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Recently, viral videos have highlighted the furor—and narcissism—of progressive elites when they rarely face the consequences of their own actions.
The most hilarious video was the defiant DA of New York’s Monroe County, dripping with elite condescension. She felt she had the right to go 20 mph over the speed limit, ignore a patrol car signaling her to pull over, and then in her garage dress down police officers for daring to treat her like she was a mere citizen.
Another was the Emory professor screaming (“I am a professor!”) when handcuffed and hauled off her campus by Georgia law enforcement. She exited whining to cameras that she had only “lightly” hit a policeman on the head (“I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention and they grabbed me.”). And then there was the Bakersfield fiery leftist who bragged to the City Council about murdering them in their homes, only to flicker and weep in court when facing felony indictments.
Progressive hothouse plants assume their supposed moral superiority exempts them from living by the rules in the manner of others. But sometimes it is not just the police who anger them, but the very Frankensteinian monsters they created who do not cooperate with their degreed and elected enablers.
In California, an epidemic of crime, from theft to assault, has struck liberal politicians in the last few months, including most recently Adam Schiff, the leftwing mayors of San Jose—Matt Mahon—and Los Angeles—Karen Bass, and even the unhinged district attorney of Oakland Pamela Price. Critical legal theory, no-bail, and defund the police apparently offer no protection.
Sen. Chuck Schumer thought it a neat trick in 2020 to assemble a pro-abortion throng outside the Supreme Court doors, and threaten Justices Kavanagh and Gorsuch by name. He grandstanded that they would not know what would soon “hit” them as they reaped the “whirlwind”. Now a pro-Hamas whirlwind hit his own home, in the fashion leftists not long also did with impunity to Supreme Court Justices’ homes—then to the sudden silence of the otherwise loud Schumer.
Berkeley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky kindly invited his own law students to his home for dinner—only to have his hospitality hijacked by pro-Hamas activist students that commandeered a microphone to spout their drivel, leading to a scuffle with his wife. The cry-bully mob offered no exemption to the dean—who in antisemitic fashion was portrayed on campus posters as a veritable IDF vampire. They also seemed indifferent to (or emboldened by?) the fact that Chemerinsky in the past has often offered advice about how to get around statutes prohibiting race-based hiring by not explicitly mentioning the operative agenda of diversity. And of course, in the past he had encouraged more campus protests to combat “racism”.
Most college presidents, many hired under DEI pressures, are now being eaten alive by their own ideologues, shocked that pro-Hamas activists are at heart fascistic and anti-Semitic and, well yes, spout “hate speech”.
So terrified college presidents talk tough, virtue signaling to alumni and donors by issuing “deadlines”, and promising“consequences” —but otherwise usually ending up negotiating and extending or making new deadlines to their campus occupiers. So the pro-Hamas crowd takes over their campuses, and often forces all students either to finish the semester remotely or to have their graduation ceremonies cancelled or abbreviated. And all to the applause of Hamas in Gaza and delight of the mullahs in Iran.
The left in the last 30 years absorbed America’s main institutions and hallmarks. And now from Disney and Anheuser-Busch to the Ivy League to CNN and blue-state big cities, it has more or less destroyed their brands and reputations.
The progressive touch eventually turns everything to dross.
VDH didn’t mention the leftist ‘peace activist’ hamas murdered on Oct 7. I wonder what she thought while the people she worked so hard to protect murdered her. Probably that it was just a misunderstanding.
Probably dumb animal confusion and “but-I-hate-Jews-and-Trump-why-are-you-doing-this-wasn’t-the-gang-rape-enough-AAAAAHH!” Stupid people are always stupid and even though I’ve never died I’m pretty sure they stay stupid till the end.
🎵 Now it’s much too dangerous to stop what you’ve begun
🎵 As everyone in paradise carries a gun …. ~
– Elvis Costello ……. 47 years ago (!)
Little Hitler, what you doin’
Is the passion inflamed again, again
Little Hitler, where you goin’
Is it go go night again tonight
Ever searchin’ for the action
But the action don’t want to know
I said all along you’re a tough one
(Little Hitler)
— Nick Lowe, 47 years ago
Those punk and new wave geniuses had the hippie’s number.. they didn’t let idealism cloud their sense of realism.
ah yes , the robespierres of the world . start a murderous revolution and eventually you will be a victim of the very crowd that you supported and egged on for those in the opposition . hopefully the left in america the likes of schiff , harris , mayjorkas , schumer , blinken , will be the victims of their own ideology , but im not going to hold my breathe . they are teflon coated and the populace on the whole are oblivious to the death and destruction that will pursue them as long as feckless joe and his band of criminals hold power .
“ In California, an epidemic of crime, from theft to assault,”
The whole world has the same epidemic. It is deliberate and planned. You useless eaters are killing the planet so you have to go. Better still, abort you before you’re born.
Can we eat bugs and drink each other’s sweat??
Yes, but I’d rather not.
I don’t know. I’d lick Scarlett Johansson’s sweat if it were in the right spots. I think I could live off it.
Don’t tell my girlfriend!
I could get off on it too
In San Jose Mayor Mahon’s defense, he doesn’t reward criminals and claims he wants to reduce homelessness, blight and crime along with monetary rewards for city employees who are corrupt failures. That was his election campaign platform, homelessness and permanent supportive housing for derelicts being the primary one.
Hell, I voted for the guy. He never answered an email I sent him though, and I live in permanent supportive housing which permanently sucks donations without providing proper support for the former derelicts who live here. I don’t need it but most of them do and they haven’t shown any improvement because they don’t get it. I assume his staff never forwarded my email but if a Mayor can’t control his staff I question his effectiveness.
His plainclothes police bodyguard was assaulted by one of the usual suspects while Mahon was doing an interview downtown (only four blocks from my apartment, by the way.) The usual suspect is a racist who uses the F word in every sentence, dresses entirely in black (even his bum backpack,) lives in a homeless shelter and has an arrest warrant in Georgia for………violently resisting arrest. His assault was just a bit out of Mahon’s control. I wish I’d been there. I watched the news video online just now and the guy punches like a girl but the police guard still couldn’t take him down, only hold onto him like a pussy.
Three days after he was arrested, the judge released him from jail with no bond. Mahon has no control over that. It must be nice to have black skin privilege. No wonder he has the usual sense of entitlement. If I’d done what he did, I’d have been hit with a bond I couldn’t afford.
Maybe Mahon will take crime more seriously now and use a bodyguard cop who knows how to fight. I’ve noticed crime is still rampant downtown, derelicts who are crazy, druggies, criminals or a combination of the three, and criminals who come downtown just to loiter and look for criminal opportunities. I’ve been attacked a bunch of times but luckily for me derelicts don’t know how to brawl.
Police Academy was meant to be a comedy, not a handbook.
Life imitates art.
I seem to recall Elon Musk making this very point to any Jewish people who had donated to these “centers of learning” – look at what you have helped to create!
(This was what got the ADL after him. But it’s a fair point.)
I hope said donors have woken up and smelled the coffee, & not written any more checks to these universities. Because, well, look what they helped to create!
Musk was right and the ADL was full of shit, as usual.
Truth is, ADL is right 97% of the time. But the other 3% are most always exceptionally trashy.
I prefer the Simon Wiesenthal Center. They get things right 99% of the time. I made this point to my liberal – but not leftie – uncle, and he protested that 97% is still quite good. I won him over by suggesting he flip the percentages…..which yield a 3% error rate versus a 1% rate, and that makes the ADL 3 times as dangerous as the SWC, when arguing points to enemies.
It’s a waste of one’s tithe (the 10 – 20% of one’s income that goes to charity) to give it to ADL or SWC. Neither of those organizations represents most Jews or is friendly toward Israel. One would be much wiser to contribute to, say, Chabad soup kitchens or other charities (in Moldavia, in Israel, in the U.S., and other places where there is need), or to the Satmar Ladies’ Bikur Cholim (an organization that helps the sick and their families) and other organizations that actually help people rather than build empires. Orthodox communities of even modest size have their own, similar chesed (kindness) organizations. Find them and help them.
The SWC is fine by me …..and so are the Chabad charities. Morgan David Adom is fine,
SWC is largely focused on Europe and South America. Perhaps it feels activism around Israel is redundant, given that there other fine charities that advocate for Israel.
Islam in America is just getting past the victimhood stage and, with help from the Democrats, getting some political power. The consumption of other political causes is on the way particularly in our Marxist nurseries that used to be bastions of education. That these protests are becoming more violent is another tell that jihad is here. Europe is about a decade ahead of us in this regard. Muslims in positions of power is increasing. Now Biden wants to import Gaza Arabs into our country. People that their own brethren in the region don’t want. Those Arabs are Muslims. They support Hamas. If you think some Hamas tablecloth wearing useful idiots is bad now. Unless wise up, this isn’t going to end well.
All true except the subhuman islamopithecines are still playing vcictim…..even as they riot! Those professional “protestors” and MSU, SJP and CAIR plants had plenty of “stop islamophobia” signs and chants.
I prefer the term “cry-bullies” …..at least until it becomes overly fashionable. Being fashionable arouses my suspicion. I guess that makes me a cynic.
Isn’t that Daniel Greenfield’s expression? It’s a good one, and not overly used yet.
Yes it is, yes it is and yes it is.
Cannot give you enough thumbs up, I attempt to warn friends, co-workers but usually to no avail.
Oh my gosh, you don’t spose that the new floating harbor we’re building to rescue Hamas from starvation is instead going to be repurposed to bring all who want to leave the Gaza beach to America, wot?
The best person who could sum up the elite leftists eating themselves into destruction is Malcolm X who stated the chickens have come home to roost. The political elite are pampered limousine liberals whose creeping incrementalism on destroying the social norms has now bred neo-fascists. But of course that’s how all democracies die – death by a thousand cuts by leftists who seek to undo all the elements that keep the cohesiveness of a society intact, which only leads to fascism by the masses to retain order.
Neo-Marxists have successfully marched through the institutions for decades, but once in power, their incompetence is on full display. The methodology of replacing normals with believers and radicals relies on mediocre people going along with the grift for their advancement. Marxists and their followers are parasitoids, animals that eventually kill the hosts they live off of. Harvard, Columbia, and the entire Ivy League have destroyed their brands. They cannot rebound because they hired partisans instead of scholars.
“Sen. Chuck Schumer thought it a neat trick in 2020 to assemble a pro-abortion throng outside the Supreme Court doors, and threaten Justices Kavanagh and Gorsuch by name.”
It’s okay to call a mob a mob.
When the mob starts eating itself, is that a mob-ius strip? ~
The left always devours its own
I recently read Wikipedia on the Argentine crisis of the early 1970s, Montoneros, etc.. and it was eye opening: the “urban guerrilleros” went completely crazy and the next thing they knew was being raped, tortured (the real kind), murdered by the military. The “fascist” backlash in Argentine was more deadly than even in Chile. That’s another omen, Chile under Allende, truckers striking, the country going to hell in a handbasket,…
I never liked Pinochet, but the mind-blowing stupidity of the Argentine left-wing (and of MIR in Chile) in a sense had to lead to the extreme right-wing backlash. I begin to fear the worse for Europe and the US