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IG Report Confirms Comey’s ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Against Trump

Posted on | August 29, 2019 | Comments Off on IG Report Confirms Comey’s ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Against Trump

Everybody was jumping up and down about this today, while I was working on something else. Aaron Klein at Breitbart reports:

A report released on Thursday by the Justice Department’s inspector general provides new context to disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s infamous classified briefing to then President-elect Donald Trump about “salacious” material inside the anti-Trump dossier.
The IG report relates that prior to the briefing, FBI members on Comey’s team discussed the need to memorialize the exchanges between Comey and Trump during the private January 6, 2017 briefing in Trump Tower just in case Trump made statements relevant to the agency’s Russia probe. In other words, they plotted to stealthily use statements Trump said to Comey in a private briefing to inform their Russia collusion investigation.
The IG further relates that Comey went on to do just that. He had a laptop waiting for him in the car, where he immediately began memorializing the private talk. He also immediately provided a “quick download” of the Trump briefing to members of the FBI’s Russia collusion team via a secured video conference.
Until now, Comey and other former Obama administration officials presented the unusual briefing as a courtesy to Trump to warn him about the news media possibly publically releasing embarrassing claims about the newly elected president.  Questions have been raised on the need to include the dossier’s wild and unsubstantiated charges in the classified briefings. It is not the usual job of the intelligence community to warn politicians about possible pending negative publicity.
The IG report, based on interviews with Comey and other FBI “witnesses”, documents that prior to Comey’s briefing the FBI discussed utilizing Comey’s classified private talk with Trump to inform the controversial Russia collusion probe.

In other words, Comey treated the President-elect as a criminal suspect. And some people act like it was an outrage that Trump fired him?



 

Category: MuellerGate

Do You #BelieveWomen?

Posted on | August 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Do You #BelieveWomen?

If you consider yourself to be a feminist, why? Whatever explanation you offer, I would hope you’d reconsider. Whatever the situation might have been in 1968 when the Women’s Liberation Movement (as it was then called) emerged from the ranks of the New Left, the balance of power between men and women now is definitely not systemic oppression of women. We’re not living in a “patriarchy” when 40% of children are born to unmarried women, and a majority of university students are female. Certainly my daughters have greater career opportunities than did my grandmother, yet the claims of universal victimhood and collective oppression are now heard more loudly than ever. How to explain this? Feminism is a totalitarian movement to destroy civilizations as we know it, and the more power a totalitarian movement gets, the more power they crave. There is no logical stopping point for the demands of a totalitarian. You give Hitler the Sudetenland, and next he’ll annex the rest of Czechoslovakia and invade Poland. So the more our society seeks to appease feminists, they angrier feminists become, and the more insane the demands they make. Feminism is an anti-male hate movement, and no man is safe from its destructive power. However, the men most vulnerable to this destruction are those who consider themselves “enlightened” and “sensitive,” and who naïvely believe that their support for “equality” will prevent them from becoming targets of feminist wrath.

Consider the case of Jonathan Kaiman, a young journalist who was Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, and was elected in 2017 as president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC). And then #MeToo happened. In January 2018, a girl he’d hooked up with one night in 2013 wrote a blog post in which she described their encounter as, well, not entirely consensual on her part:

After an evening out drinking and flirting, [Laura] Tucker drove Kaiman on her scooter back to her apartment. There, she wrote, they mutually and consensually undressed and got into bed. . . .
Tucker wrote that while making out in bed with Kaiman, she had a change of heart, so she stood up and said she didn’t want to continue. . . .

You can read the rest. Evidently, Kaiman persuaded her to resume their encounter, but she says it made her feel “gross” and, once Tucker did her #MeToo hit-piece on Kaiman, another woman came forward to say that she, too, had a less-than-entirely-consensual encounter with him. The result was the destruction of Kaiman’s once-promising career.

Feminists insist there should be only one side of these stories. If a woman says a man sexually assaulted her, we must #BelieveWomen and forget everything we know about human nature. If a woman goes out drinking with a guy, then she takes him back to her apartment, what do we presume the intended outcome to be? A case like this could never be prosecuted as rape in a court of law, but thanks to #MeToo and its #BelieveWomen principle, any man who has ever had sex with a woman is a potential target for destruction. All your ex-girlfriend has to do is write a Facebook post claiming that you somehow victimized her and — BOOM! — your reputation is permanently destroyed.

It doesn’t matter what actually happened between Kaiman and Tucker. The point is we don’t know — we can never know — what actually happened in this kind of he-said/she-said situation. There’s no evidence, no DNA, no video, etc., by which we might determine who is telling the truth, and therefore it was wrong for Laura Tucker to go public with her complaint about how her hookup with Kaiman made her feel “gross.”

Try to imagine being a young man in such a climate, where feminism has become a system fully weaponized to prevent men from having sex — or destroying them if they somehow evade this prohibition. It’s truly frightening, and Adam Piggott comments:

Men need to change their behavior. This is the only acceptable solution because it keeps the power in our own hands. If you’re just going to sit around and hope that women collectively wake up then you’ve never witnessed a woman on a power trip, and this is very much bigger than that. . . .
No, we have to change our behavior and here’s what we have to do:
No hooking up. . . .
If women are determined to make meaningless sexual encounters radioactive then men have to position themselves accordingly. . . .

Read the whole thing. It’s gotten scary out there for young guys. My two youngest sons are college students, and I hope they’ll be careful.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

The Smear Machine Fails (Again)

Posted on | August 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Will they never learn from their mistakes?

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell lives a secret double life performing as a drag queen in New Jersey gay bars, a source tells me. While there have long been rumors that O’Donnell enjoys dressing up in women’s clothing, evidence of his transvestite fetish has been difficult to obtain. Yet my source assures me that such evidence exists, and as for gossip about O’Donnell’s addiction to the rare narcotic Ibogaine … Well, has O’Donnell ever denied it?
You could justify reporting almost anything by the nonexistent “journalism ethics” of Lawrence O’Donnell. On live TV Tuesday night, the MSNBC host told his audience that Donald Trump had obtained loans from Deutsche Bank co-signed by “Russian billionaires with ties to Vladimir Putin.” The basis for this claim, according to O’Donnell, was “a single source close to Deutsche Bank.” O’Donnell then added an interesting caveat: “If true … ”
Yes, of course. It would be a big scoop, if true. And my exclusive reporting that O’Donnell spends his Saturday nights in drag cabaret shows, wearing high heels and fishnet stockings while twerking to Lady Gaga songs? A major bombshell, if true. As it is, however, I hesitate to vouch for my source’s assertion that the MSNBC host is an Ibogaine-addicted transvestite. . . .

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



 

Category: MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 08.28.19

Posted on | August 28, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #726
EBL: Dave Chappelle – Sticks & Stones
Twitchy: Beta’s Campaign Ejected Breitbart Reporter To Ensure Black Students Felt Safe
Louder With Crowder: April Ryan Says Trump Wanting To Nuke Hurricanes Is Racist

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #119 – The “Personal Transformation” Episode
American Greatness: Big Tech Censors Strike Again
American Power: Michelle Malkin – Open Borders, Inc. (Already #1 on Amazon!)
American Thinker: Red China & The 2020 Election
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Three Major Cruise Lines Hit With Fines For Trafficking In Stolen Cuban Property
BattleSwarm: Dave Chappelle vs. Social Justice Warriors
CDR Salamander: NNN – A New Acronym The Navy Does Not Need
Da Tech Guy: Three Reasons Why The Left Might Be Better Off With A Trump SCOTUS Appointment Now Vs. Later
Don Surber: Why Their Recession Won’t Stop Trump
Dustbury: Tru To You
The Geller Report: NAACP President Tells Reporter “I Don’t Talk To F*cking Jews”, also, Iraqi Migrant Security Guard Jailed For Raping Little Girl
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much About History
Hollywood In Toto: Sebastian Maniscalsco Triggers VMAs, Woke Journalists
Joe For America: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Says America Is Ready For Reparations Because Of Trump’s Attitude
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Gillibrand Ends Her Pathetic Candidacy, also, Brexit Shock – Boris Johnson Moves To Prorogue Parliament
Michelle Malkin: Get Off The Sidelines – #StandWithICE
The PanAm Post: New Measures To Reduce Influx of Venezuelan Refugees, also, Venezuela – A Ticking Time Bomb For Latin America
Power Line: No U.S. Warming Since 2005, also, Paul Sperry – The Waiting Game
Shark Tank: Andrew Pollack Bashes New Partisan Gun-Grabbing Peace Plan
Shot In The Dark: How To Win “Prog” Friends And Influence Virtue-Signaling People
STUMP: Are Public Pensions In A Crisis? Bonds & Bailouts
This Ain’t Hell: Judge Orders Convicted Valor Thieves To Write Out Names Of 6,756 Killed In Iraq & Afghanistan, also, AF MSGT Allowed To Stay In After Investigation Into White Nationalist Ties
Victory Girls: Queen Elizabeth Greenlights Brexit, also, Ilhan Omar – Divorce, Distractions & Denials
Volokh Conspiracy: No Qualified Immunity For Kim Davis
Weasel Zippers: Sanders Praises Socialism In Red China, also, WaPo Newsroom Infested With Cockroaches
Mark Steyn: Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead, also, Proroguish Charmer

Michelle Malkin’s Open Borders Inc.
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Category: Linkagery

The Final Frontier: Lesbian Astronaut Becomes First Criminal in Space

Posted on | August 28, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Remind me of this when Women’s History Month arrives next year:

Decorated NASA astronaut Anne McClain is accused of stealing her estranged wife’s identity and improperly accessing her bank account while McClain was on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station — likely the first crime ever committed in space.
The wife, Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer who lives in Kansas, and McClain have been locked in an ugly divorce since 2018 that includes a nasty parenting dispute over Worden’s 6-year-old son, whom McClain was helping to raise before their split, the New York Times reported. Worden never consented to McClain adopting the boy, who was a year old when they met in 2014.
McClain was supposed to be part of NASA’s first all-female spacewalk in March before it was canceled for a lack of properly fitting spacesuits.
Though Worden filed for divorce in 2018, McClain continued to ask her highly detailed questions about her financial life, Worden claims. That led Worden to have her bank check into who had recently accessed her bank account, and the bank found access from a NASA computer network, according to reports.
“I was shocked and appalled at the audacity by her to think that she could get away with that, and I was very disheartened that I couldn’t keep anything private,” Worden told NBC News.
McClain, in an under-oath interview with NASA’s inspector general, said she accessed the bank account from space to make sure Worden had enough money to pay the bills as she always has, using a password she’s had for some time.
“She strenuously denies that she did anything improper,” said her lawyer, Rusty Hardin, who said the astronaut “is totally cooperating.”

The jokes just write themselves.

Beyond the obvious jokes, have you ever read Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff? In selecting America’s first astronauts, NASA administered all kinds of psychological tests, even though they were choosing from a pool of military pilots, officers who had to meet the highest standards of discipline merely to be wearing the uniform of their country. Having a stable marriage was a prerequisite, in that era of traditional family values, and at one point John Glenn had a showdown with some of his fellow astronauts who were engaged in extramarital affairs.

What would John Glenn say about this ridiculous Space Dyke drama? We are living in a decadent and corrupt age, and the fact that there is a former Air Force intelligence officer involved in this bizarre story ought to raise questions about policy at the Department of Defense.

Well, I’m sure podcast partner John Hoge will have something to say about this. He’s building space robots for NASA, you know.



 

Category: Crime, Gays

Feds Charge Transgender Activist With Raping 4-Year-Old on Video

Posted on | August 28, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

In a Facebook post last November, Jakob “Dakota” Nieves of Lawrence, Mass., urged a “yes” vote on a referendum to prohibit “discrimination on the basis of gender identity in places of public accommodation, including such sex-specific areas as restrooms and locker rooms.” On Aug. 14, Nieves was arrested on federal child pornography charges:

Jakob Nieves, who also goes by Dakota, 19, was charged with one count of sexual exploitation of children and one count of distribution of child pornography. Nieves appeared in federal court in Boston today and was ordered detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019.
According to the charging document, as part of an investigation into the use of Kik messenger for the trade of child pornography, a federal agent, acting in an undercover capacity, allegedly communicated with Nieves via Kik. In the course of those communications, Nieves sent the undercover agent images and videos that she produced that depict her sexually abusing a child.
It is alleged that when law enforcement executed a search warrant at Nieves’ home on Aug. 14, 2019, she admitted to distributing images and videos of child pornography to a user she “met” in a Kik group geared toward individuals interested in pedophilia.
The charge of sexual exploitation of children provides for a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years and no greater than 30 years in prison. The charge of distribution of child pornography provides for a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison. Each charge provides for a minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.

According to court documents, when agents searched Nieves’s phone, they found several “sexually explicit photographs and videos. One showed the child rubbing Nieves’ penis and one showed the child with Neives’ penis in her mouth.”

A judge denied bail for Nieves at his/“her” Aug. 20 court hearing.



 

Category: Crime, Massachusetts, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 08.27.19

Posted on | August 27, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.27.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago’s Recipe For More Crime
EBL: Beth Mynett – Ilhan Omar Stole My Man
Twitchy: If Occasional Cortex Thought Trump Would Help Her Make A Case Against The Electoral College, She’s Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Taylor Swift Calls Out White House For Not Answering Her Petition. She Didn’t Submit The Correct One.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Amazon Fires – Morons Gotta Moron
American Greatness: What Happened To The Epstein Story? also, Former Army Captain Describes How Obama’s SJW Policies Hurt Readiness
American Thinker: Hillary Is Lurking
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Random Notes News
Babalu Blog: Dozens Of U.S. Tourists To Cuba Infected With Zika Virus, Ignored by Communists & Media (BIRM)
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan Interviews Dan Crenshaw, also, The Twitter Primary For August 2019
Camp of the Saints: A Victim In Every Pot!
CDR Salamander: Nuclear Nations At Total War With Each Other, But Not Using Nukes?
Da Tech Guy: The Left’s Ginsburg Agument Is Fair, But Irrelevant
Don Surber: Media Now Claims Trump’s Tweets Cost $500 Billion
Dustbury: Another Statement Of Editorial Opinion
First Street Journal: The Unintentional (?) Message
The Geller Report: Europe Protects Free Speech – Except About Islam, also, Silicon Valley Is Building A Red Chinese-Style Social Credit System
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much About History
Hollywood In Toto: YouTube “Corrects” Conservative Comic On Global Warming, also, Is Chappelle’s Sticks & Stones The Woke Tipping Point?
Joe For America: Video Cams On Epstein Cell “Broken”, Number Of People Still Believing He Suicided Now Zero
Legal Insurrection: Fauxcahontas Swipes At Hillary, Claims She’ll Beat Trump On The Debate Stage, also, NYT Newsroom Infested With Bedbugs
The PanAm Post: Investigation Shows Financial Ties between Maduro Regime & Key Opposition Party
Power Line: The Great Amazon Fire Fraud, also, Fake News About The G7 Summit From The WaPo
Protein Wisdom: A Heartfelt Thank You Note
Shark Tank: Energy Choice Amendment Looks Like A Bad Deal For Floridians
Shot In The Dark: Make The World A Little Smarter
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Thank Goodness This Isn’t About Public Pensions In Crisis
This Ain’t Hell: News From Norkland, also, Judge Tosses Sexual Assault Case Against AF Sergeant
Victory Girls: Is Sarah Sanders Eyeing A 2022 Run For Arkansas Governor?
Volokh Conspiracy: The Houston Flood Takings Litigation Continues
Weasel Zippers: ISIS Fighter Killed By His Own Bomb Drone When Battery Ran Low, also, Fifth Illegal Alien Rapist Arrested In Montgomery County MD In The Last Month
Megan McArdle: Woke Capitalism Sells Out Conservatives. It Can Sell Out Their Opponents, Too
Mark Steyn: Steyn In For Rush On Wednesday! also, When Mr. Electable Isn’t

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Category: Linkagery

Democrats: No More Heterosexuals!

Posted on | August 27, 2019 | 4 Comments

 

Longtime readers may remember Dr. Marcie Bianco. Three years ago, the Harvard-educated lesbian professor inspired me to write this:

Two traits are necessary to become a successful feminist:

1.Hate;

and

2. Dishonesty.

So long as a woman (a) despises men and (b) is willing to tell shameless lies in support of feminism’s anti-male agenda, there are no limits to how far she may go, particularly in the field of journalism. . . .
Dr. Marcie Bianco is not merely an atheist lesbian feminist public intellectual, she is the atheist lesbian feminist public intellectual. Did I mention she’s a Democrat who supports Hillary Clinton?

Well, her #Lesbians4Hillary campaign didn’t quite work out, but Dr. Bianco recently gained further notoriety:

Women are increasingly opting out of heterosexuality because it is “the bedrock of their global oppression,” NBC News asserted in a bizarre opinion piece this week.
“Men need heterosexuality to maintain their societal dominance over women,” writes Marcie Bianco for the NBC News website. “Women, on the other hand, are increasingly realizing not only that they don’t need heterosexuality, but that it also is often the bedrock of their global oppression.”
Ms. Bianco lumps together a series of recent news stories, “from Jeffrey Epstein to the Dayton and El Paso mass shooters, to Miley Cyrus’s separation and Julianne Hough’s declaration that she’s ‘not straight,’” which, she says, “together have laid bare the strictures of an American patriarchy on the edge of a nervous breakdown.”

Anyone who has read my book Sex Trouble is familiar with such arguments, which require no rebuttal except to look around you. The feminist assertion of patriarchal oppression is a conspiracy theory as demented, in its own way, as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Any woman who is not consumed by fear and hatred of males can survey the circumstances of men and women she actually knows and conclude that, so far as conflict between them is concerned, “it takes two to tango.” Sure, some guys are brutal a–holes, but there are plenty of bad women in the world, too. Nor do I think that lesbians generally endorse the Patriarchal Oppression Theory of Heterosexuality advanced by feminists like Dr. Bianco. It’s like the difference between being working class and being a Marxist. The ordinary working guy may not necessarily be happy with his life, but he’s not likely to view himself as a member of the oppressed proletariat engaged in some kind of dialectic materialist world-historical class struggle. Trying to explain a phenomenon as diverse and complex as human sexual behavior according to a rigid ideological framework like feminist theory is a fool’s errand.

The man-hating feminist is like those “incel” guys who can’t get laid and complain that “all women are whores.” The fact that he has been a complete failure with the opposite sex becomes the basis of a generalized hatred of women. The alternative explanation — to admit that perhaps his own errors or inadequacy might have something to do with his misfortune — is intolerable to him, and so instead the “incel” reverses the causality: He is the “supreme gentleman,” a la Elliot Rodger, and it’s an injustice that beautiful women don’t appreciate his superior qualities, instead preferring to date the loathsome Chad.

Do we need to know anything about Marcie Bianco’s personal experiences with men to determine whether her feminism is a sour-grapes rationalization? No, because feminism is always ultimately such a rationalization. There are happy, successful women in the world who are manifestly not oppressed victims of patriarchy, and feminist ideology only appeals to angry and unhappy women as an excuse for their own misery. Sic semper hoc. But we cannot laugh away feminist lunacy as a joke, because there are a lot of people who take it seriously, and most of those people are Democrats. This is quite unfortunate for men in the Democratic Party who, just a few years ago, thought that feminists were their friends. Take, for example, Pennsylvania State Sen. Daylin Leach. He was a progressive hero to Pennsylvania Democrats until 2017 when he decided to run for Congress. Well, there were women in the state Democratic Party who coveted that seat and Daylin Leach is a man. Suddenly (but perhaps not coincidentally) Leach found himself accused of “inappropriate” conduct toward women. First one woman, then another, and another — it’s amazing how the accusers come out of the woodwork in such circumstances — all with tales to tell of creepy behavior by the would-be congressional candidate. Finally, a woman came forward to claim that in 1991, when she was 17 years old, she was raped by Daylin Leach. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from the primary, his reputation ruined by the #MeToo mob. Leach has insisted he is an innocent man, and Charles Glasser is willing to entertain the possibility that Leach got railroaded, but my point is this: Imagine if you were a young heterosexual man with political ambitions. Wouldn’t it seem to you that your future prospects as a Democrat are rather bleak? Does a heterosexual man have any future in the Democratic Party?

The feminist takeover of the Democratic Party is now so far advanced that it is almost certain they’ll nominate another woman for president in 2020 — and 2024, and 2028, ad infinitum — as the party’s complete surrender to identity politics is not without consequences:

If you want to know why Donald Trump is president, you might begin by examining the career of Marcie Bianco. An alumna of Harvard University (Class of 2002) with a Ph.D. from Rutgers, Dr. Bianco is an atheist, a feminist, a lesbian, and, of course, a Democrat. As president of the Harvard student Democrat organization in 2000, she worked for Al Gore’s doomed presidential campaign and, in 2016, she tweeted up a storm for Hillary Clinton, promoting the “Lesbians for Hillary” campaign for the activist group LPAC. Formerly an instructor at New York’s Hunter College and now affiliated with elite Stanford University, Dr. Bianco is a one-woman combination of almost everything that 62.9 million Americans voted against when they checked the box for Trump in 2016.
Perhaps concerned to maintain her status as the symbolic explanation for why Trump won, Dr. Bianco recently drew attention to herself by publishing (on the NBC News website, of course) a genuinely bizarre screed against heterosexuality. With the headline “Miley Cyrus’ split with Liam Hemsworth isn’t just celebrity gossip — it’s a blow to the patriarchy,” Dr. Bianco turned a recent bit of tabloid fodder into an argument that we are witnessing “an American patriarchy on the edge of a nervous breakdown” because “heterosexuality is just not working.” Somehow, a notoriously ditzy ex-Disney starlet’s lesbian liaison that prompted her husband to file for divorce isn’t a commentary on Hollywood degeneracy; instead, according to Dr. Bianco, it’s a heroic tale from the “vanguard of feminist thought,” with the former Hannah Montana actress “challenging heterosexuality” which is the “bedrock” of women’s “global oppression.” Conservative commentators reacted to Dr. Bianco’s argument in various ways. “THE LEFT IS INSANE,” declared Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, while the Media Research Center’s Matt Philbin mocked Dr. Bianco’s feminist analysis as second-hand Marxism: “You suffer from false consciousness, Comrade Lady Girl. You don’t realize how unhappy you are. Reeducation will open your eyes to the exploitation of the capitalist, er, patriarchal oppressors.” . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.



 

Category: American Spectator, Democrats, Sex Trouble
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