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What Went Through The Moderator’s Mind At The #DemDebate

Posted on | December 20, 2015 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Category: Democrats, Hillary Clinton

The Revolutionary Losers League

Posted on | December 20, 2015 | 17 Comments

Strange news from Tokyo:

Anti-Christmas protesters calling themselves “Losers with Women” marched through Tokyo’s streets Saturday, bashing the upcoming holiday as a capitalist ploy that also discriminates against singletons.
The group of about 20 — part of the Communist-inspired group that routinely protests Western holidays — marched under angry banners that read “Smash Christmas!” in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, where couples and families strolled for holiday shopping.
The scrooges — mostly single men — said they were against capitalism and were opposed to the commercialisation of Christmas.
“In this world, money is extracted from people in love, and happy people support capitalism,” said the head of the organisation, formally called Kakumeiteki Hi-mote Domei, or the Revolutionary Losers’ League.
“Christmas is the most symbolic event for this,” he added.
The man . . . said the rally was also in support of unloved men.
“Unpopular men, who don’t have a girlfriend or are not married, are overly discriminated. We want to break this barrier,” he told AFP amid the shouting protesters.

In America, guys like this call themselves “Democrats.”

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Japan

You’re Too ‘Empowered,’ Darling

Posted on | December 19, 2015 | 55 Comments

Amanda Leigh is a funny writer, who writes about dating, and is capable of clever sentences like, “If you can’t tell whether he’s gay or straight, he’s gay,” and “Finding a tall employed man with values in Los Angeles is like finding a unicorn.” But her dating life is actually a failure, as is the case of most people who write about dating. What is the object of the game? To find The One. So as long as you’re still dating, you’re a loser.

The only dating advice young people should ever listen to is advice from happily married people. Their advice will likely be “old-fashioned.” Why? Because old-fashioned works. Old-fashioned is good. Amanda Leigh is not old-fashioned:

I can read a man like a book. But I haven’t always been that way. I had to get seriously played to learn the game. . . . In other words, I’ve been hurt, surprised, upset, shocked, duped, and manipulated enough to consider myself a seasoned dater.

This is the modern “empowered” feminist attitude: All of her previous romantic relationships were failures, so listen to Amanda Leigh, because she knows what’s she’s talking about!

Ladies: Do not follow the herd. Do not let yourself be “played.” Do not imagine that you are going to become the first woman ever to survive the hook-up culture without damage. Talk of promiscuity as “empowerment” is nonsense. Speaking of nonsense and failure, Amanda Leigh tried dating via Tinder:

I’ve gone out on over 10 dates and communicated with at least 50 guys since joining. . . .  An accountant told me he was afraid to ask me out again because he felt intimidated by me. Someone needs to grow a set. I had a great date and make out sesh with a hot photographer. He said he wanted to see me again and then disappeared.

You see the problem. Amanda Leigh is a type. The caution accountant, a shrewd just of risk, found her intimidating. The “hot” guy got a make-out session on the first date, but she can’t understand why he “disappeared” after that.

Amanda: You were being tested. Lots of girls want to make out with the “hot” guy. He might have been impressed if you had resisted the opportunity. Be old-fashioned, and especially strive to resist the guys you find irresistible.

But some of your advice, frankly, is just plain crap:

If he refuses to get a pedicure because it’s not manly, he will not go with you to see a therapist to work on your relationship issues. He has too much pride.

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? A guy has to get a pedicure in order to prove he’s willing to “see a therapist to work on your relationship issues”? This is a flashing red-light warning, guys. She’s thinking so far ahead, she’s got your first therapy session planned, because you have “too much pride.” The accountant’s caution was so wise, in retrospect.

Therapy causes divorce. There, I’ve said. The belief that your “relationship issues” require intervention by “experts” is a surrender flag, a confession of incompetence. As a matter of fact, I would advise against dating anyone who uses a phrase like “relationship issues.” That kind of therapeutic jargon indicates either she’s got “issues” of her own — which probably explains why she doesn’t already have a boyfriend –or else she’s the type who sits around reading self-help psychology books about “relationships.” She’s a compulsive over-thinker, in other words.

Confident people aren’t always second-guessing their decisions. They don’t sit around critiquing their partners or relationships. Confident people are decisive. They take action, and accept responsibility for the consequences.

So much feminist talk about “empowerment” is a counterfeit substitute for real confidence. “Empowerment” is whistling past the graveyard, pretending you know what you’re doing, no matter how badly you’re doing it. By contrast, real confidence is based on success. You are confident because you are competent, and you don’t need a therapist to tell you how to cope with your problems.

Why do we get such horror stories from the dating scene? Because all the good people are already in relationships, that’s why. The good people found each other and are living happy lives together, which leaves the dating scene full of bad people. It may be tempting for an attractive young person to develop a perfectionist attitude, to keep chasing around in search of romantic adventure, but it’s like a game of musical chairs. The world seems full of exciting possibilities when you’re 18 or 21, but if you stay in the game too long, you begin to get the sense that you’re picking through a pile of castoffs and discards — dating people who weren’t good enough for somebody else. They’ve been dumped and rejected, and are carrying around the emotional damage they suffered as a result of those broken promises and broken hearts.

If you find somebody good, close the deal. Get married and stay married, and make a point of being happy about it. Do not for a moment envy those single friends of yours or think about whether the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Be old-fashioned and enjoy grazing in your own pasture. Consider the story Amanda Leigh tells about how she thought she’d found the perfect guy, only to get dumped once again:

Men consistently say they don’t want to hurt a woman’s feelings but they do it in ways that seem so ridiculous, uncaring, and avoidable. Many men project that having a relationship is a bad thing — that all women are a hassle or take up too much time because they have been in relationships with unhealthy women in the past. It’s not fair to those of us who are healthy, self-sufficient, independent, creative, and understanding. I’m not your ex-girlfriend or your ex-wife. My intention in partnership is to both thrive and be more successful together than we are apart. Not to weigh anyone down. Myself included.
How does someone go from full speed ahead to a screeching halt like that? If he had told me in the beginning that he isn’t looking for a relationship I would not have gone out with him.

Amanda: You are too “empowered,” darling. If you want to domesticate a male, be domestic. Cultivate your inner June Cleaver. Strive to convey that you are not part of the dating herd. You are old-fashioned — the marrying type — and you are not looking for a mere “relationship,” but a ring and a wedding, a picket-fence suburban home and three kids to drive to soccer practice. If you are confident in your own value, why sell yourself short?

Be old-fashioned. Old-fashioned works. Old-fashioned is good.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Achtung Baby

Posted on | December 19, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Farewell To The Slave Princess
Regular Right Guy
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

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

The ‘Diversity’ Hustle
Batshit Crazy News

Further Thoughts on ‘Diversity’ and the Ritual Suicide of American Culture
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 12.14.15
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox, 12.15.15
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

Fear and Loathing: An Oberlin Feminist on Men, Republicans and Heterosexuality
Regular Right Guy

In The Mailbox: 12.16.15
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.17.15
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Quota-Mongers, Gender Nihilism and the Insane Logic of Radical Feminist Theory
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 12.18.15
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (9)
  2.  (tied) A View from the Beach, Proof Positive, and Regular Right Guy (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Keep an eye out Monday morning for Return of the Son of the Bride ofLive At FiveConquers The Martians!


Achtung Baby (Deluxe Edition)

Category: Live at Five

I Hope Lorne Michaels Feels A Twist Of Anguish Over The @TedCruz SNL Ad

Posted on | December 19, 2015 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

I hope that enough conservatives tune in to watch this on SNL tonight that Lorne the Liberal Tool has an inkling of just how much viewership he’s leaving on the table in the name of being an Obama/Clinton sycophant.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are co-hosting. Could be funny. Musical guest is Bruce Springsteen. I think I remember a time when Bruce kinda rocked.

via Instapundit

Category: NBC, Ted Cruz, Video

Bernie Sanders Sues Democrat Party

Posted on | December 19, 2015 | 15 Comments

 

Allegations of favoritism:

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) campaign sued the Democratic National Committee in federal court Friday evening following the suspension of his campaign from the DNC’s voter database after a security breach.
The suit claims that the campaign is losing $600,000 in donations each day that it does not have access to the data, and adds that the “damage to the campaign’s political viability as a result of being unable to communicate with constituents and voters, is far more severe, and incapable of measurement.”
The DNC barred Sanders from accessing the party’s voter file, which includes much of his campaign’s voter data, after a campaign staffer improperly accessed private data belonging to front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The vendor hired by the party to maintain the data accidentally created the security vulnerability during an update, the DNC says.
The Sanders campaign fired a supervisory staffer involved in the incident and has gone on the warpath Friday claiming that the DNC overreacted and is trying to aid Clinton’s campaign.

The question occurs: Why are rival Democrat campaigns both sharing the same database? But the finger-point goes both ways:

Brian Fallon, a Clinton campaign spokesman, called into CNN tonight, very angry about the reported 24 separate intrusions by the Sanders campaign. He said this was a clear “act of theft, stealing data from the Clinton campaign,” and Sanders isn’t living up to that “different kind of campaign” he promised.
“They were very productive,” Fallon told Wolf Blitzer. “They were like kids in a candy store, Wolf. They had about 40 minutes where they ran wild.”

The Democrat Party is a gang of thieves, organized to screw over taxpayers, but always willing to screw over each other, too. Somebody should write a book . . . Oh, wait . . .

 

Category: Democrats

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | December 18, 2015 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

“I get it; the interplay between the geometric precision of the arches in the vaulted roof, the straightness of the pillars and the squares of the floor, against the snapshot of chaos, as the simulated tsunami crashes through the windows, with the unevenness of the edge on the floor pointing out how the random nature of reality mocks all of our mortal vanity. What do you call the piece?”
“Climate Change.”
“Really? The commission?”
“Six figures from the National Endowment for the Arts.”
“My tax dollars bought this?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll offer a Mel Brooks reference,” reaching for his zipper.

via Darleen, with apologies, as hers was better.

Category: Friday Fiction

In The Mailbox: 12.18.15

Posted on | December 18, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Mistrial – Hung Jury
Da Tech Guy: The GOP Isn’t The Cowboy In The Western, It’s The Broken-Down Horse
The Political Hat: Arbitrary & Capricious Elimination Of A Fundamental Civil Right By Unelected Bureaucrats Coming To Nevada
Michelle Malkin: Open-Borders Money Backs Marco Rubio
Twitchy: Obama Calls Speaker Ryan To Thank Him For “Making Government Work”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Senator Jeff Sessions Says Omnibus Spending Bill A Betrayal
American Thinker: Sanctuary City Policy Finally Challenged In Court
Conservatives4Palin: Congress’ Half-Trillion Dollar Spending Binge
Don Surber: Lessons Trump Learned From H. Ross Perot
Jammie Wearing Fools: NYT Stealth Edits Story To Omit Embarrassing Obama Admission
Joe For America: Islamic Sex Traffickers In UK Protected By Liberals
JustOneMinute: Cry Me A River
Pamela Geller: Minnesota Students To Sing “Allahu Akbar” At High School Christmas Concert
Protein Wisdom: Princess Barry’s Not Worried…
Shot In The Dark: He Wins All The Internets Today
The Gateway Pundit: Grab Your Popcorn – Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Threatens To Sue The DNC
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Everything Is Cancelled Today, We Swear!
The Lonely Conservative: Lawmakers, Terrorists And Criminals Want Gun Control Because Of This
This Ain’t Hell: “Red Line”, Eh?
Weasel Zippers: St. Paul Teachers Scared As “White Privilege” Discipline Policies Create Chaos
Megan McArdle: California Puts Driverless Cars Into Reverse
Mark Steyn: When The Arab Spring Blooms In Paris And San Bernardino…


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