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‘Complicit in Oppression’

Posted on | February 3, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Complicit in Oppression’

Sarah Hoyt called attention to this take on the Whoopi Goldberg incident:

It wasn’t enough to talk about black people’s oppression. White people – all of them, every single one – had to be demonized. And it couldn’t matter that some individual white people had even joined in the historic struggle against discrimination of blacks. They were oppressors too.
The root of much of this is the Marxist idea that people are marked solely by their membership in certain groups, that the individual actions don’t really matter to that designation because it’s all about groups, and that there is always an oppressor group (or groups) and always a victim group (or groups), and that the former are bad and the latter good no matter what they actually do, either as individuals or together.

We tried to tell you it wouldn’t stop at Confederate generals, but because you didn’t want to defend Confederate generals, you now see how far it has gone, and can estimate how much further it’s likely to go.

One imagines a sort of time-travel science-fiction plot in which someone from 2022 goes back to 1992 and warns well-meaning moderates: “You must defend the Confederate flag. Trust me on this one.”

A quote from a 2018 academic journal article:

Over the past twenty years or so, in American scholarship on racism, with ever growing intensity, it has become fashionable and even mainstream to assert that Jews are white, that is, that they belong to the dominant majority. This means, that as a collective, due to embedded racialized structures in society, they benefit from their dominant position and are complicit in oppression.

In other words, if “whiteness” is synonymous with social dominance, and if everyone who is non-white is an oppressed victim of white domination, then “systemic racism” makes individual action irrelevant to either domination or victimhood, which are determined on a collective basis, according to the position of one’s group. It’s the “one-drop rule” approach to social justice, and these soi-disant critical theorists are arguably more dogmatic about racial categories than Jefferson Davis.

And honestly, I’m happy we’ve reached this cul-de-sac, where everyone is either a Hutu or a Tutsi, so to speak, and our choice is either to fight to the death or, as I would prefer, decide to drop the subject altogether.

Either you follow the totalitarian logic to its conclusion — revolutionary genocide, to liquidate the oppressors — or else, realizing that this logic can lead to nothing less than bellum omnium contra omnes, you abandon the utopian fantasy of “equality” that inspires the totalitarian project.




 

Category: Racism

On The Road

Posted on | February 3, 2022 | Comments Off on On The Road

— compiled by Wombat-socho

FROM THE OTHER MCCAIN’S WESTERN COMMAND TEMPORARY HQ:
I am currently in Reno, helping out at a severely understaffed office here (as in, they lost three tax pros in the off-season) but I’m heading for Las Vegas tomorrow for a Friday eye appointment before coming back on Saturday because I’m on the schedule for Sunday. As if that weren’t enough, the wireless keyboard’s batteries went toes-up yesterday, and I can’t afford to replace them until I get paid tomorrow. So, since typing on the Dell’s keyboard is literally painful, you get abbreviated linkagery. On a couple of completely unrelated topics, I am in decent health; also, if you want to give me a taste of that Amazon commission goodness, you need to click on the links & banners at the bottom of my posts. Thanks to everyone that bought stuff through my links & banners last month!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

357 Magnum: Stalking Is Still Ignored By The System, also, Georgia Governor Calls For Constitutional Carry
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1616
Reclaim The Net: Facebook Bans Trucker Convoy Group

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Malignant Dwarf Jeff Zucker Forced to Resign From CNN Over Sleazy Sex Affair

Posted on | February 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Malignant Dwarf Jeff Zucker Forced to Resign From CNN Over Sleazy Sex Affair

In his landmark 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, economist Friedrich Hayek included a chapter entitled “Why the Worst Get on Top,” explaining why collectivist regimes are always run by evil people.

What Hayek said of 20th-century totalitarian systems could be applied to dishonest propaganda operations like CNN, i.e., that to “be a useful assistant” in such an organization, someone must “be prepared actively to break every moral rule he has ever known . . . they should be completely unprincipled and literally capable of everything.” When the basic purpose of an organization — its raison d’être — is to deceive people, no honest person is likely to seek employment there, and those who advance to the leadership of the organization are sure to be notorious liars, who would be considered unworthy of trust by all decent and moral people. Such was self-evidently the case with CNN and Jeff Zucker:

CNN’s top boss, Jeff Zucker, resigned from the network Wednesday after he didn’t disclose a romantic relationship with another senior executive at the company that’s long been considered the worst kept secret in television.
Zucker, who has helmed the cable network for nine years, told colleagues in a memo that his relationship with CNN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer Allison Gollust came up during a probe into Chris Cuomo’s alleged sexual misconduct.
“As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” Zucker wrote in the memo, shared on Twitter by CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter.
“I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years,” he wrote. “I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today.”
Gollust, who previously worked as former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s communications director, released a statement confirming the relationship.
“Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years. Recently our relationship changed during COVID,” said Gollust, who is staying with the network.
“I regret that we didn’t disclose it at the right time. I’m incredibly proud of my time at CNN and look forward to continuing the great work we do everyday.” . . .
Rumors about Zucker, 56, and Gollust’s affair have been circulating in the media world for years, but the pair have repeatedly, and vehemently, denied they were in a relationship when asked numerous times by Page Six.
Zucker was allegedly so brazen about his relationship with Gollust, he moved her into the same Upper East Side building where he lived with his then-wife of 21 years Caryn Zucker before the two divorced, sources said.

Everybody knew about this “worst kept secret”:

Female employees at CNN are furious that chief spokesperson Allison Gollust is keeping her job after “lying” about her affair with newly resigned CEO Jeff Zucker “for years,” sources told The Post.
“Why is she allowed to keep her job?” a CNN insider railed.
“CNN is supposed to be a transparent news network. How does she get away with lying about their affair for so long?”
Early Wednesday, Zucker sent a memo to colleagues announcing he’d be retiring after his relationship with Gollust came to light during CNN’s probe into Chris Cuomo. He called the relationship “consensual” and told staff that he wished he’d disclosed it sooner.
Gollust released a statement shortly after saying that she and Zucker had been professional colleagues for over 20 years but their relationship “changed during COVID.”
One insider called the comments “a total lie.”
“They’ve been together for years,” the source dished.
“And she’s still lying about it today — the statement she made that ‘recently our relationship changed during COVID’ is a total lie.”

Do you see how Hayek’s observation about totalitarianism applies? The people now complaining about Gollust getting to keep her job were themselves implicated in covering up the Zucker-Gollust affair — if everybody knew it had been going on “for years,” why didn’t they say anything? Or, perhaps more to the point, if they felt Zucker’s behavior was unethical, why didn’t they quit and go work somewhere else?

But that’s just it, you see — everybody at CNN wanted to work at CNN. They wanted to work for Jeff Zucker, an unethical man running an unethical organization, which was staffed by unethical employees. The entire organization is corrupt, from top to bottom.

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota said Wednesday on “Newsroom” that the undisclosed relationship between CNN chief Jeff Zucker and Executive Vice President Allison Gollust is between “two consenting adults,” so it should not have caused Zucker to step down.
Camerota said, “I want to say something personal for a moment. I feel it deeply personally, but I think I speak for all of us and our colleagues. This is an incredible loss. It’s an incredible loss. Jeff is a remarkable person and an incredible leader. He has this uncanny ability to make, I think, every one of us feel special and valuable in our own way even though he is managing an international news organization of thousands of people. I just know he had this unique ability to make us feel special. I don’t think that comes around all the time. I think, again, it’s an incredible loss. I just think it’s so regrettable how it happened. If what you are reporting is true, these are two consenting adults who are both executives. That they can’t have a private relationship feels wrong on some level.”

You may ask yourself why Camerota is engaging in this shameless toadying toward Zucker, even after he’s no longer her boss. But you see that toadying up to Zucker was a prerequisite to employment at CNN, and everyone there was in a sort of ass-kissing competition, to see who could most be more obsequious toward their loathsome boss. The habit of heaping undeserved praise on Zucker was so deeply trained into Camerota that she can’t break it now, as Ace says of Brian Stelter, “They say that if you take the chain off a dog that’s been chained for ten years, it still won’t walk more than a chain’s length from the stake.”

CNN was a cult of personality, like Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Nazi Germany or Mao’s Communist China. Total loyalty to Zucker was the only condition of employment; ability counted for very little, and as for integrity — well, no one with integrity would ever work at CNN.




 

Category: CNN

I (Still) Hate Illinois Nazis

Posted on | February 1, 2022 | Comments Off on I (Still) Hate Illinois Nazis

In case you missed it, Whoopi Goldberg (née Caryn Elaine Johnson) surprised everyone who thought she’d already reached the nadir of ignorance, boldly going where no one had gone before, and doing it on live TV:

GOLDBERG: Well also, if we’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race.
HAINES: No.
GOLDBERG: No. It’s not about race.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: They considered Jews a different race.
GOLDBERG: It’s not about race. It’s not about race.
BEHAR: What is it about?
GOLDBERG: It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.
ANA NAVARRO: But it’s about white supremacy.
[Crosstalk]
NAVARRO: It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies and Romas
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: But these are two white groups of people. How do we —
BEHAR: Well, they went after black people too.
HAINES: They did not see them as white though.
GOLDBERG: But you’re missing the point! You’re missing the point. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you are black or white because black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats each other.
So is it — if you are uncomfortable if you hear about Maus, should you be worried — should your child say, oh my god, I wonder if that’s me? No. That’s not what they’re going to say. They’re going to say, I don’t want to be like that.

Everybody has weighed in on this, and Whoopi (who is not, and never has been Jewish, whatever her stage name might lead anyone to imagine) is reportedly in “deep s**t” at ABC because of her remarks. But this was not really the most stupid or offensive thing she’d ever said on The View, it just so happened that her stupidity in this case was offensive to Jews and — oh, boy! — you don’t want to do that at ABC. Conspiracy theorists would have you believe that all media organizations are controlled by the worldwide Zionist cabal, but I think some would say ABC more than most. (If I’m wrong, you’ll excuse me for not being up-to-date on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but I’ve been busy lately.) What’s interesting in all this is how someone like Whoopi could think she was adding something helpful to the discussion (about a Tennessee school district removing the children’s book Maus from its curriculum) by saying what she said. “I’ve watched this three times and have no idea what she’s getting at,” says Allahpundit. Oh, but I have some idea.

Whoopi grew up in New York City, where there are more Jews than any other place except Israel. And, from the perspective of a black person from New York, Jews are just another group of white people who nevertheless tend to think of themselves as victims of discrimination. And that annoys the hell out of the kind of black person (e.g., Al Sharpton) who makes a career of exploiting claims of victimhood. Sharpton was able to exploit the black resentment of Jews which emerged in the wake of the success of the 1960s civil rights movement. Most people don’t realize how active Jews were in the civil rights struggle, and know nothing of the aftermath, when “Black Power” radicals like Stokely Carmichael took over SNCC and kicked out all the white people.

Many years ago, I interviewed a woman (the wife of a prominent black politician in Atlanta) who had participated in SNCC’s sit-in protests, and she cited this period — the “Black Power” takeover circa 1965-66 — as the moment when race relations in America went wrong. This gave rise to a far-left tendency that led many black radicals to side with the Arabs against Israel in 1967 and beyond, becoming de facto allies of Yasser Arafat’s Jew-hating PLO, with consequences that are still with us.

Having boiled down a lot of complex social history into two paragraphs, I’ll leave it at that, except to note that Whoopi still doesn’t seem to understand exactly why her comments were so offensive to Jews.

Whoopi Doubles Down On Holocaust
Remarks — Despite Apology: ‘They Had
Issues With Ethnicity, Not With Race’

Look, I’ve found myself in trouble in situations where what I said did not properly convey what I meant, and had to cope with being branded a “white supremacist” on the basis of such a misunderstanding, but was persuaded to take heed of Denis Healey’s First Law of Holes. Yeah, maybe there was some nuance in what you said that you feel like has been missed in the controversy, but your attempt to “clarify” your meaning is not likely to help you in the midst of a firestorm. Whoopi wants it to be understood that she was trying to highlight differences between the historic experiences of blacks and Jews — and how racism in America is different than what was going on with Hitler in Europe — but she’s not doing a good job of it, apparently because like so many Americans her knowledge of European history is almost non-existent.

This is something I’ve tried to explain to the sort of “white supremacists” who think they’re going to usher in some kind of Fourth Reich here in America. The particular historic conditions that made possible Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s simply don’t exist here, but good luck explaining that to the kind of idiots who think they’re going to win over the masses by flying swastika flags and shouting, “Sieg Heil!”

Besides neo-Nazis, the only people who think such a thing is possible are liberal Jews, which is why the Democratic Party and its media allies devote so much effort to depicting Republicans as would-be Hitlers. Why do you think Ana Navarro kept trying to interrupt Whoopi by talking about “white supremacy”? That particular phrase has connotations of anti-Semitism that the word “racist” doesn’t have, which is why liberal Jews who might roll their eyes at accusations of “racism” will take the accusation of “white supremacy” more seriously. Democrats know this!

Whoopi Goldberg’s gaffe completely screws up this narrative, which is why she’s in so much trouble at ABC now. And as I was enjoying the spectacle of her twisting in the wind, I couldn’t help but think of that classic scene in The Blues Brothers, where Henry Gibson plays the neo-Nazi leader speaking through a megaphone to an angry mob:

“The Jew is using the black as muscle against you, and you are left there, helpless. Well, what are you going to do about it, whitey?”

Alas, there are actually people who think that way, who see crafty Jews as the secretive sinister force behind everything, and I wonder what they’ll say if Whoopi Goldberg actually does get canned by ABC? At the same time, the executives at ABC must realize how bad it would look — I mean, not just in terms of confirming anti-Semitic conspiracy theories — to fire Whoopi for this, when she has such a long track record of saying stupid and offensive things, some arguably even worse than this.

As for me, well, there’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark out, and we’re wearing sunglasses.

 

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

Category: Celebrities, Racism

In The Mailbox: 01.31.22

Posted on | February 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.31.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

It was, too.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Consequences Of The Breakdown Of Law & Order In LA
EBL: Where In The World Is Blackface Trudeau?
Twitchy: Grope & Flail Finds “Activists & Academics” Who Say Calling Trucker Protest “Peaceful” Undermines “Non-Violent Danger” It Poses
Louder With Crowder: Joe Rogan Addresses Spotify Controversy, Forced To Explain To Haters What A Podcast Is
Vox Popoli: Russia Rejects Globohomo, “A Rare & Direct Warning”, and Trudeau Flees Canada
Stoic Observations: Exit The Ghetto

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Cloud Yells At Old Man
American Greatness: Joe Biden & The Uses Of Nihilism
American Power: The Totalitarian Left’s Joe Rogan Freakout
American Thinker: The Most Impressive Communist-Crusher You’ve Never Heard Of
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Abbott Beating Beta O’Rourke Among Hispanics, also, Thinking Of Vacationing In Communist Cuba? Think Again. 
Baldilocks: Slavery & Names
BattleSwarm: These Canadian Truck Protest Convoys Seem Pretty Massive, also, Amazon & Its Discontents
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American Killed Himself, also, Israel, Overrun With COVID, Proves The Jab Has Failed & Must Be Abandoned
Cafe Hayek: Scott Atlas Asks If Truth Will Prevail, also, Human Beings Are Not To Be Trusted With The Power To Lockdown
CDR Salamander: Ukraine Exposes NATO’s Divisions
Da Tech Guy: “I’m Not Black Enough To Be Shot”, also, The Three Stages Of Young & Mitchell Vs. Spotify (Per My Wife)
Don Surber: Trump Basher Wants Him Back, also, WaPo Opposes Freedom
First Street Journal: What George Soros Has Inflicted On America, also, More Journolism From The Lexington Herald-Leader
Gates Of Vienna: Two Out Of Three Germans Can’t Be Wrong, also, The Revolution Has Begun
The Geller Report: Sweden Refuses The Jab For Kids 5-11, also, Trump’s Texas “Save America” Rally Shatters State Record With Massive Crowds
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, What Color Is Your Galaxy?
Hollywood In Toto: Gutfeld Shows Colbert & Co. How To Speak Truth To Power, also, Rockers’ Silence On SpotifyGate Speaks Volumes
The Lid: American Truckers Awakening “The Fire-Breathing Dragon”
Legal Insurrection: Profile In Cowardice, Penzey’s Begging For Customers After CEO Calls Republicans Racist, and Democrat Incompetence Led To Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse – So Of Course They Blame Republicans
Nebraska Energy Observer: Deliberate Observation, also, Antisemitism Persists
Outkick: The Rock Supports Joe Rogan, Bengals Score 21 To Beat The Chiefs 27-24, and Tom Brady Retires From NFL
Power Line: Whoops Whoopi! also, Smearing The Truckers
Shark Tank: Rubio On Demings’ Silence – “She Doesn’t Want To Tell People The Truth”
Shot In The Dark: “Dangerous Misinformation”, also, Lions Are Lying Down With Lambs
STUMP: Original Sin (or Pandora’s Box), Public Finance, & Pensions
The Political Hat: Florida Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Special Ops Legend Maj. Gen. Singlaub Dies At 100, also, Maryland Woman Charged With Possession Of Fake Military ID
Transterrestrial Musings: Lockdowns, Red China In Space, and Weed Makes You Stupid?
Victory Girls: Convoy For Freedom Truckers Threatened With Arrest, also, Bad Orange Woman Giggles “Soft On Crime? What Does That Mean?”
Volokh Conspiracy: “A Rock…The More Mass, The Faster It Falls”, also, Georgetown U. Faculty Letter Against Firing Ilya Shapiro
Weasel Zippers: Canadian PM Flees Capitol For “Secure Location”, also, Cheney Challenger Raises $1.1 Million
The Federalist: A Happier Society Would Have More Children, also, Corrupt Media’s Smear Of NYT’s David Leonhardt Over COVID Reminds Us Why They Cat Be Trusted
Mark Steyn: The Two Johns – John Milius & The Legend Of Dillinger, also, When Irish Eyes Are Daíling

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‘Running Gun Battle’ in Florida Town Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded

Posted on | January 31, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Running Gun Battle’ in Florida Town Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded

Polk County, Florida, is in the central part of the state, between Tampa to the west and Orlando to the northeast. It used to be a mostly rural area, with lots of orange groves and a cheap place to retire, but the population has grown to more than 700,000, adding about 250,000 new residents in just the past 20 years. Some of the new residents of Polk County are thugs, and they had some of their typical thug fun over the weekend:

A 20-year-old man was killed and four others were hospitalized in critical condition from an exchange of gunfire between two cars in unincorporated Winter Haven early Sunday morning, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
The deceased man and three of the injured — a 26-year-old man, a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy — had left a bowling alley in the same car around 1:13 a.m., Judd said.
As the group drove north on Buckeye Loop Road toward Martin Luther King Blvd on the outskirts of Winter Haven, a dark sedan that followed them pulled up beside the car and the two vehicles engaged in a “running gun battle,” Judd said at a news conference Sunday.
“If you look very close, you’ll see some of these bullets are entrance holes into this vehicle, some are exit holes from the vehicle, so the suspects were shooting back and forth at each other,” Judd said.
The shootout was witnessed from a distance by friends of an individual in the first car, who Judd said reported seeing the vehicle ease over to the side of the road before it came to rest.
“And what we find (in the car) is not good. What we found was a 20-year-old young man, still a kid, dead,” Judd said. “He was shot eight times. Did you hear what I said? He was shot eight times.”
Judd said that among the other occupants, the 26-year-old was shot eight times, the 17-year-old was shot twice and the other 20-year-old man was shot between seven and eight times. The man who was shot and killed was the front-seat passenger of the car with an “AR strapped around him” and “a gun in his waist,” Judd said.
Though the shooting occurred in unincorporated Winter Haven, Judd said that the Winter Haven Police Department offered a “remarkable amount” of assistance to Polk County deputies at the scene.
The dark-colored car continued to drive west on Martin Luther King Blvd before it dropped off a 21-year-old man at Winter Haven Hospital who had also been shot and is now in critical condition there, Judd said.
Judd said there were so many bullet holes and shell casings to count that deputies were initially unable to report exactly how many shots were fired between both cars.
“We’re still counting bullet holes,” Judd said.

Watch the video here:

 

You’ll see that Sheriff Judd makes the case that Polk County has a low crime rate, and that this incident was unusual. What apparently happened was that some thugs were dealing dope and got into a feud with rival thugs. And the sheriff makes the point that, while a lot of people talk about marijuana as a “low-level, non-violent crime,” there is an awful lot of violence surrounding the dope trade, because it’s run by thugs.

I’m reminded of a scene in P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores, where O’Rourke did a ride-along with D.C. police in an area afflicted by the 1990s crack epidemic. O’Rourke tried to offer a libertarian critique of the War on Drugs, suggesting legalization was the solution, to which the police officer replied, “Air should be illegal, if these people breathe it.”

What that cop was trying to express was an idea that I’ve often phrased a bit more politely: Crime is a people problem. It’s not a drug problem. It’s not a poverty problem or a gun problem. Crime is caused by bad people — criminals — who will commit crime more or less continuously unless they’re put behind bars. The only way you can reduce crime is to identify the criminals, arrest them, and send them to prison. It doesn’t really matter what they’re arrested and convicted for — burglary, assault, drug possession, car theft, whatever — what matters is that you convict them of something, and get them off the streets. Put enough thugs in prison, and the would-be thugs on the street will be discouraged from following in their footsteps. Otherwise, they’ll just kill each other.

“Self-cleaning oven,” they call that in Chicago.




 

Category: Crime, Florida

The Joy of Schadenfreude as Nick Wright Cries the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness

Posted on | January 31, 2022 | Comments Off on The Joy of Schadenfreude as Nick Wright Cries the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness

When my team loses a football game, I have the luxury of being silent, pretending that nothing happened. The incident on January 10?

Nope. No comment. Movin’ on.

Nick Wright of Fox Sports does not have that luxury. He gets paid to talk about football, which is galling to fans of other teams who must listen to this Kansas City native rave about his man-crush, Patrick Mahomes.

Until this past season, I had never paid any attention to Nick Wright, and had no real opinion about Mahomes. But then the New England Patriots drafted Mac Jones from Alabama, and I became a Patriots fan — and quickly learned to hate Nick Wright like God hates sin. Because he is convinced that Mahomes is destined to be the greatest quarterback in NFL history, Wright habitually slanders any potential rival.

Honestly, I had almost completely ignored the NFL for a couple of decades before the Patriots drafted Mac Jones, which was why I had no idea who Nick Wright was when I first started seeing YouTube clips of him slagging Mac Jones. At that point, I was unaware that Wright was a Kansas City native, but once I figured out his motive for being anti-Mac, it made me furious — how dare Fox Sports employ this commentator who was so obviously biased in favor of one team that he made a habit of dissing other teams (especially the Chiefs’ AFC rivals)?

My hatred of Nick Wright led me to start cheering against the Chiefs, the same way, as an Alabama fan, I cheer for whoever’s playing Auburn.

And this was frustrating, because the Chiefs are a very good football team and Mahomes really does have wizard-like football skills. While I’m not a fan of the run-and-gun, shake-and-bake, razzle-dazzle style of football that Mahomes plays, he is unquestionably the best at that style of play. Last week’s division playoff game between Kansas City and the Buffalo Bills was one of the greatest games in NFL history, and the performance by Mahomes was absolutely electric.

He completed 33 of 44 passes for 378 yards and 3 touchdowns, and was also the Chiefs’ leading rusher, with 7 carries for 69 yards and another TD, but the numbers don’t capture just how magical he was against the Bills. Just watch the video of these two plays:

How do you defend against a player like that? It’s perfectly understandable why opposing defenses would get demoralized against Mahomes, and also understandable why a Kansas City native like Nick Wright would be a fan. But having to listen to Wright drool over Mahomes is so annoying that, as a freshly minted Patriots fan, I have come to hate Nick Wright so much that I hate Mahomes, too.

Therefore on Sunday, I was cheering for the Cincinnati Bengals against the Chiefs in the AFC championship game, but during the first half, it seemed like all hope was lost for an upset that would break Nick Wright’s heart. The Bengals were trailing 14-3 with about 10 minutes left in the half when, on third and 6, Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow threw an incomplete pass, and the Bengals were forced to punt. Kansas City took over at their own 28, and Mahomes led his team down the field on a drive that ended with a touchdown pass, to put the Chiefs up 21-3 with five minutes left in the half. Trailing by 18 points, it seemed the Bengals were doomed, and Kansas City was on their way to the Super Bowl.

And then Patrick Mahomes choked like a loser.

Mahomes choked so bad, even Nick Wright couldn’t deny he’d choked.

It was a choke of world-historic importance, a performance destined for a place of honor in the Choking Hall of Fame. So every NFL fan who isn’t from Kansas City set their alarms this morning to wake up and watch Nick Wright writhe in agony about how bad Mahomes choked:

Oh, the salt just burns in that open wound, doesn’t it, Nick? And trust me, there are millions of people laughing at your misery.




 

Category: Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly

Posted on | January 31, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Evangeline Lilly

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ms. Lilly has been in a fair number of movies & TV shows, most notably Lost, The Hobbit, and Ant-Man & The Wasp. Of course, what caught my attention is her public statement against the jab mandate, which of course has earned her some flak from her fellow actors & actresses. This pic of Ms. Lilly is from her days on Lost.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

On the beach.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1610, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five University Sheep Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Chicks With Iguanas, Boston Blizzard Babes, Regina Spektor, Evangeline Lilly, Marie Newman, Possibly (Mass Formation) Psychotic Babes, The Gilded Age, “Hazy Shade Of Winter”, Daisy Edgar Jones, Fountains Of Wayne, and The Last Duel.

A View From The Beach: Elizabeth Smith, ASMFC Looking to New Striper Regs, Analysis: Probably Correct, Fish Pic Friday – Tara Foster, Whew, Chessie Gets Home Safe, In a Fit of Mass Formation Psychosis, Justice Breyer Says Sayonara, Some Thursday Tanlines, Bravo! No Dissent Permitted, Hump Day Political Hilarity, Some Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

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