Monday, August 21, 2017

From Charlottesville to Barcelona to Pyongyang



MEdia Dragon Survey via Deep Blog and Vladimir More than half the country says it will never change its opinion on Trump, no matter what WaPo

The web has turned into a clusterfuck of moral performativity, and it is infecting your soul with poison and making you do poisonous things


North Korea warns Australia has committed a 'suicidal act'


 U.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults — A Red Flag For Electoral Fraud Investors 

 THE END OF EUROPE: ‘Better get out early than late’: Barcelona’s chief rabbi urges Jews to move to Israel as he warns Europe is ‘lost’ because of threat from radical Islam




WHEN IT’S OFFERED, IT’S PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS A SHAM: Do We Really Need “Moral Leadership” from the White House?

Officeholders are seldom very moral, as morality interferes with getting office, and with exploiting it for all it’s worth. So why look to them for moral leadership?


 QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING. Wolf Blitzer: People will ask, was the Barcelona terror attack a copycat of Charlottesville?

As Allahpundit writes, “after eight jihadi car-ramming terror attacks this year alone, I think it’s more likely people will ask whether Wolf ate paint chips as a kid.”

Turnbull shrivels in the spotlight as mass panic grips dead government walking | Katharine Murphy



On Thursday, Schwartz tweeted: “The circle is closing at blinding speed. Trump is going to resign and declare victory before Mueller and congress leave him no choice.”




The comments refer to the criminal investigation into Trump’s involvement with Russia during the election campaign last year. Former director of the FBI Robert Mueller III is at the helm of the investigation.

“Trump’s presidency is effectively over,” Schwartz wrote in a second tweet. “Would be amazed if he survives till the end of the year. More likely resigns by fall, if not sooner.”

 


The Art of Dealmakers


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North Carolina Monuments Governor Roy Cooper, Medium
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How Women In The KKK Were Instrumental To Its Rise Buzzfeed. A special place in hell, eh?
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Beyond a President’s Worst Fears, a Mob With Torches Arrived Chronicle of Higher Education. A university administrator’s perspective… 
Surviving America’s Political Meltdown Jeffrey Sachs, Project Syndicate



This must stop. Freedom of expression is what gives us the ability to hash out societal issues through argument instead of physical conflict, but it is only meaningful when people are reasonably confident that they will be physically safe while they speak and listen. When the authorities simply stand by and let political violence occur, even in the hope of the conflict somehow “de-escalating” itself, they send the message that both sides have a free hand to violently attack their opponents. This makes a mockery of the First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly.

Durham’s Anti-Klan Block Party The Atlantic. Better than the headline.
Tens of thousands march for unity, overwhelming ‘free speech’ rally Boston Globe. The tight-focus photo accompanying the article is deceptive (as, I would urge, most tight-focus photos are). The line of protesters stretched for two miles, and that would tell the more appropriate story. (Dunno what “unity” means, though. Editors write the headlines…).



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