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Rule 5 Monday: Hayley Atwell

Posted on | March 23, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

After having missed it in the theaters, I finally got the chance to see Captain America: The First Avenger on Amazon Prime. It was an excellent movie, and one of the many outstanding actors that made it so was Hayley Atwell, who played Agent Peggy Carter, and went on to reprise that role in a number of other Marvel movies and some TV series. Here she is in her best known role.

From Season 2 of Agent Carter.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny starts this week’s dance with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, followed by the 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #930, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Biden’s Hypocrisy Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Hand Washing Is Better, Elina Garanca, Irish Dancing, La Boheme, Il Trovatore, St. Joseph’s Day, La Traviata, Kung Flu Fighting, Natalie Dessay, and Anna Netrebko.

A View From The Beach brings us Hooray for Bollywood – Deepika Padukone, Fish Pic Friday – African Pompano,  “Onde Børn, Wet Wednesday, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!, Another Muddy Monday and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Lauren Bacall, and Red Pilled Jew has Gratuitous Rule 5 Friday: “Hey, My Eyes Are Up Here!”

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Democrats and Their ‘Friends’

Posted on | March 23, 2020 | Comments Off on Democrats and Their ‘Friends’

For years, conservatives have marveled at the stubbornness with which black Americans continue electing Democrats, despite the evidence that “progressive” policies are hurting the black community. This probably reflects the effectiveness of Democratic Party propaganda, which relentlessly accuses Republicans of “racism.” It also reflects the tenacity of political tribalism, a phenomenon I know quite well.

Human beings are social creatures, and the natural form of human society is the tribe — the local ethnic community, whose people are united by shared ancestry, customs and beliefs. This is a worldwide phenomenon, not unique to America, and one which long preceded the rise of modern democratic government and industrial capitalism. Thanks to advances in communication and travel, people are now more mobile, and can also share cultural products (books, music, movies, etc.) with people around the world. An American who travels overseas might see, in the streets of Kampala, Kiev or Kyoto, a teenager wearing an NFL team’s jersey, even though the locals have never played American football. This cultural transfer is not one-way, of course. The American in Milwaukee can dine on the ethnic cuisine of Mexico or Thailand and listen to the music of Korean pop groups or Jamaican reggae performers.

We now take this kind of cultural globalism for granted, but the point is that this cosmopolitan trend is very much at odds with the basic tribalism of human nature. Even the racial categories commonly used in America fail to reflect the underlying ethnic tribal reality. As was pointed out during the recent Democratic primary campaign, it is a mistake to think that California Sen. Kamala Harris is “black” in the historic sense that this term has been used in the United States. Harris is not the descendant of American slaves; in fact, none of her ancestors were American at all:

Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a Tamil Indian breast-cancer scientist who immigrated to the United States from Madras, India, in 1960 to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at UC Berkeley.

To classify this offspring of a Jamaican father and Indian mother as “black” — in the same category as the descendant of American slaves — only makes sense from a Jim Crow segregationist mentality, where the old “one-drop rule” would be applied. Yet this sort of classification is demanded by the (allegedly “progressive”) identity politics formula of the Democratic Party, which aims to employ “intersectionality” to unite a coalition of victims against the white male heterosexual oppressors, embodied and symbolized by the Republican Party.

Identity politics is an appeal to mankind’s tribal nature, an appeal with which has affected me personally. I grew up in Georgia in the era of the so-called “Solid South,” when memories of the Civil War were still fresh enough that Republican Party was anathema to white Southerners. My parents’ generation of Southerners, while willing to vote for Dwight Eisenhower as president, nonetheless elected only Democrats to state and local officers. When I was 7 years old, this fanatical loyalty to the Democratic Party resulted in the segregationist Lester Maddox being elected governor of Georgia, and I never knew a Republican personally until college. It took decades for the GOP to overcome this “Solid South” tradition of partisan loyalty to the Democrats. It was not until 1994 that I ever voted for a Republican candidate for Congress, and the Democrats actually maintained their control of the states legislatures in Georgia and Alabama into the 21st century. It was not until the 2004 election that the GOP won a majority in the Georgia General Assembly, and it was 2010 before Republicans captured the state House in Alabama.

Because of my personal familiarity with this kind of partisan tribalism, I understand the kind of social pressures that maintain Democratic solidarity in the black community. If your parents are Democrats, and your grandparents are Democrats, and all your aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters are Democrat, it takes a phenomenal individualism to resist these social influences and say, “No, I’m voting Republican.”

When we behold the desolation of so many of America’s inner-city communities, where more than 90% of the black residents vote for Democrats, we have to wonder why the disastrous results of “progressive” policies don’t cause more defections from this partisan tribalism. And yet human nature being what it is, the accusation of “racism” against Republicans is usually sufficient to keep black people voting for Democrats. Remarkably, it seems that Donald Trump — allegedly the worst “racist” in GOP history — may have done more than any of his Republican predecessors to undermine this lockstep tribal politics. The economic gains made by black people under Trump’s presidency were undeniable — the lowest African-American unemployment rate in U.S. history — before the coronavirus panic struck in the past month.

Well, what about the Chinese virus pandemic?

The Democratic fiefdom of New York City (Hillary Clinton got more than 87% of the vote in Manhattan) is the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak. And this deadly pandemic would have been even worse, had it not been for President Trump’s early decision to halt travel from China. Yet the partisan tribalism of New Yorkers is such that they despise Trump and will give him no credit — even though Trump himself is a New Yorker. To be a Republican is to betray one’s duty as a New Yorker, according to this tribal belief system, wherein only Democrats are “real” New Yorkers.

This reflects the same mentality by which any black person who votes Republican is accused of being a “traitor” or a “sellout.” Simply because Democrats claim to represent the interests of your particular community, you are supposed to vote Democrat, forfeiting your political independence for the sake of tribal solidarity, and ignoring whether the policies Democrats support are actually good for you or not.

New Yorkers, being affluent and favorably disposed toward internationalism — a natural attitude, considering New York’s status as one of the world’s great hubs of travel and commerce — instinctively oppose Trump’s nationalist policies. Yet when globalism put their city uniquely at risk for what Kurt Schlicter calls “Chinese Bat Soup Flu,” it turns out that our allegedly “racist” president’s willingness to ban travel from China may have saved the lives of thousands of New Yorkers.

Do I expect a majority of New Yorkers to vote for Trump in November? No. Tribal prejudice does not instantly evaporate that way. What I would like to see, however, is that more Democrat voters — in New York and everywhere else — begin to examine whether their own interests (as individuals, as well as members of particular communities) are best served by their irrational sense of tribal loyalty to the Democratic Party.




 

Category: Democrats, New York, Racism

Finally: Encouraging News From Italy

Posted on | March 23, 2020 | Comments Off on Finally: Encouraging News From Italy

The curve finally appears to be flattening:

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 651 to 5,476, officials said on Sunday, an increase of 13.5% but down on Saturday’s figure when some 793 people died.
The total number of cases in Italy rose to 59,138 from a previous 53,578, an increase of 10.4%, the Civil Protection Agency said — the lowest rise in percentage terms since the contagion came to light on Feb. 21.
Of those originally infected nationwide, 7,024 had fully recovered on Sunday compared to 6,072 the day before.

Italy has now been on a nationwide lockdown since March 9, so this diminution of the number of daily deaths was to be expected. The number of diagnosed cases continues to increase, but the people have been effectively quarantined for nearly two weeks, which necessarily is limiting the spread of the disease. The most vulnerable populations — the elderly and those with underlying health problems — have certainly been taking precautions, and so the pandemic appears to be losing its momentum. Let’s hope the trend continues.




 

Category: Italy

Nancy Pelosi Blocks $1.8 Trillion #Coronavirus Bill. Why? Abortion!

Posted on | March 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Nancy Pelosi Blocks $1.8 Trillion #Coronavirus Bill. Why? Abortion!

 

This is absolutely stunning: An emergency stimulus bill, intended to prevent mass bankruptcies caused by quarantine measures necessary to fight the Chinese virus, has been blocked by House Democrats, because it does not include a bailout for Planned Parenthood. Quite understandably, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is livid:

“The American people are watching this spectacle,” McConnell said. “I’m told the futures market is down 5%. I’m also told that that’s when trading stops. So the notion that we have time to play games here with the American economy and the American people is utterly absurd.”

Read the whole thing, or watch the video:




 

Category: Democrats, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Senate

#Coronavirus: The Italian Catastrophe and the Pandemic Danger to America

Posted on | March 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Everybody complaining about the economic impact of shutdowns, quarantines and “shelter-in-place” orders to deal with the Chinese coronavirus pandemic should take a hard look at Italy. As I have pointed out, Italy was particularly vulnerable to this disease because they had a large number of Chinese workers — 300,000 nationwide — mostly employed in the fashion industry. (Also, Italy had more Chinese tourists than any other European country, about 5 million annually.) A lot Chinese workers in Italy traveled to China for the Lunar New Year celebration Jan. 24, and then evidently brought the virus back with them when they returned to Italy in late January/early February.

As pointed out by Tyler O’Neill at PJMedia and Stacey Matthews at Legal Insurrection, the initial response to the Wuhan virus outbreak in Italy was impeded by social justice concerns about anti-Chinese “racism.” The mayor of Florence, for example, took to social media in early February to promote the politically correct message “hug a Chinese”!

 

The fear of inciting anti-Chinese “racism” among the Italian populace had a harmful impact on that country’s initial reaction to the outbreak of a disease which indeed originated in China, but when Italy finally got serious about the pandemic, they got very serious.

On March 9, a nationwide lockdown order went into effect. At that time, there had been fewer than 500 coronavirus deaths in Italy. Now, less than two weeks later, the cumulative death toll is approaching 5,000, and Saturday there were nearly 800 coronavirus deaths in a single day reported in Italy. Some accounts suggest Italy is wrongly exaggerating their coronavirus death toll, but I think this suggestion is dubious. Even if Italy’s death toll includes cancer patients, AIDS patients or diabetes sufferers who might have died even if they hadn’t caught this virus, such considerations do not reduce the expenditure of resources devoted to treating these vulnerable people with underlying health issues. America has lots of vulnerable people, too, and if they get the Wuhan virus, nurses and doctors will have to treat them. That is the problem.

While I have never been someone who automatically trusts “experts,” the concerns of medical experts about the Wuhan virus pandemic deserve our careful consideration. What worries them is that there is a finite number of beds in intensive-care units, and a finite number of ventilators, which are needed to treat the severe respiratory problems that this disease causes. Reports from Italy indicate that, even apart from the coronavirus death tolls — which is scary enough — their medical facilities are being strained to the max in an effort to keep up with the number of patients requiring ICU treatment.

“Well,” says my patriotic American reader, “we’re better than Italy.”

True enough, but there are limits to what even American ingenuity can accomplish. Let us assume that President Trump waives all the regulations that might otherwise slow U.S. production of ventilators and other medical supplies necessary to deal with coronavirus patients. But what about doctors and nurses? We can’t educate thousands of new medical professionals in a matter of weeks, so the human resources necessary to treat tens of thousands of coronavirus patients is going to be strained — overtime shifts, 70-hour weeks, etc. — and every hour of a nurse’s time spent treating a coronavirus patient is an hour not spent treating patients with other medical problems.

Imagine being an expectant mother nearing your delivery date, when hospitals are trying to cope with this deadly viral pandemic!

Do you see now why the situation in Italy is so scary?

On the day Italy imposed a nationwide lockdown, they reported 97 new deaths. That seemed shocking at the time — a hundred a day! — but in the past 12 days, Italy’s daily death-toll has increased eight-fold. There are about 60 million people in Italy, whereas we have about 330 million here. If we cannot bring this pandemic under control — if we can’t “flatten the curve,” as they say — our number of coronavirus deaths could rapidly escalate to the point where many hundreds of Americans are dying every day. As I pointed out Saturday, 11 states have 87% of reported U.S. coronavirus deaths, so the other 39 states are comparatively safe. That’s good news, if you live in Iowa, Idaho, Alabama or one of the other states with zero deaths so far. If you don’t live in one of the pandemic “hot” zones — Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans, etc. — the economic impact of lockdowns and quarantines may seem excessive, but the alternative is a loss of the safety you’ve had so far.

We can watch the progress of the pandemic in Italy and extrapolate the probable course the Wuhan virus outbreak here. The bad news is, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Italy went into lockdown about a week before similar measures were imposed in most U.S. cities, and yet the Italian outbreak continues to escalate. We can therefore project that the number of American cases will continue doubling every three days or so for the foreseeable future, and the death toll will keep mounting. Death by coronavirus generally takes two or three weeks from the time the patient first exhibits symptoms, so that patients who will die during the week of April 6-12, who were exposed to the virus a week ago, may just now be experiencing their first fever, cough, etc.

The good news is that, eventually, the Wuhan virus pandemic in Italy will peak, and the daily death toll will decline. My hunch — and it’s just a hunch — is that Italy will pass that peak sometime in the next 10-14 days. The cumulative number of coronavirus cases reported in Italy will still keep increasing (because it’s cumulative, after all), but the number of deaths reported each day will start going down, and once that happens, it will be possible to begin thinking about how soon it will be safe to end the quarantine orders, to re-open bars and restaurants, etc. Our situation in the U.S. will probably lag a week or two behind the progress in Italy, so by late April, the worst of the Chinese virus scare could be over.

Let’s hope so, anyway. In the meantime, we’ve got at least another month of “social distancing” ahead of us, and I must once again urge everyone to read this article about symptoms of the disease.




 

Category: Health Care, Italy

Madness: Teachers Accuse NYC Schools of Covering Up Chinese Coronavirus Threat

Posted on | March 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

New York City is now the U.S. epicenter of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, with more than 8,000 cases and 60 deaths from the disease. The most shocking fact is how deeply the city’s school system is implicated in this outbreak. People need to go to prison for this:

One after another, sick Brooklyn Technical High School teachers called union chapter leader Nate Bonheimer last week, to tell him they’d tested positive for COVID-19.
By Friday, five of them had shared the devastating news. But after being notified about each one, the city Department of Education still ordered the 6,000-student school’s 350 staffers to show up for work last week, saying the building had been cleaned.
“The DOE did not close the school for any of the cases,” said Bonheimer, who worries that inaction exposed others to the dreaded infection.
The city failed to follow a March 9 directive by the state Education Department that “requires an initial 24-hour closure, in order to begin an investigation to determine the contacts that the individual may have had within the school environment.”
DOE did not attempt to identify close contacts, Bonheimer said. “They did not alert the people who needed to know the most to protect themselves, their families and everyone else they came into contact with.”
One infected teacher was so torn by the secrecy he took it upon himself to personally let all his students know his condition.
Around the city, teachers and administrators are outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza resisted a drum beat to close the public schools in the name of safety. . . .
Some DOE employees believe de Blasio and Carranza deliberately kept the lid on the COVID-19 cases popping up, putting kids and families at risk.
“The blood is on their hands,” one said.
DOE staffers think the two city leaders tried to cover up the cases because they wanted to keep the 1.1-million-student system running despite increasing pressure to shut it down. Finally, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about to do it, the mayor relented and closed the schools for students on March 16. . . .

Pause to think about this. On March 12, Maryland and Ohio — which have but a fraction of the number of cases in New York — ordered the closure of schools, yet New York City’s schools stayed open until March 16. Now brace yourself for something that will boil your blood:

The information freeze started March 10, when Carranza, in an email obtained by The Post, told administrators not to alert city health officials about COVID-19 cases among students or staff.
“At the moment, there is no reason for any school to call [the Health Department] to report potential or confirmed cases,” Carranza wrote, repeating the statement later in the same email. . . .
At several campuses and DOE offices citywide, multiple staffers have tested positive but affected buildings remained open while workers, students and parents were kept in the dark, whistleblowers said.
At the Grand Street campus in Williamsburg, which houses three high schools, a teacher returned from a trip to China over the February break. Despite reports of the outbreak, the teacher did not self-quarantine, but returned to teach kids in all three schools Feb. 26 through Feb. 29, a staffer said.
The teacher then became sick and stopped working. The school was not closed, and employees were not notified, insiders said.
Up to four other staffers have since become sick, they said.

This is sheer madness. Why would a teacher travel to China at a time when this dangerous virus outbreak was going on there? I mean, Trump shut off incoming flights from China on Feb. 3, and yet this Brooklyn teacher went to China nearly three weeks later, and taught for four days before falling ill? And then — to add insult to injury — the city’s department of education suppressed the information about this COVID-19 case? This is criminal negligence. Hell, it’s nearly manslaughter!

People in the Democrat-controlled fiefdom of New York City — the voters who elected this dishonest scumbag De Blasio, and who send vile subhuman monsters like Chuck Schumer to Congress — think they’re smarter than all the ordinary folks in “flyover country” who vote Republican. New Yorkers should be ashamed of themselves, but if they had any sense of shame, they wouldn’t vote for Democrats, would they?

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

By the way, as a public service, I ask that everybody carefully read this article about how symptoms of the disease manifest, and share it with everyone in your social networks. It could save many lives.




 

Category: Education, Health Care, New York

7 p.m. ET Tonight: The Other Podcast Surrenders to ‘Yellow Peril’ Hysteria

Posted on | March 21, 2020 | Comments Off on 7 p.m. ET Tonight: The Other Podcast Surrenders to ‘Yellow Peril’ Hysteria

 

For too long, my podcasting partner John Hoge and I have attempted to downplay the dangers of the Deadly Chinese Menace.

We tried to be voices of prudent skepticism amid the hysterical outpouring of Fear and Loathing unleashed by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. It seemed to us irresponsible — and perhaps even racist — to suggest that this viral plague from the Far East could infect millions of Americans, killing thousands, overwhelming our health-care system, wrecking our economy. And what was the reward for our caution?

“Oh, you’re just being right-wing apologists for the Trump administration,” they said, accusing us of partisan bias because we didn’t give into the climate of apocalyptic doom-saying. And after careful consideration, I’ve decided our critics were right. So tonight — for an entire hour beginning at 7 p.m. ET — we’re going to surrender to fear.

Yes, if Rachel Maddow is going to demand that networks stop broadcasting President Trump’s coronavirus press conferences because he is guilty of giving the American people too much hope — “fairy tales”! — she is implying that the responsible thing to do is to abandon all hope.

 

GODLESS COMMIE HORDES FROM RED CHINA!

Anything less than the worst-case scenario is wrong — that’s what responsible people like Rachel Maddow are saying, and therefore it is obviously time for everyone to give in to abject panic. We are all doomed, destined to die and be overrun by hordes of bat-eating Chinese!

You want fear-mongering? Why, I’m prepared to monger fear of such depths as not imagined since the days of Lothrop Stoddard. How foolish we were to imagine our pathetic “science” and so-called “democracy” could save us from these cunning Asiatics and their Oriental diseases!

 

Tonight — 7 p.m. ET on The Other Podcast — and if you want to help us usher in the New Era of Helpless Panic, call in at (646) 668-2541.

And, as usual, our greedy capitalist scheme requires us to remind you that The Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: China, Fear. Loathing., Talk Radio

Gay Men Spread Chinese Virus at Miami’s South Beach ‘Winter Party’ Festival

Posted on | March 21, 2020 | Comments Off on Gay Men Spread Chinese Virus at Miami’s South Beach ‘Winter Party’ Festival

 

At least nine men who attended the March 4-10 “Winter Party” LGBTQ festival in Miami have tested positive for Wuhan coronavirus. The annual gay festival in South Beach attracted thousands of visitors, among them a young physician from Boston:

Dr. Joshua Ellis, a medical education fellow and emergency medicine physician at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was excited to celebrate his 30th birthday in Miami with five of his close friends.
They had been planning the trip to Florida since late fall — long before the novel coronavirus was even a blip on anyone’s radar. They rented a house on Ocean Drive, steps away from beautiful South Beach. They bought tickets to the Winter Party Festival, a week-long event that brings thousands of gay men to Miami’s hotels, nightclubs, bars, and beaches to raise money for LGBTQ groups in South Florida.
Ellis and his friends traveled to Miami in early March — before the cascade of shutdowns, curfews, and closures that would swiftly upend American life — from all over the country: Seattle, Denver, Boston, Washington, D.C.
Since then, all six of them have gotten sick and with the same symptoms: chills, sweats, fatigue, shortness of breath. Four of them, including Ellis, already have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
“All six have shown the exact same symptoms at different times. So everyone in the household got it for sure — I am 100 percent confident; it’s too coincidental,” Ellis said in an interview this week, his nose running and voice hoarse. “The fear, though, is a lot of them were actively enjoying their social life [before they felt sick] . . . going to bars, going to dinners, going and hanging out at friends’ houses, quarantining with friends.”

Oh, trust the medical experts, they tell us. Meanwhile, Doctor Homo is partying down in South Beach with his gay buddies, who then return home to spread the deadly contagion across the country.

Speaking of homosexual activity in South Beach:

 

This is the sordid aftermath of the raucous drugs and booze party at a Florida hotel that left a male escort hospitalized and sent high-flying Democrat Andrew Gillum into rehab.
Plastic baggies of suspected crystal meth, empty beer bottles and prescription pills are seen scattered among trash and soiled bedding in the shocking images obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
Gillum, a married dad-of-three who narrowly missed out on becoming Florida’s first black governor, was too ‘inebriated’ to tell cops what went down when they arrived at Miami’s Mondrian Hotel early last Friday.
He was inside room 1107 with two more men, one of them a hunky 30-year-old male escort named Travis Dyson, who was found naked and in the throes of a drug overdose.
A police report says the third man, Aldo Mejias, 56, dialed 911 when fitness freak Dyson began vomiting and collapsed.
He later told officers from the Miami Beach Police Department that he had walked in to find Gillum and Dyson ‘under the influence of an unknown substance’ and Gillum, 40, vomiting in the bathroom.
Our exclusive images show the slew of drugs, both prescription and illegal, found inside the swank $220-per-night hotel room, including three bags of what police believe was crystal meth.
Dozens of white pills can be seen scattered on the floor and bedside table alongside empty containers of citalopram, an anti-anxiety medication, and gabapentin, which helps combat seizures and nerve pain.
There’s also a small bottle of an injectable medicine containing alprostadil which is typically used to treat erectile dysfunction and should never be mixed with alcohol.
Beer bottles and sheets covered in bodily fluids can also been in the photos, obtained from police under Freedom of Information law.
Cops declined to press charges and said Dyson, who posts X-rated photos and homemade porn movies on his profile page on the Rent.Men website, was likely to make a full recovery.
Gillum, a former Tallahassee mayor and regular CNN contributor, issued a statement within hours of the story leaking, apologizing for his drinking while insisting he never used meth.

Let’s be clear that this was a gay sex party. Methamphetamine and a drug “used to treat erectile dysfunction”? Sheets “covered in bodily fluids”? Do not expect us to pretend we don’t know what this was about. By the way, what is purported to be a nude photo of Gillum passed out on the floor of this South Beach hotel room has circulated online, and the Official Gay Community is angry at the “far-right” gay blogger who first posted it. Jacob Engels of the Central Florida Post says he obtained the photo from Republican congressional candidate Enrique Tarrio — a guy who we actually interviewed on The Other Podcast at CPAC 2019.

Anyway, I like how the “far-right” blogger reports the story:

At the time of the meth fueled sex orgy, Gillum was leading a powerful political committee in Florida, serving as a lead contributor to CNN, and was being considered as Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential pick for the Democrats. . . .
This is an ongoing story and we are currently working to obtain bodycam footage from law enforcement officers. Remember, this guy came within 34,000 votes of becoming Governor of Florida and was being discussed as a VP nominee for the Democrats.

If only Gillum had postponed his “meth-fueled sex orgy” a few more months, he might have become Joe Biden’s running mate. That’s scary.

So, in addition to the racism of calling this a “Chinese virus,” I suppose I’m now guilty of homophobia for calling attention to how Miami’s “Winter Party” helped spread the disease. Also, telling the truth about a Democrat’s “meth-fueled sex orgy” makes me a hater, I guess.

Political correctness requires us to pretend we don’t know things that we actually do know, e.g., what happens when thousands of gay men travel to a week-long festival in Miami. Even when the consequences of such behavior include spreading potentially fatal diseases, we are expected never to mention the sordid reality involved. You could lose your job — or get banned from Twitter — if you refuse to cooperate with the “progressive” agenda of this compulsory make-believe game.

Classifying the expression of certain opinions as “hate speech” involves an infringement of our First Amendment rights. You are not allowed to express disapproval of a “meth-fueled sex orgy,” or a gigantic week-long gathering of homosexuals (who may not be using meth, but are almost certainly having sex orgies) because there is a political agenda to protect such behavior from public criticism. Most Americans never stop to think about the motives behind political correctness: Why are some categories of behavior (and some categories of people) off-limits to criticism?

Once a special-interest group aligns itself with the Democratic Party, suddenly you’re forbidden to express a negative opinion of them. The rules of political correctness are always dictated by this partisan formula. Once upon a time, Catholics were a key constituency for the Democratic Party, which meant criticism of Catholic practices was prohibited. Once the abortion lobby and the LGBTQ crowd gained ascendancy among Democrats, however, denouncing Catholicism became more or less mandatory. Likewise, anti-Semitism was forbidden until the Democrats began soliciting support from Muslims, at which point Jew-haters like Ilhan Omar became the leaders of the party’s “progressive” wing.

Now? Democrats are eager to have the votes of Chinese bat-eaters, I guess. So while it is still legal to express an opinion on this subject, let me declare that I am against eating bats. (SPLC Headline: “Right-Wing Blogger Stirs Controversy With Dietary Hate Speech.”) So you can add that to the list of things of which I disapprove: Don’t eat bats, don’t do meth, avoid sex orgies in South Beach, and above all, don’t forget that The Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Florida, Gays
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