INFOWAR WILL GO ON AND THE MILITARY CANNOT FIND ENOUGH RECRUITS FIT TO SERVE BECAUSE SO MANY ARE INTO DRUGS

Woke DAs kill stores, Infowars will rage on and other commentary

Post Editorial Board

 

 

New York Post 

August 8, 22022

 

 

Ex-prosecutor: Woke DAs Kill Stores

“Citing safety issues, Starbucks is closing stores in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland, and its hometown of Seattle” — all cities with radical prosecutors “dedicated to non-prosecution of even serious crimes,” laments Tom Hogan at City Journal. Drug stores, “the usual barometers of urban well-being,” are closing, too. Even big business (Boeing, Citadel) is “pulling out of cities neglected by woke prosecutors.” This will also push the “well-to-do” to “follow their jobs” to places “where prosecutors still prosecute,” leaving people “living in the troubled neighborhoods” to suffer most. Meanwhile, “the next time you can’t get a good cup of coffee in one of these cities, consider whom you voted for in the district attorney’s race.”

Liberal: Saving the US Armed Forces

“A dwindling number of Americans are able and willing to serve in uniform,” worries Michael R. Bloomberg at Bloomberg. “The Pentagon is still 15% short” of its fiscal-year goal for recruitment, with “the Army facing the biggest shortfall” at 60%. “Rising rates of youth obesity and drug use” shrink the recruiting pool, but “relaxing physical fitness standards” is the wrong answer. Give “greater priority . . . to retaining troops once they enlist” via “financial bonuses, faster promotion opportunities, and incentives for obtaining new skills.” And “investments in unmanned weapons systems, artificial intelligence and higher-precision munitions” can “reduce manpower requirements,” thus “keeping seasoned service members in uniform while harnessing the promise of new technologies.”

Culture critic: InfoWars Will Rage On

“Is this the end of Alex Jones?” wonders Ben Sixsmith at Spectator World. “Having confidently declared that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and that the parents of the dead victims were actors,” the bombastic radio host just lost a lawsuit and is “ordered to pay almost $50 million,” with “more trials ahead.” Truth was never the 9/11 conspiracy theorist’s strong point: “This is a man who hawked a brand of toothpaste as a cure for Covid.” But progressives are wrong “to believe that to slay the monster of Alex Jones is to slay the monster of populist cynicism towards mainstream institutions.” People “raving about jet fuel and steel beams did not engender as much cynicism as the invasion of Iraq.” Jones “did not create the world we live in. He exploited it.”