I Want a New Left

Guess Who the Woke Soldier Is Threatening?

No, not the Taliban. She is threatening us deplorables. See here. I don’t know if she realizes how many armed deplorables there are.

Meanwhile, here is the story of an officer in the Marines who spoke truth to power and lost, of course. People who genuinely speak truth to power almost always lose.

So, in terms of power and truth, what was the woke soldier doing? Certainly not speaking truth to power. More like speaking power to truth. By the way, what would she do if there was an insurrection by Muslims? Nothing, I bet.

Afghan Refugees: Who Gets To Make the Decision about Bringing Them Here?

Naturally, it will be elites who will make this decision. I say we turn to a different group: those who have been victims of previous refugees. For example, consider those girls trafficked in Rotherham. Let’s ask them if we should bring any more Muslims to the West. Our elites won’t like this, but tough. Why do they get to make the decision and not other people?

U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Blames Victims

He claims that people were warned as long ago as March that they should be leaving. See here. Except that Biden himself assured everyone that the Afghan army would fend off the Taliban. Anyway, cue Howard Cosell in the movie Airplane (here).

The Surprise about Who Is in Afghanistan, and Biden’s Plan

This post at Instapundit from a few days ago seems important enough that it should be preserved. A friend had written to him, saying the following:

Biden’s statement that he has seen “no question of our credibility from our allies” has said allies furious. Every NATO country has people trapped in Afghanistan and they tend to be trust fund babies or friends of trust fund babies. Every prime minister’s phone is blowing up with VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE asking how they’re going to get their kids or their kids’ friends out of Afghanistan and every ally is blowing up the phones of the White House and State Department and getting jack shit from them.

And they’re all blaming “America” but they also know it’s on Biden.

Somebody can probably get an at least “off the record” statement on this from just about any embassy in NATO.

Furious doesn’t cover it.

Trust fund babies!? Incredible. I guess reporters, the staff for reporters, and maybe people in NGOs?

Anyway, I take it that Biden’s plan was to pull out and if it went well, he could take credit for it, and if it didn’t go well, he could just blame Trump. He naturally assumed that the media would back him up one hundred percent on the blaming Trump part, and he seems flabbergasted that they aren’t. (So am I, actually.) But as I said in an earlier post, the media will be more loyal to their own than to Biden, if their reporters are in danger because of Biden. In fact, those reporters were suddenly confronted with the Taliban, and they emitted a primal scream. They may have earlier insisted that Trump supporters were worse than the Taliban, but that was then and this is now.

Meanwhile, there are still plenty of idiots on the left back here at home who insist that Trump supporters are worse. I expect those trapped reporters will, when they get back, either stick to their guns about their new beliefs and be ignored, or else will gradually revise their beliefs so that they fit in with everyone else's beliefs in their bubble.

Still, even if this doesn't last, it’s refreshing knowing that the media is for once doing what they are supposed to be doing.

Quote of the Day (Concerning the Term “Latinx”)

From this post at Legal Insurrection:

Ok so unlike the english language, in spanish we have this thing called “Real Academia Española.” This is a centralized place where the rules of our language and grammar are kept/made. They do not have latinx since “latino” is already inclusive according to the language rules.

This was tweeted from someone named Javier in response to this tweet from an LA Times opinion columnist named Jean Guerrero:

Democratic outreach to Latino voters on the California recall election is not working. I've been speaking to young Latinxs and almost none of them have any idea what is going on. This is really, really bad.

What is the point of first using “Latino” and then “Latinxs?” By the way, “Latinx” is bad enough, but “Latinxs” is even worse.

Also, what Guerrero complained about is the problem when our media has decided that they need to prevent the ordinary person from getting information. They didn’t want to admit there was a recall petition gathering steam, and now that it’s a reality, they are whining that people don’t know about it.

Dear Class of 2025:

Welcome to college. Welcome also to the real world. Yes, due to recent events in Afghanistan, you have a chance to see through the many lies your parents, teachers, members of the media, and Hollywood have been telling you. The outside world is much more dangerous than you have been made to think it is, and thanks to our elites, America (indeed all of Western civilization) is in decline. That’s bad news for you, and someday you may be faced with the sort of constraints that the Taliban impose on women (and not just women). But then again, you probably agree with Twitter’s decision to ban Donald Trump, but not the Taliban. If you do, and if you think that Trump and his supporters are worse than the Taliban, if you think that they wanted to impose some sort of Christian theocracy onto America that would have kept women at home and that therefore they are worse than the Taliban, then there is no hope for you. Does that mean you would gladly change places with an Afghani women rather than live under Trump? You live in a fantasy world, and you will invite the Taliban in and won’t figure out that it is a big mistake until they take power over you. And maybe not even then.

The Delta Variant: Does It Even Exist?

As long as I am engaging in wild surmises, let me suggest that there is no delta variant of the virus. Rather, the elites realized that the vaccine was not only ineffective, but that it was probably helping spread the disease. And so they came up with a reason for us to think that while the vaccine is good against the old virus – and so they can’t be blamed for demanding that we get it – it won’t be good against the new variant. This also helps them achieve their fondest desire, to have lockdowns forever.

The FBI and Afghanistan

To the surprise of many of us, the FBI released a report saying that there was nothing much to the Jan. 6th “insurrection.” (See here.) Is this because they are getting a hint from the Afghanistan debacle of which way the wind is blowing? Do they think that maybe supporting the elites has too many costs? I don’t know if this will help them. It seems that a lot of us deplorables still don’t trust them.

Some of My Old Predictions

See here. Shortly after Biden was elected, I made some predictions, and I thought I would revisit them. The first was that Taiwan and China would go to war. I thought this would have happened by now, and I was wrong about that. It may still happen, of course.

Next, I predicted that Biden, like Obama, would end up in some war, and I also predicted that he would not withdraw any troops. I was spectacularly wrong about that. I also predicted more terrorist attacks, which haven’t happened yet, but which probably are coming. And I predicted that Biden would support Iran, which he certainly has, for no obvious reason (just like all the other Dems). Likewise, I predicted that he would lean toward the Palestinians, which he certainly has.

As for Britain and Europe, I never predicted the anger that all of them would exhibit by Biden's utter incompetence in his withdrawal from Afghanistan.

I also predicted that academia and the arts would be getting more money, which I assume is true, while the plight of the adjuncts will remain unchanged. And so far that is also true.

I predicted that we would have Critical Race Theory rammed down our throats, which is true, though it is also true that plenty of parents are outraged by it and are putting heat onto school boards.

And finally, I predicted that poor whites would get a raw deal with him, which began his first day when he canceled the pipeline, thereby destroying thousands of good jobs for the poor.

I neglected to mention guns and our southern border in my predictions, though both are playing out as anyone would have predicted.

So, some good predictions, some bad.

I was also wrong about Cuomo, since I thought he wouldn’t resign, but he must be feeling lucky these days since shortly after his resignation, the whole world began focusing on Afghanistan

Iran’s Leader Is Just as Clueless as Biden

See here. The argument of the video is that Khamenei is trying to forge an alliance with the Taliban, but Iran is mostly Shi’ites, while the Taliban are Sunnis who hunt down Shi’ites and kill them. Khamenei believes (as our leftists are coming to suggest) that this is a new and kinder Taliban, but apparently the Iranian people don’t believe it. This video is from a month ago, so I don’t know whether any of this is still true.

Someone in the video (at about 3:25) expresses an interesting, but odd analogy: “Thinking that the Taliban will come under Tehran’s command is tantamount to growing a snake up your sleeve.” Make of that what you will.

It sounds like Biden ought to maneuver Iran and Afghanistan into a Sunni-Shi’ite war, similar to the Iran-Iraq war. That would divert a lot of the rising Islamist energy away from the West. Of course, doing such a thing would require intelligence (both in the IQ and the spying sense of the word), and I don’t think our elites have either.