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Nostalgia for the Mud
Kunstler.com ^ | 3 May, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 05/04/2024 4:38:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“Resentful childless harpies unconsciously longing for domination. Why else worship at the altar of Hamas? Why else would it be so overwhelmingly female?” — Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Wasn’t it cute how the youngsters who “occupied” Columbia U’s Hamilton Hall — and were busy smashing things up inside — demanded restaurant-grade meals sent in to avert “starvation and dehydration” amongst their dauntless ranks? You could imagine a colossal mommy breast with three hundred nipples descending from the sky over upper Manhattan to nourish them back to action. “Feed me. . . !”

It turns out, actually, that at least half the troops inside were not students at all, but rather semi-pro activists paid up to $7,000 each by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and other overtly insurrection-themed orgs, so you’d think that the troops could afford to load-up their ever-ready backpacks with Clif bars and bottles of Smart Water. The order-in food and beverage gambit suggests we should understand that this is not so much politics as the acting out of a game — which is exactly what you might expect of people who spend more time on video screens than in the real world — in which something like a half-time intermission for refreshments is de rigueur.

Alas, they were not obliged with DoorDash servings of Alitcha (“Ensemble of potatoes, carrots, collard greens, and cabbage baked in turmeric,” $22.30) from the nearby Massawa Ethiopian bistro, or Firecracker Chicken from Junzi Kitchen over on Broadway and 113th Street. And then, when the cops came to roust them out into the big buses now used as paddy-wagons for such events, the occupiers were heard to whine, “I have finals and I need to go home!” You’ve got to wonder how they’ll make out when “Joe Biden” drafts their a[**] to go fight the Russians out on the Ukrainian buzzard flats, about which the White House is just now sending out early signals.

It has been observed that a clear majority of the pro-Hamas activists are young women — which makes sense considering that they are the largest demographic evincing mental illness on America’s social landscape these days. Thus, they are marching in support of a sect that specializes in the rape, mutilation, and murder of young women like themselves, or at least treats them as chattels, hidden under black bag-like garments. The group psychology on display has more occult angles than any movie by the Wachowski sisters.

Among the marching Columbia students who are not paid outside activists, a few are apparently Jewish, such as spokesperson Johannah King-Slutzky (actual name, hat-tip Alex Berenson, who ID’d her), the winsome creature who complained about the lack of order-in meals at Hamilton Hall. Another observer on “X” who styles himself @J9_ATX identified the syndrome in play as “oppression envy,” among women seeking compensatory validation for occupying such a privileged niche on Planet Earth as a cushy Ivy League college — featuring international cuisine stations in the dining halls — while their third world sisters trudge through the burning sands of Al-Kufra carrying water-jugs on their heads as they dodge the odious “wind scorpions” of the region.

Higher Ed in the USA was already chugging down the suicide track before this spring’s eruption of pro-Hamas fury. The college loan racket (government-backed) had the perverse effect of pumping up tuition costs beyond what even many pretty well-off families could afford, while loading up young people with life-wrecking obligations (debt which “Joe Biden” is now shifting onto the creditors, US tax-payers). Decades of DEI have filled the faculties with incompetents and assorted malcontents teaching fantasy curricula with no real-life value, and burdened the schools with cadres of overpaid diversity busybodies and thought-police. Diversity college presidents are very publicly failing to cope. The whole rotten train is going off the rails.....


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: alexberenson; antisemitism; columbia; domesticenemies; education; gaza; hamas; hamiltonhall; highereducation; israel; jameshowardkunstler; johannahkingslutzky; jordanpeterson; kingslutzky; leftism; newyork; newyorkcity; studentprotests; waronterror

1 posted on 05/04/2024 4:38:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

With all of these students missing their finals, do we have a looming shortage of Gender Studies graduates?


2 posted on 05/04/2024 4:38:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

I shudder to think of this. Who else will make my low foam, soy latte with that little sprinkle of cinnamon and cardamum on top?


3 posted on 05/04/2024 4:42:45 AM PDT by Mermaid Girl
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To: MtnClimber

Isn’t paying someone to commit a crime illegal?


4 posted on 05/04/2024 4:46:19 AM PDT by Fido969 (Ia)
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To: Fido969
Isn’t paying someone to commit a crime illegal?

It depends on which tier of the justice system you are on.

5 posted on 05/04/2024 4:48:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

“With all of these students missing their finals, do we have a looming shortage of Gender Studies graduates?”

Hardly. Some professors are giving all the snowflakes an A for having to go through the trauma.


6 posted on 05/04/2024 4:53:03 AM PDT by odawg
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To: MtnClimber
Kunstler is a heck of a writer...painting visual masterpieces with words.

Also...the mentioned "wind scorpion" below. I wonder how they taste?


7 posted on 05/04/2024 4:59:42 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: odawg
“Some professors are giving all the snowflakes an A for having to go through the trauma."

When you live in a fantasy world (also known as "making up the rules as you go along" and/or "moving the goalposts"), success is anything you want it to be. "Fantasy World" met real life when the cops stormed the campuses and drug these lunatics off by their man-buns and keffiyehs.

8 posted on 05/04/2024 5:14:16 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova; odawg; MtnClimber
"Fantasy World" met real life when the cops stormed the campuses and drug these lunatics off by their man-buns and keffiyehs.

To me all of this is a key indicator of how worried the Left is that they will not be able to cheat enough to push Obama-Biden over the finish line this November.

Two years ago these students would have been able to smash and burn to their hearts content.

Suddenly law and order is important again.

The Left fears that they have gone too far and that Trump will be elected in the fall and that they will be called to account.

9 posted on 05/04/2024 5:57:49 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

As I observe this intentional insanity and criminality, I think that since they will have their school loans “forgiven” they don’t have to attend classes. Party hearty!!!


10 posted on 05/04/2024 6:01:05 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Pontiac

And the marxist billionaires are trying to push the democRATs farther left with these antics.


11 posted on 05/04/2024 6:01:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Kunstler bump.


12 posted on 05/04/2024 6:14:56 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: MtnClimber

Look at the video last week when the police came in and walked through the “tent city” the protestors set up. All the tents look brand new and were the same make and color. Someone bought those for the protestors. Find out where they bought them and you will find out who arranged this protest.

Do what Regan did during the student riots during the early 80’s: Start taking names and throwing them in jail. Those who are students are kicked out of school. Those who aren’t students stay in jail until the courts are unclogged by the vacuous suits against Trump.


13 posted on 05/04/2024 6:20:51 AM PDT by econjack
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To: MtnClimber

“He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” George Orwell, 1984


14 posted on 05/04/2024 7:38:30 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: MtnClimber

I’m sure he was making a point but he sounds like Biden on a bad day. Many drink Peterson kool aid, so enjoy.


15 posted on 05/04/2024 8:54:24 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: MtnClimber

“You could imagine a colossal mommy breast with three hundred nipples descending from the sky over upper Manhattan to nourish them back to action. “Feed me. . . !””

Just the other day a clutch of eggs hatched in a swallow’s next just outside my front door. They are all sitting quietly but with the slightest noise or rustle, they pop up open their mouths and make a racket. Doesn’t matter if mother bird is there or not. It’s just instinct. Open mouth and demand someone, anyone, put something in it. The difference is... . These little chicks will eventually fly out and learn to feed themselves. The crybullies at colleges cheering for terrorists, they’ll live on the hard work of other people their whole lives and never grow up.


16 posted on 05/04/2024 8:59:16 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: MtnClimber

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17 posted on 05/04/2024 9:31:17 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Women are happier when they are dependent upon a strong male figure. Whether it be a spouse, a father, or the government. They NEED to be subservient.

Of course not all, but more than 60% of them IMO.


18 posted on 05/04/2024 12:35:18 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Organic Panic

I call them grasshoppers, fiddling summer away.


19 posted on 05/04/2024 12:42:33 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: moovova

Interesting...10 legs like a daddy longlegs


20 posted on 05/12/2024 12:15:57 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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