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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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Category: Sex Trouble

Fox News Is Corrupt and Unethical

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 48 Comments

It was never a good idea for conservatives to put all their media eggs in Rupert Murdoch’s basket, and this story about Marco Rubio’s role in the 2013 “Gang of Eight” deal explains why:

A few weeks after Senator Marco Rubio joined a bipartisan push for an immigration overhaul in 2013, he arrived alongside Senator Chuck Schumer at the executive dining room of News Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters for dinner.
Their mission was to persuade Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the media empire, and Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of its Fox News division, to keep the network’s on-air personalities from savaging the legislation and give it a fighting chance at survival.
Mr. Murdoch, an advocate of immigration reform, and Mr. Ailes, his top lieutenant and the most powerful man in conservative television, agreed at the Jan. 17, 2013, meeting to give the senators some breathing room.
But the media executives, highly attuned to the intensifying anger in the Republican grass roots, warned that the senators also needed to make their case to Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio, who held enormous sway with the party’s largely anti-immigrant base. . . .

Read the whole thing. (Hat-tip: Mark Krikorian on Twitter.)

 

Category: Fox News, Immigration, Marco Rubio

FMJRA 2.0: Every Picture Tells A Story

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Wow. What a week!

The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?
The DaleyGator
Vigilant Liberty Radio
Trevor Loudon
Noisy Room
Shub-Niggurath Climate
Dave Alexander & Company
Simple Justice
First Street Journal
The Pirate’s Cove
Outside In
Hey Steelman!
GayPatriot
The Political Hat
Yid With Lid
Trial Of The Century
Points And Figures
Pax Dickinson
Right Side News
California Political News And Views
The Black Sphere
Social Matter
Regular Right Guy
Viewpoints of a Sagittarian
The Federalist
Capitol Zero
Watcher of Weasels
Bookworm Room
Stately McDaniel Manor
Nice Deb
A View from the Beach

#FreeStacy: ‘A Girl’s Name’
The DaleyGator
The Right Planet
Political Hat
Regular Right Guy
Watcher of Weasels
VA Right
Noisy Room
Trevor Loudon
Stately McDaniel Manor
Nice Deb
Bookworm Room
The Razor
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

#FreeStacy: @rsmccain ‘Will Not Be Restored’; @SexTroubleBook Suspended
Instapundit
Legal Insurrection
Tree of Mamre
Granite Grok
The Camp of the Saints
Rand Koch
Victory Girls
The Federalist
The Z Blog
Male Defender
Living In Anglo-America
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

Rule 5 Sunday: Rally ‘Round The Banner, The Banner Purple And Green
The Pink Flamingo
Animal Magnetism
Regular Right Guy
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

The Hateful Lies of Feminism
Regular Right Guy
Yid With Lid
Instapundit
Living In Anglo-America
The Lonely Conservative
Batshit Crazy News

Verging On Fantasy
Batshit Crazy News

Guys: Never Talk to a College Girl
Political Hat
Regular Right Guy
GressInfo
Batshit Crazy News

What @FemFreq Didn’t Say
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: #FreeStacy Edition
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.22.16
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

The #FreeStacy Protest Continues
The PennAvePost
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.23.16
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

#FreeStacy: Have You Mentioned @srhbutts Lately? Perhaps You Should
Adam Piggott
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

University Students Are Helpless Infants
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

Violence Against Women That @JaclynF and @JessicaValenti Will Never Mention
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

#FreeStacy: Does @Twitter @Support Child-Porn Defender @AlisonRapp?
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.25.16
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

#FreeStacy: Why Won’t @Jack Make @Twitter Stop Harassing @PaxDickinson?
Batshit Crazy News

Transgender: Victims of Societal Prejudice or Dangerous Criminal Perverts?
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Hates White Heterosexual Men
Dave Alexander & Company
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

Late Night With In The Mailbox: Extra Family-Size Okra Edition
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (22)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (9)
  3.  A View from the Beach (7)
  4.  Living In Anglo-America (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Special thanks to the Watcher’s Council and Noisy Room, who drew a lot of attention to the blog with links early in the week.


Every Picture Tells A Story

Category: FMJRA Award

#FreeStacy: Email to My Samoan Lawyer: Taylor Swift Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 48 Comments

 

Regular readers know Bert the Samoan Lawyer, an old college buddy of mine who is now one of the leading Asian/Pacific-American attorneys in Alabama. Some people say Bert doesn’t look Samoan, but if Shaun King is black, Bert is Samoan, and he could sue you for saying otherwise. It might even be defamation to call a Samoan “white,” no matter how pale he may be, and Bert has keen legal skills that strike fear in the hearts of potential defendants. No one would dare insult Bert by calling him a cracker, and if America ever elects another Republican president, I’m certain Senator Sessions will suggest Bert as a Supreme Court nominee, right after I get that ambassadorship to Vanuatu. But I digress . . .

The #FreeStacy insanity led my old friend to send me an email today:

Totally anecdotal, but I’ve noticed that no matter how many times I visit wattsupwiththat.com, Google Now never puts anything from that site into my “stories to read.” Contrast that to I once clicked on a story about Taylor Swift because my daughter is a huge fan and now she is in my feed constantly. Also, Salon, Slate and Huffpo are always there in abundance even though I never click them.
Also notably absent despite multiple daily visits: theothermccain.

Fear and Loathing in the Information Age, so to speak. The whole world has gone crazy, I’m the subject of international news, and Google is conspiring to keep people from reading my blog. This makes perfect sense in 2016, you see, that someone like me would become a First Amendment cause célèbre, a 21st-century Dreyfuss. Was this my career goal when I was a long-haired rock-and-roll freak circa 1983? Of course not. Nobody could ever possibly plan anything as crazy as my life, even if they wanted to, which no sane person ever would. So while the #FreeStacy hashtag campaign continues, I have had some communications with leading legal minds who have become interested in the free-speech issues involved.  I’m not the litigious sort, you understand, but some of my lawyer friends are the type who would be happy to go to federal court to seek an emergency restraining order first thing Monday morning, if I just gave the word. But that’s not how I roll. My correspondence with Bert the Samoan Lawyer was just two old college buddies talking. Here’s what I replied:

Well, my Samoan friend, did you ever think back in the day that my gonzo methods would have such consequences as this? As I told my kids, “Congratulations, your Dad is a hashtag.” Of course, the #FreeStacy hashtag won’t autocomplete — although the bogus misspelled version does. No “e” in Stacy, as you know, and “blah blah girl’s name blah blah,” said every idiot who wanted to start a fight on the elementary school playground. When the going gets weird, the weirdos get me banned from Twitter.
Do I want to describe my experiences with Google? Not in writing. The NSA and DHS will have to monitor my phone calls if they want that information. Nixon was a piker compared to these Obama goons, and I’ll bet you $20 Sidney Blumenthal has Jack Dorsey on speed-dial.
Face it, Bert, we live in an Age of Fear and, as a concerned father myself, I have to warn you that Taylor Swift is down for The Agenda. Every feminist on Tumblr is certain that Taylor is dating lesbian supermodel Karlie Kloss. As a Neutral Objective Journalist, of course, I’d have to see video proof before I’d believe that bizarre rumor, but if Cara Delevingne can be gay, everybody is gay, and in 2016, any self-respecting feminist would be embarrassed to admit she is heterosexual. These young fellows can’t get their mojo working and, therefore, phallocentric domination is in a steep decline. Oh, what wonderful jargon! But I digress . . .
If your daughter is a Taylor Swift fan, you may need to intervene, Bert. A sort of “tough love” approach is recommended. Seize her laptop and cellphone and demand passwords for every app she’s got. And if she’s on Tumblr? Bad news, pal — no grandkids for you. Tumblr might as well be called the Crazy Cat Lady Training Academy. Every teenage girl on Tumblr has a mental illness (anxiety, depression, PTSD) and is either a pansexual genderqueer or a nonbinary lesbian. Dye your hair green, pierce your nose, get more tattoos than a sailor and tell your Mom that your pronouns are “xe” and “xer.” This is what it means to be a feminist in 2016, a dystopian nightmare meets pornographic fantasy. If Orwell were writing “1984” now, it would begin: “Dear Penthouse Forum …”

Taylor Swift Is Decadent and Depraved. Seriously, Bert, keep your kids away from those degenerate showbiz freaks. You never know what kind of insanity kids will stumble into, if you let them wander around unsupervised in the Internet sewer. Just a few weeks ago, I had a long  phone conversation with a fellow whose daughter turned 18, announced she was transgender, repudiated her parents as hateful bigots, and moved to another state where she was able to get free testosterone “treatment” from a Planned Parenthood clinic. Could either of us have imagined such a thing in 1983? Hell, I never could have hallucinated anything that crazy when I was tripping out on psilocybin in ’79.
Well, I’m babysitting my 5-month-old grandson, who is crying for a bottle, so I’ll have to wrap this up for now. Remember: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. And also elect Hillary Clinton, but I repeat myself.
— RSM

 

What a strange irony it is, that I am the Last Sane Man in America.

 

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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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Category: Fear. Loathing., Neutral Objective Journalism, Sex Trouble

Note To The Trumpenproletariat

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 90 Comments

by Smitty

There is a reason why the Ace of Spades is such a crucial blogger:

My problem with Trump is that he is a dealmaker trying to make a sale. Right now he’s trying to make a deal with conservatives — so this is the very most conservative we’ll ever see him.

If he gets the nomination, he now starts working on making the second part of the deal with the other party in the negotiations, the general public.

So this is the most conservative we’ll ever see Trump — this is the absolute most conservative he’ll ever be — and he’s not conservative at all, except, possibly, on immigration. He combines liberal policy impulses with frankly authoritarian or even fascist ones, which he thinks are “what conservatives want,” because, frankly, he conceives of us as ugly-minded, stupid dummies who get off on this shit.

My personal problem with DJT isn’t just that, were he somehow elected, you wouldn’t know which mercenary refugee from the country club was going to show up (except that his own wallet would be lined nicely by the outcome); rather, my problem is that, given the nomination, Her Majesty and the Codpiece Media would release Cthulhu on him.

We’d find out that Sharpton-esque tax irregularities would be the least of Trump’s sins. You think that Trump’s decades in business aren’t a mother lode of oppo research? Those Clinton Foundation donations (as a result of which, one supposes, she’d give Trump the Marc Rich treatment eventually) would be the least of the things we’d be hearing about.

But that’s after Gloria Allred and a phalanx of bimbos in stiletto pumps are done walking over him.

There are so many dogs waiting to bark at Trump, I can only assume his poll numbers (about which Trump cannot shut up) are driven by genuine nihilism on the part of people who should be thinking more clearly.

We can be thankful to Trump for driving JEB off the stage. And more thankful when Trump follows.

Category: Ace of Spades, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Late Night With In The Mailbox: Extra Family-Size Okra Edition

Posted on | February 27, 2016 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Republican Debate Night In Texas
Da Tech Guy: CNN’s Racist Gift Basket For Maria Celeste Arrasa
Proof Positive: Trump’s Baloney – It’s YUUUGE!
The First Street Journal: Not only do the ‘transgender’ want to live a lie, but they want to compel everyone else to go along with their delusions
Michelle Malkin: Sharia In Our Schools – UK, US Parents Say No To Islam Conversion Homework
Twitchy: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Says Trump “Reminds Me Of Hitler”
Shark Tank: Corcoran Sides With AFP, Calls $250 Million Job Fund “Corporate Welfare”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: California Voters Want More Water and Less Bullet Train
American Thinker: Three Simple Questions For Trump Supporters
BLACKFIVE: Marine Raiders Film At Indiegogo
Conservatives4Palin: Pastor Robert Jeffress Rallies For #PPact Supporter Trump In Texas
Don Surber: The Time To Stop Trump Was After The 2014 Election
Jammie Wearing Fools: Rubio – Trump’s A Con Artist Sticking It To The Working People
Joe For America: President Of Mexico – “We’re Not Paying For That F**king Wall”
JustOneMinute: More Static From The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Pamela Geller: Serious New Charges Of CENTCOM Deleting Files Amid ISIS Intel Coverup Probe
Protein Wisdom: Gonna Need A Bigger Milk Carton – Germany “Loses” 130,000 “Asylum Seekers”
Shot In The Dark: Why Choose?
STUMP: Illinois Pension Watch – This Is Why Your Pensions Are In Trouble
The Gateway Pundit: Democrats Fear Trump Juggernaut Puts Massachusetts In Play
The Jawa Report: Syrian Cease Fire Update
The Lonely Conservative: Slimy Lindsey Graham Jokes About Ted Cruz Getting Murdered On Senate Floor
This Ain’t Hell: Ending 20-Year Military Retirement – Buyers’ Remorse?
Weasel Zippers: Trump Says He’d Modify Nation’s Libel Laws, Make It Easier To Sue Newspapers
Megan McArdle: Republicans’ High School Cafeteria Debate
Mark Steyn: Nitwits Of The Round Table


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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | February 26, 2016 | 4 Comments

“Remember the time Stevie Ray Vaughan was here?”

“Whaddaya mean ‘the time’? I was his favorite car. He was here as a little boy, and always came back here after his tours to blow off some steam. Of course, after Family Style, his time, like ours, came to a halt.”

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction
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