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In The Mailbox: 03.02.20

Posted on | March 2, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

Remember, if you don’t share this post on Twitter, the Commie #NeverTrump Terrorists and Ana Navarro (but I repeat myself) will have won. Two days left in my Twitter suspension.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: F*cking Jewcidal Morons – Bend The Arc’s New Video
357 Magnum: Everything Needs Maintenance – The Morandi Bridge Collapse
EBL: Joe Coulombe, RIP, also, Stop Sticking Potatoes Up Your Butt
Twitchy: Bernie Bros Reportedly Booing Press At Rallies; Ilhan Omar Decries #FakeNews About Him
Louder With Crowder: Nick Sandmann Not Done Suing The Media Yet

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Virus Free Edition, also, Podcast #137 – The Nationalist Episode
American Conservative: What We’ve Lost In Afghanistan
American Greatness: America Has A Con Woman In Congress – Where’s The Law? also, New Impeachment Rules Would Snare Obama
American Thinker: Coronavirus – When All Else Fails, Try Reason, also, So God Sent Us A Salesman
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Miami Anti-Communism Caravan Calls For Freedom In Cuba, also, For Some, Elian Gonzalez Being Sent Back To Cuba At Gunpoint Wasn’t A Bad Thing
Baldilocks: February 2020 Post Digest For Da Tech Guy Blog
BattleSwarm: The Hoax Hoax, also, The Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Some Links, also, Don’t Keep The Faith
Camp Of The Saints: On Gramsci, Father & Son Buttigieg
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, It’s Always About More Than The Pilots
Da Tech Guy: They Tell No Tales, also, Jussie Smollett’s Protector Kim Foxx Faces Cook County Voters In Two Weeks
Don Surber: The Left Is Purging Comrade Matthews, also, A Coronavirus Recession Won’t Stop Trump
First Street Journal: The Ridiculous Anti-Lynching Bill, also, Joe Biden Wins One And The Bernie Bros Wax Wroth
The Geller Report: A Letter To Michelle Malkin, also, Muslim “Migrants” Attack Greek Border, Army Deployed
Hogewash: Meeting People At CPAC, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Socialist Steve Earle Says Stop Demonizing Trump Supporters, also, Come As You Are – More Than Your Average Road Trip Comedy
JustOneMinute: NYT Science Writer Defends Trump’s China Travel Restrictions
Legal Insurrection: “Walk Toward The Fire” – Andrew Breitbart Died Eight Years Ago, also, Netanyahu Projected As Winner Of Israeli Election
Megan McArdle: Think About Who You’d Rather Have In Charge Of A Coronavirus Pandemic
Michelle Malkin: AFPAC Speech – The Charge Of The America First Brigade
The PanAm Post: Cuban Refugees Protest Against Communism In Chile
Power Line: Biden Lives To Gaffe Another Day, also, The Democratic Panic Deepens
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Endorses Biden
Shot In The Dark: Tuesday Night Plans
STUMP: Presidential Mortality – Evaluating A Biden-Sanders Ticket
The Political Hat: The Ultimate Defense Against Rapists – Song & Dance?
This Ain’t Hell: US & Taliban Sign Peace Deal, also, Paul Kilbourn, Phony SEAL & “The Devil Of Afghanistan”
Victory Girls: Sammy’s Mexican Grill Targeted By Hateful Left For Supporting Trump
Volokh Conspiracy: District Court Judge Rules Cuccinelli’s Appointment As Acting USCIS Director Unlawful
Weasel Zippers: Biden Tries To Quote Declaration Of Independence, Fails Miserably, also, CNN’s Keith Boykin Smears Black Trump Supporters As “Uncle Toms”
Mark Steyn: When The System Infects You, also, Bridge Over Troubled Waters

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FMJRA 2.0 Chicanery

Posted on | March 2, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Creep Linked to Sleazy Democrat Katie Hill Hacked Rival Campaign’s Web Site
EBL

CPAC Emergency Tip-Jar Rattle
EBL

Police: Couple Terrorized Teen Boys Over Trump Flags, Posted Video to Snapchat
EBL

A Failed State: California Admits It Can’t Teach Black Children How to Read
EBL

Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada Caucus; MSNBC, #NeverTrump Hardest Hit
Randall’s BPU
EBL

Bernie Praises Castro, Snubs AIPAC
357 Magnum
EBL

Incest in Missouri: 11-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth to Her 17-Year-Old Brother’s Son
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.24.20
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: Annabella Sciorra
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

College Students Who Can’t Think
EBL

AOC: Girl-Crush of the Bernie Bros
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.25.2020
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Democrats Engage in Angry Shouting Match in Charleston, South Carolina
EBL

The Backlash of ‘Hate’
EBL

Elizabeth Warren Is Doomed, and Feminists Can’t Understand Why (And a BONUS Bidenfreude Update)
EBL

Mike Bloomberg Is ‘RAAAAACIST!’ (But Actual Racists Still Won’t Vote for Him)
EBL

CPAC: We Are Here
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.26.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC: VodkaPundit Is Not Worried
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.27.20
EBL

CPAC: Fighting for Israel
357 Magnum
EBL

CPAC: Still Not Worried
357 Magnum
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 02.28.20
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC: Not Worried at All
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending February 28:

  1.  EBL (25)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum & A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Warren Plans to Win Brokered Convention

Posted on | March 2, 2020 | 4 Comments

 

Delusional? Yes. Perfect from a GOP perspective? Absolutely:

Elizabeth Warren can win debates, but not states: There’s a chance she will walk away from Super Tuesday having not carried any of the first 18 contests, including her home state of Massachusetts.
Yet she, her campaign and their close allies say she’s in the race all the way to the convention, despite her latest drubbing in South Carolina on Saturday. They insist she still has a path to the nomination, narrow as it is. . . .
Warren advisers believe she can remain in the hunt by collecting a significant number of delegates on Super Tuesday and then again on March 10 — they are optimistic about California, Colorado, Texas, Michigan and Washington — even if they don’t win any states outright. Campaign manager Roger Lau said earlier this month that Warren was “poised” to finish second in eight Super Tuesday contests and in the top three in all 14.
The team is also more openly discussing what it has been talking about internally for weeks. Warren’s path to victory is likely at a contested convention and not by outright winning a majority of pledged delegates, which they believe no other candidate will achieve, either.
“[A]s the dust settles after March 3, the reality of this race will be clear: no candidate will likely have a path to the majority of delegates needed to win an outright claim to the Democratic nomination,” Lau predicted in a memo released Sunday. “In the road to the nomination, the Wisconsin primary is halftime, and the convention in Milwaukee is the final play.”

My only question is, what can I do to encourage Warren and her advisers to double-down on this far-fetched scenario? This is every Trump supporter’s wet dream, and please forgive me for using the phrase “wet dream” in a post about Elizabeth Warren. Anything that prevents the Democratic primary campaign from becoming a head-to-head contest between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders is good, in terms of helping re-elect Trump. Mike Bloomberg wasting millions of dollars to run a three-minute nationwide commercial on Sunday night? Perfect.

If Bloomberg’s campaign has any positive impact, it will be to help convince us that billionaire oligarchs like him should not exist. It’s bad enough that an oligarch can buy up airtime; to do so in order to exploit a pandemic for your presidential campaign is disgraceful.

What percentage of the Super Tuesday vote will Bloomberg get? Hopefully, enough to prevent Biden from winning several states, and thus moving Democrats closer to the brokered-convention scenario that the Warren campaign is fantasizing about. Of course, a comeback victory for Biden can’t be ruled out, but nobody on the Republican side should worry about that, either, as it has become apparent that Biden is completely senile. The best-case scenario, in terms of Trump’s re-election, is for Sanders to get this close (holding thumb and forefinger half-an-inch apart) to the nomination, only to be cheated out of it by a backroom deal at the convention. Whatever happens to the Democrats, however, the most likely scenario in November is that Trump wins:

About half an hour into his speech Saturday afternoon at the 48th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), President Trump spotted a familiar face in the crowd. “My friend over there — you are the greatest,” the president said, and urged the man to stand. “Look at him … Does everybody know Jeffrey? Jeffrey Lord” (38:10).
The conservative audience responded with applause for The American Spectator’s longtime contributing editor. “What a great guy,” Trump continued. “He used to defend me on CNN, and then he defended me just a little bit too much. And they said, ‘Jeffrey, get the hell out.’ And thank goodness you’re on Fox now.… Thank you for being here, too, Jeffrey.”
Trump was in a relaxed and cheerful mood when he took the stage of the Potomac Ballroom at the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor. Just before helicoptering over to CPAC on Marine One, the president had joined Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci at a White House press conference on the coronavirus. As with everything else in the Trump Age, this turned into a confrontation with the “fake news” media. . . .

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




 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren

Steyer, Buttigieg Finally Admit Failure

Posted on | March 1, 2020 | Comments Off on Steyer, Buttigieg Finally Admit Failure

The latest quitter in the Democratic primary campaign:

Pete Buttigieg, who rose from relative obscurity as an Indiana mayor to a barrier-breaking, top-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, ended his campaign on Sunday.
The decision by the first openly gay candidate to seriously contend for the presidency — and among the youngest ever — came just a day after a leading rival, Joe Biden, scored a resounding victory in South Carolina. That sparked new pressure on the party’s moderate wing to coalesce behind the former vice president.
“The truth is the path has narrowed to a close for our candidacy if not for our cause,” Buttigieg, 38, told supporters in South Bend, Indiana. “We must recognize that at this point in the race, the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and country together.”
He didn’t endorse any of his former rivals, though he and Biden traded voicemails on Sunday. Buttigieg has spent the past several weeks warning that nominating progressive leader Bernie Sanders to take on President Donald Trump would be risky.
Buttigieg on Sunday called on supporters to ensure that a Democrat wins the White House in November and that the party’s success carries over to down-ballot races for House and Senate. During previous debates, Buttigieg said Sanders could threaten Democratic seats in Congress.

Through the end of January, Buttigieg’s campaign had collected nearly $83 million in donations, and he got a total of 28 delegates, so he paid roughly $3 million per delegate. As pathetic as that is, however, it’s not nearly as pathetic as billionaire Tom Steyer’s campaign:

With the results in from South Carolina, a strong case can be made that Tom Steyer has just concluded the worst campaign in the history of presidential politics.
Steyer, the California-based founder of Farallon Capital and the co-founder of Onecalifornia Bank and Beneficial State Bank, became a household name — at least among those households with MSNBC — by being the single largest funder of efforts to impeach President Trump. After telling reporters in January 2019 that he would not seek the presidency, Steyer exercised his prerogative to change his mind and declared his candidacy in July.
According to the FEC, Steyer has spent $253,718,074 through January 31, 2020. All but $3,555,597 was from his own pocket. Pre-Bloomberg, a quarter billion dollars for the first four primaries is a staggering amount. But the incredible lack of return on that investment is even more eye-popping, especially for someone whose campaign’s sole justification was his supposed business acumen. . . .
Since the Steyer campaign spent $253 million through January, it’s safe to assume another $30 or so million for February, when television buys were at their highest, so let’s call it $280 million.
His seventh-place finish in Iowa netted him 3,061 votes on the first alignment and zero delegates.
His sixth-place finish in New Hampshire netted him 10,727 votes and zero delegates.
In Nevada, Steyer spent $13.55 million on television ads — more than twice as much as the other five candidates combined. His 9,503 first-alignment votes were sixth most and again failed to capture a single delegate.
When the Leap Day primary in South Carolina finally arrived, it looked like Steyer’s last chance to eke out a return on his huge investment.
With 99% of the total counted, Steyer will finish in third place with 59,814 votes, less than a quarter as many as the state’s winner, Joe Biden. At 11.4% of the statewide vote, he will leave South Carolina — and the presidential campaign — without a single delegate. In South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District, he came a couple hundred votes short of the 15% threshold required to earn a delegate, finishing with 14.55%.
So $280 million for 83,000 votes comes to an astonishing $3,373 per vote. His $280 million for zero delegates is without precedent.

And these people thought they were qualified to run the country.




 

Category: Democrats

Rule 5 Sunday: Mapy Cortes

Posted on | March 1, 2020 | 2 Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

This week, we have a blast from the past: Maria del Pilar Cordero, better known under her stage name Mapy Cordero, was a Puerto Rican actress who made it big in Mexican movies of the 1940s and 1950s, becoming one of the most beloved stars of the 1940s. Later, she would star in a couple of comedies that helped launch the Telemundo network.

Mapy Cortes, 1910-1998

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #909, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule 5 Golden Years Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Miranda Lambert,  Venice Coronavirus Carnival, Trump In India, Weinstein Convicted Of Rape, Hunters, Rosario Dawson, Dar Williams, Mimi Haley, Wash Your Hands, Leap Year, and Rhonda Fleming.

A View From The Beach brings us Kristin Kreuk, Killer Tits, Fish Pic Friday – Brittany Tareco, MDDNR Wants Congress’s Help With Blue Catfish, Thursday Tanlines, Patuxent River Gets an Unusual Visitor, Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, Tuesday Tats, Another Muddy Monday and A Low Brow Post.

Red Pilled Jew closes out this Sunday with Rule Five – Long Term, The Car Is Cheaper.

Thanks to everyone for their luscious linkagery!

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CPAC: Not Worried at All

Posted on | February 29, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia
We’ll be checking out of here early this morning, relocating to the Gaylord, where my podcasting partner John Hoge will have a room for us to do tonight’s special 2-hour episode of The Other Podcast.

Friday was kind of my “chill” day at CPAC because, unlike Wednesday and Thursday, I didn’t have a midnight deadline for The American Spectator, and thus could relax and socialize more freely. My brother Kirby spent the afternoon roaming around with his camera, getting some great candid shots of the CPAC scene. (Click to enlarge.)

 

 

About 3 o’clock, I had an interview on Radio Row with Blanquita Cullum.

 

After that ended, we convened in the lobby bar, where Smitty showed up after a while and reminded me that he’d gotten me on the guest list for a Townhall VIP reception at 5 p.m. As we walked over that way, we encountered a somewhat confused Ed Morrissey of Hot Air. “Where’s this thing at?” Ed asked, and we led him over there. Everybody from PJ Media was there, as was Kurt Schlicter and this person you may recognize.

 

“Katie, I hate to act like a fan boy, but my sister-in-law is a big fan of yours, and I just have to get the picture for her.”

After a while, I went outside to have a smoke and found myself in the smoking area talking to a kid from Hampden-Sydney College. Took an instant liking to the kid and said, “Son, it’s time you learn the valuable skill of crashing a CPAC party.” So we went back up to the Townhall reception, sailing past the lady who was keeping the invitation list who recognized me — it’s the hat — and didn’t seem to notice I’d brought along a guest. Inside, he got free beer and free food, I introduced him to everybody and he got along splendidly. Thanks to Townhall for letting me infringe their hospitality. It seemed like the benevolent thing to do.




 

Category: CPAC

In The Mailbox: 02.28.20

Posted on | February 28, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho


Five days left in Twitter Jail. Please share this post.


OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Geniuses At The CDC Notice The Real World
EBL: Coronavirus Worries? Wash Your Hands!
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex Replies To Ted Cruz With Two Tweets But No Answer
Louder With Crowder: Drag Queen Dances Suggestively For Young Girl As Adults Cheer
According To Hoyt: A Shining City On The Hill, also, Don’t Fear The Wu-Flu
Vox Popoli: The CEOs Vanish, also, When A Pandemic Isn’t A Pandemic

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Risk, Randomness, & The Plague
American Conservative: Will Trump Pass The Coronavirus Test?
American Greatness: The Necessary (Temporary) Democratic Party Suicide, also, More Immigrants Deported Thanks To Trump’s “Remain In Mexico” Policy
American Thinker: Breadline Bernie Makes It Harder For The Left To Hide Its Love Affair With Communism
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Golden Years Friday
Babalu Blog: Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet – Obama’s Cuba Policy Was A Disaster That Increased Repression
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For February 28
Cafe Hayek: Don’t Punish Speculators
CDR Salamander: All You Need To Know About The Sealift Crisis In One Picture
Da Tech Guy: Under The Fedora – A Sanders Miracle & Other Thoughts
Don Surber: Castro, Not Mini-Mike, May Bring Sanders Down
First Street Journal: Deja Vu all Over Again
The Geller Report: Imam Who Spoke At Sanders Rally Has Called For The Destruction Of Israel, also, Turkey Opens The Floodgates
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, CPAC Day One
Hollywood In Toto: Invisible Man – Feminist Horror Done (Mostly) Right
Legal Insurrection: CDC Director Says Rosenstein’s Sister “Misspoke” About WuFlu Risk, also, Trump Administration Sides With Asian-American Students In Suit against Harvard
The PanAm Post: Inside The Cuban Hospitals That Castro (And Bernie) Don’t Want You To See
Power Line: Mueller’s Team To Be Charged With Crimes? also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: DeSantis Proclaims Suicide Prevention Day
Shot In The Dark: Spitting In Your Soup And Calling It A “Dumpling”
STUMP: RIP James Spiotto
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Always Say Die, also, Firing Line Friday – The Prospects For Democratic Moderation
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Man Admits Stealing Funds Meant For Military Care Packages
Victory Girls: Media Upset That White House Will Control Coronavirus Messaging
Volokh Conspiracy: Is Calling Someone A Neanderthal…
Weasel Zippers: Democratic Superdelegates Willing To Prevent Sanders’ Nomination, also, House Democrats Block Condemnation Of Cuban Firing Squads
Mark Steyn: Reveries Of Joe, also, The Human Right To Be A Criminal

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CPAC: Still Not Worried

Posted on | February 28, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia

“Lady MAGA” is “America’s Conservative Drag Superstar! Activist” and just happens to be staying in our hotel for CPAC. My brother Kirby got, uh, her photo (click to enlarge) and my only comment is that America has Lady MAGA while Canada has Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv.

Don’t hate us for our freedom, bro.

When you turn on the TV news, everybody’s panicking about coronavirus, but everybody here at CPAC seems calm and cheerful. The stock market has dropped something like 4,500 points the past two weeks, and there’s a lot of politically motivated finger-pointing underway, and so what? My hunch is that fear of a pandemic is completely out of proportion to the actual danger, and that within six weeks, the scare will be over. Part of what has driven the hysteria is that it’s late winter, when everybody’s cooped up inside and you’ve got a lot of people sniffling, sneezing and coughing from ordinary colds. Once warm weather arrives and people can get outdoors again, everybody will be like, “What virus?”

So just keep calm and wait for April. Meanwhile . . .

 

Does former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker look worried? No, of course not. Kirby got that candid photo during Thursday night’s “Israel Heartland” reception, where Walker spoke along with Rep. Mark Meadows and Rep. Andy Biggs.

 

Does Grover Norquist look worried? Don’t be silly. He was hosting a reception yesterday at the Public House. One of the most influential activists in Washington, Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform, whose most famous quote is: “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” A worthy ambition.

Norquist has mentored many young conservatives, including my friend Will Upton, who used to work for ATR. In August 2011, when I was covering the Iowa Straw Poll, I met up with Will at a Des Moines bar one afternoon and told him I was getting ready to go cover a Mitt Romney event. Will decided to ride along and when we arrived at the event, there was a registration table out front. Neither of us had expected this. Would they be checking credentials? Would they let us in? Will just strolls up to the table and says, “Grover sent us.” We sailed through with no hassles.

Well, so much for campaign-trail nostalgia. Now I’ve got to jump in the shower and head back over to CPAC. I’m tentatively scheduled for two interviews on Radio Row this afternoon. Later . . .




 

Category: CPAC
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