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In The Mailbox: 10.21.21

Posted on | October 22, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.21.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: New York City & The Shoplifting Tsunami
Red Pilled Jew: Quick Takes
EBL: Brian Laundrie Found?
Twitchy: “That’s What Happens When You Try To Live In The Fantasy Of A Teenage Girl”, also, Illustrated Warning Of What DC Might Look Like If Climate Change Isn’t Addressed Backfires
Louder With Crowder: Megan Kelly Shares Shocking Story Of What Her Sons’ School Taught Third-Graders
Vox Popoli: Wanna Bet? also, Just Stop Already
Stoic Observations: Looking Back On When I…
Gab News: Their Silly Shame Words Aren’t Working Any More

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Social Costs Of Scarcity
American Greatness: MI Parents Sue AG Garland Over Plan To Target Anti-School Board Protests, also, NYC Lawyers Who Firebombed Police Car Last Year Plead Guilty
American Power: Biden Has Lost Support From All Groups But Especially Hispanics & Independents, also, GOP Gaining In Virginia Governor Race
American Thinker: On The Front Lines Of The COVID War, also, Corporations Pull Out The Long Knives For Their Employees
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Sidewalk Bums News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Communists Skip Annual Payment To Paris Club Creditors, also, Young Tampa Cuban-Americans Stand Up For Freedom In Cuba, Against Communist Tyranny
BattleSwarm: Dozens!
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, Israel & UAE Sign Pact To Work Together On Space Projects, and ROK’s New Nuri Rocket Fails On First Launch
Cafe Hayek: JP Sears Continues – Thankfully – To Speak Out
CDR Salamander: Culture, Competition, & Conflict
Da Tech Guy: Just Desserts…And The Fingers In The Pie, Under The Fedora, also, Moms For America Tells Biden’s DOJ Where To Stick Their Intimidation
Don Surber: Berkeley Students Willing To Fund The Next 9/11, NYT – Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals, also, Who Does She Think She Is, Joe Manchin?
First Street Journal: The #ClimateActivists Don’t Care What You Want Or Need, also, They Can’t Handle The Truth!
Gates Of Vienna: Something Is Rotten In Rhode Island, More Heads Must Roll!, and The Muezzin Will Yodel In Cologne
The Geller Report: Biden’s “Moderate” Taliban Behead Woman Volleyball Player, also, Tex. School District Official Orders Teachers To Present “Opposing Views” On Holocaust
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Things We Don’t Know About Venus, and Karmic Blues
Hollywood In Toto: It’s Over – Cancel Culture Has Already Won The Chappelle Fight, also, Bergman Island Is Lovely To Behold – And That’s About It
The Lid: Biden Report Links Illegal Immigration To Socialist Climate Change Propaganda
Legal Insurrection: Michigan Drops Investigation Of Prof Who Triggered Students By Showing 1965 Othello, also, Coastal Carolina Prof Faces Firing After Brushing Off Fake Racist Accusations From Student Activists
Nebraska Energy Observer: How?
Outkick: Fenway Crowd Breaks Into “F*** Joe Biden” Chant After ALCS Game 5 Loss, Chicoms Remove NBA Game From Broadcast After Enes Kanter Speaks Out, and Could Ed Orgeron & Lane Kiffin Reunite At Ole Miss Or LSU?
Power Line: The Dying Citizen, Merrick Garland Testifies, and The NYT Skirts The Supply Chain Crisis
Shark Tank: Anthony Sabatini Endorsed By Madison Cawthorn
Shot In The Dark: Yesterday’s “Hate Speech” = Tomorrow’s Headline, Heroes Are So Hard To Find, and Clarification
STUMP: Chicago Police – Jab Mandates & Pension Threats
The Political Hat: The Woke War On Teachers – Terminating Whistleblowers, Purging Dissenters, & Unions Against Dissidents, also, End of Cyber “Innovation Zone” In Nevada – Cyborg Catgirls Hardest Hit
This Ain’t Hell: CWO4 Mike Durant Jumps Into Ala. Senate Race, Stolen Purple Heart Returned, and Marine Vet Disarms Alleged Robber
Transterrestrial Musings: A New Space Station, also, The True New Jim Crow
Victory Girls: Trump Launches Social Media Network, also, Fauci Lied, Noone Should Be Surprised
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Aren’t Texas Abortion Providers Actively Resisting SB8?
Weasel Zippers: “When We Talk About The Number, We Shouldn’t Even Talk About The Number”, Joe Rogan Comes To Dave Chappelle’s Defense, and Reuters Claims Pics Of Empty Grocery Store Shelves Are Fake
The Federalist: AG Garland Admits Federal War On Parents Sprang From NSBA Letter, Not Evidence, also, New Court Evidence Confirmed Kamala Harris Abused Her Power To Help Campaign Donors
Mark Steyn: The Assumption Of Permanence

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Just Say No

Posted on | October 21, 2021 | Comments Off on Just Say No

— by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

F*** Joe Biden and his mandates too.

Normally I wait for the evening link dump for things like this, but Bob Zimmermann dropped me an e-mail about the impending FDA hearings & comment period on the notion of giving the jab to kids 5-11. This notion is just absolutely unscientific. We’ve known for a long time that the chances of kids in that age bracket getting the coof and being seriously affected by it are slim and none, so what’s the point? A cynical sod like me might think this is a way for the Democrats to shovel more of your tax dollars to their Big Pharma donors, but you’re all adults, and you can connect your own dots. Let’s saddle up and let the FDA know this is not only a waste of taxpayers’ money but a BAD IDEA. Bob’s got the necessary link in his post, so go over and hit it and let the FDA know what you think. We get a few million people telling them not only no, but hell no, they may actually pay attention for once. 

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In The Mailbox: 10.20.21

Posted on | October 21, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.20.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1511
357 Magnum: What’s The Opposite of Diversity? University
Ammo.com: Jeff Cooper
EBL: Gov. Jay Inslee’s Evil Mandate Plan Goes Forward
Twitchy: Liberal Loons At Netflix Walkout Break Chappelle Fan’s Sign, Claim He Has Weapon
Louder With Crowder: Aaron Rodgers Unloads On Woke PC Culture, Blames Media, Points To People Hating Their Lives
Vox Popoli: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Military, A New Foundation, and John Piper Pushes The Jab

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Save Our Souls
American Conservative: Debunking The Conflict Thesis, also, Abimael Guzman, 1934-2021
American Greatness: DoD Pulls Bait & Switch On Vaccines, also, Administration Backs Down On Bank Account Monitoring Proposal
American Thinker: Virginia Voters, Beware The Weaponization Of Teachers, also, The Real Cost of Government Mandated Wind & Solar Power
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Context & Analysis Of The HRW Report On Human Rights Abuses In Communist Cuba, also, A Cuban Model From The 1950s
BattleSwarm: Austin Police Department Morale Hits Bottom
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Did Red China Test A Hypersonic Weapon In August?, and Senate Committee Insists NASA Choose Two Companies For Lunar Lander Contract
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Burning Of The Bonnie Dick
Da Tech Guy: A Statement That Will Not Make Me Friends On Any Side
Don Surber: Why McAuliffe Should Be In Trouble, They Promised To Destroy Big Brother – And Became Him, and Did We Learn Nothing From World War II?
First Street Journal: California Wants To Close Traditional Power Plants Due To #Climate Emergency, also, Irony Is So Ironic
Gates Of Vienna: The Smuggling Of Migrants Through Belarus, Make Room! Make Room!, and A Defector From The Borg
The Geller Report: Manchin Mulling Leaving The Democrats?, also, Biden’s Special Envoy Warns U.S. “Must” Prepare For Fully Nuclear Iran
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Magnesium & Wheels, and The Right To Speak English
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan – “Chappelle Is One Of The Nicest People I’ve Met”, also, Seventeen Reasons Why Modern Family Is The Best Sitcom Ever
The Lid: Goodbye Middle Class – 50% Of All Americans Made $34,612.04 Or Less Last Year
Legal Insurrection: Washington & Lee Tells College Republicans To Stop Advocating For Youngkin, also, Biden Warns Progs Free Community College Probably Won’t Be In Spending Bill
Michelle Malkin: Who’s Choking Your Children?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosis, Chapter 11
Outkick: WNBA Champs Chicago Sky Draw Laughable Crowd For Victory Parade, Uh-Oh, Spencer Rattler Has Deleted OU From His Instagram Account, and Delonte West Arrested After Incident With Florida Cops
Power Line: Bad Orange Woman Yanks Our (Supply) Chain, Ilhan Omar Vs. The Strib, and The Manchin Proviso
Shark Tank: Rep. Byron Donalds Accuses Administration Of Violating Due Process
Shot In The Dark: Malaise, also, I’m Old Enough…
The Political Hat: Walmart Goes Woke
This Ain’t Hell: Army Vet Accused Of Faking Paralysis To Get Over $1 Million In VA Benefits, also, Leadership & Seamanship Failures Doomed The Bonhomme Richard
Transterrestrial Musings: The End Of Risk, also, Virgin Galactic’s Problems
Victory Girls: “Rachel” Levine Gets Four Stars For Being Transgender
Volokh Conspiracy: Lawyers, Law Students, Law School Administrators, & Language
Weasel Zippers: CBP Nominee Agrees Biden’s Policies Pulling More Illegals To The U.S., Seven Times Terry McAuliffe Said Parents Have No Say In Schools, and “F*** Joe Biden” Chants Drown Out American League Pennant Series Post-Game
The Federalist: If You Can’t Tell A Man From A Woman…, also, Leftist Shadow Governments Control A Lot More Than Just Our Elections
Mark Steyn: The Admirable Admiral

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The Buckhead Lamborghini Murder

Posted on | October 20, 2021 | Comments Off on The Buckhead Lamborghini Murder

If you’ve been paying attention to news from Atlanta lately, you know that the prestigious Buckhead district, one of the wealthiest ZIP codes in the South, is seeking to secede from the city, because crime has gotten totally out of control. So last week — Monday, Oct. 10 — there appeared in Atlanta media this weird report:

Police are trying to determine if a woman who died after being ejected from a Lamborghini in Buckhead was pushed out of the moving car.
Investigators said late Monday night the 28-year-old metro Atlanta woman, later identified as Catherine Khan, started fighting with a man. At some point, they both got into the Lamborghini, where police say the altercation continued.
When the vehicle reached the Buckhead intersection of the Peachtree Road and Piedmont Road, the woman was ejected from the Lambo.
Paramedics rushed her to Grady Memorial Hospital, where doctors sadly couldn’t save her life. Police said she wasn’t shot, stabbed, or run over by any other vehicles.
Detectives said it’s too early to know if the victim was pushed out of the Lamborghini or maybe jumped to escape the fight. They’re looking at nearby surveillance video and talking to witnesses, hoping to piece together what happened.

The victim, Catherine Khan, is a woman of Middle Eastern ancestry who was described in some outlets as an “Instagram model,” and this all seemed mysterious. I mean, Buckhead is pretty affluent, but how many Lamborghinis do you see on Peachtree Street? And this story that Khan was “fighting with a man” made it seem as if it might be some kind of relationship problem. But it turned out to be related to a theft outside the Buckhead restaurant where Khan worked as a bartender:

Alfred Megbuluba (left); Catherine Khan (right).

A warrant is revealing new details in connection to the death of a woman, who a witness said, was thrown out of a moving Lamborghini to her death.
According to a warrant from Fulton County, 31-year-old Alfred Megbuluba is accused of taking a wallet belonging to 28-year-old Catherine Khan before her death.
Inside the wallet, there was money valued under $1,500 and Khan’s credit cards, according to the warrant. The warrant states he later tried to use her card at a Chevron gas station shortly before her death.
Hours after turning himself in to Atlanta Police, Megbuluba made his first court appearance, where he was denied bond. At the hearing, Megbuluba’s attorney Steve Sadow waived the reading of the arrest warrant. . . .
The warrant further states, “Alfred Megbuluba, did commit the offense of murder when he unlawfully and with malice aforethought pushed Catherine Kahn out of his vehicle while it was in motion. Catherine died as a result of her injuries from being pushed out of the vehicle.”
Megbuluba faces felony murder, theft by taking, and financial transaction card theft charges.

In some ways, this only adds to the mystery: How is this guy, who lives in Lilburn in suburban Gwinnett County, driving a Lamborghini? And if you’re rich enough to be driving a Lambo, how is it that you’re stealing a woman’s wallet and using her credit card to buy gas?

And, really, if Lamborghinis are not commonplace on Peachtree Street, they’re certainly not seen very often in Lilburn. Something tells me we’re going to be learning a lot more about the background of Alfred Megbuluba who, needless to say, is not a native of Georgia. It appears that in 2015, he registered an LLC consulting company in Nevada, but that license lapsed in 2017 for some reason. I don’t know what kind of “consulting” he was involved in, but if he could afford a Lamborghini, it must have been quite lucrative. We shall see . . .




 

Category: Crime, Georgia

McAuliffe Campaign Implosion Continues

Posted on | October 20, 2021 | Comments Off on McAuliffe Campaign Implosion Continues

Do candidates who are winning act like this?

Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Terry McCauliffe (D) reportedly ended an interview at the half-way mark and berated the reporter for not asking “better questions.”
According to ABC7, the network had reporter Nick Minock conduct two interviews with the opposing candidates for governor – one with former governor Terry McCauliffe and the other with businessman Glenn Youngkin (R). To keep it fair and balanced, the interviews were to be 20 minutes apiece, wherein both candidates would be asked about their platforms. However, mid-way through McCauliffe’s interview, the former governor abruptly ended the discussion and scolded the reporter for not asking “better questions.”
“If you watch those entire interviews on our website, we do want to point out that the Terry McCauliffe interview is shorter than our interview with Glenn Youngkin,” said an ABC7 anchor during a Tuesday broadcast. “That was not by our doing.”
“Nick offered 20 minutes for both candidates exactly to be fair for the interviews,” he continued. “McCauliffe abruptly ended 7 News’ interview after just 10 minutes and told Nick that he should have asked ‘better questions’ and that Nick should have asked questions 7 News viewers ‘care about.’”
The footage of McCauliffe abruptly ending the interview and scolding the reporter can be viewed on the ABC7 website. The moment came shortly after journalist Nick Minock asked McAuliffe about vaccine mandates for children, which the former governor used to then segue into the subject of abortion:

[Youngkin] is a Donald trump right-wing agenda. He will ban abortions. Your viewers should be very clear on this. He wants to ban abortions here in Virginia. He says election integrity is the number one issue. No, it isn’t. Healthcare, COVID, education, job creation.

Just then, a McAuliffe staffer interjected to tell Nick Minock that he was “over time,” prompting the former governor’s exit.
“Alright, we are over. That’s it. That’s it. Hey I gave you extra time,” said the former governor. “C’mon man. You should have asked better questions early on. You should have asked questions your viewers care about.”
“Well, we did,” responded Minock.
Current polls show that McAuliffe and Youngkin are tied in a virtual dead-heat in the race to become the next governor of Virginia, with Youngkin having a slight edge.
“The poll, conducted October 11–13 among 1,095 likely voters, shows Youngkin with 48.4 percent support compared to McAuliffe’s 47.5 percent support, giving Youngkin a 0.9 percent edge,” Breitbart recently reported.

Ace uncorked a nice one yesterday about how McAuliffe is trying to claim his anti-parent remarks were “taken out of context.”

We’re two weeks away from Election Day and, as I’ve said, D.C. metro TV markets are being saturated with McAuliffe ads attacking Youngkin as a Trump puppet — that’s actually the closing argument for the McAuliffe campaign, which can’t lay a glove on Youngkin otherwise. No wonder McAuliffe is losing: Biden sucks so bad, even a lot of Democrats must be thinking it wouldn’t be so bad to have a Trump puppet as governor.




 

Category: Election, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 10.19.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.19.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Just another bunch of Commies screwing up the economy, as they do.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Hatchet To A Gunfight
Red Pilled Jew: The Jab – A Rite Of Passage
EBL: Colin Powell, Dead At 84, also, Acapulco
Twitchy: Terry McAuliffe’s Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Campaign Gets Worse, also, “Get Your Retraction Ready Now”
Louder With Crowder: Jill Biden Tries Saving Her Confused Husband From Himself, Fails
Vox Popoli: Cracks In The Pedocracy, The Ideas, They Perpetrate, and The Hidden War
Gab News: Santa Claus Fired By Major Retailer Over Jab Mandate

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Strangers In The Midst
American Conservative: The Woke Profession Of Faith At American Universities
American Greatness: DHS Insider Reveals Administration Polices That Allow Sex Traffickers & Cartels To Operate In U.S., also, Dealing Honestly With Election Issues
American Thinker: Why I’m Betting Biden Serves His Full Four Years, also, There’s Been No Mandatory Jab EO
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Defund The Feds News
Babalu Blog: Apartheid Is Alive And Well In Cuba, Surprise! Bankrupt Cuban Regime Subsidizing Spanish Far-Left Podemos, and The Ghana Pallbearers In Cuba
BattleSwarm: Colin Powell, RIP, also, Democrats Want The Cops They Slimed In 2020 To Enforce Jab Mandates In 2021 – Cops Tell Democrats To Get Stuffed
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, The Icy Phlegra Mountains On Mars, and First FAA Hearing On Starship Environmental Assessment Dominated By Supporters
Cafe Hayek: Balance Budget Requirements Are A Tool For Keeping Government Limited
CDR Salamander: Ukraine – Tough Kid In A Tough Neighborhood
Da Tech Guy: The Jab Mandate Trap For Business, also, Jimmy Carter Redux
Don Surber: The Mandate Should Bring Biden Down, Degradation Then Recession, and Poland May Save Europe Again
First Street Journal: Patricians Like Will Bunch Really Don’t Understand Reality, also, Anna Orso Does Not Like Being Questioned!
Gates Of Vienna: Vaccine Roulette, Senegal Enriches The Culture Of Apulia, and Fake News, Fake Interpreters, Fake Refugees
The Geller Report: Regime Secretly Flying Underage Illegals Into NY At Night, Media DEAD SILENT On How Florida COVID Cases Down 88% Over Last Six Months, and Soros-Backed Loudoun County Prosecutor Sought To Jail Father Of School Rape Victim
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Mmmmm, Donuts – Not!, and Let Them Eat Treadmills
Hollywood In Toto: Show “Business” Doesn’t Apply To Woke Hollywood, also, I Know What You Did Last Summer Makes A Bad Franchise Even Worse
The Lid: State Department IG Looking Into Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster
Legal Insurrection: RI Teachers Union – We Didn’t Want To Sue Nicole Solas, We Had To, also, Indiana AG Todd Rokita Leading 17-State Effort To Protect Parents From Biden & Garland Intimidation
Nebraska Energy Observer: Illness & The Family, also, How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Outkick: Washington State Coach Nick Rolovich Fired For Refusing Jab, Aaron Rodgers Also Owns “Woke PC” Losers, and Buy A Custom #3 Monte Carlo Dale Earnhardt Casket 
Power Line: Derek Chauvin Finds A Lawyer, The Latest From Our Confused Old Man In The White House, and Nine Months Into Biden’s Presidency, Trust In Government Has Plummeted
Shark Tank: Florida’s Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates Running As Progressives
Shot In The Dark: All Things Must Pass, also, Too Good To Fact-Check
STUMP: A Look At The Changing Age-Related Mortality Risk Of COVID
The Political Hat: Anti-Civil Liberties Union, also, A Feature – Not A Bug
This Ain’t Hell: RIP Colin Powell, Hypersonic Missiles Operational By 2023, and Pipe Aboard The New Four-Star
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship Landings, also, “If SpaceX Were an Oil Exploration Company…”
Victory Girls: American Press Goes Full Soviet, also, Bari Weiss Mashes The Potato On CNN
Volokh Conspiracy: Qualified Immunity Reform Stalls In The States, And At SCOTUS
Weasel Zippers: Economists Say We’re In A Recession After Just Ten Months Of Biden, also, NYC Commission Votes To Remove “Incredibly Racist” Thomas Jefferson Statue From City Hall
The Federalist: DeSantis Invites Cargo Ships To Florida Ports As Vessels Idle In California Backlogs, also, Biden’s Approval Ratings Plummet To 37% In Abysmal New Quinnipiac Poll
Mark Steyn: Que Sera Sera, The Future Is Showing Up, and Serfs Instead Of Citizens

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In The Mailbox: 10.19.21 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | October 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.19.21 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

F*** Joe Biden and his mandates too.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How California Destroyed Its Trucking Industry
EBL: Chicoms Start The Long March, also, General Burgoyne Surrenders At Saratoga
Twitchy: WaPo Telling Americans To Lower Expectations Does NOT Gp Over Well
Louder With Crowder: Rapper Drops “Let’s Go Brandon” Track, Hits #1 On iTunes Hip-Hop Charts
Vox Popoli: Murder, He Suspected, Rule By Pervs & Pedos, and Red China Refuses To Flex
Stoic Observations: Hanging With Mr. Cooper

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: COVID Refugees
American Conservative: Lament For The Pickup Truck, also, It’s Time To Disobey COVID Mandates
American Greatness: What Happened To Our Beloved Military?, also, New Capitol Video Contradicts DOJ/Media Narrative About J6
American Power: As Afghanistan Sinks Into Destitution, Some Sell Children To Survive
American Thinker: The Unvaxxed Are Looking Smarter Every Week, also, Did Zuckerberg Buy The Oval Office For Biden?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Another Cuban General Is Dead – 16th Since 7/11 Protests, also, “Growing Old In Cuba Is Like Living In Hell”
BattleSwarm: A Pilot On The Southwest Airlines Jab Snafu, also, Ruy Teixeira 2002: Hispanics Will make The Democrats A Permanent Majority – Ruy Texeira 2021: Not So Fast
Behind The Black: ULA’s Atlas-5 Successfully Launches The Lucy Probe, Chicoms Get Failed Satellite To Proper Orbit, and Rocket Lab Reschedules Next Launches
Cafe Hayek: Economists Have Long Been Aware Of The Monopsony Theory, also, The Amount Of Government Financing Is Not Independent Of The Means Of Financing
CDR Salamander: The Navy In Afghanistan At Flood Tide – On Midrats, also, Zinni On Wargaming – Value & Danger
Da Tech Guy: Well, I Was Wrong On Scheller, Five Chappelle Thoughts Under The Fedora, and The Chestnut Man
Don Surber: Biden Makes Trump Look Even Better, I Just Checked – Jonah Goldberg Is Still Stupid, and Left Turns Machin Into Coalfinger
First Street Journal: The “Journalism” Of The Philadelphia Inquirer, also, Lexington Ties 2019 Record!
Gates Of Vienna: Urgent – More Housing For Culture-Enrichers!, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and Mad Vax Disease
The Geller Report: France To Close Mosque That Promoted Armed Jihad, Totalitarian Virginia Tech To Restrict  Football Game Chants Critical Of Joe Biden, and TSA Employees Refusing The Jab
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, If You Enjoy Flying Now…, and Eight Asteroids
Hollywood In Toto: Why The Howling Is More Than a Subversive Werewolf Thriller, also, Last Duel Is A Major Misfire
The Lid: Katie Couric Wasn’t The First – FDR, Truman, & The Jews, also, Yitzhak Rabin’s Vision Of Peace Wasn’t What The Liberals Claim
Legal Insurrection: Is “Insurrection” Cool Again?,  La. School Boards Association Quits NSBA, and George Soros Drops $1 Million In Austin To Keep City From Hiring Police To Fight Rising Crime
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, The Feast Day of Our Lady of Walsingham (US Version)
Outkick: Mayor Groot Seen Maskless At WNBA Game In Violation of Her Own Mandate, Patrick Mahomes’ Hateable Brother At It Again, and Starting 11 – Chaos In Knoxville Edition
Power Line: Texas Poised To Redistrict Either Sheila Jackson Lee Or Al Green Out Of Congress, also, The Carter Blues Again
Shark Tank: Deutch & Crist Push Renamed Carbon Tax Legislation
Shot In The Dark: Filed Under “Things I Never Knew Were Problems”, Go Home, Facebook, You’re Drunk, and Semantics
The Political Hat: Terry McAuliffe Protects The Darkness
This Ain’t Hell: Whatever Happened To West Point’s Commie Cadet?, Ft. Drum Soldiers To The Rescue, and NG Two-Star Whines About Army Nail Polish Policy On Twitter
Transterrestrial Musings: That Chicom “Orbital Weapon” Test, also, The Biden Administration’s Bad Luck
Victory Girls: Kamala Harris Stumps In Churches For Democrats In Va., also, Colin Powell Dies, Everyone Rushes To Find Narrative
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Thomas’ Opinion In Little Sisters Of The Poor Provides Another Path To Challenge The OSHA Jab Mandate
Weasel Zippers: Ethics Watchdog Accuses Bad Orange Woman Of Violating Hatch Act, also, Energy Secretary Granholm – “We Don’t Have Much Moral Authority To Call Out Red China” 
The Federalist: Under Administration Plan, Poor Would Be Three Times More Likely To Get IRS Audit Than Wealthy, also, McAuliffe Agrees Schools Shouldn’t Tell Parents If Kids Are “Gender Fluid”
Mark Steyn: Tragic Event Of No Broader Application, Once Upon A Time In The West, and The Ages Of Woman

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‘Social Justice’ as Fashion Accessory

Posted on | October 18, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Social Justice’ as Fashion Accessory

“That’s the thing about a Missing White Woman story — the damsel-in-distress angle only works, in terms of TV news ratings, if the missing woman is young and attractive, preferably blonde. Males can and do go missing, but those disappearances never dominate national news. It’s always a woman, and a young, attractive woman — if she’s old, fat or ugly, nobody cares if she goes missing. But the nubile blonde? Oh, yeah, that’s nationwide headline stuff, because she’s Prime Rape Bait, and sex is the secret ingredient in the Missing White Woman story.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sept. 22

Going off on seemingly irrelevant tangents is one of my bad habits, and perhaps I should begin by telling you that this is not a post about the case of Gabby Petito, who was apparently strangled to death by her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. In saying “apparently,” I don’t mean to raise doubt about the cause of her death — the autopsy confirmed that she was strangled — but rather it’s because so far Laundrie has not been formally accused of Gabby’s death, but is what police call a “person of interest.” The manhunt for Laundrie continues, but this isn’t a post about that; rather, it’s about how social media is affecting the beliefs and behavior of young people. Gabby Petito evidently got the idea that she could find a career as a social-media “influencer,” by monetizing her Instagram posts and YouTube videos on the #vanlife hashtag. That was what she and Laundrie were doing on that trip out West where she got strangled to death.

Where would a middle-class girl from Long Island get the idea that #vanlife was something she could pursue full-time? Well, young people have been doing stupid things since time immemorial — no fair bringing up my disastrous 1979 psilocybin experience, OK? — but the particular forms of stupid youthful behavior are now being shaped by social media. It’s like the phenomenon of “social contagion” by which impressionable teens are sucked into the vortex of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria.

So here is this blue-eyed blonde girl from the affluent Suffolk County hamlet of Blue Point, N.Y., deciding at age 21 that the thing to do is to save up, buy a van and then go driving westward, recording her travel experiences for an online audience, up until the point where she became the poster girl for the #strangledtodeath hashtag.

Excuse my caustic sarcasm, but Gabby Petito is an extreme example of a much larger problem of young people ruining their lives by following whatever trendy fashion caught their attention on social media.

Back in 2014, when I began my deep-dive into radical feminism, the reason was because I could see it becoming trendy, mainly because the strategists behind the Hillary Clinton campaign saw that promoting feminism as a “brand” would be helpful to her 2016 presidential bid.

That’s something many people don’t understand — a lot of trends these days don’t just spontaneously happen. The Democrat-Media Complex exerts a very powerful influence, and the army of naïve young women who suddenly became all “F–k Yeah Feminism!” circa 2014 are evidence of how easily people can be manipulated. And if you pay attention to such trends over time, you’ll notice that the same cohort of impressionable youth will jump from one issue to the next as the focus of their online activism, depending entirely on what narrative the Democrat-Media Complex happens to be promoting at any given time. The same twentysomething crowd that was ready to #SmashPatriarchy in 2014 shifted seamlessly to ranting against the “Alt-Right” and the sinister influence of Vladimir Putin in 2017. Then, quite suddenly in May 2020, the same people were marching in the streets for #BlackLivesMatter, and all the other activist causes they’d been concerned with were forgotten.

The marionettes in this puppet-play never notice the strings, and it does not seem to occur to them to ask, “Why should I care about this?” or “Who is really benefitting from my activism?”

Because I spent so many years inside newsrooms, seeing how the daily diet of news is assembled, I’m rather cynical about this stuff. As a blogger, there is always pressure to be part of the herd, everybody bleating in unison about the same stories — whatever is on Fox News, etc. From my perspective, resisting this herd mentality is part of the value-added calculation of my efforts: What is the value of my becoming the 27th blog to write about a particular subject? And if I’m going to dogpile on the same issue everybody else is writing about, how can I find something to say about it that is different? Otherwise, I might as well just be linking headlines or posting video clips. But you don’t get a lot of that kind of thinking — “What’s the point of what I’m doing?” — when the left-wing mob jumps onto something like the George Floyd story. Everybody just echoes the same insipid slogans, as if the sheer number of people mindlessly repeating this message is the whole point.

The frightening conformity of these mobs ought to attract more critical scrutiny than it does. On June 2, 2020, thousands of Instagram accounts posted nothing but a black square with the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday, which was basically the antithesis of critical thinking.

Examined closely, we can view this as an example of what Thomas Sowell famously called The Vision of the Anointed. What really matters to these people is perception — on the one hand, they wish to be viewed by their peers as “socially conscious,” but on the other hand, they’re also posing in a mirror to admire their own reflection, so to speak. Their perception of themselves as morally and intellectually superior is very important to them, and this drives them to join various “causes” as a venue for proving their superiority, both to themselves and others, so that over the course of time, their lives become a sort of political pageant.

There is a disturbing thoughtlessness to how such people behave. One day, the Instagram “influencer” is posting about her favorite coffee shop or the new sweater she bought, but then the next day, she’s repeating militant “social justice” slogans, demanding an end to oppression, etc. And this strange shift doesn’t seem to bother her in the least; whatever cognitive dissonance it may engender is expiated through an ostentatious display of hyperemotionality — literally crying about the latest “injustice” she saw on CNN. There is absolutely no rationality or objectivity to this kind of trendy activism; it’s all about feelings. Viewed objectively, nobody benefitted from her posting that black square on Instagram as an expression of BLM solidarity, but it made her feel like she was doing something, rather than being a passive spectator.

And we might just laugh at all this — “LOL silly kids!” — were it not for the fact that so many of them take it so seriously, to the extent that they are ruining their lives for “social justice.” Let me explain, for the benefit of any young woman who does not yet understand this: You’re not going to meet nice guys at an anarchist rally. Whatever else you might say about Republicans, the party tends to attract people who share certain beliefs, including an appreciation of the value of hard work, sobriety, thrift, etc. The young woman who starts hashtagging all those Communist “social justice” slogans is communicating to the world at large her contempt for the values of all decent and honest Americans.

On the one hand, she’s making it easy for guys seeking companionship of the conveniently slutty variety. Check her Instagram account, and if she was all about #BlackoutTuesday in June 2020, buddy, you’re in like Flynn. Of course, on the other hand, there’s the risk of herpes to consider. But why would I bring up Ella Dawson at this late date? (She’s “taking a break from men,” for which men should be grateful.)

A moment of total candor from Ella Dawson.

Even if you were the kind of reckless daredevil who would risk a hookup with someone like Ella Dawson, however, you certainly wouldn’t consider her “wife material.” No, when it’s time to settle down, any intelligent guy will be looking for a nice Republican girl, instead of some dingbat “progressive” who’s hashtagging social justice slogans. So the girl who thought it was all cool and clever to jump on the “activist” bandwagon as a 19-year-old college sophomore is apt to find herself at 29 living in a tiny apartment, with her cat, and prescriptions for Valtrex and Lexapro.

Did I mention that Ella Dawson recently published a “micro-memoir” with the altogether fitting title Life Ruiner?

What Ella Dawson did to her life by becoming a “pro-sex” feminist is just slightly less stupid than what Gabby Petito did with her life. But as hashtags go, #DamagedSkank is not much better than #ShallowGrave.




 

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