Exposing Gender, Inc.

Posted on | February 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Exposing Gender, Inc.

Through the magic of the YouTube algorithm, last night I came across feminist Isabella Malbin’s “Whose Body Is It?” channel. As I’ve been chronicling since 2014, radical feminists are waging war against what can fairly be described as the Transgender-Industrial Complex. Of course my readers know me as a staunch opponent of feminism, per se — the concept of “group rights” is at the heart of the radicalism destroying our civilization. Nevertheless, “truth is great and will prevail,” and radical feminists have tenaciously grabbed hold of an important truth — men and women are different, in ways that are socially significant.

Malbin did an interview with activist Alix Aharon:

Alix Aharon returns with updates on her research into the dangerous dichotomy facing young girls today: either hypersexualize or de-sex altogether. We get into who specifically is being targeted by gender corporatism and media, who’s resisting the propaganda, and the organized grooming of women and girls of all ages into the mass psychosis of gender dysphoria. We also cover the recent craze of so-called non-binary surgeries, the trans movement’s desecration and appropriation of faith and religious heritage, the perverted limitlessness of hentai, the insidious ways in which child sex abuse is being normalized, and the push against healthy human sexuality toward a non-human, alien-like future.
Alix is an activist and journalist building important real-time documentation and awareness of the everyday violence committed by the gender industry via the Gender Mapper Project. Her candid articulations regarding these medicalized atrocities inspire women to come out of the gender critical closet, ask questions, and escape the dizzying mind control sweeping society.

Aharon is addressing something very important: Social media is fueling this “dangerous dichotomy” in which young girls receive the message that the ideal is to be a hypersexualized bimbo — aspiring to become a “Real Housewives” cast member, basically — or else they must reject womanhood altogether, chasing the transgender fantasy, getting their breasts amputated, injecting themselves with testosterone, etc.

This is a formula for madness, and radical feminists are correct to criticize it, but they’re getting little support from the so-called “progressive community,” and are actively smeared by the liberal media. Just this past week, for example, Time magazine ran an article depicting opponents of the transgender agenda as dangerous terrorists intimidating providers of “lifesaving care.” On her Twitter account (@GenderMapper), Aharon called out Time:

This article is silly- fails to mention that the protestors at the clinics were middle-aged feminists with posters and a megaphone. The “frightening” moment a doctor sees a flyer “No child is born in the wrong body”. Splash some water on your face, luv. https://t.co/gRLinONsdI

— TheGenderMapper (@GenderMapper) February 16, 2022

So stupid. They fail to mention that these protestors were feminists, and the whole thing was coordinated by a lifelong lesbian activist, not “right-wingers”. Doctors are “intimidated” by 10 moms with signs and a megaphone on public property? Get real.

— TheGenderMapper (@GenderMapper) February 16, 2022

Every conservative understands what it’s like to be smeared this way. If you advocate for limited government, fiscal sanity and maintenance of the Constitution — just basic common-sense traditionalism — you will inevitably find yourself depicted by the media as some kind of “extremist,” lumped in with neo-Nazis, etc. And this is what is happening now to feminists. Whenever liberals have an agenda, everyone who is against must be Hitler, according to the media. If liberals want war, anyone who wants peace will be labelled a “right-wing extremist.”

First Amendment freedom of speech is under attack.

What is happening is that opposition to the liberal agenda — regarding transgenderism or anything else — is categorized as “hate,” and thereby made subject to “de-platforming,” so that you can’t use common online communications channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) to express dissent. Activists collaborate with Silicon Valley insiders to suppress opposition, to block opponents from fundraising sites, which means that while any liberal can use PayPal, Google Adsense or whatever to fund their activism (e.g., pro-transgenderism), opponents of the liberal agenda do not have the same freedom (because “hate”).

This is why the reporter who reached out to Alix Aharon for her views on Time‘s celebration of transgenderism was Neil Munro of Breibart:

“All of a sudden, all is better because Jack is really Jackie,” said Alix Aharon, an advocate for child safeguarding who is a member of the Women’s Liberation Front: “It’s a girl! Not a gay boy, not a sissy! Society is not going to shake your hand and say, ‘Well done, you’ve got a sissy boy.’ But if you say you have a transgender girl, well, there’s a parade for you, you get all of this attention from wider society, you’re praised as a wonderful mother, a great person.” . . .
“Traditionally, if somebody didn’t like their gay kid, they would just tell them to leave home, they wouldn’t castrate them,” said Aharon. She continued:

It might be hard to accept that your child is gay and does deviate from the norm. But it is a much brighter outcome for you and your family to accept whatever that is than to encourage them to embark on a dangerous journey of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that damage their healthy genitalia. . . .

A surprising number of prominent gays encourage this “trans-the-gay-away” process, Aharon said:

I find it really quite mind-boggling that prominent, famous gay men support the idea of Kai [Shappley] and Jazz Jennings [going through this process] because they don’t see themselves in that whole story. It’s very well for Elton John, for example, to be sitting there in his 60s with his intact penis and his intact body, and then to be watching this … Have you no sympathy for yourself and the way this turned out for you as a kid?

Research studies show that almost 9 of 10 kids who initially claim a different-sex identity soon reclaim their own sex.
Feminine behavior by young boys can be common, Aharon said. “Young boys often try to wear their mother’s clothes because they love the mother, so it’s often a sign of boys being very close to their mothers,” she said.
Girls are also getting transubstantiated into boys, especially girls who are shocked by puberty and unwanted sexual attention from aggressive, porn-watching boys.
Porn indirectly pressures girls to display themselves as sexualized women — but the transgender ideology allows them to escape the pressure by declaring themselves to be “non-binary” non-females, Aharon said. The “dangerous dichotomy facing young girls today [is] either hypersexualize or de-sex altogether,” she said, noting that many girls beg for money to surgically remove their breasts.

Now, there are many topics on which Aharon and I may disagree, but the connection between the online inundation of pornography and the alarming increase in teenage transgenderism is not one of them. Immersion in a hypersexualized culture is certain to produce all kinds of craziness, and middle-school girls declaring themselves “non-binary” is just one flavor of 21st-century sexual insanity. People are getting into all kinds of weird kinks and fetishes that were once scarcely mentionable, college girls are selling porn selfies via OnlyFans or getting murdered by “sugar daddies,” and a certain number of dudes are joining the “incel” world where Elliot Rodger is regarded as a heroic role model.

Nobody in “mainstream” journalism would give Alix Aharon a platform to discuss these issues, and we have to ask, “Why?” Could it be because Silicon Valley profits from this sex-crazed sickness? Whatever the explanation, the fact is that feminists opposed to “Gender, Inc.” are being subjected to the same kind of smears and silencing tactics that we on the Right have experienced for years. In terms of defending liberty, then, we have become de facto allies, in much the same way as we have become allies of Asian parents in San Francisco who recalled their school board.

Raise high the banner of liberty, and welcome all who will fight for it.

 

FMJRA 2.0: Rainbow In The Dark

Posted on | February 19, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Rainbow In The Dark

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Left work last night a little before 8 PM, stopped to refuel in Carson City, stopped again in Yerington for coffee and a latrine break, and then I didn’t stop until I was home in Tonopah around 1 AM this morning. Understandably, I wanted nothing more than to unpack, set up my nose hose, and go to bed. Which I did.

Things were kinda streaky for my Senators this week – first we lost two in a row to Minnesota (but they were close) and then swept the Hated Yankees in a three-game series, only the third sweep of the season. With 98 games out of 120 done, I’m not liking my chances of reaching .500, but with Dierker, Kaat, and Reed on board, I’ll have a much better starting rotation next season.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Late Night With Rule 5 Apologies
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

 

Aspiring Rapper Update: NYC Mayor Mourns Jayquan ‘Chii Wvttz’ McKenley
EBL
357 Magnum

Who’s Afraid of President Crackpipe?
First Street Journal
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Whipping Post
A View From The Beach
EBL

 

Rams Win the ‘White Supremacy’ Bowl
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Jewish Candidate for Louisville Mayor Survives BLM Assassination Attempt
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.15.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Corporate PR Coochie-for-Hire Exits Praising CNN’s ‘Journalistic Integrity’
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.16.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 02.17.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Early Front-Runner Emerges for 2022 ‘Media Gaslighter of the Year’ Award
EBL
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CNN and the Ukraine ‘Crisis’
EBL
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Gregory William Robert Fulchino, R.I.P.
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Top linkers for the week ending February 18:

1.  EBL (13)
2.  357 Magnum (10)
3.  A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Fat Gay 35-Year-Old Facebook Executive Jeren Miles Fired for Allegedly Trying to Hook Up With 13-Year-Old Boy

Posted on | February 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Fat Gay 35-Year-Old Facebook Executive Jeren Miles Fired for Allegedly Trying to Hook Up With 13-Year-Old Boy

Look, it’s not that I’m prejudiced against fat people. Or gay people, for that matter. However, I am prejudiced against Facebook executives, especially when they’re sociology majors — i.e., the bargain basement of college graduates — whose behavior creates a situation where I find it advisable to use the word “allegedly” in a headline:

A high-level Facebook staffer was allegedly caught soliciting a minor for sex during an amateur undercover sting operation in Columbus, Ohio. The video of the encounter was posted to the YouTube channel “Predator Catchers Indianapolis” on February 16.
Jeren Andrew Miles, 35, of Palm Springs California, allegedly sent sexually explicit texts to a 13-year-old boy and made plans for the boy to meet him at Le Meridien Columbus hotel.
Miles was the Manager of Community Development at Meta/Facebook until a spokesperson from the company confirmed to The Daily Caller that Miles is “no longer with the company.”
According to the video, the anti-pedophile activist group busted Miles at the hotel where he then agreed to give an interview.
During the interview, Miles admitted that he sent sexually explicit messages to a person he believed to be a 13-year-old boy, according to the video.
“I was flirting, I was talking to him,” Miles admitted. “There was never any intention of meeting up with him.”
However, he later admitted that he arranged for them to meet after giving the underaged boy “information” and a “location.”
Miles serves on the board of directors for LGBTQ+ group, Equality California. He has since deleted his social media accounts on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Miles previously worked as the Director of Community Affairs for Lyft, according to an archive on LinkedIn . . .

Daniel Payne points out that a Facebook public-relations official named Drew Pusateri — who, for all I know, might be totally heterosexual, despite the fact that he’s a white guy working for Facebook — “tried to talk [TechCrunch reporter Ingrid Lunden] out of the newsworthiness of this story . . . noting that other outlets were not covering it.”

Gosh, you mean the Big Tech behemoth expects reporters to pretend that it’s not newsworthy that one of their executives was expressing his desire to “suck” (that’s a direct quote) a 13-year-old boy?

Allegedly, I hasten to add. Our legal department (i.e. Bert the Samoan lawyer) hasn’t gotten back to me on my request for clarification about how often I must use “allegedly” in this post, just to make clear that I am not the one making these accusations, and am instead merely quoting what other online sources have published. Certainly I do not claim to have direct knowledge of what Jeren Andrew Miles planned to do with a 13-year-old boy in an Ohio hotel room, so that is just an allegation, whereas the fact that he’s fat is self-evident.

Also, Jeren Andrew Miles is a white male homosexual, and it seems as if the way “diversity” works in Silicon Valley nowadays is that no white males can be employed unless they’re gay. Or a really good engineer. But considering that Jeren Andrew Miles majored in sociology, I’m going to bet he’s not very good at all that “coding” stuff that computer engineers get paid to do. And by the way, did I mention he’s fat?

To repeat — I am not prejudiced against fat people, but lots of other people are, which is why I keep pointing this out, just to give those people another reason to hate Facebook (as if more reasons were needed). So I apologize to any fat people or gay people (or even sociology majors) offended by this post, but you understand that I had to leverage every available prejudice as part of my effort to incite Fear and Loathing of Facebook Executives, Particularly The Ones Who (Allegedly) Want to Suck a 13-Year-Old Boy in a Hotel Room.

Being a blogger is a thankless job, but somebody’s got to do it. Allegedly.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

 

‘He Had a 48-Page Rap Sheet’

Posted on | February 19, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘He Had a 48-Page Rap Sheet’

Say hello to Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, and while you’re at it, you can also say good-bye to him, because his lengthy criminal career recently came to a permanent end, thanks to Alabama law enforcement.

Lanier was from South Carolina, where last year, he escaped custody:

A man escaped police custody Wednesday afternoon [Oct. 27] while being treated at a Greenwood hospital, according to police.
Alexander Kade Lanier was being treated Wednesday at Self Regional Medical Center after he was arrested by Greenwood police in connection with a burglary and domestic violence investigation from Tuesday night, Greenwood Police Department Public Information Officer Jonathan Link said.
At about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, Lanier eluded police, who minutes later discovered he was no longer in his hospital room, Link said. He did not have enough details to say how Lanier escaped police custody or surveillance, but officers have been searching near Self since then to find him.
“I can’t think of the last time we had somebody escape our custody like this, but it’s very unfortunate,” Police Chief T.J. Chaudoin said. “There’s a lot of questions to be asked like why he wasn’t in handcuffs, why he wasn’t in leg irons. There’s several questions that have to be asked to figure out why he wasn’t restrained.”
Chaudoin said Lanier was being treated at the hospital after telling officers he had consumed an illegal substance. Hospital staff members were monitoring him after treatment, and Chaudoin said one sworn officer was assigned to watch Lanier when he escaped. He said an investigation is underway into how Lanier escaped and whether department policy was followed.
Lanier was last seen wearing a red hoodie and gray shorts. Chaudoin said after Lanier’s escape, he stole a vehicle from someone he knew who lived on Woodrow Avenue.

More details of the arrest in that case:

Lanier was arrested Tuesday night in connection with a burglary case. Police went at about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday to a Stanley Avenue apartment, where a woman said a man had forced his way into the apartment.
The woman told officers she used to be in a relationship with the man, but he recently tried to contact her after she blocked him on social media and on her phone, a report said. He came to the apartment she was staying at and began to beat on the door. When she told him to leave, he broke the door down and started to argue with her.
The woman tried to calm him down so he would not flee before police arrived, and when officers came he had locked himself in the bathroom, the report said. He came out when police commanded him to, and told police he had consumed a bag with a dozen pills in it.

Was Lanier able to escape because he was a criminal mastermind, or did this have more to do with a particularly dumb cop? Readers can decide for themselves, but a few days later, he was caught in Alabama:

The Pell City Police Department arrested a man Thursday who was wanted as a fugitive from justice out of South Carolina.
Pell City Police Chief Paul Irwin said Alexander Lanier, 26, of Greenwood, S.C., after a chase that spanned several miles of Interstate 20 and ended in Leeds.
The chief said Lanier had previously escaped from a correctional facility in South Carolina after he had been convicted of burglary while armed.
He said at 4:54 p.m. Thursday, St. Clair County advised the Pell City Police Department of a 2006 Honda Pilot driven by Lanier headed westbound on I-20 that was suspected of leaving the scene of an accident in Coldwater.
Irwin said officer Manuel Diaz spotted the vehicle near I-20 exit 158 and began pursuit. Diaz was later joined by other officers and deputies from St. Clair County. The chief said the pursuit continued until the Leeds exit where the Leeds Police Department was deploying a spike strip. He said Lanier avoided the strip but lost control of the vehicle which came to rest in a nearby ditch.
Irwin said Lanier was arrested after the chase without incident, but was transported to the hospital because of injuries sustained in the crash.
Jail records show Lanier was booked into the St. Cir County Jail in Asheville Sunday afternoon. He is being held without bond on charges of two counts of buying or receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment, fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and a charge as a fugitive from justice.

Now, you might think that would be the end of it. He had already escaped custody in South Carolina, become an interstate fugitive and led police on a pursuit in a stolen car. Lock him up and throw away the key, particularly given the fact that he had originally been arrested for terrorizing an ex-girlfriend. I was under the impression that violence against women was a crime category taken seriously by our criminal justice system, but perhaps I was mistaken. Also, I was generally under the impression that progressive soft-on-crime leniency hadn’t spread as far as St. Clair County, Alabama — which, last time I checked, was a redneck stronghold where Donald Trump got 81% of the vote — and yet, in this too I was mistaken, because a judge there sent Lanier to a drug-rehab facility. And of course, the career criminal just waltzed right out of there, and went on a crime spree that ended shortly after he decided to carjack somebody at Waffle House, in Oxford, Alabama.

Let me tell you folks, I went to college at Jacksonville State University, just up the road from Oxford, a place I spent a fair amount of time (although on the advice of Bert the Samoan Lawyer, I’ll invoke my right to remain silent as to what I was doing there, and as to exact dates, well, I’m sure I’ve got an alibi). But the thing is, Oxford is nearly as redneck as St. Clair County, if not indeed more so. It was the site of a rather notorious incident during the civil rights era — the locals didn’t take kindly to the “Freedom Riders” passing through — and Oxford is just not the kind of place where a fugitive on a crime spree can expect lenient treatment. Hell, you try to carjack somebody there, and they’re likely to pull out their own gun and shoot you dead. And dear God, a Waffle House? You’re playing Russian roulette trying to carjack somebody at a Waffle House in a redneck town like Oxford. I think we can discard the idea that Alexander Kade Lanier was a criminal mastermind:

Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Oxford early Monday morning.
During a news conference Monday afternoon, Partridge said Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, of Louisiana, had a 48-page rap sheet. Chief Partridge said he had prior arrests for felony assault, escapes and other charges. Partridge said, “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets.”
The chief said at 12:11 a.m. an Oxford Police Officer was doing a report before his lunch when the suspect, Lanier, carjacked someone at gunpoint at Waffle House.
Investigators said Lanier shot at officers and then led them on a chase from I-20 to Airport Road. Partridge said Lanier shot at officers while driving on I-20.
The officer-involved shooting happened at Airport Road and Alabama 21. Lanier was killed in the shooting.
Partridge said Lanier was using a weapon that was stolen from Moody Sunday.

So, out of all the Waffle Houses in Alabama to try a carjacking, this young genius just happens to pick the one where there’s a cop sitting in a patrol car across the street. More from Chief Partridge:

An angry Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge identified the slain man as 26-year-old Alexander Kade Lanier and lashed out at a judicial system that he said puts police officers in danger of career criminals every day.
The past offenses include assault, first second and third degree, assault and battery of detention officers, hit and run in a stolen vehicle and possession of a gun during a burglary, Partridge said. Many of the offenses happened outside Alabama.
“You name it, he’s done it,” Partridge said of Lanier. “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets. He should be in jail, and we shouldn’t be standing here today.”
“We’ve got problems with individuals walking our streets like this every single day and being let out of jail or walking away from rehab facilities who have major felonies and then we have to stand here, and we have to justify what we had to do.” . . .
“If this individual will shoot at police officers and carjack a vehicle right across the street from a uniformed marked unit, just imagine what he’d do to our citizens,’’ Partridge said. . . .
This is a very unfortunate incident,’’ Partridge said. “We shouldn’t be standing here because this man should be in jail.”
Partridge, a fierce advocate for law enforcement who is often outspoken about violence against police officers, tweeted this just hours before the shootout: “We continue to see officers shot and killed because individuals think it’s their right to pull gun on officers and resist. It’s never okay to resist or shoot at (law enforcement). Comply. Follow directions, complain later.”
Nationwide, he said, police officers are being shot at record pace by career criminals. On Friday alone, 13 police officers were wounded in shootings over a 24-hour period across four states.
“I’ll tell you what needs to be done. We need to stop passing laws that water down our criminal justice system and allow these individuals to walk our streets,’’ Partridge said.
“We shouldn’t be dealing with this,’’ the chief said. “These men and women shouldn’t be out here every day on our streets putting their life on the line because judges and courts allow these individuals to walk out of a door without bond or putting them in a rehab facility that is not as secure so they can just walk off and obtain a weapon and do this type of thing.”

Certainly, I agree with Chief Partridge, being “a fierce advocate for law enforcement” myself, although this is a stance I came to rather belatedly, long after I’d been in the vicinity of Oxford, Alabama, on dates which I cannot recall, your honor, although I’m sure I could come up with an alibi, if I needed one. But you’d have to talk to my Samoan attorney about all this. The main point is, I’m completely innocent, as far as you know.

See, there’s a reason I don’t have a 48-page rap sheet and didn’t die in a hail of police gunfire, the way Alexander Kade Lanier did. Unlike the deceased Mr. Lanier, I was not dumber than a box of rocks. The ancient proverb “crime doesn’t pay” is perhaps not literally true (some criminals do get rich), but the longer you stay in that game, the more likely you’ll end up behind bars or, as in this case, die in a hail of police gunfire.

Notice that Alexander Kade Lanier is of the Caucasian persuasion. That’s why CNN isn’t running the story 24/7 and nobody looted Walmart or toppled any Confederate monuments after the cops shot him dead.

“Social justice”? White guys don’t get none of that, so we can’t expect any televised news conferences by Ben Crump about this case.

 

Gregory William Robert Fulchino, R.I.P.

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Gregory William Robert Fulchino, R.I.P.

The blogger known as Bob Belvedere died last Friday at his home in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Back in the day, circa 2009-2012, when I was a road warrior on the campaign trail, I’d speak to Bob by phone whenever I was in that area, covering first the Scott Brown campaign for Senate and later the various presidential candidates in New Hampshire. Somehow, we never were able to meet in person, but Bob was a friend anyway, as these things go, and Ms. EBL informed us of his death, at age 60:

FULCHINO, Gregory William Robert Of Tewksbury, formerly of Everett passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer on Friday, February 11, 2022 at his home. He was a good husband to his loving wife Darlene Marie (Pratt) Fulchino, with whom he celebrated his twenty-second wedding anniversary in October. He was a son of the late Salvatore Fulchino and the late Wilma E. (Palmore) Fulchino, he was born on December 19,1961 in Everett. He grew up and was educated in Everett, and he graduated from Everett High School with the class of 1978. He made his home in Everett, and for over thirty years he worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of the Jury Commissioner as an IT Manager. He was a solid American, generous and sincere, he was gifted artistically in his music, and writing. In his younger days he was a member of a band, and he never let go of a firm belief that there was a great writer within him waiting to burst forth. This writer came out under the stage name Bob Belvedere, he published books and for many years a well established conservative blog “The Camp of the Saints”. In addition to his wife Darlene, he is survived by his brother, Stephen A. Fulchino, wife Barbara; niece Kelly and Cynthina and their husbands Josh and Dan, and 3 great nephews, Peter, Malcoml and Sebastian; his sister-in-law Debra Sabbagh, husband Phillip; Niece, Stacey Ann Leray, husband Eric, great-nieces, Shelby and Sophie Leray; great-grand nephew, Luca Leray; two cousins, Al Fulchino and his wife Susan, and Andy Fulchino and his wife Cookie, and their families. He was the uncle of the late Christopher Sabbagh. Visiting Hours: In accordance with his wishes there will be no funeral services. A remembrance for him is being planned for a later date.

R.I.P., Bob — a great patriot to the end.

Smitty adds:

As I put on the tribute page:
While we never met in person, you were such a longstanding friend. In 2009, it was a joy to include you in the Becket parody: https://t.co/SWEzmev85g. My copy of your book is a treasure. See you in Eternity, brother!–Smitty at The Other McCain

— I Came?I Saw?I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) February 18, 2022

 

Category: Camp of the Saints

CNN and the Ukraine ‘Crisis’

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on CNN and the Ukraine ‘Crisis’

Today, mainly out of curiosity but also perhaps revealing a deep-seated masochistic tendency, I switched my office TV to CNN, where today there were three main stories: (a) the walls are still closing in on Trump, (b) the sentencing of the cop who accidentally shot Daunte Wright in Minnesota, and (c) ZOMG THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE!!!

President Joe Biden will speak at 4 p.m. ET Friday to address the latest developments in the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, as his White House is now blaming Russian intelligence for a massive cyberattack on Ukraine.
“We believe that the Russian government is responsible for widescale cyberattacks on Ukrainian banks this week. We have technical information that links the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, as known GRU infrastructure was seen transmitting high volumes of communication to Ukraine based IP addresses and domains,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology.
The attribution for the attack was unusually fast for the US government, and Neuberger noted that Russia has previously benefited from US delays in attributing Russian hacking operations.
“Russia likes to move in the shadows and counts on a long process of attribution so it can continue its malicious behaviour against Ukraine in cyberspace, including pre-positioning for its potential invasion,” Neuberger told reporters in the White House briefing room.
The comments came about an hour before Biden was set to speak about the situation in Ukraine. The President last spoke about the crisis on Thursday as he departed the White House for a trip to Ohio, when he said there is “every indication” a Russian invasion of Ukraine “will happen in the next several days,” and the threat of an attack is “very high.”
“It’s very high because they have not moved any of their troops out. They have moved more troops in, number one. Number two, we have reason to believe they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in. Every indication we have is they are prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine,” he said.

Biden was supposed to speak at 4 p.m., but now it’s 4:30 and he still hasn’t started speaking. He likes ice cream, you know. Probably being spoon-fed some chocolate chip ice cream, as warm-up for his big speech.

 

Category: CNN, Joe Biden, Ukraine

Early Front-Runner Emerges for 2022 ‘Media Gaslighter of the Year’ Award

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Early Front-Runner Emerges for 2022 ‘Media Gaslighter of the Year’ Award

Gaslighting is . . . loosely defined as making someone question their own reality. The term may also be used to describe a person (a “gaslighter”) who presents a false narrative to another group or person which leads them to doubt their perceptions and become misled (generally for the gaslighter’s own benefit), disoriented or distressed. Generally, this dynamic is possible only when the audience is vulnerable, such as in unequal power relationships, or when the audience is fearful of the losses associated with challenging the false narrative.

Patients in the Trump Derangement Syndrome psych ward are being “treated” (if that is the appropriate word) by the media in such a way as to sustain their delusions, rather than to relieve them. Liberals watching CNN or MSNBC are like schizophrenics seeking out a therapist who will tell them that yes, it’s true that their brains are being controlled by radiation from outer space. The daily drumbeat of updates on the January 6 “investigation” repeats the motif of the Russiagate narrative, where the walls were always closing in, and everybody was going to get indicted, right up until the moment when Robert Mueller issued his report which found that there never was any “collusion.” And then the same perpetrators of media malpractice, who had spent more than two years convincing their audience that it was only a matter of time before the proof of the Trump-Putin conspiracy emerged, moved on as if the collapse of their theory did nothing to damage their credibility.

So here is Nicolle Wallace telling her MSNBC audience that coverage of special counsel John Durham’s recent filing in the criminal case against Democratic Party lawyer Michael Sussmann is “dangerous disinformation” peddled by “right-wing media”:

 

Now, as Karen Townsend at Hot Air acknowledges, there are some problems with the way the Durham filing is being presented by Fox News, in terms of what the filing actually alleges and what it means in terms of the larger effort by the Clinton campaign and its allies to falsely accuse Trump of Russian “collusion.” Rather than explaining any of this, however, what Nicolle Wallace does is to insist that there is nothing of significance in the Durham filing, essentially telling her audience to ignore that whole story because it’s just Fox News “disinformation.”

Permit me to quote a CNN account of what the filing actually says:

Durham says in the filing that Michael Sussmann, the Democratic lawyer, spoke about internet data related to Trump in a meeting with a federal agency, which sources say was the CIA, more than five years ago. Sussmann claimed the information “demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations,” according to the filing.
Durham’s office said it found nothing to support the allegation. The special counsel also noted that the data showed a Russian phone provider connection involving the Executive Office of the President “during the Obama administration and years before Trump took office.”
The data was compiled by a tech firm that had special access to the purportedly suspicious internet data through an “arrangement” with the US government, and that firm was in touch with Sussmann, according to the filing.
An executive at the tech company, Rodney Joffe, and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining domain name system traffic associated with the Executive Office of the President and other data “for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump,” Durham’s prosecutors wrote.

This may not be the “smoking gun” proof of a conspiracy against Trump, but certainly it is significant, and if Nicolle Wallace were actually a journalist (instead of a political hack) she would feel a duty to explain this to her audience, instead of dismissing it as “dangerous disinformation.”

Notice that chyron on the MSNBC screen:

DURHAM COURT FILING SETS OFF
CONSPIRACIES IN RIGHT-WING MEDIA
ABOUT DEMOCRATS SPYING ON TRUMP

Is the contention that Democrats were not spying on Trump? Because I think “mining domain name system traffic” from the president’s office sounds a lot like “spying,” and the allegation that this was done “for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump” suggests that Democrats were behind it. And considering that these allegations are part of a filing in the prosecution of a lawyer for the Democratic Party — well, exactly how are we promoting a conspiracy theory if we add 2 plus 2 and get 4 as the answer?

Nicolle Wallace isn’t interested in facts, or simple common-sense deductions. No, her job is to tell the MSNBC audience — the same audience that they fed lies about “Russian collusion” for more than two years — that there is nothing to see here, no real news, despite the fact that a lawyer for the Democratic Party may go to federal prison for lying to the FBI. Trump Delusion Syndrome forever!

 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 02.17.22

Posted on | February 18, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.17.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I might get off work in the tax mines early tomorrow night, which would get me home to Tonopah around 10 or 11, but then I might not. Assume this will be the last linkagery of the week until you wake up Saturday morning and see another one. 

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Hold hard, Kekistani!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: People You Know Can Be A Threat
EBL: CODA
Twitchy: Oilfield Rando Does Work MSM Won’t – Digs Into Org That Bailed Out Quintez Brown, Connects Some Disturbing Dots
Louder With Crowder: Mom Shows Maskless Pix Of Hypocrite School Board Members, They Flip Out & Call Security
Vox Popoli: It’s A Hell World After All, Portrait Of A Promethean, and They Were Always Bluffing
Stoic Observations: Understanding American Gun Culture

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: End Goal – Replacement, also, An Invitation To Join The Illuminati
American Conservative: The Dangerous Dreamworld Of Bret Stephens
American Greatness: Funeral Directors Disturbed By Weird, Freakishly Large Blood Clots In The Corpses Of The Jabbed, also, Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Air Force Officer Who Defied Jab Mandate
American Power: Justin Trudeau, A Liberal Despot, also, Edward Luttwak – The Rise Of China Vs. The Logic Of Strategy
American Thinker: Can The Democrats Undermine The Midterms? also, The Vanishing American Work Ethic
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Economic Freedom News
Babalu Blog: Fidel’s Plan To Infect Latin America With Cuban Communism, also, The Forced Exile Of Anamely Ramos
BattleSwarm: Trudeau The Thieving Bully, also, Facebook Manager Of Community Development Allegedly Busted In Child Sex Sting
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Chandra In Safe Mode, and Firefly Savior Max Polyakov Gives Away His Stock
Cafe Hayek: “We Don’t Owe It To Ourselves”, also, Tyranny & Its Resistance In Canada
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Omar Has Learned The Lesson Of Harry Reid, also, Administration Declares Those Who Spread The Truth Are Online Are Domestic Terrorists
Don Surber: DWB & Rising Traffic Deaths, Senate Candidate’s Trans Ad Triggers Libs, and Globalism Is Dying Of COVID
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer Wants Us To Know They’ll No Longer Tell The Truth In The News
Gates Of Vienna: The Muslim Brotherhood In The EU, Part Three, Syria Says Exiles Should Return Home, and Was It The Vax? Or Something Else?
The Geller Report: DeSantis Blocks Biden’s International Child-Trafficking Scheme In Florida, also, Quebec Rejects Trudeau’s Martial Law, Drops COVID Mandates
Hogewash: Messier 77’s Black Hole
Hollywood In Toto: Seth Swirsky’s “Sunny Day” Brightens Up Winter, Wallace Shawn Stands Up To Cancel Culture, and Channing Tatum’s Dog Delivers Heartland Humor & Heart
The Lid: Always Wrong Fauci Says It’s Time To Move Toward Normalcy
Legal Insurrection: Biden Surrenders The “War On COVID”, California To Offer Financial Assistance To Would-Be Abortionists, and Strong Support From San Francisco’s Asian Districts Was Key In School Board Recall
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Millennium, also, No Imagination Required
Outkick: Enes Kanter Freedom Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize, Stephen A. Smith Told ESPN He’d Leave First Take If They Kept Max Kellerman On, and NFL Hires Obama’s AG Loretta Lynch To Fight Flores Lawsuit
Power Line: Kevin Roche – Lessons Learned
Shark Tank: Eskamani Calls Parental Rights Bill “100% Homophobic”
Shot In The Dark: Three Steps Forward, One Step Back, also, Dispatches From Planet DFL
STUMP: Political Mortality
The Political Hat: School Transparency In Oregon? also, The California Way – You Should House The Homeless Yourself, Recycling Is Mandatory, and Breaking Into Cars
This Ain’t Hell: Texas Guardsmen On The Border Start Unionizing, also, VP Travels To End Ukraine Crisis
Transterrestrial Musings: Good NASA Vs. Bad NASA, A Promising Life-Extension Drug, and Getting Their Own Ride
Victory Girls: Melissa Lantsman Demands Apology From PM Zoolander
Volokh Conspiracy: WaPo Removes Claim That Justice Thomas’ Opinions “Often Resemble The Thinking Of White Conservatives” 
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Brags About Helping Illegals Get Taxpayer Relief Money, Tom Hanks’ Son Chet Says He Had No Male Role Model Growing Up, and Trudeau Tells Jewish MP She Stands With Swastika-Waving Nazis
The Federalist: P.J. O’Rourke Had No Sacred Cows, The CIA Got Caught Spying On Americans Again, and Trudeau Wants Violence
Mark Steyn: Durham Reportwatch Update! also, Not With A Bang But With A Honk

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