’s bad. Can we do something with the murder hornets? Just spitballing here.
PUSHBACK: Kentucky AG joins legal challenge to governor’s order banning in-person learning at schools.
Related: Seen on Facebook: “BTW, this is NOT photoshop.”
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Apple Looks to Soften Bill That Fights Forced Labor in China.
PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: German police barge into the house of anti-lockdown activist Dr Andreas Noack, arrest him during YouTube livestream: Watch video.
Or perhaps 1979: there are plenty of leftists — and obviously not just in Germany — who view The Lives of Others as a how-to guide for efficient government.
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THE REVOLUTION EVENTUALLY DEVOURS ITS OWN: John Cleese accused of transphobia after doubling down on support of J.K. Rowling with controversial tweet.
Flashback: John Cleese morphed into Theodore Dalrymple so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
TESTOSTERONE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART: Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may raise heart risks. “Long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) increased the risk of heart-related death nearly fourfold in a group of prostate cancer patients, and also caused their heart fitness to decrease, researchers found.”
HOWIE CARR: Pam Kelley, a Kennedy casualty, passes away.
For putting Pam Kelley in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, the family-retainer judge fined Joe Kennedy $100.
That’s the Kennedy M.O. They all live their lives like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby.”
“They were careless people,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. “They smashed up things and creatures and retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Read the whole thing.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Elizabeth Warren and AOC’s Push to ‘Cancel’ $50k in Student Loan Debt Ignores the Reason College Is So Expensive.
IN THE MAIL: 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: University of Illinois unveils plan to crack down on anti-Semitism days after feds open investigation.
OUT: I AM STRONG, I AM INVINCIBLE. IN: BOYS HAVE COOTIES! Duke sorority council bans events with male groups. “According to a post on the Duke Panhellenic Association’s Instagram page, the Panhellenic Council voted to ban mixers with all-male organizations to focus on women’s empowerment. The post states that all-male organizations cause concern amongst other groups due to gender dynamics and the objectification of women.”
NOW OUT: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull book, Crisis.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! It happened again: Biden loses temper with CBS reporter Bo Erickson.
ROGER KIMBALL: Waiting for Sidney.
The other main position—and let me hasten to acknowledge that it is mine—is that this election was riddled with voter fraud. Nor was it the usual taken-for-granted and (between us sophisticated men of the world) acceptable margin of fraud but a planned and systematic assault on the integrity of our election that overturned a convincing victory for Donald Trump.
I believe this partly because of the stunning statistical anomalies in the election—I have written about this several times (here, for example, and here).
But I believe the election was fraudulent for other reasons as well. Perhaps the chief reason has to do with the allegations put forward by Sidney Powell, a prominent attorney who is part of President Trump’s legal team. She has laid out her case many times in the last couple of weeks, including at an “opening statement” press conference on November 19 at which she, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and other members of Trump’s legal team offered a précis of their case.
Their presentation was widely, if not quite universally, condemned by the media. “Where is the evidence?” was one cry, but another, less articulate though more insistent was “Evidence be damned, just shut up and get Trump out of office!”
Suddenly, a lot of people were imitating the state of Missouri, responding to every allegation with the demand “Show me!” Tucker Carlson delighted Trump’s enemies and enraged his friends by pointedly asking what evidence Powell had. He later updated his comments, noting that if Powell is right, she has, almost single-handedly, uncovered what is perhaps the biggest political crime in our nation’s history.
Let the truth come out.
THE BEIJING JOB: China now blaming Italy for starting Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Which is an interesting turn of events considering that in Febuary, the Chinese government encouraged Italians to fight Coronavirus racism by hugging strangers: “Titled ‘Italian residents hug Chinese people to encourage them in coronavirus fight,’ the brief video shows a handsome, casually dressed young Chinese man standing in a busy pedestrian area in Florence. He’s blindfolded and wearing a surgical mask, next to a handwritten sign reading the following in Italian and Chinese: ‘I am not a virus. I am a human being. Free me from prejudice.’ Then, as stirring electronic music swells, passersby hug him and touch his face to remove his blindfold and mask. So much for ‘social distancing.’ This was released on February 4, 2020. Six weeks later, Italy now has more active coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the world, and the entire country has completely shut down.”
NBC NEWS: Chinese parts, hidden ownership, growing scrutiny: Inside America’s biggest maker of voting machines. “The source of the nation’s voting machines has become an urgent issue because of real fears that hackers, whether foreign or domestic, might tamper with the mechanics of the voting system. That has led to calls for ES&S and its competitors, Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems and Austin, Texas-based Hart Intercivic, to reveal details about their ownership and the origins of the parts, some of which come from China, that make up their machines.”
This story is from 2019, of course. If you raise the same concerns today you’re a conspiracy theorist. (Bumped).
NEW ELITE PRESSURE TO SAVE PARIS AGREEMENT: Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Robert Stilson pulls back the curtains on BankFWD, a new effort among rich donors on the Left “to pressure major banks to commit to phasing out financing for (and investment in) oil and gas companies unless those companies have a ‘credible strategy to transition in line with limiting global warming to 1.5° [Celsius].'”
Just in case you don’t know, Stilson explains, “that is the aspirational global warming cap envisioned in the Paris Agreement. It’s worth noting that few countries ‘have come anywhere close to meeting the Agreement’s goals.’”
If you worry about freezing to death in the first winter after the oil and gas industry is finally throttled into its grave, don’t, as we can all be assured that we’ll get a couple of hours of warmth each day from all those solar panels and wind turbines.
YOU CAN’T SAY THAT ON YOUTUBE: LifeSite has had its YouTube channel turned off for a week because it posted a video of a Canadian doctor explaining why he believes the Coronavirus Pandemic is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated.”
This action is a “first strike” against LifeSite. Get three strikes on YouTube and you are banned permanently. That is known as “de-platforming.” Which should also be known as YouTube cutting off its nose to spite its face.
Or to put it another way, the first strike is a hard slap up the side of your face. A second strike is a gut punch to the belly. Third strike is the bullet in the back of the head. You do what you are told, to quote Dr. Faux Chi.
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WARNOCK’S SUPPORT FOR JEREMIAH WRIGHT COMES UNDER NEW SCRUTINY: Warnock was, in his own words, ‘dispatched’ to defend Wright.
Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock’s ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright have come under scrutiny as his runoff is one of few remaining races determining the balance of power in Congress.
Warnock, also a reverend, notably praised Wright, a former pastor to Barack Obama, after his “God Damn America” sermon surfaced during the 2008 election cycle. Some Obama advisers worried at the time that the matter might sink his candidacy.
“No no no, not God bless America, God damn America, that’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people, God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human, God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme,” Wright had said.
Warnock was, in his own words, “dispatched” to defend Wright after a tape of the 2003 sermon emerged.
And the hits just keep on coming:
● Warnock, 2009: Socialism is supported by Scripture, you know.
● Rev. Raphael Warnock dodges question on Fidel Castro ‘lovefest.’
● Warnock: Americans Must ‘Repent’ for Backing Trump and ‘Worship of Whiteness.’
● Omar Backs Warnock: ‘Nobody Can Serve God and the Military.’
● Georgia Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock, Continues To Spew Hateful Bigoted Comments.
Why, it’s as if: Democrat Senate Nominee in Georgia Runoff, Raphael Warnock, Is Beyond Radical.
The fact of the matter is Biden’s call for unity is like the kid in your class who lost every game, but always shouted ‘starting now’ only after he was ahead. In the days since Biden asked Republicans to turn the other cheek, his old boss Barack Obama launched his book promotion by claiming that Trump only won in 2016 because too many Americans are racists. Obama followed that left hook to Main Street America by then denigrating Trump as a dictator despite the fact that it was Obama who arrested and investigated journalists during his presidency.
So, you see, according to Democrats, if not for the Supreme Court in 2000, fixed voting machines in 2004, and Russian interference in 2016, no Republican would have won the presidency since 1988. One legacy of Trump is he taught Republicans how to fight back. Thus, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Biden will now serve under a cloud of suspicion and feel the heat as investigators dig into every nook and cranny of his family’s life. If Republicans pick up the handful of seats they now need to take back the US House in 2022, Biden and the Democrats will rue the day they made Schiff their attack dog.
Turnabout is fair play, especially in politics.
Meanwhile, America’s Newspaper of Record explores the other side of the equation: Study Finds Connection Between Believing Russia Rigged 2016 Election And Believing 2020 Election Was Foolproof.
Meanwhile, the “Senior Art Critic” at New York magazine seems to escalate things a bit:
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record noted earlier this month: Party Against Fascism Begins Creating Lists Of Undesirables.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP:
I LOVE THIS IDEA: Biden Is Crowdfunding His Own Transition. Now, Do the Federal Government. “Ironically, Biden’s success in fundraising for the transition may demonstrate that key government functions need not rely on tax dollars. If Joe Biden can fundraise for his transition team, perhaps the federal government should rely on crowdfunding, rather than compulsory taxation, for more of its functions.”
OH, WELL, THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE! Makers of grow-your-own human steaks say meal kit is not ‘technically’ cannibalism.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
ONLY IF SUBMISSIVE MALES ARE SEXY: Prince Harry crowned ‘world’s sexiest royal’ despite Megxit.
YOU, TOO, CAN SUCCEED ON YOUR KNEES! LIBERAL DEIFICATION OF ROUNDHEELS MCCLOWNNLAUGH IS UNDER WAY: VP-elect Kamala Harris gives Gen X slackers a taste of success.
You know, guys, it wouldn’t be so bad if these wanna-be idolaters weren’t continuously choosing the worst, craziest people to worship.
RATS AS BIG AS BUNNIES? THERE ARE MANY BREEDS OF BUNNIES OF VARIOUS SIZES – COULDN’T WE HAVE THIS IN KILOS? Giant New York rats overtaking Central Park and the UWS.
I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Some Amazon rainforest regions more resistant to climate change than previously thought.
GOOD QUESTION: Survey Results: Where Are All the Sick People?
LEFT WING INSANITY. THIS ENTIRE THING IS ANOTHER INSANITY THAT WILL MAKE MILLIONS OF MASS GRAVES: What is the Great Reset?
WHEN HAVE THE CHINESE EVER LIED TO US? OPEN THE BOOKS FOR INDEPENDENT EXAMINATION AND THEN WE’LL TALK: China’s ‘bat woman’ says COVID didn’t originate in Wuhan lab.
VERY MUCH SO, IF THEY WIN THIS: Dark Winter Still Ahead Per Joe Biden.
BECAUSE, WHY NOT? Cuomo Gets Emmy Award For Covid Nursing Home Deaths.
US: H*LL TO THE NO! Dems: Replace Free Speech With Curated Information.
THIS IS HORRIFIC. AND REMEMBER, THESE PEOPLE OWN BIDEN-HARRIS: A Modern Day Holocaust.
DEFEAT IS A CHOICE. AND WE DO NOT CHOOSE IT: We, Magnificent Bastards.
November 21, 2020
NOW OUT: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull book, Crisis.
LONGEVITY: First drug for rare rapid-aging disease extends kids’ lives. Now the question is if it can slow aging in everyone else.
HMM: MMR vaccine may protect against severe illness from COVID-19, study finds. I wonder if severe Covid infections are in part a function of an understimulated immune system.
2020, MAN: Sinkhole filled with glowing green liquid found in middle of Toronto street.
(H/T: 5FofF.)
ANALYSIS: TRUE. America’s Elites — Not Trump — Are Responsible For Undermining American Democracy.
Flashback: Donald Trump is a symptom of a new kind of class warfare raging at home and abroad. What’s happening in America is an echo of what’s happening in democracies around the world, and it’s not happening because of Trump.
THERE’S A HEADLINE YOU WANT TO SEE DURING A VIRAL OUTBREAK: Illegal border crossings are surging as migrants anticipate Biden changes, DHS says.
WELL, YES, BUT RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Karol Markowicz: Our hypocritical leaders refuse to obey their own COVID-19 rules. “Actually, all the COVID rules are for us, not them. COVID-19, and the accompanying lockdowns, have made it painfully clear: We plebes have to follow the rules; the elites do not.”
I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.
OUT ON A LIMB: Surprise: The “Smartest” People Are Actually Painfully Stupid.
Anyway, today’s Harvard Gazette arrives with some joyful news: Science is back! After four dreadful years of the “anti-science” Trump, we are now going to see, with Biden, the restoration of “science” to its rightful place in the formulation of public policy. This news is right there in the lead story, headline and sub-headline: “Is science back? Harvard’s Holdren says ‘yes’/Ex-Obama adviser says, unlike Trump, Biden and Harris will embrace factual analysis.” From the first paragraph:
[T]he incoming Biden-Harris administration has moved quickly to reinstall science as a foundation for government policy after four years of a president who disdained accepted scientific wisdom on subjects from wildfires to hurricane tracks, climate change to COVID-19.
The Gazette has learned that “science is back” by their usual method, which is by interviewing the leading Harvard professor on the subject. In this case that is John Holdren. Do you remember him? Holdren’s current title is “Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and professor of environmental science and policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.” But before that he was “[A]ssistant to the [P]resident for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,” a position in which he served for the entire eight years of the Obama presidency. You may remember that Holdren was confirmed unanimously by the Senate in March 2009, after minimal scrutiny of his background.
Finally, Holdren may get his shot to fight global warming by firing rockets full of pollution into the upper atmosphere.
ISN’T THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA TOO BUSY COORDINATING THE STATE’S COVID RESPONSE FOR A TV INTERVIEW? MSNBC Has Stacey Abrams Advise GOP on How to Accept Election Results, the Jokes Just Write Themselves.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACTIVISTS WITH BYLINES LOOKING FORWARD TO THEIR UPCOMING FOUR YEAR NAP: An obituary for the press in the post-Trump era.
The New York Times in October published a collection of essays claiming the Trump presidency has “cost” the United States its “innocence,” its “generosity,” and its “apathy.”
However, what the collaboration does not mention are the things that the Biden administration will “cost” the country, including that it will bring an end to what Vanity Fair calls the “golden age for journalism.”
We say goodbye, then, to journalists elevating as worthy of public notice obvious liars and lunatics, including convicted felon Michael Avenatti, gossip columnist Michael Wolff, mental health quack Bandy Lee, and conspiracy theorist Louise Mensch — all because they oppose the administration.
Goodbye to weekly “bombshells” that land with a “splat!” instead of a “boom!”
Goodbye to near-daily input from presidential historians turned political assassins.
Goodbye to members of the press acting as if the cover artwork of the latest edition of a prestige news magazine is in some way provocative, stunning, or even particularly interesting.
Goodbye to White House correspondents pretending as if they are reporting from an active war zone or claiming they feel safer covering authoritarian regimes.
Goodbye to the Holocaust being invoked against the administration on a near-daily basis.
Read the whole thing. Exit quote: “Goodbye, all. It has been a crazy four years. See you all back here the next time a Republican is president.”
Credit to the Trump administration for finally treating “reporters” like the Democratic Party activists with bylines the rest of us knew they were, and for providing a template for future Republican administrations in dealing with a massively hostile “press:” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Starches the Media On the Issue of “Peaceful Transition of Power.” Exit quote: “I don’t call on activists.”
SCIENCE SAYS HE’S RIGHT. BELIEVE IN SCIENCE. Hospital CEO says he had Covid and doesn’t need a mask. His staff are appalled.
P.J. O’ROURKE: Shamalot.
In 2013, as the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination approached, the New York Times published an article by executive editor Jill Abramson. The Times—always standing ready at the eternal flame, Bic lighter in hand—titled the article “Kennedy, the Elusive President.” Ms. Abramson wrote, in what I suppose she thought was a lament, “An estimated 40,000 books about him have been published since his death… and not one really outstanding one.”
Logevall’s is another. In his JFK and all the rest of these “not really outstanding” books, the problem isn’t Kennedy’s elusiveness. The problem is our elusiveness about Kennedy. We don’t want to grasp and hold in our minds the reality of the man. Nor do we want to dwell on the fecklessness and mediocrity of his kith and kin. After two generations of partisan tarnishing, we want a political memory that gleams.
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment…A false memory will do. (Camelot lyricist Alan Jay Lerner went to prep school with Jack.) We’re afraid—no, we know—that if we inspect John F. Kennedy too closely, we’ll wonder what we saw in him. To the extent that there’s even a real “we” left to wonder. Anyone old enough to vote for Kennedy in 1960 is over 80 now. (And 49.55 percent of them voted for Nixon.) But the distant, hazy, reminiscent glow lingers, especially in high places such as the Harvard history department.
No thanks, however, to this particular book. Logevall does his clumsy best to walk upon his knees to the shrine. Yet JFK is a life of a saint that makes a hula hoop of his halo. The facts haggle with the hagiography. Logevall has done too much research. The devil (or his lapsed human instrument) is in the details, and so very many details of Kennedy’s life are provided here that Logevall turns into an accidental iconoclast.
Read the whole thing.
And for a look at how the myth of the Kennedy years as Camelot may have permanently damaged the Democratic Party, James Pierson’s 2007 book, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism is well worth a read.
JIM TREACHER: Andrew Cuomo Thinks He Can Ban Thanksgiving.
What are [New York’s sheriffs] supposed to do, go house-to-house? Bust down your door and throw open all your closets and cupboards? Maybe shove around some of the older relatives Cuomo hasn’t killed yet? “Hey, maybe there’s an 11th guest hiding in the attic!” I mean, what are we talking about here?
Cuomo keeps ranting about “the law,” but his edicts aren’t laws. That’s not how laws work. He’s not a dictator. He can’t just ban Thanksgiving by fiat and expect everybody to sieg heil.
And he says the cops’ refusal to enforce his imbecilic decree is “frightening to democracy” and “a violation of constitutional duty.” Well, if this wannabe third-world thug wants to bring up the United States Constitution, how does the Fourth Amendment factor into this? Has Cuomo read that one? Is there a coloring book we can give him to explain how it works?
Andrew Cuomo is behaving exactly the way he and his fellow Democrats falsely accuse Trump of behaving. He’s just the sort of tinpot fascist they claim to oppose. Yet all they do is praise him, because he’s a fascist for their team.
You’re gonna need much more Cuomosexual Conversion Therapy:
But in the last few days, more New Yorkers have enrolled in Cuomosexual Conversion Therapy. Their two major sticking points? Vaccines and schools.
There was widespread optimism when Pfizer-BionTECH and Moderna announced success rates of over 90 percent for their COVID-19 vaccines. For the first time in months it seemed as though there was hope for America. Enter Andy-Vaxxer Cuomo, using his platform as governor to undermine public trust in the FDA’s potential authorization of vaccine which we will all need to take. ‘We can’t let this vaccination plan go forward the way that Trump and his administration is designing it,’ he said last week, with all the scientific expertise of an Instagram wellness blogger. ‘I’m pushing hard to make sure that we have a process in place to check what the FDA says before people start getting the vaccine in New York.’
People were happy to put up with Cuomo’s pettiness when he was moving his daughter’s boyfriend to the Canadian border, or deploying the State Liquor Authority to target bars that mocked his dumb food rule by serving ‘Cuomo pizza’. But the prospect that his tussling with Trump might delay the climax of the COVID carnage has given many pause for thought.
The governor compounded his misstep with another display of logger-headed machismo posturing this week, clashing with Mayor Bill de Blasio over school closures. The mayor, after dithering for days, introduced an arbitrary 3 percent positivity rate to re-close NYC’s public schools. The governor contradicted this, saying at a Wednesday press conference that schools could remain open as the positivity rate was only 2.5 percent. A Wall Street Journal reporter expressed confusion on behalf of parents — and Cuomo, acting as hard as a pierced nipple in winter, snapped:
New tools are available to aid in the deprogramming process:
Perhaps these should be sent to the homes of Emmy Award voters:
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Watch: Joe Biden Still Can’t Seem to Complete a Sentence.
WORLD WAR III BEGAN WHEN A MAN NAMED ALBERT SHANKER GOT A HOLD OF A NUCLEAR WARHEAD: Fox News Host MacCallum And NYC Teachers Union Chief Argue Over Schools Closing During Second Coronavirus Surge In America.
And from America’s Newspaper of Record: Democrats Push To Keep Schools Closed So Kids Will Be Dumb Enough To Accept Socialism.
(Classical reference in headline.)
RON RADOSH: The Angela Davis Moment.
The article also hails Davis as a pioneer who “understood the necessity of intersectionality before the term was even invented” — that is, the belief that all struggles are united and that one can’t work for black liberation without championing the liberation of other oppressed groups. (It doesn’t mention that one of her intersectional causes, as she said in a recent interview, is uniting “antiracist efforts” with “global resistance to the apartheid policies and practices of the State of Israel.”)
George does address Davis’s years of membership and leadership in the (Soviet-run) Communist Party of the U.S.A. Bizarrely, he writes that she stayed in the party even as communist regimes “became more and more totalitarian” (as if the Soviet Union or East Germany had been less totalitarian when they treated Davis as a guest of honor!), leaving its ranks only in 1991 because it did not embrace democratization. But this unsavory part of Davis’s history is placed in the exculpatory context of the Communist Party’s supposed laudable role in the struggle for black equality, “sanitized from many histories of the civil rights movement.” In a particularly dishonest aside, George points to the fact that “Bayard Rustin, a gay activist and former Communist, was a leading tactician of the 1963 March on Washington” as an example of this role.
In fact, the CPUSA’s role in fighting for civil rights was always conducted within the context of Moscow’s needs. In 1941, Rustin’s mentor A. Philip Randolph planned a massive March on Washington to protest discrimination against blacks in the defense industry and the armed forces and other racial injustice. The CPUSA strongly opposed the March as an action that would interfere with wartime unity and the American-Soviet alliance; Rustin, then in his late 20s and a member of the Young Communist League — the Party’s young-adult wing — supported it and was helping organize it. This was one of the issues that led to Rustin’s break from the Communist group. (Eventually, Randolph called off the March after Roosevelt passed the Fair Employment Act.) It is extreme chutzpah for the Times to suggest that Rustin’s leadership in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s had anything to do with his very early membership in the YCL — especially since, in later years, he still considered himself a democratic socialist but was also a staunch anti-Communist.
Davis, on the other hand, tells George that she still believes in communism and Marxist ideology; she doesn’t expect much from the Democratic Party as far as “transforming America,” but does believe that “it’s important to push the Democrats further to the left.” (She’s also a big fan of the progressive “Squad” of AOC+3— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.) The article concludes with Davis saying that “our work as activists is always to prepare the next generation … to engage in even more radical struggles.”
We’ve had nearly a century of what we now call the MSM airbrushing communism, when not outright praising it. No wonder Davis is considered a hero by the far left. As blogger Moe Lane once wrote, “Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people; it tends to attract the sort who can’t understand that an economic system that cannot feed its own population reliably has failed at the game of Life. Literally.”
GENTLEMEN YOU CAN’T INVESTIGATE CRIMES HERE — THIS IS A POLICE STATION! Black Female Police Chief in Virginia Fired After Aggressively Investigating and Prosecuting Mob Violence.
