These left-wing male activists never disappoint, do they? Every one of them looks like he was sent from central casting: the narrow shoulders, the sunken chests, the soft facial features. If any one of them can do a single pull-up, even with a gun held to his tiny, tiny nuts, I’ll eat my hat in one bite.
Edited to add: the black student who recorded that video is my new favorite person. He owned those entitled, sackless soy-based anklebiters; they couldn’t have looked any worse.
I strenuously object! In 2016, I paid a neighbor to help me fence several acres for our horses. We dug 47 post holes 42” deep with a Bobcat & auger through rocky soil (mountain valley in the Smokies). Corner & gate posts were cemented in (180 lbs Quikcrete). I then sank 102 T-posts with a gas powered hammer and strung 1.5 miles of wire, half of it electrified.
I’m sure that earning a meaningful PhD requires great effort (or maybe endurance), but I object to the efforts I expended over 5 months (and losing 30 lbs) being diluted by way of comparison to someone’s research into “post-modern transsexual cross-racial feminist underwater basketweaving.” (😂)
“They were making fashionable mouth sounds, morally and intellectually empty child-noises from howling human voids gibbering mindless nonsense with absolutely nothing happening in the gob of fat they use for a brain.”
This paragraph made my whole day. Chris Bray, “wordsmith” doesn’t begin to describe your writing prowess.
They tried the reasonable aka 'the other side will be rational' approach and the global aka 'let's pretend the other side is reasonable' approach, with results of Holocaust and 07 October. Pipe-swinging streetfighters - better.
“Hanson Brothers…” Boy, that takes me back. (My fraternity brother at Duquesne is a Johnstown PA native, and we celebrated “Slapshot” when it came out in 1977.)
There is another demographic that has been more than patient these last few decades. Perhaps this will be a wakeup call that when one's opponents are this unreasonable you must use force.
You can tell from this reporting that a minimal level of intelligence and common sense are no longer prerequisites for being accepted into these ‘elite’ institutions. Not only are they proving to be utter morons but half of them don’t even know why they are there yet blindly follow the crowd.
These ‘students’ are your future pandemic emergency response unit staff, climate change terrorists, gender studies professors and google employees.
yesterday and commented that AI is already revolutionizing background checks. You submit a job candidate’s photo from SM and video from him/her walking across your lobby, and the system searches ALL databases worldwide and will report back all comparable images/video. The vast majority of institutional security video systems, police booking cameras, and news cameras are 1080p or better, allowing facial and gait recognition. His conclusion is that a shitload of these “protesters” despite their elite degrees will have their résumés put in the “Don’t follow up” pile, their car and home loan applications put in the “Risky – Higher interest rate only” pile for the rest of their lives, and will never know why.
While that’s EXTREMELY gratifying in the current situation, it’s also very troubling: there’s no due process, facing your accuser or correction of errors in your file.
Used to be “Women’s Studies” but apparently you’re not allowed to use that word anymore. Heard another piece on NPR the other day where they talked about the Florida abortion law for 5 minutes without once using the words “woman” or “women.” Not once. Zero. I counted. It was all “people seeking abortions” and “when a person knows they’re [sic] pregnant…”
At UBC in Vancouver it does. I knew and worked alongside a very nice young lady who was finishing her BA degree in it. I thought it was sad that she'd wasted her education money imbibing the self-contradictory doctrine. I told her I hoped she would have the experience of motherhood because it would truly enhance her life. She was a sweet and kind woman who would make a lovely mother for some lucky soul.
I should probably feel ashamed to the degree that rush of schadenfreude gloriously through my veins Watching the pro Israeli contingent whoop some leftist ass.
I know it’s not good for me, nor is it good for my soul but…
… the “victories” the rational, non-– tyrannical, freedom – loving citizen has had in the last 8 years can be counted…oh, wait, does zero count?
Can you say you counted something that doesn’t exist?
I kind of wish professor of sociology at Columbia, who was interviewed in Chris’s previous article had been on UCLA’s campus last night.
None of this is healthy for me.
We are being torn asunder by forces we cannot see.
When I watched the videos from UCLA last night I so wanted to be there swinging my pipe along with the Jewish street fighters and shooting fireworks into the pro-Palestinians' ridiculous compound. After the last several weeks of news, how gratifying that would be. And I am normally a meek and peaceful Catholic.
This is where we are. Most of my life, I’ve held libertarian beliefs, but voted Republican.
In reflection, my libertarian beliefs were more of an immature understanding of authority. Basically Cartman from South Park Was my philosophical doppelgänger.
Even in the army, both as an NCO and an officer, I was the first to push back on regulations that “didn’t make sense”.
I better understand the wisdom of holding ground and very limited negotiation on moral issues.
As a society, I believe we’ve compromised and compromised and compromised and compromised and now there is nothing left.
This, I believe, is from where the urge to violence comes.
It is difficult to reconcile individual liberty with the moral absolute of no compromise with degeneracy.
This is where nongovernmental social institutions were traditionally a vital part of “self-government.” Both churches and public opinion would restrain conduct by the prospect of “shunning” rather than jail.
In Oct 1974, Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (back when that meant something) was stopped by the D.C. police for driving without headlights and stripper Fanne Fox jumped out of the car and into the adjacent Tidal Basin. The resulting sex scandal resulted in Mills losing his chairmanship and 2 yrs later ending his political career.
In 1995-97, the POTUS got a blow job(s?) from a 22 year old intern, and his entire political party (except Joe Lieberman) defended him.
In 2023, a male Senate staffer films himself getting penetrated by a co-worker in a Senate hearing room as some sort of social statement.
Most of the Left’s political activism has been directed at defanging the historically effective practice of societal shunning.
If one of these “pro-Hamas” rioting groups had grabbed a Jewish student, covered her in pitch, hung her by her arms from a lamppost and lit her on fire (à la Nero), would ANY of us have been really surprised?
This path is the cost of 65 years of concession to the seemingly libertine obsession of the Left. I used to think “If it feels good, do it!” was a pursuit in its own right. The last 5 years have opened my eyes that it’s actually been an extremely long range plan (starting in the 40s) to destroy Western civilization by fatally corroding our social structures.
This is the first I'm hearing of it. What a great thing! I'm normally a faintly obnoxious Evangelical, but I certainly wish I could have been part of it.
I spent a useful amount of time at work yesterday considering such an action at the main campus of one of the institutions from which I graduated. Very gratifying to then see this story today.
Naomi Klein stood with and wrote in support of the American Jewish students who started all this by protesting, peacefully, against the violence being done by Netanyahu's forces against the civilians of Gaza:
We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein | The Guardian
So I think this comment by "A Longer Name" [and his/hers is one among several comments that are similar in tone] about "Jewish street fighters" against "pro-Palestinians" is a great distortion of the real situation. I'll be frank, it's an outright lie.
It is also quite savage and inflammatory and it is fantastic almost to the point of pathological delusion. It seems calculated to make us all forget that many of the protesters are Jewish and are motivated by their moral convictions derived from their faith.
And "swinging my pipe" to hurt people? And throwing dangerous fireworks into a crowd of people? This reminds me of the tactics of the rampaging BLM and Antifa mobs of summer 2020. They were, just as these protesters are now, accused of being funded by George Soros. The group called "Rose City Antifa" was secretly videoed taking instruction from a man who counselled them to "use the eye gouge". The subsequent destruction of Minneapolis and then Kenosha Wisconsin was part of that 2020 summer of hate against Donald Trump. Now here is a return to the same tactics. It smells the same to me.
Chris Bray, I don't get what you "liked" about this. I don't understand how the main issue can be so easily obscured by such transparent tactics. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been mass murdered and even more are at risk because Congress and the White House refuse to put a stop to it. This and only this is the issue. I don't understand why that isn't obvious.
I also find it dismaying that there is so little consideration of how easy it is to salt provocateurs among protesters to whip up violence on either side or both sides. I've been reading about and studying the CIA for decades now. This is familiar to me.
The question which peals away a lot of illusion is Cicero's "Cui Bono". I've been treated to some Latin lately to insult me, "Ceterum autem censeo Gazam esse delendam." Look up "The Third Punic War" and "146 BC destruction of Carthage". Consider the implications of this. Consider what kind of person would be attempting to make that fashionable among people they must imagine to be "Hard Right". Or better, they consider people to be naive enough to fall for this corny and childish self-defamation.
Fantasies of hitting people with metal pipes and burning them with fireworks (exactly what was done to the Minneapolis police by BLM/Antifa "street fighters")? Get a grip on your self possession! This is childish in the worst way.
This type of propaganda temps people to brand themselves publicly with a very "neo-Nazi" label. It's a strategy. It's 'divide and conquer'.
Don't fall for it! It's a very calculated trap. Don't take this rotten bait, my friends.
Brian, do not despair! My wife and I were watching the local news coverage of the UCLA whatever that was, and were laughing our heads off. My wife kept saying, “Now these protesters will see what happens when real men get pissed.”
I kept marveling at the logistics of the pro-Palestine people. Where did they get the umbrellas, the plywood they used as barricades?
Also the microcosm occurring on that small patch of land: two sides facing off over “territory.”
It was Kabuki theater, and watched and said, “Let them sort it out. The stronger will prevail.”
Yes these so-called protests are inorganic, well funded, and completely artificial. Why isn’t Grampy Joe speaking out against this chaos? Could it be the government is involved?
Looks like it was a Donor Advised Fund held at Goldman. Blaming Goldman in this case would be like blaming Visa for allowing certain Middle Eastern gentlemen to charge their flight school tuition to credit cards back in 2000. Goldman's name shows up, but purely as a mindless functionary.
The man behind this $12 million grant was Neville Roy Singham, an obvious CCP cutout / bagman.
The Red Chinese using the opportunity to sow discord and infighting within the camp of their greatest geopolitical rival, and on the cheap, is the obvious move. I suspect they supported this stuff back in 2020 and probably for years before that.
Lots of people like to blame Soros for this kind of nonsense. He might be in on it. He might be a CCP asset; he also might just be a malignant little goblin with his own agenda which he pushes for his own reasons, which sometimes lines up with other agendas. I regard the jury as being out in that question.
I vote for unscrupulous, destructive, America-hating, malignant little goblin with a Nazi background and a black heart who shouldn't even be in our country, let alone allowed to bankroll anarchy.
We're being torn asunder also by forces we can see. F. J. Biden sent money to Iran. Then when Hamas attacked Israel, FJB sent money and explosives to Israel to slaughter Palestinians and some money also to Hamas. Now FJB says we need to take as refugees all the people Bibi finds too dangerous to live on the land that was theirs but that Bibi wants. The Gazan refugees will join the millions of other military age men that have come in over our former borders from anywhere and everywhere. How will a few pipe-swinging Jewish streetfighters do against OBiden's foreign army? The powers that shouldn't be WANT a civil war.
What did Henry K say? "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
“I should probably feel ashamed to the degree that rush of schadenfreude gloriously through my veins”
Schadenfreude is good and healthy. It is the mind’s self-rationalization for having done nothing tangible in the face of odious conduct (or having been largely powerless to do so). The alternative is to carry a baseball bat to deal with life’s assholes, or self-harm or suicide because one’s conscience is unrelenting. If I didn’t think Soros is going to Hell, I might be forced to pick up a weapon to repay his unremitting abuse of the country I love.
That is a pretty mature, emotionally healthy interpretation of schadenfreude. Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. Nevertheless, I need to be cautious and aware of where my mind can go in situations like this.
Most of the fights I got into as a kid, and certainly most of the unhinged violent thoughts/feelings were playing ball of some kind. Your team is evil, my team is righteous..or at least that is how I behaved.
I am tribal at the core, which is definitely a double-edged sword.
I'm inside your brain. Not allowed to talk about it, but the technology is pretty intense. I have to wear electrodes on my -- you know what, let's not go into details.
Funny! There is something to shared or common experiences that lend people to view things some a similar foxhole, with similar screening criteria filters with which to observe the world.
You're kinda like the GenX spokesman for the thoughtfully right of center/post liberal(?)/country first but not dripping MAGA burn victims who are now much more wary of EVERYTHING we once accepted as a given demographic.
Takes me back to when I was a university student and thought I knew everything. I did however fear and respect my father who would have kicked the ever lovin’ shit out of me had I pulled a disrespectful stunt so I kept my worldly knowledge to myself. So I ask for the millionth time “where the fuck are the fathers? The mothers who raised these shits....on BOTH SIDES they are nothing but disrespectful shits. We are doomed.
I’ve been saying that for weeks!! Where the fuck are the parents. If my son had ever pulled that shit I’d have been on campus pushing through those nitwits and snatched his ass right out of there. And he knew that I’d do that. So it would never have happened. But that was back when he was a Conservative young man…he’s now a left-wing, liberal by insertion. (He married a Democrat liberal woman)
Most of the dweebs of Antifa, for example, are the children of single mothers. This is not accidental but a core part of U.S. domestic policy since the Johnson administration.
The U.S. is a feminist nation. Has been for a long time. Your question makes no sense. If you're older than forty, then you should know 'Where the fuck are the fathers'. Disposed-of. Long gone. Ain't coming back, either.
Fatherhood and masculinity have been under siege for 4 decades by every single force and institution in U.S. society, including moneyed 'elites', their foundations, all the intel agencies, and the government. 'Where the fuck are the fathers'? Have your eyes been closed? Single-motherhood is defended and fully funded and women have ruled the court systems since way back when I worked in judicial admin during the Eighties.
You live in a gynarchy. Fatherhood and maleness itself is hated.
If they were honest they'd say "We condemn, and will always condemn in the strongest terms, anyone who takes action to push back against any violence or disruption or threatening behavior perpetrated by any member of our vital and diverse constituency."
I’m 60 and grew up in Chicago. I’ve seen this shit since I was 5. Crybullies. Jesse Jackson made a career of it. I used to think the major media was gullible until I realized they were in on it.
These people are more childish than my toddler grandchildren. They want no police presence when they are brutalizing others, and wonder why the blazes there is no one to protect them when those they have been brutalizing turn on them.
I actually heard these adolescents at Columbia chanting a cheer I used to hear at high school football games in late quarters when the game was out of reach: “We believe that we will win”, over and over again. This is a game to them, and they are writing the rules as the game progresses. “We need food if we are to continue this fight”, “No punitive measures”, “We’ll behave when you cave to every demand”. I say they should what Brian Kilmeade said yesterday morning: lock the doors, turn off water, electricity and WiFi-fi, and let them wallow in their own filth.
Yes. I believe the pro-Hamas crowd is going to be very unhappy when the worm turns, and apparently it has started to turn. Also the alphabet people preying on children.
The “We are Hamas” assholes are going to be left without a focal point very shortly once the IDF enters Rafah. The Israelis have not come this far and suffered this much to walk away 1/4 mile from total victory in this marathon.
Ok, thanks for that, you made me laugh out loud, and I needed it bad. Your description of the Human Voids coupled withe the simple declarative, ‘Patience fading’ was awesome.
Masked white protesters blocking the free movement of a black UCLA student on his own campus:
https://twitter.com/a_chrisbray/status/1785892428144361529
Wonderfully progressive!
These left-wing male activists never disappoint, do they? Every one of them looks like he was sent from central casting: the narrow shoulders, the sunken chests, the soft facial features. If any one of them can do a single pull-up, even with a gun held to his tiny, tiny nuts, I’ll eat my hat in one bite.
Edited to add: the black student who recorded that video is my new favorite person. He owned those entitled, sackless soy-based anklebiters; they couldn’t have looked any worse.
Ankelbiters
I’m sorry, sir, but the Intifada must eat and your Intersectional Group Code is sooo 2020.
Totally repugnant!
>Fuck the police
>We declare the rule of law to be illegitimate
>Also you must deliver food and water into our waiting mouths
>But not bananas you fascist
>PS you have to pay for the food
>Also we took a dump in the library stairwell
>Oh god where are the police
>This violence is incomprehensible
>It's all gone wrong
>No one could have predicted this
>We have PhDs
Yes, yes, yes. Laughing.
Lmao! Winner!
PhD = Post hole digger.
That's per a PhD laboratory assistant when I was in college in 80s. I still think it's funny.
BS - bullshit
MS - more of the same
PhD - piled higher and deeper
MBA = must be an a**hole OR major bulls**t artist.
I strenuously object! In 2016, I paid a neighbor to help me fence several acres for our horses. We dug 47 post holes 42” deep with a Bobcat & auger through rocky soil (mountain valley in the Smokies). Corner & gate posts were cemented in (180 lbs Quikcrete). I then sank 102 T-posts with a gas powered hammer and strung 1.5 miles of wire, half of it electrified.
I’m sure that earning a meaningful PhD requires great effort (or maybe endurance), but I object to the efforts I expended over 5 months (and losing 30 lbs) being diluted by way of comparison to someone’s research into “post-modern transsexual cross-racial feminist underwater basketweaving.” (😂)
I can't say as I blame you!
🤣
Brilliant.
EXACTLY my thoughts.
bsn
Definitely the winning comment. 🤣🤣
“We have PhDs”
Pronunciation is key. This is best expressed as you’re face down on the ground being zip-tied:
“We are PhDeeeeeeeees!!”
> The Science is Settled. Trust the Science!!!
❤️❤️❤️
“They were making fashionable mouth sounds, morally and intellectually empty child-noises from howling human voids gibbering mindless nonsense with absolutely nothing happening in the gob of fat they use for a brain.”
This paragraph made my whole day. Chris Bray, “wordsmith” doesn’t begin to describe your writing prowess.
I came here to say precisely the same thing. Also this part: "Empty, pathetic, worthless. Lot of that going around. Patience fading." Indeed it is.
I've been up for 15 hours and haven't laughed until this.
I came here to say precisely the same thing. Also this part: "Empty, pathetic, worthless. Lot of that going around. Patience fading." Indeed it is.
The sound and the fury signifying nothing.
The pro-Israel contingent kicking the UCLA pro-Palestine protesters’ collective asses is glorious. Shameful that it has to come to this, though.
No, it’s shameful we haven’t been kicking the shit out of them the last 60 years. I mean the Left, the Brats, these evil pimping Professors.
Pimping Profs
I like That.
Damn straight.
They tried the reasonable aka 'the other side will be rational' approach and the global aka 'let's pretend the other side is reasonable' approach, with results of Holocaust and 07 October. Pipe-swinging streetfighters - better.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/warsaw-ghetto-uprising
"Streetfightin' Jews"....I can't be the only one watching those videos with the Stones playing?
And speaking of stones, good to see some rock-'em sock-'em Hanson Brothers action on these LARPing imbeciles.
“Hanson Brothers…” Boy, that takes me back. (My fraternity brother at Duquesne is a Johnstown PA native, and we celebrated “Slapshot” when it came out in 1977.)
Brought it on themselves. They deserve bruising, like a banana!
There is another demographic that has been more than patient these last few decades. Perhaps this will be a wakeup call that when one's opponents are this unreasonable you must use force.
But the adults are in charge so it’s all fine.
Union power!
Pipe Hitters Union UCLA Local, that is.
Agreed. This situation is ludicrous.
Glorious, yes. Shameful, no. Karma's a bitch.
IMHO, not shameful but rather inevitable. Incoherent tantrums are a feature of “social justice,” not a bug.
When real men show up, the Diverse Contingent folds.
When asked the causes of the Spanish Civil War, Franco's brother in law replied, "We just hated each other."
With good reason
You can tell from this reporting that a minimal level of intelligence and common sense are no longer prerequisites for being accepted into these ‘elite’ institutions. Not only are they proving to be utter morons but half of them don’t even know why they are there yet blindly follow the crowd.
These ‘students’ are your future pandemic emergency response unit staff, climate change terrorists, gender studies professors and google employees.
Not only that, if they can even find a job, they will be responsible for paying for your social security.
Some of them will go into the aviation industry. Isn't that comforting?
They're already over at Boeing.
😂🤣
Yea you know, like the ones that work for Boeing , and will be responsible for installing the bolts on the door panels .......
Nah, those jobs are beneath them. They'll be making the executive decisions, though.
On how to implement savings on Bolt Expenditures
Ha! I suppose you read about the latest Boeing connected death.
Kevin Leary was on “The Five”
yesterday and commented that AI is already revolutionizing background checks. You submit a job candidate’s photo from SM and video from him/her walking across your lobby, and the system searches ALL databases worldwide and will report back all comparable images/video. The vast majority of institutional security video systems, police booking cameras, and news cameras are 1080p or better, allowing facial and gait recognition. His conclusion is that a shitload of these “protesters” despite their elite degrees will have their résumés put in the “Don’t follow up” pile, their car and home loan applications put in the “Risky – Higher interest rate only” pile for the rest of their lives, and will never know why.
While that’s EXTREMELY gratifying in the current situation, it’s also very troubling: there’s no due process, facing your accuser or correction of errors in your file.
More than half of these fucks are actors playing a role. It’s time for them to take their roles to heart, and get thumped.
Gender Studies? Does that exist?
Yeah. They just had a Gender Studies prof on an NPR piece about the UCLA protesters and she of course was supportive of them.
Used to be “Women’s Studies” but apparently you’re not allowed to use that word anymore. Heard another piece on NPR the other day where they talked about the Florida abortion law for 5 minutes without once using the words “woman” or “women.” Not once. Zero. I counted. It was all “people seeking abortions” and “when a person knows they’re [sic] pregnant…”
Fuck me
Duh? Lol
If charging $90K/year for “gender studies” were advertised on TV, the government would prosecute for fraud.
At UBC in Vancouver it does. I knew and worked alongside a very nice young lady who was finishing her BA degree in it. I thought it was sad that she'd wasted her education money imbibing the self-contradictory doctrine. I told her I hoped she would have the experience of motherhood because it would truly enhance her life. She was a sweet and kind woman who would make a lovely mother for some lucky soul.
I should probably feel ashamed to the degree that rush of schadenfreude gloriously through my veins Watching the pro Israeli contingent whoop some leftist ass.
I know it’s not good for me, nor is it good for my soul but…
… the “victories” the rational, non-– tyrannical, freedom – loving citizen has had in the last 8 years can be counted…oh, wait, does zero count?
Can you say you counted something that doesn’t exist?
I kind of wish professor of sociology at Columbia, who was interviewed in Chris’s previous article had been on UCLA’s campus last night.
None of this is healthy for me.
We are being torn asunder by forces we cannot see.
bsn
When I watched the videos from UCLA last night I so wanted to be there swinging my pipe along with the Jewish street fighters and shooting fireworks into the pro-Palestinians' ridiculous compound. After the last several weeks of news, how gratifying that would be. And I am normally a meek and peaceful Catholic.
This is where we are. Most of my life, I’ve held libertarian beliefs, but voted Republican.
In reflection, my libertarian beliefs were more of an immature understanding of authority. Basically Cartman from South Park Was my philosophical doppelgänger.
Even in the army, both as an NCO and an officer, I was the first to push back on regulations that “didn’t make sense”.
I better understand the wisdom of holding ground and very limited negotiation on moral issues.
As a society, I believe we’ve compromised and compromised and compromised and compromised and now there is nothing left.
This, I believe, is from where the urge to violence comes.
bsn
The "slippery slope" is real. No compromise should always be the position against degeneracy and evil.
It is difficult to reconcile individual liberty with the moral absolute of no compromise with degeneracy.
This is where nongovernmental social institutions were traditionally a vital part of “self-government.” Both churches and public opinion would restrain conduct by the prospect of “shunning” rather than jail.
In Oct 1974, Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (back when that meant something) was stopped by the D.C. police for driving without headlights and stripper Fanne Fox jumped out of the car and into the adjacent Tidal Basin. The resulting sex scandal resulted in Mills losing his chairmanship and 2 yrs later ending his political career.
In 1995-97, the POTUS got a blow job(s?) from a 22 year old intern, and his entire political party (except Joe Lieberman) defended him.
In 2023, a male Senate staffer films himself getting penetrated by a co-worker in a Senate hearing room as some sort of social statement.
Most of the Left’s political activism has been directed at defanging the historically effective practice of societal shunning.
If one of these “pro-Hamas” rioting groups had grabbed a Jewish student, covered her in pitch, hung her by her arms from a lamppost and lit her on fire (à la Nero), would ANY of us have been really surprised?
This path is the cost of 65 years of concession to the seemingly libertine obsession of the Left. I used to think “If it feels good, do it!” was a pursuit in its own right. The last 5 years have opened my eyes that it’s actually been an extremely long range plan (starting in the 40s) to destroy Western civilization by fatally corroding our social structures.
Brave New World was a planning document.
bsn
😢
Too much "individual liberty" is at the heart of the fall of the American culture.
Do you see it as the government’s job to limit our liberty for our own good?
That is my position also.
This is the first I'm hearing of it. What a great thing! I'm normally a faintly obnoxious Evangelical, but I certainly wish I could have been part of it.
"Faintly obnoxious evangelical" 🤣🤣🤣lots of comedians on here tonight, the chuckles feel good.
I'm just honest in my self appraisal, Heidi. One of the perks of being 72 is the freedom from pretension which age brings.
I spent a useful amount of time at work yesterday considering such an action at the main campus of one of the institutions from which I graduated. Very gratifying to then see this story today.
New Yorkers would pretend they are Babe Ruth :"and Enjoy it
Naomi Klein stood with and wrote in support of the American Jewish students who started all this by protesting, peacefully, against the violence being done by Netanyahu's forces against the civilians of Gaza:
We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel
So I think this comment by "A Longer Name" [and his/hers is one among several comments that are similar in tone] about "Jewish street fighters" against "pro-Palestinians" is a great distortion of the real situation. I'll be frank, it's an outright lie.
It is also quite savage and inflammatory and it is fantastic almost to the point of pathological delusion. It seems calculated to make us all forget that many of the protesters are Jewish and are motivated by their moral convictions derived from their faith.
And "swinging my pipe" to hurt people? And throwing dangerous fireworks into a crowd of people? This reminds me of the tactics of the rampaging BLM and Antifa mobs of summer 2020. They were, just as these protesters are now, accused of being funded by George Soros. The group called "Rose City Antifa" was secretly videoed taking instruction from a man who counselled them to "use the eye gouge". The subsequent destruction of Minneapolis and then Kenosha Wisconsin was part of that 2020 summer of hate against Donald Trump. Now here is a return to the same tactics. It smells the same to me.
Chris Bray, I don't get what you "liked" about this. I don't understand how the main issue can be so easily obscured by such transparent tactics. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been mass murdered and even more are at risk because Congress and the White House refuse to put a stop to it. This and only this is the issue. I don't understand why that isn't obvious.
I also find it dismaying that there is so little consideration of how easy it is to salt provocateurs among protesters to whip up violence on either side or both sides. I've been reading about and studying the CIA for decades now. This is familiar to me.
The question which peals away a lot of illusion is Cicero's "Cui Bono". I've been treated to some Latin lately to insult me, "Ceterum autem censeo Gazam esse delendam." Look up "The Third Punic War" and "146 BC destruction of Carthage". Consider the implications of this. Consider what kind of person would be attempting to make that fashionable among people they must imagine to be "Hard Right". Or better, they consider people to be naive enough to fall for this corny and childish self-defamation.
Fantasies of hitting people with metal pipes and burning them with fireworks (exactly what was done to the Minneapolis police by BLM/Antifa "street fighters")? Get a grip on your self possession! This is childish in the worst way.
This type of propaganda temps people to brand themselves publicly with a very "neo-Nazi" label. It's a strategy. It's 'divide and conquer'.
Don't fall for it! It's a very calculated trap. Don't take this rotten bait, my friends.
Brian, do not despair! My wife and I were watching the local news coverage of the UCLA whatever that was, and were laughing our heads off. My wife kept saying, “Now these protesters will see what happens when real men get pissed.”
I kept marveling at the logistics of the pro-Palestine people. Where did they get the umbrellas, the plywood they used as barricades?
Also the microcosm occurring on that small patch of land: two sides facing off over “territory.”
It was Kabuki theater, and watched and said, “Let them sort it out. The stronger will prevail.”
Where do all the supplies come from? How is it? That pallets of bricks were delivered to Minneapolis the day after Saint George Floyd died?
My suspicion is that if we peeled back every layer, it would eventually come from George Soros. These are not benign, spontaneous protests.
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Yes these so-called protests are inorganic, well funded, and completely artificial. Why isn’t Grampy Joe speaking out against this chaos? Could it be the government is involved?
We might also find the DNC and several three-letter fed agencies.
Where does the money come from?
We have one report now tracing the money to, wait for it, Goldman Sachs:
https://freebeacon.com/campus/anti-israel-group-encouraged-columbia-protesters-to-recreate-the-summer-of-2020-hours-before-students-stormed-a-building/
Looks like it was a Donor Advised Fund held at Goldman. Blaming Goldman in this case would be like blaming Visa for allowing certain Middle Eastern gentlemen to charge their flight school tuition to credit cards back in 2000. Goldman's name shows up, but purely as a mindless functionary.
The man behind this $12 million grant was Neville Roy Singham, an obvious CCP cutout / bagman.
The Red Chinese using the opportunity to sow discord and infighting within the camp of their greatest geopolitical rival, and on the cheap, is the obvious move. I suspect they supported this stuff back in 2020 and probably for years before that.
Lots of people like to blame Soros for this kind of nonsense. He might be in on it. He might be a CCP asset; he also might just be a malignant little goblin with his own agenda which he pushes for his own reasons, which sometimes lines up with other agendas. I regard the jury as being out in that question.
I vote for unscrupulous, destructive, America-hating, malignant little goblin with a Nazi background and a black heart who shouldn't even be in our country, let alone allowed to bankroll anarchy.
Here is a place to start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations
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Pure evil. Should have been shut down 20 years ago.
40.
'“Now these protesters will see what happens when real men get pissed.”'
Same comment I made elsewhere on this thread.
We're being torn asunder also by forces we can see. F. J. Biden sent money to Iran. Then when Hamas attacked Israel, FJB sent money and explosives to Israel to slaughter Palestinians and some money also to Hamas. Now FJB says we need to take as refugees all the people Bibi finds too dangerous to live on the land that was theirs but that Bibi wants. The Gazan refugees will join the millions of other military age men that have come in over our former borders from anywhere and everywhere. How will a few pipe-swinging Jewish streetfighters do against OBiden's foreign army? The powers that shouldn't be WANT a civil war.
What did Henry K say? "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
Truth. However, I believe there’s a more malevolent force beneath even that.
Tucker spoke about this pretty clearly with Joe Rogan. That’s a podcast worth the time to listen.
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There is a spiritual war going on 'behind the scenes' but simultaneous with these profane activities.
Understood. But war is being made on you, whether you respond or not.
“I should probably feel ashamed to the degree that rush of schadenfreude gloriously through my veins”
Schadenfreude is good and healthy. It is the mind’s self-rationalization for having done nothing tangible in the face of odious conduct (or having been largely powerless to do so). The alternative is to carry a baseball bat to deal with life’s assholes, or self-harm or suicide because one’s conscience is unrelenting. If I didn’t think Soros is going to Hell, I might be forced to pick up a weapon to repay his unremitting abuse of the country I love.
If I didn’t think Soros is going to Hell, I might be forced to pick up a weapon to repay his unremitting abuse of the country I love.
Spot on. It is challenging to remember that '...vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.'
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That is a pretty mature, emotionally healthy interpretation of schadenfreude. Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. Nevertheless, I need to be cautious and aware of where my mind can go in situations like this.
Most of the fights I got into as a kid, and certainly most of the unhinged violent thoughts/feelings were playing ball of some kind. Your team is evil, my team is righteous..or at least that is how I behaved.
I am tribal at the core, which is definitely a double-edged sword.
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How did you get in my brain and steal my thoughts, Brian?
I often feel the same way about Mr. Chris Bray. He will surface and clearly articulate something that’s been niggling the back of my brain.
And, as often, he writes about it in a way that clarifies my own thinking better than I would have done alone.
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I'm inside your brain. Not allowed to talk about it, but the technology is pretty intense. I have to wear electrodes on my -- you know what, let's not go into details.
Funny! There is something to shared or common experiences that lend people to view things some a similar foxhole, with similar screening criteria filters with which to observe the world.
You're kinda like the GenX spokesman for the thoughtfully right of center/post liberal(?)/country first but not dripping MAGA burn victims who are now much more wary of EVERYTHING we once accepted as a given demographic.
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😂🤣😂🤣
Brian
How about : It's about Fucking Time?
Or
Long over due
It should be called infantida.
Nice.
Takes me back to when I was a university student and thought I knew everything. I did however fear and respect my father who would have kicked the ever lovin’ shit out of me had I pulled a disrespectful stunt so I kept my worldly knowledge to myself. So I ask for the millionth time “where the fuck are the fathers? The mothers who raised these shits....on BOTH SIDES they are nothing but disrespectful shits. We are doomed.
I’ve been saying that for weeks!! Where the fuck are the parents. If my son had ever pulled that shit I’d have been on campus pushing through those nitwits and snatched his ass right out of there. And he knew that I’d do that. So it would never have happened. But that was back when he was a Conservative young man…he’s now a left-wing, liberal by insertion. (He married a Democrat liberal woman)
By insertion lol.
Most of the dweebs of Antifa, for example, are the children of single mothers. This is not accidental but a core part of U.S. domestic policy since the Johnson administration.
That is the answer to your question.
This exactly
Fathers? In America?
The U.S. is a feminist nation. Has been for a long time. Your question makes no sense. If you're older than forty, then you should know 'Where the fuck are the fathers'. Disposed-of. Long gone. Ain't coming back, either.
Fatherhood and masculinity have been under siege for 4 decades by every single force and institution in U.S. society, including moneyed 'elites', their foundations, all the intel agencies, and the government. 'Where the fuck are the fathers'? Have your eyes been closed? Single-motherhood is defended and fully funded and women have ruled the court systems since way back when I worked in judicial admin during the Eighties.
You live in a gynarchy. Fatherhood and maleness itself is hated.
The fathers? I think they call them "sperm donors" in that crowd.
Whaddya wanna bet that the Biden administration will issue some mealy-mouthed condemnation of "events" on the campus.
They just did. Pure tapioca.
If they were honest they'd say "We condemn, and will always condemn in the strongest terms, anyone who takes action to push back against any violence or disruption or threatening behavior perpetrated by any member of our vital and diverse constituency."
Word salad
I dunno. At least tapioca has some texture, something you can chew on. Maybe farina?
What do you bet they don’t say a damn thing. Especially Brandon.
I’m 60 and grew up in Chicago. I’ve seen this shit since I was 5. Crybullies. Jesse Jackson made a career of it. I used to think the major media was gullible until I realized they were in on it.
^^^This!^^^
These people are more childish than my toddler grandchildren. They want no police presence when they are brutalizing others, and wonder why the blazes there is no one to protect them when those they have been brutalizing turn on them.
I actually heard these adolescents at Columbia chanting a cheer I used to hear at high school football games in late quarters when the game was out of reach: “We believe that we will win”, over and over again. This is a game to them, and they are writing the rules as the game progresses. “We need food if we are to continue this fight”, “No punitive measures”, “We’ll behave when you cave to every demand”. I say they should what Brian Kilmeade said yesterday morning: lock the doors, turn off water, electricity and WiFi-fi, and let them wallow in their own filth.
Patience fading, and just wait until it's gone. One side of that conflict will not be cosplaying, and will ensure the trash is taken out.
Remember Tombstone?
Johnny Ringo: I was just foolin' about
Doc Holiday: I wasn't
Val Kilmer's masterpiece role. He deserved an Oscar.
I also enjoy a different scene from Tombstone:
“You called down the thunder, well now you've got it!…You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me! You hear?! Hell's coming with me!”
Yes. I believe the pro-Hamas crowd is going to be very unhappy when the worm turns, and apparently it has started to turn. Also the alphabet people preying on children.
The “We are Hamas” assholes are going to be left without a focal point very shortly once the IDF enters Rafah. The Israelis have not come this far and suffered this much to walk away 1/4 mile from total victory in this marathon.
My favorite movie of all time.
Ok, thanks for that, you made me laugh out loud, and I needed it bad. Your description of the Human Voids coupled withe the simple declarative, ‘Patience fading’ was awesome.
Why do all these groups set up fences and boundaries as soon as they occupy an area?
"Build the wall!"
You actually have patience left ? I admit I was born with a deficit but you must be some sort of zen master