Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news,
Jesse Ventura went full conspiracy mode on Piers Morgan’s show, suggesting President Trump faked the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, complete with a self-inflicted “blade job” cut to his ear for dramatic effect.
An Ecuadorian migrant accused of fatally mowing down a New Jersey pedestrian in a vicious hit-and-run is believed to have entered the US illegally twice, including once after being deported, federal officials said.
Wilson “Adrian” Morocho-Necta, 33, is now being hunted by ICE after plowing his work truck into Justo Pilco-Tenesaca, 68, and pinning him under the vehicle near Sussex Avenue in Morristown — before leaping out and bolting on foot around 7 a.m. Friday, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Officeand the Department of Homeland Security.
Pilco-Tenesaca, of Morristown, was rushed to a local hospital where he later died.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has earned widespread ire for hurling another homophobic insult at a conservative influencer.
The governor’s press office replied to a post from Benny Johnson saying Newsom should be “terrified” about fraud investigations in his state.
“We got a call from Grindr after this and said your team was their biggest users. Congrats!” Newsom’s press office wrote in response.
It’s at least the third time Newsom’s office has referenced Grindr — the dating app for gay, bisexual and transgender people — in a post targeting his critics.
Orange man is sooooo bad that Foreign Policy Magazine's columnist and (of course) Columbia University Professor Howard French argues that America should lose the war to Iran.
No, I am not kidding.
It's not that French is arguing that Iran is the good guy. He concedes that they are not. It's just that America under Trump is so, so horribly bad that his winning the war is unthinkable.
Better that a regime that murders its citizens by the gross, rapes and mutilates young women for not wearing a hijab, and that executes people for being gay survive than have Donald Trump be the author of its demise.
The current situation in the United States, like that of the United States in the world, is by no means normal. This should summon the American public and world opinion to take what may seem to be an unusual, even uncomfortable, position: Under the disturbing present circumstances, one should simply not wish for a U.S. victory in the country’s 3-week-old war against Iran.
French insists, as one must do in a respectable magazine, that he doesn't want US soldiers to lose their lives or anything like that. But, if it means that Trump loses the war, so be it, because Trump must be stopped at all costs, because he is Orange Man.
The far bigger problem that underpins all of these realities is that the United States is governed by a malignant narcissist whose megalomaniacal tendencies have bloomed alarmingly before the world’s eyes during his second term in office. Scarcely a day goes by without more stark evidence of this fact, from his vulgar and grandiose remaking of the White House (including a new ballroom) to designs to place his likeness on U.S. currency to his power-drunken statements about “taking Cuba” and being able to do whatever he wants with a sovereign country—all while still obviously unchastened by his government’s deepening imbroglio in Iran.
It is precisely because the U.S. body politic has found no way of reining in Trump and imposing reasonable limits on his power that we must hope that the current conflict with Iran can finally do so. In eras past, when dangerously toxic characters have imposed their grip on the country’s governance, Congress, the courts, and U.S. civil society have generated a kind of immune response, restoring the nation to a semblance of health. Think of President Richard Nixon and Watergate. Think of the moment when, in 1954, Joseph N. Welch, the chief counsel for the U.S. Army, upbraided fascism-inclined Sen. Joseph McCarthy, famously challenging his reckless red-baiting during a hearing, saying: “You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
The BALLROOM! We must lose to Iran because Trump is grandiose! He actually brought up the ballroom to explain why the largest state sponsor of terrorism should win this war.
Sure, Iran may have been pursuing nuclear weapons and was building thousands of missiles that could hit any country within several thousand miles, and of course, just murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens, but Trump is a narcissist who is building a BALLROOM!
Don't you SEE?! A BALLROOM!
Mr. Columbia Professor here has a solution to everything: wish for peace! If only we had kept funding Iran with pallets of cash they would have played nice, because that is what The Narrative™ says!
The way to end this war is not with bombs but with an easing of tensions and eventual guarantees of security for all in the Middle East. That includes Iran. The world was closer to such an outcome under the arrangements negotiated by the Obama administration to subject Iran’s nuclear program to strict controls. Trump started a war even though some of his own intelligence reports acknowledged there was no imminent threat. Finding a way back to dialogue and mutual reassurances will be incredibly difficult, but that is the only way forward.38
Can you imagine what this idiot would have been writing about Churchill in 1939? He would be sitting across from Tucker Carlson, explaining how Hitler wasn't really that bad, and that the British should have appeased Hitler again with Poland. Hitler and Stalin will reestablish peace, right?
Trump is the organizing principle around whom everything the left says and thinks is based. Trump is evil, so everything and everyone he opposes is the good guy.
It's a variation on the "Israel's fault" explanations we get from the pro-Islamists (also Tucker Carlson!). Israel killed Charlie Kirk! Israel sends saboteurs to the UAE! Israel runs the world! Jewish space lasers!
I suppose you should expect a Columbia professor to believe this stuff—he just wrote a book about pan-Africanism and "global blackness," whatever that is, celebrating the poorest and most backward continent on Earth, and the home of so many genocides that one loses count (notice how few people even take notice anymore, they are so common?), but Foreign Policy has been the Voice of the Establishment for over 50 years.
This is where the Establishment is now.
THE BALLROOM! America must lose because of the BALLROOM!
William Shakespeare's birthplace will be de-colonised over fears that portraying his success as the 'greatest' playwright 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'.
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.
It wants to 'create a more inclusive museum experience' and announced it will move away from Western perspectives after concerns were raised that Shakespeare's ideas were used to advance 'white supremacy' ideas.
The trust also said that some of its items could contain language or depictions that are racist, sexist, or homophobic.
It comes amid an ongoing backlash against the writer. Some productions of his works have been slapped with trigger warnings for misogyny, racism and 'problematic radicalised dynamics' that link whiteness to beauty.
In 2022, a research project between the trust and Dr Helen Hopkins at the University of Birmingham postulated that the idea of Shakespeare's 'universal' genius 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'.
This is because European culture is portrayed as the standard for high art and the playwright as a symbol of British 'superiority', according to The Telegraph.
The project said this narrative has caused harm, and advised that the trust stop saying Shakespeare was the 'greatest' but part of a community of 'equal and different' writers globally.
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon
A bust of the English playwright, part of the Shakespeare Memorial in The Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon
William Shakespeare's birthplace will be de-colonised over fears that portraying his success as the 'greatest' playwright 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust later received funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, which finances projects that boost diversity and inclusion.
Some of its organised events celebrated Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a Romeo and Juliet-inspired Bollywood dance workshop.
The trust also promised to remove offensive language from its collections.
Some of the items at the trust include archived material, literary criticism, books linked to the writer and gifts from around the world offered in honour of him.
A statement from the trust said: 'As part of our ongoing work, we've undertaken a project which explores our collections to ensure they are as accessible as possible.'
In 2021, The Globe Theatre launched a project to 'decolonise' Shakespeare's famous plays, while experts claimed his work is 'problematic' for linking whiteness to beauty.
The London theatre, which is a reconstruction of the Elizabethan playhouse where William Shakespeare wrote his work, has begun 'anti-racist' seminars to discuss 'decolonising' Shakespeare's esteemed plays.
Experts claimed that the bard's plays are 'problematic' for linking whiteness to beauty, while an academic said all of Shakespeare's plays are 'race plays' as they all contain 'whiteness'.
Also in 2021, it was reported that a growing number of 'woke' academics are refusing to teach Shakespeare in U.S. schools, arguing that the Bard promotes racism, white supremacy and intolerance, and instead are pushing for the teaching of 'modern' alternatives.
Pictured is a monument to Shakespeare in the Warwickshire town of Stratford-on-Avon
Pictured is a 1968 movie production of Romeo and Juliet
In 2021, The Globe Theatre launched a project to 'decolonise' Shakespeare's famous plays, while experts claimed his work is 'problematic' for linking whiteness to beauty
Writing in School Library Journal, Amanda MacGregor, a Minnesota-based librarian, bookseller and freelance journalist, asked why teachers were continuing to include Shakespeare in their classrooms.
'Shakespeare's works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism and misogynoir,' she wrote, with the last word referring to a hatred of black women.
But others contended the latest woke trend is short-sighted, not taking into account the lessons that Shakespeare still can teach for today - with one New York Times best-selling author accusing schools that jettison the writer as 'flushing great literature down the drain'.
In 2023, The Globe gave Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream a 'misogyny and racism' warning.
The comedy, telling the tale of four rebellious lovers who get lost in a magical forest, is set to run from April as part of the venue's summer programme.
The warning read: 'Content guidance: The play contains language of violence, sexual references, misogyny and racism.' The online guidance ends with a plea to those concerned about its themes to contact the ticketing team for further details on the play's content.
The venue is a replica of the original Globe theatre, where Shakespeare's plays were first seen, so is closely associated with the Bard.
Pictured is a bust of William Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Library
William Shakespeare's First Folio, which was published in 1623 and contains 36 of his plays
A spokesman for the Globe said at the time: 'Content guidance is written in advance of the creation of each production and based on what is present in the play. These will be updated as the production comes to life.'
The website's warning came after education experts at the theatre who intend to 'decolonise' Shakespeare's work also attacked the play for its misogyny.
A major comic plot line is King Oberon giving a love potion to Queen Titania so she falls for the ass-headed character Bottom.
But academics have claimed this is troubling because Titania is drugged, so she cannot consent.
Hailey Bachrach, the founder of the education project Shakespeare and Consent, said that this kind of plotline can 'make Shakespeare problematic'.
Another 'problematic' plot line is Hermia fleeing Athens because she must choose between marrying against her will, or being executed or placed in a convent. Some academics say Shakespeare creates a 'dark/light binary' which casts dark or black as negative and white or fair as positive.
The Globe has sought to address the more troubling aspects of Shakespeare's work with its Anti-Racist Shakespeare seminars.
In these seminars education experts have said the Bard's language was 'racialising'. For example, the first line of A Midsummer Night's Dream is said to set out the racial divide clearly straight away: 'Now, fair Hippolyta.'
Unlike Othello, which features a key non-white character, the play is not typically viewed as a 'race play' but experts believe racial slurs lie in the insults used by the play's characters.
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