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Erstwhile #Resistance Spokesman Now Presumes to Lecture Republican Voters

Posted on | December 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Erstwhile #Resistance Spokesman Now Presumes to Lecture Republican Voters

It’s bad enough that the same people who spent four years denying the legitimacy of the Trump presidency — because RUSSIA! — are now lecturing us about the need to accept a Biden presidency. The people who claimed the 2016 election was “hacked” by Putin are now telling us that it is an outrageous conspiracy theory to doubt the election result based on video showing hidden troves of ballots being counted in the wee hours of the morning after election monitors had left the room.

We have actually seen obituaries of the dead people who “voted” this year, yet we are told there is “no evidence” the election was stolen.

As bad as all this is — and I’ve deliberately avoided paying attention to it, out of concern for maintaining my sanity — do we need fat Democrat millionaires lecturing us about our health?

Filmmaker-activist Michael Moore attempted to reach across the aisle and speak directly to Trump supporters in the latest episode of his “Rumble” podcast this week. But he ended up using his olive branch to deliver a spanking, blaming MAGA nation for spreading the coronavirus and predicting that “many of you are going to die.”
In his podcast, Moore plead with Trump supporters to wear masks and practice social distancing. “I don’t want you to die,” he said, adding perhaps jokingly that it would give him too easy a victory in his battle with the right.
“If we don’t pull together as Americans, we’re not going to get out of this,” Moore said, noting that “It’s in all the red states, it’s growing faster there than anywhere else.”
Moore also offered a grim forecast for those who refuse to get on board with the program. “Many of you are going to die.”
Growing audibly more agitated, the Oscar-winning filmmaker began lashing out at Trump supporters.
“Why do you want to die? Why — to take a stand against us liberals, to show us a thing or two?” he asked. “You’re showing us how to die. Why do you want to do that?”
He added: “In all the places that voted for Trump, people are dropping like flies.”

This is simply not true. It is demonstrably false. In Democrat-controlled New Mexico, for example, the virus is out of control, despite (or perhaps because of) the state’s drastic lockdown regime. The daily death toll from COVID-19 has spiked to record levels in Democrat-controlled California, and this week, the state with the most COVID-19 deaths was not a pro-Trump “red state” stronghold, but Democrat-controlled Illinois.

Anyone — even someone as profoundly stupid as Michael Moore — can find these facts with a quick Google search, so if the truth was easily available and yet Michael Moore is not telling the truth, is there a word for that? Yes, he is lying. Michael Moore is a big fat liar.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to watch some college football. It’s for my mental health. Hit the freaking tip jar. Thank you.




 

Category: Michael Moore

The Other Podcast Rides Again

Posted on | December 5, 2020 | Comments Off on The Other Podcast Rides Again

At 7 p.m. ET tonight, as every Saturday night, I’ll be joining my blog buddy John Hoge on The Other Podcast. If you miss it live, you can find all our podcasts in the Podbean archives here.

UPDATE: Here’s the show, in case you missed it:




 

Category: Talk Radio

In The Mailbox: 12.04.20

Posted on | December 5, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual deadlines for the usual weekend linkagery, which may nor may not get done in a timely fashion. Well, the FMJRA, anyway, since nobody seems to mind if it’s late. Maybe a book post this weekend. Maybe not.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Pretty much how I feel about this last quarter of 2020, especially the political part.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Good Guy With A Gun Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun
EBL: Frank Sinatra Christmas Special With Bing Crosby (1957)
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex’ Whining About Republicans Not Knowing HOW HARD She’s Worked Just A Hot Mess Of Hilarity
Louder With Crowder: GA Gov Kemp Wants Answers Over Ballot Fraud “Smoking Gun”
Vox Popoli: NSPM #13 Invoked, also, It’s Getting Ugly In Georgia
According To Hoyt: The Eye Of The Storm
Monster Hunter Nation: The Founder Effect Is Out Now

 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The American Companies Enabling Red China’s Uighur Genocide
American Greatness: Gov. Kemp Calls For Signature Audit Of Ballots Following Ballot-Stuffing Video, also, Shut Up & Take It
American Power: Corona-chan Shrinks Labor Market, Pushing Out Women & Boomers
American Thinker: Is The Democrats’ Election Heist “Too Big To Fail”?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Second Amendment Friday
Babalu Blog: The Horror Of Being A Political Prisoner In Communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 4
Cafe Hayek: Actual Rather That Tweet Tyranny
CDR Salamander: Even The Chairman Goes Salamander On Overseas Forces, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: “In Any Other Situation…”
Don Surber: Democrats Want Crime. It Pays.
First Street Journal: Democrisy – Democrats In Government Don’t Believe In Living Under The Rules They Set For Others, also, You Cannot Tell The Truth In The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Geller Report: One Batch Of 23,000 Fraudulent Ballots All For Biden, Enough For Trump Win, also, Witness Testifies NV Voting Machine USB Drives Had Totals Altered Overnight
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Deniers!
Hollywood In Toto: Free Lunch Express Doesn’t Feel The Bern, also, Did Hollywood Just Write Off 2021…And Beyond?
JustOneMinute: Something’s Happening!
The Lid: 40 States Join Antitrust Lawsuit To Break Up Facebook
Legal Insurrection: Biden Plans To Reenter Iran Deal Without New Conditions, also, NV State Court Judge Rejects Election Challenge
Nebraska Energy Observer: The American Schism
Power Line: The Higher Ed Meltdown Accelerates, also, Mask Jacobinism Runs Rampant
Shark Tank: House Democrats Remain Silent Over Tlaib’s Anti-Israel Tweet
Shot In The Dark: Cautionary Tale, 2020
STUMP: Chicago Homicides Quick Take
The Political Hat: Are Lab-Grown Catgirl Brains Worth The Risk?
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Update On Misawa Airman Who Claimed Sexual Harassment
Victory Girls: Pelosi Admits COVID Stimulus Was Blocked To Get Biden Elected
Volokh Conspiracy: De Facto Denials On The Shadow Docket
Weasel Zippers: NV GOP says There’s EXTENSIVE Evidence Of Voter Fraud In Nevada, also, SD Unified School District Forcing Teachers To Attend Racist White Privilege Seminars
The Federalist: Nancy Pelosi Let Millions Suffer To Win An Election, also, Joe Biden’s DHS Nominee Is The Absolute Picture Of DC Political Corruption
Mark Steyn: Good Cop-Defunder, Bad Cop-Defunder, also, Live Around The Planet

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Category: Linkagery

‘Black Lives Matter’ Rioter Charged With Murder in N.C. Home Invasion

Posted on | December 4, 2020 | 4 Comments

On June 2, police in Charlotte, North Carolina, used tear gas to disperse a “Black Lives Matter” protest that turned into a riot:

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says what started as “a lawful protest” took a turn shortly before 9 p.m., when CMPD says several officers became targets for protesters “bent on turning a lawful demonstration into a riot.”
In the span of around four hours, CMPD says there were at least 18 incidents where protesters threw objects at officers, nine dispersal orders were issued, 16 protesters were arrested, and three guns — including one assault rifle — were found.

Among those arrested June 2 was Jonathan Elijah Jones, 19, charged with assaulting a police officer and other offenses. Three months after that arrest, Jones was arrested again on Sept. 5 in Gastonia, charged with violating a domestic violence protective order, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and other offenses. You might have thought that two arrests in the span of three months would be enough to put Jones behind bars for a long time, but he was soon back on the streets, and his next arrest was for murder:

Four people have been arrested after a person died in a shooting during a breaking and entering in Cramerton Monday morning.
Brenton Edward McCaskill, from Clover, was shot and killed at a home on Fifteenth Avenue
Jonathan Elijah Jones and Ramon Luis Lopex Jr. have been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree burglary and felony conspiracy. They are both in the Gaston County Jail with their bond on hold.
Tyler Andrew Reno and Tyler Nathaniel Justice Leonhardt have been charged with accessory to murder after the fact. They are in the Gaston County Jail until a $500,000 bond.
Police said they responded to a possible breaking and entering in progress in the 400 block of Fifteenth Street in Cramerton just before 6 a.m. Monday.
Police found a person who had been shot. That person , who was identified as McCaskill, was taken to the hospital where he died, according to police.

The victim died defending his family from the invaders. “Brenton McCaskill is a hero,” his girlfriend Heidi McQueen told WCNC-TV. “He lived his life a hero, and he died a hero. He died protecting us.”




 

Category: Crime, North Carolina

In The Mailbox: 12.03.20

Posted on | December 3, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.03.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Dr. Williams’ last gift to all us Euro-Americans.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Left Will Only See This As A Teen Tragically Shot
Red Pilled Jew: Random Thoughts
EBL: Lin Wood vs. Bil Barr
Twitchy: Daily Beast Gets Called Out For Tweet On Death Of Gov. Kristi Noem’s Grandma
Louder With Crowder: CNN VP Was Terrified That Cubans Might Vote For Trump
Vox Popoli: Outside The Normality Box, also, What Evidence?
Stoic Observations: What if Coronavirus Was More Deadly?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Barack Obama & The Death Of Idealism
American Greatness: NV Trump Campaign Presents Vote Fraud Evidence In Court, also, Video From Election Night In Georgia Shows Suitcases Full of Ballots Pulled Out After Poll Watchers Sent Home
American Thinker: If The Elections Are Stolen, The Biden Nightmare Begins
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Prehistoric Thumb War News
Babalu Blog: Proof That CNN Has Contempt For Cuban-Americans
BattleSwarm: Walter E. Williams, RIP
Cafe Hayek: Remembering Walter Williams
CDR Salamander: Have We Forgotten The Art Of Deception?
Da Tech Guy: The Price The GOP Will Pay For Allowing The Election To Be Stolen, also, Gov. Baker’s Coronavirus Edicts Violate The Massachusetts Constitution
Don Surber: The Court Must Take The Case, also, Oh, NOW Republicans Need Us
First Street Journal: Philly Starts December Off With A Bang, also, Fighting To The End
The Geller Report: GA Poll Worker Says Dominion Had Remote Access To Voting Machines & Poll Pads, also, AZ GOP Finds 2% Of Duplicate Ballots Took Votes Away From Trump After Judge Allows Sample To Be Examined
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Bitter Half Brothers Can’t Stop Bashing America, also, Arrested Development Star Says Non-Liberals Filled With Negativity, Hate, & Racism
JustOneMinute: Katie, Barr The Election!
The Lid: Possible Biden Cabinet Pick Rashida Tlaib Shares Tweet Calling For Eradication Of Israel
Legal Insurrection: Trump Campaign Alleges “Unlawful & Unconstitutional Acts” By State Officials In Recount Lawsuit, also, Democrat In IA-2 Goes To Pelosi To Challenge Six-Vote Loss
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Child’s Christmas In (South) Wales
Power Line: How Do You Break Your Foot Playing With A Dog? also, California Paid $400 Million To Incarcerated Criminals
Shark Tank: Rep. Mast Calls Out Rashida Tlaib As Anti-Semite Over Anti-Israel Tweet
Shot In The Dark: Like Trulbert, Only Depressing As Hell
STUMP: COVID News Roundup
The Political Hat: Breakin’ The Law, also, Playing With Words – Guns, Voting, & Gender
This Ain’t Hell: General Milley Drops 15-Megaton Truth Bomb, also, Thursday FGS
Victory Girls: Yes, CNN Did Bury The Hunter Biden Story
Volokh Conspiracy: A Few Hours After SCOTUS Punts CA Case, Gov. Newsom Announces “Regional Stay At Home” Order” That Prohibits All Indoor Religious Services
Weasel Zippers: Caught On Camera – Republicans Told To Leave GA Counting Rooms At 10:30 PM Only To Have Democrats Return At Midnight, also, Biden Tries To Incite More COVID Hysteria
The Federalist: Chuck Schumer Endorses Biden’s Transgender Plans For Public Schools, also, Democrat On House Intel Committee Sides With Red Chinese Propaganda Over U.S. Senator
Mark Steyn: We Didn’t Order These Sandwiches, also, Hitler Of The Week

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Category: Linkagery, Uncategorized

Her Name Is ‘Destiny’

Posted on | December 3, 2020 | 2 Comments

Destiny Allen, to be more precise. Whatever her mother had in mind when she bestowed this name on her, evidently her destiny was jail:

A McDonald’s employee is facing charges after police said she got into a fight with one coworker at the Atlanta fast-food restaurant and then hit a second coworker with her car while driving away.
Destiny Allen is charged with aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in connection with the incident, which happened at the McDonald’s on Northside Drive about 12:30 a.m., Atlanta police spokeswoman Officer TaSheena Brown said.
Investigators said Allen and another employee got into a physical altercation and a third employee tried to break it up.
When Allen walked out of the restaurant, both employees followed her to make sure she left the premises, Brown said. As she got into her car, Allen and the employee who had been involved in the fight continued to argue.
Allen then put her car into reverse and pressed the gas. In the process, she hit the employee who had tried to break up the fight, Brown said.
The woman was thrown into a window panel of the restaurant, investigators said. She was taken to a hospital with injuries to her legs but is stable, Brown said.
Allen was taken to the Fulton County Jail.

There is video of the fight:

 




 

Category: Crime, Georgia

Bizarre Hell-World Updates

Posted on | December 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

Who knows how long we’ve been descending? It’s been going on for months — maybe even years — and our descent has been a steady process:

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, May 2

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
VAN JONES IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Sept. 5

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
AL SHARPTON IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Sept. 9

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
JAKE TAPPER IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Oct. 11

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
GLENN GREENWALD IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Oct. 29

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
BILL MAHER IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Nov. 15

. . . and finally:

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
MATTHEW YGLESIAS IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, today

UPDATE: Just to briefly address a few details of today’s bizarre hell-world update, Yglesias said on Twitter that “defund the police” is a bad idea, and the Left . . .

Well, I want to say they “went crazy,” but they were already crazy.

Perhaps it will be easier to understand why Yglesias is pro-police when I remind you that in 2013, he bought a $1.2 million condo near Logan Circle in D.C. This was part of the “gentrification” in our nation’s capital where an incentive program for first-time home buyers enabled a lot of white yuppies to purchase Washington real estate on favorable terms. This wave of “gentrification” in Washington and other major cities occurred at a time when more effective law-enforcement methods had driven U.S. crime rates down to their lowest level since the 1960s. Ah, but then the “Black Lives Matter” movement erupted and now effective law-enforcement methods are RAAAAACIST!

Something about owning property tends to make people — even “progressive” ideologues like Matt Yglesias — rather conservative, at least so far as it concerns their own personal interests.

If you’re renting an apartment and the city turns into Mogadishu, you just terminate your least and move elsewhere. But when you’ve purchased a $1.3 million investment, you have a vested interest in trying to prevent your neighborhood from becoming a war zone. To urban home owners, “defund the police” means surrendering to local warlords, which probably won’t be good for property values.




 

Category: Ed Driscoll

The Planners and Their Plans

Posted on | December 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

If you are my age, the very mention of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project calls to mind memories of how liberalism’s “War on Poverty” ultimately ended in catastrophic defeat:

At its peak, Cabrini-Green was home to 15,000 people, mostly living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings, totaling 3,607 units. Over the years, crime and neglect created hostile living conditions for many residents, and “Cabrini-Green” became a metonym for the problems associated with public housing in the United States. Beginning in 1995, CHA began tearing down the mostly dilapidated, mid- and high-rise buildings, with the last high-rise being demolished in March 2011.

Cabrini-Green began with noble intentions — “slum clearance” and “urban renewal” were the phrases used to describe the rationale behind this project in a neighborhood once known as “Little Sicily.” Originally, in the 1940s, most of the tenants were Italian-American, but by the time the earlier rowhouse development (named for Saint Frances Cabrini, a nun who worked with the poor) was augmented by the high-rise William Green Homes (named for a famous labor-union leader), black residents were the majority, and not accidentally so. The liberalism of LBJ-era Democrats like Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (who held office for more than 20 years beginning in 1955) incorporated an attitude toward African-Americans that can at best be called patronizing, insofar as it was not actually racist. If stacking up poor black people in 10-storey-tall housing developments seems like a bad idea in retrospect, consider that the alternative to this vertical solution was to allow Chicago’s poor black population to spread horizontally through the city’s neighborhoods. Black people who had left the segregation called Jim Crow in the South discovered a kind of segregation called “liberalism” in the North.

Support for federally funded public housing was a touchstone of liberal policy for decades, and it was the critics of this program, rather than its proponents, who were accused of racism. You were not only racist if you questioned the wisdom of pouring out taxpayer funding for projects like Cabrini-Green, you were a cold-hearted Scrooge. The idea of public housing as an expression of philanthropic charity was deeply embedded in the liberal worldview of the Welfare State. LBJ declared his “War on Poverty” in his first State of the Union address:

The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty. The forty programmes established by the Act were collectively aimed at eliminating poverty by improving living conditions for residents of low-income neighborhoods and by helping the poor access economic opportunities long denied them.
As a part of the Great Society, Johnson believed in expanding the federal government’s roles in education and health care as poverty reduction strategies.

In 1987, Ronald Reagan famously summarized the result of LBJ’s policy: “In the Sixties, we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.”

It turns out that old-fashioned poverty — not having enough money — was actually not bad, compared to federally subsidized poverty.

By the 1990s, the failure of liberal policy was so blatantly obvious that even Democrats did not object when the federal government began demolishing the high-rise public housing projects it had spent so much taxpayer money to build a few decades earlier. Cabrini-Green was a symbol of this failed liberal dream. The last resident to leave the last high-rise tower before it was demolished in 2010 was a woman named Annie Ricks. Born in Escambia County, Alabama, in 1956, Ricks was 10 when she moved to Chicago with her family. By the time she moved into Cabrini-Green in 1989, Ricks had eight children, and she gave birth to another five children while she lived there. The Cabrini-Green site was “redeveloped” with a mix of luxury condos and “affordable housing” in what reporters described as “a planned, mixed-income neighborhood.” There was an interesting coda to the story this year when a 9-year-old boy who lived in the “affordable” section was shot dead — Janari Ricks was the grandson of Annie Ricks. The man charged with Janari’s murder, 39-year-old Darrell Johnson, opened fire at “a group of people behind the townhomes on the 900 block of North Cambridge Avenue”:

According to prosecutors, Johnson spent four years in prison for a 2005 conviction on carjacking and weapons charges, and served two years’ probation for a 2002 conviction for aggravated battery.
Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. (27th) said Monday it appears neither the shooter nor his intended target live in Cabrini Green, although they grew up there. . . .
Janari is the fifth child age 10 or younger to be shot and killed in Chicago this year.

Joe Biden got nearly 75% of the vote in Cook County, Illinois, and his agenda regarding law enforcement is mainly an exercise in blaming “systemic racism” for everything wrong in the black community.

Interestingly enough, the community where Annie Ricks was born has a larger black community, percentage-wise, than Chicago. Escambia County, Alabama, is 32% black, whereas Cook County, Illinois, is only 25% black. And while Biden easily won Chicago, Donald Trump got 68% of the vote in Escambia County where — perhaps not coincidentally — children don’t get shot to death as a routine matter. Just sayin’ . . .

One of the basic tenets of liberal thinking about race — affecting a variety of issues, including immigration, education, poverty and crime — is what Steve Sailer has called the “Magic Dirt” theory. The places where impoverished POC (“people of color”) live are demonstrably afflicted with social problems which, the liberal believes, can be solved by relocating these people to places where white people live. This idea that social problems are geographic in nature means that certain ZIP codes are “Magic Dirt,” where high SAT scores and low crime rates are more or less automatically obtained by anyone fortunate enough to live there, whereas the places with high crime and low SAT scores are “Tragic Dirt.”

Once you understand this misguided concept, it becomes impossible not to recognize the “Magic Dirt” meme in media and political rhetoric. Given what we know about Joe Biden — representing the same party that got 75% of the vote in Cook County — what should we expect if he becomes president? Steve Sailer has thoughts on that subject:

My theory has long been, going back to Chicago’s demolition of near-Loop housing projects, that, because poor black people are America’s perpetual hot potato that everybody hopes to hand off to somebody else, white urban elites wish to shove inner-city blacks onto the hinterlands.

The only possible reply to that is, “Wait and see.”

Did I mention that U.S. firearms sales are at record levels?

CORRECTION: “Magic Dirt Theory” is a phrase coined by Vox Day, specifically referring to the belief of open-borders enthusiasts “that all immigrants will magically become Real Americans, real life nephews of their Uncle Sam, reborn on the Fourth of July by virtue of geographical relocation, thereby instantly negating of all of their racial, ethnic, religious, political, and cultural traditions.” My apologies for the erroneous attribution.




 

Category: Chicago, Crime, Racism
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