As this is a week in which many of us can proclaim our profound, and probably permanent, disgust with the people who claim to be the elites among us, I figured I’d wrap things up with a five-count indictment of the folks running the circus they’ve made of America based just on this week’s news.
This is curated pretty closely, you understand. I could easily have crafted a 55-part denouncement of our ruling-class twits. But this will do.
1. Joe Biden’s New Jobs Are Not for Americans
Breitbart had this utterly-insane-but-totally-predictable story earlier this week:
President Joe Biden’s jobs record is built on the record hiring of 2.9 million job-seeking migrants — and a persistent 183,000 deficit in the number of Americans with jobs compared to 2019, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies.
Biden’s “Immigrant employment … has exploded,” said a statement by Steven Camarota, who wrote the report, titled “All Employment Growth Has Gone to Immigrants, Compared to 2019.”
“The number of U.S.-born Americans working [has grown yet] has still not returned to the 2019 pre-Covid level,” he added.
The data does not say that American job-seekers are being unfairly pushed aside while employers only hire migrants for new jobs.
Instead, the data showed that all of Biden’s extra jobs above the 2019 level are held by his migrants — even as U.S.-born workers have not regained all their jobs held in 2019.
Yesterday here at The American Spectator, J.T. Young had an excellent column pointing out that the actual economic growth of Biden’s term has been pathetic, contra the happy talk purveyed by his votaries. We grew our GDP by 5.8 percent in 2021, which would have been a very good number but for the fact it was set off against the COVID panic and shutdowns of 2020. That 5.8 percent was simply getting back some of the loss from the virus and its response — and then it was followed by a very meager 1.9 percent in 2022 and 2.5 percent last year.
Those numbers suck.
Biden, who is about as close an avatar for the Washington elite as there is when it comes to economics — all he knows is tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend, and do everything possible to kick small and mid-sized business in the crotch — is busily demanding credit for a garbage economy rife with shortages. You can’t add 10 million illegals to the population in three years while the cities your partisan allies run are all engaging in policies making it impossible to build affordable housing. You can’t also add that population while crippling the auto industry with EV mandates when the public (1) can’t afford and (2) doesn’t want electric cars.
And if your housing and auto industries are locked up, your economy will suck. Houses and cars are the two most important purchases people can make and Biden has priced regular Americans, and particularly working-class Americans, out of both.
That doesn’t even take into consideration the inflationary policies of his fiscally incontinent government.
Everybody you talk to thinks we’re going to get a big drop in the economy soon. Lots of people think it’s a planned crisis so the elites can seize even more control of our economy.
They’re probably right on both counts. Either way, this economy sucks and it’s going to suck for a while to come.
2. The Five Eyes of John Brennan
A rational country would have Barack Obama’s spymaster John Brennan, a filthy Deep State villain straight out of King’s Landing, up against a wall somewhere for this:
Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”
Brennan sicced the intelligence services of our allies on the Trump camp so that when their tradecraft bounced back to America’s intelligence community they had plausible legality and manufactured probable cause to begin flogging the Russia hoax.
Newt Gingrich noted that this has been going on since the 1960s. It’s undoubtedly worse now. And Brennan compounded his election interference (yes, I know I could accuse that old bastard of a lot worse) by participating in the October 2020 lie that the Hunter Biden laptop reporting was “Russian disinformation,” a lie that more than any other factor facilitated the theft of that election.
A man such as that would die in prison in a constitutional republic run by serious people. Instead, he’s a paid talking head for legacy corporate media.
3. Soros’ Audacy Audacity
He’s been gobbling up radio stations for some time now, but things are becoming serious — George Soros, the nearest thing we have to an authentic James Bond villain (and soon, perhaps, the father-in-law to Hillary Clinton’s mini-me Huma Abedin), is in talks to scarf down the Audacy radio chain:
George Soros is poised to take a massive stake in the nation’s second-largest radio company, which owns more than 220 stations nationwide, according to court filings and sources close to the situation.
The left-leaning billionaire’s Soros Fund Management has bought up $400 million of debt in Audacy — the No. 2 US radio broadcaster behind iHeartMedia with stations including New York’s WFAN and 1010 WINS, as well as Los Angeles-based KROQ, according to bankruptcy filings.
One insider close to the situation, noting that he was a Republican, said he believed it was possible Soros was buying the stake to exert influence on public opinion in the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election.
“This is scary,” the source said.
Most major markets have an Audacy talk station. How many of those are currently conservative I couldn’t say — my experience with Audacy is that WWL Radio in New Orleans is part of that group, and WWL’s talk hosts are a lot more left-wing than center-right (and have been for some time). I can’t say that’s true of all or even most of the Audacy talk stations; I can say Salem and iHeart stations feature consistent conservatism and to my knowledge Audacy is a mixed bag at best.
Still, if this sale goes through, there will surely be conservative talk hosts finding themselves out of a job and conservative talk listeners finding themselves without representation on the air in lots of markets that Audacy serves.
We noted a couple of columns ago the utter disdain for free speech that our elites have. Soros is about as emblematic of that animus as anyone can find, and he’s working to starve the public of an honest back-and-forth.
They don’t want that back-and-forth.
4. The Rolling Stone–Kristen Stewart Debacle
At some point, Rolling Stone Magazine was a legitimate voice of American counterculture. That point passed a long time ago. Rolling Stone is now a discredited outlet serving that portion of the American elite who wish to pretend to be edgy or cool — but lost the ability to do that, if they ever had it, long ago.
Rolling Stone runs narrative-driven hoax articles when it doesn’t practice celebrity idolatry. The latter is expected of a pop-culture publication, and there was a time when that was mostly inoffensive — or if it wasn’t, it was at least fun.
There is nothing fun about this:
Disgusting.
There was a whole army of publicists, marketing gurus, editors, agents, and other faux-elite operators who got together and came up with the idea this would (1) sell magazines and (2) burnish Kristen Stewart’s image and make her relevant as an actress and celebrity again.
What’s worse, they released this quote from Stewart in the cover article about that grotesque cover photo and the lesbian action film she’s promoting: “Now, I want to do the gayest f**king thing you’ve ever seen in your life. If I could grow a little mustache, if I could grow a f**king happy trail and unbutton my pants, I would.”
You’ve probably noticed this as well, but there is a direct relationship between vulgarity and incompetence. They’re inexorably intertwined. And our cultural elites, who are derivative in every way, from recycled fashions to recycled movies to recycled ideas, cheapening and dumbing down with each iteration, are horrifically vulgar. It’s the only thing that saves them from the charge of outright plagiarism.
Kristen Stewart appears to be finished as a marketable actress. If this is all she and the people who handle her can offer, that’s probably for the best.
5. And This Is What They Think of the Constitution
You’ve seen this in Europe, where the “well-educated” children of the nomenklatura are busily defacing monuments and great works of art in the name of the environment. Every time one of these incidents occurs, it’s a puzzling spectacle because no one ever takes any action to stop the vandalism until it’s complete.
At least when they try to block a road, a couple of burly truck drivers will depart their vehicles and drag the spoiled twits to the side.
There was at least a touch of haughtiness from this side of the Atlantic, in that we could tell ourselves we’d never be the wimps the Euros are if somebody came to try to trash our treasures.
And we’ve now lost that, because when two beta-male brats showed up at the National Archives and poured red powder all over the Constitution display in the rotunda while prattling on about the climate, nobody did a damn thing.
You’ll notice it’s three and a half minutes into that video before the rent-a-cop security guards finally bother arresting these two Mutt and Jeff pinheads. And the video doesn’t even begin until well after the act has commenced.
Meaning it’s probably closer to four minutes after they’ve defaced a display of the U.S. Constitution before any consequences happen at all.
And there are some sizable males visible in that video.
How an outrage like this doesn’t immediately devolve into fisticuffs and serious injuries on the part of the perpetrators is utterly baffling — or it would have been but for the proliferation of cases like those of Daniel Penny and Michael Cassidy. The second that red powder came out of whatever container it came in, blows should have been raining down on the heads of these two defectives. Preferably by billy-club-wielding policemen, but if not, then by interested bystanders moved to violence by civic spirit.
I’ll submit, based on the above but also based on now years of experience watching our elites and their works, that none of that happens because they actually favor these oddballs and their insults to our core values and institutions. The people who run the National Archives demand raids on Mar-a-Lago but not the use of force to defend the most important documents in their collection at company headquarters? Because if there was a policy that those security guards would become very decisive and quite hostile when someone attempted something like this, those guards would have executed that policy.
The elites in this country are loathsome. Mostly, though not completely, because they loathe the rest of us.
READ MORE:
Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack Is A Must-Read For 2024
The Deepening Joe Deadhorse Dilemma
Scott McKay’s King of the Jungle, Episode 2: An Unexpected Paradise
https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-checking-in-on-our-abysmal-elites/
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