“Is it any wonder we Americans think the world revolves around us?…the truth is, this America-centric worldview is mutual. On Thursday, the European Union issued a resolution condemning the United States Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed American women the right to an abortion. How exactly is the U.S. legal system of any concern to the EU? But it wasn't just Europe. After the overturning of Roe, vigils were held in Canada. The United Nations, bastion of moral coherence, lamented the decision, along with many world leaders…”
Americans Think Everything Is About Us. The Problem Is, So Does Everyone Else
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“Gender ideology was born out of academic wordplay. And academics such as Professor Bridges have become bodyguards for a buccaneering, barely regulated gender-therapy industry, filled with pill-pushers and demented surgeons who leave their patients miserable and more desirous of ending their lives. We can’t just ask clever questions and hope for these people to embarrass themselves. We have to confront them for what they are: a cult that seduces people and leads them to bodily harm, and, in many cases, self-destruction.”
We Must Go on Offense against Transanity
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“…I suppose we should cut her a little slack. Unlike her predecessor, Biden is not fluent in multiple languages. Hell, after a quick review of this disaster of a speech, she's barely fluent in English.”
There's No White Privilege Like Democrat White Privilege
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“There is no nice way to put this, so I’ll say it bluntly: If the choice before me is between engaging in free dialogue and indulging threats of suicide, then I am on the side of the free dialogue every time. I will happily chat to anyone about anything, but I will not cower before threats of self-harm, and I do not recommend that anyone else does, either.”
‘Agree with Me or I’ll Kill Myself’
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“Brooks predicted that the future belonged to rich Republicans because everyone was getting rich, and so culture-war politics would die down. What he missed is that college-educated Democrats were going to make peace with financial markets and upward mobility…Now, the Democrats go to conferences with college-educated “Latinx” voters, and compare all Hispanics to tacos, as mere tokens of diversity. In this environment, Republicans are getting off easy. It’s no surprise they are attracting more Hispanic voters.”
The College Party
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“We live in a republic, not a monarchy, and the fact that a woman happens to be married to the president shouldn’t mean anything for her role in public life.”
Down with First Ladies
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“…one of Harris’ favorite lines is, “What we have in common is so much stronger than what divides us.” She’s right. She just doesn’t realize that one of the things we have in common is a low opinion of her job performance.”
Kamala Harris, the Great Unifier
https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/kamala-harris-the-great-unifier?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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“At Yad Vashem Wednesday, Mr. Biden got down on one knee to meet two Holocaust survivors, insisting they need not rise to greet him. That was a gracious gesture. Yet writ large, all Israelis are survivors of the Holocaust, during which the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem sat with Hitler at Berlin. No one asks that the President of America kneel to anyone. No Jerusalem Declaration, though, can excuse maneuvering against the Jewish state at its own capital.”
The Jerusalem Declaration
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“Mr. Zeldin’s campaign said the candidate supports a bill in the New York State senate that would eliminate the “duty to retreat” from state law, making New York a “stand-your-ground” state. Currently 38 states have stand-your-ground laws that allow people to use deadly force in self-defense.”
Bodega Workers, Republican Politicians Call for Stand-Your-Ground Laws in New York
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“As a symbol of America’s dialogueless politics, the abortion issue is unparalleled. There is nothing to discuss, only invective and political combat. Democrats are taking abuse as traitors to both sides: symbols of Roe’s defenders to the pro-life crowd, but despised among Antifa types (who make an appearance here) as the party that won’t pack the court or institute a federal ban to protect it. “One consistent theme was dissatisfaction with Democratic lawmakers, and the system as a whole,” Ford deadpans.”
Activism, Uncensored: Abortion Rights Protests Continue
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“Collaboration is difficult. It’s one thing for two countries to say they’re going to fight together; it’s another to actually do it. … Nor do the Chinese and Russians make natural allies. Their ideologies don’t match. … Distrust runs deep on both sides. They would each be threatened by the other growing too powerful. It may be that the thing they have most in common is being pariahs to the Western world. … Maybe, like in the past, the relationship will decompose on its own. Hal Brand of Johns Hopkins University has reportedly even suggested that the best thing we can do is just push the two countries closer on a bet that, as in the Cold War, they would eventually disappoint each other.”
Heads Up: China and Russia Are Allying Against Us
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“Former White House doctor Ronny Jackson is alleging that Barack Obama once sent him a stern email after Jackson retweeted a 2020 video that reportedly showed then-presidential hopeful Joe Biden saying he was a "candidate for the United States Senate." Jackson reportedly writes that Obama emailed him about the tweet within 20 minutes. The former president allegedly called Jackson's tweet "disrespectful to me and the many friends you had in our administration." Jackson writes in his book of how he felt following the email, "Screw that guy," referring to Obama: "I just walked away from it, which was the last time I had any contact with [Obama].””
Former White House Doctor Says Barack Obama Criticized Him for Tweet on Biden's Mental Fitness
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“A Michigan woman was denied a protection order against her husband two weeks before she and her family were found dead Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide, court documents show…The judge, Troy Daniel, wrote that Savage could request the order in divorce court, the documents show. Tirany Savage filed for divorce last Thursday, the station reported…Daniel could not immediately be reached at a number listed for him on the court website, and his election campaign did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday evening.”
Weeks after she was denied a protection order, a Michigan woman and her family are dead
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“A friend who worked on the Hill for years insists the city was ruined by Game of Thrones. Everybody with a political job in the capital thinks of himself or herself as a soldier in a thrilling bloodsport, instead of a pawn chipping away for incremental improvements somewhere. The Trump show is six years of thirtysomething Dems in gingham and power dresses gunning to be Arya killing the Night King. They think 80 million Trump supporters will collapse into ice cubes if they get him. It doesn’t work that way. You have to win in 50 real states, not Twitter.”
What Has Trump's Endless Prosecution Accomplished?
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“One of Buttigieg's undeniable political talents is his ability to take a radical position and frame it as something so wholesome and anodyne that it might be mistaken for a plot point from Leave It To Beaver. It’s an auspicious skill in politics, but it’s really a form of gaslighting. By ignoring the context and endorsing the ideological perspectives of the protesters, Buttigieg seems to take the high road and talk about how people have the legal right to peacefully protest in public places. But he evades the moral question: Should we be doing this?”
Would Democrats Be Cool With Right-Wingers Protesting AOC While She Ate Dinner?
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“Democrats have shared little of their own polling, but there are ample signs they see Biden’s toxicity as well. Several incumbents have already gone on TV in June and July — long before the typical end-of-summer onslaught of ads — to stress their bipartisan credentials. For example, Reps. Dan Kildee and Elissa Slotkin, two Democrats in competitive seats under Michigan’s new congressional map, are on air touting their work with Republicans and Democrats.”
House GOP marches into deeper blue terrain as Dem prospects fade
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"The list of prominent Bragg-endorsers who refused to respond to a request for comment include: former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara; Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler; Reverend Calvin O. Butts; Dan Goldman, who served as House Impeachment Inquiry Lead against Donald Trump; Democratic New York State Senator Robert Jackson; and Democratic New York state Assemblywoman Inez Dickens."
Progressive Criminal-Justice Groups Silent on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s Bodega-Worker Murder Charge
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“…the congresswoman's response was part of a pattern of behavior on her part of weaponizing her own victimization as a way of wielding power. It does nothing to diminish the grossness of Stein's sexual comments to point out that AOC's reaction is part of a disturbing trend that is ironically harming women. For starters, AOC seems to believe in safety for me but not for thee…How to square the demand that the Capitol police protect her from mockery with her own refusal to help protect [Kavanaugh] from assassination attempts?”
AOC's Weaponized Victimhood Undermines Women
https://www.newsweek.com/aocs-weaponized-victimhood-undermines-women-opinion-1725184
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“Young Americans are twice as likely as seniors to be categorised as “pure” independents—a growing group that does not lean to either party, but plants itself firmly in the middle. And given that partisanship correlates with loyalty to Mr Biden—approval of Mr Biden is 59% among weak Democrats, compared with 85% among the strongly attached—younger voters are naturally more likely to think poorly of the president.”
Why young Democrats disapprove of Joe Biden
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“Requiring priests to be celibate dramatically reduces the pool from which they can be recruited. For many people, no matter how pious, renouncing sex, romance and the chance to start a family is too great a sacrifice. One group for whom such a rule imposes little extra burden, however, is paedophiles. Society requires them to suppress their urges. Many already try to be celibate, or pretend to be so. Some become priests sincerely hoping that a spiritual life will help them resist temptation. Others no doubt do so precisely because the priesthood offers opportunities to abuse. Either way, the church has done a poor job of winnowing out those who pose a danger to their flock. Some argue that it has also done a poor job of preparing priests for the stress of a sexless life. Estimates from around the world, from a variety of scholars, have found that 6-9% of priests and members of celibate orders, such as monks, may be abusers. Statistics on the general population are hard to pin down, but Britain’s National Crime Agency estimated that 1-3% of adult men have urges to abuse children; a much smaller share act on their urges.”
The Catholic Church should scrap the requirement for priestly celibacy
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“A professor of climate and energy policy at UC Santa Barbara tweeted that she is “holding my children and sobbing” because Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) said he won’t support any climate provisions in Democrats’ new economic bill. “I don’t know how Manchin will look his own grandchildren in the eyes tonight,” she wrote. “He is condemning them to a broken planet. Shameful doesn’t begin to describe it.””
“Police shot and killed 20-year-old Andrew Sundberg in Minneapolis after he fired on a single mother and her children in their apartment before turning his gun on police officers responding to the scene. The circumstances of Sundberg’s death – and the danger he posed to innocent lives – hasn’t prevented figures like celebrity attorney Ben Crump from trying to stir the racial pot on Twitter.”
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“Enemy regimes proceeded cautiously with Trump not only because his instability and tendency to dissemble made him unpredictable, but because he was just aggressive enough, and just dismissive enough of the progressive international order, that the rogues figured he (and the hawks around him) might just take out an Iranian terror master, such as General Qasem Soleimani. .. Biden, by contrast, is a captive of transnational progressivism, where red lines are just preliminaries to new red lines, and talking (and talking, and talking) is an end in and of itself.”
Republicans Demand Answers on TikTok’s Relationship with the CCP
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““[Teixeira] predicted a governing majority based on the assumption that the Democrats could hold a healthy proportion of blue-collar white people, as happened in 2008…[b]ut Obama’s first win turned out to be a high-water mark, not a new epoch. Teixeira is in the camp that blames ‘cultural radicalism’ for this failure, saying the noise around things like pronouns and police defunding have made many blue-collar voters think of the party as a bunch of annoying recent liberal-arts graduates.”
‘A Real Chilling Effect’: A Lefty Scholar is Dumping CAP — For AEI
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“Birx, an infectious diseases expert who served under former President Donald Trump, told the Daily Mail on Sunday that COVID-19 “came out of the box ready to infect” when it first emerged in December 2019…COVID “was already more infectious than flu when it first arrived,” she said, noting that most viruses take months or even years to become highly infectious to humans…The doctor said that means one of two things: Either COVID was “an abnormal thing of nature,” or Chinese scientists at the Wuhan lab were “working on coronavirus vaccines,” and they either caught the virus and spread it or it somehow escaped.”
Birx: COVID-19 ‘Came Out Of The Box Ready To Infect’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/birx-covid-19-came-out-of-the-box-ready-to-infect
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“Libs of TikTok has found another winner. Here’s a non-binary teacher who came out to her colleagues in an email, apparently, and then was taken up on her offer to speak to other classes about her sexuality. She read books to the kids and was happy to report that a first-grader then came out as transgender. As with most teachers, we worry that the child’s parents won’t be as accepting of their child’s sexual identity, so it’s a good thing that teachers and administrators can act as surrogate parents and guide these little ones through their journey. Did we happen to mention that Reddit just banned the word “groomer” as hate speech?”
Non-binary teacher proud that her outreach helped a first-grader come out as transgender
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“In his new book, “Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People,” the historian Walter Russell Mead refutes the much-ballyhooed myth that Jews have been the main drivers behind America’s support of Israel. It turns out that support for Israel and Zionism is deeply rooted in American idealism, he writes — and if it were solely up to American Jews, that support could have eroded long ago…Progressive Jews are prominent in the renewed campaign to weaken Israel-supporting candidates and portray their financial backers as uniquely sinister — as opposed to money contributors to other causes, including anti-Zionists like George Soros, whose motives leftists see as beyond reproach.”
Democratic Primary in Michigan Finds Liberal Jews Joining Anti-Zionist Pols Against a Pro-Israel Centrist
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“In 2009, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times argued America’s “one-party democracy is worse” than Communist China’s “one-party autocracy” for the same reason as Mr. Gore. “One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks,” Mr. Friedman conceded, yet “when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.” In a 2010 TV appearance, Mr. Friedman again raised the question. “What if we could just be China for one day?” he asked. “[W]e could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions ... on everything from the economy to environment.””
Our Democratic Institutions Aren’t ‘Broken’ Just Because They Say No
https://www.nysun.com/article/our-democratic-institutions-arent-broken-just-because-they-say-no
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“The once permissive ‘live and let live’ Left are the new puritans…in the Left’s utopian future, there won’t be any need for cars for the masses. We will ride around on buses and trains. Only the political elite — the beautiful people — will have cars. Some of the more radical environmental groups want to abolish refrigerators (they use too much energy), light bulbs, guns (of course), straws (they kill dolphins), diving boards at pools (too dangerous), charcoal grills and disposable diapers. They want to regulate the temperature on your thermostat in your home in the winter and summer months so you don’t use too much energy.”
The Left Wants To Abolish Everything, Even This Column
https://www.nysun.com/article/the-left-wants-to-abolish-everything-even-this-column
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“The Wikipedia page has long offered multiple definitions for a recession. But on Monday, a user added a new line to the introductory paragraph of the entry: "Economists typically consider two consecutive quarters of falling GDP a recession." That language, however, was not detailed in the body of the Wiki article, and no citation was included to support that language, disregarding the platform's rules. It was also a strange addition that preceded a line already included in the copy, which gave the same "negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters" definition specifically for the United Kingdom.”
What is a recession? Wikipedia can't decide
