In The Mailbox: 05.05.21

Doki Doki Literature Club is somewhat of a legend among gamers. At first blush, it looks like your bog-standard dating sim, but it gets very dark very quick, and turns into a shock/horror game. Here’s r/cosplaygirls regular Alegrachan playing Yuri, one of the four members of the club. You can see more of her cosplay work on Instagram.
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I don’t think she wants to talk about this week’s book.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny returns from hiatus with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1337, Morning Mistress, & Girls With Guns.

At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Failure Of The Law Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes MAGA Mar-A-Lago, Sarah Vaughan, La Boheme, Mad Max, The Merry Widow, Andrea Chenier, From The Vine, Manon, La Traviata, Without Remorse, Adriana Lecouvreur, Julie London, Democrats Embrace May Day, Patti Page, Derby Day, La Rondine, and MAGA Musk.

A View From The Beach reels in Ana Hablinski, Fish Pic Friday – Chloe Turner, Trumpsters Sue to Stop Racial Discrimination in Agriculture Dept., Tattoo Thursday Again, CDC Drops the Mask, Some Wednesday Wetness, Election 2020: They’re Making a List, and Checking it Twice, Tuesday Tanlines, MD Comes Through for Farmers on Bay Diet, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise.

Brian Noggle submits Alyson Hannigan, and Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Monica Lewis. Sic transit Vintage Babes of the week?

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Update: Rebekah Jones ‘Could Not Meet Required Burden of Proof,’ Judge Rules

Posted on | May 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Update: Rebekah Jones ‘Could Not Meet Required Burden of Proof,’ Judge Rules

Rebekah Jones, the former Florida health department employee who gained nationwide notice as a COVID-19 “whistleblower” last year, failed to silence one of her critics when a Maryland judge on Friday rejected Jones’s petition for a peace order against journalist Christina Pushaw.

Apparently the hearing was livestreamed (because of COVID-19), and Max Nordau had some interesting tidbits from Fridays’ proceedings:

Judge: We are dealing with two public figures. The way that folks deal with engaging and trying to find information to create news stories can make your head spin.

— "Max Nardou" (@MaxNordau) April 30, 2021

"Primarily because the type of speech that I am seeing and has been submitted into evidence is that which is protected by the First Amendment."

— "Max Nardou" (@MaxNordau) April 30, 2021

Rebekah Jones doesn’t seem to understand what it means to be a “public figure,” and why her activities are newsworthy. She reminds me of certain feminists who think they can engage in political activism without ever being subject to disagreement or criticism. It’s “harassment” or even “terrorism” to disagree with a feminist — such was the essential claim made by Anita Sarkeesian, et al., during the #GamerGate controversy.

Jones has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from her claim of being a “whistleblower” critic of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. This inherently makes her a newsworthy person, whose activities are subject to journalistic scrutiny. This attracted the attention of Christina Pushaw, who wrote a 2,000-word Human Events article about her:

THE “FLORIDA COVID-19
WHISTLEBLOWER”
SAGA IS A BIG LIE

This article was the most sustained negative coverage of Jones, who otherwise was basking in the warm sunshine of media adulation.

Well, into every life the rain must fall. You can’t soak up media praise — and exploit that praise for fundraising from “progressive” enemies of Florida’s Republican governor — and then cry “harassment” the first time a journalist writes a negative article about you. And, in the age of social media, it is to be expected that journalists will discuss their work on Twitter. If, in turn, such discussion means that your Twitter notifications are filled with harsh comments — well, whose fault is that? Perhaps Rebekah Jones should ask herself what kind of online comments were directed at Gov. DeSantis after Jones claimed the governor was falsifying Florida’s COVID-19 data. If Jones is a “victim” of anything, it’s the boomerang effect of her own decisions, which made her a hero to Democrats, but understandably enraged many Americans who do not share her partisan affiliation. Unless she can demonstrate that Christina Pushaw knowingly published falsehoods about her, Jones has no legal recourse. She ought to just take the “L” and go home.

Somehow, though, I doubt Jones will heed such advice.

Fresh off a judge rejecting her baseless peace order complaint, Rebekah Jones commits libel and claims "Pushaw admitted to the court that she has used multiple accounts to harass me"

Pushaw did not admit this, because it was not true. pic.twitter.com/DpBbLhA1Bh

— "Max Nardou" (@MaxNordau) April 30, 2021

Rebekah Jones calls Christina Pushaw mentally unwell.

She also claims that Pushaw was crying in the court room. The hearing was recorded. She did not cry. pic.twitter.com/Jp14sVTbmV

— "Max Nardou" (@MaxNordau) April 30, 2021

Category: Florida, Maryland

FMJRA 2.0: Island

Posted on | May 2, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Island

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In The Mailbox: 04.27.21
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Today’s (Feeble) Ray Of Hope

Posted on | May 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Today’s (Feeble) Ray Of Hope

— by Wombat-socho

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Let me start out with what should be obvious: neither I nor anyone in their right mind wants a Second War Between The States to break out. That having been said, only a fool doesn’t plan for contingencies, and preparing for a massive economic/political breakdown seems to on a lot of peoples’ minds lately. So you have a lot of people thinking out loud (and publishing books) about what’s going to happen if the Left and Right stop talking to each other and start shooting.

A lot of the discussion is dumb, barely above meme level in accordance with Sturgeon’s Law, which tells us that 90% of everything is shit. On the one hand you have people thinking that since they have all the guns in private hands they ought to be able to whup all the weird hair dildo-wielding gender-queer losers in about 15 minutes, and on the other hand, “LOL you’re going to fight off tanks and nukes with shotguns? Checkmate, fascists!”. Nothing is that simple, and as Clausewitz reminds us, “Everything in war is simple, but the simple things are very difficult.”

As much as I hate to say it, the political situation here in 2021 is uncomfortably reminiscent of Spain in the run up to the Spanish Civil War, right down to the Anarchists, Communists, and other leftards who have their hands on the wheel, don’t want to compromise with anybody, and are intent on using the full weight of the government to crush their political opponents. It’s not a perfect analogy, but it matches at far too many points for me to be very comfortable rereading either Hugh Thomas’ or Stanley Payne’s accounts. However, since i have read those, Amazon chucked A.H. Lloyd’s Long Live Death into my recommendations, and it promised to focus more on the military than political aspects, I felt compelled to look into it. That was a good decision.

If you’ve read Payne or Thomas (or pretty much any popular history of the war) one gets the impression that Franco’s victory was more a product of Republican infighting than Nationalist skill, and while the political aspect of the war is important, Lloyd asks the question: how did the Republic, which started the war with half the Army, most of the Air Force and Navy, better tanks and aircraft (thanks to the USSR), more international support, and the bulk of the munitions factories*, manage to lose to the Nationalists? At the risk of spoiling Lloyd’s excellent history, it boils down to one thing: organization. Franco and the Nationalists quite simply did a better job of building on the foundations provided by the rebel Army units while expanding the officer & NCO academies to provide better leadership all the way down the chain of command, while the Republic always considered the loyalist Army officers suspect, allowed party militias to suck up a lot of the available weapons (and lose them through lack of training), and had great difficulty in deciding what they wanted to do at the strategic and operational levels.

So it is here in the United States. If Joe & Kamala and their leftist goons manage to commit some outrage that sends a lot of conservative and libertarians reaching for their rifles, in my opinion while many senior officers may remain loyal to the Administration, most of the junior officers, NCOs, and enlisted men will rebel. There will be enough retired field-grade officers to provide a cadre for the rebel units, and unlike Spain, not many of the weapons and ammunition manufacturers are located in the Blue states. Over time, the red states will have the organizational advantage, and even if the Chicoms are in a position to help their clients, it may not be enough. Here’s hoping we don’t have to find out the hard way.

*You can look it up.

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Tucker Carlson Douses Frank Luntz in Gasoline and Lights Him on Fire

Posted on | May 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Tucker Carlson Douses Frank Luntz in Gasoline and Lights Him on Fire

Figuratively speaking, of course:

For quite some time now we’ve wondered what’s going on with congressional Republicans. There are a lot of nice people in the Republican Party, but the point of a political party is not to be nice, it is to represent the interests of its voters. . . .
However, it remains true that the priorities of the people who run the Republican Party are very different — in some cases, completely different — from the priorities of the people who vote Republican. Why is that? Well, there are lots of reasons, probably, but Frank Luntz is definitely one of them. . . .
The problem is that Frank Luntz’s views are very different from those of your average Republican voter. Frank Luntz is a conventional liberal. His main clients are left-wing corporations like Google. When Frank Luntz gives advice to congressional Republicans, he’s got Google’s perspective in mind. That’s a huge problem. . . .
Not long ago, when Donald Trump called for boycotting Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines after they interfered, in a very shocking way, in Georgia’s political system, Luntz came to their defense. Of course he did. They’re his clients.

Tucker’s immolation of Luntz continued from there. Watch the video:

What inspired this? Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson gave a speech in which he name-checked Luntz as one of the advisers steering congressional Republicans to embrace open borders — which is true — and when the video was posted to Twitter, Luntz lashed out:

Later that evening, Tucker advised his viewers to call police if they see a kid wearing a mask.

No, I’m not making that up or even slightly exaggerating.

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— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 27, 2021

Enjoy your bonfire. Did anyone bring marshmallows?

Category: Fox News, Immigration

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