Saturday Miscellany

 First, I had a few words to say about Zohran Momdani’s anti-Semitism yesterday. But, why miss the opportunity to offer some added commentary. The first, from Matt Walsh:

New Yorkers stand poised to elect a socialist crackpot from the third world who's only been a citizen for 6 years and wants to nationalize grocery stores and appropriate money from taxpayers to spend on castration drugs for children. The voters have a death wish. They want their communities to be destroyed. And they will get what they ask for. So be it.

Second, Lawrence Summers points out that Mamdani is a gift for certain Southern states. Bloomberg reports:

Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers says if Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of New York City, it will be a great gift for the economies of Florida and Texas. He says the democratic socialist's policies would hurt the city and there would be "massive outmigration."

Third, Iran was being attacked by Israel. So, naturally it turned to its sometime ally, China. Apparently, the alliance was not as sturdy as they imagined. 

China Tells New Israeli Ambassador It Wants to Boost Cooperation.

If Iran had had the idea that it could punish the world by closing the Straits of Hormuz, it must have learned, fairly quickly, that China would never tolerate such an action.

Fourth,  Brandon Smith takes up one of my favorite topics: the mess that feminism has made of relations between the sexes. He refers to a New York Times article that argues the following: women have been trashing men and have been rejecting traditional female roles… and then, the feminists among them are whining and complaining that men do not want them. Duh.

Listen men, your lack of participation is starting to stress out the ladies. Just admit you can’t handle intimacy. Just admit you can’t handle these “powerful” women and their vast intellects and emotional genius. You need to be taught how to behave, that’s all. Just crawl back to them and they’re ready to tolerate you again. 

Isn’t that nice? They’re giving you a second chance…

At no point does the author ask WHY men are exhausted? At no point does she ask any actual men what they think or feel before writing her nonsensical screed. Obscured by insufferable and flowery prose, she still blames men while asking them to come back. And that should tell you everything you need to know about feminism in general.

I would ask feminists the million dollar question that they have avoided for so long:  Have you considered the possibility that men ghost you and will not commit to you because YOU are the problem?  The answer is no, obviously.

To be fair, in these pages I have often remarked that feminists are the problem. So I do not believe that I missed this one.

 I’ll tell you the biggest open secret that modern women still don’t understand – They claim that men are afraid of approaching them. They say that men today are “weak” and that they can’t handle the new era of the “boss babe”. They argue that men need to abandon their traditional masculine roles and act more feminine; this will make it easier for everyone to get along.

These are common jabs at the male ego designed to make men feel ashamed for distancing themselves from feminists. In reality, men value one thing above all else: Peace. If you can’t offer peace, then no man with any sense of self worth has a use for you. Feminists offer the opposite of peace, and so they have no value.

I suspect that men want more than peace, but peace is a good place to start.

Fifth, meanwhile over at the New York Times, David Brooks does a bit of a mea culpa regarding his inane hostility toward Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. He has not been as bad as his colleague, Tommy Friedman, who took the occasion of Israel’s involvement in a war to talk trash about the nation’s leader, but at least Brooks admits that he was wrong.

Here goes:

And yet those of us in the Bibi critics’ club do have to confront an uncomfortable fact: Especially over the past 10 months, Netanyahu has impressively followed through on his aim to remake the face of the Middle East. He’s degraded Hamas and Hezbollah, two of the vilest terror regimes on the planet. He has made the Iranian theocracy look pathetic and decrepit. Israel has demonstrated its vast military and intelligence supremacy over its enemies, establishing total freedom of the skies over much of Iran. It has shown that its agents can penetrate enemy organizations and find and kill their militant leaders. Netanyahu’s actions have contributed to the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria and have helped the legitimate Lebanese government regain control of its own territory. The Axis of Terror is in shambles.

Sixth, the French have found out how much it costs to welcome illegal migrants into their midst. And this is an addition to the simple fact that French women no longer feel safe walking the streets of their nation… thanks to migrants.

Zero Hedge blog tallies up the cost:

Rather than boosting growth, the think tank claims immigration is costing France the equivalent of 3.4 per cent of its GDP due to a significant mismatch between the taxes immigrants contribute and the services they consume.

Le Figaro reports that, according to OID, taxes collected from immigrants cover only 86 per cent of their fiscal cost, creating what it calls a “budget deficit.” This imbalance is largely due to low employment rates among immigrants: only 62.4 per cent of working-age immigrants in France are employed—one of the lowest rates in the European Union, just ahead of Belgium. The French native population, by comparison, has a 69.5 per cent employment rate.

The OID argues that if immigrants were employed at the same rate as native-born citizens, French GDP would be 3.4 per cent higher, and taxable income would rise by 1.5 percentage points.

The next time some talking head waxes poetic about how much migrants are contributing to the economy, recall this study from France.