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Crime Wave Now Reaches Hospitals

Posted on | September 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Crime Wave Now Reaches Hospitals

Say hello to Reginald Kane Jackson, a/k/a PoniaX Kane Calles, and while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Jackson/Calles shuffled off this mortal coil in July, shortly after he fatally shot a hospital security guard in Portland, Oregon. Jackson/Calles fled the scene, but cops eventually found him in nearby Gresham, where the suspect died in the proverbial hail of police gunfire. Incidents such as the one that killed security guard Bobby Smallwood at Portland’s Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center have proliferated in recent years, as the Associated Press detailed “a wave of gun violence sweeping through U.S. hospitals and medical centers” which “have helped make health care one of the nation’s most violent fields.” What brought this to my attention was a story this week from Birmingham, Alabama:

Gunfire erupted outside [University of Alabama-Birmingham] Hospital early Monday as multiple gunshot victims arrived in a private vehicle seeking help.
According to authorities and witnesses, a champagne-colored Chevrolet Tahoe pulled up to the hospital entrance seeking help for gunshot victims inside. That shooting is believed to have taken place following an altercation at Aria Restaurant and Lounge in the 900 block of Fifth Avenue North.
When the SUV got to UAB — about 2:17 a.m. — another vehicle pulled up and opened fire on the Tahoe. Witnesses said they heard multiple shots fired, describing the sounds as “iron pipes hitting.”
The gunfire hit a UAB police vehicle and a hospital window.
Birmingham and UAB police officers shut down the area surrounding the emergency room. The hospital was placed on lockdown.
Birmingham police Officer Truman Fitzgerald [said] at least five people were shot in the initial incident on Fifth Avenue North.
Two of those victims – both females – were pronounced dead at the hospital.
According the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, a 33-year-old woman was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m. and 24-year-old woman was pronounced dead at 2:55 a.m.
Fitzgerald said the two women — who later died — and an injured man were in the SUV that showed up at UAB. The man’s injuries are life-threatening.
Two other women showed up at the hospital by private vehicle, also with gunshot wounds. Their injuries are not life-threatening.
Police said at least two suspects fired on the victims when they arrived at the hospital. They have not been arrested.
“We believe this incident was a targeted attack, however we do believe many of the victims were innocent bystanders,’’ Fitzgerald said.

The location where the initial shooting occurred is a nightclub that doesn’t even open until 10 p.m., and was hosting a “rehab Sunday” event during the Labor Day weekend, which explains why club patrons were getting shot at 2 a.m. on a Monday — and then shot at again when they went to the hospital for treatment. Gun violence is seldom completely random. That is to say, individuals can reduce their chances of being shot by about 99% simply by taking a few basic safety precautions, such as stay out of downtown Birmingham after midnight.

Baltimore, Memphis, Detroit, Atlanta — that rule can be generalized to most U.S. cities, where a lot of gunfire seems to occur after midnight, which we might speculate has something to do with the kind of people who are out after midnight in most U.S. cities. But I digress . . .

The shooting at the Portland hospital happened in the middle of the day, but it illustrated another well-known rule of personal safety:

Gunman at Oregon hospital
had history of mental illness,
threatened to ‘punch the baby out’
of girlfriend’s stomach
The man who fatally shot a security officer inside Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center had an extensive criminal record, threatened staff at the hospital in the days leading up to the weekend shooting and threatened to harm the woman bearing his baby months before the birth.
Police shot and killed the gunman — identified Monday by police and prosecutors as PoniaX Kane Calles, 33 — during a standoff in Gresham several hours after Saturday’s shooting at the Northwest Portland hospital.
Calles had menaced hospital staff for at least three days, spurring some workers to ask supervisors to have him removed, according to sources familiar with the investigation. He was at the hospital for a partner who was giving birth to their third child.
At one point Saturday when Calles wasn’t around the woman’s room, hospital security officer Bobby Smallwood went into the room with another employee and removed a case that appeared suspicious. The case turned out to hold two guns, the sources said. The woman in the room claimed the guns were in her name because Calles couldn’t have them, the sources said.
Just before 11 a.m., Calles returned to the floor and got in the face of a charge nurse. Smallwood stood between them. Calles apparently had a third gun, pulled out the handgun, a struggle ensued and he shot the unarmed Smallwood, the sources said.
Calles previously went by the name Reginald Kane Jackson. He formally changed his name in 2019. He had an arrest history from California before arriving in Oregon around 2012, as well as a history of mental illness, court records indicate.
Earlier this year, Ashley Heil, while six months pregnant, sought and obtained a restraining order on April 21 against Calles, with an order that he be prohibited from buying or possessing any guns or ammunition. She noted he had two handguns and a rifle, according to court records.
There’s no record that law enforcement officers removed guns from Calle’s possession.
Heil cited Calles’ “anti-government & anger issues.” She expressed concern about the safety of their 8-year-old daughter, a 1-year-old and an unborn child. She reported unspecified child abuse by Calles involving their oldest daughter that involved state child welfare authorities, according to her petition.
Calles also endangered her, she wrote, reporting in the petition that he threatened to punch her “and that thing in your stomach” on April 16 when she pushed him aside aside as he went to hug her.
“That same day he said he didn’t want the baby and a few days before he said he was going to punch the baby out,” she wrote.

Sometimes when you read that a suspect “had an extensive criminal record,” you may wonder, “What do they mean by ‘extensive’?”

Under his original name, he was convicted in 2016 of stabbing another man in the face with a knife after a dispute in September 2015 at a Boxer Ramen restaurant in Northeast Portland.
At that time, he was attending Alcoholics Anonymous on and off and suffered from depression, according to court records. He had chased two women into the restaurant, walked up to a stranger’s table, asked, “Does it taste good?” and got into a fight with a man seated at the table who asked to be left alone.
The two ended up fighting in front of the restaurant, where the stabbing occurred, according to court records. Under the name Jackson, he pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree assault and was placed on probation for three years, ordered to undergo drug treatment and have a mental health evaluation.
On Nov. 18, 2019, he was arrested in Multnomah County on a third-degree criminal mischief allegation. At the time, he gave an address on Southwest Columbia Street. The next month, prosecutors dropped the charge. In March of this year, he filed a motion to set aside the arrest record, providing a different address on Northeast Sandy Boulevard.
In 2019, he also reported he had been diagnosed as suffering from a bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, had no job or benefits, according to court records.
In the fall of 2019, Calles, under his original name, was the target of a stalking order obtained by a man living in Northeast Portland who alleged “unwanted repeated contact” from him. The man wrote to the court that Calles had thrown an “incendiary” powder that exploded into smoke on his driveway in March of that year and had “pointed a red laser-sighted pistol” at him in October 2018, according to court records. The man’s lawyer said Calles told him that Calles “wanted something bad to happen to me,” according to the petitioner. . . .
His arrest history in California dates to 2004, including arrests for attempted murder, robbery, battery, disorderly conduct and vandalism as well as a 2016 mental health commitment, according to court records.

So, he was 33 when he died, and his arrest record goes all the way back to 2004, when he would have been only 14 years old. Yet when he stabbed a man in the face, he was only sentenced to three years probation. Please, lecture me more about our alleged “mass incarceration” problem.

Anyway, he was reportedly diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to know that this guy was daft, demented, deranged, bonkers, berserk, off his rocker, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. And as a matter of personal safety, you should avoid hanging around people like that, which was the mistake made by the Portland shooter’s girlfriend. And because she was hanging around this crazy guy, a hospital security guard got shot to death, once again proving what I keep telling you people: Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 09.05.23

Posted on | September 5, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.05.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today was busy; forgive the abbreviated linkfest.
More books from people who don’t hate you: L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright has released Guardians of the Twilight, the sixth book in her Rachel Griffin/Unexpected Enlightenment series, which I am horribly behind on. It’s available on Kindle Unlimited, and just $5.99 if you prefer to buy instead of rent. 

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Burning Man circa 1963, Do Republicans have to go all in with Trump?, and No White After Labor Day
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Has A New Name For The Associated Press, Sen. John Cornyn Walloped For Whining About Possible Government Shutdown, and Is Elon Musk Going To Sue The Anti-Defamation League?
Louder With Crowder: Beef is for the boys! 50% of US beef is eaten by only 12% of Americans…and most of that is dudes, Jimmy Buffett, iconic singer of “Margaritaville,” passes away at age 76, Strike Force Five: Is This The Worst Podcast Ever?, and Deion Sanders’ speech before Colorado vs. TCU will have you running through a wall
Vox Popoli: Ukraine in the Bunker, 7 Percent per Annum, Changes in Comics News, Nigeria May Be Next, The Satanic Essence of Globalism, and I Was Wrong
Gab News: Why Elon Can’t #BanTheADL Even If He Wanted To, 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: About That Other Virus, also, We’re All Making History
Don Surber: Trump Made Red China Uninvestable
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Category: Linkagery

‘Debunked Conspiracy Theories’

Posted on | September 4, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Debunked Conspiracy Theories’

Advice for reporters at Politico and other liberal media outlets: If you’re going to quote an “anonymous” source “close to the Biden campaign,” make sure the quote doesn’t sound exactly like James Carville:

“Absolutely” no grounds exist to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, White House aides and Democrats argued in a recent report. . . .
“The only problem with [Republicans’] impeachment strategy is they have absolutely no grounds for impeaching the president,” a White House adviser told Politico.
A Democrat close to the Biden campaign told the outlet:

Republicans tried a lot of these hits in 2020 and they failed. But in a bid for Trump’s 2024 campaign and to exact political revenge, these same Republicans are peddling the same debunked conspiracy theories that have been talked about for about five years. They have been investigated over and over. They have failed to uncover any evidence of wrongdoing by the president and Americans see right through it. . . .

While the White House objects to an inquiry, it launched a “war room” to push back against congressional probes into the president and his family. The war room consists of lawyers, legislative staff, and communications aides, who are “in frequent communication with the House Democratic leadership to prepare for the process,” Politico reported.

The “war room” approach to politics was, of course, pioneered by Carville during Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, especially to deal with so-called “bimbo eruptions” (e.g., Gennifer Flowers) which, with the benefit of hindsight, everybody knows all these “bimbos” were telling the truth.

The problem for Joe Biden is almost the same as Clinton’s in this regard, because despite the claim by the “anonymous” source (which we damn well know is Carville), the evidence of Biden’s corruption is piled sky-high. It’s not a “conspiracy theory,” it hasn’t been “debunked,” and to repeat the obvious: Joe Biden is GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!



 

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden

Rule 5 Sunday: Salma Hayek

Posted on | September 4, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Salma Hayek

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Very few women look this good at 57, and even fewer look this good in a bikini at that age. Nuff said.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Scottish Rebellion Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Jimmy Buffett RIP, AntiMAGA Gov, Brian Kemp, “You Wear It Well”, Luther, The Whale, Lady Diana Spencer, Haley Pullos, Bridgit Mendler, Who Is Erin Carter? and Beach Time

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Amanda Ventrone, Philly Celebrates Summer, Fish Pic Friday – Mel Essig, Tattoo Thursday, Like the Swallows of Capistrano…, The Wednesday Wetness, Reckless, Aquaculture Oysters Succumb to Mystery Killer, Chinese Skull Suggests New Branch on Human Bush, Monday Morning Pickings, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and “Forever Chemicals” Found in Straws, Chesapeake Bay.

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For September 1

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Run Through The Jungle

Posted on | September 3, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Run Through The Jungle

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This weekend I learned that this song wasn’t about Vietnam; nonetheless, after seventy years, that’s what most people associate it with. Also hard to believe that after all these years I didn’t have any CCR in the music collection, but there it is.
Wow, what a terrible week to be a Senators fan. We lost two out of three to the Dodgers in their park and then came home to lose both games of a two-game set to the Red Sox. They were close, but close only counts in atomic warfare. Tuesday we host the O’s for three games and then Friday it’s our debut series against the Pirates. We’re six and a half games behind the A’s and only one and a half ahead of the Twins.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Not a good week.

Crazy People Are Dangerous
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

‘The Blind Side’ and Business Reality
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

The Neckbeard Menace: Pathetic Loser Ryan Palmeter’s Jacksonville Massacre
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Vengeance Bikinis
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

Best Mug Shot Ever
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.28.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Crazy Coaches Are Dangerous
The DaleyGator
Flappr
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.30.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.31.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Dianna Survived the Hurricane
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.31.23 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

The Death of #MeToo: ‘To Be Fair, It Was Never Actually About Helping Women’
Instapundit
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.01.23
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending September 1:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  357 Magnum (12)
  3.  A View From The Beach (10)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

‘Coach Prime’ Silences Critics as Colorado Upsets TCU in Season-Opening Shocker

Posted on | September 3, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Coach Prime’ Silences Critics as Colorado Upsets TCU in Season-Opening Shocker

The Colorado Buffaloes were three-touchdown underdogs Saturday, playing on the road against a team ranked in the Top 20.

Last year, Texas Christian University went 13-2, winning the Big 12 championship, then defeated Michigan in the semifinals of the national championship playoffs before losing the title game to Georgia. Meanwhile, Colorado was 1-11 in the 2022 season. It was a sign of desperation in Colorado when they hired Deion Sanders — the former NFL star defensive back known as “Prime Time” — away from an HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) school, Jackson State in Mississippi. After getting hired, Sanders proceeded to clean house in Boulder, chasing off most of the team’s scholarship players, and bringing in several of his former Jackson State players, including two of his sons, one of whom was installed as the Buffaloes’ starting quarterback.

Well, guess what? Colorado won, 45-42, in a nationally televised thriller in which Shedeur Sanders threw for a school-record 510 yards. It wasn’t just the yardage, either — Shedeur completed 81% of his passes (38-for-47) for four touchdowns, and didn’t throw a single interception. Meanwhile, another Jackson State transfer, Travis Hunter, caught 11 passes for 119 yards as a wide receiver and — AND! — also played cornerback on defense, making three tackles, intercepting one pass and breaking up two others. Hunter played 129 snaps, an iron man performance unheard of in modern college football.

Also, Colorado freshman running back Dylan Edwards rushed for 24 yards on six carries, and caught six passes for 135 yards, including a stunning 75-yard touchdown reception.

The Colorado hype train is now rolling downhill with a full head of steam, with people talking about Travis Hunter and/or Shedeur Sanders for the Heisman Trophy and, wondering if the Buffaloes might actually make it to the national championship — a worst-to-first Cinderella story that the sports media can’t resist. Is this hype warranted? I don’t know, but when you throw for 500+ yards in your season-opener against a Top 20 team — on the road! — it’s hard to see any ceiling to how high the hopes should be in Colorado this season. As for all those doubters, Deion sure enough shut their mouths and, like he says, he’s got receipts.

 



 

Category: Football

In The Mailbox: 09.01.23

Posted on | September 1, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.01.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in August. Very much appreciated! Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens When Police Don’t/Can’t Enforce The Law?
EBL: Who Went Where?
Twitchy: James Woods Slams Special K For Lying About Biden “Securing The Border”, Oprah & The Rock Piss Twitter Off By Asking Broke Americans To Contribute To Their Maui Fund, and Philip Bump Melts Down After Being Humiliated Over Biden On Podcast
Louder With Crowder: Girls throw down in all-time port-a-potty brawl during a Morgan Wallen concert, Tucker Carlson blasts Fox News in Dave Portnoy interview, Alaska Board of Education Votes To Exclude Males From Girls’ Sports, and Florida School Board Removes Dozens of Pornographic Books After Parents Read Graphic Passages Aloud
Vox Popoli: The Rude Awakening, also, I’m Not Saying He’s Fake
According To Hoyt: There Is No Going Back Home, The Shape of Our Problems, and The Chosen Ones
Monster Hunter Nation:
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – Malebag Edition

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: If It’s Just A Symbol, to Hell With It
American Greatness: Oklahoma City School District Hires Drag Queen Elementary School Principal Once Arrested For Possessing Child Porn and Illicit Drugs, also, The Left’s Relentless War on Donald Trump and Everyone Who Disagrees with Them
American Thinker: The Biggest Missed Story of the 21st Century, The Key to Understanding the Global Warming Fraud, and The True Big Lie
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Scottish Rebellion Friday
Babalu Blog: JetBlue abruptly suspends flights to communist Cuba, cites lack of demand, Easy English lessons with Cuba’s sock puppet president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, and Cuba boasts of ‘sustained commitment to human rights for all’ at UN, lobbies for re-election to Human Rights Council
Baldilocks: Conundrum
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for September 1
Behind The Black:  Amazon investors sue company for not considering SpaceX as potential launch provider, Ingenuity completes 56th flight on Mars, LRO spots Luna-25 crash site on Moon, Petrified dunes on Mars?, and Real pushback: School district immediately cancels ban on prayer when threatened with lawsuit
Cafe Hayek: Reality Really Is Really Complex. Really.
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Pintastic NE T-6 Random Video of the Day Project Pinball at Pintastic 2016, also, Indulgence Calendar for September – oh, and Where Does the Church go for THEIR Apology
Don Surber: Mother Africa Didn’t Want You
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: How does a 12-year-old boy go missing for over a week, and nobody noticed?, also, #COVID19: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!”
Gates Of Vienna: Quiz IX: Ten Clues
The Geller Report: ‘ALL CARS ARE BAD’: Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Equity Advisers
Hogewash: The Northern Lights As Seen From Above, also, I Find Your Lack of Face Disturbing
Hollywood In Toto: Late Night Podcast Tops iTunes Chart (But There’s a Catch)
The Lid: Recession Soon? Unemployment Jumps To 3.8 Percent
Legal Insurrection: Riley Gaines Shuts Down Keith Olbermann With Her Swimming Awards, Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘We’ve Expanded the Pathway to Citizenship Under this President’, Florida and Texas Schools Excluded From List of LGBTQ Friendly Colleges, Closure of Three Southern California Power Plants Likely to be Postponed, and Law Profs Claim ‘Insurrection’ Disqualifies Trump in 2024
Nebraska Energy Observer: Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children Get a New Toy
Outkick: Stephen A. Smith, Who Ruined Max Kellerman’s Career, Suggests Skip Bayless Wronged Shannon Sharpe, Shaq Drops 55 Pounds In Lifestyle Change Sparked By Being Unable To Walk Up Stairs, Danny Kanell Buries Deion Sanders For FSU Snub & Coach Prime Loudly Barks Back, ACC Finally Makes Decision On Expansion With Cal, Stanford, SMU: They’re In, The New College GameDay Theme Song Will Make Fans Want To Puke, and OnlyFans Star Allie Rae Soaks Up Minnesota Beating Nebraska, Drops New Content
Power Line: Peter Schweizer, call your office [update: Peter calls in], Beware the IRS, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Mast Urges Congress To Get Spending Under Control
Shot In The Dark: Exit, also, Dubious Motivations
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That Political Correctness Is a Menace and a Bore
This Ain’t Hell: Biden tries to close “Gun Show Loophole”, Valor Friday, Army major charged for sexual abuse, Kabul PUC, The U.S. to send Taiwan military aid normally sent to sovereign countries, and Gabon’s military stages a coup, dissolves parliament and closes borders
Transterrestrial Musings: Republicans Reaching Out To Blacks, John Mellencamp, Treason, and Human Extinction
Victory Girls: Media Bias Extraordinare: McConnell Old, Fetterman Courageous, also, Racist Cars On Racist Roads – Transportation Equity
Volokh Conspiracy: Sixth Circuit Rules Owners of Cars Taken by Asset Forfeiture Have Constitutional Right to a Hearing Within Two Weeks of Seizure
Watts Up With That: Bloomberg Falsely Says Climate Change is Harming Crop Production – Reality Says Otherwise, When Climate Change Really Was an Existential Threat, and Carbon Capture – BUSTED
The Federalist: Retcon Climate Science Blames Humans For Fires 13,000 Years Ago, In Biden’s America, Butchering Viable Babies Is Fine But Protesting Their Murder Is Criminal , Democrats And Republicans Have Been Talking About School Reform For Years While Everything Has Gotten Worse, Here’s 5 Action Items Conservatives Should Focus On To Better Their Communities And Country, EXCLUSIVE: Fani Willis Possesses Evidence Exonerating Georgia’s Alternate Electors, and Wealthy Democrats Aided And Abetted The Biden Border Crisis, Now They’re Whining About It
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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The Death of #MeToo: ‘To Be Fair, It Was Never Actually About Helping Women’

Posted on | September 1, 2023 | Comments Off on The Death of #MeToo: ‘To Be Fair, It Was Never Actually About Helping Women’

The headline quote is Professor Glenn Reynolds’ reaction to a post by Jazz Shaw about how “the #MeToo movement abandoned women.”

The thought occurs to me, “Is Jazz Shaw really so naïve as to believe the liberals were arguing in good faith?” And this in turn reminds me of something I once remarked about Conor Friedersdorf, namely that his basic problem seemed to be insufficient cynicism. If your beginning assumption about politics is that everybody actually believes what they say — if you grant them the benefit of the doubt as regards sincerity and their professed ideals — then you are, to paraphrase W.C. Fields, the kind of sucker who should never get an even break. If it weren’t for the ample supply of fools, however, the Democratic Party would have been out of business long ago, and one of the ways that Democrats keep their scam going is by manfacturing “spontaneous grassroots movements” like #OccupyWallStreet, #BlackLivesMatter and, of course, #MeToo.

Hey, does anyone remember “No Nukes”? Back in the 1980s, this allegedly “grassroots” protest movement emerged as a not-very-well-disguised propaganda campaign by Democrats to hype the idea that Ronald Reagan was a dangerous warmonger who was going to provoke World War III and destroy the world in a nuclear Armageddon. To this day, there are still people who haven’t realized how fundamentally bogus the “No Nukes” movement was, because aging celebrities — Jackson Browne, Don Henley, et al. — don’t want to admit that they were 100% wrong about everything (as liberals generally are).

Excuse that trip down Memory Lane, but my point is that if you pay attention long enough, certain patterns become obvious. Democrats are always trying to figure out ways to mobilize and energize their grassroots “base,” and even if one can point to a genuine organic beginning to any particular “progressive” movement, by the time it makes national headlines, the Democrats are already busy exploiting it as a propaganda operation, and thus you can never assume that the arguments of movement activists are made in sincerity. Always suspect a scam.

When did we know that #MeToo was a fraud? As a thoroughgoing cynic, I figured it was a scam all along, but the conclusive proof of its fraudulence came in early 2020, when Tara Reade attracted attention by accusing Joe Biden of sexual assault. The feminist response included this headline from Monica Hesse of the Washington Post:

‘Believe Women’ was a slogan.
‘Believe All Women’ is a strawman.

Six days later, Susan Faludi echoed the message in the New York Times:

‘Believe All Women’
Is a Right-Wing Trap

In other words, #BelieveWomen, unless a woman makes an accusation that could keep Democrats from winning the White House, in which case, the hashtag will be instantly converted to #ThatBitchIsLying.

The same basic rule applies to every “progressive” movement. The raison d’être of such movements is to promote the interests of the Democratic Party, to help elect Democrats and advance their policy agenda. Whatever “cause” or “ideal” or “principle” any progressive movement may claim to hold dear, will be cast aside without hesitation if, in any way, it should become harmful to Democrats, collectively or individually. You think Democrats really care about women? If so, you are a damned fool.

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: Feminism
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