This Week in Trump Campaign Surrogate Tikvah Tablet (10/11)
David Shasha
Gut Yuntif from Vladimir Putin!
Tikvah Tablet is all in with the RUSSHER COLLOOSION:
Indeed, on Thursday, after a head-spinning week of Trumpworld degeneracy, Alana Newhouse decided to publish Putin’s Holiday well wishes.
She naturally also published a letter from the Chief Rabbi of Russia.
Not that it changes anything.
Tikvah Tablet readers are being told to put their trust in the KGB killer.
And that is very Trump Campaign Surrogate.
The Tikvah Tablet Lysol is WOKE!
Newhouse is also all about doing battle with Wokeness and Cancel Culture, as I have indicated in the past:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/israel-woke-religion
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/cancel-culture-stanley-fish-free-speech
Those were a couple of articles I cited in past Tikvah Tablet notes, one of them by Blake Smith who was at it again this week:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mccarthyism-wokeness-huac-blacklist
Smith is trying to match his previous misanthropy, and to top the recent “Left Fascism” by Russell Berman:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/real-history-left-fascism
Indeed, this time he has taken things even deeper into the Tikvah Abyss:
Objections to “cancel culture” and “wokeness” often underline apparent similarities between the ideas and tactics of 20th-century communism and today’s anti-racism. Both movements seem to deny the possibility of neutrality. From either perspective, all of us appear to be caught up in a long-running historical conflict, and our slightest acts, even of speech and thought, strengthen one side against the other. In the midst of a mortal struggle that divides the world, it hardly seems possible to insist on one’s right to the enjoyments of private life, in which pleasures do not have to justify themselves in terms of their contribution to anyone’s cause.
PC is McCarthyism!
We might therefore call our contemporary moment “woke McCarthyism” or the “White Scare”—a moment defined by a paranoid search for, and hysterical denunciation of, traces of white supremacy in a society where actual white supremacists are no more powerful than actual communists were in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s America. In its alliance of political, corporate, and cultural power, directed toward revealing the secret sympathies of relatively powerless individuals who were then publicly denounced, humiliated and made unemployable in a theater of persecution that could be alternately terrifying and absurd, the Red Scare is a more obvious model for White Scare than the communism it opposed.
We should of course recall, as continues to be the case with David Project Tikvah Tablet Bari Weiss, that Cancel Culture is a hallmark of the Right Wing HASBARAH crowd:
Indeed, Weiss herself is trying to Cancel AOC by branding her an Anti-Semite:
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/10/bari-weiss-brands-aoc-an-antisemite/
Projection is endemic to Tikvah Tablet racism.
Indeed, as Trump Lysolism becomes that much more unhinged – and that much more criminal – Newhouse and her Neo-Con psychopaths continue to double-down on the Left.
Hydroxychloroquine is Back Baby!
Norman Doidge is back with the Norman Dodge:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/hydroxychloroquine-morality-tale
What’s wrong with Hydroxychloroquine?
So this story is twofold. It’s about the discussion that unfolded (and is still unfolding) around hydroxychloroquine, but if you’re here for a definitive answer to a narrow question about one specific drug (“does hydroxychloroquine work?”), you will be disappointed. Because what our tale is really concerned with is the perilous state of vulnerability of our scientific discourse, models, and institutions—which is arguably a much bigger, and more urgent problem, since there are other drugs that must be tested for safety and effectiveness (most complex illnesses like COVID-19 often require a group of medications) as well as vaccines, which would be slated to be given to billions of people. “This misbegotten episode regarding hydroxychloroquine will be studied by sociologists of medicine as a classic example of how extra-scientific factors overrode clear-cut medical evidence,” Yale professor of epidemiology Harvey A. Risch recently argued. Why not start studying it now?
If you can figure all of it out – good luck!
It is all about the Alana Newhouse Trump Campaign surrogacy.
Et Tu, Warren Buffett?
This one took me completely by surprise:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/warren-buffett-black-lives-matter
The article is an epic investigation into the connections between arch-capitalist Warren Buffett and Black Lives Matter!
I was honestly not at all aware that the Right Wing wackos were after him, but it appears to be true:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DLB-34410
The whackjobs have fallen into line:
https://www.rawstory.com/2011/08/fox-host-asks-if-warren-buffett-is-completely-a-socialist/
And we must give credit to Alana Newhouse for being ahead of the curve on this one:
The received wisdom, echoing the official mythology around Black Lives Matter Global Network Inc.—co-founded by Garza along with fellow activists Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors—is that BLM is a grassroots movement that rose up organically out of the widespread rage sparked by viral videos of Black American men killed by police officers. According to this account, the political priorities of activists in Brooklyn screaming at cops and calling to defund the police have been fused with those of suburban moms in Peloton T-shirts, hand-painting signs with their kids using the BLM hashtags of large multinational conglomerates—an unusual union of protesters and the corporate boardroom spurred on by nothing more than everyone’s shared outrage over racism.
Indeed, it is interesting to see all these details on BLM, when the Trump Dark Money remains darker than ever:
https://www.citizensforethics.org/45committee-funding/
But it is not Trump that Tikvah Tablet is after – it is Trump’s Left Wing enemies.
It is just another service done so very lovingly by Alana Newhouse to help re-elect the New Duce.
David Shasha