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In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: The Bongino Report, Because Drudge Sucks
EBL: Shonen Knife – Space Christmas
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Takes Down Mob Of Angry & Stupid, Including “Charlotte” Clymer & Andy Richter, In Gun Debate
Louder With Crowder: Voter Confronts Biden On Son’s Ukraine Involvement, Biden Flips Out

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Enact Our Carbon Emission Targets Or We’ll Invade You
American Greatness: Tranny Teen School Shooter To Be Tried As Adult
American Thinker: We Are All George Zimmerman Now
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Prescription Spectacles News
Babalu Blog: Protest Banner Of The Day – The Hypocrisy Of Latin America’s Socialists
BattleSwarm: Peak Woke
Cafe Hayek: Who’d A-Thunk It?
CDR Salamander: A Design For Maintaining Maritime Superiority
Da Tech Guy: Democrats Weaponize FLOTUS Against Them, also, Angela Merkel v. Rob Schneider On Free Speech
Don Surber: Hospitals Sue The Administration To Hide Their Prices
First Street Journal: Black Friday Traffic Tieup As Tesla Drivers Have To Wait In Long Lines To Recharge Cars
The Geller Report: EU Council Head Seen Making Pointing Gun Gestures At Trump’s Back, also, Destroying The USA Is The Democrats’ Agenda
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, About Those Phone Records
Hollywood In Toto: Cage, Grammer Team For Underwhelming Grand Isle
Joe For America: Dem Rep Al Green Says Democrats Can Impeach Trump Repeatedly
JustOneMinute: On To Impeachment!
Legal Insurrection: Email Sent To GWU Law Deans Demands Jonathan Turley’s Removal, also, Math Prof At UC Davis Under Fire For Opposing “Diversity Statements”
The PanAm Post: AMLO & The “Fourth Transformation” In Mexico
Power Line: Democrats Gone Wild, also, Kaepernick Workout Leads To Redskins Job
Shot In The Dark: The Plan
STUMP: Visualizing U.S. Union Membership, 1983-2018
The Political Hat: Sexual Dimorphic – Brains, Testosterone, & AI
This Ain’t Hell: Thursdays Are For Cooking, also, MilitaryPhony Is Up!
Victory Girls: The Farce Continues – Pelosi Announces Articles Of Impeachment
Volokh Conspiracy: Can The House Impeach A Former President?
Weasel Zippers: The View Hag Complains Kamala Harris’ Failure The Result of “Unprecedented Racism & Sexism”, also,  Joe Biden Says He Won’t Voluntarily Testify If Called By Senate For Impeachment Trial
Megan McArdle: When Exciting Education Results Are In The News, Be Skeptical
Mark Steyn: Running The Number, also, The Men Who Walked Away

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His Name Was Mohammed Alshamrani

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

If I had to guess, I’d say he’s probably from Belgium:

Four people are dead including the suspect after an active shooting incident at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida, police said.
The shooter was identified as Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi national [oops, I guessed wrong — RSM] and member of the country’s air force who was in the U.S. for flight training, law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation told ABC News. Investigators are trying to determine whether the shooting was terror-related, the officials said.
Authorities responded to reports of a shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola at 6:51 a.m. on Friday, officials said. ATF and FBI also responded to the scene.
The shooting took place at one of the classroom buildings on the base, officials said. Officers with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrived on the scene and fatally shot the suspect after exchanging gunfire.
Three people, including the shooter, were pronounced dead on scene, police said. One victim was taken to the hospital and died from injuries.
Eight others injured in the shooting were transported to Baptist Hospital, police said. . . .
During his roundtable on small business and red tape reduction accomplishments on Friday, President Donald Trump sent his condolences to families of the “warriors” killed and spoke about his call with the King of Saudi Arabia.
“I can tell you it’s a horrible thing that took place and we’re getting to the bottom on it,” Trump said. “All of the investigators are there now and they’re studying it very closely and terrible thing, and our condolences to the families.”

Y’know, if this shooter had been some kind of white nationalist alt-right extremist, CNN would be 24/7 on this story all weekend, and every liberal blog would be blaming Trump for this terrorist act. Instead what you will see is that the mainstream media and liberal bloggers will quickly bury this story, except perhaps to call out “right-wingers” as “racists” for daring to suggest that some Muslims might be dangerous.




 

Category: Florida, Islam, Military, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, The Flemish Menace

Aniah Blanchard Murder Suspect Blames His Victim: Teenager ‘Went for the Gun’

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Aniah Blanchard Murder Suspect Blames His Victim: Teenager ‘Went for the Gun’

 

This should make everyone extremely angry:

Alabama college student Aniah Blanchard apparently fought back against accused killer Ibraheem Yazeed, according to court records made public Wednesday.
Capital murder charges against Yazeed were announced last week and in an affidavit supporting those charges, an investigator said Yazeed told an acquaintance he shot Blanchard and she “went for the gun.”
Blanchard, 19, was abducted in October outside an Auburn convenience store and was found dead more than a month later in rural Macon County woods. The cause of Blanchard’s death was a gunshot wound, said Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes in announcing the upgraded charges against Yazeed. . . .
Blanchard was last seen by a family member on the evening of Oct. 23 at an Auburn residence. Her mother, Angela Harris, has said her daughter then stopped at the convenience store to buy potato chips.
Video evidence from the convenience store at 1599 South College Street put Blanchard and Yazeed there at the same time. A witness later told police he saw Yazeed interacting with Blanchard near her vehicle in front of the store and later forcing Blanchard into her vehicle against her will. . . .
Further video evidence from a separate gas station in Auburn showed Yazeed exiting the passenger side of Blanchard’s vehicle and later re-entering the vehicle. Her Honda CRV was last seen traveling south on South College Street toward the interstate.
Police recovered the teen’s black SUV from an apartment complex on the 6100 block of Boardwalk Boulevard in Montgomery around 6:15 p.m. the following evening . . .
Blood evidence was discovered in the passenger’s compartment of the vehicle and was “indicative of someone suffering a life-threatening injury.” The evidence was submitted to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences and confirmed to be that of Blanchard.
The affidavit said a person was located who told them Yazeed was next seen at a residence in Montgomery wearing only shorts, with a gun tucked into the shorts. That person said Yazeed was in possession of Blanchard’s vehicle, however, he did not see Blanchard.
“The subject further advised during a subsequent conversation with Yazeed, Yazeed admitted to shooting a girl and stated the girl ‘went for the gun,’’’ Det. Josh Mixon wrote.
Blanchard’s remains were found Monday, Nov. 25, during a search in the 38000 block of County Road 2 in Shorter. Authorities have not announced what led that to that area.
Yazeed was formally served with the capital murder warrants this week. Hughes said his office will seek the death penalty.

Look, I wouldn’t give $0.02 for the word of a career criminal like Ibrahim Yazeed. Every criminal should be presumed to be a liar, because if he was capable of honesty, he wouldn’t be a criminal. So the fact that Yazeed told someone that Blanchard “went for the gun” means nothing. He might have shot her execution-style and just made up this story as an excuse for his crime. But no one knowledgeable about criminal behavior would believe something like that, based solely on the perp’s word.

Aniah Blanchard (front center) with her family.

Yazeed has the kind of lengthy record of criminal violence that indicates he has never even tried to earn a living honestly, and the question is why authorities in Alabama failed to keep him incarcerated, since Yazeed was a known menace to public safety so long as he was on the streets.

Murderers usually do not begin their criminal careers with murder. That is to say, by the time a perpetrator’s violent tendencies escalate to murder, he has usually been involved in crime for many years. Over and over, we see the same story repeated: Small-time crook with an extensive record of arrests — drugs, burglary, car theft, sex offenses, etc. — plea bargains, probation, maybe a year or two in prison here or there, but always turned loose, and always re-offending. Somehow, no one in the system ever figures out that this lifelong criminal can never be reformed, and that the best interests of the public would be served by putting him in prison, if not for for life, at least until he’s too old to be an effective criminal. How much will it cost taxpayers to put Ibrahim Yazeed on trial? How many years, and how many appeals, will it take before he is finally put to death? Gosh, I wonder what would happen if jail officials were to put Yazeed in general population. Maybe one of his fellow inmates would decide to save the taxpayers a lot of money, time and trouble.

There’s no Supreme Court appeal for a shank under the fifth rib.



 

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Category: Alabama, Violence Against Women

The Total Florida Woman Story

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

Tory Ojedas and her four polyamorous partners.

Whenever you’re in search of weird news, Florida is always there:

A polyamorous woman has fallen pregnant by one of her four partners after they went away together — but says they will raise the baby as a ‘family’.
Tory Ojeda, 20, from Jacksonville, Florida, met one of her partners Marc, 18, in high school and then started a relationship with Travis, 23, two months later.
Their love story began three years ago and she has since announced her engagement to Travis in July.
She also found love with their long-term mutual friends Ethan, 22, and Christopher, 22. While seven months ago, Tory and Chris found out that they were pregnant with a baby girl.

OK, so just to make sure we’re clear here: Tory is engaged to Travis, but Christopher is (allegedly) the father of her child.

Tory says Christopher is the father of her baby.

Tory is engaged to Travis.

The two other geeks, Marc and Ethan, are apparently just there as pinch-hitters in the batting rotation, but let’s return to the pathetic story:

Despite being in an open relationship, Tory is currently the only one who has multiple romantic partners.
However she says that her boyfriends are ‘welcome’ to pursue other people if they wish to — she even encourages the idea. Tory said: ‘Honestly, I would love it if somebody found a second partner.
‘Dividing time and figuring out schedules between all five people and making sure everyone feels included, it’s kind of difficult.
‘I’d like to not be the only woman in the relationship. That would definitely be nice.’

Sweetheart, I’m looking at the quality of guys in your crew and not the least bit surprised that none of them can score any other action. You’re a regular angel of mercy, operating a sort of charity clinic for losers. You could probably qualify for 501(c)3 status, honestly. Anyway . . .

They all have their own bedrooms but her partners ‘swap in and out’ of her bed each night, making sure each of them gets an ‘equal turn’ in spending the night with Tory.
On the issue of jealousy, Ethan said: ‘There are a couple of healthy ways to deal with it. Primarily just talking to each other.’
Travis added: ‘There’s always going to be like little moments of jealousy, it does take a certain amount of restraint and just getting relaxed. I will say it helps if you know the person.’
Reflecting on his own experiences in his current relationship, he said: ‘Seeing [Tory] with Ethan was a lot easier because I was friends with him.
‘Her and Chris was a bit dicier at first, there was a lot more jealousy and I’ll openly admit that. The same goes for Marc because I’d never interacted with them.’
Seven months ago, Tory found out that she was pregnant with a baby girl who they will welcome into their unconventional family in February.
‘Chris is the biological father. We just know that because of timing and when the approximate conception date was,’ Tory explained.
‘Based off of the approximate conception day, we had been on vacation. So it was only us.
‘But as far as I guess, socially goes, we’re all raising the baby together, so everyone’s dad.
‘We’re all very, very excited to be raising a baby together.’ . . .
Tory said: ‘Most of my friends know all my partners and they love us and think that we’re cute and such. My family is kind of quiet about their disapproval. Polyamory is definitely an uncommon thing.
‘A lot of people have grown up in monogamy culture of, you don’t really love someone if you have eyes for somebody else.’
Christopher added: ‘My family is slowly coming around to the idea. The pregnancy has helped with that. But at the very beginning, I know my mother and father were hesitant about it.
‘Her main concern was that she didn’t like the idea of me having a partner who was not fulfilled with me alone.’
However Ethan’s family are ‘very active’ in their support, along with Tory’s older brother, Alistair.
Alistair said: ‘I will admit that since I’m her older brother, that I just have that tendency I suppose to be protective.
‘I’m more so concerned that she’s happy, that she is in a relationship where they both love each other mutually or in this case more people love each other mutually.
‘I don’t see anything wrong with Tory’s relationship.’

Sir, your sister is a whore. I don’t know how else to say it. Her behavior is disgraceful, a mark of shame on your entire family. Your parents didn’t raise you right. Do you have no self-respect at all? How can you approve of your sister shacking up with these subnormal perverts?

But oh, we’re supposed to be non-judgmental about this arrangement:

After having to overcome judgement in public spaces, Tory hopes that she will eventually see more acceptance of polyamory in wider society. ‘We definitely get weird looks,’ she said.
‘I’ve had people just say rude comments when we’ve just been hanging out at a fast food place. I’ve been called a hoe more than once.
‘Maybe in our future, we might see it become a common thing where people don’t bat an eye on it anymore at all. One can hope.’

See, once the Supreme Court decided (Lawrence v. Texas, 2003) that Americans have a constitutional “right” to homosexuality, it was certain that every other variety of sexual perversion would seek “more acceptance . . . in wider society.” If sodomy can be the basis of “marriage,” and everyone can be required to applaud homosexuality (you don’t dare disapprove, or they’ll sue you), who can object to four men and a woman?

They told us there was no “slippery slope,” but how did get here? Tory is taking turns with four different guys, engaged to one and pregnant by another, and she hopes “we might see it become a common thing,” as if this insanity could be the basis of a civilization.

Am I the only one who feels as if we’re living in a dystopian novel?



 

Category: Florida, Sex Trouble

Four Dead After Florida Jewelry-Store Robbery Leads to High-Speed Pursuit

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Four Dead After Florida Jewelry-Store Robbery Leads to High-Speed Pursuit

Just another typical day in Florida:

Four people were killed in South Florida after two armed jewelry thieves hijacked a UPS truck along with its driver and led cops on a high-speed pursuit that ended when the vehicle got stuck in traffic Thursday afternoon.
The chase began in Coral Gables and ended 25 miles away on a busy street in Miramar, where a shoot out erupted once the truck couldn’t go any further because of traffic.
As many as 19 officers descended on the truck once it was finally stopped, spraying the vehicle with possibly more than 200 rounds, a source tells WFOR.
Killed at the scene were the two suspects, the abducted UPS driver and a bystander who was inside an idle car near the mayhem.
The pursuit began shortly after a jewelry store in Coral Gables set off a silent alarm about 4.15pm, said Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak.
Cops responded to Regent Jewelers on Mariana Avenue in less than two minutes to find that the suspects had exchanged gunfire with the store’s proprietor, Hudak said.
A female employee in the store was found to have been shot in the head after a gunman’s bullet ricocheted off the floor. She was later reportedly in stable condition.
One bullet was even found to have struck the Coral Gables City Hall. . . .
The suspects then made their escape in the hijacked UPS truck, taking its driver hostage and leading authorities on a high-speed pursuit. The chase was captured by news outlets and broadcast live as the drama unfolded. . . .
The UPS truck made its way up the Florida Turnpike, then on to Okeechobee Road and finally Interstate 75 into Broward County.
The suspects fired upon cops during the pursuit, the Miami Herald reports.
After several running several red lights and harrowing maneuvers made in an attempt to escape, the truck came to a stop on Miramar Parkway near Flamingo Road because of traffic around 5.30pm.
Motorists and bystanders watched as police officers frantically scrambled to stop the suspects.
Police in footage taken of the chase are then seen approaching the truck and opening fire into the vehicle, reports WPLG.
Gun shots are fired, and a man’s leg became visible in the truck’s passenger side door, followed by another man climbing over him who covered his head for protection from the spray of bullets.

What strikes me is that, many hours after the shoot-out ended, police still have not named the dead robbery suspects. Certainly, the identity of these criminals is known to police, so why not name them? Why not release their mug shots and tell us about their prior criminal records? Because you know doggone well that this was not their first time at the rodeo. You don’t begin your criminal career by robbing a jewelry store. No, these guys had almost certainly been perpetrating since they were teenagers, and when we finally learn their identities, we’ll discover that they had extensive criminal records and yet, for some reason, were not in prison. This is predictable, to anyone who pays attention to news about crime, and yet somehow our criminal justice system hasn’t figured out that it’s a bad idea to turn these animals loose.

People on Twitter are blaming the police for the UPS driver’s death:

Frank Ordonez was named by CBS Miami as the UPS driver who was killed during a wild police chase in Florida that unfolded after jewelry thieves hijacked his truck and took Ordonez hostage. Ordonez was a young father remembered for his work ethic, and serious questions remain about how he was slain.
Four people lay dead by the time the dust cleared; Ordonez, another innocent bystander (as yet not named), and the two robbers. Outrage flooded social media from people who watched the frightening police pursuit unfold live on television and who believe that law enforcement needlessly endangered – and maybe even took – Ordonez’s life. “The cops killed Frank Ordonez on live tv and endangered the lives of so many other bystanders over stolen jewelry,” wrote one angry woman on Twitter, echoing the thoughts of others. . . .
A co-worker told CBS that the day he died was Ordonez’s “first day alone on the job after having completed his training.” He had been at UPS for five years, however.
“The victim I’m told is Frank Ordonez, a beloved UPS driver who was just 27 yrs old,” journalist Amber Diaz wrote on Twitter.

Look, I don’t want to say the cops handled this situation perfectly, but if you want to blame someone, shouldn’t you focus on the criminals who kidnapped Ordonez and hijacked his truck? But no, liberals hate the police, so of course it’s all the cops’ fault.



 

Category: Crime, Florida

When the NPC Asks, One Must Deliver

Posted on | December 5, 2019 | Comments Off on When the NPC Asks, One Must Deliver

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 12.05.19

Posted on | December 5, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.05.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This would have been posted yesterday, but the library’s internet failed us.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #824
357 Magnum:  The Media Admits That A Court Order Isn’t A Magic Spell
EBL: Lesson Of London Bridge? Europe Needs More Poles & Fewer Pakistanis
Twitchy: Reaction To Rep. Gaetz’ Simple “Raise Your Hand If…” Request For Impeachment Witnesses Says It All
Louder With Crowder: Banker With Ties To Epstein Does From Apparent Suicide

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Australia Begins The Persecution Of Christians, also, A Reflection On A Difficult Year
American Greatness: Democrat Impeachment “Witness” Takes A Cheap Shot At Barron Trump
American Power: Mary Grabar, Debunking Howard Zinn
American Thinker: Why Your Sons Refuse To Read
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: The War Against Democracy In Latin America
BattleSwarm: Let The Harris Campaign Postmortems Begin!
Cafe Hayek: Has “Neo-Liberalism” Failed?
Camp of the Saints:
CDR Salamander: Hughes, Howard, And The Passing Of Great Men
Da Tech Guy: Quick Thoughts
Don Surber: Democrat Race Politics Backfire
First Street Journal: For Our Friends On The Left, Trump Is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
The Geller Report: Phone Records Show Schiff Spied On Giuliani, Nunes, And A Hill Reporter, also, NYC Muslim Gets 40 Years For Scouting Terror Attack Sites
Hogewash: Amazon Still Sells Books, also,  Well, He Does Have The Right To Remain Silent
Hollywood In Toto: Desus & Mero Fawn Over “Future President” Fauxcahontas
Joe For America: Livid First Mom Strikes Back At Law Prof Who Mocked Barron At Hearing
JustOneMinute: It’s A Slam Dunk!
Legal Insurrection: Democrats’ Star “Impeachment Witness” Mocks Barron Trump In Hearing; Furious FLOTUS Responds, also, Hillary Still Refuses To Rule Out Possible 2020 Presidential Bid
Michelle Malkin: Citizen Revolt – Resist Refugee Resettlement Dumps!
The PanAm Post: Colombian Military & Police  – Mourning The True Heroes
Power Line: Schiff Obtained Phone Records Of Nunes, Journalist, Others, also, Loose Ends
Shot In The Dark: It’s Good To be King
STUMP:  Can The Government Tell If You’re Dead Or Alive?
The Political Hat: Guidebook For Pushing Transgenderism On Children
This Ain’t Hell: Update On Fake SEAL charged With Defrauding VA, also, Is This More Russian Influence?
Victory Girls: Down The Democratic Rabbit Hole Of Impeachment
Volokh Conspiracy: Institute For Justice Takes Up Case Where Court Ruled Government Owes Nothing To Innocent Citizen Whose Home Was Destroyed By Police
Weasel Zippers: Check This One Pic Of How Egregious Media Bias Is, also, Jonathan Turley Destroys Democrat Claims Of An Impeachable Offense
Mark Steyn: Prince Andrew, Puke Of York, also, Return Of The One-Night-Only King Of Cable

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Attention Republicans: Stop Scapegoating Others for Your Own Personal Failures

Posted on | December 5, 2019 | 1 Comment

Ted Bundy in his 1965 high school yearbook.

One of the hallmarks of a sociopath is his inability to accept personal responsibility for his own failures. The sociopath is dishonest and cruel by nature, seeking to manipulate others through deception — he is a compulsive liar — and taking pleasure in humiliating his chosen enemies. These antisocial traits may be cunningly concealed by a mask of charm. This is why sociopaths are so often successful con men. Or politicians. Before he became infamous as a serial killer, many people who knew Ted Bundy personally found him to be a charming and attractive person.

Did I mention that Ted Bundy was a Republican?

[Bundy] volunteered at the Seattle office of Nelson Rockefeller’s [1968] presidential campaignand became Arthur Fletcher’s driver and bodyguard during Fletcher’s campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Washington State.
In August of that year, Bundy attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami as a Rockefeller delegate. . . .
In 1971, he took a job at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline Crisis Center, where he met and worked alongside Ann Rule, a former Seattle police officer and aspiring crime writer, who would later write one of the definitive Bundy biographies, The Stranger Beside Me. Rule saw nothing disturbing in Bundy’s personality at the time, and described him as “kind, solicitous, and empathetic”.
After graduating from [the University of Washington] in 1972, Bundy joined [Republican] Governor Daniel J. Evans’ re-election campaign. . . . Evans appointed Bundy, ironically, to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee. After Evans was re-elected, Bundy was hired as an assistant to Ross Davis, Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. Davis thought well of Bundy and described him as “smart, aggressive … and a believer in the system”.

Far be it from me to compare, for example, Bill Kristol to Ted Bundy, but the point I wish to make is that a person can be charming, intelligent, persuasive and, also, a dangerous sociopath. No one can deny that some Republicans fit this description, and their sociopathic tendencies become obvious when they refuse to accept responsibility for their own failure. The “Never Trump” crowd lack the political skill necessary to successfully run a winning primary campaign and yet, when all of their schemes to prevent Donald Trump from winning the 2016 GOP nomination came to naught, the “Never Trump” crowd didn’t blame themselves for this failure. Instead, they blamed — well, you, if you voted for Trump.

Among other things, this is poor sportsmanship. Auburn beat Alabama on Saturday, but Auburn wasn’t to blame — no, ’Bama lost that game, far more than Auburn won it, and no player on the Crimson Tide could deny that they failed, both individually and as a team. So, in 2008 and 2012, Republicans could have nominated anyone for president, but instead they nominated first John McCain and then Mitt Romney. Well, who is to blame that those two losers lost? Did John McCain ever admit his own political incompetence? Did Mitt Romney ever accept responsibility for his role in re-electing Obama? No, of course not. John McCain (and his supporters, including Nicolle Wallace) made a scapegoat of Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney . . . well, he spent six years campaigning for the GOP nomination (counting the two years he put into his failed bid for the 2008 nomination) and you might have thought that somewhere during that time he might have gotten a clue. But no, he was clueless the whole time and — hang on, I’ll check — yeah, he’s still clueless.

What is it that these #NeverTrump losers don’t understand? Well, OK, everything — they’re completely without a clue. But what they specifically don’t understand is that Bushism is over. It’s finished. It failed. It’s “pining for the fjords,” so to speak. The so-called “center-right” strategy of Bush-era Republicanism (i.e., be nice and try not to offend liberals) never actually worked. Recall that Al Gore won a majority of the popular vote in 2000, and that Bush just barely edged John Kerry in 2004. The illusion of “success” for the center-right strategy is what inspires the tantrums of the #NeverTrump crowd, who want to go back to what they see as the Golden Era of Republican prestige, when we had half-a-million troops in Iraq and middle-class suburbanites were all re-financing their homes and investing with Lehman Brothers. What Trump did in 2016 was to throw away the Karl Rove playbook and go after the votes of people who were sick and tired of “nice” Republicans.

And, oh, by the way, how many kids does your typical Republican have? Because somewhere along the line, it seems that America developed a shortage of children, and this in turn led to the idea that we should just import foreigners as substitutes for children Americans weren’t having. Did John McCain or Mitt Romney — or Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush — ever say anything about demographics?

In the summer of 2018, journalist Vivian Yee amused herself with the thought that Orange Country, California, was once an agricultural, “conservative (think Richard Nixon and the John Birch Society) and white (very, very white),” slice of America. But “Chinese and Korean immigrants, and Asian-Americans from other states,” she wrote on the eve of the midterm election, “have made Irvine nearly half Asian.”
Asians, Yee noted, are reliably liberal on gun control, climate change, and public spending. . . .
With the midterms at the time of Yee’s writing just over the colorful California horizon, Yee, along with the Democratic Party and left-wing intelligentsia, saw the writing on the wall. Five months later, analysis of the midterm vote by the Pew Research Center showed that 77 percent of Asians went for the Democratic candidate on the ballot, compared to 69 percent of Latinos and 90 percent of blacks. By November 17, all of Orange County had been delivered to the Democratic Party. . . .
“One way Democrats could capture states like Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan,” said MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, “boils down to mobilizing hundreds of thousands of ‘new American citizens.’” Data from the progressive group New American Leaders show that in these key states, “new citizens” outnumber voters who, as Velshi said, “separated Trump from Clinton in 2016 by a lot.”
An analysis of Census Bureau statistics for the 2018 midterm elections by Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor at The Atlantic, found that “Democrats now control more than 80 percent of the House seats in which minorities exceed their national share of the population, and nearly 90 percent of the seats with more immigrants than average.”
In other words, every congressional district across the country where the foreign-born population exceeds approximately 14 percent had a 90 percent chance of being dominated by Democrats. Note that in 1990, Virginia’s foreign-born population was 5 percent, compared to 12.5 percent in 2017.
Trump lost Virginia in 2016 by 5 points but won white voters 59-35. On the other hand, he won Georgia by just 5 points, even though he took white voters 75-21. It is not, therefore, “college-educated white liberals”—another favorite conservative scapegoat—who are the mainspring of the Democratic Party’s march. Pew Research data show 6-in-10 minority Americans are Millennials, Generation Z, or younger. The most common age for minorities is 27, according to Pew, compared to 58 for whites. Analysis of 2018 Census data by the Brookings Institution found that less than half of children under 15 are white. . . .

Read the rest of that by Pedro Gonzalez and think about those numbers. Isn’t it obvious that any future for the Republican Party depends on (a) maximizing its share of the white vote, and (b) doing something to reduce the tsunami of immigration by which Democrats are importing new voters? Also, you could add (c) figuring out why white people don’t want to have children. Everybody talks about economic factors, but when my wife and I had our first baby, we didn’t have two nickels to rub together, and now with six kids and four (soon to be five) grandchildren, our financial situation is still quite shaky. My father once said to me, “Son, if you wait to have children until you can afford to have children, you’ll never have children.” I’ve long since gotten used to the idea that parenthood causes poverty, or vice-versa, and so what?

Would you rather have money or grandchildren? This is not a rhetorical question, because the selfishness and immaturity of the Millennial generation has driven U.S. birth rates to a historic low. As a result, a lot of Baby Boomers (now ages 55-73) are starting to lose hope of ever becoming grandparents. Their kids are in their 30s, unmarried and childless, and apparently in no hurry to change that status. This problem is not about money — poor people keep having lots of babies — it’s about a selfish status-obsessed attitude typical of the spoiled offspring of the suburban middle class. And hey, whose fault is that?

You have no idea how often, at CPAC and other gatherings of young conservatives in Washington, I’d meet young couples and ask them, “When’s the wedding?” Republicans are supposed to be the party of “family values,” but there’s a lot of fornication going on among young GOP operatives who, like others in their generation, prefer screwing around to settling down. Given what we know about the fertility of human females (which begins declining at age 25, and slides sharply after 35), the woman who does not become a mother before she’s 30 is highly likely never to have children. And you might think that conservatives who claim to be “pro-life” and “pro-family” would actually be doing something in their own lives to uphold the values they claim. Instead, they’re in the bars on Capitol Hill every night, partying like there’s no tomorrow. The future leaders of the Republican Party, and young “conservative” journalists, are living no differently than young Democrats and liberal journalists, and when some old codger like me points to the demographic trend, the reaction of these young Republican hedonists is to shrug: “Who, me?” They don’t have any sense of personal responsibility, and cannot make the mental connection between (a) the dire demographic forecasts, and (b) their own dissolute lifestyle.

Six years ago, Sen. Lamar Alexander’s chief of staff was arrested for child pornography. Ryan Loskarn was into “sexually explicit” videos of little boys. Loskarn committed suicide at age 35. That’s an extreme example of the degeneracy among Republicans in D.C., but less extreme cases are a dime a dozen. The extent to which the GOP machinery is staffed with drunks and perverts is not trivial. And, to return to my theme, this problem is related to the sociopathic tendency of some Republicans to scapegoat others for their own failures. There are a lot of people earning six-figure incomes as Republican operatives who are fundamentally incompetent, and who resort to blame-game rationalizations to explain away their failures. Bullies and backstabbers proliferate in the toxic environment of GOP politics, where consultants care more about getting paid than they do about winning elections. And like Ted Bundy, a lot of these monsters are superficially charming people.

Don’t let these “nice” Republicans fool you — they’re in politics for the money, and they’ll do whatever it takes to get that money. Donald Trump’s success has shaken up the game to such an extent as to deprive some of those operatives of lucrative financial opportunities, so when #NeverTrump types claim their “principles” are at stake, they mean the “principle” that involves them getting lots of money.

Nicolle Wallace has a nice contract at MSNBC, eh?

The people who ran the Republican Party into the toilet — the people who were part of the Bush/McCain/Romney money train — don’t want to accept responsibility for their failure, and so they blame the 63 million Americans who voted for Trump. You are the problem, not them. You’re a stupid ignorant racist, and they’re better than you.

Well, I wouldn’t accept a ride from them, if you get my drift.



 

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