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In The Mailbox: 10.15.24

Posted on | October 16, 2024 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

I had one of these for a while. It was a wild ride.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Think Hiring Should Be Based on Merit? You Will Lose Your Job
EBL: The Witch Of Halloween Is Coming
Twitchy: Kamala’s Husband Offers A Really Strange Glimpse Into Their Very Weird Marriage, Magic Bullets! Part Deux, and Politico Says Federal Employees Are Sweating A Trump Comeback
Louder With Crowder: Girls’ volleyball team votes to forfeit against trans dude, the college is ignoring safety concerns
Vox Popoli: A Different God, End Game in Ukraine, Exposing the MMC, Not QUITE Nothing, and The Question of a Christian Library
Upstream Reviews: Upstream Reviews Presents – Scary Stuff! also, The Icarus Job

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Obama and Clinton Haunt Harris
American Greatness: Kamala to Sit Down with Brett Baier for FNC Interview, House Committee to Investigate FEMA Mishandling of Funds Amid Hurricane Relief, Catholic League Demands Apology From Gov. Whitmer After Video Mocking Holy Eucharist, and Trump’s Toughest Foe Could Be Harris Lawyer Marc Elias
American Thinker: FBI and the US Secret Service Plot Against Trump, also, How a Federal District Court Judge Weaponized Secret Algorithms to Stop Election Fraud Hidden in State Voter Rolls
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Jupiter News
Babalu Blog: More than a third of retirees in Cuba receive less than $5 a month in pension, Remembering Cuba’s Ladies in White leader Laura Pollan on the 13th anniversary of her death, Argentinian journalist reveals meager purchasing power of a Cuban doctor’s paycheck, and China’s relationship with Cuba sours as island’s dictatorship refuses to enact much-needed economic reforms
BattleSwarm: Venezuelan Gang Now In Texas Middle Schools
Behind The Black: SpaceX completes two launches last night from opposite coasts, NASA extends the mission of the lunar orbiter Capstone to the end of 2025, Army successfully completes one-year commercial satellite pilot program, China launches “satellite group” using Long March 6A rocket, and The evidence strongly suggests FAA top management is working to sabotage SpaceX
Chicago Boyz: Douthat on Late-Term Abortion, also, “Vote Your Conscience”?
Da Tech Guy: Two Points About This Thread on England
Dana Loesch: Tim Walz Doesn’t Know What A Venture Capitalist Does
Don Surber: The Goldwater landslide myth
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: The weapon of choice now seems to be speeding cars
Gates Of Vienna: Child-Rape at an Asylum Center in Brescia, Beatrix von Storch: “We Will Never Submit”, and Filip Dewinter: “Antwerp Should Be a Flemish City”
The Geller Report: IT BEGINS: Top Pennsylvania Election Official Says to Expect Several Days to Process and Count the Ballots Again This Year
Hollywood In Toto: Rippy Gives Killer Kangaroos a Bad Name, also, Sad: Variety Goes Full Trump Derangement Syndrome
The Lid: Biden’s Corrupt DOJ Orders U.S. Military to Use ‘Lethal Force’ against American Civilians
Legal Insurrection: Kamala Harris Mocks Trump for Stopping Town Hall…After 2 People Needed Medical Help, Massachusetts Man Who Defended Himself From Anti-Israel Attacker Reportedly Loses His Job, Kent State U. Has 150 Classes Covering ‘Gender, Sexuality, or LGBTQ+ Topics’, Drones of Unknown Origin Fly Over U.S. Military Base for 17 Days, and Biden Threatens to Halt Military Aid to Israel if Humanitarian Conditions in Gaza ‘Not Improved’
Nebraska Energy Observer: America’s Dying Middle Class
Outkick: WNBA All-Star Breanna Stewart Says Family Has Received Hateful Threats, Oregon’s Dan Lanning Admits To Timely Use Of NCAA Rulebook To Help Eke Out Win Over Ohio State, Teenage Girl Who Lost To Trans Runner Speaks Out: ‘Unfair’ For Everyone, SJSU’s Brooke Slusser Applauds U of Nevada’s Team For Speaking Up Against Trans Teammate Blaire Fleming, and American League Playoffs Are A Joke
Power Line: Here Comes the (Worst) Judge, Columbus Day, Government Waste and the Worst Pander Ever, and This Explains a Lot
Shark Tank: Corey Simon & Daryl Parks Face Off In Key FL Senate Debate Ahead Of Election
Shot In The Dark: I Was Warned, Just So We’re Clear, and “Buddy, Could You Try To Be A Little Less Awkward?”
STUMP: Very Long Term Mortality Trends In England & Wales, 1841-2022
The Political Hat: Fear, Hatred, & The Political Internet
This Ain’t Hell: Drones over Washington military bases – but not ours, also, US to send troops and missile system to Israel
Victory Girls: Harris Muses About Constellations Or Something
Volokh Conspiracy: Colorado Elected District Attorney Disbarred for Litigation Misconduct
Watts Up With That: A “New Nuclear Posture” for the US is vital in a Hungry World, Greens Declare War on Growing Your Own Greens, and Green New Deal Accelerates Germany’s Economic Decline – Growth Forecast Revised Downward
The Federalist: West Virginia Secretary Of State Demands Feds Answer For 2020 Election Interference, GA Judge Rules Election Officials Must Rubber Stamp Results Even If They Are ‘Non-Sensical’, Pennsylvania Secretary Of State Refuses To Say He’d Catch Noncitizens Voting, Staying Out Of Politics Is Not The Moral High Ground Some Christians Think It Is, and Trump Is Conquering New Media While Harris Stumbles Through Walled-Off Campaign
Mark Steyn: What’s Going On? (Cont.)

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In The Mailbox: 10.14.24

Posted on | October 15, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Tony Soprano has opinions about the Admiral of the Ocean Sea.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: If You Don’t Like DEI-Infested Games, You’re a Bad Person
EBL: Team Harris Fighting With Team Biden, J.D. Vance responds about illegal alien criminal gangs in Aurora, Colorado, Champions, and 3rd Trump Assassination Attempt?
Twitchy: In Effort To Run Cover For Kamala, Her Publisher Commits Major E-Mail SNAFU, After Gang Severely Beats Apartment Worker, Twitter Wonders What Martha Raddatz Has To Say, and Las Vegas Review-Journal Endorses Trump With Scathing Rebuke Of Kamala
Louder With Crowder: Non-Binary professor forced to resign, allegedly he faked his “Two-Spirit” identity, Don’t look now, but JD Vance just murderized ABC News on illegal immigration, It was Bill Clinton’s turn to accidentally(?) throw Kamala under the bus, and oh boy did he, and California admits to discriminating against SpaceX over Elon Musk’s politics, so he’s suing them
Vox Popoli: Death by Diversity, Not Down with Disemployment, “Only Tolkien is Better”, Banning Christian History, and Tampon Timmy in Trouble
Defending The Wood Perilous: Can We Steer Hurricanes? also, The Regency Romance Reviewer’s Fallacy
Postcards From Barsoom: Hard Money & Hard Men
Upstream Reviews: The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering
Tom Kratman: The Care & Feeding Of Your Right-Wing Death Squad Part B
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog Week 6

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Awful and Misogynistic Armchair Admirals
American Conservative: Megalopolis Is a Spectacular Failure, also, The Vance Vibe Shift?
American Greatness: Fake Crowds, Fake Ads, Real Ridicule – A Week of Failures for Harris-Walz, Pennsylvania Taxpayers Paid Over $2.5 Million for Kids ‘Sex Change’ Interventions, The Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris, America’s National Security Is Far Worse Off Than Four Years Ago, and Poll: Majority Favors Federal Ban on Transgender Surgeries for Minors
American Power: M.G. Sheftall, Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
American Thinker:  Conservatives Must Preserve The Electoral College, Harris-Walz Burlesque, and How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kamala?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship sends another group of slave doctors to Dominica, Blockade, Schmockade: Cuba spent $38 million on imports from U.S. in August, $280 million thus far in 2024, Cuban schools have fewer teachers, more indoctrination, and Those terrible Spaniards and their conquests
BattleSwarm: Are Hackers About To Erase The Internet’s History? Why Leftists Keep Lying About The Second Amendment, and 10% Of Texas Population Illegal Aliens?
Behind The Black: SpaceX Starship/Superheavy test flight achieves 100% of its goals, Congress says NASA violated the law by awarding grants that were used by Chinese scientists, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, Musk says SpaceX will sue California Coastal Commission, Vast unveils its proposed full space station concept, and Even as the left ramps up its effort to cancel Columbus, new DNA data suggests he was born of Jewish parents
Cafe Hayek: Still More on So-Called “Price Gouging”, I Really Dislike the Term “Export-Oriented Economy”, Adjusting for Inflation Differently, Listen to the Argument Before Hurling Accusations, and Zephyr Teachout Continues to Teach Outlandishly
CDR Salamander: Mid-October Midrats Maritime Melee, Navy Birthday Week Annual Membership Discount, and Running Out Of SM-3 At Sea?
Chicago Boyz: Random Thoughts (2) : Education Edition, Ackman’s Choice, Not-Quite-Random Columbus Day Musings, and A Canadian October Surprise?
Da Tech Guy: A Conservative is a Liberal Mugged by Reality. Ana Kasparian edition, The Great Chicago Train Robbery offers more proof of the city’s decline and fall, and A Phony Frontwoman vs the Real Thing, or, the Choice in November explained in two tweets
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – More Election Interference Edition, Tim Fudd’s Lame Outreach To Hunters,
Don Surber: Musk may elect Trump
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer conceals a truth that everyone already knows, The demented mind of Yahya Sinwar, and Another killed in the Philadelphia Badlands
Gates Of Vienna: Setting the World Alight for Allah, Mocro Mafia Boss Busted in Paris, Call For a Caliphate in Hamburg, A Mental Disease Called Islam, and El Inglés on Substack
The Geller Report: Kamala’s DoJ Sues Virginia For Removing Illegals From Voter Rolls, also, “Yes, Gangs Did Take Control of Our Apartment Complexes in Aurora, Colorado, And The Government Did Nothing. That Is The Real Story.”
Glenn Reynolds: Some Columbus Day Thoughts About Elon Musk
Hollywood In Toto: Curious Casting Couldn’t Topple Interview with a Vampire, Media Spin & Promotion Couldn’t Save The Apprentice, How Horror-Comedy Shocker Drained Our Batteries, Two Documentaries, Two Searing Takes on Open Border USA, and Kubrick’s Daughter Says Dad Would Vote Trump
The Lid: 15 Medal of Honor Winners Endorse Donald Trump for President, also, WASTE REPORT: Biden Admin to Set the Record for Improper Payments of Gov’t Benefits
Legal Insurrection: Celebrating Christopher Columbus Launching an Age of Discovery, IDF Discovers Expansive Hezbollah Underground Compound Stocked With Weapons, Pomona College Suspends Students Who Occupied Building While Demanding Divestment From Israel, Kamala Harris Accused of Plagiarizing Parts of 2009 Criminal Reform Book, and Oregon Employee Placed on Leave for Supposedly Hiring on Merit, Not Diversity
Michele Catalano: week in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue, Gone fishin’, and Playing to Win
Outkick: EXCLUSIVE: Nevada Players Vote To Forfeit Against SJSU, Transgender Player Despite School’s Statement, Aaron Rodgers Dazzles With a 52-Yard Hail Mary At Halftime, Those Arguing Transgender Blaire Fleming Isn’t ‘That Good’ At Volleyball Are Missing The Point, Tom Brady Approval As Raiders Owners Would Definitively End Playing Career, and Tony Romo Was A Disaster On Sunday, Heidi Klum And Daughter Leni Pose In Lingerie & SNL Takes Aim At Kamala
Power Line: Lying as fast as he can, The Other Record the Democrats Don’t Mention, and Happy Indigenous Peoples/Victims of Oppression Day!
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces $9.5 Million Fund For Hurricane Milton Recovery Efforts
Shot In The Dark: Notes From The Soggy Zone, The New Lexicon, and The Walz Campaign In Two Videos
STUMP: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, A Posthumous Anniversary
The Political Hat: The Woke Right
This Ain’t Hell: NG chopper crew grounded when their helicopter created wind, Donald Trump requests military protection, Kiosks return in wake of Veteran complaints about online travel claim process, Columbus Day shorts, aka Monday Morsels, and Man with guns arrested near Donald Trump rally
Transterrestrial Musings: IFT-5 Takes, also, But Other Than That
Victory Girls: Tim Walz Elmer Fudd’s His Pheasant Hunt, also, It’s Been Four Years Since The Hunter Laptop Scandal And The Lies Continue
Volokh Conspiracy: Trump’s Plan to Use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a Tool for Mass Deportation, also, FCC as Truth Police / Racism Police / Sowing Discord Police
Watts Up With That: New Antarctic Greening Study Wilfully Blind to CO2 Fertilization, Buy Woke, Go Broke: The Failure of ESG Investing, and British Blackout System Mobilised After Wind Dropped on a Cold Day
The Federalist: J.D. Vance Has An Even Stronger Case For A Rigged 2020 Election In The Number Of Illegal Ballots, Democrat Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Seeking To Keep Noncitizens Off Arizona’s Voter Rolls, Phones Are Destroying Kids’ Ability To Read Books, Texas Poll Workers Must Now Require Naturalization Docs From People Trying To Vote With Noncitizen IDs, and Exclusive: Maricopa County Elections Chief Enlisted Foreign Censorship Group In War On Disapproved Speech
Mark Steyn: No Fair Play – Jean Renoir and The Rules of the Game, Lilac Wine, and Fresh!

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Rule 5 Sunday: Well Rounded

Posted on | October 14, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Some people, most famously Sir Mix-A-Lot and Lt. Vincent Hanna from Heat (played by Al Pacino) like their women with callipygian butts, while others like our friends at Flappr, prefer women with huge tracts of land. Me, I prefer the happy medium: a gal with a nice rack and a decent butt – everything in moderation, and nothing to excess. Like, for example, this young lady posted earlier this week by kbdabear an X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Kamala Screws Up Again Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Isabella I of Castile, Citadel Diana, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, MAGA Unburdened Kamala Harris, Ethel Kennedy RIP, The Egg & I, Hargrave, We Will Dance Again, Notorious Robophobe Matt Yglesias Is Sexbot Curious, Wow Platinum, Killer Heat, and Jennie Garth

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nina ColaFish Pic Friday – Sophie MonkiMDDNR Announces New Oyster SanctuariesThursday TanlinesThe Wednesday WetnessForget It Jake, It’s BaltimoreDeSantis Dodges Kamala’s CallsPaint It BlackVirginia Juggling Blue CatfishThe Monday Morning StimulusRandom Celebrity NewsPalm Sunday and Kamala Offers $750 to Hurricane Helene Victims

FLAPPR: S.M. & U.T. for October 11

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

 

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FMJRA 2.0: Annual Admiral Of The Ocean Sea Appreciation Post

Posted on | October 13, 2024 | No Comments

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It’s two! Two!! TWO!!! awesome posts in one! Since it is the actual Columbus Day (as opposed to the fake & gay Federal Columbus Day on Monday) today we’ll not only celebrate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (and link to some excellent books on the topic, previously covered here) but also do the usual FMJRA stuff.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

FMJRA 2.0: The Pleasure Is To Play
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Rule 5 Sunday: But First, Coffee
Animal Magnetism
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Death by Online Misadventure
The Daley Gator
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In The Mailbox: 10.08.24 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.08.24 (Evening Edition)
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EBL
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Democrats ‘Increasingly Worried About a Number of Issues Plaguing’ Kamala
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In The Mailbox: 10.10.24
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.11.24 (Morning Edition)
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EBL
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We’re All Shocked — Shocked! — to Discover ‘Men for Kamala’ Are Fake
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.11.24 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Top linkers for the week ending October 11:

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What Counts as ‘Misinformation’? (Hint: It Depends on Who Does the Counting)

Posted on | October 12, 2024 | No Comments

There IS a teleprompter!

Right-Wing Influencers Falsely
Accuse Kamala Harris Of Using
A Teleprompter At Town Hall

Forbes

Posts falsely claim Kamala Harris
used teleprompter during town hall

AFP

Harris Town Hall Moderator Debunks
Crazy New Teleprompter Claim

Daily Beast

That’s just a small sample of what you’ll find with a Google search for “kamala univision town hall teleprompter,” and you won’t find anything except headlines like that — how it’s “false” and has been “debunked” — on the first page of search results. Or the second page, or the third page of results, for that matter. This is certainly not accidental:

Last week, MRC researchers found that Google buried US-based right-leaning news outlets on the 14th page of search results. It appears that the tech giant is still at it, as it continues to hide right-leaning outlets in the depths of search results.
On Oct. 8, MRC researchers once again used AllSides “right” and “left” bias classifications and found that Google search results for “kamala harris presidential race 2024” and “donald trump presidential race 2024” were stuffed with leftist, legacy media sources. The results featured outlets like CNN and The New York Times as well as publications of leftist billionaires like Jeff Bezos’s The Washington Post and Marc Benioff’s Time. When searching for the aforementioned Harris search prompt, researchers did not find any U.S.-based media outlets that AllSides rates as “lean-right” or “right” until Fox News appeared as the first result on page 11 of Google search results. Likewise, Google buried the first U.S.-based “lean right” or “right” result for the aforementioned Trump prompt as the sixth result on the 23rd page, as Google featured a Fox News video in this spot.

Google is running a Democratic Party propaganda operation, deliberately suppressing access to any information source that might contradict the preferred political narrative. Some stories — the ones most damaging to Democrats — are literally impossible to find using Google, and the only way anyone knows about these stories is because they go directly to the source (e.g., the UK Daily Mail, Gateway Pundit, etc.) or because they see it via social media. What does Google’s search-result suppression do? It divides the country into two groups — those who only know what Google wants them to know, and those who, for whatever reason, actively seek out alternative media sources. And this is a bad thing for democracy, because it breeds contempt and hostility between the two groups. Those who passively cooperate with this censorship regime (liberals, in general) look at the rest of us and think we’re a bunch of dangerous dimwits — “How can they possibly believe this stuff?” — while, at the same time, many on the right side of the digital divide become paranoid, or fall victim to genuinely dangerous peddlers of falsehood.

It’s the little boy who cried “wolf,” you see. When the self-appointed arbiters of truth — including Google — promote a one-sided narrative, and hurl accusations of “conspiracy theory” at anyone who disputes the narrative, why should anyone trust warnings about “misinformation” even if the warnings are valid? You can point to the “Russian collusion” hoax and the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and if the thing you’re excited about now happens to be false, who can you trust to warn you against it? The media have forfeited their credibility, and the consequences are that we don’t know who to trust anymore.

So, now about that Unavision town hall with Kamala:

Kamala Harris got caught using a teleprompter during Thursday night’s Univision town hall in Las Vegas.
Harris pandered to Latina voters by participating in a town hall hosted by Univision.
The internal polls for Harris must be horrific.
Of course, Kamala Harris had to use a teleprompter because she has no clue what she’s talking about.
Univision panicked after they realized they showed Kamala Harris’s teleprompter live on air. As soon as the camera panned behind Kamala Harris, the teleprompter went black.

There clearly is a teleprompter in front of Kamala as she’s speaking, and the screen does go black shortly after it appears on camera. Univision claims that the words on the teleprompter were actually for the introduction by the host of the town hall, Enrique Acevedo.

However, if you listen to what Kamala was saying during that segment, it is word-for-word the same stump-speech line included in her TV ads about how, when she was a prosecutor in Californiam, she never asked the victim of crime if they were Republican or Democrat: “The only question I ever asked is, ‘Are you OK?'” So if she’s not reading a script off a teleprompted, why does she sound completely scripted? (Just incidentally, not to get off on a sidetrack, that’s a dumb line. A prosecutor’s job isn’t to give crime victims sympathy, it’s to get criminals convicted in court.) Another video clip from the same event shows an audience member simultaneously mouthing the same words Kamala was speaking (about how Trump “filed for bankruptcy six times”):

Quite obviously, the audience was a fake as Kamala herself — the Harris campaign brought in “plants” for what was supposed to be a town hall with regular voters and, whether or not Kamala was actually reading from a teleprompter, her message was sufficiently scripted that some of her listeners already knew it by heart. So what the media are doing, by accusing “right-wing influencers” of promoting a “crazy” and “debunked” narrative is . . . Well, for lack of a better word, it’s misinformation.

In conclusion, consider what Hillary Clinton said a week ago in a CNN interview about social media platforms, “if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.” This seems like a confession that Democrats want “total control” of what we’re allowed to say, what we’re allowed to read, what we’re allowed to watch. One of the ways that in which that control is exercised is by Democrats (and the media, but I repeat themselves) arrogating to themselves the authority to decide what constitutes truth, and what counts as “misinformation.”



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.11.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 12, 2024 | No Comments

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

What this Cybertruck really needs is a ring-mounted M2 HB.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Deadspin to Face Defamation Suit From Young Chiefs Fan
EBL: Kamala Harris Will Ban All Fracking, Ethel Kennedy RIP, Kamala Will Raise Taxes , Kamala Harris would not change a thing from Biden, and MAGA Unburdened Kamala Harris 
Twitchy: So About That Being Man Enough To Vote for Kamala Ad, Kamala Appears on the Cover Of Vogue & The Memes Are Brutally Glorious, and “Got My Period Listening To It”
Louder With Crowder: NYT writer demands men get therapy over ridiculous thing she claims Trump is “recruiting” them for
Vox Popoli: Carthago Delenda Est, Flawless Victory, and Always Fake, Usually Gay
According To Hoyt: Sunrise, sunset, From Afar, and When Death Comes Below The Cross
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #13 & #14
Stoic Observations: The New Pandemic Normal

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Court Applies Environmental Law to Biden-Harris Border Disaster, also, Ireland’s Immigration Crisis Comes to a Head
American Greatness: ‘She has no role in this process’, FEMA Says Disaster Relief No Longer About Emergency Response, It’s About ‘Disaster Equity’, How the Biden/Harris Admin Helped Iran Get to the Brink of a Nuclear Bomb, Political Analyst Says Private Polling Spells Disaster for Kamala Harris, and Vance Shows the Power of a Silver Tongue
American Thinker: Communists Out of the Closet, Jack’s ‘October Surprise’ is a Dud, Could the Hurricane Response be Election Interference? and Is 2024 America’s Last Election?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Kamala Screws Up Again Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship creates VIP lounges in airports accessible only to those who have cash, Video of the Day: Cuba’s upscale Vedado neighborhood now a garbage dump, and Not even the hospitals in Cuba are spared from blackouts
BattleSwarm: Democrats Want To Dismantle The Constitution, Getting Out The Ten Foot Pole To Talk About UFOs, and LinkSwarm for October 11
Behind The Black: Monitoring a changing spot on Mars, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appears to jiggle like Jello on a 90-day cycle, EPA to NASA: We intend to regulate how you dispose ISS, and that’s only the start, NATO to issue new space strategy to address growth in commercial sector, Fringe activists in Texas sue SpaceX to prevent further launches of Starship/Superheavy, California officials insist SpaceX shouldn’t be allowed to launch from Vandenberg because we hate Elon Musk, and Study proves that more than a decade after passage the promises of Obamacare were all a pack of lies
Cafe Hayek: Pleading With Oren Cass to Pay Attention, also, Are Falling Prices of Heat Caused by Corporate Altruism?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Redefining Hypocrisy, CBS and Objectivity, and They Have Their Exits
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge Mass., Election 2020, Election 2024 Donald Trump and Mysterious Ways, The Ten Best Robert Heinlein Novels, 1972 Dynasty League ALCS Milwaukee at NY Yankees, and 1972 Dynasty League NLCS NY Daytraders (Mets) at San Francisco Giants
Don Surber: Another polling day
First Street Journal: We should never release murderers until their victims come back to life, Waging war against Israel, from the safety of Morningside Heights, and Killadelphia: Did Teryn Johnson ever have a chance?
Gates Of Vienna: Persona Non Greta, Israelis Free Yazidi Girl Enslaved by Muslims, Kamala Plays for the HAMAS Team, A Different Kind of Bullet Train, and It’s Easy For You to Say
The Geller Report: Far Left Democrat Icon Ta-Nehisi Coates Says He Wouldn’t Have Been Able to Stop Himself From Murdering, Kidnapping, Raping, Sexually Mutilating Jewish Women and Children on Oct. 7th
Hollywood In Toto: January 6: The Most Deadliest Day Blisters the Left, Anti-Trump Apprentice Bombing at Box Office, Caddo Lake Delivers a Cinematic Shrug, Terrifier 3 – More Gore, Less Fun, and Does Teacup Serve Up One Mystery Too Many?
The Lid: Here’s the List of How House Members Voted to Fund FEMA’s Spending on Illegals, 3/4s of Americans Struggling to Pay Bills Thanks to Biden-Harris Economic Destruction, and Despite Billions Spent, More than Half of Calif. Students are Failing
Legal Insurrection: Think Tank Study Finds Over 150 Anti-Israel Groups on College Campuses are Pro-Terrorism, DOJ Sues Virginia for Purging Voter Rolls Too Close to Election, Arizona State U. Under Fire After Harris Campaign Accessed Data to Text 70,000 Students, Doug Emhoff Doesn’t Address Story About Hitting Ex-Girlfriend, Calls It a ‘Distraction’,  and Kamala Harris’s ‘Real Men’ Ad is Nothing But Cringe and Desperation
Nebraska Energy Observer: Waiting, Scattershot Friday, and Conspiracy theory?
Outkick: San Jose State Troon Blaire Fleming Delivers Vicious Spike To Opponent’s Face, NFL Teams Ranked As The Most Insufferable, Gaslighting, Deranged Media Stars Who Used To Be Normal, The Clark Effect: WNBA Announces HUGE Regular Season, Playoff Format Changes To Grow League, Dodgers Break More Postseason Narratives, Shutout San Diego Padres To Win NLDS, and Lori Loughlin Didn’t Age A Day In Prison, Kay Adams Squeezes Into A Dress & My Town Got Hammered By Tornadoes
Power Line: The View from Martha’s Vineyard, Man Enough to Vote For a Lousy Candidate [Updated], Crime: Spike or decline? and Thoughts from the ammo line
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental sorbet
Shark Tank: FSU Faculty Tilts Heavily Left, Has No Republicans In Most Departments
Shot In The Dark: This Should Fix Kamala’s Problem With Male Voters, Berg’s 7th Law In Action – Getcher Speech Permits, Why We Call Berg’s 7th Law A Law, Compare & Contrast, Your Tax Dollars At Work, When Vibes Aren’t Enough, Speaker Points, and Stuck On Stupid
STUMP: Chicago Watch  – Prior School Board Out, Funding Postponed To Chicago Public Schools
The Political Hat: Pale Pastel Politics, Quick Takes – Fantasy Make Believe, and Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 7)
This Ain’t Hell: Developing: Afghan man planned to conduct a terrorist attack in the US on Election Day, Valor Friday, Military retirees and disabled veterans to receive 2.5% monthly pay increase, Military Recruitment Success in 2024, and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel accused of lewdness with a child under 18
Transterrestrial Musings: Debt Doom is Coming, Hezbollah Wants A Ceasefire Now, The EPA And NASA, and The “National Security Leaders For America”
Victory Girls: When Stupidity Is No Different Than Malice Go With Malice, Ana Kasparian Of The Young Turks Now Politically Homeless, and Democrats Have A Man Problem They’re Trying To Fix By Scolding
Volokh Conspiracy: The First Real Judicial Filibuster
Watts Up With That: Unraveling the Nuclear Fusion Confusion, DeSantis Savages Reporter Who Questions If Hurricanes Are Tied To Global Warming, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Presents Master Class on Hurricane Milton and Climate Misinformation
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We’re All Shocked — Shocked! — to Discover ‘Men for Kamala’ Are Fake

Posted on | October 11, 2024 | No Comments

So after I’d started working on another post about “misinformation,” I saw this story (via Twitchy via Stephen Green at Instapundit) and decided that it was obviously relevant to the topic I was discussing:

As many of you know, Jimmy Kimmel’s writer, Jacob Reed, directed an ad for the Kamala Harris campaign titled ‘Men for Kamala.’ The ad features what are presented as everyday male voters explaining why supporting Kamala Harris is the masculine thing to do. However, none of the men in the ad are actually regular voters—they are paid actors.
Moreover, their real-life circumstances differ significantly from the individuals they portray in the ad. Here are their stories:

– Wayland McQueen is a far-left, pro-Antifa comedian and actor who has, until now, found limited success. He does improv gigs at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. In a Twitter post from 2022, he explains what white privilege is and tells you why you need to acknowledge your white privilege. As of 2024 he is single.
Lanre Idewu is an immigrant from Nigeria. He is also an actor who works at the D.C.-based OCTET Productions. He has many intimate pictures with the Obamas and the Bidens. Idewu, who is bisexual, has done gay-for-pay movies and nude solo shoots. In the “Men for Kamala” ad, he says he is “man enough to f-ing braid his daughter’s hair,” but the only problem is that he doesn’t have a daughter. Idewu isn’t braiding anyone’s hair.
Mike Leffingwell, a gay man, also works at the Upright Citizens Brigade, where McQueen works. He is an acting coach, cartoon writer for Netflix and DreamWorks, and an actor in TV commercials. On his public Instagram page, he showcases his participation in his latest project—the “Men for Kamala” ad.
– Winston Carter, the heavyset fellow in the ad who claims to be a mechanic and rancher, lives in Los Angeles signed with Taft Broadcasting Company. He has found limited success in the acting world, mainly as an extra in films and as a character in the low-budget superhero film Spaghettiman.
– Tony Ketcham, the tough, rugged, bearded grandpa in his garage in the “Men for Kamala” ad, is also an actor. He now mainly does low-budget independent films like Car Botz, where he played the role of PePaw. Tony is unmarried in real life. In 2001, he played the extra role of “alcoholic consumer” in the movie Ghost World.

So, 100% of them are actors, at least 40% are gay, and none of them are mainstream middle-class “swing state” voters, which is who the ad was probably supposed to be persuading. Right?

What this reminds me of is the MTV series Catfish. In case you don’t know it, to “catfish” someone is to use a fake Internet persona to lure them into a romantic encounter under false pretenses. A few years ago, I binge-watched several episodes of Catfish and noticed a pattern — in what seemed like 90% of the cases they investigated, the perpetrators were either (a) fat, (b) gay or (c) black, but sometimes all three. Why was this? The gay factor usually involved a lesbian pretending to be a heterosexual male in order to attract the interest of a heterosexual female. The fat factor in catfishing, I suppose, stems from the general unpopularity of fat people, who engage in online impersonation — using a skinny person’s picture as their avatar — to get romantic attention that would otherwise be out of their reach. As for the disproportionate number of black perpetrators in catfishing, usually they were also either fat or gay (or both), and so they were impersonating a much-more-attractive white person in an effort to expand their options.

Anyway, the fakery of “Men for Kamala” is a sort of political catfishing scheme, with actors pretending to be Regular Manly Men, in a desperate bid to get Regular Man Men to vote for Kamala Harris. But some clever person was clever enough to do what Nev Schulman always did in the Catfish series, namely use Google image searches to identify these “Men for Kamala” fakers, thereby exposing the fraud. And yet it is supposedly us right-wingers who are promoting “misinformation” — but that’s the subject of another post, which I’ll now get back to writing.



 

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Posted on | October 11, 2024 | No Comments

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