It it was great sadness that Ethics Alarms must confirm the death of former Pope Hat blogger and lawyer Ken White’s brain. As with the brains of Bill Kristol and so many friends and colleagues I once respected, including Ethics Alarms’ AWOL columnist Curmie, Ken’s neural headquarters expired of acute Trump Derangement.
The malady was first diagnosed in his case when he joined the Axis stalwart magazine “The Atlantic,” though I personally had hoped for a recovery based on my satisfying personal contacts with Ken over the years and the fact that compared to what the Democrats have become, Donald Trump seems as reasonable and rational as James Monroe.
Meanwhile, the anti-white racism and low-IQ bluster coming from certain presumed Democratic Part base segments is, if not surprising, provocative. I would rather slice off my lips than vote with such self-evident fools. It is amusing, I must admit, to see how easy it is to own them on social media. As in…
Nothing helps, however.
Over at Althouse, Ann Althouse devotes a post to taking issue with President Trump calling Graham Platner a pig. It is certainly a less creative ad hominem than most of Trump’s insults, but there are some things even I find too trivial to criticize. She does have a good quote about the news that someone cut “8647” into the National Mall, getting there by discussing the newly refurbished Reflecting Pool that my Trump Deranged Facebook friends find so offensive:
“The more grim, puritanical, humorless, imperious, and repressive you are, the funnier it is to make fun of you.” There’s a similar concept at play here: The more you show how much you care about pristine beauty, the more exciting it becomes to besmirch it. We can’t have nice things. Oh, but those who endorse the idea “86 47” might respond, these “nice things” are not nice. They are Trump things and therefore the ugliest things of all. To desecrate them is to move in the direction of true beauty. “
My thoughts about the latest “8647” are a bit different. Comey’s juvenile pleasure at seeing that shell formation would have vanished into internet obscurity if the Trump Justice Dept. wasn’t so foolish as to indict him for it. The Streisand Effect is real, and rather obvious by now, wouldn’t you think? Apparently not, at least among MAGA zombies.
“Now go do that voodoo that you do so weeeeeeeell!“
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Jack – any plans to write about the mayoral election
In California the electoral system is “engineered” in such a way that the keep counting votes until the party in power achieves the desired result. As soon as that happens, the results become final. The latest mail-in ballot drops went all in for Raman, pushing her to second place. I have zero faith in the fairness of elections in CA.
The big news item with ethics implication in the USA last week was the Karmelo Anthony trial. I predicted in a comment that the hard left and usual race pimps (including politicians Jasmine Crockett) will milk this issue till the bitter end like they did with the death of George Floyd. Happily the verdict has not triggered any riots yet, so I was a bit too pessimistic. Sometimes I am glad that I am wrong.
Reasons for not having riots in the USA after the verdict is that people are getting sick and tired of all this racial bullshit. The race card has lost its magic and power on white people. Accusations of racism are being shrugged off with indifference (unless you are a liberal of course), or seen as a manifestation of hood culture confirming all the negative stereotypes about black culture.
Many black influencers have actually hailed the verdict on Karmelo Anthony, create long podcasts on “black fatigue”, as they see that the lifestyles and attitudes of many in the black community are dysfunctional, and create a lot of ill will. E.g. the phenomenon of street takeovers or teen takeovers, with ninety nine percent of those participating black hood rats; YouTube influencer Andre Williams will call this “nigga culture”.
Jae Sambo’s tweet about slavery and reparations is also an aspect of “nigga culture”. It assumes perpetual victimhood, combined with learned helplessness, and a refusal to take responsibility to achieve success in life.
I am curious what you think of Andre Williams take on Black Americans in the YouTube video below.
Anyone having any thoughts on events and riots in Southampton and Belfast?
From what I’ve read, both Protestants and Catholics have joined forces to protest what they believe is a two-tiered police system, the benefits provided to migrants, legal or otherwise, not given to citizens but taken from tax revenue, as well as the overall lawlessness of the migrants themselves combined with the sometimes apathy/sometimes hostility displayed by the government.
What I am seeing is that people from the UK who are posting about this situation are grateful to Elon Musk for providing a platform on which they can learn about situations their own media sources will not report and that their own governments seem determined to suppress. They are alarmed that the narrative by the government has been to push through legislation to hold social media platforms accountable for not shutting down communications intended to organize protests. They are outraged that protesting against violent crimes by migrants that are barely handled by law enforcement is labeled racist/xenophobic/right-wing.
I’m also see posts by those who argue that they did not object to the women and children being let in, but that the problems began with vast numbers of young, military age men who are not incentivized to work and who spend their days being financially supported by the taxpayer while being permitted to harass, grope and assault women and girls with no consequences.
I realize that social media only gives a small window in what is happening but it would appear that these protests are spreading to Scotland and England, too.
I actually replied to Popehat.
https://bsky.app/profile/matthewbest.bsky.social/post/3mo43wb3suk2b