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Obscure Online ‘Celebrities’ and the Fragmentation of Popular Culture

Posted on | April 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Obscure Online ‘Celebrities’ and the Fragmentation of Popular Culture

Chris and Katie Tyson, at their 2018 wedding

Once upon a time (he says, as if speaking of a distant and possibly mythical past) there were three major national TV networks, which was where practically all “famous” people were seen. During the 1980s, the proliferation of cable TV channels began to change this equation, and one of the responses to the challenge of cable — which cut into the audience and advertising revenue of the “Big Three” networks — was the rise of “reality TV” series. Survivor made its debut in 2000 on CBS, and The Bachelor premiered on ABC in 2002. The people who appeared on such programs became regarded as “celebrities,” as they were seen by audiences numbered in the millions, but these audiences were mere fractions of the population, much smaller proportionately than the viewership of the Big Three networks in earlier decades.

If you went back to the early 1970s, 20 million people routinely tuned in for Monday Night Football which meant that, in a nation of 200 million, fully a tenth of the population was watching Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and “Dandy Don” Meredith. Thirty years later, although The Bachelor was considered a huge hit, its average audience was less than 10 million, in a nation of more than 300 million, meaning it was watched by only about 3% of the population. And this trend of audience fragmentation has only accelerated with the rise of social media. There are now YouTubers with audiences larger than many cable-TV programs (e.g., most of CNN’s lineup) and yet if you’re not a fan, you’ve probably never heard of these so-called celebrities, like “Mr. Beast.”

Jimmy Donaldson, 24, has more than 140 million YouTube subscribers on his MrBeast channel. He launched his channel while still in middle school in North Carolina and by 2021 reportedly was earning more than $50 million a year. Obviously, this makes him far more popular than, say, CNN’s Don Lemon, but I’d never heard of “Mr. Beast” before, and probably most of my readers hadn’t, either, because we’re grown-ups and don’t have time to watch the sort of silly stunts that constitute most of this YouTuber’s content. The astonishing success of “Mr. Beast,” however, enabled Donaldson to hire a lot of his hometown buddies to help him produce content, and among these buddies was Chris Tyson.

Tyson is now a YouTube “celebrity” in his own right. Three years ago, a few months after his wife Katie gave birth to their son Tucker, Chris “came out” as bisexual. He and Katie subsequently divorced, and now Chris Tyson has apparently decided that he is really a “she”:

Chris Tyson, A popular content creator who frequently appears on YouTuber MrBeast’s channel, revealed on Twitter today that they are taking hormone replacement therapy.
“HRT, and it’s only been 2 months,” Tyson posted on Twitter, quote-tweeting a MrBeast fan who shared a screengrab of them in the YouTuber’s most recent video, commenting on their changed appearance.
In a follow-up tweet on their alt account, Tyson, who says on Twitter they go by any pronouns, clarified their stance on gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy, quote-tweeting a fan who suggested Republicans are trying to “erase the trans community.”
“Informed consent HRT saved my and many others’ lives,” Tyson wrote. “The hurdles gnc [gender non-conforming] people have to jump through to get life-saving gender-affirming healthcare in a 1st world country is wild to me. Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies.”
A longtime friend of MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, from childhood, Tyson appeared in many of Donaldson’s earlier videos, including one where they wrap the YouTuber in 100 layers of Saran wrap. Tyson has since become a permanent fixture on Donaldson’s channel, along with a slew of Donaldson’s childhood friends, many of whom have carved out their own careers as popular content creators.

Well, that’s weird. Why is Rolling Stone using “they/them” pronouns for Tyson, even though Tyson himself hasn’t demanded such treatment? Beyond that, however, why would a guy throw away what seemed to be a happy marriage in order to pursue such bizarre adventures in gender confusion? And what does it mean that this person is an influential “celebrity,” despite the fact that most grown-ups had no clue that he even existed? But then again, never mind me, I’m a guy so old that I remember when MTV played music videos. Talk about your ancient history . . .



 

 

Category: Celebrities, Culture

Magna Carta and Alvin Bragg

Posted on | April 8, 2023 | 1 Comment

King John signs Magna Carta, 1215

“The failure of our education system to teach America’s young people their own history,” I wrote nearly four years ago, “is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that almost no one under 40 today knows anything about Sam Adams except as a popular brand of beer.” And many have suspected that this historical ignorance is not accidental, but rather that the dumbing-down of American education serves a specific political agenda, as those who are conscious of the pedigree of their liberty are apt to be more zealous in defense of their rights. Our liberties were “purchased . . . with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood,” Sam Adams declared in 1771, and thus Americans should never allow themselves to be cheated out of their inheritance.

By the time of our War of Independence, Englishmen had been fighting to establish and defend their rights for more than 500 years, dating back at least as far as Runnymede in 1215, and even further back to Henry I’s Charter of Liberties in 1100. The right to trial by jury, an institution originally unique to the English, is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. Americans are prone to take this inheritance for granted, along with all the other rights specified in the Bill of Rights, including those summarized in the Fifth Amendment by the phrase “due process of law.”

The writer known as “Wolf Howling” observes:

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump is a Constitutional obscenity. Bragg has crafted an indictment that denies Trump his most fundamental constitutional right, to know the criminal charges against him. That is a right with a 1,000 year old pedigree in English and American law.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.) The lowliest thief incarcerated at Riker’s Island cannot be denied such rights, and what Bragg has done in framing this indictment of Trump is an insult to every American, an attempt to defraud them of their ancient liberties, purchased by “toil and danger” and bequeathed to us as an inheritance. However ignorant Alvin Bragg may be, we cannot suppose that he is violating these rights accidentally, and thus he must be considered an enemy of justice, deliberately seeking to destroy liberty. That the voters of New York City elected Bragg to this office, and apparently support him in his unconstitutional actions, says a lot about the nature of “democracy” in 21st-century America. People need to wake up to the danger.



 

 

Category: Constitution, Donald Trump, History

In The Mailbox: 04.07.23

Posted on | April 8, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, ‘Surely this man was the Son of God!’”
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

A re-enactment of the Crucifixion in the Philippines

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: You Are Not Protected By Your Zipcode
EBL: Good Friday, also, Exodus: Gods And Kings
Twitchy: Gov. Hairgel’s Attempted Slam On “Red Murder States” Is All Fail, Obama Lecturing TN Republicans About “Silencing Those They Disagree With” Goes Badly Wrong, and Miami Herald’s “Journalism” Gets The Community Notes Treatment It Was Begging For
Louder With Crowder: Super Mario Bros. star Chris Pratt prepares for Easter as only he can, Tim Pool compares Dylan Mulvaney to Elsa eating feces and he makes a good point, and “Easter Bunny” saves woman from assault as he pummels some dude in the street
Vox Popoli: The Rabbi Isn’t Wrong, Fake AI Produces Fake Histories, and The Crucifixion of Jesus
According To Hoyt: I Am Not Doing An April Fool’s Post, Theater of the Absurd, and Reading Pravda In English
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo 2.0, Tower of Silence – Release week, WriterDojo S4 Ep13: Christopher Ruocchio Exposé, and Review of Tower of Silence
Gab News: The Godless Message of Transitioning Vs. The Gospel Message Of Transformation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Tomb Will Be Empty
American Greatness: TN House Republicans Vote to Oust Two of the Three Dems Who Joined Gun-Control Mob at State Capitol, Biden Education Department to Change Title IX to Protect ‘Trans’ Athletes, and Swimmer Riley Gaines Ambushed, Assaulted, and Held Hostage By Trans Mob After Speech at San Francisco State University
American Thinker: Leftism and the Minions of Satan, also, Donald Trump, Tiberius Gracchus, And America’s Imminent End
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Gun-Free Zone Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Churches see spike in vandalism incidents, fear they are being harassed by dictatorship, London debt trial update: CRF asks Cuba to negotiate out of court, offers to “help” Cuba become another Viet Nam, Medical powerhouse update: Cuban baby dies due to lack of ambulances, and 150 young American leftists to visit Cuba, receive intensive training on how to turn U.S. into a communist utopia
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for April 7
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches Intelsat communications satellite, Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 3, Red Chinese pseudo-company succeeds in reaching orbit again after three straight failures, Starship now stacked on launchpad, and Pushback: University president forced out because she fired professor for including Muhammad images in classwork
Cafe Hayek: One Good Outcome of the Great Depression
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Book Review: Father, Son, & Co, by Thomas Watson Jr.
Da Tech Guy: “What is Truth?” Miami Herald Edition
Don Surber: DeSantis Wants To Bring Back The 1950s? Cool,
First Street Journal: Once again, Joe Biden thinks that girls can be boys and boys can be girls, also, Helen Gym Flaherty apparently thinks that money grows on trees
Gates Of Vienna: Abduction of Children From Sweden, Video #4
The Geller Report: Israel retaliates against Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza as Netanyahu promises enemies ‘will pay’, Women’s Swimming Star Riley Gaines Violently Assaulted by Trans-Terrorists, and Election Bribery in Wisconsin: Far Left Organization Paid VOTERS UP TO $250 to Flip Wisconsin Supreme Court
Glenn Reynolds: Who Can You Trust?
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, The Rings of Uranus
Hollywood In Toto: Follow the Science Seeks to Sway Moderates on Pandemic Overreach, also, ‘Gutfeld!’ Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary with New Book, Ratings Victories
Legal Insurrection: Maine Mother Suing School for Allegedly Hiding Her Child’s Gender Transition, ‘Prisoners Running the Asylum’, Biden and Obama Suddenly Concerned About Democratic ‘Norms’ After Ouster of Tennessee Lawmakers, Professor Blasts ‘Queer Leadership’ Program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and Research Shows Opposition to Critical Race Theory is ‘Far From Over’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Bell, Book, and Candle
Outkick: Iowa Women’s Basketball Has To Pause Season Ticket Sales, Thanks To Caitlin Clark And Final Four Run, Little League Prank Leaves Unsuspecting Batters In Shambles, Brooks Koepka May Be Out Of Reach After Making Augusta National Look Way Too Easy Thru 36 Holes, Kevin Durant Isn’t Buying ’80s and ’90s NBA Players As Being ‘Tougher’, Caitlyn Jenner Rips ‘Woke’ Nike For Dylan Mulvaney Collaboration, and Riley Gaines Assaulted By Man In A Dress During College Campus Speech Defending Women’s Rights
Power Line: Have we reached peak madness?, The Daily Chart – America’s Urban Exodus, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: DeSantis Hits Speed Bump In Transgender Medicaid Fight
Shot In The Dark: Our Depraved Media, also, I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself
STUMP: My Condolences to Brandon Johnson, Next Mayor of Chicago, also, Good Friday: St. Matthew Passion and Data Update
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Was It Worth It?
This Ain’t Hell: Military Times says most injured enlistees from the South, Former Navy SEAL Howard Wasdin killed in Georgia plane crash, Valor Friday, and Afghanistan withdrawal report not about accountability, but it’s Donald Trump’s fault
Victory Girls: Trans Violence Is Acceptable To The Left
Volokh Conspiracy: A “Water Pistol Unnecessarily Preceding” a “Missile-Launching F-35 Attack”: Thoughts on the New York Trump Indictment
Watts Up With That: Germans Overwhelmingly Fed Up with Move to Green Energies as Massive Costs Loom, ‘Invoke eminent domain’: JP Morgan CEO Says Gov’t Should Seize Private Property to Build Wind & Solar Farms, and Claim: The SVB Collapse is hurting Climate Tech Startups
Weasel Zippers: Biden Admin Blames Trump For Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Kamala Harris Animatedly Delivers A Word Salad On America’s “Ambition And Aspiration”, and WH Spox Says Biden Is “Proud” Of The Failed Withdrawal From Afghanistan
The Federalist: Leftists Violate Separation Of Church And State With ‘Spiritual’ SEL In Public Schools, Federal Judge Says FDA Wrongfully Approved Abortion Pill, What The Cross Teaches Us About Cancel Culture, Democrats Who Called For Innocent Republicans To Be Fired Post-J6 Complain Their Party Faces Consequences For Inciting Tennessee Insurrection, and After Mail-In Midterm Mess, Gov. Lombardo Backs Bill To Restore Integrity To Nevada’s Election System
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Good Friday April 7th, also, The Passion Of The Christ

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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Teen Psycho Tranny Arrested After Planning Mass Murder at Colorado Middle School

Posted on | April 7, 2023 | 1 Comment

William ‘Lilly’ Whitworth

Yeah, I know what you’re saying: “Pretty sure I saw Teen Psycho Tranny open for the Talking Heads in 1983.” But all joking aside . . .

A 19-year-old former student has been accused of threatening to shoot up multiple schools and churches in Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to an affidavit from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s (DA) Office.
The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office filed formal charges against William Whitworth, who identifies as “Lilly,” on April 1. An arrest affidavit obtained by the Daily Caller refers to Whitworth as Lilly, but checks off his sex as “male.” Whitworth is charged with two counts of criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree, criminal mischief, menacing, and interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions, the affidavit shows.
Whitworth’s sister called the sheriff’s office to their home, reporting multiple threats Whitworth had allegedly made against schools in the area. Deputy Mike Watters asked Whitworth if he intended to shoot up a school, to which Whitworth nodded his head “yes,” according to the affidavit. Whitworth said Timberview Middle School, which he allegedly attended for fifth, sixth and seventh grade, was one of his “main targets,” but that he also intended to shoot up churches, according to the document. . . .
Whitworth offered to show Watters his manifesto, but in the process of looking for it police found several notebooks with drawings of desk setups and floor plans, including a drawing of a clock apparently to use as a detonation device, according to the affidavit. The notebook also listed the name of conservative Canadian activist Lauren Southern, calling her “pathetic,” and Donald Trump, whom he called a “con-man.” Police also retrieved a copy of “The Communist Manifesto” as evidence, according to the document.
Another notebook police believed to be the manifesto contained “a list of firearms and how to 3D print them,” “detailed lists of numerous named individuals to be killed and their indented casualty versus injury rate,” “information detailing the creation of improvised explosive devices” and “the Finalization of locations being Timberview Middle School, Prairie Hills Elementary, and Pine Creek High School,” according to the affidavit.

Not just a teen psycho tranny, but a Communist, too!

And speaking of dangerously crazy teenagers, the 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones was arrested for threatening a school shooting. Many readers will recall “Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day” in 2021, when Jones was claiming to be a heroic “whistleblower” and pushing bogus harassment charges against Christina Pushaw. In this latest episode, Jones claimed that Governor DeSantis was somehow to blame for her son getting arrested — a claim that predictably proved to be bullshit, just like 100% of everything else Rebekah Jones says. In fact, police say, Jackson Jones “made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him.”

Jackson Jones, 13

No word on whether Jones’ son identifies as transgender, or just regular teen psycho, but one thing is certain: Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

 

Category: Colorado, Crime, Florida, The Transgender Cult

NY Prosecutor: ‘We Know Incarceration Doesn’t Really Solve Any Problems’

Posted on | April 7, 2023 | 1 Comment

From the DA’s office that is prosecuting Donald Trump:

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s chief prosecutor, Meg Reiss, bragged about letting violent criminals and felons off the hook – including a murderer – using her restorative justice approach to help them avoid incarceration, Fox News Digital found.
“We know incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” Reiss said during a Peace Institute event in May 2021. Fox News Digital has previously reported that Reiss said criminals are not “bad dudes” while simultaneously blasting juries for believing police officers facing misconduct allegations deserve the “benefit of the doubt.”
Reiss went on to describe how the Manhattan district attorney helped a murderer get out of jail time for a homicide victim who had very few relatives. . . .
Reiss also blasted the idea that criminals in New York illegally possessing firearms should amount to jail time.
She said the office has a “gun diversion” program for criminals illegally possessing firearms. . . .
Criminal possession of a firearm in New York is a Class E felony, and carries up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office did not answer whether it is their general practice to divert Class E felons and violent criminals from the criminal justice system.

There is a word for Meg Reiss’s attitude: insanity.

In 2016, Reiss was appointed as the first Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution (IIP) at CUNY’s John Jay College. She was described at the time as a “Brooklyn and Nassau County prosecutor with more than two decades of high-profile experience in the courtroom and in efforts to reform the criminal justice system.”

The phrase “reform” implies that the criminal justice system in New York wasn’t working. We may then ask, for whom was it not working?

As you can see, over the course of two decades, there was a drastic decline in the number of murders in New York City, from a peak of more than 2,000 per year in the early 1990s, to fewer than 500 by 2007. By the time Reiss was appointed to head the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution in 2016, NYC’s murders had decreased to fewer than 350 a year.

From a standpoint of public safety, then, there seemed to be no need for “reform” or “innovation” in New York’s criminal justice system, but once you start such “reform” measures — e.g., eliminating cash bail, and declining to prosecute “low-level offenses,” as Alvin Bragg has done — it’s amazing how quickly criminals discover that there are no real consequences. After 2017, when there were only 272 murders in New York City, the homicide rate increased 67% percent by 2021, when there were 488 murders in the city. “Incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” we are told by Meg Reiss. We know this, she says, but if she explained how we know it, I must have missed the explanation.

What Meg Reiss and other “progressives” generally fail to acknowledge is the problem of recidivism. Criminal behavior, like most other patterns of human behavior, is largely a matter of habit. The person who, at a young age, develops a pattern of criminal behavior is likely to continue committing crimes:

Bureau of Justice Statistics studies have found high rates of recidivism among released prisoners. Examines the recidivism patterns of former prisoners during a 9-year follow-up period. The researchers found that:

— The 401,288 state prisoners released in 2005 had 1,994,000 arrests during the 9-year period, an average of 5 arrests per released prisoner. Sixty percent of these arrests occurred during years 4 through 9.
— An estimated 68% of released prisoners were arrested within 3 years, 79% within 6 years, and 83% within 9 years.
— Eighty-two percent of prisoners arrested during the 9-year period were arrested within the first 3 years.
— Almost half (47%) of prisoners who did not have an arrest within 3 years of release were arrested during years 4 through 9.
— Forty-four percent of released prisoners were arrested during the first year following release, while 24% were arrested during year-9.

One way of looking at this data is to conclude, as does Reiss, that “incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” i.e., even after serving a prison sentence for their crimes, criminals continue committing crimes. The possibility of being sent back to prison doesn’t seem to have as much deterrent effect as we might wish. But another way of looking at the data is to conclude that, when we do send criminals to prison, we need to keep them there as long as possible, in order to protect society from their habitual criminality. Oh, but that’s “mass incarceration,” the progressives scream, with no regard to the factor of public safety in such matters.

The people who elected Alvin Bragg as District Attorney deserve every bit of the violent anarchy they have unleashed on New York City. More Democrat voters getting murdered? Oh, what a shame!.



 

 

Category: Crime, New York

In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 7, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

From the Northern Command Field HQ in Reno, Nevada, it’s In The Mailbox!
Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Soft On Crime Yields More Crime – Canadian Edition
EBL: The Last Supper, also, SCOTUS Sides With Troons (For Now)
Twitchy: Rashida Tlaib Accuses TN Legislature Of Fascism For Not Bowing To Mob, Teen Tranny Busted For Planning Shootings At Colorado Churches & Schools, and John Kirby Says It’s “Ridiculous” That We Left Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Stuff In Afghanistan 
Louder With Crowder: Joy Behar Goes On Bizarre Rant, Claims Gen Z Is Leftist Because Republicans Cause Tornadoes, also, TikTok Chick Eats Pounds Of Butter Every Day, Says It Helps Her Avoid Panic Attacks
Vox Popoli: Explain it Like I’m Five, also, Devil Mouse in Danger

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: High Fives and Cocktails
American Conservative: Memento Mori for Holy Week 2023
American Greatness: Trans Terror: Colorado Teen Facing Attempted Murder Charge After Allegedly Threatening to Shoot Up Schools
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Above the Law News
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: 20 years since the Black Spring, the long shadow of repression in Cuba, For some crazy reason Finland seems to disagree with Putin’s definition of the “good the free and the just”–and joined NATO yesterday, Repressive agent of Cuban dictatorship granted humanitarian parole, now living in Miam, and Nearly a year after hurricane Ian hit Cuba, affected areas remain in ruins, with thousands homeless
BattleSwarm: The Democratic Party’s Foreign Sugar Daddies
Behind The Black: Spaceplane startup flies small-scale prototype for the 1st time using new rocket engine, Webb snaps infrared picture of Uranus, Global warming scientists whine about India defunding climate research center, Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 2, and Pushback – Missouri school libraries sue to keep porno on their shelves, so Missouri lawmakers zero out library budget
Cafe Hayek: There Is No “Will of the People”
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Is NPR ‘State Affiliated Media’?
Dana Loesch: Rebekah Jones & The Miami Herald Rage After Students Report Her Son For Death Threats
Don Surber: Joe Manchin’s Latest Scheme
First Street Journal: The foreign policy disaster that is Joe Biden
Gates Of Vienna: Fountain of Youth, also, Abduction of Children From Sweden, Video #3
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A 1979 Saturn, Two Down, One Skates, and The Further Adventures of Rebekah Jones
Hollywood In Toto: Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Exactly What Fans Deserve, Guess What Team Barbie Is Hiding? (Hint: It’s Woke), and  Sly Nefarious Bridges Gap Between Faith, Horror
Legal Insurrection: FEC Commissioner Reminds Bragg That Officials Concluded Trump Case Isn’t ‘a Campaign Finance Violation’, Biden Admin Blames Trump For Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Exit, SCOTUS Declines Emergency Request To Reinstate West Virginia “Save Women’s Sports Act”, and CNN ‘Fact Checks’ Trump’s Claim of Soros/Bragg Connection, Accidentally Admits A Connection
Nebraska Energy Observer: Which one?
Outkick: Sloppy Dodgers Fans Get The 2023 Fan Fight Season Started At Dodger Stadium, Dan Le Batard Still Outraged Dana White Slapped Wife, Still Won’t Comment On Employing Arrested Wife Beater Howard Bryant, Deion Sanders Awards First Colorado Jersey Number To No. 1 Transfer As Shedeur Continues To Sling It During Spring Ball, Angel Reese Soaks Up Her 15 Minutes Of Fame, and Nike Uses Dylan Mulvaney to Promote Sports Bras And Women’s Leggings
Power Line: Corporate America Is Woke – Now What? also, Another “Trans” Mass Murderer Stopped
Shark Tank: DeSantis Goes The Extra Mile To “Back The Blue”, Announces 1750 Police Bonuses
Shot In The Dark: One Reason I Love Elon Musk, also, Asterisk
STUMP: Memento Mori for Holy Week 2023
The Political Hat:
This Ain’t Hell: Chinese CDC says “Raccoon dogs? Uh, no”, We love our sheep, we Dogs of War, and Kamala Harris’s staff complains about food quality on Air Force Two
Transterrestrial Musings: Climate Alarmism, Finally!, and Our French Revolution
Victory Girls: Bud Light Backlash: Will It Make An Impact?
Volokh Conspiracy: Louisiana Loses Social-Cost-of-Carbon Lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit (Again)
Watts Up With That: Climate Activists Are Coming for Muslim Zakat Donations
Weasel Zippers: WH Defends NPR “Hard-Hitting, Independent Nature Of Their Coverage Speaks For Itself”, Chicago Elects Socialist-Backed, Defund The Police Advocate As New Mayor, WH Claims Biden Economic Policies Are “Working” Despite Rampant Inflation, High Gas Prices, and Poll: Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Massively Underwater On His Handling Of The Economy, Immigration, Guns, Etc., Etc., Etc.
The Federalist: Maine Mom Sues School Board For Hiding Her Child’s “Gender Transition”, The West Needs To Stop Believing Red China Can Reform Itself, Russia Hoaxer’s Book About How The GOP ‘Went Crazy’ Is An Affront To History, Future GOP Victories Hinge On Positive Pro-Life Messaging, Not Ignoring Abortion, Meet The Double-Crossing Texas GOP Congressman Lobbying For Dangerous Border Cartels, and Exclusive: DeKalb County Officials Skirted Georgia Law To Acquire Funds From Left-Wing Dark Money Elections Group
Mark Steyn: Act Now, Leaven Later

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In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | April 6, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2041
357 Magnum: Alvin Bragg Won’t Prosecute Criminals But Prosecutes The Law-Abiding Instead
EBL: Trump Delivers Remarks at Mar-A-Lago After Indictment
Twitchy: Parent Shut Down For “Personal Attacks” Against School Official’s Transgender Policies, CNN Whines About Variety Using Anonymous Sources In Don Lemon Hit Piece, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s “Picture Is Worth 1000 Words” Tweet About Justice Clarence Thomas Blows Up In His Face
Louder With Crowder: Nike hires man to model women’s sports bras, “Shut the f*** up, b****” – Comedian compares CNN to a nagging girlfriend in the perfect analogy, and ‘That’s Not Medical Science’ – DeSantis Explains Policy That Punishes Doctors Who Perform Sex Changes On Minors
Vox Popoli: Right Place, Right Time, Immigrants Don’t Grow Economies, and Contemplating De-dollarization
Stoic Observations: Chris Rock & The Four Violations

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: One must Fast before One can Feast
American Conservative: Orange Man in a Banana Republic, also, It Is Finn-ished
American Greatness: Florida Grand Jury Finds Biden Regime is Facilitating Sex Trafficking of Foreign Children, Seven Things You Don’t Know About the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case, and North Carolina Lawmaker Switches to GOP, Giving Party a Supermajority
American Thinker: Desire and Delusion Didn’t Do Diddly to Dylan Mulvaney’s DNA, Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms, and A Pandemic of Cognitive Dissonance
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: ‘The longest day in Havana’: College student writes about her grandmother’s escape from communist Cuba, Spanish hoteliers denounced for their collusion with Cuban dictatorship and abusive labor practices, and Cuban dictatorship sustains huge loss in London debt trial, but proclaims victory
BattleSwarm: The Rat’s Nest of Scandal In Democratic State Rep Jolanda Jones’s Office
Behind The Black: Scientists try to model what would happen if Ryugu hit Earth, First binary quasar found, Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 1, Shetland Spaceport now faces same regulatory hurdles that destroyed Virgin Orbit, and Pushback – Republicans move to expel Democrats who gave aid to rioters in Tennessee statehouse
Cafe Hayek: Consumption Is Indeed – As Adam Smith Said – “the Sole End and Purpose Of All Production”
CDR Salamander: The Heart Of The Problem
Chicago Boyz: Drowning in a Sea
Da Tech Guy: Vito Perrone Dodges a Bullet in Easthampton, RFK’s Hat in the Ring, and Deconstructionism is the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Political Left
Don Surber: Republicans Lay The Groundwork For 2025 Indictments,
First Street Journal: When public officials are too weak-willed to do the right thing
Gates Of Vienna: A Cry For Help From a French Doctor, also, The Culture-Enriching Abduction of Children From Sweden
The Geller Report: As Trump Goes to Court For Paying Off Stormy Daniels, Another Court Awards Him $121,962 From Stormy Daniels
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Nothing to See Here. Move Along, and A Nearby Black Hole
Hollywood In Toto: Air – Nothing but Net for Crowd-Pleasing Ode to Capitalism, also, Paint Makes a Mockery of Bob Ross’ Legacy, Comedy 101
The Lid: Wyoming Democrat Says She Supports Murdering People Who Oppose Transgenderism
Legal Insurrection: Biden Admin Working on a ‘New’ Nuclear Deal With Iran, Political Prosecution of Trump “Tears at the Fabric of the Country” and is “a Master Manipulation by Democrats”, NASA Embraces DEI Policies, Appoints ‘Diversity Ambassador’, Cash App Founder Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Upscale San Francisco Neighborhood, and Watch the Debate on DEI Policies in Higher Education at MIT
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Brit’s view of the Constitution of the United States of America (4)
Outkick: Ray Allen Says UConn Is So Good At Basketball Because There’s Nothing Else To Do, Phil Mickelson ‘Didn’t Say A Word’ During Drama-Free Masters Champions Dinner, Deion Sanders Pushes The Importance Of Hard Work: ‘You Will Not Make It In Life’, LSU Star Angel Reese Threatens White House Boycott: ‘We’ll Go To The Obamas’, and The Attendance For Last Night’s Athletics Game Was Pathetic
Power Line: American Universities Coddle and Encourage Anti-Semitism, Pro-Trump MP Kicks Hornets Nest in Bundestag: Biden Admin ‘Is Not Our Friend’, NPR: State-Affiliated Media?, and Victor Davis Hanson: We’re in a Revolution
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Chicago Votes for More Crime

Posted on | April 5, 2023 | 3 Comments

Some of us hoped, when Chicago voted Mayor Frogface out of office in the Democratic primary, that the city had finally come to its senses. But the runoff election proves Chicago is irredeemably lost:

The residents of the Windy City were offered a choice between someone who wanted to rebuild the Chicago PD and bring down the crime rates and someone who was on the record saying he wanted to defund the police. By the slimmest of margins, a bare majority of voters decided to stick with the carjacking epidemic because it’s been working out so well thus far, I suppose. “Progressive” candidate Brandon Johnson bested pro-cop Paul Vallas with a 51.4 to 48.6 margin. . . .
Chicago is well known for the “Magnificent Mile,” a formerly prosperous and productive retail district filled with high-end shops and fine dining establishments. Now it looks like a war zone. For the past year or more, it’s been the site of robberies, assaults, smash-and-grab heists, and even murders. Business owners have been fleeing the area. . . .
So how did this happen? As we discussed in the final weeks of the runoff, it really came down to a question of race. Vallas is white and Johnson is Black. Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor was making the rounds of every political rally in the city and preaching about the need to hold together “our Black and brown coalition.” And it looks like she managed that feat, if only by a slender margin.

It’s actually worse that Jazz Shaw realizes. The explicitly anti-white rhetoric about a “Black and Brown coalition” for Johnson ensured that the electorate was racially polarized, and Johnson got his highest percentage of the vote in majority-black wards where crime is the worst. Some of these wards have less than 1% white population.

Here, based on the NY Times ward-by-ward results and the City of Chicago’s official ward map, are the voting-age proportions of black and white in the wards where Johnson got the most votes:

Ward 24 … Johnson 84% …. Black 77% …. White 4%
Ward 21 … Johnson 82% …. Black 95% …. White 1%
Ward 20 … Johnson 81% …. Black 73% …. White 5%
Ward 17 … Johnson 81% …. Black 86% …. White 1%
Ward 16 … Johnson 81% …. Black 69% …. White 2%
Ward 6 ….. Johnson 81% …. Black 95% …. White 1%

The representation of 1% white voting-age population in wards 21, 17 and 6 results from rounding up fractions. The population of Chicago is 29% black, 33% white and 28% Hispanic, but the anti-white political climate in the city now means that only black candidates can be elected mayor, because black voters will never vote for a white or Hispanic candidate, and the appeal of a “Black and Brown coalition” will always persuade a certain percentage of Hispanic voters to vote for the black candidate. And this is happening, by the way, despite the fact that Chicago’s black population has declined while the Hispanic population has increased.

After the most recent census, there was a protracted fight in the city council over the Chicago ward map, which resulted in racial gerrymandering:

The map created 16 wards with a majority of Black voters and one ward with a plurality of Black voters. The map has 14 wards with a majority of Latino voters, rather than the 15 wards that the City Council’s Latino Caucus had demanded. . . .
Representatives of the Latino Policy Forum, a Chicago advocacy group, said they were “extremely disappointed that for the second consecutive decade Latinos have been shortchanged in their representation.”

Nobody in Chicago cares if whites are “shortchanged in their representation”; indeed, that is a fundamental goal of the “progressives” who control Chicago. There are 50 wards in Chicago, of which 60% are specifically carved up to ensure black or Hispanic majorities. And what this means, in terms of policy, is that Chicago seeks to avoid jailing criminals, who are turned loose to re-offend over and over again. When Jazz Shaw refers to the city’s “carjacking epidemic,” it’s no exaggeration. As recently as 2014, Chicago had barely 300 carjackings a year. Last year, there were more than 1,600 carjackings in Chicago, to go along with 737 murders and 2,937 people wounded from gunfire.

From Brandon Johnson’s victory speech:

Because tonight is a gateway to a new future for our city. A city where you can thrive regardless of who you love or how much money you have in your bank account. A city that’s truly safer for everyone by investing in what actually works to prevent crime. And that means youth employment, mental health centers, ensuring that law enforcement has the resources to solve and prevent crime.

Ri-iiiight. Not a word in there about putting criminals behind bars, because Brandon Johnson is against putting criminals behind bars.

By electing Johnson, Chicago has voted for more crime, committed by repeat offenders who know they won’t be prosecuted and sent to prison by Chicago’s “Black and Brown coalition” government.



 

 

Category: Chicago, Crime, Election
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