‘Far-Right Extremists’ Alert!

Posted on | June 13, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Far-Right Extremists’ Alert!

Readers may be wondering, what have “far-right extremists” been up to lately? Torching synagogues? Assassinating opponents? Advocating genocide? No, they’ve been “storming” a public library in California:

Drag queen speaks out after far-right extremists storm children’s event at Bay Area library

SAN LORENZO, Calif. (KGO) — A children’s story time turned into a nightmare Saturday afternoon at the San Lorenzo library.
Bay Area drag queen, Panda Dulce, was co-hosting a kids’ reading event in celebration of Pride Month when suddenly the unthinkable happened.

(Because I’m an old guy who has never been to Alameda County, maybe it’s just me, but why isn’t letting your kids hang out with drag queens the truly “unthinkable” part?)

“Eight to ten Proud Boys marched in with their cameras blazing, point at me, jeering from the back,” Dulce said.

(A “nightmare” in the Bay Area — normal people show up!)

A group of men believed to be affiliated with the far-right extremist Proud Boys group stormed the event.
They made white power hand gestures as they began hurtling homophobic and transphobic insults at Dulce.
“They said who brought the tranny. It’s a groomer. It’s a pedophile. Why do you bring your kids to this event,” Dulce said.
Dulce was then escorted by security away from the men, and law enforcement was called.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office says they’re investigating the incident and have activated their hate crime protocols.

(Shoplifting is legal in California. You can defecate on the sidewalk and shoot up heroin in public parks. But cause a disturbance during “Drag Queen Story Hour”? Unthinkable! The sheriff’s department have “activated their hate crime protocols,” whatever that means.)

[“Panda Dulce” is] calling on all those opposed to stand up to extremism.
“I think now is the time to unite and to come together as a united front,” Dulce said.
Not just for her, but also for the children.
Dulce, who is Ivy League educated and has over a decade’s experience in social work says, many of them were terrified.
“I don’t want to hurt you. I just want to tell you a story. That’s it. I just want to tell you a story,” said Dulce.
The event has come under heavy scrutiny from both local leaders, as well as the San Lorenzo library.
“I really believe that libraries are places where everyone is welcome. We are open to every member of our community, and we can’t be bowed or intimidated by these kinds of threats. This is not what we’re going to stand for,” said Alameda County Librarian, Cindy Chadwick.
And while it’s left it’s mark on Dulce, “A lot of people are asking me like, do you feel safe? Are you okay? And the answer is no, I don’t. I don’t feel safe in my own home,” she said.

This person went to an Ivy League university and their idea of a fun Saturday activity is dressing up in drag to prance around in front of small children at the local library. Which should give you an idea of what an Ivy League education is worth. Have I mentioned lately that Ted Kaczynski was a Harvard alumnus? But the whole point of this TV “news” story seems to be that anyone who doesn’t enthusiastically support Drag Queen Story Hour is an “extremist.” Don’t like it? You’re literally Hitler!

“I don’t feel safe in my own home,” says the drag queen, because of those “far-right extremists” at the local library. But don’t worry, Bay Area parents — police are fighting to guarantee that drag queens can safely access your children. The “hate crime protocols” have been activated!

Category: California, Crime, The Transgender Cult

Inside the Biden Bubble

Posted on | June 13, 2022 | Comments Off on Inside the Biden Bubble

A foolish boast from Biden’s chief of staff:

Less than three weeks after the White House claimed President Joe Biden’s approval ratings were on the upswing, an average of recent surveys show more Americans disapprove of his job performance than ever.
According to a RealClearPolitics aggregate of polls from May 18 to June 9, just over 39 percent of Americans say they approve of Biden’s job as president. That number marks a new low for Biden, who has not seen a poll showing his approval rating above 44 percent since the first week of May.
The poll stands in direct conflict with the claim put forth by White House chief of staff Ron Klain, a 2021 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year, that Biden’s poll numbers were looking up. “I hate to spoil the narrative but this poll shows @potus approval rating moving up,” Klain wrote.
Klain celebrated a May 22 poll from CBS News finding that just 44 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of the presidency. Despite 56 percent of respondents saying they disapprove of Biden’s job performance, Klain tweeted that the poll showed “public confidence on the two biggest problems [Biden] inherited: COVID and jobs.”
While Biden claims in interviews that he doesn’t follow or “believe” polling, his chief counselor Klain regularly remarks on and shares them on social media. In private, Biden “has expressed exasperation that his poll numbers have sunk below those of Donald Trump,” Politico reported earlier this month.

The reality of Biden’s historic unpopularity:

On May 7, Biden was about 10 points underwater — 52.7 disapprove to 42.5 approve — in the RCP average. At that point, Biden had been less than 10 points underwater on four consecutive polls — Economist/YouGov (-4), Reuters/Ipsos (-6), Rasmussen Reports (-8) and IBD/TIPP (-8). But there is such a thing as a “dead cat bounce” in polling. No matter how unpopular you may be, when you get near the absolute bottom, you’ll have occasional upticks. And 40% approval is pretty much rock-bottom for any president. To get lower than that, not only are you hated by the opposition and most independents, but even your own partisans start hating you. So as any president’s approval number approaches 40%, he’s going to experience a few “good” days when this or that poll has him at 43% or whatever. And that was what Ron Klain was looking at when he proclaimed on May 22 that the latest CBS Poll was “good news” for Biden. But this “dead cat bounce” could only last so long in a political environment where inflation is raging out of control and the president doesn’t seem to have a clue. Sure enough, when the next Reuters/Ipsos poll came out, it had Biden 23 points underwater — 36% approve, 59% disapprove — a number so shocking that you might suspect a sampling error. Biden’s slump was confirmed, however, by several subsequent polls: Politico/Morning Consult (-19), Rasmussen Reports (-20) and Quinnipiac (-21). And apparently nobody in the Biden White House understands what happened, least of all Joe Biden himself.

Just how out of touch is Biden? On Tuesday, there were primaries in several states, but the big news was in California, where San Francisco voted to recall their Soros-sponsored left-wing district attorney Chesa Boudin. It wasn’t even close — 55%-45% — a shocking result in one of America’s most liberal cities. So the next day, as Biden prepared to board Air Force One, he gave the press this statement:

I think the voters sent a clear message last night: Both parties have to step up and do something about crime, as well as gun violence.
And I sent, as you recall — with the first major bill we passed, we gave the states and localities billions of dollars — billions of dollars they have — and I encouraged them to use it to hire police officers and reform their police departments. Very few have done it.
In addition to that, I sent to Congress a request for $300 million in this year’s budget to deal with hiring cops, to retrain cops, as well as to make sure they are adequately dispersed around the communities.
It’s time they move. It’s time to states and the localities spend the money they have to deal with crime, as well as retrain police officers, as well as provide for more community policing.
It’s time to get on with doing that. And that’s what I think the message last night from the American public was in all the primaries.

Are you freakin’ kidding me with this? “Both parties”?

Pray tell, can Joe Biden name a single Republican official who lost last Tuesday over the issue of crime? And where was the evidence that what got Chesa Boudin thrown out of office had anything to do “states and localities” failing to spend the federal money to hire more cops? In point of fact — although I’m sure whoever wrote that little speech for Biden doesn’t care about facts — the problem in San Francisco was not so much that they didn’t have enough police, but rather that Boudin’s office kept turning loose the criminals that the cops arrested.

Inside the Biden bubble, however, either they don’t know the facts or they think they can get away with this kind of dishonest spin, and one gets the impression that Biden is so completely out of touch — so insulated from reality — that he doesn’t even know what the problems are, much less have any idea how to fix them. Consider the problem of record-high gas prices, which Biden bloviated about again last week:

Pressed to explain the supposedly unexpected further increase in the rate of inflation, Biden offered a couple of golden oldies from his basket of distractions. . . . Biden trotted out his “Putin price hike” excuse, even though Biden had been in denial for most of 2021 about inflation running away in the US — offering lame excuses that had even tired out the Washington Post editorial board by early January, well before the invasion.
Biden spent even more time on his “corporate greed” attack lines, undaunted by their failure for the last several months. He went out of his way to attack ExxonMobil specifically, who he claimed not only “made more money than God” but also didn’t pay taxes:

“Why don’t you tell them what Exxon’s profits were this year? This quarter? Exxon made more money than God this year,” he said in remarks at the Port of Los Angeles. “Exxon, start investing. Start paying your taxes.”

I doubt Joe Biden even knows what ExxonMobil’s taxes or profits are, but it’s easy enough to check.

Read the whole thing because the truth is almost diametrically opposite of Biden’s assertion. Exxon pays billions in taxes, and their profit margin is lower than many other companies, e.g., Goldman Sachs. Is Joe Biden going to start publicly chastising Goldman Sachs? I don’t think so.

The larger point, however, is that Joe Biden doesn’t understand economics well enough to know what causes inflation. He thinks it’s just a problem of political perception, and that as long as he can deflect blame away from himself, then it doesn’t matter what the real problem is.

They tell me 81 million people voted to elect Joe Biden, and certainly not all the clueless fools in America are in the White House.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Joe Biden

Rule 5 Sunday: Atago-sama’s Wedding

Posted on | June 13, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Best heavy cruiser waifu from Azur Lane.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.
NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1743, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Higher Education Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA – J6 Show Trial, June Is Bustin’ Out All Over, Liz Cheney, Global Warming? It’s Freezing In Australia!, Kid Astray, Cassandra Chastain, Felicia Sonmez, Dirty Art Club, and Gone Fishing

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Globe Trotting with Christina Cindrich, DNR Proposes to Bring Back Severn Brookies, Fish Pic Friday – Shesla, Tattoo Thursday, Wednesday Wetness, Angry Old Man Wants More Solar Panels, Run To The Hills, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon

Posted on | June 13, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A mixed bag this week for the Senators; first we got swept in a three-game series by the Orioles -and only one game was even close; the first two games were textbook examples of Earl Weaver’s walk/walk/three-run homer offense while the O’s pitchers shut down our bats. Third game went to 11 innings before Rick Reichardt jacked one into the stands off Vicente Romo, and that was all she wrote. Came back to take two out of three from the Dodgers, but that still leaves us 2-4 for the week, 7-10 so far in the season, and a three-game series against the Red Sox coming up.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

No light, happy music this week.

Rule 5 Sunday: Penelope Cruz
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View from The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Cleanup On Aisle Blogroll
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day
A View from The Beach
EBL

When Anti-Gun Propaganda Actually Doesn’t Support the Anti-Gun Narrative
The Pirate’s Cove
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

Felicia Sonmez Strikes Again
EBL

Clown World in ‘Killadelphia’: DA Krasner Blames NRA for South Street Massacre
First Street Journal
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 06.06.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

WaPo Suspends Dave Weigel WITHOUT PAY for a Month, in Effort to Appease Supreme Commissar Felicia Sonmez
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 06.07.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

‘Killadelphia’ Update: Amanda Marcotte Escapes Death in South Street Massacre
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

What Do Smart People Do?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.09.22 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Norms Restored: FBI Now Literally Arresting Republican Candidates
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Crazy or Evil? We Report, You Decide
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.09.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Bye, Felicia!
The DaleyGator
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.10.22
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending June 10:

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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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He Was Yelling About His ‘Rights’

Posted on | June 11, 2022 | Comments Off on He Was Yelling About His ‘Rights’

David Ware’s first arrest as an adult was when he was 18. He was drunk and urinating in a parking lot. When cops arrested him, Ware “became ‘extremely belligerent’ and [Officer Craig] Johnson and his backup officer opted to call for a special prisoner transport van rather than take Ware to jail in one of their patrol cars”:

The backup officer wrote that as they waited, Ware kicked at and threatened to harm Johnson, spitting on the officer at least four times.
“Officer Johnson told the subject that if he continued to spit on him and kick at him, that he would use pepper spray. Officer Johnson warned the subject of this at least three times before he sprayed him,” the backup officer wrote in his report . . .
“After being sprayed, the subject continued to kick at Officer Johnson and tried to get up. The subject also continued to threaten violent acts upon Officer Johnson saying that he was going to kill Officer Johnson.”

Well, he did. Fourteen years later, Tulsa police officer Aurash Zarkeshan pulled over Ware who was driving at 3 a.m. with an expired tag, no drivers’ license and no proof of insurance. Zarkeshan ran Ware’s name through the system and realized that he was dealing with a career criminal. Ware, 32, had been repeatedly arrested in the years since that public intoxication case when he was 18 — harboring a fugitive from justice, knowingly concealing stolen property, unauthorized use of a vehicle, domestic assault and battery, larceny, possession of burglary tools and, of course, drug charges. Criminal lowlifes always gotta have their dope, man. So when you pull one of these scumbags over for a traffic violation, it’s never really a “routine” traffic stop. They’ve always got dope, and maybe they’re on parole or probation, so getting caught with dope will send them back to prison. The criminal lowlife knows this, which gives him a motive to flee or resist arrest. Officer Zarkeshan decided to call for backup, and that’s what brought Sgt. Craig Johnson to the scene — yes, the same Craig Johnson that Ware had threatened to kill 14 years earlier. You can click here to see the guys at Active Self Protection discuss the video of the incident.

“I know my rights! . . . You’re violating my rights!”

Next time you’re watching video where an officer shoots a suspect who’s resisting arrest, remember this worthless punk, David Ware.

See, he had drugs in the car, so when the officer tells him to step out of the car — they’re going to tow it, because of the expired tag, etc. — Ware starts whining about his “rights” being violated. But nobody has a “right” to drive an unlicensed vehicle, and when the officer in such a situation tells a suspect to step out of the car, that’s called a lawful order.

Failure to comply with lawful order or directive of law enforcement officer is a misdemeanor under Oklahoma law. If you’re pulled over for a traffic violation — in this case, having an expired tag — you do not have a “right” to argue with the cop when he tells you to step out of the car. A lot of people apparently don’t understand how this works, and I wish something could be done about this widespread ignorance. Our public schools are obviously doing a bad job of educating young people about the law, but wouldn’t you think that, in the instructional process to qualify for a driver’s license, states could do some teaching about this subject? When you see the blue lights in your rearview mirror, pull over. Keep your hands where the officer can see them. If the officer tells you to step out of the car, you are required by law to comply with that order.

As the guys at Active Self Protection explain in the video, the police officers in this case made the mistake of giving David Ware too many chances after he failed to comply with a lawful order. He wasn’t just trying to talk his way out of a ticket, as anyone might do, but was trying to obstruct the officers’ investigation because he knew (a) he had meth in the car and (b) he was a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Over and over: “You’re violating my rights!”

Back at his apartment, as the investigation subsequently revealed, David Ware had more dope — he was dealing it — and more guns, and he had a list of people who owed him money for the dope he was dealing.

Permit me to remind the reader how all those “libertarians” told us that if we would just legalize marijuana, that would solve the problem. It wasn’t the drugs that were the problem, they told us, it was the laws against drugs that were the problem. So what now? Are we going to legalize meth, coke, heroin? Because it turns out — as I could have told anyone who had bothered to ask — that drug dealers are going to keep dealing, no matter what you do. See, some people are just criminals by habit and inclination. You legalize marijuana? Fine, they’ll start dealing meth or heroin or whatever. Because the one thing they are definitely not going to do is to start obeying the law. They’re not going to seek out legitimate employment. No, ma’am, they want that easy money.

Where did David Ware get the idea his “rights” were being violated by the police? Well, this traffic stop happened in June 2020 — in the immediate aftermath of the George Floyd riots. But nobody cares about a white criminal getting hassled by the cops, and when Officer Zarkeshan and Sgt. Johnson finally got tired of arguing with Ware, they used a taser and pepper spray, finally got him out of the car and — BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! He pulled his pistol and shot both of them.

Sgt. Johnson died and Officer Zarkeshan barely survived. Ware was convicted of murder, attempted murder and other charges after a trial in April. Prosecutors didn’t even offer a plea bargain — you’re a cop killer, don’t expect any leniency, at least not in Oklahoma.

Last month, a judge signed Ware’s death warrant.

After Ware was arrested in 2020, the local media interviewed his “father” — I use the term in quote marks, because Ware seems to have been abandoned by his father and was raised by his maternal grandparents. Great quotes from this guy:

“He’s a good kid and I love him man, and no one wants to see him die,” Salazar said. . . .
“My son has made a bunch of bad choices in his lifetime, but he’s basically a good kid.”

Wrong on both counts, sir. He is not a good kid, and everybody wants to see him die. Don’t tell us we’re “violating his rights.”

Category: Crime, Oklahoma

In The Mailbox: 06.10.22

Posted on | June 11, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.10.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Because Keeping Violent Criminals In Jail Is Unfair
EBL: Grifter Liz Cheney, also, Global Warming – It’s Freezing In Australia
Twitchy: Iowahawk’s Handy Economics Thread, also, Taylor Lorenz Discusses COVID Prevention With Sydney Leathers
Louder With Crowder: Texas Rapper Raps About Robbing ATMs, Gets Busted After Robbing ATM
Vox Popoli: The Collapsing Tripod, So That’s Settled, and A Little Late, Donald
According To Hoyt: Paying The Price, also, Being Difficult
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo – Lessons From The Gun Range, also, MHI Swag Shop Now Open!
Stoic Observations: All Us So-Called Blacks, Part One

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I Do Care What Goes On Behind Closed Doors
American Conservative: Cultural Amnesia In War-Torn Ukraine, also, The Meaning Of Chesa Boudin’s Recall
American Greatness: Hispanic Groups Fight Back Against Soros Spanish-Language Radio Deal, also, Top Schumer Aide Received J6 Warning Frontline Officers Never Saw
American Thinker: Why Do Democrats Hate Our Children? also, Why Was The Abbott Labs Baby Formula Factory Shut Down?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Higher Education Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Agriculture – Price Caps, Threatened Merchants, & Less Arable Land, also, AMLO Tells Joe “Tu Casa No Es Mi Casa”
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 10
Behind The Black: Parents & Teachers Sue Va. School Board For Teaching Queer Sex To Kids & Lying To Parents About It, SLS 2nd Mobile Launcher To Cost More Than $1.5 Billion, 3x Initial Budget, Today’s Blacklisted Americans, and Update On Starship In Texas & Florida
Cafe Hayek: Regime Uncertainty Is Real…And Dangerous
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Classics & The Public Sphere
Da Tech Guy: What Stacy Said About Dave Weigel, Has It Occurred To Anyone That The Reason Pols On The Left Won’t Unconditionally Condemn The Attempted Murder Of Justice Kavanaugh…, and Democrats Are Destroying America Because They’re True Believers
Don Surber: 2022 Is Looking Like 2010 On Steroids, also, Groceries Up 11.9%
First Street Journal: Chesa Boudin Kicked To The Curb, also, You Will Comply, Or We’ll Starve Your Children!
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Vehicular Marauder In Berlin, African Culture Enrichers Run Wild, Are We Being Replaced? and The Importance Of Being Sawsan
The Geller Report: Israel Makes Dramatic Upgrades To Iran Attack Plans, also, Stock Market Tanks 800 Points At Open As Inflation Hits 40-Year High
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Abell 2146. and New! Improved!
Hollywood In Toto: Keeping Company Proves Too Bleak For Its Own Good, Will Movie Reviews Require Trigger Warnings? and McConaughey Just Picked His Political Party. Huge Mistake.
The Lid: Leftist Political Violence Will Increase – Guaranteed
Legal Insurrection: Liberals Mock GOP Efforts To Protect Supreme Court Justices After Attempted Assassination Of Kavanaugh, Parents’ Battle Against Woke School Boards Continues, and Inflation Soars To 41-Year High As Democrats & Corporate Media Focus On J6 Show Trial
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Absurd Esquire List Names Sarah Spain, Jemele Hill, & Bomani Jones As Top Sports Podcasters, #1 Tennessee Looking To Fight Off Irish, Return To CWS, and Mississippi Burning – For Baseball
Power Line: Americans Say Democrats Are Doing This On Purpose, Speaking Of Disinformation, and Democrats Put Out A Contract On Justice Barrett
Shark Tank: DeSantis Signs Bill Caring For Retired K-9s
Shot In The Dark: Meet The Gatekeepers
STUMP: Fewer Than 4000 People Just Approved Boosting Providence RE Liabilities By $515 Million
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Lawyer’s Role
This Ain’t Hell: SAR Community Remembers Pedro 66, Valor Friday, and Female AFSOC Candidate Given Special Treatment, Was A “Victim” Of People “Chirping About Cultural Norms”
Transterrestrial Musings: The Economics Of Space Resources, The Steam Engine, and Laughter
Victory Girls: Biden Dithers While Inflation hits 40-Year High, also, Cheney Claims Trump Said Pence May Deserve To Hang
Volokh Conspiracy: Today In Supreme Court History
Watts Up With That: Top Lithium Producer Risks Shutting German Plant If EU Declares Lithium A Hazard
Weasel Zippers: No-one Wants To Talk To Joe Biden, also, Occasional Cortex Brags About Stopping Bill To Protect SCOTUS Justices & Their Families
The Federalist: J6 Committee’s Show Trial Pulls Dismal Ratings, Biggest Winner In Biden’s Solar Panel Charade Is Red China, and Outraged Viewers Pillory Fox For Segment Promoting Child Gender Experiments
Mark Steyn: Judy, also, Incompetence As A Front

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Bye, Felicia!

Posted on | June 10, 2022 | 1 Comment

Took her seven days to tweet herself out of a job:

The Washington Post fired its political reporter Felicia Sonmez on Thursday after she publicly criticized the paper and her colleagues for nearly one week straight.
Sonmez started internal drama at the company when she called out fellow reporter Dave Weigel on Twitter for retweeting an alleged sexist tweet last week.
Weigel retweeted a tweet that joked, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.” Sonmez shared a screenshot of Weigel’s retweet and said, “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed!”
On Monday, the Post suspended Weigel for one month without pay over his retweet, despite his public apology.
Sonmez’s feud with Weigel was not the only fight with one of her colleagues. Washington Post reporter Jose A. Del Real criticized Sonmez for publicly lambasting one of their colleagues.
“Felicia, we all mess up from time to time. Engaging in repeated and targeted public harassment of a colleague is neither a good look nor is it particularly effective,” Del Real told Sonmez. Ultimately, Sonmez doubled down on her decision to call out Weigel, adding that it was “important that all those who saw Dave’s tweet also see Washington Post reporters standing up for our newspaper’s value.”
After the feud, Del Real temporarily deactivated his Twitter account. When he rejoined the platform, he blocked Sonmez from viewing his tweets.

Sonmez kept up the crybully act all week, and continued parading around on Twitter like a heroic martyr after she got fired. Honestly, she seems mentally ill, but so does everybody at the Post. because, let’s face it, you’d have to be crazy to want to work at such a toxic institution.

Bad causes attract bad people — I started saying that years ago, during the Kaitlyn Hunt controversy. The #FreeKate movement attracted people whose argument was essentially that it should be legal to have gay sex with minors, because age-of-consent laws were “homophobic.” These people would not admit that this was what they were arguing for, and none of them were smart enough to see they were being manipulated on behalf of a criminal pervert who just didn’t want to take the plea bargain (which is what happens in nearly every statutory rape case).

So stupidity and dishonesty were sort of baked into the pie of the #FreeKate crowd, and the reason I bring this up is because Felicia Sonmez was one of the opportunistic vipers who felt a need to scramble onto the #MeToo bandwagon a few years ago. Can we all now recognize that the #MeToo movement was not a worthy cause? It began, you will recall, with Harvey Weinstein — arguably one of the worst people in Hollywood, a town full of bad people — and everyone was happy to see Harvey get his long-overdue comeuppance. But from there, it started to snowball into a lynch-mob mentality. It seemed that every woman with a Twitter account felt a need to proclaim herself a victim of rape, or sexual harassment, or at least some kind of vaguely “sexist” behavior.

It was like living in Paris during the Reign of Terror, and every day the tumbrels went rolling across the cobblestones, conveying their victims to the scaffold. One got the impression that the entire entertainment industry was staffed by rapists — Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Les Moonves, James Franco, Aziz Ansari and a long list of names less familiar. Then the #MeToo movement turned its sights on the journalism business, and a whole new set of villains were sent to the guillotine — Mark Halperin, Charlie Rose, and Matt Lauer among them. Where would it end? I remember reading the accusations against Ansari and thinking, “What? Clumsy foreplay is now a crime? Dear God, every teenage boy is a felon!” But every girl who ever had a bad date was now a victim, it seemed, and during all that uproar I lost track of exactly who was accused of doing exactly what to exactly whom. Everything kind of blurred together, and among the cases that completely slipped my mind was this:

Consider the case of Jonathan Kaiman, a young journalist who was Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, and was elected in 2017 as president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC). And then #MeToo happened. In January 2018, a girl he’d hooked up with one night in 2013 wrote a blog post in which she described their encounter as, well, not entirely consensual on her part:

After an evening out drinking and flirting, [Laura] Tucker drove Kaiman on her scooter back to her apartment. There, she wrote, they mutually and consensually undressed and got into bed. . . .
Tucker wrote that while making out in bed with Kaiman, she had a change of heart, so she stood up and said she didn’t want to continue. . . .

Evidently, Kaiman persuaded her to resume their encounter, but she says it made her feel “gross” and, once Tucker did her #MeToo hit-piece on Kaiman, another woman came forward to say that she, too, had a less-than-entirely-consensual encounter with him. The result was the destruction of Kaiman’s once-promising career.

That was what I wrote in 2019 and can you guess the name of the second woman who “came forward” to accuse Kaiman? Felicia Sonmez.

The wheel of karma has turned, as it always does. Robespierre ultimately went to the guillotine, you know. The end of Felicia Sonmez’s employment at the Washington Post may not be the end of her journalism career, but it is hard to imagine why any editor would hire such a troublemaker. Sonmez is still on Twitter claiming to be a victim, but I doubt this act is going to get her hired at any organization remotely as prestigious as the Washington Post.