The People Setting America on Fire
An investigation into the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests
by Park MacDougald
May 06, 2024

Over the past several weeks, Americans have witnessed what has seemed like a mass outpouring of support for terror on elite college campuses. At Columbia, Yale, Princeton, NYU, UCLA, Northwestern, Texas, and elsewhere, masked mobs have occupied schools with tent encampments, established self-proclaimed “autonomous zones,” clashed with police, harassed and threatened visibly Jewish students, and issued demands for their universities to divest from Israeli “genocide.” Politically, moreover, the protests have displayed an incoherent mix of campus progressivism, hardcore Islamism and Arab nationalism, and revolutionary anarchism and communism, including open praise for North Korea. The only unifying thread would appear to be opposition to Israel and its alleged imperial patron, the United States.

Have America’s college students suddenly converted en masse to anarcho-communist-jihadism? Not quite. Many are far left and anti-Israel. Some are foreigners, or the children of foreigners, who have imported the conspiracies and hatreds of their homelands. More, admitted under relaxed pandemic-era admissions standards and proudly ignorant of both American and world history, are taking the “decolonial” half-knowledge pushed by their elders to its logical conclusion.

But students are not the only, and perhaps not even the most important, faction active in the campus protests. As in the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020, “outside agitators”—professional radicals and organizers, black bloc antifa thugs, Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, and Palestinian and Islamist radicals—have played a central role in organizing and escalating the campus protests, just as they have organized and escalated the wider anti-Israel protest campaign that began almost immediately after Oct. 7. This largely decentralized network of agitators is, in turn, politically and financially supported by a vast web of progressive nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and dark-money groups ultimately backed by big-money donors aligned with the Democratic Party.

The first hint that the protests are not entirely organic is their striking resemblance to previous rounds of organized far-left agitation, from the “uprising” of summer 2020 to the rolling antifa vs. Proud Boys brawls of 2016-17. The creation of “liberated” or “autonomous” zones on campus, for instance, is a hallmark of anarchist organizing familiar from Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and New York’s City Hall Autonomous Zone four summers ago. Familiar, too, is the governance of these zones, with masked security details prohibiting filming from outsiders and directing reporters to trained media representatives. During clashes with police or with counterprotesters, students and their allies have deployed classic “bloc” tactics, covering their faces and dressing in matching outfits to promote anonymity, linking arms to interfere with police attempts to conduct arrests, and attempting “de-arrests”—i.e., the coordinated swarming of police officers—to rescue apprehended comrades. At Yale, student activists doxxed the police officers sent to clear them out of the encampment—another harassment tactic frequently deployed by antifa. ...

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Money is only one facet of economy.

Money is a means of storing value, exchanging value, transferring wealth, and denominate prices.

Money is worthless and useless if it cannot store value.  As money is devalued (aka inflation), it loses value.  If I have money that is being devalued, I am getting poorer because I can purchase fewer goods and services.

No counter-party is going to accept payment in money that does not store value.  Why would I sell something in exchange for money that loses value?

As a form of money is no longer accepted nor trusted as payment, it's utility in economic activities decreases.  If I cannot exchange a unit of money for good or services, it no longer has value.

In economics, scarcity creates value.  As the scarcity of money declines, so does the value.  This is why a larger money supply can cause "inflation".  The good or service has retained its value, but the money has lost its value.  As money devalues, I need to use more money (higher prices) to purchase that same good or service.

This is the danger of unlimited Government borrowing - unlimited lending - and unlimited printing of money.  If no one trusts or accepts the US Dollar, I lose my ability to participate in economic activity - to store value, to exchange value, to transfer value, and to denominate the price of value.

Economic counterparties will seek out alternative means to store value, to exchange value, to transfer value, and to denominate value price.  Those holding dollars will be unable to use those dollars to exchange for food, housing, etc.  Holding a devaluing dollar will impoverish me.

This is the folly of using hyper-inflation to balance Government debt liabilities.  On paper, the books may balance, but, a dollar-denominated economy will cease to exist.  Those holding dollars will be up $h!t'$ creek without a paddle.  A lifetime of work and sacrifice will be worthless and useless.

This is why you'll see William Devane schillng US Gold Coins on late night TV.  Precious metals, or anything that is not the dollar, can be used as an insurance policy against a worthless dollar.  Having a few gold and silver coins may help you sleep at night; but to be useful, you need to be able to exchange them with a counter-party for something else of value ... like food, shelter, and bullets.

mystery-ak...
Too much aid..then why is the US military building a pier?

If I had to guess, the Biden Idiocracy promised to build the pier so that Iran can deliver weapons directly to the Palestinians rather than having to go through Egypt. 

The USA is now denying Israel armament.  The USA is clear in their support for terrorism.  This makes no sense to the average American, but this is what you get from a government under the thumb of a muslim, Obama.  If anyone is clearly running this clown act, it is Obama through Rice.  Biden is not functional on any level.  He has made that clear. 

Israel needs to destroy Rafa, and the civilian population be damned.  92% of the population in Palestine voted for Hamas, so why is the USA so concerned about civilians?

The USA is one heck of an ally!   NOT!!!

Israel has the right to destroy Hamas in its entirety, and I fully support that.  And if civilians get in the way, so what!

You all know what will happen.  With the first ship docked to deliver weapons and armament from Iran at this American made dock, Israel will bomb it and sink it to the bottom of the sea.  You can bet on it happening.  This money being spent to feed a population of genocidal maniacal terrorists is idiotic, but the Biden Idiocracy is just that stupid.

Are these "hills" in Mad Maxine's bong or her gin bottle?

That is what happens when the front office completely forgoes any pitching depth (esp. bullpen) during the previous off season.   Saw this coming, but not at this level.  A strong season by JV, Valdez,  just might get us to .500 by end of season.

OTOH, it was a fun run, and time for some other fans to enjoy

Middle relif is highly underrated.