#RNCinCLE COMMIES!
Posted on | July 19, 2016 | 67 Comments
CLEVELAND
So I went down to Public Square today to see what the protest scene was like and you have never seen so many police in one place in all your life. If there were 1,500 people there, 300 of them were protesters, 400 were media covering the protests, and 800 were cops. This was cool, because the protesters absolutely hate cops. That’s basically what the protest was about — hating cops, hating capitalism, hating America quite generally, because the protesters are Communists:
“There will be no peace unless there is justice,” Professor Cornell West said Tuesday in a speech to an anti-police rally here organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Speaking through a megaphone amid a crowd of protesters gathered at Public Square in downtown Cleveland, West invoked “the legacy of white supremacy in this country that goes back 400 years” to condemn police.
West spoke in front of a giant RCP banner declaring, “Time to Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution. STOP MURDER BY POLICE.” Activists with the RCP held aloft signs that read, “America Was NEVER Great! We Need to OVERTHROW This System!”
You can read the rest at The American Spectator.
We really need to revive the Smith Act, so we can put some of these filthy Commie subversive traitors in Leavenworth, where they belong.
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#RNCinCLE: No More Bushes
Posted on | July 19, 2016 | 30 Comments
CLEVELAND
The Bush family is “effectively in self-imposed exile,” Jonathan Martin of Politico said on CNN’s midday broadcast, noting that it has been decades since Republicans were Bush-less at their national convention. He said this like it’s a bad thing that Republicans have finally rid themselves of the dynastic dominance of Bushism. It’s as if the GOP presidential nomination is a family heirloom the Bushes pass along from one generation to the next, like grandma’s antique silver service. If they don’t get their way, they take their ball and go home. Not very “party unity” of them.
“That’s their choice,” Ivanka Trump told ABC News. “If they don’t want to be part of the narrative, if they don’t want to be part of the future — that this really is about a forward-looking moment.”
Meanwhile, your Daily Absurd Controversy Update:
“There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech,” Manafort told CNN’s Chris Cuomo this morning. “These were common words and values that she cares about her fmaily and things like that. I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night, she knew that. To think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is crazy. I mean, it’s so — I mean, this is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It’s not going to work.”
CLEVELAND: The Heat Is On the Street
Posted on | July 19, 2016 | 10 Comments
Ohio state troopers guard the corner of 4th and Prospect.
CLEVELAND
Got here Sunday morning and immediately had to deal with news of the shootings in Baton Rouge, so I went and met with Louisiana delegates:
Roger Villere was in church Sunday morning “and my phone kept vibrating,” the Louisiana Republican Party chairman said. Villere said he did not want to check his text messages during the Catholic service, but as soon as it ended, he stepped outside and turned on his phone and saw the news: Police had been attacked in Baton Rouge. “It’s a terrible way to end a Sunday service,” Villere said after a prayerful meeting with the Louisiana GOP delegation here. . . .
You can read the rest of that. Meanwhile, of course, there is the convention itself — which is Ground Zero for a massive security presence:
Squads of uniformed police and state troopers patrolled on foot through the downtown streets here Monday, deployed to protect the Republican National Convention. A double-ring perimeter of eight-foot tall steel-mesh fencing surrounds the convention site at Quicken Arena on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. Only those with credentials can enter the access gate at the intersection of East 4th Street and Prospect Avenue, then walk past armed officers with police dogs in a high-security gauntlet that leads to the white tents where Secret Service agents put them through metal detectors.
“Make America Safe Again” was the theme of the convention Monday and, in an increasingly dangerous world, keeping the convention itself safe was a massive undertaking. Thousands of law enforcement officers are on the scene in Cleveland, including police from as far away as Florida and California. In the wake of terrorist attacks in France and Turkey, and assassinations of police in Texas and Louisiana, perhaps never in history was America so attuned to the kind of law-and-order message delivered from the RNC stage last night.
“What I did for New York, Donald Trump will do for America,” said former New York City Mayor Giuliani in his prime-time speech Monday. Like the man the GOP is expected to nominate Thursday as the next president of the United States, Giuliani is a tough-talking New Yorker. And the former mayor seemed genuinely angry at the way his fellow New Yorker has been maligned.
“I am sick and tired of the defamation of Donald Trump by the Clinton campaign,” Giuliani said in his convention speech. “I am sick and tired of it. This is a good man, and America should be sick and tired of this vicious, nasty campaign.” . . .
You can read the rest of that at The American Spectator.
Here are a few photos of the festive scene in Cleveland:
A fired-up Trump supporter inside the convention all.
Not all of these T-shirt designs are officially approved.
Of course, it’s Hillary he’s running against, but it’s the thought that counts.
Hurry! Get your limited edition Trump bobblehead! While they last!.
My work covering the convention may not win a Pulitzer Prize, but at least I didn’t plagiarize any speeches by Michelle Obama.
In The Mailbox: 07.18.16
Posted on | July 18, 2016 | 7 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
More is better, so I decided to add the following blogs to “Ripped From The Headlines”: Adam Piggott (designated correspondent from Oz), Animal Magnetism, Dustbury, and Fred On Everything. Honestly, I don’t know why I waited so long to add Fred and Chaz.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: I Have A Plan To Use Pokemon Go As A Tool To Defeat ISIS
EBL: Ode To Mary Jo
Michelle Malkin: Stop Playing Social Justice Warriors, Facebook!
Twitchy: Utah Delegate’s Life Reportedly Threatened By Trump Supporters In Cleveland
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t Invite Me To My Own Bloody Country
American Power: Sheriff David Clarke Slams “Hateful Ideology Called #BlackLivesMatter”
American Thinker: Obama’s Divide-And-Rule Presidency
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Stacy McCain Or The Baton Rouge Shooter, Which One Did Twitter Ban?
Don Surber: Large Donors Bail On Democratic Convention In Philadelphia
Dustbury: Let Us Not Speak Of Honor
Fred On Everything: New Rossum’s Universal Robots – Toward A Most Minimal Wage
Jammie Wearing Fools: #ThanksObama – 74% Say Race Relations In America Are Bad
Joe For America: Cleveland Police Union Official Says “Obama Has Blood On His Hands”
JustOneMinute: Stuck On Baton Rouge
Pamela Geller: Germany Axe Attack – More Than 20 Injured By Migrant On Train
Shot In The Dark: This Changes Everything!
STUMP: Comparing Murder Rates – Fact Check
The Jawa Report: Fatwa This! Australopithecus Islamicus
The Lonely Conservative: I Don’t Want To Do This Any More
The Political Hat: Belgium Forces Catholics To Kill
This Ain’t Hell: Army to Dump LRS Companies
Weasel Zippers: #BlackLivesMatter Accuses Pokemon Go Of Inherent Racism. No, Seriously.
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GAVIN LONG: ‘Cosmo Ausar Setepenra’ and the Dangerous Kind of Crazy
Posted on | July 18, 2016 | 46 Comments
My conclusion that Baton Rouge gunman Gavin Long was “both racist and insane” drew some criticism from commenters who said that such a judgment “plays into the Left’s hands and provides it with deniability.”
So what? What we hate about the Left is how they politicize everything. We should not imitate them by politicizing everything in reverse.
Besides which, I am a well-known expert in craziness. I’ve been studying kooks for years, and when I say somebody’s crazy? Trust me.
Gavin Eugene Long was deranged, daft, demented, cracked, zany, wacko, bonkers, off his rocker and a few fries short of a Happy Meal:
The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.” . . .
Long officially filed paperwork in Jackson County, Missouri, last year declaring himself Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, a “sovereign citizen” of the United Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur nation, a loosely affiliated network of mostly African Americans who claim to be Native American and don’t believe the U.S. government has jurisdiction over them.
(Via Memeorandum.) More from the Kansas City Star:
Online the shooter called himself Cosmo Setepenra, and more than a week before he killed three police officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., he told a YouTube audience he didn’t want to be associated with organized groups in case anything happened to him.
“I’m affiliated with the spirit of justice: nothing else, nothing more, nothing less,” he said in the clip.
Cosmo Setepenra’s real name was Gavin Eugene Long, and he was from Kansas City. . . .
He was a military veteran without a criminal record. He had a robust online presence, where in “Convos with Cosmo” he doled out everything from health tips to advice to help men reach “complete and full masculinity.”
He took up anti-government views, and while he said he didn’t want to be affiliated with any organized groups, he was a member of a bizarre offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement and had been associated with the Nation of Islam. He saw police as part of the government and was outraged by the recent spate of police shootings of black men.
Followers of the sovereign citizen movement believe the government is corrupt and has no jurisdiction over them. Federal authorities consider the movement a domestic terrorist threat, and the movement continues to swell, with violent incidents erupting regularly.
Gavin Long’s bizarre Afrocentric cult mentality is neither new nor uncommon. Here is a 2004 Associated Press story about one such cult:
EATONTON, Ga. — Pyramids, obelisks and a lonely sphinx stand deserted on the Egyptian-themed compound where as many as 500 members of a quasi-religious sect lived only five years ago.
The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors has gone quiet since its leader, Malachi York, was sentenced to 135 years in federal prison in April for molesting 14 boys and girls whose parents were members of his group.
The federal government has seized the Nuwaubians’ 476-acre farm in this middle Georgia town and the group’s members have dispersed.
“York was it. Everything flowed from York. There was never any mistake about that,” said Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, who has clashed with the Nuwaubians since York moved his followers from New York City’s Brooklyn borough to this rural county in 1993.
“He was the absolute ruler. There was no one else,” Sill said.
At their height, the Nuwaubians brought 5,000 people to Eatonton for Savior’s Day to celebrate York’s birthday.
In 1999, as many as 500 people lived on the compound, practicing York’s malleable religion that shifted from Islamic roots to Judaism, Christianity and Egyptian mysticism, with members at times dressing as cowboys and American Indians. At one time, York even incorporated space aliens into his teachings, claiming that he was an extraterrestrial from the planet “Rizq.”
This kind of kook cult conspiracy stuff is always floating around out there. You’ve got white people who are into weird pagan sex cults, feminists who are into astrology, tarot, “goddess spirituality,” et cetera.
Was it entirely coincidental that a crazy kook cultist like Gavin Long was inspired to drive to Louisiana and shoot cops? No, because the “Black Lives Matter” movement appeals to the same kind of Afrocentric racial insanity that led Gavin long to rename himself “Cosmo Setepenra.”
This is the problem with media coverage that deliberately feeds into racial paranoia in the black community, as I explained last week:
CNN has a long history of going into round-the-clock coverage mode for stories like the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida and the subsequent trial of George Zimmerman, which fit into a certain social-justice narrative of racial victimhood. CNN devoted many hours of coverage to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, that gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement. When the Ferguson protests turned into riots, however, nobody at CNN seemed to wonder what part their coverage had played in inciting the racial resentments behind the chaos of looting and arson. Going back as far as the 1991 Rodney King arrest and the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots that ensued, CNN’s coverage of race and crime has been problematic, and the network’s apparent willingness to act as a publicity agency for Black Lives Matter is part of a troubling pattern.
CNN and other media act like a warped mirror, reflecting back to the audience a distorted view of the world, a sort of alternative reality, and some people are unable to cope with the cognitive dissonance this creates. TV shows us a world full of rich people, important people and famous people, whereas the vast majority of viewers are poor, insignificant and obscure, at least in comparison to the people they see on TV. There is a seemingly unbridgeable gap between TV life and real life. A dangerous kind of craziness takes hold when an obscure loser becomes obsessed by the idea that they can Be Somebody — that is to say, they can become one of the Important People on TV — by committing a spectacular act of violence. Whether it’s Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris perpetrating the Columbine Massacre or Gavin Long shooting cops in Baton Rouge, the deranged mental process involved is essentially the same.
Are there political lessons to be learned from this? Yes.
Can “Black Lives Matter” be blamed for the murders in Baton Rouge? Yes.
However, the really important lesson here is about the intersection between mental illness, politics, and life in a world where the shows on TV seem more “real” to some people than their own actual lives. And guess what? A lot of the “news” on TV is staged with the audience in mind. What is a modern political convention except a big TV show? And what’s the point of “Black Lives Matters” protests? To get on TV.
Turn off your TV! Your TV is making you crazy!
Trust me on this, brothers and sisters, because I’m a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.”
Crazy? It’s 2016 — the whole world has gone crazy.
It’s OK to be crazy. Just don’t be the dangerous kind of crazy.
Rule 5 Sunday: Playmate Turns Showgirl
Posted on | July 17, 2016 | 8 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Buckaroo Banzai: You ever thought about joining me full time?
New Jersey: Whatya mean, you serious, do you have an opening?
Buckaroo Banzai: Uh huh. Can you sing?
New Jersey: A little, yeh, I can dance.
-from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
If I were still doing Live at Five (currently on hiatus due to ongoing strange overnight work schedule) I would have linked to the flap this week over former Playboy Playmate Dani Mather and her egregious stupidity, but even without the link she’s a good counterpoint to Claire Sinclair, 2011 Playmate of the Year, who is currently building a nice career for herself as star of the show Pin Up here at the Stratosphere Casino. Ms. Sinclair is rather obviously entitled to the All This And Brains Too t-shirt. As usual, the management is not responsible for any dire consequences arising from your failure use discretion when clicking on the following links, many of which are NSFW.

Claire Sinclair doing her thing and doing it well.
Goodstuff kicks off this week’s Rule 5 Sunday with an exploration of Steampunk, followed by Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Martial Law Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon; Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; The Last Tradition with Amber Heard and Lena Chase; and First Street Journal with Working For A Living.
EBL explores new frontiers this week with Kayaking, #FishBra, The Golden Age Of Air Travel, Why Does The All-Female Ghostbusters Suck?, Embrace Immortality With Lobsters, Katherine Ross, and Catherine Deneuve.
A View from the Beach chips in with Natalie Gulbis Speaks for Trump, Are Bluefish in Trouble?, Beware the Turtles!, Sturgeons Throw Scientists A Curve, FBI Guys Sign Nondisclosures on Clinton.com, A Real Charmer, Holy Mackerel, A New Use for Fish!, A Short Film, Well, Did She or Didn’t She?, “Cruel Summer” and Went Fishing…
Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Elle Evans, his Vintage Babe is Yeoman Janice RandGrace Lee Whitney, and Sex in Advertising this week is (un)covered by Kate Upton. Dustbury is getting back into gear this week with Barbara Stanwyck.
Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those of you who linked Rule 5 Sunday in the FMJRA to make it (once again) the most-linked post on The Other McCain last week! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, July 23; deadline for submitting links to the Wombat-socho mailbox for the FMJRA is noon on Saturday.
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GAVIN EUGENE LONG: Cop-Killer in Baton Rouge Was Racist and Also, Crazy
Posted on | July 17, 2016 | 25 Comments
The maniac who killed three police in Baton Rouge and wounded three others was both racist and insane. Ranting against “crackers” on YouTube, talking about “revolution” and “my people” with the delusional grandiosity typical of a paranoid schizophrenic:
Long also said that bloodshed was the only way to win against oppression.
“One hundred percent of revolutions, of victims fighting their oppressors, from victims fighting their bullies, 100% have been successful through fighting back through bloodshed,” he said in one video. “Zero have been successful through simply protesting. It has never been successful and it never will.”
He also referred to himself as an alpha male, unafraid of taking that step.
“If y’all want to keep protesting, do that, but for the serious ones, the real ones, the alpha ones, we know what it’s going to take.”
Yeah, “victims fighting their oppressors” — dude from Kansas City drives to Baton Rouge and shoots six cops who never knew this doomed loser.
How do cops in Baton Rouge oppress someone in Kansas City?
Your TV is making you crazy! Sitting around watching CNN all day, brooding about how you’re a victim of oppression?
That’s crazy, and it’s dangerous. Go watch this YouTube video in which Gavin Long relates “principles for my people.” It was recorded five days ago, and the dude’s just rambling incoherently. Lunatics rambling incoherently on the Internet — well, there’s a lot of that going around lately, but some crazy people are clearly more dangerous than others.
#BatonRouge shooter Gavin Long said bloodshed was the only way to win against oppression https://t.co/6bHBNVr7k6 pic.twitter.com/0J246QPfeK
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 17, 2016
Gavin Eugene Long killed cops, but he wasn't banned by Twitter. #BatonRouge pic.twitter.com/if2PiMfzpR
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) July 18, 2016
Queer Feminist @Girly_Juice Explains Why You Should Avoid Queer Feminists
Posted on | July 16, 2016 | 104 Comments
Kate Sloan (@Girly_Juice) is an example of what I mean when I say every feminist’s ideal boyfriend is a Hitachi Magic Wand. She describes herself as a “Cis queer kinky poly femme feminist.” Also, she’s Canadian, which is another good reason to avoid Canada, as if you needed any more.
Feminism is an anti-male hate movement. Everyone understands this, except for those pathetic masochists who call themselves “male feminists.” No feminist ever dated a man except to obtain the sadistic revenge of humiliating the men she dates. The only way a feminist ever looks at a male is down. To be male is to be inferior, according to feminist theory, and so in her every interaction with a male, the feminist is merely giving him the opportunity to prove his inferiority. Like every other feminist, Kate Sloan habitually mocks and demeans males, which was the point of her recent column with this headline:
The Dangers Of Dating Faux-Feminist Men
What is a “faux-feminist” man? Basically any heterosexual man who thinks of himself as a feminist. If you are male, Kate Sloan hates you, and in feminist discourse, heterosexuality is a synonym for oppression.
In her column, Kate Sloan begins by describing her vindictive humiliation of “a passably nice boy I’d met on Tinder.” She uses the pseudonym “Liam” for this boy, and describes him as “smart, funny, creative, interesting, and a terrific cuddler.” This is obviously false, because (a) there are no “nice boys” on Tinder, and (b) any man who would date Kate Sloan can’t be very smart. No man with an IQ above room temperature would ever speak to a queer feminist, especially not a Canadian queer feminist. Do I even have to explain this? Or would it be sufficient to point out that Kate Sloan’s web site has page after page of dildo reviews?
Look, pal, if you want to date a vibrator connoisseur like Kate Sloan, don’t let me stop you. However, even in 2016 there are still plenty of women who actually like normal sex with human males, and maybe you should consider trying to find one of those instead. Also, queer feminist Kate Sloan helpfully includes a naked picture of herself on her “About” page, if you need any further incentive to avoid her completely.
Why would a “nice boy” want to interrupt Kate Sloan’s solitary pursuit of battery-operated fun? Oh, I almost forgot — you’re a “male feminist.” Or at least you thought you were until you dated Kate Sloan, and then she deliberately started a pointless argument about movies:
I wanted, so badly, to give him the benefit of the doubt. I wanted him to cede that Hollywood’s misogyny is a bad thing, or even a real thing. But he didn’t acknowledge any of that. . . . He kept walking and holding my hand, like nothing had changed.
Struggling to keep my voice even, I told him, “If you don’t see gender injustice in the world, it’s because you’re a straight, white, able-bodied cis dude, and you’re blinded to those things by your privilege.”
“Oh, here we go,” he snapped, his veneer of cool condescension bending at last. “Men aren’t more privileged than women. Different people have different levels of privilege depending on what’s going on in their lives. For example, in divorce courts –”
That’s when I let go of his hand. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I threw his hand away from me like it was a rotting rat corpse I’d found behind the couch. “Nope,” I barked. “I can’t have this conversation with you. I’m going to get too mad at you and we are going to break up if we have this conversation.”
That night, I went home and texted my four closest friends: three ardently feminist women and one dude who I considered a pretty solid ally. “Do I have to break up with him?” I implored after explaining the situation. All three women immediately blew up my phone with all-caps yeses. . . .
I’d assumed he was a feminist because, in my mind, any good and decent man would be. My experiences up til then had mostly confirmed this. But in Liam’s case, being a good and decent man wasn’t enough, if he didn’t also believe in the systemic struggles women face. . . .
You can read the rest of that, but ask yourself this: Why would any “good and decent man” date Kate Sloan, who is neither good nor decent? Perhaps a Venn diagram would be helpful in understanding this.
You see that these are non-intersecting sets. However “passably nice” this guy she met on Tinder may have been, he wasn’t good or decent, or else he would not have dated a Canadian queer feminist like Kate Sloan.
Her experiences led her to an existential crisis:
What does it mean for a man to be truly feminist? Is that even possible, or is a man only ever, at best, a feminist ally and a recovering misogynist? . . .
For feminist women, dating men can feel like a lose-lose proposition. Either you settle for someone who invalidates your politics and therefore your personhood, or you gamble on a man who claims to support your cause but may or may not actually give a s–t.
Heterosexual feminism is impossible. It’s a “lose-lose proposition,” because feminists hate men with such white-hot intensity that no man could ever hate himself enough to qualify as a “male feminist.” Why even talk to Kate Sloan? A feminist never wants to hear a word any man has to say, because men are always wrong about everything.
No intelligent man would waste time talking to Kate Sloan. Just let her stay home alone with her collection of dildos and vibrators. But maybe you’re not an intelligent man. Maybe you’re so stupid that even if I told you not to click here to see a photo of Kate Sloan with her, uh, equipment, you’d click it anyway, despite my warning that you can never un-see it.










