Greta Thunberg. Remember her? “How dare you go? How dare you!”
She&#8217;s a cretinous little dweeb with the brains of a kumquat. She always was, but we weren&#8217;t allowed to say it because she wasn&#8217;t a teen; she was a child. You can&#8217;t attack a child.
Well, she&#8217;s now been 18 for three years, so we can, indeed, say it.
She was trotted out for years as some sort of moral exemplar because she was under 18, and she mouthed nasty little platitudes about how her elders had ruined the world: “We will hold you accountable.” “How dare you!”
She was treated as a political Joan of Arc. The whole world trembled at her supposed moral superiority, as she called for the impoverishment of nearly all of humanity in the name of the Earth becoming incrementally warmer but slightly less quickly, supposedly.
In reality, Thunberg was always a child-sized Trojan Horse for anti-Western radicalism, socialism, and deindustrialization.
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Now the mask is off, and it&#8217;s instructive. On Thursday, Thunberg showed up in a protest in Malmo, Sweden. What was being protested? <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-singer-ordered-to-stay-in-her-hotel-as-thousands-of-pro-palestine-protesters-swarm-streets-outside" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A singer</a> for the Eurovision contest from Israel.
That singer&#8217;s name is Eden Golan, a 20-year-old young woman — younger than Greta Thunberg — who was just singing a song in a dumb contest they hold in Europe every year that&#8217;s similar to “American Idol.” Her song was called “Hurricane,” which is largely about the reaction of Israelis to the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7. 
And she was booed inside the hall. 
Golan’s presence drew thousands of people to protest, including Thunberg, who showed up wearing a keffiyeh, a symbol of solidarity with terrorism.
Thunberg showed up and explained how she was standing against destruction of the environment — and also the Jews, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250321318/in-sweden-tens-of-thousands-demonstrate-against-israel-participating-in-eurovisi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “Once again, young people are leading the way, showing the world how we should react to this.”
12,000 people showed up to yell about the Jews because a Jewish singer performed at an event in Sweden. It’s no surprise it happened in Malmo, which is about 25% Muslim.
In fact, if you flash back to 2022, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-pm-says-integration-immigrants-has-failed-fueled-gang-crime-2022-04-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported:</a> 
<blockquote>Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organised crime. Many Swedes were shocked earlier this month after violent riots left more than 100 police injured. The violence erupted after a Swedish-Danish politician burned the Quran at a rally and sought to hold more in several immigrant-dominated neighborhoods.</blockquote>
Radical Muslims are quite prevalent in Sweden, which is why Jews are not in Malmo. Malmo has basically become a no-go zone for Jews for a reason. One of the chants from the crowd was “Sinwar, we will not let you die,” a reference to Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, who planned the massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on October 7 and is currently hiding in terror tunnels, allegedly surrounded by 15 hostages in the hope that they will protect him from death.
These protesters want Sinwar to survive because they&#8217;re not just against the war in Gaza, they are in solidarity with Hamas.
That is who Thunberg was marching with.
The army of losers is very large in the West. It includes drag queens who go on BBC to explain they are canceling their Eurovision watch party in order to demonstrate solidarity with Hamas. 
These global losers are fans of Palestinian terrorism who cannot succeed in a meritocracy and emigrate en masse to Europe where they form entire population centers that do not participate in the Western system. They hate the system in which they are given welfare and education and in which they are largely unsuccessful; they are useless socialists who have performed zero service and public value their entire lives but are very angry at capitalism.
People like Greta Thunberg and people who feel marginalized because of their bizarre sexual fetishes and rage against a traditionalist machine are marching together in Malmo against — surprise!— the Jews.
But the Jews here are really just a stand-in for the West because these anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists believe that the Jews control the West. Their entire theory of the world is predicated on an evil belief that failure inherently means victimization, and that success inherently means exploitation.
And because the Jews are disproportionately successful, this means they are disproportionately exploitative. And the United States, according to an argument made by critical race theorists about white people, is where white people built the system for the benefit of whites, which is why whites are so darn successful.
The problem, of course, is that there are other groups that are very successful who are not white. Jews, historically not categorized as white, now have been included in that rubric.
If Jews are disproportionately successful, then they can certainly not be victims, this mob argues. Their argument is that Jews built the system for the benefit of the Jews, and so it&#8217;s perfectly appropriate to beat Jews in the streets or try to mob a Jewish singer on a continent where Jews were slaughtered by the millions a couple of generations ago.
After all, the system has to be destroyed.
This is an army of losers. Losers of the world, unite! That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re watching in Malmo. It&#8217;s what you&#8217;re watching on America&#8217;s college campuses. It&#8217;s what you&#8217;re watching in large precincts of the Democratic National Committee.
It&#8217;s an army of losers, a coalition of losers.
The Jews are just a convenient excuse — and they are just the tip of the spear.
This is the ugliest manifestation of hatred for the West.

Screenshot. Greta Thunberg in Sweden.

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From the perspective of the people running the government and the various public health authorities, one of the absolute worst things you can possibly do is remember what they told you five minutes ago. Particularly if you keep track of the most alarming things they say, then it&#8217;s very easy to realize that pretty much none of it is true.
Just four years ago, for instance, we were told repeatedly that COVID-19 was a &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.&#8221; The United Nations still has an <a href="https://www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communications-team/all-hands-deck-fight-once-lifetime-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> on its website that makes that exact declaration. It&#8217;s called, &#8220;All hands on deck to fight a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t written by some intern; the author was the U.N.&#8217;s Secretary-General. And he wasn&#8217;t the only one saying that, various peer-reviewed <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171815/#:~:text=COVID%2D19%20is%2C%20undoubtedly%2C,an%20unprecedented%20global%20health%20crisis." target="_blank" rel="noopener">papers</a> promoted by the N.I.H. made the same claim. So did the White House, where Jenn Psaki <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/11/23/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-secretary-of-energy-jennifer-granholm-november-23-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> during a press briefing that COVID was a, &#8220;once-in-a-century pandemic.&#8221;
All those pronouncements didn&#8217;t last long. We&#8217;re now less than six months away from another presidential election, and just in time, there&#8217;s a new &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime pandemic&#8221; on the horizon. Along with nationwide civil disorder, we&#8217;re getting another pathogen.
In fact, we&#8217;re told that this pandemic is going to be much deadlier than the last one. So all the old predictions were way off. It turns out COVID was a &#8220;twice-in-a-lifetime pandemic,&#8221; I guess.
Here&#8217;s the New York Post to explain:
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The reporter from the New York Post opens her report by saying that the bird flu could be &#8220;100 times worse&#8221; than COVID. But she doesn&#8217;t explain how she&#8217;s coming up with that number.
Later on in the video, she says that 52% of humans who have contracted bird flu since 2003 have died, while COVID only kills 0.1% of people it infects. That makes bird flu sound even more serious than &#8220;100 times&#8221; more dangerous. But it&#8217;s also using very old data. So the question remains: where exactly is the idea that bird flu could be &#8220;100 times worse than COVID&#8221; coming from?
If you dig around the New York Post&#8217;s article, you&#8217;ll find <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/04/us-news/bird-flu-pandemic-could-be-100-times-worse-than-covid-scientists-warn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this explanation</a>: 
<blockquote>John Fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant for vaccines and the founder of Canada-based BioNiagara &#8230; also expressed his concerns. &#8216;This appears to be 100 times worse than COVID — or it could be if it mutates and maintains its high case fatality rate,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Once it’s mutated to infect humans, we can only hope that the [fatality rate] drops.&#8217;</blockquote>
This is worse — or it could be. This is something — actually it’s not that thing, but it could be. Now, the Post is quoting from a Daily Mail interview, in which Fulton also <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12015805/Fresh-pandemic-fears-virologists-discover-bird-flu-spreads-efficiently-ferrets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>, 
<blockquote>This discovery is very concerning, and governments should take immediate action by seeking out and mobilizing all high-potential production capacity for vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of avian influenza H5N1. &#8230;&#8217;We need to sound the alarm bells to wake up our governments to the fact that there is a virus that is undergoing mutations that would/ could eventually allow it to become highly transmissible in human (mammals).</blockquote>
So, a guy named John Fulton says that if the bird flu mutates to spread easily among humans, then it could be 100 times worse than COVID. He says this is all very disturbing, and we need the government to help create (and presumably fund) more &#8220;vaccines and therapeutics.” The next time you get your COVID booster — if you’re one of the four people still doing that — you should make room on your arm for the Bird Flu vax. That’s the idea. Because of this quote, various news outlets, including the Post, have said that &#8220;experts&#8221; are warning about the existential threat posed by bird flu. And this guy is the primary source of this claim, as far as I can tell.
But John Fulton is not an expert in anything. According to his LinkedIn, he&#8217;s got a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrfulton/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_campaign=share_via&amp;utm_content=profile&amp;utm_medium=ios_app" target="_blank" rel="noopener">degree</a> in &#8220;corporate communications&#8221; from something called &#8220;Brock University&#8221; in Canada. He lists &#8220;social media&#8221; as one of his skills. So his qualifications are that he can use Instagram and Facebook. Essentially, he&#8217;s a salesman. And he currently consults on the side for something called &#8220;POP Biotechnologies,&#8221; which says on its website that it, &#8220;develops revolutionary therapies that expand treatment possibilities in cancer care and infectious disease prevention.&#8221; 
Where have we seen this before? When have we seen fake &#8220;experts&#8221; pretending to know what they talk about, as they raise the alarm about some catastrophic public health emergency — without disclosing their obvious conflicts of interest? 
It&#8217;s actually hard to believe the media is being this flagrant about the narrative this time. They&#8217;re not even getting a scientist to scare everyone. If you wanted to deliberately undermine people&#8217;s trust in public health — more than it&#8217;s already been undermined — then it&#8217;s hard to think of what you&#8217;d do differently. You&#8217;d do exactly what the media is doing now: You&#8217;d find some &#8220;social media expert&#8221; and get him to say something outrageous and terrifying, and then you&#8217;d pretend he knows what he&#8217;s talking about.
To be clear, I&#8217;m not saying that bird flu, or H5N1, definitely isn&#8217;t a threat. I&#8217;m not an expert on the topic anymore than John Fulton is. We&#8217;re both just guys giving our opinion. Unlike John Fulton, I&#8217;m happy to admit that.
What I am saying is that, right now — according to all of the available evidence we have — there&#8217;s no sign that the bird flu is any kind of significant threat to the public, or worthy of any real concern, or any of the blaring headlines it’s getting. There&#8217;s no evidence that it&#8217;s spreading between humans. There&#8217;s one farm worker somewhere who’s supposedly currently infected, and that&#8217;s it, as of now. The commercial milk and dairy supply is safe, according to a recent <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> of hundreds of random samples. And this tracks with how bird flu has behaved for decades; it <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/inhumans.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">typically</a> doesn&#8217;t infect people at all. There are no real signs that&#8217;s changing.
But here&#8217;s the key point. If that does change — if bird flu suddenly becomes infectious and starts killing humans, which could theoretically happen, because anything could happen — then there is no doubt about one thing: It will be a far deadlier pandemic than it would have been, if the public health establishment hadn&#8217;t lied to us for years about COVID. Public health authorities proved with COVID that we can’t trust anything they say. If there&#8217;s another &#8220;once in a lifetime pandemic” — an actual, real one — we&#8217;ll have no choice but to ignore them, or at best take them with a massive grain of salt. 
And of course, in turn, that will provide them with the pretense to use even more force than last time. In a way, their own flagrant untrustworthiness becomes a benefit to them. It guarantees we will defy them — because what other choice do we have? — which gives them the excuse to be authoritarians.
A year ago, the head of the World Health Organization delivered a speech about the &#8220;next pandemic,&#8221; which he said was inevitable. He made it clear that he understands very well that people will be hesitant to ever obey public health officials again. So to counteract that hesitancy — and to ensure &#8220;equity&#8221; — the head of the WHO insisted on &#8220;changes&#8221; that, &#8220;must be made.&#8221; Watch:
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&#8220;When the next pandemic comes knocking — and it will — we must be ready to answer decisively, collectively and equitably. And for enhanced international cooperation,&#8221; he says. There needs to be a &#8220;pandemic accord&#8221; to ensure that &#8220;the old cycle of panic and neglect&#8221; never happens again. Instead, he says, we need a &#8220;shared response&#8221; — directed, of course, by the WHO.
If you go and look up the &#8220;pandemic accord&#8221; on the WHO&#8217;s <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/pandemic-prevention--preparedness-and-response-accord" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, you&#8217;ll find that it&#8217;s intended to, &#8220;support global coordination through a stronger WHO.&#8221; Additionally, &#8220;At the heart of the proposed accord is the need to ensure equity in both access to the tools needed to prevent pandemics (including technologies like vaccines, personal protective equipment, information and expertise) and access to health care for all people.&#8221; 
If you&#8217;re a white guy, that&#8217;s all very bad news — especially if the extremely unlikely scenario really does play out where the bird flu somehow mutates and starts infecting people&#8217;s lungs. If they ever develop any treatment that works and won’t make you even sicker, you&#8217;re guaranteed to be last on the list. In any event, there&#8217;s no point in fretting about whether there will be another COVID-style pandemic, the WHO is saying. It&#8217;s inevitable.
This is a very far cry from the old lines we heard about how COVID was a &#8220;once in a century&#8221; or &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime&#8221; pandemic. The moment they realized COVID was over, the public health establishment stopped pretending that it was a rare event. Instead, they immediately got to work on preparing for the next pandemic. And already, with another presidential election rapidly approaching, some of the least impartial and least qualified people in the country desperately want us to believe that it is about to arrive.

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The ‘Experts’ Push Bird Flu As The Next Pandemic — Just In Time For The Election

The 'Experts' Push Bird Flu As The Next Pandemic — Just In Time For The Election

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Matt Walsh

Pandemic

There&#8217;s a very famous story about Joe Biden when he was a senator in the 1980’s.
In June 1982, Biden was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and he got into a clash with Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel.
Biden lectured Begin over Israeli settlements and threatened cutting off military aid for Israel’s offensive campaign in Lebanon, where Israel was fighting against arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Begin, whose father, mother, and brother were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, had moved to Israel, where he became an underground fighter against the British in an attempt to establish the State of Israel. He turned to Biden and <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/menachem-begin-warned-us-about-joe-biden/#:~:text=Don't%20threaten%20us%20with,the%20gas%20chambers%20and%20ovens." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>:
<blockquote>Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles. I’m not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.</blockquote>
Now, this story is not about Menachem Begin. This story is about Joe Biden. Biden is a coward. He is an atrocious voice when it comes to foreign policy, and he always has been. There&#8217;s a reason that former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Biden had never been correct on foreign policy in his entire life.
That is true. Biden has a unique capacity to screw up when it comes to foreign policy. He is weak-kneed. In fact, he is so weak that he brags about being the only member of the Obama administration to oppose the Osama bin Laden raid. That&#8217;s how weak Joe Biden is.
Now, Joe Biden is showing his neck to Hamas.
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On Wednesday, Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett that the United States would deny Israel offensive weaponry if Israel went into the “populated areas” of Rafah. He decided unilaterally that in violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, he is simply going to hold up the shipments of weaponry to Israel over disagreements with how Israel is prosecuting the war.
Israel has been attempting to move civilians out of Rafah so they can move in and kill terrorists in Rafah. And Biden has opposed that. Biden’s new math is that the United States will undercut our own democratic allies if terrorists take the most terroristic action, which is to hide behind civilians. He is now creating a full-scale incentive structure for terrorists to hide among civilians because now they are safe from any sort of retaliation.
The weapons he wants to deny to Israel are targeted weapons, the kinds of weapons that minimize civilian casualties, which will force Israel to use non-targeted weapons, meaning more civilian casualties.
That’s an unjustifiable act on every possible level: moral, political, and pragmatic. And none of it makes any sense on the moral level.
Hamas is a terrorist group that is currently holding five Americans. Five Americans are being held in terror tunnels by Yahya Sinwar and his group of barbaric thugs.
Biden doesn&#8217;t mention their names very often. He will talk about Brittney Griner until the cows come home, but when it comes to five Americans who happen to be Jewish who are being held by Hamas in terror tunnels, he won&#8217;t mention their names: Edan Alexander, 19; Omer Neutra, 22; Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35; and Keith Siegel, 64.
Biden will take the occasional photo op with their relatives and pretend he&#8217;s going to stand by them. But he’s not standing by anybody. He does not give two good damns about any one of those people.
Biden attempting to preserve Hamas in Rafah is also political malpractice. The American people do not like Hamas. They would like to see Israel finish this. The American people are tired of watching this war go on. What America likes are wars that are short, wars that are victorious.
And those are things Joe Biden has never been involved in.
What Biden is doing right now is the least pragmatic move I&#8217;ve ever seen a politician make with foreign policy. He has created an entire incentive structure for Hamas to walk away from the table. He has created an incentive structure for Hezbollah to get into a war with Israel. He has created an incentive structure where if Israel goes into Rafah, more civilians will die.
Biden is showing daylight between Israel and the United States. The terrorist group Hezbollah might well think, “If we open up on the northern front, the United States won&#8217;t resupply Israel.” Iran will get more aggressive. And of course, Hamas will walk away from the negotiating table.
Biden is now playing defense for Hamas. Make no mistake, he has sided with Hamas in this conflict.
There&#8217;s only one predictable result of this, and that is the maintenance of Hamas as a political power and military force in Gaza. There are four brigades of commands, about 8,000 Hamas combat soldiers who are still in Rafah, and Biden is keeping them alive. 
Joe Biden is ensuring they will walk out of the tunnels, heads held high at some point, release no hostages, and declare victory.
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It&#8217;s an insane decision for the United States. It is in the interest of the United States for our allies to wreck terror groups, particularly terror groups who are currently holding Americans hostage. It is in the interest of the United States for Israel to demonstrate strength in a region that only respects strength. 
But the most morally disgusting thing Biden did is this: The real reason Biden said nothing until Wednesday night, even though rumors for days had warned he would cut off aid, is that he didn&#8217;t want to announce he was cutting off the State of Israel at the knees until after he paid lip service and shed some crocodile tears about the Holocaust at a speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On Tuesday night, Biden spoke about how the Holocaust was incredibly important, how it should never happen again, and how he would stand by the State of Israel.
He wanted to get past that speech and then deprive Israel of the capacity to destroy a genocidal, Nazi-like terror group that wants all Jews dead.
Joe Biden is a vile moral coward.

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The Public School System Is Covering Up A Massive Sex Abuse Scandal

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The court in New York is currently trying Donald Trump on charges that are completely specious — charges that, effectively speaking, he paid off Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election for electoral purposes as opposed to personal purposes, charges that have not been sustained by any sort of federal criminal prosecution against Trump.
What is all that really about?
What it’s about is humiliating Donald Trump.
I don&#8217;t know why Democrats seem to think this is going to affect Trump in any way, shape, or form. Trump has been part of the seamier side of American politics and business for decades. There&#8217;s a reason he was in a tape for Playboy. There is a reason he was seen as a Studio 54 guy for years and years.
It&#8217;s not as though Trump has led the most pristine sexual life. And no one at this point is surprised by any of the allegations that were made in court yesterday.
But that did not stop Democrats from dragging Stormy Daniels into court. She is the heroine of the Republic because, as it turns out, all it takes to be a heroine in American life now is to be a porn star who has sex with a married man and then effectively blackmails that married man for money.
And then, when the deal fell through, Daniels decided to go public with all of that to harm him.
That is what heroism truly is, so long as that married man is a Republican. If the married man is a Democrat, as we all know, it&#8217;s time to wreck the woman. If that married man is Bill Clinton, then it&#8217;s time to completely wreck Monica Lewinsky’s life. That is how this works.
All of this came to a head yesterday.
Prior to going into court yesterday, Trump suggested all of this was coming out of the “crooked Biden White House.” The orders may not have come directly from the White House, but it is very clear that Democrats in the city of New York have decided they are going to engage in electoral interference. That&#8217;s what this stupid case is.
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Trump went into the courtroom where the judge, who is absolutely oriented against Trump at this particular trial, decided to allow the testimony of Stormy Daniels.
To be extremely clear, there is no legal reason Stormy Daniels had to testify. She brought nothing useful to the court. There was no reason whatsoever for her to be in the courtroom. Whether or not she had sex with Trump is completely irrelevant to the charges that are being brought because they are about whether he — via his lawyer Michael Cohen — paid her off prior to the election and then reimbursed Cohen after the election, and whether it was a campaign finance expense as opposed to a personal payoff designed to quash the rumors so as not to bother his wife, Melania.
The case the defense is making is that this is the kind of payment that is constantly made in American life. It can&#8217;t just be pinned on the election.
The case the prosecution is trying to make is that this was all about stealing the 2016 election by silencing Daniels, as though any of the Daniels material coming out prior to the 2016 election would have saved Hillary Clinton, which we know is not the truth because there was a tape of Trump talking about grabbing women by their genitals and he still won. You think a tryst with a porn star would have changed the outcome in 2016?
Daniels talked about her sexual tryst with Trump in 2006. Now, you may be asking yourself, isn&#8217;t the year 2024? Wasn&#8217;t this affair almost two decades ago? What the hell are we talking about Trump&#8217;s 2006 sex life for?
That&#8217;s because you&#8217;re a rational human being. We&#8217;re talking about Trump&#8217;s 2006 sex life because the Democrats need some hook to hang their hat on to claim he&#8217;s a convicted felon. They charged him with 34 counts of felony campaign finance violation in the city of New York.
The plan was to get Stormy Daniels in the room saying shameful things about Donald Trump.
This whole thing was a put-up job. It was all designed so Daniels could unspool this bizarre story about the one time she slept with the future president, the time she spanked him with a rolled up magazine.
Her original story was that they had this awkward encounter she didn&#8217;t really enjoy, but she didn&#8217;t say no. Now, she treats it as though it&#8217;s a quasi-rape.
During her testimony, Daniels <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/07/stormy-daniels-testimony-trump-hush-money-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “I was staring at the ceiling. I didn’t know how I got there.”
Really? She went up to his room and then didn&#8217;t say no as he had sex with her. She has had sex with people on camera for a living. This was not her first rodeo.
The attempt to turn Daniels into a resistance hero is quite pathetic. It&#8217;s designed to be a laugh line for the Left wing, which is why journalists spent the day guffawing at Trump.
I&#8217;m going to put it out there as a warning to people on the Left laughing at Donald Trump: The last time you laughed at Donald Trump, when Barack Obama made a joke about him at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump got angry, ran for president, and became president.
So good luck with the laughter.
If this is the best the Democrats have, they ain&#8217;t got nothing.

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If you&#8217;ve ever worked in some capacity on procuring a federal government contract, then you&#8217;re familiar with maybe the single most obvious and grotesque <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-contracting-is-the-next-dei-target-race-affirmative-action-supreme-court-ca60eaf4?st=567k88x0e9wat4y&amp;reflink=article_gmail_share">form</a> of affirmative action that exists in this country.
It&#8217;s been around for a long time. As far back as Nixon&#8217;s administration, gender and racial affirmative action became mandatory for federal construction projects in the city of Philadelphia. Any federal contractor that hired fewer than 80% of the local share of “any race, sex, or ethnic group” risked losing their contract — and being barred from working with the federal government entirely. Within a year, those requirements applied to contracts with all federal agencies, nationwide.
As an attorney named Michael Toth <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-contracting-is-the-next-dei-target-race-affirmative-action-supreme-court-ca60eaf4?st=567k88x0e9wat4y&amp;reflink=article_gmail_share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> recently in the Wall Street Journal, those rules are still in place today, half a century later. In fact, they&#8217;ve only expanded in scope. Now the federal government can <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/welcome-to-the-world-of-minority-contracting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">award</a> no-bid contracts to so-called &#8220;minority-owned&#8221; businesses in many cases.
The end result of this policy has been exactly what you&#8217;d expect. For one thing, contractors know that they need to employ a token number of women and minorities in order to get any kind of government grants. Additionally, so-called &#8220;minority-owned&#8221; contractors often get government contracts, and then subcontract them out to contractors who didn&#8217;t meet the diversity quota.
This is all highly inefficient — it&#8217;s fraud, basically — and it&#8217;s resulted in taxpayers being forced to waste a lot of money. As City Journal reported recently, some government projects <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/welcome-to-the-world-of-minority-contracting">cost</a> nearly 20% more than they would have without these affirmative action programs. Multiply that by hundreds of billions of dollars&#8217; worth of federal government contracts every year, and you begin to see the problem.
Instead of ending this social engineering, and simply allowing markets to work without crude demographic manipulation, the Biden administration&#8217;s allies in state and local governments are doubling down. They&#8217;ve decided that they know exactly what the demographic makeup of each industry should be — and it just so happens that white men aren&#8217;t wanted in any industry.
I&#8217;ll start with Maine, where this week, Democrats have determined that the field of construction — where blacks and hispanics make up nearly 40% of the workforce — simply isn&#8217;t diverse enough. Specifically, the governor, Janet Mills, has determined that more women need to be construction workers. And therefore, Mills has signed an executive order that, among other things, will use state and federal funding to prioritize construction projects that involve women. Watch:
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&#8220;We need construction workers, especially women, now.&#8221; Why? Why especially women? This is odd coming from Janet Mills, who spent her college years traveling through Europe and learning French, before going to law school and spending the rest of her life in government. What does Janet Mills know about construction, exactly? How is she qualified to say anything about what the construction industry needs, or who’s most qualified to fill those needs?
As always, this DEI initiative is a solution in search of a problem. There is absolutely no reason to believe and not a single shred of evidence to suggest that the construction industry was in any way suffering due to a lack of female representation. There isn’t one problem in the construction industry that you can point to and say: “You know what will solve that? More women!” That’s because no problems can be solved by involving more females in construction. And on top of that, there is no evidence at all that any qualified female has ever been denied a job in construction due to her sex. By all accounts, fewer women are in construction for two simple reasons: First because most women don&#8217;t want to do construction. And second because men are generally much better at it.
Of course, it&#8217;s completely rational for women to dislike the idea of working in construction. It&#8217;s one of the most <a href="https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1787885252847013976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dangerous</a> jobs you can have.
<div id="attachment_734755" style="width: 721px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-734755" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-734755 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-711x576.jpg" alt="Source: bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. AEI." width="711" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-711x576.jpg 711w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-300x243.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-768x622.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px" />Source: bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. AEI.</div>
As you can see from this chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it&#8217;s among the top 20 most dangerous jobs, along with roofers, police officers, truck drivers, miners, farmers and ranchers. And you&#8217;ll never guess what all of these top-20 most dangerous jobs in America have in common. They&#8217;re all overwhelmingly done by men. Construction is more than 97% male-dominated, and it has a fatal injury rate of 15 per 100,000 workers. That&#8217;s on par with cement and concrete manufacturing, which is also more than 97% male-dominated.
These jobs can be very dangerous — and in fact would be even more dangerous for women.
That’s not just because women are weaker and more injury prone — though they are. It’s also because a large percentage of the deaths on construction sites are caused at least in part by heat exhaustion. It just so happens that women are more sensitive to temperatures — both hot and cold. Any married man is very familiar with this phenomenon. One minute your wife is complaining that she’s freezing to death, you adjust the thermostat by one degree, and now she insists that the house is a sweltering desert.
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So that is just one of the reasons why men tend to do most of the physically demanding jobs outside. Men tend to do most of the physically demanding and dangerous jobs everywhere. This is not a privilege that men have but rather a responsibility they carry. The takeaway from this shouldn’t be that we need more women doing these jobs. It&#8217;s that men (and white men in particular, historically) have had a unique and essential role in building and maintaining our civilization. We would not have this civilization without them.
Rather than this constant drumbeat of scolding and lecturing and guilt and resentment — and treating the presence of this group as a problem that must be solved or a cancer that must be treated — the appropriate attitude is one of appreciation and gratitude. Men built every building you’ve ever been in, every bridge you’ve ever crossed, every road you’ve ever driven on. Sure, if you’re a bitter, resentful little brat, maybe that fact will make you feel somehow diminished. But if you’re a smart, mature, decent person, instead of demanding that we kick men out of these industries, you will instead have some gratitude. You will say, “Thank you men. Thank you for everything you’d done for civilization, and for me personally.” That should be our answer to the Janet Mills of the world. Rather than going on the defensive and justifying ourselves, men as a group should say to her: “Hey you ungrateful child. The correct response is thank you. Didn’t your parents teach you manners?”
This same logic applies to race as well. These days, of course, as noted, it’s not just white men in the construction industry. But historically speaking white men have been uniquely indispensable contributors to western civilization. Most modern technology was invented by white men. Most of the great discoveries were made by white men. Most of our wars were fought and won predominately by white men. Most of the advances in medicine and science have been achieved by white men. Most of the great leaders, artists, thinkers, and philosophers in western history have been white men. And yet this is the one group most demonized — most hated for the sin of providing us with so much of what we value. A sane society would be finding ways to get this group more involved in things, given its incredible track record. Instead we go the other way.
Outside of communist countries, modern western societies are the only ones in the history of the world that go out of their way to identify the people most responsible for building and maintaining their societies — only to villainize and alienate those same people.
And we&#8217;re doing it more and more. This isn&#8217;t just happening in the federal government or in Maine. It&#8217;s also happening in the most populated city in the United States. Officials in New York have just proudly announced that they&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-jfk-airport-construction-sets-record-mwbe-participation-23-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded</a> more than $2 billion in contracts for the purposes of renovating JFK Airport. And all of that money has gone to so-called &#8220;MWBE&#8217;s,&#8221; which is short for &#8220;Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises.&#8221; 
As the governor&#8217;s <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-jfk-airport-construction-sets-record-mwbe-participation-23-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release reads</a>: &#8220;This is the largest participation of MWBE firms on any public-private partnership project in New York State history. &#8230; With today’s announcement JFK surpasses the LaGuardia Airport redevelopment, which set the previous New York State record for MWBE participation.&#8221;
In other words, no one wanted reparations. Even in New York, it wasn&#8217;t a popular idea. So the state government just decided to do it anyway by handing out money on the basis of race and gender. They&#8217;ve chosen airports as their preferred vehicle to launder this money, evidently.
If you watch the New York Port Authority&#8217;s press conference announcing this funding for the JFK renovation, you&#8217;ll see exactly what&#8217;s motivating these officials. It&#8217;s basically an hour of various New York officials, including a sitting member of Congress, celebrating the fact that they excluded white-owned businesses from receiving taxpayer funding. Here&#8217;s how it began:
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This is the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announcing — to applause — that JFK&#8217;s renovation involved as few white men as possible. He&#8217;s not proud of the quality of the renovation. He doesn&#8217;t talk about how the airport is going to be better as a result of this work. Instead, he&#8217;s just happy white people didn&#8217;t have a role in it. Never mind the fact that white people — white men, specifically — have pretty much single handedly built the entire aviation industry, beginning with inventing the airplane. Now we need to get them all out, for some reason.
And then he goes on to explain that the government did everything it could to ensure that non-white people secured the government contracts for JFK, by preparing specialized, segregated &#8220;boot camps&#8221; to help them along in the application process. So he&#8217;s acknowledging that this was not a remotely fair or merit-driven process at any point. It was the purest form of affirmative action. He&#8217;s not celebrating that these minority businesses earned the job; he&#8217;s celebrating that the government rigged the process.
This is illegal, obviously, and it gets worse. Here&#8217;s Congressman Gregory Meeks explaining why it was so important to discriminate against white male contractors:
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The congressman says it&#8217;s important for racial and gender discrimination (in the form of DEI) to be a part of everything New York does, but he doesn&#8217;t really say why. He gets some applause when he says it&#8217;s good for &#8220;business,&#8221; but he doesn&#8217;t elaborate on that point.
That&#8217;s probably because, as I&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imLMG7C6oF4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> before, it&#8217;s demonstrably false that DEI is good for business. The only time DEI is good for business is if you&#8217;re a non-white business and you&#8217;re looking to get a government payout. In that case, DEI is good for business. For everyone else, it&#8217;s a massive economic drain at a minimum. It&#8217;s probably also a safety risk.
Even if racial discrimination were somehow profitable, that still wouldn&#8217;t justify it. And it&#8217;s pretty remarkable that a sitting member of Congress would imply otherwise. Only a deep-seated hatred of white men would explain what we&#8217;re seeing here. As if there was any doubt about that, the next speaker at this press conference — a New York assemblymember named Alicia Hyndman — came right out and admitted that, yes, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on. Watch:
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So, the woman can&#8217;t figure out how Zoom works, apparently, but she&#8217;s in charge of renovating the airport because, with apologies to white people, the airport isn&#8217;t for them anymore. It&#8217;s for people who look like Alicia Hyndman now: &#8220;We knew it was for us. For us, by us, to make sure this community that we represent looks like us.&#8221;
To be clear, she&#8217;s talking about an airport. This is a public facility that isn&#8217;t &#8220;for&#8221; or &#8220;by&#8221; any racial group. And Alicia Hyndman is a public official. She supposedly represents a &#8220;community&#8221; that includes white people. But here she is, proudly declaring that the airport is &#8220;for&#8221; black people. And her &#8220;community&#8221; doesn&#8217;t include people who don&#8217;t &#8220;look like&#8221; her.
So white men don&#8217;t get to build airports anymore. The airports aren&#8217;t for them. Neither are construction jobs. You have to wonder what, if anything, these politicians want white men to do. Should they ever receive any funding from the government? Should they be allowed to compete for government contracts on a fair and equal playing field? Should would white men build, maintain, and run their own airport? I’d be quite happy to use that airport, personally. I think most people would be.
Really, though, everyone knows what’s happening here. Her goal, and the goal of her party, isn&#8217;t simply to erase white men from history. Their goal is to erase white men from the workforce, as punishment for doing everything so well, for so long. This isn&#8217;t a secret at this point. As conservatives spend all their time talking about college campuses, their enemies are being very methodical and explicit about what they&#8217;re doing — one airport renovation and construction job at a time.

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White Men Deserve Gratitude, Not Demonization

Construction

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Equity

Farmers

Race

Steel workers

Women

The Met Gala happened on Monday night.
Every single year, the Met Gala is a display straight from Panem in “The Hunger Games.” People dress in idiotic costumes. It is the height of culture, with people who are showing “fashion” to the rest of society, which usually means androgyny. People dress like shower curtains and all of the rest.
But there was something that was kind of fascinating about this year&#8217;s Met Gala, and that was the theme, which was “Garden of Time.” It was based on a 1962 short story by an author named J.G. Ballard, who considered himself a political moderate.
The story of “Garden of Time” is about a couple stuck in the past. They play Mozart, they dress in very fancy outfits, and they live in a walled garden estate.
Across the horizon they can see a mob approaching. In order to stop the mob, they use flowers from a magical garden. They can snip off flowers from this magical garden and essentially pause the mob and its attempts to take over the mansion and destroy everything. But the garden is decreasing in the number of flowers it has; it has a set number of flowers, and the worse things go, the more flowers have to get snipped off.
At the end of the story, the couple turn into statues and the mansion is overrun. A segment from the short story <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7WjfAwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA142&amp;lpg=PA142&amp;dq=As+the+Mozart+chimed+delicately+around+him,+flowing+from+his+wife%E2%80%99s+graceful+hands,+he+saw+that+the+advance+column+of+an+enormous+army+was+moving+slowly+over+the+horizon.+At+first+glance,+the+long+ranks+seemed+to+be+progressing+in+orderly+lines,+but+on+closer+inspection,+it+was+apparent+that,+like+the+obscured+detail+of+a+Goya+landscape,+the+army+was+composed+of+a+vast+throng+of+people,+men+and+women,+interspersed+with+a+few+soldiers+in+ragged+uniforms,+pressing+forward+in+a+disorganized+tide&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=REgDqpRXRM&amp;sig=ACfU3U1oKzWQGA25e2AuI6Tef-S4k11T9w&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjywvLEj_yFAxVi_8kDHSqhCkcQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=As%20the%20Mozart%20chimed%20delicately%20around%20him%2C%20flowing%20from%20his%20wife%E2%80%99s%20graceful%20hands%2C%20he%20saw%20that%20the%20advance%20column%20of%20an%20enormous%20army%20was%20moving%20slowly%20over%20the%20horizon.%20At%20first%20glance%2C%20the%20long%20ranks%20seemed%20to%20be%20progressing%20in%20orderly%20lines%2C%20but%20on%20closer%20inspection%2C%20it%20was%20apparent%20that%2C%20like%20the%20obscured%20detail%20of%20a%20Goya%20landscape%2C%20the%20army%20was%20composed%20of%20a%20vast%20throng%20of%20people%2C%20men%20and%20women%2C%20interspersed%20with%20a%20few%20soldiers%20in%20ragged%20uniforms%2C%20pressing%20forward%20in%20a%20disorganized%20tide&amp;f=false">reads</a>, “As the Mozart chimed delicately around him, flowing from his wife’s graceful hands, he saw that the advance column of an enormous army was moving slowly over the horizon. At first glance, the long ranks seemed to be progressing in orderly lines, but on closer inspection, it was apparent that, like the obscured detail of a Goya landscape, the army was composed of a vast throng of people, men and women, interspersed with a few soldiers in ragged uniforms, pressing forward in a disorganized tide.”
In this short story, the mob isn&#8217;t good. The mob is just the mob. The people who wall themselves off from humanity are not necessarily good either, but at least they&#8217;re cultured. At least these people like Mozart. They express love for one another. They have a solid marriage, but eventually, they end up being overrun.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1959-revolution-outside-the-met-gala-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
I&#8217;m not sure if the people who read this story or the people who decided on the theme at the Met Gala simply misinterpreted the story completely, thinking it to be about the fragility of nature — because it clearly is not. It is really about elite versus mob rule and the inability to bridge that gap.
That was really the story last night, not just because of the celebrity morons who put on exceptionally expensive outfits they will wear once to show off for the cameras, but also because right outside, there was a braying pro-Hamas anti-American mob.
And that juxtaposition is pretty telling about where we are in Western civilization right now.
The mob was knocking down barricades in an attempt to storm the Met Gala to make their point, which is generally anti-American. They don&#8217;t like the civilization in which they live.
The difference between the short story “Garden of Time” and last night’s Met Gala is that in the short story, the elites are actually opposed to the values of the mob. They listen to Mozart. They are very delicate in their sensibilities.
But the people who are now our celebrities are people who sympathize with the protesters, who clap for the protesters, who march for the protesters. 
Why do they do that?
Because they believe they can co-opt them. This is also true of the leaders of the Democratic Party. This is why they refuse to dissociate from the anti-American protesters on college campuses.
They believe they can co-opt the mob. They believe if they can grab the reins of that runaway carriage, then they can somehow direct it in a direction they wish to go. That if they can re-channel that river of human sentiment and anger, they can direct it across the landscape in a way they wish to control.
They are wrong, and the revolution is going to eat them because the revolution always eats its own. It always eats the people who try to control the revolution.
For the people who are the heads of the Democratic Party, there is always a payoff involved. The payoff was always: If we give you part of what you want, then you will allow us to maintain control.
This has been true throughout the Democratic Party&#8217;s attempts to rule over the mob. It&#8217;s been true since the 1930s when the Democratic Party was attempting to channel social outrage at American capitalism toward the New Deal. It was true in the 1960s and 1970s when the Democratic Party was trying to channel outrage about the Vietnam War and civil rights, and the sexual revolution into their own program.
And it is true now when the Democratic Party is trying to channel the rage of the Black Lives Matter mob or the mass mob into electoral victory. There&#8217;s always the attempt: If we give you half of what you want, maybe you&#8217;ll vote for us and keep giving us the power.
The problem is, very often the mob is just wrong, which is something our Founding Fathers knew and why they did not like mob rule. That&#8217;s why the Founding Fathers built checks and balances into the American government.
Ever wonder why the Founding Fathers weren&#8217;t in favor of pure democracy? The answer is if there&#8217;s one thing they feared more than oligarchy, it was mob rule. They talk about it routinely in the Federalist Papers and in all their letters to one another.
They were not wrong because it turns out that mob rule is actually a terrible form of tyranny.
But the Democratic Party has attempted to channel this mob rule, and they&#8217;ve done so in part through economic payoffs. The bargain of the New Deal and of the Great Society programs of LBJ was: If we give you other people&#8217;s money, then you will allow us to maintain control of this runaway carriage.
LBJ described it as much in the 1960s, suggesting that all of the giant government programs were a sop to the revolutionary wing of his own party. If you paid them off enough, maybe they&#8217;d be quiet and support you when they go to the ballot box.
So the question becomes, what do you do with this mob? It turns out, when the elites play an inside/outside game with the mob, the mob eventually eats them.
In order to keep the mob going, which is what so many politicians and elites need in order to maintain power, they have to keep lying to them and teaching them lies and embedding those lies in every aspect of our educational system, which is what you are seeing coming to fruition right now.
When you decide to teach the mob that American systems are inherently racist and the West is inherently bad, what you get in the West is a crisis of the mob, and that mob has been created by an elite set of institutions that have been thoroughly taken over by people who despise the West and trained the mob in a particular way so they could channel them against the system itself.
And that is why there is such a lack of moral clarity in the West: No understanding of what values the West stands for, or even more  importantly, what the West’s enemies stand for.

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Revolution Outside The Met Gala

Activists

Democrats

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Protesters

Every year I&#8217;m confronted with the decision of whether to talk about the Met Gala. And it can be a tough decision if I&#8217;m being totally honest. 
On one hand, it&#8217;s always easy to point and laugh at rich Leftists wearing weird costumes and making fools out of themselves. On the other hand, it&#8217;s gotten way too easy to do. 
As far as celebrity freak shows go, the Met Gala is sort of like the Oscars at this point. Its &#8220;unpredictability&#8221; is now cliche. Its zaniness is now boring. Unless mayhem breaks out — say, an actor slaps the presenter live on-stage or something like that — then the truth is, no one really cares about any of these events anymore. In fact, I’m still not even sure what the Met Gala is. All I know is that the celebrities dress strangely and then go into a big museum. What do they do inside the museum? Is there some kind of award ceremony? Is it a dance — like celebrity prom or something? Do they sacrifice a live goat and drink its blood while chanting satanic curses? Is it some combination of these things? 
Nobody knows for sure. And most of all, nobody cares.
Fortunately, something interesting did happen at the Met Gala last night — or at least outside of it. Mobs of pro-Palestine demonstrators, apparently bored of their tent cities on college campuses, slowly marched through Manhattan towards the Met. And when they arrived, they tore down the police barricades and flooded the street. Watch: 
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That’s what she wore to the Met Gala, while riots raged outside, in a clash of poor commies versus rich commies, as Peachy Keenan put it. These riots should also bring to mind some immediate logistical considerations that the Democratic Party now has to think about. For one thing, it&#8217;s safe to say that planning for the Democratic National Convention is going through some last-minute revisions right about now. Just imagine being in charge of security for the DNC. You&#8217;re going to need bigger barricades than they had at the Met. And probably a lot more cops.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1363-the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
But more barricades and cops won&#8217;t fix the underlying problem that the Democratic Party has created here. There&#8217;s now a full-on uprising on the Left against the elitism that Democrats have long embraced — and the media is getting involved, too. Yahoo, for example, has already turned on the Met Gala. They just published a piece <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/met-gala-opulence-always-gross-083100100.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaring</a>, &#8220;The Met Gala’s Opulence Is Always Gross. This Year, It’s Obscene.&#8221; 
The whole article is a rant that hits a crescendo with this paragraph, which is probably the single-longest run-on sentence I&#8217;ve ever seen in my entire life. <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/met-gala-opulence-always-gross-083100100.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here it is</a>:
<blockquote>Even in an era filled with the horrors of late-stage capitalism run amok—bipartisan support for genocide; rolling back of reproductive, civil, and voting rights; a threadbare social safety net; decades of wage stagnation; tax cuts for the the rich; the crushing of unions and labor rights; expansion of the militarized police surveillance state; creeping techno-authoritarianism; untested, unregulated, and unchecked A.I.; entrenched racial inequality and injustice; right-wing and white supremacist extremist violence; and Boeing jet parts falling from the sky like so many dead whistleblowers—that kind of frivolous urgency promises that this year’s event nonetheless will stand out as a vainglorious display of self-congratulatory decadence and tone-deaf extravagance.</blockquote>
First of all, just as a stylistic matter — if you&#8217;re going to make a sentence that long, it needs to be coherent. &#8220;Boeing jet parts are falling from the sky like so many dead whistleblowers?&#8221; That doesn&#8217;t even make sense. The dead whistleblowers didn&#8217;t fall from the sky. One of them shot himself and the other died of an illness. Even if you subscribe to the theory that Boeing&#8217;s hitmen killed these whistleblowers — which, who knows, maybe they did — the fact remains that they didn&#8217;t fall from the sky. They died on the ground. So it just doesn&#8217;t work. This is the problem you get into with 100-word sentences. Eventually, you just lose track of what you&#8217;re saying.
In any event, that whole massive paragraph could be summed up as saying simply, &#8220;We&#8217;re living through late-stage capitalism right now.&#8221; That&#8217;s what the Left-wing media is saying. They used to celebrate the Met Gala, but not anymore. Now they&#8217;re saying the same thing the demonstrators are, which is that the frivolous elite are partying while Rome burns. And they&#8217;re furious about it.
What the media and these demonstrators don&#8217;t want to admit is that the elitists at this gala — all the celebrities who are dressed like slutty Star Wars villains — are on their team. The celebrities are part of the ruling class. The protesters and media critics are its products and in some cases quite literally its offspring. To be sure, the celebrities and college administrators and the politicians are reluctant to acknowledge that their own Frankenstein monster is turning against them. But that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening. 
Remember that it was two years ago that AOC showed up to the Met Gala with a &#8220;Tax the Rich&#8221; gown. There were a bunch of sympathetic news stories highlighting her bravery at the time. Here&#8217;s how AOC justified showing up to an event that costs $300,000 per table — while equipped with a custom dress, handbag, shoes and jewelry costing more than $2,000. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a really important conversation, AOC says. Some people aren&#8217;t ready to hear it, but we need to punish rich people. We need to make them as uncomfortable as possible. We need to steal their money. That was the message from AOC, who not incidentally, grew up in a very well-off suburb.
Her whole schtick was always hypocritical and disingenuous. But it turns out that Leftist activists were listening to her rhetoric, they were taking it seriously. We&#8217;ve seen this a lot lately. When Chuck Schumer threatened Supreme Court justices, Leftists showed up at the justices&#8217; homes. When the White House claimed that &#8220;trans kids&#8221; were being abused, a Leftist shot and killed Christians. When Democrats <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/24/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-israel-gaza-genocide-cnntv/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Israel of &#8220;genocide,&#8221; college students occupied university buildings. Now, two years after AOC attacked the Met, leftist are gathering outside the building.
This is the escalation that Democrats have primed this country for. It&#8217;s now in progress, whether Democrats intended it to happen or not. But that&#8217;s not to say the ruling elites are going to roll over and let this happen. As you saw in that footage, the cops started making arrests the very second that protestors trespassed through the barricades in front of the Met.
When these people set up encampments on college campuses, they were given a few days before the cops moved in. When they looted and burned poor neighborhoods, they were given about three months. But when they showed up at the Met Gala, they were given three seconds before the arrests started. It really shows you how the hierarchy works.
Democrats can&#8217;t protect the rest of the country from these mobs, however. Nor do they intend to. So last night, in addition to creating a scene at the Met Gala, Leftists also vandalized a World War I memorial in New York and torched an American flag in front of it. Watch:
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Notice what kinds of illegal demonstrations the police will stop, and which demonstrations they&#8217;ll allow to continue. The mob can deface World War I memorials all they want because in doing so, they&#8217;re communicating their hatred for this country and everything it stands for. So the Democrats who run New York aren&#8217;t going to stop them. But the mob isn&#8217;t allowed to inconvenience celebrities at the Met, under any circumstances.
We’ll talk more about the vandalism of the memorial in a bit. The point is that this is the hierarchy that Democrats clearly want to enforce. The trouble is getting the mob to respect the hierarchy. The Democrats are having trouble with that at the moment.
Yet they still seem oblivious — or are acting oblivious, at least — to the fact that they created this monster themselves.
That&#8217;s why, inside the Met, as chaos unfolded outside, the party continued uninterrupted. And so did all of this associated weirdness, which was as off-putting as it&#8217;s ever been. Take for example this decoy <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1400805/find-out-who-was-hiding-under-an-umbrella-at-the-2024-met-gala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">costume</a> worn by someone using the name &#8220;Karol G.&#8221; Apparently she wanted to keep her real costume a secret, so earlier in the evening, she sported this beige umbrella-looking lampshade instead. Watch:
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Imagine being a hardcore, AOC-loving Leftist who sees this. Democrats have spent the last several years telling you to despise rich people and commit crimes in the name of political activism. And then, down the street from your hippy commune at the local university, some celebrity is walking around in a lampshade costume. And the entire Democratic Party establishment is pretending this is normal. What would you do? How would you view the Democratic Party establishment after seeing this?
As for the costume itself — of course, it&#8217;s clearly a bid for attention. And I guess it worked because I&#8217;m talking about it. But it&#8217;s not even an original idea. As a lot of people have pointed out, the outfit bears a striking resemblance to a certain shower curtain costume from the film &#8220;Karate Kid,&#8221; only with different colors. So there&#8217;s really no redeeming qualities whatsoever here. It&#8217;s a total debacle all around.
But to be fair, there was at least some originality on display last night. For example, this celebrity apparently walked through a wind tunnel full of roses somewhere before arriving at the Met. And for her trouble, Vogue named her as one of the best-dressed women of the evening:
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We can assume that this — woman (?) — paid many thousands of dollars for that outfit, which is just a trench coat with flower peddles and glitter glued onto it. It looks like something my four-year-old daughter might make. As everyone knows, in the mind of a four-year-old girl, anything and everything can be made prettier with copious amounts of glitter and flowers. Which is a fine mentality for a small child. But it doesn’t translate very well in this case. And as self-congratulatory as it is, again, there&#8217;s no self-awareness whatsoever. It&#8217;s almost as if the entire purpose of the event is to celebrate the elites&#8217; total inability to detect how preposterous, self-absorbed and laughable they are.
This is nothing new. It&#8217;s been the case since the Met Gala was established. It&#8217;s always been a mini-theater of the absurd. What&#8217;s changed is that the voting base of the Democratic Party isn&#8217;t laughing along with these clowns anymore. They want them destroyed. They turned against the universities, and now they’ve turned against Hollywood. What the protesters of course don’t understand is that they’ve inherited their whole worldview and everything they believe from these very institutions.
Hollywood and Academia don’t realize that they’re being attacked by their own Frankenstein. But Frankenstein doesn’t realize it either. If Frankenstein ever wakes up to that fact, then the ruling class is really in trouble.

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The Met Gala Is The Latest Casualty As Leftist Protesters Turn On Their Masters

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Fashion

Right now, there&#8217;s a very easy political win for President Joe Biden on the table that has two political facets. Number one would be rejecting these insane anti-American protesters on America&#8217;s college campuses. Facet number two would be supporting America&#8217;s democratic ally, Israel.
That would be a dual win for the Biden administration, but Joe Biden won’t take the win.
If these protesters were protesting for “white supremacy,” Biden would have no problem whatsoever condemning the message of the protest.
But he won&#8217;t condemn these. He&#8217;s even having trouble condemning the actual protesters themselves, even though they are incredibly well organized. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/student-campus-protests-veteran-activist-groups-17ccd094" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on this last Friday: “The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation. But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.&#8221; 
This is the typical way that the Left works. They&#8217;ve been inter-community organizing since the 1960s and Saul Alinsky. There&#8217;s a reason Barack Obama was a community organizer. There&#8217;s a reason that the 1960s large-scale college organizations were able to push the Democratic Party far to the Left. There&#8217;s a reason they had extremely well-organized protesters and well-funded protests during BLM.
The Left knows how to do this. Agitation is an actual business to them. 
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It is not like the Republicans when they get together for a tea party, or even conservatives or Republicans who believed the election was stolen in 2021 and randomly got together on January 6 in a disorganized, ridiculous way and attempted to move into the Capitol building.
But the Left is well-organized. These people are drilled. They&#8217;re on message. This is, in fact, an army of activists that has been generated by actual funding and staffing.
The issue is that Biden is not going to cut off his funders — and he is being supported by the same people who are paying for these protests.
The polling data does not support what he&#8217;s doing as a matter of politics. It is incredibly stupid to steer away from the center, where Biden needs votes. But he wants the cash. And he is being supported by the same exact people who are funding all of these protests. An article published yesterday by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135#:~:text=The%20donors%20include%20some%20of,Voice%20for%20Peace%20and%20IfNotNow." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> explains this trail:
<blockquote>President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis. 
Two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change.
Soros declined to comment. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has previously funded the Tides Foundation and other groups, said it no longer has active grants to Tides. It also does not support Jewish Voice for Peace or IfNotNow.
Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.</blockquote>
So why exactly are all of these funds giving money to JVP? Why are they doing all of that? The answer is because the Left believes that these are the leaders of the future. Just as the old crazies took over the campuses in the 60s and then became the powerhouses, administrators, and faculty, now they are hoping to build a new Democratic Party on the back of the radicals.
And Joe Biden is too weak to actually do anything about it.
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The Left Suddenly Forgets About Gaza And Spends Two Days Outraged Over A Frat Boy’s Joke

The Left Suddenly Forgets About Gaza And Spends Two Days Outraged Over A Frat Boy's Joke

Blacks

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Mississippi

When it comes to the college protesters roiling America&#8217;s campuses and roiling America more generally, it&#8217;s time for Americans, and particularly their political class, to pick a side.
There are only two sides to this particular argument. One side despises America and the West, and the other side really likes America and the West. That binary decision is not particularly tough.
It is happening on college campuses all over America.
You get to pick which side you think the American president ought to stand on and which side you think the American people ought to stand on.
The first side includes a UCLA protest spokesperson <a href="https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/1786042514518032570">saying</a>, “I think, given the fact that the University of California is founded on colonialism, it&#8217;s inherently a violent institution. There needs to be an addressment (sic) of U.S. imperialism and its ties to the UC system, and how it perpetuates war and violence abroad. Not only abroad, but also here locally.”
The case they are making is that the United States is bad. When they say the University of California is founded on colonialism, what they really mean is that the United States is founded on colonialism, imperialism, exploitation, and rape of the native peoples — and all the rest of this garbage.
That&#8217;s what they mean. They mean the United States is bad when they say that what&#8217;s happening in Gaza is connected to this.
What they really mean is there is a coalition of people who are pseudo-oppressed, who are losers in life, who have now decided that the American system, the Western system, and meritocracy, are bad. Anybody who is successful in the system has designed the system for their own benefit.
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This is the intersectional conspiracy theory taken to the extreme. And what it really means is these people — who are the most privileged people in human history, sitting on a beautiful campus at the University of California at the most beautiful time of the year, outdoors, enjoying their lives on the public dime because tuition is subsidized at UCLA by the state — believe they are the victims of American society or standing in solidarity with the victims of American society. 
The complaint is not about Israel. You don&#8217;t even hear the word Israel once in that statement.
The complaint is about the United States.
That&#8217;s one side. They hate America. They burn the flag. They take it down. They put up the Palestinian flag because the Palestinian flag has become the rallying point and tip of the spear in favor of this perverse view of the universe.
This has happened because revolutionary movements need to show skin in the game. The way they show skin in the game is by picking the worst victims, people who are least sympathetic, and declare they have sympathy for those victims.
That’s why the Black Lives Matter movement was founded originally around the death of Michael Brown, who tried to shoot a police officer before he was killed by a police officer. If you could declare your fealty to a false narrative about Michael Brown, suggesting that he died at the hands of American white supremacy, then you could sell those people anything.
The same thing is true with regard to the Palestinian cause. The Palestinians are a perfect example of a group of people who have elected terrorists, who are sympathetic to terrorists, who support terrorism, who hate Jews, who hate America, and who have made their own bed. They&#8217;ve been offered everything and they&#8217;ve taken nothing. They&#8217;ve decided they&#8217;re not going to take any deal over and over. Every dollar that has gone into Gaza has been used to build up a terror epicenter.
And these people declare solidarity with Palestinians because if you can declare solidarity with people who are obviously not victims and declare they are the victims of Western imperialism, you can declare virtually anything. That is why the keffiyeh and the Palestinian flag are substitutes for the American flag.
That’s side A. You can pick side A, but those people don&#8217;t love America.
Then, there’s side B.
The second side includes the frat boys at the University of Mississippi who showed up to sing the Star-Spangled Banner in front of people who hate the United States. This side includes the frat boys at the University of North Carolina who actually tried to prevent the American flag from being brought down. It includes people like my friend Ami Horowitz, who went to a protest at City University of New York with an American flag and got beaten up for the privilege.
You can either side with the statue of George Washington or with the people who deface the statue of George Washington.
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But you do have to pick a side.
And if you pick the side that hates America, you should be held accountable, politically and otherwise. It turns out you should, in fact, love this country. It is an amazing country. It is the greatest country in the history of mankind. If you don&#8217;t, then there should, in fact, be some public opprobrium for you.
It doesn&#8217;t mean you don&#8217;t have a right to say these things. You do have the absolute right to say whatever dumbass thing you want to say. It&#8217;s the United States of America.
That does not mean people have to look at you as though you are anything but a moral idiot.
And these people are moral idiots.

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In the late 90&#8217;s, a veteran and father of three named Norman Browning <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13371505/baton-rouge-school-sports-coach-racial-tensions-wealthy-white-residents-city.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took</a> a job as a volunteer coach at Woodlawn High School in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Browning had been educated by Baton Rouge&#8217;s public schools and he wanted to give back to the community. But very quickly, he realized that Woodlawn was very different from the school it used to be.
For one thing, there wasn&#8217;t much discipline. Teachers didn&#8217;t have close relationships with parents, and didn&#8217;t seem particularly interested in doing their jobs. Test scores were abysmal.
Additionally, demographics had shifted dramatically. Students were poorer than they used to be. And there wasn&#8217;t much of the fabled &#8220;diversity&#8221; that we&#8217;re told is so important. More than half of the student body was black. Meanwhile, Baton Rouge and its schools were becoming increasingly violent. (Currently it&#8217;s one of the ten most dangerous cities in the country).
Here&#8217;s just one recent example of a common sight in Baton Rouge schools:
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So there&#8217;s a brawl in the school, and then the parents show up and they get involved in the brawl too. And then a gun turns up, and the cops aren&#8217;t remotely surprised by any of this. This kind of thing has been happening consistently in Baton Rouge for the past decade. As the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13371505/baton-rouge-school-sports-coach-racial-tensions-wealthy-white-residents-city.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>, on a single day in 2013, Browning observed &#8220;as many as six separate fights between unruly students.&#8221;
Instead of shaking his head and moving on — which he very easily could have done — Browning decided on a different course of action. As the Daily Mail reports, Browning decided to help lead a breakaway movement to effectively secede from East Baton Rouge parish and incorporate a new city called St. George. This new city would have schools that admit students who actually want to learn, and teachers who want to teach.
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The idea was a longshot. Other movements to incorporate new cities and secede, most notably the effort by Buckhead to secede from Atlanta in Georgia, have <a href="https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/03/02/buckhead-cityhood-bill-fails-georgia-senate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fallen</a> short. That&#8217;s mainly because local politicians — including conservatives — have stood in the way. 
But — after a campaign that took the better part of a decade — in 2019, voters finally approved a ballot initiative to create St. George. What followed were years of legal battles that ended last week, when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in a <a href="https://www.lasc.org/opinions/2024/23-1108.C_23-1118.C.OPN.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4-3 decision</a> that St. George can indeed incorporate. St. George will be a 60-square mile area, with a population of more than 85,000 residents. (For comparison, Baton Rouge is 76 square miles, with a population of more than 200,000). 
That&#8217;ll make St. George one of the largest cities in the state. They&#8217;ll have their own mayor, public services, and city council. Watch:
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A key part of the Louisiana Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling is that, contrary to what Baton Rouge claimed, St. George has the financial means to be self-sustaining. And that&#8217;s not surprising. Taxpayers in the area that&#8217;s now known as St. George <a href="http://stgeorgelouisiana.com/faq/#:~:text=George's%20taxpayers%20provide%20two%2Dthirds,that%20government's%20expense%20in%20return." target="_blank" rel="noopener">pay</a> roughly two-thirds of the total tax revenue of the government of East Baton Rouge. But they receive only about one-third of the government&#8217;s expenses in return. And, despite paying all these taxes, St. George residents haven&#8217;t been <a href="http://stgeorgelouisiana.com/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">represented</a> in the mayor&#8217;s office in Baton Rouge in modern history.
In other words, St. George is vital for East Baton Rouge&#8217;s economy. And in return for all the tax revenue St. George has generated, Baton Rouge has done basically nothing for St. George. They made their neighborhood more dangerous and their schools even worse. And on top of that, the people of St. George have no real representation in local government. So now East Baton Rouge isn&#8217;t going to get that tax revenue anymore, or at least not anywhere near the same amount. In fact, St. George residents are currently <a href="https://www.wbrz.com/news/st-george-leaders-say-they-want-east-baton-rouge-to-return-residents-tax-dollars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeking</a> tens of millions of dollars in back taxes that they&#8217;ve paid to the East Baton Rouge parish government since 2019.
You have to wonder why this isn&#8217;t happening more often. Governments that don&#8217;t provide basic services or representation for their citizens don&#8217;t deserve tax money from their citizens. That&#8217;s a pretty intuitive principle. And there&#8217;s no rule that says you can&#8217;t make your own city if you want to. Quite the opposite. The right of free association is a fundamental part of the constitution. So why isn&#8217;t this more commonplace?
One reason might be that anyone who attempts to incorporate a sane, high-functioning city will immediately be defamed as a racist. Predictably, that&#8217;s been the main reaction from the Left to the incorporation of St. George. There has been no reckoning about the failures of Baton Rouge&#8217;s leadership whatsoever. Here for example is a former president of the NAACP in Baton Rouge, reacting to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court:
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The NAACP guy starts off by saying that some of the people leading the secession movement are on the school board, so they&#8217;re responsible for the failing schools. Apparently these school board members should have used their vast influence in order to prevent brawls from constantly breaking out. They also should have forced the students to be smarter, the teachers to care more about their jobs, and parents to actually parent their children.
Then his argument devolves into accusing everyone in St. George of racism. They didn&#8217;t stay and try to fix East Baton Rouge&#8217;s broken school system, so they must be bigots who just want to get away from black people.
This is one of the stock responses you&#8217;ll hear on the Left in response to the secession of St. George. For example, on Twitter, a &#8220;black activist&#8221; named Samuel Sinyangwe <a href="https://x.com/samswey/status/1785826822388686961" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;They’re &#8216;seceding&#8217; from a majority-Black city to create a whites-only enclave in Louisiana.&#8221;
Just as a factual matter, what this activist is saying about the new city isn&#8217;t true. It&#8217;s not a &#8220;whites-only enclave&#8221; because there are black people living in it. Specifically, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/new-louisiana-city-st-george-f06a362f9d2e10d7e8b559d4fa50563a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12%</a> of the population is black, which is roughly the same percentage of black people you&#8217;ll find in Barack Obama&#8217;s preferred island, Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. It also mirrors the overall percentage of black people in the United States at large, which <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stands</a> at around 14%. In other words, these activists calling St. George a &#8220;whites-only enclave&#8221; are also, in effect, calling the entire country a &#8220;whites-only enclave.&#8221;
Additionally, Woodlawn High School, which I mentioned earlier, is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_High_School_(East_Baton_Rouge_Parish,_Louisiana)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">within</a> the limits of the new city of St. George. This school, with a lot of black students attending, is not being abandoned by this new city. The point is to improve its leadership so that there&#8217;s more learning and less fighting.
Of course, if you let these activists talk a little more, it becomes very clear what they&#8217;re really upset about. They&#8217;re not upset about racism or whatever. They know that East Baton Rouge, like so many other cities in this country, is dysfunctional — and no sane person would want to continue funding it with their tax dollars. What bothers these activists is that their source of funding is about to go to zero. Their cash cow is abandoning them. They will have to be productive for once and solve their own problems, without taking other people&#8217;s money and wasting it.
That NAACP president in Baton Rouge eventually gets around to admitting this. Listen:
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&#8220;It&#8217;s pulling a lot of the resources and the tax bases from Baton Rouge. Stuff that is used to keep our city stable. &#8230; This is going to be paid for on the backs of poor black folks.&#8221;
There&#8217;s finally some honesty there. It&#8217;s true that, without St. George, Baton Rouge will probably have a lot of financial problems to deal with. But the people responsible for those problems are not living in St. George. They&#8217;re running Baton Rouge, which is losing population by the day. As the Louisiana Supreme Court <a href="https://www.lasc.org/opinions/2024/23-1108.C_23-1118.C.OPN.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in its decision</a>: &#8220;Baton Rouge has arguably experienced a windfall by collecting taxes in St. George without returning proportionate money and services.
Incorporation will allow the money paid by St. George citizens to stay in St. George &#8230; The record establishes the population of St. George is increasing. Conversely, the population of Baton Rouge is declining.&#8221;
As St. George creates its new school system and builds out its infrastructure, it&#8217;s very likely that Baton Rouge&#8217;s population will continue to decline. That&#8217;s why, already, there&#8217;s an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ6TvNk46qI&amp;t=27s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">effort</a> by Baton Rouge activists to get the Louisiana Supreme Court to reconsider its decision.
But that will probably fail, as it should. For one thing, some of the economic success of St. George will almost certainly benefit Baton Rouge in a variety of ways. St. George will keep many more people in the area, and the residents there will still pay for some services provided by the government of East Baton Rouge.
But more importantly, if St. George continues to thrive, it will send a very clear signal to dysfunctional governments all over the country. And that signal is: Stop wasting our tax dollars, or we&#8217;ll leave — and we&#8217;ll take our tax dollars with us. That&#8217;s how our system was always supposed to work. Our country was founded on the principle that governments cannot lawfully tax people without representing them or working for their benefit. And with the secession of St. George from the capital city of Louisiana, for the first time in recent memory, that principle is back. Hopefully there&#8217;s much more to come.

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