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Russians Cut Off at Lyman UPDATE: Russia Announces ‘Withdrawal’

Posted on | October 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Russians Cut Off at Lyman UPDATE: Russia Announces ‘Withdrawal’

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The headlines say the Ukrainians have the Russians “surrounded” or “encircled” at Lyman, although from what I gather, the fact is that the Russians are cut off — can’t retreat, can’t get supplies or reinforcements — because the Ukrainians have all the routes into the town within artillery range, which is almost the same thing in a tactical sense, but not what most people think of when they see the word “surrounded.”

Anyway, here’s the Bloomberg version of the story:

Russian troops are said to be surrounded by Ukrainian forces in the strategic eastern city of Lyman, a day after President Vladimir Putin claimed the area as part of Russia and held a ceremony and pop concert to mark the occasion.
Putin said Moscow was annexing four occupied Ukrainian regions “forever” and repeated warnings that he’d use all available means to defend the territories. The US and European Union members denounced the move. . . .
Igor Girkin, the former commander of separatist forces in the Donbas, said late Friday that Russian forces in Lyman, in the Donetsk region, are totally surrounded. He accused military commanders of “idiocy“ for allowing it to happen. . . .
Some 5,000 Russian troops are said to be surrounded around Lyman as Kyiv’s forces push to recapture the strategic rail hub in Ukraine’s east, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’d annexed the region.
The Moscow-backed forces have no way of leaving the town beyond “trying to escape, die or surrender,” Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said on Facebook. If Lyman is liberated, Ukraine’s army may press east toward Kreminna, he said. Five nearby settlements were liberated on Saturday, a military spokesman said.
“Ukraine is about to capture Lyman and it shows its military prowess again by humiliating the Russian army,” Mick Ryan, a defense analyst and retired Australian general, said on Twitter.

I’ve long since given up trying to get useful tactical information from these media reports, but I keep being angered by nonsense like the description of Lyman as a “strategic rail hub.” It was “strategic” as a bridgehead which the Ukrainians held on the east bank of the Siverskyi Donets river until May and, predictably, once they lost Lyman, they lost Sievierodonetsk shortly thereafter. Whatever railroads go through Lyman, its “strategic” value is as a river crossing.

Far more useful information from the ISW:

Ukrainian forces will likely capture or encircle Lyman within the next 72 hours. Russian forces continued to withdraw from positions around Lyman on September 30 as Ukrainian forces continued to envelop Russian troops in the area.[8] The Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) officials and Russian war correspondents stated that Russian forces still control Lyman but have withdrawn from their positions in Drobysheve (around 6km northwest of Lyman) and Yampil (about 13km southeast of Lyman). Russian sources claimed that Russian forces still control one road from Lyman to Torske, while Ukrainian forces have cut off the Drobysheve-Torske road in the Stavky area. Russian sources also noted the increasing activity of Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage groups on the Svatove-Torske highway northeast of Lyman after reportedly crossing the Zherebets River. Geolocated footage also showed Ukrainian artillery striking withdrawing Russian forces near Torske. Some Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces have crossed the Siverskyi Donets River in Dronivka and are now operating in the forests south of Kreminna. Russian sources uniformly noted that Ukrainian artillery continues to interdict Russian forces’ single remaining egress route on the Kreminna-Torske road.

Finding all these places on a map takes more time than most people are willing to expend, but I’ll simplify it by saying that (a) by taking Drobysheve and striking east toward Stavky, the Ukrainians have made it impossible for the Russians at Lyman to retreat northward, (b) by taking Yampil, the Ukrainians have made it impossible for the Russians to retreat to the southeast, which leaves (c) the road to Kreminna via Zarichne and Torske, which (d) is jeopardized by Ukrainian advances from Yampil and/or Dronivka. All things considered, it appears futile for the Russians to keep fighting at Lyman, and the only real question is how many of them can escape to Kreminna in any organized condition.

The likely answer is, not many. Incidentally, one of the Russian units now trapped in Lyman is the 752nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment:

It’s a regiment with a tragic tradition of getting cut off, surrounded and all but destroyed. The 752nd GMRR was one of two regiment-size units that, on New Year’s Eve in 1994, got enveloped in Grozny during the first of Russia’s two bloody wars in Chechnya.
The 752nd GMRR barely survived the First Chechen War. Its chances in Ukraine aren’t much better. . . .
There reportedly were as many as 5,000 Russians in [Lyman before the Ukrainian advance across the Oskil River]. Some lightly-armed reservists from two Russian battalions. Two regiments from the separatist Luhansk People’s Republic. And the 752nd GMRR, arguably the best of the units in the Lyman garrison.
The 752nd on paper is a powerful formation, although it like much of the Russian army has suffered steep losses as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its eighth month. Before the war, the 752nd GMRR possessed 41 T-72 tanks, 120 BMP-2 fighting vehicles, 36 2S3 howitzers and scores of other vehicles. It’s unclear how many vehicles remain. . . .
By Friday there was no road out of Lyman that the Ukrainians couldn’t bring under intensive fire. Whether the 752nd GMRR and other units in Lyman surrender, attempt a breakout or fight to the last man will determine how many casualties the Ukrainians inflict as they inevitably liberate Lyman in the coming days.

There are some reports that Russia is sending reinforcements to the area, but I don’t put much stock in those reports. If Russia had reserves available, why would they have waited until now to deploy them?

The most likely scenario is that most of the Russians at Lyman will surrender, although some may yet be able to escape to Kreminna. Once that happens, we can expect a lull in the fighting while Ukraine consolidates its position before resuming their inevitable eastward advance, toward the supply lines of the Russian forces now at Sievierodonetsk. That could take weeks, however, which means winter will arrive before much more can be done on the Donbas front.

UPDATE: No sooner had I published this than Russia announced it was “withdrawing” from Lyman. It’s nighttime in Ukraine, so I assume this “withdrawal” means the Russians are making a run for it before sunrise, probably leaving behind most of their motor vehicles and heavy equipment. It’s a complete humiliation for Putin.




 

Category: Military, Russia, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 09.30.22

Posted on | October 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.30.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Can’t remember where I saw this, but it sure is weird.

 

OVER THE TRANSOM
A Bad American: News Flash – Men Can Become Pregnant
EBL: Hurricane Ian About To Hit South Carolina
Twitchy: Meathead Forgot How Many Times He Claimed The 2016 election Was Stolen, So Here’s A Reminder Thread, also, CNN’s KFILE Smear Merchants Try To Tie Joe Kent To A White Nationalist. It Doesn’t Go Well For Them
Louder With Crowder: Newly revealed texts show Elon Musk only needed seven words to tell Parag Agrawal who his new daddy was, also, Apple executive goes viral for joke about big-breasted women, gets fired because fun is dead
Vox Popoli: She’s Not Wrong, A Gatekeeper Discovers IQ, and Welcoming the New Russians
According To Hoyt: One Drop Of Nonsense, also, Strange
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S3 Ep12: Interview With a (Completely Different) Vampire
Stoic Observations: Food In A Box

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: No NATO for Zelensky’s Ukraine
American Greatness: Time to Investigate the FBI’s Sketchy CHS Program, also, North Dakota Man Who Ran Over Teen Arrested Again, This Time Charged With Murder
American Thinker: Could the TWA 800 Cover-Up Finally Come Undone?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Inflation Reduction Friday
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship cuts off internet as protests rock communist Cuba once again, Cuban dictatorship’s quick response to hurricane damage, Cuba’s fake president Díaz-Canel mobbed, booed, insulted, chased away from visit to disaster area, and Not good news from Mexico
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for September 30, 2022
Behind The Black: Firefly to try again to complete first launch of its Alpha rocket, FCC approves new regulation requiring defunct satellite deorbit in five years, A look back at Virgin Galactic’s failed history, and Part 3: Against the COVID liars and their strong-arm edicts the wheels of justice are grinding forward slowly
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Starbucks and Patty Murray
Da Tech Guy: Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest, Day 5 – Banish all Believers!
Don Surber: A 21-point lead may help Republicans, also, Anyone Mark Hamill doesn’t like is worse than Darth Vader
First Street Journal: Lexington Herald-Leader warns readers about activities that could be part of “grooming”, also, Punishment before the trial?
Gates Of Vienna: Et Tu, Russki?, Water, Water Everywhere, and The Carbon Dioxide Fraud
The Geller Report: Democrats Block GOP Attempt to Get Tougher on Fentanyl Trade As Fentanyl Deaths Explode, also, FAILED January 6 Committee, Running Out of Time, Angles for an Extension
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, That Sucking Sound You Hear, and Don’t Know Much Biology
Hollywood In Toto: The Gutfeld! Effect? Low-rated Trevor Noah Retires from Daily Show, also, Hollywood Legend Walter Hill: Woke ‘Is Death to the Arts’
The Lid: What Every Gentile And Secular Jew NEEDS To Know About Yom Kippur, also, FBI Revoking Security Clearances of Conservative Agents
Legal Insurrection: Federal Judge Says He Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Yale Law School, Putin ‘Annexes’ Four Parts of Ukraine After Sham Referendum, Judicial Watch Demands Providence (RI) Schools Cease and Desist “Retaliation and Harassment” Of Ramona Bessinger, and Leftist Democrat Challenger Mandela Barnes Falling Behind GOP Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin Polling
Nebraska Energy Observer: The City on the Hill
Outkick: Cleveland Guardians Rank 25th in MLB Attendance Despite Winning Division, Rachel Nichols Lands At Showtime After Maria Taylor Destroyed Her Career, Biological Female Volleyball Players Banned From Locker Room For Feeling Uncomfortable Changing With Transgender Teammate, and Twitter Torches The Dolphins After Tua Suffers Scary Injury
Power Line: Macron vs. Meloni, Thoughts from the ammo line, and California Didn’t Get the Memo
Shark Tank: Cammack Slams Administration For Emptying SPR As Florida Recovers
Shot In The Dark: Flashback, This Is Today’s DFL, and From The Horse’s Mouth
This Ain’t Hell: Army’s first openly Trans Officer Indicted as Russian Spy, US Government gives millions to fight US Government, Valor Friday, and Not Guilty!
Transterrestrial Musings: Nordstream, Thoughts On Putin’s Speech, and Red China Seeking Space Partners
Victory Girls: Putin Issues Sham Referendum, Annexes Four Parts Of Ukraine, also, Biden Team Changes Rules To Avoid Lawsuit
Volokh Conspiracy: Boycotting Law Schools in Clerk Hiring As a Way to Influence Law School Culture
Watts Up With That: Sternberg on Risk to Financial Institutions from Climate Change, also, New Zealand PM UN Address Calls for Global Censorship of Climate Skeptics
Weasel Zippers: An American Committed Suicide Every 10 Minutes In First Year Of Biden’s Presidency, Nancy Pelosi Insists Biden Has Plan To Fix Border – But Won’t Tell Us What It Is, Tonight – Greg Abbott Debates Beta O’Rourke, and Diane Feinstein, 89 Continues To Deteriorate As Dems Keep Her In Office
The Federalist: Lawsuit: Wisconsin Elections Commission Let Electors Change Votes After Submitting Ballots, Lack Of Interest Shut Down A Pennsylvania Drag Show. Local Democrats Blamed It On Republican ‘Hate’, Good Luck Getting ‘Affordable Care’ With Democrats’ Latest Medicare Maneuver, and Stock Market Tanked 14 Percent Since Biden’s Inflationary Boondoggle Passed
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Friday September 30th, also, Gradually Turns Sudden

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In The Mailbox: 09.29.22

Posted on | September 29, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.29.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Schrödinger’s Cat Food
EBL: The Biden Administration: Who’s Dumber?, also, Remember when it was ok to say an election was illegitimate?
Twitchy: San Fran Public Schools Have A Program To Hook Your Middle School Kids Up With Castration & Mutilation, also, Taylor Lorenz Happily Embraces Title “Bob Woodward Of The Digital Generation”
Louder With Crowder: New trailer for Yellowstone Season 5 is out and it already reveals one major storyline change, also, Florida man braves Hurricane Ian to deliver unfiltered Anti-Biden message that’s even more perfect with music
Vox Popoli: JimBob One Million, Weekly Meme Review 01, Unequivocal Motive, and It’s Not Your Imagination

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Live Not By Lies: The Apocalypse Version, also, America’s Four-Star Problem
American Greatness: Biden Sending Additional $1.1 Billion to Ukraine, Republicans Urge DOJ to Investigate Cyberattacks Targeting Christian & Pro-Life Websites, and Kamala Harris Touts the United States’ ‘Alliance with the Republic of North Korea’ While Speaking in South Korea
American Thinker: The Pandemic was a Grand Rehearsal for the Great Reset
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Self-Discussing News
Babalu Blog: Over 70 buildings in Havana collapsed or partially collapsed after Hurricane Ian, Cursing two disasters in Cuba: #IanCanelSingao, and Hurricane Ian’s winds leave Havana in the dark and more depleted of supplies
BattleSwarm: Zuckerbusted
Behind The Black: Astra’s last rocket failure pinpointed to upper stage engine, SpaceX to upgrade 2nd Kennedy launchpad for manned launches, Chang’e-5 samples suggest lunar meteorite impacts took place the same time as Chicxulub impact, and Part 2: How the liars spread the ugly corrupt lie of the COVID jab
CDR Salamander: GLOC, SLOC,….ILOC?
Chicago Boyz: Rigid Conformity
Da Tech Guy: What I have in common with new Italian PM – YouTube Censors Us Both, ESG is a stealth implementation of the Green New Deal, and Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest, Day 4 – The Retirees Speak Up
Don Surber: Running out of October surprises, also, Shred the Constitution and blame Trump
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: Not a “gang hit”, but just a “beef” between “cliques of young men affiliated with certain neighborhoods and families”, also, Killadelphia: I told you so!
Gates Of Vienna: The Queen of the Vax, Pregnant With Meaninglessness, The Trail Leads to Pakistan, and How Males Became Toxic
The Geller Report: Motion to Rescind Fails – Wisconsin School District Will Teach Kindergartners Sex Ed, Gender Identity Indoctrination, also, Soros Wins $41M Contract from Biden to Help Illegal Aliens Evade Deportation
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Second Star to the Right, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Armageddon Time Director Compares Trump to Nazi Goebbels, Bros Embraces Best Rom-Com Tropes, and Dear SNL – Why Not Copy These Subversive Sketches?
The Lid: Big News: Kamala Harris Visits Border
Legal Insurrection: Mitt Romney Reportedly Trying to Undermine Mike Lee Re-Election Effort, Providence (RI) Teacher Ramona Bessinger Under Attack Again, Teachers Helping Organize Student Protest Against Her, Pa. Senate Race Tightens as Oz Makes Gains on Fetterman, and MIT Wants Faculty to Embrace Free Speech
Nebraska Energy Observer: I’m coming out
Outkick: Top College Football Recruit Makes It Clear He Can’t Be ‘Bought’ With NIL Money , Tennessee Fans Embark On Savage Plan To Buy Up Every Seat At Vanderbilt’s Stadium And ‘Checker’ Road Rivalry Football Game, Does Success of Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prove America is Ready to Stream Sports?,  and NFL Goes On Record With List Of Excuses Teams Have Used To Not Hire Black Coaches
Power Line: This senior moment, How Corrupt Is the FBI?, and The Daily Chart: Break Up the Ivy League?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Assesses Hurricane Damage In SW Florida
Shot In The Dark: His Ever-Changing Moods, Everything Is Going Just Great, and Cloud Control
The Political Hat: Wokeness Everywhere: Everyone Is An Informant For Anti-Racism; Halloween Cancellation; Shade Equity
This Ain’t Hell: Short Takes Part Deux, Majewski demoted for driving drunk, not for fighting, and Kim Flexes His Missiles
Victory Girls: Biden Bumbles and the Press Finally Wakes Up
Volokh Conspiracy: “Liberal, Female and Minority: America’s New Gun Owners Aren’t Who You Think”
Watts Up With That: Climate Activists Attacking Fertiliser Use, Mass Produced Food
Weasel Zippers: SHOCKER: Fauci’s Net Worth Increased By $5 Million During Pandemic Years, National Hurricane Center Chief Shuts Down CNN’s Don Lemon Trying To Link Hurricane Ian To Climate Change, Fetterman Scrubs Black Lives Matter Section From Campaign Website, and AOC Is Basically Just A Brainless TikTok Girl
The Federalist: Democrats Hope Demographics Will Turn Texas Blue, But They’re Scaring Off Hispanics, This Martyr’s Breasts Were Severed As An Act Of Torture, But Trans Activists Are ‘Queering’ Her, ‘Zuckbucks 2.0’: Democrat Operatives Are Helping Milwaukee Rig Its 2022 Elections, and Transgender Army Major And Wife Indicted For Scheming To Give Sensitive Military Data To Russians
Mark Steyn: Freedom in the Dominion, also, Escalating Everything 

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Worst. President. Ever.

Posted on | September 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Worst. President. Ever.

Most historians consider James Buchanan our worst president, although some would say Jimmy Carter was worse. Yet I think neither Buchanan nor Carter was worse than the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. His latest idiotic utterance:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned oil and gas companies against increasing prices for consumers as Hurricane Ian neared landfall along Florida’s southwest coast.
“Do not, let me repeat, do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people,” Biden said at the start of a conference on hunger in America.
Biden said that the hurricane “provides no excuse for price increases at the pump” and if it happens, he will ask federal officials to determine ”whether price gouging is going on.”
“America is watching. The industry should do the right thing,” Biden added. . . .
The American Petroleum Institute, which represents the oil and gas industry, said in a statement, “Gasoline prices are determined by market forces — not individual companies — and claims that the price at the pump is anything but a function of supply and demand are false.”

Ace goes on an extended rant about this: “Confiscate the kulaks’ farms and kill them, and then blame the dead traitors for the poor yields. It’s been part of the authoritarians’ playbook since the 1930s. . . . And now here comes the man NeverTrump swore to us was an ‘honorable’ ‘moderate’ ‘centrist’ who would ‘restore our norms’ and ‘save our Republic’ to tell mom and pop gas stations to sell fuel at a loss, so that he can avoid the political heat of his policy of state-mandated scarcity.”

We are left with two possibilities: Either (a) Biden doesn’t understand anything about economics or (b) he’s deliberately scapegoating the petroleum industry for problems caused by his own policies.

But still the question remains: “Where’s Jackie?”




 

Category: Joe Biden

Surviving the Hurricane, So Far

Posted on | September 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Surviving the Hurricane, So Far

Many times, I’ve referred to my oldest daughter as living in “a swing state with palm trees,” because I didn’t want any left-wing nutjobs targeting her and her family, but I think everybody knows what state I meant.

Last week, she was planning to evacuate because the National Weather Service projections showed Hurricane Ian headed directly for their southwest Florida location, but then the projection shifted, showing the storm would hit Tampa, more than 150 miles north. So she decided to stay, rather than take to the road with two toddlers, but then on Tuesday, the projection shifted again and, as everyone now knows, the storm slammed into the area around Fort Myers and Port Charlotte, midway between Tampa and my daughter’s location.

The power went out early Wednesday morning when a transformer blew out in their neighborhood, and about half the city is now without electricity. Downtown was totally flooded Wednesday, but my daughter’s house east of the city is still above water, although they’ve kept a close eye on the canal behind their house. They’ve got a three-day food supply, so they’re in pretty good shape. Watching national TV on Wednesday, you might have gotten the idea that the folks trapped in Naples and Fort Myers were guilty of ignoring warnings or had disobeyed evacuation orders, which is grossly misleading. Rather, the fault is with the shifting projections of the storm’s track. Sunday and Monday, it looked like Naples and Fort Myers would escape the worst of Hurricane Ian. It wasn’t until Tuesday that the projection changed, and by that time, it was too late to evacuate because there wasn’t a gallon of gasoline to be had in the whole region. My daughter and her husband had managed to find gas a few days earlier, but it’s nearly 400 miles from their home to the Georgia state line — too far to go on one tank of gas — and what were they supposed to do under these extraordinary circumstances? As I say, they’ve been relatively lucky so far. Just a few miles from their house, hundreds of homes are underwater, and even the fire station got flooded.

This isn’t New Orleans in Katrina. So far, there’s been no looting. The sheriff of Collier County is a Republican, so popular he was re-elected without opposition two years ago, and so at least residents don’t have to worry about anarchy. And it ought to be pointed out that the political polarities of Hurricane Ian are reversed from those of Hurricane Katrina: The allegedly “racist” Republican president was blamed for that 2005 disaster, despite the failures of state and local officials, who were Democrats. Now, we have Saint Joseph of the Blessed Landslide in the White House, and liberals are just looking for any excuse to make Florida’s Republican governor the scapegoat for Hurricane Ian.

Probably that’s why there’s now an effort to blame victims of the storm as having ignored evacuation orders — most of them are white, so it’s OK to blame them, although it can be pointed out that the warnings before Katrina hit New Orleans were much clearer, and were even more blatantly ignored. But, as I say, by the time the evacuation orders for Lee County and Collier County were issued Tuesday, it was already practically impossible to leave, because of the unavailability of gasoline. Others have pointed out the irony that many people from Tampa, which was previously believed to be the big target of the storm, actually left that city and went south to Fort Myers and Naples to escape the storm, only to have it turn southward in the final 24 hours before landfall.

This is another embarrassment for the Trust the Science™ crowd — the “experts” who tell us they can predict the distant future with climate-change computer simulations are unable to predict the direction of a single storm, when thousands of lives may hinge on the accuracy of their projections. A hurricane that was supposed to hit Tampa as a Category Three instead hit Fort Myers as a Category Four? “Oops,” say the experts.

Anyway, I don’t care about politics, I care about my daughter and her two children, spending the night in a dark house with no electricity. She’s still able to get text messages and I told her, “You’re living in a certified disaster area now. Leave [your husband] behind to scare off the looters and come home!” Her husband has a sufficient supply of ammunition for home-defense purposes, just in case any out-of-town looters show up.

Hopefully, we’ll see those grandkids soon.




 

Category: Florida

In The Mailbox: 09.28.22

Posted on | September 28, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.28.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1854
EBL: The Real Bling Ring, Hurricane Ian: Florida Gulf Coast Being Hit Now, and Hunter Biden has his own potential ChiCom honey trap
Twitchy: Vindman’s Dependa Vows To Harass DeSantis, also, Teen Detransitioner Says She’s Ruined Her Life By Going On Hormones
Louder With Crowder: YouTuber claims Ford’s electric truck can’t do basic truck things, also, Marvel actor dumps over what crap Hollywood has become
Vox Popoli: Trust the Science, The US Shuts Off Europe’s Lights, Release the Memes, and A Non-Coup in Red China
Stoic Observations: The Idiot-Proof City

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Did The US Sabotage Nord Stream?, also, Uncle Sam’s Long Trail of Wreckage
American Greatness: Trump Offers to Broker Peace Deal Between Russia and Ukraine to Avoid World War III, also, Donations Flood in for Family of Pro-Life Activist Raided by FBI
American Power: Woke Librarians: A National Scourge, Russia’s Mobilization, Plunging Oil Prices Weaken Putin’s Economic Hand, and Giorgia Meloni’s Election Victory: What the Rightward Shift Means for Italy
American Thinker: Donald Trump and the Future of Western Civilization, also, Running America on Imaginary Technology
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba left in the dark after direct hit from Hurricane Ian, Darkness for you, light for them: Cuba for Cubans vs. Cuba for tourists, and Cubans forced to queue up for stale bread in heavy rain and hurricane-force winds
BattleSwarm: Will Dollar-Pound Parity Unleash Weirdness?
Behind The Black: Is China-Russia partnership to build lunar base dead?, Part 1: The ugly corrupt lie of the experimental COVID jab, and Ingenuity completed 33rd flight this past weekend
Cafe Hayek: Look Who’s A ‘Market Fundamentalist’
CDR Salamander: Nordstream’s Burning Ships
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech Event
Da Tech Guy: A breath of fresh air for higher education, Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest Day 2 – Hawley weighs in, The Most Interesting Fact that Americans are Missing in Polling, and Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest Day 3 – Whistleblowing in the Wind
Don Surber: Finally, libs fear the Supreme Court, Trump triumphs. Squad loses, and Republicans headed to best showing in 94 years
First Street Journal: The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer, also, Killadelphia hits 400!
Gates Of Vienna: A Mother’s Role in an Honor Killing, Bah! Humbug!, Diana West: The Silence of the Institutions, and Biden: “There Will Be No Longer a Nord Stream 2”
The Geller Report: “Where’s Jackie?” Demented Biden Asks, Referring to Rep. Jackie Walorski, Who Died in August, also, Biden Regime Threatened to Sabotage and Destroy Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Months Before Explosions
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Spiral Galaxy IC 5332, Hubble, and Webb
Hollywood In Toto: Oscar-Winner Alex Gibney Defends Canceled Doc Jihad Rehab, Russell Brand Scorches YouTube for Misinformation Double Standard, and Dead for a Dollar Embraces Western 101 (With a Few Woke Nods)
The Lid: Kudlow Smacked Biden: He Inherited a V-Shaped Resurgence And Tossed It Into Toilet
Legal Insurrection: Special K Melts Down When Media Doesn’t Buy Her Explanation for Why Biden Asked for Dead Congresswoman, Lawsuit Filed to Stop Biden’s Student Loan Bailout, 84-Year-Old Michigan Woman Handing Out Pro-Life Pamphlets Shot in the Back, and EU Says ‘Sabotage’ Behind Damage to Russian Nord Stream Pipelines
Michelle Malkin: Our UN-American ‘Justice’ System
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Conservatism of Modernity
Outkick: Aaron Judge Makes History, Ties Roger Maris With 61st Homer, Russell Wilson Claps Back At Eli Manning: ‘I’m 3-0 Against Chad Powers’, MMA Fighter Wears ‘F*ck Disney’ Tape Over Breasts During Weigh-In, and Eli Manning Refreshingly Refuses To Apologize For His Russell Wilson Joke
Power Line: Who Blew Up the Pipeline?, Senior moment of the day, and Mister, Can You Spare a Dime?
Shark Tank: Democrat Alan Cohn Deletes Radical Views From Congressional Campaign Website
Shot In The Dark: Keith Ellison’s Round Trip Journey, The Case Of The Three Command Sergeants Major, and Institutional Leftist Logic
This Ain’t Hell: “Uncle Rick” Not in SEAL-BUD/S Database, Iran Unrest Turns Violent, Heavy US Gov’t influencers anti-fossil fuel group in Chinese pocket, and NCIS Hawaii: Stolen Valor
Transterrestrial Musings: How Corrupt Is The FBI?, Lyman Is About To Fall, and Hurricane Hunting
Victory Girls: Another School Shooting And Where Are The Democrats?, also, Bonhomme Richard Fire Trial Emblematic Of Larger Issues
Volokh Conspiracy: Some Comments on Biden’s Executive Order re White House Initiative on Hispanics
Watts Up With That: Euro Energy Crisis: A Rare Opportunity to Recalibrate Priorities?
Weasel Zippers: Biden’s Economic Accomplishments Summed Up In One Tweet, Another Senile Biden Moment Happened Today, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen May Finally Get The Boot, and Wisconsin School District Will Teach Sex Ed, Gender Identity Curriculum Beginning In Kindergarten
The Federalist: These Detransitioners Have A Message For Distressed Girls, Actual Police Endorse Ron Johnson After Democrat Opponent Faked Law Enforcement Support, Ohio’s Tim Ryan Only Supports Natural Gas When He’s In A Close Race, and Never Let A Devastating Natural Disaster Go To Waste
Mark Steyn: Immigration and Identity, Tale of the Tucking Tape, and Blowing Up the World

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In The Mailbox: 09.27.22

Posted on | September 27, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.27.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Energy Prices Are Killing German Industry
A Bad American: The Mainstream Media Is At It Again
EBL: Conservative Tiffany Smiley can win a Senate seat in Washington State!, Hurricane Ian Hits Cuba, Florida Next, and Two Nordstream Gaslines Leaking In The North Sea
Twitchy: “Your Money Is Not Safe At Citi”, also, Juan Williams Wants You To Think Of Egg McMuffin As Luke Skywalker
Louder With Crowder: Another surprising 2022 midterm poll shows Democrats might have problems in one of the bluest of blue regions, More proof Dems are getting mollywhopped in November, and  ‘Transracial’ icon Rachel Dolezal has been reduced to doing OnlyFans and Black Twitter has thoughts
Vox Popoli: God, Country, and Family, Improving on Tolkien, Cheating and Chess, and Doug Wilson is a Boomer Fraud

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Final Catholic Generation?
American Greatness: Nikki Haley: Dragon Slayer, DeSantis Calls the White Left’s Diversity Bluff, and No House Arrest or Curfew For ND Man Who Admitted to Killing Teenager Over Politics
American Power: Fighting the Culture War Through Christ, Republicans Intensify Attacks on Crime as Democrats Push Back, and Italy Votes Decisively for Nationalist-Right Coalition
American Thinker: There’s a Reason Conservatives are Becoming Less Tame, also, If Republicans Want to Win, Commit
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Chicken Thief News
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‘The Hard-Hitting Social Commentary We’re Trying to Get Across’

Posted on | September 27, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘The Hard-Hitting Social Commentary We’re Trying to Get Across’

Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh in ‘Don’t Worry Darling’

Because my 19-year-old daughter is a Harry Styles fan, I have a built-in bias against Olivia Wilde, the 38-year-old ex-girlfriend of Jason Sudekis, whom Styles is currently dating. Also, it should be pointed out, Wilde’s grandfather was an infamous Commie, which is all the more reason to hate her. Now, as the cherry on top of this hot fudge sundae of hate, we have the revelation that a villainous character in Wilde’s new movie is based on Jordan Peterson — or, to put it more accurately, the character is based on an ignorant stereotype of Peterson:

Katie Silberman: [Heavy sigh, more scrolling] Last major point, I guess, is the Jordan Peterson thing.
Shane Van Dyke: The what?
Olivia Wilde: Frank the cult leader. Chris Pine? Katie and I thought the version you pitched us was a bit one-note, so we put our heads together and figured out a way to really bind all the hard-hitting social commentary we’re trying to get across. WB thought we should let you know, just so there’s no surprises when the movie comes out.
Carey Van Dyke: And what does Frank have to do with Jordan Peterson?
Olivia Wilde: You know…white male pseudo-intellectual. Leader of the incels. Spouts weird shit about chaos and lobsters?
Katie Silberman: That’s Frank all over.
Shane Van Dyke: No disrespect, gang, but have you read Jordan Peterson or listened to any of his lectures?
Olivia Wilde: Um, eww! I’ve never drank bleach before but I know it’s poison!

Perhaps most offensive here is Wilde’s assertion that Peterson — a professor of clinical psychology, who produced important research while on the faculty of Harvard in the 1990s — is a “pseudo-intellectual,” No, ma’am. Whatever your disagreements with the professor may be, he is a genuine intellectual, and there is nothing “pseudo” about it. Apparently, Wilde’s opinion of Peterson is not based on direct knowledge of his work, but rather is based on feminist criticism of his work. And her idea that Peterson is “Leader of the incels” — where did she get that? Isn’t that misbegotten notion also likely traceable to something Wilde got by reading Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti and other feminists?

There is a paranoid pattern of belief on the Left where everything they hate is somehow related to every other thing they hate. For example, liberals hate Trump and they hate racism, therefore Trump is a racist, and anyone who writes something that liberals consider racist must be connected to Trump. The whole thing about “incels” sprang into public consciousness in 2014 when Elliot Rodger went on a murder spree in Santa Barbara, California. Feminist writers like Marcotte and Valenti became rather obsessed with this massacre as some kind of symbol of the fatal menace of “misogyny,” of which “incels” like Elliot Rodger were the violent tip of the hateful iceberg. A few months after the Santa Barbara massacre, “GamerGate” zoomed into prominence and, in the minds of many feminists, was instantly connected to the “incel” phenomenon. It was around the same time that Jordan Peterson began to become popular on YouTube, and I can only conjecture that his temporal proximity to these events caused feminists to associate him with the whole “incel”/“misogyny” phenomenon. Of course, there is the fact that Peterson looks at human differences from the standpoint of evolutionary psychology (dismissed by Wilde as “weird shit about chaos and lobsters”) which feminists insist is inherently sexist. That is to say, any man who suggests there are natural differences between men and women is guilty of “misogyny,” according to feminists and — to follow this everything-is-connected belief pattern to its irrational conclusion — because “incels” are also misogynists, then it is fair to view Jordan Peterson as a “leader of the incels.” In the same way, the Soviet Union imposed Lysenkoism and condemned basic agricultural science as “bourgeois.”

If the only tool you’ve got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And if the only ideology you have is feminism, every problem looks like misogyny. Because of the unipolar dynamic of feminist ideology, everything they consider problematic is lumped together as part of an oppressive system, and therefore Professor Peterson gets dumped into the same “basket of deplorables” as Donald Trump and “incels.”

Such is the “hard-hitting social commentary” Olivia Wilde wedged into her new movie, and really, Harry Styles needs to dump that bitch.

By the way, Harry — my daughter loves you. And she’s cute.

 

She doesn’t like lobsters, though.

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