FMJRA 2.0: The Thrill Of It All
Posted on | May 9, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Thrill Of It All
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.
Rule 5 Sunday: Alegrachan
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
Good-Bye, California
EBL
A View From The Beach
Tucker Carlson Douses Frank Luntz in Gasoline and Lights Him on Fire
EBL
357 Magnum
Today’s (Feeble) Ray Of Hope
EBL
357 Magnum
FMJRA 2.0: Island
EBL
A View From The Beach
Update: Rebekah Jones ‘Could Not Meet Required Burden of Proof,’ Judge Rules
Dark Brightness
EBL
In The Mailbox: 05.03.21
EBL
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
In The Mailbox: 05.04.21
EBL
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
In The Mailbox: 05.05.21
EBL
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Is Black-on-Black Crime a ‘Myth’?
EBL
357 Magnum
In The Mailbox: 05.06.21
EBL
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Crazy People Are Dangerous: Florida Man Steals Two Cop Cars — ‘Illuminati, Help!’
EBL
Proof Positive
357 Magnum
In The Mailbox: 05.07.21
EBL
357 Magnum
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Hunter Biden’s Beijing Honey Trap
Posted on | May 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Hunter Biden’s Beijing Honey Trap

Remember when the media spent three years chasing the “Russian collusion” narrative and then Democrats impeached President Trump because of what he said in a phone call with the president of Ukraine? If they were really serious about foreign interference in American politics, the media would be leading every broadcast with this story:
Hunter Biden’s emails reveal his close relationship with the Chinese-American secretary who worked for him when he went into business with the man he called the ‘spy chief of China.’
The mysterious young assistant wrote the president’s son flirty messages, sent him opposition research for Joe’s White House run and encouraged him to draw funds from the company’s accounts when the joint venture collapsed and even ended up with Hunter’s military dog tags.
In 2017 Hunter went into business with Patrick Ho, secretary general of Chinese oil giant CEFC.
Hunter described Ho in a call recording on his abandoned laptop as the ‘spy chief of China’, and the Chinese businessman was later surveilled by US law enforcement as a foreign intelligence threat before he was convicted of bribery in 2018.
After launching his multi-million-dollar joint venture with CEFC, Hunter was assigned a 29-year-old Chinese-American assistant, JiaQi Bao, who quickly struck up a close and intriguing relationship with her Biden boss.
At first, emails show the New York-based Bao diligently scheduled flights, hotels and even doctor’s appointments for the president’s son.
But mysteriously, the young assistant also sent him opposition research to help Joe Biden’s 2020 election bid, urged him to take cash from the joint venture’s accounts as the business collapsed and wrote flirty and personal messages and even ended up with Hunter’s military dog tags in her New York apartment — the same tags he can be seen wearing in home-made porn videos he recorded on his laptop.
Read the whole thing, and remember that the contents of Hunter’s laptop were first made public by Rudy Giuliani who — coincidentally, I’m sure — was recently the target of an FBI raid.
(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, who quips: “Beijing evidently has a whole gang of Fang Fangs to bang Democratic yanks.”)
Biden’s ‘Diversity’ Administration
Posted on | May 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Biden’s ‘Diversity’ Administration

We all know what “diversity” means, even if we’re not allowed to say it plainly. “Diversity” in hiring or college admissions would not be controversial if it were, as proponents claim, merely about finding qualified women and POC (“people of color”) for prestige positions. Instead, what “diversity” actually means in practice is a secretive system of quotas where women and POC are hired (or admitted to elite schools) without regard to their relative qualifications. “Diversity” means a lowering of standard in the name of “equality,” and anyone who objects is smeared as a racist, sexist, homophobe. Occasionally, however, the problems with the “diversity” regime become so apparent that even well-mannered people can’t help but complain:
President Joe Biden has now taken the push for “diversity” in STEM to a new level. His candidate to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest funder of the physical sciences in the U.S., is a soil geologist at the University of California, Merced. She has no background in physics, the science of energy, or the energy sector. She has never held a position as a scientific administrator. The typical head of DOE’s Office of Science in the past has had managerial authority in the nation’s major physics labs and has been a physicist himself, Science reports. The new nominee’s only managerial experience consists of serving since 2020 as an interim associate dean of UC Merced’s graduate division.
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is, however, a black female who has won “accolades for her work to promote diversity in science,” as Science puts it. Berhe would be the first black woman to head the $7 billion office, and that is reason enough, according to the diversity mantra, why she should oversee X-ray synchrotrons, the development of nuclear weapons, and ongoing research on nuclear fusion.
(Hat-tip: Vox Day.) Of course, being a black female is not her only qualification for this job. “The main goal of her research is to understand the effect of changing environmental conditions on vital soil processes.” So she’s a member of the “climate” cult, and therefore is perfect for accomplishing Biden’s goal of destroying the U.S. energy industry.
David French Gets Paid to Hate You
Posted on | May 8, 2021 | Comments Off on David French Gets Paid to Hate You

Ace of Spades points out that The Dispatch, “[f]ounded by conservative thought leaders Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, and David French,” has been avidly defending Facebook’s ban of President Trump, without disclosing that The Dispatch “has a financial relationship” with Facebook.
In case you’ve forgotten, The Dispatch was launched in late 2019 and, by early 2020, had acquired something north of $6 million in investment capital from . . . Well, who, exactly? Good luck on finding news reports with that information, but suffice it to say that it came from rich people who hate Trump voters, and according to Ace, this includes Facebook.
What this means is that Facebook and other rich liberals are paying David French to smear you (and the other 70+ million Americans who voted for Donald Trump) as an extremely dangerous “white supremacist” who should be prohibited from using the Internet at all.
These “conservative thought leaders” — the ones who believe that every decent person with “principles” will always vote for Democrats — have not abandoned their lucrative grift now that its original purpose (i.e., electing Joe Biden and a Democratic congressional majority) has been accomplished. Instead, David French and his friends are engaged in a scorched-earth vengeance campaign to destroy the lives of everyone who voted for Trump, because that’s what they’re getting paid to do.
Let us stipulate, arguendo, that David French may be acting in good conscience. That is to say, perhaps French — who is, after all, an alumnus of Harvard Law School — actually does believe you are a dangerously ignorant, hate-filled crypto-Nazi who deserves to be arrested by federal authorities and locked up in Leavenworth. This is what every Harvard alumnus thinks, that the 70+ million Americans who voted for Trump are an existential threat more dangerous than al-Qaeda or ISIS.
The point, however, is that the people who run Facebook think you’re dangerous, and they’re paying David French‘s bills, so when he goes on CNN to join Brian Stelter in warning the CNN audience about how dangerous Trump voters are, it’s because that’s how French earns his pay.
Truth or Satire? It’s Getting Harder to Tell
Posted on | May 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Truth or Satire? It’s Getting Harder to Tell

January headline from The Babylon Bee:
CNN Unveils New Format
Where Hosts Just Watch Fox News
And Yell At It
This is awfully close to describing what’s happened to CNN in recent months. Once Biden was inaugurated, the network lost its raison d’être of producing anti-Trump propaganda. Ratings for CNN have evaporated since January and, unable to excite their audience with live performances of journalistic fellatio on Biden (metaphorically speaking), they devote hours every day to critiquing whatever is on Fox News.

So the other night, Tucker Carlson raised questions about whether the number of deaths from COVID-19 vaccine are being underreported. He didn’t advance any “conspiracy theory” during that segment, or make claims that could justify Sanjay Gupta’s unhinged reaction:
“What he’s done is he’s basically looked at these open-system adverse reporting systems and said ‘hey look, this suggests that 30 people a day are dying of the vaccine.’ Absolutely not true,” Gupta said on CNN’s New Day.
“The problem is that it continues to stir up this vaccine hesitance or outright vaccine reluctance . . .
Hey, Dr. Gupta: Maybe “vaccine hesitance” doesn’t really matter, but do you really care about Fox News viewers? No, I’m pretty sure you would be very happy if they all died tomorrow. So please spare us your concern-trolling. My thought all along has been that the draconian lockdown regimes and mandatory mask-wearing orders, at best, didn’t do much to stop the pandemic and quite possibly made it worse. Anyone can examine the state-by-state per-capita death rates and see that there is no clear correlation between the severity of the lockdown regimes and the relative safety of populations. Florida is doing just fine, despite all the hate directed at Gov. DeSantis by CNN and other liberal media outlets that prophesied a catastrophe in the Sunshine State.
Nor do I think that Biden’s manic insistence that everybody must get vaccinated before life can return to normal is justified. Those who are most at risk from the virus — the elderly and those with health issues that might make them vulnerable — need to get vaccinated, but healthy young people have a near-zero risk of death from COVID-19 and it’s senseless to require them to get the vaccine. So whatever Tucker Carlson says about vaccine-related deaths probably won’t make much difference one way or another in the overall fight against the pandemic. What it may do (and this is what the Democrats who run CNN are really concerned about) is give some Republican lawmakers encouragement to resist efforts by the Biden administration to make vaccination mandatory.
They’re telegraphing their punches, so to speak. Everybody with two eyes and a brain can see where they’re going with this. At some point — maybe in a few weeks, maybe this fall — the Biden administration will claim that too many people are refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and measures will be introduced to punish the unvaccinated. At that point, questions about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine will be very relevant to arguments by opponents of these punitive measures.
I’m not an “anti-vaxxer,” but I do know people who’ve had adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine — not fatal, but not pleasant. Lots of people say that second Moderna shot is a doozy. Personally, I’ve never gotten the flu vaccine, because I have confidence in my immune system. About once a year, I get the common cold or the flu — it’s hard to tell the difference, and I don’t really care which it is — and I go through a few days of coughing and wheezing before I get better. No big deal. Except for that one time in 2011 when I came down with a serious case of bronchitis that scared me pretty bad, I just refuse to worry about stuff like that. Worrying causes stress, and stress is bad for your immune system.
Speaking of worrying, maybe the folks at CNN should worry less about what Tucker Carlson says and worry more about why their network sucks. “Fake news” is the Enemy of the People, you know.
In The Mailbox: 05.07.21
Posted on | May 7, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.21
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another George Soros-Funded Prosecutor
EBL: SCTV – I Was A Teenage Communist
Twitchy: “You Didn’t LISTEN To Us!”
Louder With Crowder: Jobs Report – joe Biden Thinks Paying People To Not Work Isn’t Why They’re Not Working
Vox Popoli: Bill Gates Didn’t Kill Himself, also, The Essence Of SJW
According To Hoyt: Stop Singing Fados, also, Hard Or Soft?
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Agony Of Pizza
American Conservative: Shed No Tears For Liz Cheney
American Greatness: Disabled Farmer Sues Biden Over Race-Based Financial Relief
American Power: Niall Ferguson, Doom [not the videogame]
American Thinker: What’s Behind Vaccine Hysteria?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Paper Tiger Friday
Babalu Blog: Critically Ill Girl Slows Down Construction Of Havana Luxury Apartheid Hotel
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 7
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Ingenuity’s Fifth Flight Today
Cafe Hayek: Perpetual Motion Machines Are Impossible, Even In Public Finance
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: A Telling Chart, also, Yup, This Is How Far California Has Fallen
Don Surber: We Should Be In The Golden Age Of Journalism
First Street Journal: Governor Wolf To Lift All COVID Restrictions – Except The One That Bugs People Most
The Geller Report: Biden Admin Considering $1 BILLION In “Humanitarian” Aid To Iran, also, April Job Growth Tanks, Unemployment Rises To 6.1% As Democrats Destroy The Economy
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Some Basic Christian Doctrine
Hollywood In Toto: Tina Fey Does Complete 180 On Woke Comedy
The Lid: Biden’s Amtrak Tale – Lying, Or Dementia?
Legal Insurrection: NY Supreme Court Judge Overturns Syracuse U Fraternity Suspension, also, Oklahoma Governor Stitt Signs Law Banning Critical Race Theory From Public Schools
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Friday Report
Outkick: Albert Pujols Deserves Much, Much Better, also, Bobby Valentine Is Running For Mayor In Connecticut
Power Line: Another Sensible Decision From Ron DeSantis, also, A Redundant Prosecution
Shark Tank: Florida Enviro Groups Begin Attacking Gov. DeSantis
Shot In The Dark: To Journalism, And Beyond! also, Duty
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Resolved, The Environmentalists Are Going Too Far Too Fast
This Ain’t Hell: Reporter Claims Her Job Requires A Bulletproof Vest, also, Army Authorizes Ponytails
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship History, also, A New Commune In Colorado
Victory Girls: Biden’s Call for National Prayer Day Omits God
Volokh Conspiracy: Baltimore Prosecutor Asks FCC To Investigate TV Station For Criticizing Her
Weasel Zippers: Biden – Jobs Report Is Great, Country Is Great, No Questions! also, Jobs Numbers So Disappointing CNBC Can’t Believe Them
The Federalist: Jenner’s Candidacy Reveals The Truly Tolerant Political Party Isn’t The Democrats, also, April Jobs Numbers Are So Bad CNBC Thought It Was A Typo
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman – We Have Met The Enemy, Part II, also, Hearing The Music
Crazy People Are Dangerous: Florida Man Steals Two Cop Cars — ‘Illuminati, Help!’
Posted on | May 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Florida Man Steals Two Cop Cars — ‘Illuminati, Help!’

Xavier Cummings was high on meth and ranting about the CIA when Volusia County sheriff’s deputies finally put the cuffs on him:
The man accused of stealing two police cruisers and leading law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit in two counties had a bizarre outburst in court on Friday.
Xavier Cummings is being held in the Volusia County Jail on two counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle, two counts of grand theft of a firearm, escape as well as other charges.
When a judge denied Cummings bond on Friday, he had an outburst that caused him to be removed from the courtroom.
“Illuminati, help!” Cummings shouted.
(Spoiler: The Illuminati did not help.)
Deputies said Cummings told them following his arrest that he was given permission to take the Cocoa patrol car through mental telepathy.
The report indicates Cummings showed signs of experiencing mental-health issues, stated he used crystal meth earlier in the day, and had not slept in approximately 24 hours. . . .
(Earlier this week, I drank too much coffee, didn’t get enough sleep and made three typos. I didn’t steal a police car, though.)
The chase caught on a Volusia County sheriff’s helicopter video began when Cocoa police responded to a report of a disturbance near a Cocoa motel on Thursday afternoon.
Investigators said when officers confronted Cummings, he jumped into an unattended patrol car and drove away.
(Is Xavier Cummings a criminal genius, or what?)
Several Cocoa police officers then pursued Cummings on Interstate 95 into Volusia County before forcing the stolen cruiser off the road and into the woods between Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach.
When officers moved in to arrest Cummings, he emerged from the woods and jumped into another Cocoa Police Department vehicle and continued fleeing northbound on I-95, police said.
(Oh, he’s definitely a criminal genius.)
Police and deputies used stop sticks to disable the second police cruiser. At which point, Cummings was taken into custody without further incident.
No officers or deputies were injured.
Cummings is being held in the Volusia County Jail without bond.
This criminal genius will surely find a way to escape, with or without the assistance of the Illuminati. Meanwhile, watch the video:
Yeah, that crystal meth is a heckuva drug. Think I’ll stick with coffee, even if I did make three typos this week. “Illuminati, help!”
In The Mailbox: 05.06.21
Posted on | May 7, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.06.21
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: F*c*book/Instagram Bans Signal For Telling The Truth
EBL: How Is This Justifiable?
Twitchy: Atlanta Mayor Defends Firing Of Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis Signs Election Reform Bill Live On Fox News, Tells Other Media They Can’t Attend
Vox Popoli: Devoured By The Borg, also, In Case You Weren’t Sure He’s Fake
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Dear Western Women – You Are Traitorous Dimwits Who Must Be Spanked
American Conservative: The Conservative Case For Teen Pregnancy
American Greatness: Are Americans Becoming Sovietized? also, Asking The Wrong Question About Liz Cheney
American Thinker: The Incredible Vanishing Flu, also, Needed – A National Election Fraud Database
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Tradesman News
Babalu Blog: Castro Dictatorship Desperate To Quash Crusade For Freedom In Cuba
BattleSwarm: Texas House Passes “Urban Camping” Ban
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, No Plans To Shoot Down Long March 5B Booster
Cafe Hayek: Quotation of The Day
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, How Will Your Division Replace Its Equipment?
Da Tech Guy: The Blue Man’s Burden, also, CDC Now Stands For Corrupt Democrat Cesspool
Don Surber: Movement To Abolish The FBI Begins, also, “Dick Cheney…Take Your Daughter Hunting”
First Street Journal: A (Probably) Meaningless Victory For Property Rights
The Geller Report: Michigan Voting Machines Had Unauthorized Implant To Circumvent Security, also, Maricopa County Can’t Get Passwords To Voting Machines For Election Audit – Only Dominion Has Them
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Sixty Years Ago Yesterday
Hollywood In Toto: PTC Offers Tips For Parents Fearing Streaming Platforms Gone Wild, also, Wrath Of Man Delivers Action & Frustration
The Lid: Biden & Harris Giving Bizarre Mixed Messages On Masks & Vaccinations
Legal Insurrection: Student Sues Virginia Tech Alleging She Was Forced Off Soccer Team After Refusing To Kneel, also, Michigan State Student Government Calls On Collège To Hire Employee Dedicated To Illegal Immigrant Students
Michelle Malkin: Biden’s Ruinous Refugee Dump
Nebraska Energy Observer: 4th Turning
Outkick: Jimbo Fisher Confident An Ass Beating Is Coming For Nick Saban, also, The Athletic Fails To Get NYT To Buy After Axios Merger Falls Flat
Power Line: Atlanta Officer Who Killed Rayshard Brooks Reinstated, also, A Moment In The Life
Shark Tank: Fried – DeSantis Now Using Fox As “State-Run Media”
Shot In The Dark: Revised, also, I’m Not The Only One
The Political Hat: The Normalization Of Killing Patients – New Zealand, Portugal, & New Mexico
This Ain’t Hell: Regarding Returning Vets, also, National Air & Space Museum Goes To A Galaxy Far, Far, Away
Transterrestrial Musings: The Cruel Ritual Of Diversity Training
Victory Girls: Asians Fill Proud Boys’ Coffers After Attacks, also, Biden’s Restaurant Relief Fund – White People Need Not Apply
Volokh Conspiracy: NY Court Pressuring Mom To Remove Rock With Small Confederate Flag
Weasel Zippers: Last Week Biden Told An Amtrak Story. None Of It Was True. also, White House Defends Facebook Censorship – “More Needs To Be Done”
The Federalist: Critical Race Theory Illuminates Democrat Master Plan To End Honest Elections In America, also, Joe BIden Dodged Half A Million In Taxes, Wants You To Pay Your Fair Share
Mark Steyn: Not Tonight, Josephine, also, Going Fourth…But Not Multiplying
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