Boy, this has been some week!
Since Thanksgiving, I’ve lost count of the radio shows, podcasts, and other media hits I’ve done in promoting Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, the outstanding must-read which you’re all inevitably going to buy oodles of copies of for friends and family.
Oh, yes you are. Because you read Jack Cashill’s review of it here at The American Spectator. Or if not, you’ve read Caroline Howe’s review at the Daily Mail.
Or Dan Perkins’ review at BizPACReview.
The questions I’m getting asked on all the radio shows and podcasts I’m doing generally revolve around the 2024 election and whether this is Obama’s third term, and all of that stuff is relevant to the book. But it’s not why you should read it.
The real reason this thing is a big deal — and it’s a big deal, not just because I wrote the book — is that America needs to understand that Barack Obama is the guy who opened Pandora’s Box and let loose all of the world’s worst horribles on our politics, economics and culture. Racism, Revenge and Ruin gives the full treatment to just how malign an influence Obama has been on this country and just how fundamental that transformation he promised and then delivered truly is.
Milei and Wilders represent the backlash against globalist neocommunism … That bodes well for Trump’s chances here.
Of course this is his third term. It’s probably his fourth term. But even if it wasn’t, Obama has corrupted and wrecked most of our institutions, something he and his minions did in a myriad of ways, to the point where so many of them will have to be junked and rebuilt anew. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: Five More Stupid Things the Left Demands You Believe)
Democrats earnestly believe — and will attempt to excommunicate you from polite society if you refuse to parrot their resulting pieties — so many utterly absurd things today that 15 years ago would have been considered evidence of insanity. That’s Obama. It’s been Obama from the get-go.
And to understand a thing you must begin by naming that thing. Which is what Racism, Revenge and Ruin does. So get your copy today and I’ll stop evangelizing about it — at least for a while.
And now, for the quick things …
1. A War Referendum In Venezuela
You almost certainly don’t know anything about this, because why would you, but it’s entirely possible that our doddering clown of a president will have not just Ukraine and Gaza on his hands as global flashpoints, but … Essequibo.
Where in the hell is Essequibo, you ask? Well, it’s the western two thirds of Guyana. Yes, Jim Jones Guyana.
This is an area mostly covered with jungle, it’s largely unpopulated, but it has loads of mineral wealth. Off the coast of Essequibo is an undersea oil play being developed by ExxonMobil which could hold as much as a billion barrels of crude.
And there’s a history going back to 1899 from which the Venezuelans say gives them a claim on the territory. It isn’t a good claim, it’s not much better than the claim Saddam Hussein made on Kuwait before he invaded and started the first Gulf war, but it’s a claim.
On Saturday, the tyrannical communist Maduro regime in Venezuela is holding a referendum on annexing Essequibo. As you can imagine, that referendum will pass overwhelmingly, and Maduro will claim that as the justification for … we don’t know. Perhaps a military occupation of the territory.
Guyana’s whole population is 800,000 people. Its military consists of some 4,600 active soldiers and another 3,000 reservists. If anybody is going to stop the Venezuelans from voting themselves a colony next door and then taking one, it’s going to have to be the good old USA.
Like I said, you haven’t paid any attention to this, and you’re not wrong not to, but that’s about to change. And yeah, this is one conflict we do have a national interest in, because the largest energy company in the United States will almost certainly have its assets in Guyana stolen by a dictatorial communist regime — and it’s entirely likely there will be Americans taken hostage by that regime — when this goes down.
If it goes down.
Hopefully it won’t. But you’ll probably notice that things like these tend to happen when there is weak and feckless leadership here and they don’t when there isn’t. Take one look at Joe Biden and explain why Maduro wouldn’t roll the tanks and trucks into Essequibo.
2. The Populist Right Rolls in Argentina and Holland
Javier Milei has been compared to Donald Trump, and it’s a somewhat apt comparison. Honestly, but for his ability to top Trump when it comes to, er, unconventional hairstyles, I’d almost have to say I like Milei even better than Trump.
This is a guy who refers to leftists in Argentina, which a few days ago overwhelmingly elected him president, as zurdos de mierda, which translates as “the shitty left.” Who can’t love a man that eloquent?
Milei has taken to carrying a chainsaw around to represent what he’s going to do to Argentina’s bloated socialist government. He regularly ridicules government agencies he’s aiming to shut down. He’s threatening to cut off Argentinian trade with Brazil and China, saying “we don’t do business with communists.”
The man is an international treasure, and if he’s even remotely successful he might just bring Argentina back to where it was a century ago, when it had one of the top five richest economies in the world.
Bet you didn’t even know that, did you? Argentina has been so broke and so dysfunctional for so long that nobody even remembers when it was a first world country.
It’s possible that Geert Wilders, who even more recently won an overwhelming electoral victory as Holland’s new leader, might return his own country to First World status. Of course, the Netherlands still has a First World economy, but what it doesn’t have is a free citizenry thanks to insane Green New Deal-style policies aimed at destroying its rural middle class, and immigration policies designed to make the Dutch a distinct minority in their own land.
What happens to woke indoctrination centers disguised as colleges when the myth of a diploma being the ticket to the good life in America is fully exploded?
Milei and Wilders represent the backlash against globalist neocommunism, and they’re hardly the only populist conservative types who’ll be winning elections around the world. That bodes well for Trump’s chances here, but keep an eye on countries like Ireland, Canada, and even Mexico, where the Davos-gang ruling class could find the ballot box unfriendly soon.
3. Corporate America Has Had It With Woke College Grads
Remember Charles Krauthammer’s admonition that “that which can’t continue won’t continue.” And combine that with H.L. Mencken’s observation that, “It is a classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.”
Combine those two and you come to this:
Nearly half of U.S. companies intend to eliminate Bachelor’s degree requirements for some job positions next year, a new survey has revealed.
And 55 percent said they’d already eliminated degree requirements this year, according to an Intelligent.com survey of 800 U.S. employers, carried out in November.
It comes after Walmart, IBM, Accenture, Bank of America, and Google announced similar plans.
The survey found that the same employers that have already eliminated Bachelor’s degree requirements were far more likely to continue doing so.
Inevitable, obviously.
Every corporate manager and executive I know has been complaining that the college kids they’re hiring are largely unemployable, act like children, spew leftist politics nonstop even in situations that aren’t political, commit the most gross violations of professional conduct on the regular, don’t show up on time, refuse to be coached, and quit on a dime.
This is behavior which is learned somewhere. But if you’re going to get stuck with children as entry-level employees, it’s generally better to go with actual children and attempt to raise them to be functional adults.
So, you hire high school kids and run them through an apprenticeship program, and the ones who don’t suck you hire full-time and train them to be employees. Accenture just hired 1,200 people out of their apprenticeship program, for example. (READ MORE: Liberals Are Today’s Political Outcasts)
What happens to woke indoctrination centers disguised as colleges when the myth of a diploma being the ticket to the good life in America is fully exploded? Like Krauthammer would say if he was still around, it can’t continue. And like Mencken would say, one can choose to reject well-educated morons.
4. Hunter and Hamas Intersect at the Art Gallery
Ben Weingarten at RealClear Investigations provides us with the WTF moment of the week:
The American kidnap victim released by the terrorist group Hamas during its ongoing ceasefire with Israel is a great-niece of Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a major Democratic party donor who paid handsomely for Hunter Biden’s art and won an appointment to a plum cultural post from President Biden.
Hirsh Naftali’s Biden connections went all but unmentioned as she advocated in a series of nationally televised interviews for the release of her 4-year-old grandniece, Abigail Mor Idan, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen whose parents were murdered by marauding jihadists in southern Israel on Oct. 7. She is the only American thus far among the 61 mostly women and children exchanged for Palestinian Arab prisoners in a fragile negotiated truce.
While noting that the Biden administration has worked with Qatari and Egyptian mediators to free all the hostages, a senior administration official told RealClearInvestigations that “U.S. officials insisted that Abigail be included on an early list as well as the other two Americans in this category [of women and children].”
Nobody is saying that it’s a bad thing little Abigail has been reunited with her family. OK? That’s a good thing. It’s also beside the point.
But really. Who here is stupid enough to believe it’s a coincidence that the one American who Hamas has released so far is the niece of a Democrat bigwig donor who bought one of Hunter Biden’s crappy paintings? If these people don’t insult your intelligence it’s because you don’t have any.
5. Jayden Daniels For Heisman
This is obvious, no? LSU’s defense was about as awful as a defense could get, so awful that Daniels and the Tigers’ unbelievably potent offense actually had fewer possessions per game than it otherwise would have (last weekend, Texas A&M had drives of 17 plays and 13 plays just in the first half), and yet the LSU quarterback nonetheless accounted for FIFTY touchdowns in 12 games.
Here’s how insane Daniels’ numbers were this year …
Jayden Daniels vs. Top-50 defenses
6 Games
Passing: 1,806 yards/16 TDs
Rushing: 540 yards/3 TDs
Total Offense: 2,346 yards/19 TDsBo Nix (2)
Passing: 615 yards/4 TDs
Rushing: 39 yards/2 TDs
Total Offense: 654 yards/6 TDsMichael Penix Jr. (4)
Passing: 1,159 Yards/8 TDs
Rushing:… pic.twitter.com/F8rTt0DN6O— LSU Football (@LSUfootball) November 30, 2023
Elite company for Jayden Daniels???? pic.twitter.com/INjxSafacC
— PFF College (@PFF_College) November 30, 2023
Jayden Daniels is the FIFTH player in SEC history to account for 50 touchdowns in a season ????
The previous four ALL won the Heisman ???? @LSUfootball pic.twitter.com/idi7v0zIYQ
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) November 30, 2023
Jayden Daniels on 20+ yard throws this season ????
• 55 Attempts (#38)
• 35 Completions (#4)
• 63.6% (#1)
• 1,347 Passing Yards (#4)
• 24.5 YPA (#1)
• 22 TDs (#1)
• 0 INTs (T-#1)
• 99.1 Grade (#1)
• 146.8 NFL Passer Rating (#1)ELITE. pic.twitter.com/FImFq0Ex6w
— College Football Report (@CFBRep) November 30, 2023
Jayden Daniels and Bo Nix compared to every Heisman QB since 1971
While Bo Nix is having a historically great season (easily within the top 50th percentile of Heisman QBs), Jayden Daniels is having arguably the greatest season in the history of the sport! pic.twitter.com/WH8szzV8wJ
— Bot has Stat (@TheCrewFantasy) November 30, 2023
I’ll not belabor this too much, because Melissa Mackenzie is in the corner breaking out in hives about my mere mentioning it, but Daniels has to be your Heisman winner if the award is to have any meaning. He already won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award on Thursday, so a Heisman would naturally follow.
Right?
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