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In The Mailbox: 11.20.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 21, 2024 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Even rockets need a hug sometimes.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The New German Government is Totally NOT Like the 1930’s German Government
EBL: Sean Duffy For Secretary of Transportation
Twitchy: While The Left Yells At Him, Cenk Uygur Realizes MAGA Is Willing To Listen To His Ideas, True Team Leaders Must Consider The Effect On Teammates Of Doing The Trump Dance, and James Woods Preps The Popcorn For When Tom Homan Drops Accountability Hammer On These Democrats
Louder With Crowder: Man goes grocery shopping with his horse, because it’s his SERVICE horse, of course
Vox Popoli: Clown World Wants WWIII, The NYT Throws in the Towel, History in the Making, Should Have Stayed Neutral, and Cylons are Real
Against The Mountains Of Madness: Space Pirates of Andromeda!
Upstream Reviews: Cyber Viking Omnibus

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: How To Get The Navy’s Groove Back
Dana Loesch: Trump Misses 11th Circuit Appointment Because GOP Senators Didn’t Show Up, MTG Threatens GOP  – If Gaetz Report Is Released, Release All The Claims, 
Don Surber: Media discovers Republicans buy sneakers too
STUMP: Research Fraud Follow-Up, 

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In The Mailbox: 11.19.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 19, 2024 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Palestinian Protesters” Have Cancelled Christmas in Melbourne
EBL: Breath of Fire, Landman, and American Persimmon
Twitchy: Riley Gaines Wonders When Congress Will Kneel For 18 Minutes To Honor Laken Riley, Post-Election Meltdowns Set To Heavy Metal And It Works, and JoJo From Jerz Triggered By Joe & Mika Meeting With Literally Hitler
Louder With Crowder: Whoopi Goldberg caught LYING about bakery denying her order due to her “politics”, Trump’s border czar wastes no time: “We will designate the cartels as a terrorist organization”, Teacher LOSES IT during interview after resigning over her violent threats toward Trump voters, and Sucks to be Democrats! The Trump Dance is taking over sports and our culture
Vox Popoli: You Can’t Beat Father Time, The End of the Aircraft Carrier, Boomers: Boss-Level Edition, In Which I Solve the Communication Problem, and Narrative Status: Exploded
Upstream Reviews: Godzilla Minus One, Cherry Drop, and The Adam Project
Bacon Time: The Forge
Defending The Wood Perilous: Emboldening The Wolves
Stoic Observations: Better Profiles, Introducing LA Steam, 
Tom Kratman: We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program To Bring Your This Important Announcement
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog Week 11
Toni Airaksinen: 75,000 sign petition to remove pro-Hamas prof from Columbia

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Opportunities With Trump’s Return, also, Behold The Red Sea Clown Show
Dana Loesch: The Last Few Weeks In Legal – Everything Is Falling Apart, 
Don Surber: Unsung election hero – Greg Abbott
Glenn Reynolds: Like A Wrecking Ball
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
STUMP: Movember 2024 – Prostate Cancer Mortality Trend Update 1968-2023, 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Casual Denim

Posted on | November 18, 2024 | No Comments

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Another fine-looking lass from Rule 5 Texan.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five God-Level Trolling Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Karoline Leavitt, Alison Krauss & Dwight Yoakum, Rachel Zegler Is Still Insane, MAGA MAHA, The Dead Don’t Hurt, Ben Hur, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Rules of Engagement, The Marine, and Coincidence?

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Sydney Sweeney – “Why Is She So Hot?”, Trump Appointments Continue, Fish Pic Friday – Veronica Blaze, Attorney General Matt Gaetz?, Thursday Tanlines, Gone Fishin’, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Flotsam and Jetsam on Veterans Day, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday 

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends For 11/15

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Sweet Sweet Summertime

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FMJRA 2.0: Franchises In Motion

Posted on | November 17, 2024 | No Comments

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So the Giants moved to Oakland and Montreal is spoken for, so that leaves San Francisco & Philadelphia up for grabs if any of you in the Commentariat aspire to be GM and manager in Pete’s League. Let him know tomorrow.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Meanwhile in the front office…

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FMJRA 2.0: Folders & Holders
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In The Mailbox: 11.11.24
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‘A Historic, Flawlessly Run Campaign’
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In The Mailbox: 11.13.24
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Trump 2.0: ‘Siri, What Is Payback?’
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In The Mailbox: 11.14.24 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.15.24 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.15.24 (Evening Edition)
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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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In The Mailbox: 11.15.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 16, 2024 | No Comments

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
If you’re interested in taking over Montreal, Oakland, or Philly in Pete’s league, I suggest letting him know soon.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Democrats reflect on this year’s ass-kicking.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Justice Has Not Been Served in This Case, also This Judge Hates Self-Defense More than the DA
EBL: Rotten Merchan and Bragg Prosecution Delayed, MAGA MAHA , and Lefties losing it: Donald Trump’s top five cabinet selections
Twitchy: Vile Leftists Continue To Smear Pete Hegseth Over His Tattoos, Opening Statements In The Laken Riley Murder Trial Are Absolutely Heartbreaking, and Sad Commie Noises In Chicago
Louder With Crowder: PA democrats ignore state Supreme Court, vote to count ILLEGAL ballots in senate race, also, Fired FEMA Supervisor Compares Trump Supporters To “Vicious Dogs”
Vox Popoli: Why They’re Upset, No Rematch, Please, RFK Jr to Health, No Childhood Vaccine is Tested, and Gaslighting the Gangstalking
According To Hoyt: In The Eye Of the World, The Other Side of Midnight, and Uncharted Wilderness
Monster Hunter Nation: eARC for Heart of the Mountain is available now
Defending The Wood Perilous/Wright’s Writing Corner: Seeking Lost Pirate Hunters! also, Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diaries Part XIX

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Forgiveness, Repentance and Justice UPDATED, Our Retarded Nations, and Who Will Be the New Elite?
American Conservative: Gabbard Is a Dream Come True for Foreign Policy Realists
American Greatness: Justice for J6 Prisoners? Matt Gaetz AG Nomination May End ‘Insurrection’ Charade, Whoopi Goldberg Faces Backlash After Smearing Staten Island Bakery, The New Senate Majority Leader Must Muzzle Adam Schiff, Democratic Election Officials Illegally Interfere in Swing State Election, and The Coming Era of MAGA Dominance
American Power: Rita Abrahamsen, et al., Radical Conservatism and Global Order, also, Trump’s America: Victory Changes Nation’s Sense of Itself
American Thinker:  The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins, The Biggest Blunder in the History of American Politics, and DOGE: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government are Not the Problem — Bureaucratic Power is
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Border Czar News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five God-Level Trolling News
Babalu Blog: Image of Cuban prisoner of conscience Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara displayed in Norway, Cuban dictatorship promises worse hardships, threatens anyone who complains with severe penalties, and The travel kit for Canadian tourists embarking on an apartheid vacation in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Black Girl Redpilled, Best Smug “Trump Can’t Win” Videos, Paxton Sues Feds Over Jack Smith Records, Team Personal Loyalty, and LinkSwarm For November 15
Behind The Black: NASA begins search for new headquarters building, FAA forming new committee to revise its launch licensing regulations, Blue Origin links the first and second stages of New Glenn for the first time, SpaceX and Amazon take their lawsuits against the NLRB to a higher court, and SpaceX scraps its land swap offer to Texas
Cafe Hayek: The Irony, The Faces of Globalization, On Trump’s Proposed Across-the-Board Tax Hike, and “China!” Isn’t An Incantation
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Welcoming Hitler to the White House and Other Thoughts
Da Tech Guy: The Good News and the Bad News for Desperate Incels, Now that the Republican Party controls both Houses of Congress they must stop being the stupid party, The Fruits of a Post Christian Society, FEMA Hurricane Relief Edition, 100 Word Fan Fiction: Guilt Trip, and Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth Oh My!
Don Surber: This will be settled at recess
First Street Journal: Aspiring rapper update, also, The Philadelphia Inquirer keeps up with the hate of Donald Trump even after the election
Gates Of Vienna: Ban the AfD to Save Democracy, Caroline van der Plas: “There is Just Straight-up Jew-Hatred in the Netherlands”, The Busy Knives of Berlin, Alice Weidel: “The People Will No Longer Be Taken for Fools”, and Who Will the New Germans Vote For?
The Geller Report: Israel Destroys Top-Secret Nuclear Facility at Parchin, Iran, also, PA ELECTION COMMISSIONER Voting to Count Illegal Ballots, “Precedent By a Court Doesn’t Matter…People Violate Laws Anytime They Want”
Hollywood In Toto: Stallone Goes MAGA: ‘Rocky’ Dubs Trump ‘Second George Washington’, Late-Night Rage, Tears and Lectures Over Trump (But No Comedy), Megyn Kelly Says Disney Must Fire Rachel Zegler, FAKE NEWS? ABC Wants Pro-Trump Voice on ‘The View’, and Late Night to Dems: Don’t Let Go the Woke
The Lid: A Divided Country? Not on Deportations, We Aren’t… Everyone Wants Them Gone, also, Trump Looking to Kill Biden’s Absurd Electric Vehicle Tax Credit
Legal Insurrection: Iran-Based Academic Spells Out the Goals of the Anti-Israel Left, Irony Alert – Toxic Stephen King Leaves X: ‘Tried to Stay, But It’s Become Too Toxic’, UVA Climate Activists Hold ‘Walkout’ to Protest After Trump Win, Zelensky: Ukraine ‘War Will End Faster’ With Trump in the White House, and Media Immediately Seeks to Smear Tulsi Gabbard With Russia Conspiracies After Trump Cabinet Pick
Nebraska Energy Observer: Planetary Soldiers, In other news, A Week Later, My ‘other’ people, and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: How Much Is Michigan Willing To Pay No.1 QB Bryce Underwood? Tennessee, College Basketball Fans Rally For Montana’s Money Williams After Losing His Mom And Dad Within Year, Nico Iamaleava Clears Concussion Protocol, Tennessee Will Have Its QB On Saturday Against Georgia, Jake Paul Defeats Mike Tyson By Unanimous Decision, and Paige Spiranac Asks Fans For ‘Challenge’ Ideas & Things Go Off The Rails
Power Line: In plain view, Obama-Compliant Military Threatens the Nation, On Some Recent Appointments, Trump to Universities: Drop Dead, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) Pushes Back Against Recess Appointments
Shot In The Dark: The Stultifying Blue Fog, St. Paul: Take The W With Fries, Moving Forward With Joy, Two Degrees Of Cabinetry, and The Times And Public Mores Are A-Changin’
STUMP:
The Political Hat: A Day Of Remembrance, Election Aftermath 2024 — Kamala Harris Lost The Game Of Chicken, The Morality Of Catgirls, Quick Takes – Standing Against Euthanasia: Banned In West Virginia; Not A Right In Europe; Futile Care Reform, and Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That the Death Penalty Is a Good Thing
This Ain’t Hell: Pete Hegseth tapped for SecDef, Valor Friday, Fear and Loathing at the Pentagon, Obama appointed federal judge agrees to postpone J6 defendant’s trial, and CQ Brown in the Gunsights?
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Defense Secretary, A Dissident Former Leftist, The Federal Budget, Thoughts On Science, and SpaceX’s Finances
Victory Girls: Pete Hegseth Isn’t Qualified To Be Sec Def Because He Was “Only” A Soldier, Volleyball Players Sue Mountain West Conference Over Title IX Violations, and Rachel Zegler Gives Forced Apology To Save Her Disney Movie
Watts Up With That: Artificial Intelligence: A Working Demonstration, and Why Big Tech Ditched Big Green, Friday Funny: MAD SCIAM MAGAZINE, and New Book Pushes Back on Justin Trudeau’s Net Zero Plan with Facts
The Federalist: Trump Proved Rigged Elections Are Winnable. Now It’s Time To Un-Rig Them, Biden Promotes DEI-Pushing Air Force Officials On His Way Out The Door, Deep State Hack John Cornyn Signals He’ll Sabotage Trump AG Pick, Repugnant Outburst In New Zealand Parliament Proves ‘Native’ Cultures Should Be Assimilated, and Nixon Can Teach Trump About The Pitfalls Of Revenge Politics
Mark Steyn: Monkey Business, Fear of Flying: John Wayne, the Disaster Movie and The High and the Mighty, Burma Broads and Butterflies, Live Around the Planet: PTOP Minus 68, and Winning!

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In The Mailbox: 11.15.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 15, 2024 | No Comments

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Came back to the hotel from my appointments yesterday afternoon, fell asleep, and didn’t wake up until 0700 this morning. Guess I needed the sleep.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

DEMOCRATS: CHOOSE THE FORM OF THE DESTRUCTOR

OVER THE TRANSOM
Twitchy: Lisa Boothe Drops the REAL Reason Eva Longoria Fled America, Another Stunning Woman Announces A Sex Strike After Trump’s Win – And There Was Much Rejoicing, and Joe Walsh Goes To BBC To Urge America’s Allies To Hide Information From U.S. 
Louder With Crowder:Parents Go Off On Teacher Who Went On Racist Rant And Bullied Students After Trump Win, also, Disney’s woke Snow White actress lashes out AGAIN, calls for half of America to “never know peace”
Vox Popoli: The New SecDef, A Degree from Havarti, The Turks Cut Ties, Zelensky on the Way Out, and Hispanics Already Self-Deporting
Postcards From Barsoom: The Prussia of North America
Toni Airaksinen: Professor Claims Israel Guilty Of “White Jewish Supremacy”
Upstream Reviews: The Long Moonlight

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Dexter Taylor – A Political Lynching
Don Surber: Happy Islamophobia Awareness Month
Michele Catalano: so long twitter

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In The Mailbox: 11.14.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 14, 2024 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The Trump Administration has announced that Gov. Kristi Noem will be their nominee for Sectretary of Homeland Security. Some military officers distressed by the news.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: No One Is More Racist that a White Liberal
EBL: The Dead Don’t Hurt, Scott Jennings on CNN, and Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Twitchy: Elon Musk Drops The Hammer On Adam Schiff For Shrieking Over Gaetz Nomination, This Ain’t An Airport BRO, and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) Waited Until After The Election To Admit What We Already Knew
Louder With Crowder: Scott Jennings gives BLISTERING defense of “Fox News guy” Pete Hegseth being appointed by Trump, also, LA Police Chief (Of Course) Vows To Protect Criminal Aliens From Trump’s Mass Deportation
Vox Popoli: America is a Christian Nation, Fandom Imperialism, The Charade of Canterbury, Confessions of a Clown 2, and Unimpressed
Stoic Observations: Europe Wakes Up?
Toni Airaksinen: Students arrested for graffiti swastikas to be released today
Upstream Reviews: A Terrible Fall Of Angels, 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Your High Value Unit May Not Be What You Think It Is
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Draft Picks, And Then Trump’s Picks Got A Little Crazy, 
Don Surber: Trump ain’t wasting time
Glenn Reynolds: Who Are You?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Humpday shrapnel

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Trump 2.0: ‘Siri, What Is Payback?’

Posted on | November 14, 2024 | No Comments

Donald Trump has apparently decided to settle all family business, and his enemies have good reason to fear his retribution. Like nearly everybody else on the planet, I was shocked by the choice of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General, which Trump ally Thomas Massie says will be done by recess appointment, bypassing the need for Senate confirmation.

All day Wednesday, my office TV was tuned to MSNBC (I watch, so you don’t have to) and they were howling over Trump’s pick of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, which choice is perfectly defensible, given Hegseth’s combat record as an infantry officer with two bronze stars, and never mind his degrees from Princeton and Harvard. If the MSNBC talking heads were howling over Hegseth, however, their reaction to the news of Gaetz as Attorney General could best be desribed as autistic screeching, as the kids say. Their brains completely melted.

Well, first let’s get the news from Associated Press:

President-elect Donald Trump chose Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general on Wednesday, bypassing more experienced options in favor of a loyalist who has built a national reputation as a disruptor and whom Trump has tasked with dramatically overhauling the Justice Department.
Trump also announced that he had tapped Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as his nominee for secretary of state. And he selected Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic member of Congress and presidential candidate, to serve as his director of national intelligence.
The choices continued a pattern of Trump stocking his Cabinet with those he believes he can trust to execute his agenda rather than longtime officials with experience in their fields. Gaetz’s selection, in particular, was seen as a shock. The Florida lawmaker was not among the more established attorneys who had been mentioned as contenders for the job, and even his colleagues in Congress appeared stunned by the news. . . .
[Gaetz] irked fellow GOP members in early 2023 when he filed the resolution that successfully ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy then helped fund a primary challenge to Gaetz that included commercials alleging that he paid for sex with a 17-year-old, an allegation that had been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee — though that probe effectively ended Wednesday when Gaetz resigned from Congress. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and the Justice Department ended its own sex trafficking investigation without bringing charges against him.

In case you forgot, Gaetz’s friend “Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty [in 2021] to six charges, including sex trafficking of a minor, identity theft, stalking, wire fraud and conspiracy to bribe a public official, and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators as part of his plea agreement.” Gaetz’s friendship with Greenberg was the subject of all kinds of stories at the time — one might use the adjective sordid to characterize the allegations — and I have no way of knowing what was true or false in any of that. Certainly, it was damaging to Gaetz’s reputation, but he has been reelected to Congress twice since then, so at least two-thirds of voters in the 1st District of Florida didn’t mind. The AP article makes much of Gaetz’s status as a “Trump loyalist,” but it seems to me much more relevant that Gaetz has a motive for revenge against the feds, when you consider that the Justice Department sent his buddy Greenberg to prison in what may have been a prosecution whose real target was Gaetz.

Anyway, while I’m not a member of the Matt Gaetz Fan Club, his selection as Trump’s Attorney General makes sense in the context of Trump desiring to get revenge for Merrick Garland’s politically motivated targeting of Republicans. It’s not just the Mar-a-Lago raid, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg and the other prosecutions aimed at Trump personally, but also Garland’s use of the FBI and DOJ as a weapon against Republicans quite generally. Gaetz’s job is to expose everyone responsible for those abuses, and to ensure they face some serious consequences. It’s medieval justice — the victorious army has seized the besieged fortress, and the heads of the king’s enemies are going to be hoisted on pikes.

Payback is a bitch, and Gaetz’s job is to deliver payback.



 

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