“…The Cultural Revolution began when she was 6 years old, she said, and immediately pitted students and teachers and against one another by hanging “Big Posters” in hallways and the cafeteria where students could write criticisms against anyone deemed ideological impure.
“One of the teachers was considered bourgeoisie because she liked to wear pretty clothes,” Van Fleet said. “So the students attacked her and spit on her. She was covered with spit…and pretty soon it became violence.” “I can’t really just say what I mean, even though the other side can say whatever,” she said. “To me, and to a lot of Chinese, it is heartbreaking that we escaped communism and now we experience communism here.”
In her speech to the school board, which officials made her shorten to fit the one-minute limit, she drew direct parallels between what she saw back then in China and what she sees in the United States today. “The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people,” she said. “The only difference is they used class instead of race.”
She said she witnessed students and teachers “turn against each other” during the pogrom and saw schools change their names “to be politically correct.” “We were taught to denounce our heritage, and Red Guards destroyed anything that is not communist…statues, books and anything else,” she continued. “We were also encouraged to report on each other, just like the Student Equity Ambassador program and the bias reporting system.”
“This is indeed the American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” she said. “The critical race theory has its roots in cultural Marxism. It should have no place in our school.”…”
Or anywhere in the Founding Fathers’ America, for that matter. The Amerika envisioned by 46* and Kommielaa is another matter altogether.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Speaking of…
…we lead off the day with an item from the Morning Jolt in which Jim Geraghty recounts…
“As this column is being written the website of the federal Centers for Disease Controlshowstwo straight days without a single Covid-19 death in the state of California. Just like everywhere else in the U.S., the widespread availability of vaccines plus natural immunity has caused a welcome collapse in Golden State coronavirus cases. But that doesn’t mean that California’s Democratic governor is willing to relinquish his emergency powers.
The editorial board of the Orange County Register observes:
In his State of the State speech in March, Newsom vowed that California is “not going back to normal.” Now we are seeing the mechanism he had in mind. California will remain in a state of emergency, under one-man rule, until the disease has “vanished,” a goal that may well be unattainable.
By any measure—case rate, fatality rate, hospitalizations, hospital capacity, available vaccines—the conditions that prompted Newsom’s emergency declaration in March 2020 have abated…
The governor has moved the goalposts again, this time clear off the field and out of the stadium.
But this is no game, as the Register wisely notes, adding:
Newsom has issued more than 50 executive orders that suspended, amended or changed hundreds of laws affecting schools, elections, public access to government meetings, public contracts, debt collections, welfare payments, homelessness programs and more. When the state of emergency is ended, all executive orders issued under it are null and void, and the governor loses the power to impose new emergency orders unilaterally.
In Sacramento, it’s good to be the king. But it’s not so good for the citizens of the nation’s most populous state. “When will California’s state of emergency stop being an emergency?,” asks the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times. The Times notes:
California’s Emergency Services Act doesn’t detail when an emergency declaration should be made or terminated. It leaves it up to the discretion of the governor to determine what constitutes an emergency and to decide when it’s over. The only imperative is that the latter happens “at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant.”
…he is holding on to the broad emergency powers that allow him to unilaterally suspend and alter laws, curtail people’s private movements and award no-bid contracts, an authority Newsom has used at times to direct state dollars to his campaign donors. (Among others!)
Indeed, the crisis that gripped the state just a few months ago is gone.
The Times editorialists note that a continuing official “emergency” allows California to keep drawing on federal Covid funding. But even Californians who aren’t federal taxpayers should ask whether it’s worth continuing infringements on their liberty…”
Unfortunately, the majority of Californios are highly ovine in nature. And as Eli Wallach so famously noted in his role as Calvera in The Magnificent Seven…
Since we’re on the subject of incompetent individuals the world would be better off without, NRO‘s Charlie Cooke wonders…
“At this point in the proceedings, one is tempted to conclude that Chris Cuomo must have laced CNN’s corporate offices with dynamite and informed the powers that be that, if he goes, they go, too. What else could explain the network’s eternal tolerance for being embarrassed and degraded by the man? Here, at the tail end of his long experiment in deficiency, Cuomo resembles nothing more keenly than the inadequate tee-baller who gets to stay in past eight or nine strikes because his uncle coaches the team. His ratings are poor. His insights are vacuous. His conduct is a permanent source of ignominy. All the perfumes of Albany could not sweeten this little man. “What’s in a name?” inquired Shakespeare. Little did he know.
It is unclear why Cuomo was selected by CNN to begin with. He’s a lawyer who knows nothing of the law; a journalist who knows nothing of journalism; an American who knows nothing of America. His temper is third-rate, his interests are bewilderingly narrow, he possesses no discernible sense of shame or self-knowledge, and the opinions he proffers are so ruthlessly subordinated to expedience that hypocrisy is his default mode. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s maxim that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” was meant as an extolment of the virtues of personal growth. Cuomo seems to have taken it literally.
…Watching Chris Cuomo work is a little like watching a man jump out of an airplane without a parachute and then become irrationally angry at those who tell him he’s going to die. In 2015, in response to a debate over the wisdom of cartoons depicting Mohammed, Cuomo submitted on Twitterthat “hate speech is excluded from protection.” “Dont just say you love the constitution,” he added belligerently. “Read it.” Having been told by figures from across the political spectrum that this was nonsense from start to finish, Cuomo dug in his heels. “I will keep saying one word,” he contended: “chaplinsky.” Thus was a misdescription of American law transmuted into a misdescription of American history. Not only has the Chaplinsky ruling been effectively overturned; it did not deal with “hate speech” in the first place.Rarely have confidence and ability been so perfectly mismatched…”
It’s life once again imitating art, this time courtesy of Fredo Cuomo and his namesake in Godfather Part 2:
BTW, Cuomo’s dear departed father plumbed the deepest depths of Progressive political hypocrisy when, at the same time he claimed, though personally opposed to abortion, he couldn’t impose his morals upon New Yorkers, he had no such compunction when it came to overriding the will of the majority of his state’s voters and banning capital punishment.
“Prosecutors working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn asked for communications related to Mr. Cuomo’s October 2020 book, “American Crisis,” including contracts and materials used to pitch the book to publishers, the people said. They said the subpoenas indicated prosecutors are interested in nursing-home issues in the book, which more broadly recounted the governor’s response to the pandemic.“
Once more demonstrating if it weren’t for double standards, Jeff Zucker’s network would have no standards at all. Toobin either has pictures of Zucker with a donkey in Tijuana, or there’s a dramatic dearth of biased chief legal analysts. And can anyone say “White privilege”?!?
Next up, five more items certain to stimulate inquiring Conservative minds:
(1). Jeff Bezos is putting his mouth where his money is, as the Amazon founder had declared he’ll be on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s Shepherd spacecraft scheduled for July 20th. As Jim Freeman observed at Best of the Web, “The moment may also remind a few of those observers of the irony that Mr. Bezos, a sort of living testament to American liberty and American exceptionalism, owns a Beltway newspaper enamored of central planning. Bezos is one of those particularly selfish individuals who’ve enjoyed all the benefits of America’s unique environment without feeling his lessers deserve the same opportunity.
(4). If you’ve ever wondered whether the IRS or any other branch of the federal bureaucracy would violate your privacy to advance Progressives’ political plans, the WSJ’s Kim Strassel says the answer is…
(5). Dr. Faux Chi takes narcissism to a whole new level after telling NBC, “It’s very dangerous…because a lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science.” “Consistently”…”fundamentally based on science”: Yeah…
Like saying we needn’t wear masks, then admitting to lying so as to not create a panic, then saying the more masks the better even as the science clearly indicated anything but an N95 mask was about as useful as a…
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this string from Mark Foster…
…along with these from Speed…
…the lovely Shannon…
…Ed Hickey…
…Marcus Aurelius…
…and last, but certainly not least, Balls Cotton:
Finally, we’ll call it a week with a forward from Steve Armour confirming Kommielaa…
…is as popular abroad…
…as she is at home:
Magoo
P.S. We apologize for not publishing on Wednesday, but after a long day working around mi casa, we drove to the Mountaineer State to watch our eldest help coach the Spring Mill High School Cardinals into the finals of the West Virginia lacrosse championship to be held Saturday, June 12th. Better than the contest itself was the post-game activity, consisting of a prayer which included the vanquished:
When did the country go so far off the rails that such positive activities are banned while other savage displays…
…are encouraged?!?
Video of the Day
Ami Horowitz elicits the twisted logic and tortured thinking of vaccinated people still sporting masks.
Tales of The Darkside
Balls Cotton forwarded this video of a dedicated environmentalist who’s finally grasped the realities of renewable energy. As they say in Maine, ya caan’t get thare from heah.
On the Lighter Side
Courtesy of Tom Bakke, another strange tale from the Cold War which should send a little chill up the spine of those like us who lived and served through it.
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