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In The Mailbox: 04.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 25, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the late posting.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Just Wanted To Kill Someone
EBL: How are things going in Sudan? ?, also, The Diplomat
Twitchy: Horror Show – @Billboard Chris Reveals Ghastly Death During “Transitioning” Surgery, also, Dr. Fauci Admits Masks Didn’t Do Very Much Good
Louder With Crowder: Watch Tucker Carlson’s iconic final moments on Fox News: eating pizza with a hero deliveryman who foiled a car thief, Savannah Hernandez Asks Guys If It’s Gay To Date A Trans, Ahem, ‘Woman,’ Hear Their Hilarious Answers, and Breaking: Tucker Carlson is OUT at Fox News, last episode was last Friday (UPDATED)
Vox Popoli: ARKTOONS 12 MILLION, Indonesia Leaves the Dollarzone, Project Castaliaberg, and The False History of Constantinople
Fishersville Mike: Who Gets The First Tucker Interview?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: God versus LGBTQX
American Conservative: Bombing Journalistic Integrity, Aristocracy of the Midwits, and Tucker Carlson Out at Fox
American Greatness: House Weaponization Committee Subpoenas FBI Official After She Refuses to Answer Questions About Whistleblower Retaliation, The Garland, Blinken, and Morell Morass, and Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now?
American Power: Another Biden-Trump Presidential Race in 2024 Looks More Likely, ‘The unsettling reality is that America in the not-too-distant future is going to have a lot in common with partial-collapse societies of Eastern Europe and Latin America where gangs have more power and influence than the government; where politicians pass the laws but gangs enforce the rules…’, and Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy
American Thinker: All the President’s Relatives, Communism Is Liberty’s Mortal Enemy, and Erasing Women
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban exiles confront daughter of freed ‘Cuban Five’ spy in Spain, where she enjoys privileged life, Cuban Catholic priest believes Church can lead transition away from communist oppression in Cuba, and Cubans living in rice-producing Camagüey stand for hours in line for rice
BattleSwarm: Rheinmetall’s “GameChanger”, also, Ukraine Crossed the Dnipro? (Take Two)
Behind The Black: India’s PSLV rocket successfully launches two Singapore satellites, Update on lunar orbiter CAPSTONE, Al-Amal snaps first close-up images of Martian moon Deimos, Ingenuity snaps picture of Perseverance during its 51st flight on Mars, and Pro-life students attacked with eggs at the University of Arizona
Cafe Hayek: On Brooke Group, Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (U.S. Supreme Court, 1993)
CDR Salamander: Get Real, Get Better…Ummm, The PLAN Is In The Walking Stage, and It’s A Midrats April Free For All!
Chicago Boyz: A Weekend Energy Information Drop – Random Thoughts, also, Nuclear News Update
Da Tech Guy: The Optional Federal 50% 75% & 90% Tac Rates, An Idea Whose Time has Come, Ace Has Had Enough & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora, Remember when we cared about classified information?, and The Left: We Are DEFINITELY NOT Sexually Grooming Kids! Also the Left: If We Can’t Do Sexual Stuff in Front of Kids in Our Parades We Just Won’t Have them!
Dana Loesch: Tucker Carlson Is Out At Fox,
Don Surber: Fox Is The Ray Epps Of News, also, You Can’t Win If You Don’t Fight
First Street Journal: There’s no statute of limitations on stupidity, Harvard grad enters the unemployment line, and Solomon Jones and his very bad timing
Gates Of Vienna: Is Catholic Bavaria Surrendering to Islam?, Jew-Hatred Among Muslims in Germany, Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Resolution: Bad Idea, and Romania Refuses to Eat the Bugs
The Geller Report: Plundering Biden Creates New Government Agency, the “Office of Environmental Justice”, 18 Year Old Male Showers With Terrified 14 Year Old Girls at Wisconsin High School, and Fox Stock Plummets 4% on Carlson Departure, Loses $930M in Market Value
Glenn Reynolds: Hamilton, Hip-Hop, & The Culture Of Dueling
Hogewash: Don’t Know Much About History, 33 Years of Hubble, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Looking Upward From A Balloon, and Warped Galaxies
Hollywood In Toto: More Proof Subversive Comedy Thrives (But Not on ‘SNL’), Dark City – The Flop Roger Ebert Loved Dearly, and Tim Robbins: Media ‘Thuggish Censorship Arm of the Government’
The Lid: How Will The EPA Of Today Be Celebrating The Enron Earth Days Of The Past?, also, Randi Weingarten Is An Enemy Of America’s Schoolchildren
Legal Insurrection: Bird Flu Poised to Become Endemic in the US, Biden EPA Pushing New Power Plant Standards, Risking Already Strained Electric Grid, Netflix Draws Ire and Complaints over ‘Blackwashing’ of Cleopatra, Even Democrats in Massachusetts Are Objecting to DEI Policies in Their Schools, and Sanctuary Cities Are Imploding Under Democrat Immigration Policies
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Misericordias Domini, and St. Georges Day
Outkick: Colorado Football’s Post-Spring Game Mass Exodus Reflects Harsh Reality Of New Transfer Portal Era, Bubba Wallace ‘Junked’ By Blaney, NASCAR Stars Enjoy Spring Break, Kyle Busch Gets Lucky, Larson Almost Impaled, Team Fight, Jalen Rose Goes After Phil Jackson’s Reasonable Commentary On NBA Becoming Too Political, Implies Jackson Is Racist, Pittsburgh Pirates Finally Promote 33-Year-Old Drew Maggi After Over 1,150 Career Minor League Games, Masters Girl Aaliyah Kikumoto Wants To Be The Next Paige Spiranac, and Reggie Jackson Blasts City Of Oakland For Losing All Of Its Sports Teams
Power Line: Where Is That Manifesto?, Please, God, Can We Have Someone Else?, Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News, and Hiding Hunter?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Tucker Up, Buttercup!
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Accuses Biden Of Race-Baiting In Campaign Announcement Video
Shot In The Dark: Common Cause, also, Communicating With The MN DFL Part 1
STUMP: Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 3: Major Categories of Death, also, Sunday Skeleton: MEMENTO MORI!
The Political Hat: Transgender “Gotcha” Question Long Since Answered, also, Right To Work In North Carolina
This Ain’t Hell: Navy’s latest ship makes it 50ft into the water before hitting something, Russian air force accidentally dropped a bomb on a Russian city, Veteran Not Victim, And Then There Was One, and Overachiever finds yet one more way to overachieve
Transterrestrial Musings: The End Of The Silicon Valley Dream, Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy, and Yes, Get Out Of Your Seat
Victory Girls: Twitter Blue Check Loss Causes Tantrums In Celebrity “Elites”, Afghanistan Deja Vu In Sudan As Americans Left Behind, Could We Survive The Trump-Biden Rematch?, and Lost In The Desert Bud Light Hires Swamp Creatures
Volokh Conspiracy: Tucker Carlson is More a Symptom of Our Problems than a Cause
Watts Up With That: Julia Hartley Brewer’s Furious CLASH With Extinction Rebellion Activist, ANU Climate Scientists Wargame UN Martial Law and A Global Military Coup, No, Great Britain News, 20°C Temperatures Will Not Cause Britons to ‘Bake in a Heat Wave’, and Big Brother: German Bundestag Approves Law to Accelerate Installation of Smart Meters
Weasel Zippers: The View: The Problem With Gun Owners Is “White Men” And Fox News, Occasional Cortex Defends Her Socialist Green New Deal As “Massive, But…Climate Crisis Is Even Bigger”, Look Who’s Going On Another Vacation, and Occasional Cortex Calls For More Regulation Of Conservative News
The Federalist: Tucker Carlson: ‘Information Control’ Via Internet Censorship Is A Huge Problem For Democracy, Ray Epps ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Raises More Questions Than Answers, If The Right Wants To Win, It Must Drop Its ‘That’s Not How We Do Things’ Approach To Organizing, How Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols And His Wife Modeled Life-Long Commitment In A Rocky World, and Censors Come For P.G. Wodehouse, Proving They Don’t Actually Want To Learn From The Past
Mark Steyn: No Wall Between Us – Spy Movies and the Strange World of The Quiller Memorandum, also, Tal Bachman: Sixty Years of the Beach Boys

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Category: Linkagery

How to Translate Bidenese

Posted on | April 25, 2023 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, Joe Biden emerged from his basement for a White House ceremony honoring Rebecka Peterson of Oklahoma as National Teacher of the Year, during the course of which event he said:

Rebecka put a teacher’s creed into words when she said, “There’s no such thing as someone else’s child.” No such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children.

Well, Joe, speaking of “someone else’s child,” what about your son Hunter? And what about the baby girl that Hunter spawned with a stripper from Arkansas? Is that baby “all our children”? If so, why won’t you acknowledge your bastard granddaughter? Beyond the predictable hypocrisy of Biden’s pseudo-moralistic sermon — he has never once said the name “Lunden Roberts” in public — we must also address the creepy totalitarian vibes of his assertion that children are national property, an implicit denial of parental rights. John Hoge called attention to this helpful translation to the original German version:

Also, we might add . . .

Geli Raubal could not be reached for comment.



 

 

Category: Joe Biden

Major (and Also Minor) Media News

Posted on | April 24, 2023 | 1 Comment

Today I was watching CNN (so you don’t have to) when, just after noon, they reported that Tucker Carlson and Fox News have “parted ways.” Then they brought on the despicable Oliver Darcy to engage in unsubstantiated speculation as to why Carlson — the top-rated host in cable news for the past six years — had left Fox. But does anyone actually care what Oliver Darcy thinks? Because you might think that if Darcy’s opinions were so valuable, more people would be watching CNN, which has been mired in third place among cable news networks for at least the past 15 years. CNN sucks, and they spend an inordinate amount of time “reporting” about what’s happening on Fox News.

The Daily Caller (a publication founded by Carlson) offers no clues for the reasons behind his departure from Fox, which leads me to suspect that nobody yet actually knows why he left, but Glenn Reynolds at least offers some informed speculation (as opposed to Oliver Darcy’s bizarre theories). As for me, my best guess is that Tucker had gotten tired of having to put up with the uptight “don’t-be-too-right-wing” concerns of Fox News management, which is no doubt pining for the good old neocon days of Chris Stirewalt, Bill Kristol, Stephen Hayes, et al. However, the Los Angeles Times asserts as a fact that Carlson was “pushed out by Rupert Murdoch,” which may be true, as far as I know.

So, that is the major media news of the day, and as for the minor media, well, Don Lemon finally got fired from CNN:

Don Lemon has been terminated by CNN, the anchor announced on Monday just hours after he’d ended his morning broadcast.
“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned,” he tweeted in a fiery post announcing his exit. “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network. It is clear that there are some larger issues at play. With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I have worked with for an incredible run. They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best.”
CNN CEO Chris Licht confirmed the news in a memo to network staffers: “CNN and Don Lemon have parted ways. Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years,” he wrote. “We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors.”
CNN disputed Lemon’s characterization of his termination in a statement. “Don Lemon’s statement about this morning’s events is inaccurate,” wrote the network’s PR shop. “He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter.”
CNN anchor John King seemed surprised by the news during Monday’s broadcast of Inside Politics. “I don’t know the details happening while I’m sitting in the chair here, but I work here. I love this place,” King said. “Certainly wish Don the best. He’s always been good to me as a colleague.”
“I’m just relieved,” one female on-air CNN personality told The Daily Beast. “I really never thought that there wouldn’t be any accountability right. I mean, these guys are untouchable for the most part.”
The sudden exit ends a tumultuous year for the star anchor, who has seemingly generated one negative headline after another for a network under siege by financial losses and leadership changes.

Nice touch with that adverb, “seemingly.”



 

 

Category: CNN, Fox News

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Double-Dip Extra Scoop Donna D’Errico Edition

Posted on | April 24, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So there I was, sitting in the bar at Tonopah Station, nursing a Diet Coke while watching Rocky V and thinking about this post. For a while I was resigned to going with Talia Shire, who was cute back in the day, but then I realized I had a better option, one supplied by the fine lads at Flappr: former Baywatch actress Donna D’Errico, who gave her name to the Donna D’Errico MILF Thirst Economy. Also, since I was busy working myself to death in the tax mines last Sunday, here’s the links that would have been in last week’s post. Without further ado, the lady herself in a tasteful Stars & Stripes bikini.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

“Svimvear, very nice!”

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night (1), The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2049, Morning Mistress (1), Girls With Guns (1), Hot Pick of the Late Night (2), The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2055, Morning Mistress (2), and Girls With Guns (2). 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Social Security Friday, Saturday Gingermageddon (1), Rule Five Lost Boys Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon (2).

EBL: MAGA Hunter Biden Democrat Hypocrisy, Mary Quant RIP, Natasha Beddingfield, On A Wing & A Prayer, Ukraine Warrior Babes, The Musketeers, Saul’s Journey To Damascus, Jeanne Crain, “Girl From Spring Break”, Kelly Tilghman, Iona Stephen, and Easter Bonnets & Dresses

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Madisyn Shipman, Fish Pic Friday – Liane Lopez, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Flotsam and Jetsam – Did the Fed Instigate J6?, Putting My Mind to Rest, Gone Fishin’, Flotsam and Jetsam – Early Morning at the Wrack Line, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Flotsam and Jetsam on an Easter Morn‘, Happy Easter!, Flotsam and Jetsam – Taibbi Musk Divorce – Trans Mob Assaults Riley Gaines, Darshelle Stevens, Oregon, My Oregon, Flotsam and Jetsam – Baldwin Off the Hook, Hunter on the Hook?, Fish Pic Friday – Bluefish Blonde, Welcome To My Island, Flotsam and Jetsam – Fox Settles Suit, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Flotsam and Jetsam – Biden Returns, Goes on Vacation, Palm Sunday and Human Season Open, Shark Bites Snorkler

Welcome to Sticks, Stories, & Scotch with KMS Peter Strasser!

Also also, a tip of the Wombat’s helmet to Flappr, who delivered with Tremendously Important Topical Subjects! Subscribe to their YouTube channel! Get TITS in your mailbox! 

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Category: Rule 5

The Rontavious Factor

Posted on | April 23, 2023 | 2 Comments

Earlier this week, we shared the story of a burglary at a gun store in Macon, Georgia, in which two suspects stole more than 60 firearms. Police arrested 32-year-old Rontavious Jackson who, because he was charged with 31 counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon — each of which counts could be punished by up to 10 years in prison — might be sentenced to more than 300 years behind bars. Because there were two suspects in this crime, and Jackson had been caught with only about half of the stolen firearms, I was interested to know whether police had caught the second burglar. Because the name Rontavious seemed rather unique, I Googled “Rontavious + arrest” and oh, my goodness!

Rontavious Shawn Clark

OCTOBER 2018:

A string of four armed robberies in Charlotte, North Carolina, came to a sudden end when the robbers, driving a stolen Lexus SUV, collided with a tractor-trailer truck in Lancaster County. The driver of the stolen Lexus, 26-year-old Rontavious Shawn Clark, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Clark had just gotten out of jail two days ago. The passenger, 23-year-old Danneil Elijah Hughes, was taken to a hospital before being booked on charges of armed robbery.

Rontavious Darnell Gaston

NOVEMBER 2018:

Rontavious Darnell Gaston, 25, was arrested after police in Montgomery, Alabama, said he robbed three businesses in less than 72 hours.

Rontavious Managan

APRIL 2020:

Rontavious Managan, 18, was arrested and charged with murder in the drive-by shooting of Jamarcus Jordan in Montgomery, Alabama.

Rontavius Deon Holt

MARCH 2023:

Rontavius Deon Holt, 25, was arrested and charged with murder after a drug deal gone bad led to a gunfight inside a barbershop in Clayton County, Georgia, that ended with a 17-year-old getting shot in the face.

Keep in mind, I Googled “Rontavious + arrest” on the theory that Rontavious must be such a rare name that the search would automatically lead to stories about the Macon gun-store burglary, but apparently it’s far more common than I suspected and, considering the pattern here, I wonder if everybody named “Rontavious” is a criminal.

I’ve only shown you the tip of the iceberg here. There’s also:

Although I could keep searching and turn up even more examples, why belabor the obvious? If you’re thinking of naming your baby boy “Rontavious,” you should probably reconsider your choices.



 

 

Category: Crime

FMJRA 2.0: A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor’s Fight

Posted on | April 23, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor’s Fight

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Good to be back in the ruts; getting used to the thin air again and not subsisting mostly on gas station food, even if Maverik is a cut above 7-11 and Speedway. It’s no Sheetz or Wawa, either, though I think it aspires to reach that level.
I am continuing my gradual purchase of the Klaus Schulze collection La Vie Electronique, from whose Volume 4 the SOTD comes.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Media and “celebrities” this week

How Did He Get Those Secrets?
EBL
357 Magnum

Best Aspiring Rapper Update Ever?
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

Violent Chaos in Chicago and…Alabama?
EBL

Professor Demonizes ‘Wealthy White Men’ for ‘Violence, Deceit, Irresponsibility’
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Flappr

An Argument for Gun Control?
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum
Flappr

Teens Charged in Dadeville Massacre
EBL
357 Magnum

Portland Is Now a ‘No-Go Zone’
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

Three Hundred Years in Prison?
EBL

Don Lemon Is on a Roll
EBL

Dadeville Update: Six Suspects Now in Custody for ‘Sweet 16’ Massacre
First Street Journal
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.21.23
EBL
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending April 21:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  357 Magnum (6)

Thanks to everyone for the links. A wider selection of of posts returns this week. 

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Category: FMJRA Award

Tranny Canned: Bud Light Marketing Executive Now on ‘Leave of Absence’

Posted on | April 23, 2023 | 2 Comments

Dylan Mulvaney is a show-business scam — an unemployed actor invented a “female” character, turned this into a TikTok comedy channel and, because millions of people are too stupid to see through the scam, became a viral online sensation. His agent was able to persuade a bunch of companies to sponsor Dylan as an “influencer,” which is how he ended up with his face on his own personalized Bud Light can.

Well, conservatives pounced and seized on this — whenever lefties do something offensive, the “backlash” becomes the story, which is a deflection, but never mind — and the damage to Anheuser-Busch’s profit picture was serious enough that the company had to take action:

Bud Light Marketing Vice President Alissa Heinerscheid has taken a leave of absence from the company amid ongoing controversy over the brand’s decision to bring on transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as an ambassador.
Bud Light announced that Heinerschneid, who has been in charge of the brand since June 2022, would be replaced by Budweiser global marketing Vice President Todd Allen, according to Ad Age. In a March 23 podcast appearance, Heinerschneid said that she wanted to pivot from the brand’s traditionally “fratty” image. . . .
“I’m a businesswoman, I had a really clear job to do when I took over Bud Light, and it was ‘This brand is in decline, it’s been in a decline for a really long time, and if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand there will be no future for Bud Light,‘” Heinerschneid said.
The brand’s decision to partner with Mulvaney sparked a boycott, which resulted in the company losing $6 billion in market cap. Notably, country music stars such as John Rich and Travis Tritt both denounced the brand and announced they would be joining the boycott.
Bud Light initially tried to defend its partnership with Mulvaney, citing that the brand tries to connect with “audiences across various demographics” and that Mulvaney was only one of “hundreds of influencers across our brands.”
On April 14th, Budweiser CEO Brendan Whitworth responded to the controversy with a statement saying that he never intended to be a part of a divisive conversation.
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” Whitworth wrote, “We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”

Unfortunately, “leave of absence” is not a synonym for fired:

So if you were boycotting Anheuser-Busch, don’t be deceived into quitting your boycott because of this token repentance. (I prefer Corona, Yuengling or Flying Dog, so the boycott is irrelevant to my choices.) Liberals seem to think of “diversity” as carte blanche to insult people, with complete immunity from consequences. When there actually are consequences, liberals believe they’re being victimized by hate.

Here’s a Washington Post columnist:

Dylan Mulvaney, a trans influencer with more than 10 million followers, documented her transition over the course of a year. To celebrate Day 365 of her journey, Bud Light sent her some personalized cans of beer. She unveiled them on TikTok in a partnership with Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch.
This attempt on Bud Light’s part to be forward-thinking about how its customers live and love has been met with a backlash by one group of people who seem to believe that another group of people should not exist. Kid Rock used his gun to shoot several cases of the beer; another guy destroyed a can of Bud Light with a baseball bat in a typical digital tantrum.
For some, trans people represent just the latest Babadook, a complex fear they cannot tolerate.
A note to those folks who are upset that Anheuser-Busch relied on a trans woman as a quasi-spokesperson: Whether you like it or not, queer people have been drinking “your beer” for decades. In fact, as long as there’s been beer, queer people have been drinking it.
Mulvaney’s celebration for some reason threatened the very existence of a whole bunch of guys who aren’t ready for that reality. . . .

Note the flat assertion that transgender propaganda is “forward-thinking,” and that critics are motivated by irrational fear. If you thought the beginning of that column was insulting, you should read its entirety, basically claiming that anyone who doesn’t celebrate transgenderism is childish, and lecturing readers about how the controversy highlights “problematic” ideas of masculinity. But is it really “a whole bunch of guys” who are insulted by Dylan Mulvaney, whose parody is to genuine womanhood what “Amos & Andy” was to black culture?



 

 

Category: The Transgender Cult

Crazy Moms Are Dangerous

Posted on | April 22, 2023 | 1 Comment

Last month, I commented on this situation (“Hiding In Plain Sight: Jeanette Jennings and Transgender Munchausen by Proxy”) wherein the TV reality show personality known as “Jazz Jennings” was obviously being manipulated by his/“her” mother, Jeanette, in what was clearly a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

This psychodrama has been playing out for eight years on the TLC series I Am Jazz, the first-season description of which reads:

Jazz Jennings is the typical 14-year-old girl in all ways but one — Jazz was assigned male at birth. Her supportive family accepted Jazz as a girl at a young age, but with her teenage years upon them, they’re in for a whole new set of challenges.

Question: What were the producers and network executives thinking? Did it occur to any of them that, in choosing a bizarre experiment as the subject of a “reality TV” program, they might make themselves liable for blame if the experiment went awry? And of course, it has gone awry, in ways that would be comical were it not for the essentially tragic nature of the case. There’s no need to list all the details of what has gone wrong with Jazz’s “transition,” but suffice it to say that there was a lack of foresight about the possible consequences of early dosages of so-called “puberty blockers,” which had the effect of making “gender affirming” surgery more complicated for Jazz and, as in the case of Canadian tranny Jessica Yaniv’s “gaping ax wound,” there were complications.

How many times do people need to be warned about such matters?

Never bet against The Gods of the Copybook Headings, as I’ve often said. There are reasons why proverbs of ancient wisdom are of continuing value, and people are apt to rediscover the enduring truth of these adages — often in brutal and disastrous ways — whenever they choose to ignore ancient wisdom. Speaking of which . . .

This is a Hebrew word (toebah or toevah) meaning “abomination,” which appears repeatedly in the Old Testament, perhaps most pertinently in Leviticus 18:22 and Deuteronomy 22:5. One doesn’t have to do too much Googling to see that pro-LGBT activists in recent years have piled up a veritable mountain of articles claiming that these verses do not really mean what they have been traditionally understood to mean. As someone who believes in religious liberty, this kind of stuff annoys me. If you don’t want to be Christian, fine — go be an idolatrous heathen, an atheist, a hedonist, a Communist, whatever. But don’t presume to tell me that God condones your favorite kinkiness, when there are thousands of years of tradition contradicting your self-serving claim. Nowadays we have a crowd of self-identified “experts” who presume themselves qualified to lecture us about Bronze Age customs of the ancient Near East which, they claim, show in cultural context that Jews and Christians have spent centuries misunderstanding these Bible texts, and if you’re inclined to be persuaded by such “experts,” fine — you are free to go to hell in the time and manner of your own choosing. But stop lecturing me about it, as if I’m some ignorant child in need of your tutoring.

Excuse me for that digression in sermonizing, but my point remains: Never bet against The Gods of the Copybook Headings, because they’ve never been wrong yet, and my hunch is they’re going to maintain their undefeated record into perpetuity. As it applies to the case of Jazz Jennings, the producers and network executives responsible for this reality TV series evidently didn’t consider the factor of hubris when they decided to televise this particular medical experiment. What they apparently wished to do was to demonstrate how acceptance — the “supportive family accepted Jazz as a girl at a young age” — was the appropriate stance toward transgenderism, and they must have expected that the “whole new set of challenges” facing Jazz as a teenager would serve to validate that pro-acceptance message. Unfortunately for them (and for Jazz), the Gods of the Copybook Headings had other ideas, and among the “challenges” that emerged was one that the producers apparently failed to anticipate, namely that the “gender affirmation” surgery for Jazz would go badly awry. To date, Jazz has undergone four separate surgeries, as the licensed genital butchers have tried to correct complications arising from the first botched operation.

Here, I must state that the phrase “botched operation” is an expression of opinion, as I am merely a journalist, and am not qualified to judge cases of medical malpractice, although I do know enough about libel law to understand the importance of inserting this disclaimer. So if I use the phrase “modern-day Mengele” to describe the person who performed this surgery on Jazz, this expression of my personal opinion cannot be interpreted as defamatory, as a matter of law. Meanwhile . . .

Tim Pool took notice of scenes in recent episodes of I Am Jazz in which the mother of Jazz Jennings said things which, Tim says, ought to be enough to get her prosecuted for abuse:

 

For the sake of discretion, I’m not going to quote any of what Jazz Jennings’ mother said, and if readers don’t watch that video, they won’t understand the depths of insanity involved in this case, or why Tim Pool is demanding that authorities pursue a criminal investigation of this case. You might also want to read “Does Jazz Jennings Regret Transitioning?” in The American Spectator for more background. The point, however, is that Jazz Jennings is a victim of her crazy mother, who has too many problems in her life to worry about bringing a spurious libel suit against an honest journalist exercising his First Amendment right to express his personal opinion, as Bert the Samoan Lawyer might say.

In the matter of First Amendment law, however, I am clearly within my rights to state as a fact that Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

 

Category: The Transgender Cult
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