[Sultan Knish] If you want to know who has privilege in a society and who doesn’t, follow the anger.
There are people in this country who can safely express their anger. And those who can’t. If you’re
angry that Trump won, your anger is socially acceptable. If you were angry that Obama won, it wasn’t.
James Hodgkinson’s rage was socially acceptable. It continued to be socially acceptable until he crossed the line into murder. And he’s not alone. There’s Micah Xavier Johnson, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Dallas, and Gavin Long, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Baton Rouge. If you’re black and angry about the police, your anger is celebrated. If you’re white and angry about the Terror travel ban, the Paris Climate treaty, ObamaCare repeal or any leftist cause, you’re on the side of the angry angels.
But if you’re white and angry that your job is going to China or that you just missed being killed in a Muslim suicide bombing, your anger is unacceptable.
If you’re an angry leftist, your party leader, Tom Perez will scream and curse into a microphone, and your aspiring presidential candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand, will curse along, to channel the anger of the base. But if you’re an angry conservative, then Trump channeling your anger is "dangerous" because you aren’t allowed to be angry.
Not all anger is created equal. Some anger is privileged rage.
#3
I think what we're talking about here is Political Correctness™, aka Newspeak, aka the officially sanctioned method used by elites, MSM and left wing moon bats to deny your First Amendment rights.
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[TheBurningPlatform] Terrorism is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problem, which is that Islam is military colonization by a violent, dysfunctional, tribal, incompatible, incurable, diseased culture.
#1
One of the oldest stratagems in the military playbook - the Trojan Horse. Exploit the naivety of the target. Would you allow food distribution of a product that kills every thousandth consumer? Fear of being labeled racist or xenophobe over comes common sense.
[Wash Examiner] An international controversy over nonprofits funded by progressive Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros has created a vulnerability in the NATO alliance, the State Department warned.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's spokesperson urged Hungarian leaders to scrap legislation mandating that Hungarian nonprofits supported by foreign contributors identify their donors. The bill is the latest development in nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ongoing campaign against Soros, but his domestic and international critics regard it also as a step toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"If signed into law, this would be another step away from Hungary's commitments to uphold the principles and values that are central to the [European Union] and NATO," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Monday.
Hungary joined NATO in 1999, when Orban was in the midst of a four-year run as prime minister. Since returning to the post in 2010 the midst of an economic crisis that required an international bailout, Orban has had a fraught relationship with the European Union. The 2015 refugee crisis created additional strain, and human rights groups criticized his efforts to constrict the flow of asylum-seekers into Hungary.
Orban responded by attacking Soros, a campaign that hasn't ended. "There is an important element in public life in Hungary which is not transparent and not open -- and that is the Soros network, with its mafia-style operation and its agentlike organizations," he said in June.
The State Department contradicted that assessment and suggested that Orban is enabling corruption. "The United States is concerned by the Hungarian parliament's passage of legislation that unfairly burdens and targets Hungarian civil society, which is working to fight corruption and protect civil liberties," Nauert said.
The Hungarian leader's skepticism of the EU and "globalist" refugee policies, perhaps aided by Soros' status as a prominent progressive donor, has endeared him to some American conservatives who see a likeness to Trump.
But Orban's domestic opponents see shades of Putin. Orban criticized Western sanctions imposed on Russia in response to Putin's annexation of Crimea and destabilization of eastern Ukraine. And Putin has implemented legislation requiring international nonprofits to register as "foreign agents" and giving him the authority to shut down foreign nonprofits.
"We should not be afraid of the NGOs but rather of the members of Parliament who represent Russian interests," said an opposition lawmaker, per The New York Times.
Hungary also passed legislation designed to shutter Central European University, one of the most prominent institutions in the country, due to funding from Soros. But, though Orban has praised Trump, the new president's administration opposed that bill and continued to criticize his hostility to the nonprofits.
"By portraying groups supported with foreign funding as acting against the interests of Hungarian society, this legislation would weaken the ability of Hungarians to organize and address concerns in a legitimate and democratic manner," Nauert said.
#1
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's spokesperson urged Hungarian leaders to scrap legislation mandating that Hungarian nonprofits supported by foreign contributors identify their donors.
#3
The [Hungarian nonprofits] bill is the latest development in nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ongoing campaign against Soros, but his domestic and international critics regard it also as a step toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
1. The conclusions of the critics of the bill do not necessarily follow from their premise.
2. It is the globalists who are criticizing the bill.
3. Soros has been meddling and manipulating in Hungarian politics to serve his aims; Hungary has a right to its own sovereignty without meddling.
4. One only needs to look at other countries where this leftist has meddled to see the results.
4. IMO, Tillerson is wrong about recommending the scrapping of legislation that would limit Soros' efforts.
5. Time for Hexit (Hungarian exit) from outside meddling.
#4
This is the kind of thing that Trump supporters (like me) need to be concerned about.
DJT is a part of the Oligopoly, a black sheep part granted, but I've always been a little concerned that he might be a little too solicitous of the brethren.
Hillary, of course, would have been a fully paid lackey in the worst way.
#5
wTF????????? This is really disturbing!!! I read a report that Jared Kushner had a line of credit with Soros' organization. The whole thing is starting to smell like the dead skunk in the middle of the road.
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#6
We voted for Trump to stop this kind of nonsense. WTF indeed.
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#7
I'm afraid Abu that we voted for Trump because we hoped he wouldn't fall into this mode AND because we knew from much experience that Hillary would run joyfully into this mode immediately and fight tooth and nail to institutionalize it.
We'll have to keep watching.
Trump seems to often take circuitous paths that make you say WTF? till you see where he's going.
#10
I think it is in their mission statement they have to oppose anything that upsets the status quo
I have another (not unique) angle that may or may not intertwine yours. I'll bet about 1/3 of State employees went to Harvard, specifically the Kennedy School of Government. A few months ago, it finally dawned on me - the Kennedy School's sole purpose is to teach people how to become Federal hacks, to me the very definition of Next To Useless. In my opinion, there are fewer useless things in academia than the KSG, recent SJW influenced developments notwithstanding.
[Kanuk Free Press] Warning! This information comes from the Worst Web Site in the World [Politico], which leaves us with a reasonably high possibility that it could all be completely made up, and that the anonymous sources cited could be fictional.
I don’t know if I believe the story myself.
But we’ll delve into it anyway because it’s consistent with some things we know happened back in the spring, and because the kinds of people cited here seem like the types who would actually talk to said Worst Web Site. Also, it’s hilarious.
Apparently President Trump would like to meet with the 50-member Congressional Black Caucus to learn more about the issues that are important to them. Now normally, when the president wants to grant you an audience and hear about your priorities, you’d jump at that opportunity.
That assumes, of course, that you’re actually concerned about accomplishing your stated goals. If all you’re concerned about is political posturing, then you might complain to high heaven that the president will never talk to you and doesn’t care about your issues, because he’s a racist or whatever.
That usually works great in Washington, but you are going to run into a problem if the president turns out to be quite willing to meet with you and hear your concerns. That will make him look good! You can’t have that. So you have to come up with any excuse you can think of not to go to the meeting, which can require some real creativity.
#5
Bottom of pile, composted almost beyond recognition...
From Hollywood Jimmies in satin,
By Django, non-stop "naggafattin,"
Cuz what carpetbagger
Don't love sayin'...
Nagger, jus' git yo' ass back to Manhattan!
and random...
Predictive power? Possibly.
Or self-fulfilling prophecy?
May Daphne, after Raphael,
Define her friends' fates half as well!
[Hot Air] The New York Times’ David Brooks isn’t your typical conservative. In fact, many in the movement don’t consider the columnist an ally at all. He’s of a more moderate stripe and not one to shy away from criticizing Republicans; he once called Sarah Palin a "cancer" to the party. Yet, he did voice his concern about the lack of evidence being put forward with all the Russian collusion hysteria that’s embroiled the liberal news media and the Democratic Party. Are we getting ahead of ourselves? It seems that the "politics of scandal" that the Left is so desperately trying to gin up against Trump while lacking evidence to do so is making Mr. Brooks nervous; he made it known on last Sunday’s Meet The Press. He also said that what’s been discussed isn’t Watergate reloaded:
#1
I'm always uncomfortable with the "see, even that guy we all thing is full of it the rest of the time says so!" impulse...
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Think, not thing. Must be focal dystonia on the part of my typing hands.
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#3
Watergate was about employing outsiders to snoop on the Democratic Party offices in Washington. Today instead of sneaking in and planting devices, the Obama administration employed the active government offices to snoop illegally on American public citizens. That was Watergate a thousand times over.
#4
The Dems thought they had a return to Camelot during the Obama administration. Now they are looking for a return to Watergate this administration. History doesn't repeat itself?
How long did the media beat-off to that Abu-Graib prison dead horse? 18 months of 7 x 24-hour coverage? That was a few mal-contents and some very bad leadership and they tried to make it a offense against Bush.
#7
No, it is no watergate, or Ted Kennedy trying to get the Russians to help the Dems against Reagan (a treasonous bit that needs a -gate to draw attention to it).
[DAWN] THE ugly courtroom scenes in Lahore on Tuesday have been quickly linked to the increasingly violent ways of sections of the lawyers’ community. A legal team from lawyer Asma Jahangir’s office, together with its client, was physically assaulted and bombarded with invectives as it tried to exercise a basic right: the team sought to establish that its client had been aggrieved, and petitioned the court for redress. It was a habeas corpus case, and the use of physical violence and coarse language, according to reports, was linked to the alleged involvement of a lawyer -- even though the petition did not mention his name. Without getting into the details of the case, the spectacle may well be taken as a kind of ’admission’ by the attackers. After all, would lawyers with a powerful argument to support their own claims feel the need to physically go after those on the other side?
However incredulous it may sound to some, a day later, one version doing the rounds explained that it was actually an individual -- long discarded by the bar and not linked to the case at all -- who had criminal masterminded the episode to settle an old score. If this is true, it merits an investigation of its own. Whatever the case, there is much recent evidence of an increasing tendency among lawyers to take the law into their own hands. There have been instances where it has appeared practically impossible to hold any kind of probe into criminal cases in which lawyers themselves have been implicated. The bar has repeatedly been asked to do something about it but there has been little by way of reform. According to one bleak reading of the situation, it is no more possible for legal circles to even discuss ways and means to fight the growing urge of lawyers to resort to physical violence, let alone devise a strategy for achieving that goal. It cannot get any worse. The bar must come up with an effective remedy soon.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hezbollah's media in Leb have stopped all its outlets of newspapers and channels specifically al-Manar and al-Aalam Iranian channels, in addition to al-Akhbar, al-Binaa and al-Ahed, from attacking Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... after Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , UAE and Bahrain revealed common relations between Doha and the ayatollah regime in Tehran.
One of the results of these relations was the secret meeting with Qassim Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, along with the nearly billion-dollar deal for the release of 26 Qatari nationals in Iraq. The agreement came as part of a regional deal related to the evacuation of the people from four towns besieged in Syria, which is called the agreement of the four cities in Syria, as per which the displacement of thousands of rural Damascus to the countryside Idlib and vice versa.
The evacuation of Idlib residents in areas besieged by the Syrian regime forces in the countryside of Damascus and others surrounded by Islamist factions was done in exchange of one Qatari condition: which was to release a number of Sheikhs kidnapped by the Iraqi "Hezbollah Brigades" militias.
Contrary to what these media claimed to be hostile to Qatar, the voice of the opposition media rose to the side of Hezbollah forces of Evil and organizations to defend Qatar and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , following the announcement by Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain of severing all diplomatic and commercial ties with Qatar, as well as the closure of land and sea ports "to protect its security against the dangers of terrorism and extremism".
Lebanese pro-Hezbollah newspaper al-Ahed had reports on the Qatari issue, which it considered as a "Gulf conspiracy" against them, one of its titles was "Gulf soft war against Qatar". The paper claimed that the Saudi indictment against Qatar started from the Arab peace initiative presented by Saudi Arabia in 2002 at the Beirut summit, which was met with Qatari condemnation through Al Jazeera, to reach the attempt of Qatar to play a regional role dissident from the public consensus of the Gulf States, especially on the issue of the Iranian threat.
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#1
Territorial status. Territorial governor. Non-voting reps and senators. Limbo - federal judges authority over bankruptcy and readmission statehood processes, because that is Congress' authority (not that it has ever stopped the judiciary of assuming powers not granted by the Constitution).
#2
When you have over $130 Billion in 'unfunded pension debt', $23 Billion in other 'accounts payable' 9-months or more out and the courts ordered all incoming revenue to be used to pay down existing debts, you're hopelessly screwed.
Some issues with Mr. Kass's solution. Missouri certainly doesn't need Springfield and Wisconsin couldn't handle Chicago, even with Sherriff David Clarke in control.
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#3
I'm all for reverting it back to territory status. Break the power of the Union machine there.
#6
Illinois is just the first. Whatever happens has got to be so painful for the political class that the political classes of other states take note.
A tax on incompetence? Economic re-educationn classes? Public disclosure of all communications between members of the Chicago city government?
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I'm in with territorial status. I'm so old, I remember when bad / irresponsible behavior used to be punished (with sackings, bankruptcy, etc.), not actually rewarded.
[Guardian] In the Trump era, the right, however, has its own guerrilla artist: Sabo, a former US marine who works from an apartment-cum-studio in Los Angeles beneath a sign that says “Fuck Tibet”. Another says “Fuck peace”.
He has decorated his home with samples of his work: a framed toilet seat with Barack Obama’s face and mouth; a life-sized poster of Bernie Sanders with Soviet tattoos and diaper “full of free shit”; a billboard-style portrait of Hillary Clinton as a maniacal queen.
Another billboard declares that “Black lives are just matter”, accompanied by a Planned Parenthood logo and an abortion-themed punchline: “We’ve killed more blacks than the klan.”
[AEON] Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence?
About the author: Walter Scheidel is Dickason professor in the humanities, professor of classics and history, and a Catherine R Kennedy and Daniel L Grossman fellow in human biology, as well as director of graduate studies in classics, all at Stanford University in California. His latest book is The Great Leveller (2017).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Sultan Knish] If you want to know who has privilege in a society and who doesn’t, follow the anger.
[Wash Examiner] An international controversy over nonprofits funded by progressive Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros has created a vulnerability in the NATO alliance, the State Department warned.
[Kanuk Free Press] Warning! This information comes from the Worst Web Site in the World [Politico], which leaves us with a reasonably high possibility that it could all be completely made up, and that the anonymous sources cited could be fictional.
[Hot Air] The New York Times’ David Brooks isn’t your typical conservative. In fact, many in the movement don’t consider the columnist an ally at all. He’s of a more moderate stripe and not one to shy away from criticizing Republicans; he once called Sarah Palin a "cancer" to the party. Yet, he did voice his concern about the lack of evidence being put forward with all the Russian collusion hysteria that’s embroiled the liberal news media and the Democratic Party. Are we getting ahead of ourselves? It seems that the "politics of scandal" that the Left is so desperately trying to gin up against Trump while lacking evidence to do so is making Mr. Brooks nervous; he made it known on last Sunday’s Meet The Press. He also said that what’s been discussed isn’t Watergate reloaded:
