Marianne Williamson Hits 65,000 Donor Threshold, Qualifies for DNC Debates

Posted on | May 10, 2019 | Comments Off on Marianne Williamson Hits 65,000 Donor Threshold, Qualifies for DNC Debates

Two weeks ago, I reported that Marianne Williamson was within 9,000 of reaching the 65,000-donor threshold that the Democratic National Committee had established to qualify for next month’s first televised debates in Miami. On Monday, her campaign sent out an email saying they needed just 3,500 new donors. So you could do the math and see they’d added about 5,000 in two weeks and thus were probably within 10 days or so of hitting the mark. But then late Thursday night, Williamson appeared on Shannon Bream’s Fox News show:

BOOM! The Williamson campaign announced they’re hit the number:

Today we made our goal of 65,000 unique donors to the Marianne Williamson for President campaign!
I am deeply grateful to those of you who took it upon yourselves to help create this significant achievement. Ours has been – and will continue to be – a campaign of ideas that people care about, and that they are willing to stand behind. It takes a certain kind of audacity to take a stand for something truly new. Thank you to those of you who have seen the possibility of a new American beginning and have been willing to invest in its formation.
Now the next phase of our work begins. . . .

What is “the next phase”? Well, among other things, they need to get their poll numbers up. Eighteen candidates have already qualified for the debates by the DNC’s standards, and if more than 20 qualify, polls will be the tie-breaker. They’ve reached 1% in the CNN poll, so at least there’s that, but with five weeks or so until the cut-off date, now the Williamson campaign will have to be spending some of their money.

As of March 31, she had about $500,000 cash on hand, and what can be expected is that the campaign will keep working its list of small donors with emails: “How about another $25 or $50?” Suppose that 5,000 respond to such an appeal for an average donation of just $20 — that’s $100,000 right there. So my guess is that Williamson could easily raise another half-million between now and mid-June, turn that around and spend it on digital ads, thus raising awareness of her campaign enough to boost her poll numbers. If she just got to 2%, she’d be in the top eight, according to the Real Clear Politics average.

Checking her schedule, I see Williamson is going to South Carolina next week, and will have an event May 20 in Washington, D.C., that I’ve already signed up for, before heading off to New Hampshire May 21-23, but I don’t know yet if I’ll be making that trip. Anyway, think back to March, when I first took notice of the Williamson campaign, and now she’s qualified for the debates. Can I pick ’em, or what?

Category: Democrats, Election

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: Never Have Sex With a Yale Girl

Posted on | May 10, 2019 | Comments Off on The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: Never Have Sex With a Yale Girl

Is heterosexuality even legal at Yale University anymore?

An accused student is suing Yale University for concluding that the brief absence of a condom “during an otherwise consensual encounter” was sexual assault.
“John Doe” alleges that “gender bias was a motivating factor” in the decision against him by Dean of the College Marvin Chun, which resulted in his suspension. . . .
Doe met “Ann Roe” through the dating app Tinder. Shortly after, the two agreed to meet face-to-face in the early hours of December 9, according to the suit. After a fraternity party, they went back to Doe’s place and had consensual sex.
In the 90-minute encounter, the condom failed no later than 45 minutes in and “a new one had to be applied,” according to Doe. They had “unprotected sex for a few seconds” before he put on the new condom. . . .
Roe provided “undisputed testimony” that she gave Doe consent for the entire period both condoms were on. . . .
Roe stayed the night at Doe’s place, leaving on a positive note mid-morning. Throughout the rest of the month, the two exchanged an array of online messages that maintained a friendly dynamic, he said.
Roe changed her tone in January, when she told Doe that she was uncomfortable with the brief absence of protection during their intercourse.

Hold up here. More than a month after the encounter, she “changed her tone.” Like, everything was OK for five weeks, but then for unexplained reasons it wasn’t OK? And then . . .

Two weeks later, Roe filed a formal complaint of nonconsensual “unprotected sexual intercourse” against Doe with Mark Solomon, chair of Yale’s University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct.
Doe believes that university employees cajoled Roe into filing a complaint “that she otherwise did not contemplate filing,” and that the UWC adopted the Title IX coordinator’s “mission of increasing reporting” of sexual misconduct, though the suit doesn’t provide evidence.

You can read the rest. Bottom line is, he got suspended just a few weeks before he was scheduled to graduate because this girl decides retroactively that this brief moment when the condom came off during a 90-minute sexual encounter constituted “assault,” and Yale’s administration just goes along with this? If you’ll read the entire 66-page complaint you’ll find a lot of other reasons not to believe the accuser, including the fact that she claims to have been sexually assaulted more than once before she hooked up with John Doe, suggesting perhaps she has a victimhood mentality. But the larger point is, how can any guy at Yale know he won’t be the next “John Doe,” denied due process and expelled on the basis of a flimsy accusation?

The only safe course is NEVER HAVE SEX WITH A YALE GIRL.

(Hat tip: Instapundit.)

In The Mailbox: 05.10.19

Posted on | May 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Original “OMG!!! Radiation!!!” Moment
EBL: Kendrick Castillo, RIP
Twitchy: Matthew Dowd’s Advice For “The Pro-Life Crowd” Backfires On Him In Impressive & Painful Way
Louder With Crowder: Watch As Dan Crenshaw Exposes Democrats’ Duplicitous Tricks
According To Hoyt: In The Dark
Monster Hunter Nation: Now Out – Noir Fatale!
Vox Popoli: The End Of The Boomer Age

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Feminist Mind Virus Strikes Again, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Okay Edition
American Greatness: Stop Whining About Google & Do Something, also, How Silicon Valley Disrupts Local Politics
American Thinker: Senator Braveheart
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Failed Coup Friday
Babalu Blog: While All Eyes Are On Venezuela, Socialist Repression Continues In Nicaragua, also, Mexico Repatriated More Cubans In Two Months Than In All Of 2018
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 10
CDR Salamander: Get How Many And How Much Where When?
Da Tech Guy: There Must Be A Lot Of Money In “Free” Porn
Don Surber: Chairman Xi Misreads America
Dustbury: The Non-Energy Drink
First Street Journal: The Credentialed Media’s Creeping Attempts To Normalize Transgenderism
Fred On Everything: Fred To Take Month Off – World In Mourning, Stocks Fall
The Geller Report: Gay-Bashing, Israel-Hating, Sexist Imam Gives Invocation To U.S. House, also, Whistleblower Says Facebook Is Promoting ISIS Propaganda
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, THEMIS Looks At Phobos
Hollywood In Toto: Why Are Hollywood Studios So Afraid Of Christianity?
Joe For America: Colorado Students Angrily Storm Out When School Shooting Vigil Turns Political
JustOneMinute: Non-Crazy Idea With A Foundation Of BS
Legal Insurrection: Marianne Williamson Demands Reparations “Whatever It Costs” – And She Just Qualified For The Democrat Debates, also, Parents Of Girls Harassed By Brian Sims Raise Over $100K For Pro-Life Group
The PanAm Post: 45% Of The Colombian terrorist ELN Is In Venezuela, also, It’s Time For The Legitimate Venezuelan Government To Throw Code Pink Out Of Their DC Embassy
Power Line: An Inflection Point On School Shootings? also, Behind Comey’s Claim That Trump “Eats Your Soul”
Shot In The Dark: Absolute Moral Authority
STUMP: Teacher Pensions – A Big Problem For Many States
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Enoch Powell & The British Crisis
Victory Girls: Comey Is Sure Trump Will Be Indicted For Some Sort Of Crime
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Comey Told Congress In 2017 There Was No Surveillance of Trump Campaign, Now he Says It Was “Reasonable” And “Normal”, also, Occasional Cortex And Bernie Suggest Postal Service Do Banking
Megan McArdle: “Deal Of The Century” Aside, What is The Israel/Palestine Endgame?
Mark Steyn: Nobody Needs A Woke Earl, also, Marlboro Man No, Mushroom Man Yes

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In The Mailbox: 05.09.19

Posted on | May 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The Lunatic Fringe, Episode #1
EBL: When You Don’t Feel The Need To Impress Someone In An Interview
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Drops A Whole Lotta Gun-Law Truth On Ilhan Omar
Louder With Crowder: Gun Control Zealots Took Over A STEM School Vigil, So The Students Walked Out

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: An Afternoon Quickie
American Greatness: Yes, Christians Can Support Trump Without Risk To Their Witness
American Power: Why God Is Masculine
American Thinker: The Liberal Hypocrites Who Want To Be Our Moral Betters
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily About Damn Time News
Babalu Blog: Omar, Tlaib, And Stalinist Angela Davis Form Mutual Admiration society At Vicious Anti-Trump Rally In DC
BattleSwarm: Turmoil In The NRA
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Five Basic Facts, also, Venezuela Perfectly Illustrates The Importance Of The Second Amendment
Don Surber: NYT Finally Showed The Real Trump
Dustbury: Gramsci. Schmamsci
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Paris Taxi Drivers Avoiding Migrant Areas So As Not To Shock Tourists, also, Muslim Roulette
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day (Featuring Johnny Atsign!) also, Bill Schmalfeldt Assists Alex Jones
Joe For America: Survey – 1.2 Million Guatemalans Say They’re “Very Likely” To Migrate To U.S.
Legal Insurrection: Iran, EU Close To Signing Oil Deal Despite US Sanctions, also, Portland Journalist Andy Ngo Assaulted By “…Someone I Recognize At Antifa Rallies”
The PanAm Post: Chavistas Requesting Sanctuary From The Vatican In Case Maduro Falls, also, Massive Protest Against AMLO – “Mexico Will Not Become Venezuela”
Power Line: The Little-Known Story Of Mary Jo Kopechne, also, White House Revokes Dana Milbank’s Press Pass
Shot In The Dark: This Is the DFL
The Political Hat: Social Justice – Food & Culture, Mandatory Activism, Feminism
Victory Girls: Senator Amy Klobuchar On Fox News
Volokh Conspiracy: Wishing For A Constitutional Crisis
Weasel Zippers: Twitter Suspends Account That Tracks Violence Against Trump Supporters, also, Pence Says Trump Administration Will Ask SCOTUS To End Nationwide Injunctions
Mark Steyn: Concession Stand, also, Making A Beast Of Yourself

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 8, 2019 | 1 Comment

Maya ‘Alec’ McKinney (left); Devon Erickson (right).

Killer freaks in Colorado:

According to a source with knowledge of the investigation, one of the suspects is an 18-year-old senior who was a student at the school. . . .
Late Tuesday evening, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office identified the 18-year-old alleged shooter as Devon Erickson. . . .
At 6:30 p.m., law enforcement officers were at a home believed to be linked to Erickson, near West Highlands Ranch Parkway and West Wildcat Reserve Parkway in Highlands Ranch. Just before 10 p.m. a car spray painted with a message saying “F— society” was towed from the home.
Multiple sources close to the investigation told Denver7 late Tuesday night that the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.
The sources said that the motive of the alleged shooters went beyond bullying and involved revenge and anger towards others at the school and that at least one of the suspects was involved in legal and illegal drug use and had been in therapy.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.) The name of the transgender suspect is Maya “Alec” McKinney. What are the lessons here?

See, if you advocate locking up teenage dopeheads as juvenile delinquents, you’re racist or something. If you advocate locking up these maladjusted weirdos in psychiatric wards, you’re stigmatizing mental illness. Disapproving of sexual perversion makes you guilty of transphobia. Instead, now everyone is required to celebrate diversity and inclusion, which means keeping the drug-addled misfits in public high school and interpreting their unpopularity as “bullying,” because how dare your normal teenager not want to hang out with a couple of losers like this? And then one day, the freaks decide it would be really cool to shoot up the school more or less randomly. which then becomes an argument for (a) gun control and (b) more “anti-bullying” policies to protect deranged misfits from social disapproval.

The world has gone crazy because expressing common sense will get you banned from social media and/or fired from your job.

Category: Crime, Education, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 05.08.17

Posted on | May 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Domestic Violence Death All The Usual Suspects Will Ignore
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #614
EBL: May 8 1945 – Victory In Europe
Twitchy: Meghan McCain Wipes The Floor With Shameless Ilhan Omar Apologist Seth Meyers
Louder With Crowder: Real Heroes – Colorado Teens Tackle Shooter, Save Lives

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Things That Are Supposed To Get Girls, But Don’t Get Girls
American Greatness: Understanding Google’s Military Mindset, also, Why The Left Mocks The Bible
American Thinker: After The Boomers Are Gone, The Bloodshed Begins
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Socialist Regime Cancels LGBT Pride Parade For Fear Of Massive Protests
BattleSwarm: More Tesla Troubles
CDR Salamander: Africa In Three Charts & A Graph
Da Tech Guy: Cyber Attack, Real World Response
Don Surber: Boston Diversifies Its Corruption
Dustbury: That’s About The Size Of It
First Street Journal: Now We Know Why President Trump Won’t Release His Tax Returns
The Geller Report: Pope Rejects “Excessive Demand For Sovereignty”, also, Muslim Migrant Detained After Hungary Discovers He Beheaded 20 For ISIS
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, NGC 2903
Hollywood In Toto: Is Caddyshack II The Worst Sequel Ever Made?
Joe For America: Britain’s Version Of Medicare For All Getting Ready To Collapse
JustOneMinute: Trump’s Taxes
Legal Insurrection: Hillary Tries To maintain Relevance By Calling Trump’s Presidency “Deplorable”, also, Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Unredacted Mueller Report
The PanAm Post: Duque Administration Demands Apology From Ordonez For Remarks On Venezuelan Migration
Power Line: Bill Clinton Is A Bitter Old Man, also, Not Just Another Google Mistake
Shot In The Dark: With The Band
STUMP: Happy Teachers Appreciation Week
The Political Hat: Academia’s Child Sexuality Field Trips
Victory Girls: Kendrick Castillo – Hero In Colorado School Shooting
Weasel Zippers: Shooters In Colorado – One Transgender, One Anti-Christian, Trump-Hating, Registered Democrat, also, Comey Claims He Has No Idea What Barr Is Talking About – “The FBI Doesn’t Spy”
Mark Steyn: Now We Are Two, also, The Post-Free Speech World

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More Thoughts on the ‘Red Pill’

Posted on | May 8, 2019 | Comments Off on More Thoughts on the ‘Red Pill’

“When he saw me at the beginning of the day and when he called me on the telephone, his first words were always, ‘Hello, Baby.’ . . . He was my mentor, my teacher and the love of my life.”
— Lauren Bacall, on Humphrey Bogart

Until Monday, I never realized that “Rollo Tomassi” (the blogger at Rational Male) was a pseudonym, borrowed from a memorable line in the 1997 neo-noir classic L.A. Confidential.

Ironic. While I was covering the 21 Convention in Orlando, I found myself talking to a guy about how young men don’t have a cultural script that shows them heroic masculinity. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind was one obvious example, but after rattling off a list of several other specific examples, I said guys should be watching old film noir in general. Film noir is always about a guy who finds himself caught in a circumstance of moral ambiguity. He has to do the right thing in a situation where it’s not clear what the right thing is. And there is always a dame involved. The Big Sleep, with Bogie and Bacall — that’s it, man.

It is often said that what women find attractive in men is confidence, but in truth it is competence that matters more. Unless your confidence is based in actually being able to get the job done — skill, knowledge, resourcefulness — your pose of confidence will be exposed as a bluff. Actively demonstrating competence is always better than talking a smooth game, but how does a guy do this in a dating scenario? Well, for example, you scout out in advance where you want to take her. You find that excellent little restaurant with good atmosphere, you know the menu, you know how to get there and where to park, so when you pick her up for your date, you’re not using your GPS to navigate.

“Be excellent,” I tell my sons. In a ruthlessly competitive world, being merely good won’t cut it. You have to be excellent to win. There is no substitute for direct experience, learning through trial and error, so to become excellent you cannot be too risk-averse. You have to be willing to roll the dice and take your chances. You win some, you lose some, but you’re always learning, always improving yourself.

When Lauren Bacall first met Humphrey Bogart, she was only 19 and he was 44. All the odds were against him, and Bacall’s family and friends tried to talk her out of getting involved with him:

Bacall’s mother was strongly against her daughter being married to “an elderly alcoholic,” while [director Howard] Hawks energetically warned her about Bogart’s womanizing, promising her she would end up abandoned pretty soon.

Some things are just meant to be, however, and what Bogart had going for him — besides being one of the biggest leading men in Hollywood — was real confidence based in real competence. He had years of experience with women. He was sophisticated. He had savoir-faire.

One of the things feminists want you to believe about “red pill” guys is that they’re bitter, angry, full of “misogynist resentment,” to quote Amanda Marcotte. And you might believe that, if all you know is anonymous creeps talking smack on Reddit or whatever. On the other hand, if you were in Orlando at the 21 Convention, you might have encountered an impeccably groomed gentleman named George Bruno.

Known as “The Sultan of Silver,” Mr. Bruno is the exact opposite of what feminists want you to think the manosphere is about. Angry? Bitter? Nah, this guy is a winner, a class act all the way. At the Sunday night reception in Orlando, I heard Mr. Bruno tell the story of how he’d recently been banned from a certain nightclub because whenever he went in, all the women flocked around him to such an extent that the other guys in the club were getting zero action. That’s winning, my friends.

What could explain why a gray-haired old guy attracts more hotties than guys half his age? Well, as I say, he’s impeccably groomed, and he’s also physically fit, well-dressed, and poised. These are just basic areas of life that any guy can work on improving at any age. Even if you could never hope to become as classy as George Bruno, you can get better, and this kind of focus on self-improvement is what the “red pill” community, at its best, is really about. In a recent video, Mr. Bruno says: “Men, you want to be good with women? Be good with people.” This is so true. One of the problems with losers is, they get so hung up on the fact they can’t get laid that they don’t even notice they don’t have friends, either. The same personality traits that make a guy a failure in romantic relationships will also be reflected in his other relationships, or lack thereof. As a natural extrovert, I see this so often in losers of the introverted type (e.g., Elliot Rodger), who are trapped inside their inability to break the ice and make pleasant small talk with women, but in such cases, you almost always find that the loser also has few other social connections. And, like Elliot Rodger, these people often have an interior monologue of superiority, where they rationalize their failure by blaming others for failing to recognize or appreciate their superior qualities.

While it’s easy for me to spot the problems of the introverted “Nice Guy,” it would be foolish for me to deny that extroverts can be losers, too. This brings me back to Rollo Tomassi and something he wrote in his third book: “Never self-deprecate.” Whoa! My entire personality is wrong? Having been the class clown from childhood, I’ve used self-deprecating humor so long I’d hardly know how to live without it. Rollo’s red-pill approach is all about using rational objectivity as a mode of pragmatic analysis and, from my perspective, self-deprecating humor is about acknowledging the obvious fact of my own absurdity. I would seem not only pompous, but lacking in self-awareness, if I couldn’t laugh at my own inherent disadvantages.

I can’t help about the shape I’m in.
I can’t sing, I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin.
But don’t ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
— Fleetwood Mac, “Oh Well”

If you’re winning despite all your disadvantages, what harm can there be in laughing at yourself while you do it? But this goes to another point Rollo makes, the solipsism that so defines the emotional reference of the female mind. Rollo notes that, whenever a man tries to express a general rule about human behavior — based upon observation and logic — a woman typically objects by citing some personal anecdote she believes refutes his general rule. This is a tactic of debate I’ve called “Arguing by Exceptions,” or the “What If?” method. Attempting to disprove your assertion of some general principle, the antagonist will cite an exception or hypothetical scenario in which the general principle is invalid. Having encountered this so many times over the years, I’ve learned not to bother arguing with people who employ this tactic. Either (a) they are hopelessly biased on the issue involved, or (b) they simply dislike you, and are arguing against you out of pure personal animosity.

I’ve long since learned to recognize scenario (b). Some people just find me annoying, on a personal level, and are offended by the suggestion that I might actually know what I’m talking about. It’s like the time I was at a party and a guy I barely knew walked up to me and said, “I don’t like your face” — obviously spoiling for a fight — and my response was to say, “Yeah, I don’t like my face, either,” and I just walked away.

You want to engage me in some sort of macho game, like two animals fighting for dominance on the Serengeti plain? No thanks.

If I know I’m telling the truth — if I’m sure of my facts and logic — I’m not going to argue with someone who wants to argue for the sake of proving his personal superiority by “winning” such an argument. Because guess what? An arrogant fool is not my superior, and what he is actually seeking to do with his “argument” is to insult me.

Learn how to walk away. Remember the scene in Gone With the Wind:

Charles Hamilton: “I refuse to listen to any renegade talk!”
Rhett Butler: “Well, I’m sorry if the truth offends you.”
Charles Hamilton: “Apologies aren’t enough sir. I hear you were turned out of West Point, Mr. Rhett Butler. And that you aren’t received in any decent family in Charleston. Not even your own.”
Rhett Butler: “I apologize again for all my shortcomings. Mr. Wilkes, perhaps you won’t mind if I walk about and look over your place. I seem to be spoiling everybody’s brandy and cigars and… dreams of victory.”

And here we return to Rollo’s rule against self-deprecation. My defense of successful rule-breaking does not prove that Rollo is wrong, and I have been contemplating how to break myself of that habit, which I learned at an early age and which seemed to work so well in my own personal circumstances. Having succeeded in life far beyond anyone’s expectations, it probably is counter-productive for me to undermine my credibility by playing the clown. Even in my own case, you see, the red-pill discourse can point the way to self-improvement, and while I don’t plan to stop making jokes — God forbid! — I want to start trying to avoid the kind of outright clowning that, however fun it might be, makes me seem to be someone whose opinions can’t be taken seriously.

Something else Rollo says in his third book is that the reason so many Beta males foolishly pedestalize women — viewing them with idolatrous reverence — is because they have never seen women at their absolute worst. If you grow up in middle-class circumstances, protected from the seamy underside of life, and your knowledge of female behavior is based on viewing them at a distance, rather than in intimate relationships, it’s much easier to imagine that the cute, sweet girl is somehow exempt from Total Depravity (cf., Calvin). But after you’ve been around a while, and if you’ve strayed outside the boundaries of suburban security, you won’t be surprised to learn that the cocaine-addicted stripper (who is still cute and sweet enough) is a former high-school cheerleader from a wholesome small-town family: “A pretty face can hide an evil mind.”

“McCain is more open to the ideas of the red pill than any other mainstream journalist on the planet. The main reason for this is that McCain is an actual journalist, which is something that they haven’t taught in journalism schools for over 30 years. He reports as opposed to emotes.”
— Adam Piggott

Grateful for the compliment, I’m mystified while looking at some of the comments on these red-pill blogs. It’s obvious that many in the community have a near-paranoid hostility to any scrutiny from outside the community, even from someone like me, hate-listed by the SPLC and banned by Twitter, which ought to be sufficient certification of my defiance of any kind of blue-pill thinking.

But subcultures gonna subcult, I guess . . .

Rollo Tomassi speaking in 2018.

One reason I’m promoting Rollo, by the way, is because he has recently come under attack by some envious fools on Reddit. Whatever else may have motivated this, the attack proves something I’ve known for a long time: Some people just can’t stand to see a winner win. Success always inspires opposition from people who, rather than praising the winner as an example to emulate, instead view his success as somehow unfair — he cheated, he “sold out,” whatever — because it would be too painful to their own ego to admit that he earned what he’s got.

This is why it’s important to defend anyone in such a circumstance. Ten years ago, in the memorable Little Green Footballs flame-war, I was grateful for those who rallied to my defense, recognizing the true motive behind Charles Johnson’s attack on me. If I hadn’t been succeeding, at the very time when Mad King Charles was destroying his own once-formidable blog through paranoid purges of commenters, I never would have become a target of his envious “Race Detective” attack. Surviving that dishonest smear proved the value of strong allies, and confirmed a lot of what I already understood about the kind of circular firing-squad scenario that so often happens when someone’s success makes them an object of envy, so that they are attacked by supposed “friends” who believe they can obtain some benefit from the target’s destruction.

Hell to the no — not on my watch, buddy. Y’all go follow Rollo Tomassi on Twitter, and please check out his books. Many fathers have bought The Rational Male as a gift for their sons. Even if Rollo has a habit of saying things that offend those who care more for “dreams of victory” than for the brutal truth, he does not deserve to be smeared by his inferiors, which is what his Reddit critics so evidently are.

Keep in mind that I say this as a Christian “tradcon” — a type that Rollo quite directly criticizes. His observations of human behavior, coming from a secular perspective, are valuable enough that I can overlook his disparagement of my own religious perspective. There is so much that is true and useful in his books (and on his blog) that sincere Christians ought to examine Rollo’s criticisms and candidly ask: Is he telling us something important we need to know? In a culture where sexual degeneracy is rapidly becoming the norm, surely the Bible-believer must listen prudently to someone who sees this problem as rooted in an effeminate tendency that has, unfortunately, manifested itself even in Christian churches that claim to serve the King of Kings.

Far be it from me to lead anyone into temptation by introducing them to the “Game” mentality, but red-pill guys like Rollo are telling truths about human nature we cannot afford to ignore. Selah.