THE PROBLEM WITH THE ELITES IS THAT THEY FALL FOR FADS: When the fads are fashion and how to speak, it’s one thing. Once it becomes a poisonous political ideology, and the oikophobia it engenders, there’s going to be trouble. ‘Elite’ university system should be burned to the ground.
June 4, 2025
HEY, WHICH OF YOUR REPROBATES HAS TAKEN HOLD OF MY SHOCKED FACE? Bring it right back. I have need of it. Shady Donation Leads to Questions for Candidate Over School Abuse Cover-Ups.
I DON’T JUDGE OTHERS HABITS, BUT I HATE ANYTHING THAT TAKES ME OUT OF CONTROL OF MY OWN THOUGHTS: On drugs, Glenn Greenwald, and serious jobs. Greenwald’s sexual fetishes are his business; but his apparent use of dangerous drugs puts his journalism in question.
You do what you have to do. But IMHO it’s always best to know the voice in your head is your own.
YEAH. THEY DO COVER UP ATTACKS ON JEWS. AND I’M GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF IT: ‘Bout covers it.
A MAN KNOWS WHEN TO SHOOT HIS OWN DOG: When dogs go rabid. You do the right thing.
June 3, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
OUT ON A LIMB: Leaked medical report states controversial Olympic boxer has ‘male’ chromosomes.
No competitor could stop Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics, but a leaked medical report might have floored any hope the boxer has of defending their gold medal in Los Angeles.
The document, which initially was published by 3 Wire Sports, summarizes the findings on the Algerian boxer as “abnormal,” stating: “Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.”
Unexpectedly:
“LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT SPARTACUS DID NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION:” Oh My: Ted Cruz Ends Cory Booker With Epic Reply in Hearing About SCOTUS Protests.
WHEN EARTH FAILS, space responds.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The Democrats’ Problems With Men Are Worse Than Many Realize.
A recent comment from Joy Behar of The View perfectly illustrates another reason Democrats are having this problem. They come off as scolding hags.
From Breitbart News (emphasis is mine):
Co-host Sara Haines said, “I think it’s the wrong way to go about the problem, because the Democrats are asking how do we get male voters? The disillusionment of men is how do we care better about our men and boys, it should be about how we solve the root problems that drove men to feel like they had nowhere to go.”
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “The most common thing I hear from men who were open to supporting Trump, they feel like they want to be able to provide for the future and build wealth and don’t want to be ashamed they want to provide and want to have money. Then they do see these statistics of how men are falling behind and want to be able to highlight it and talk about it but not be pushed back that you’re saying, oh, well, you’re excluding girls and women if you want to advance men.”
Behar said, “You wonder what I think? I think it’s a waste of money. Maybe these guys should spend their money on teaching men to not be such sexists. Maybe that’s it.”
Tim Walz, who was supposed to be the Democrats’ secret weapon with male voters, is equally clueless.
Read on for more of Walz’s brilliant “code talking to white guys,” which continues to go over as well as it did on the campaign trail last year.
UPDATE: Jordan Peterson and Megyn Kelly: The Democrats Tried Passing Off Tim Walz as a Man.
DISPATCHES FROM 1968: Left-wing violence is being normalized.
At the Network Contagion Research Institute we’ve been scratching our heads ever since we noticed this explosion of online support for Thompson’s murder in December last year. It was disturbing to say the least. What could possibly explain the wild-eyed celebration of extreme violence on the streets of New York? Why was there a mass circulation of images featuring Musk being killed by Nintendo characters?
Well, after working through a heap of survey data and social media language trends, we’ve come to a series of startling conclusions about a change that’s happening in US society. The NCRI has uncovered more than just an online ecosystem of unsettling ideas. What we’re seeing is the rise and proliferation of assassination culture on the internet. It’s more than just a collection of jokes, symbols and memes. It’s an entirely new subculture for incubating radical and subversive ideas that are anathema to the things America has historically stood for.
Over the past several decades we have assumed that calls for political violence come from the far right, and they often have. What we never expected to see was the enormous growth in similar calls emerging from the mainstream left. We undertook a nationwide survey to understand it better and discovered that a breathtaking half of those who identified as politically left-wing agreed that the murder of public figures could be at least somewhat justified. What’s more, 56 percent of them agreed that there could be some justification for killing Trump. Just under half agreed that the same could be said about the fate of Musk. Tesla dealerships, too, merit at least some destruction, according to 59 percent of those surveyed.
And so we took a deeper dive into the online networks where so many young people spend much of their time today. We found a massive upsurge in coded endorsements of political violence, as well as users adopting and wielding the name “Luigi” as a codename for killing executives and wealthy individuals, all gamified with Nintendo memes featuring the character Luigi, an Italian plumber from the Super Mario series, as a wink and a nod to Mangione
It’s acceptable, it’s normalized, and, most strangely, it’s increasingly being portrayed as fun. It looks like the dissemination of what scholars call permission structures. Think of them as a kind of psychological corridor that can lead people, ego and pride intact, toward radically antisocial or even subversive behaviors such as the murder – or attempted murder – of public officials and corporate executives.
What would drive any American to actually support or condone such violence? It’s clear that the US healthcare system is unequal, unfair and in need of reform. But never in my life have any of my friends openly said that the public execution of C-suite executives might be an acceptable course of action. It’s not the America I grew up in, that’s for sure. Seeing the rise of assassination culture has been a bit like discovering an entirely new continent.
It is? If you’re as young and blinkered as the author of the above piece at Spectator World, I guess. But as Ross Douthat wrote in the New York Times in 2017: Notes on a Political Shooting.
John F. Kennedy was hated passionately by many Republicans in Dallas, but Lee Harvey Oswald’s beliefs were Marxist, not right-wing. Nationalist movements, not partisanship, inspired Sirhan Sirhan and the Puerto Ricans who almost killed Harry Truman. George Wallace was shot by a man trying to make “a statement of my manhood for the world to see.” One of Gerald Ford’s two would-be assassins was a member of the Manson cult, the other a sympathizer with the Symbionese Liberation Army. John Hinckley famously shot Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster.
And most recently — if a little less famously, because the media spent a long time assuming that he was Tea Party-inspired — Jared Lee Loughner shot Gabby Giffords because he was a lunatic obsessed with (among other things) the government’s control of grammar, and she had failed to answer his town hall question: “What is government if words have no meaning?”
So [Bernie Bro Joel] Hodgkinson’s seeming normalcy, his angry but relatively mainstream Democratic views, might be a warning sign for the future of our politics.
And how. After the assassinations of JFK and RFK, violence from the left continued well into the early 1970s, Jonah Goldberg wrote in Liberal Fascism:
Many of us forget that the Weather Underground bombing campaign was not a matter of a few isolated incidents. From September 1969 to May 1970, Rudd and his co-revolutionaries on the white radical left committed about 250 attacks, or almost one terrorist bombing a day (government estimates put that number much higher). During the summer of 1970, there were twenty bombings a week in California. The bombings were the backbeat to the symphony of violence, much of it rhetorical, that set the score for the New Left in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Rudd captured the tone perfectly: “It’s a wonderful feeling to hit a pig. It must be a really wonderful feeling to kill a pig or blow up a building.” “The real division is not between people who support bombings and people who don’t,” explained a secret member of a “bombing collective,” but “between people who will do them and people who are too hung up on their own privileges and security to take those risks.”
In 2021, Politico focused on one of those bombings: When the Left Attacked the Capitol.
In the winter of 1971, you could still find vestiges of an age of innocence in Washington. The previous decade had been one of the most unstable in the country’s history, rocked by political assassinations, racial violence and explosions at public buildings. But at the U.S. Capitol, it was still easy to stroll through without having to empty your pockets or show a driver’s license. No metal detectors or security cameras. You didn’t need to join a tour. Which is why two young people who melted into the crowd of sightseers were free to scour the building for a safe spot to set their bomb.
They were members of the Weather Underground. Since 1969, the radical left group had already bombed several police targets, banks and courthouses around the country, acts they hoped would instigate an uprising against the government. Now two of these self-described revolutionaries wandered the halls with sticks of dynamite strapped under their clothing. They slipped into an unmarked marble-lined men’s bathroom one floor below the Senate chamber. They hooked up a fuse attached to a stopwatch and stuffed the device behind a 5-foot-high wall.
Shortly before 1 a.m. on March 1, the phone call came into the Capitol switchboard. The overnight operator remembered it as a man’s voice, low and hard: “This is real. Evacuate the building immediately.”
It exploded at 1:32 a.m. No one was hurt, but damage was extensive. The blast tore the bathroom wall apart, shattering sinks into shrapnel. Shock waves blew the swinging doors off the entrance to the Senate barbershop. The doors crashed through a window and sailed into a courtyard. Along the corridor, light fixtures, plaster and tile cracked. In the Senate dining room, panes fell from a stained-glass window depicting George Washington greeting two Revolutionary War heroes, the Marquis de Lafayette and Baron von Steuben. Both Europeans lost their heads.
You may recognize a few of the suspects:
Neither Jones nor anyone else in the documentary named the bombers. However, at least three published accounts have identified them as two women then in their late 20s—Kathy Boudin, one of the survivors of the Greenwich Village explosion, and Bernardine Dohrn, a graduate of the University of Chicago’s law school whose looks, brains and take-no-prisoners attitude had made her a romantic icon within the left. Neither Boudin nor Dohrn has publicly admitted or denied placing the Capitol bomb. Neither responded to questions for this article.
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The Weather Underground continued to stage nonlethal bombings in the 1970s, notably a blast inside a Pentagon bathroom and at the State Department. (They called ahead on those, too.) When the Vietnam War finally ended, the group lost its center of gravity. By 1980, Weather had effectively disbanded. Dohrn, along with her husband and fellow member, Bill Ayers, came out of hiding. They didn’t go to prison. The government had dropped most charges against them for the same reason they couldn’t prosecute Leslie Bacon, and also because agents on a desperate hunt for clues had been caught conducting illegal break-ins at homes of the fugitives’ friends and relatives. The FBI’s overreach had backfired, but the era of left-wing extremism imploded on its own.
Curiously, CTL-F “Obama” brings up zero mentions. But the article does mention:
As a slogan of the 1960s went, what goes around comes around. That 14-month-old son who Dohrn and Ayers raised for Boudin? He became a Rhodes scholar, a lawyer and a public defender. In 2019, he was elected district attorney of San Francisco, a job once held by Vice President Kamala Harris. [Mercifully, both are now out of power — Ed.] And on Jan. 6, as the pro-Trump mob attacked, Chesa Boudin sent out a tweet: “Hoping everyone who works in the Capitol is safe from this despicable effort to take down our democracy.”
Irony can be awfully ironic, sometimes.
GOOD:
BREAKING: The Florida Board of Governors has rejected Santa Ono for the presidency of University of Florida. This is a massive win for conservatives—and an act of courage by the board.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 3, 2025
MICHAEL WALSH: The Political is Now Personal. Women Hardest Hitters. “Back in 1969, very close to the Year Zero of the modern “feminist” movement, an activist named Carol Hanisch penned an essay titled, “The Personal is Political,” whose neo-communist, collectivist slogan was later weaponized by the former Lady Macbeth of Little Rock, now Dowager Empress of Chappaqua, Hillary Clinton. Although unfocused, unreadable, poorly argued, and couched (of course) in the language of ‘therapy,’ it served as the opening salvo of the anti-family, anti-‘patriarchy’ Left against postwar American society. . . . In case you’re tempted to scoff at the sheer nuttiness of academic writing, three years later Alan Alda had supplanted John Wayne as the ideal American male. Duly empowered females were ‘liberated’ to abandon the safety and comforts of the home and the joys and challenges of child-rearing in order to redundantly ape the males of the species in offices and cubicles all over the land, the better to ‘gain access’ to the secret power corridors of the patriarchy on golf courses, locker rooms, and the waiting rooms of cardiologists. In short order, the cultural norms were, like Chesterton’s Fence, torn down on the theory that they were entirely arbitrary and willfully punitive, and women — the ‘gentler sex’ — would lead men out of the artificially imposed prison of sex roles where they had dwelled for lo, these hundreds of thousands of years and into a world of peace, sisterhood, and green acres as far as the eye could see. How’s that workin’ out for ya? Not well.”
SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM: Top Five Movie Nazis Who Got Exactly What They Deserved.
THE FUNNY KENNEDY: WATCH: Sen. Kennedy Humiliates Democrat Witness on Nationwide Injunctions.
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COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows.
NOT MESSING AROUND:
Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon. ✈️ pic.twitter.com/R32j1Ic8Ml
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 3, 2025
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: I Have Seen the Future of the Air Force and it Is Good. “I had the honor of spending quality time (and more than a few drinks) last week with several just-commissioned Air Force officers at an Academy graduation party we threw — and let me tell you, the future looks solid.”
BY THAT THEY MEAN IT HAS ITS OWN VACUUM CLEANER AND REFRIGERATOR: 2025 Toyota Sienna Platinum First Test: It Sucks and It’s Freezing.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: The Fantastic Four — Return Of The M-She-U?
UPDATE: Disney Lays Off Hundreds of Employees In Its TV and Film Divisions.
BOULDER TERRORISM SUSPECT WAS PREPARED FOR MASS MURDER: FBI.
“From a behavioral and psychological profiling perspective, this suggests impulsive extremism or a desire for martyrdom rather than escape or survival,” Jason Pack, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, told the outlet.
At one point during the attack, Soliman reportedly yelled, “Free Palestine.”
“These traits [are] often associated with ideologically driven lone actors. This kind of attacker typically operates without a support network but may be influenced by online propaganda or perceived injustices,” Pack said.
“The erratic behavior, crude weaponry and politically charged language point to a disorganized, emotionally unstable individual whose radicalization, if confirmed, could place the case within the growing trend of unpredictable, lone-wolf-style domestic attacks,” he added.
An arrest affidavit detailing Soliman’s interview with local law enforcement following his arrest suggests a lack of sophistication in his actions.
“During the interview, SOLIMAN stated that he researched on YouTube how to make Molotov Cocktails, purchased the ingredients to do so, and constructed them,” according to the affidavit.
What, not the New York Review of Books?
