Where you get to be lectured by a seemingly unceasing string of woke talking points about how humans, who owe our usefully capable brains to eating meat, need to become vegans in order to not be racist and misogynistic because… reasons.
It must be *amazing* to live in a brain like the one on display below. Eating meat is white supremacy. Somehow. Apparently popular culture is filled with depictions of “sexy fish” who want to be consumed. Fortunately, a lot of her more insane gibberings are met with laughter.
Juliette N. Kayyem (born August 16, 1969) is a former bureaucrat, author and host of the WGBH podcast The SCIF.[1] She serves as a national security analyst for CNN and is a weekly guest on Boston Public Radio. She is the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She is a former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts[2] and a former Boston Globe columnist, writing about issues of national security and foreign affairs for the op-ed page.
This genius, this pinnacle of human enlightenment and intellectual achievement, has this to say about Canadian truckers:
The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a "freedom protest," is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks ✔️ https://t.co/nvRQTfPWir
For starters, I’m not sure how great an idea it is for a US government lackey to be suggesting that a neighboring nation attack its own citizens. For second, she wants to slash the tires and drain the fuel tanks of trucks on a bridge… and *then* remove the trucks from the bridge.
Tell me you’re a fascist without telling me you’re a fascist…
Trust me, I will not run out of ways to make this hurt: cancel their insurance; suspend their drivers licenses; prohibit any future regulatory certification for truckers, etc. Have we learned nothing? These things fester when there are no consequences. https://t.co/JnKOy7EuHd
So Showtime has decided to excrete a “documentary” series based on the idea that white people are terribly racist and awful and evil (at least, that’s the impression the trailer gives). It starts off with the following in great big letters:
WARNING: THIS TRAILER MAY TRIGGER WHITE PEOPLE
Uh-huh.
Now, I’m sure there are a few white people who will get their knickers in a knot over the nonsense in the trailer and start firing off angry messages. But as a long-time white person, my reaction to it was… “Uhhh, *this* again.” And then I put it out of my mind, because it’s not worth ulcerating over. However, there are some people who watched the trailer, got triggered… and ain’t white. Perhaps their points of view may be of interest.
If you go to YouTube and search for “everything’s gonna be all white,” a total of twelve videos are returned (as of as I’m typing this) as top results. One of those is the actual trailer; the other eleven are reaction videos. Of those eleven, nine seem to be black reactors, two seem to be white… and ten of them think the trailer is racist trash. The eleventh is a white guy speaking foreignese, so I don’t know what his point of view was… but he didn’t freak out jump up and stomp around like the “documentarians” seem to think white people are supposed to do when confronted with racist non-white folks.
After *decades* of race baiters shrieking incessantly, rather than being “triggered,” this seems to be the most likely response:
Now, to go back to my life and continue to not pay for Showtime.
OK, so a school specifically for non-whites. Uh, sure, whatever. But here’s the “these kids are dooooooomed” part:
“We’ll focus on what’s in your community. Like, it’s a very strong entrepreneurial focus […] There’ll be a very strong hip-hop focus around our kids’ learning style,” explained Knox.
He said concepts from hip-hop would be utilized.
“[Like] what does it mean to keep it real? […] What does it mean the grind? How to handle your haters,” Knox said.
That’s kinda like teaching immigrants in their native languages. It will give them an education that will keep them on the outside of mainstream society; not only will their educational understanding be incompatible with reality, it will probably give them a conspiratorial outlook, making things *worse.*
Few things more hilarious than groveling apologies by Hollywood types for *acting.* Plus, the idiots who screech about “cultural appropriation,” apparently unable to think more than one move ahead, failing to realize that if they got their way and the dominant culture suddenly stopped “appropriating” bits of this or that sub-culture, then soon enough those sub-cultures would, be *wholly* marginalized. Where would “hip-hop” be if only urban black people were interested in it? It would be essentially the modern minstrel show.
In my lifetime there have been several noteworthy epidemics, but two stand out for their political nature. The Commie Cough, of course, has been wreaking havoc for a few years now, and opening the door for totalitarianism and mass Karening the whole time. But a generation earlier, another epidemic gained vast political clout and resulted in almost the exact opposite response. Where COVID has led to lockdowns of entire populations, mass testing and legal repercussions for not just ill-behaved people with the disease but well intentioned people without it… AIDS resulted in the opposite. AIDS is a disease that is 100% fatal barring the use of complex and expensive drugs that do not cure the disease but merely hold it in check; stop the drugs and not only do you probably die, you return to being a carrier. The entire planet was shut down to ostensibly deal with a disease that well over 90% of those who get it will survive. But AIDS? Go ahead and do what you like, because reasons.
Had the same policies now in place for the Pinko Pox been in place for AIDS thirty years ago – in particular, mass testing and quarantining of the infected – the disease would be a historical footnote, popping up about as often as Ebola. But no, any suggestion for doing such a thing is seen as homophobic, despite the fact that the bulk of the lives spared would have been that very demographic.
By allowing the HIV to persist, rather than wiping it out decades ago, it had the opportunity to mutate into an exciting strain that not only transforms the infection into full AIDS faster, it also results in a higher viral load and is much more transmissible. This strain has been around for a while but is seemingly becoming much more prevalent. Coming soon: an airborne strain as transmissible as COVID.
Some will argue against the need for testing and quarantining because AIDS “cocktails” have been around for a couple decades now that allow people with the virus to live seemingly healthy lives, apparently for a normal lifespan. And for those that have the virus, this doubtless is a good thing. But this is only a good thing for as long as the drugs last. A global war? A major economic meltdown? A Carrington Event? Complex, expensive drugs could easily become quite rare. How long does someone need to be off their antiretroviral meds before the HIV decides to become resistant to the meds?
So, I had the opportunity to procure a box of vintage diagrams. This is not the sort of thing to be passed up. The shipper wanted me to pay the shipping cost, which is a wholly reasonable position to take; the most convenient shipping service for the sender was FedEx, so I got a FedEx account, created a shipping label through the FedEx website, emailed it as a PDF to the sender, he printed it out, stuck it to the box, dropped it off at FedEx on the 1st. It promptly appeared on the FedEx tracking site. Woo.
Delivery was scheduled for yesterday. It arrived in this state yesterday morning, with delivery scheduled by “end of day.” All plans for the day were put on hold to await the box; I have no desire for this thing to end up in the hands of porch pirates or drowned in rain. So 5 PM rolls around, no package. Perhaps “end of day” meant midnight. Sometime in the evening, the tracking info changed… now, “pending” and “no delivery date scheduled.”
Gah.
So I wake up this AM hoping that things will have changed. Nope. Noon rolls around, no change. So I called FedEx and spoke to a human. And here’s the problem. It got on a truck to be delivered to me, they scanned the label and found that the “to” address is the same as the “from” address on the account, and they got all confused, so they will sit on the package for a few *days* while they print up a new label and then ship it *back.* And since the “from” address is the same as where it was supposed to go in the first friggen’ place, “shipping it back” means sending it to me, where it was supposed to go anyway. Just delayed several days, because reasons.
