The Other McCain

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Those Danged Voters!

Posted on | March 2, 2016 | 103 Comments

 

Donald Trump scored huge victories in the Super Tuesday primaries and is now “unstoppable” in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, according to veteran GOP campaign strategist Ed Rollins:

Game over! This was a rout, America. Winning seven states and the vast majority of delegates is a landslide. Donald Trump and the millions of his supporters have changed American politics and the Republican Party for the foreseeable future.
The nomination is within his grasp and if he does what he said he would do Tuesday night: “[I will] be a unifier!” he may be a very viable candidate against Hillary Clinton in the fall.
After his victories Tuesday night in multiple states and his second place finish in others, Trump is in an unstoppable position. Whether the junior senators from Texas and Florida choose to pursue him, it doesn’t matter, the end is near.
Trump, who is an unconventional candidate, to say the least, has tapped into the anger and frustration across America and has mobilized voters to turn out in record numbers.

This is woe and misery, many of my conservative pundit friends are convinced. For the third consecutive campaign cycle — 2008, 2012 and now 2016 — Republican primary voters have failed to choose the candidate the blogosphere wanted. In 2008, bloggers wanted Fred Thompson, but voters chose the hated “maverick” John McCain. In 2012, bloggers got on the Rick Perry bandwagon, but voters chose the despised liberal Republican, Mitt Romney. Now in 2012, it seems, voters decided to give the ultimate “f–k you” to conservative pundits by giving their votes to the vulgar billionaire Donald Trump:

Donald J. Trump won sweeping victories across the South and in New England on Tuesday, a show of strength in the Republican primary campaign that underscored the breadth of his appeal and helped him begin to amass a wide delegate advantage despite growing resistance to his candidacy among party leaders.
Mr. Trump’s political coalition — with his lopsided victories in Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts and Tennessee, and narrower ones in Arkansas, Vermont and Virginia — appears to have transcended the regional and ideological divisions that have shaped the Republican Party in recent years.
With strong support from low-income white voters, especially those without college degrees, he dominated in moderate, secular-leaning Massachusetts just as easily as he did in the conservative and heavily evangelical Deep South.

What can be done? Why aren’t voters paying attention to pundits? Could it be that Idiocracy is upon us? Well . . .

The man behind the 2006 cult sci-fi film “Idiocracy” is lamenting that his fictional movie appears to have become reality.
“I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary,” tweeted screenwriter Etan Cohen in an apparent jab at the 2016 presidential race.
Together with “Beavis & Butt-head” creator Mike Judge, Cohen co-wrote the time-travel comedy. The plot revolves around the misadventures of a man who wakes up in a futuristic America only to discover that everyone around him, including lawmakers and government officials, is an idiot.
“I thought the worst thing that would come true was everyone wearing Crocs,” Cohen told his Twitter followers.
“Idiocracy” star Terry Crews, famous for his role as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, also used the satirical film to take a shot at the surreal election cycle.
“All y’all need to stop tripping,” Crews tweeted in character. “Chill the F out, ‘Merica.”

When TV filled up with idiotic “reality” shows like Survivor and The Bachelor, and when “motor voter” registration ensured that nearly everyone with a driver’s license was eligible to vote, we knew there would be bad consequences. Do I sound like a snob? Man, I hate snobbery, but really, anyone who spends their evenings watching wretched crap like that on TV needs to be disenfranchised. If your idea of quality programming is Keeping Up With the Kardashians or MTV’s The Real World? Stay home on Election Day, please. If you have seen Idiocracy and if you have also read The Bell Curve, you understand the connection here. You might also wish to read, for example, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting and Adam and Eve After the Pill. Demographics is destiny, and the United States has been in demographic decline for at least 40 years.

Who can save us from utter ruin?

 

Well, OK, you can see my six kids. Where are your six kids?

The future belongs to those who show up, as Mark Steyn says, and if you are sufficiently intelligent, literate and civic-minded that you spend your leisure time reading political news and cultural commentary, you need to maximize your personal contribution to the future. Have more kids and home-school them. Do not surrender your kids to the government education system, which is run by corrupt bureaucrats who teach children to hate God, hate America and vote Democrat.

What does the Trump juggernaut mean? That is not for me to decide. If you’re smart enough to read this, you’re smart enough to decide for yourself what it means. But one way or another, it’s not a good sign. As I said when Obama was re-elected, we are Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption. Does anyone now doubt we are doomed?




 

Category: Election

#FreeStacy: $2,090,000,000.00

Posted on | March 1, 2016 | 28 Comments

 

The headline number? What @Jack has lost for @Twitter investors:

Twitter has lost over $2bn (£1.4bn) since the social network was first launched 10 years ago, with $1.6bn of the deficit happening since it went public two years ago.
According to the Form 10-K annual report filed by Twitter, which gives a comprehensive summary of a company’s financial performance, Twitter’s total accumulated deficit as of 31 December 2015 was $2.09bn, largely due to stock-based compensation awarded to employees.

Basically, Twitter investors have been throwing away $800 million a year since 2014 paying Jack Dorsey and other executives to live large.

Yesterday, I appeared on a podcast with Tami Jackson and Jeff Dunetz.

Dan Gainor reports at FoxNews.com:

Twitter unverified Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos’s account in January and ignored repeated requests to reinstate it.
It was a shot across the bow of the conservative movement.
Popular blogger Robert Stacy McCain was suspended and then kicked off of Twitter for the vague thought crime of “violating the Twitter Rules.” The hashtag“#FreeStacy” trended for a while on Twitter. Even his book account was shut down.
Conservative actor Adam Baldwin called to “disband the ‘Trust and Safety’ Council,” and said he was quitting Twitter. Baldwin, who starred in the cult classic “Firefly” and the current apocalyptic drama “The Last Ship,” has been one of Hollywood’s more visible conservatives. And now Sci-fi author Larry Correia all-but shut his account down in sympathy.
Conservative blogger Ace of Spades declared: “I no longer use Twitter except to exploit it as a promotional tool. It’s for ads only. Censorship is the art of idiots, cowards, and thugs.”
Somehow new Twitter CEO claims, “Twitter stands for freedom of expression.” Really?

Bob Belvedere says: “Fight the Power!”

 

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BANNED BY TWITTER!

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

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Category: Blogging

In The Mailbox: Super Tuesday Morning Edition

Posted on | March 1, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: A Reason To Support The Donald?
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks in Kenya
Louder With Crowder: Open Letter To Leonardo DiCaprio
The Political Hat: Is Britain At War With Her Own People?
Michelle Malkin: Super Tuesday
Twitchy: New CNN Poll Shows Trump Only GOP Frontrunner Who Can’t Beat Hillary
Shark Tank: Trump Orders Secret Service To Remove Black Students From Rally


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: The GOP Implosion
American Thinker: The Republican Party Is Dead – They Just Don’t Know It Yet
Conservatives4Palin: Socialism’s Strange Appeal
Don Surber: The GOP Should Have Listened To Mickey Kaus
Jammie Wearing Fools: Black SUNY Students Who Faked Hate Crime To Be Charged With Assault On White Woman
Joe For America: School Promotes Cop Hate With Art Display
JustOneMinute: Ratings Gold! Or Ice Cold…
Pamela Geller: Facebook’s Zuckerberg – German Refugee Policies “Inspiring”, Says U.S. Should “Follow Their Lead”
Protein Wisdom: What The Hell?
Shot In The Dark: Adolescent
STUMP: Leap Day Pensions & Finance Watch – Detroit, Chicago, And California
The Gateway Pundit: 20,000 Democrats Switch Parties In Massachusetts, Officials Credit “Trump Phenomenon”
The Jawa Report: Gawker Trolls Trump
The Lonely Conservative: What Did Trump Tell NYT In Off-The-Record Conversation?
This Ain’t Hell: George Kennedy, RIP
Weasel Zippers: Just 75 People Show Up To hear Chelsea Clinton Condemn “Racist, Sexist, Homophobic” Republicans
Megan McArdle: The Die-Hard Republicans Who Say #NeverTrump
Mark Steyn: Super Du Jour


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Category: Linkagery

“How’s The Weather, Donald?”
“It’s Raining Knives”

Posted on | February 29, 2016 | 99 Comments

by Smitty

Here are the first there paras of a must-read Angelo Codevilla essay over at the Federalist:

The Obama years have brought America to the brink of transformation from constitutional republic into an empire ruled by secret deals promulgated by edicts. Civics classes used to teach: “Congress makes the laws, the president carries them out, judges decide controversies, and we citizens may be penalized only by a jury of our peers.”

Nobody believes that anymore, because no part of it has been true for a long time. Barack Obama stopped pretending that it is. During the twentieth century’s second half, both parties and all branches of government made a mockery of the Constitution of 1789. Today’s effective constitution is: “The president can do whatever he wants so long as one-third of the Senate will sustain his vetoes and prevent his conviction upon impeachment.”

Obama has been our first emperor. A Donald Trump presidency, far from reversing the ruling class’s unaccountable hold over American life, would seal it. Because Trump would act as our second emperor, he would render well-nigh impossible our return to republicanism.

The whole thing is an essential read, and floats the question: who best to un-frack this mess? No one, really; “Progress” was built in a century. We can start with Cruz, but it’s going to take much more than eight years to get to a suitable course.
Via Bearing Drift, here is a more detailed personal deconstruction of Her Majesty’s Secret Servant:

Loved the Gold Sharpie bit starting at 6:00.
We can thank Blutarski of Queens for driving forth the unlamented Florida Niedermeyer. Because we’re generous like that. But now it’s time for conservatives to sober up.

Category: Donald Trump

Did @Nian_Hu ‘Friend-Zone’ You? #FreeStacy: Feminism Is a Death Cult

Posted on | February 29, 2016 | 32 Comments

 

Perhaps you remember Harvard feminist Nian Hu, the Harvard student who declared: “I am a feminist. I believe in the equality of the sexes. For me, feminism means freedom,” and that among these freedoms was “freedom to have as many sexual partners as I want without being looked down on.” This inspired me to write “Harvard Sluts and the Thought Police,” pointing piy that what Ms. Hu was saying is that other people have no right to their own opinions. Everyone must approve of wanton promiscuity. The feminist freedom of Harvard sluts to get drunk and screw around would be infringed if they were to be “looked down on” because of their habitual and shameless fornication.

More recently, Ms. Hu wrote a Harvard Crimson column denouncing relationships between white men and Asian women as “yellow fever.” Apparently, being attracted to someone is the same as hating them, so if you are a white man who finds Ms. Hu attractive, you are “fetishizing” her race and also “objectifying” her. This inspired me to analyze the problem at length in “Feminism, Sex and Hypocrisy”:

“Let me tell you what to think” — this is the dictatorial imperative of feminism, a totalitarian regime of clever college girls who have decided the rest of us are wrong about everything. You need to be constantly lectured by angry young women, because she is oppressed and you are privileged. Therefore the only correct opinions are opinions approved by these tyrannical Ivy League brats who consider it a social injustice — “harassment!” “misogyny!” — if anyone dares to disagree with them. . . .
Petted and pampered and repeatedly told how wonderful they are (because being admitted to an Ivy League school is proof of their superiority to mere mortals), the insolent youth at schools like Harvard arrive on campus as freshmen convinced that they are smarter than God. The faculty apparently believe their task is to confirm, rather than contradict, their students’ grandiose narcissistic self-regard. . . .
The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved, and we can say of Harvard University what Obi-Wan Kenobi said of Mos Eisley, that it is a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” . . .

You can read the whole thing. What offends me about the current wave of feminism is the insufferable arrogance of these young women who, although their own lives are generally a Great Dismal Swamp of Perversion and Despair, consider themselves entitled to deliver sermons to the rest of us. What have they done, other than taking a few Gender Studies classes, that would qualify them as Official Experts?

Never mind. Young fools have never let their paucity of experience and knowledge deter them from insulting their elders, and ignoring the counsel of the wise. When I was Ms. Hu’s age, I was arguably more foolish than she is, the difference being that in 1979 there was no Internet to provide me a free platform from which to lecture the world. In the 21st century, every 19-year-old with a YouTube account and a Tumblr blog imagines we are in need of her feminist sermons, and no one ever seems to question their authority to preach at us about the Sin of Misogyny.

“Mind control (also known as ‘brainwashing,’ ‘coercive persuasion,’ and ‘thought reform’) refers to a process in which a group or individual systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s).”
— Michael D. Langone, “Cults and Mind Control”

Feminism is a cult. Unless you study how cults operate, and analyze feminist ideology as a quasi-religious worldview — a sort of gnostic heresy — you cannot hope to confront it effectively. There is no point, for example, in trying to have a reasonable conversation with the cult leaders.

Anita Sarkeesian is a totalitarian ideologue, who treats all critics as contemptible inferiors. To disagree with Anita Sarkeesian is to condemn yourself as a misogynist, and there is no court to which you may appeal her verdict. Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It and, as such, feminism attracts to its banner alienated, degenerate and embittered young women who are natural-born fanatics — The True Believer, as Eric Hoffer called them.

What is important, when encountering totalitarians, is to deny them what they most desperately crave: Moral authority.

A woman becomes a feminist for the same reason other people join ISIS. Islamic terrorist groups offer the alienated young Muslim a belief system that rationalizes his sense of personal failure, and provides a sense of group solidarity in taking action against the demonized scapegoats their ideology blames for all the evil in the world. When the Ayatollah Khomeini denounced the United States as “The Great Satan,” this told you everything you needed to know about the basic worldview of radical Islam. Feminism is really no different, except that the feminist’s Great Satan is called “the patriarchy” — or “sexism,” or “male supremacy,” or “misogyny,” or any other sort of jargon they use to describe men, masculinity and male behavior. Feminism is the belief that men are always wrong. Everything a man does is “sexist” because (a) he is a man, and (b) women are oppressed victims of male supremacy.

“Women are an oppressed class. . . . We identify the agents of our oppression as men.”
— Redstockings Manifesto, 1969

“We are angry because we are oppressed by male supremacy. We have been f–ked over all our lives by a system which is based on the domination of men over women.”
— Ginny Berson, “The Furies,” 1972

“In terms of the oppression of women, heterosexuality is the ideology of male supremacy. In order for men to have a justification for exploiting women and an ability to enforce that exploitation, heterosexuality has to become, not merely an act in relation to impregnation, but the dominant ideology. . . . Heterosexual hegemony insures that people think it natural that male and female form a life-long sexual/reproductive unit with the female belonging to the male.”
— Margaret Small, “Lesbians and the Class Position of Women”, in Lesbianism and the Women’s Movement, edited by Charlotte Bunch and Nancy Myron (1975).

“Heterosexuality is the institution that creates, maintains, and supports men’s power. . . . And heterosexuality has its ramifications at all levels of society; it is the source of all other oppressions.
“Heterosexuality is the pivot on which men have based the norm and created the origin and measure by which all relationships are structured. . . . Men, through heterosexuality, have devised their own concept and thereby constructed a system that generates all oppressions.”
— Ariane Brunet and Louise Turcotte, “Separatism and Radicalism,” in For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, edited by Sarah Lucia-Hoagland and Julie Penelope (1988)

“Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism: that which is most one’s own, yet most taken away. . . .
“The organized expropriation of the sexuality of some for the use of others defines the sex, woman. Heterosexuality is its structure, gender and family its congealed forms, sex roles its qualities generalized to social persona, reproduction a consequence, and control its issue.”
— Catharine MacKinnon, “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory” (1982)

“From the beginning of second-wave feminism, sexuality was identified as a key site of patriarchal domination and women’s resistance to it. . . .
“While heterosexual desires, practices, and relations are socially defined as ‘normal’ and normative, serving to marginalize other sexualities as abnormal and deviant, the coercive power of compulsory heterosexuality derives from its institutionalization as more than merely a sexual relation.”
— Stevi Jackson, “Sexuality, Heterosexuality, and Gender Hierarchy: Getting Our Priorities Straight,” in Thinking Straight: The Power, the Promise, and the Paradox of Heterosexuality, edited by Chrys Ingraham (2005)

“Heterosexism is maintained by the illusion that heterosexuality is the norm.”
— Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee, Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions (fifth edition, 2012)

“All women are prisoners and hostages to men’s world. Men’s world is like a vast prison or concentration camp for women. This isn’t a metaphor, it’s reality. Each man is a threat. We can’t escape men.”
— Radical Wind, August 2013

“Feminism is about the collective liberation of women as a social class. Feminism is not about personal choice.”
— Anita Sarkeesian, 2015

“Only when we recognize that ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ are made-up categories, invented to control human beings and violently imposed, can we truly understand the nature of sexism. . . .
“Questioning gender . . . is an essential part of the feminism that has sustained me through two decades of personal and political struggle.”
— Laurie Penny, “How to Be a Genderqueer Feminist,” 2015

It should not be necessary to explain, to any intelligent and literate person, how the bizarre beliefs of the Redstockings and The Furies, once considered radical and extreme, are the same as those promoted by Professor Shaw and Professor Lee in Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, a textbook assigned in introductory Women’s Studies classes at colleges and universities all over the United States. Nor should it be necessary to explain how feminism’s anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology inspires young feminist Laurie Penny’s claim that “gender” is itself a form of oppression “violently imposed,” so that destroying the “made-up categories” of male and female “is an essential part” of feminism.

This is the cult ideology of feminism, its esoteric doctrine, and yet young fools like Harvard’s Nian Hu seldom understand exactly what they are promoting. Feminists do not want “equality,” they want power — complete power, the kind of hegemonic authority that includes the power to silence opposition and inflict punishment on their enemies.

 

Feminism’s implacable hostility toward men and heterosexuality — “the ideology of male supremacy,” as Margaret Small called it — is what has inspired the phony “campus rape epidemic” hysteria that has resulted in more than 100 federal lawsuits by male students who say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and deprived of their due-process rights in campus kangaroo court tribunals, under rules imposed by the authority of the Obama administration’s official “Dear Colleague” letter. Promoting the false claim that 1-in-5 female college students are victims of rape is part of a systematic campaign to stigmatize males, per se. Women are now 57% of college undergraduate enrollment in the United States, but decades of academic discrimination against men has not satisfied feminists. Evidence suggests that declining male enrollment is actually harmful to women, but anti-male fanatics like Jaclyn Friedman and Alexandra Brodsky do not care about evidence. The purpose of feminist “rape culture” discourse is to make clear (if it was not already clear) that heterosexual males are not welcome on university campuses.

Like the “queer feminist” Melissa Fabello, fanatics like Friedman and Brodsky are promoting anti-male hate propaganda, and this brings us back to Harvard’s Nian Hu. On Feb. 19 she published a new column that drew the attention of our friends at the College Fix:

Have you ever shown romantic interest in a friend who didn’t reciprocate and then felt sore about it?
If you’re a man and your friend is a woman, you’re automatically sexist — and in the same league as a murderer.
That’s the curious argument made by Harvard Crimson columnist Nian Hu, who thinks so little of men that she assumes they feel “entitlement over women’s bodies” by using the common term “friend zone”:

They simply wanted to get with the woman, did all sorts of nice things to try to woo her, and then accused her of friend zoning him when she turned him down. In this case, being friend zoned is nothing more than a euphemism for rejection — one that places the blame on the woman, rather than on the man’s own undesirability or incompatibility.
In my experience, women are much less likely to complain about being friend zoned.

It seems to have never occurred to Hu that a man might want to be romantically involved with a woman for any other reason than bedding her:

The friend zone suggests that women are machines that men can put kindness tokens into until sexual favors come rushing out. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works: women are humans who are attracted to some people and not others. Whom they choose to have sex or not have sex with is their own decision, and it’s one that other people ought to respect.

She even blames the friend zone for the murder spree by Elliot Rodger . . .

You can read the whole thing, but perhaps you see the point: Because she is a feminist, Nian Hu has no interest in males, except to demonize them. Nian Hu loathes men as dangerous predators who feel “misogynistic entitlement to women’s bodies.” Because all men are oppressors, and heterosexuality is “a system that generates all oppressions,” any man who expresses romantic interest in a woman is a “sexist,” desiring to exploit, dominate and control her. When feminists like Nian Hu accuse a man of failing to understand rejection in terms of his “undesirability or incompatibility,” what they omit from the discourse is that feminists view all men as undesirable, and consider men and women inherently incompatible. Nian Hu hates all men, and any man is a fool who thinks himself an exception to feminism’s categorical condemnation of males.

 

As I explained in March 2015:

What kind of man would listen while a feminist tried
to “convince” him to believe in “the equality of the sexes”?
Even if she’s attractive, what is to be gained
by listening to her angry feminist lecture?
She’s either crazy or a lesbian or both.
“Nah, baby,” he says. “I don’t
believe in equality. I believe in love.”
And then just walk away.

It is impossible for a feminist to love a man, because no feminist can ever admire, respect or trust a man. Because her ideology requires her to despise all males as sexist oppressors, why would any feminist be interested in some old-fashioned phallocentric heteronormativity, so to speak? And why should any man give it to her? To settle a grudge?

Far be it from me to endorse fornication as a means of spite, but no other rationale could explain why a man would be interested in a woman who advocates the Death Cult Ideology of Feminism.

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BANNED BY TWITTER!

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

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“There are no Christian feminists, because feminism is a sort of narcissistic idolatry, wherein women deny God and instead worship themselves as their own divinity.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Dec. 17

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Disney Girls

Posted on | February 28, 2016 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Had a serious attack of musical nostalgia last night which caused me to buy and download (among other things) Art Garfunkel’s Breakaway, which among other sentimental tunes includes a cover of the Beach Boys’ Disney Girls. This inspired me to go looking for suitable pics, but considering the horrible fates of most young ladies subjected to the Mouse’s star-making machinery, I opted instead to go with this rendition of Jasmine from Aladdin, created by LadyAdler on DeviantArt in a style reminiscent of Art Deco master Alphonse Mucha, with maybe just a touch of anime.

The lady, or the tiger?

As usual, many of the following links are to pictures generally considered NSFW, and should you lack the discretion to click on them in an appropriate place at an appropriate time, the management is not responsible for your being fed to man-eating tigers, becoming addicted to drugs and/or plastic surgery, harassed by paparazzi, or contracting unique and terrible STDs. You is been warned.

Leading off this week is The Pegu Blog, with a piece on the Mainstreaming Of Cocktail Culture: The Blacklist, followed by Political Clown Parade with Flowing Curves of Beauty, Goodstuff exploring alternative energy sources such as Jordan Carver’s boobs, Ninety Miles from Tyranny’s Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism contributes Rule 5 Friday and a YUUUUGE Saturday Gingermageddon; Postaldog chips in with Joanna Krupa, Ronda Rousey & Lindsey Vonn in bodypaint, Lucy Collett, Hilary Duff, and Melanie Brown; The Last Tradition adds Andressa Soares and Karina Castillo, and it would not be Rule 5 Sunday without First Street Journal’s weekly salute to women in uniform: this week, it’s the IDF’s Blondes With Bullets.

EBL’s herd this week includes Melania Trump, Karlie Kloss & Taylor Swift, and the Best Supporting Actress.

A View from the Beach brings us That Girl from Smallville – Erica Durance, Another Reason for a Cup of Coffee in the Morning, Offer Void Where Prohibited by Law?, A Smoking Gun at Clinton.com?, “Black River”, I Must Have Missed This Episode, Esta chica es increíble, “Good Man”, Send in the Clowns!, and Pop Goes Clinton.com.

Soylent Siberia serves up Coffee with Kyla, Monday Motivationer Workin’ It, Tuesday Titillation Fine Arts, Humpday Hawt Pearl Diver, Finger Lickin’ Fursday, Latent Lingerie, and Weekender Feathers.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week are Tammi Terrell, Tianna Gregory, Taylor Hall,  Dilshad Vadsaria, Amara le Negra, Eva Marie, and Jena Frumes.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Emma Ishta, his Vintage Babe is Juliette Compton, and Sex in Advertising this week is by Gucci. At Dustbury, it’s Blake Lively and Joanne Woodward.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, March 5.

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Category: Rule 5

The GOPe Fatwah Against @TedCruz Has Me Hoping For A Dewhurst On Tuesday

Posted on | February 28, 2016 | 36 Comments

by Smitty

Jeff Sessions of Alabama endorsing Trump?

Sessions, what’s more, has decided to back Trump over Cruz, a fellow senator. Sessions has been one of the few in the Senate, even among Republicans, to praise Cruz, and Cruz has been dropping Sessions’ name all over the place in recent days. That Sessions has come out for Trump is surely a bitter disappointment to the Texan.

This is kind of a head ‘sploder, given Trump’s apparently squishy support of the First Amendment.

I think I’m totally writing in Cruz in November, irrespective of what the elite care about. If the GOPe wants to party like it’s 1992, I can bring it.

Category: Uncategorized

#FreeStacy Won’t Shut Up

Posted on | February 28, 2016 | 105 Comments

 

The difference between Anita Sarkeesian (@femfreq on Twitter) and myself can be summarized, as Da Tech Guy points out, in a single paragraph from Debra Saunders’ column:

I reached out to Sarkeesian: no response. I reached out to a woman who tweeted that McCain harassed her friend: no reply. McCain would talk. He noted that of the 40 organizations on the Twitter Council, many are left-leaning and none is conservative or libertarian. The Twitter Council is an echo chamber. “There are some people who just can’t stand the idea that someone could have access to Twitter or anything, or a platform to be able to criticize them,” McCain told me. They don’t believe in freedom of expression for others. Free speech is not safe. And Jack Dorsey has made them Twitter’s bouncers.

Damn right. Anita Sarkeesian is a selfish liar who falsely accuses her critics of wanting to “silence” her and other feminists:

What happened to me, and sadly other women as well, can best be described as a cyber mob.
And whether it’s a cyber mob or just a handful of hateful comments, the end result is maintaining and reinforcing and normalizing a culture of sexism — where men who harass are supported by their peers and rewarded for their sexist attitudes and behaviors and where women are silenced, marginalized and excluded from full participation.

Well, who is silencing whom, Ms. Sarkeesian? Who is being “excluded”? Not you, but rather your critics, who are never permitted to reply directly to your dishonest accusations about a “culture of sexism.”

Anita Sarkeesian has never engaged in a dialogue with anyone who disagrees with her dangerous ideology, and why? Because feminism is always a lecture, never a debate. Radical feminists like Anita Sarkeesian crave absolute power, including the power to silence others.

As I wrote in an email to my buddy Bert the Samoan Lawyer yesterday:

Remember: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. And also elect Hillary Clinton, but I repeat myself.

What does anyone need to fear from me? Only the possibility that I might state some facts they do not want others to know.

 

Anita Sarkeesian is an ally of extremist hatemonger Melissa Fabello, managing editor of the anti-male/anti-heterosexual website Everyday Feminism dedicated to promoting an “LGBTQIA+” agenda.

Has anyone asked Anita Sarkeesian why she would associate with a deranged fanatic who uses her Twitter account to publish obscene screeds against white heterosexual men?

 

If you want to ask Anita Sarkeesian a question about that on Twitter, you will be blocked and perhaps accused of harassment — “participating in targeted abuse” — because The First Rule of Feminism is “SHUT UP!”

“Denying or dismissing the sexism that permeates our culture is, in and of itself, a form of sexism.”
— Anita Sarkeesian, July 17, 2013

This is the perfect example of “Kafkatrapping”: Accuse someone of wrongdoing and, when they deny the accusation, assert that their denial is proof of their guilt. Sarkeesian’s claim that “sexism . . . permeates our culture” merely restates what was said more than 40 years earlier by Shulamith Firestone’s radical feminist collective Redstockings, and what university Women’s Studies professors teach young people to believe.

“Women are an oppressed class. . . .
“We identify the agents of our oppression as men. . . . All men have oppressed women.”
— Redstockings, 1969

“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization . . . to come to see oneself as a victim.”
— Sandra Lee Bartky, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression (1990)

“Since sex is something men do to women . . . men dominate and control women. . . .
“In other words, heterosexuality is the foundation of the social structure of male dominance, and successfully attacking it could bring down the whole house. . . .
“The need for a unified feminist theory of sexuality is clear. If one concludes, as many feminists have, that heterosexuality is the primary and most powerful mechanism of social control, then understanding its meaning in all forms is imperative if male dominance is ever to be overcome.”
— S.P. Schacht and Patricia H. Atchison, “Heterosexual Instrumentalism: Past and Future Directions,” in Heterosexuality: A Feminism and Psychology Reader, edited by Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger (1993)

“There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege. . . . [T]he interconnections of systems are reflected in the concept of heteropatriarchy, the dominance associated with a gender binary system that presumes heterosexuality as a social norm. . . .
“As many feminists have pointed out, heterosexuality is organized in such a way that the power men have in society gets carried into relationships and can encourage women’s subservience, sexually and emotionally.”
— Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee, Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions (fifth edition, 2012)

Feminists assert that all women are oppressed by all men. This means that no matter how privileged a woman may be, “feminist consciousness” requires her to think of herself as a victim. Because feminists condemn heterosexuality as the “mechanism” by which “men dominate and control women,” then the “power men have in society” (i.e., “male supremacy”) means that men’s normal sexual interest in women is inherently oppressive (i.e., “sexist”) within a system of “heteropatriarchy” that requires “women’s subservience, sexually and emotionally.”

 

This kind of “unified feminist theory” is taught in Women’s Studies programs on hundreds of campuses — the popular textbook Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions is edited by two professors at Oregon State University — which is why Feminism Is Queer, to quote the title of a textbook by Eastern Washington University Professor Mimi Marinucci.

This explains why Everyday Feminism editor Melissa Fabello rejects heterosexuality as a “charade,” calling herself “queer,” an identity she says she chose after previously calling herself “homoflexible. And before that, a lesbian. And even before that, bisexual.” Ms. Fabello can rant at length about her dislike of heterosexuality and her contempt for males, none of whom know anything about “a woman’s sexual pleasure” and never bother to ask, so that she prefers masturbating when she isn’t having “lesbian relationships . . . with ‘straight curious’ girls.”

You think maybe Ms. Fabello hates men and wants them to shut up?

 

Melissa Fabello “got to talk media and feminism . . . over dinner” with Anita Sarkeesian on Feb. 19 — the same day Twitter shut down my account, and this could be just a coincidence. Sure, I’ve been mocking Ms. Fabello’s site Everyday Feminism here on a regular basis for months (e.g., “The Queering of Feminism” and “Your Heterosexual Feminism Is Wrong”), and sure, Anita Sarkeesian is buddy-buddy with Twitter “Trust and Safety” Commissar Del Harvey, but it would be ludicrous — perhaps even paranoid — to think that Melissa Fabello, Anita Sarkeesian and Del Harvey might all agree that my popular @rsmccain account should be “silenced, marginalized and excluded” from Twitter.

Oh, I was born at night, ma’am, but it sure wasn’t last night. It’s not “paranoia” if people actually are out to get you, and when we realize that (a) this is an election year where Democrats expect to leverage the Feminist™ brand to elect Hillary Clinton president, and (b) wealthy Twitter executives are hosting fundraisers for Hillary Clinton, a persistent critic of feminism would have to be crazy not to be paranoid.

 

Not as if Hillary Clinton would have a guy arrested for making a YouTube video in an effort to cover up her own bungling in Benghazi, right?

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BANNED BY TWITTER!

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

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