Robert Meyer Burnett, Viceroy of Verisimilitude

Another reason that a record number of Canadian Jews do not feel safe in their own country: Five Toronto cops — including the two Muslim Liaison Officers — were found guilty of misconduct for glorifying Oct 7 on an official police podcast. On the TPS “Muslim outreach” show Project Olive Branch, Const. Farhan Ali and Const. Haroon Siddiqui celebrated how the terror massacre of Israelis on October 7 had inspired an “unbelievable” number of people to become “reverts” to Islam… and they downplayed the extensive Hamas support at the "pro-Palestine/anti-Israel" rallies in the city. Three supervisors greenlit the discussions. When some Toronto Jews complained about the incendiary language, the officers refused to cooperate with the investigation. It would have been bad enough had these police downplayed October 7 in a private rant. Since it was an official Toronto Police Service platform, they should have been fired, not simply given a slap on the wrist with a 'misconduct citation' in their personnel record. This is what happens when the people sworn to protect Jews cheer the killers instead.

I'm not even joking when I say the answer here is to make a new Sideways that makes wine drinking seem fun and aspirational instead of stodgy and off-putting to younger millennials and Gen Z.

Scott Galloway is a perfect example of perhaps the most pernicious people in society: the stupid-smart person. Educated beyond his intelligence. Smart enough vocabulary to justify his ego and smugness, but too stupid to understand basic realities of communists. Smart people internalize history and make good decisions. They also know the dangers of hubris. Stupid people don't know enough to even opine on the issues in the first place, so their stupidity isn't a threat. But the stupid-smart person can teach at NYU, he can build a big successful business, he can even give a good TED Talk, but he's not smart enough to see the limits of his own capacities...so he asserts himself in society with an outsized level of confidence. Sadly, he's articulate enough to fool lots of people into elevating his stupid ideas...and that's the problem. People listen to the stupid-smart guys, like him. Then they're genuinely baffled when there's a Kalashnikov pointed at their head as they're staring at a cinder block wall behind the politburo headquarters. In a functional society, this clown would be a pariah. I have precisely zero empathy for his plight in NYC. He endorsed it. Now he can eat it, good and hard.

In Islam, eating pork, listening to music, and having a dog are “haram.” But marrying little girls, slavery, forcing women to cover themselves, stoning or hanging them when they refuse, and throwing homosexuals off roofs, are “halal.” The religion of peace.