Saturday Miscellany

First, some good advice from Robby Starbuck. He directed it at young people who are just entering the job market.

If you look like a walking complaint system who’s going to complain about every perceived "micro aggression" or demand that people use your pronouns, people won’t want to hire you. Also, if you have a bull ring, real jobs won’t hire you. It’s common sense, not discrimination.

I could not have said it any better myself.

Second, the news from Europe is not good. And it is not good even without the tariff news. It turns out that the Europeans have been welcoming Muslim migrants into their midst. And these migrants are less interested in assimilating than in imposing their own culture, and with it Sharia Law.

One Member of the European Parliament, Assita Kanko explains:

The Muslim Brotherhood works to implement Sharia in Europe. Using organisations to infiltrate schools and indoctrinate children. They spread radical ideas. Women are systematically pushed aside and hidden under headscarves that strip them of power and freedom. EU must wake up.

Third, one Jeffrey Tucker has offered us some praise for Elon Musk. All things considered, it is merited:

My heart truly goes out to @elonmusk. He bought this platform to counter censorship and it worked, fundamentally changing public culture just in time. He still doesn't get credit for that. He saw an existential threat from the then-existing regime and tried to make a difference. He spent countless hours and enormous human energy putting together DOGE and discovering vast scandals in government. He believed he could make a difference. Then media and the political machine began to eat him and smear him, and he saw Congress essentially dismiss all DOGE efforts, and he was blocked in myriad ways. I worry that his efforts will stand as a warning to other businesspeople: don't try to improve the world and stay out of politics. He has been punished for trying to do the right thing.

Fourth, everyone had pretty much decided that Donald Trump’s successor in the White House would be J. D. Vance. Now, it turns out that Marco Rubio is taking the lead:

Rubio's portfolio has expanded so much because he is just THAT good. Far from being the "squish" that so many MAGA folks feared he would be, Rubio has proven to be both brilliant at his job and a street fighter when it matters. For all the love that many people have for street fighters--everybody wants a gladiator to fight for them--the combination of competence and controlled aggression is pretty rare. 

Fifth, the Trump administration war against Harvard University continues apace. The university has refused to negotiate changes to its policies about anti-Semitism on campus. The result-- two days ago the Trump administration revoked its right to welcome foreign students. That means, students who pay full tuition.

Among many reasons, here's why this is a big deal: About 6,800 international students attended Harvard, about 27 percent of the student body. And foreign students at Harvard will now either have to transfer or lose their legal status.

As you know, Harvard is suing. As of now, a judge has enjoined the administration. The struggle continues.

Sixth, in the matter of the murder of two young staffers at the Jewish Museum in Washington, Avi Bitterman offers this description of the last minutes of one victim, Sarah Milgram:

Sarah was still alive and tried to crawl away after she was shot. The terrorist followed her and fired at her again, emptying his firearm at her. And yet she was still alive and even managed to sit up as he reloaded his weapon. He finished reloading, and fired at her for the final time. 21 spent cartridge cases were found. May he rot, and may the infested ideology factories that carry water for this madness face every consequence coming to them.

The good news is that the Justice Department is indicting Elias Rodriguez for capital murder. He faces the death penalty.

One cannot help but feeling that perhaps we should make a special exception for him and bring back public execution.

Seventh, in the world of geopolitics, New York City has been losing out. It has been losing its place as the center of financial activity. In more vulgar terms, New York is losing its tax base.

The New York Post reports:

South Florida has bloomed as America’s new capital for capital.

Some of the region’s leading developers and city leaders make the argument that the trend is permanent and practical as New York City lost billions of dollars in income to the region.

“We as a company, as a family, want to be known for not only building beautiful buildings and shaping skylines, but really creating neighborhoods and creating neighborhoods that can provide housing for everybody,” Related Group CEO Jon Paul Perez told Fox News Digital. “We want Miami to be a world-class city, but we don’t want Miami to be a world-class city just for the wealthy.”

“In a lot of ways across the world, there’s already recognition for the South Florida market as a whole pre-pandemic, but [it] certainly took a completely different turn,” Integra Investments founder and Home Builders of South Florida President Nelson Stabile also told Digital.

Both Perez and Nelson weren’t surprised by a recent report from New York’s Citizens Budget Commission, which found New York City witnessed an outflow of tens of thousands of high-earning residents from 2017 through 2022, who took close to $14 billion in income with them to Florida – with more than $9.2 billion going to Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

“People realize that they love living down here. It’s a pro-business environment, low taxes, and they can move their companies here and not sort of feel like they’re missing out,” Perez said. “Miami’s become sort of like this New York of the South, where we have finance, we have tech, we have hospitality, we have big cruise industries. So we’ve become a much more diversified economy over the last five years.”

Eighth, in Germany they ban guns. The result, a wave of knife attacks, committed by the migrant population.

Remix News reports:

Another wave of knife attacks has hit Germany, showing that not much has changed despite the many lost lives and Germans maimed in knife attacks.

In fact, the statistics show that these crimes are even getting worse, with 79 knife attacks per day now recorded. A German criminal lawyer warns that Germany has “imported knife violence,” in response to growing blade crimes.

Ninth, young Alex Soros, heir to the George Soros hate-America and hate-Israel campaign, denounced the murder of two Jews at the Jewish museum in Washington.

To which many people replied that the radical leftist anti-Israeli groups that fostered anti-Semitic hatred had been financed by-- you guessed it-- the Soros family.

From the New York Post:

Far-left progressive billionaire Alex Soros is being slammed online for his statement condemning the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers despite funding anti-Israel groups through his Open Society Foundation (OSF).

Soros, who is the son and heir to George Soros’ fortune and philanthropic empire, condemned the killings in an X post, saying “the murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky at the Capital Jewish Museum was evil in its most basic form” and that “this brutal antisemitic act must be condemned in the strongest terms.”

And also,

Though Soros condemned the killings, his statement was flooded with replies calling out his funding of radical anti-Israel groups that foment anti-Jewish sentiments.

“Alex, you and your father created this problem through the ruthless and international silencing of critics to open borders policies,” said one X user named Joseph Janecka. “Their blood is on your hands as much as their murderers. We will never forget.”

Carl Wheless, another user, commented, “You are behind the hate, so excuse us if you don’t wish to hear from you on the matter.”

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