DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

The Telegrph (UK).

A University of Cambridge college has been criticised after it failed to suspend students who made death threats against an undergraduate who visited Israel.

The visit, organised by the Pinsker Centre think tank, took Oxbridge student leaders to Israel, where they met Israelis and Palestinians to better understand the Gaza conflict.

But one of the party, Bradley Smart, 21, said he received death threats from fellow students when he returned to Homerton College.

The Telegraph (UK).

More than 600,000 households received more in benefits than the average worker’s salary, the first analysis of its kind has revealed.

The figures show that 625,618 households were each given more than £32,200 in welfare payouts last year – the average annual salary of a British worker after tax – despite the introduction of a benefits cap.

The analysis, by the Conservatives, also revealed that 16,000 of those households received more than £60,000 in welfare payments – almost twice the average annual take-home pay.

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Elizabeth Warren has built an entire political career on presenting herself as the righteous defender of ordinary Americans against powerful corporations.

Every speech is some variation of the same script: she’s fighting for workers, fighting for consumers, fighting for families, and standing up to greedy executives and monopolistic corporations that are supposedly rigging the system against everyone else. It is a message carefully designed to make her sound like a populist champion of the middle class while putting a polish on inherently broken socialist ideas.

When her flawed ideology collides with reality, it repeatedly produces outcomes that hurt the exact people she claims to represent. Spirit Airlines may be one of the clearest examples yet.

When JetBlue moved to acquire Spirit in 2022, Warren treated the deal like it was Apple, Netflix, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and the Third Reich all merging into one new authoritarian Orwellian company called Dystopian Evil Holdings, LLC.

She aggressively pushed regulators to block it, warning that the merger would reduce competition and raise ticket prices. The Biden administration’s Department of Justice embraced that argument and sued to stop the acquisition, ultimately succeeding when a federal judge blocked the deal.

As a result it went bankrupt, all of its shareholders lost their money, and all of their employees lost their jobs.

Way to go, Democrats!

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As the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, the Justice Department this week advanced cases against illegal aliens running criminal enterprises—including a gun trafficking scheme orchestrated from behind bars.

In Georgia, the Justice Department announced the 25-year sentence of a Mexican illegal immigrant who used a contraband cell phone from inside a Georgia state prison to manage a massive drug and gun trafficking conspiracy.

Servando Corona Penaloza, a Georgia state prison inmate, was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for orchestrating the sale of more than 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamine and fentanyl and the purchase of more than 200 military-style firearms transported to Mexico for use by Mexican cartels, according to the Justice Department.

He was in prison serving a sentence for a Gwinnett County drug trafficking offense.

You can only have waste, fraud, and abuse when the government is giving people money. Stop the government from giving people money, and you will also stop the waste, fraud, and abuse.

This is not rocket science….

The Foundry.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general.

Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed Platner, proving that there’s virtually nothing a leftist can say or do that is disqualifying.

So, for 20 years, you’ve had a Totenkopf tattoo, which depicts a skull and crossbones, most famously used by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization that led, planned and executed the Holocaust?

No problem!

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What a great grasp of the obvious.

I’m wondering what’s wrong with the other 40%.

ATQUE: UK Schools Pushing Books On Kids Telling Them “There’s Plenty Of Room” For Small Boat Migrants

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Barack Obama is a real piece of work. Seriously, he has no shame.

One week after the former president successfully gaslit a small majority of Virginians into voting for a redistricting initiative that got rid of the state’s two majority-minority congressional districts, he has the gall to condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling against the practice of redistricting along racial lines.

He doesn’t really care about giving black voters better representation—he cares about the Democrats’ grasp for raw, naked political power, by any means necessary.

Most Democrats are like a sit-com: You know what’s going to happen, the only mystery is how they’ll get there This Time.

The New Neo.

It’s not true that the Left doesn’t have guiding principles. One of the most influential is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” America and Israel are the enemy; therefore Hamas and the current Iranian regime are the friends because they share the same enemies. Iran calls the US “The Great Satan” and Israel “The Little Satan.” There really couldn’t be more of a mind-meld between the Left and the Iranian leaders than that. Everything else is secondary or lower.

The left pretends to be for “the people” – but it’s the case only if the people are on the same side of an issue as the left. If the people choose wrongly, screw the people. One example of this is the left’s constant attempts to take down the duly-elected Trump, whether through assassination or impeachment or lies. The people of Israel can be raped and murdered or even blown to bits by a nuclear weapon, and according to the left they had it coming and will have had it coming.

And so the left is able to ignore the brutal Iranian regime’s killing of its own protesters. The left is aware that, were the protesters to win their battle, the Iranian people would almost certainly be grateful to none other than the oppressor Trump and The Great Satan the US, not to mention The Little Satan Israel.

Can’t have that.

Gates of Vienna.

It seemed that everyone was “focusing on workers over billionaires”, oblivious to the fact that tycoons such as George Soros and Neville Roy Singham were funding the events, paying for printed signs and banners, bussing in astroturf protesters, providing lunch for the useful idiots, etc. Mind you, Mr. Singham is a relative pauper in this field, being worth a mere $785 million.

All day yesterday I kept checking the riot news, expecting the tossing of Molotov cocktails and columns of smoke rising over “mostly peaceful” protests. But that didn’t happen. Yes, the crowds of earnest progressives turned out, but it wasn’t a repeat of the Summer of George Floyd. There was no sign of the kinetic excess that one would expect if Antifa or BLM had been mobilized for the occasion.

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Yeah, probably.

I’m sure thieves love them.

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Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee….

The Times (UK).

Former Royal Marines and veterans of the Parachute Regiment have been hired to protect synagogues and Jewish schools as Britain braces for further antisemitic violence.

The deployment of elite ex-troops for security patrols can be revealed for the first time after the stabbing of two Jewish men in a suspected terrorist attack in Golders Green, northwest London, and a recent spate of fire bombings in the surrounding area.

The wave of incidents influenced the government’s decision on Thursday to raise the terrorism threat level from substantial to severe, meaning that another attack is now “highly likely”. MI5 said on its website that there was an “elevated threat to Jewish and Israeli individuals and institutions”.

“If two weird things happen so close together, they are usually connected somehow.” — April Lewis

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Many of us grew up in times when our public workers were deservedly revered. This was because they were positive and helpful despite being both overworked and underpaid.

Those days are long gone. Today, most public employees seem either apathetic or simply unwilling to help the taxpayers who pay their salaries. To make matters worse, today they are paid much better than their private industry equivalents.

That was colorfully announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a recent news release. The statisticians responsible told taxpayers that private industry employees make an average of $32.37 per hour, and that their counterparts in state and local governments make $40.24 per hour.

This difference is more significant when benefits are added to the picture. Each private industry employee receives an average of $13.68 per hour in benefits, compared to $25.04 per hour for the poor, humble public employee. That is an overall cost of $46.05 vs. $65.28 for our public employees. That is a whopping difference.

The disparity is dramatically illustrated by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s move to give starting teachers an annual pay rate of $77,000 and 15-year veterans pay of $125,156. That is before a rich benefits package and on top of the perk of having summers off. Meanwhile, the district is an overstaffed operation with shrinking enrollment that matriculates poorly educated students.

Those figures are for the period ended September 2025. You might notice that federal employees are not included in this study, meaning the pay disparity between them and private sector workers might be even worse.

Think of it this way: When you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to be harassed and ignored, the worker behind the counter is making more than the average person pleading to escape the DMV’s dysfunctional dystopia.

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Seattle’s new socialist mayor is in the process of being mugged by reality and her response is to say that it’s, like, no big deal. Tee hee!

In a recently surfaced video from an event at Seattle University, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson—the West Coast Zohran Mamdani—was asked if Washington State’s new taxes are a good thing for the tax climate in her city. The state recently passed a “millionaire tax” along with several other significant tax increases.

This means that Seattle now has the highest state and local tax burden for high-income earners in the country.

Once in a blue moon, the truth creeps out of Trudeau’s Wokery.

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They don’t call it the Turd World for nothing.

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She is, of course, a Female Of Tincture (or FOT, not to be confused with THOT, which is a different gig that pays better).

Sarah Hoyt.

The problem with the left right now — no, I know they have many, but hear me out — is that they don’t acknowledge their shadow. In this sense, they’re not fully adults, and they do the most bizarre things because they think of themselves as “the good people” as though being good were bestowed by assignment at birth. In fact you could say all their other problems come from being unable to acknowledge their shadow.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A candidate in the United Kingdom’s Green Party is under fire after posting under the social media handle “thereal.anne.frank” that “every single Zionist” should be killed, marking the latest antisemitic scandal to hit the party in a matter of days.

Two other candidates have been charged with spreading hate online in relation to anti-Israel social media posts, while the party’s Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, is fending off allegations of deep-seated antisemitism.

The latest scandal came after the Jewish News revealed that in a series of posts on Threads, Tina Ion, a Green party candidate in Newcastle, referred to “Zionists” as “vermin” and “rats” and posted an image of an industrial shredding machine, which she called a “Zionist juicer.” She also referred to “Jewish Nazis” as “money grubbing thieves” who “have built mountains of money over centuries,” according to the newspaper.

The profile photo for the account, titled “thereal.anne.frank,” featured an image of a young woman wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian headscarf. In one post referencing the image, Ion allegedly wrote that it was used “because Ann Frank wearing a keffieh pisses Zionists off.”

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The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-than-willingly through the ordinary operation of law and regulation.

This is uncontroversial and unsurprising to insiders.

A claim which will be more surprising: some regulated financial institutions have delegated authority for account- and transaction-level decisioning to a non-profit.

Another: that non-profit includes a private intelligence agency, which runs covert assets, publishes intelligence estimates, develops target lists, and communicates them to decisionmakers.

Still another: the non-profit organized a coalition of the willing as an outgrowth of its intelligence agency. The willing non-profits, that is. The coalition engaged in a years-long campaign to coerce financial infrastructure and other firms to give them the ability to direct accounts to be closed. The infrastructure built to do this against domestic terrorists was applied to an American politician’s fundraising efforts, and no one seemed to think that was odd.

Last week, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against the organizing non-profit for bank fraud. This was based, in part, on how it paid the intelligence agency’s covert assets.

They likely developed evidence for that indictment using the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) mandatory reporting regime.

We begin, as always, with the bank fraud.

The Telegraph (UK).

Qatar has been accused of “eradicating” its Bahá’í religious minority, with families living in the country for decades facing imminent expulsion.

More than 40 per cent of the small Bahá’í population is being targeted for deportation in a “deliberate campaign of religious erasure”, the Bahá’í International Community (BIC), a non-governmental organisation, said.

The community, whose presence in the region predates the modern Qatari state, has been reduced to a few hundred members after decades of systematic discrimination.

Muslims tolerate non-Muslims only when they have to.

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In a major break with tradition, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle has directed that the Navy ships that transport Marines into war zones be commanded by surface warfare officers instead of aviators.

The change applies to amphibious assault ships, transport docks, and dock landing ships, Caudle wrote in an April 24 memo that has been shared on Reddit. The Navy confirmed to Task & Purpose that the memo is authentic.

The Navy currently has a total of 32 amphibious warfare ships, including nine big deck amphibious assault ships, which carry Marines and vertical-take off aircraft like the MV-22B Osprey, helicopters and F-35 fighters.

In the memo, Caudle wrote that his decision is tied to Navy efforts to improve amphibious warfare ships’ readiness.

The Foundry.

California college graduates have been struggling to take their next steps into the career world. According to one congressman, the issue is not a lack of jobs, but a prioritization of foreign workers.

For years, the Golden State’s Bay Area has been a haven for jobs within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

But Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt told the Daily Signal that companies and universities have been passing up American workers and instead relying on temporary employment tied to international students’ major area of study—known as Optional Practical Training (OPT).

“We went from displacing blue-collar workers with sending jobs overseas, and then illegal immigrants suppressing wages and taking other jobs,” Schmitt said. “Then you also have white-collar job issue[s] with H-1B visa[s], which we tried to highlight, but also displacing recent grads and American students through these programs like OPT.”

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Democrats have an extremism problem, and it’s not clear how they can solve it. After yet another gunman tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, liberals nobly renewed their commitment to moderation. “We need LESS violence in America, not MORE violence in America,” wrote CNN’s Van Jones. Quite right. But the American Left has not exactly put itself in a good position to calm down its radicals.

Consider: last Wednesday, the New York Times hosted superstar streamer Hasan Piker for a podcast with writer Jia Tolentino. Piker has fantasized on camera about murdering landlords and once told his viewers that “If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill [Florida Senator] Rick Scott.” He joked with Tolentino about “microlooting”—that is, shoplifting—and equivocated about whether UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson deserved to die at the hands of his alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione.

Thompson “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder,” said Piker, citing Friedrich Engels to suggest that the killing was retribution for “systematized forms of violence” in the healthcare system. Piker is just one online celebrity, but the problem is that he represents a significant portion of the base that Democrats must now cater to. One survey found that 41% of young voters, and 22% of Democrats, considered Mangione’s actions “acceptable.”

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Dozens of ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists travelling on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla disembarked in Crete on Friday, May 1st after being intercepted by Israeli forces near the island.

The group of around 175 activists, according to Israeli estimates, was escorted to shore by Greek coast guards and transported on four buses to a location that was not publicly disclosed. Organisers of the flotilla, however, said the total number of people involved was 211.

Israel’s foreign ministry stated that more than 20 boats were stopped during the operation on Thursday. In a post on X, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the transfer of activists was carried out “in coordination with the Greek government,” adding that Israel appreciated Greece’s “willingness to receive the flotilla participants.”

Several European governments whose citizens were among those detained have called for their immediate release, arguing that Israel’s actions represent a serious breach of international law.

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Bro, the school system is taking kids on a field trip to a May Day rally which, this year, is essentially an anti-Trump, anti-ICE protest.

She literally said students are going on a field trip to a May Day protest!

You simply cannot parody this!

Notice that, although there are fewer Blue states, they have almost as many Reps as the Red states. (D.C. doesn’t count as a ‘state’ and has only a non-voting Rep, a Democrat.)

The Left Coast and the Lake Coast states have hinterlands that manage to elect the odd Republican, although who knows how long that will continue?

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A swarthy knife-wielding mujahid of unknown ethnicity terrorized the northern London suburb of Golders Green earlier today, stabbing and seriously wounding two Jews before being subdued by police and arrested. The attacker reportedly yelled (wait for it) “Allahu Akhbar” during his rampage.

Golders Green is known for its large Jewish community. The two victims were Orthodox, i.e. “visibly Jewish”. The two attacks were spread out over several blocks as the Soldier of Allah walked around looking for targets.

Contrary to their usual reticence in such matters, the British authorities have already declared the action to be “terrorism”. An Iranian terror group called Ashab al-Yamin has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The Daily Mail and The New York Post provide extensive coverage of the incident, with plenty of useful information and lots of photos and videos.

Most of the videos available online have been pixellated or otherwise sanitized. An unpixellated version of the stabbing at the bus stop is particularly hard to find. Fortunately, Vlad has managed to acquire such a clip, along with footage of the arrest of the suspect, and combined them in the video below.

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Polling shows that more Democrats under 50 have a favorable view of Iran than of Israel.

That comes fresh off the Islamic regime massacring tens of thousands of its own protesters after helping perpetrate the Oct 7 massacre inside Israel. The victims of both sets of atrocities, from the protesters in Tehran to Nova music festival attendees in Israel, were young and liberal.

And yet the young liberals of America have chosen the old theocrats who ordered their deaths.

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Nearly half a million years ago – far earlier than researchers once believed – early human ancestors were already building wooden structures.

A research team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University, reporting in Nature, excavated remarkably well-preserved wood at Kalambo Falls in Zambia.

The finds date to at least 476,000 years ago, long before modern humans, Homo sapiens, evolved.

Shortly after making this discovery, Professor Larry Barham from the University of Liverpool and his team identified a wedge, a digging stick, a log cut with the help of tools, and a branch with a deliberate notch.

Such woodworking extends far beyond what was once thought possible of early humans living so long ago. These artifacts were preserved thanks to the waterlogged conditions at Kalambo Falls.

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Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing behavior of social insects to build and dismantle structures without blueprints or central leadership.

How very Progressive.

These are simple, decentralized robots that can spontaneously organize to build — and just as easily destroy — complex structures.

Instead of chemical pheromones, these robots use light fields (photormones) to communicate.

“Our new study shows how simple, local rules can lead to the emergence of complex task completion that is self-organized and thus robust and adaptive,” said Professor L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Physics at SEAS and FAS.

“We also introduce the concept of exbodied intelligence, where collective cognition arises not solely from individual agents, but from their ongoing interaction with an evolving environment,” Mahadevan added.

Automated activists. That ought to save Democrats some money.

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You know how the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results? Someone hasn’t told the liberal women about it yet.

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This deranged bulldyke was triggered by Turning Point students who set up a table on the Kent State campus, so she took scissors to their patriotic balloons while mocking them as “neck gushers,” referring to the way Charlie Kirk was killed in October of last year.

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Why must you do land acknowledgements before school plays and then ban parents from campus if they have something to say about it? And why must you call Child Protective Services over these things?

Real story. Not joking.

Babylon Bee.

A true hardship. Weep for them.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

What did they expect to happen?

Activists on a flotilla of boats seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza said Thursday that Israel forces intercepted the vessels overnight, smashing engines and detaining some of those onboard while they were sailing in international waters near Greece, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Gaza and Israel.

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail earlier this month from Barcelona. Organizers have said more than 70 boats and 1,000 people from around the world would be participating, with more vessels joining the original boats as the flotilla sailed east across the Mediterranean.

According to the ships’ tracker published on the activist group’s website, 22 vessels were intercepted in international waters west of the southern Greek island of Crete, while a further 36 were still sailing midday on Thursday.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a post on X that it was taking about 175 activists from more than 20 boats participating in the flotilla to Israel.

“Israel’s actions … mark a dangerous and unprecedented escalation, the abduction of civilians in the middle of the Mediterranean, over 600 miles from Gaza, in full view of the world,” the group said in a press release. The distance is more than 1,000 kilometers from Gaza.

‘Activists’ have this bizarre notion that they an do whatever they want without any consequences. Israel doesn’t play those games. If you say that you are their enemy,  they will believe you, and act accordingly.

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

The Telegraph (UK).

Members of a religious sect have been arrested over allegations of sex offences, forced marriage and modern slavery.

More than 500 police officers from a number of forces took part in a raid on the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL) headquarters in Crewe on Wednesday morning.

The group, based at Webb House, a former orphanage, is a Shia religious sect founded by Abdullah Hashem, an Egyptian-American, in 2018.

The Telegraph (UK).

The sale of traditional tumble dryers is to be stamped out in a net-zero drive that will push consumers toward more expensive machines that take longer to dry clothes.

Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is introducing new laws that will phase out the sale of condenser tumble dryers and promote heat-pump alternatives to help cut carbon emissions.

The move, condemned as a “mad” form of “Soviet control” by the Tories and Reform, will align Britain more closely with the European Union which has already implemented similar rules.

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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin fired back at Democratic Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Monday while she tried to lecture him on climate change.

In his place, I would have been tempted to say “Sorry, I only take questions from humans.”

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The Zohran’s extravagant promises of free stuff – so attractive to NYers – have just run face first into the hard reality of double-entry accounting. All that money needed to pay for all that free stuff has to come from somewhere. And the mayor lacks the authority to unilaterally raise taxes. On that front, Commie Mamdani actually had more power when he served in the State Legislature.

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Remember the J6 prosecutor who stabbed another driver on the highway during a road rage incident?

Well, two-and-a-half years later, he has finally been sentenced to jail.

For 90 days.

This all happened in FLORIDA, by the way. This wasn’t some woke DC judge like the kind who screwed over J6 protesters.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Two Jewish men were stabbed on the street in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London on Wednesday, escalating anxieties amid ongoing incidents targeting local Jews that police say reflect Iranian involvement.

A man was arrested at the scene in Golders Green after being apprehended first by members of the Shomrim, a Jewish security force that operates in parts of London. Hatzola, the Jewish-operated nonprofit emergency service whose ambulances were recently burned in an arson, treated the two victims.

“One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public. Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser,” Shomrim said in a post to social media.

Both men who were stabbed — one in his 70s and the other in his 30s — are hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The first duty of government is to keep people safe. Britain has been failing at that for a long time.

ATQUE: Muslim man caught on camera stabbing Jews outside London synagogue

The shit the government buys is all crap.

Daniel Greenfield.

The latest Trump assassin wasn’t a radical. He was a Democrat.

There was nothing radical about Cole Tomas Allen: the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin. Allen’s manifesto reads a lot like that of the previous three-named assassin Ryan Wesley Routh who was stalking President Trump at a golf game.

Apart from the explicit murder plots, there is nothing in Routh’s ‘Dear World’ letter and Allen’s manifesto that you wouldn’t find in the Washington Post, a Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert monologue or a rant by a Democrat member of Congress. Routh was obsessed with Iran and Ukraine, sounding like Thomas Friedman when he complained that Trump had “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.”

Allen offered even more generic foreign policy criticisms that seemed plucked from network newscasts and fake news coverage of Trump’s campaign against illegal alien criminals, drug cartels, Islamic terrorists in Iran and the cutoff of funds to USAID, ranting about being (“raped in a detention camp”, “fisherman executed without trial” “schoolkid blown up” or “a child starved”).

Did Allen really care about events in Iran or Latin America? Could he even tell them apart?

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There are two distinct but related things going on with the Democrats. One is that the party is rapidly moving ideologically leftward and embracing previously inconceivable positions ranging from socialism to treason and the other is that much of the party is not ideologically radicalizing so much as it’s driven by a violently fervent hatred of Trump and a conviction that he’s Hitler.

This is not some grassroots phenomenon but the messaging from the top down of the party and its media apparatus. That’s why Allen’s views are entirely reflective of their rhetoric. He wasn’t a Marxist, a Communist or a Socialist… his views were those of the mainstream of his party. (The amount of distance between the Democrats and the Marxists of course is rapidly shrinking.)

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I’ve been convinced for quite some time that the political polarization of America has passed the point of no return. At this stage there seems to be no political solution to the problem. To be blunt about it: there is no voting our way out of this.

Where political matters are concerned, the hard Left — which seems to occupy a larger and larger portion of the Democrat Party — has all but cornered the market on violent, incendiary rhetoric. If you disagree with them, you should be beaten up and imprisoned. If you oppose the Narrative, you need to be put up against the wall and shot.

Republican responses to the Democrats’ at-your-throat fighting style are generally weak dishwater. The mainstream Right has always been reluctant to play hardball with their progressive adversaries, but at this point regular hardball will no longer suffice. A harder ball is required, one that would lead to a situation that most of us would rather not contemplate. It’s hard to imagine any Republicans being willing to pick up that ball.

As I said above, there is no voting our way out of this.