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In The Mailbox: 11.10.23 (Late Night Edition)

Posted on | November 11, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Birthday U.S. Marine Corps, Ronna McDaniel is a Failure as RNC Chair, and Nashville Police Chief John Drake Hid The Shooter Manifesto
Twitchy: Call 911 Because Rabbi Shmuley Just Wrecked Cenk Uygur Over Israel On Piers Morgan’s Show, Az. State Law Prof Has Jussie Smollett Moment, and “I’m A Full Professor” – Georgetown U Prof Whips Out Credentials, Gets Mocked
Louder With Crowder: Man uses firearm to prevent another NYC subway mugging, so of course, HE’S the one who gets arrested, Kmart Pulls Festive “Merry Ham-Mas” Bag From Shelves Over  Outrage: “We got it wrong”, Liberal Braintrust Says To Stop Blaming Inflation. Instead, Blame High Prices – hey, wait a second…, and WaPo takes down accurate political cartoon about Hamas, bends the knee to Hamas supporters who thought it was too mean
Vox Popoli: Aborted by the Market, also, I Read, Therefore I Know
According To Hoyt: Stop The Circular Firing squad, In Their Time, and The Children Of The Good Times
Monster Hunter Nation: A Review of Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever
Jon Del Arroz: Woke Fake News Destroyed As Jezebel Shuts Down And Vice Has Massive Layoffs

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: It’s Not the Pro-Life Argument That’s Losing
American Greatness: Hamas Terrorist Attack Drove the Left’s Growing Antisemitism Into the Open, also, Princeton Professor Calls Sex with Animals ‘Thought-Provoking’
American Thinker: Chicago: A City in Freefall, also, Threats to the United States now at a Whole New Level
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Business Tax Climate Friday
Babalu Blog: Havana ‘Dinner in White’ is a callous mockery of ordinary Cubans struggling to eat, Cuban animal rights activist sentenced to two years in prison for criticizing dictatorship, and Reports from Cuba: Energy contingents prepare to detect ‘illegalities’ of consumption in Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For November 10
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches a cargo Dragon to ISS, FCC extends SpaceX’s communications license for Starship/Superheavy launch, Samson’s flying car completes its first test flight, and Frank Borman, an old-fashioned American of the highest order, passes away at 95
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: What Does Senator Joe Manchin Have in Common With Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, also, Rewriting History’s Unintended Consequences
Don Surber: Why they hate Snow White
First Street Journal: Another deep-pockets Ivy League donor tells the pro-Hamas students to go to Hell
Gates Of Vienna: The Brutal Atrocities of Monsters, An Allahu Akhbar Moment at the Railway Station in Milan, Angela Merkel, Protector of the Jews, Putin Punishes Russia’s Key Ally, and Hitler Was Right!
The Geller Report: ‘Palestinian’ Mother: I Will Happily Sacrifice My 17 Children, 65 Grandchildren for the Sake of Allah
Hogewash: A Team Kimberlin Post of the Day for Veterans’ Day, This Was Bound To Happen, and SPHEREx
Hollywood In Toto: Will Elon Musk Biopic Be a Hit Piece on Steroids? also, The Scorsese Film Disney Won’t Let You Watch
The Lid: GOP Rep Stefanik Filed Complaint Against Wise-Guy Judge In Trump Trial
Legal Insurrection: CDC Warns Syphilis Cases Among Newborns are at ‘Dire Levels’, Michigan Township Votes Out Entire Local Government over Plans for China-Linked EV Battery Factory, Nashville Democrat Fail: Known Violent Criminal ‘Accidentally’ Guns Down College Freshman, Another Billionaire Donor Deserts Columbia University Over Anti-Semitism, McDaniel Claims RNC Didn’t Invest in VA Elections Since Gov. Youngkin Said He ‘Didn’t Need Them There’, and Columbia U. Suspends ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ and ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Shedeur Sanders Says He’s Perfect Mixture Of Tom Brady & Michael Vick, BREAKING: Jim Harbaugh Files Emergency Motion In Michigan Court Against Big Ten, Tony Petitti. Ruling Could Come Before Kickoff, Danny Wuerffel Says He’d Be Worth At Least A Chicken Sandwich In NIL Era, Topgolf Memphis Is Already A Mess And Black People Are Mad At Black People For ‘Ruining S–t’, Bret Bielema Shares Incredible Pat Fitzgerald Story When Asked About Michigan Cheating Scandal, Shohei Ohtani, Confirmed Good Guy, Donates 60K Baseball Gloves To Every Elementary School In Japan, and Former WWE Superstar Mandy Rose Wants You To Know She’s Enjoying Her Hot Tub Way Too Much, So She Put On A String Bikini & Grabbed Her Camera
Power Line: Springtime for Hitler at MIT, Douglas Murray in Israel, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Trump Jr. Wants Laura Loomer For Press Secretary
Shot In The Dark: All Talk, also, Shall Not Be Infringed
This Ain’t Hell: Terminally ill cancer kid gets to be a Marine, Valor Friday, Don’t mess with a Navy Chief’s ‘dirty’ coffee cup, The US Department of Veterans Affairs has almost 450,000 staff, but still hiring, and Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Gaza Military Situation, Red Meat, The Hollow Men And Women, and Frank Borman
Victory Girls: Something New For Matt Gaetz
Volokh Conspiracy: U Chicago Arrests Student Protesters Engaging in Pro-Palestinian “Sit-in” in Admissions Office (+ Two Faculty Members)
Watts Up With That: The Intermittency Problem with Wind Power Generation in Great Britain, As The Transition to Green Energy Crumbles, Funding for The Climate Scare Soars, and BBC: Kenya’s Ogiek People are Being Evicted for Carbon Credits
The Federalist: Out Of The Ashes Of Government Censorship Rises A Swing-State Election Protection Project, FBI, DOJ Refuse To Call Covenant School Shooting An Anti-White Hate Crime Even After Racist Manifesto Is Leaked, Conservatives Beat Back Democrats’ Misleading Money Grab In Colorado, These 70 Republicans Just Rewarded The FBI With New Headquarters Worth $375 Million, Can America, And Its Veterans, Find Their Purpose? Subway ‘Vigilantes’ Aren’t The Problem, They’re A Symptom Of NYC’s Crime Catastrophe, and Wisconsin Sends Amendments Banning ‘Zuckbucks,’ Noncitizen Voting To Voters For Approval
Mark Steyn: On Being Right Too Soon

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In The Mailbox: 11.10.23

Posted on | November 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.10.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Tidal Wave Of Anti-Jewish Hatred Is Getting Worse
EBL: Sadie Hawkins Day
Twitchy: CNN Claims Jack-o-Lanterns Major Cause Of Climate Change, FBI Seizes NYC Mayor Adams’ Phones, and “That’s A Moose”
Louder With Crowder: Author comes out as a trans man after his wife came out as a trans woman… and then things get confusing, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry in panic mode over “Family Guy” mockery, and Hilarious if true: Disney is reportedly extra “butthurt” over South Park mocking how much they suck
Vox Popoli: Do They Want Right-Wing Death Squads?
Draw & Talk Comics: Exclusive Print for Bullet Assassin Backers!
Gab News: Abortion Is The Sacrament Of Trashworld

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Waiting for the Snow
American Conservative: EXCLUSIVE: NatCon Is Having an American Moment
American Greatness: Report: Six Rashida Tlaib Fundraisers Connected to Terrorism
American Thinker: MAGA Is the New Sons and Daughters of Liberty, also, Michelle Obama: The Black Face of White Flight
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily It Happens Here Too News
Babalu Blog: 1989: The Berlin Wall comes down, Reports from Cuba: Egg subsidies leads to bankruptcy of Ciego de Avila poultry companies, and Cubans urge Norah Jones to reconsider her 4 days of ‘music and adventure’ in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Conservatives Oust SJW Board In Cy-Fair
Behind The Black: Federal judge throws out Justice’s discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX, Rocket Lab schedules next launch, plans 22 launches in 2024, Next X-37B launch now scheduled for early December on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, The strange craters in the high northern latitudes of Mars, Red China’s Long March 3B rocket launches communications satellite, and Intellectual dishonesty caused the experts to misread the Gaza military situation
Cafe Hayek: The Goals of Industrial Policy Are Indeed Too Much to Ask
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Regime’s Digital Discrimination Rule will devastate the internet
Don Surber: An election not worth analyzing
First Street Journal: Rashida Tlaib and the rest of the Usual Suspects prove the need for a strong, independent, affirmatively Jewish Israel!
Gates Of Vienna: Germany Wants the Wretched Refuse Thrown Out by Pakistan, International Law or Sordid Double Standards, and As If They Had Nothing Better to Do
The Geller Report: Muslim Jew-hating Professor Loay Alnaji Identified as the Killer Who Beat Old Jewish Man To Death, Massive FBI Manhunt is Underway in New Jersey for…a January 6th Protestor, Asylum Officer Nejwa Ali at DHS: “F*** Israel and any Jew Who Supports Israel.”, and Multiple Shootings at Jewish School Buildings in Montreal
Hogewash: Panning Across M83 with NIRCam, also, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Hail Mary Sue! Marvels Trailer Features Male Avengers to Save Female-Led Film, Black Walrus Children’s Author – No Agenda, Just Good, Clean Fun, The Marvels Lives Down to the Bad Buzz, and DISASTER: The Marvels Tracking as Low as $35 Million
The Lid: Kristallnacht-The Night The Holocaust Began
Legal Insurrection: Nothing To See Here: Democrats, Media Think The Real Problem With Hamas Invasion of Israel Is…Wait For It…Americans’ Islamophobia, ‘California’ Congressman Adam Schiff Has Full-Time Home In Maryland, Captured Hamas Terrorists Admit Hoarding Weapons and Explosives in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, Other Medical Facilities, Why Can’t They Just Leave The Jewish Hostage Posters Alone? Climate “Experts” Predicting Big Freeze this Winter, Thanks to El Niño, ‘Pro-Palestine’ Protesters Attack Israel Supporters Outside L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance After Viewing of Hamas Oct. 7 Footage, and Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter at Rutgers Accuses School of Racism and Repression
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Conversation
Outkick: Dawn Staley Believes Only White Referees Deserve Criticism, As Her Racial Bias Continues To Show After NCAA Tournament Review, USC May Be Targeting Texas Coach For Defensive Coordinator, Ex-NFL OL Michael Oher Received $138K For ‘Blind Side’ Movie, Contrary To Shocking Allegations Against Tuohy Family, Carli Lloyd Confirms USWNT Lost To ‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster’ Team Of U15 Boys, The A’s Have A New Design For Their Vegas Stadium Already, Trevor Bauer Inches Closer To Comeback After Agents Reportedly Meet With MLB Teams, and Instagram Star Veronika Rajek Says She’s Saving Lives With Her Boobs
Power Line: Rampant Anti-Semitism, RNC Upgrades Debate Moderators, and Extra thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Moves To Prevent Digital Transactions From Chinese Central Bank
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To A Generation (Maybe Two), also, Muslims – Shut Up Or Get Cut Up
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – In Service To Gaia: Science, Schools; Milwaukee County
This Ain’t Hell: CAS? What’s that? Three More Accounted For, Army veteran allegedly threatened to kill soldiers in California, Thank Me For My Service, Russia withdraws from a nuclear pact, China rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal, both invited to sensitive U.S. nuclear site, and Good news story from Illinois
Transterrestrial Musings:  Bearing Witness, also, Die, DEI
Victory Girls: Minnesota Court: Trump Stays On Ballot, Insurrection Clause Doesn’t Apply, also, Three Inch Heels Politics
Volokh Conspiracy: May Judges Consider Law Clerks’ Political Speech in Hiring or Firing Decisions?
Watts Up With That: CFACT Blasts Fed’s “Floating Wind” Fantasy, also, ‘Demographic Warming’: Humans Increasingly Choose to Live Where It’s Warmer
The Federalist: Why RFK Jr.’s Censorship Case Could Matter More For Free Speech Than Missouri v. Biden, Italy Offered Free Care To Disabled Baby Indi, But Britain’s Socialized NHS Is Refusing To Let Her Live, 4 Huge Issues The Pentagon Should Tackle Instead Of Financing Service Member Abortions, Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus Finally Discovers (Too Late) The Problem With Political Prosecutions, Listen To Hillary Clinton Spell Out Exactly What Democrats Are Doing To Destroy The Republic, Far-Left Feminist News Site Jezebel Shut Down, and The Heritage Foundation’s Military Vets ‘Stand United’ Behind Tuberville’s Pentagon Abortion Protest
Mark Steyn: Poppies for… Palestine?

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In The Mailbox: 11.09.23

Posted on | November 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.09.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Euthanasia Is The New Medical Care
EBL: The Last Sentinel, There is a whole genre of Neanderthal cave man erotic romance already, and  Republicans fall just short in Virginia…why?
Twitchy: WaPo Reportedly Pressured To Remove “Racist” Cartoon About Hamas, “I Can’t Believe This Is Real”, and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) Not Running For Re-election
Louder With Crowder: House Passes Bill That Would Cut Pete Buttigieg’s Government Salary to $1, Intersex Track Star Claims Being Born With Testicles “Don’t Make Me Less Of A Woman”, Bystander declares “we’re not gonna take it” as he takes down shoplifter in epic video, and Of course, YouTube removed our #NashvilleManefesto video, and the absurdity of their excuse should be marveled at
Vox Popoli: Ignore the Boomer Ghosts, Junior Classics ebook editions, Infection is the Strategy, The End of The Escapist, and MAILVOX: In Defense of Doug Wilson
Stoic Observations: Hot Takes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Only with God
American Conservative: Why Can’t Anyone Say How Much We’ve Spent on Ukraine? also, Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalism—And Yours
American Greatness: California Spends $4 Million on Gender Surgeries for Prisoners, Death Row Inmates, President Chaos Not Likely to See Second Term, The House Votes to Censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib Over Anti-Semitic Rhetoric, and Comer Subpoenas Hunter Biden, James Biden and Rob Walker to Appear For Depositions
American Thinker: Was October 7 an Earthquake for the Democrats? Biden: Pro-Israel by Day, Pro-Hamas by Night, Unfairly Targeting Trump, and The Unforgettable, Dreadful 2020s
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Chimp Warfare News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Victims of Communism Day: Stop glorifying communism, One of Cuba’s Ladies in White has ‘disappeared,’ dissident group fears the worst, Sen. Ted Cruz: Cuban communist playbook being used by leftists to indoctrinate American children, Reports from Cuba: More controls on producers to stop livestock debacle in Ciego de Avila, and UN General Assembly vote condemning U.S. sanctions against Cuba does nothing to curb hunger
BattleSwarm: New Jersey Wants Your Baby’s Blood, also, Phelan: Aw, Looks Like We Couldn’t Get School Choice Done. Abbott: Eat A Nice Steaming Bowl Of “Fourth Session,” Dade 
Behind The Black: Astra secures temporary investment funding to keep it afloat, Two Russian satellites — one thought defunct — have been tracked in rendezvous maneuvers, ESA commits to a zero space junk policy, FCC raises questions about SpaceX’s application to link cell phones to Starlink, Virgin Galactic trims staff and spending, and The Democratic Party and its voters endorse bigots and murderers
Cafe Hayek: Phil Magness Provides Further Evidence of the Corruption of the Academy, also, Sohrab Ahmari Should Read More Widely or Carefully
CDR Salamander: What A Balanced Fleet Looks Like
Chicago Boyz: “Welcome to Columbia Untisemity”, also, A Stop On a Journey – The Lesson To Be Learned
Da Tech Guy: I Fully Endorse Shooting Someone Who Pulls a Knife on You, A hero in Hong Kong, Yes You can Blame the US and the UK and Australia and Yes Even Israel in a Fram Oil Filter sort of way, and Election 2023 Here Comes the Reaping
Don Surber: Three Reasons Why Trump Is Leading
First Street Journal: Three pages of Nashville shooter’s notebooks leaked
Gates Of Vienna: It’s Time for Slovenes to Arm Up, Biden Administration Focuses on ‘Islamophobia’ While Jew-Hatred Runs Rampant, Islam Means Peace — The Peace of the Grave, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Who’s the Dumbest of Them All? and “I Want Sharia in Germany, Definitely”
The Geller Report: THEY KNEW AND PARTICIPATED, Elderly Jewish Man Beaten To Death By Pro-Terror Genocidal Protester in Los Angeles, and Muslim Jokes About ‘Seasoning’ the Israeli Baby Baked in an Oven
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Euclid’s First Images, Who Is Really Failing? An Imagined Freedom From Consequences, and A Record Breaking Black Hole
Hollywood In Toto: Just Stop Oil Ramps Up Attacks on Priceless Art, It’s a Wonderful Knife Spoils a Holiday Classic, HuffPo Slams Cancel Culture, Can’t Admit Conservatives Were Right, Did Roger Waters Just Confirm What His Harshest Critics Claim? and Damaged Doc Gives Detransitioners a Voice
The Lid: Corrupt DHS Ran Illegal Censorship Campaign on Social Media During 2020 Election Cycle
Legal Insurrection: Minnesota Supreme Court Dismisses “Insurrection” Challenge To Trump Primary Ballot As Premature, Border Crisis: Judiciary Committee GOP Demand DOJ Explain Settlement With ACLU Over Separated Migrants, Hamas Admits in Sympathetic NYT Piece: We ‘Hope That the State of War With Israel Will Become Permanent on All the Borders’, Cooper Union Alums Threaten to Stop Donations Over School’s Response to Pro-Hamas Protests, Ahed Tamimi arrested for incitement after “We will drink your blood and eat your skulls” threat, Democrats Begin to Regret Relying on China for Trade in Green Energy Components, and Judge Engoron Claims He is ‘Not Here to Listen to What’ Trump has to Say During Testimony
Nebraska Energy Observer: Back to back, also, DeSantis, Israel, Good vs. Evil
Outkick: There’s Now A Proposal To Play The World Series At A Neutral Site, Here’s Why That’s A Terrible Idea, Michigan Responds To Big Ten, Tony Petitti. Wolverines Object To Punishment Of Football Coach Jim Harbaugh, Attention Gamblers: LSU QB Jayden Daniels Has A Chance To Play Vs. Florida Saturday After Suffering Concussion At Alabama, ‘You Guys Are Trying To Throw Adulthood On Him’, Washington State Coach Shares Ominous NIL Warning About Future Of The Program, College Football Rosters Are About To Be Raided, As The Transfer Portal Period Is Nearing A Start, NIL Picks Up, and Las Vegas Strip Club Offering Free Lap Dances For Military Members On Veterans Day
Power Line: Why Democrats Are Panicking, What Is Worse: Ignorance or Double-Standards? Audrey’s Manifesto, and Gibson on top [update: Gibson loses]
Shark Tank: The Hard Line According To Ron DeSantis*
Shot In The Dark: The Cano Corollary To Berg’s 21st Law, All Relative, The Enemy Within, Around, & Above, and Review & Revise
The Political Hat: The Witch Cult Of Academia
This Ain’t Hell: Vultures Circling Lejeune, Personal data on active-duty personnel sell for $0.12 cents per service member, VA does it again…oddly, Linguists not cunning,  Army Recruiting Woes Redux, Psychedelics to treat veterans with PTSD? Research underway, and Ukraine End Game?
Transterrestrial Musings: The Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto, Germany’s Delusions, Sorry, Barack, and Race Horses
Victory Girls: Anne Frank Name Will Stay On German Daycare, David Axelrod Drops A Hint For Joe Biden – Drop Out, CNN Thinks We’re A Bunch Of Sourpusses, and GOP Debate: Why Does Ronna McDaniel Still Have A Job?
Volokh Conspiracy: November 7 as Victims of Communism Day—2023, also, A Woman Intentionally Crashed Her Car Into What She Thought Was a Jewish School 
Watts Up With That: Electric Vehicles and Africa: No Place for Rich Boys Toys, The Great Green Crash – Solar Down 40%, Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies, Catching-up on Monarch Butterflies, and California Continues to be a National Security Risk for America
The Federalist: Court: Democrats Have No Evidence To Challenge New Hampshire’s Voter ID Law, Biden’s HHS Wants To Nuke The Definition Of Nuclear Family From Its Regulations, Leftists Silently Shredding Hostage Posters Are Saying Exactly What You Think They Are, Like Father, Like Son: Eco-Hypocrites Charles And Harry Scold About Climate From Private Jets, How Biden’s Oil Policies Empowered Iran And Its Terror Proxies, Report: Leftist-Funded ProPublica Attacks Conservatives 23 Times More Often Than Democrats, and Senate Republicans Sniping At Tuberville’s DOD Abortion Protest Are Cowardly Fools
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Wednesday November 8th, also, The State as Rootless Transient

*Sorry, couldn’t resist the allusion to the overrated Terence Trent d’Arby. 

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In The Mailbox: 11.09.23 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

Posted on | November 9, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.09.23 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Average Bubba: Triggered Much?
357 Magnum: How Firearm Magazine Limits Cause Problems For The Law-Abiding
EBL: It Ain’t Over
Twitchy: Jamaal Bowman’s Fearmongering In Response To Texas Refinery Explosion Met With Alarming Response, American College Students Shocked To Discover That Hamas Are The Actual Bad Guys, and Anxious, Nonbinary, Indigenous “Person” Wears Out Woke Card Trying To Escape DUI
Louder With Crowder: Anne Frank’s Name To Be Removed From German Day Care Center Because Her Name Upsets Immigrants, The Left’s Latest Attempt Of A Bombshell On Mike Johnson Is That He Doesn’t Watch Pornography, and “Has there ever been a more clear-cut motivation for a shooting?”
Vox Popoli: Boomer is a Philosophical Path, A Glimpse of the Game, The Last Lesson of Bobby Knight, “The Whole Election is a Lie”, and Reddit Bans Autarch

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Dana Loesch: Election Results, Welp Edition
Don Surber: Obama Wants Biden Out

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NBC ‘News’ Hosts ‘Republican’ ‘Debate’

Posted on | November 9, 2023 | Comments Off on NBC ‘News’ Hosts ‘Republican’ ‘Debate’

Excuse me for overloading on the scare-quotes in the headline, but let’s not kid ourselves: None of the five “candidates” (there I go again) on the stage in Miami is likely to be the 2024 Republican nominee.

According to the Real Clear Politics average, Donald Trump has 58.3%, more than 40 points ahead of his nearest rival (Ron Destantis at 14.6%), followed by Nikki Haley (9.4%), Vivek Ramaswamy (4.4%) and Tim Scott (2.6%) and, while I suppose anything is possible, the likelihood of the GOP 2024 nominee being anyone else but Trump is rather remote. So having televised “debates” without the odds-on favorite for the nomination is, we may say, “a really stupid and futile gesture.”

Speaking for myself personally, I’d be happy if DeSantis got the nomination, and I’ve previously expressed my admiration for Vivek Ramaswamy, but GOP primary voters aren’t seeking out my advice on how they should vote, so I’ve made my peace with the idea that Donald Trump will be the 2024 nominee, even if he has to give his acceptance speech from a jail cell in New York. It is what it is, and there’s no point complaining about it, so why was this “debate” on NBC?

Isn’t it just to provide fodder for media coverage? Sound-bites and TV images they can use as the basis for “news” stories and commentary, all of which is generally hostile to the Republican Party?

Highlights from the third Republican Debate: Ramaswamy, Haley and DeSantis spar over Trump, abortion and the economy
— NBC News

Losers, scumbags and policy, too.
The third GOP debate got testy, quick.
— Politico

Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy
During GOP Debate: ‘You’re Just Scum’
— The Daily Beast

Fact Check: Nikki Haley Claims
Ukraine Is a ‘Democracy’
— Breitbart

Tim Scott finally reveals mystery girlfriend
at 3rd Republican debate
— NY Post

So there’s your “news” about the “debate,” so you can’t say I haven’t done my “job” in covering this made-for-TV event. But I think there’s no doubt that Ramaswamy had the best rant of the entire night:

All the Trump people hate Ramaswamy and all the DeSantis people hate Ramaswamy, too. I’d say the same for the others, but is there such a phenomenon as “Chris Christie people”? Who are they? Can you name even one? Is anyone stupid enough to think Republicans are going to nominate that bloated RINO? And what about Nikki Haley? What is her constituency, beyond the media and Pentagon contractors eager to get paid to supply weapons for endless neocon foreign-policy adventures?

Readers here are probably divided into two large groups: Those who think Trump should be the 2024 nominee, and those who favor Somebody Else. My point is that, (a) if you’re in the Somebody Else camp, it doesn’t matter which candidate you support, because (b) Trump’s going to win it no matter what. The sooner you accept that reality, the better your mental health will be. Worrying about it will only drive you crazy and, I don’t know about you, but I’m holding onto sanity by my fingernails, and can’t afford to risk the psychological trauma of thinking too much about it — or watching these phony “debates.”



 

Category: Debates, NBC, Republicans

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | November 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Well, this is a sad story: Fred “Bubba” Copeland was the mayor of Smiths Station, a town of less than 7,000 people in Lee County, Alabama. He was also a freakazoid, secretly pursuing transgender fantasies that he posted online using a persona he called “Brittini Blaire Summerlin.”

Somehow (the details are not clear to me) information about “Brittini Blaire” got in the hands of an Alabama web site, 1819 News, which published a lengthy story Nov. 1 about Bubba/“Brittini.” Two days later — last Friday — Copeland shot himself to death when deputies showed up at his house to do a “wellness check.” As might be expected, many have criticized 1819 News for “outing” Bubba/“Brittini,” but before you go jumping on that bandwagon of blame, consider this: In his/“her” online persona, Bubba/“Brittini” appears to have harmed real people that he/“she” knew in real life, using their names and photos:

Ansley Summerlin, who alleged Copeland used her identity, told WTVM her name and likeness appeared on multiple porn sites.
“I had some people start sending me photos that were posted of me on multiple porn sites, I guess you could say that also had pictures of ‘Brittini,’ as well,” she said. “And he proceeded to use my first and middle names on these sites. And I believe there are about nine sites now that have five or six photos of my face and my name across the net.”
The second alleged victim, identified as a “local hairstylist in Smiths Station,” also discussed her likeness being used in Copeland’s writings.
“It said my first and last name,” she said. “And it was basically describing the way that I look and intensified, I guess, as a porn star. And it went into very graphic detail. I didn’t get past the first page because I honestly couldn’t stomach it.”

Click here to read an article with further details about the online activities of the late mayor’s transgender persona. It was certainly creepy, and if Bubba/“Brittini” was mostly harmless, that doesn’t mean that the harmful part of his/“her” activity should be ignored.

The left-wing media are trying to bury the sordid details:

Since the late Smiths Station Mayor Fred “Bubba” Copeland killed himself last Friday following reports of his transgender alter ego, left-wing media outlets and public officials have jumped to defend his behavior, often leaving out key details in the process.
On Monday, political commentator for The Daily Wire Matt Walsh called out those blaming conservatives — and 1819 News in particular — for Copeland’s suicide.
“Bubba Copeland was a deeply troubled man. Also, Copeland’s last act was a choice that he made, the wrong choice, but a choice all the same,” Walsh began during the final segment of his Monday show.
He said many in the media were using “carefully crafted euphemisms” to help Copeland avoid any responsibility for his actions that led to him choosing to take his own life. . . .
Walsh continued: “It’s important to underscore that he uploaded all this material voluntarily to the internet while he was serving as mayor, and since everything that a public official uploads to the internet is newsworthy, especially when it’s perverted and depraved, that’s an important fact to highlight.” . . .
“They’re acting like someone hacked his hard drive or [wiretapped] his phone calls when, in fact, what happened was that a website looked at material that Copeland himself had posted publicly for everyone to see,” Walsh said. “But this notion that Copeland was ‘outed’ somehow became the framing of every major news outlet and prominent politician. They’re all pretending like Bubba Copeland was an innocent victim, a paragon of the community.”
He continued: “For years we’ve been told with a straight face to believe a lie that men with this very obvious fetish are in fact women simply by virtue of the fact that they have this fetish. They’ve repeated this lie over and over again with maximum sincerity as if it’s gospel. But lies that are this grandiose and this absurd inevitably break down. They’re not sustainable. One way or another at some point, liars like this must admit the truth, if only by accident, and with the suicide of Bubba Copeland, that’s exactly what’s happened. The trans movement stands for the idea that a woman is someone who wears his wife’s clothes for fun and uploads some photos on Reddit to arouse himself and quote ‘blow off some steam,’ as Copeland said. That’s the extent of the trans ideology’s definition of womanhood.”

Exactly. It may seem cruel to report on the details of what Bubba/“Brittini” did in his/“her” online persona, but to omit those details, or to obscure the reality with euphemisms, is just dishonest.

R.I.P., Bubba/“Brittini.”



 

Category: Alabama, Scandal, The Transgender Cult

Despite Big Night for Virginia Democrats, “HotWifeExperience’ Loses Election

Posted on | November 8, 2023 | 1 Comment

Susanna Gibson claimed to be the victim of “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family” when it was discovered that the Democratic candidate for a Virginia House of Delegates seat had raised money by performing sex acts on livestream internet videos under the handle “HotWifeExperience.” Tuesday’s election was a big night for Virginia Democrats, who maintained control of the state Senate and captured a majority in the House of Delegates.

Unfortunately for “HotWifeExperience” fans, however, Gibson lost the District 57 seat to Republican David Owen by a margin of about 900 votes out of some 34,000 votes cast. So now Gibson can go back to showing her nasty gash to strangers for money, and I will remain in awe of Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak, who got paid to watch the “HotWifeExperience” videos. Nice work, if you can get it.



 

Category: Democrats, Election, Scandal, Sex, Virginia

Election Results HQ: The Check Engine Light Is Flashing for ‘Bidenomics’ UPDATE: Dem Reelected Ky. Governor UPDATE: Dems Hold Virginia Senate

Posted on | November 7, 2023 | Comments Off on Election Results HQ: The Check Engine Light Is Flashing for ‘Bidenomics’ UPDATE: Dem Reelected Ky. Governor UPDATE: Dems Hold Virginia Senate

UPDATE 8:50 p.m. ET: The networks just called the Kentucky election. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear holds off GOP challenger Daniel Cameron.

UPDATE 9:15 p.m. ET: The networks have also called Ohio’s abortion rights referendum, which appears set to pass with about 57%. By the way, I’m watching election coverage on CNN (so you don’t have to) and, oh, they’re just so happy happy happy tonight.

UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET: It appears Democrats will maintain control of the state Senate and, in fact, Republicans may lose control of the House of Delegates. In Mississippi, GOP Gov. Tate Reeves looks like he’ll defeat Democratic challenger Brandon Presley, second cousin of Elvis.

*** PREVIOUSLY (5:15 p.m. ET) ***

Tonight there will be election results in Kentucky, Virginia, New Jersey, Mississippi, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The most closely watched contest will be the governor’s race in Kentucky, where the Trump-backed Republican challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, had a late poll surge and is now tied with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. What could explain this huge change — Cameron has gained 15 points in a matter of weeks, according to the Emerson College poll — in a race that Beshear had been leading by double digits? My first guess would be the Gaza war, which probably doesn’t make a lot of real-world difference to Kentucky voters, but has sowed discord in Democratic Party ranks.

On the other hand, based on past experience, when you see a massive swing in the polls in such a race, the explanation is usually that the surging candidate got a huge boost from a TV ad blitz. A really effective attack ad, run in saturation, can destroy a vulnerable candidate, and my guess is that the GOP waited until October to unleash it’s hardest-hitting attack on Beshear, pouring in a few million dollars worth of ads that have tied the incumbent Democrat to Joe Biden’s disastrous policies.

Democrats have spent the past three days wringing their hands in anguish over the New York Times/Sienna College poll:

“I am concerned,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “I was concerned before these numbers. I am concerned by the inexplicable credibility that Donald Trump seems to have despite all of the indictments, the lies, the incredible wrongdoing.”
New York Times-Siena College polls found Biden trailing Trump in five of the six most competitive battleground states: Trump led Biden by 10 percentage points in Nevada, six in Georgia, five in Arizona and Michigan and four in Pennsylvania. Biden led Trump by two in Wisconsin. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in all six of those states, though generally by very narrow margins.
Of particular concern to Biden allies are indications that his support among Black voters, who were critical to his victory in 2020, may be softening. . . .

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) If black voters expected anything good from Joe Biden, they have been as disappointed as anyone else foolish enough to think “Bidenomics” would work. The basic truth is, good policy is good politics, and however much anyone may have hated Donald Trump personally, his economic policies were far better than Biden’s. So now the check engine light is flashing for Democrats, and they may be planning to rerun the “Torricelli Gambit” for 2024, but in the meantime, there will be election results tonight.

UPDATE 6:30 p.m. ET: Early results from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 5,415 (54.6%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 4,496 (45.4%)

Polls are still open in Western Kentucky (in the Central time zone) and these numbers represent just 1% of the expected total.

UPDATE 7:25 p.m. ET: Now 27% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 174,054 (43.4%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 227,201 (56.6%)

Doesn’t look good right now for Cameron.

UPDATE 7:45 p.m. ET: A ballot measure in Ohio would amend the state constitution to guarantee the legality of abortion:

YES ………. 125,686 (70.6%)
NO ……….. 52,409 (29.4%)

That’s with just 5% of the vote counted.

UPDATE 8 p.m. ET: The situation in Virginia is this: Republicans came into today’s election holding the House of Delegates with a four-seat margin, 52-48, while Democrats held the state Senate by a four-seat margin, 22-18. With Gov. Glenn Youngkin, GOP could consolidate their control by flipping the Senate and holding the House. So far, everything is still too close to call. Now 55% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 375,589 (46.9%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 424,213 (53.0%)

The Democrat incumbent maintains a 50,000-vote lead.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: Now 65% reporting from Kentucky:

Daniel Cameron (R) ….. 457,011 (48.0%)
Andy Beshear (D) …….. 495,398 (52.0%)

Beshear’s lead is now less than 40,000 votes.

With 22% of the vote on the Ohio abortion-rights referendum:

YES ………. 551,815 (63.4%)
NO ……….. 320,788 (36.6%)

UPDATE 8:40 p.m. ET: Remember Susanna “HotWifeExperience” Gibson, the Democratic candidate who got caught selling sexy videos on the Internet? Well, she’s currently leading her Republican opponent by about 150 votes with 66% of the vote counted in House District 57.



 

Category: Economics, Election, Joe Biden, Kentucky
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