FMJRA 2.0: I Live In Siberia, Through No Fault of My Own

Joe Biden’s apparent penchant for pandering to minority voters as a political tactic is insulting, and some of his remarks while campaigning in the South are “disgusting,” according to National Review Online’s Deroy Murdock.
On “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host played a clip of Biden’s latest campaign ad, which is running in South Carolina. The former Vice President appears to adopt a slight southern drawl and borrows a famous gospel lyric from the Rev. James Cleveland.
“We don’t feel no ways tired — We’ve come too far from where we started from. Nobody told us the road would be easy,” Biden says over a montage of images and video clips, before closing the ad by saying: “Let’s take back this country now.” . . .
Murdock focused on Biden’s comments and ones he has made in the past, saying that black voters will not receive the statements as the ex-vice president intends.
“I’m fascinated by this idea that when Democrats run to the south they have to adopt southern accents,” he said, adding that Hillary Clinton has done the same thing.
Murdock then recalled what he considered an especially “disgusting” comment by Biden when the then-vice president was stumping for President Obama’s reelection in 2012. At a speech in Danville, Va., Biden claimed to an audience that included many African-Americans that if Mitt Romney and the Republicans won the election, they would “put y’all back in chains” by loosening restrictions on financial institutions.
“It’s like outtakes from ‘Gone With the Wind’ — very odd, very inappropriate and very stupid,” said Murdock.

Comparing Joe Biden to Gone With the Wind is an insult to Margaret Mitchell, whose personal sympathy toward African-Americans was expressed through her anonymous contributions to Atlanta’s historically black Morehouse College. Furthermore, while Biden is engaged in dishonest pandering, Mitchell’s novel was an accurate reflection of the cultural attitudes of the generation that fought the War for Southern Independence. As I’ve often remarked, if you think the movie version of Gone With the Wind is racist, you should read the book, from which certain scenes had to be omitted as too shocking even in 1939. If you haven’t read the book, you don’t know why, for example, Tony Fontaine murdered the Yankee carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson:

“My God, Scarlett O’Hara!” said Tony peevishly. “When I start out to cut somebody up, you don’t think I’ll be satisfied with scratching him with the blunt side of my knife, do you? No, by God, I cut him to ribbons.”

And certainly, Wilkerson deserved it. The way things were in the old days, a man didn’t file a lawsuit or summon the police to settle affronts to his personal honor, and Southerners were keenly sensitive about such things. My Aunt Barbara said of my Fincher ancestors that their westward migration from the Carolinas to Alabama tended to follow such incidents. A fellow who got on the wrong side of a young Fincher would end up dead, and the hot-tempered killer would be off to the frontier before the sheriff could catch up with him. Why do you think Texans are such a rowdy people? The state was notorious as a haven for Southern fugitives, so that the phrase “gone to Texas” acquired a particular meaning.

Unlike the pandering Joe Biden, Margaret Mitchell was authentic, having grown up in Atlanta as the granddaughter of a Confederate army captain, and hearing war stories in her childhood:

“I heard everything in the world except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated. I didn’t believe it when I first heard it and I was indignant.”

Well, “old times there are not forgotten,” as the song says, but for Joe Biden to be doing an absurd minstrel-show “civil rights” act in a desperate effort to save his campaign is a shame and a disgrace. Really, the entire Democratic Party has become a shame and a disgrace, and I should be angry about it, but frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Hope you don’t mind if I take this occasion to remind readers that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Category: History, Joe Biden, Racism

They Can’t Blame Trump for This

Posted on | February 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

But they probably will, anyway:

THE END OF THE WORLD is upon us, as Coronavirus, an apocalyptic locust plague and the conflict between Iran and the US fulfils the prophecy for Jesus’ Second Coming, according to outrageous claims among Biblical scholars.
The deadly disease has now claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people in China and is threatening to become a global pandemic, while conflict in Iran and the African locust invasion have the Middle East on high alert. But, Biblical scholar Melvin Sandelin, has urged viewers on his “Christian Life” YouTube channel not to fear, claiming it is just part of the process for the return of Jesus Christ. Mr Sandellin wildly suggested coronavirus is “just one of the examples” that the End Times prophecy is “being fulfilled” and he is not alone in his thinking. . . .
“As the whole world is sucked into this media-furled fear for the coronavirus, Jesus said ‘don’t fear’.
“These things must happen, they are a sign of what is soon to come, Jesus is coming back soon.”
Meanwhile, a locust swarm “as big as a major city” is wreaking havoc in Africa and experts say it could grow 400 times the size by June, spreading to Uganda, South Sudan and further North, threatening the Middle East. . . .
A pastor in Kenya’s capital said he was asking for God’s forgiveness following the invasion earlier this month.
He said: “It is not normal that the country has been invaded by desert locusts and having rain in the month of January.
“I am here to repent our sins and ask God for forgiveness because something is wrong somewhere and also ask God for His visitation.
“God bless you all, call the Lord and he will hear your prayers.” . . .
The popular Christian novelist Joel Rosenberg, who in recent years has led trips of evangelical leaders to meet with leaders in the Middle East, said that while he is cautious about saying that prophecies from the Bible are unfolding right now, he takes those forecasts from the Old and New Testaments seriously.
He interprets biblical texts such as Ezekiel 38, which describes a forthcoming war, as meaning that Iran will ally with Russia and attack Israel.

Also, there’s this terrible portent of forthcoming doom.

Category: Fear. Loathing.

Zombie Candidate Elizabeth Warren Attacks Billionaire Bloomberg

Posted on | February 15, 2020 | Comments Off on Zombie Candidate Elizabeth Warren Attacks Billionaire Bloomberg

Let’s hope she inflicts maximum damage:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) hit fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg on Thursday, taking aim specifically at his recently resurfaced comments he made in 2008 about the controversial practice known as redlining.
“Now this has been some presidential primary already. We’ve been going about this for about a year,” Warren said during a packed town hall in the Washington, D.C., suburb.
“Some people got in a little later than others. Michael Bloomberg got in on the billionaire plan,” she said to widespread boos from the audience.
She then went on to address 2008 comments resurfaced by The Associated Press, in which Bloomberg said that the end of redlining contributed to the financial crisis.
The practice involves banks discriminating against racial minorities looking to take out loans in an effort to afford homes. Those specific communities were identified by redlines on maps.
“Michael Bloomberg is saying, in effect, that the 2008 financial crash was caused because the banks weren’t permitted to discriminate against black and brown people,” Warren said.
“I want to be clear,” she continued. “That crisis would not have been averted if the banks had been able to be bigger racists, and anyone who thinks that should not be the leader of our party.”

Of course, what Bloomberg said about “redlining” and the financial crisis, like his defense of “stop and frisk,” was just the facts. Banks were under pressure to demonstrate that they were not discriminating against minorities, and this resulted in a lowering of lending standards. Bloomberg was not advocating racial discrimination, he was merely explaining how the history of discrimination and the efforts of finanical institutions to compensate for past wrongs were a crucial factor in what went wrong during the housing “bubble.” But facts don’t matter in a Democratic primary campaign. What does matter is (a) Warren’s campaign is doomed, and (b) on her way to oblivion, she’s taking a shot at the guy who many Democrats see as their best hope to beat Trump:

Establishment Democrats who had hoped that Michael Bloomberg could ride to their rescue might need to start looking for another plan. The former New York mayor got kneecapped this week when recordings surfaced of his previous remarks about race, crime, and economics that make Bloomberg look guilty of the kind of “hate” that Democrats routinely accuse Republicans of perpetrating. Desperate to stop socialist Bernie Sanders from winning the party’s presidential nomination, Democrats are now reckoning with the consequences of their habitual rhetoric of racial blame.
Having endorsed the anti-police agenda of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, Democrats won’t find it easy to defend Bloomberg’s record as mayor. Even if the billionaire’s lavish spending could buy him the party’s nomination — an untested proposition — Bloomberg’s record on racial issues would make it difficult for him to play the race card against President Trump in the general election campaign. Does anyone really think Democrats can win without the race card? . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

Category: Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Racism

Feminist Witch/University Professor Advocates Human Extinction

Posted on | February 14, 2020 | 3 Comments

She seems nice:

On January 23, 2020, Bloomsbury Academic published a call to action for all those who care about “climate change.” The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene by Patricia MacCormack, a professor of continental philosophy at Angelia Ruskin University, cuts to the chase and advocates for the ultimate solution to global warming: The end of the human race. For MacCormack, “Extinction Rebellion” has a whole different meaning.
MacCormack admits to being an “occultist magician.” She has actually given lectures — often in a get-up that is either supposed to be emulating a witch and bearing an eerie resemblance to the costumes we see frequently at Drag Queen Storytime — on the “invocation” or “convocation” of demons, which she says is an important feminist or queer practice. Invoking demons, she says, is not entirely risk-free, because “madness is as likely as ecstasy.” She says all of this entirely unironically.

MacCormack is a native of Australia whose academic specialties include:

Continental philosophy, especially Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Blanchot, Irigaray, Serres and Lyotard
Sexuality and queer theory
Feminism
Ethics
Post-human theory
Animal studies
European horror film, especially German Expressionism and Italian horror of the 1960s-1980s

Also: “In 2013 she was a visiting Leverhulme Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara,” because of course taxpayer-funded universities in America have an obligation to offer fellowships to crazy feminists from around the world. And, yes, she practices the occult. She is “co-founder of the occult-inspired club night Occulture in London.”

Let’s learn more about Professor MacCormack’s exciting ideas:

An Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) author believes she has solved the problem of over-population – by allowing humanity to become extinct through ending procreation.
Dr Patricia MacCormack, professor of continental philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), has even invented a new term for a post-human world: the “ahuman” will avoid ecological collapse by “going beyond binaries of human and not human”, according to ‘The Ahuman Manifesto’ which is launched in Cambridge this week.
“Far from advocating mass death, genocide or eugenics, my manifesto is antinatalist,” says Dr MacCormack. “It boycotts human reproduction due to the damage humans have perpetrated on the Earth and its other inhabitants.
“The manifesto simply asks that humans no longer reproduce – no life is lost, no being is mourned. If we no longer reproduce, we can care for all inhabitants already here, human and non-human, as well as care for the Earth itself by mitigating the damage already caused. It’s an activism of care.”

Human existence is bad. That’s what parents are paying universities to teach their children: “Hurry up and die, because global warming.”

Pat Robertson could not be reached for comment.

Category: Education, Environmentalism, Sex Trouble

BIAS: Roger Stone Jury Forewoman Is Partisan Anti-Trump Democrat

Posted on | February 13, 2020 | Comments Off on BIAS: Roger Stone Jury Forewoman Is Partisan Anti-Trump Democrat

Clear evidence of judicial malpractice:

The foreperson on the jury that convicted Roger Stone has come forward, and is revealed to be a failed Democrat candidate for Congress and activist vehemently opposed to President Donald Trump.
Tomeka Hart, a former Memphis City Schools Board President, came forward as the Stone jury foreperson in a Facebook post on Wednesday, voicing support for prosecutors in the case.
Hart confirmed to The Daily Memphian that she wrote the Facebook post, but she declined an interview with the newspaper.
Stone supporters were shocked when a review of Hart’s social media posts showed that she posted on Twitter mocking Stone’s dramatic arrest prior to being seated on the jury, and frequently denounced Trump, including calling the president and his supporters racists.
It’s unclear whether Stone’s political views and social media history were disclosed during jury selection, potentially raising questions about fairness that could impact the verdict on appeal.

The judge in the case (Amy Berman Jackson) is a Democrat appointed by Obama. So how is it that another Democrat — from West Tennessee, of all places — is chosen as forewoman of a federal jury in the District of Columbia? This is important, because Democrats also acted as investigators and prosecutors in the Stone case and, after Attorney General William Barr called for a reduction in the recommended sentence, Democrats then demanded that Barr resign or be impeached. It is as if Democrats are seeking to criminalize opposition; merely by being associated with the Republican Party, you are deemed guilty.

Category: Corruption

In The Mailbox: 02.12.20

Posted on | February 13, 2020 | 2 Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

I’ll be out of town for a writers’ conference in Provo until Saturday evening, so the chances of more linkagery this week are slim.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #894
357 Magnum: Math Is Hard For Democrats
EBL: Comrade Sanders Wins New Hampshire Despite Counterrevolutionary DNC
Twitchy: Schiff’s Tweet Blasting The Investigation & Persecution Of Political Enemies Blows Up In His Face
Louder With Crowder: Deranged Leftist Attacks Retired NYPD Officer Over…Oops, Wrong Hat

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: How Surveillance Capitalism Targets The Vulnerable
American Greatness: Open Corruption
American Thinker: Andrew Cuomo, The Criminal’s Best Friend
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: In Praising Stalinist Cuba, Sanders Is No Radical – He’s A Mainstream Democrat
BattleSwarm: NH Results – The Bidenburg Crashes & Burns
Cafe Hayek: Getting The Right Picture
Camp Of The Saints: Coronavirus – When Will We Ever Learn
CDR Salamander: LCS As We Have Always Known Her
Da Tech Guy: Buttigieg & The Military Service Check Box, also, Wuhan Has Plagued Chinese Leaders For A Century
Don Surber: Maybe Democrats Can Run David French
First Street Journal: For Amanda Marcotte, All That Matters…
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrant Gets 75 Hours Community Service For Raping 13-Year-Old Swedish Girl, also, Honor Violence In Sweden
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Ticket That Won’t Beat Bernie
Hollywood In Toto: Is Liberal Media Finally Fed Up With Woke Hollywood?
Joe For America: AZ Police Officer Says Anti-Trump Protesters “Most Hateful, Evil People I’ve Seen”
JustOneMinute: Back To The Future
Legal Insurrection: While You Were Focused On NH, More Trump Judicial Nominees Were Confirmed, also, Warren Brags About Taking Half Of College Student’s Last $6
Megan McArdle: This Amy Klobuchar Could Beat Trump. Where Has She Been All Year?
Michelle Malkin: Tyranny Of The Tamiflu-natics
The PanAm Post: Trump SOTU Guest Says It’s Time “To End Chavismo’s Livelihood”
Power Line: A Genius For Friendship, also, Michael Bloomberg, Racist?
Shark Tank: Rhonda Reban-Lopez Outraises All GOP Non-Incumbent Candidates
Shot In The Dark: As We Wait, And Wait, And Wait, For The “Inevitable Tsunami Of Right-Wing Violence,” Part MCMLXI
This Ain’t Hell: Richard Wayne Jowers – Fake Army Airborne Ranger, Fake Wounded, Blog Of Shame, also, Stunning News – Admiral Has Zipper Failure
Victory Girls: Nevada Culinary Union Doesn’t Like Bernie’s Medicare For All Plan
Volokh Conspiracy: Magazines Over Ten Rounds Were Well-Known To The Founders
Weasel Zippers: VA House Dems Pass Assault Weapons Ban, Magazine Confiscation, also, Sheila Jackson Lee Calls Trump’s Budget Racist
Mark Steyn: Panic Stations, also, Live Free Or Bern

Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

Mike Bloomberg Is ‘RAAAAACIST!’ (But Actual Racists Still Won’t Vote for Him)

Posted on | February 12, 2020 | Comments Off on Mike Bloomberg Is ‘RAAAAACIST!’ (But Actual Racists Still Won’t Vote for Him)

As I have been remarking for years, there are five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!” Bogus accusations of racism have become so commonplace that the word “racist” has been deprived of any meaningful definition in ordinary usage. That’s why the Left has now begun using “white supremacist” and, predictably, overusing it so that everyone except the most woke SJW now rolls their eyes at the term. Unless you’re a Klansman, a neo-Nazi or otherwise so ostentatiously anti-black as to be indefensible, I consider it a duty to take your side if the Left ever comes after you: “RAAAAACIST!”

With one caveat: Never apologize.

A dishonest smear deserves no apology, nor even any public notice. If character assassins attack you, strive to avoid giving them the pleasure of knowing what harm you may have suffered from their slander, because this will only embolden them to do the same to others. Just watch what happens when a fool thinks he can apologize and move on:

Newly uncovered audio of 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg depicts the former New York City mayor defending the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which he enacted while in office.
The 2015 recording comes from a speaking event Bloomberg attended at the Aspen Institute, during which he acknowledged that the policy disproportionately affected minorities and defended it.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops,” Bloomberg said. “They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city. And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed.”
“So one of the unintended consequences is people say, ‘Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is,” he continued.
Bloomberg went on to argue that stop and frisk was a necessary policy to save lives because it forced people to leave their weapons at home so they couldn’t be charged with carrying it.
“And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them. And then they start. ’Oh, I don’t want to get caught,’ so they don’t bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home,” he said.

The audio of Bloomberg’s remarks was released by Benjamin Dixon, a Bernie Sanders supporter, which in turn inspired a conspiracy theory response by CNN’s Cristina Alesci, but the real story is how Bloomberg responded: He apologized and denounced his own former policy.

Do you think that will work? If so, you are a fool. Even if Bloomberg can succeed in buying the Democratic nomination, he cannot defeat Trump in November without Obama-level black support, and his apology certainly won’t suffice to achieve that. And while I would ordinarily be willing to defend Bloomberg against the accusation of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — his craven apology cancels my obligation to defend him.

The “stop-and-frisk” policy was simply an effective police tactic, which helped drive down violent crime in New York City. If it hadn’t been effective, Democrats would not have been against it. Democrats are the Party of Criminals, and they don’t care how many people get killed as a result of their pro-criminal policies. Bloomberg is a man who is wrong about a lot of things, but when he was defending “stop-and-frisk,” he was right. Now that he’s apologized? He’s wrong. Screw him.

Oh, and while apologizing for his “racist” policies won’t help him with black voters, Bloomberg is never going to win over actual racists, because generally speaking, they hate Jews, too. So everybody can relax and enjoy the spectacle of this fool squandering his money for nothing.

Category: Crime, Racism

« go back — keep looking »

Free Agents
SHAMELESS CAPITALISM

The Other McCain is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for this blog to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Triple-A Franchises
Blogroll

The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

FMJRA 2.0: I Live In Siberia, Through No Fault of My Own

Creepy Uncle Joe Ain’t No Ways Tired?

They Can’t Blame Trump for This

Zombie Candidate Elizabeth Warren Attacks Billionaire Bloomberg

Feminist Witch/University Professor Advocates Human Extinction

BIAS: Roger Stone Jury Forewoman Is Partisan Anti-Trump Democrat

In The Mailbox: 02.12.20

Mike Bloomberg Is ‘RAAAAACIST!’ (But Actual Racists Still Won’t Vote for Him)

THE FULL METAL JACKET REACH-AROUND AWARD

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Search

Recent Posts

Click here to manage your email subscription options.

RSS reader subscription

MEMEORANDUM

Recent Comments

THE AMAZING GONZO FEED

Major Leagues

ADVERTISEMENT

Axis of Fedorables

AMAZING SAVINGS NOW!

Archives

Free Agents

SHAMELESS CAPITALISM

Triple-A Franchises

Blogroll