Slow Joe At All Stop, And I Am Half In Agreement With Piers Morgan

Posted on | October 21, 2015 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

Shorter Joe Biden: "When she threatened "your little dog, too," I knew I couldn't do it."

— IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) October 21, 2015

I guess at Biden’s age, the thought of having the weather suddenly raining knives on you might be more than you need.
Meanwhile, while I think “sucked” is too negative, “Star Wars has sucked for 40 overrated, overhyped, preposterous years” does resonate. I thought it was “OK”, but, like Apple, not worthy of the quasi-religious fervor surrounding what is a pretty good space opera.

Category: Uncategorized

Don’t Do This, Ever

Posted on | October 21, 2015 | 41 Comments

Bad Lifestyle Choices, Part One:

A man who barricaded himself in a house on Indianapolis’ northeast side, then later danced on the roof was taken into custody by police Monday morning.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a house on the 3500 block of Layman Avenue around 10:30 a.m. for a barricaded subject.
Police say a man, later identified by authorities as Matthew Russ, 25, stole his ex-girlfriend’s keys from her house, took her car and crashed it into a pole.
Police say they found Russ in a chair in the driveway holding a knife.
He then went into the house and onto the roof with the knife in his hand. An IMPD officer then fired rubber bullets at him, and he retreated back into the house.
Around 11 a.m., smoke was seen coming from the house, leading to the fire department being called to the scene.
Russ came back out as a detective tried to talk him off the roof. He threw his knife at the ground, but didn’t leave the roof.
Russ then began dancing on the roof with smoke and flames behind him. Police went in the aerial ladder, tased him, then took him into custody at around 11:40 a.m.

Bad Lifestyle Choices, Part Two:

A drunk man allegedly stripped off on an aeroplane and asked a stewardess for sex — forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
The Turkey-bound Sun Express flight is reported to have been diverted after the reported incident on Saturday.
It is claimed the Irishman boarded the flight from Dublin to Izmir with a large group of friends, reports AirLive.net.
But as the plane took off it is alleged the man began stripping off, before taking off his underwear and starting to wave his penis around.
The plane is said to have diverted to Belgrade where it is thought the man was taken off the flight.

The world is going crazy, one kook at a time. Don’t be a kook.

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 10.20.15

Posted on | October 20, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Cold Snap Coming
Louder With Crowder: Meet Dimitri, The Quintessential Bernie Sanders Voter
The Political Hat: A Brief Summary Of The Canadian Election Results
The Camp of the Saints: German Troublemaking and the Quisling Way
Doug Powers: How The MSM Spins, Example #926 – Politico Provides Team Hillary A Talking Point
Twitchy: They Went There! Onion Pisses Off Pro-Aborts With Planned Parenthood Satire

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Former EDL Chief Tommy Robinson Speaks To Massive PEGIDA Rally In Dresden
American Thinker: Islam And Dogs
BLACKFIVE: The Milwaukee Bomber
Conservatives4Palin: Webb Withdraws From 2016 Democrat Race
Don Surber: Trump Beat The S&P 500
Jammie Wearing Fools: ObamaCare Is Entering Its Dreaded “Death Spiral”
Joe For America: VA Gets Shorted $2.6 Billion While Obama Budgets $4.5 Billion For Syrian Migrants
JustOneMinute: The Eerily Prescient Donald Trump
Pamela Geller: Working-Class Germans Forced From Their Homes To Make Way For Muslim Migrants, Who Are Unsatisifed With The Accommodations
Protein Wisdom: Star Wars – Third Trailer
Shot In The Dark: My Letter To The Strib
STUMP: Illinois Lottery Update And General Blogging Announcement
The Gateway Pundit: Latest NRA Ad With Black Woman From Projects Will Leave You Speechless
The Jawa Report: He’s Dead, Jim! No, I Mean Really!
The Lonely Conservative: The Immigration Article Most Politicians Don’t Want You To Read
This Ain’t Hell: More Ignorant “Clinger” BS
Weasel Zippers: Rahm Emanuel Plans To Raise Taxes
Megan McArdle: Kitchen Design Isn’t Sexist, It Liberated Women
Mark Steyn: The Clock Ticks On

For our Canadian neighbors: Enjoy the Decline

Category: Linkagery

What Winding Webbs Woyalty Weaves

Posted on | October 19, 2015 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Jim Webb has never quite added up for me. Fellow IFNAG, political opportunist who beat George Allen, both for Senate in 2006, and for Most Boring Senator From Virginia, is supposedly about to feel something about an independent run.

The only motive I can figure out for this quixotic effort is to make up for Donald Trump removing himself as the New Perot. Perot, too, was an IFNAG, so in that sense Webb is totes apropos.

I was all set to vote for Trump as an antidope to Bush. That’s distinct from interest in membership among the Trumpenproletariat as such, speaking of dopes. Were Trump any less burdened by principle, as far as I can tell, he’d be Her Majesty Herself.

So, if Trump becomes the new Bush, and Webb is the new Trump, and Webb’s (accidental) purpose is to divide conservatives to usher in Her Majesty, I’m saying it might be time to vote for “a little sap in the executive branch.”

Category: Democrats, Republicans

In The Mailbox: 10.19.15

Posted on | October 19, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Huma Testifies
Da Tech Guy: My Exclusive Interview With Ted Cruz After Winning The 603 Alliance Caucus
The Political Hat: From Free Love To Micromanaged Sex
Proof Positive: Donald Trump And The Spending Cuts Of Doom
Michelle Malkin: The Comeuppance Of Creepy Obama Crony Kevin Johnson
Twitchy: Jim Webb May Ditch The Dems, Run Independent Campaign

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Obama Drops Afghanistan Exit Plan
American Thinker: Are We Really Stuck With Obamacare?
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Saturn Run By John Sanford And Ctein
Conservatives4Palin: How Did The Democrats Become Favorites Of The Rich?
Don Surber: Islam Has Supplanted Communism For Hippies
Jammie Wearing Fools: Wealth Inequality Isn’t A Crisis, And Voters Know It
Joe For America: Ted Cruz Weighs In On Transgenders In The Military – Watch Who Agrees
JustOneMinute: Quote Of The Year
Pamela Geller: Austrian Town of 1600 Drowns In Muslim Migrant Excrement And Garbage
Protein Wisdom: George Will Speaks The Obvious To Bernie Sanders
Shot In The Dark: The Endless Drip, Drip, Drip Of Heather Martens
STUMP: Central States, Teamsters, And MEPs – Cuts To Begin
The Gateway Pundit: “Ahmed The Clock Boy” Named CAIR’s Muslim Of The Year, Set To Meet Obama Monday
The Jawa Report: MSNBC Reporter Busted For Lying About “Unarmed” Palestinian
The Lonely Conservative: Debbie Wassermann-Schultz Still Can’t Find A Difference Between Democrats And Socialists
This Ain’t Hell: Gates – Obama Doesn’t Trust The Military
Weasel Zippers: Sanders Would Raise Everybody’s Payroll Taxes To Fund Family Leave
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Delivers, Just Not Very Much
Mark Steyn: Cold Fish In An Indian Summer

The Martian: A Novel

Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: World Patriarchy Day Edition

Posted on | October 18, 2015 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sometimes it’s hard to think of a post title for these weekend linkagery posts, but other times one just seems to drop into your lap. Apparently not content with the existing Annoy A Feminist Week, or perhaps wanting to spread the love around (so to speak), Milo Yiannopoulos has declared his birthday, October 17, to be World Patriarchy Day, and included a helpful list of suggestions on how to help keep up the oppression feminists whinge about 24×7. Better a day late than not at all, I say, and I’m doing my part by posting Kate Upton as this week’s appetizer.

“Mmmm, patriarchy!”

Goodstuff kicks off this week with Priyanka Chopra from Quantico, followed by Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Vintage Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism checks in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while First Street Journal’s coverage of women in uniform continues this week with Americans.

EBL’s thundering herd this week included Ginger Rogers, Ivanka Trump, Dirty Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and Huma Abedin.

A View from the Beach contributes Enik? Mihalik Sleeps with a Teddy Bear, Do It For Mom!, Don’t Let the Inmates Write the Rules, Up Close With Hannah Davis, Should Women Be Required to Register for the Draft?, Gone Fishin’, Good Striped Bass Spawn This Year, Skittles!, A Happy Ending, Babes Battle Lyme’s as New Treatment Nears, Can the Redskins Mann the Falcons?, and “Waitin’ on June” .

Soylent Siberia returns after a week off with your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer Topic Tropic, Tuesday Titillation Retro Awesome, Humpday Hawt Pygmalion, Retro Fursday Fantastic, T-GIF Friday Sleeping Bags, and Weekend Happy Hour.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Kim Zolciak, his Vintage Babe is Frances Farmer, Sex in Advertising is covered by Jennifer Aniston, and of course, there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s the long-awaited Zooeypalooza XXIII!

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s roundup is midnight on Saturday, October 24.

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Category: Rule 5

‘Their Own View of How the World Works’

Posted on | October 18, 2015 | 85 Comments

Anita Sarkeesian (@femfreq) and Zoe Quinn (@TheQuinnspiracy) testify at the U.N.

In his new book SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day summarizes the habits of progressive “social justice warriors”:

1. SJWs always lie.
2. SJWs always double down.
3. SJWs always project.

Vox Day’s Third Law of SJWs, the role of psychological projection in social justice discourse, is interesting to observe in practice, as accusations made against #GamerGate must always reflect some wrong of which progressives are themselves guilty. If you don’t understand #GamerGate, Breitbart.com’s Allum Bokhari has described it as “an online uprising of gamers against poor journalistic standards, political correctness, and moral crusaders in the world of video games.”

This epic battle, which began by exposing unethical conflicts of interest among certain journalists and game developers, quickly metastasized into a much wider critique of how progressive activists were attempting to politicize this multibillion-dollar industry. There is “an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners” who have been “lying, bullying and manipulating their way around the internet for profit and attention,” as Milo Yiannopoulos said. #GamerGate is about calling bulls–t on this agenda and exposing the shady people pushing it.

Over and over, amid the confusing welter of arguments surrounding #GamerGate, SJWs made accusations of bad faith (mala fides) the central weapon in their rhetorical arsenal. If you did not like Zoe Quinn, if you would rather play Call of Duty than Depression Quest, if you thought Nathan Grayson was an unethical fraud, Sarah Nyberg was a dishonest totalitarian pervert and Anita Sarkeesian was a pretentious academic opportunist — well, if you held any of these opinions common to #GamerGate, then you were obviously a racist, transphobic, misogynist proponent of “rape culture.”

You thought Lara Croft Tomb Raider was just a fun pastime? Stop objectifying her with your male gaze, you heteronormative bigot!

This finger-pointing accusatory style — the SJW as Grand Inquisitor — is easy to mock, but SJWs take themselves quite seriously and therefore assume that their critics must be bad people. The anti-#GamerGate discourse thus takes a predictable rhetorical form, a circular argument loaded with the prejudice of confirmation bias, which if expressed as a formal syllogism would look like this:

Premise A: #GamerGate is bad;
Premise B: [Whatever];
ergo
Conclusion: #GamerGate is bad.

Facts and logic are ultimately irrelevant to the SJW, who never wishes to debate critics, but instead seeks to silence them. In other words, if you do not share the ideological enthusiasms of these “social justice” crusaders — if you are not willing to parrot their politicized jargon and applaud their opinions — then you must be excluded from the ranks of those who are qualified to speak at their conferences, publish on their Web sites and be employed in the videogame industry. If your response to this attempt to monopolize control of gaming culture is to organize your own conferences and Web sites to influence the videogame industry, your efforts will result in you being blacklisted as part of a “hate group.” You will be accused of participating in or condoning illegal “harassment” and it will be assumed (rather than proven) that you are guilty of various intolerable Thought Crimes, e.g., homophobia.

It’s about who controls the narrative, as Andrew Breitbart would say. Protecting the Official Progressive Narrative from external criticism requires that only True Believers be allowed to speak from the institutional platforms through which progressives endeavor to exercise hegemonic control over the culture. At some point in the past few years, videogames were identified as a medium of cultural communication that was not exhibiting lockstep conformity to progressive ideology, and from this realization emerged an effort to subject the gaming industry to a relentless political attack. The object was to ensure that the videogame industry was controlled by progressives in the same way that journalism, Hollywood and academia are controlled by progressives, as part of a complete system of cultural totalitarianism that prohibits dissent by marginalizing (or even criminalizing) opposition.

.@CathyYoung63 responds to the false portrayal of #GamerGate in the media: http://t.co/ZljvbUV3bv

— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) October 13, 2015

Why do you think Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn were invited to testify to the United Nations last month? We may suspect they want to have Disagreeing With Feminists classified as a human rights violation. But remember, SJWs always project and, despite having a near-monopoly on the kind of media influence that can make someone like Zoe Quinn — a mentally ill ex-stripper with a notorious habit of lying about everything — appear to be a credible authority, feminists expect us to believe that they are victims of oppression. The actual balance of power is the exact opposite of what SJWs claim. They are the ones engaged in harassment, but they call their harassment “activism,” and when the targets of SJW harassment (e.g., male videogame programmers) attempt to defend themselves, the defense is called “harassment.” The liberal media have gone out of their way to depict the #GamerGate controversy in this prejudicial one-sided manner, which begins by assuming that (a) feminists are always right about everything, and also (b) anyone who criticizes feminism is a misogynist, so that (c) the question of what constitutes misogyny is always decided by feminists, and therefore (d) feminists authorize themselves with the power to instantly discredit anyone who dares talk back to them by labeling the critic as a misogynist.

Strange as it may seem, some males have bought into this mentality, and hasten to parrot whatever the feminists say, a form of behavior called virtue signalling, “indicating that you are kind, decent and virtuous.” The online spectacle of clever young men jumping up and down and shouting “misogyny” at other men has become sadly tedious.

There is something pathetic about the male SJW’s eagerness to prove that he is not one of those awful heteropatriarchal oppressors. And so, at a social-justice Tumblr blog, we encounter “Ral”:

A 22-year-old geek studying computer science, with a passing interest in philosophy and social justice. Political leanings are strongly to the left, with some anarchist sympathies. Lifelong gamer and vehemently opposed to GamerGate. Has had lifelong experience with Aspergers syndrome. Straight, white, cishet and male, yet always seeking to listen to the experiences of other demographics.

It is nowadays fashionable for awkward young men with poor social skills to claim a diagnosis of Asperger’s, in the same way it is fashionable for awkward young women with poor social skills to claim a diagnosis of depression or anxiety disorder. Having a psychiatric diagnosis to explain your problems is the difference between being a victim and being merely a loser. By a similar trick of rhetorical prestidigitation during the 1980s, liberals transformed winos, hobos and panhandlers into “the homeless,” so that any drug-addled lowlife moocher bumming spare change on the street corner was considered a Victim of Society, a symbol of America’s moral failure. Given the way this issue was promoted as an indictment of the Reagan administration’s economic policies, and considering the known political leanings of those who promoted it, anyone could see that the liberal solution to The Homeless Crisis was:

More federal spending;
and
Vote Democrat!

This is really the answer to every problem, according to American liberals. As long as Democrats get elected and federal spending increases, we are on the Road to Liberal Utopia. Now that we have ObamaCare to guarantee treatment for the mentally ill, and a generous policy of disability payments to these suffering victims, it is possible that every awkward young person could collect a government check for doing what they would be doing anyway, i.e., living in Mom’s basement and playing Xbox all day. Federal disability payments have skyrocketed in recent years, and America is said to be experiencing an “epidemic” of mental illness, proving that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. Taxpayer-subsidized craziness has become a growth industry, throwing federal money at every kook and weirdo who can get his personal problems diagnosed as a “disorder” or a “syndrome.”

A possible explanation for the SJW phenomenon. #GamerGate pic.twitter.com/9WlPInvvJs

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 18, 2015

Now that nutjobs and neurotics are Victims of Society, publicly proclaiming your psychiatric diagnosis is just about the only way for a heterosexual white male to exempt himself from the category of Privileged Oppressor. Thus we return to the 22-year-old geek “Ral” and his Tumblr exercise in “virtual signalling”:

It’s important to remember that the real reason why antifeminists and anti-SJW bloggers are so quick to paint every act of media criticism that doesn’t fall in line with their own view of how the world works as “censorship” or “subjective nonsense” is that villainizing cultural criticism protects their own worldview. . . .
I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that nearly everyone I’ve ever seen react so harshly to feminist criticism also holds extremely regressive ideas . . .
Denying the wage gap exists despite the fact that every peer-reviewed study that has ever been done on it confirms that there is still a gap even if you account for everything that they can measure . . .
Related to the above, denying the slightest possibility that unconscious gender bias is an issue despite consistent evidence supporting its existence, and that said biases stem from backlash against deviation from expected social roles.
Denying the existence of rape culture . . .

You can read the rest of his indictment of the “extremely regressive ideas” that he attributes to others, and the point here is not to argue about any of these specific accusations, but rather to ask: What is the basis of moral authority by which this person deems himself fit to condemn the “worldview” of anyone who does not share his own left-wing anarchist political biases? What has “Ral” accomplished — what record of achievement does he have, what duties has he responsibly exercised — that he can expect anyone to defer to his judgment of these matters? How easy it is for a college student to sit as his laptop and type in a sequence of phrases — “wage gap . . . gender bias . . . rape culture” — as if these rhetorical flourishes prove him to be a virtuous person.

Talk is cheap, boy.

Responsible adults cannot surrender moral authority to 22-year-old anarchists, nor can we permit a dishonest ex-stripper like Zoe Quinn to make herself an official arbiter of online civility, simply by calling herself a “feminist” and portraying herself as a victim of misogyny.

My suspicion is that all male SJWs actually hate women, and that their advocacy of feminism is a psychological defense mechanism against subconscious guilt over their rage toward their domineering mothers. The male SJW is always Mama’s Precious Boy, a creepy introverted weirdo, a Norman Bates type whose professed enthusiasm for “social justice” is an attempt to get women to provide him a substitute for the unconditional maternal affection he craves. One can find many case studies in abnormal psychology of such warped males, emotionally crippled by deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Their sex lives are always profoundly abnormal, typified by furtive voyeurism, habitual masturbation, and frustrated rage at their predictable impotence in whatever intimate interactions they may actually have with women (which are usually few or non-existent, due to the social awkwardness of the male introvert’s personality). “Ral” is probably a dangerous sexual deviant with a massive cache of violent BDSM porn that appeals to his own bizarre fantasies. Police investigating the disappearance of hookers could probably find them tied up and gagged in an SJW’s basement rape dungeon, if they haven’t already been tortured to death, their bodies dismembered and buried in his backyard.

That’s only a hunch, of course. I’m just a blogger, not the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico, but really: Go look at the cartoon superhero character “Ral” uses as his avatar, the grandiose conception of himself as a powerful figure. This is a common online behavior of introverted narcissistic misfits, displaying a heroic self-image to emotionally compensates for their lack of real-life success.

These SJWs are all sick freaks, I’m telling you. A guy whose ambition in life is to earn the approval of Zoe Quinn? Yeah. He’s profiling as the “unsub” in an episode of Criminal Minds.

Male SJWs always turn out to be Norman Bates. http://t.co/U1xQaYg55W #GamerGate pic.twitter.com/Ae7cMPuOM3

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 18, 2015