‘HOLY F*ING ST!’

Posted on | January 26, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘HOLY F***ING S**T!’

The headline is a direct quote from me, when I saw the headline at Ace of Spades a few minutes ago. Joe Biden has appointed Maher Bitar to be Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council. He might as well have named Louis Farrakhan. Bitar is a rather notorious Jew-hater and supporter of Islamic terrorism, it seems.

Remind me again why Trump was Hitler?

Category: Israel, Joe Biden

Rule Five Sunday: Jayne Mansfield

Posted on | January 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: Jayne Mansfield

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m not sure when I first heard of Jayne Mansfield; the first time I remember seeing her that stuck in my mind is the famous picture of her with Sophia Loren in a restaurant, of which Loren later said, “I was worried that her breasts were going to explode out of that dress and go right in the soup.”
She had quite a career in the late 50s and early 60s as one of the early Playboy Playmates, a star on Broadway and in Hollywood, and a celebrity notorious for controversy and publicity stunts. She died at the age of 34 in a horrendous semi-trailer crash on Highway 90 east of the Rigolets Bridge in Louisiana, which gave rise to the safety device known as a Mansfield bar. Here she is posing next to another classic.

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Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1239, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Paranormal Economics Friday and the return of the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, King Fishers, Norma, La Traviata, Green Bay Packers, Tosca, June In January, Hot Tuna, Manon, January Wedding, Mittens, Die Walkure, and MAGA Success – Operation Warp Speed.

A View From The Beach: A Heartbreaker – Malin Åkerman, Fish Pic Friday – Ashley Underwood, Tattoo Thursday, MD Likely to Maintain Summer Rockfish Hiatus, More Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tune – 20 Below, Your Monday Morning Eye Opener, Palm Sunday and Election 2020: Still Chugging Along

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe Of The Week is Joan Vohs.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Booted!

Posted on | January 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Booted!

by Smitty

Got booted off a social network site today. Hilarious.

It’s a good site. I like the Mastadon interface. It’s most of what there was in Twitter. Apparently I was having too much fun posting links, throwing out discussion points, and building a following. Perhaps some server AI thought I was naughty. The experience and community were of sufficient quality that I was on the cusp of supporting the site financially. These things cost money. Maybe when I’m done with school in a couple of years we could host such.

Some of my terminology usage in reference to current events apparently irritated the admin. The case that we are in a no-kidding Civil War can be made on a conceptual level, but a literal Civil War with troops and battles is just far-fetched, and I said so. This was apparently unacceptable, and my knowledge of the Civil War, the U.S. Military and the French Revolution was assailed.

OK. Running around bragging about my resume is not how I roll. I have one, and it is respectable. No, this was one of those moments where I have to be thankful to have escaped (what in retrospect looks like) an echo chamber. Not quite sure what the deal is with the admin, or what stresses that admin is under, but I rejoice that I didn’t part with any money for this experience. Also, I do have other things that really ought to have my attention.

I haven’t really posted on Twitter in weeks, either. I had advertised the aforementioned site in DMs to a few twitter chums, and this post will serve as a follow-up for them to explain my abrupt absence.

Category: Uncategorized

Lincoln Project Senior Adviser Blames Capitol Riot on … David Brooks?

Posted on | January 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Lincoln Project Senior Adviser Blames Capitol Riot on … David Brooks?

If you’ve never heard of Rachel Bitecofer before, she’s a Ph.D. political scientist who captured widespread attention from liberals for her analysis of the 2016 election and her accurate prediction of the 2018 midterm elections. This got her a gig as a “senior adviser” to the Never-Trump grift gang at the Lincoln Project, and let me say this: Not everything she says is wrong. Bitecofer’s theory of how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election was that a lot of people didn’t bother to vote because they didn’t believe Donald Trump had any chance of winning. Also, black voter turnout was way down because, let’s face it, Hillary wasn’t Obama.

But I could have told you that, without benefit of a Ph.D. Whereas I am just a blogger, Bitecofer has leveraged her credentials to market herself as an all-knowing, all-purpose political expert, which led her to offer the remarkable claim that David Brooks of the New York Times is somehow responsible for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

I mean, here’s a man, in @nytdavidbrooks who’s done more, personally, to put people in that Capitol insurrection than nearly anyone else, yet, bc he does it politely, he’s still writing at @nytimes & invited on all the top shows? Just take a 2nd to reflect on the moral equiv here

— Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer ??? (@RachelBitecofer) January 22, 2021

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

It is difficult to find words for how wrong this is. What seems to have offended Doctor Bitecofer is that Brooks, casting about for “two sides” of a left-right divide, decided that “elite universities” could be a bogeyman on the left, equivalent to “white supremacy” on the right.

Probably some white supremacists would be offended by that comparison. I mean, whatever evil the Klan did, they never charged anyone $300,000 for a useless Gender Studies degree, but I digress . . .

According to Doctor Bitecofer, the “radicalization” of Republican voters (e.g., the Capitol rioters) is the fault of the “conservative intelligentsia” (e.g., David Brooks), because they promote “the constant dehumanization” of “the other” (e.g., academic elites like Rachel Bitecofer). Thereby, Brooks has “done more, personally, to put people in that Capitol insurrection than nearly anyone else.”

There is a word for this, and that word is crazy.

However crazy it is, you see how Doctor Bitecofer arrived at her conclusion. The problem with the Capitol rioters, from her perspective, is that they don’t listen to people like her. Anyone who rejects the belief system promoted by academia is at risk of “radicalization,” according to Doctor Bitecofer (who, by the way, insists on being referred to as such).

The Capitol rioters are representative of GOP voters in general, in the minds of the liberal elite. Rachel Bitecofer believes that if you don’t vote Democrat, you are a menace to society — a white supremacist, probably, and a potential terrorist threat. One notices, however, that despite the “constant dehumanization,” there are no right-wing death squads roving college campuses with the intent to terrorize liberal academia. I have yet to see a single news story about Gender Studies professors being curb-stomped by the Proud Boys. That is to say, if David Brooks is guilty of “constant dehumanization” with his remarks about “elite universities” as “engines for inequality,” nobody has acted directly on that incitement.

By the way, what the heck is David Brooks saying in this column?

What idea of America does Joe Biden call us to unite around? It’s the old one. As Walt Whitman understood, America was founded mostly by people fleeing the remnants of feudalism, the stratified caste societies of Europe.

(Can someone familiar with Walt Whitman’s work please tell me where this “fleeing the remnants of feudalism” idea is to be found there? Brooks does not actually quote Whitman in his column, but just tosses this out there as if every literate person will nod in recognition. While I consider myself quite literate, I never much cared for Whitman, a degenerate bohemian, and so I confess myself in the dark here. Meanwhile . . .)

Today we have homegrown feudalism. On the right, we have white supremacy, an effort to perpetuate America’s racial caste system, and Christian nationalism, an effort to define America in a way that erases the pluralism that actually exists.

(Notice how, among pundits published by the New York Times, the words “white” and “Christian” can never be used except as pejoratives. White people are bad, and Christianity is wrong — this is the subtext of the attack Brooks makes on the kind of Republican voters he despises.)

On the left, less viciously, we have elite universities that have become engines for the production of inequality. All that woke posturing is the professoriate’s attempt to mask the fact that they work at finishing schools where more students often come from the top 1% of earners than from the bottom 60%. Their graduates flock to insular neighborhoods in and around New York, D.C., San Francisco and a few other cities, have little contact with the rest of America and make everybody else feel scorned and invisible. . . .

You can read the rest of that, if you happen to be feeling the kind of guilty masochistic urge that would make you want to subject yourself to the entirety of a David Brooks column. I’ve seldom been able to read more than a few dozen words by Brooks without feeling the urge to kick him in his smug little face. On the couple of occasions when I’ve actually been in the same room with Brooks, I walked out, simply because this violent urge was so overwhelming I feared the consequences:

RIGHT-WING BLOGGER JAILED
ON ASSAULT CHARGES AFTER
ATTACK ON N.Y. TIMES PUNDIT

Thank God, I was able to restrain the urge, so you haven’t seen that headline, yet. But my point is this: Nobody hates David Brooks more than I do, and you might think I would be happy that Rachel Bitecofer is blaming him for the Capitol riot. But somehow, I’m not happy.

Every intelligent and patriotic American should delight in the feeling of schadenfreude whenever anything bad happens to David Brooks, but so clumsy and misguided is Rachel Bitecofer’s attack on Brooks that she has cheated us out of this pleasure. This disappointment tells you a lot about the caliber of people associated with the Lincoln Project grift.

Category: David Brooks Fisking Day

FMJRA 2.0: For Whom The Bell Tolls

Posted on | January 24, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: For Whom The Bell Tolls

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Rule 5 Sunday: Julie Strain, RIP
Harsh Brutus
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

John Weaver: ‘The Truth Is I’m Gay’
Bacon Time
EBL

Democrats and the Media (But I Repeat Myself) Are Trying to Destroy America
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Too Much Too Young
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Other Podcast Rides Again
EBL

Modern Motherhood, Florida-Style
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.19.21 (Early Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Don’t Worry, I Haven’t Been Captured by Our Alien Reptilian Overlords..Yet
EBL

FNC Fires Scapegoat Chris Stirewalt — and Their VP for News ‘Retires’
EBL
357 Magnum

Sports News From Wokeville, USA
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.19.21 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.20.21
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

The TV Show You Didn’t Watch
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Resident Biden
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.21.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Is It Over Yet?
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.22.21
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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The Sanhedrin

Posted on | January 23, 2021 | Comments Off on The Sanhedrin

by Smitty

We knew there was a Deep State, but the Sanhedrin atop that Deep State had been on the down-low.

Until they came out and decreed that Barabbas would become the anointed ‘Resident last week, and the other guy would be (rhetorically) crucified for daring to treat the first three words of the Constitution as meaningful. In this telling, the High Priest of the Sanhedrin is George Soros, who, of course, works for the distant Emperor, Xi. Theological note: nothing theological is ascribed to Donald Trump here.

But, as the ‘Resident FICUS immediately showed last week, we are a conquered people. The economic havoc to unfold will take your breath and your retirement away. I’m ready to blame the victim. Ten years ago, there were Tea Parties, and we let the Deep State burn them. Five years ago, Trump descended the escalator, and the Deep State is in the process of rhetorically crucifying and burning him.

It’s my sense, based upon the Trump/Pence body language, that striking a defiant pose in the court of public opinion while playing a clean hand with the Constitutional process was the optimal approach. No sane nose thinks the 2020 election results pass the smell test. The nose knows, but the eye makes the call, and is easily fooled by the Sanhedrin. Trump has not had his day in court, where an eye exam is possible. Hopefully that occurs.

We all expect that, shifting to pagan metaphor, Trump will rise from the ashes like a phoenix. It will be great if he can, and I hope he does. But, if we’re relying on one Indispensable Man, we’re doing “We The People” wrong. We need more than a single point of success, or we won’t escape the Reagan Penalty Box of being a great leader, only to hand over a bunch of great effort to the Deep State for further molestation.

Should Trump start a political party? Only if he seriously thinks he has figured out how to escape the Perot Penalty Box. A fresh organization would be a tactical loser, even if a strategic success. The knowledge to do the cost/benefit analysis is far beyond my skillset. And funding capability.

What matters, though, is that we fundamentally change the context of our government. Trump couldn’t drain the swamp in one term, and two terms is unlikely to succeed. It’s a Good Thing that Trump drove the Sanhedrin out of hiding, and made their anti-American attacks on our election integrity come into focus. We know where to begin. But even **IF** we can puzzle out how Covid-19 was used in a complex attack on our election system in a half-dozen weak states with pliable election officials, that isn’t a solution.

Maybe having Trump do combination rally/ballot harvesting events would be a good way to break the Sanhedrin’s perfidy off where they sit. The rest of the chain of custody would have to be considered. But if you essentially conduct the election in advance of Election Day, you could probably break the New Rules off right where the Sandhedrin sits.

Mar a Lago is in a Democrat district in Florida. I’d love to see Trump run for the House in 2022, become Speaker, and have a veto-override majority, for two years of de facto Presidency ahead of a second term in 2024. Not going to happen, sure, but a hilarious mental image nonetheless.

But what we really need to do that is bigger than Trump, and can mitigate much of the Sanhedrin’s grip, is a Convention of States. Where neither the Tea Parties nor Trump alone could affect the Deep State or the Sanhedrin in any substantive way, the trifecta of Trump, backed by Tea Parties, and driving toward a Convention of States could work. If we demand it and protect it from hijacking.

So that’s the call to action: support the CoS and let’s target our 2037 anniversary of 250 years of American Exceptionalism for a triumphal, re-ratified rebirth. I want power, not wealth redistributed; I want Commies laughed out of office for their nonsensical “multiracial whiteness” garbage; and I want a country where I can dote on some grandchildren with a secure future before them.

Let’s do it.

Category: Uncategorized

Why Are National Guard Still in D.C.?

Posted on | January 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Why Are National Guard Still in D.C.?

The people who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6 have been arrested on federal charges. Some of them may still be fugitives at large, but insofar as the riot was ever a threat to “our democracy” (a phrase endlessly repeated on CNN), the threat is long since ended. Yet Washington, D.C., was turned into an armed camp for Joe Biden’s inauguration, and tens of thousands of National Guard troops are still deployed. Why?

“Nothing says, ‘This was a perfectly normal election,
and now it’s time to come together as a united nation,’
like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire
surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt.”

From the rest of Professor Reynolds’ column:

Having filled the nation’s capital with enough soldiers to invade a small country, the Democrats went further and suggested that the National Guard troops might not be trustworthy.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) observed, “The [National] Guard is 90 some-odd percent male; and only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden. . . . There are probably not more than 25 percent of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden.” This meant, he said, 75 percent of them might be of the class that would be inclined to “do something.”
Many of the Guard deployed around Washington were given unloaded rifles. The FBI rushed in to “vet” the troops for disloyalty, and still more damage was done. Never before, to my knowledge, has the US government openly demonstrated a lack of trust in its own military. . . .
The division of the armed forces into “loyal” versus “suspect” units is a hallmark of a dictatorship. What’s next for America, a “Democratic Guard,” made up of ethnicities that Steve Cohen considers reliable?

We have been assured that Joe Biden is the Most Popular President Ever. He got 81 million votes, the media tell us. Yet the Guard is still deployed to D.C., and what do the polls say about Biden’s popularity?

President Biden’s opening approval rating isn’t much to cheer about, coming in below that of his two predecessors.
In Rasmussen Reports’ first Presidential Daily Tracking Poll of likely voters, the new Democratic president starts at 48% approving and 45% disapproving. . . .
Trump opened with a 56% approval rating. Just 44% disapproved. It was one of his highest ratings of his four years.
Obama started at 67% approval, 32% disapprove, which is also one of his highest ratings.

1st Daily Presidential Approval – Recent History:

President Biden – 48% Approve, 45% Disapprove
President Trump – 56% Approve, 44% Disapprove
President Obama – 67% Approve, 32% Disapprove https://t.co/QdEAciNald pic.twitter.com/QSU9jXL2b6

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) January 22, 2021

Far be it from me to promote any baseless “conspiracy theories,” but what would a stolen election look like? Just sayin’ . . .

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 01.22.21

Posted on | January 22, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.22.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual deadlines are in effect for the usual weekend posts. I may also have a book post as useful distraction from the news, which is depressing when it’s not being annoying.
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