Remember when The Onion used to be funny?
Me neither. But last week, I noted that The Onion, which had stopped being funny before most liberals stopped being funny, had been purchased out of bankruptcy by some gang of idiots calling themselves, ahem, "Global Tetrahedron."
Fuck you, Global Tetrahedron. How dare you call yourselves that. It's so gay.
Well, it gets worse -- America's Top Cancellation and Deplatforming Officer, Ben Collins, left NBC a little while ago. He's the most prominent censor working in the media.
Well, I guess Taylor Lorenz is. But he's a close second.
Apparently he's born into money -- all of these media people are -- because he's one of the people who got the funding to buy The Onion, and he says he'll be able to continue paying every single employee.
So I guess he just dialed up Daddy's Golf Friends for a Few Courtesy Millions of Dollars.
There is a bit of good news in Ben Collins' purchase of The Onion and his decision to run the website: he will no longer be claiming to be a "journalist."
His work has always been a form of unintentional satire, although it was never funny. And, unfortunately, The Onion hasn't been funny for years, so he is a perfect fit for the job of CEO.
I don't know if he did this himself, but all of the "Disinformation Experts" Ben Collins works with are fond of subjecting The Babylon Bee to "fact-checks" for its humorous material.
Will he be fact-checking The Onion or nah?
Nah, right?
Lefties have an excuse for their rotten children protesting in support of terrorist murderers in their expensive private colleges -- it's just fall-out from covid. You really can't blame the poor dears.
[quoting the Murdoch-owned NY Post:]Blame it on Covid.
Campus protesters roiling colleges across the nation are part of a generation shaped by the pandemic, who grew up isolated and angered by school shut-downs and social distancing and are desperate to find a connection, community and a voice, experts told The Post.
The pro-Palestinian cause allows discontented youth to express "long-withheld rage," said forensic psychiatrist Carole Lieberman. It gives them an "opportunity to identify with the 'oppressed' against 'oppressors.'"
These kids are susceptible to propaganda.
Dr. Lieberman was at least willing to admit that the majority of these students "don't have a full understanding of the movement they've aligned themselves with." She also agreed that there is too much ignorance about what the slogans they are chanting actually mean. But underlying all of that, these young people are mostly looking to find some sort of group or community where they can belong.
Now pay all of their college debt, peons.
Politico: The "far-right" is pursuing a "natalist" agenda, meaning... they like babies and believe there should be more of them.
Have you ever heard of such a far-right Nazi doctrine as "children are good"?
The Anti-Human-Life campaigners want humanity to stop reproducing and the human line to die out. They are anti-natalist -- anti-childbirth, pro-human-extinction.
But they'll never admit that. They'll continue attacking anyone who points out something like, "Say, our entire social welfare ponzi scheme relies completely on an expanding population base to fund it, and if the population continues cracking, there is going to be massive social unrest, rioting, and even revolution."
Or simply: "Babies are good and people should have families instead of being genetic dead-ends."
But if you point out that being against "natalism" makes them "anti-natalist" by definition, they'll call you a liar and claim you're peddling "disinformation" and defamation.
The media is claiming Republicans are "seizing" and "pouncing on" the shows of open anti-semitism left-controlled college campuses, and David Strom wants to know: Aren't all people supposed to "seize on" open Hitlerism?
I guess not! I guess you're supposed to ask, along with Lenin, "Who? Whom?" before condemning the action. Who is doing the act, and whom are they doing it to?
A long time ago, a commentator noticed that the European left was always decrying that authoritarianism was always "descending on the US." But he couldn't help but noticing that authoritarianism was always actually erupting in Europe, and on the left, to boot. "Authoritarianism is always descending upon America," he remarked, "but landing in Europe."
Likewise, antisemitism is always descending on the American right... but landing right smack in the middle of the left's most prestigious institutions.
And no one says anything, because you don't want to be perceived as a (gasp) counter-revolutionary.
A New York District Attorney refused to pull over her car when a cop car asked her to stop for a speeding citation. She says she continued driving all the way home because she didn't feel like stopping, and believes the cop should just let her slide because she works for the government.
Gee I wonder what f***ing party she belongs to.
No don't tell me -- like John Cleese in the Cheese Shop Sketch, I'm keen to guess.
New York District Attorney Sandra Doorley, who prosecutes people in her county, readily admitted she didn't care that she was breaking the law.
She was driving 20 miles over the speed limit on a local street, and when a cop tried to pull her over, she refused to do so. He followed her to her home and she was incensed.
She gave the cop hell and called up
[DA:] You know what I've been dealing with all day? Three murders in the city. And do you think I really care if I was going 20 miles over the speed limit?
POLICEMAN: I'm just doing my job. If you pulled, if you pulled over when you saw my lights, which obviously you did.
[DA:] I thought you were going somewhere else because I thought no one would ever pull a black SUV if you ran my plate.
POLICEMAN I didn't run your plate, I just called your plate out. And then I'm following you because you're not stopping.
...
POLICEMAN: Okay, so why didn't you just stop like you're supposed to?
[DA:] Because I didn't feel like stopping on Phillips Road at 5. 30.
POLICEMAN: That's not your choice. You know that.
[D.A:] Well, I made it my choice. Okay
She called the county chief of police to intimidate the cop. He did not back down.
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NEW: New York District Attorney Sandra Doorley runs from the police after an officer tried pulling her over, says she should get special treatment because she is the DA.
This is what you call a Corrupt Karen.
Doorley said she "didn't feel like stopping" because she was "stressed" with murder cases.
The Corrupt Karen was driving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone and didn't pull over when police tried stopping her.
The DA went all the way to her home and called the police chief when the officer confronted her.
She tried arguing that she shouldn't be pulled over because she was driving a "black SUV."
The Monroe County DA later apologized for the incident but said she has "dedicated my entire 33-year career to the safety of this community."
Someone who thinks like this should not hold this power.
After fleeing a traffic stop, brow-beating a cop, and then calling his superior officer to force him to let her off the hook, she was finally forced to pay the ticket.
You know -- like a Little Person.
She then released a statement praising herself for her respect for and strict adherence to the law.
She issued this statement only because her insufferable-c*nt performance on the bodycam went viral.
Doorley said she pleaded guilty by 1 p.m. Tuesday and "sent the ticket to the Webster Town Court because I believe in accepting responsibility for my actions and had no intention of using my position to receive a benefit."
No shit, really!??! Thank you, Science!
But there's a little more to that headline (from the Telegraph, paywalled).