. . . of Discriminating Against Asian Americans”

Listen to Kenny Xu talk turkey about HARVARD’S notorious PERSONALITY TEST meant to keep Asian-Americans OUT.

Xu fears that Harvard is legitimating this sort of discrimination and could play a pivotal role in exporting it around the world. He cites incipient moves in this direction in Australian higher education.

Xu further indicates that many academics are ashamed of the discrimination against Asian-Americans. So, to a) salve their moral guilt as well as b) distance themselves “as liberals” from the massive power, privilege and wealth of institutions, such as Harvard — they OVERCOMPENSTAE VIA RACE PREFERENCES that favor blacks and Latinos — only to see many of them underperform at elite colleges.

TUDOR PLACE: So even as Asians are being hung out to dry, blacks and Latinos are benefiting from a LOWERED BAR. This is social justice? No, it’s SOCIAL STALINISM. Not to mention a massive misallocation of ACADEMIC POTENTIAL.

This is well worth a listen. 

A look back.

May we never see the like.

Just look at these reservoir numbers.  Low, lower, lowest.

There’s NO PART of California that’s not suffering drought conditions, with MOST OF IT in a state of either EXTREME or EXCEPTIONAL drought.  This looks BIBLICAL to me.

Where’s Brian Wilson when we did him?

The Beach Boys — Cool Cool Water

Check out this podcast.  But before you do, read this:

“Maud Maron is the picture of a passionate progressive. She was a Planned Parenthood escort; a research assistant for a Black Panther leader; a Bernie voter; a public school parent; and, most significantly, a public defender who worked for many years at Legal Aid.

“But fellow progressives, including her colleagues at Legal Aid, now insist that Maud is racist, that she supports segregation, that she is, despite all appearances to the contrary, a modern version of Bull Connor.

“How did this happen? Why is Maron being lied about so flagrantly? And why did she recently decide to sue Legal Aid, the institution to which she dedicated her career?

You’ve probably never heard of Maud Maron. But I think you will be shocked by her story — and inspired by her decision to stand up to a tsunami of lies.”

A 21st Century Witch Hunt

If this is a racist-segregationist, then I’m the Duke of Burgundy.

Some telling snippets:

• Equity is an ATTACK ON MERIT and therefore on ACADMEIC RIGOR as well.
• It’s not right to hold back some students to achieve EQUALITY OF OUTCOME.
• It’s not right to correct past discrimination with CURRENT DISCRIMINATION.
• There can be no doubt that there is a kind of anti-racism indoctrination taking place.  But it’s anti-racism used as a TERM OF ART.
• This brand of anti-racism is giving cruelty the VENEER OF JUSTICE.
• Schools as institutions have been CAPTURED by what is, in effect, REVERSE BIGOTRY.

My bottom line?

Ibram X. Kendi is this generation’s version of Joe McCarthy.  He needs to be CALLED OUT.  And the sooner the better.

“People Are Scared”

From Politico.

It’s not just Republicans who are opposed to a philosophy EXPLICITLY DEDICATED to the ELIMINATION OF WHITE ADVANTAGE.

Many Liberal Democrats don’t like seeing their kids MOUTHING THIS INDOCTRINATED BATTLE CRY either.

I mean, what are we all in?  The OWN GOAL BUSINESS?

And the more this heats up, the more it looks like a LOSER ISSUE for Democrats in the midterms.

They need to smarten up.

But can they?

This is from an ABC News/Ipsos Poll.

The takeaway here is the disapproval ratings as per crime, gun violence and immigration policy. This is still a law and order country that believes in a southern border.

Endless immigration and defunding the police are policies that can lose Democrats elections. Because not everyone’s definition of SOCIAL JUSTICE and WHAT CONSTITUTES A NATION-STATE is the same.

Take an air-break from your bubble, Democrats! Those poll numbers are flashing REPUBLICAN RED!

Gustilo v. Hennepin Healthcare System

Social Justice Stalinism just reached a new low.  The remarkable stupidity evinced here is truly mind blowing.  And this woman is herself a PERSON OF COLOR.  In what universe can ANYONE say what’s going on inside her?

Check this out:

“Dr. Tara Gustilo is a woman of color, the mother of black children, and a Harvard-educated physician at Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS) in Minneapolis. She was Chair of the OB/GYN Department, until HHS decided her personal views on race did not correspond with her skin color and revealed her supposed ‘internalized whiteness.’

“Over the last decade, Dr. Gustilo has served successfully in various leadership roles at HHS. She created a program to reflect cultural differences in birthing practices to better serve her diverse patients. But over time, her colleagues transformed this program into racially segregated care. When Dr. Gustilo voiced her objections, advocated for race-neutral care, and criticized racial essentialism on her personal Facebook page, her colleagues told her that she, as a person of color, should hold the same race-essentialist views they do and could not lead because she does not share those beliefs. HHS then removed her from her position as Chair of the OB/GYN department. Dr. Gustilo has now filed an EEOC discrimination charge against HHS.”

HAVE PEOPLE LOST THEIR MINDS?

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Pfizer: Third Vaccine Dose Boosts Protection Against Delta Variant

Good news, I reckon.  But as long as much of the world remains unvaccinated, WHEN WILL THE VARIANTS STOP?

There’s fear we’re three or four mutations away from a VACCINATION-PROOF VIRUS.

That could be LIGHTS OUT!

I sure hope that this virus wasn’t INTENTIONALLY weaponized.  But it’s starting to feel like it might have been.

First A Crash, Then the Mother of All Responses

This is a follow-up to my original Adam Taggart-Michael Pento confab post, a few posts ago.  It covers a second video which continues the original video dialogue between Taggart and Pento which my first post introduced.

In this one, Pento outlines what he sees as our entire upcoming financial trajectory.  Right or wrong, this can only make one THINK.

So, here are some INITIAL thinking points.

• Politicians will do NOTHING to prevent a crash.  They will only “go big” following one.  As Pento implies, they are EX POST FACTO animals.  Too little, too late.

• Traders will short the bond market once they realize that the Fed/Treasury has no choice but to continue indefinite stimulus.

• Inflation will go MUCH, MUCH HIGHER which will CHECKMATE THE FED.

• Because in an inflationary period — particularly when there is a crisis — the Fed can’t FIX THINGS by creating MORE INFLATION.

This next section delves deeper into where we’ve just been, are and are likely headed:

• The two determinants of BOND INTEREST RATES are : a) SOLVENCY and b) the INFLATION-DEFLATION dynamic.

• US sovereign financial solvency HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IN QUESTION.  Debt is off the charts.

• The balance sheet will NEVER BE DRAINED.  We are permanently monetizing debt. We’ve handed money to people for the first time in history.  It’s led to rapid inflation. 

• The next crisis will have “inflation that will pop your eyes out.”  We will have “an insolvent country with intractable inflation.”  So, yields have to go MUCH HIGHER. 

• Returning to normal now would create an UNIMAGINABLE DEPRESSION.  We’ve been living in a fantasy world predicated on central bank monetizing of debt.

• The next crisis will be temporarily deflationary and then UNBEARINGLY INFLATIONARY. While hyperinflation is unlikely as the dollar is sound enough versus other currencies, inflation in multiples of 100 percentage points is possible.  “LET’S SEE WHAT BOND YIELDS DO THEN.”

So what sectors does one want to be in and when? Here’s what Pento recommends:

• Today, position for disinflation.  Bonds and bond proxies (utilities, REIT’S, convertibles, preferred shares, etc.)

• No high levels of cash yet.

• Don’t invest for inflation yet either as the Fed hasn’t even set a date for tapering.

• Go with gold during disinflation as it does well when real interest rates fall, but realize that it will underperform in deflation.  Afterwards, with the onset of serious inflation, gold will ROCKET.

I’ll stop here as this is roughly the point where Taggart and Pento ran out of time, and, mercifully, I stopped typing.

Anyway, I’M SURE YOU GOT ALL OF THAT. But the one thing none of us got — nor will we ever — is the ACTUAL TIMING FOR ALL OF THIS TO HAPPEN — assuming it happens at all. Still, Pento has made a compelling case for DISINFLATION, DEFLATION and ROARING INFLATION.

Let’s pray for some DEUS EX MACHINA intervention to mitigate some of the very worst that could result from a scenario, such as this actually occurring.