Mauricio Garcia, Incel
Posted on | May 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Mauricio Garcia, Incel

When I wrote about the Allen outlet mall shooting yesterday, I noted that different mug shots of gunman were circulating via Twitter, but I wasn’t sure they were authentic. Turns out my doubts were justified. Somebody pointed out that the birthdate didn’t match, and so the Mauricio Garcia whose photo went viral Sunday was not the outlet mall shooter. The photo at top is the shooter, and it comes from a Russian-based website where Mauricio Garcia posted frequently. Jessica McBride at Heavy.com has all the details, including the fact that Garcia was an “incel” who admired Elliot Rodger. Of course, he also posted neo-Nazi stuff, which everyone in the mainstream media is feasting on, without evidently pausing to think: “What does that have to do with shooting people at a shopping mall?” If Garcia had attacked a synagogue, OK, yeah, we could see the neo-Nazi thing as an obvious motive, but just randomly shooting people at the mall? What’s so neo-Nazi about that?
And, of course, there’s the fact that Mauricio Garcia doesn’t exactly look like Heinrich Himmler’s ideal Aryan ubermensch. Garcia was a “white supremacist” in the same sense that Dylan Mulvaney is a “woman.” That is to say, it’s an identity chosen in the manner of someone choosing a cosplay character, or stealing someone else’s profile photo for a “catfishing” scheme, and so far I’ve seen zero evidence that Garcia ever engaged in any IRL association with other “white supremacists.” It was part of an online persona with no real-life relevance. What was much more relevant was that he was a chronically underemployed 30-something loser staying in a Budget Inn after he apparently got kicked out of his parents’ house, with no known friends, no romantic prospects and nothing better to do with his time than to plot an entirely senseless mass murder spree. Crazy People Are Dangerous.
‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden Corruption?
Posted on | May 8, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden Corruption?

Generally speaking, I don’t hold my breath waiting for some scandal to gain enough traction to bring down a Democrat, because the mainstream media are so biased in terms of what constitutes a “scandal” that Democrats are nearly bulletproof in this regard. Nevertheless, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) seems very confident that he’s now got ironclad proof that the Biden family were running a pay-for-play influence-peddling scheme:
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) joined Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
During the interview, Rep. Comer announced that he will hold a press conference on Wednesday with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Comer said he will disclose specific Biden family bank records in a press conference on Wednesday which could indicate alleged bribery from foreign adversaries.
“Senator Grassley and I received a tip on a whistleblower. Senator Grassley was the lead in this. We reviewed documents from the legally protected whistleblower, a highly credible whistleblower that would implicate Joe Biden in a pay-per-play scheme in trying to set up a deal to receive funds [for him] and his family in exchange for foreign policy decisions,” Comer told Bartiromo.
“Now that fits a pattern Maria, of what we’ve seen with these bank records. And on Wednesday we’re going to present to the American people all the information that we’ve received thus far pertaining to bank records. We’re going to disclose many of the different LLCs, many of the different transactions that all these different biden family members have gotten from our adversaries around the world.”
“Now, we don’t believe this was just a coincidence, that all these biden family members were receiving money from this web of LLCs into their personal bank account. We believe this was done in exchange for something that then vice president Biden and now President Biden would have done. So this whistleblower is going to provide some very crucial information to our investigation, and we’ve given the FBI until May 10th to produce this document,” Comer added. . . .
Rep. Comer sent a message to the DOJ during the interview, not to indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday.
“My message to the Department of Justice is very loud and clear,” said Comer. “Do not indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday when you had the opportunity to see the evidence that the House Oversight Committee will produce with respect to the web of LLCs, with respect to the number of adversarial countries that this family influence peddled in. This is not just about the President’s son. This is about the entire Biden family, including the president of the United States.”
This may just be too much for the mainstream media to ignore.
? A very credible whistleblower has provided info to Congress.
I will press forward in my @GOPoversight investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling to determine if @POTUS is compromised.
I intend to provide the American people more facts this week. @MariaBartiromo pic.twitter.com/2F2ntRiNgz
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) May 7, 2023
Rule 5 Sunday: Late Night With Bri Teresi
Posted on | May 8, 2023 | 2 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Model and influencer Bri Teresi picked up her fifteen minutes of fame late last month by emulating Kid Rock and going full auto on several cases of Bud Light, Tampax tampons, and Honey Birdette lingerie after those brands decided to make their appeal more selective by hiring troons as spokes”women”. Here we see Bri in cowgirl drag, thanks to the UK Sun.
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NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2069, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Global Currency Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.
EBL: Kentucky Derby Day, MAGA – Coronation Weekend, Lorde, The Coronation of Queen Sheena, Cinco de Mayo, May The 4th Be With You, The Windsors, Hilary Crowder, Jennie Kim, Kingston Trio, Cam, Black Widow Evelyn Dick, and Boudicca Sunday
A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: A Big Legged Woman – Theresia Fischer, Fish Pic Friday – Fishin Mama, How to Fish and Make Money, Thursday Tattoos, It’s On!, The Wednesday Wetness, Queen of the World, Chesapeake Bay’s First Shark Attack Rediscovered, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday
FLAPPR: T.I.T.S, For 5/5
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FMJRA 2.0: Deep Holy Water
Posted on | May 8, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Deep Holy Water
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SOTD is from Jason & The Scorchers’ most recent album, Halcyon Times, which is probably the best fusion of country and rock you’re going to hear. On a related topic, I picked up the eighth volume of Klaus Schulze’s La Vie Electronique, which is pretty good except for the four pieces “featuring” Arthur Brown, who Schulze was fond of for reasons not entirely clear to me.
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Rule 5 Sunday: Paige Spiranac
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
No Man Has Ever ‘Won’ an Argument With His Wife (Change My Mind)
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FMJRA 2.0: La Vie Secrete – Exercises Spirituelles
A View From The Beach
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Biden Administration Hiring 360 Armed IRS Agents Ready to Use ‘Deadly Force’
A View From The Beach
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Another Soros-Funded Disaster
The DaleyGator
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Illegal Aliens Murdering Illegal Aliens
In The Mailbox: 05.01.23
A View From The Beach
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357 Magnum
‘Everybody’s Dead’: Seven Bodies Found at Oklahoma Sex Offender’s Home
The DaleyGator
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357 Magnum
Baby Mama Lawsuit Update
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Flappr
In The Mailbox: 05.02.23
A View From The Beach
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357 Magnum
News From Down Home
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In The Mailbox: 05.04.23 (Morning Edition)
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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Can You Guess Where ‘Defund the Police’ Leads?
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BREAKING: Soros-Funded Kim Gardner Will Resign as St. Louis Prosecutor
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 05.04.23 (Evening Edition)
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Why Is Ex-Fox Producer Abby Grossberg Trying to Encourage Anti-Semitism?
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In The Mailbox: 05.05.23
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‘Right Wing Death Squad’? Bizarre Claims About Texas Outlet Mall Gunman
Posted on | May 7, 2023 | 1 Comment
When it was first reported that the gunman in the shooting at the Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas — about 30 miles north of Dallas — was named Mauricio Garcia, I thought, “Well, that’s weird.” It was also reported that police needed a translator to talk to the gunman’s family, which would suggest that they are recent immigrants. From such few tidbits of information, one could hardly draw any conclusion about the killer’s motive, but then it was reported that he was wearing a “RWDS” (Right Wing Death Squad) patch and that his social media postings included “neo-Nazi” stuff. This does not compute.
Garcia had once worked as a security guard, but it appears his license expired three years ago, and then there is this:
Garcia had been living in some form of transient lodging, according to the law enforcement source. Law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News that preliminary information developed in the probe indicates that the shooter was in the U.S. Army in 2008 and was “removed due to mental health concerns.”
So, he was too crazy for the Army, had lost his security guard license and had apparently moved out of his parents’ home into “transient lodging.” These are more tidbits that could be interpreted to mean different things. I’ve seen two mug shots of this guy on Twitter, but don’t know if they’re verified. I’ve also seen people claiming the guy had gang tattoos, but can’t verify that, either. Probably none of this matters, in terms of the overall media narrative, which is mainly about blaming the guns.
Fake Indian Syndrome
Posted on | May 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Fake Indian Syndrome

“Cultural appropriation” is now so frowned upon that the friendly face of the Land O’ Lakes maiden has been banished as racist, although it is far from clear how anyone was harmed by butter package labels. We’re not supposed to question the logic of these Crusades of the Anointed, but rather just accept the claims by some group of “activists” about what is offensive — rename the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, banish Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben from the grocery shelves, do whatever the activists say, because to do otherwise is racist.
Much of the energy behind these revisionist crusades comes from the progressive hives of academia, where identity politics has been weaponized as the ultimate arbiter of power. To be white, male or heterosexual — or, God forbid, all three — is to partake of unjust privilege, according to scholars tutored in the power-matrix ideologies of Foucault, et al., who see the world as a conspiracy of oppression aimed at women, racial minorities and those on the LGBTQ spectrum of sexuality.
This paranoid obsession with identity has had the effect of incentivizing fraud, as in the notorious case of Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren, who spent years falsely claiming to be Native American in order to qualify as a “diversity” hire in academia’s affirmative action regime. Such cases are apparently common, as in the recent example of Kay LeClaire:

The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW Madison) awarded a $5,000 residency to Kay LeClaire, a woman recently exposed for faking her Native American ancestry.
LeClaire is the latest “pretendian” who profits by providing art or expertise to universities, museums, or other institutions, all of which are pushing for inclusivity in curriculum, faculty makeup, and exhibitions.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that LeClaire served as “community leader in residence for the Center for Design and Material Culture,” a residency dedicated to “the development of a toolkit and curriculum around cultural appropriation.”
John Lucas with UW-Madison Communications told Campus Reform that “LeClaire is a prominent figure in the community,” and the university learned about her faked ancestry “through reports on social media and local media.”
“LeClaire’s campus residency was ending at the end of 2022,” he continued. “She resigned before the formal end date. It will not be renewed.”
(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Among the weird details of Kay LeClaire’s story is that in 2019, she protested against a new Madison nightclub calling itself The Winnebago. This was a perfectly logical name, as the club’s address was 2262 Winnebago Street. In the wake of LeClaire’s protest, the club changed its name to The Burr Oak, but the street is still called Winnebago, so what exactly was the “social justice” benefit?
It is claimed that “Winnebago” has an etymology that is derogatory, and articles supportive of LeClaire’s protest made reference to the tribe “on whose stolen ancestral lands Madison sits,” to which any sensible person can only reply: “So?” Is there some proposal that all the white people should leave these “ancestral lands” so that they might be reclaimed by the tribe’s descendants? The current population of Madison is 269,840. The entire Ho-Chunk Nation (said to be the original occupants of this region) numbers less than 7,000. The city of Madison constitutes about 77 square miles of land. Between reservation and trust lands, the Ho-Chunk Nation controls about 16 square miles of land in Wisconsin, none of which seems to be near Madison. So how does the naming of a nightclub on Winnebago Street in Madison become controversial, with local media making noise about “stolen ancestral lands”?
Such controversies are fundamentally irrational, as the activists are not interested in anything other than inciting an emotional reaction, appealing to “progressive” sentiment about the historical injustices suffered by various victim groups, whose supposed grievances are leveraged to gain political advantage. Kay LeClaire started making a public spectacle of herself as an indigenous activist around 2017, claiming to have various ancestral claims to Native American identity, until some anonymous person on the Internet began researching her genealogy and determined that, in fact, LeClaire’s ancestry is German, Swedish and French Canadian. And, as I say, such “pretendians” are a proliferating phenomenon in academia, especially in Canada: Professor Carrie Bourassa (University of Saskatchewan), President Vianne Timmons (Memorial University of Newfoundland), and Gina Adams (Emily Carr University), among others, prompting a very obvious inquiry: “Why so many Canadians pretend to be indigenous.”
The demand for increased indigenous representation in Canadian universities is the main motive for the cases there, but the U.S. certainly has no shortage of such frauds:
An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as Native American had been questioned for years apologized this week for falsely identifying as Indigenous, saying she is “a white person” who lived an identity based on family lore.
Elizabeth Hoover, associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, said in an apology posted Monday on her website that she claimed an identity as a woman of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq descent but never confirmed that identity with those communities or researched her ancestry until recently.
“I caused harm,” Hoover wrote. “I hurt Native people who have been my friends, colleagues, students, and family, both directly through fractured trust and through activating historical harms. This hurt has also interrupted student and faculty life and careers. I acknowledge that I could have prevented all of this hurt by investigating and confirming my family stories sooner. For this, I am deeply sorry.”
Hoover’s alleged Indigenous roots came into question in 2021 after her name appeared on an “Alleged Pretendian List.” The list compiled by Jacqueline Keeler, a Native American writer and activist, includes more than 200 names of people Keeler says are falsely claiming Native heritage.
Adrienne Keene has an exhaustive examination of Hoover’s fakery, complete with obituaries and census records about Hoover’s actual ancestors, the majority of whom came from upstate New York, north of Albany, and none of whom had any connection to the tribes from which Hoover claimed descent. Much like Liz Warren, Hoover used the claim of “family lore” to defend her appropriation of indigenous identity, but doesn’t it seem curious that an academic with proven abilities as a researcher would have never taken the time to investigate her own family tree? So much data is now available online that anyone can research their genealogy quite easily — not like the pre-Internet era, when you had to scroll through lots of microfilm of census records. This makes it difficult for someone like Hoover to defend herself by claiming she made an innocent mistake, basing her identity claims on “family lore” when it would be so easy to verify or disprove such tales of indigenous ancestry. No, it is entirely fair to assume that such deceptions are deliberate, and that academics like Hoover are trying to game the system, enhancing their career potential by adding extra “diversity” to their resumés.
In The Mailbox: 05.05.23
Posted on | May 6, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.05.23
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: War: Cinco De Mayo
Twitchy: Ayanna Pressley – “Clarence Thomas Must Resign”, Adam Schiff Laughed Off Twitter For Cringe Star Wars Tweets, and Check Out This Brutal Split-Screen As DHS Head Mayorkas Claims “The Border Is Not Open”
Louder With Crowder: Viral video of an empty Bud Light stand at Fenway Park proves what enormous trouble the company’s in, Woke nincompoops are coming after “Bluey,” accuse the world’s greatest dad of being a fat shamer, and Neil deGrasse Tyson Gets Obliterated, Out-Scienced on Twitter by…Steak-umm.
Vox Popoli: U-Stasi in Action, also, Running Out of Rabbits
According To Hoyt: It’s The End Of The World, The Order of Consequences, and Throwing Darts At Popcorn
Monster Hunter Nation: The Futility of Trying
Stoic Observations: Several AI Scenarios
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Supporting, Not Transforming, American Agriculture, also, The War on Porn Is Not Enough
American Greatness: Soros-Backed St. Louis Attorney Kim Gardner Resigns, Israeli Whistleblower With Info on Biden Corruption Disappears in Cyprus After Saying Biden Regime Wants to ‘Bury Him’, and Colorado Teachers’ Union Passes Resolution Declaring that Capitalism ‘Inherently Exploits Children’
American Power: ‘Rochelle Walensky is a monster for what she did during the Covid pandemic.’
American Thinker: Savor Trump’s Electoral Landslide — Until the Phantoms Vote, also, US Weakness Invites Iranian Attacks on Shipping in the Gulf
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Global Currency Friday
Babalu Blog: Elderly man in Cuba faints from hunger while walking down the street, Cuban Catholic bishops should make no concessions to the Castro dictatorship, and Cuban dictatorship seals pact with Russia to launch ‘Russian-Cuban investment initiative’ (aka colonization)
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for May 5
Behind The Black: ESA finally admits — sort of — that private enterprise can do it better, Lockheed Martin reorganizes its space divisions to better compete in the new commercial market, Celestis recovers astronaut’s remains from suborbital rocket explosion, Hubble captures shadows on star’s outer accretion disk cast by inner accretion disk, and The modern corrupt legislative way of doing business: Know nothing, fund everything!
Cafe Hayek: Oren Cass Again Grossly Understates the Rise In Ordinary Americans’ Wages
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Feed the Bums (BudLight) Tuppence a Can
Don Surber: Keeping Us Confused
Gates Of Vienna: Shanked on the Bus in Eupen, also, All Your Kids Are Belong to Us
The Geller Report: El Paso Declares Border Migrant ‘State of Emergency’, Soros-Backed Prosecutor Kimberly Gardner Resigns As Missouri AG Moved To Have Her Forcibly Removed From Office, and Emails Show Former CIA Director Mike Morell Conspired with CIA Director John Brennan to Call the Hunter Biden Laptop Story, ‘Russian Disinformation.’
Hogewash: H is for “Hot” and “Huge”, Fact Checking the Fact Chekists, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Woke Killed Comedy (Check Out the Frightening Numbers), also, Richard Dreyfuss: Oscar’s New Diversity Rules ‘Make Me Vomit’
The Lid: Joe Manchin: Biden Won’t Like Him When He’s Angry
Legal Insurrection: Duke University Students Launch Campaign to Disinvite Law Prof Over Her LGBT Opinions, New York State Now Banning Natural Gas Hookups in Some New Construction, ‘Radical DEI Bureaucracy’ Reportedly Created at University of Texas, U. Albany Prof Arrested for ‘Obstructing Pro-Life Display and Then Resisting Arrest’, and UC-Berkeley Prof Admits She’s a White Person After Claiming She was Native American Her ‘Whole Life’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Veronika Rajek Done With Tom Brady, Parties With Shaq, David Njoku, Deion Sanders Is Turning Over Colorado Roster With Help From NCAA Rule; AD Rick George Fully Supports, Big 12 Will Spice Up Telecasts With XFL-Like Production Including In-Game Player Interviews, Mic’d Up Coaches, NESN Turns Off Twitter Comments After First Female D1 Baseball Player Blows First Pitch, Tommy Tuberville Says Megan Rapinoe Would Work At A Grocery Store If She Had To Compete Against Men, and Cam Newton Blames Hairstyle As Reason He’s Not In NFL
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Sheldon Whitehouse plays Elmer Fudd, and The Ruling Class at Play
Shark Tank: Cory Mills Calls Biden Cartels’ MVP, also, DeSantis Ends Legislative Session by Bashing Child Castration/Mutilation & Pedophiles
Shot In The Dark: Profile In Cowardice, Communicating With The MN DFL Part X, and Deadsville
STUMP: Podcast: Choices Have Consequences – Pension Obligation Bonds
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Nixon Presidency
This Ain’t Hell: Friday Short Takes – Army/Navy shortfalls, Sludge Light down, Valor Friday, Neighbor claims that a veteran was behind pounds of pasta dumped in the woods, Marine veteran places Jordan Neely in chokehold, Kathy Hochul wants justice, and Proposed rule change would require U.S. government approval for land related purchases near eight military bases
Transterrestrial Musings: About That Attack On The Kremlin, Our Disastrous Educational System, and The Need For responsive Space
Victory Girls: Hunter Laptop Letter Was Planted As Debate Cover For Joe
Volokh Conspiracy: Is It “Abuse of Corpse” to Have Sex on Mattress That Partly Covers Your Ex-Girlfriend’s Dead Body?
Watts Up With That: Silence of the Grid Experts, also, Biden and the Bank Crash – Why Biden’s Green Energy Push is Driving US Banks into Insolvency
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris’ Word Salad Of The Day: “Very Good In Terms Of Us Addressing The Concern”, also, Denver City Council Member: Tax White-Owned Businesses And Give It To Black, Brown-Owned Businesses
The Federalist: Conservatives Won The Word ‘Woke.’ Now It’s Time To Reclaim Accurate Language Everywhere, From Canning ESG To Cracking Down On Crime, Here’s The Major Wins DeSantis Scored For Floridians This Week, Republicans Move To Curb Biden’s Federal Interference In Elections, Of Course Prince Harry Thinks He Can Break Our Immigrations Laws, Everyone Else Does , and Pro-Life Pediatricians Org Survives Cyberattacks Just Weeks After Judge Rules In Its Favor In Abortion Pill Case
Why Is Ex-Fox Producer Abby Grossberg Trying to Encourage Anti-Semitism?
Posted on | May 5, 2023 | Comments Off on Why Is Ex-Fox Producer Abby Grossberg Trying to Encourage Anti-Semitism?

Today I was scanning headlines at Memeorandum, when I spotted this one from Rolling Stone:
Producer Tells All: How Tucker Carlson Became the GOP’s MAGA Puppeteer
A former producer on Tucker Carlson’s show is revealing just how far the Fox host went to bully top Republicans to come on his show and bend the knee to the MAGA agenda.
Carlson terrified top Republicans with threats to “destroy” them if they failed to do his bidding and used his platform to push a personal agenda on the party’s leadership, Abby Grossberg, who worked as a producer for Carlson’s show starting in August 2022, tells Rolling Stone.
Grossberg says Carlson pressured Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to militarize the southern border, tried to threaten Rep. Michael McCaul over military aid to Ukraine, and pushed Kevin McCarthy — then the aspiring House Speaker — to create the Republican-led committee on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
Grossberg, a former senior producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight, filed a lawsuit in March against the right-wing TV host and Fox News, alleging Carlson and Fox fostered a workplace climate of misogyny and toxicity during her tenure at the company. . . .
You can read the whole thing, but the details don’t matter nearly so much as the glaring fact — which I’m sure anti-Semites must be feasting on — that Tucker got sabotaged by a Jew. It’s just a bad look, OK?
Is there any awareness within the Jewish community of how important it is that they avoid acting in ways that might be interpreted as confirming the worst anti-Semitic stereotypes? Because if so, somebody forgot to tell Abby Grossberg, who might as well be an AI simulation of the Untrustworthy Jew stereotype. If she didn’t actually exist, some neo-Nazi propagandist would have invented her. Being a philo-Semite myself, I hate to see Jews giving aid and comfort to their enemies, which is basically what Abby Grossberg has done by backstabbing Carlson.
As a member of the Appalachian-American community (we can call ourselves “hillbillies,” but consider it an insult if others use “the H-word”), I try to be conscious about avoiding stereotypical hillbilly behavior. There’s a reason why I never learned to play the banjo, and why I don’t drink moonshine whiskey. There are no broken-down old trucks up on blocks in my front yard, and my wife is not my cousin.
Concern for the reputation of my own frequently stigmatized ethnic group inspires me to strive to avoid certain behaviors, and I would hope that other Southerners share my sense of the importance of not acting like redneck trash. Why then do some Jews seem to be oblivious to the way their behavior might encourage anti-Semitism? I mean, a belief isn’t a prejudicial stereotype if you can illustrate it by actual examples, and any Jew-hater can now point to Abby Grossberg and say, “See?”
Truly, she is a shanda fur die goyim.