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In The Mailbox: 03.08.23

Posted on | March 9, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.08.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ken Burns Transitions Into A Bitter Lefty Lesbian, also, Triangle of Sadness
Twitchy: Tucker Carlson’s Ratings Vs. Other, Narrative-Guarding Cable Networks, Elon Musk Trolls Chuck U. Schumer Over Tucker Carlson, and Adam RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA Schiff Says Repetition Is How Tucker Carlson Spreads Lies
Louder With Crowder: TikTok starlet Dylan Mulvaney has a sad because, even after expensive surgery, no one is sliding into (sigh) “her” DMs, Watch: Turns out the cute chick from the AT&T commercials is a raging leftist and wants the world to know, and Jada Pinkett-Smith “insiders” claim when Chris Rock calls Will Smith a b*tch, he’s really obsessed with her
Vox Popoli: Nothing Left to Steal, The Beginning of the End, and Political Deep Fakes
Stoic Observations: How To Game The Race Game

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Lies The Ruling Class Tells Us, also, Tucker Carlson’s Naughty List
American Greatness: FBI Whistleblowers Say Threat Tags Were Used to Target Conservatives, FTC Demands All of Elon Musk’s Twitter Communications, Identity of All Journalists Granted Access to Company Records, and Biden FCC Nominee Withdraws Over Far-Left Rhetoric
American Thinker: Trump Is Leader of The GOP…and America, The Multi-Pronged Attack on Christianity, The Many Lies of the Housing Crisis Alarmists, and Should the GOP Adopt Ballot Harvesting?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: First victim of ‘sonic attacks’ in Cuba calls intel report on Havana Syndrome ‘shameful and ridiculous’, Reports from Cuba: Cuba: From the worst of socialism to the worst of capitalism, and As Biden tries to cozy up to communist Cuba, the Castro dictatorship strengthens its ties with Russia
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan and Michael Malice On The QAnon Shaman Revelations
Behind The Black: Watching the first launch attempt of Relativity’s Terran-1 rocket, ISRO successfully de-orbits defunct satellite, Cracks in Martian lava, and America’s blacklist culture: Survey finds almost half of America’s major corporations are eagerly willing to blacklist others
Cafe Hayek: On the Banana Republic Practice of Civil Asset Forfeiture
CDR Salamander: Nord Stream’s Tap on the Shoulder
Da Tech Guy: J6 Tapes, Weinstein, COVID and Epstein – it’s all the Same Issue for the Media/Deepstate/Left
Dana Loesch: Jill Biden Gives The “International Women Of Courage” Award To A Man
Don Surber: Rupert Murdoch Hates Fox News
First Street Journal: There are still a few customers without electricity in Kentucky
Gates Of Vienna: Biden Puts Muslim Brotherhood in Key Diplomatic and Intelligence Roles, also, Culture-Enriching Knife Rampage in Milan
The Geller Report: Newly Released Surveillance Footage Shows Capitol Police Ignored, Abandoned, No Communication, DELIBERATELY Left Unprepared
Glenn Reynolds: Stolen Youth – An Interview With Karol Markowicz & Bethany Mandel
Hogewash: The Dumbbell Nebula in IR, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and You Keep Using Those Words
Hollywood In Toto: Scream VI – If It Ain’t Broke, also, Carnival Row Goes Communist (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
The Lid: Forty Years Ago America Had A President With A Backbone: Reagan’s Evil Empire Speech, also, The Fentanyl Crisis: Delusional Leadership and the Lies They Perpetuate
Legal Insurrection: Highest Paid Security Guard for Rep. Cori Bush is Anti-Semitic Spiritual Guru, Media Outlet Semafor’s New Partner has Close Ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Report: DHS Running a Secret Program Gathering Domestic Intelligence, and “QAnon Shaman” Lawyer: Feds Withheld Exculpatory Video Shown On Tucker
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Brit’s view of the constitution of the United States of America (1)
Outkick: Browns Coach Kevin Stefanski Credits ‘Madden’ For Improved Game Management Skills, Bobby Burack Says Kendrick Perkins Is Privileged, Unhinged And Unintelligent, Deion Sanders Doesn’t Regret Telling Players To Hit The Bricks: ‘Who Respects 1-11?’, Draymond Green Is The Most Childish Player In The NBA, and John Skipper, The Man Who Ruined ESPN, Has Terrible Idea To Save The PAC-12
Power Line: Who’s Deceptive?, Are Americans Getting Happier?, and The Star Tribune throws stones
Shark Tank: DeSantis Holds Shocking “Exposing The Book Ban Hoax” Media Event
Shot In The Dark: Manufactured Crisis, also, “The Only Way Home Is Through Berlin”
The Political Hat: The Systemic Infiltration Of “DEI” At The University Of Missouri
This Ain’t Hell: Interesting Supreme rejection, Immigrant Bald Eagle killers allowed to skate by Feds, Kidnapped Americans: Sen. Graham proposes military action, and More trouble for Sean Murphy, as ‘stolen valor’ charges, injunction issued
Transterrestrial Musings: Relativity Space, Room-Temperature Superconductors, and American Fascism
Victory Girls: NTSB To Investigate Norfolk Southern, also, Goosebumps Books Getting Woke Edits Without Author Approval
Volokh Conspiracy: “The World’s First Robot Lawyer Has Been Practicing Law Without a License —”
Watts Up With That: Give up Beef and Dairy or the Global Climate Gets It, Bureaucracies Utterly Incapable of Making Reasonable Tradeoffs, and America’s Suppression of Fossil Fuels Is Courting a National Security Disaster
Weasel Zippers: Biden DNI Chief Slammed For Assessing “Violent Extremists” As Bigger Threat Than Fentanyl, Woke Virginia School Ignores Whites And Asians When Offering College Prep Classes, and This Video Tells A Different Story of What Happened On Jan 6
The Federalist: Here Are 5 Brands Celebrating Men In Costumes This Women’s History Month, Democrats’ Climate Lawfare Campaign Jeopardizes America’s Energy Future, ‘I Keep Forgetting Which Party He Belongs To’, A Lone Bureaucrat Denied Due Process And Unemployment Benefits To Massachusetts’ Unvaxxed, and Dear Mitch McConnell: You Were Not Elected To Do The Bidding Of Chuck Schumer And CNN
Mark Steyn: Suffer the Little Children, also, The Dirty Stinking Rotten Corrupt J6 Narrative

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In The Mailbox: 03.07.23

Posted on | March 8, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.07.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Soft Judges F***Up The Lives Of Multiple People”
EBL: Tummy Tuck Complications in Mexico, Tucker Calson releases 1/6 Videos or Why Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant, and Tár
Twitchy: Meathead Has Thoughts On Release Of J6 Video, Trans Activist Now A “Proud Criminal” For Shipping “Lifesaving Drugs” Across State Lines, and NBC – Gigi Sohn Withdraws From FCC Nomination Amid “Outright Homophobic” Campaign
Louder With Crowder: Shaq has Deion Sanders back, says Coach Prime was ‘spitting facts’ about kids who come from 2-parent homes, Tucker Carlson blasts insurrection “propaganda” of January 6 committee with damning new footage, and Crowder announces MugClub’s new home…powered by Rumble
Vox Popoli: Indian Programmers Can’t Program, They Loved Mammon More, The Abomination of Animation, Know Your E-Whores, and Capital Controls Come to America

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Ulcerative Colitis post
American Conservative: SPLC Connection To Alleged ‘Domestic Terrorism’, also, A Growing Tide of Election Transparency Wins
American Greatness: Chuck U. Schumer Calls on Fox News to Stop Tucker Carlson From Airing Any More Jan. 6 Footage, Los Angeles Jury Awards $1.5M to Prosecutor in Retaliation Lawsuit Against George Gascon, McCarthy’s Legislative Priorities Force Democrats into Tough Votes, and January 6th Footage Confirms ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley was Peaceful the Entire Time
American Thinker: If Trump Had Prevailed in 2020, also, Thank You for Asking, Mr. President
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily State Lines News
Babalu Blog: Surprise! Cuba ranks among the worst ‘closed autocracies’ on planet earth, Reports from Cuba: Havana’s Infanta Street, where all the miseries of Cuba come together, Republican senators join Democrats in effort to lift sanctions on Cuba’s oppressive dictatorship, and Four members of Cuba’s national karate team defect in Mexico
BattleSwarm: Texas A&M’s DEI – Ditching or Faking?, also, Honest Trailers Slams Velma
Behind The Black: Flat-topped mesas in the icy northern lowland plains of Mars, ROK commits $38 million to support space startups, UK awards $1.9 million in development grants to universities and private companies, Fuel spill cleanup begins at Space Force telescope facility in Maui, Hawaii, and America’s blacklist culture: Republican in Florida proposes bill to regulate speech
Cafe Hayek: Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit, also, More On American Workers’ Opportunity Costs, On Wages, and On the Harms of Protectionism
CDR Salamander: Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCVII
Da Tech Guy: Definitions Under the Fedora, The mauling of malls, My 28th Amendment to Give DC Representation, and Brandon Johnson, the elected official who still collects big checks from the Chicago Teachers Union, will be a disaster as Chicago’s mayor
Dana Loesch: Biden Promises To Raise Taxes While Sending Millions To Ukraine
Don Surber: The Left Boycotts Hershey Too
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer: using grammar to avoid telling the whole truth
Gates Of Vienna: Old And In The Way, “Germany is Now Communist”, Panzerlied (Green Woke Version), Annalena’s Private Halal Army, and Culture-Enriching Rapist Walks Free in Osnabrück
The Geller Report: New, Never Seen J6 Footage Shows January 6th Committee and Ray Epps LIED
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Jellyfish Galaxy, and Space Invaders
Hollywood In Toto: PEN America Honors Newly Woke Tina Fey, Ignores Her Comedy Betrayal, Jon Stewart Meets the Divisive Country He Helped Create, and Marlon Wayans: ‘No Apologies’ in Comedy
The Lid: Is Schumer’s Senate Speech About Tucker’s 1/6 Videos A First Amendment Violation?
Legal Insurrection: “What did that person do wrong other than be born with the wrong skin color?”, Study Finds Liberal Girls Are More Depressed, Lindsey Graham Wants to Use Military Against Mexican Drug Cartels, and Prof Claims Her Maximum-Security Prisoners are Better Students Than Today’s Undergrads
Nebraska Energy Observer: Never the twain shall meet, also, Reminiscere
Outkick: LeBron James Praises His Son Bronny While Hypocritically Ripping NBA Players For Slacking, Ohio State Fans Already Panicked On First Day Of Spring Ball As Star WR Marvin Harrison Jr. Returns Punts, Russell Westbrook Looks Like A Total Loser While Getting Kings Fans Kicked Out Of Arena, Ja Morant Gun Incident Reportedly Came After Grizzlies Held A Players-Only Meeting About Showing Better Discipline On The Road, and Charles Barkley Drops The Hammer On ESPN, Kendrick Perkins’ Race-Over-Everything Hot Takes
Power Line: Kamala Satire, Tucker Carlson’s Expose Blew a Rather Large Hole in Dems ‘Deadly Insurrection’ Story, and Assume Nothing
Shark Tank: DeSantis Doesn’t Support Blogger Registration Bill, also, Penguin Publishing Pushes The GayBCs For Kids In Response To Florida Anti-Grooming Law
Shot In The Dark: Other Than That Mrs. Lincoln, also, You Were Warned
The Political Hat: Health Equity And The Creep Of Wokeness
This Ain’t Hell: Army returning to “Be All You Can Be”, Former Army Soldier sentenced to 45 years for planning the killing of fellow service members, Gregory Charles Banks – Valor Vulture, and Russians blow up own plane, kill one
Transterrestrial Musings: Continued Good Riddance, Congratulations To Treacher, A New Stevie Nicks?, and Biden’s Latest Incompetent Appointment
Victory Girls: Fetterman Photos Are Proof Of Exploitation
Volokh Conspiracy: Appellate Court Vacates Order Aimed at Stopping Child from Calling Stepfather “Dad”
Watts Up With That: ExxonMobil Cans Algae (greenwash failure), Setting Senator Whitehouse Straight On Climate And Wildfires, and We’re Saved! Biden’s Army Sec. Christine Wormuth declares climate resiliency ‘a priority for me & our US Army’
Weasel Zippers: “Look At The Man, Look What He’s Doing”, Antifa Thugs Try To Burn Down Police Facility, Gavin Newsom Calls California The “Real Freedom State”, Walgreens Says It Won’t Distribute Abortion Pill In 20 States, and House Investigators Say AOC Broke Ethics Rules With “Tax The Rich” Met Gala Dress
The Federalist: Senate Republicans Cave To Dem Propaganda About J6 Tapes, New Mexico Sued For Charging $5,000 To Access Public Voter Data, Searching For Tucker Carlson’s Bombshell J6 Videos? YouTube Censors Will Direct You To Fake Fact Checks Instead, Leftists Don’t Mind NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Religious Talk Because He Puts Politics First, and Whistleblower: FBI Targeted Innocent Rally-Goers Just For Being In D.C. On Jan. 6 
Mark Steyn: The Hangout – and a Hanging, also, Rules for Thee, Not for Me

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News From Down Home: Another Antifa Riot, More Out-of-Towners Arrested

Posted on | March 7, 2023 | Comments Off on News From Down Home: Another Antifa Riot, More Out-of-Towners Arrested

Antifa terrorists set fire to construction equipment at the site of a planned Atlanta police training facility Sunday, hurling rocks and fireworks at officers who responded to the riot scene. And this vandal horde of commies is almost entirely composed of outsiders:

Atlanta police identified 23 suspects charged with domestic terrorism after allegedly launching an attack against the construction site for a police and fire training facility dubbed “Cop City.”
The Atlanta Police Department revealed that all but two of the arrestees are from out of state. Another two are from out of the country.
Dimitri LeNy is from France and Fredrique Robert-Paul is from Canada.
Three suspects – Ayla King, Alexis Paplai and Timothy Bilodeau – are from Massachusetts.
There are two from Arizona: Samuel Ward and Max Biederman. From New York, there are Mattia Luini and Priscilla Grim.
Another pair – Kayley Meissner and Grace Martin – are from Wisconsin.
Kamryn Pipes is from Louisiana. Maggie Gates is from Indiana. Ehret Nottingham is from Colorado. Victor Puertas is from Utah. Amin Chaoui is from Virginia. James Marsicano is from North Carolina. Emma Bogush is from Connecticut. Luke Harper is from Florida. Colin Dorsey is from Maine. And Zoe Larmey is from Tennessee.
The only suspects with Georgia addresses are Thomas Jurgens and Jack Beaman.

As everyone has noted, one of these terrorists, Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, is an attorney working for the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that raises money from rich liberals by claiming that people whose only crime is to vote Republican are dangerous right-wing extremists. More reaction from officials in Georgia:

“What happened last night was not peaceful protest – it was violence. Plain and simple,” Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said in a statement Monday. “We will not tolerate this destruction of property, and we will seek to ensure that those who have engaged in this criminal behavior are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” . . .
On an appearance on Fox News earlier Monday, Carr described those arrested as part of a “national network, an international group of people that are organized to come to our state to undermine a public safety training center.”
“This wasn’t about a public safety training center. This was about anarchy, and this was about an attempt to destabilize,” Atlanta Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum said Sunday night, telling reporters at the scene that both the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have joined the probe into the incident.

I’ve written about this story several times:

Thanks to the generosity of readers, I’ve got a little money left over from last week’s trip to CPAC, and if these commie clowns keep causing trouble down home, I may decide to make a shoe-leather excursion.



 

 

Category: Crime, Georgia, Terrorism

J6 Videos Shatter ‘Insurrection’ Narrative

Posted on | March 7, 2023 | Comments Off on J6 Videos Shatter ‘Insurrection’ Narrative

“We need a complete catalog of all of the feds who were there. Tell us who they were. Let’s watch the videos and let’s see what they did, because there’s some really strange behavior on those videos.”
— Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican

As Stephen Kruiser says, Tucker Carlson has begun the process of nuking the narrative from orbit (classic movie allusion) by releasing some of the thousands of hours of Capitol riot surveillance video that the Democrats on Nancy Pelosi’s J6 witch hunt committee tried to make sure the public would never see. Among other things, the video Tucker released Monday night showed that Officer Brian Sicknick, the Capitol policeman who Democrats claim was “murdered” by the protesters, was walking around just fine after the time of his supposedly fatal encounter with the pro-Trump crowd. And there was much more than that:

Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol Police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the behorned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot, through the halls of the Capitol and to the very door of the US Senate.
The footage aired on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Monday night shows the officers closely following Chansley as he wanders the corridors of the Capitol, bare-chested and wearing face paint and a luxuriant fur hat with Viking horns.
“Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape,” says Carlson, who was granted exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from that day inside and around the Capitol, which has never been seen before by the public.
“The tapes show the Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.”
At one point, the officers are seen walking Chansley past seven other police officers milling around outside the Senate chamber, who barely give him a second look.
Then they escort him to various entrances of the chamber that appear to be locked. Eventually, they help him open a door, and he enters the chamber.
Chansley, a 33-year-old Navy veteran from Arizona, has been jailed for almost four years for “obstructing an official proceeding.”

(Actually, it’s been 26 months, not “almost four years.”)

In a jailhouse interview played by Carlson, he says: “The one very serious regret that I have [is] believing that when we were waved in by police officers, that it was acceptable.”
In a statement, the Capitol Police suggest that one of the officers with Chansley was trying to “de-escalate” the situation because he was outnumbered.
But that does not explain why Chansley, who was unarmed, was able to walk past seven more officers without being apprehended.
“Not one of them even tried to slow him down,” says Carlson.
He “understood that the Capitol Police were his allies. … If he was in the act of committing such a grave crime, why didn’t the officers standing right next to him place him under arrest?”

Just askin’ questions, you see. This was why Pelosi rejected Kevin McCarthty’s choices for the J6 committee and instead handpicked two noxious Trump-hating RINOs to be the “Republican” members of the committee: Pelosi couldn’t let anyone on the committee who would challenge the “violent insurrection” narrative that Democrats were using the committee to push. It was a Soviet-style show trial, not an “investigation,” and the media were in on the scam.

The New York Post is one of the few publications that questions the Democratic Party narrative nowadays, and it’s astonishing how such once-respected newspapers as the Washington Post and the New York Times have simply looked the other way, rather than trying to investigate the “strange behavior” to which Rep. Massey referred: Clearly there were plainclothes and/or undercover agents at the Capitol during the riot, and they appeared to be communicating with the uniformed cops in ways that seem suspicious. If, as Merrick Garland’s DOJ prosecutors have asserted, the rioters who entered the Capitol were guilty of serious crimes — “seditious conspiracy,” no less! — then why did police not arrest them?

Tonight, Tucker Carlson has promised another hour’s worth of J6 riot videos, and his ratings will probably be through the roof.



 

 

Category: Fox News

In The Mailbox: 03.06.23

Posted on | March 7, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Magical Thinking In The UK
EBL: MAGA CPAC, Broken City, The Death of Stalin, M3GAN, and Antifa Leftists causing mayhem and destruction in Georgia
Twitchy: Tucker’s J6 Videos From The Capitol Blow Holes In The Narrative, also, Challenging Russell Brand To Give Examples Of MSNBC Pushing Misinformation Ends Badly For MSNBC
Louder With Crowder: Patriot uses ‘Shopping Cart Theory’ to prove once and for all progressives stink at life, ‘Everyone called him a b*tch’, and Steven Crowder announces the return date for MugClub, the daily show
Vox Popoli: What Winning Looks Like, Convincing the Recalcitrant, Nothing But a Psyop, Sweden Heads Toward Bankruptcy, and “Outright Dangerous”
Stoic Observations: Why I Don’t Fear AI

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Disinformation and the Wuhan Lab Leak Thesis, Trump: ‘I Am Your Retribution’, and There is No Constitutional Right to Satanism
American Greatness: Georgia Bureau of Investigation Charges 23 Antifa Agitators With Domestic Terrorism Following Violent Clash With Police in Atlanta, Walmart Shutting Down All Portland Locations, and Life Among the Ruins
American Thinker: Trials and Tribulations, If Leftists Hate America So Much, Why Don’t They Leave?, and Tucker Carlson Calls Out the ‘Professional Christians’
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship’s ambassador confronted by exiles in Tampa restaurant, Reports from Cuba: Because the Cuban state doesn’t pay them, cart drivers stop picking up garbage, Cuban dictatorship bans women from marching on International Women’s Day, Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: Capitalist excess at cigar festival in Havana, and Cuba comes to the defense of Nicaragua after UN condemnation for crimes against humanity
BattleSwarm: University of Texas Announces DEI Pause, also, Blackstone Defaults: Subprime Meltdown 2?
Behind The Black: A confused spiral galaxy, ISRO attempting controlled reentry of old satellite originally lacking in such plans, IBEX leaves safe mode and returns to full science operations, and A blacklist victory? Professor wins million dollar settlement for being blacklisted
Cafe Hayek: On Jobs and Economic Dynamism, Bad Economics, and An Open Letter to a Protectionist
CDR Salamander: March Maritime Melee on Midrats!, also, Retention: the Little Big Things
Chicago Boyz: ChicagoBoyz Miami Meetup – Tentative Agenda
Da Tech Guy: The Navy removes more benefits, I’m Not paying a 350% Premium Just to Tweak Hershey’s, and Trump Should Play the Media Like a Fiddle in His CPAC Speech
Dana Loesch: Biden Asks Congress For Money To Fight COVID Loan Fraud
Don Surber: Highlights Of The Week, Bill Maher’s Normality,
First Street Journal: The electricity is out in parts of the Bluegrass State, also, Killadelphia
Gates Of Vienna: Goin’ Where the Climate Suits my Clothes, Stop The Great Replacement!, VIA Con Dios… NOT, and We All Scream For Ice Cream!
The Geller Report: Twitter Files Release: Soros-Tied ‘State-Sponsored Blacklists’, NYC to Pay George Floyd Rioters MILLIONS, Because Cops Didn’t Wear Face Masks, and Here’s Your Russian Collusion
Glenn Reynolds: How I Was Wrong About COVID
Hogewash: Interesting Bike Handlebar Grips, Disney Cancels Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, An Irregular Dwarf, and Everything Proceeded As I Had Foreseen
Hollywood In Toto: Chris Rock’s ‘Outrage’ Shows Perks, Limits of Anger-based Stand-Up, Woke History of the World: Part II Flunks Satire 101, and Is Fox Nation Finding Its Voice?
The Lid: Bankruptcies Soar As America’s Absurd Debt Bubble Begins To Implode, also, Last Week Was A Good Week For America
Legal Insurrection: Social Media Contributing to Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls, Democrats Furious at Biden Over Change in Stance on DC Crime Bill, Farmers’ Protests Erupt in the Netherlands and Belgium Against EU Climate Change Restrictions, New York Times Makes Ludicrous Case For ‘Helmet Inclusivity’ for Black Equestrians, and Jan. 6 Footage Shows Officer Brian Sicknick Walking Uninjured in Capitol Around the Time Rioters ‘Killed’ Him Outside
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, also, CPAC 2023
Outkick: LeBron James Claims He Dreams About Fictional Basketball With Michael Jordan, Paige Spiranac Teases Exclusive Content From Hammock Beach For Her OnlyFans Spin-Off, Jackson Mahomes Being Investigated By Police: REPORT, Stephen A. Smith To Ja Morant: ‘The NBA Has FBI Connections, They Know What You’re Doing At All Times’, Golf Influencer Bri Teresi Tests Out New Bikinis At Mar-A-Lago, and Shaq Defends Deion Sanders’ Two-Parent Household Recruiting Comments: ‘Spitting The Facts’
Power Line: Our State Department at Work, Dems Keep Pushing the Limits: ‘So, what are you going to do about it?’, Asian Voters Move Right, and Who smeared Tom Cotton?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Netflix, Opie, & White Supremacy
Shark Tank: FL Legislature Seeks To Lower Gun-Buying Age To 18
Shot In The Dark: 19, There Are Too Many Potential Titles For This Post For Me To Choose Just One, also, The Message We’re Receiving
The Political Hat: The Memory Holing Of Literature Is Happening
This Ain’t Hell: The U.S. is sending up to $400 Million worth of military equipment to Ukraine, Stolen Valor – Handlin’ Bizness, Russia parades advanced military equipment while Soldiers use Soviet era equipment, Navy lays out policy for 21-day administrative leave for abortion and reproductive care, and Woke ideology seeping into Merchant Marine Academy
Transterrestrial Musings: The View From California, How To Cure American Amnesia, A Young Man Does His Taxes For The First Time, and Upgrade Your AK
Victory Girls: Marcotte Has Aneurysm About Republicans Again, Russian TV Host Wants to Defeat the West. So Does Putin, and SPLC Attorney Faces Domestic Terrorism Charges In Atlanta Riots
Volokh Conspiracy: A Different View of the “Public Intellectual Arc”, also, Ending the Epicycles of the Establishment Clause
Watts Up With That: Scotland Just Banned a Surgical Anaesthetic Because of Climate Change, “Degrowth Communism”: Green Communism whose Explicit Goal is to Destroy the Economy, and The Misguided Crusade to Reduce Anthropogenic Methane Emissions
Weasel Zippers: House Dem Leader Jeffries Says He’s “Not Going To Characterize” Biden’s Position On Pro-Criminal DC Law, Jill Biden: Mental Competency Tests For Politicians Over Age 75 Would Be “Ridiculous”, Biden Makes Absolutely No Sense When Discussing Eliminating Senate Filibuster, and WH Brags: 173 House Democrats Backed Law That Reduces Penalties For Murders, Carjackings
The Federalist: How Corporations Launder Their Race Discrimination Through Third Parties, Newly Released J6 Tapes Show Capitol Police Giving Guided Tour To So-Called ‘Q-Anon Shaman’, If Anybody Should Pay Reparations For Slavery, It’s The Democrat Party, Florida, Missouri, And West Virginia Withdraw From Leftist-Controlled Voter Roll ‘Maintenance’ Group ERIC, and Tapes Show Ray Epps Lied To Congress About Whereabouts During Jan. 6 Protests
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman: Remembering Getz/Gilberto, Steyn Found Guilty! and Loser Pays: Victor’s Justice, the End of War and Land of Mine

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It Can’t Happen Here

Posted on | March 6, 2023 | 1 Comment

In a post about the new Netflix series Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet, Jeff Goldstein points out the essential difference between neo-Nazism and American conservatism, namely that conservatism has always emphasized individual liberty. Indeed, it might be said that the charter of conservatism can be found in the Constitution, where the Founders declare their intent to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” This is part of the reason why the conflation of conservatism with Nazism has always been false, the other reason — and this is not a trivial distinction — being that America is not Germany in the aftermath of World War I.

Anyone who has seriously studied the rise of the Third Reich has to understand this. The conditions that existed in Germany in the 1920s and ’30s were sui generis, a particular set of historical circumstances that never existed anywhere else at any other time. This is why neo-Nazism is always doomed to failure. The Hitler wannabees are wrong to believe they can replicate in America (or anywhere else) the astonishing events by which Hitler went from being a fringe figure to being the all-powerful leader of what was, in 1939, the world’s greatest military power.

Neo-Nazis are fools and, however dangerous their folly may be — no matter how many acts of criminal terrorism they may commit — there is no real possibility that they will organize a “Fourth Reich.”

Once you realize this, you recognize that left-wing rhetoric warning about the danger posed by the “far right” is as deluded as the hateful nonsense spewed by Jew-hating kooks. The lucrative hustle of the SPLC, sniffing out allegedly dangerous “extremism” everywhere, depends on the fallacy that such extremists are (or could be) the harbingers of a future genocidal dictatorship in America: “It could happen here!”

Well, actually, no it can’t if, by “it,” you mean Nazi Germany.

Some people seem unable to deal with more than one thought at the same time, and thus cannot reconcile two realities: (a) there are dangerous “far right” kooks in America, but (b) they’re not going to take over the country. The incessant fear-mongering of the SPLC — a scam, a hustle, a racket — is wildly out of proportion to the size of the actual threat posed by neo-Nazis and their ilk. As I recently pointed out, the Anti-Defamation League’s most recent report on extremist violence found that the number of deaths from such incidents has declined sharply, from 78 in 2016 to 25 in 2022. In a nation where there are more than 22,000 homicides annually, the “extremist” threat is a statistical blip.

The way the SPLC and other such “hate” hustlers are able to keep up the scare is by expanding their purview to include as threats various groups and individuals who have never advocated or engaged in violent activity. Go ask the Family Research Council where this tactic can lead — Floyd Lee Corkins showed up with a pistol at FRC headquarters after the SPLC named them as a “hate group” for their opposition to same-sex marriage.

To repeat: Some people can’t handle two thoughts simultaneously. People may advocate viewpoints that we disagree with — viewpoints which may, in some sense, be characterized as “hate” — without representing a threat of terroristic violence. This important distinction is frequently lost in discussions of “hate,” where it is used as a pretext for “deplatforming” people whose only crime is expressing opinions that offend liberals. There was never any reason to blame FRC for violence against homosexuals (or anyone else) but, in labeling them a “hate group,” the SPLC made this conservative 501(c)3 the target of actual violence by a deranged gay man. This business of conflating conservatism with “hate” is not accidental, of course. The SPLC did not make an innocent error; they are a partisan political organization, founded by a Democrat fundraiser, and dedicated to silencing opposition to the Democratic Party and its policy agenda. Every honest and intelligent person knows this.

Which brings us back to Web of Make Believe, the Netflix series whose co-executive producer is Ron Howard, and which is directed by Brian Knappenberger, who has an interesting history. He directed the 2012 documentary We Are Legion, celebrating the criminal hacker conspiracy known as “Anonymous.” You may remember those heady days circa 2011, when Anonymous committed various cybercrimes in defense of Julian Assange and Wikileaks, crimes that were celebrated as heroic by liberals at the time. Fast-forward five years, however, when the Democratic National Committee’s emails were allegedly “hacked,” and suddenly hacking was an outrage, a sinister Russian conspiracy to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. So hacking is good, if it is viewed as helping Democrats, but evil when it hurts Democrats.

Are you surprised, then, to learn that Episode Two of Web of Make Believe is aimed at accusing the “right wing” of fomenting conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich? Then in Episode Three, as Jeff Goldstein explains at length, Knappenberger indulges in guilt-by-association between Trump supporters in general and the “Identity Evropa” group whose former spokeswoman is featured:

[The episode] connects white supremacy to conservatism, and depicts a rejection of conservatism as a concomitant Escape from Hate. All violence depicted is perpetrated by “the right”; images of Charlottesville are juxtaposed with images of January 6; the heroes are the leftwing doxxers who fight the haters, or the brave, diverse crowd who stand as a bulwark against rancid conservatism.
The protagonist — who during her online phase went by “Norah Fox” as a member of the group Identity Evropa, where she ultimately became a leader of the women’s arm, and later a popular recruiter — is herself a living metaphor for the episode’s narrative arc and heavy-handed message: she is redeemed by her rejection of the movement; and she is cleansed by engaging in a narrativized struggle session in which she is gently guided by the interviewer, with a gloss on both her redemption and on broader social issues of free speech (and why it must necessarily be policed and constrained) provided by several supporting players: a former FBI agent who bemoans the traditional “whiteness” and “maleness” of the agency; tech writer April Glaser; and New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz, this last of whom is promoted as the intellectual anchor and living conscience of the film, a role he seems to relish.

Can we take a moment to interrogate the idea that a journalist who writes about a subject (as Marantz has written about “Norah Fox”) thereby becomes an “expert” on whatever it is he’s writing about? Because I’ve written about a wide number of subjects over the years, and have never been contacted by documentary producers to pose as an “expert” on any of these topics. This sort of journalistic “expertise” seems only to be possessed by liberals, and is therefore off-limits to skeptical inquiry. You’re probably some kind of right-wing conspiracy theorist if you even call attention to the dubious nature of this kind of “expert” status.

Confronted with the tendentiousness (and obvious partisan bias) of such works as Web of Make Believe, we may classify it as propaganda. And guess who else engaged in propaganda? NAZIS, that’s who!

Godwin’s Law works both ways, you know.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Amberleigh West

Posted on | March 6, 2023 | 1 Comment

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It’s Almost as If Freddie deBoer Never Read ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’

Posted on | March 5, 2023 | 1 Comment

Freddie deBoer, future Republican?

If you don’t know who Freddie deBoer is, you should. He is one of those leftists who, a la Christopher Hitchens, refuses to follow the herd, to ignore facts and common sense, or to forgo necessary criticism of his own side of the aisle. Which means that sooner or later, by the inexorable logic of American politics, Freddie will eventually be forced to give up on his socialist vision and become a Republican. Make book on it. Perhaps his rightward journey will take years, and I may not live to see Freddie finally declare himself a conservative, so that when it happens, it will be up to my friends to celebrate my posthumous vindication: “Stacy called it!”

Pity poor Freddie, forced to toil endlessly alone in his apartment to keep his Substack going when, if he played his cards right, he could be in Boca Raton or Palm Beach, dining on prime beef and washing it down with fine wine, at the expense of hedge fund billionaires who’d pay him to be a Senior Fellow at some free-market think tank, and all he’d have to do to earn that generous bounty would be to put on a suit and tie and show up at a monthly seminar, maybe make occasional Fox News appearances, give a few campus speeches sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation, etc. (Get in touch, Freddie — I could make some introductions.) But in the meantime, there’s Freddie in his grubby T-shirt, alone in his apartment, staring into his laptop and, like Sisyphus pushing his boulder up a hill, trying to talk sense to his fellow leftists.

Wednesday, our trip to National Harbor for CPAC took about two hours. My brother was driving, so I had time to read Freddie’s cri de coeur about the dumbed-down quasi-anarchism of his fellow leftists. The jumping of point for his essay was a woman who “started a Twitter storm, somehow, by publicly wishing that she could take her child onto the subway without exposing them to secondhand smoke”:

She was beset by a certain online species of ostensible leftist who is against ever trying to enforce any kind of rule, anywhere, ever. See, rules are the hand of oppression, or something, and since most of society’s rules are meant to be enforced by the police, trying to enforce them (merely wishing that they be enforced) is an endorsement of the police and their violence….
I find this attitude has become inescapable. . . .

DeBoer is shocked by the unreasonableness of his comrades in the same way Captain Renault in Casablanca was shocked to discover that gambling was going on at Rick’s. He knows damned well that you can’t have a mass movement on the Left without the type of kooks, misfits and ax-grinders whom Eric Hoffer described in The True Believer. If the animating principles of your movement include, e.g., an unlimited “right” to abortion, for any reason or no reason at all, even in the third trimester, certainly you should not be surprised to find yourself surrounded by people who are, to use a clinical term, emotionally labile.

Surveying the kook-swarm, deBoer laments that “contemporary left-of-center discourse” is afflicted by “total ideological poverty”:

Nobody has read anything, so nobody knows anything, so you’re constantly getting yelled at by self-described radicals who have no solid footing in any systematic approach to left politics at all. . . . They think that to be a socialist means to disdain all rules because there is no substance to their socialism at all.

Cheer up, my fellow neofascists! However bad things may be for us on the Right — and, objectively, they’re pretty bad — at least we’re not doomed to Freddie’s fate, alone in an apartment cranking out Substack laments about the unavoidable reality that most “self-described radicals” are just plain kooks. Sic semper hoc — ’twas ever thus.

“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.”
— George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937

Why has this quote remained so epigrammatic? What accounts for the endurance of socialism’s “magnetic” appeal to kooks? Probably I could rattle off 1,500 words without exhausting the explanatory possibilities, but a theory about why kooks are attracted to socialism is unnecessary to the simple observation that, like Mary and her little lamb, wherever socialism goes, the kooks are sure to follow.

Something in this paragraph of Freddie’s lament caught my eye:

This backdoor anarchism that a lot of people have fallen into has no content. I understand: people don’t want to be elitists, don’t want to gatekeep, and don’t feel like they have the background knowledge to police anyone else anyway. I also understand that socialism just needs warm bodies, that we have to have converts if we’re ever going to make any kind of inroads into real power. But at this point, a dozen years after Occupy and seven years since Bernie’s peak, I feel confident in saying that the influx of people into socialism who had no interest in doing the work to understand socialism has become an albatross. We’re suffering from a profound information deficit and it’s impeding our growth. I genuinely feel that the recruiting efforts of the past decade-plus have proven to be a net negative. What’s the value of an army of new self-described socialists who can’t be bothered to do little things like “have a coherent vision of change and how to achieve it”?

Who could forget the smelly hippies of “Occupy Wall Street”? It was my misfortune to be nearly trampled by a mob of them when they tried to storm a Koch-funded event I was covering in D.C. in November 2011. Reeking of sweat and bad economic ideas, this disorderly mob inspired a friend who is a Republican consultant to remark to me, “I’ve never seen so many losers in my life.” As I observed in 2015:

What has resulted from this modernistic idolatry of democratic Progress — the utopian fantasy of an imagined future where we all live in absolute equality, free of “old-fashioned” beliefs — is a sort of social epidemic of bipolar hysteria, in which minds unmoored from cultural tradition constantly shift between utter confusion and radical certainty. Anyone who paid close attention to the “Occupy” protests of 2011 saw evidence of what kind of disordered personalities this progressive epidemic has produced. Young people who were clearly incompetent to manage their own lives nevertheless felt themselves entitled to dictate to the rest of us how “society” must be changed so as to “empower” these mobs of emotional unstable misfits. Refusing to take responsibility for their own failures, the Occupiers believed they were supremely qualified to pass judgment on the “system” that served as an all-purpose scapegoat onto which they could externalize blame for their misfortunes.

This isn’t merely my opinion, it’s a self-evident fact, and one which even a committed leftist like Freddie deBoer cannot ignore.

The saddest part is that deBoer is apparently such an idealist that he can’t turn his back on the socialist cause that magnetically attracts all these nudist sandal-wearers and sex maniacs, as Orwell categorized them. One wishes Freddie could muster sufficient cynicism to think about what he’d gain by going Right. Saturday at CPAC, I stood outside our hotel across the street from the Gaylord convention center and watched the Trump supporters making their way toward the conference, the well-groomed young men in sharp suits, the shapely young women in dresses and heels — a much better class of people, all around, than the smelly anarchist scum who comprise the leftist mob. All it would take for Freddie deBoer to become part of this well-dressed (and gainfully employed) Republican crowd is to admit that socialism is a failure, a utopian pipe-dream, a “strong delusion,” as Paul wrote to the Thessalonians.

Bookmark this post, friends. Freddie may be deluded, but he’s just too smart to remain deluded forever. As night follows day, eventually he’ll wake up and ask himself why he’s stuck there in his grubby T-shirt cranking out Substack posts for an ungrateful bunch of socialist kooks, when he could be collecting a fat six-figure salary as a Senior Fellow at a public-policy institute funded by hedge-fund billionaires, and giving foundation-sponsored speeches to crowds of sharp-dressed College Republican boys and their shapely young girlfriends.

When it happens, don’t forget it was me who prophesied it.



 

 

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