Terrific lineup.

Pay particular attention to Rickards and DiMartino Booth.

Extremely useful stuff.

. . . at Her Magnificent, Madwoman Best.

Believe her or not, she does have an angle.  Plus, she’s immensely entertaining.

As good as Leonid and Friends or Hindley Street Country Club?  Maybe not.  But they do have their moments.

. . . and think it’s merely the inclusion of slavery in American history courses, THIS ONE — excerpts from an Eric Louw piece in the Epic Times — is for YOU.

“Given the mounting parental backlash against the theory across America, it might be helpful to summarize the CRT worldview and objections to this radicalism. 

“CRT objects to how mainstream (white) Americans see themselves, their country and their history. CRT has the same objection to history as taught in Canada, Australia, and Europe.

“Its solution is to teach a new kind of history.

“Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard called this new history “the black armband view” in which everything before European colonialism was apparently wonderful, and everything since has been evil.

“CRT argues Europeans invented race and racism to justify colonialism and slavery and effectively invented a new updated version of the old Marxist villain-victim idea. For Marxists, capitalists were villains, and workers were victims. For CRT, whites are villains, and blacks are victims.

“Both models grow out of the resentments of the unsuccessful, but CRT’s answer is to tear down the successful and what they built.

“The emergence of parental opposition to CRT in the schools reflects a growing realization that the theory represents a truly existential and revolutionary threat to the American way of life.

“But CRT goes further than just wanting to deconstruct and reconstruct America and its way of life or take down statues. They demand all white individuals must recognize they are racists, which is built into them through language. They also demand that whites must apologize (and recompense black victims) for white racism, for white privilege, and for oppressing black people.

“Within CRT logic, whites are apparently always inherently racist and inherently privileged. Blacks are always apparently oppressed and can never be racist.

“If any white person points to the absurdity of these claims, this is taken a proof such a person is racist and ‘fragile.’ CRT allows no escape from its closed circular argument.  

“Re-education appears to be the only solution, according to the theory.

“Whites must be taught to recognize their individual ‘sickness’ and the pathology of their society. Then taught to ‘be sorry,’ to take the knee, and to be co-opted into CRT’s plan to deconstruct existing American society.

“This re-education will take place in schools, universities and through compulsory staff training workshops.

“Conveniently, CRT activists have created many jobs for themselves by running these workshops. Apparently, revolution can be profitable for some.

“CRT is a revolutionary project designed to actively disrupt and break the language we use. It is enmeshed with another left-wing project called the ‘decolonization’ of education and the ‘decolonization’ of society.

“These projects aim to undo the so-called evil of European colonialism plus deconstruct the work of the apparently evil white men who colonized and built America, Canada, and Australia.

“Building CRT’s postcolonial world is a project as profoundly revolutionary as was Stalin’s communist project of building the “Soviet Man.”

“Americans need to become aware of what such a project of re-writing their culture; their history, and their language will mean for them. If Americans want to see what ‘decolonization’ of education and society means, just look at what the African National Congress has done in South Africa.

“This is a project of erasure that is totalitarian in its vision.

“What is remarkable is that left-leaning liberals cannot see how Orwellian this CRT re-education project is in the way it wants to replace ‘bad language’ and ‘bad thinking’ with new sanitized ‘social justice’ words and ‘good thinking.’ Similarities can be found with Mao Ze Dong’s Cultural Revolution when communist witch hunts forced people to confess their ‘guilt.'”

THIS IS A POWER-GRAB AND A HUSTLE POSING AS JUSTICE AND MORALITY.

Calling Lori Lightfoot — SHE OF THE SEGREGATED PRESS CONFERENCES!  Yo, Lori, ma’am — ARE YOU STILL AT YOUR POST?

One has to wonder.

Oh — and I HATE to keep harping on this, but WHERE IS BLM when it comes to black on black violence?  Do black lives matter only when WHITES TAKE THEM?  Otherwise, is it flat-out open season on brothers and sisters in the hood?

Jesus, in 50 years we’ve gone from the rock group, CHICAGO, singing “Another Rainy Day in New York City” . . .

. . . to watching footage of ANOTHER (MURDEROUS) NIGHT IN CHICAGO. (Scroll down)

CHECK OUT THESE NUMBERS ET AL FROM ZERO HEDGE:

On Monday, police data showed 678 people in Chicago were murdered between Jan.1 and Oct. 31. That’s higher than the past four years: 

• 2020: 661 murders
• 2019: 432 murders
• 2018: 490 murders
• 2017: 583 murders

A poll from August shows 46% of Chicagoans disapprove of the job Lightfoot is doing as mayor. Her promise to reduce violent crime isn’t working as shootings are sporadically happening around the city. 

There are rolling shootouts between gangs on local roadways and neighborhoods – similar to a third-world country. 

Another typical night in the neighborhood. This will keep happening as long as criminals feel there is no consequences for their actions. The only difference between the old Wild Wild West instead of horses they now use vehicles. pic.twitter.com/axfzvHco7N

— Jaime M Andrade, Jr. (@AndradeRep40) October 31, 2021

Totally THIRD-WORLD-LOOKING to me.

As good a BRICK-BY-BRICK critique as there is of Progressive OVERREACH and its negative electoral consequences for Democrats.  And he’s not talking 2050 but RIGHT NOW.

Someday, maybe moving Right will be fatal, but the country AS A WHOLE has been MOVING RIGHT since 1980, including the ENTIRE EIGHT YEARS of the CLINTON ERA.  Not to mention that almost ALL of Reagan’s agenda was ratified by DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED CONGRESSES.

All of that said, here’s what Michael Shellenberger — born and bred liberal/climate activist — sees now:

Why Progressives Ruin Democrats

Some notable points:

• “Since the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016, progressives have made the argument that taking back the presidency, the Congress, and winning swing states requires that Democrats move to the Left on social and economic issues, aggressively confront structural racism, and stand more firmly with longstanding allies like the teachers’ unions, environmentalists, and criminal justice reformers.”
• “But the election of an underdog Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, as governor of Virginia on Tuesday night, the election of Republicans in state races in New Jersey and New York, and the repudiation of progressives in Seattle and Minneapolis on issues relating to criminal justice, suggest that voters in even liberal cities are turning against progressive policies and ideology, particularly on issues relating to race, education, and crime, as part of a backlash to ‘woke’ ideology.”

And check out this exchange between Van Jones, Anderson Cooper and David Axelrod — THREE ARCH-LIBS — from the CNN stable:

• “I think Democrats have to look in the mirror now,” said CNN contributor, Van Jones, on election night. “I think Democrats are coming across in ways that we don’t recognize, that are annoying, offensive, and seem out of touch in ways that don’t show up in our feeds, in our echo chamber —”“When you’re talking about ‘our,’” interrupted Anderson Cooper, “you’re talking about Democrats?”“Democrats” confirmed Jones

  “Because,” said Cooper, “it seems annoying to a lot of people.”

  Former advisor to Barack Obama, David Axelrod, agreed. “I think the attitude [of Democrats] is important,” he said. “The Democratic Party has become a more college-educated and urban party coalition with minority voters and the messages tend to be moralizing.”

  “Moralizing,” agreed Jones. “Self-righteous.”

  “It’s, ‘We’re going to tell you what’s right,’” said Axelrod.

And here’s LSU’s WAR-HORSE LIB, James Carville:

• “Democratic political strategist James Carville was even more blunt. “What went wrong is stupid wokeness,” he told PBS. “Don’t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Washington. I mean, this ‘Defund the police!’ lunacy. This, ‘Take Abraham Lincoln’s name off of schools!’… people see that. And it really has a suppressive effect on all across the country on Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something.”

PEOPLE, THOSE ARE MEMBERS OF THE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S NOMENKLATURA SPEAKING ON GLOBAL TV.  SEA CHANGE, ANYONE?

Back to Shellenberger and I quote:

• Democratic and progressive elites often come across as out of touch.
• There is also tone deafness.
• Progressives wave away concerns of elitism.
• A worse look is calling half of the country racist, which is what many progressives and Democrats have done since 2016.
• CRT is an off-shoot of critical theory, the most important Marxist intellectual tradition of the 20th Century.
• Critical theory includes thinkers including Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, and Antonio Gramsci. Critical theorists, including Gramsci, argued that Marxist socialists should try to occupy key positions in important social institutions, including universities, churches, and labor unions. The idea was that Marxists would have more power to transform social institutions from the inside as NGO professionals, journalists, teachers, professors, university administrators, and corporate human relations officers than as shouty protesters outside the system. (my italics, bolding and underscoring)
• Progressive activists on CRT, criminal justice, and climate change don’t believe, in my experience, that they are adherents to a new religion, but rather that they are more compassionate and more moral than those who hold more traditional views. And that lack of self-awareness is part of why victimology is so powerful. But it may also be what makes it politically vulnerable.
• Like other religions, wokeism promotes supernatural views.
• One question I have long wondered about woke religion is why I could tomorrow declare myself a woman, and be praised for my bravery by progressives, but if I declared myself black, I would be run out of Berkeley.
• Climate alarmism has long created serious vulnerabilities for Democrats.

Years ago, Barack Obama — no wokester himself — warned Democrats about the danger of politically correct PURITY TESTS.  And he was right.  They STILL DON’T FLY in this CENTER-RIGHT COUNTRY.

MAJOR ALLOCATIONS:

$110 billion — Roads and Bridges

$39 billion — Public transit

$66 billion — Amtrak

$65 billion — Broadband internet

$65 billion — Electric grid

$15 billion — Electric cars, buses and ferries

$55 billion — Clean drinking water

$48 billion — Great rivers and lakes

$25 billion — Airports

$11 billion — Road safety

Two concerns: 1) That the money allocated for these projects reaches its various destinations; 2) That we have enough skilled management and labor to complete these projects successfully and on time.

From Zero Hedge:

• “California’s attempts to eliminate accelerated math courses for gifted students was a terrible idea from the beginning. Now it’s beginning to backfire.”
• “Premised on the absurd notion that naturally gifted Asian and white students simply have better opportunities than black and brown students – as opposed to differences in study habits, parental involvement, and cultural values – a draft plan to overhaul how math is taught across the state has set off a fierce debate, according to the NY Times.”

Here’s how ethic groups in California stack up:

• “The draft proposal rejects the notion that some students are naturally gifted, and recommends against shifting certain students into gifted programs in middle school. It also proposes that math should not be ‘colorblind’ – and that teachers should use math lessons to explore social justice, ‘for example, by looking out for gender stereotypes in word problems, or applying math concepts to topics like immigration or inequality.'”
• “Enter the backlash…”Critics – including hundreds of Californians working in STEM fields who signed an open letter opposing the plan – say it would punish high achieving students by limiting options gifted programs. According to the letter, the draft constitutes ‘an endless river of new pedagogical fads that effectively distort and displace actual math.'”
• “Even in heavily Democratic California — a state with six million public school students and an outsize influence on textbook publishing nationwide — the draft guidelines encountered scathing criticism, with charges that the framework would inject ‘woke’ politics into a subject that is supposed to be practical and precise.”

LASH BACK, CALIFORNIA!  LASH BACK!

Maybe so.

From Jake Johnson via CommonDreams.org:

• “The richest people on the planet, representing a small sliver of the total population, are emitting carbon dioxide at a rate that’s imperiling hopes of keeping global heating below 1.5°C, prompting fresh calls for government action to rein in ‘luxury’ pollution and combat the intertwined crises of inequality and climate change.”
• “‘The emissions from a single billionaire spaceflight would exceed the lifetime emissions of someone in the poorest billion people on Earth,’ Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam’s climate policy lead, said in a statement. ‘A tiny elite appear to have a free pass to pollute. Their oversized emissions are fueling extreme weather around the world and jeopardizing the international goal of limiting global heating.'” 

Then there’s Bill Maher:

There’s life above the line and life below it.