The Left’s hysterical opposition to the War | Victor Davis Hanson

 

Yes it’s true. Hatred of Trump trumps love of country. Trumps patriotism. Trumps the hope of destroying a clear and present threat from religious fanatics. 

I find it disturbing and disgusting. I remember how political differences used to be about tax rates and health policy. It used to be about policy and policy differences. Which were debated in the halls of Congress. Now it’s about hating Trump. It’s paid protesters on the streets. It’s regular violence. It’s open calls for the murder of Donald Trump. 

Victor Davis Hanson, calm professorial historian, ponders the questions. He talks of the hypocrisy of the Left over this war. If it were prosecuted by Obama, the media and the Left would be swooning and cheering it on. As they did with his bombing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

There is no doubt in my mind, in my following of politics in America, that big chunks of Democrats have become openly, even proudly, violent and anarchical. During the “mostly peaceful” No Kings protests last Saturday, I saw sprayed onto the walls of a Federal Building: “Kill your local ICE agent”, followed by the the Anarchist sign. Nothing was done. Nothing. 

I’m glad someone came out “In defence of Lady Susan Hussey"

My comment at the site. 

Petronella Wyatt:

 "The wasteland that is now her life will be far more devastating than any injury done to Ms Fulani” 

Yes, and oh dear, it makes me cry. Shame on Ngozi Fulani. Shame on the BBC, to beat up the “story” like they did -- three full days on their front page! Shame on the rest of the media, falling for Fulani’s confected outrage. (“I didn’t want to identify her”. Sure. b/s)
I’m an old caucasian man living in Asia. I get asked every day, “where are you from?”. It can get a bit tiresome, but so what? My wife, Chinese, gets asked the same question when she’s in Europe. For her, again, a bit tiresome, but she accepts it.
Let’s recall that Ms Fulani was decked out in her full Afro-Carribean finery. We are supposed to notice it; but also not notice it?
The most shameful one here is Fulani. Her actions drip with deceit. And I so feel for Lady Susan. 

William doesn’t come out of this so well either, tbf. 

Hypocrisy all round; heaps and heaps of it, like the mounds of British hair on top of Fulani’s hairpiece. 

Voter ID — it’s all Jim Crow, don’tcha know?

What’s wrong with requiring some form of ID when you vote? To most, including virtually all Black Americans one cares to interview, there’s nothing at all wrong with requiring voter ID. Or not having random “drop boxes” which can be stuffed with “harvested ballots”, by either party. That is, to great everyone the same. Not “separate but equal” which is the Jim Crow, Gary Trudeau is smearing above. No, it’s not. It’s all the same and to a reasonable, checkable, standard. Not the chaos of the 2020 election. Which, by the way, I don’t think was “stolen”, I’m not one of them “stop the steal” types, even if there were Covid-generated lapses. Which, why not fix?

Also: I clearly remember, the day after the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, and then, dutifully, her whole party, claiming that the election was stolen. By “the Russians”! You can find on YouTube mash-ups of one after another Democrat calling “the election was stole “. This Doonesbury take is the rankest hypocrisy. 

Duke of Edinburgh remembered

The BBC covered his life, in death, extensively, starting eulogies the moment the notice went up on the gates of Buckingham palace yesterday, and put them on repeat. I gotta say they were pretty damn good! Respectful and informative. They’re doing more now, as I sit here a day later. The BBC has a thing for the monarchy despite its leftishness. There’s a sense, I sense, of the end of an era. And what of the Queen? And then of the monarchy itself? 

I learnt from these encomiums that the Duke of Edinburgh was a true polymath. A naval man who fought in WW2, commanded his own warship took part with distinction in the liberation of Sicily. A sportsman of more than average skill, cricket, horse riding, sailing. He won a Cup at the famous regatta in Cowes. A not too bad amateur painter, like Churchill, he owned over 1,000 books on art. Less well known, he was interested in poetry and had 500 books on that. That’s a decent library! He was interested in engineering and promoted British skills throughout his life.  He was an early promoter of saving the whale: he founded the Fund for the conservation of nature.

It was said at the time that had he not married the then princess he would have become the First Lord of the Admiralty, such were his leadership skills.

And that’s not event me thinks most well known legacy: the Duke of Edinburgh Award, to encourage self reliance in young people. Over 7 million in 130+ countries have taken part. 

What a life!

When Harry talked to William...

… it didn’t go so well, apparently.

Britain’s Prince Harry has spoken to his elder brother Prince William for the first time since he and his wife Meghan’s Oprah Winfrey interview but the talks were “not productive”, a friend of the couple said on Tuesday.

Hmm… not that I’m that interested in this saga, but still. The way the aftermath has panned out its a classic case of “one divides into two”. Democrats are mostly sympathetic to the couple and especially to Megan, while Republicans not so much. 

There’s also a divide across the Atlantic. Americans are sympathetic overall; in Britain, the couple’s popularity has plunged. 

That means people in the U.S. have bought into the narrative, despite years of “fake news".  No double checking, no desire to Call the Bullshit.

My comment at the site (typos and all...):

Which reminds me, the "fake news" bit: the AstraZeneca vaccine is being delayed in many countries because “blood clots”. Individual cases have brought vaccination to a halt. But: in Britain they’ve jabbed 11 million with the AZ, and had 37 folks with blood clots. 

That’s less than the number of blood clots one would expect in an equivalent population. And in tests, there were more clots in the placebo group so it makes zero sense to stop jabbing cause of that. But they do, despite saying endlessly, “we follow the science”. A hypocrisy I don’t get.

 (LATER: they've now restarted in the EU with the AstraZeneca vax).

ADDED: A good explanation of how to read numbers and unmask bullshit numbers.  

I have another example. A year or so ago, there was the horrifying news that eating cured meats, like bacon, led to a 20% increase in colon cancer deaths, in the UK. Yikes! 

Delve into the figures, however, and you find that that eating massive amounts of bacon (ten rashers a day) led to a few more people dying of colon cancer. The number went up from 247 per million per year to 297 per million per year. Sure, that's a 20% increase. It's also: an extra 50 people who might die per year, from a massive increase in consumption of bacon. In a population of 67 million, does a 0.000074% increase in the number of deaths really warrant the headline of "20% increase", even if it's correct on a facile level?

An example of: "True but misleading".