Wednesday Potpourri

First, we have often noted that the Democratic Party has cornered the market in stupidity. If your leaders range from Kamala Harris to AOC to Jasmine Crockett… the point is self evident.

And yet, sane and rational Democrats do exist. Among them, as we have occasionally noted, is Van Jones. Consider this effort to shed light in the darkness of the leftist mind:

CNN's Van Jones calls on "progressives" to "GET ON BOARD" with Trump's stance that Iran *can't* have nuclear weapon.

"I think progressives underestimate how dangerous Iran is. Iran is not a normal country. Normal countries don‘t blind women because they showed some hair. They don't empower little gangs and proxies to surround a country and fire rockets and r*pe people."

"They cannot have a bomb ... Because they say death to America, death to Israel and death to all the Jews. One of those should offend you if you're progressives — at least one should offend you." "We cannot have a nuclear-armed Iran."

Second, among the sane voices on the political left we find Abraham Foxman, formerly director of the Anti-Defamation League, via Newsmax:

The former director of the Anti-Defamation League is calling out "tone-deaf" Democrats for opposing Israel and President Donald Trump's "decisive action" to strike three Iranian nuclear sites in order to bring peace to the Middle East.

"Why are the Democrats so tone deaf?" ADL Director Emeritus Abraham Foxman wrote in an X post Sunday night. "Iran is a sworn enemy not only of Israel but of America and many of America's allies."

Supporting American and Israeli efforts against Iran having a nuclear weapon should be a "no brainer," according to Foxman, a Holocaust survivor who served as the ADL national director from 1987-2015.

Third, from the right side of the political spectrum, Clay Travis offers this:

If you are truly afraid of what Iran might do now — spoiler they can’t and won’t do anything — but if you are truly afraid, why weren’t you terrified of them getting nuclear weapons? Your logic doesn’t even add up.

Fourth, as for the danger posed by AI, the following study tells us something that we already suspected, namely that students who use Chat GPT to write their papers end up being more stupid.

An MIT study found that heavy AI use, like ChatGPT, reduces memory, critical thinking, and brain activity, based on EEG scans of 54 students over four months.

Frequent AI users produced less original work, struggled to recall their writing, and exhibited "mental passivity," even when switching to unaided tasks.

The study suggests AI can create echo chambers and is best used as a support, not a substitute, for human thinking.

Let’s have a return to reading and writing.

Fifth, you may not find it to be good news, but reports have it that France is no longer France. For my part I will miss the good old France, the one that has been destroyed by migrants.

Consider the recent Festival of Music, where hundreds of women were stabbed with hypodermic needles.

France24 reports:

Before the party, posts on Snapchat and other social media had called for targeting women during the festivities.

The interior ministry said 145 victims reported being stabbed with needles across the country, with Paris police reporting 13 cases in the capital.

Officials did not specify if they were cases of so-called needle spiking with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, used by attackers to render victims confused or unconscious and vulnerable to sexual assault.

"Some victims were taken to hospital for toxicological tests," the ministry said.

In Paris, investigations were opened after three people including a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old male, reported being stabbed in three different locations in Paris, prosecutors said.

Time to step up efforts to expel illegal migrants from America.

Sixth, pity Rachel Zegler, the actress who starred in the most recent colossal Disney flop-- Snow White.

Happily for her, Zegler had a psychiatrist at the ready to help her to get through the torment.

Even Snow White needs a shrink.

Rachel Zegler has revealed that therapy and anxiety medication helped her overcome the monumental backlash she received while starring in Disney’s live-action “Snow White” remake.

The 24-year-old actress opened up about the controversy and how she moved past it in an interview with i-D magazine published on Monday, June 23.

“My f–king psychiatrist has seen me through all of it,” Zegler explained, noting that her medical doctor constantly reminded her that “what you’re going through isn’t normal.”

Seventh, a side note on the Iran nuclear program, from Clifford May:

Is it not curious to note how many people who a week ago insisted Iran’s rulers didn’t have a nuclear weapons program are now insisting that the nuclear weapons program of Iran’s rulers has hardly been damaged- if at all?

Eighth, just in case you doubted that the Democratic Party had become the stupid party, here we have Rep. Jasmine Crockett, perhaps not the most ignorant buffoon of them all, but at least she hides her intelligence well:

Congress must authorize military force before any president—including Trump—launches a strike.

And to understand enough about the Constitution to the extent that I’m the one that’s supposed to make the f---ing decision, or at least get a vote.

Rep. Crockett is God’s gift to the Republican Party.