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In The Mailbox: 09.15.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 16, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.15.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

SENATOR BLUTARSKY VINDICATED – FILM AT 11

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Trying to Seduce Cops, also, Are Democrats planning to boot Harris?
Twitchy: “Forget It – He’s Rolling”, “Love Me. You Jerks”, and “This Is Why America Runs On Dunkin”
Louder With Crowder: Insane Poll Finds Listening To Joe Rogan, NOT Liking Barbie Red Flags When it Comes To Single Women, Christian Student Clubs Regain Equal Treatment After Court Ruling, and School Board Bans All Books Published Before 2008, But It’s For “Equity” So It’s Okay
Vox Popoli: Forecast: Light Posting, also, Faux Christian Nationalism
According To Hoyt: Conspiring, Shines the name, shines the name of Rick Rescorla, and By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
Monster Hunter Nation: Meatbags vs Lightsabers
Jon Del Arroz: Ahsoka Episode 5 – Still Super Boring, When Will Something Happen?
Gab News: The Parallel Economy Goes Mainstream

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 100 years of Experts and Media Ignorance
American Conservative: Shutdown Sundae with an Impeachment on Top
American Greatness: Hunter Biden Indicted on Federal Gun Charges, Faces 25 Years in Prison, Post-Postmodern America, and Democrats Jerry Nadler and AOC Drowned Out By Angry Protesters During Migrant Crisis Presser in NYC
American Thinker: Fifth Circuit Rebukes FDA for Banning Ivermectin for Covid-19, The Foundational Falsehood Underlying Palestinian Claims, and The Mathematics of Democrat ‘Justice’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Nork Submarine News, also, Rule Five WaPo Gets Real Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban military officer involved in recruiting Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine is identified, Reports from Cuba: Cuban ranchers: Controlled, helpless, and turned into criminals, Celia Cruz Barbie doll now available, only $35: Original Barbie and her new boyfriend Che full of rage,  and Cuba constantly violates UN rules for prisons, yet lobbies to retain seat on Human Rights Council
BattleSwarm: Newest Sign of California’s Decline: Pirates, also, LinkSwarm for September 15
Behind The Black: Starship/Superheavy 2nd test launch likely delayed until next year by federal bureaucracy and White House, German govenment blocks Chinese takeover of startup satellite company, 23 Indian companies bid for ownership of ISRO’s SSLV rocket, Russia launches 3 astronauts to ISS, FAA confirms: No Starship/Superheavy launch license until Interior approves, and Today’s blacklisted American finally wins his four-decade-long fight against the federal government
Cafe Hayek: Decrying the Infantilization of ‘Higher Education
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Foreign and Domestic
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora, Progressives are hell bent on destroying childhood, DaTechGuy’s Daily Dose of Pintastic NE 2023: Mike From the Pinball Co-Op Vermont, Joe and Kamala officially demoted to “Idiots” and Trump promoted to “Possible”, and DaTechGuy’s Daily Dose of Pintastic NE 2023 Three Attendees: Scott, BJ and Doug
Don Surber: And just like that, Biden was too old. 
First Street Journal: Federal Judge Temporarily Suspends New Mexico Gov’s Gun Order, He’s ba-aaack!, Poll: Most Trust Trump To Fix Inflation Over Biden, and Democrats really, really hate our constitutional rights!
Gates Of Vienna: Showdown in Bratislava, also, Sexual Crimes and Migrants, Part 3
The Geller Report: WHAT!?! KNOWiNK Voting Systems Allow Election Staff to Override Election Results, FINALLY! Hunter Biden indicted on Federal Gun Charges, Mossad thwarted 27 Iranian terror attack threats against Israel world wide, and ‘SHUT THE BORDER!”: AOC, Dems drowned out by screaming protesters at NYC migrant crisis protest, shuts down press conference
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Fab Five, The Hubble Tension, and Contempt of Court?
Hollywood In Toto: Who is YouTube Comedy Star Stevie Emerson?, Camp Hideout Packs Much More than Family-Friendly Laughs, Man Crashes Chrissie Mayr Performance, Punches Audience Member, Created Equal Director: Why Conservatives Lose the Culture Wars, and Conan O’Brien Shares Pathetic Excuse for Awful Trump Jokes
The Lid: Mask Mandates Will Spread If Not Contained, also, We Haven’t Had an Economic Year This Bad Since the Obama Years
Legal Insurrection: New Migrant Wave Straining Arizona Border With Many Detained in Outside Cages, Racist Joe Biden Says Something Racist. Again, Oberlin College Removes Women’s Lacrosse Coach Who Publicly Claimed College Targeted Her For Objecting To Men Playing Women’s Sports, Judge Rules Nevada Teacher Absences as an Illegal Strike, First Circuit Court of Appeals Hears Oral Argument in School Secret Social Transitioning Case, and Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Anti-Racism’ Think Tank at Boston University Firing a Third of its Employees
Nebraska Energy Observer: An Unbearable Cost, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Aaron Rodgers Fires Back At Miserable Keith Olbermann: ‘Get Your Fifth Booster, Keith’, Dan Marino Says He’d Throw For 6K Yards Under Today’s NFL Rules, Justin Jefferson Fumbles Ball Out Of Endzone For Eagles Touchback, As The Worst Rule In Sports Costs Vikings, LSU’s Brian Kelly Channels His Inner Deion For Vanished LB Harold Perkins – ‘Let Him Be Him’ In ‘Starksville’, SEC East Showdown: Josh Heupel, Billy Napier Need A Win This Weekend In ‘The Swamp’ For Completely Different Reasons, Nick Saban Goes On Epic Rant During ‘Hey Coach’ Call-In Show, Turns The Table On ‘PeeWee’ About Texas Loss, and Instagram Star Sommer Ray Shows Some Buns On National Cheeseburger Day, Kay Adams Enjoyed The Eagles Game & Marshawn Lynch Invades Amish Country
Power Line: U.N. Says: Build With Bamboo!, Apple Cringe, The pusher, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio’s Mom Says Trump Hasn’t Reached Out 
Shot In The Dark: Induced Helplessness, also, The True End Stage
STUMP: Who will bail out Chicago?
The Political Hat: Queering Children In California: Taking Custody From Parents; Parent Sues School; Combating Gender Ideology, also, Firing Line Friday: The Issues Involved in Local Control of Reading Matter
This Ain’t Hell: Sounds good on paper, Tuberville’s Trauma- Memo Highlights the Horrors, Biden lies…again. Sun also rises in the East, Revisiting the military’s beard policy, Valor Friday, Many Americans support military strikes in Mexico, but only with Mexico’s approval, and China’s shipbuilding capacity is greater than that of the United States
Transterrestrial Musings: Elie Mystal, Inviting Trump On A Sunday Show, and The Harm Caused By masks
Victory Girls: Randi Weingarten Says Parents Who Want Choice Are Segregationists, Dove Soap Channels Bud Light Hires Fat Liberation Activist, and Biden’s Green New Deal Is One Cause Of Auto Worker Strike
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Blocks N.M. Governor’s 30-Day Ban on Gun Carrying in Albuquerque Area
Watts Up With That: You Will Build Nothing & Be Happy, New York Urgently Needs To Confront the Contradiction of Trying To Electrify Everything While Also Eliminating Fossil Fuels, and Will The UAW Strike Perpetuate the Death Spiral Already Mandated for The Automobile Industry?
The Federalist: How Woke Lefties Ruined Aspen, Navy Puts The Kibosh On Digital Recruiting Program After Discovering Enlistees Aren’t Into Drag Queens, Is Digital Gold The Solution To Democrats’ Digital Dollar?, Every Republican In America Should Follow Javier Milei’s Masterclass In Going On Offense Against Abortion, Enough With Our Horrible Media Boosting Women Who Publicly Regret Their Children’s Existence, and A Church Without God Is Dead On Arrival
Mark Steyn: Masks…Again

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Unwanted and Unloved: Younger Americans Are Facing a Lonely Future

Posted on | September 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Unwanted and Unloved: Younger Americans Are Facing a Lonely Future

When my children were little, I quickly discovered a cause for concern that most people never seem to notice: What was the point of raising my children properly, if everybody else was raising their children wrong?

Eventually, you see, my sons and daughters would grow up and find spouses, and what were the chances they could find a decent spouse who shared the values with which we tried to imbue our children? Could it be that, in striving to raise our kids properly, we were at risk of making them misfits, who couldn’t relate to their peers? Perhaps it was from consideration of such factors that I first became interested in what is known as “The Culture War.” Sarah Hoyt at Instanpundit recently linked to an article by Tom Knighton, in which he contemplates what he calls “a fraught landscape for young men,” the root cause of which is the so-called “empowerment” of women in our society. Knighton first cites further evidence (as if more evidence were needed) that “our educational system actually favors women in many ways,” creating “a situation where young men are disfavored and operating at a disadvantage from day one,” so that “it’s not surprising that women graduate college at a much higher rate than men.” Knighton then references an article by Olivia Reingold in the Free Press about “a growing number of young men who are withdrawing from the dating pool”:

More than six in ten men aged 18 to 29 are now single, up from about five in ten in 2019, according to data from Pew Research Center. Respondents give a range of reasons for their singlehood, including having “more important priorities,” the fact they “just like being single,” or that they’ve gotten “too old” to keep trying. . . .
“The traditional markers of adulthood like buying a home, completing college, and getting married, are all becoming far harder to achieve,” [sociologist Jess] Carbino said. “Many men perceive themselves to be far less marriageable. And in turn, many women perceive them to be less marriageable, too.”
She says it’s never been easy to be Joe Average on the dating market but things are rougher now that the average man’s salary, which hovers just above $61,000 in the U.S., is hardly enough to afford rent in most major American cities. Yet still, many women hold out for men who make not just as much or more than they do, but are also wildly attractive.
While the sexual revolution freed women from depending on men for income or stability, it also means they can privilege more “frivolous” qualities in a mate, says Rob Henderson, a psychology PhD with a Substack on social mores.
“People used to care a bit more deeply about moral character and hard work, and whether the person was an ethical and upstanding citizen,” he tells me. “And now, you don’t have to worry about that quite as much. And you can sort of focus on things that are just, like, more immediate, like attraction.”
The result? Men at the tip-top of the dating pool get everything. And the men who don’t have it all get nothing.

This is a blunt assessment of the real-life impact of women’s “empowerment.” Perceiving themselves to hold all the cards — to possess every advantage in life, compared to men — college-educated women feel that male companionship, per se, is without value. Such women are, therefore, only interested in high-status men who are wealthy and/or extraordinarily attractive. This is the toxic stew of contemporary dating culture that so-called “red pill” analysts like Rollo Tomassi describe.

Most parents of my generation are clueless about the problems facing their children in the world of 21st-century relationships — and their kids know it, so that most young people never listen to parental advice on such matters. Why should they? All the moral and cultural norms that existed 30 or 40 years ago have been destroyed by the subversive forces of “progress,” to say nothing of how technology has altered the dating world in the era of Instagram, Tinder, etc. Adults who came of age in the 1980s or ’90s generally cannot understand or relate to the problems affecting young people, and if I have any greater understanding of these problems than most of my generational peers, it’s simply because (a) it’s part of my job, as a journalist, to pay attention to cultural trends, and (b) having raised six kids, I’ve had an unusually large opportunity to observe changes in the way young people view relationships.

Remember the case of Mackenzie Lueck, the University of Utah sorority sister who was murdered by a guy she met via “sugar daddy” dating sites? That a college girl from a respectable middle-class background should have been engaged in such behavior was shocking, but her friends refused to condemn her behavior, saying that criticism was “hurtful.”

Hey, kids, you know what’s more hurtful than criticism? Getting murdered because you were whoring around. But these “empowered” young women, like Mackenzie Lueck’s Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters, have been raised with the attitude that they should be exempt from criticism, no matter what they do. Feminism has become a sort of carte blanche, an license to do as they please, with the assurance that any negative consequences of their behavior are not their fault.

Women are always blame-free, not responsible for (entirely predictable) outcomes of their ill-advised decisions. Remember Ella Dawson, the young feminist who made her name a synonym for herpes?

“The fact is the ‘respectable girl from a nice family in Connecticut’ ship has already sailed.”
— Ella Dawson, July 2014

Why would a woman deliberately publicize the fact that she’s infected with an incurable sexually transmitted disease? To reduce “stigma,” was the defense offered by Dawson and her feminist comrades, as if there were no reason why herpes should be stigmatized. The syllogism of “empowerment” tells such women that anything they want to do is OK, including whoring around until you catch herpes, and therefore the predictable consequences should never be viewed negatively.

Being a “respectable girl from a nice family” is wrong, Ella Dawson is saying. Young women should never even think about trying to be “respectable” or “nice,” because this would prevent them from becoming “empowered” (and herpes-infected) like her. It is not enough that she is free to be a self-proclaimed “slut.” Everyone else must be slutty, too.

How mainstream is this sort of feminism? Ella Dawson’s immoral message was endorsed in 2016 by none other than Hillary Clinton:

When leading public figures are encouraging and praising such behavior by young women, what are the chances that your son can find a “respectable girl from a nice family” to marry? Even if your son is the kind of high-status male who doesn’t have a problem attracting female companionship — tall, handsome, athletic, extroverted, etc. — there simply are not many young women nowadays who have anything like good moral values. Young women are encouraged to be selfish, materialistic pleasure-seekers, the type of immature hedonists that no intelligent parent would want their son to marry. Just look at Susanna Gibson, the Democrat running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates who whored herself out in “HotWifeExperience” videos.

In a world where women are encouraged in such behavior — Gibson is endorsed by Virginia’s former governor, Richmond’s mayor and U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, among others — is anyone really surprised to learn that “a growing number of young men . . . are withdrawing from the dating pool”? Love becomes impossible, when people become unlovable. Doesn’t love require respect and admiration? How could any man respect or admire Mrs. “HotWifeExperience”? Clearly her husband (who participated in those videos with her) has no respect for her.

When people cease even to try behaving in such a manner as to deserve respect — when they not only act immorally, but openly encourage and celebrate immorality — what are the ultimate consequences? An increase in loneliness is certainly among these consequences.

In this degenerate age, simply being a good person is an act of rebellion. Fortunately for my kids, they come from a long line of rebels. And, strange to say, all my kids are quite popular. Weird how that works.



 

Category: Culture, Feminism, Sex

In The Mailbox: 09.15.23 (Afternoon Abbreviated Edition)

Posted on | September 15, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.15.23 (Afternoon Abbreviated Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Waking up late and having a ton of stuff to do is a bad combination.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hunter Biden Finally Charged
EBL: Media given the green light to question Biden’s age
Twitchy: “Close The Border!” Angry New Yorkers Shout Down Occasional Cortex & Other Democrats, Gov. Grisham’s No Good Very Bad Week Gets Worse With Cringe Attempted Dunk On NRA, and Peter Strzok’s Call To Protect FBI From Americans Goes Badly Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Nancy Pelosi admits to being a lizard person on CNN, gets called an “American Hero” by Soros, Kevin McCarthy smacks down AP reporter’s “no evidence for impeachment” claim, gets her to admit all the evidence, Idiot Yellowstone tourists charge at mama bear and her cubs… while holding a small child, and Not even Nancy Pelosi will say Kamala Harris should be on the ticket with Joe Biden
Vox Popoli: Birth of the Neoclown World Order, also, Reclaiming Their Name

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Hit The Donation Button
CDR Salamander: Red Hills & The Numbing Power Of A Culture Of Lies
Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Indicted
Don Surber: Biden Weakens The USA Abroad
Legal Insurrection: Federal Judge Again Rules DACA “Substantially Unlawful”, Newsom Spending $267 Million to Tackle ‘Organized Retail Theft’, School Board in California Votes to Allow Only State or U.S. Flag to be Flown Over School Buildings, ‘Slap in the Face’: Biden Admin Criticizes NYC for Lack of ‘Exit Strategy’ Regarding Migrants, and U. Texas at Austin Students Protest the Elimination of Diversity Offices
Outkick: Colorado State Coach Tells Deion Sanders To Act Right When Speaking To Adults, Alabama ‘Dynasty Over, Yeah,’ Says Ex-Tide QB Greg McElroy, Who Helped Start Latest One … Somewhat, Savannah Chrisley Is Now Dating Former Football Player Whose Estranged Wife (Allegedly) Was Going To Have Him Killed, Joe Burrow Brings Logic Into The Turf vs. Grass Field Debate In The NFL, Bills Reporter Maddy Glab Is Hotter Than Her Hot Mic, The Paige Spiranac Of College Football Returns & Zach Wilson Hype Is Off The Charts, and UFC Champ Destroys Andrew Tate During Passionate Rant: ‘Piece Of Sh*t’
The Federalist: In Federal Spending Fight, House Republicans Have Only One Acceptable Tack: No Security, No Funding, Report: The FBI Illegally Politicized Background Investigations For Republican Presidential Nominees, Ohio Launches Insterstate Pacts To Replace Leftist Voter-Roll ‘Management’ Group ERIC, Impeachment Case Against Paxton Implodes As Witnesses Admit No Misdeeds, and Meet The Covid-Obsessed Biden Nominee Who Thinks You Should Suffer For Not Getting An Experimental Shot

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In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 14, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Power Shift In Cable Vs. Content Providers
EBL: Escaped Murderer Danelo Cavalcante Captured in Pennsylvania, McCarthy Allows Biden Impeachment Inquiry To Go Forward, and Thank you King Jan Sobieski of Poland and your Winged Hussars
Twitchy: Glenn Greenwald Wants You To Listen For Yourself To What A Fascist Rachel Maddow Is, Gov. DeSantis Schools Nora O’Donnell On The Florida Heartbeat Law & Other Matters, and WaPoo Scribbler Alexandra Petri Tries Scolding GOP Over Biden Impeachment Inquiry, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Preschool teacher goes viral bragging about teaching 4-year-olds they can find another family: “F*** your mom”, Matthew McConaughey puts his finger in Joy Behar’s Face After She Calls Him Anti-Gun: “A Game I’m Not Interested In Playing”, St. Louis Clinic Ditches ‘Transgender Care’ For Minors Over Law Exposing Doctors To Lawsuits, and Exclusive: Top Pornhub Employee Spills How Company Supports Rape & Child Porn!
Vox Popoli: A Decade of War, Playing the Divorce Hand, and Only Cowards Don’t See Color
Stoic Observations: Dakota

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: If you do not become a holy saint then you have failed at this life
American Conservative: War, Money, and America’s Future
American Greatness: White House Sends Letter To Media Allies Directing Them to Intensify ‘Scrutiny’ of House Republicans Investigating Biden Corruption, Court Allows Greg Abbott to Continue Buoy Wall in Rio Grande River , National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby Asked Why Biden Keeps Telling Obvious Lies, and Census Bureau: Income Dropped & Poverty Rose Under Biden
American Power: Las Vegas’s Yet-to-Open Spherical Performance Venue is Already Famous for Bizarre Imagery It Broadcasts, also, Liz Wheeler, Hide Your Children
American Thinker: The Paper Ballot is the Vote of Record, Will Democrats False Flag Us into a War with Russia?, and Apathy Is No Longer an Option
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Ladies in White are still being arrested and fined for attempting to attend church on Sunday, Cuban dictatorship has sent as many as 14,000 soldiers to fight for Russia in Ukraine, and Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: Fidel Castro’s grandson dines at gourmet restaurant as Cubans starve
Baldilocks: Memories Of The First Life, Part 5
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Hits Two Ships in Sevastopol Dry Dock
Behind The Black: Starlink and SES team up to provide broadband service to cruise lines, New Shepard remains grounded, a year after launch failure, Update on the status of Vulcan, Ariane-6, and New Glenn, The drying out of Mars’ tropics, and Pushback: The momentum builds against the Marxist American Library Association
Cafe Hayek: Defending Globalization
CDR Salamander: Sweden Shows It Can Be Done
Chicago Boyz: Harvard and America
Da Tech Guy: Just How Hard Up are Nurse Practitioners in Virginia?, also, DaTechGuy’s Daily Dose of Pintastic NE 2023: The Glimmerhold Arcade Manchester NH
Don Surber: Abbott’s Buses Won The Battle
First Street Journal: NY Times Says Ukraine Aid Benefits GOP Districts, So It’s A Shame Many Republicans Are Against It, California Legislature Passes More Gun Restrictions On Law Abiding Citizens, and SCNY Mayor Plans Cuts To City Agencies To Pay For Illegal Aliens
Gates Of Vienna: Silvia Sardone: “The Islamic Veil is Not a Symbol of Freedom”, also, We’ll Take Them Back — If the Price is Right
The Geller Report:  BIDENOMICS: Inflation Surges Above Expectations, also, BUH BYE: Romney the rat says he will not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate
Hogewash: Public Relations Pro Tip, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Io and Jupiter
Hollywood In Toto: D’Souza’s Police State Captures Country’s Two Tiers of Justice, A Million Miles Away is the Marriage Mash Note We Needed, and Country Superstar John Rich to Rolling Stone: Pound Sand
Legal Insurrection: New Mexico Democratic Attorney General Won’t Enforce Gov’s Gun Carry Ban, New Mexico Federal Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order on Gun Carry Ban, Member of Drag Group That Mocks Catholics Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation, Kim Jong Un Meets Vladimir Putin, Vows to Support Russia’s ‘Sacred Fight’, Chuck U. Schumer Calls Impeachment Inquiry of Biden a Time and Money Wasting ‘Witch Hunt’, and California Court Blocks School District’s Gender Notification Policy
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Road To Hell Goes Through Apathy
Outkick: New York Jets Reportedly Make Decision On Signing Colin Kaepernick, Police Pose For Epic Photo After Catching Escaped Killer Danelo Cavalcante, OnlyFans Star Allie Rae Announces Huge Update After Being Blocked By Minnesota, Credits OutKick For Her Success, Brittney Griner Named AP Co-WNBA Comeback Player Of The Year, Rob Gronkowski Makes It Clear He’s Against Men Competing In Women’s Sports, New Report Says NCAA Could Dissolve, Top Teams Could Partner With NFL, and NASCAR Announces Noah Gragson Has Been Reinstated
Power Line: When Spinning Becomes Lying, Democrats Hate Democracy, and The $6 billion misunderstanding, cont’d
Shark Tank: Despite Bipartisan Effort, NCAA Denies FSU Player’s Waiver Appeal
Shot In The Dark: A Modest Proposal & A Sincere Invitation, also, Insult To Hundreds Of Injuries
The Political Hat: Politics As Faith
This Ain’t Hell: Alvin Straight, More Accounted For, The U.S. Navy to reconsider 3,770 medical discharges for retirement upgrades, and Flag Wars Finger Pointing
Transterrestrial Musings: Minority Voters, Climate Dissent, and The Governor Of New Mexico
Victory Girls: Democrats Whine That The GOP Is Using Their Impeachment Rules, also, The Democrats’ Newest Porn Star Susanna Gibson Hits Back
Volokh Conspiracy: N.M. Attorney General Refuses to Defend N.M. Governor’s Temporary Ban on Gun Carry in Albuquerque Area
Watts Up With That: Europe’s solar industry warns of bankruptcy risk as prices drop, also, Did the BBC’s Specialist Disinformation Reporter Lie on her CV?
The Federalist: Behind Deion Sanders’ Flash And Fame Is A Whole Lot Of Faith And Fortitude, Biden’s Air Force Nominee Believes It’s ‘Naive’ For Service Members To Doubt The Military’s ‘Institutional Racism’, There’s No Way To Justify Continued Funding For The Federal Government, There’s More Than Enough Evidence For A Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry, FBI Agent Trying To Discredit Whistleblower Testimony Blew His Own Credibility In Covering For Weiss, and The Dearth Of Historical Fiction Is A Disservice To Curious Kids Everywhere

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You Stay Classy, Virginia Democrats!

Posted on | September 13, 2023 | Comments Off on You Stay Classy, Virginia Democrats!

The best part of this scandal involving Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates (and there are many good parts) is that Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire apparently got paid to watch the candidate’s “HotWifeExperience” videos:

A Democrat candidate for state office in Virginia appears to have been raising money for a “good cause” by performing graphic sex acts online, where she told viewers she liked “being choked” and said they could watch her urinate for the right price, according to material reviewed by The Daily Wire.

(“Material reviewed” = watching porn, because “research.”)

Susanna Gibson, who is running for a seat in the narrowly divided Virginia statehouse, was as recently as last year posting as “HotWifeExperience” on the website Chaturbate, where men could pay tokens to get her to perform specific sex acts. In one video recorded shortly after she launched her campaign last year, she told her husband, “I’ll let you f— me in the a– doggy style in a private room if someone wants to pay. That’s the deal.”
In another video, she appears to say that for the right price, viewers could watch her urinate. “Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,” she said. “Again, I’m raising money for a good cause.”
“I like being choked. I like being hit. I do,” she said in one video posted exactly a year ago, on September 11, 2022. . . .

(A video which Luke Rosiak got paid to watch.)

In the videos, she appears to be filmed with her husband, lawyer John David Gibson, who ensured that the raunchiest acts were reserved for the biggest spendings, saying “no anal outside of private.”

(Democrats have such high standards, you see.)

The Washington Post first reported the story on Monday afternoon, and The Daily Wire independently obtained the videos.

(Videos that Luke Rosiak got paid to watch.)

Gibson did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire asking whether the “good cause” was her Senate campaign. But she appears to acknowledge to The Washington Post that the videos are authentic, claiming that they are “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”

(When you post videos of yourself to the Internet, how is it an “invasion of privacy” for people to watch them, as Luke Rosiak did?)

Though she posted the videos online for her nearly 6,000 followers on Chaturbate, she now claims it to be a “sex crime” to shed light on the existence of her account.
“My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,” Gibson told the Washington Post.

We don’t yet know whether the videos will hurt or help the chances of Mrs. “HotWifeExperience” getting elected, because as Democrats have demonstrated, they can manufacture 81 million votes for a senile dimwit notorious for plagiarism, corruption and groping little girls. Shouldn’t be too difficult for them to steal a mere state legislative election.

My podcast partner John Hoge offers some free public relations advice: “Don’t put anything on the Internet that you don’t want other people to find.” As for me, I’m still wondering how I can get one of those Daily Wire jobs so I can be an investigative journalist who gets paid to watch “HotWifeExperience” like my new hero, Luke Rosiak.



 

Category: Democrats, Scandal, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
This is the last day to pre-register for Son of Silvercon. Go to fission-chan.org and PUSH THE BUTTON.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

On this day in 1683, King Jan Sobieski of Poland led his Winged Hussars in a charge that broke the Turkish army besieging Vienna.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Virginia Democrat performs on line sex acts on Chaturbate, Lascaux Cave, and Biden lies that he was at 9/11 the day after the attacks
Twitchy: David Hogg Whines About Being Kicked Out Of NC Legislature, CNN’s Jake Tapper Tries (Again) To Get Someone To Agree That Elon Musk Is A Traitor, and Ian Milhiser Worries That “Biden’s Too Old” Is The New “But Her Emails”
Louder With Crowder: San Francisco Won’t Fix Surging Crime And Drug Use Problem, But Hired This Guy To Combat ‘Ongoing Narrative’ About It, : Store owner DROPS shoplifter with one punch after she pulls a gun, and John Fetterman offers odd reaction to the Biden impeachment inquiry and… what the deuce is that on your face?
Vox Popoli: Exercise Your Skepticism, The Two Faces of Economics, Rage Against the Babymetal, Desperately Seeking Allies, and Genius Trumps Expertise

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Love Letter for Mary
American Conservative: A Day of Iron
American Greatness: Senator Kennedy Reads From ‘Gender Queer’ During Judiciary Committee Hearing As Democrats Squirm, CIA Whistleblower: Agency Bribed Scientific Analysts to Reject Lab Leak Theory, and Atlanta Officials Refuse to Process Signatures on ‘Stop Cop City’ Petition
American Thinker: JFK Is Easy, Now Do TWA Flight 800
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Stupid Idea News, also, Impeachment Additional
Babalu Blog: Young Cuban who painted anti-government graffiti faces 15 years in prison, Spymaster Chris Simmons unmasks Cuba’s lies about its role in Ukraine while EU leftists applaud the liars, and Reports from Cuba: No more gas odor in Havana after refinery runs out of supply
BattleSwarm: New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Gun Ban Overreach Unites Own Party Against Her
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites, Frank Rubio on ISS sets new record for an American in space, Lucy gets first images of its first target asteroid, Dinkinesh, Repeating moonquakes on Moon found to be caused by remaining sections of Apollo 17’s LM, and Today’s blacklisted American: Innocent man sentenced one-year in prison for appearing as George Washington in the Capitol on January 6
Cafe Hayek: Trump Has No Idea What Made America Great, also, Defending Globalization
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech Event
Da Tech Guy: Voices of Pintastic NE 2023 The EMP Team Day One, The Associated Press loses its way, Five Leominster Flooding Thoughts Under the Fedora, and Daily Pintastic NE 2023 Video The Extra Ball Lounge(s)
Dana Loesch: Don’t Buy It – Democrats Try To Contain NM Gun Ban Fallout
Don Surber: Tommy Tuberville’s War
First Street Journal: Good Grief: Biden Gives Iran $6 Billion Of Frozen Funds On 9/11 For Five Prisoners
Gates Of Vienna: First the Climate, Now Artificial Intelligence, also, What About Viktor Orbán?
The Geller Report: WOKE BROKE DOPES: Nike forced to close its flagship store in Portland because of rampant looting and theft, Florida Preschool Teacher Gloats She Teaches Her Students to be Gay, Google Exec Warns AI Being Used to Engineer ‘Super-Pandemic’, and Palestinian Organizations Incite On Social Media: The Time Has Come To Kill The Jews
Hogewash: An Inconvenient Truth, Terzan 12, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Stephen King’s ‘Holly’ Swamped by Trump Derangement Syndrome, How Ashton Kutcher Stepped into the Perfect Cancel Culture Trap, Taylor Swift Takes a Knee on Politics (For Now), and Variety Spread Fake News About Bomb Threat Against Lil Nas X
The Lid: Honoring Distorters Of FDR’s Response To The Holocaust
Legal Insurrection: Trump Requests Judge Recuse Herself From His D.C. Jan. 6 Case, Biden Wants to Take Land From Marine Sanctuary for Billionaire Dem Donor’s Wind Farm, New Mexico Sheriff Won’t Enforce Gov’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Gun ‘Health Order’, and Washington University ‘Transgender Center’ Will No Longer Prescribe Puberty Blockers or Hormones to Minors
Nebraska Energy Observer: Limbo
Outkick: ESPN Chose Pat McAfee Over Dan Le Batard Because McAfee Is More Popular, Colin Kaepernick’s Agent Is In Contact With The Jets, Robert Griffin III Claims Jets Won’t Sign Him, Or Colin Kaepernick, After Aaron Rodgers’ Injury Because They’d Be A ‘Distraction’, OnlyFans Star And Minnesota Superfan Allie Rae Blocked By Football Team, Unloads On The Gophers, Deion Sanders Is Spreading Love This Weekend, As Colorado Welcomes Back FOX ‘Big Noon Kickoff’, ESPN Heads To Town, and Jemele Hill Foolishly Suggests The Jets Sign Colin Kaepernick
Power Line: Bloomberg Lowers the Boom, They Don’t Embarrass Easy, and House Opens Impeachment Investigation
Shark Tank:  FL Surgeon General Ladapo Warns Of “Cardiac Injury” Risk From New Jab
Shot In The Dark: The Id Of Every Prog, also, Lipstick On A Pig
The Political Hat: German Education: Sexual Exploration Rooms For Toddlers
This Ain’t Hell: Inside story of the Navy Littoral Combat Ship, Ukraine to receive an additional $600 million in military equipment, Outbreak – of common sense, disingenuous mussels, American military troops repositioned in Niger, and Kamala Harris – North Korea’s supplying ammunition to Russia would be a huge mistake
Transterrestrial Musings: A Dictatorship
Victory Girls: A Biden Lie So Big Even The Fact-Checkers Had To Admit It, also, Iran To U.S: Thanks For The $6 Billion, We Will Spend It However We Want
Volokh Conspiracy: New Article: Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3
Watts Up With That: US Turns to Country Notorious for Child Labor and Unsafe Mines to Source Its EV Ambitions, A 10 GW Time Bomb, and More Rending of Garments from “Academia” or Why…Why Won’t those Troglodytes Trust Us?
The Federalist: Here’s What The House GOP Should Do Right Now To Fight Democrats’ Republic-Crushing Lawfare, Don’t Ask Tommy Tuberville Why The Senate’s Not Voting On Military Nominations, Ask Chuck Schumer, Local Media Slam Library ‘Book Bans’ While Omitting The Explicit Content Being Pushed On Minors, School District Gears Up To Fight California AG Trying To Make Them Secretly Trans Kids, Leftist Witness In Senate Hearing On Book Bans Admits Sex Scenes Are ‘Disturbing,’ But Children Should Still Have Access, and House GOP Adopts Bernie Sanders’ Plan To Extend Obamacare’s Mandatory Spending
Mark Steyn: Pretending It’s Normal (cont)

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Category: Linkagery

Escaped Murderer Now Armed

Posted on | September 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Escaped Murderer Now Armed

The Philadelphia suburb of Chester County is about 150 miles east of here, so I’m not too worried about it personally, but it is still alarming that murderer Danelo Cavalcante has been able to elude capture for nearly two weeks since he escaped from the county jail there:

The convicted killer who escaped from an eastern Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago is considered “armed and extremely dangerous” after he stole a rifle from the garage of a local homeowner, who fired several shots at the fugitive as he fled, police said Tuesday.
Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was spotted on Monday night in Chester County’s South Coventry Township, about 20 miles north of the prison, according to an emergency alert.
At about 10:10 p.m., police received a call from a resident who said a shirtless male entered his garage and grabbed a rifle in the corner, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said in a news conference. The homeowner fired his pistol at Cavalcante as he fled, but there is “no reason to believe” the fugitive was injured, Bivens said.
A green sweatshirt and white tee shirt were found near the homeowner’s driveway, he said.
“I think he is just trying to survive and avoid being captured right now,” he said.
Bivens later told CNN the fugitive ran into the garage while the homeowner was sitting right there. He said the gun had not been left unsecured so he did not believe the homeowner was being irresponsible.
The shooting and gun theft represent a stark escalation in the dangerous manhunt after Cavalcante escaped the county jail on August 31.
About 500 law enforcement officers – including the Pennsylvania State Police, FBI, ATF, and the US Marshals – are searching the area around the shooting, and police have set up a perimeter stretching several miles in each direction. Video from WPVI shows a massive police response in the South Coventry Township overnight, with dozens of patrol cars and an armored vehicle converging on the scene.
Danelo Cavalcante is seen in this image from surveillance footage released by Pennsylvania State Police.
A timeline of the escape and manhunt for convicted Pennsylvania killer Danelo Cavalcante
“It’s a large area, wooded, hilly terrain. It’s not something that it’s a matter of sending a few people in and searching,” Bivens said.
The .22-caliber rifle Cavalcante has in his possession has a scope and flashlight, Bivens said.
“We consider him desperate, we consider him dangerous,” he said. “I would suspect that he’s desperate enough to use that weapon.”

It is not until paragraph 27 of this CNN story that they mention what is perhaps the most important fact about Cavalcante:

Cavalcante was being held at Chester County Prison, in a rural area some 30 miles west of Philadelphia, following his conviction last month of first-degree murder for the killing of his former girlfriend, 33-year-old Deborah Brandão.
According to prosecutors, he stabbed her 38 times in front of her two young children in Pennsylvania in April 2021. He was arrested several hours later in Virginia, and authorities said he was attempting to flee to Mexico and intended to later head to Brazil, his native country.
In addition, Cavalcante is wanted in a 2017 homicide case in Brazil, a US Marshals Service official has said.

He’s an illegal immigrant, who fled Brazil as a fugitive wanted for murder and somehow made it into the United States, where he apparently went unnoticed in the suburbs of Philadelphia for more than three years before he killed his ex-girlfriend. CNN kind of casually buried that part of the story, maybe because they think you’ll become prejudiced against illegal immigrants from Brazil or whatever. So they’re not going to put “illegal alien” in the headline, and you’ll have to read through more than two dozen paragraphs before learning that he was already a murderer before he entered the country illegally, and then stabbed a woman 38 times.

Remember: Diversity is our strength!



 

Category: Crime, Immigration

No Hope in New York

Posted on | September 12, 2023 | Comments Off on No Hope in New York

Excuse me for returning so soon to the NFL theme, but what happened on Monday Night Football is dominating ESPN coverage, and also will have a direct impact on the fortunes of the New England Patriots.

The Aaron Rodgers Era in New York lasted exactly four plays, as he limped off the field after getting sacked with 11:40 left in the first quarter. Subsequently, it was reported that Rodgers — the 39-year-old former Green Bay Packer quarterback who had been embraced by long-suffering Jets fans as the messiah who would deliver them from years of irrelevance — had suffered a torn Achilles tendon, an injury that almost certainly ends his 2023 season. All the preseason talk about the Jets potentially becoming the best team in the AFC East ended in sad fashion, even though New York somehow managed to win the game in overtime when rookie Xavier Gipson, an undrafted free agent from Stephen F. Austin University, returned a punt 65 yards for a touchdown.

And as a New England Patriots fan, I can only say, “Perfect.”

First of all, the arrival of Rodgers in New York, by making the Jets competitive, threatened to make the Patriots the fourth-best team in the division, which in the pass three years has been dominated by Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, with Tua Tagovailoa and the Miami Dolphins a rising challenge. But with Rodgers now likely out for the season, the Jets will have Zach Wilson at quarterback — and he’s been a disaster ever since New York wasted their No. 2 draft pick on him in 2021.

Secondly, however, it’s a great boon for the Patriots that the Bills lost Monday’s game — a division loss, which could prove to be important in any tiebreaker scenario for a playoff spot — and the way Allen played certainly made Buffalo look vulnerable as defending AFC East champions. Allen threw three interceptions and also fumbled, completing 29 of 41 passes for 236 yards, with a rating of 62.7. Compare that to the numbers Mac Jones put up Sunday against the Eagles — completing 35 of 54 passes for 316 yards, with a rating of 89.2 — and you have to think there is at least hope that New England could return to their erstwhile status as the dominant team in the NFC East.

For now, the Jets sit atop the division standings, the division win over the Bills giving them the first tiebreaker against the Dolphins, with the Bills and Patriots, now both 0-1, bringing up the rear. That’s likely to change next week: Buffalo hosts the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday — you’ve got to figure Allen and the Bills will play much better for the home crowd, going to 1-1 — while the Jets, now with the hapless Wilson as their starting QB, play at Dallas. Considering that the Cowboys opened their season by stomping the Giants 40-0, I’m going to bet the Jets will be 1-1 after their game Sunday. And in the prime time Sunday Night Football game, the Patriots will host the Dolphins, who beat the Chargers in a 36-34 shootout this past weekend. So either the Patriots win Sunday night, in which case every AFC East team is likely to have a 1-1 record, or Miami wins, in which case the Dolphins are likely to be alone atop the division at 2-0, while the Patriots sink into fourth place at 0-2.

Anyway, I just had to get this football stuff out of my system, and will shortly return to the (ultimately boring) topic of politics.



 

Category: Football
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