Saturday Miscellany

First, as Hamas chieftain Yahya Sinwar settles into his new home in the nth circle of the Inferno, the usual suspects have weighed in on the matter.

If the Israelis had followed the pusillanimous lead of the Biden administration, Sinwar would doubtless still be alive.

Recall that notable nitwit Kamala Harris sternly advised Israel against moving into Rafah, because she had studied the maps. How stupid can you get? 

For his part Joe Biden has called, yet again, for a cease fire. Aside from the word “don’t,” that seems to be the only notion that has entered into Biden’s empty head.

The Biden administration has done its darndest to save Hamas and even to save Hezbollah. It has also done its best, along with the Tommy Friedman, to blame it all on the Israeli prime minister.

For the record, Friedman has suggested that the death of Sinwar, death which would not have happened if the Israelis had followed the advice of the Biden administration, paves the way for a two state solution. The truth remains that the Palestinian peoples do not want a two state solution. The other truth remains, that the war is not yet over.

In Friedman’s case, the point of it all is to show that he was right all along. Like a good leftist, he never admits to being wrong.

Second, you may be worried about Donald Trump’s threat to democracy. You might not. Now political prognosticator Mark Halperin gives us something else to worry about. A Trump victory, he opines, will produce a nationwide nervous breakdown in half the population, a mental health crisis like we have never seen before.

Roger Simon reports on an interview between Halperin and Tucker Carlson:

Tucker asked political prognosticator Halperin what it would be like if Kamala loses.  He said millions of Democrats would suffer from a psychological collapse that would create the “greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country”.  The ramifications of this, including violence, will be all over society for a long time.  This is no normal election.

I don’t have the expertise and certainly not the contacts of Halperin, but that has also been my observation.  The time between the election and inauguration could well be fraught beyond anything we have seen this century and quite a while before.  And it’s not likely to stop at the inauguration. Trump Derangement Syndrome, so manifested by Ms. Harris during the interview, is a profound mental illness not likely to go away with the snap of the finger or anybody’s vote. And with the psychotherapy community so predominantly leftist they are likely to exacerbate the situation more often then help improve it.

You might find this to be a good reason for voting for Trump. You might find it a good reason to vote for Harris. 

I report; you decide.

Third, if you want to see minority children succeed academically, put them all in charter schools, like New York’s Success Academies.

If you want to see them fail and grow up to be chronic complainers, teach them anti-racism training.

Those who recall yesterday’s report on a New York Times essay about the serial failures of DEI at the University of Michigan will not be surprised to read that the same anti-racism training is infesting public schools, with the financial support of some of America’s wealthiest families. Are they contributing to the cause or are they paying protection?

The Daily Mail has the story:

A radical activist who believes black students should only be taught by same-race teachers has received $20million from billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

Sharif El-Mekki has lobbied for a focus on anti-racism education in public schools through his prominent nonprofit and time as an adviser to Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, as reported by The Free Press.

A former middle and high school teacher, El-Mekki lobbies through his nonprofit, the Center for Black Educator Development, CBED, which describes its mission as a 'world where... all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers' and where 'all teachers demonstrate high levels of expertise in anti-racist mindsets.'

Now you know where the graduates of the Michigan DEI indoctrination are ending up. 

How does it happen that billionaires get sucked into this con?

Fourth, was it good public relations or did she really mean it. The ongoing saga at CBS News has a new voice. The boss, that is, Shari Redstone has found the network’s coverage of Israel to be inadequate and biased. While the pearl clutchers who run CBS News were outraged by the Tony Doukoupil interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Redstone was happy with him.

The New York Post reports:

Media heiress Shari Redstone, the controlling stakeholder in CBS News parent Paramount Global, reportedly fumed to network executives over its left-leaning lurch in its coverage of Israel and lobbied for them to hire more conservative voices.

Redstone sent clips from other outlets to CBS higher-ups as examples of what she felt was more balanced coverage of Israel’s battle against Hamas terrorists, according to current and former network executives cited by Wall Street Journal.

She was particularly upset with a “Face the Nation” broadcast last spring in which the show was critical of Israel after seven aid workers were killed during a strike on Gaza, the Journal reported.

Her reported fury comes after she called out CBS News President Wendy McMahon last week over her sanctioned dressing down of morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil for grilling author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his strong criticism of Israel in his latest book.

Redstone — the 70-year-old daughter of late media mogul Sumner Redstone — called Dokoupil to praise him for the tough interview and had dinner with the anchor earlier this week, the Journal reported.

Now, we will see whether this was damage control or a sign of a meaningful course correction. Time will tell.

Fifth,  fancy this. Andrew Sullivan is about to change his mind. He had supported Kamala Harris in her bid for the presidency, until he discovered that the Biden-Harris administration has been militating for mutilating children. The responsible party is one Richard, aka Rachel, Levine. 

But the discovery from a lawsuit against the State of Alabama over its ban on the medical sex reassignment of children has left me reeling. It shows a staggering level of bad faith from the transqueer lobby, and, also, from Rachel Levine — the Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS.

What does Levine want?

So they removed the age limits! For these procedures, among others: removal of both ovaries; double mastectomy; turning a girl’s clitoris into a micro-penis; surgically removing a boy’s penis; surgical and chemical castration of boys; and permanent removal of the capacity for orgasm for both boys and girls. I repeat: permanent removal of the capacity for orgasm for both boys and girls.

"A doctor who privately doubts if her child patients can give meaningful consent and operates on them anyway is not a doctor, but a sociopath. "

Sullivan is enraged. Strange that it took him this long to figure out that the Biden administration was supporting child mutilation:

It is despicable to take a child who has never gone through puberty and remove from them any possibility of orgasm for life — before they can possibly know what an orgasm feels like. Evil. 

Bowers admits it’s no different than FGM [female genital mutilation] in its effect. With FGM, much of the pressure to mutilate a child comes from the parents’ religion. The difference between Iran — where they trans young gays and lesbians en masse — and America, is that in one, the parents’ religion is fundamentalist Islam, and in America, it’s wokeness.

The new religion targets gays. 

And that wokeness overwhelmingly targets gay kids. In Britain they became the vast majority of the children sent for sex reassignment, before it was banned outside a clinical trial. And we know that these “doctors” have no way of objectively knowing whether a child is actually trans or gay or depressed or autistic — and yet they also oppose any broad mental health assessment of a child, if that child has simply declared himself or herself the opposite sex.

None of this should be news. We have rehearsed similar points here and elsewhere. As have many others.

Is it a reason to pull your support from Kamala? I report, you decide.

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