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#FakeWWIIIFacts Valerie Jarrett Reportedly In Deep Depression Since The World’s Most Interesting Man Was Droned In Baghdad

Posted on | January 5, 2020 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Category: Iran

FMJRA 2.0: What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

Posted on | January 5, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TFW you leave the trackball in your work bag and have to rely on your laptop’s touchpad for the first time in six years…So unnatural.

Blue-Check SJWs Freak Out After NY Mayor Announces Protection for Jews
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Report: Black Man With Machete Attacks Rabbi’s Home During Hanukkah Party
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‘Domestic Terrorism’: Anti-Jewish Attack Suspect Identified as Grafton Thomas
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Armed Christian Stops Church Attack
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Report: Suspect in Anti-Semitic Terrorism May Be Linked to Earlier Attack
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UPDATE: Texas Church Shooter Identified as Homeless Criminal Keith Kinnunen
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Feds Say Hanukkah Attacker’s Journals Referenced Black Hebrew Israelite Cult
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FMJRA 2.0: Do It
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
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‘Cosmic Justice’ in New York City
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Report: Leader of Attack on U.S. Embassy Met With Obama in 2011
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#MyWishForTheNewDecade
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Biden: Citizenship for 11 Million Illegal Aliens, Miners Should ‘Learn to Code’
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In The Mailbox: 01.01.20
A View From The Beach
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Liberal Jew: ‘Baseless Hatred’ by Blacks Is ‘Stark Contrast’ to White Supremacy
Locomotive Breath
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In The Mailbox: 01.02.20
A View From The Beach
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Trump Orders U.S. Air Strike That Kills Top Iranian Commander in Baghdad
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 01.03.20
The Pirate’s Cove
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Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
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Soleimani Eternally Dismayed By 72 Vegans And Typos, But Mostly The Vegans
A View From The Beach
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Why Do ‘Incels’ Want War With Iran?

Posted on | January 5, 2020 | 1 Comment

Crazy? You want crazy? David Futrelle is a “male feminist” who I’d ordinarily ignore, but he found something genuinely weird this time:

Incels welcome possible war with Iran
because “the more dead normies the better”
Over on Incels.co, the regulars seem pretty stoked about what appears to be an impending US war with Iran. When one commenter asked his fellow “involuntary” celibates whether they thought there would be a war, a commenter called FinnCel answered with a hearty “I sure hope so.” . . .
Someone called Emergency Manual explained just what it was it was about this as-of-this-moment-still-hypothetical war that appeals to incels so much:

The more dead normies the better. . . .

“I just eat popcorn and look at others killing each other,” FInnCel added.
Not all of the assembled incels were quite so enthusiastic. Some doubted a war would happen. Others railed against “k*kes” and worried about being “drafted to die for Israel.” And one suggested that

Iran would treat every American on this forum better than America would… Think about that if they try to draft you.

Apparently quite a few incels are under the delusion that every man in Iran is automatically gifted a hottie virgin wife.
At least you can’t say that the incels aren’t interested in foreign policy.

In case you didn’t already know, “incel” means “involuntary celibate,” i.e., a loser who can’t get laid. A “normie” is an average, normal guy who may or may not be getting any action, but who is not tuned into the Great Conspiracy Wavelength Frequency by which the incel gained awareness of his existential hopelessness. Incels consider “normies” even more disgusting than “Chads” (the apex predators of the sexual ecosystem), and basically want all normies to die:

After Alek Minassian’s Toronto van rampage [in April 2018] that left 10 dead and 15 injured Monday, speculation abounded about his motive. The 25-year-old suspect had not been on the radar of law enforcement, and authorities said the killings “were not national security related.”
Then a Facebook post emerged from what appeared to be Minassian’s account. Posted the day of the attack, it hints at an unsettling motive.
“Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please,” it reads. “C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!” . . .
“Incels,” or “involuntary celibates,” are part of the online male supremacist ecosystem. . . . One of the newest forms is “incel.” . . .
Elliot Rodger provides the most chilling example of the most violent ends of this nihilistic, spiteful and self-centered ideology. He killed six people and injured 14 others in a mass shooting in California in 2014. He wrote a manifesto blaming women for his loneliness and the fact that he was still a virgin. “I’m the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman,” he wrote.
Incels see Rodger as their patron saint. They celebrate his tactics, his body count and, of course, his manifesto, and write wistfully of a violent uprising yet to come. They glorify Rodger’s attack using the shorthand, “going ER.” After last year’s horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas, incels on Reddit praised Paddock for killing “normies,” and hastened to claim him as one of their own in the absence of a clearer motive. . . .
User Crustaciouse began their own thread this afternoon, titled, “I laugh at the death of normies. They will die while we survive.”
“Us incels spend most of our time inside, there’s no way we would ever be victims of an attack. But normies must now live with fear for the rest of their lives, they can’t go to school, the mall, or on a date without having to fear another incel attack,” they wrote. “And they should fear it, this is what happens when you leave us without any love or companionship.”

Sick, wrong and twisted? Yes. Laughable? Totally. Meanwhile, incels are also hoping women (“femoids”) get drafted to fight in World War III.



 

Category: Iran, Iraq, Military

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | January 4, 2020 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

 

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph:

A brief and somewhat uneventful high-speed chase across a southern stretch of Putnam County two nights before Christmas had salacious origins when a woman told police her ex-boyfriend broke in and stole several items, including a sex swing.
A woman who lives a few miles south of Eatonton near Lake Sinclair told police she arrived home the evening of Dec. 23 to find a man she had once lived with — a man who she said fathered two of her children — making off with more than a dozen pairs of high-heels and “other miscellaneous objects.”
Those other objects, according to a Putnam sheriff’s report, included an infant activity play mat, a Spider-Man blanket and a “black $160 “Fetish Fantasy … adult sex aid … spinning swing.”
Authorities were promptly notified and sheriff’s deputies were soon on the lookout for a gray 2016 Dodge Challenger, which the alleged burglar, John David “Donk” Lewis, drove away in.
The 30-year-old victim of the alleged theft said when she got home that night the Dodge was parked outside with its trunk open.
The woman said she spotted Lewis, 29, “carrying a container of her high-heeled shoes and other property,” a deputy’s report noted.
While the deputy was talking to the victim, another woman at the house received a text message from Lewis. The message included a photograph of Lewis, who the report said was “holding a black fabric object identified as the victim’s sex swing. Lewis was also displaying his right middle finger to the camera,” according to the report.
It wasn’t long before another deputy spotted the gray Dodge and took off after it at speeds up to 112 mph along a highway toward Milledgeville.
It was raining and the deputy quickly called off the chase. The Dodge was later found abandoned and stuck in some mud in a roadside ditch near Lake Sinclair.
Inside the car was a beige tote bag with 15 or so pairs of women’s high-heel shoes. In the trunk, deputies found the sex swing.
“He just had to have it apparently,” Sheriff Howard Sills later said of the swing. “It was a device near and dear to his heart.”
Lewis turned up Dec. 27 at a house in neighboring Baldwin County. When Putnam sheriff’s investigators got there to arrest Lewis on felony burglary and eluding charges, Lewis’ ex-girlfriend was in the driveway.
She said she had come to get a vehicle that belonged to Lewis, but didn’t know where he was. An investigator spotted Lewis hiding nearby.
Lewis said he had run from the police a few days earlier “because he was scared and he did not have a driver’s license,” according to the sheriff’s report.
Lewis had previously denied breaking into the woman’s residence, an investigative report said, claiming he lived there with her.
According to the report: “John then begged (her) to drop the burglary charges and said, ‘Baby, please, that carries a lot of (prison) time.’” Lewis, the report went on, “then dropped to his knees and begged (her)” again.
The charges were not dropped.

The suspect, we are told, fathered two children with the victim. Let us pause to think about what shall become of their offspring, having been conceived and raised by such a pair of fine, upstanding citizens.

“Mama, why is Daddy is prison?”

Yeah, those kids are hopelessly doomed.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

Category: Crime, Georgia

Soleimani Eternally Dismayed By 72 Vegans And Typos, But Mostly The Vegans

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Soleimani Eternally Dismayed By 72 Vegans And Typos, But Mostly The Vegans

by Smitty

Ace brought out the Red Skull, but didn’t really use the headline I would have. Not that I have much to add. Read Stacy’s post.

Via Instapundit, the Daily Wire reports the hits just keep on coming.

“Air strikes targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday,” Reuters reported. “Two of the three vehicles making up a militia convoy were found burned, the source said, as well as six burned corpses. The strikes took place at 1:12 am local time, he said.”

The Ayatollahs have had it coming since 1979. Let the Tangerine Tamerlane bring it.

Category: Uncategorized

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

The pumpkin spice latte drifted across my nose, and I chuckled.

“What’s that about?” she demanded.
“Oh, that smell returns me to High School. Math class. I had one on the floor. Ten minutes into class, the teacher notices it and demands that I dispose of it.”
“What’s funny about getting busted?”
“Nothing. Speaking of busts, though, Alice sat nearby.”
“And?”
“*She* had a bust. And perfume. And these sweaters, and so forth.”
“So?”
“Well, I was too. . .distracted. . .to dispose of the offending cup.”
“A-hah!”
“Thank God for the coat I was wearing, which covered my midriff well enough.”

—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

In The Mailbox: 01.03.20

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: This Is Why Planes Are Falling Out Of The Sky
Locomotive Breath: It’s Statistically Impossible For The FBI’s Spygate Errors To All Be Mistakes
EBL: Marianne Williamson – Please Do Not Let It Be So!
Twitchy: Rashida Tlaib Calls Trump “Lawless” For Soleimani’s Death And HELLO BACKFIRE
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Dropkicks Obama Speechwriter Ben Rhodes Over Iran Strike Opinion
According To Hoyt: Stopping The Fifth Column
Vox Popoli: Corporate America Took The Ticket, also, Traffic Report 2019

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Green Terrorists Caused The Australian Bushfires, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Just Say Yes Edition
American Conservative: Why Iraq Is Much Worse Than Trump’s Benghazi
American Greatness: James Comey Should Be Arrested
American Thinker: 2019 – The Left Goes Over The Edge
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Income Inequality Friday
Babalu Blog: In Socialist Cuba, Violence Against Women Largely Unacknowledged
Baldilocks: The Real Purpose Of The 1619 Project
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 3
Cafe Hayek: Some Hopes For 2020 & Beyond
Camp of the Saints: The Lost Generations
CDR Salamander: While You Get Ready To Celebrate…, also, In 2020, Look Up
Da Tech Guy: 18-20 Year Olds Can Fight & Die For America But Can’t Buy Beer Or Cigarettes, also, 2020 – The Year We Find Out What America Shall Be
Don Surber: Liberals Mourn Death Of Iranian General
The Geller Report: Sweden’s Society “Dissolving” Due To Mass Migration, also, Muslim Migrant Yells “Allahu Akbar”, Stabs 4 In Paris While Wearing Explosive Vest
Hogewash: Shooting Oneself In The Foot, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Media & Hollywood Bullies Only Embarrass Themselves, also, Nine Perfect Responses To Rose McGowan’s Crazy Iran Tweet
JustOneMinute: “We Are The Man Of This Arena”
Legal Insurrection: 2020 Census May Give NY Dems Ammo To Ax AOC’s Seat, also, Killing Of Iran’s Soleimani Brings Out The Democrats’ TDS
The PanAm Post: Dear Artists – You Don’t Understand Economics
Power Line: Climate Hysterics Wrong Again, also, Pompeo Explains
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces More Infrastructure Spending For Florida
Shot In The Dark: All The Same
STUMP: Happy New Year! Prediction Reactions & Upcoming Features
The Political Hat: Victories Against Transgender Totalitarianism – Unwaxed Scrotum, No Boys In The Girls Room, & Medical Contentious Objection, also, Firing Line Friday – The Road Back
This Ain’t Hell: Friday FGS, also, Gun Control Heats Up In Virginia As Legislative Season Approaches
Victory Girls: Mattis Was Right – Iran Is Waging War Against Us
Volokh Conspiracy: Prof. Bainbridge Publishes His “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion” Statement At UCLA
Weasel Zippers: Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump Of Killing Soleimani As A “Distraction”, also, Obama Administration Reportedly Stopped Israel From Killing Soleimani In 2015
Mark Steyn: Guardians Rising

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Category: Linkagery

Trump Orders U.S. Air Strike That Kills Top Iranian Commander in Baghdad

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Official statement from the Pentagon:

At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months – including the attack on December 27th – culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.
This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.

Associated Press:

The United States killed Iran’s top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region.
The targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the region and spiral into a far larger conflict between the U.S. and Iran, endangering U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and beyond. . . .
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S.
Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei also calling Soleimani “the international face of resistance.” Khamenei declared three days of public mourning for the general’s death.
Also, an adviser to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned President Donald Trump of retaliation from Tehran. “Trump through his gamble has dragged the U.S. into the most dangerous situation in the region,” Hessameddin Ashena wrote on the social media app Telegram. “Whoever put his foot beyond the red line should be ready to face its consequences.”
Iranian state television later in a commentary called Trump’s order to kill Soleimani “the biggest miscalculation by the U.S.” in the years since World War II. “The people of the region will no longer allow Americans to stay,” the TV said.

Notice how the AP feels obligated to dwell on Iraq’s threats of retaliation. Meanwhile, anti-Trump neocon Matthew Continetti is happy:

The successful operation against Qassem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, is a stunning blow to international terrorism and a reassertion of American might. It will also test President Trump’s Iran strategy. It is now Trump, not Ayatollah Khamenei, who has ascended a rung on the ladder of escalation by killing the military architect of Iran’s Shiite empire. For years, Iran has set the rules. It was Iran that picked the time and place of confrontation. No more.
Reciprocity has been the key to understanding Donald Trump. Whether you are a media figure or a mullah, a prime minister or a pope, he will be good to you if you are good to him. Say something mean, though, or work against his interests, and he will respond in force. It won’t be pretty. It won’t be polite. There will be fallout. But you may think twice before crossing him again. . . .
The risk to the U.S. embassy—and the possibility of another Benghazi—must have angered Trump. “The game has changed,” Secretary of Defense Esper said hours before the assassination of Soleimani at Baghdad airport. Indeed, it has.

Indeed, indeed. I’m hesitant to predict what comes next. Thursday night, while I was trying to watch the Gator Bowl, “World War 3” was trending on Twitter, and yes, the worst-case scenario is Armageddon. We can’t pretend that the risk of all-out war is non-existent. However, the question is not Iran’s intent — they hate America and want us all dead — but rather Iran’s capacity to turn their intentions into action. We shall see.

UPDATE: The reaction of the left-wing media was predictable:

As news broke that President Trump had ordered a targeted strike in Iraq against Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, the liberal media where aghast Trump would take action against a killer of American troops and innocence. During the primetime pearl-clutching on MSNBC’s The Last Word, a panel of journalists and former Obama administration officials were busy suggesting there was no plan and “if” Soleimani deserved what he got, Trump was the “wrong” president to dish it out.

Hat-tip to Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, who links my post from 2013 when Rachel Maddow was demanding all-out war against Syria.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Iran, Iraq, Military, Terrorism
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