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Are ‘Higher Standards’ Really to Blame?

Posted on | August 14, 2022 | Comments Off on Are ‘Higher Standards’ Really to Blame?

Who is Kylie Cheung? She writes “about gender, power, and identity at the intersections of culture and politics,” is “currently a staff writer at Jezebel, and . . . previously worked at Salon’s culture desk.” She has a BA in political science from USC, lives in Los Angeles, is the author of A Woman’s Place: Inside the Fight for a Feminist Future (2020), and has a habit of using her social media to express interest in NBA players.

My curiosity was aroused by her Jezebel article:

A new Psychology Today article posits that modern dating’s higher standards for straight men have created more “lonely, single men” than ever — and the psychologist writing the column pretty much says that men need to fix everything about themselves or die alone, which sounds like a fun little choice.
According to author Greg Matos, because men comprise approximately 62% of dating app users, their chances for matches — let alone successful in-person meet-ups and eventual relationships — are dramatically lower out of the gate. Further, he writes, “dating opportunities for heterosexual men are diminishing as healthy relationship standards increase.” Ouch! The article also cites a recent Pew Research study that found men are now “more likely than women to be unpartnered, which wasn’t the case 30 years ago.”
Matos says he regularly holds roundtable-like discussions with women ages 25 to 45, and hears that they “prefer men who are emotionally available, good communicators, and share similar values.” Somehow, these aren’t exactly fitting descriptors for many single straight men out there. But unless they work on themselves, perhaps seeking out “some individual therapy,” straight women are increasingly better positioned to have their pick of other suitors who actually meet their standards.

Note the gloating tone in Cheung’s recounting of this “research.” She clearly takes pleasure in the suffering of “lonely, single men,” and I’ll leave it to others to deduce why she derives sadistic satisfaction from this, as my own suspicions are perhaps obvious enough. Did I mention that she thinks it’s clever to be ostentatiously “thirsting” over NBA players on her social media? On her Instagram profile, she mockingly calls herself “trad housewife to @jharden13,” i.e., NBA All-Star James Harden of the Philadelphia 76ers, who is a 6-foot-5 multimillionaire. How are we to interpret the available evidence about Kylie Cheung’s vision of the “feminist future”? But I digress . . .

The same Psychology Today article that Miss Cheung referenced was linked by Professor Glenn Reynolds, who observed:

[O]ne of the takeaways here is that men need to raise their game. This may in fact be true, but if the article were about lonely single women, the takeaway would be that . . . men need to raise their game. Because rule number one in articles about dating and relationships is that men are always the problem.

Exactly. Women are held blameless for their romantic troubles, which is why there are still “feminists” defending that crazy bitch Amber Heard.

Indulge me in another digression: One may be entirely sympathetic to victims of domestic abuse while, at the same time, recognizing Amber Heard as a certain type of woman who specializes in wrecking the life of any man foolish enough to fall in love with her. When a woman is so physically attractive, most men are apt to overlook the signs that she’s a destructive psychopath, in the Danger Zone of the “Hot/Crazy Matrix.”

Amber Heard is selfish, dishonest and cruel, and is shrewd enough to manipulate the gullible “feminists” who want to view her as a heroic victim, a symbolic martyr to “misogyny” — in quite the same way as she manipulated Johnny Depp into seeing her as “wife material,” a mistake that poor fool must eternally regret. Meanwhile . . .

Exactly what does psychologist Greg Matos say about these “lonely, single men”? He identifies “three broad trends in the relationship landscape that suggest heterosexual men are in for a rough road ahead”:

Dating Apps. Whether you’re just starting to date or you’re recently divorced and dating again, dating apps are a huge driver of new romantic connections in the United States. The only problem is that upwards of 62% of users are men and many women are overwhelmed with how many options they have. Competition in online dating is fierce, and lucky in-person chance encounters with dreamy partners are rarer than ever.
Relationship Standards. With so many options, it’s not surprising that women are increasingly selective. I do a live TikTok show (@abetterloveproject) and speak with hundreds of audience members every week; I hear recurring dating themes from women between the ages of 25 and 45: They prefer men who are emotionally available, good communicators, and share similar values.
Skills Deficits. For men, this means a relationship skills gap that, if not addressed, will likely lead to fewer dating opportunities, less patience for poor communication skills, and longer periods of being single. The problem for men is that emotional connection is the lifeblood of healthy, long-term love. Emotional connection requires all the skills that families are still not consistently teaching their young boys.

Count me as skeptical about everything here except the toxic influence of dating apps which, as regular readers know, I have consistently urged people to avoid: Online dating is for losers. The mere fact that you’re on a dating app conveys a negative message, i.e., you are someone who can’t get a date with anyone who actually knows you in real life. One of the clichés of recent feminist writing is young women complaining about the low quality of men they meet on Tinder, to which I reply: “Well, duh.” If a guy really had his act together — if his career were on the upswing, his wardrobe stylish, his manners sophisticated and his physique honed by rigorous exercise — why on earth would he need to be on a dating app? Every single woman he met would view him as a “catch,” and in all probability, he’d already be in a committed relationship anyway (because smart guys who’ve got their act together usually prefer it that way).

This is where selection effects must be understood — men trolling for dates on Tinder are not representative of all men. They are a distinct category whose decision to use this technology separates them, as a class, from the much larger category of men who don’t use dating apps. To make general statements about all men on the basis of the behaviors of men who use dating apps is logically invalid and, I would argue, contributes to the overwhelmingly negative attitudes toward men exhibited by young women who use dating apps. Whenever you encounter someone complaining about the low quality of their choices in the dating market, your first response should be to ask the obvious question: “Why are you in the dating market?” That is to say, why didn’t any of your previous relationships become permanent?

Many times I have remarked that, past a certain age (probably about 25, but perhaps even younger) your dating experience is like picking through the clearance bins in the discount store — not a lot of premium choices, and most of the available merchandise is clearly damaged. Attractive, successful people tend to form enduring relationships at a young age, to marry their high school or college sweetheart and, because they are obviously “catches,” their partners tend to hang on to them. If, by some chance, they go through a breakup, they’re not going to be in the dating market very long. So if you’re still “out there” looking for love past your mid-20s, nearly all of the available choices will be flawed or damaged in some way, and guess what? The fact that you are still “out there” means that you’re flawed or damaged, too. You must in some way be substandard, or else you’d already be in a relationship.

Am I being too judgmental here? Not at all. This is the objective truth — if you were really all that and a stack of pancakes, you wouldn’t be single, trolling for action on Tinder, and the sooner you accept the reality of your situation, the better off you’ll be. Nothing is more pathetic than a lonely desperate loser who thinks there’s nothing wrong with him, but instead rationalizes his lack of companionship by blaming women. You’re on the verge of becoming the next Elliot Rodger, pal, so stop acting like you don’t have a problem — and the same goes for all those single women who think there’s nothing wrong with them, but instead blame their loneliness on the failures of men. Which is why I raise a skeptical eyebrow toward the claim by Matos that higher “relationship standards” explain the problems facing single men in the 21st century.

Is it true that “women are increasingly selective”? Perhaps so. But does it follow from this that men who are unable to find partners are failing because they don’t meet the preference of women for “men who are emotionally available, good communicators, and share similar values”? To prove this, you would have to show me evidence that men who are romantically successful are more “emotionally available,” etc., in comparison to the losers who never get a “swipe right” on Tinder.

Of course, that’s not how women actually judge men on Tinder (or anywhere else, for that matter). Despite his alleged expertise as a professional psychologist, Greg Matos has made the amateur error of assuming that what women say they value most in a man is the same thing as what they actually do value most. You will never understand women until you learn to watch what they do, not what they say.

Ceteris parabus, women prefer men who are:

1. Tall;
2. Athletic;
and
3. Financially successful.

Not necessarily in that order, but being tall certainly counts a lot. Women who talk endlessly about how much they value personality traits (“emotionally available,” blah blah blah) will become as giddy as schoolgirls the minute a guy who is 6-foot-2 walks in the room. Are women less superficial than men? I think so, because how else to explain why any man would go near a wicked bitch like Amber Heard? She’s blonde, she’s pretty and therefore, no matter how evil she is, there is no shortage of men who will fall into her trap. But being less superficial than a man, in terms of judging potential partners on the basis of looks, doesn’t mean that women aren’t also superficial in their own way.

When I say that women prefer “athletic” men, I don’t necessarily mean the guy who played varsity sports in school, but rather refer to his general physique. The guy with muscular shoulders and a lean waist always has the advantage, which is why any young guy with half a brain is hitting the gym regularly. If what Greg Matos meant, in saying that “women are increasingly selective” in the 21st century, is that they have higher expectations of physical fitness, then I would heartily agree. The media have turned the Cult of Washboard Abs into a mainstream phenomenon among young women, many of whom wouldn’t look twice at any guy who doesn’t have the lean, muscular physique of an NFL cornerback.

By the way, what do you suppose Kylie Cheung intends to signify by her ostentatious fangirling of NBA stars? What message is she sending? Would it be a mistake to interpret this as Kylie telling normal guys, “Don’t waste your time, chump”? Like, don’t even think about sliding into her DMs. Unless you’re tall and athletic, she’s not interested.

If that is not the message Miss Cheung intends to convey, then perhaps she ought to reconsider her social-media habits, because I think most other men scrolling through her Twitter feed would draw the same conclusion that I did: She is only interested in tall, athletic men.

To wander off into another digression, my advice to young men is this: Strive to make your online presence as opaque as possible.

That is to say, limit your posts on Twitter, Instagram, etc., to very banal and inoffensive content that (a) puts you in a generally favorable light, but (b) without revealing anything deeper about you: “Here’s a picture of me with my family at Thanksgiving. Here’s a picture of me with my diploma at college graduation,” etc. Never say anything political on social media, nor express any opinion more controversial than, say, disappointment with your favorite sports team’s failure to make the playoffs. Try to make yourself a social-media tabula rasa, a mystery, an enigma. What you should seek is to minimize any negative consequences of your social-media presence, and in offering that advice, I digress only slightly from my main theme because DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN what does Kylie Cheung think she’s doing on Instagram?

If her goal in life is to be permanently alone, her social-media message is perfect, because I can’t imagine any guy wanting to get with a girl whose Instagram page is so crammed full of Controversial Feminist Hot Takes, interspersed with Gaze-Upon-My-Half-Naked-Body Selfies. Honestly, Miss Cheung, has your mother seen your account? If so, is she more or less resigned to the fact she’ll never have grandchildren?

That a woman would deport herself online in this manner, while simultaneously gloating about “lonely, single men” who “need to fix everything about themselves or die alone,” displays a lack of self-awareness that is truly astonishing. But this just shows what Professor Reynolds said, i.e., “rule number one in articles about dating and relationships is that men are always the problem.” No matter how hopeless a basket case a woman may be — and Kylie Cheung is a complete mess — she is nevertheless assumed to possess an unquestioned authority to expound upon what’s wrong with men.

Is it necessary to explain why Greg Matos is wrong to think that men can improve their dating lives by listening to what women say about the importance of being “emotionally available,” blah blah blah? Does anyone really believe Kylie Cheung is drooling over NBA All-Stars because they’re so “emotionally available”? Nonsense, and this blather offers nothing to guys who can’t score a match on Tinder, where the “swipe right” reflex has zero to do with anything except a woman’s instantaneous (and entirely superficial) reaction to a man’s profile photo.

“On July 8, 2017, [James] Harden signed a four-year contract extension with the Rockets for approximately $160 million, giving him a total six-year deal with $228 million guaranteed — the richest contract in NBA history.” Probably because he’s so “emotionally available,” am I right?




 

Category: Feminism

NY State Police Mystified by Motive of Muslim Who Stabbed Salman Rushdie

Posted on | August 14, 2022 | Comments Off on NY State Police Mystified by Motive of Muslim Who Stabbed Salman Rushdie

The victim has been under an Iranian fatwa since 1989, but state police in New York don’t want to rush to conclusions:

Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.
A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose.
Police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey. He was arrested at the scene and was awaiting arraignment. Matar was born a decade after “The Satanic Verses” was published. The motive for the attack was unclear, State Police Maj. Eugene Staniszewski said.

Are you f***ing kidding me with this? The New York Post:

Law enforcement sources told The Post that an initial investigation suggests Matar has made social media posts in support of Iran and its Revolutionary Guard, and in support of Shi’a extremism more broadly.

Where was Hadi Matar born? Where is his family from? Can we please stop pretending that he’s just a random “New Jersey man”?




 

Category: Crime, Islam, Terrorism

The Tragedy of Anne Heche

Posted on | August 13, 2022 | Comments Off on The Tragedy of Anne Heche

“Homophobia was rampant in the mid-’90s, with a 1996 Gallup poll finding just 27% of Americans approved of same-sex marriage.”
— New York Post

Of course, we are expected not to consider the possibility that the 27% were wrong, nor to question the possibility that Anne Heche was anything other than a victim of “homophobia.” One could recite a long list of heterosexual actors who wrecked their careers through bad personal choices — many of whom died of drug overdoses or other not-entirely-accidental causes at much younger ages than Anne Heche did.

Heche was something of a rising star when she hooked up with Ellen DeGeneres at a Vanity Fair Oscar party in 1997. Heche, then 28 and more than a decade younger than DeGeneres, claimed she had never before been involved with a woman before. Her relationship with DeGeneres lasted less than three years and, while it didn’t exactly end Heche’s career — she continued acting in movies and television up until her death — certainly it dimmed her star power in Hollywood:

“It changed my life forever,” Heche admitted to Page Six in 2020. “The stigma attached to that relationship was so bad … I didn’t do a studio picture for 10 years. I was fired from a $10 million picture deal.”

Oh, it was the “stigma” that did the damage, was it? Never mind what the people who buy movie tickets think — “Damn those homophobes!” — and never mind, of course, that Heche’s status as “bisexual” seemed rather transient. She left DeGeneres for a man, and then left him for another man, and if she ever had any further involvement in what the media call “the LGBTQ community,” she never mentioned it publicly.

Toxicology reportedly found cocaine and fentanyl in her blood after she rammed her car into a home in L.A. in the middle of the afternoon last week, and she died after being removed from life support Friday.

Just for the record, I don’t approve of cocaine or fentanyl, either, and if any dopeheads feel stigmatized because of my disapproval, tough luck.




 

Category: Celebrities

It Started With Darwinism

Posted on | August 13, 2022 | Comments Off on It Started With Darwinism

About 25 years ago, I read Phillip E. Johnson’s Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education. A law professor at Berkeley, Johnson was also the author of Darwin on Trial, and once remarked, “Something about the Darwinists’ rhetorical style made me think they had something to hide.” This is something any intelligent person must eventually notice. The advocates of coincidence as the explanation of everything become rather skittish when confronted by the most obvious arguments against their theory, and tend to resort to name-calling and censorship to discredit or silence their critics.

The debates prompted by the work of Johnson, William A. Dembski, Michael Behe and other proponents of “Intelligent Design” theory have largely ended for the simple reason that the Darwinists stopped debating, and effectively prohibited dissenters from being employed in academia. The arguments against Darwinism made by Johnson and others were not refuted, but rather were suppressed. And I bring this up because the tactics used to defend Darwinism have now become commonplace.

Those who disagree with the preferred liberal narrative about anything are now accused of promoting “misinformation,” and debate about public policy is increasingly one-sided because the media (including social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook) seek to silence anyone who opposes or criticizes the preferred liberal narrative.

Over the years, we have seen this method used to suppress dissent over “climate change,” transgenderism, COVID-19 and now, elections:

Like most other popular social media sites, the Powers That Be at Twitter possess grossly inflated opinions of themselves, especially as it relates to what they feel is their supposed “duty” to keep their platform as free from so-called “disinformation” as they possibly can, most notably in election years.
“Twitter plays a critical role in empowering democratic conversations, facilitating meaningful political debate, and providing information on civic participation – not only in the US, but around the world. People deserve to trust the election conversations and content they encounter on Twitter,” the company proclaimed Thursday.
In reality, what they’re doing behind the scenes when they think no one is paying attention is acting as information gatekeepers for Democrats by way of penalizing conservative accounts for WrongThink and for daring to publish or promote unflattering stories and/or asking uncomfortable questions about candidates for higher office along with other high-profile public figures who have the potential to influence public policy.
One of the more notorious examples of this tactic in action was in their deliberate suppression of the New York Post’s blockbuster Hunter Biden laptop emails story in October 2020, just a few weeks out from the presidential election. Not only did they lock down the Post’s main Twitter account for about two weeks, but they also suppressed the story when other Twitter users attempted to share it, something Facebook admitted to doing as well.
Here we are nearly two years later, and Twitter has officially announced yet again in so many words that they are answering Joe Biden’s “special appeal” from January and are, in a nutshell, getting ready to start trying to stack the deck against Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterm elections:

Don’t dare say “Orwell” — that’s WrongThink! Anyone who suspects the “Civic Integrity Policy” to be a pretext for acting as Democratic Party enforcers is obviously in violation of the policy, and Twitter’s secret police have given themselves carte blanche to “take action.”

Let us not pretend that Twitter’s action is non-partisan, nor that the suppression of Intelligent Design was a politically neutral action. We ought to acknowledge that our opponents know what they’re doing, and credit them with using every weapon in their arsenal to achieve political hegemony. These things do not happen by coincidence, you see — their actions have meaning and purpose, and are part of an overall plan. Yet we will be told that election results are just part of a natural progression, an impersonal trend beyond the control of any individual.

Perhaps the analogy here is obvious enough that it is redundant for me to point it out, but I will anyway. Darwinists expect us to believe in trends in the universe, where everything is just a series of random coincidences, leading to the conclusion that human life is without meaning or purpose. Your beliefs and behaviors have no moral value, and your life is without significance — you are a statistic, part of the nameless “masses,” just another sheep in the herd. If anyone points out that such a belief system has logical consequences (which is the point Johnson makes in Reason in the Balance), your atheistic antagonist will quickly deny that these consequences are intentional, and you’re a “conspiracy theorist” for suspecting otherwise. Do you see what Johnson meant in saying that the rhetorical style of Darwinists led him to the suspect that they were less than honest? If you suspect their godless theory is merely an instrument for destroying the moral order of society, you are certainly not alone.




 

Category: Science

In The Mailbox: 08.12.22

Posted on | August 13, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.12.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Continuing “Let’s Poop On The FBI” week

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Public Schools & Failure
EBL: So now the speculation is the FBI was searching for secret nuclear military codes in Trump’s mementos, also, Jeffrey Toobin, You’re Fired
Twitchy: Leftists Who Taunted Trump “rElEaSe tHe wArRaNt” Freak Out When He Does, also, Kimberly Strassel Tells AG Garland “We Have Every Right To Be Skeptical” Of The DOJ & FBI
Louder With Crowder: “If I didn’t have my firearm, I wouldn’t be here”, also, CEO lays off a bunch of people, emotes on LinkedIn with a crying selfie so you feel bad for him
Vox Popoli: The Depopulationist Rationale, The TWA 800 Coverup, and Everyone’s Got Trolls
According To Hoyt: When The Masquerade Breaks, Taming The Black Dog, and The Limits Of History
Monster Hunter Nation: It’s been a crazy week, – In Defense of the 2nd Amendment, WriterDojo S3 Ep5: Nonfiction, and Correia’s Law of Internet Arguing
Stoic Observations: Implicit Assumptions About Subconscious Bias

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: ‘I Have Never Seen Such Idiots!’
American Greatness: ND School Board Drops Pledge of Allegiance over Inclusion of ‘Under God’, also, FBI Search Warrant Shows Trump Under Investigation for Espionage Act Violations; Raid Was Not ‘Narrowly Scoped’
American Power: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked During Speech in Chautauqua, New York: ‘Multiple Stab Wounds’, also, The Payback for Mar-a-Lago Will Be Brutal
American Thinker: When are Biden Voters Going to Get Angry?, also, A Democrat President Again Wastes Taxpayer Money On Useless Renewables
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Rising Sun Friday
Babalu Blog: Shocking video shows Cuban firefighters being sent to their deaths, Cuba’s fake president laughs while Cuba burns, Reports from Cuba: In the midst of blackouts, luxury hotel without customers illuminates Havana, and Dengue epidemic intensifies in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Taking A Sick Day; Also, Salman Rushdie Stabbed
Behind The Black: Another and this time longer static fire tests for Superheavy prototype #7, Pushback: Blacklisted doctors join lawsuit against Biden administration COVID censorship, and SpaceX launches 46 more Starlink satellites
Cafe Hayek: “Comparative advantage vs. China”, Talk About Labor-Market Power Continues to Be Cheap, and On Smith’s Use in The Wealth of Nations of “Invisible Hand”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Humor and Seriousness
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Sports Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: What you have to swallow to be a Never Trumper, also, They have driven themselves crazy
First Street Journal: Does Mark Bailey think that getting raped is really not all that bad?, Killadelphia, and “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Gates Of Vienna: Blockading North Africa to Protect Italy, Under the Shadow of the Nuremberg Noose?, An End to Masking and the Mandatory Vax in Costa Rica, and Vaxed and Damaged
The Geller Report: Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of death threats after writing critically about Islam, has been STABBED in the neck during an appearance in New York
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Web of Orbits Around an Asteroid, See, I Told You, and A Cloudscape in the Orion Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: Canceled Star Clifton Duncan: No Regrets for Refusing Vaccination
The Lid: Ilhan Omar’s Career Almost Ended In Shocking Fashion This Week
Legal Insurrection: Greenland Now Targeted by Billionaires for Rare Earth Mineral Mining Development, The Ideology of ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ is Ruining Education, NYT’s Middle East Contributor Praised Hitler, Urged Terror Attacks Against Jews on Social Media, and The Democrats Vote to Raise Taxes, Possibility of More IRS Audits on the Middle Class
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fallout and More
Outkick: Padres Slugger Fernando Tatis Jr. Suspended By Major League Baseball For PEDs, Jimmy Garoppolo Went Dark After Scoring $137.5 Million Deal, Kevin Costner And The MLB Honor Ray Liotta With Emotional Tribute During The Field Of Dreams Game, and Deion Sanders Lays Into Jackson State Staffers, Says They Lack Commitment
Power Line: Code Red for the Deep State?, Another FBI Scandal?, and The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition (16)
Shark Tank: Christina Pushaw Resigns – Will Join DeSantis Re-Election Campaign
Shot In The Dark: Pouncing – Minneapolis Geography Edition, Silly Peasants, and Just Like They Say, Nothing Good Ever Lasts 
STUMP: One Bad Year? Comparing the Long-Term Public Pension Fund Returns Against Assumptions
The Political Hat: The State Of So-Called Social Science, also, How Radical Transgender Ideology Works
This Ain’t Hell: Deleted IRS job posting seeks candidates willing to “use deadly force”, Acquittal in NH Marines motorcycle crash deaths, Valor Friday, and The Gadsden flag is a dangerous and extremist “right wing” symbol according to NPR
Transterrestrial Musings: The Moral Norms Of Tomorrow, Vaccines For Children, and Ignition
Victory Girls: Our Government Leaders Are Killing Us, also, Boston Children’s Hospital And Trans Surgery For Kids
Volokh Conspiracy: Court: “A Retweet Is Not Necessarily an Endorsement”
Watts Up With That: Peter Ridd on Great Barrier Reef Recovery: Technical Details of Coral Cover Statistics, and Background
Weasel Zippers: Biden Claims “Zero Inflation” Despite 8.5% Rate, Mole In Mar-A-Lago Is Likely Longtime Staffer Who Relocated To Mar-A-Lago With Trump Family, and Dem Sen. Ed Markey: No Reason To Pay For Gas — Just Buy An Electric Vehicle
The Federalist: Here’s What Mindy Kaling Gets Wrong In Her Plea For College Girls To Freeze Their Eggs, Merrick Garland Doesn’t Care About The Rule Of Law. Just Ask Hunter Biden, GOP Needs To Get Rid Of McConnell, Not Trump, and The 2024 Election Is Being Rigged Right Now In Plain Sight
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Friday August 12th, also, Waiting Patiently

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Category: Linkagery

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

You may have forgotten Nicholas John Roske, or perhaps you never knew the name of the 26-year-old California man arrested for his failed plan to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. I hadn’t paid much attention myself until I saw a “Dispatches From Weimar America” item by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, linking to this bizarre headline:

Brett Kavanaugh assassination suspect said
he was a ‘sissy slave’ and ‘trans gamer girl’
named ‘Sophie’ in online posts, asked how
to ‘take out’ high-value targets: Report

What the hell did I just read? Sure, Democrats are all about “inclusion” and “diversity,” but where does this fit in the LGBTQ coalition? Is there something in the Democratic Party platform supporting the rights of “trans sissy slaves”? What is the Justice Department policy on this? How many “trans sissy slaves” are working in the White House?

Mia Cathell reports at Townhall:

New federal court filings reveal troubling information hidden in plain sight about 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske, the defendant identified as a “California man” by the Justice Department and charged in the Kavanaugh assassination plot, leading to a cache of perverse Reddit and Discord activity that pieces together the suspect’s apparent motive, gender identity, and unstable mental state. . . .
In this particular high-profile attempted murder case, an FBI special agent identified several Reddit accounts Roske operated in recent years — one of which the suspect used to embrace his transexual “femme” and submissive “sissy slave” persona, according to the search warrant applications filed in federal court.
Behind the Reddit username “AmericanNick,” Roske posted a series of “Craigslist personals” section-style wanted ads. A year ago, Roske penned a “[F4F]” (meaning female-for-female) Reddit post on the “r/GamerPals” subreddit, titled “Trans Gamer Girl Seeking Friend,” with the tag “GIRLS ONLY.” There, in the same forum, the suspect had introduced himself as his female alter-ego via another Reddit post: “Hi my name is Sophie.”
In a separate Reddit community created for Redditors in search of connecting with others in the Seattle area, Roske sought a female “Cuddle/Movie Buddy” as an “MtF [male-to-female]” college graduate “looking for a woman to cuddle and watch movies with.” Roske wrote in the post’s contents: “If this turns into making out, etc that’s cool, if not that’s cool too.” The suspect, listing himself as a “Trans Girl” in the city’s University District, struck a more erotic tone with his approach in another Reddit post soliciting “Another Girl for Play/Friendship” on a recurring basis. Roske, then 25, divulged that he has “many kinks and only a few limits” but would “enjoy some vanilla time” as well. “I have done a lot of research and have some experience being both a sub and a domme,” Roske typed. He was scouting for “play partners” in The Rainy City as someone who’s “pretty kinky” with “an ever expanding collection of toys and tools.” Roske proclaimed that he is sexually attracted to anyone “androgynous or feminine” who’s not “a cis[gender] man” and uses “she/her” pronouns.
Those are just the PG posts. Roske has frequented the fetish subreddit “r/SissyPersonals,” an X-rated “place for sissys and daddys to meet.” In an explicit Reddit post, Roske desired one such “Daddy to Have Complete Sexual Control Over Me.” Specifically, the suspect wanted to be told “how long I have to be in chastity for and what I am allowed to do when you let me out” along with tasks to do while “locked up,” whether this be the “number of times I have to edge myself, time riding a dildo, watching porn, all three or more!” Roske asked Redditors to private message “if you want me as your sexual toy to frustrate, humiliate, and control.”

Just your typical young Joe Biden voter — one who was so upset about “abortion rights” that he (or “she”) wanted to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. And what’s the moral of this story?

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.11.22

Posted on | August 12, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.11.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Coming soon? Or already here?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NPR Vs. Single Mom & Gun Owner
EBL: Las Vegas Smoke Shop Owner Defends Himself From Robbery, also, Leave The Monkey Alone! [But Peter Gabriel says differently.]
Twitchy: The Memo Went Out, also, Matt Yglesias Takes On Noam Blum Over Biden’s “0% Inflation” Claim, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Watch: Kari Lake calls for the complete disbanding of the FBI
Vox Popoli: Hypergamouse is Real, The Rules of Trolling, and Depopulation Vectors

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American Conservative: Family Breakdown and the Ohio Abortion Story
American Greatness: For the Rule of Law to Reign, the Bureau Must Be Destroyed, also, Trump-Endorsed Joe Kent Defeats Pro-Impeachment Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in Primary
American Power: Attorney General Merrick Garland Approved Decision to Seek Search Warrant for Mar-a-Lago
American Thinker:  The Lockdowns and Mandates Emboldened the Ruling Class and Led to the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, also, The Federal Government Refuses to Listen
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Banana Republic News
Babalu Blog: As worst fire in Cuban history rages, buildings collapse in Havana (part two), ‘Patria y Vida’: Fighting communist oppression in Cuba with song, and An apparition appears in the smoke rising from a burning Cuba
BattleSwarm: Russians Fleeing Crimea
Behind The Black: SpaceX gets FCC communications license for Starship orbital launch, ISRO successfully tests engines for Gaganyaan manned launch abort system, and A union official’s opinion of blacklisting: “I am all about targeted assassinations.”
Cafe Hayek: On Smith and Marx
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Things Missing – Supply Chain and Groceries, also, The Raid on Mar-a-Lago
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy’s Spontaneous Podcast, also, The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago can be an effective rallying cry if we’re intelligent about it
Don Surber: Trump 180, Liz 20, also, How to end the FBI
First Street Journal: When it comes to #VaccineMandates the maintenance of dictatorial power is far more important than the effectiveness of the vaccines!, also, Several previously convicted sex offenders arrested in Lexington for parole violations
Gates Of Vienna: “Youths” Get Rambunctious in Saint-Denis, When Lobbyists Rule, The Year is 2030, and Dare to be Stupid
The Geller Report: Trump-Backed Candidates Sweep Board Day After FBI Raids Mar-A-Lago, PV Undercover: Sen. Lisa Murkowski Secret Support of Ranked Voting EXPOSED, and Mar-a-Lago Security Cameras Captured FBI Agents Behaving Improperly
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Found a PeVatron
Hollywood In Toto: National Lampoon Squeezes IP for NFTs After Woke Podcast Bust, Emily the Criminal Plays Victimhood Violin, and Biden’s Biggest Failure Getting HBO Closeup with Escape from Kabul
The Lid: Poll: Most Americans Worried About Biden’s Mental Health
Legal Insurrection: Remember How They Suppressed Hunter’s Laptop Story? Twitter Announces Midterms Crackdown On “Misleading” Election Claims, Study Finds Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Haven’t Improved Graduation Rates for Students of Color, and Biden Admin Keeps Contradicting Itself on Targets of the New IRS Audits
Nebraska Energy Observer: I know. I know.
Outkick: Antonio Brown Speaks In Third Person, Compares Himself To Jesus In Wild Statement, John Calipari: Kentucky Is A Basketball School; Football Coach Mark Stoops Responds, Field Of Dreams Game Sparks Harry Caray Hologram Rumor, and 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan Irked By Pointless NFL Hat Rule
Power Line: Trump From Here: “A Nation in Decline”, What were once raids are now searches, and Britain Goes Into Shutdown Mode
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces Five-Year Temporary Teaching Certificate For Veterans 
Shot In The Dark: Our Betters Know It, also, Prominent By Its Absence
STUMP: Meep’s Data Visualization Evolution: Tile Grid Maps
The Political Hat: The Perpetual Woke Revision Of The Newspeak Dictionary
This Ain’t Hell: Units to lose Confederate battle streamers, Space Force wants wearable fitness trackers. What could go wrong?, and SCOTUS to hear Affirmative Action Cases against Harvard, UNC
Transterrestrial Musings: The Ukrainian Counteroffensive, The “Climate Emergency”, and My Space Podcast
Victory Girls: Judge Reinhart Recused Self from Trump-Clinton Suit, also, Garland Personally Ok’d Warrant, Whines About Attacks On DOJ “Integrity”
Volokh Conspiracy: FIRE Challenges College Removal of Posters Criticizing “Leftist Ideas,” Restriction of Anti-Abortion Flyers
Watts Up With That:  Why Red Meat Negative Health Claims are False, also, WSJ and Lomborg show just how useless the “Inflation Reduction Act” is at tackling climate
Weasel Zippers: MAGA-World Most Determined To Vote In 2022/2024 Since FBI Raid, Good News? Everything But Gas Is Still Massively More Expensive, and Poll: 60% Of Latino Voters Say The Country Is On The Wrong Track
The Federalist: Christian Nationalism Is Biblical And America-First, But It’s Not White, What The Ukraine War Revealed About The World’s Fragile Food Supply Chains, Democratic Operatives Control Voter Rolls In 31 States, Report Shows, and Missouri AG Sends Letter To IRS Demanding Army Of New Agents Back Off
Mark Steyn: Cracks in the Groupthink, Obama’s Third Term, and Chinese Water Torture

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The Hazards of Army Life

Posted on | August 11, 2022 | Comments Off on The Hazards of Army Life

My Army son, now a sergeant first class, recently transferred to Alaska, where he’s part of the new 11th Airborne Division. Besides leading a platoon in the “Arctic Angels,” my son’s also enjoying the Alaska wildlife, catching gigantic salmon at Willow Creek. While his new assignment has been pleasant so far, he called last night to talk to my wife about what happened this week at his previous assignment, Camp Merrill near Dahlonega, Georgia. That’s where he served as a training sergeant for Mountain Phase of Army Ranger School. Two trainees, 2nd Lt. Evan Fitzgibbon and Staff Sgt. George Taber, were killed when a tree fell on a group of five soldiers in a “weather-related incident” Tuesday.

2nd Lt. Evan Fitzgibbon; Staff Sgt. George Taber

This was such a freak accident — a tree blown down during a sudden storm up on Yonah Mountain — that it’s probably unprecedented, and yet there are two soldiers dead, and another seriously injured, as a result. Training-related deaths are not an insignificant risk in a hazardous occupation. Last year, the Army lost 20 troops in training accidents, down from 24 in 2020. The two soldiers killed in Tuesday’s incident were obviously excellent troops, or they wouldn’t have been in Ranger School. Both of them were from Florida. Taber was a five-year veteran from Glen St. Mary who served as a Special Forces medic, while Fitzgibbon was a West Point alumnus from Winter Garden. And while of course their deaths are mourned most deeply by their family and friends, the entire nation has suffered a loss. In case you weren’t aware, the military has been suffering a recruiting crisis the past year, and the Army could ill afford to lose two top-quality men like this. For our family, of course, such a loss hit rather too close to home, and makes us conscious of what risks attend our son’s service. Pray for our troops.




 

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