In The Mailbox: 03.06.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | March 6, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.06.25 (Morning Edition)

Maybe I’ll be able to stay up late enough tonight to get the evening edition done.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Arkansas Is NOT a Place to Run from Police, also Texans Are Still Armed
Director Blue: Top 20 Democrat Ironies
EBL: Homestead, also, State Of The Union
Twitchy: Sounds Like Adam Schiff Better Buckle Up Because It’s About To Get Real, Thread From Doctor Who Had Birds-Eye View Of Democrats During Trump’s Speech A Must-Read, and Megyn Kelly Ends Hateful Hag For Laughing At Video Of Tranny Injuring Payton McNabb
Louder With Crowder: Here are all the moments Democrats embarrassed themselves during Trump’s most pro-America speech ever, Multiple liberal cities are suing the Trump Admin, claim that being a sanctuary for illegals makes their city “safer”, Trump’s America and Why Liberals Won’t Stand for Anything, The culprit responsible for 23 Dem senators sharing the same propaganda identified themselves, and it makes sense now, and America is Back – Breaking Down Everything You Missed in Trump’s Joint Address
Vox Popoli: Clown World’s Bluff, 20 Percent Tariffs on China, Clown World Abandons Taiwan, Leaving NATO, and Another Review of SAPIENS
Cedar Sanderson: Domestic Bliss
Bugscuffle Gazette: Iron Does Not Lie
Stoic Observations: Beware of Brainiac
Postcards From Barsoom: Fixing The Fertility Crisis
Gab: The Soul
Toni Airaksinen: Anti-Semitic Nurse Facing Investigations After Refusing To Treat Jews, Calling Them “Vermin”, “Rats”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: A DARPA Floaty USV Thingy?
Dana Loesch: Is BlackRock Running The Panama Canal Moderately Better Than The CCP? also, Activist Judges – A Look At Judge Amir H. Ali
Don Surber: Zelensky & The Art of the Trumpenfreude
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Another Humpday Shrapnel Post

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In The Mailbox: 03.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens When Health Care Becomes a .gov Bureaucracy?
EBL: Democrat Messaging Disaster, also, UK Troops In Ukraine?
Twitchy: “We’re Not Gonna Put Up With It!”, Michael Cohen (No, Not That One) Calls Trump Racist For Mocking Fauxcahontas’ Indian Lies, and Reddit Map Of America After Hypothetical WW3 Is Pure Leftist Fantasy
Louder With Crowder: Democrats forget how the internet works, release 22 videos of different senators reading the exact same anti-Trump diatribe, Joy Behar left SPEECHLESS after Stephen A. Smith calls her out for denying Trump won in a landslide, A Liberal woman turns herself into Zelenskyy in a bizarre make-up tutorial video and…wait, she does what now? Finally! Recall Papers Filed Against LA Mayor After Her Fire Failures, and What Are Pam Bondi’s Real Motivations?
Vox Popoli: Yes, English IS Our Official Language, The Crimean War 2.0, White Bull at Mobile World, The Mysterious Omission, and Leave NATO, Leave the UN
Bugscuffle Gazette: Social Media,
Defending The Wood Perilous: On Angels, Revisited,
Toni Airaksinen: UC-Santa Cruz Is Hiring For Palestine Studies – But Not Israel Studies?
Jim McCoy: The Neck Romancer
Upstream Reviews: The Cosmic Courtship

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Privateers – Now More Than Ever
Dana Loesch: Zelensky Was Petulant & Wrong, also, Democrats Double Down On Crazy At The Joint Address
Don Surber: Desperate Democrats
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental Sorbet
STUMP: Mortality Classics – Broken Heart Syndrome, also, The Week In Meep

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Tuesday Speech YUGE Win for Trump; Democrats Self-Destruct on Live TV

Posted on | March 5, 2025 | Comments Off on Tuesday Speech YUGE Win for Trump; Democrats Self-Destruct on Live TV

Probably I need to go ahead and write that column I’ve been kicking around in my head for the past couple of weeks, based on Sidney Blumenthal’s idea of The Permanent Campaign, but not right now.

There will be time enough later for deep-dive analysis of how the Democrats have lost their way, but at the present moment what matters more is what an absolute triumph Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech was. The “instant” polls by both CNN and CBS News showed overwhelming approval by those who watched it, and while we may discount those numbers somewhat — after all, Trump supporters were more likely than Trump haters to be watching his speech — it’s still a clear win. We’re only 43 days into Trump’s second term, and we don’t know what the future holds, but there can be no denying that he now has strong momentum, and the Democrats don’t know how to cope.

Symone Sanders and Michael Steele HATED the Democrats' "bingo signs."

SANDERS: "This is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership… The visuals are not taking back the House in 2026."

STEELE: "I don't know who thought up the bingo signs, but they should be… pic.twitter.com/oi89ZQBg4V

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 5, 2025

“This is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership,” Symone Sanders said on MSNBC and, do you know who Symone Sanders is? She was national press secretary for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, then in 2020 she worked on Joe Biden’s campaign before becoming senior advisor for Kamala Harris. In other words, she’s about as hard-core Democrat as you could find and, if the Democrats have lost Symone Sanders . . . ? Dude, they are so toast.

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In The Mailbox: 03.04.25

Posted on | March 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.04.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in February.
The Spring 2025 Based Book Sale After Action Report
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Stunners From The Musk-Rogan Discussion
357 Magnum: Sparky Car Sparking in Korea
EBL: Zelensky is about to learn the meaning of FAFO, Brave The Dark, Good: Europe can defend Ukraine from now on, The Last Rifleman, and David Johansen, RIP
Twitchy: The Look On Nancy Pelosi’s Face Tells The Whole Story For Democrats, Democrats Can’t Bring Themselves To Applaud Kid Who Survived Brain Cancer, and “How Did That Work Out?” Trump Calls Out Democrats’ Failed Lawfare To Their Faces
Louder With Crowder: Should Trump Ditch Free-riding NATO After Zelensky Blowup? Military family reunited with their missing kitty after the movers discovered where the cat had been hiding for three weeks, AOC blames GOP for America’s open borders, but that’s not as silly as what she said about the Laken Riley Act, NYT drops despicable anti-Elon Musk hit piece tying him to apartheid… but didn’t they try this one already? and Mike Johnson shoots straight on Medicaid reform, calls the program “not for 29-year-old males playing video games”
Vox Popoli: The Euthypro Deception, Sigma Game and Diplomacy, The Cathedra Hoodie, What Three Years Hath Wrought, and Free Trade is What It Is
Stoic Observations: Intelligence vs. Virtue
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Can Ukraine Win Now? also, Clash of Worldview
Dr. Mauser: Lewd Anime Memes
Bugscuffle Gazette: Shifting Priorities, also, Advice for Writers
Upstream Review: Tales of the Mongoose & Meerkat
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Project Is A Go!
Gab: The Meaning of Work

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Securing Ukraine’s Future Security,
Don Surber: Trump may have killed NATO too
Glenn Reynolds: What I Did This Weekend
STUMP: Pension Watch – February 2025

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Oscar Winner Decides to ‘Recognize and Honor the Sex Worker Community’

Posted on | March 4, 2025 | Comments Off on Oscar Winner Decides to ‘Recognize and Honor the Sex Worker Community’

Because I haven’t watched the annual Oscar ceremony in years — and I suspect few of my readers watch it, either — this bit of Hollywood news was somewhat confusing to me. Who is Mikey Madison and what did she do in the movie Anora to merit the Best Actress award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Wikipedia:

Mikaela Madison Rosberg (born March 25, 1999), known professionally as Mikey Madison, is an American actress. She began her career acting in short films and received recognition for her role as a sullen teenager in the FX comedy series Better Things (2016–2022). Madison then played Susan Atkins in Quentin Tarantino’s comedy-drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Amber Freeman in the horror film Scream (2022).
Madison gained wider recognition for playing the titular role of a sex worker in Sean Baker’s film Anora (2024), winning the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress.

OK, so she was in a Tarantino flick, which is rather an impressive credential to have acquired at such a young age. But what is this movie Anora? This is from Wikipedia’s plot summary:

Anora “Ani” Mikheeva is a 23-year-old stripper living in Brighton Beach, a Russian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. Her boss introduces her to Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov, the young son of the Russian oligarch Nikolai Zakharov, who requests someone fluent in Russian. Although Vanya is in the United States to study, he spends most of his time partying and playing video games in his family’s Brooklyn mansion.
Vanya hires Ani for several encounters and pays her $15,000 to stay with him for a week. During a trip to Las Vegas, he impulsively proposes. Despite her skepticism, Ani agrees, and they elope at a wedding chapel. She quits her job and moves into Vanya’s mansion. When news of the marriage reaches Russia, Vanya’s mother Galina orders his Armenian godfather Toros to find them and arrange an annulment while she and Nikolai fly to the U.S.
Toros sends his henchmen, Garnik and Igor, to the house. They inform Vanya that his parents are taking him back to Russia and enrage Ani by calling her a prostitute and suggesting that Vanya only married her to obtain a green card. . . .

Much drama ensues. Made for a modest budget of $6 million, the movie has grossed $40 million, so at least it was profitable. However, there’s no way Mikey Madison would have gotten the Best Actress award had it not been for the controversy that destroyed the Oscar hopes of transgender Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón. That was amazing, wasn’t it? Transgenderism is nowadays the most fashionable cause célèbre in Hollywood, and the Oscar committee would have been delighted to give the Best Actress award to Gascón, but unfortunately for the “actress” formerly known as Carlos, he/“she” had once said some rude (if arguably true) things about Muslims on social media, and when this was discovered, it was “cancel” time for the Spanish tranny. This is how the young star of Anora got her Oscar, which then gave her the opportunity to express solidarity with “the sex worker community”:

“I just want to recognize and honor the sex worker community. . . . I will continue to support and be an ally. All of the incredible people, the women that I’ve had the privilege of meeting from that community, has been one of the highlights of this incredible experience.”

[ Church Lady voice ] Well, isn’t that special?

Because the representative of the transgender community got caught dissing the Muslim community, it’s a win for the sex worker community.

And just by the way, if you’re going to “recognize and honor” all the “incredible” women from “the sex worker community” — it was such a “privilege” just to meet them! — why not extend this gratitude to others involved in the vital business of sex work? Why not give a shout-out to the pimps and johns, and the strip club bouncers? How about being more specific about the “incredible” people and the work they do in the “community”? The strippers, the call girls, the street walkers, the meth-addicted truck-stop “lot lizards”? Go ahead and be inclusive — give a shout-out to the gigolos, the rentboys, the tranny hookers. Let’s not forget the OnlyFans girls and the legions of loyal simps who pay them money.

All this on prime-time TV. I’m sure the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are proud of themselves.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Denim on the Beach

Posted on | March 3, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Denim on the Beach

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week’s appetizer thanks to kbdabear’s Saturday Night Sideboob post.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five White House Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Captain America, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Friday Night Bush, The Heavy Water War, Pompeii’s Secret Cult, Gene Hackman RIP, Michelle Trachtenberg RIP, Visions Of The Future|Retro Future AI, The Bride/La Sposa, The Charleston, Bob Dobbs Discovers Johnny Cash, Claudia Gusmano, The Love Witch, Roberta Flack, Polytechnique, The Loneliest Planet, and Un Beau Soleil Interieur.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Keilah Kang Killian, Fish Pic Friday – Anne Marie, Thursday Tanlines, Taking Out the Bay Trash, The Wednesday Wetness, No. 7 Road, RIP: Roberta Flack, D.C. Issues Fish Consumption Advisories over PFAS, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Who Gives a Hoot? and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule 5 Redheads

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Ain’t I Done Told Y’all? Democrats Pushed Zelenskyy to Sabotage White House Deal

Posted on | March 2, 2025 | Comments Off on Ain’t I Done Told Y’all? Democrats Pushed Zelenskyy to Sabotage White House Deal

Note the time and date on that, please — shortly after 5 p.m. ET on Friday, I shared my suspicion that the real reason why that White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned into a s***show was that Zelenskyy had been encouraged by Democrats to “pull that stunt,” and now my hunch has been validated:

Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
“Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine,” Murphy’s office posted on X at 11:15 a.m. Friday.
He attached a picture of Zelensky at a conference table, with Murphy seated on the opposite side.
Forty minutes later, Zelensky arrived at the White House, where Trump met his car, smiled, shook his hand and walked him into the Oval Office.
The meeting, as the world now knows, quickly went off the rails and ended with Trump angrily ejecting the arrogant ingrate from the White House.
The earlier meeting with Dems undercuts wild claims that Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance staged an ambush. In fact, it was Zelensky who came with an ulterior motive.
The purpose of the meeting was to sign the mineral agreement he and Trump representatives had negotiated. He had twice refused to sign it after promising to, and thanks to Murphy, we now know he had no intention of signing it Friday.

Oh … the democrats sabotaged it

I’m shocked. Shocked!

“Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn)” pic.twitter.com/XFCQEH2hoq

— Phil Holloway ?? (@PhilHollowayEsq) March 2, 2025

An old saying, often cited by Hillary Clinton: “If you see a turtle on top of a fence post, the one thing you know is, it didn’t crawl up there by itself.” This meeting with Zelenskyy turning into a catastrophe was not a coincidence, you see. The whole thing was a setup by Democrats. In his column Michael Goodwin of the New York Post points out that this mineral deal — the whole purpose of the White House meeting was for Zelenskyy to sign the treaty — was something that Zelenskyy himself had suggested, and it was also Zelenskyy who insisted on a White House setting for the occasion. Democrats were behind the whole thing, see?

Well, let them own the consequences now. Also let me say this clearly: Fuck Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the horse he rode in on.

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FMJRA 2.0: A Rare Winning Week

Posted on | March 2, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Rare Winning Week

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Confinement VI ended sooner than I thought it would, with Mike Williamson, most of his family, and a large number of C6 members going off to the range this afternoon, so I’m getting caught up on blogging.
Since both of the Senators’ opponents last week were on autopilot, I managed to get the series against the Angels and Daytraders (Mets) wrapped up before leaving for Confinement. We lost two of three against the Angels, with only Spaceman Lee getting a win with a 4-0 shutout, but then we went to Shea Stadium and swept the Daytraders 12-4, 5-3, and 2-1, with Spaceman Lee notching his team-leading eighth win, Joe Coleman and Carl Morton getting their fifth wins, and the bullpen picking up saves for Charlie Hough & Bob Johnson (their third, in both cases). We’ll be facing the Yankees on Tuesday after I get home and the Twins on Friday, both series at home in RFK.
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