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Guy Gets Laid, Feminists Get Angry

Posted on | September 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Feminists are enraged because the popular Instagram account “Humans of New York” did a profile of a pickup artist:

“I was like an ‘incel’ kid. I’d never had a girlfriend. I’d only had sex with prostitutes. I was very suicidal. Then one day I was standing next to a cute girl at a bus stop, and I googled: ‘How to approach women.’ That’s when I came across a forum for pick-up artists. It’s exactly what I’d been looking for. It seemed like a cure for my autism. I watched all the videos I could find. I started working out at a gym. I’d spend all day approaching women. Soon I was only hanging out with other pick-up artists. They respected me. They wanted to learn from me. Finally there was something I was good at. Right now I have over one thousand numbers in my phone. It’s a bit like gambling. Sometimes it goes well. Sometimes it doesn’t. But you always have the chance for sex. There are so many tricks to learn. Women have emotional brains. They get addicted to feelings. You can use that to your advantage. The first time you meet her — tell her she looks amazing. But never give her a full compliment again. She’ll always chase that validation. It’s like a drug. Tell her ‘she looks beautiful for her age.’ Tell her ‘she looks good in this lighting.’ Keep her insecure with half compliments. Keep her feeling like there’s something wrong with her. Like she’s not good enough for you. Like she needs sex for validation. Of course it’s manipulation, but why should I care? I’ve been manipulated so many times in my life.”

Now, I do not endorse deliberate emotional manipulation and, as a Christian, I must condemn fornication as a a sin. But the feminist reaction . . . They’re totally losing it.

Kate Gardner at the feminist blog The Mary Sue:

An unknown man’s story was shared in which he talked about being a pick-up artist and the way he manipulates women into sleeping with him. A self-described incel, the man seems like a giant warning sign, a walking red flag if you will.
No one should be saying that they need to manipulate a woman into sleeping with them by denying them validation, and yet here we are. Being manipulated doesn’t give you a free pass to manipulate others. Just because this guy had never had a girlfriend doesn’t mean that he should have the chance to try and con women into sleeping with him because he likes to feel in control.
The idea of women having more emotional brains is also textbook sexism. Women are not inherently more emotional than men. That would be years of the patriarchy telling us that women are hysterical for voicing opinions and having feelings, not scientific fact. All people like validation, not just women. . . .
This is disgusting, of course, but it’s also frightening because of how many men probably think like this. We live in a culture where women are afraid to turn down men because they’re worried they might be beaten up or killed. We live in a world where domestic abusers will go on shooting sprees. This isn’t something to be posted about casually, as it is a symptom of a larger cultural problem surrounding masculinity in our world.

Why this rage? Because a guy is getting laid regularly.

Feminists believe that women should have 100% control of sexual activity, that they should be arbiters of who does and doesn’t get laid. And this pickup artist guy — an erstwhile “incel,” who could never get a girlfriend as a teenager — threatens their hegemony. All he did was start working out at the gym and learn a few simple tricks for approaching women, and now he’s swimming in an ocean of poontang, with a thousand women’s numbers in his phone. It’s so . . . unfair.

Let’s ask: What does Marjorie Ingall mean when she says pickup artists are “preying on women”? She means . . . they’re getting laid. We may assume that Ms. Ingall has no moral basis for condemning sex outside marriage; she does not condemn fornication, per se, and she would never express moral judgment of female promiscuity. But if a guy finds a way to increase his chances of scoring? He’s a predator, according to Ms. Ingall.

Likewise, why does Kate Gardner protest so vehemently against the pickup artist’s claim? “Women have emotional brains. They get addicted to feelings. You can use that to your advantage.” This is rather a crude summary of what Rollo Tomassi calls “intersexual dynamics,” but if it’s not true, why does this belief help an ex-“incel” get laid? The proof is in the pudding: What works in practice must be based on sound theory.

The key to pickup technique, really, is not to be intimidated by women. Get over your idealistic reverence and realize that women are human. The most beautiful woman in the world has weaknesses, doubts and insecurities, and why should a guy be afraid to approach her? Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and you’re playing the odds — “a bit like gambling,” as he says — so you have to learn to take rejection in stride.

Feminists wouldn’t be angry about pickup technique if it didn’t work. What their rage against the Humans of New York profile reveals is what should have been obvious: Feminists don’t want men to be happy and, because getting laid makes men happy, they’re against men getting laid.

If feminists really believed their own rhetoric about “equality,” they would admit that it takes two to tango — pickup artists couldn’t succeed if women weren’t screwing around promiscuously. C’mon, what kind of woman gives her phone number to a complete stranger? Yet there are enough women like that in the world (and especially in a big city like New York) that a shrewd player can collect hundreds of numbers, and keep four or five women in his regular rotation of partners. Each of his girlfriends (who don’t know about each other) may think of themselves as being “in a relationship” with him, and it’s not in his interest to disrupt their illusions. If she tires of his frequent unavailability and unwillingness to make a long-term commitment, she can end it, but he’s always got other candidates willing to fill any vacancy in his rotation.

The only way a girl can “win” that kind of game is not to play at all.

That’s what feminists don’t want to admit — men and women are not “equal,” especially when it comes to sex. Feminists have promoted the false belief that women can (and should) engage in a casual hookups without suffering emotional damage in the process. But women are by nature predisposed to prefer long-term monogamous commitment, a preference that is rational, because it serves women’s best interests. In a society where female promiscuity is celebrated, however, men are understandably reluctant to make long-term commitments. This creates a permanent conflict in which male-female relationships are afflicted by suspicion and hostility, approaching the Hobbesian nightmare of “the war of all against all” (Bellum omnium contra omnes).

There is no secular solution to this problem, which has arisen as a consequence of the decline of religious morality. We should not be surprised that, in a godless culture, men become hedonists, utterly selfish in their pursuit of pleasure. Feminists have no answer to this problem, because feminism is such a significant cause of the problem.

They have turned men and women into monsters, and like Doctor Frankenstein, they are horrified by the monsters they have created.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Crazee Horse

Posted on | September 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Fascism or Feminism? Amanda Marcotte Says We Have Only Two Choices, So …
First Street Journal
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Baby, Hold On To Me
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
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Poulos, You Magnificent Bastard!
Dark Brightness
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Who Is Raping Whom?
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Paulina Porizkova
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

What Is the Kavanaugh Smear About?
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Somali Gangs Target Whites in Beatings, Robberies in Ilhan Omar’s District
Animal Magnetism
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2020: White Votes Matter
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Lesbian Sues Sperm Bank After Learning Why Both Her Kids Are Autistic
Bacon Time
Orphans Of Liberty
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.16.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.17.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
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No, Your AR-15 Is Not the Problem
EBL

Horror in Ohio: Pedophiles Raped Little Boys in ‘Satanic’ Videos, Police Say
EBL

Empowering Women
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 09.18.19

A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In Which @LaurenDuca Gets Cancelled
EBL

Netanyahu Wins Re-Election UPDATE: Hey, Wait, That Was Completely Wrong!
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NBC Shocked by New Scandal!
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Hillary Clinton Blames Her Defeat on ‘Voter Suppression’ Conspiracy Theory
Pushing Rubber Downhill
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The ‘Whistleblower’ Is the Deep State Interfering in Trump’s Ukraine Policy
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In The Mailbox: 09.20.19 (Afternoon Edition)
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.20.19 (Late Night Edition)
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Category: FMJRA Award

Please Hit Kirby’s Tip Jar

Posted on | September 21, 2019 | Comments Off on Please Hit Kirby’s Tip Jar

My older brother Kirby’s coverage under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has expired and he is now officially unemployed. If you don’t know the backstory, Kirby is a 62-year-old Army veteran who works as commercial truck driver. He must undergo annual health checkups and, given his history of cardiovascular issues, this resulted in him getting caught in a bind where he was entirely willing to go back work, but the doctors would not authorize him to do so. He still had a job at that point, but could not work. This started the clock ticking under the FMLA and so now he’s unemployed, which means he no longer has health insurance. Earlier this week, I sent him some money via PayPal, but his expenses will be far more than I can afford to give, so I’m putting out the all-call. Whatever you can give Kirby — $5, $10, $20 — would be appreciated. He’s got a GoFundMe account, if you’d rather contribute that way.

 

Category: Family

Welcome to ‘Bizarre Hell-World’

Posted on | September 21, 2019 | Comments Off on Welcome to ‘Bizarre Hell-World’

Headline by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit:

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY

You know, I’ve never forgiven Sully for his anti-Palin obsession, which reeked of gay misogyny and Harvard-educated anti-populist resentment, and the reason I’ve never forgiven him is because he’s never asked for forgiveness. Sully has never attempted to explain why he incited the “Trig Truther” mobs with their obstetric speculations. Even if he were offering such an explanation as a defense of his actions, trying to justify and rationalize his hateful unprofessionalism, I might be inclined to consider his explanation seriously, but he’s never done it. The controversy is now more than a decade old, and Sullivan has simply walked away from it as if nothing happened, apparently expecting everyone to forget it.

Back in the day — during G.W. Bush’s first term — Sully was considered an ally by most conservatives, and why he went berserk in 2008 is something he has never really explained. He attached himself to the very worst elements of the online “progressive” mob and lost all sense of perspective, a remarkable career meltdown for a man who once was editor of The New Republic back in the day when TNR was important. Sully seems to have regained his equilibrium, but his Trig Truther past cannot be forgotten by those of us old enough to remember it.

At any rate, what causes Driscoll to describe Sully as a “voice of sanity” is a column (quoted by John Sexton at Hot Air) in which Sully bemoans the weird identity politics curriculum in New York City schools:

Children, in other words, are being taught to think constantly about race, and to feel guilty if they are the wrong one. And, of course, if they resist, that merely proves the point. A boy who doesn’t think he is personally responsible for racism is merely reflecting “white fragility” which is a function of “white supremacy.” QED. No one seems to have thought through the implications of telling white boys that their core identity is their “whiteness,” or worried that indoctrinating kids into white identity might lead quite a few to, yes, become “white identitarians” of the far right. . . .
One of the key aspects about social-justice theory is that it’s completely unfalsifiable (as well as unreadable); it’s a closed circle that refers only to itself and its own categories. . . . The forces involved — “white supremacy,” “patriarchy,” “heterosexism” — are all invisible to the naked eye, like the Holy Spirit. Their philosophical origins — an attempt by structuralist French philosophers to rescue what was left of Marxism in the 1960s and 1970s — are generally obscured in any practical context. Like religion, you cannot prove any of its doctrines empirically, but children are being forced into believing them anyway.

Wow, that’s so dead on-target it’s like a GPS-guided missile. First, the white guilt-trip approach to teaching about race is a spectacularly bad idea, and its consequences will likely be catastrophic. Parents who think they can trust the public education system are fools. Second, yes, current “progressive” ideology originated with French philosophers (e.g., Michel Foucault) attempting to create a unifying belief system for the Left in a world where the bankruptcy of Marxism had become blindingly apparent.

I’ve written about Judith Butler as an important force in mainstreaming this postmodernist gibberish among “Third Wave” feminists. If you take the time to examine Butler’s key sources — Foucault, Monique Wittig, Gayle Rubin, et al. — you recognize that she was relying on ideas from the extremist fringe of academic intellectuals. Foucault was a madman, obsessed with interpreting everything in terms of power, and the fact that he did so with the skillful articulation of a philosophy professor does not make his madness less self-evident. When you then add that Foucault signed a petition advocating that France abolish the age of consent, you have reason to suspect his motives quite generally.

Let me add something: The age of consent in France is 15.

It is one thing, obviously, to criticize a witch-hunt climate such as prevailed in the 1980s (e.g., McMartin Preschool), where hysterical fears inspire false accusations and unjust prosecution. It is another thing entirely to argue, as Foucault did at some length in 1978, that it is wrong to expect adults to refrain from having sex with 14-year-olds.

While delivering a quick jab at French philosophers as the actual authors of 21st-century identity politics, Sullivan recommends Douglas Murray’s new book, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, and the summary indicates this to be a worthwhile read:

In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century’s most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics and intersectionality.
We are living through a postmodern era in which the grand narratives of religion and political ideology have collapsed. In their place have emerged a crusading desire to right perceived wrongs and a weaponization of identity, both accelerated by the new forms of social and news media. Narrow sets of interests now dominate the agenda as society becomes more and more tribal–and, as Murray shows, the casualties are mounting.
Readers of all political persuasions cannot afford to ignore Murray’s masterfully argued and fiercely provocative book, in which he seeks to inject some sense into the discussion around this generation’s most complicated issues. He ends with an impassioned call for free speech, shared common values and sanity in an age of mass hysteria.

Click here to buy it from Amazon.



 

Category: Andrew Sullivan, Education, Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: 09.20.19 (Late Night Edition)

Posted on | September 21, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Vegetarian Dinner Party
EBL: Reviews – Ad Astra and Rambo – Last Blood
Twitchy: This Chris Hayes Tweet On Joe Biden & Ukraine Is The Funniest Thing We’ve Ever Read
Louder With Crowder: Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Cow Farts To Control Your Diet, also, He Wants To Take Away Your Cars Too
According To Hoyt: Do It For The Humans
Monster Hunter Nation: September Update Post
Vox Popoli: A Publisher, Not A Platform, also, Conservatives Never Learn

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Shamelessness & Ignorance Unlimited
American Power: Climate Strike
American Thinker: Red Flag Laws – Too Good To Be True
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Campaign Speech Friday
Babalu Blog: Castro Dictatorship In Communist Cuba Goes “Back To The Future” To Deal With Economic Crisis
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 20
Cafe Hayek: Identifying What Is Really Arbitrary
CDR Salamander: The Quandary of Aircraft Age vs. Mission Capability Rate, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: “I’m The MSM I Am, I’m Going To Get Trump, Yes I Am”
Don Surber: We Spy On Our President?
First Street Journal: Don’t Mealy-Mouth The Truth!
The Geller Report: Alabama Muslim Arrested In Terrorism Probe, also, Facebook Created Over 100 Pro-ISIS Pages While Censoring Conservatives
Hogewash: Math Is Hard, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Ad Astra Is Brad Pitt At His Creative Peak
Joe For America: CA Governor Begs Trump For $$$ To Save Him From His Homeless Problem, also, CNN Reports Rural Minnesota Voters Walking Away From The Democrats
JustOneMinute: Taking Down Trump AND Biden!
Legal Insurrection: Hillary’s Voter Suppression Claims Earn “Pants On Fire” Politifact Rating, also, NYC Mayor DeBlasio Ends His Almost Nonexistent Presidential Campaign
The PanAm Post: Maduro Insults Alberto Fernandez, Gives Him Helping Hand In Campaign, also, Venezuelan Exodus Increases Cases Of Exploitation In Latin America
Power Line: Climate Confessions & Liberal Voodoo, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Dem Rep Ted Deutch Calls Trump A “Coward” For Not Addressing Gun Violence
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Equal Rights Amendment
This Ain’t Hell: “Alaska Bob” Glaves  – NOT A Vietnam Vet, also, VA Fraud – It’s A Family Affair
Victory Girls: Taylor Swift Goes Over-Woke
Volokh Conspiracy: Imagining A World Without Qualified Immunity, Part V, also, Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Union Theological Seminary Students Confess Climate Sins To Plants, also, Doomsdays That Didn’t Happen
Megan McArdle: GM & UAW Are Destroying Each Other Again
Mark Steyn: Elites In Robes

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 09.20.19 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 20, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.20.19 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Problems With Wind Turbines
EBL: Minnesota Nice – Did Ilhan Omar Get Her Husband Fired?
Twitchy: Candace Owens Calls Down The Thunder On White Liberals Trying To Explain Racism To Her
Louder With Crowder: CA Senate Tells Religious Leaders To Embrace LGBTQ, Dump Conversion Therapy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Extorting The West With The Climate Change Scam
American Greatness: Trump Administration Rejects California’s Plea For More $$$ To Combat Homelessness
American Thinker: Contesting The Progressive Takeover Of Vermont
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Assault Weapon News
Babalu Blog: Extrajudicial Killings Increasing In Poor Areas Of Venezuela
BattleSwarm: Leftwing Activists Rage At Heretical Democrat Senators
Camp of the Saints: On Abortion, Complicity In Moral Treason, & Repentance
Cafe Hayek: Life IS Good
CDR Salamander: Slacker Nation Takes The Helm
Da Tech Guy: Impossible Whopper Accidental Review, also, Academia’s To Blame For The Democrat Candidates’ Radicalism
Don Surber: Trump Kept His Promises
First Street Journal: The Bill Of Rights Was Written To Protect Us From Demagogues Like Beto O’Rourke
Fred On Everything: Immigration & Teething Pains
The Geller Report: DOJ IG Horowitz Refers James Comey For Criminal Prosecution, also, It’s Bibi Or Elections Again
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Dim Galaxy
Hollywood In Toto: Critics Claim Rambo: Last Blood Is Racist Call For Trump’s Wall
Joe For America: Hillary Donor Ed Buck Finally In Jail After Drug Deaths Of Two Black Men
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Back In Israel
Legal Insurrection: Buttigieg Hopes Story Of South Bend Abortionist Who Kept Over 2200 Murdered Babies Doesn’t Become Political, also,  Student Climate Change Activist Wants To Know Why He Has To Study If The World Is Ending
The PanAm Post: Lopez Obrador’s Government Is A Failure
Power Line: Stand By Your Sham – Ilhan Omar’s Squeeze Play, also, What’s The Environmental Crisis?
Shark Tank: Ted Deutch & The Congressional Dog Days Of Summer
Shot In The Dark: The Minneapolis Way
The Political Hat: South Africa – Cops As Criminals, Turn Out The Light, & Buddy, Can You Spare A Rand?
This Ain’t Hell: Sub Officer With Drug Dealing Side Hustle Busted, also, Marine Uses Fake Facebook Profile To Catch Cheating GF
Victory Girls: Yang’s Climate Change Solution? Ban Cars & Cows
Volokh Conspiracy: The First Amendment & Tax Exemptions For “Hate” Groups
Weasel Zippers: Fartacus Promises To Reverse Tax Cuts, Give 150 Million Americans A Tax Hike, also, DHS Head Reports Illegal Crossings In Area Of New Wall Cut 90%
Mark Steyn: A Round Of Wokejitos

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Category: Linkagery

The ‘Whistleblower’ Is the Deep State Interfering in Trump’s Ukraine Policy

Posted on | September 20, 2019 | Comments Off on The ‘Whistleblower’ Is the Deep State Interfering in Trump’s Ukraine Policy

 

When the Washington Post started reporting about a “whistleblower” complaint about President Trump’s conversation with an unspecified “foreign leader,” speculation ran wild as to what it meant. But as Allahpundit at Hot Air figured out, it’s about Trump’s effort to get Ukraine to investigate corruption involving Joe Biden’s son. As part of that effort, apparently, Trump played hardball, conveying that U.S. military aid to Ukraine would be dependent on their cooperation.

And the correct response is, “So?” Is it the position of Democrats and their media allies that the apparently corrupt dealings of Joe Biden’s son in Ukraine should not be investigated? And as has been noted, Russia wasn’t the only foreign government “meddling” in the 2016 election — Ukraine did it, too. So if the Biden-Ukraine scandal is connected to that “meddling,” isn’t it logical that Trump would want Ukraine to investigate it? He’s the President of the United States, after all, and this investigation involves American interests, which he is sworn to protect.

This is not a scandal:

Both The Washington Post and The New York Times report that an intelligence official who worked in the White House filed the complaint Aug. 12 after growing alarmed about the details of a phone call that President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Trump and Zelensky, who took office in May, spoke by phone July 25. The Ukrainian government released a read-out of the phone call that said the two leaders spoke about corruption investigations “that have hampered interaction between Ukraine and the USA.” . . .
Details of the complaint have spilled into public view following a tense battle between House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence.
Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG), sent Schiff letters this month making it clear that he disagreed with Maguire’s decision not to turn the whistleblower complaint over to Congress. Atkinson said he found the complaint credible and “urgent,” a threshold that requires the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to sent an intelligence community whistleblower complaint to Congress.
But Maguire, with guidance from the Justice Department, declined to turn over the complaint, saying it involved privileged communications.

Rudy Giuliani has admitted that he acted as Trump’s representative in discussions with Ukrainian officials. Again, the question is, “So?”

Only in the minds of Democrats, for whom everything Trump does is scandalous, is this considered a scandal. And it is apparent that this “whistleblower” is a Democrat operative embedded in our intelligence bureaucracy, a perfect example of the “Deep State” problem that Trump’s supporters have been talking about for three years. The bureaucrats seem to believe that they should have more influence on U.S. policy than the President himself, if the President doesn’t share their worldview.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Question: Will this boomerang back on Trump-haters? Will their latest “get Trump” trick instead result in increased scrutiny of Biden’s corrupt Ukraine dealings? Because I suspect it will.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Ukraine

Hillary Clinton Blames Her Defeat on ‘Voter Suppression’ Conspiracy Theory

Posted on | September 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

The belief that Republicans engage in “voter suppression” has been widespread among Democrats since 2000, because of the contested Florida result in the Bush-Gore election. It resurfaced in 2004, when John Kerry lost to Bush, but then rather mysteriously disappeared in 2006, when Democrats won control of Congress, and did not return for another decade, during which Barack Obama was elected president twice. It is only when Democrats lose elections that the “voter suppression” conspiracy theory emerges from the fever swamps of the Left.

Last year, Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia gubernatorial election by more than 50,000 votes and yet contends, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, that she was the victim of “voter suppression.”

See, those Georgia Republicans are white and Abrams is black and therefore “voter suppression” is RAAAAACIST! And the people who give money to Democrats believe this because you must be intensely stupid to give money to Democrats. Anyone who believed Stacey Abrams could win Georgia was a special kind of stupid, and speaking of which, let’s talk about Hillary and Wisconsin:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that voter suppression aimed at keeping women and people of color from the polls has brought the U.S. to a “crisis in democracy.”
Speaking at George Washington University, Clinton accused Republicans of rolling back voter protections and employing tactics aimed at keeping racial minorities from the polls. . . .
“We are witnessing a deliberate and ongoing effort to undermine the integrity of our elections and silence millions of Americans … particularly women, the elderly and people of color,” Clinton said.
“It’s no accident,” she continued. “It’s in service to their larger goals of obtaining and keeping power.”
Clinton said that in 2016, 200,000 people in Wisconsin were turned away from the polls.
Clinton has often faced criticism for not visiting Wisconsin during the 2016 campaign.
President Trump narrowly won the state, becoming the first Republican candidate in decades to carry The Badger State.
“Officials [in Wisconsin] made every excuse in the books to prevent people from voting,” Clinton said.
“You can run the best campaign and have the best plans and get the nomination and win the popular vote and you can lose the Electoral College and therefore the election,” she added.

This is at least the third time Clinton has claimed voters were “turned away from the polls” in Wisconsin in 2016, a claim that is demonstrably false — PolitiFact rated it a “pants on fire” lie — and yet she keeps repeating it because this rationalization is necessary to maintain the fraudulent scam of Democrats getting money from stupid people.

Ace has a great story about Jake Tapper, relevant to this topic.



 

Category: Hillary Clinton
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