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The RIFT is a GIFT!

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/on-demand-thursday-april-25-2024

The New York Times ran a swelling story yesterday headlined, “Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid Pushback by Universities and Police.” You’ve probably been waiting impatiently for this development; and now, your waiting is over, the summer of protest finally begins! At least the kids are doing something, you know, productive.

And it’s spreading faster than gonorrhea during Spring Break. “Patient Zero” was Columbia University, which was taken in the rear, by surprise, and has now been occupied so fully and so intensely that the school recently canceled all in-person classes through year’s end.

Columbia’s massive pro-Palestine protest is well-organized and well-funded. At Columbia, and at most of the subsequent occupations, the protestors arrived on campus outfitted with expensive tents and camping supplies, since they clearly intend to hang for around a long time...

This protest season sort of blends Occupy Wall Street with Seattle’s CHAZ/CHOP, and a stationary version of George Floyd’s “covid-immune” parades and protests during 2020’s Summer of Love. Masks appear optional this time and the dress code is grunge chic. Riots TBA.

Not all states are rolling over like pleasant pussycats this time. Some learned their lessons last election season. Texas quickly cleared University of Austin’s campus, with jackbooted anti-protestors cracking a few skulls full of mush, and de-squatting the tent-bearing occupiers who were dashing toward the school’s commons area. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the police moved in just before lunchtime yesterday to shove off an expanding encampment of about 100 protesters preparing to squat amidst the formerly-peaceful center of campus, which USC apparently required for other, non-protest purposes.

Whomever is behind this national rampage hasn’t yet tried setting up any tent cities in Florida, and I suspect it won’t go well for them if they are dumb enough to try it.

But in all the predictable locales, stinky protestor tent cities are cropping up like diseased daisies after a nuclear meltdown. At Harvard, woke school administrators pretended to stop it, but quickly raised their flabby, pale, limp arms in useless surrender—what, after all, can they really do at the end of the long protest day?

True though.

There is no politician brave enough to stay that we should not fund Israel at all.

Never heard of West and Stein.

Patrick says

Never heard of West and Stein.

Yes you have. That is Cornell West and Jill Stein.

The Left’s Hamas Problem

How the Right can turn the pro-Palestine encampments into a disaster for Democrats

The pro-Palestine encampment drama could prove a disaster for the Left. Let me explain why, and how the Right can exploit it.

Most Americans do not understand the Israel-Palestine conflict or how it relates to the United States, but for good reason, most support Israel over Hamas. In this context, left-wing protestors will not be able to manipulate the emotions of sympathy and guilt on a mass scale, as they did with George Floyd. Ultimately, the spectacle of masked Antifa-style protestors occupying campuses over a foreign conflict and supporting Hamas-style “decolonization” does not offer a clear and significant upside.

But there is a significant potential downside.

This encampment escalation divides the Left, alienates influential supporters, and creates a sense of chaos that will move people against it. The correct response from the Right is to create the conditions for these protests to flourish in blue cities and campuses, while preventing them in red cities and campuses. If these protests become more volatile and go all the way to the Democratic Convention in Chicago, we could see a 1968 scenario. That didn’t work out too well for the Democrats.

In other words: make the Left own its pro-Hamas faction, or, alternatively, force the Left to deal with it – by breaking up the encampments, punishing wrongdoers, and restoring order, at whatever political cost this may exact. Let Ivy League presidents discover the consequences of their actions (or inactions)—and gently increase pressure from the outside.

If the Right can successfully keep order in its regions, as Florida governor Ron DeSantis has done so far, and keep the focus on the disorder overrunning left-wing jurisdictions – culminating, perhaps, in coalitional discord at the Democratic convention – it will move public opinion in our direction. One path to success in politics, after all, is shifting problems to your opponents—and capitalizing on them.

HeadSet says

Yes you have. That is Cornell West and Jill Stein.

You're right.

The Peaceful Protesters, embolded from the support of their Professors forming a line to prevent their dispersal by 2PM today, break into Hamilton Hall on Campus and run wild.

Well, we all know breaking windows is an insurrection, so... there goes the Peaceful.



Hammer the Reds and make 2024 like the Dem Convention 1972.

"It's the Feds"

Okay, here's one of the window breakers caught on video. Seems to me long past being qualified for 2/3rd last salary retirement.

Maybe an non-traditional aged student? hahah

Looks like a member of the faculty, or a professional Leftist who probably started in the 70s.

Patrick says

They hate gay people therefore it's morally right to bomb their apartment buildings and drive them out of their land?

I don't wish for peace and an end to conflict there because I like Hamas. It's purely a principle. It's based exclusively in that I think it is wrong to engage in endless violence, for anybody to do that.

richwicks says

They hate gay people therefore it's morally right to bomb their apartment buildings and drive them out of their land?

That's not the point. The pic shows the irony of LGBT types that give support to a group that would exterminate them.

HeadSet says

That's not the point. The pic shows the irony of LGBT types that give support to a group that would exterminate them.

They don't care that some, many, even all the Palestinians hate them, and they don't. Palestinians don't throw homosexuals off from roofs or execute them. That's happened I believe in Saudi Arabia. The Taliban treats homosexuality very negatively.

But usually they are not targeted because they are GAY, they are targeted because they are PEDOPHILES.

You're never told that in the West are you?

This war has been going on since 1948 and I know that every stop has been pulled out to brainwash the population into supporting ANYTHING Israel does and anything the United States does. When we were in Afghanistan, a constant reason given to stay was for "women's right", and "democracy". Our government doesn't give a shit about that and if it did, explain the US' partnership with Saudi Arabia?

Yet we constantly talk about this obvious bullshit. They are associating homosexuals and LGBTQ nonsense to discredit ANYBODY, like me, that opposes the conflict. You see this over, and over, and over again. You still fall for it. Why can't you see the pattern?

NEVER do we talk about the actual issues, ever. Always it's a distraction of some sort.

Israel wants an excuse to remove the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Now if they can get away by killing them all, they'll do it, if they can get them to go into Egypt, fine, if they can force European nations to take them in, fine. They don't care. That's what is happening. It has nothing to do with the LGBTQ bullshit that is pushed here.

Don't you remember our propaganda floating the idea of Israel making agreements with European nations to export the Gaza population to? Must be nice to have a memory that only goes back 2 days.

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=2f61a0c390a4d1ff&q=israel+gaza+refugees&tbm=nws&source=lnms&prmd=nivsmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpp76Ay-uFAxVRVTABHcELCYMQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=1380&bih=1100&dpr=1

AmericanKulak says

Looks like a member of the faculty, or a professional Leftist who probably started in the 70s.

In the other thread, she's ID'd by the NYPost as a lifelong leftoid agitator with 80+ Arrests.