Oh yeah, she’s secretly brilliant…
And the morons applaud.
Looking for that wood-chipper….
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You Know Those Horrible Statements Trump Made About Jews Who Will Vote Democratic? He Was Right
Philip Bump, arguably the worst of the Washington Post’s unethical reporters (but it’s a large and closely bunched field), went into full-Trump hate mode when the ex-President said, during the Democratic National Convention, “Why would somebody who’s Jewish be voting for these people? If Jewish people vote for her [Harris] and I use this expression, they ought to go out, because Kamala is a person that is very anti-Israel, and very anti-Jewish. But she solves that problem by saying her husband’s Jewish, okay? But that doesn’t…her actions are the worst that we’ve ever had.” In April, Trump made a similar statement about Jews voting for Joe Biden. “Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to,” Trump said. Ethics Alarms covered that “horrible” statement here. The ethics Alarms verdict: rhetorically sloppy and undiplomatic (as usual), but essentially correct.
So was the most recent statement. That this is true was nicely illustrated by none other than Professor Turley, who noted, as the Washington Post and most of the mainstream media did not, that while pro-Palestinian/Hamas/terrorism protesters were given a permit to demonstrate outside the convention hall, pro-Israel, anti-Hamas groups were not. The Democratic Party’s fingerprints are all over this: Chicago’s mayor is a Democrat just like it was in 1968, when Democratic Boss Mayor Daley denied anti-war demonstrators permits, and they protested anyway.
I Don’t Know What To Call This Story, Except “Depressing”
The instant ethics train wreck, courtesy of The Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Ethics Train Wreck, The Ferguson Ethics Train Wreck, The George Floyd Freakout, the Obama Administration Ethics Train Wreck, the DEI Ethics Train Wreck and The Great Stupid, is described by Campus Reform, thusly:
A primarily black student group at the University of Missouri was recently forced to change the name of that it is planning on hosting. The Legion of Black Collegians reportedly intended to name [a back-to-school barbecue event] the “Welcome Black BBQ,” but was forced to change the name by the university administration. The event, which is scheduled to be hosted on Friday, will now be called the “Welcome Black and Gold BBQ,” a reference to the school’s colors. The group wrote in an Instagram post on Aug. 16 that it is “heartbroken” at the name change.
Ugh.
Post KAmala Coronation Open Forum
Well, the morning is off to a roaring start…
- I discovered that I had completely missed the intent of the incident discussed in this post, and had to humble myself before readers of greater perception and dirtier minds.
- I got two emergency calls from clients, one of whom made me realize that a major state bar association is clinically insane.
- I confirmed that the Democrats really and truly are going to try to win the election by presenting Harris as a generic Democrat and making the only issue whether you hate and fear Donald Trump, or as Glenn Beck put it in a tweet,
They need you to hate Donald Trump more than inflation. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than open borders. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than fentanyl and drugs on our streets. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than our children being killed by illegals. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than the homelessness epidemic. They need you to hate Donald Trump more than the abortion cult of death. They need you to hate Donald Trump more than the possibility of nuclear war. That’s what a vote for Kamala Harris is actually about.
(I would have added “They need to you to hate Donald Trump more than single party rule by a cabal that embraces totalitarian values, Big Lies, unaccountable leadership, state-allied journalism, and public education centered on ideological indoctrination,” but Beck’s list is good enough to start with.)
- THIS (Pointer: JutGory)
- And I discovered that the credit monitoring company I pay for every month has been over-stating my credit score by 70 points, and makes it impossible to cancel a membership by phone or online.
Oh yeah, this is going to be a great day…
We have clearance, Clarence. Over to you…
I’m Sure It’s Just a Coincidence…
…that in an election year characterized by the Democratic Party deliberately misrepresenting reality on multiple fronts to keep Americans in the dark just long enough to hold on to the power it craves and has so flagrantly abused, we just learned that the U.S. added about 818,000 fewer jobs in the 12 months ending in March than we had been told.
From the New York Times yesterday:
[M]onthly payroll figures overstated job growth…That suggests employers added about 174,000 jobs per month during that period, down from the previously reported pace of about 242,000 jobs — a downward revision of about 28 percent. The revisions, which are preliminary, are part of an annual process in which monthly estimates, based on surveys, are reconciled with more accurate but less timely records from state unemployment offices. The new figures, once they’re made final, will be incorporated into official government employment statistics early next year.
The updated numbers are the latest sign of vulnerability in the job market, which until recently had appeared rock solid despite months of high interest rates and economists’ warnings of an impending recession…This year’s revision was unusually large. Over the previous decade, the annual updates had added or subtracted an average of about 173,000 jobs…
The updated numbers are the latest sign of vulnerability in the job market, which until recently had appeared rock solid despite months of high interest rates and economists’ warnings of an impending recession. More recent data, which wasn’t affected by the revisions, suggests job growth slowed further in the spring and summer, and the unemployment rate, though still relatively low at 4.3 percent, has been gradually rising…
Oh. Being good little Axis members, the Times dutifully throws in excuses, rationalizations and other devices of modern advocacy journalism propaganda to persuade readers that this news isn’t worth getting upset about and to stop them from suspecting that they are being treated like dupes. For instance…
More DEI Whac-A-Mole: This Time, It’s the ABA Getting Whacked
A sinister feature of the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion “good discrimination” conspiracy is that the participants know that what they are doing is unconstitutional in spirit, illegal in practice, divisive and unfair by traditional American values, and they go forward with it anyway until they are caught. Then they deny that they were doing what they were doing, change their policies, at least ostensibly, and wait for the next opportunity while other organization pursue their DEI schemes.
The idea is to overwhelm the opposition—that is, those who believe all discrimination on the basis of race, gender and ethnicity is unethical and that jobs, promotions, honors, advancements, privileges and admissions should be based on achievement and not subjective attempts at social engineering or compensatory reparations. Eventually, the strategy goes, “everybody does it” will kick in, and fighting the new social norm will be futile.
The latest institution completely corrupted by political bias to be caught playing DEI games is the august American Bar Association. As revealed by Paul Caron’s Tax Prof Blog, a controversial requirement for law school accreditation, Standard 206, which contained flaming DEI mandates like…
Ethics Quiz: The Brainwashed Democrat Friend
I have an old friend from my theater days who is, within his sphere, smart, knowledgeable and impressive. He is also as nice a guy as you could possibly meet. He sends me cards for no reason at all. He says expansively nice things about me on social media.
Yesterday, I saw this post by him on my Facebook feed:
“I’m so happy to see the momentum building for Kamala Harris. She’s overtaking Trump. And I hope this trend continues. She’s running a great campaign. She gives me hope for the future. And she’ll have a great team with her when she’s President. Trump’s racism, misogyny, narcissism, compulsive lying, and utter lack of character disqualify him. I suspect that in the coming months he’ll continue saying crazier and crazier things. And he won’t win new supporters that way.”
Your Ethics Quiz for the opening of the Democratic National Convention, which I’m sure would explode my head continuously if I were foolish enough to watch it which I am NOT, is….
What is the ethical response one can make, if any, to a good friend who innocently posts something so unequivocally ignorant and stupid?
From the Toxic Popular Culture Files: Smalls Cat Food
J.D. Vance’s much maligned “cat ladies” snark , like many furiously slammed comments by conservatives and Republicans are, may have focused attention on to a societal trend seriously threatening the health of American society. (If only he could have articulated it better.)
Lately I have been bombarded with TV ads for Smalls cat food. The promotions and commercials claim that it is “human grade” cat food, and why not, since the TV spots feature disturbed individuals male and female, not just proclaiming these animal companions as their surrogates for children, but literally stating that they are children. “He’s my son,” a young woman says in one ad, speaking of her cat. “She’s literally my baby!” says some guy, also talking about a feline “fur-baby.” Literally!
This would be funny in a mordant way if it were not so ominous. I can’t blame cat food companies for taking advantage of the apocalyptic collision of progressive anti-family attitudes in the U.S. and pet mania: so many people do come to regard a dog or a cat as cheaper, more predictable, less demanding equivalent of a child. What is disturbing about the Smalls commercials is that they represent this mindset as healthy and normal.
Note To CNN’s Race-Baiters: There Are So, So Many Reasons Not To Respect Kamala Harris…Stop Attributing It To Her Race
A conclave of fools, knaves and ethics dunces on a CNN panel illustrated how Democrats and the news media are going to try to elect Kamala Harris: keep the conversation entirely on vilifying her opposition and concentrating on irrelevant trivia…like how to pronounce her name.
It serves CNN’s purposes to feature the worst and the dimmest of Republicans whenever possible: this time its choice was Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina. She’s on my list of 25 most embarrassing members of Congress. Mace either set out to troll professional race-baiter Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson by intentionally mispronouncing Kamala Harris’s first name or got confused; first she said the name correctly (with the accent on the first syllable), then reversed herself and said it the way that apparently drives the woke crazy, with the accent on the second syllable. (I sometimes forget which is the right way myself—luckily I’m usually typing her name rather than saying it). Democratic strategist Keith Boykin corrected her, and Mace defiantly said, “I will say Kamala’s name any way that I want to.”
Unethical Quote of the Week: A Random Democrat Washington Post Reader
“Sick and tired of all this nonsense. She is a Democrat and will govern like a Democrat and that is good enough for me. Some polices will be a little too far left for a few and some will be a little too centrist for others, but you can guarantee that she will uphold democratic norms and try and govern to make the lives of ALL Americans better, whilst behaving with the decency becoming of the office. Everything else is just window dressing and noise.”
—A highly rated comment on the Washington Post article, “Harris’s policies have shifted and are still taking shape”.
I was torn whether to include the Post reader’s name or not. It’s public, so I could justify it, and I have focused on unethical commenters elsewhere before while using their names. This time, I decided that the individual doesn’t matter. It’s the message; it obviously is how lots of (unethical, ignorant, foolish) people think, and that’s what matters.
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