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Chris Cuomo: ‘I’ll F–king Throw You Down These Stairs Like a F–king Punk’

Posted on | August 13, 2019 | Comments Off on Chris Cuomo: ‘I’ll F–king Throw You Down These Stairs Like a F–king Punk’

Gosh, he’s so sensitive:

In a YouTube video released on Monday by “independent media journalist” with the title “That’s the Point with Brandon,” CNN’s Prime Time host Chris Cuomo can be seen threatening to throw a reported “Trump supporter” down some stairs. The incident appeared to be designed to get a rise out of Cuomo, but the CNN host completely blew up at a minor slight.
All told, Cuomo used the “F-word” roughly 25 times.
Before the video started rolling, the unidentified man apparently called Cuomo by the name “Fredo.” The name was a stinging nickname stemming from the disgraced Fredo Corleone character in The Godfather film. Over the years, it’s been a favorite jab at him from people on the right. . . .
“But if you want to play then we’ll fucking play,” Cuomo angrily spat as things began to spiral. “Yeah, but you’re going to have a big f–king problem.” . . .

MAN 1: I don’t have a problem with you man.
CUOMO: You’re going to have a f–king problem.
MAN 1: What? What are you going to do about it?
CUOMO: I’ll f–ing ruin your s–t. I’ll f–king throw you down these stairs like a f–king punk.
MAN 1: Please do.
CUOMO: Why, so you can f–king sue?
MAN 1: You don’t want to do that. You don’t want to do that.
CUOMO: So you can f–king sue?
MAN 1: But why don’t you do that then?
CUOMO: Then take a f–king swing. You want to call me Fredo then take a f–king swing.

The reason “Fredo” annoys Chris Cuomo so much is that, just as the Mafia exercised corrupt power in The Godfather, the Democrat Party exercises corrupt power in New York and, while his brother Andrew succeeded his father Mario Cuomo as capo di tutti capi of the political racket in New York, Chris’s only consolation is a show on an obscure cable network with lower ratings than Spongebob Squarepants. So he’s very much like Fredo Corleone, sent to Vegas to work with Moe Green while Mike took care of the family’s main business.

A CNN spokesman said: “Chris Cuomo defended himself when he was verbally attacked with the use of an ethnic slur in an orchestrated setup. We completely support him.” And, yeah, if somebody had deliberately insulted me this way — called me “Jed Clampett,” for example, or made a joke about Deliverance — I might have been angry. But I wouldn’t have used the f-word 25 times, nor would I have done that kind of macho trip, threatening to throw a “f–king punk” down the stairs.

You have to learn to shrug off these things, especially if you’re someone in the public eye. To be involved in controversy — and the news business nowadays is very controversial — means that you have enemies, whether you want it that way or not. There are people who have tried to harm me and my family because of politics and I’ve never done anything more than was necessary to self-defense. No need to threaten people.



 

Category: CNN

In The Mailbox: 08.12.19

Posted on | August 12, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Ministry of Truth” Marches on College Campuses
EBL: What Are The Russians Up To In The High Arctic?
Twitchy: Looks Like Kamala Harris’ Bad Day Just Keeps Getting Worse
Louder With Crowder: Drag Queen Teaches Children To Twerk, also, Al Sharpton Heckled By Angry Baltimore Residents

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hot Chicks & Links – The Woke Edition, also, Basketball Boobs
American Greatness: Obama Is Wrong – We Don’t Lead The World In Mass Violence, also, The Strange Case Of “White Supremacy”
American Power: Orange County Stabbing Rampage, also, Our Poisoned Information System
American Thinker: A Health Care System That’s The Envy Of The World, also, Both Ohrs In Troubled Water
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tax Deductions Friday, also, Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Mexican Schoolchildren Subjected To Communist Indoctrination, also, Castrophile Leftist Candidates Win Primary In Argentina
BattleSwarm: More On Jeffrey Epstein’s “Suicide”, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Woodstock At Fifty – What Are We Fighting For?
CDR Salamander: The Bad Vacation Top Ten From ACLED, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Suicide My ***, also, A Rusty Problem
Don Surber: Epstein Dies Of Arkancide, also, Democrats Choose Drag Queens Over A Saint
Dustbury: Nothing Seems To Help, also, Strange Search Engine Queries
First Street Journal: The Democrats Try To Divide On Race Again, also, Hold Them Accountable!
Fred On Everything: U.S. Supreme Over Asia In Mathematics!
The Geller Report: MSNBC – “I Want Pitchforks & Torches” Outside Trump Donor’s Home In Hamptons, also, Italy’s Salvini Tells Richard Gere To Take Stranded Migrants Home With Him
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Appearance Of…
Hollywood In Toto: Peanut Butter Falcon Is The Lovable Romp We Needed, also, Seven Huge Questions Remain After The Hunt‘s Demise
Joe For America: Chelsea Handler Calls For Military Coup To Overthrow Trump. Just One Problem…also, Ghislaine Maxwell Ready To Squeal To FBI About Rich & Powerful Epstein Pedo Clients?
JustOneMinute: I Predict This Will Turn Out To Be An Open-Carry Train Wreck
Legal Insurrection: People On Joaquin Castro’s Target List Are Getting Harassed, also, Fauxcahontas Wants To Use Tax Code To Strip Law-Abiding Citizens Of 2A Rights
The PanAm Post: The Real Scope Of The New U.S. Sanctions On Venezuela, also, Maduro’s New Ally In Evading Sanctions? Malta
Power Line: Psychologist Says Google Generated 2.6 Million Votes For Hillary, also, The Abyss Of Liberal Ignorance
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Wants Answers After Pedophile Epstein’s Death
Shot In The Dark: The Kobayashi Moron Test, also, Deja Vu All Over Again
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Have We Learned Anything About Gun Control? also, UK’s National Health Service Moloch Worshippers Condemn Yet Another Imprisoned Toddler To Death
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Explosions In Russia
Victory Girls: Biden Gaffes But Blames Trump, also, Harris & Warren Lose Vox Over Ferguson Lies
Volokh Conspiracy:  The Section 230 Temperature Is Rising, also, If You Oppose Punishing & Deporting Illegal Aliens, You Should Also Oppose Punishing Employers That Hire Them
Weasel Zippers: Police Escalate The Violence In Hong Kong, also, CNN’s Chris Cuomo Melts Down When Man Calls Him “Fredo”
Megan McArdle: How To Fight Mass Shootings – First, Let’s Define The Problem
Mark Steyn: An Intersectional Downton Abbey, also, The Knee Generation

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Category: Linkagery

What Happened to Patrick Crusius?

Posted on | August 12, 2019 | Comments Off on What Happened to Patrick Crusius?

Last week, I pointed out that:

  1. The parents of El Paso mass murderer Patrick Crusius claimed he had been “raised in a family that taught love, kindness, respect, and tolerance — rejecting all forms of racism, prejudice, hatred, and violence.”
  2. Crusius’s father John Bryan Crusius “is a licensed professional therapist . . . [who] described his therapeutic approach as holistic.”
  3. Crusius’s parents divorced when he was 14.

So, what happened? Was the boy traumatized by his parents’ divorce? Did he consciously rebel against his parents? Or was he suffering from a mental disorder? Rod Dreher speculates that Crusius might be on the autism spectrum, and compares him to another mass murderer:

Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook killer, had been diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome (meaning he was a high-functioning autist), and other psychiatric problems. He refused to accept this diagnosis, as, apparently, did his mother. He did not take the medication he was prescribed, nor did he undergo the rigorous therapy he was told to undertake. He had no friends, and in the months before the shooting, became a recluse who lived on his computer.
Let me emphasize strongly: I am not in any way saying that all people on the spectrum are at risk of becoming mass killers!

A necessary caveat, I suppose. But as I wrote at The American Spectator:

How many adolescent losers, spending hour after hour playing videogames, are potential mass murderers? The experience of social isolation, immersed in digital fantasies of make-believe violence, is not conducive to a hopeful sense of the future. No politician can be blamed for the influences that have produced a generation of psychologically damaged youth. Thirty years ago, Revenge of the Nerds was a Hollywood comedy. Now the nerds have become a terrorist threat, and it’s not the least bit funny.

Years ago, before the idea of an autism “spectrum” was popularized, we just called such people nerds or geeks or weirdos. It probably doesn’t matter what word you use to describe someone without normal social skills. The reclusive loner with no real friends and no romantic relationships may or may not be dangerous, but because they are so socially isolated, it’s possible for them to go crazy quietly, without anyone noticing. And then one day you turn on the news and there’s a reporter interviewing the neighbor who says, “He was a loner, kept to himself.”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

Category: Crime

Never Trust a Bisexual

Posted on | August 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Never Trust a Bisexual

 

Just a few months ago, I wrote:

Liam Hemsworth recently married Miley Cyrus, a decision he will regret “but once and that will be continually.” . . .
Probably I’m too judgmental, too opinionated, too negative in my attitude toward current social problems. But isn’t it obvious that a shortage of judgment is the underlying problem? If grown-ups weren’t afraid to bluntly speak the truth — “Stay away from that crazy Miley Cyrus, son” — maybe young people wouldn’t get themselves mixed up in all this insanity.

But guys don’t listen, and so Liam Hemsworth has been humiliated:

Liam Hemsworth was reportedly blindsided by photos of his estranged wife Miley Cyrus kissing Kaitlynn Carter on a girls’ holiday in Lake Como, Italy last week.
Miley, 26, confirmed her split from Liam, 29, after just seven months of marriage on Saturday. The day before, she had been pictured getting close to Kaitlynn, who is also newly single after separating from reality star Brody Jenner.
According to The Sun on Sunday, Miley’s ‘fling came as a shock’ to Liam.
‘Their marriage is over and Liam is absolutely heartbroken, but Miley is making up for lost time,’ claimed a source close to the couple.
‘He wants to settle down and have a conventional family including kids, but that couldn’t be further from what Miley is after right now.
‘She made it clear she wanted to be able to have fun with other people — men and women — but it’s always been something he’s had a hard time understanding.’ . . .
The pair had married in a secret wedding ceremony on December 23, 2018 at their home in Franklin, Tennessee.
Miley, who identifies as pansexual, revealed last month that she saw their marriage as ‘confusing, complex and modern’, and insisted that she was still ‘very sexually attracted to women’.

This was entirely predictable. Remember how Amber Heard wrecked Johnny Depp’s life? Another chump who made the mistake of marrying a bisexual woman. Why do guys keep making this mistake? Probably they hear “bisexual” and think: Threesome! But instead of living out some kind of fantasy dream, instead they discover they’ve stumbled into a nightmare of deception and cruelty. Ask yourself, why does Miley identify as “bisexual”? Because lesbians don’t want anything to do with that lunatic — and so it is for bisexual women generally. They’re all crazy, but guys never seem to figure this out until it’s too late.



 

Category: Celebrities, Gays

Rule 5 Sunday: Homeko At The Beach

Posted on | August 11, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sometimes Rule 5 is about sexy. Sometimes it’s about cute, and this is one of those times. Given the Japanese penchant for anthropomorphizing everything under the sun that has even vaguely human characteristics, it should be no surprise that there is a whole “family” of anthropomorphized computer operating systems, a/k/a OS-tans. They started out as somewhat of a joke on Japanese image boards, but quickly became so popular that Microsoft in Singapore and Taiwan used them in promotional ads, and authorized theme packs for various OS were sold. Here we have Homeko, the home version of Windows XP, at the beach, because it’s that time of year.

Don’t get too close to the water, babe…

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Gulf, Ninety Miles From Tyranny serves up Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #706, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism it’s Rule Five Tax Deductions Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Bacon Time has a couple of wet ones.

EBL’s herd this week includes The Muffs, Terri Nunn & Berlin, Lady Macbeth, Betty Gilpin, Sharon Tate, Fujiama Mama, Debbie Harry, and Fay Wray.

A VIew From The Beach reels in “a fishy lot” with The Deplorable Emma Roberts, Fish Pic Friday – Jessica Jae, Susquehanna Smallmouth Sickness Solved, “Rain Fall Down”, Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, Gone With The Wind, Virtue Signalling Fail, SFO Bans Bottles to Save the World, Another Palm Sunday, Great Moments in Climate Hypocrisy and It’s Good To Be the King!

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Sophia Loren, and at Dustbury it’s Rebecca Maddern and Rihanna.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Slave To The Grind

Posted on | August 11, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Slave To The Grind

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Poison Fruit of Radical Seeds
The Constitutional News Network
Nation And State
Dennis G. Hurst
Viewpoints Of The Many
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Claudia Cardinale
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

They Told Me If I Voted for Trump, Jews Would Suffer Legal Persecution …
EBL

How Dangerous Is Baltimore?
Bacon Time
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: This Is My Rifle
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Two Mass Shootings in 14 Hours: Thoughts on ‘The Gamification of Terror’
Dark Brightness
Nebraska Energy Observer
EBL

‘Revenge of the Nerds,’ IRL?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.05.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Aiyona Hunt’ Is Not a Woman
Bacon Time
EBL

Off the Shelf
EBL

Dayton Mass Murderer Had More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade in Beijing
Dark Brightness
EBL

DaTechGuy 2.0
Da Tech Guy
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.07.19 (Morning Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

Police in Canada Arrest #WaxMyBalls Tranny Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

The Hate They Create: Democrats Sow the Wind, and Reap the Whirlwind
EBL

This Was Probably Inevitable
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.07.19 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

8/8 = Hitler? ‘Remember, These Are the People Who Tell Us Trump Is Crazy’
A View From The Beach
EBL

Texas Psycho Killer’s Parents Claim They Taught Him ‘Love, Kindness … Tolerance’
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.08.19 (Not The Special Hitler Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

Biden Says What Liberals Really Think
EBL

$211.17
EBL

Reading for the Road: I Was Born in the Backseat of a Greyhound Bus
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending August 9:

  1.  EBL (23)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Posted on | August 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Dead Men Tell No Tales

 

GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA
News of Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” reached me Saturday morning in the parking lot of a Hardee’s in South Carolina. After driving all night, I’d stopped in for some breakfast, then took a brief nap in the car before resuming my journey. When I woke up, I called my brother Kirby to check on his plans for attending Uncle Casper’s funeral.

“Jeffrey Epstein’s dead,” Kirby said.

“What?”

“Suicide, they say.”

“You’re kidding me.”

It seemed impossible. Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after a previous reported suicide attempt at the Manhattan jail where he was being held awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Now there will be no trial on those charges, and no possibility that Epstein might implicate the many powerful men who allegedly cavorted with Epstein’s harem of teenage sex slaves. Should we, as they say, question the timing?

Epstein’s death comes just 24 hours after more than 2,000 pages of documents detailing the lurid allegations of his sexual abuse of underage girls were unsealed to the public.
On Friday morning, a federal appeals court published explosive documents pertaining to a 2015 lawsuit that Virginia Roberts Giuffre had filed against Epstein’s associate, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
Giuffre claimed Epstein and Maxwell kept her as a ‘sex slave’ in the early 2000s, whilst she was underage.
The unsealed papers — which made international news on Friday — implicated a number of high-profile men in sex scandals.
They include transcripts of a May 3, 2016 deposition made by Giuffre, in which she alleged that she was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to have sex with and provide erotic massages for politicians and affluent businessmen.
Giuffre claimed that she was ‘instructed’ by Maxwell to have sex with two high powered Democrats — former Senate Majority George Mitchell and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Both Richardson and Mitchell have denied the allegations.
According to the documents, Giuffre claimed she also had sex with Epstein’s friend Prince Andrew when she was 17 years of age.

Words like “claimed” and “alleged” must forever be used in connection with these stories, because without Epstein — either as a defendant in his own trial or as a witness against others, if he had reached some sort of agreement with prosecutors — it is unlikely that anything can ever be conclusively proven as to the involvement of “high powered Democrats” with the underage girls Epstein procured for such purposes.

* * * * *

If you’re wondering about the Gainesville dateline, I spent the night at my son’s house here, a stone’s throw from the shore of Lake Lanier. Woke up this morning to the pitter-patter of granddaughter Eliza’s feet running around, which was nice. Yesterday’s funeral for my Uncle Casper was a “celebration of his life,” as the pastor said. Afterwards, the family gathered at Casper’s granddaughter’s home, and somewhere during the conversation over barbecue, one of my cousins asked, “Do you think Trump will be re-elected?” Keep in mind that many of my family are staunch Democrats, so my answer to that question had to be phrased tactfully, and thus I stuck to the facts: If the economy stays strong — a big “if” — for the next 15 months, it’s almost certain Trump will be re-elected, based simply on historical precedent. The problem, I explained, is that everybody who follows politics (including journalists) has a tendency to get so excited about the day-to-day drumbeat of headlines. Today’s Drudge headline or whatever “scandal” is being talked about on cable news isn’t going to change the basic political situation. When voters go to the polls in November 2020, they’re not going to be thinking about whatever was big news in August 2019. If the economy keeps going like gangbusters, Trump can claim to have delivered on his promise of making America “great again,” and gets re-elected, no matter who the Democrats nominate. This isn’t a controversial analysis, and I hope none of my kinfolk were offended by how I answered my cousin’s question.

Most people don’t pay attention to politics on a daily basis. TV talking heads, who get paid to care about politics, never seem to grasp how little the ordinary American cares this stuff. The beautiful thing about limited government is that we are free to live our lives without worrying too much about what happens in Washington. We should be grateful for that freedom, and perhaps Democrats who were emotionally traumatized by Hillary’s defeat in 2016 might wish to reconsider their efforts to make the federal government such an omnipotent force in our lives that elections become an all-or-nothing struggle for total power.

* * * * *

My rental-car contract requires me to return this Nissan sedan by 6 p.m. Monday, so I’m likely to spend this afternoon chilling out here at my son’s house, maybe go out to dinner this evening and get back on the road early tomorrow morning with 614 miles to drive home. And of course, the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Shoe Leather Fund

Note To Self: Heed Surber

Posted on | August 10, 2019 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

I admit to some mild anxiety over Trump going wobbly regarding guns. Then I read Surber:

President Trump is playing Democrats again. They want to make gun control an issue. He said, OK, and took control of the gun control debate. The debate will be on his terms and in his language. That is power positioning.

The mopes at the Post and Matt Drudge thought they could divide President Trump from his supporters with the report on the NRA warning the president on guns.

I knew in an instant what was happening. I knew Democrats would lose because President Trump never engages the enemy without first winning the battle. I also knew the president, a busy man, had outsourced the terms of the Democrat surrender to the NRA.

Whatever deal is made will have the NRA’s approval.

I knew because of the First Squeal Rule. Whenever decisions are made privately, the loser is the one who goes public first in an effort to save face.

Which invites the ugly question: how do we follow Trump?

Category: Uncategorized
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