April 26, 2024
YOU WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: University of Washington anti-Israel encampment postponed over lack of diversity. “A planned anti-Israel encampment at the University of Washington was scrapped at the last minute because of a lack of diversity — following fierce backlash for not involving any Muslim, Palestinian or Arab students.”
It’s clown shows all the way down.
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NEW HOPE FOR NON-SELECTIVE COLLEGES: VOCATIONAL TRAINING. They might be woke too, but it won’t be 80 grand a year, and maybe you will learn a useful skill. Beats being on the receiving end of a quarter-million dollar mostly peaceful eye-stabbing.
ALL THE REPUBLICANS HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO JUST THAT: Kristi Noem describes killing dog after bad hunting trip in new book.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) in a forthcoming book describes shooting a family dog after a hunting trip, according to a report in The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.”
In the book, Noem, who has been discussed as a possible running mate for former President Trump, describes growing angry with the nearly 14-month-old “Cricket,” a wirehaired pointer, during a hunting trip.
Noem shot the dog after taking it on a pheasant hunt.
She writes that she had taken Cricket on the hunt hoping she would learn from older dogs, but that instead the younger dog ruined the hunt by “chasing all those birds and having the time of her life,” per the Guardian.
On the way home, the dog escaped her truck and attacked a local family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another,” Noem wrote.
When Noem tried to grab the dog, she wrote that it whipped around to bite her. Noem said she wrote the family a check for their chickens and helped them dispose of the carcasses “littering the scene of the crime.”
“I hated that dog,” she wrote, adding that Cricket was untrainable, dangerous and worthless as a hunting dog.
“At that moment,” Noem wrote, “I realized I had to put her down.”
After Jim Treacher’s classic “Obama ate a dog” discovery in 2012, and all of Biden’s woes with Commander, I’d assume that publication of this is battlefield prep by the Democrats to reduce the odds that Trump picks Noem as his veep nominee (“Kristi Noem puppy” is the first autocomplete upon entering her name into Firefox’s Google search bar and according to the search engine, “about 261,000 results” immediately pop up). But why on earth would Noem put this detail into her de rigueur election year book and give them the ammunition?
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY, PART DEUX: Top advisor to D.A. Gascón charged with illegal use of deputies’ confidential records.
California’s attorney general filed criminal charges Wednesday against one of L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s top advisors, who supervises high-profile and sensitive cases including police misconduct, fraud and public corruption.
Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced the 11 felony counts against Assistant Dist. Atty. Diana Teran in a press statement. He accused her of improperly downloading confidential records of law enforcement officers in 2018 while she was working for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Teran then “impermissibly used that data” after joining Gascón’s office three years later, Bonta said.
The confidential records concern 11 sheriff’s deputies, according to a criminal complaint filed in L.A. County Superior Court. The deputies’ names were not included in the court filing.
The announcement of criminal charges against one of Gascón’s top advisors — particularly one so closely tied to his agenda of law enforcement accountability and criminal justice reform — sent shock waves across the state’s legal community and was expected to have a far-reaching impact on active and future criminal cases handled by Gascón’s office, while also fueling fresh controversy as he pursues reelection this year.
As New York Times owner Tom Cotton wrote in December of 2021: Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.
DID IT EVER REALLY GO AWAY? The long-range precision rifle has found new life.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Take Columbia’s Khymani James — please.
Well, they may be ignorant or stupid, they may be evil, but they may also need help. Take, for example, Columbia undergrad Khymani James — please. James may be in need of help, but he appears to be busy negotiating with the authorities at Columbia to stand down.
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“Be glad — be grateful — that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists. I’ve never murdered anyone in my life, and I *hope* to keep it that way.” This is a top leader of @Columbia’s encampment, with whom the school is “negotiating,” expanding on his thoughts about how Israel… pic.twitter.com/ugodO4O7M5
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 25, 2024
“Unexpectedly,” CNN broke out the airbrushes to protect James:
HOLY CRAP. So @CNN had done an interview with Khymani James Thursday night where he "repeatedly declined to apologize for the video" where he said "Zionists don’t deserve to live"… and CNN didn't report it!https://t.co/EyouyhAjdn pic.twitter.com/zn20shchsQ
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) April 26, 2024
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines and a Jeremy Corbyn-esque worldview, and it all makes sense.
Evergreen:
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IS THERE ENOUGH ADRENOCHROME* AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD FOR THIS TO HAPPEN? Biden Says ‘I’m Happy To Debate’ Trump.
On Friday, President Biden stated that he is willing to debate former President Donald Trump.
Speaking to radio host Howard Stern, Biden reportedly said, “I am somewhere. I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him.”
In late February, after special counsel Robert Hur’s report stated that Biden exhibited memory problems, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), a co-chair of Biden’s re-election campaign, responded to the consistent verbal gaffes committed by Biden, saying, “If Joe Biden commits a gaffe, a guy who stuttered all of his childhood, into his adulthood and everybody knows his stuttering is what caused a lot of his speech impediments, and we know that. It has nothing to do with his brain, he stumbles one time and everybody says, ‘He’s too old to be the president.’”
Of course, Biden’s “stuttering” is a recent invention by the DNC-MSM designed to explain away his brain dissolving into tapioca:
* No. No there is not, which is why Ed Morrissey writes, “Expect a walkback on that toute suite. The last thing Team Biden wants is their cognitively impaired candidate on stage in a live debate with a verbal pugilist like Trump. They won’t even allow Biden to do a live interview with the NY Times, and that would be a tongue-bath.”
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Antimicrobial-resistant hospital infections remain at least 12% above pre-pandemic levels, study finds.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Education Apocalypse Now? The Ivy League Hits An Iceberg.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Inside the failed White House coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has learned.
Jean-Pierre, who made history in May 2022 by becoming the first black and first openly gay person to hold the position, had developed the exasperating habit of reading canned answers directly from a binder to reporters at her regular briefings — offering what her superiors viewed as a less-than-compelling pitch for the 81-year-old Biden as he readied his re-election campaign.
De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.
“There were a number of people she asked to engage Karine,” said one source who heard of the strategy directly from Dunn, whose role as senior adviser has been filled during the past three presidencies by Jared Kushner (Donald Trump), Valerie Jarrett (Barack Obama) and Karl Rove (George W. Bush).
The source also told The Post that Dunn had claimed White House chief of staff Jeff Zients knew about and supported the cloak-and-dagger scheme to push Jean-Pierre out of the West Wing.
“There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career,” the source said, calling it an “effort to encourage her to move along.”
It’s easy to ask the joking question, why is the left such a cesspit of racism and homophobia? But why is the Biden administration trapped in an identity politics box canyon of its own making? “Jean-Pierre is protected not by her stellar performance on the job, but by the identity boxes she checks. They can’t fire her without being eviscerated by the far left and its adherents in the mainstream press…Biden went woke instead of hiring a press secretary based on merit, and now he’s stuck with her during the most contentious presidential election campaign in history. That’s another self-inflicted wound committed in his dogged pursuit to please his left flank.”
And one more question, via our sister site, Twitchy: Will Peter Doucy ask Jean-Pierre about this story?
FLASHBACK: PROF. JACOBSON ET AL.: Campus Antisemitism Crisis: Cornell, The Ivies, and Beyond.
HAHA, THE WORKING-CLASS JOE ACT ISN’T WORKING ANYMORE. SORT A LIKE JOE.
Reporter: “What’s your message to Joe Biden?”
Union Worker: “Fuck You.”
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 25, 2024