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In The Mailbox: 09.29.22

Posted on | September 29, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.29.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Schrödinger’s Cat Food
EBL: The Biden Administration: Who’s Dumber?, also, Remember when it was ok to say an election was illegitimate?
Twitchy: San Fran Public Schools Have A Program To Hook Your Middle School Kids Up With Castration & Mutilation, also, Taylor Lorenz Happily Embraces Title “Bob Woodward Of The Digital Generation”
Louder With Crowder: New trailer for Yellowstone Season 5 is out and it already reveals one major storyline change, also, Florida man braves Hurricane Ian to deliver unfiltered Anti-Biden message that’s even more perfect with music
Vox Popoli: JimBob One Million, Weekly Meme Review 01, Unequivocal Motive, and It’s Not Your Imagination

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Live Not By Lies: The Apocalypse Version, also, America’s Four-Star Problem
American Greatness: Biden Sending Additional $1.1 Billion to Ukraine, Republicans Urge DOJ to Investigate Cyberattacks Targeting Christian & Pro-Life Websites, and Kamala Harris Touts the United States’ ‘Alliance with the Republic of North Korea’ While Speaking in South Korea
American Thinker: The Pandemic was a Grand Rehearsal for the Great Reset
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Self-Discussing News
Babalu Blog: Over 70 buildings in Havana collapsed or partially collapsed after Hurricane Ian, Cursing two disasters in Cuba: #IanCanelSingao, and Hurricane Ian’s winds leave Havana in the dark and more depleted of supplies
BattleSwarm: Zuckerbusted
Behind The Black: Astra’s last rocket failure pinpointed to upper stage engine, SpaceX to upgrade 2nd Kennedy launchpad for manned launches, Chang’e-5 samples suggest lunar meteorite impacts took place the same time as Chicxulub impact, and Part 2: How the liars spread the ugly corrupt lie of the COVID jab
CDR Salamander: GLOC, SLOC,….ILOC?
Chicago Boyz: Rigid Conformity
Da Tech Guy: What I have in common with new Italian PM – YouTube Censors Us Both, ESG is a stealth implementation of the Green New Deal, and Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest, Day 4 – The Retirees Speak Up
Don Surber: Running out of October surprises, also, Shred the Constitution and blame Trump
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: Not a “gang hit”, but just a “beef” between “cliques of young men affiliated with certain neighborhoods and families”, also, Killadelphia: I told you so!
Gates Of Vienna: The Queen of the Vax, Pregnant With Meaninglessness, The Trail Leads to Pakistan, and How Males Became Toxic
The Geller Report: Motion to Rescind Fails – Wisconsin School District Will Teach Kindergartners Sex Ed, Gender Identity Indoctrination, also, Soros Wins $41M Contract from Biden to Help Illegal Aliens Evade Deportation
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Second Star to the Right, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Armageddon Time Director Compares Trump to Nazi Goebbels, Bros Embraces Best Rom-Com Tropes, and Dear SNL – Why Not Copy These Subversive Sketches?
The Lid: Big News: Kamala Harris Visits Border
Legal Insurrection: Mitt Romney Reportedly Trying to Undermine Mike Lee Re-Election Effort, Providence (RI) Teacher Ramona Bessinger Under Attack Again, Teachers Helping Organize Student Protest Against Her, Pa. Senate Race Tightens as Oz Makes Gains on Fetterman, and MIT Wants Faculty to Embrace Free Speech
Nebraska Energy Observer: I’m coming out
Outkick: Top College Football Recruit Makes It Clear He Can’t Be ‘Bought’ With NIL Money , Tennessee Fans Embark On Savage Plan To Buy Up Every Seat At Vanderbilt’s Stadium And ‘Checker’ Road Rivalry Football Game, Does Success of Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prove America is Ready to Stream Sports?,  and NFL Goes On Record With List Of Excuses Teams Have Used To Not Hire Black Coaches
Power Line: This senior moment, How Corrupt Is the FBI?, and The Daily Chart: Break Up the Ivy League?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Assesses Hurricane Damage In SW Florida
Shot In The Dark: His Ever-Changing Moods, Everything Is Going Just Great, and Cloud Control
The Political Hat: Wokeness Everywhere: Everyone Is An Informant For Anti-Racism; Halloween Cancellation; Shade Equity
This Ain’t Hell: Short Takes Part Deux, Majewski demoted for driving drunk, not for fighting, and Kim Flexes His Missiles
Victory Girls: Biden Bumbles and the Press Finally Wakes Up
Volokh Conspiracy: “Liberal, Female and Minority: America’s New Gun Owners Aren’t Who You Think”
Watts Up With That: Climate Activists Attacking Fertiliser Use, Mass Produced Food
Weasel Zippers: SHOCKER: Fauci’s Net Worth Increased By $5 Million During Pandemic Years, National Hurricane Center Chief Shuts Down CNN’s Don Lemon Trying To Link Hurricane Ian To Climate Change, Fetterman Scrubs Black Lives Matter Section From Campaign Website, and AOC Is Basically Just A Brainless TikTok Girl
The Federalist: Democrats Hope Demographics Will Turn Texas Blue, But They’re Scaring Off Hispanics, This Martyr’s Breasts Were Severed As An Act Of Torture, But Trans Activists Are ‘Queering’ Her, ‘Zuckbucks 2.0’: Democrat Operatives Are Helping Milwaukee Rig Its 2022 Elections, and Transgender Army Major And Wife Indicted For Scheming To Give Sensitive Military Data To Russians
Mark Steyn: Freedom in the Dominion, also, Escalating Everything 

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Worst. President. Ever.

Posted on | September 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Worst. President. Ever.

Most historians consider James Buchanan our worst president, although some would say Jimmy Carter was worse. Yet I think neither Buchanan nor Carter was worse than the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. His latest idiotic utterance:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned oil and gas companies against increasing prices for consumers as Hurricane Ian neared landfall along Florida’s southwest coast.
“Do not, let me repeat, do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people,” Biden said at the start of a conference on hunger in America.
Biden said that the hurricane “provides no excuse for price increases at the pump” and if it happens, he will ask federal officials to determine ”whether price gouging is going on.”
“America is watching. The industry should do the right thing,” Biden added. . . .
The American Petroleum Institute, which represents the oil and gas industry, said in a statement, “Gasoline prices are determined by market forces — not individual companies — and claims that the price at the pump is anything but a function of supply and demand are false.”

Ace goes on an extended rant about this: “Confiscate the kulaks’ farms and kill them, and then blame the dead traitors for the poor yields. It’s been part of the authoritarians’ playbook since the 1930s. . . . And now here comes the man NeverTrump swore to us was an ‘honorable’ ‘moderate’ ‘centrist’ who would ‘restore our norms’ and ‘save our Republic’ to tell mom and pop gas stations to sell fuel at a loss, so that he can avoid the political heat of his policy of state-mandated scarcity.”

We are left with two possibilities: Either (a) Biden doesn’t understand anything about economics or (b) he’s deliberately scapegoating the petroleum industry for problems caused by his own policies.

But still the question remains: “Where’s Jackie?”




 

Category: Joe Biden

Surviving the Hurricane, So Far

Posted on | September 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Surviving the Hurricane, So Far

Many times, I’ve referred to my oldest daughter as living in “a swing state with palm trees,” because I didn’t want any left-wing nutjobs targeting her and her family, but I think everybody knows what state I meant.

Last week, she was planning to evacuate because the National Weather Service projections showed Hurricane Ian headed directly for their southwest Florida location, but then the projection shifted, showing the storm would hit Tampa, more than 150 miles north. So she decided to stay, rather than take to the road with two toddlers, but then on Tuesday, the projection shifted again and, as everyone now knows, the storm slammed into the area around Fort Myers and Port Charlotte, midway between Tampa and my daughter’s location.

The power went out early Wednesday morning when a transformer blew out in their neighborhood, and about half the city is now without electricity. Downtown was totally flooded Wednesday, but my daughter’s house east of the city is still above water, although they’ve kept a close eye on the canal behind their house. They’ve got a three-day food supply, so they’re in pretty good shape. Watching national TV on Wednesday, you might have gotten the idea that the folks trapped in Naples and Fort Myers were guilty of ignoring warnings or had disobeyed evacuation orders, which is grossly misleading. Rather, the fault is with the shifting projections of the storm’s track. Sunday and Monday, it looked like Naples and Fort Myers would escape the worst of Hurricane Ian. It wasn’t until Tuesday that the projection changed, and by that time, it was too late to evacuate because there wasn’t a gallon of gasoline to be had in the whole region. My daughter and her husband had managed to find gas a few days earlier, but it’s nearly 400 miles from their home to the Georgia state line — too far to go on one tank of gas — and what were they supposed to do under these extraordinary circumstances? As I say, they’ve been relatively lucky so far. Just a few miles from their house, hundreds of homes are underwater, and even the fire station got flooded.

This isn’t New Orleans in Katrina. So far, there’s been no looting. The sheriff of Collier County is a Republican, so popular he was re-elected without opposition two years ago, and so at least residents don’t have to worry about anarchy. And it ought to be pointed out that the political polarities of Hurricane Ian are reversed from those of Hurricane Katrina: The allegedly “racist” Republican president was blamed for that 2005 disaster, despite the failures of state and local officials, who were Democrats. Now, we have Saint Joseph of the Blessed Landslide in the White House, and liberals are just looking for any excuse to make Florida’s Republican governor the scapegoat for Hurricane Ian.

Probably that’s why there’s now an effort to blame victims of the storm as having ignored evacuation orders — most of them are white, so it’s OK to blame them, although it can be pointed out that the warnings before Katrina hit New Orleans were much clearer, and were even more blatantly ignored. But, as I say, by the time the evacuation orders for Lee County and Collier County were issued Tuesday, it was already practically impossible to leave, because of the unavailability of gasoline. Others have pointed out the irony that many people from Tampa, which was previously believed to be the big target of the storm, actually left that city and went south to Fort Myers and Naples to escape the storm, only to have it turn southward in the final 24 hours before landfall.

This is another embarrassment for the Trust the Science™ crowd — the “experts” who tell us they can predict the distant future with climate-change computer simulations are unable to predict the direction of a single storm, when thousands of lives may hinge on the accuracy of their projections. A hurricane that was supposed to hit Tampa as a Category Three instead hit Fort Myers as a Category Four? “Oops,” say the experts.

Anyway, I don’t care about politics, I care about my daughter and her two children, spending the night in a dark house with no electricity. She’s still able to get text messages and I told her, “You’re living in a certified disaster area now. Leave [your husband] behind to scare off the looters and come home!” Her husband has a sufficient supply of ammunition for home-defense purposes, just in case any out-of-town looters show up.

Hopefully, we’ll see those grandkids soon.




 

Category: Florida

In The Mailbox: 09.28.22

Posted on | September 28, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.28.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1854
EBL: The Real Bling Ring, Hurricane Ian: Florida Gulf Coast Being Hit Now, and Hunter Biden has his own potential ChiCom honey trap
Twitchy: Vindman’s Dependa Vows To Harass DeSantis, also, Teen Detransitioner Says She’s Ruined Her Life By Going On Hormones
Louder With Crowder: YouTuber claims Ford’s electric truck can’t do basic truck things, also, Marvel actor dumps over what crap Hollywood has become
Vox Popoli: Trust the Science, The US Shuts Off Europe’s Lights, Release the Memes, and A Non-Coup in Red China
Stoic Observations: The Idiot-Proof City

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Did The US Sabotage Nord Stream?, also, Uncle Sam’s Long Trail of Wreckage
American Greatness: Trump Offers to Broker Peace Deal Between Russia and Ukraine to Avoid World War III, also, Donations Flood in for Family of Pro-Life Activist Raided by FBI
American Power: Woke Librarians: A National Scourge, Russia’s Mobilization, Plunging Oil Prices Weaken Putin’s Economic Hand, and Giorgia Meloni’s Election Victory: What the Rightward Shift Means for Italy
American Thinker: Donald Trump and the Future of Western Civilization, also, Running America on Imaginary Technology
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba left in the dark after direct hit from Hurricane Ian, Darkness for you, light for them: Cuba for Cubans vs. Cuba for tourists, and Cubans forced to queue up for stale bread in heavy rain and hurricane-force winds
BattleSwarm: Will Dollar-Pound Parity Unleash Weirdness?
Behind The Black: Is China-Russia partnership to build lunar base dead?, Part 1: The ugly corrupt lie of the experimental COVID jab, and Ingenuity completed 33rd flight this past weekend
Cafe Hayek: Look Who’s A ‘Market Fundamentalist’
CDR Salamander: Nordstream’s Burning Ships
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech Event
Da Tech Guy: A breath of fresh air for higher education, Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest Day 2 – Hawley weighs in, The Most Interesting Fact that Americans are Missing in Polling, and Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest Day 3 – Whistleblowing in the Wind
Don Surber: Finally, libs fear the Supreme Court, Trump triumphs. Squad loses, and Republicans headed to best showing in 94 years
First Street Journal: The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer, also, Killadelphia hits 400!
Gates Of Vienna: A Mother’s Role in an Honor Killing, Bah! Humbug!, Diana West: The Silence of the Institutions, and Biden: “There Will Be No Longer a Nord Stream 2”
The Geller Report: “Where’s Jackie?” Demented Biden Asks, Referring to Rep. Jackie Walorski, Who Died in August, also, Biden Regime Threatened to Sabotage and Destroy Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Months Before Explosions
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Spiral Galaxy IC 5332, Hubble, and Webb
Hollywood In Toto: Oscar-Winner Alex Gibney Defends Canceled Doc Jihad Rehab, Russell Brand Scorches YouTube for Misinformation Double Standard, and Dead for a Dollar Embraces Western 101 (With a Few Woke Nods)
The Lid: Kudlow Smacked Biden: He Inherited a V-Shaped Resurgence And Tossed It Into Toilet
Legal Insurrection: Special K Melts Down When Media Doesn’t Buy Her Explanation for Why Biden Asked for Dead Congresswoman, Lawsuit Filed to Stop Biden’s Student Loan Bailout, 84-Year-Old Michigan Woman Handing Out Pro-Life Pamphlets Shot in the Back, and EU Says ‘Sabotage’ Behind Damage to Russian Nord Stream Pipelines
Michelle Malkin: Our UN-American ‘Justice’ System
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Conservatism of Modernity
Outkick: Aaron Judge Makes History, Ties Roger Maris With 61st Homer, Russell Wilson Claps Back At Eli Manning: ‘I’m 3-0 Against Chad Powers’, MMA Fighter Wears ‘F*ck Disney’ Tape Over Breasts During Weigh-In, and Eli Manning Refreshingly Refuses To Apologize For His Russell Wilson Joke
Power Line: Who Blew Up the Pipeline?, Senior moment of the day, and Mister, Can You Spare a Dime?
Shark Tank: Democrat Alan Cohn Deletes Radical Views From Congressional Campaign Website
Shot In The Dark: Keith Ellison’s Round Trip Journey, The Case Of The Three Command Sergeants Major, and Institutional Leftist Logic
This Ain’t Hell: “Uncle Rick” Not in SEAL-BUD/S Database, Iran Unrest Turns Violent, Heavy US Gov’t influencers anti-fossil fuel group in Chinese pocket, and NCIS Hawaii: Stolen Valor
Transterrestrial Musings: How Corrupt Is The FBI?, Lyman Is About To Fall, and Hurricane Hunting
Victory Girls: Another School Shooting And Where Are The Democrats?, also, Bonhomme Richard Fire Trial Emblematic Of Larger Issues
Volokh Conspiracy: Some Comments on Biden’s Executive Order re White House Initiative on Hispanics
Watts Up With That: Euro Energy Crisis: A Rare Opportunity to Recalibrate Priorities?
Weasel Zippers: Biden’s Economic Accomplishments Summed Up In One Tweet, Another Senile Biden Moment Happened Today, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen May Finally Get The Boot, and Wisconsin School District Will Teach Sex Ed, Gender Identity Curriculum Beginning In Kindergarten
The Federalist: These Detransitioners Have A Message For Distressed Girls, Actual Police Endorse Ron Johnson After Democrat Opponent Faked Law Enforcement Support, Ohio’s Tim Ryan Only Supports Natural Gas When He’s In A Close Race, and Never Let A Devastating Natural Disaster Go To Waste
Mark Steyn: Immigration and Identity, Tale of the Tucking Tape, and Blowing Up the World

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In The Mailbox: 09.27.22

Posted on | September 27, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.27.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Energy Prices Are Killing German Industry
A Bad American: The Mainstream Media Is At It Again
EBL: Conservative Tiffany Smiley can win a Senate seat in Washington State!, Hurricane Ian Hits Cuba, Florida Next, and Two Nordstream Gaslines Leaking In The North Sea
Twitchy: “Your Money Is Not Safe At Citi”, also, Juan Williams Wants You To Think Of Egg McMuffin As Luke Skywalker
Louder With Crowder: Another surprising 2022 midterm poll shows Democrats might have problems in one of the bluest of blue regions, More proof Dems are getting mollywhopped in November, and  ‘Transracial’ icon Rachel Dolezal has been reduced to doing OnlyFans and Black Twitter has thoughts
Vox Popoli: God, Country, and Family, Improving on Tolkien, Cheating and Chess, and Doug Wilson is a Boomer Fraud

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Final Catholic Generation?
American Greatness: Nikki Haley: Dragon Slayer, DeSantis Calls the White Left’s Diversity Bluff, and No House Arrest or Curfew For ND Man Who Admitted to Killing Teenager Over Politics
American Power: Fighting the Culture War Through Christ, Republicans Intensify Attacks on Crime as Democrats Push Back, and Italy Votes Decisively for Nationalist-Right Coalition
American Thinker: There’s a Reason Conservatives are Becoming Less Tame, also, If Republicans Want to Win, Commit
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Chicken Thief News
Babalu Blog: Cuba at risk of losing 12,000 tons of precious tobacco due to mismanagement, Green organizations ignore the Cuban dictatorship’s crimes against the environment, and Cuban State leaves majority of Camajuani farmers in poverty
BattleSwarm: Did I Get a DDos Attack From Russia?
Behind The Black: Two Red Chinese launches: Long March 2D and Long March 6 put satellites into orbit, More glaciers in Mars’ glacier country, and Today’s blacklisted American: Arrested in 2020 for letting her kids play in park, a mom is still being prosecuted by Idaho Republicans
Cafe Hayek: MAD, also, Southern Economic Journal: Review of Richard Epstein’s ‘Simple Rules for a Complex World’
CDR Salamander: Russia’s Nuclear Option?
Chicago Boyz: Chicagoboyz are fashion trendsetters
Da Tech Guy: In defense of “pink slime” newspapers, Announcing the Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest Day 1, “Climate Change” Same old Con New Generation of Marks, and Report from Louisiana: Hurricane Season
Don Surber: Italy elects first woman PM. Misogynist media hates her, Democrats can’t govern. Media blames Republicans, and Is DeSantis next on the SWAT list?
First Street Journal: Has anything the experts have told us about #COVID19 been true?, Just because a public school library does not carry sexually-charged books does not mean that such books are banned, and Killadelphia and Killington
Gates Of Vienna: Nice Work if You Can Get It, Vienna Edition, Convicted of Exposing Islam?, The Sexual Rights of Children, and Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Geller Report: Biden’s Student Loan Handout Could Cost $400 Billion, CBO Reports, also, Explosions Reported On Nord Stream Pipelines As Massive Gas Leaks into Baltic Sea
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, and Those Gas Leaks
Hollywood In Toto: How This is the End Capped the Bro-Comedy Era, Elizabeth Banks Re-Writes History on Charlie’s Angels Flop, and Rob Zombie’s The Munsters Is D.O.A.
The Lid: YO KAMALA: Armed African American Rights Group Marched To Demand A Secure Border
Legal Insurrection: Far-Left Salon Mag Gives Up On Term “Latinx”, YouTube Removes Viral Video Of Incoming Italian PM Giorgia Meloni “For Violating Terms Of Service”, Italy’s Right-Wing Victory: Shock and Rage Across European Political Class, Mainstream Media, and New Video Shows Philadelphia Wawa Plundered by 50 to 100 Juveniles, ‘Some as Young as 10 Years Old’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Is Winnie-the-Pooh on Fire?, also, Italy Turns Right
Outkick: Former Baylor Players Upset At Kim Mulkey Refusing To Comment On Brittney Griner Situation, One Year Later ManningCast Still Isn’t Polished Or Sophisticated, Which Is Great, Women’s Basketball Teammates Throw Punches After World Cup Loss, and Dana White Remains A Donald Trump Supporter, Doesn’t Care What Anyone Thinks
Power Line: An in-your-face fraud, Homicidal Urges on the Left, and Thought for the Day: Affirmative Action Chemotherapy
Shark Tank: POLITICO Accused Of Politicizing Hurricane Ian
Shot In The Dark: Feeding Our Supporters, Non Per Girare, and Sign O’ The Times
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday: Using Taxes as Standing to Sue over the Student Loan Forgiveness
The Political Hat: National Education Association Wants To Teach Kids About Bondage, Fisting, And More
This Ain’t Hell: Memorial service for Army vet Ralph Hubert Barger quiet, respectful, Someone should tell the left that the Nazis were not conservative, Nuclear Saber Rattling, and Doubts over Mays (USS Bonhomme Richard) trial reported
Victory Girls: NASA Plays Armageddon And It’s So Cool, also, Putin Has a Potemkin Army
Volokh Conspiracy: The First Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Watts Up With That: Former Bank of England Governor’s Net Zero Asset Alliance Crumbling, also, Which part of “economic” does the World Economic Forum not understand?
Weasel Zippers: Biden At It Again: “Everybody Under 15, Come Here, Bad Orange Woman Admits: If Midterms Are Referendum On Biden, Democrats Will Lose, More Giorgia Meloni Awesomeness, and WZ QUARTERLY DONATION DRIVE
The Federalist: Here’s Some Required Reading For Gender-Confused Teen Girls Before They Remove Their Breasts, It’s Not Tolkien’s Fault Amazon’s Adaptation Is Terrible, FBI Seized $86 Million In Raid On Innocent Americans’ Safe Boxes After Duping Judge For Warrant, and Jan. 6 Committee Decides To Move Final Show Trial Hearing Even Closer To Election Day
Mark Steyn: Ball’s Bearing, also, Meltdown over Meloni

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‘The Hard-Hitting Social Commentary We’re Trying to Get Across’

Posted on | September 27, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘The Hard-Hitting Social Commentary We’re Trying to Get Across’

Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh in ‘Don’t Worry Darling’

Because my 19-year-old daughter is a Harry Styles fan, I have a built-in bias against Olivia Wilde, the 38-year-old ex-girlfriend of Jason Sudekis, whom Styles is currently dating. Also, it should be pointed out, Wilde’s grandfather was an infamous Commie, which is all the more reason to hate her. Now, as the cherry on top of this hot fudge sundae of hate, we have the revelation that a villainous character in Wilde’s new movie is based on Jordan Peterson — or, to put it more accurately, the character is based on an ignorant stereotype of Peterson:

Katie Silberman: [Heavy sigh, more scrolling] Last major point, I guess, is the Jordan Peterson thing.
Shane Van Dyke: The what?
Olivia Wilde: Frank the cult leader. Chris Pine? Katie and I thought the version you pitched us was a bit one-note, so we put our heads together and figured out a way to really bind all the hard-hitting social commentary we’re trying to get across. WB thought we should let you know, just so there’s no surprises when the movie comes out.
Carey Van Dyke: And what does Frank have to do with Jordan Peterson?
Olivia Wilde: You know…white male pseudo-intellectual. Leader of the incels. Spouts weird shit about chaos and lobsters?
Katie Silberman: That’s Frank all over.
Shane Van Dyke: No disrespect, gang, but have you read Jordan Peterson or listened to any of his lectures?
Olivia Wilde: Um, eww! I’ve never drank bleach before but I know it’s poison!

Perhaps most offensive here is Wilde’s assertion that Peterson — a professor of clinical psychology, who produced important research while on the faculty of Harvard in the 1990s — is a “pseudo-intellectual,” No, ma’am. Whatever your disagreements with the professor may be, he is a genuine intellectual, and there is nothing “pseudo” about it. Apparently, Wilde’s opinion of Peterson is not based on direct knowledge of his work, but rather is based on feminist criticism of his work. And her idea that Peterson is “Leader of the incels” — where did she get that? Isn’t that misbegotten notion also likely traceable to something Wilde got by reading Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti and other feminists?

There is a paranoid pattern of belief on the Left where everything they hate is somehow related to every other thing they hate. For example, liberals hate Trump and they hate racism, therefore Trump is a racist, and anyone who writes something that liberals consider racist must be connected to Trump. The whole thing about “incels” sprang into public consciousness in 2014 when Elliot Rodger went on a murder spree in Santa Barbara, California. Feminist writers like Marcotte and Valenti became rather obsessed with this massacre as some kind of symbol of the fatal menace of “misogyny,” of which “incels” like Elliot Rodger were the violent tip of the hateful iceberg. A few months after the Santa Barbara massacre, “GamerGate” zoomed into prominence and, in the minds of many feminists, was instantly connected to the “incel” phenomenon. It was around the same time that Jordan Peterson began to become popular on YouTube, and I can only conjecture that his temporal proximity to these events caused feminists to associate him with the whole “incel”/“misogyny” phenomenon. Of course, there is the fact that Peterson looks at human differences from the standpoint of evolutionary psychology (dismissed by Wilde as “weird shit about chaos and lobsters”) which feminists insist is inherently sexist. That is to say, any man who suggests there are natural differences between men and women is guilty of “misogyny,” according to feminists and — to follow this everything-is-connected belief pattern to its irrational conclusion — because “incels” are also misogynists, then it is fair to view Jordan Peterson as a “leader of the incels.” In the same way, the Soviet Union imposed Lysenkoism and condemned basic agricultural science as “bourgeois.”

If the only tool you’ve got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And if the only ideology you have is feminism, every problem looks like misogyny. Because of the unipolar dynamic of feminist ideology, everything they consider problematic is lumped together as part of an oppressive system, and therefore Professor Peterson gets dumped into the same “basket of deplorables” as Donald Trump and “incels.”

Such is the “hard-hitting social commentary” Olivia Wilde wedged into her new movie, and really, Harry Styles needs to dump that bitch.

By the way, Harry — my daughter loves you. And she’s cute.

 

She doesn’t like lobsters, though.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Celebrities, Feminism

In The Mailbox: 09.26.22

Posted on | September 26, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.26.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

From MeWe

OVER THE TRANSOM
A Bad American: The Insanity Continues
357 Magnum: The Democrats Broke California – And U-Haul
EBL: Father Stu, Hurricane Ian Still Heading North, and Conservative Giorgia Meloni wins in Italy
Twitchy: Tucker Carlson Speaks At Sonny Barger’s Funeral – Leftist Brains Implode, also, Politifact Explains Away Democrat Election Deniers
Louder With Crowder: So, Tucker Carlson showed up to eulogize the founder of the Hells Angels over the weekend. No, really, also, Woman has epic meltdown over a man’s microaggression of telling her she cut in line
Vox Popoli: Color Revolution in China, Smart Thermostats are Very Stupid, and Connections

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Meloni & Our Lying Media, also, Should America Go All In on Ukraine?
American Greatness: FBI Whistleblower: ‘Nobody I Know Signed Up’ To Investigate Parents Who Vented at Schoolboard Meetings, also, The Case for Impeachment Gets Stronger
American Power: Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door, also, Pot Legalization Fails in California
American Thinker: Democrats Used A Massive Race Hoax To Gain Power, also, Did the FBI Finally Go Too Far?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s only hot dog plant producing solely for tourist resorts and dollars-only stores, Rice and bean production collapses in Cuba while hotel rooms grow by 125%, Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship controls 25% of the world’s drug trafficking, and Why wouldn’t crime and the economy be #1 with voters?
BattleSwarm: A Swimming Ratte?, also, Abbott-O’Rourke Race Update – There Isn’t One
Behind The Black: NASA managers decide finally to roll SLS back to assembly building,  SpaceX successfully launches 52 Starlink satellites, NASA and ESA sign simple lunar exploration agreement, and The rising federal Gestapo
Cafe Hayek: “None of Them”, Access to Amazon’s Site Enhances Third-Party Merchants’ Competitiveness, and LOL!
CDR Salamander: AUKUS at 1-year, with Alessio Patalano, also, Realism in Foreign Policy and its Discontents
Chicago Boyz:
Da Tech Guy: The “Ron DeSantis urges Massachusetts to Vote Yes on Question 1” ad I would make, Transgender safety equipment, and Joe Biden’s FBI Only Following More Orders – Ten Thoughts
Don Surber: RCP vs. 538, also, Oh no. Not an 1864 law
First Street Journal: This morning’s rant, also, Killadelphia: A reason for hope?
Gates Of Vienna: Wintry Outlook, You Will Be Controlled Through Your Phone, Being Klaboosterbach Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry, and Long Live Free, Strong and Sovereign Italy!
The Geller Report: Venezuela Empties Prisons and Sends Criminals To Biden’s Open Southern Border, Wisconsin County Takes Control Away from Dominion – Approves Hand Recount of Governor, Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senator Race in November Election, and Italy Votes For Their Trump: Anti-Communist Giorgia Meloni Wins HUGE Historic Victory As Europe Moves Right, Media Melts-Down
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Meanwhile, at the Galaxy’s Center, and Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Hollywood In Toto: YouTube Stars Create Content Without Woke Lectures, How Escape from the Future Highlights Our Surreal Present, and Lorne Michaels Won’t Come Clean on ‘SNL’s’ Liberal Bias
The Lid: California Crazy: Banning Gas Water Heaters and Stoves, also, COVID Relief Funding Likely Biggest Fraud In U.S. History
Legal Insurrection: Education Policy Experts: It’s Time to Dismantle ‘Campus DEI Bureaucracies’, Air Force Academy Says Non-Gendered Language Controversy is Overblown, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Law Banning Viewpoint Discrimination On Largest Internet Platforms, and Operation Demoralize Has Failed
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change is good, also, Reflections
Outkick: Instagram Legend Hilde Osland Is Fired Up For College Football, Vols Fans Are Fired Up & Yankees Fans Are Fighting, ESPN Keeps Showing Aaron Judge At-Bats During Clemson-Wake Forest Game And College Football Fans Are Livid, ‘Horns Down’ EVERYWHERE As Pandemonium Unfolds In Lubbock After Texas Tech Beats Longhorns And Fans Storm Field, Buffalo Bills OC Ken Dorsey Has MELTDOWN After Narrow Loss To Dolphins, and Deion Sanders Delivers Brutally Honest Speech To Players About Stealing, Assault, And Unwanted Pregnancies During JSU Bye Week
Power Line: In free lunch fraud, Judge calls out Walz & Star Tribune, Joe Biden Is Toast, and Freaking Out Over Italy
Shark Tank: “If We Don’t Beat These People, If We Don’t Stop Them, They’ll Destroy This Country”, also, Florida Elected Officials Unite In Preparation For Hurricane Ian
Shot In The Dark: Possibilities, More, Faster, Please, and Is There A Worse Governor Anywhere In America?
This Ain’t Hell: Who says Pay-to-Play is dead? New Yorkers bilked for ~$250,000,000, Majewski pulls tired, old defense of his tales not matching his record, Congressman introduces legislation to give MoH recipients a $100k/yr pension, and Gold Star Mom and Family Day
Transterrestrial Musings: Meaningless Polling, The Latest On FBI Corruption, and How To Help The Iranian People
Victory Girls: Xi Jinping: Under House Arrest?, U.S. Media Loses Their Mind Over Giorgia Meloni Win In Italy, and Pro-Life Activist Arrested By FBI While Jane’s Revenge Skates
Volokh Conspiracy: “In Sum, the Problem With [the Same-Sex Marriage Cases] Is That They Recognize Only Two-Person Relationships”, also, “FBI Misled Judge in Obtaining Warrant To Seize Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes”
Watts Up With That: PETA Germany Threatens Sex Strike Unless Climate Destroying Meat is Banned, Big Oil, Exxon Not Guilty as Charged (a rebuttal in six parts), and The Atlantic: “What is the Real Goal here – Stopping Climate Change or Abolishing Capitalism?”
Weasel Zippers: Fetterman Says “LGBTQ Education” Should Be “Mandatory In All Schools”, 2 Democrats Now Openly Running On A Platform Of Emptying The Prisons, Italy’s New Prime Minister Is Awesome, and Stock Market Value Reportedly Down $7.6 Trillion Since Biden Took Office
The Federalist: Jake Tapper’s Move To Primetime Proves CNN’s Reputation Is Unsalvageable, Zoomers Have Made Peace With Constant Surveillance, Wisconsin Senator Documents Big Tech Rigging The 2022 Election Against Republicans, and Is Italy’s Next Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, A ‘Fascist’? Hardly
Mark Steyn: Greeks Baring Rifts, After School Special: Lindsay Anderson and If…, and Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

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Rule 5 Sunday: Seltin Sweet

Posted on | September 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Seltin Sweet

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Russian model and Instagram personality Seltin Sweet can often be seen in the r/sexynotporn subreddit.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Wild thing!

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1848, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Silent Majority Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: MAGA – Bumbling Biden, Father Stu, Bidenflation Blues, Ukrainians Make Progress, Rachel Redford, and Martha’s Vineyard


A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Tayler Caffee, Fish Pic Friday – Chantelle Grace, Fall Is Fell, Becky’s So Hot, The Wednesday Wetness, Another Lusby Alligator?, Tattoo Tuesday, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

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