Trouble for the Anti-White, Anti-Male, Anti-Heterosexual, Anti-American Party

Posted on | November 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Trouble for the Anti-White, Anti-Male, Anti-Heterosexual, Anti-American Party

Identity politics is organized hatred, and the problem with the Democratic Party is that they have become a party that is unequivocally against the interests of a majority of Americans:

“Despite demographic trends that continue to favor the Democrats, and despite Trump’s unpopularity among wide swathes of the electorate, it will still be difficult for the Democrats to prevail against an incumbent president who has presided over a growing, low-unemployment economy and retains strong loyalty among key sectors of the electorate,” write Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin of the Center for American Progress. No conservatives they.
The Democratic difficulty has a name: the Electoral College. Twice in the twenty-first century, the level of the presidential vote has mattered less than its distribution. Trump’s people are spread much more evenly across the country than his opponents are. His base of white voters without college degrees, say Teixeira and Halpin, “make up more than half of all eligible voters in critical Electoral College states he won in 2016—including Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—and in key target states for 2020 such as New Hampshire.”
Non-college white voters comprised the largest part of the electorate in 2016. Trump won them 63 percent to 31 percent. That margin more than compensated for his 7-point loss among whites with college degrees. Teixeira and Halpin predict that the number of white voters without college degrees will drop next year. But they also recognize that Trump can still win. “If he increased his support across states among these voters by 10 margin points, he would in fact carry the popular vote, albeit by just 1 percentage point.”
White voters without college degrees are the reserve army of the GOP. They are a falling percentage of the U.S. population but a rising percentage of the Republican Party.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas at American Power.)

Why did Hillary Clinton lose in 2016? It wasn’t just because working-class white men didn’t vote for her — a majority (53%) of white women also voted for Trump — but also because Hillary failed to generate the level of turnout among black voters that Obama got in the two previous elections. In other words, after Obama, some black voters have decided they won’t vote for white Democrats any more. That’s why candidates like Beto O’Rourke and Kirsten Gillibrand never caught on this cycle, and it’s why the likely nomination of Elizabeth Warren in 2020 will almost certainly be a disaster for Democrats. Does anyone think black voters are going to be excited about the fake Cherokee Harvard professor? In a desperate (and misguided) effort to win in 2020, Democrats and their media allies have doubled-down on identity politics, with feminists promoting an angry anti-male message and LGBTQ activists promoting insulting and offensive rhetoric against heterosexuals. Democrats are now the “Drag Queen Story Hour” party and the Angry Fat Woman party, and I don’t think that message will resonate with Middle America.

Democrats think that Trump is so unpopular that they can be as extreme as they want to be — confiscate all the guns! free college tuition for illegal aliens! abolish private health insurance! — and still win. And they never seem to consider the possibility maybe they’re wrong.

Why should white working-class voters in Michigan vote for Democrats, when Democrats have gone to such lengths to demonstrate how much they hate the white working class, simply for being white?

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 11.01.19

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357Magnum: How To Survive The California Blackouts
EBL: Clint Eastwood’s Not Dead But Beta O’Rourke’s Campaign Is
Twitchy: Greta Thunberg’s No Air Travel Plan Has Hit A Hilarious Snag
Louder With Crowder: Pelosi Tells Colbert Impeachment Doesn’t Have To Be Bipartisan (Earlier, She Said It Did)
According To Hoyt: NANO NANO & Odds & Ends
Vox Popoli: Creepy Joe Is Over

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The No Thinking Edition
American Greatness: The Impeachment Schiff Show, also, TPUSA Officers At KSU Quit En Masse
American Power: Whites Without College Degrees Are The GOP’s Reserve Army
American Thinker: Media-Democrat Tantrum Is A Fear Response
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Income Inequality Friday
Babalu Blog: Charlotte NC Museum Partners With Castro Regime For Cuba Exhibit, Tells Cuban He Has To See It To Experience Cuba
BattleSwarm: Linkswarm For November 1
Cafe Hayek: Don’t Minimize The Negative Effects Of Minimum Wages
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: 30 Tips To Stay Married 30 Years – Take Lucy’s Advice On Starting The Day Right
Don Surber: NYC Loses The Man Who Saved It, also, Court-Martial The Spy Vindman
First Street Journal: I Paid My Property Taxes Today
The Geller Report: Seven French Muslim Cops Ordered To Disarm, One Suspended For Radicalism, also, Muslim Migrants In MN Charged With Sending Drones To Hezbollah
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Bit Behind Schedule
Hollywood In Toto: Greener Grass Shows Ugly Side Of Suburbia & Indie Comedy
Joe For America: Alleged Identity Of Whistleblower Leaked, Attorneys Threaten Journalists
JustOneMinute: She Had A Plan
Legal Insurrection: Low-Polling Beto Bows Out, also, Impeachment-Crazy CNN Already Measuring WH Drapes For President Pelosi
The PanAm Post: Universal Surrender?
Power Line: The Impeachment Schiff Show, also, Ho Hum
Shot In The Dark: And They Say Progs Are Illiterate About Economics
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Is There A Liberal Crackup?
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Military PII Stolen To Compromise Bank Accounts & Benefit Payments
Victory Girls: Quid Pro Quo, Impeachment, & The Deep State
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Rules It’s Not A Taking If Cops Destroy Innocent Person’s House During Op
Weasel Zippers: Michelle Obama – White People “Still Running” Out Of Black Neighborhoods, also, NYT Says Airing National Anthem On TV Could Trigger People
Megan McArdle: Actually, We Don’t Want Facebook & Twitter Making Too Many Judgment Calls
Mark Steyn: Put Some Records On While I Snore

Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

How #StickToSports Became the New #LearnToCode — Deadspin Is Dead

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | Comments Off on How #StickToSports Became the New #LearnToCode — Deadspin Is Dead

“There was a time, about ten years ago, when I could write like Grantland Rice. Not necessarily because I believed all that sporty bullshit, but because sportswriting was the only thing I could do that anybody was willing to pay for. And none of the people I wrote about seemed to give a hoot in hell what kind of lunatic gibberish I wrote about them, just as long as it moved. They wanted Action, Color, Speed, Violence.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72

What would Doctor Gonzo say to the former staff of Deadspin?

Deadspin is dead, for the time being.
The site is now without any editors or writers — after a staff revolt that erupted this week when parent company G/O Media demanded that the sports and culture site confine its coverage to sports.
As of Friday morning, all 20 of Deadspin’s previous editorial employees are no longer working for the company, a G/O Media rep confirmed. The spokesman added, “The company is recruiting new staff.”
The exits started after G/O Media fired interim editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky when he refused to follow the company’s mandate to stick to sports in Deadspin’s editorial coverage. That directive, from G/O editorial director Paul Maidment, appeared to be in response to a Deadspin article (which has since been deleted) complaining about autoplay video ads that the company was running on the site.
Managing editor Samer Kalaf, the last remaining senior edit staffer as of early yesterday, tweeted his resignation Thursday afternoon: “OFFICIAL STATEMENT: I have self-yeeted from Deadspin.” Word came Friday that staff writer Dave McKenna also had resigned.
Former Deadspin editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell wrote in a tweet Friday, “And with that, it’s over. Deadspin no longer employs a single writer or editor. I am gutted but so very proud of this group of people.” Greenwell exited Deadspin in August, which she previously said came “after months of being undermined by G/O Media management.”
In a statement earlier about the staff resignations, G/O Media had said, “We’re sorry that the staff that resigned couldn’t work within this incredibly broad coverage mandate.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders joined the discussion over the chaos at Deadspin, writing in an Oct. 31 tweet, “I stand with the former Deadspin workers who decided not to bow to the greed of private equity vultures like [G/O Media CEO] Jim Spanfeller. This is the kind of greed that is destroying journalism across the country, and together we are going to take them on.”
Deadspin was part of Univision’s sale in April of this year of Gizmodo Media Group to G/O Media, which is backed by private-equity firm Great Hill Partners and Spanfeller. Univision had acquired the assets of the former Gawker Media in a bankruptcy auction in 2016.

You will recall that Nick Denton’s Gawker got bankrupted by an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit from former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan. This result was cheered by #GamerGate because Gawker also owned Kotaku, a videogame blog that promoted “social justice warrior” (SJW) nonsense. Deadspin’s demise was another #GetWokeGoBroke episode:

Deadspin writer Drew Magary on Thursday morning said he was quitting. Writers Dom Cosentino, Luis Paez-Pumar and Dan McQuade also tweeted their farewells Thursday, adding to the seven who had resigned Wednesday.
Management fired back on Thursday, claiming that the staffers’ contention that non-sports were among the most popular posts was not true.
“In September, unsurprisingly, 24 of the top 25 stories on Deadspin were sports-related while non-sports content accounted for less than 1% of the page views on the site,” a spokesman said.
“While amusing, our readers haven’t actually come to Deadspin for stories like ‘Classic Rock, Ranked,’ or ‘You’re Goddamn Right It’s Layering Season,’ or ‘It’s OK to Logoff.’?”

“Kazika the Mad Jap” could not be reached for comment.

@realDonaldTrump Go fuck yourself.

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) January 17, 2013

#LearnToCode pic.twitter.com/AtzHu0mD8Q

— Fulora (@futalora) October 31, 2019

Category: Journalism, Media Bias, Sports

BREAKING: O’Rourke Drops Out

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | Comments Off on BREAKING: O’Rourke Drops Out

The avowed gun-grabber has run out of money:

Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a campaign in which he struggled for months to recapture the energy of his insurgent 2018 Senate candidacy on a national stage full of other big personalities and liberal champions.
Mr. O’Rourke made the decision to quit the race in the middle of this week, on the eve of a gathering Friday of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, according to people familiar with his thinking. He is not expected to run for any other office in 2020, despite persistent efforts by party leaders and political donors to coax him into another bid for the Senate.
His campaign has been under extreme financial strain, and Mr. O’Rourke’s advisers concluded that proceeding in the race might have meant making deep cuts to his staff in order to pay for advertising and other measures to compete in the early primary and caucus state.
Mr. O’Rourke planned to announce his withdrawal from the race in Iowa on Friday evening and follow up with an email message to his supporters. In that message, a draft of which was reviewed by The New York Times, Mr. O’Rourke said he was proud of championing issues like guns and climate change but conceded that his campaign lacked “the means to move forward successfully.”

Good-bye, and good riddance, Robert Francis O’Rourke. On Fox News minutes ago, Juan Williams asked, “Who gets Beto’s support now?” To which Dana Perino replied, “Well, he doesn’t have any support.”

UPDATE: Guess this fund-raising idea didn’t work out:

How about, “Hell, no, you won’t!”

LOSER

Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race https://t.co/YxCzT8O8Hg #FoxNews

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 1, 2019

Category: Democrats

Jabba the Hut Gets Hired by Seattle Schools to Humiliate White Racist Kids

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

Say hello to Tracy Castro-Gill:

In October, Seattle public schools unveiled a “framework” to inject “math ethnic studies” into all K-12 math classes, teaching “how math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.”
Students will be asked to “identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color” and “explain how math dictates economic oppression.”
“Why/how does data-driven processes prevent liberation?” it asks. “How important is it to be Right? What is Right? Says Who?”
The curriculum was pushed by the school district’s ethnic studies program manager, Tracy Castro-Gill . . .
“I am an educator of color in Seattle whose job is anti-racist work within the school district. Seattle is very white — nearly 70%. It’s also one of the most liberal cities in the US, and these liberal, white Seattleites hate being called racist, but the thing is – a lot of them are,” she wrote. . . .
“I’m fairly radical atheist and consider myself a far left anarchist who fights for racial justice,” she wrote. “My parents are both Trump supporting Republicans.”

If you knew someone was a radical atheist anarchist, would you let them anywhere near your children? No, of course not, but the Seattle public school system hired this deranged lunatic to teach kids that “math dictates economic oppression” against “communities of color.”

2 + 2 = RAAAAACISM!

Jabba the SJW Hutt here is actually part of a national trend, as public schools are instituting “social justice” programs and eliminating honors classes which are deemed “racist.” Ace of Spades comments:

Academic achievement is racist.
This is, of course, the inevitable end-point.
Do they even realize what they are strongly, strongly implying when they make claims like this?

I don’t know. Maybe they could read a racist book or something. But who am I kidding? These people are too stupid to read books.

Category: Education

The Democrats’ 2020 Implosion

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | Comments Off on The Democrats’ 2020 Implosion

All their “rising stars” have fallen to earth:

This primary is turning into a giant bonfire of once-promising political talents who could make national reporters swoon.
As far back as 2017, Vogue and other national glossies gushed over the presidential potential of Kirsten Gillibrand.
Beto O’Rourke was the favorite subject of glowing profiles in national publications throughout 2018.
Julian Castro spent much of the past decade being touted as “the Latino Obama.”
Cory Booker was the subject of documentaries and a social media star . . . and like the rest, he’s an afterthought.
And as our John McCormick notes, Kamala Harris’s campaign may be reaching the stage of an M.Night Shamalayan character — long since dead, but still walking around in denial of this difficult truth.

Read the whole thing. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, Elizabeth Warren will be the Democratic nominee in 2020. Perhaps one major reason Democrats have been in such a hysterical rush to impeach President Trump is because they see what anyone else with two eyes and a brain can see — Trump will stomp Warren like Godzilla stomping Tokyo. Notice — you could scarcely miss it — that this “UkraineGate” frenzy boiled over just about the time the first few rounds of TV debates among the Democrat hopefuls had made clear that (a) Biden was hopeless, and (b) none of the “rising stars” had a chance. Biden’s poll numbers began to sag and Warren’s numbers started rising, and then — BOOM! — Schiff and the House Democrats hit the panic button.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: Democrats

The Deep State and UkraineGate

Posted on | November 1, 2019 | Comments Off on The Deep State and UkraineGate

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate keeping up with the day-to-day partisan warfare in D.C.? Many journalists crave such a diet, but I find it tedious, mainly because it’s “pack” reporting, everybody chasing the same story, whereas I prefer to find some little-noticed incident nobody else is covering and turn that into a story. All this to explain why I dread this “UkraineGate” impeachment carnival — the Beltway press corps will love it, but there’s no real fun to be had in trying to cover the same story that’s being covered by a thousand other reporters and drawing commentary from a thousand pundits. How can I possibly make any really valuable contribution to such a story? But never mind my personal problems, there’s a witch-hunt underway in Washington:

Though Democrats have been working hard to keep the identity of the whistleblower under wraps, reports this week published his alleged identity — and conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh says that now that more details are out, it’s painfully clear why Trump’s political enemies wouldn’t want the whistleblower identified.
“The guy was a plant in the White House by the CIA to do exactly what he did,” Limbaugh said Thursday. “We know his name. He’s one of a dime-a-dozen Yale or Harvard graduates, literally a 30-year-old Pajama Boy doing the bidding of John Brennan in the White House.” . . .
“This guy’s a leaker! He’s not a whistleblower!” said Rush. ” … This guy was involved from the get-go, starting in 2016, doing John Brennan’s bidding from the West Wing on furthering the whole Trump-Russia collusion operation of which there wasn’t one!”
“[T]hey don’t want us to know who he is for these obvious reasons,” he added. “Now Schiff and his buddies are saying, ‘Well, we don’t need to know the young whistleblower’s identity. We don’t really need to hear from the whistleblower.’ Of course we don’t now … ”
Limbaugh stressed that “everybody has known who this guy is for weeks,” including Trump and his aides, yet his name wasn’t leaked until now, which he described as “a classic illustration of the swamp protecting itself.”

All very true, and since the nation’s most popular radio host has said it, there’s not much for me to add. Nevertheless, I must try:

Nancy Pelosi proclaimed Thursday that the party-line impeachment vote in the House of Representatives was about protecting “democracy.” Madame Speaker was actually close to speaking the truth for once, because what the impeachment circus is about is protecting Democrats, particularly the Obama administration officials who sought to sabotage President Trump both during the 2016 election campaign and after Trump won. The vote Thursday — 232 to 196, with all but two Democrats in favor and all Republicans voting “no” — followed several days of secret testimony in deranged California Rep. Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee, conducted prior to any authorizing vote on the House floor. Now that Democrats have formally voted to climb aboard the “Ukrainegate” impeachment train, however, Pelosi and her party have signed a sort of suicide pact. They must destroy the president in a desperate effort to prevent Americans from learning what Obama, the Democratic Party, and “deep state” bureaucrats did to Trump.
It was perhaps symbolic that this House vote happened on Halloween, inspiring the president to remark on Twitter: “The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!” . . .

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