The consequences of elections
The Friday Letter / No. 438 / Orlando, Florida
In my talks with Biden voters on why they chose to replace a president whose leadership produced the greatest expansion of prosperity in U.S. history with a 50-year unaccomplished career politician, only Biden’s and Trump’s names ever enter the discussion.
They don’t mention those who are actually running the government, and that is where the real danger lies, beginning with John Kerry.
Voters had to know that Kerry would wield power in a Biden regime. We warned about this long before the election, that he and Susan Rice were the two most likely to hold the puppet strings, and they do. Kerry’s latest revealed act of sabotage of the United States and her allies should come as no surprise.
In a leaked audio, Obama’s Secretary of State from 2013-2017 tells Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that Israel bombed Iranian targets in Syria more than 200 times. If this isn’t a chargeable criminal act of treason against the United States, it is certainly an act which aids and abets a U.S. and Israeli enemy.
“While no one would be surprised to hear that Israel carries out covert operations against Iran, why in the world would an American Secretary of State pass that information to a regime that leads ‘Death to America’ protests in its streets?” Ed Morrissey writes at HotAir. “At best, this shows that Kerry is enormously and irresponsibly indiscreet; at worst, he’s exposing American intelligence to an enemy in order to attack an ally. And frankly, it looks a lot more like the latter than the former, and a lot more like an actual crime by a high-ranking US government official.”
Kerry has a long history of hating America, first revealed when he threw fake battle ribbons into the river (he didn’t want to lose the real ones) to protest the Vietnam War. After Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, Kerry engaged in illegal talks with Zarif to try to sabotage the new Trump policy, in violation of the Logan Act. He has never been indicted.
We were highly skeptical when Biden’s handlers created a cabinet-level “climate czar” post for Kerry. The suspicion is credible given that Kerry’s office is in the State Department building, and only a fool would believe Kerry’s role is limited to spewing meaningless blather about the climate.
New in office, Barack Obama happily reminded John McCain that elections have consequences. “We won, you lost,” Obama said. Yes, indeed.
Illiberal liberalism
Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp is under intense pressure from the party loyalists who work for him. About 14 percent of the publisher’s 1500 workforce signed a petition demanding that S&S publish only leftist dogma, starting with ditching Mike Pence’s 2-book deal.
The petition begins, in part, with “The events of the past week have affirmed that Simon & Schuster has chosen complicity in perpetuating white supremacy. . .” and continuing, “By choosing to publish Mike Pence, Simon & Schuster is generating wealth for a central figure of a presidency that unequivocally advocated for racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, misogyny, ableism, islamophobia, antisemitism, and violence. This is not a difference of opinions; this is legitimizing bigotry.”
Simon & Schuster once offered some political variety, including Rush Limbaugh, but has moved steadily leftward under its workers’ demands. Last year it cancelled Sen. Josh Hawley’s forthcoming Tyranny of Big Tech, which then moved to Regnery. S&S did publish Sean Hannity’s book, along with a mostly imagined account of events inside the Trump White House by sour-grapes loud-mouth John Bolton.
For now, Karp says Pence stays. But he has to be looking over his shoulder at employee demands that S&S “commit to ongoing reevaluation of all clients, authors, distributions deals, and all other financial commitments that promote white supremacist content and/or harm the aforementioned marginalized communities.” In other words, no constitutional conservative thought allowed.
Short takes on the news
With no GOP votes, the Senate confirms anti-Israel Colin Kahl to number 3 at Defense, Undersecretary for Policy. Kahl called Trump’s use of troops to protect the southern border a “stunt.” He supports the Biden administration’s decision to rejoin the Iranian nuclear deal that will allow Iran to ramp up its nuclear weapons program. . . . Headlines you won’t read in U.S. newspapers. At the Daily Mail: “Joe’s Robin Hood Plan: Biden unveils his $1.8TN plan for free universal pre-K, two years paid college tuition, 12 weeks of family leave and extended tax cuts for low and middle-income – paid for by raid on rich.” . . .
A new study by Public Health England shows a single dose of the 2-shot CCP coronavirus vaccine cuts the risk of spreading it by half. PM Johnson says deaths in the UK have dropped by 97% since the second peak. Team Biden’s chief virus scold, Anthony Fauci, alternatively says masks aren’t needed for the vaccinated and immune and that they may be needed forever by everyone. . .
The Prager Theorem on Happiness is expressed in the equation A + S = B = L, Dennis Prager writes in his weekly column. He says the cause of Leftism (as opposed to classic liberalism) is Affluence + Secularism equals Boredom equals Leftism. Prominent leftist leaders are irreligious, he says, pointing to Marx, Engels, and latter-day communist George Soros. . . . Hat in hand, tail between its legs, Parler gets out of Apple’s doghouse by submitting to Apple’s censorship rules, NBC News reports. Apple had banned Parler from its app store for allowing conservative opinions. That leaves only Rumble as a currently viable alternative to leftist Twitter, although some others are in the embryonic stage. “In the period since Apple removed the Parler app from the App Store, Apple’s App Review Team has engaged in substantial conversations with Parler in an effort to bring the Parler app into compliance with the Guidelines and reinstate it in the App Store,” an Apple PR flack writes. . . .
Mary McCord will be an advisor to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She was Obama’s assistant attorney general for national security when she approved illegal spying on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. . . . Federal District Judge Robert Chatigny, a Clinton appointee, dismisses a suit by four female high school track athletes that sought to keep boys from competing in girls’ sports. The girls, since graduated, sued the Connecticut Association of Schools after boys who claimed to be girls defeated them in several state championship events. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals is their next stop. . . .
Hunter Biden, pivot man in father Joe’s business corruption racket in China and under investigation for felony gun violations, will teach a course at Tulane called media something or other (It isn’t worth looking up). . . . The CEO of state-friendly American Medical Association calls state laws banning sexual mutilation surgeries on minors “dangerous government intrusion.”
In the news . . .
Why we no longer call “journalists” reporters. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times propagandist who wrote the debunked “1619 Project” which tried to change the history of the nation’s founding, will join the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media as “Knight chair in race and investigative journalism,” the school announced. In the “1619 Project,” Jones falsely claims that the American Revolution’s purpose was to maintain the institution of slavery, and that the U.S. was founded in 1619, not 1776. Although the project has been widely dismissed as leftwing propaganda, condemned and discredited, it has found its way into school curricula around the country. The school describes Jones as a “highly-respected news leader.”