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🚨NEW: CNN’s Harry Enten *GOBSMACKED* by how pro-Palestinian Dems have become🚨
“In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this: They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points more than with the Palestinians.”
“But look at the sea change! Now Democrats… pic.twitter.com/nUlDFpZUpc
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) July 2, 2025
Ed: We may write more about this at some point, but I don’t think surprises anyone. That’s why Mamdani’s primary election wasn’t a fluke or an anomaly. Democrats cozied up to anti-Semites over the last two years, which encouraged this trend. However, this may be just one outlier of a poll, too. The Harvard-Harris CAPS poll has routinely showed that Israel gets majority support in both partisan and age demos, at least when the choice is between Israel and Hamas. There is SOME nuance between the way the questions get framed, but not 50 points worth of nuance.
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Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, issued an apology to several members of the campus community for leaked text messages where she suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed from the university’s board over her pro-Israel advocacy.
“The things I said in a moment of frustration and stress were wrong. They do not reflect how I feel,” Shipman wrote on Wednesday in a private email obtained by Jewish Insider, noting that she was addressing “some trusted groups of friends and colleagues, with whom I’ve talked regularly over the last few months.”
Ed: Translation — this is exactly how Shipman feels, and she was stupid enough to commit it to reproducible communications. ‘Kick the Jew out’ is also how Columbia’s student body feels, and that’s not a coincidence either. The messages came during the agitation on campus after the October 7 massacre too, which is why the attempt to push out a Jewish board member in favor of an Arab looks even worse.
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Crybaby can’t get any media attention so he hides in his car pontificating from his ass. https://t.co/83MdH8wsc7
— Captain Jack Moss (@macranger) July 2, 2025
Ed: I must have missed the memo on the new Capitol Hill fad, Crying in Cars With Cranks. First Warren, now Schiff. What’s next — Chuck Schumer weeping in the back seat of a limo over his cheeseburgers?
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When Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral nominee, defends his idea of socialist grocery stores, he says he can pay for them by cutting city subsidies to “corporate grocery stores.”
This claim is based on a basic misunderstanding of the city’s current grocery subsidies. The money he plans to use to pay for his city-owned grocery stores is money the city doesn’t have.
Ed: Like most socialists. Mamdani doesn’t do math well. This case, however, is especially egregious, since he’s completely ignoring where the “subsidies” originate…
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The critical detail Mamdani appears to have missed is that this $140 million represents overwhelmingly private investment from the very corporate grocery stores he intends to replace.
According to reports, the city’s actual contribution in tax relief through the FRESH program is a mere $3.3 million annually. This means it would take over four decades for New York City to reach $140 million in tax breaks, a far cry from the readily available pool of funds Mamdani seems to believe exists.
Critics are quick to point out that not only does the supposed $140 million in city subsidies not exist in the way Mamdani suggests, but eliminating the existing tax breaks could actually decrease total city revenue by discouraging private investment.
Ed: Yes, government seizure of private property and/or markets tends to “discourage” private investment. Just ask the Venezuelans, who rode the socialist train to poverty in near record time. Or, for that matter, ask any socialist-run country. Capital flight is a pretty big f’in deal, to quote our brain-dead former president.
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Trump is going to bully Hakeem into endorsing communism https://t.co/lJKjWkDnxZ
— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) July 2, 2025
Ed: And Democrats still can’t see it coming. That’s how blinded they are by their obsession with Trump. This gives a pretty good insight into how Democrats got boxed into aligning with the 20% on 80/20 issues like immigration enforcement.
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Mamdani is the perfect product of the extreme American left. He emerged from the Hollywood and academic environs where extreme views are the rage. He is the son of Professor Mahmood Mamdani, a far-left professor, and Mira Nair, a liberal Indian-American filmmaker. His father teaches subjects from “post-colonialism” to “race capitalism” at Columbia.
Mamdani is the prototype of what some of us have been writing about in the radicalization of higher education, particularly at elite colleges and universities. He graduated in 2014 from the elite Bowdoin College with a bachelor’s degree in African studies. These schools are now largely devoid of conservative faculty members. Scholars generally run from the left to the far left.
Ed: That was true at the time Mamdani studied at Bowdoin, as the essay I linked from the 2010/11 issue of the Claremont Review of Books makes perfectly clear.
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Genuinely amazed communists still exist. Media and political leaders don’t teach people to be communists. It still has a vibrant subculture after all its failures without any institutional support. These ideas are just catnip for midwits. pic.twitter.com/27hPolYcZT
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 2, 2025
Ed: Midwits? Yes, but that is precisely what our education system produces. Our schools really ARE teaching people to be communists, as noted above, and indoctrinating them into activism rather than preparing them to be well-adjusted men and women who can handle citizenship and self-governance. Its institutional support is Academia, and until we deal with that institutional corruption by midwit Marxists, we’ll keep generating proto-Marxists.
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This fiscal magical thinking came to a halt with the 2008 crash. The rise of the internet and the cratering of print advertising combined to doom Portfolio, a Condé business magazine launched in 2007 at a cost estimated between $100 million and $150 million. For its first issue, Portfolio paid Tom Wolfe a rumored $12 a word for an essay about hedge funders. Its first sentence read as follows: “Not bam bam bam bam bam bam, but bama bampa barama bam bammity bam bam bammity barampa.”
The joke around the office was that the nonsense opening “was $200 right there.” The full piece ran 7,400 words, netting Mr. Wolfe roughly twice an average newspaper reporter’s annual salary.
In September 2008, shortly before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Portfolio rented an elephant to illustrate an article about JPMorgan Chase’s credit derivatives desk, because the editors had decided on the headline “The $58 Trillion Elephant in the Room.” Condé spent about $30,000 photographing the pachyderm, instead of using a stock image. “There wasn’t really any hesitation,” recalled the photographer, Phillip Toledano. “Of course it’s going to be an elephant.” The resulting image did not even make the cover. (Portfolio’s editor, Joanne Lipman, said she did not authorize the shoot.) By the time the issue ran, the economy was in crisis; Portfolio soon shut down.
Ed: I cannot recommend this essay enough as an indictment of the elites who run media and culture in America. Be sure to read it to the end to see how Reddit plays into the Condé Nast story. It turns out that the high-culture cognoscenti had all the dollars and no sense at all, but still insist on their status as the gatekeepers of wisdom and knowledge.
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This is like something you’d see in VEEP https://t.co/AGj6hyxsNG
— Link Lauren (@itslinklauren) July 2, 2025
Ed: Tracy Flick lives!
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