State of Friday: RAPISTS, RACISTS, AND FILTHY, THIEVING LIARS
We now know for certain what we always suspected.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Let’s end the week on a vicious note. I think that’s overdue. I’ve been quite vicious in the past, as you well know. Some situations call for it.
This is one of them …
RAPISTS, RACISTS, AND FILTHY, THIEVING LIARS
By all accounts, disgraced former Michigan Wolverines football coach Sherrone Moore is a bad person.
Allegedly, the married father of three knocked up his executive assistant. He then coerced her into getting an abortion. He then doubled her salary to pay her off.
When it blew open, as it inevitably would, Sherrone (again, allegedly) came completely unstuck. Reports indicate he gained entry into the assistant’s home and threatened to kill both himself and her, which is where police intervened.
It’s a tragic story. It’s also not an uncommon one for men who lack the moral fortitude to handle power and influence in modern, civilized society. Weinstein, Cosby, Schwarzenegger, one could also easily argue Elon Musk, and though the sexual improprieties of those last two never spilled into criminal behavior, they still landed in a couple tight spots.
It’s a tale as old as time: A man can build a staggering, seemingly unassailable kingdom, and its weakest point is almost always situated right between his legs.
The tale crosses all boundaries. Socioeconomic, geographic, historic. Ben Franklin was no prude, and neither was Jefferson for that matter.
Yet here is famous columnist Jemele Hill making it about race. Her contention is that Moore might have gotten a second chance if he were white. A chance at “rehabilitation.” She also contends that Moore’s downfall will be used as the basis for denying employment to other black men.
It’s insane, I know. Stupid as well.
But she works for The Atlantic, a publication I once venerated as a kid. It’s the last truly elite liberal magazine. Here it is, paying a woman (I’m sure handsomely) to lie about racism and sow racial grievance, as a profession.
Nobody should be surprised. The Atlantic is owned by Lauren Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’s widow.*
*(Yet another powerful man whose crotch caused him significant trouble.)
Jobs is one of the wealthiest liberal activists on earth, thanks to the genius of her husband. She also wore bikinis once with Ghislaine Maxwell.
She pays the salary of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who famously helped lie us into the Iraq War.
Why would any of these people care about a staff writer who propagandizes about race relations for a living?
As Steve might say: It’s a feature, not a bug.
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Across the pond, another columnist spent years lying about Pakistani rape gangs.
Owen Jones, a popular Guardian writer and media personality, straight up said the story about immigrant “grooming” gangs “isn’t true” in 2023.
Now that we know it’s true, he’s saying he never said it wasn’t true. This back-to-back clip of him changing his story is truly incredible. In a fairer world, he’d never be allowed to work in media again.
It doesn’t matter, though, because the Guardian and liberal media in the UK will keep paying him loads of money.
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We now know for certain what we always suspected.
Ukraine’s elites have been bilking “billions” in American and Western aid in order to enrich themselves. It’s no shock — Ukraine had been known for decades as one of the most corrupt nations in the modern Western world.
We know in part because the New York Times finally got around to reporting on it. You know, when the New York Times confirms what the right has been saying for years, it’s gotta be ironclad.
You also should suspect that the New York Times actually telling the truth means it’s become politically expedient to do so.
Here’s Amanda Sloat, who was the Biden NSC senior director for Europe, saying something truly insane just recently.
“What if Ukraine comes out before the war and says to Russia, you know, ‘we won’t go into NATO,’ if that stops the war, if that stops the invasion, which, at that point, it may well have done.”
*Gasp* … I thought that was sacrilege? I thought saying NATO expansion contributed to the conditions that led to war was just Russian propaganda that only Russian stooges would say.
Here’s Sloat just two years ago at a White House briefing:
“Yesterday, NATO Allies unanimously agreed to send a substantial new aid package to Ukraine and to send an important message reaffirming that Ukraine will become a member of NATO.”
We’re going to send the country we know is stealing from us more money and we’re going to accelerate the conditions which we secretly suspect raise the risk profile of another world war.
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In reality, nobody has done more damage to more children than Randi Weingarten.
Weingarten, president of the largest teachers union in the country, is uniquely responsible for the public pressure campaign to keep schools closed in the 2020-21 school year. The data on COVID, by no later than June of that same year, was overwhelmingly clear: Kids 18 and under, with no complicating medical factors, were basically immune to the virus.
At the time, she called Trump’s push to reopen schools “reckless,” “callous” and “cruel.” Many of her underlings also painted the effort to reopen as “racist” or a sign of “white supremacy,” because of course they did.
Now she admits, sure, there were “mistakes” in an interview with a pliant, docile Politico reporter, but “mistakes by everyone.”
Particularly, you guessed it, Trump.
“There were huge mistakes made by the Trump administration, to not be clear, to not be focused on safety. Reopening became political.”
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The paper that shook the medical establishment in 2020 led to all sorts of changes. The paper concluded that black newborns with white doctors suffered a higher mortality rate.
As a result of the document and, if we’re honest, a nudge from George Floyd, some elite medical schools dropped the MCAT exam from their entry requirements.
In some cases, students were admitted pretty much based on race alone. Prominent medical journals even started advocating for race-based distribution of treatments, particularly the COVID vaccine and COVID care.
Years later, we’d discover that some medical students preparing for their residencies were shockingly underprepared. They didn’t even know the basics. Whistleblowers came out of the woodwork.
On top of it all, we find out that the paper was actually a giant lie. They hid information. They hid the fact that black newborns had a higher rate of complications, requiring specialists who were overwhelmingly white.
Once corrected for these controls, the racial discrepancy vanished. In other words, the paper was basically meaningless.
Or was it?
The authors cut another key data point, as FOIA requests later revealed.
“White newborns face 80 more deaths per 100,000 births with a Black physician than a White one, suggesting a 22% fatality drop from racial concordance,” reads the disclosed documentation.
So, actually, the exact opposite of what they initially said.
Besides the deleted line of data, a note justified cutting it because it “undermines the narrative.”
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I suppose I should get to my take on all this, eh?
You know, Dear Reader, I can wrap my head around the lies of Gov. Wes Moore. He lied about a military award. He lied about his academic record.
I get it. Politicians lie. Trump lies! I can understand him saying Mar-a-Lago is worth eleventy thousand trillion dollars when it’s only worth maybe half a bil.
On the other hand, there are some lies that are so damaging, so destructive, so self-serving and utterly deranged.
No, we haven’t industrialized and profited from the castration of minors. Actually, crime is dropping under Joe Biden! (Remember that one?) What immigration crisis? Of course 25 million illegal immigrants storming the border has absolutely no effect on housing prices, crime, or wages!
You don’t want to let us cauterize the sexuality of your children? Bigot. You want to take sexually explicit material out of kindergarten libraries? Nazi. You won’t support our newest, most expensive war? Russian troll. Reopen schools? You want to kill grandma.
These are lies that abscond with incalculable American treasure. Our birthright. They rearrange our institutions and do it so fast that by the time we know it’s a lie, it’s too late, your surgeon is a certified moron. They get us into wars and destroy our education system. They destroy our children. They pit us against one another based on racial grievance.
So … at what point does someone just start arresting these people?
I can’t say I’ve never fantasized about it. I can admit, however, that it would be a sad state of affairs. It also seems almost inevitable if there continues to be zero justice. If the paychecks keep rolling to these hucksters.
At some point, the public will actually want the jackboots. They’ll want the authoritarian. They’ll feel like they need one to set things right. Congress won’t do it. The president won’t do it!
I truly don’t want to see an American dictator.
But how else does all this stop?
I see iron-fisted ruthlessness on the horizon. Boots on doors. Prison camps. Journalists like Hill and Jones sobbing in orange jumpsuits as they’re loaded on buses right behind their bosses. Officials like Weingarten and Fauci dying in prison along with all the doctors, university officials and labor lieutenants. Pfizer executives and tech CEOs. Awaiting a trial for crimes against the citizenry that’s always months away and probably isn’t even necessary.
An epithet etched into the soul of America.
Unless something drastically alters our course.
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