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FMJRA 2.0: Keep On Rocking In The Free World

Posted on | October 30, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Keep On Rocking In The Free World

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not a great week for my Senators, but not an awful one either: split a pair of games with Boston and lost two out of three at Philadelphia, but except for the final game in Philly the losses were all close. We may be losing the Atlanta and Philadelphia managers for the 1971 season, so if you’re interested, hit me up and I’ll put you in touch with Pete.
Neil Young may be an awful human being, but he’s made some good music over the years.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

.400 ball. It could have been worse.

Rule 5 Sunday: Viktoriia Aliko
Animal Magnetism
The DaleyGator
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL





Joe Biden Lies About the Economy
The Pirate’s Cove
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

SOROS-FUNDED PHILLY D.A. BLAMES G.O.P. ‘RACISM’ FOR IMPEACHMENT
First Street Journal
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Sudno
A View From The Beach
EBL

All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Belated MLK Day ‘White Supremacy’ Edition) 
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.24.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Ted Cruz Schools ‘The View’
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

St. Crispin’s Day: ‘If We Are Mark’d to Die, We Are Enough to Do Our Country Loss’
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.25.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

A Widespread Mental Disorder
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Adrenochrome-Rich Young Girls’
EBL
357 Magnum

Why Democrats Can’t Take the ‘L’
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.27.22 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 10.28.22 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 10.28.22 (Evening Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending October 29:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  357 Magnum (13)
  3.  (tied) A View From The Beach and The DaleyGator (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Is It #FreeStacy Time Yet?

Posted on | October 29, 2022 | 2 Comments

“For dishonest women like Anita Sarkeesian, feminism is a sort of alchemy by which bullshit is transformed into cash, and she has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for her ‘non-profit’ activism. How do you suppose such a shrewd opportunist would react to the suggestion that she might have some role in the apparent crackdown on Twitter dissent? Ms. Sarkeesian (a) accused her critics of being paranoid conspiracy theorists, and (b) offered her own paranoid conspiracy theory.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Feb. 26, 2016

More than six years have passed since my @rsmccain account was permanently banned from Twitter, informed that I had been “found to be violating … our rules around participating in targeted abuse,” although they never did tell me (a) who had been “targeted,” (b) how they were “abused,” or (c) how I had been “participating” in this alleged abuse.

There is no due process, you see, when the Left decides it’s time to silence their enemies. You are a Thought Criminal, and therefore you don’t even deserve to know what you did to justify the punishment, which is determined by an unnamed “Trust & Safety” monitor whose judgment cannot be appealed. There is no habeas corpus, as it were, no hearing where the accused has a right to see the evidence against him, no opportunity to cross-examine witnesses, no chance to get justice.

At the time of my banishment in February 2016, friends on Twitter remarked that they had observed nothing unusual in my Twitter stream in the days preceding this sudden and inadequately explained ban. Unlike some other high-profile cases of people banned from Twitter, there was no flagrantly objectionable tweet that anyone could point to and say, “Oh, that is why they banned him.” Of course, I had spent the previous couple of years in a full-frontal attack on radical feminism, and in the process had been drawn into the #GamerGate controversy, but in all those months of online combat, I didn’t “dox” anyone or whatever. So what was this “abuse” in which I “participated,” and who was “targeted”? Your guess is as good as mine. Oh, sure I “deadnamed” a few trannies and said rude things about Laurie Penny and Ella Dawson, but lots of people do stuff like that without getting a lifetime ban from Twitter.

Perhaps now that Elon Musk has purchased Twitter, there will be some sort of accountability for what I contend was a gross violation of my rights, for which several people urged me to file a lawsuit, a course of action I declined, knowing that the miscreants responsible would some day face justice — the wheel of karma would turn — because of a simple truth of the universe: Bad things happen to bad people.

You may have never heard the name Vijaya Gadde, but she was the Twitter executive responsible for their “Trust & Safety” policies. Among other things, Gadde was directly involved in the January 2021 decision to ban President Trump from Twitter, and she was among the first people that Elon Musk fired when he took over the company. Of course, she was guaranteed a “golden parachute” severance payment, and denies that she was a sinister force for censorship, but she can take her ill-gotten gains and wicked reputation somewhere else — a university professorship, perhaps — where there is no requirement that she act honestly or ethically. Vijaya Gadde is an evil person, who enforced a wicked policy, and fucking me over is perhaps not the worst thing she did, but I’d like to imagine that banning me (or, at least, approving the decision to ban me) was ultimately the first blunder that set her on her way to catastrophe.




 

Category: Fear. Loathing.

Deranged Canadian Nudist Breaks Into Nancy Pelosi’s SF Mansion and Attacks Her Husband With Hammer

Posted on | October 29, 2022 | 4 Comments

Say hello to 42-year-old David DePape, who grew up in the town of Powell River, British Columbia (population 13,157), then went to Hawaii before moving to Berkeley, California, with a girlfriend about 20 years ago. By 2008, DePape was associated with a group of nudism activists including Olessia “Gypsy” Taub, who once hosted a public-access TV program called 9/11 Uncensored in which she appeared naked while claiming that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were “an inside job.”

DePape is a drug addict who at one point supported himself by making and selling hemp bracelets. Not exactly your typical Trump voter, but over the past year, his craziness went off in another direction, and he began posting weird online screeds about Jews and COVID-19 and stolen elections and the corrupt “elite,” which explains why MSNBC and all the other liberal media are trying to blame Republicans — !!! — for this kook’s violent rampage early Friday morning:

Investigators were searching for clues into what drove a 42-year-old man to allegedly bludgeon Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer after breaking into the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday morning.
Officials identified the suspect as David DePape, a local man with ties to a nudist movement and whose social media accounts suggest a predilection for far-right conspiracy theories and a fixation on government surveillance.
Paul Pelosi was expected to make a full recovery after undergoing a successful surgery to repair a skull fracture and injuries to his right arm and hands, Nancy Pelosi’s office said in a statement Friday afternoon. DePape, who was arrested at the Pelosi’s home, is in custody after being booked on a long list of charges, including attempted murder. . . .
Relatives of DePape reached by The Chronicle said they were shocked by the allegations, and described a man who was estranged from family members but was not known to be violent.
While the motive was not immediately apparent, DePape’s social media screeds and alleged statements at the Pelosi home — reports citing unnamed sources quoted him as asking “where is Nancy” upon entering the home — swiftly ignited speculation of a politically motivated attack.
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said when officers arrived before 3 a.m. Friday, they found an adult male and Paul Pelosi both holding a hammer. The assailant allegedly pulled the hammer from Pelosi and beat him with it, Scott said.

Oh, “a politically motivated attack” by a Canadian, who may not even have been in the United States legally? By all means, let’s round up all the Canadians and ship them back to the god-forsaken arctic wilderness they came from, because who knows what danger might be posed to public safety by these foreign interlopers? And while we’re at it, we can imprison all the nudists and finally enact the kind of “common-sense hammer safety” laws this country has needed for so long.

But, no, these aren’t the kind of measures being discussed in the mainstream media, who are obsessed with the idea that this Berkeley kook’s attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband must be blamed on Republicans.

Accused Pelosi attacker
David DePape spread QAnon,
other far-right, bigoted conspiracies
— Los Angeles Times

Paul Pelosi’s Alleged Attacker Raged
About ‘Pedos,’ Shared QAnon Beliefs
— Rolling Stone

Man Accused of Attacking Nancy Pelosi’s
Husband Left Trail of Far-Right Hate
— Vice

You get the drift here. Even as I write this, you can be certain that every liberal pundit in the country is hard at work on a 1,500-word think piece about how Republicans have “normalized political violence” — the J6 Capitol riots — and why we need to suppress “misinformation” on social media that causes “stochastic terrorism.” Almost certainly, some of these pundits will connect the criminal actions of David DePape to Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, even though there’s no indication that Twitter had anything to do with DePape’s berserk rampage.

Many liberals are as crazy as David DePape in the way they constantly seek to “connect the dots” between things that aren’t actually connected. Their minds are a jumbled mess of conspiracy theories, where “corporate greed,” “Big Oil,” “Christian fundamentalists,” and especially “RAAAAACISM!” are all connected together to explain why any opposition to the Democratic Party still exists in America.

Speaking of connections, did you know that researchers have linked frequent cannabis consumption with schizophrenia? Might this be more than coincidentally connected to the case of David DePape? Nobody in the mainstream media is going to make that connection, despite DePape’s known history of drug abuse, because it might distract from the “Blame Republicans” narrative they’re using to frame this incident as a potential game-changer for the midterm elections.

Y’know, I don’t believe in conspiracy theories, but excuse me if I question the timing of David DePape’s attack at Pelosi’s mansion. It reminds me of how, just before the 2018 midterms — Oct. 27, almost four years to the day before DePape’s rampage — a guy suddenly decided it was time to go shoot up a Pittsburgh synagogue. So we’ve seen this happen in two consecutive midterms, where a random kook suddenly decides that the last week of October is an excellent time to “strike a blow” for whatever lunatic cause he considers himself to represent. Those who recall the history of MK-ULTRA and COINTELPRO might be inspired to wonder if the use of agents provocateurs by the federal national security apparatus (a/k/a “The Deep State”) could somehow be implicated in this curious pattern. But if you start thinking too hard about this stuff — especially if you’re smoking some high-powered sinsemilla while you’re thinking about it — you might drive yourself completely crazy.

And, as we all know, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

UPDATE: The media “explainers” have been busy galloping ahead with their “Pin-the-Tail on the Republicans” game:

Pelosi attack didn’t happen in a vacuum,
but in an ‘ecosystem’ of misinformation
and extremist views gone mainstream,
experts on far-right groups say

This is an instant classic of the genre — illustrated with a photo of the J6 riot, just in case anybody missed the point — where the reader is given the impression that the only “extremist views” in America are those associated with the “far right” (i.e., Republicans). The “experts” cited include Carolyn Gallaher, a professor at American University and Eric Ward, “senior advisor to Western States Center and expert on extremism,” who delivers this tasty quote:

“It may seem shocking that this incident happened but when you look at the months of political rhetoric by individuals campaigning for office, and the rhetoric from folks like Tucker Carlson on Fox News, you can’t be surprised that someone took this rhetoric and then turned it into an action plan,” Ward told Insider. “This is exactly what we’re seeing and as predictable as the sun rising again.”

As if we know that the suspect was a Fox News viewer, because so many dopehead nudists in Berkeley are big Tucker Carlson fans.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Crime, Nancy Pelosi

In The Mailbox: 10.28.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 29, 2022 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
I didn’t think anyone could surpass the “It’s Free Speech Time!” Musk/Twitter meme. I should not have underestimated Hopalong Ginsburg.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Former NYPD Commish Slams Mayor Adams
A Bad American: Choose Your Own Theology, also, Liberal Heads Go Boom
EBL: Bond Girls – Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Diamonds Are Forever, also, Lucianne Goldberg RIP
Twitchy: Catturd Gets Reply From Elon; Olberman & Others Lose Their Shit, also, Harmeet Dhillon Has Lots Of Questions About Pelosis’ Security
Louder With Crowder: Media gets trolled by bro who claimed Twitter laid him off, also, Elon Musk rules Twitter and the sanctimonious leftist tweets about it are glorious
Vox Popoli: Signs of a Winter Offensive, also, On Returning to Twitter
According To Hoyt: The Writer Was kidnapped By Internet Hamsters, also, Bowl Of Red
Monster Hunter Nation: October 2022 Update, also, WriterDojo S3 E16: First Person Narrative
Stoic Observations: On The Necessity Of Critics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Cost Of Waging World War Trans
American Greatness: Biden Claims Average Price of Gas Was $5.00 When He Took Office, How Can We Trust the CDC with Our Children’s Health?, and Arizona Is on the Cusp of an ‘America First’ Wave
American Power: 45% of Americans Say They Want a ‘Christian Nation’, FLAMING SKULL: ‘Florida *Democrat* Election Official Blows Whistle on Longstanding ILLEGAL Practice of ‘Ballot Harvesting’ by Paying Mostly African-American Residents $10 Per Ballot’, and F***ing Idiot Tom Brady Announces Divorce from Smokin’ Supermodel Gisele Bundchen
American Thinker: After the Elections
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Campaign Speech Friday
Babalu Blog:  Newest Cuban disaster: Dictatorship announces it has run out of oil, unable to supply gas stations, Twitter suspends Cuban dictatorship propaganda accounts, and Meme of the Day: Socialists trying to explain why communist Cuba is poor
BattleSwarm: Is China’s GDP Overstated By 60%?, also, LinkSwarm for October 28
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches another 53 Starlink satellites, ULA breaks ground on new facility in Alabama, A glacier sea on Mars, and Paypal losing customers at an alarming rate, even as it blacklists Hong Kong pro-democracy group
Cafe Hayek: Protectionism Is An Affront to Non-Monetary Values
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Why I’m Not Pledging
Da Tech Guy: Head Exploding Time for the left In One Tweet
Don Surber: Calling out the Fetterman cult, also, Dems listen to RCP, not 538
First Street Journal: Joe Biden has earned exactly what he’s getting from Saudi Arabia, also, The Philadelphia Inquirer, which declines to print the photos of criminals who are black, sure is willing if the perp is white
Gates Of Vienna: Narratives
The Geller Report:  Zuckerberg’s Meta Fined $24.7M for Fraudulent Campaign Finance Disclosure Violations, also, “Chief Twit” Elon Musk Reportedly Prepping Major Changes– Including the Lifting of Lifetime User Bans (e.g. Pamela Geller)
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Helix Nebula in IR, and Meanwhile, on Twitter
Hollywood In Toto: Adam McKay Funds Group Behind Art Vandalism, also, Paul Schrader Attacks Elon Musk For Embracing Free Speech
The Lid: Biden Wars: The Pariah Nation Strikes Back, also, U2 Singer Bono Now Says Capitalism, not Wealth Redistribution, Gets People Out of Poverty
Legal Insurrection: Oregon Governor Race is an Ominous Sign for Democrats in Midterms, Newsweek Proclaims Antifa Doesn’t Exist in Bizarre Ted Cruz ‘Fact Check’, New Center at Columbia University Will ‘Reimagine’ the Economy to be More Inclusive and Fair, First Post-Debate Poll Puts Dr. Oz Three Points Ahead of Fetterman in Pennsylvania, and ‘The Bird is Freed’
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Constitution and Ukraine
Outkick: Players Association Head Blames MLB For ‘Lack’ Of Black Players In World Series, Why LeBron James Stopped Being A Cowboys’ Fan, New Camera Angle Shows Jermaine Burton Made Intentional Contact With At Least Three Different Tennessee Fans, Power-5 Coaches Discuss How Nick Saban Handled Non-Suspension Of Jermaine Burton At Alabama, and Confident Bo Nix Is Playing So Well He Wants Another Shot At Georgia
Power Line: The End of the World as Twitter Knows It, Thought for the Day: Bono Knows After All, and How Keith Ellison fed our fraud
Shark Tank: Eskamani & Book Forget That DeSantis Did Give Them Credit For The Diaper Tax Credit
Shot In The Dark: Coattails, Just In Time For Halloween, and Proud To Be A Minnesotan Today
STUMP: Friday “Fun”: U.S. Mortality Update, Podcast on iTunes, and Movember Launch
The Political Hat: Human-Animal Hybrid Brains: Is The Age Of Autistic Catgirls Near?, also, Firing Line Friday: Women’s Lib
This Ain’t Hell: What is Stolen Valor?, The U.S. to stop developing nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, Valor Friday, and Updated gun-grabbers’ tactics
Transterrestrial Musings: The Two Parties, also, Newt’s Mid-Term Predictions
Victory Girls: Hobbs Blames Lake For Burglary, Then Dodges, also, White Terrorist Trump Has Dark Magic Powers
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Judge Criticizes SEC “No-Admit-No-Deny Provisions” in Enforcement Action Settlements
Watts Up With That: Somalia Says Drought Is Due to Climate Change, As They Demand Billions, also, UN COP27 Blueprint: More Government, More Debt, More Taxes
Weasel Zippers: Musk Fires Twitter’s Top Lawyer, Who Censored Hunter Biden Story & Banned Conservative Accounts, Biden Suggests People Should Vote In The Midterms Based On Inflation … It’s At 8.2%, Fetterman: “I’m A Big Supporter Of Sanctuary Cities”, and Mayor Groot Asks For A Raise As City Crime Wave Rages On
The Federalist: Here Is Everything Democrats Claim Is ‘A Threat To Democracy, Why Are Virginia Students Studying Sexuality, Body Size, And Privilege In Spanish Class?, Elon Musk’s Twitter Buy Is The First Real Accountability Big Tech Censors Face For Their 2020 Election Meddling, Heritage Action PAC Pumps $1 Million Into New Hampshire After McConnell Bails On Bolduc, and Whistleblower: FBI Election-Meddles Again By Targeting Info Democrats Don’t Like Under ‘Election Crimes’
Mark Steyn: Our Betters and Our Fetters

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In The Mailbox: 10.28.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 28, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.28.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NYPD Cops Quitting & Retiring At Record Pace
EBL: Democrats Panic After Oz Fetterman Debate
Twitchy: Igor Volsky Suggests GOP’s Ads Featuring Pelosi Caused Attack On Her Husband, also, Blue-Check Defending Former Twitter Chief Censor Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Watch this ‘day in the life’ vlog of a Twitter employee and you won’t feel bad Elon is firing 75% of them
Vox Popoli: The Self-Immolation of Jordan Peterson, also, The Rehabilitation of Ben Shapiro

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Washington Should Halt Military Welfare for Europe
American Greatness: Pennsylvania GOP Prepares to Impeach Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, Noncitizen Voting Is a Real Threat to Democracy, and The Switcheroos of the Two Parties
American Thinker: Onward Christian Cowards, The Democrat-Media Complex’s ‘Save our Democracy’ Farce, and Why Gender Confusion is Increasing and What Can Be Done
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Sore Loser News
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: Turiguano sells 132 cuts of meat to hotels, not to Cubans, Video of the Day: Inside a Cuban hospital, and Cuba’s sock puppet president calls protesters ‘lazy’ and ‘manipulated’
Behind The Black: Boeing’s write-off due to Starliner delays goes up to nearly $900 million, Russian government okays ISS partnership through ’27, and Increasing push back against NYU’s firing of a chemistry teacher for demanding excellence from students
Cafe Hayek: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The science of economics”
CDR Salamander: Where is the Accountability?
Da Tech Guy: Doctor Who New Old Doctor That’s Weird and Likely Won’t Work, also, A political horror story – what Massachusetts would be like if Maura Healey wins the governorship
Don Surber: Democrats write off the House, also, DC media learns the wave is coming
First Street Journal: Number 39 for Lexington, also, I guess the Inky needs help before Christmas!
Gates Of Vienna: Eye Update, and the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, Culturecide, and Marine Le Pen: “You Owe to the French People the Protection of the Law”
The Geller Report: DEAL DONE! Elon Musk Owns Twitter! CEO, CFO, Head of Legal, Policy, Safety Have Been Fired
Hogewash: Thermodynamics Wins, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and A Civic Duty
Hollywood In Toto: Andrew Klavan: God Is Dead (in the Culture), Does Visiting Hours Deserve Its ‘Nasty’ Reputation?, and Banshees of Inisherin Offers Divine Comic Tragedy
The Lid: Heating Oil Getting Scarce And Prices Spike In N.Y. And Northeast
Legal Insurrection: Tex, Board of Education Races Draw Unusual Interest Over Opposition to CRT, Elon Musk Assures Twitter Advertisers it Won’t ‘Become a Free-For-All Hellscape’, Lucianne Goldberg, a Key Player in Clinton’s Impeachment, Dies at Age 87, and NBC’s Dasha Burns on Fetterman’s Debate: ‘It was Very Similar to the Conversation That We Had’
Nebraska Energy Observer: I can’t
Outkick: Tennessee DB Jaylen McCollough Cleared To Play After New Evidence Sheds Light On Alleged Assault Incident: EXCLUSIVE, H.S. Football Coach That Took Pro-Prayer Case To Supreme Court Finally Receives Return Date, Giants Lineman That Nearly Had His Leg Amputated Set To Return Against Seahawks, Shaq Bets Charles Barkley $10,000 He Can’t Spell ‘Spectacular’ Live On Air, Chaos Ensues, and Aaron Boone Would Be Fired If Mariano Rivera Owned The Yankees
Power Line: The Paranormal, Kirby Puckett, and Me, FACT CHECK: Fetterman’s speech, and Today’s Election Tidings
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Calls For Mayorkas’ Resignation
Shot In The Dark: This Is Today’s DFL
The Political Hat: To Kill More Patients: Belgian Courts To Doctors; Vermont Doctors Over Zoom; Killing Who ISIS Failed To Kill
This Ain’t Hell: Marine aviator arrested in Aus for allegedly training Chinese mil pilots, Sexually explicit books found in DOD middle and high school libraries, and NY Judge rules against vax mandate, NYC refuses to comply
Transterrestrial Musings: “On The Cusp Of A Revolution”
Victory Girls: Trump Gives DeSantis Cold Shoulder in Florida
Volokh Conspiracy: The Independent State Judiciary Doctrine
Watts Up With That: Wind Farm in Germany is Being Dismantled to Expand Coal Mine, also, America’s Energy Crisis is Mostly US Democrats’ Fault
Weasel Zippers: Al Sharpton Rips Democrats For Ignoring Voters’ Concerns With Crime, Biden Job Approval Back Down To 40%, Wisconsin Democrat Mandela Barnes Calls Police An Occupying Force, and Fetterman Says He’s Always Supported Fracking After Confronted Over Calling Fracking A “Stain”
The Federalist: Republicans, Don’t Be Fooled By Fraudulent Left-Wing Polls, Michigan Can Never Require Voter ID Again If Democrats Pass Prop 2 In November, New Dem Conspiracy Theory Just Dropped, The Media Gaslighting Continues To Midterms, and Evan McMullin’s Faux ‘Independent’ Campaign Is Bankrolled By Democrats
Mark Steyn: Media Darling, also, When Money Is Free

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In The Mailbox: 10.27.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 27, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.27.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery box Episode #1882
A Bad American: Actions Have Consequences
EBL: Fetterman Flip Flops on Fracking and Fails, also, Republican Lee Zeldin attacks Gov. Hochul over rising crime in New York State
Twitchy: View Harpies Work Really Hard To Our-Racist Each Other During Two Minute Hate Against Herschel Walker, also, WaPo’s Impassioned Defense Of John Fetterman From “Ableist” Critics Hits Serious Snags
Louder With Crowder: Podcaster makes explosive claim about LeBron James cheating on his wife, forcing girls to sign NDAs, Fetterman campaign tries blaming closed captioning for disastrous debate, but the company hits back hard, and Fat-proud TikToker demands you love her belly
Vox Popoli: The Fruits of Empire, What Christian Men Should Know, Diversity Fails the Hellmouth, and The Empire Flees China
Gab News: Masculinity Will Save The World

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Wokeness Is The Acid Dissolving Christianity, also, European Court: Aborting Jesus At Mass A Sacred Right
American Greatness: The Commie Bridge Is Here in California, also, The Dangers of Peace in Ukraine
American Thinker: Biden Is Destroying Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Dengue epidemic straining Cuban hospital system near breaking point, On this day in 1962, Fidel Castro urged Nikita Khrushchev to launch nuclear first strike on the U.S., and Cuban dictatorship restores hotel damaged by Hurricane Ian, ignores over 100K damaged homes
BattleSwarm: More Harris County Graft To Democrats Uncovered
Behind The Black: Russian Progress freighter successfully launches to ISS, Orbit Fab, the company building gas stations in space, gets new investor, and Today’s blacklisted American: School officials in Florida and Michigan retaliate against parents for being involved in their kids’ schooling
Cafe Hayek: Greed Isn’t Spendable
CDR Salamander: The German Problem isn’t Getting Better it Seems
Chicago Boyz: This is Interesting
Da Tech Guy: Prager, Focus Groups, Mass Resistance, and Common Ground the Dems Abandoned, also, Thank Those Horrible No Good White European Cultures and The Doctors They Produced That You Haven’t Died from Pneumonia or Tuberculosis
Don Surber: Democrats spend $40 million to own elections, also, Saudi Arabia’s October surprise
First Street Journal: The economy being an electoral loser for the Democrats, now they’re pushing Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine!
Gates Of Vienna: Double Trouble: Dr. Mehmet Oz and Turkey, Requiem for a Culture, Part 2: The Battle Flag, and Giorgia Meloni: No More COVID Shutdowns
The Geller Report: CRISIS: Pennsylvania Democrat Officials Mailed Out 255,000 Ballots to Unverified Voters, Vaxxed Cardiologist Whose Father Died After Jab: Suspend mRNA Product NOW, and Soros-Backed Philly DA: ‘Crime Concerns Are Racist’
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Cosmic Keyhole, and Ableism
Hollywood In Toto: Halloween Ends Pays Stiff Price for Turning Its Back on Fans, U2’s Bono: Capitalism Crushes Poverty, Geraghty’s Gathering Five Storms Slyly Skewers Our Political Class, and Tim Robbins: ‘You Can’t Over-Regulate People’s Lives’
The Lid: The Dems Anti-Maga Obsession, also, Progressive House Members Seek To Appease Putin
Legal Insurrection: Cambridge University Under Fire for Teaching Gender-Neutral German, Congressional Progressive Caucus Retracts Letter Urging Biden to Use Diplomacy in Ukraine War After Outrage From the Left, NY Gov. Hochul Doesn’t Know Why Putting Criminals in Jail is ‘So Important’ to Challenger Lee Zeldin, and Jim Crow 2.0? Special K Goes Silent When Confronted With Record Early Voting in Georgia
Michelle Malkin: ‘-30-‘: An Ending, But Not the End
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Protest in Wolfsburg, and more
Outkick: AP Obsesses Over Race Due To ‘Lack’ Of Black Players In World Series, Aaron Rodgers Calls Out Teammates, Gets Called Out Right Back, Trans High School Volleyball Player Uses Vicious Spike Which Seriously Injured Female Opponent In ‘Highlight Reel’, Iowa Coach Takes Unprofessional Shots At The Media, and Kurt Warner Urges Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers To ‘Walk Away’
Power Line: $3.8 Trillion For…, Well, that was weird, and Has Portland Had Enough?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Fetter(my good God), man!
Shark Tank: Hospitalized Rubio Canvasser Provides Video, Statement On Attack
Shot In The Dark: Berg’s Seventh Law Hall Of Fame, also, Same As It Ever Was
The Political Hat: Political Party Gets (Artificially) Intelligent
This Ain’t Hell: RFK’s grandson reveals “secret” Ukraine fighting, Ash Carter, Obama’s last SECDEF, dead at 68, and Darrell Brooks found guilty of 6 counts of 1st degree intentional homicide
Transterrestrial Musings: Off The Air
Victory Girls: Georgia Voter Turnout: So Much For Jim Crow 2.0, also, Fetterman Team Blames Tech For Bad Debate
Volokh Conspiracy: Bikini Barista Ban Violates Equal Protection Clause by Intentionally Discriminating Against Women Baristas
Watts Up With That: “Dream Big and Dare to Fail” Is Great High School Valedictory Advice but Terrible Energy Policy
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep. Sharice Davids Asked If She Thinks Border Is Secure. Awkward Silence Ensues, Biden: “I Appreciate The Frustration Of The American People”, Migrant Caravans Are Preparing To Flood The US Border Ahead Of Midterms, and More From Fetterman’s Trainwreck Debate
The Federalist: Ohio Senate Candidate Tim Ryan Touted Plans To Eliminate Coal As ‘Amazing’, Democrats’ Gaslighting About Covid School Closures Won’t Work Because We Have Receipts, California Shows What Happens When Nobody Checks The Administrative State: Everything Burns Down, and Department Of Defense Says Military Enlistment Wouldn’t Be So Low If Women Could Just Kill More Babies
Mark Steyn: Sundowning Street, also, The Shrinking Horizon

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Why Democrats Can’t Take the ‘L’

Posted on | October 27, 2022 | Comments Off on Why Democrats Can’t Take the ‘L’

When your Senate candidate suffers a debilitating stroke, to such an extent that he can’t communicate coherently, what do you do? Well, if you’re Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself), you pretend that this devastating setback isn’t really devastating, that somehow Pennsylvania voters won’t notice, or won’t care, that John Fetterman is like the monster in Young Frankenstein: “He’s got a rotten brain!”

Noah Rothman offers this excellent explanation:

The sunk-costs fallacy describes a tendency to devote ever more resources to a lost cause rather than simply take the loss. And for Fetterman’s media boosters, some of whom sunk so much reputational capital into the idea that the Senate candidate was up to the job, Tuesday night’s debate was a big loss. But rather than concede that fact, their crusade continued with the fury of an addict chasing a high.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

If you look at the situation Democrats are facing, it makes sense that they’re desperate to salvage their investments in Fetterman. There were three states — Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania — where Democrats believed they had a reasonable chance to flip a Senate seat from “R” to “D,” thus countering their likely losses elsewhere, in order to sustain Chuck Schumer’s razor-thin majority. But Ron Johnson appears to have weathered the storm in Wisconsin, and Tim Ryan has flopped in Ohio, leaving Pennsylvania as the Last Best Hope for Schumer.

The contest to fill the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey seemed winnable, in part because Democrats felt that the Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz was unqualified, damaged by a bruising GOP primary, and tainted by the endorsement of Donald Trump. Fetterman had a certain sort of “Regular Guy” persona that might appeal to some blue-collar voters who had gone for Trump, and so Democrats poured tens of millions of dollars into his campaign. But then, four days before the May primary, Fetterman’s campaign announced that he had suffered a stroke, reportedly caused by a heart problem that Fetterman had not previously disclosed. Exactly when the stroke happened, I’m not sure, but it was announced the Friday (May 13) before the primary on Tuesday (May 17), and the way the media reported it, you would have thought that they were interviewing Fetterman, when in fact they were quoting press statements issued by the campaign:

Fetterman says his wife Gisele spotted the symptoms and got him to the hospital where they removed the clot, reversed the stroke, and got his heart under control.
Fetterman says doctors believe he didn’t “suffer any cognitive damage” and that he’s “feeling much better.” . . .
“I’m well on my way to a full recovery. So I have a lot to be thankful for. They’re keeping me here for now for observation, but I should be out of here sometime soon. The doctors have assured me that I’ll be able to get back on the trail, but first I need to take a minute, get some rest, and recover. There’s so much at stake in this race, and I’m going to be ready for the hard fight ahead.”

See? “Fetterman says” — but to whom did he say these things? These weren’t actual quotes from an interview with Fetterman, who was undergoing surgery at a hospital at the time he allegedly “said” all this.

The media deliberately misled the public about the severity of Fetterman’s condition, which so damaged his capacity for speech that, if he’s not capable of forming coherent sentences now, after months of recovery, he sure as hell was in no shape to be giving these glib quotes to the media in May, when he was at death’s door.

There must be a word for this — ah, yes, “disinformation,” they call it.

So the media, by acting as stenographers for Fetterman’s campaign, were engaged in a cover-up, an attempt to conceal the true gravity of the candidate’s condition. And then when they couldn’t hide it anymore — when the televised debate showed everybody that Fetterman’s basically a walking vegetable — they went into denial mode, trying to pretend that he didn’t really do so bad, all things considered. Ironically, even Chuck Schumer seems to be living inside that bubble:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was caught on a hot mic telling President Biden Thursday that Democrats are “in danger” in at least one Senate race and admitting that the party is “going downhill” in the closely-watched Georgia contest.
“That seat, we’re, we’re in danger in that seat,” Schumer could be heard telling the president on the tarmac at Syracuse Hancock International Airport. It’s unclear to which seat Schumer was referring.
“But you know, it looks like the debate didn’t hurt too much in Pennsylvania as of today, so that’s good … basically, we’re picking up steam in Nevada,” Schumer continued, referencing Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman’s poor showing in his first and only debate with GOP opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Biden could be seen crossing his fingers as Schumer delivered his assessment that Fetterman’s debate performance didn’t end his chances. The president exchanged some words with Schumer as well but it was unclear what he was saying.
Seconds later, Schumer updated Biden on the state of play in the Peach State, where the latest average of polls from RealClearPolitics shows Republican Herschel Walker leading incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock by 0.6 percentage points.
“The state where we’re going downhill is Georgia. It’s hard to believe that they will go for Herschel Walker,” a shocked-sounding Schumer told the president.

Indeed, things are “going downhill in Georgia,” but Schumer’s claim that “the debate didn’t hurt” Fetterman must be considered merely a repetition of the “spin” coming out of the media.

Just 12 more days, and we’ll see about that.




 

Category: Election, Pennsylvania, Senate

‘Adrenochrome-Rich Young Girls’

Posted on | October 27, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Adrenochrome-Rich Young Girls’

“There’s only one source for this stuff,” Raoul Duke tells Doctor Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, when his Samoan attorney offers him adrenochrome. “The adrenaline glands from a living human body. . . . It’s no good if you get it out of a corpse.”

Thompson insisted that Fear and Loathing was a novel, a work of fiction, although it is loosely based on two separate trips to Vegas he made with the notorious radical lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta. There’s a long story behind the inspiration, but the point is that what Thompson wrote about the origins of adrenochrome — that it involved murdering people to harvest their adrenaline glands — was false, a literary device he created for the sake of the novel, in the same way he invented the teenage runaway “Lucy,” whom Doctor Gonzo savagely molested.

OK, I don’t know that “Lucy” was entirely fictional. Oscar Acosta was a dangerous character, and in the doped-out hippie era in which Fear and Loathing was conceived, there were plenty of stray adolescents who’d do just about anything for their next high. So we can’t rule out the possibility that Oscar Acosta did sexually exploit an aspiring teenage artist at some point during his and Thompson’s Vegas escapade. However, people weren’t being murdered in 1970 for the sake of extracting adrenochrome from their organs, but this wild detail from Fear and Loathing somehow became newsworthy a few years ago because of QAnon.

It was alleged (if anyone actually takes wild tales from the fringes of the Internet seriously enough to call them “allegations”) that the depraved Hollywood elite were murdering children in Satanic rituals to use them as sources of adrenochrome. This claim was utterly crazy, of course. However depraved the Hollywood elite may be –and there’s no sinister misdeed of which I would doubt them capable — and even if they’ve turned to adrenochrome in search of psychedelic thrills, there’s no need to murder children to get it. After this crazy QAnon conspiracy theory surfaced, some reporter at the Daily Beast felt compelled to investigate and found that, while the FDA has not approved adrenochrome for medical use, it’s available to researchers for as little as $55 per dose.

What does this have to do with Joe Biden sniffing little girls?

Nothing, actually, but Ace of Spades started having fun with the adrenochrome conspiracy theory while mocking Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller’s fawning feature article about what a swell guy Biden is in one-on-one personal contact situations:

[Miller’s AP article] Still, Biden insists that time be built into his schedule so he can interact with people at his events — such encounters seem to energize him…

[Ace] I know, Zeke. It’s called “adrenochrome.” It’s what he’s sniffing for.
It excites all his tumescent glands.

… There can occasionally be awkward moments, too, such as when a presidential quip lands poorly, that in today’s partisan environment are often broadcast online by his political rivals.

Just his rivals. Only his rivals notice that he frequently speaks in cthonic tongues unknown to surface-dwelling man or begins to wander around in strange patterns as if he’s trying to communicate with invisible bees about where the closest adrenochrome-filled flower can be found. …

But [Biden’s “awkward moments”] are outnumbered by the positive interactions that have defined Biden’s career and tested the stamina of his aides.
“He outlasts us,” White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon told The Associated Press of Biden’s penchant for spending 30 minutes, an hour, sometimes longer shaking hands.

Wow, he spends a full half hour shaking hands, sniffing hair, rubbing his pelvis into the hindquarters of adrenochrome-rich young girls.

Classic AOSHQ humor there and he explains:

I’m making the joke not because I believe in any of that, but because 1, I think it’s kind of funny to just joke about “adrenochrome-rich children,” because 2, pearl-clutching faggots like Jake Tapper will freak out if you make Forbidden Jokes and I like upsetting pearl-clutching faggots like Jake Tapper.
Not to ruin the joke by explaining the joke, but a big part of humor is trying to find out what you’re Not Allowed to Joke About and then joking about it.

Which is what Hunter S. Thompson was doing, really. The idea of Lucy, a teenage religious freak from Montana who specializes in Barbra Streisand portraits, getting brutally banged by a gigantic Samoan high on adrenochrome — this was a Forbidden Joke in literature in 1971, although perhaps less so than today, because statutory rape was more-or-less commonplace during the Swinging Sixties Peace-and-Love Scene, which ended shortly after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas went to press, as radical feminists didn’t think statutory rape was very funny.

Was it really fiction, though? We’ll never know, because Oscar Acosta went missing shortly after Thompson’s novel was published, and Thompson never commented on the “Lucy” scenario before his death in 2005, but if “Lucy” was based on an actual person, she’d be about 70 years old now. Maybe the drugs permanently scrambled her memory of the savagery she endured in Las Vegas, and she probably has no idea that the fat Chicano who molested her in the Flamingo Hotel was anybody important. If she’s still alive, “Lucy” is probably a kindly old grandma, living in a cabin in Montana, and voting Republican.

Because the truth is always stranger than fiction . . .




 

Category: Ace of Spades, Conspiracy Theories, Fear. Loathing.
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