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In The Mailbox: 03.11.20

Posted on | March 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Story Of Roosevelt Twyne
EBL: ZeroZeroZero – A Review
Twitchy: NYT’s Mara Gay Predictably Blames Racism For Response To Her “Trivial Math Mistake” On Brian Williams’ Show
Louder With Crowder: This Trump Campaign Ad Destroys Joe Biden Without Even Trying

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Wuhan Virus – On The Ground In Northern Italy
American Conservative: Congress Has A Chance To Reform The Patriot Act – But Moderates Want To Water It Down
American Greatness: Wuhan Virus Exposes Danger Of Reliance On Red China
American Thinker: Hillary Clinton – The Most Investigated Innocent Person In America?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Bernie Sanders Claims Cuba Isn’t Socialist And Neither Was The USSR
BattleSwarm: Biden – Hide The (Cognitive) Decline
Cafe Hayek: Globalization & The Lethality Of Diseases
Camp Of The Saints: La Cosa Obama – Return Of The Living Dead?
Da Tech Guy: Two Brady Possibilities One More Time
Don Surber: They Call Trump Lucky – They Mean Successful, also, Trump Prepared For Virus In August
First Street Journal: Lincoln Chafee Running For President As A Libertarian
The Geller Report: Renowned Islamic Scholar States Jews More Dangerous Than Coronavirus, AIDS, & Cholera, also, CAIR & SPLC Join Forces To Intimidate Philanthropists To Cut Funding To Pro-Freedom Groups
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Coronavirus Notes
Hollywood In Toto: How Church of Cowards Skewers Pop Culture Hypocrites, also, I Still Believe Soars Beyond Faith-Based Audiences
Legal Insurrection: SCOTUS Stays Lower Court Injunction, Remain In Mexico Asylum Rule Continues, also, Woman Arrested For Carving “White Pride” Into Sidewalk In Front Of TN Business
Megan McArdle: When A Danger Grows Exponentially, Everything Looks Fine Until It Doesn’t
Michelle Malkin: CDC – Centers For Damaged Credibility
The PanAm Post: New Uruguayan President Rejects 21st Century Socialism
Power Line: Joe Biden Can’t Be President, also, After Last Night
Shark Tank: FL Democrats Rally Behind Biden
Shot In The Dark: Our Potential Next President
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Mmmm, Donuts! I Mean, Biden & Sanders’ Tax Plans
This Ain’t Hell: Rep. Clyburn Calls For Shutting Democrat Primaries Down, also, Well This Ought To Stir The Pot
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden Worms His Way Out Of Deposition
Volokh Conspiracy: Judge Adelman Defends His Criticism Of Chief Justice Roberts, President Trump
Weasel Zippers: Joe Biden Says He’ll Only Take Away Our AR-14s, also, New Border Wall Blocks 90% Of Crossings, Up From 10%
Mark Steyn: Coronavirus, Zionavirus, also, Feel The Bernout

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The Endless Warren Butt-Hurt

Posted on | March 11, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Did any presidential candidate ever deserve to lose more than Elizabeth Warren? This is a women who fabricated her own biography, falsely claiming to be Native American, in order to be the “first woman of color” on the faculty of Harvard Law. Say what you will about Barack Obama — whom Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan dubbed The Worst President in History — at least he actually was half-Kenyan, whereas Warren’s Cherokee fakery was so complete that the possibility of it being true involves the merest fraction of a single percentage point. If you’re going to play identity politics, you need to have a real identity.

We must credit Professor William Jacobson for his tenacity in calling attention to Warren’s fakery, and we should also credit the Democratic primary voters who rejected this bald-faced liar. The fact that Warren could do no better than third place in Massachusetts — the state she represents in the U.S. Senate — was an embarrassment she deserved.

Warren’s feminist supporters refuse to accept this verdict. Permit me to remind you of what Amanda Marcotte wrote last month:

Warren is a rock star. Crowds love her and she tends to get bigger cheers than anyone, even Sanders. She always takes her analysis to the next level, but manages to explain complex topics without dissembling. The ideas that sound radical in Bernie’s mouth (probably by design, to be fair) sound like common sense coming from Warren. She’s probably the single most popular candidate in the field, with people talking about her positively, even if they support someone else.
It’s clear, however, after months of cable news seeding the idea that the public is too sexist to elect a woman, that voters aren’t backing her. This created a weird dynamic in New Hampshire, where Warren drew big crowds, often due in large part to political tourists from other states who came to see the hottest act in town, not because she was actually rallying local voters here. So because of sexism, the most popular politician in the field will probably falter in the actual primary.

And this is what Jessica Valenti wrote last week:

I knew going into Super Tuesday that Elizabeth Warren was unlikely to win big. I had prepared myself for that. What did take me by surprise, though, was just how poorly she fared: Even in her home state of Massachusetts, she finished third. . . .
It’s enough to make me feel, well, despairing: that we had the candidate of a lifetime — someone with the energy, vision, and follow-through to lead the country out of our nightmarish era — and that the media and voters basically outright erased and ignored her. . . .
Whoever the nominee is, their campaign is going to have to come to terms with the intense misogyny so many female voters have dealt with — and understand that it’s an issue we care deeply about. And their supporters are going to have to let us be sad — depressed, even — that once again we’re going to watch a race to leadership between old white men.

Feminist logic is a coin-toss: Heads, she wins. Tails, she’s a victim of patriarchal oppression. No amount of evidence can disprove this feminist belief. They believe in women’s victimhood as a matter of religious faith and, no matter how privileged or successful a woman actually is — e.g., Elizabeth Warren is a multimillionaire and a U.S. Senator — she’s still a victim if, for any reason, she is deprived of anything she might possible desire. Feminists believe that women are always entitled to everything they want, simply because they are women.

Of course, the butt-hurt over Warren’s failure is almost entirely a vestige of the Hillary Clinton butt-hurt. Democrats spent three years investigating non-existent Russian “collusion” in order to give some credence to Hillary’s paranoid belief that Donald Trump had cheated her out of the presidency. Thus, $120,000 in Facebook ads, some simple email “phishing” and a handful of Twitter bots were magnified into an vast international conspiracy to deprive Hillary of what was rightly hers. Mere sexism would not suffice; no, it took Russian military intelligence to defeat Hillary, who never even bothered to campaign in Wisconsin.

Having never recovered from the psychological trauma of Hillary’s defeat, feminists have gone completely bonkers over Warren’s defeat.

Here’s a paragraph from Megan Garber:

The campaigns of those who deviate from the traditional model of the American president — the campaign of anyone who is not white and Christian and male — will always carry more than their share of weight. But Warren had something about her, apparently: something that galled the pundits and the public in a way that led to assessments of her not just as “strident” and “shrill,” but also as “condescending.” The matter is not merely that the candidate is unlikable, these deployments of condescending imply. The matter is instead that her unlikability has a specific source, beyond bias and internalized misogyny. Warren knows a lot, and has accomplished a lot, and is extremely competent, condescending acknowledges, before twisting the knife: It is precisely because of those achievements that she represents a threat. Condescending attempts to rationalize an irrational prejudice. It suggests the lurchings of a zero-sum world — a physics in which the achievements of one person are insulting to everyone else. When I hear her talk, I want to slap her, even when I agree with her.

Garber concludes that Warren (“competence incarnate”) lost because her achievements and admirable qualities — “her intelligence, her experience, her compassion” — were “understood as threats.”

Or maybe because she lied about being a Cherokee?

No, the possibility that Warren lost because voters perceived her as fundamentally dishonest cannot be considered, because this might diminish the Feminist Victimhood Narrative in which Ivy League women like Megan Gerber (Princeton BA, Columbia MA) are so deeply invested.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: Elizabeth Warren

FMJRA 2.0: This Is My Rifle

Posted on | March 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Warren Plans to Win Brokered Convention
First Street Journal
Animal Magnetism
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC: Not Worried at All
Bacon Time
EBL

Steyer, Buttigieg Finally Admit Failure
EBL

FMJRA 2.0 Chicanery
A View From The Beach
EBL

Bad Causes Attract Bad People: On the ‘Dirtbag Left’ of Chapo Trap House
Pushing Rubber Downhill
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.02.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

#MeToo Takes Out Chris Matthews
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

SUPER TUESDAY: Joe Biden Sweeps the South, Bernie Sanders Wins VT, CO, UT
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.03.20
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Sanders Wins California, Biden Wins Texas, Brokered Convention Looms
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.04.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Clown Car Campaign Nears Its Sad End
EBL

‘Cognitive Partitioning’: The Real Reason Elizabeth Warren Never Had a Chance
Pushing Rubber Downhill
357 Magnum
EBL

Ask Not for Whom the #MeToo Tolls: Beware of Soros-Funded Feminism
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.05.20
Proof Positive
EBL

Maryland Governor Declares State of Emergency Over Coronavirus Cases
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.06.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending March 6:

  1.  EBL (17)
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  3. (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Democrats Vote for Guy Who Can Barely Even Speak Two Sentences Coherently

Posted on | March 11, 2020 | Comments Off on Democrats Vote for Guy Who Can Barely Even Speak Two Sentences Coherently

Big wins Tuesday for the senile old codger:

Joe Biden’s path to the Democratic presidential nomination widened significantly Tuesday with commanding victories in Mississippi, Missouri and Michigan, a state that his rival Bernie Sanders won four years ago. . . .
The former vice president’s solid win in Michigan came in a state Sanders was depending on both to bolster his case going forward and for the practical delegate math involved. He came into the day about 96 delegates behind Biden, and Michigan was his best shot at preventing that lead from getting any wider. (Democrats require 1,991 delegates for nomination.)
As it is, Sanders lost a big state where his upset of Hillary Clinton four years ago gave him reason to continue his presidential bid through the end the nominating calendar in June. . . .
Sanders’ bad March can be explained this way: Biden’s net delegate gains out of Alabama last week and Mississippi on Tuesday — two Republican-dominated states — essentially cancel out the delegate advantage that Sanders pulled out of California, which has the largest delegate trove.

Meanwhile . . .

Biden went stumping for votes in a Detroit auto plant today, a natural venue for campaigning thanks to the Obama administration’s rescue of GM and Chrysler.
Instead, Biden got caught up in a gun-control argument with a worker who accused him of “actively trying to end our Second Amendment right.” . . .
Biden denies in this clip that he wants to confiscate anyone’s guns. One week ago, though, Biden publicly proclaimed that he would put Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke in charge of his gun policy, a former presidential aspirant who explicitly called for gun confiscations by law enforcement following an assault rifle ban.

Old Joe’s head is full of decaying brain matter.

 



 

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 03.10.20

Posted on | March 10, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.10.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

I was going to do the FMJRA this morning but then I got high I slept in until 1000 instead. Tomorrow for sure, loyal readers.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Because a Couple Of Media Types Proving They’re Morons Never Gets Old
EBL: Asparagus Season
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Challenges David Frum’s Spin Of Joe Biden’s “Impressive” Encounter With A “Hostile Critic”
Louder With Crowder: Former Transgender Regrets Transition, Files Suit Against NHS

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: This Is Our Own Dark Age
American Conservative: Is This How Europe Ends?
American Greatness: Democrats Refuse To Consider Trump’s Emergency Tax Cut To Combat Coronavirus, also, Coronavirus Mass Hysteria
American Thinker: Can NJ Democrats Bulldoze President Trump? also, Nick Searcy, The Rush Limbaugh Of A New Hollywood
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily COVID-19 News
Babalu Blog: Bernie Proclaims No Regrets For Praising Cuba’s Murderous Dictatorship
BattleSwarm: Former Democrat Attends Trump Rally, Enlightenment Ensues, also, Tucker Carlson On The Threat From China
Cafe Hayek: Cass, Hawley, & Rubio Are No Friends Of Free Markets
Da Tech Guy: Obama’s Failures During The 2009 Pandemic, also, Biden Punches Down – Again
Don Surber: They Really Got Old Donald John Trump This Time
First Street Journal: Let’s Face It, America, We Didn’t Deserve Elizabeth Warren
The Geller Report: Rashida Tlaib Wears T-Shirt Calling For Extermination Of Israel, also, Majority Of House Dems Vote Against Amendment Barring Convicted Terrorists From Joining TSA
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Rock Collecting In Space
Hollywood In Toto: Nick Cave & Stephen King Stand Up To Woke Mob, also, Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist Is Must-See (And Hear) TV
JustOneMinute: OK, Wow, also, Staggering Along
Legal Insurrection: Should Schumer Face Censure For Threatening Justices Gorsuch & Kavanaugh? also, Yale Shrink Who’s Repeatedly Called Trump Mentally Unfit Refuses To Diagnose Biden
Megan McArdle: No, There Are No Comparable Analogies To Coronavirus
The PanAm Post: Maduro Tells Women To Have More Children While Venezuela Is Starving, also, Coronavirus Plagues Spanish Economy
Power Line: Congressional GOP Approval Rising, also, Joe Biden Explains
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Facing Tough Reelection Bid
Shot In The Dark: St. Paul – The Sound Of The Ground Below The Bottom Of The Moral Barrel Being Scraped
The Political Hat: Double Standard For Body Autonomy
This Ain’t Hell: Michael Sean Green – Blog Of Shame, also, Darly Edwards Apology
Victory Girls: Biden Brawls With MI Autoworkers Over Guns
Volokh Conspiracy: Muslim Inmate Objects To Strip Search With Transgender Guard Watching
Weasel Zippers: Schumer – “We Are Very Worried About The President’s Incompetence”, also, Gov. Newsom (D-CA) Praises Trump Administration’s Coronavirus Response
Mark Steyn: Wand’rin’ Star, also, Corona Catch-22

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Confirmed: You’ve Got the Racism Virus

Posted on | March 10, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Years ago, when discussing amnesty for illegal aliens, I announced one exception to my universal opposition: “Don’t deport the hotties!”

Send us your supermodels, your Maxim cover girls, your Miss Universe contestants, we lift our lamp beside the golden door. There is no such thing as too much beauty, and America’s immigration policy should make a special exception for good-looking young women. Stephen Green calls our attention to the case of University of Chicago student Evita Duffy:

The university’s Institute of Politics ran an Instagram campaign last week, giving students a chance to fill in the blank after “I vote because…” Duffy can be seen in the video holding a sign that says, “I vote because the coronavirus won’t destroy America, but socialism will.”
You can probably guess what happened next, but it was serious enough that Duffy — who describes herself as a conservative Hispanic woman — had to take it public with an op-ed in the student paper. She wrote that she hoped her “vote” message might “encourage a lively and robust debate on economics,” but instead she received an “onslaught of online hate and threats of violence” from her tolerant, progressive friends. . . .

Fellow students attacked my character, my intellect, my family, my appearance, and even threatened me with physical violence, using foul and offensive language. I was called a racist and a xenophobe. Some compared me to animals. Others declared that they would personally stop me from voting, and many defended the personal attacks, saying I deserved to be bullied and that I don’t belong at the University of Chicago on account of my beliefs. I was told by many that I was the most hated person on campus. It was frightening. It was also hurtful, since some of the attacks came from people I considered friends.

You might wonder, “How can someone named ‘Duffy’ be Hispanic?” Her father is former Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, and her mother is Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy, a Latina from Arizona. Evita Duffy’s mother is not only Hispanic, but also a pro-life Catholic, and Evita is one of nine children in the Campos-Duffy family. #Winning!

Being called “racist” is just part of being a conservative nowadays, and I’ve long since become immune to such accusations. To be hate-listed by the SPLC is a sort of inoculation, and while I suppose my performance as an alleged “white supremacist” must be disappointing to anyone who takes the SPLC seriously, it’s fun to mock these perceptions by occasionally writing something that an earnest hate-watcher will have to read carefully in search of evidence — proof! — that I really am an awful hater: “Don’t deport the hotties!” Yes, there must be something racist about saying such a thing. I dare Heidi Beirich to explain why.

David Gura of MSNBC declared on Twitter that it is “racist” to refer to the current epidemic as the “Wuhan virus.”

It’s 2020: Everything is racism and everybody is racist.



 

Category: China, Health Care, Racism

Coronavirus: Not Dead, Not Scared

Posted on | March 9, 2020 | Comments Off on Coronavirus: Not Dead, Not Scared

 

 

 

After the news broke that a CPAC attendee had tested positive for coronavirus, liberals began their usual death-wishing — because liberals are sensitive and tolerant like that — and even some conservatives succumbed to the panic. Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 2,000 points and the travel industry appears on the verge of complete collapse. Members of Congress are in “self-quarantine.” In a climate of fear, why am I the least worried man in America?

At times like this, it’s helpful to remember the last words of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick. The veteran general led the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac in Gen. U. S. Grant’s spring 1864 offensive in Virginia. After the Battle of the Wilderness, Grant’s army made a flank march to Spotsylvania Court House, where Sedgwick’s corps formed the center of the Union position. On the morning of May 9, the general went to inspect his front line, and some of his troops warned him not to expose himself to the incoming fire from Confederate sharpshooters. Because the Rebel line was about a half-mile away, Sedgwick scoffed at this caution: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at that distance.” He was wrong — a Southern rifleman put a bullet through his eye, and Sedgwick died instantly.
That’s an apt metaphor for my attitude about the coronavirus outbreak. Because liberals in the media are doing everything they can to incite panic over the disease, I consider it my duty as a conservative not to panic. This is like Gen. Sedgwick, who sought to give his troops an example of heroic fearlessness by his disdain of Confederate marksmanship. But my refusal to panic is not merely a political pose; I sincerely doubt the impact of coronavirus in the United States will approach anything like the worst-case scenarios being discussed on TV news. . . .

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



 

Category: Health Care

In The Mailbox: 03.09.20

Posted on | March 9, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

The FMJRA will be posted tomorrow; would have been this morning but…nah, not getting into that here. Can’t wait until I’m out of this barracks next month and into an apartment with reliable internet so I can get back to doing all the posting in a timely manner. In the meantime, since I’m permab& from Twitter, sharing links from these posts thence will be greatly appreciated. I’ll be on Gab wading through Milo posts. Still no sign of the alleged Nazis who allegedly infest the site.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Obamacare – A Financial Travesty
EBL: Bloomberg’s Own Staff Sold Him Out, also, Shakira – “Gordita” (thanks! #^__^#)
Twitchy: Your Daily Reminder That Senator Chris Murphy Is Full Of Crap
Louder With Crowder: Dr. Drew Wants A Halt On The Coronavirus Pandemic Panic
Your Bass Guy: Survival Fishing
Vox Popoli: Far Worse Than You Think

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #138 – The Leopardskin Tights Episode
American Conservative: Corruption In U.S. Military Academies Is Harming Our National Security
American Greatness: California Is A Cruel Medieval State, also, Antifa’s Most Important Enabler – Its Legal Arm
American Thinker: Saying No To The Invasion Of Europe, also, Coronavirus Codswallop – By The Numbers
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Photos Reveal Decrepit, Filthy Cuban Hospitals, also, Spain’s Socialist Government Becoming An Ally Of Maduro’s Murderous Regime
BattleSwarm: Cenk Uygur’s Bad Week, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: “Industrial Policy” Is Another Name For Central Planning
Camp Of The Saints: Lizzie Boredom Heads To Happy Hunting Ground
CDR Salamander: EMCON A
Da Tech Guy: A Basic Compare & Contrast, also, If Biden Falters, Then What For The Democrats?
Don Surber: Obama’s FBI Let Terrorists Go Who Then Killed Americans, also, PolitiFact’s Big Fat Corona Lie
First Street Journal: The Feminists Are Whining About Elizabeth Warren, also, It’s All About Them!
The Geller Report: Judge Dismisses Most Serious Charge In FGM Case Against Muslim Doctor, also, Greek Border In Flames As Migrants Storm The Border
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Lagrange Points
Hollywood In Toto: The Way Back Shows Ben Affleck’s Star Rising (Again), also, Low-Budget Exit 0 Captures Joy Of Indie Filmmaking
JustOneMinute: A New Front In The Culture Wars, also, Big If True – Bernie’s Numbers Don’t Add Up
Legal Insurrection: Maybe It’s Time To Dial Back The Coronavirus Drama, also, Kamala Harris Endorses Biden Despite Previously Accusing Him Of Praising Segregationist Senators
Michelle Malkin: What Part Of NO AMNESTY Doesn’t DC Understand?
The PanAm Post: Is Spain Maduro’s Ally? also, The Reality of Cuban Healthcare – No Sanitary Towels
Power Line: Why Not Tulsi? also, Starbucks Learns The Cost Of Virtue Signaling
Shark Tank: FL House Passes Controversial Tax Breaks For Airlines, also, FL Senate Passes E-Verify Measure
Shot In The Dark: Imagine My Shock, also, The Thought Leader Of Today’s Left
STUMP: How Not To Be A Dumbass – Media Innumeracy Edition
The Political Hat: All The Cops Are Criminals, All The Sinners Saints
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Says Fixing First Four LCS Not Worth It, also, Can’t Make This Up
Victory Girls: A Slip, A Rip, & A Trip Into Democrat Madness, also, Weaponize Everything The Democrat Way
Volokh Conspiracy: Are There Any Red Lines In A Hyperpartisan World?
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Hopes Coronavirus Is “Trump’s Katrina”, also, Gavin Newsom Praises Trump Admin Response To Coronavirus In California
Mark Steyn: Who Wants To Be A Million Airhead? also, Terms Of Endearment

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