“As with the routine battles over gerrymandering House districts, this dispute about election law is a political fight between the two major parties. But alongside Georgia, we have the simultaneous trial in Minneapolis of Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd during an arrest May 25.
Since that happened, progressives repeatedly have deployed the race card against their opposition, notably over post-pandemic voting legislation. Their goal, again, is partisan and political: to enact H.R.1, which would nationalize federal elections, effectively eliminating a traditional role for elected legislators and other officials in all 50 states.
Yes, politics is hardball. But today we are living through a flood tide of efforts to reduce politics to a permanent confessional on racism. To clear a path for passage of H.R.1, Barack Obama called the Senate filibuster a “Jim Crow relic,” a volatile charge to make in 2021 against so many Americans. Joe Biden, the president of the United States, repeated that lovely thought last week: “This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia and 40 other states.”
In the interests of tit-for-tat, note that in 2016, President Obama sat next to Raúl Castro watching a baseball game, supported by the major leagues, in communist Cuba, whose liberalization since that state visit has been zero.
…I suspect the left’s professional activists were as taken aback as anyone at how the middle-aged liberals running big companies and cultural institutions swooned for wokeness. Why so easy?
Up to now, feeling guilty about life’s differences, which are real and complex, has suggested some ambivalence about the causes. Not anymore. Rather than wrestle with the rampant illogic and contradictions inside claims about identity or systemic racism, liberals have given in completely to the narcotic pleasure of total guilt. Finally, they’re free.
Alas, their acts of addictive self-release, such as mindlessly canceling Atlanta, will keep disrupting everyone else’s lives. The time has come for an intervention.Boycott baseball.“
In a related item, NRO‘s Dan McLaughin calls our attention to another verdict which was in before the trial ever started, as recently uncovered evidence makes it readily apparent…
“Telling your close associates in senior management, on a private call, that you disapprove of somebody else using the N-word should not be a firing offense and a reputation-destroying incident in a country of adults. The mere fact that this has to be explained is a sign of the madness that has gripped corporate America…”
Since we’re on the subject of railroading, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty opines on the Oval Office version of Engineer Fred…
“Joe Biden is not all that different from Donald Trump in his propensity to just blurt out the first thing that pops into his mind, whether or not it’s true, whether or not it even sounds plausible, and whether or not what he’s describing violates the laws of physics.
Yesterday, in another sales pitch for his infrastructure plan, Biden said, “…what we’re really doing is raising the bar on what we can imagine. Imagine a world where you and your family can travel coast to coast, without a single tank of gas, or on a high-speed train close to as fast as you can go across the country in a plane.”
…Now, what makes this particular gaffe troubling is that we’ve been told, many times over, that Biden is a “rail enthusiast.” In fact, the Obama White House called Biden a “famed rail enthusiast.” But Biden appears to be the kind of rail enthusiast who doesn’t know or understand the first darn thing about trains.
…Yesterday, Biden continued, “We’re going to talk about commercial aircraft flying at subsonic speeds — supersonic speeds. To be able, figuratively, if you may, if we decide to do it, traverse the world in about an hour, travel 21,000 miles an hour. So much is changing, and we have got to lead it.”
…Biden’s vision of a passenger aircraft that can “traverse the world in about an hour, travel 21,000 miles an hour” is a strong argument for mandatory drug testing in the White House. The fastest jet in the world is the SR-71 Blackbird, perhaps the most famous spy plane in the world, and it travels at 2,100 mph.
…Biden is envisioning a commercial airliner that will travel ten times faster than the current fastest jet in the world. He might as well have promised warp speed, a hyperdrive, or teleportation.It goes well with his promise to cure cancer if elected president.
…when Biden talks about advances in plane and train technology, he speaks as if the main problems are that we’re not dreaming big enough and we’re not spending enough money. This is the rallying cry of a man who has never thought about the engineering challenges and who apparently never intends to think about them.“
We’d suggest it’s the rallying cry of a man bereft of any understanding of engineering…beyond perhaps running a Lionel train set. Then again, the only claim our current Secretary of Transportation has to expertise in trains is having pulled one.
Next, six more items specifically selected for inquiring minds:
Which fairly screams the question whether staff members and students will join to boycott this injustice as they did when they assumed the perpetrator was WHITE?!?
Reports, after the racist’s suspension is served, Albion plans to name a newly-segregated section of student housing after him remain unconfirmed…but certainly well within the realm of Progressivism’s woke reality.
Magoo
Video of the Day
We’ll never fly United again unless there’s no other way to get where we’re going…and it’s a missions trip.
Tales of The Darkside
The latest from John Stossel brought to mind a quote from an earlier email forwarded by Balls Cotton: America hasn’t completely lost it soul, but it’s at least temporarily lost its mind.
On the Lighter Side
Despite what the narrator claims, something tells us this isn’t the owner…and this is somewhere in a part of the world where men are men…and even rams are nervous.
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