Can Republicans Stop Losing Long Enough for the Left to Destroy Itself?

Posted on | June 12, 2019 | 2 Comments

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate infighting among conservatives? This problem didn’t start with the #NeverTrump crowd. It’s been a problem since the 1950s, at least, and what makes it so frustrating to me is my certainty that, if conservatives could just cease quarreling, unite and maintain control of Washington for a few years, the Left would implode from its own internal contradictions. The Left generally, and the Democratic Party in particular, are so obsessed with power — they want to control every aspect of our lives — that whenever they’re out of power, they suffer a sort of collective nervous breakdown. This is the real story of why Donald Trump has been so demonized. After eight years of Obama, Democrats had come to believe they had found the magic formula that gave them a lock on the White House, and the party’s radical grassroots were busy planning what they’d do once Hillary was in office. Having assumed the continuation of their own power (and having believed their own propaganda), all these people were then completely freaked out by Trump’s victory, and they still haven’t recovered from the trauma.

The endless carping of the #NeverTrump crowd undermines the ability of Republicans to consolidate what they gained by Trump’s victory, and distracts from the opportunity for creative disruption — finding ways to rattle the cages of the Left, to threaten their institutional power bases.

Imagine the sense of panic among academic social justice warriors, for example, at last week’s jury verdict against Oberlin College. If they can no longer get away with phony accusations of racism, this threatens the very core of their enterprise, because what’s the point of being Dean of Students if you can’t mobilize the campus for social justice crusades against mythical dragons of racism, sexism and homophobia?

Or consider the frantic efforts of the Left to silence conservatives on the Internet. Demonetizing the YouTube channel of Steven Crowder, whose Thought Crime was to make fun of a liberal, demonstrates just how desperate the Left is to “win” arguments by suppressing dissent. Their digital goon squads have gotten so out of control that they suspended the Twitter account of a left-wing journalist because they found his book cover offensive. When we can demonstrate how leftists always abuse whatever power they have — and their power inside Big Tech social-media companies is nearly as absolute as their power within academia — this is certainly an effective argument against giving them more power.

Consider the messes that Democrats make wherever they obtain power. Do you really want to turn the rest of America into California? Bankrupt bullet-trains to nowhere, junkies shooting heroin in the streets, outbreaks of Third World diseases — yes, Democrats have ruined California, and they want to ruin the entire country the same way. Yet we see certain Republicans, because of their irrational #NeverTrump sentiments, endeavoring to help Democrats regain the power they lost when Hillary was defeated. Why? What kind of short-sighted selfishness or prejudice can explain the behavior of Charlie Sykes, Tom Nichols, et al.?

Category: Politics

In The Mailbox: 06.11.19

Posted on | June 12, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.11.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: You Miss Payments And Your Car Will Be Repossessed. Unless…
EBL: The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg Gets A Taste Of #MeToo
Twitchy: NYT Writer “Will Gladly Eat Crow” If Trump Loses And Leaves In 2020
Louder With Crowder: Pinterest Permanently Bans LiveAction, also, LGBT Paraders Tell Daily Caller Conservatives Are Threat To Freedom

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #111 – The Golden Rules Episode
American Greatness: Leftism Makes People Meaner
American Power: As Homelessness Worsens, Democratic Candidates Stay Mum, also, Lauren Southern Retires From “Far Right” Internet Thug Life
American Thinker: Can California Be Saved?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Kiwi Guns News
Babalu Blog: Who Knew? Che Guevara Was A Gay Rights Champion!
BattleSwarm: Pentagon Chicom Expert General Robert Spalding On Beijing’s Strategy Against Trump & America
CDR Salamander: In DC, The Zombie INF Fight Is Afoot
Da Tech Guy: The Irrelevance of Personal Likability, also, Hubris And Impeachment
Don Surber: Rainbow Flag Nonsense
Dustbury: Stronger Stuff
First Street Journal: The Stupidity Of Cory Booker And Other Wild-Eyed Leftists
The Geller Report: NY Imam Convicted Of Terrorism, Deported, also, Is America Disinterested Or Painfully Unaware of The Jihad Threat?
Hogewash: One Year Ago Today, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Humor, Scares Scarce In Anti-Trump The Dead Don’t Die, also, SF Scribe Rejects PC Groupthink With New Anthology
Joe For America: Planned Parenthood Allegedly Hired Prostitutes Fro Staff, Donors, & Guests During Functions
Legal Insurrection: Fauxcahontas Polling At 10% – In Massachusetts, also, Media Declares Speculation About Biden’s Health Off-Limits After Speculating About Trump’s Mental Health
The PanAm Post: Should Chavismo Continue To Exist As A Political Force After Venezuela Restores Democracy?
Power Line: “Sacred Conversations” Draw Attention Of Civil Rights Commissioner, also, From The Mixed-Up Files Of Rep. Ilhan Omar
Shark Tank: Gov. DeSantis Signs Prison Bill, Earns Praise From Democrats
Shot In The Dark: Throne Of Games
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Phoning It In
The Political Hat: The Christchurch Ball & Gag
This Ain’t Hell: Thomas Gagne, Triple-Barreled Phony, also, Here We Go Again
Victory Girls: 180 CEOs Tell Red States Abortion Laws “Bad For Business”
Volokh Conspiracy: Knife Ban & Vagueness Case At Supreme Court Conference
Weasel Zippers: Biden Promises To Cure Cancer If Elected, also, NYT Writer Takes Swing At Rep. Dan Crenshaw In Defense of Ilhan Omar, Crenshaw Levels Him
Megan McArdle: The Best Explanation For Trump’s Presidency? He’s Acting Like A Real Estate Developer
Mark Steyn: Lindsay Shepherd Vs. Parliament

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Category: Linkagery

Democrats and Whores

Posted on | June 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

Seven Democrats in the New York state legislature — Sens. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) and Jessica Ramos (D-Queens) and Assembly members Richard Gottfried, Yuh-Line Niou (D-Manhattan), Dan Quart (D-Manhattan), Ron Kim (D-Queens) and Catalina Cruz (D-Queens) — have introduced a bill that would legalize prostitution in the state.

Who is funding this pro-prostitution agenda? Which 501(c)3 non-profit organizations are engaged in advocacy to support this, and who are the major funders of those 501(c)3 groups? Because no honest and intelligent person would advocate prostitution, we may infer that wealthy perverts, or those who hope to profit from the sex trade, are providing the money to promote this legislation, for which Democrats are acting as pimps.

No parent would wish their daughter to become a whore, and yet Democrats want to make this heinous trade a legal “industry”:

A former sex-trade survivor who says she was victimized everywhere from New York City strip clubs to Nevada’s legal brothels is now at the forefront of the national battle against legalization, telling The Post that it only encourages “horrific’’ trafficking.
“A lot of people are under the misconception that just because it’s legal [in Nevada], then it’s safe and it’s clean and that all the people there are consenting, and that’s just not the truth,” said Rebekah Charleston, who appears in a blistering new anti-trafficking video put out by opponents of legalization.
“I think a lot of people have this happy hooker mindset like, ‘Oh well, she looks happy, and she’s an adult, so she should be able to do what she wants,’ when that’s just not reality. The realities of prostitution and sex trafficking are horrific.”
Charleston, 37, is part of a new campaign launched by a coalition of advocacy groups that includes the video, which was unveiled at the World Without Exploitation conference in Washington, DC, on May 23. . . .
Nevada has a 63 percent higher rate of illegal sex-trade activity than any other state in the country and ranks in the top 10 for trafficked and exploited youth, according to the video, which adds that only 10 percent of prostitution in Nevada is legal.
Nevada also is ranked sixth in the country for rapes and sexual assaults against women, according to Awaken, an anti-sex trafficking non-profit based in Reno.
Charleston, originally from Dallas, Texas, said she was raped when she was 14 years old, became addicted to drugs and ran away from home at the age of 17, when she met a pimp that would sell her across the US for the next 10 years.

A pimp is the lowest form of human life, and any legislator who supports prostitution is an active agent of evil.

Category: Crime, Democrats, New York

NY Times Advocates Censorship by Reporting on ‘Far Right’ YouTube

Posted on | June 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

Did I ever mention I can’t stand watching YouTube videos? As a means of communication, the written word is my preferred medium; it is more time-efficient, because I can read faster than anyone can talk. Even Ben Shapiro, who talks so fast I can barely keep up, talks slower than I can read. Give me the transcript of an hour-long YouTube video, and I’ll quickly skim through it, picking out whatever facts are most of interest to me, in a mere fraction of the time it would take to watch the video. So I almost never watch YouTube videos, and thus my intellectual diet is not impacted by the Left’s demonetizing and deplatforming crusades.

Neverthless, there are many millions of people — particularly young people — for whom YouTube is a habit, and the New York Times recently assigned reporter Kevin Roose to do an in-depth story on how 26-year-old Caleb Cain was “radicalized” by watching right-wing YouTube videos:

The internet was an escape. Mr. Cain grew up in postindustrial Appalachia and was raised by his conservative Christian grandparents. He was smart, but shy and socially awkward, and he carved out an identity during high school as a countercultural punk. He went to community college, but dropped out after three semesters.
Broke and depressed, he resolved to get his act together. He began looking for help in the same place he looked for everything: YouTube.
One day in late 2014, YouTube recommended a self-help video by Stefan Molyneux, a Canadian talk show host and self-styled philosopher.
Like Mr. Cain, Mr. Molyneux had a difficult childhood, and he talked about overcoming hardships through self-improvement. He seemed smart and passionate, and he wrestled with big questions like free will, along with practical advice on topics like dating and job interviews.
Mr. Molyneux, who describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist,” also had a political agenda. He was a men’s rights advocate who said that feminism was a form of socialism and that progressive gender politics were holding young men back. He offered conservative commentary on pop culture and current events, explaining why Disney’s “Frozen” was an allegory about female vanity, or why the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer was proof of the dangers of “rap culture.”
Mr. Cain was a liberal who cared about social justice, worried about wealth inequality and believed in climate change. But he found Mr. Molyneux’s diatribes fascinating, even when they disagreed.
“He was willing to address young men’s issues directly, in a way I’d never heard before,” Mr. Cain said.
In 2015 and 2016, as Mr. Cain dived deeper into his YouTube recommendations, he discovered an entire universe of right-wing creators. . . .

You can read the whole thing, which is not-so-subtly advocating censorship of anyone in that “entire universe of right-wing creators” — in other words, anything on YouTube that might persuade you to vote Republican should be banned, according to the New York Times.

Just by the way, it is a fact — not merely an opinion espoused by Stefan Molyneux — that feminism is a form of socialism. Anyone who cares to research the origins of the modern feminist movement will discover that it arose from radical New Left of the 1960s. There are entire books, written by feminists themselves, documenting this history. Quite simply, feminists adapted Marxist theory (i.e., the class struggle between the industrial proletariat and the capitalist bourgeoisie) to claim that the real “class struggle” was between women and the patriarchal oppression of “male supremacy.” Nor is it controversial to say that “progressive gender politics” is harmful to the interests of young men. One thing feminists borrowed from Marxism is a zero-sum-game mentality which justifies anything harmful to men (i.e., the collective oppressors) as beneficial to the “empowerment” of women. This is why, for example, feminists whipped up the “campus rape epidemic” mob hysteria to deprive male college students of due process-rights, so that any male student could be automatically expelled from college on the basis of mere accusation of sexual misconduct. Deliberate falsehoods like the UVA gang-rape hoax were promoted as part of a feminist propaganda campaign to demonize male students as rapists. Given the abundant evidence that feminism is an anti-male hate movement, why does the New York Times portray Stefan Molyneaux’s critique of feminism as controversial? Perhaps because backlash against feminism helped defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016? Perhaps because reporters like Kevin Roose are Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and this whole article about “radicalization” is just an attempt to help Democrats silence their opponents? Douglas Murray points out that Caleb Cain’s “radicalization” was harmless:

He isn’t a school shooter. He isn’t a mosque or synagogue shooter. The NYT writes of how by November 2016 the subject’s ‘transformation was complete’ but this ‘transformation’ resulted in nothing, other than watching YouTube videos.
This isn’t news. It isn’t even fully informed or nuanced analysis. It is simply another demonstration of the double-standard, drive-by shootings that parts of the media are willing to perform in this inglorious stage of its history. A habit which, funnily enough, demonstrates why people might be becoming skeptical — and moving online — in the first place.

If the only result of watching right-wing YouTube videos is that you watch more right-wing YouTube videos, why is the New York Times devoting so much journalistic effort to this phenomenon? If you want to discuss a genuinely dangerous online problem, how about the way vulnerable teenagers are getting sucked into the transgender cult?

Oh, but the New York Times is pro-transgender, so if your 15-year-old daughter starts demanding you call her “Josh” and wants to inject herself with testosterone and get a mastectomy, it would be “right-wing” (and therefore bad) for you to disapprove. Also, there’s a pretty good chance your transgender child would vote Democrat, so the New York Times would never do anything to discourage them.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: New York Times

In The Mailbox: 06.10.19

Posted on | June 10, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.10.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Do You Think The NSA Will Get Their Attention?
EBL: Dr. John, RIP, also, Why Does The Bulwark Even Exist?
Twitchy: It’s All Happening – Rep. Steve King Teams Up With Diamond & Silk To Fight Homelessness Because Why Not?
Louder With Crowder: Steven Crowder Talks YouTube Demonetization & Next Steps, also, Huffington Post Claims Child Drag Queen is The Future

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Deliver Us From Evil, also, Won’t Anyone Think Of The Leftists?
American Greatness: The 2020 News Cycle Will Look Very Different, also, Trump’s America – No Country For Illegal Aliens
American Thinker: Time For The LGBT Movement To Leave The Kids Alone, also, Arrogant Conceit & Pratfalls
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: PETA Member Woody Harrelson Protests Cruelty Of Texas BBQ While Embracing Mass-Murderer Fidel, also, Canadian Foreign Minister Claims Cuba Can Be Instrumental In Restoring Democracy To Venezuela
BattleSwarm: Oberlin College slammed With $11 Million Verdict In Gibson’s Bakery Case, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Making A Better Army Staff Officer On Midrats, also, The Truman Decision – There’s History And Then There’s History
Da Tech Guy: Fatherless Households Are At The Root Of Chicago’s Violence, also, Want To End Big Tech Censorship? Threaten Their Intellectual Property Rights
Don Surber: Trump’s Mexican Tariff Rope-A-Doped The Critics, also, The Left Normalizes Hitler
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Really Unclear On The Concept
First Street Journal: The Catholicism Of Joe Biden
The Geller Report: Gas Station Staff Badly Beaten By Muslim Mob Because Waiting In Line Made Them Late For Prayers, also, “No Jewish Dykes” At The DC Dyke March
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Star Trek V – The Final Frontier Isn’t The Dud You Remember, also, Rob Schneider, The Free Speech Hero We Need
Joe For America: Occasional Cortex Shut Down BY FBI Official After Insinuating White Supremacists Are “Off The Hook”
JustOneMinute: No Tariffs On Mexico
Legal Insurrection: WHO Declares Large-Scale Ebola Outbreaks Are The New Normal, also, Oberlin College E-Mail Criticizing Jurors Could Influence Punitive Damages In Gibson’s Bakery Case
Michelle Malkin: From Convicted Murder To Exoneration To Law Grad
The PanAm Post: Cross Accusations & Negotiations In Argentina, also, The Normalization Of Horror In Venezuela
Power Line: Accountability For Oberlin, also, Dear Rep. Omar
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Presses Her Ammunition Control Bill
Shot In The Dark: Now We Have a Precedent, Ho Ho Ho
STUMP: Video Meep Killed The Radio Meep
The Political Hat: The Normalization Of HIV
This Ain’t Hell: Iraq War’s First MOH Recipient, also, Another Eight Accounted For
Victory Girls: Principles. The University of Alabama Has Them.
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Stevens Admits Error In Kelo Case
Weasel Zippers: Survey Says Students Trust Chicoms More Than President Trump, US Intel Agencies, also, True The Vote Wins Decade-Long Court Battle With IRS
Mark Steyn: The Key To Acting, also, Brexit For Cokeheads

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Category: Linkagery

Fact-Based Argument Is Denounced as ‘Common Right Wing Talking Point’

Posted on | June 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

As every progressive knows, facts are “hate” and logic is “racism.” So when Jake Tapper asked a Democrat politician an obvious question — which proposed gun-control laws would have prevented a recent mass shooting in Virginia? — the Scanners-style head explosions commenced:

New York Times columnist Charles Blow went off on what he called a “horrible question” that CNN’s Jake Tapper asked of Senator Cory Booker this week about the gun massacre in Virginia Beach, a question that is frequently asked in the wake of such tragedies.
On this week’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, host Bill Maher noted that “Cory Booker was on with Jake Tapper, and Jake Tapper asked him, a couple of times, what in your plan would have stopped the massacre that we had last week at Virginia Beach, and Cory Booker took a very long time to not be able to answer that question.”
Can I just say this? Journalists have to stop asking that horrible question,” Blow said. “That is a horrible question.”
“Because what we’re doing is picking out one incident out of 30,000 deaths per year and saying ‘How could you solve this one thing?’” Blow continued.

Since the New York Times columnist evidently wants to make this a question of arithmetic, let’s talk about The Law of Large Numbers. In a nation of 325 million people, it’s always possible to find a handful of examples anything, e.g., people arrested for having sex with dogs, or children being raped by transgender perverts. Yet we do not see any talking-heads on CNN discussing these phenomena as a tragic “epidemic,” because there are no non-profit activist groups compiling reports about dog rape or LGBT sex crimes and advocating new laws to combat these problems. Mass shootings are, from a statistical perspective, very rare events in the United States, but in a nation of 325 million people, if a half-dozen kooks go on rampages every year, these statistical outliers are making national news every eight weeks or so.

Unless we are willing to absolutely prohibit private firearms ownership — not just limiting future sales, but confiscating the many tens of millions of guns already owned by Americans — there is no possibility that we can eliminate the danger of mass shootings. So when Jake Tapper asks whether the gunman’s rampage in Virginia Beach could have been prevented by any law advocated by Cory Booker, it’s a legitimate point. Democrats who advocate new gun-control laws do not wish to admit that it would take very drastic measures to substantially reduce the risk of mass shootings, because to make such an admission would give credence to claims by First Amendment activists that the Democrats are secretly planing to confiscate everybody’s guns. Whatever gun-control “plan” Booker proposes, therefore, is likely to be ineffective, a more or less symbolic gesture, and Tapper’s question pointed this out, prompting liberals to shriek: “FACTS ARE HATE!”

Speaking of facts, we know almost nothing about DeWayne Craddock, the Virginia Beach gunman, except that he had given his two-weeks’ notice of an intent to quit his job before going on a workplace rampage. Police say Craddock evidently wasn’t targeting anyone in particular, but was firing randomly at his former co-workers. You might think journalists would have been able to dig up some clue as to why Craddock killed 11 people, but they don’t seem very interested in his motive.

This evident lack of curiosity is odd, isn’t it? Like, if this guy was a Trump supporter, I’m sure journalists would have mentioned that, but instead we’ve got silence, and nobody seems to be asking, “Why?”

Category: Crime

Math Is Hard

Posted on | June 10, 2019 | 2 Comments

Part One:

The Seattle Minimum Wage Study, a study supported and funded in part by the Seattle city government, is out with a new NBER paper evaluating Seattle’s minimum wage increase to $13 an hour and it finds significant disemployment effects that on net reduce the incomes of minimum wage workers.
It is the first study of a very high city-level minimum wage, with administrative data that has much more detail than is usually available. The first wave (examining the increase to $11/hr) last year was a mixed bag, with fairly imprecise estimates.
These findings, examining another year of data and including the increase to $13/hr, are unequivocal: the policy is an unmitigated disaster. The main findings:
– The numbers of hours worked by low-wage workers fell by *3.5 million hours per quarter*. This was reflected both in thousands of job losses and reductions in hours worked by those who retained their jobs.
– The losses were so dramatic that this increase “reduced income paid to low-wage employees of single-location Seattle businesses by roughly $120 million on an annual basis.” On average, low-wage workers *lost* $125 per month. The minimum wage has always been a lousy income transfer program, but at this level you’d come out ahead just setting a hundred million dollars a year on fire. And that’s before we get into who kept vs lost their jobs.

How many times do we have to explain basic economics to these people? Governments cannot mandate demand — for labor, or for anything else — and thus the attempt to artificially inflate wages by establishing an arbitrary minimum will have the effect of reducing the number of jobs for entry-level workers. This in turn will have ripple effects, acting as a disincentive to capital investment, as companies will seek out less-regulated markets. In a rapidly-growing economy, where there is high demand for labor, the statutory minimum wage will become irrelevant, as the vast majority of workiers are earning more than the minimum. However, artificially “raising the floor” underneath this free-market equation will always negatively impact both employment and business growth, by reducing opportunities for less-profitable companies to continue operations by hiring marginal workers for low-skill jobs, and by pricing these marginal workers out of the market.

Everyone who knows anything about economics understands this, but politicians are under pressure to pander to ignorant voters, a problem exacerbated by liberal journalists who don’t understand arithmetic. And speaking of liberal journalists . . .

Part Two:

ThinkProgress, the website that is a project of the Democratic Party’s primary think tank, is facing dire financial troubles and bleeding staff, according to primary-source documents viewed by The Daily Beast.
A budget document provided to ThinkProgress management and obtained by The Daily Beast showed that the website was expecting a roughly $3 million gulf between revenue and expenses for 2019. ThinkProgress has never been a revenue generator, and has often made up for its deficits through fundraising efforts and funds from its mothership entity, the Center for American Progress (CAP). But the current outlook is significantly worse than ever before.
According to the document, advertising revenue is projected to fall $350,000 short of what was budgeted this year, and online contributions are expected to fall short by nearly $180,000. The site is projected to have about $64,000 in grant revenue (money derived from donations to CAP and meant for coverage by ThinkProgress) in 2019. That’s roughly $60,000 short of what it had budgeted for the year and roughly $540,000 less than it received in 2018. . . .
“Unfortunately, ThinkProgress has had a large and growing budget gap for going on two years now,” Navin Nayak, executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, told The Daily Beast. “Like most media organizations, ThinkProgress has relied on advertising revenue as a major source of funding, increasingly subject to the behavior of social-media platforms and their decisions on news distribution. As with many other digital media organizations, 2017 and 2018 were particularly challenging years in this regard, as ThinkProgress experienced a 40 percent drop in ad revenue over just one year, creating an inevitable budgetary strain.”
Management for ThinkProgress held a two-hour meeting with Nayak on Wednesday afternoon to discuss financial matters, according to a source at the outlet who requested anonymity. In a Thursday morning email to staff, viewed by The Daily Beast, management stressed that the “financial outlook has not improved in 2019 as CAP hoped it would” and that leadership at CAP plans to provide additional information about a path forward this month. According to the email, Nayak said he did not want to provide a lot of specifics at this current moment, so as not to “speculate.”
Sources at CAP and ThinkProgress told The Daily Beast that Nayak has had to engage in a series of “blunt” conversations with staffers at the website, telling them they should be looking for other jobs. These conversations took place even as the site’s union negotiated a contract at the end of 2018.

“Learn to code!”

The Obama years were a boom time for the Center for American Progress, but CAP’s founder John Podesta left to join the Hillary Clinton campaign, and her defeat tarnished their brand, since peddling access to powerful Democrat politicians (which, let’s face it, was Podesta’s stock in trade) only works when those politicians actually have power.

Much of the rage against Trump has been orchestrated by such people, to whom the election of a Republican president represents a loss of income opportunities. If what you’re selling is political influence, losing an election can have a devastating impact on demand for your services.

Category: Economics

Rule 5 Sunday: Monica Bellucci

Posted on | June 10, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was pointed out to me last week that Morena Baccarin had not been in the Matrix movies, and that the actress I was thinking of was Monica Bellucci. I stand corrected. This is the gal from The Matrix Reloaded. Here she is adorned with a bit of fur, the better to annoy the kind of people annoyed by such things.