Big Trouble in Cracker Paradise

Posted on | February 2, 2024 | Comments Off on Big Trouble in Cracker Paradise

Just a few years ago, Portland, Oregon, was seen as a sort of progressive utopia, and it’s not really a secret why this was so: Portland is the whitest major city in America. Progressives like to talk about “diversity,” but they prefer to admire it from a comfortable distance, you understand.

So you had a lot of white hipsters moving to Portland, which gives them the desirable urban environment without having to deal with large numbers of brown people. Hypocrisy much? Anyway . . .

To say that Portland’s politics leans left is an understatement — Multnomah County gave 79% of its vote to Joe Biden in 2020, and it would have been higher were it not for the fact that about 3% voted for fringe left-wing candidates. The relationship between the whiteness of Portland and the left-wing politics of Portland is not merely coincidental. It is easier to believe socialism “works” in an ethnically homogenous polity (which is why socialism was so popular in places like Sweden). Once “diversity” enters the picture, however, people become suspicious that some groups are benefiting more than others from the collectivist redistribution racket, and the result — in America, at least — is what I’ve called “Missippification.” Pondering state-by-state results and exit-poll data after the 2000 election (Bush v. Gore), I noticed that Mississippi had both (a) one of the highest percentages of black population in the country and (b) the highest percentage of white people voting Republican, rivaled only by South Carolina. The more black people, the more white people vote Republican — this is the factor I call “MIssippification.”

Portland proves this principle in reverse — a predominately white city populated by the kind of left-wing kooks who like Bernie Sanders, but think he’s perhaps too “mainstream” for their taste. It’s no surprise that Portland is a hotbed of “Antifa” radicalism, just like it’s no surprise that Portland has a significant homelessness problem:

An Oregon family armed with fire extinguishers had to repeatedly save their home from fires after homeless squatters set a next-door house ablaze twice in one day.
Jacob Adams said he jumped into action as flames from both infernos threatened to leap over to their Portland property in the latest in a string of terrifying experiences since squatters took over the neighboring structure five years earlier.
“There are fires that have been happening off and on. Major ones. This recent one actually came and set our property on fire,” Adams told Fox 12.
“Within 12 hours of that fire, another fire popped up. My wife was screaming, and propane tanks were igniting off from the fire.” . . .
Portland has been dealing with a long-lasting homeless problem. There are over 6,600 homeless people in Portland across more than 700 encampments.
Although the city’s Mayor Ted Wheeler announced in October [2022] plans to ban the camps, the tent cities have largely remained undisturbed by city officials, including police.
The lax enforcement has allowed squatters to take over homes like the one next door to Adams, despite being served multiple eviction notices.
Over the past five years, Adams said he’s reported multiple thefts — including one culprit he caught stalking off their property with their firewood — drug usage and physical fights inside the rapidly deteriorating home, but to no avail.

See how this works? The leftist politics of Portland encourages and empowers the white trash segment of the population, so drug-addled misfits take over vacant homes and terrorize the neighbors.

What? Did I say “drug-addled misfits”?

City officials in the Democratic-run Utopia that is Portland, Oregon, have declared a state of emergency for the downtown area in a desperate bid to address the ongoing fentanyl crisis.

“Our country and our state have never seen a drug this deadly and addictive, and all are grappling with how to respond,” Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said in a statement.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is between 50 and 100 times more potent than morphine, and is a main driver of the United States’ ongoing opioid epidemic.
According to the Oregon Health Authority, the state experienced more opioid overdose visits to emergency departments and urgent care centers last year compared to previous years, while the Portland Police Department’s Bureau of Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit saw a 75% increase in notifications of overdose deaths in 2023 over a year prior.

As a reminder, Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize the possession of all drugs, including heroin and cocaine, in 2020.
They chose…poorly. . . .

Opioid deaths in Oregon more than tripled from 280, before the de-criminalization of drugs was voted in, to 955 in 2022.

Welcome to Cracker Paradise. Just try to ignore the dead junkies.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

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In The Mailbox: 02.01.2024

Posted on | February 2, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.01.2024

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month!
I’ll be driving up to Carson City tomorrow for a two-week stint in the tax mines. There may be a post tomorrow,
there may not. Much depends on how foul the weather is tomorrow and how long it takes for me to get to my hotel.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Netflix Throws Halle Berry Film In The Trash
EBL: Illegal Immigrant Thugs Viciously Beat NYPD Officers – Receive Get Out Of Jail Free Card
Twitchy: Boys Destroy Tampon Dispenser In Boys’ Bathroom – BECAUSE THEY’RE BOYS, Mother Doesn’t Know If Her “Daughter” Would Have Survived Male Puberty, and Susanna Gibson Is Back & Trying To Shred The First Amendment
Louder With Crowder: Here it is, the dumbest thing said by a crime-ridden progressive city official, Undercover footage exposes how little WH staff think of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Blue State Calls For Ban Of Hostile Architecture That Prevents Homeless Encampments And… Wait, What?
Vox Popoli: Immiliteracy and its Consequences, Castalia Library on Substack, and Sex Parties on Capitol Hill
Upstream Reviews: The Unexpected Enlightenment Of Rachel Griffin

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Spiritual Survival in the Sexual Marketplace
American Conservative: Military Escalation Against Iran Is Foolish and Unjustified
American Greatness: When the Invaders Outnumber the Army, also, How To Ensure a Big, Ugly War with Iran
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Dissident women in Cuba caught between repression and misery, Cuban dictatorship using forced abortions to trample the reproductive rights of female prisoners, and Cuban fisherman complains: Government buys fish from us for 1 peso per pound, individuals pay 200 Pesos
BattleSwarm: Federal Judge Strikes Down California Background Checks For Ammo
Behind The Black: Japan and India team up for unmanned lunar lander mission, Another exoplanet found in habitable zone, Update on Jared Isaacman’s upcoming Polaris Dawn manned mission, and A soft but dim spiral
Cafe Hayek: Ignored Innovation
CDR Salamander: Waiting At The Center Of The Terrible Twenties
Da Tech Guy: It Comes Down to a Loaf of Bread, also, If this is true the United States is doomed
Don Surber: Make it so, Donald
First Street Journal: We’re not really serious about rape
Gates Of Vienna: The Office for the Protection Against Hans-Georg Maaßen
The Geller Report: Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza, Republican Rep. Greene Moves to Censure Jihad-Rep Ilhan Omar for Treason, and Oregon Supreme Court Upholds Democrat Decision to Block 10 Republicans From Running for Reelection
Going It Alone: George Thorogood & The 46-Year Grudge
Hollywood In Toto: Kathy Griffin Is Sorry (And Struggling to Fill Theaters)
The Lid: Why Do So Many Young Americans Hate Israel?
Legal Insurrection: Florida Will No Longer Allow Transgender People to Change the Sex on Their Driver’s License, Drugmakers Hike Prices on Hundreds of Brand-Name Drugs, and Disney First Amendment Lawsuit Against DeSantis Thrown Out By Federal Judge
Nebraska Energy Observer: This speaks better
Outkick: Jerry Jones Flirts With Bringing Bill Belichick To Dallas Sometime In The Future, Lions Veteran Pours Emotional Praise On Dan Campbell, Cam Newton Continues To Talk Just To Talk, Says Brock Purdy 10th Best Player On His Team, Washington Commanders Selection Of Dan Quinn As New Head Coach Comes With Significant Irony, and Brittany Mahomes Shares Cringe Instagram Post, Acts Like A Teenager
Power Line: No better enemy, Get a load of Fani, cont’d, and They Firebombed My Office
Shark Tank: Moskowitz Blames Media & Misinformation For Anti-Israel Democrats
Shot In The Dark: I’ve Got Questions, also, Somewhere In Marcy-Holmes, Probably
STUMP: Society of Actuaries – U.S. Mortality Dashboard
This Ain’t Hell: SECDEF – “Sorry.”, also, Biden Repeats Claim of Son Beau Being Lost in Iraq
Victory Girls: Taylor Swift NFL Psyop Rumors Popular With Sexually Inadequate Democrats, also, Tech Hearing in Senate: Lots of Fire, But Will Anything Change?
Volokh Conspiracy: Antifa-vs.-Patriot-Prayer-Related Tort Lawsuit Partly Thrown Out but Partly Allowed to Go Forward
Watts Up With That: JUICE: POWER, POLITICS & THE GRID – Texas Blackout (Episode 1), A Closer Look at the UK’s Energy Predicament, and Monbiot: Left Wing Greens are the Scapegoats of People like Trump
The Federalist: The Biden Administration Is Treading On Texas’ Sovereignty, Not The Other Way Around, House Republicans Seek To Interview Witness Of Hunter Biden’s Potential Pay-For-Play Art Scandal, Lawmakers Should Weaponize State Budgets To Rein In Rogue Public Colleges, Stop Trying To Make ‘Taylor Swift Is A Psyop’ Happen, Joe Biden Keeps Rewarding The Terrorists, and Dem Senate Staffer Escapes Charges For Gay Sex Tape Amid Manhunt For J6ers
Mark Steyn: A Second Holocaust, Mann vs Ann, Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Mann Overboard, Steyn: The Opening Statement, and The Emperor Has No Clothes

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‘Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories’

Posted on | February 1, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories’

Justin Mohn: Pretty sure he didn’t read this blog

As an SPLC-certified Right-Wing Extremist, I could fairly be accused of holding various beliefs that are not considered “mainstream.”

For example, I think Texas would be entirely justified in seceding from the Union. I don’t believe in Keynesian economics or “climate change.” Heck, I don’t believe in Darwinian evolution. Or the designated hitter, for that matter. Despite my “fringe” beliefs, however, I have never been accused of advocating (checks notes) decapitating your father:

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after allegedly killing his father, before displaying his decapitated head in a gruesome YouTube video while spouting right-wing conspiracy theories.
Justin Mohn, 32, is accused of killing his father, Michael Mohn, police told NBC News. While police did not release the victim’s age, public records show him to have been 68.
Mohn was taken into custody about 100 miles away from the crime scene on suspicion of first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and possessing an instrument of crime with intent, according to a court docket released early Wednesday.
He was arraigned at 4 a.m. and denied bail, Middletown Township Police Capt. Pete Feeney said.
In the YouTube video, which was titled “Mohn’s Militia – Call To Arms For American Patriots” and is cited in a police complaint, Mohn is seen wearing gloves and holding his father’s head in a plastic bag. Later, the head can be seen in a cooking pot.
Mohn says his father was a federal employee for 20 years and refers to him as a traitor, calling for the death of all federal officials and attacking President Joe Biden’s administration, the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ community and antifa activists. YouTube removed the video, which is more than 14 minutes long, hours after it was posted. . . .

Now, I’m not exactly sure why Justin Mohn thought that brandishing his father’s severed head in a YouTube video was going to inspire others to answer his “Call To Arms For American Patriots.” Despite my lack of credentials in the field of psychiatry, I’d be willing to hazard a guess that Justin Mohn is bonkers, berserk, demented, deranged, daffy, wacky, off his rocker, non compos mentis, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

There is a difference — not just in degree, but a difference in kind — between whatever non-“mainstream” views I hold and the kind of murderous insanity that inspired Justin Mohn’s behavior. Therefore I take umbrage at the media’s efforts to suggest that everyone who voted for Donald Trump is somehow complicit, casting a shadow of suspicion on millions of law-abiding Americans who are utterly horrified by Justin Mohn’s ghastly crime. Your honor, I plead not guilty.

Did I mention Justin Mohn was a pro se litigant?

Mohn has filed at least three lawsuits against federal agencies, including the U.S. government, claiming they negligently caused him to take out student loans between 2010 and his graduation from Pennsylvania State University in 2014, a court filing shows.
He paid a filing fee of $2,000 and, after his claims were dismissed, he sought to have the judge recused from the case because of what he claimed was a personal bias and a conflicting personal financial interest.
In a legal opinion on the case, the judge called the accusations “entirely speculative and without factual basis” and said Mohn’s complaints were the “inaccurate allegations of a disappointed college graduate.”
Mohn also sued his former employer, Progressive Insurance, in 2020, alleging wrongful termination and sex discrimination against men. He was hired as a customer service representative in October 2016 and was fired in August 2017 after he kicked open the facility’s doors, court records show.
A district court ruled that Mohn failed to establish a case of discrimination.
When Mohn was filing his lawsuit, his parents were giving him about $540 a month, he indicated in the court filing. Shortly before Progressive fired him, he had taken a trip to Vegas to see if he could pursue a music career, according to the lawsuit.
He represented himself in the lawsuits.

A habit of filing meritless pro se lawsuits? Gosh, that seems strangely familiar, but I don’t want to get into any specious guilt-by-association games here. My point is that the evidence of Justin Mohn’s derangement was in plain sight, a matter of public record, but for some reason, nobody took alarm at his dangerous kookiness. There was nothing wrong with him that couldn’t be fixed by strapping him into a straitjacket, locking him in a padded cell and injecting him with Thorazine twice a day. Instead, it’s considered more “humane” to leave these nutjobs wandering around unhindered, until the day they commit an atrocity, at which point we get lots of commentary about how “the system failed him.”

Well, don’t blame me for this. Justin Mohn wasn’t one of my readers, as far as I know, and whatever “right-wing conspiracy theories” I may have promoted, I definitely never advocated what he did. And like I keep trying to warn you people: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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CNN: The Stupidity Caucus

Posted on | February 1, 2024 | Comments Off on CNN: The Stupidity Caucus

The late George Carlin used to say, you know how stupid the average guy is? Well, half the people are dumber than that. This crossed my mind because CNN — I watch CNN so you don’t have to — was hyping up this Quinnipiac University poll claiming that (a) Biden is leading Trump 50% to 44%, and (b) Nikki Haley would beat Biden, 47% to 42%.

Of course, you don’t believe that any more than I believe it and, quite frankly, I don’t think the people at CNN believe it either, but the point is that they think the CNN audience will believe it, and who can say they’re wrong? The CNN audience is composed of the kind of people who would vote to elect Fani Willis as their district attorney.

Here’s an important fact: Quinnipiac polls are garbage.

In August 2016, they had Hillary Clinton beating Trump by 10 points:

“We are starting to hear the faint rumblings of a Hillary Clinton landslide as her 10-point lead is further proof that Donald Trump is in a downward spiral as the clock ticks,” Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement.

LOL. If you’re the kind of person who pays attention to such things, you know Quinnipiac’s had a very bad track record in recent years, but if you’re a CNN viewer — the kind who’s dumber than the average guy — then you might actually be fooled when your news network of choice tells you that Joe Biden is beating Trump and that Nikki Haley would be a better candidate for Republicans. Here’s something else the average CNN viewer probably doesn’t realize: The Republican primary campaign is over. Trump wins, period, and there’s not much point paying attention to whatever Nikki Haley says or does between now and the moment she finally admits defeat. You know this. I know this. It’s simply a fact.

In fact, it’s been clear for months that Trump would be the Republican nominee. This is why Trump never bothered showing up for the TV debates with his putative rivals. There was never any real possibility that the various occupants of the debate stage would pose a significant threat to Trump’s solid grip on the Republican grassroots. However much you might admire Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, et al., they never stood a chance, and neither does Nikki Haley. She’s going to get stomped in the Nevada caucuses, then get stomped again in the South Carolina primary, and whatever happens after that is just a question of how much stomping she can endure. Because that’s what Trump will do — stomp, stomp, stomp — in every primary and caucus from here on out. New Hampshire was Haley’s best shot at actually winning a primary, and Trump beat her by double-digits there, so where can she realistically expect to stage an upset? Answer: Nowhere. Stick a fork in her, she’s done.

By pretending that Haley is still a viable candidate, CNN shows how reliant they are on the stupidity of their audience. They’re trying to monopolize the IQ-below-room-temperature viewers.

They’re getting beat by The Hallmark Channel:

Ratings-challenged CNN’s total viewership in prime time last week lagged behind the History Channel and an obscure cable network — founded by televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker — that plays Western TV shows and films, according to the latest figures released by Nielsen.
The “most trusted name in news” — which recently hired former New York Times and BBC boss Mark Thompson as its CEO — had an average of 538,000 nightly viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. block during the seven-day period from Jan. 15 until Jan. 21, according to the most recent data compiled by Nielsen.
The weak ratings were generated despite coverage of the Iowa caucus, which saw former President Donald Trump easily rout GOP contenders in his bid to regain the White House.
CNN not only finished behind rivals Fox and MSNBC, but was the 10th most-watched channel on cable, getting beat by Hallmark, The History Channel and INSP, a South Carolina-based channel founded in the late 1970s by the Christian televangelists.

LOL.

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In The Mailbox: 01.31.24

Posted on | February 1, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.31.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Restless, Upstairs Downstairs, and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Twitchy: Gov. Gianforte (R-MT) Seemingly Defends Removal Of “Trans” Kid From Family, Progs At VoteVets Drop Hot Take & Get Roasted, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) Whines About Walgreens Store Closures & Blames Racism
Louder With Crowder: Thug Throws Pole Through County Building – Take A Guess How Many Priors He Has, Leftist Vox claims Americans are “oddly obsessed with protein”, and Leftists have a new target for their hate: Board Games! They “uphold colonial narratives”
Vox Popoli: Trump’s Trade War 2.0, The Great Retardation, and Artificial Bafflegarble
Upstream Reviews: Fallout From The Chengdu Worldcon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Bolton Pens New Trump Campaign Ad
American Greatness: How’s Life in Obama’s Fundamentally-Transformed America Working Out for You So Far?
American Thinker: If…Then…2024, also, The De-evolution of the West
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban hospitals not spared from the critical medicine shortages on the island, Cuba and Belarus seal ‘bilateral military cooperation agreement’, and Reports from Cuba: Cuban authorities arrest a dozen Ladies in White, says Berta Soler
BattleSwarm: Chinese Commies & PianoGate: One Of Them Was A Spy
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab launches four commercial satellites, Tank explosion in Shanghai injured three, Pentagon in discussions with SpaceX about buying a Starship outright for military missions, Voyager signs SpaceX’s Starship to launch its Starlab space station, Private company in India aims to build its own manned capsule and astronaut training facility, and Shoddy Harvard — home of plagiarism and bigotry — loses another big donor
Cafe Hayek: Oren Cass’s Response Fails
CDR Salamander: The Aesthetics Of A Recapitalized Maritime Industry
Chicago Boyz: Red Guards in Mexico?
Da Tech Guy: A National Disgrace Out of San Francisco
Dana Loesch: Parents Are Responsible For Raising Their Own Kids, Not Social Media
Don Surber: Trump’s next cabinet
First Street Journal: I guess that Marc Rowan will keep his checkbook closed
Gates Of Vienna: Why Does Islam Abuse Women? — It’s the Doctrine, Stupid!
The Geller Report: NYPD Cops BEATEN By Illegal Migrant Mob — Attackers Later Freed Without Bail, also, Republicans Introduce Bill to Completely Defund Terror Agency UNRWA
Hollywood In Toto: Argylle Is Great, Terrible, Funny, Confusing and Way Too Long, Media Freaks Over Ben Shapiro/Tom MacDonald’s ‘Facts’ Rap, and Bari Weiss’ Free Press Goes Hollywood
The Lid: Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick Vow to Stay the Course on Texas Border Barriers Despite Biden Warnings
Legal Insurrection: Southern Illinois U Med School Scholarship Discriminating Against Non-LGBTQI+ White and Asian Students Challenged By Equal Protection Project, Six Pro-Life Activists Face Over 10 Years in Prison for Violating FACE Act in Tennessee, Father in Newton, MA, Writes Open Letter to Schools Calling for the Suspension of All DEI Policies, ‘Cornell Has One Administrator for Every Two Undergrads’, and Biden Finally Visiting East Palestine, OH, a Year After Devastating Train Derailment
Nebraska Energy Observer: Away with the Fairies, Who Have a Lesson For Us
Outkick: Despite Attempts To Cancel Them, Poll Finds That The Blackhawks Have Players’ Favorite Jerseys In The NHL, NBA Hits Anthony Edwards With $40K Fine After Obliterating Refs, Buying One of Mahomes’ Game-Worn Jerseys Will Cost You Over $200K, and Campaign to Replace Destroyed Jackie Robinson Statue Raises More Than $145K In Donations
Power Line: American Miseducation, Whereabouts, and The Daily Chart: Bring Back Arranged Marriages?
Shark Tank: Bill Banning Corporal Punishment For Disabled Students Passes Florida Committee
Shot In The Dark: Let’s Stir Up Another Republic-Threatening Hornet’s Nest Part II, Social Participation Trophy, and The Usual Suspects
STUMP: The Sentinel Effect, Centenarians, & Pension Fraud
This Ain’t Hell: DOJ: Diverse Army Officer Corps a National Security Imperative, Authors of ‘far-right terrorism’ book invited by a Department of Defense office, and How long does it take to ramp up?
Victory Girls: Kara Swisher Hopes For MAGA Tears At Super Bowl
Volokh Conspiracy: Students for Justice in Palestine at Univ. of Florida Denied Preliminary Injunction
Watts Up With That: The Hoax: an interview with Dr. Neil Frank, former Director, National Hurricane Center, also, Urban Heat Island Studies – Do Pristine Weather Stations Even Exist?
The Federalist: ‘A Starting Point’: Meta Oversight Board Member Says 2020 Election Interference Was ‘Not Enough’, Court Dismisses Disney’s Lawsuit Against Florida Over Losing Private Control Of Government, All Signs Indicate North Korea Is Preparing For War, Sen. Hawley Humiliates Mark Zuckerberg For Lying About How Big Tech Hurts Kids, 20 Questions To Ask Republican Candidates In Your State, and If ERIC’s Voter Roll ‘Maintenance’ Is So Popular, Why Do Democrats Feel A Need To Force States To Join?

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In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 31, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Defending The Wood Perilous – free e-book from L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright!

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Hugo Awards Bend The Knee To Red Chinese Censorship
EBL: Mark Steyn Still On Trial, also, The Island
Twitchy: “Nobody Is Buying Kathy Griffin Comedy Tour Tickets” Sobs Kathy Griffin, Gisele Fetterman Deletes More Social Media Accounts – Rumored To Be Single Now, and “They Want You Weak & Sick”
Louder With Crowder: Planned Parenthood Shares Latest Creepy Video, Now They’re Targeting Virginity, Parents Silenced By Judge After Accusing State Of Kidnapping Teen Daughter Who Began Identifying As Trans Male, and Elon Musk Boasts Patient With First Chip Implanted In Their Brain Is “Recovering Well”
Vox Popoli: Lee Kuan Yew Warned You, Ukraine Fires Head of Armed Forces, Great Replacement Reality, You Know What They Are, A Team of Leaders, and Digging In Deeper

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: They don’t care about what women want
American Conservative: The ‘Adults’ Are Not Back in Charge of U.S. Foreign Policy, also, How Many ‘Limited’ Wars Are Enough?
American Greatness: Biden Administration to Crack Down Further on Gas Stoves, also, Conspiracy to Embezzle $40 Million in Ukraine War Funds ‘Tip of the Iceberg,” says U.S. Congressman
American Thinker: The Death of Citizenship, also, Denationizing the United States
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fifth Column News
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: ‘Bosses at state-owned companies are living on another planet,’ Cubans complain, Is Belarusian Defense Minister in Cuba to arrange for the deployment of missiles? and The systemic reality of Cuba’s housing crisis
BattleSwarm: Trump Endorses Phelan Opponent David Covey
Behind The Black: The FBI must be wiped clean, or wiped out, on Day One of the next Republican administration, The Pentagon picks Northrop Grumman’s orbital refueling port as its standard, SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule to ISS, Spain awards rocket startup PLD $43.8 million grant, and Today’s blacklisted American: U.S. Court rules against coach fired for simply stating a fact in a casual conversation
Cafe Hayek: Want More Production? Support Free Trade, also, Another Open Letter to Donald Trump
CDR Salamander: Germany – A Political, Not Industrial Problem?
Chicago Boyz: Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, Illustrated
Da Tech Guy: The Messy House of Mouse, also, Total Con 38 Here I (Finally) Come
Dana Loesch: Tuesday Roundup
Don Surber: Turning the border against Trump
First Street Journal: There is a two word phrase to accurately describe the electric buses sold to transit agencies, and the first of those two words is “cluster”, also, The hits just keep coming
Gates Of Vienna: A Progressive Crybaby Culture, Islam: Abolition of Civilisation, Part II, Robert Fico: Our Governments Bowed to the Pharmaceutical Companies, and If You Build It, They Will Come
The Geller Report: DRAMATIC RAID: Israeli Special Forces Dressed in Disguise Storm Hospital and Kill Hamas Top Commander and Two Other Islamic Terrorists, Montana Child Services Kidnap 14-Year-Old Daughter From Family’s Home After The Parents Opposed Gender Mutilation, and January 5th Pipe Bomber Was a “Former” FBI Official
Going It Alone: Three years on
Hollywood In Toto: Is This the Taylor Swift vs. Joe Rogan Election?
The Lid: Caught Covering for Biden: Fake ‘Fact-Check’ Site Snopes Forced to Reverse Its Own Ruling
Legal Insurrection: Seattle VA Reportedly Requested $500K to Build Hospital for Gender Transition Surgeries, Biden Administration Dials Way Back on Its Gas Stove Crackdown, Rutgers U. Student Govt. Gave $20K to Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter for Events Over Past Year, DOJ Investigating Squad Member Cori Bush for Allegedly Misusing Security Funds, Oakland’s Largest Private Employer Tells Employees to Stay in Buildings for Lunch, Republicans Demand Ilhan Omar Resign Over ‘Somalian First’ Speech, and School Board in Stamford, CT, Votes to Remove Veterans Day and Columbus Day From School Holidays
Nebraska Energy Observer: Let’s talk
Outkick: Vivek Ramaswamy Predicts Chiefs Will Win The Super Bowl To Perfectly Set Up A Taylor Swift Endorsement Of Joe Biden, Lakers’ D’Angelo Russell Fined $15K After Inconsequentially Kicking A Basketball, Tom Brady Gets Brutally Honest About Dan Campbell’s ‘Aggressive’ Calls Against Niners, ESPN Dragged For Turning Taylor Swift Into A Ravens Hater, Toronto Strip Club Rolling Out The Red Carpet For NHL All-Stars With Free Lap Dances, Stephen A. Smith Shows Double Standard In Coverage Of 70-Point Performances Of Luka Doncic and Joel Embiid, and Orioles Will Reportedly Have New Owners With $1.725 Billion Bombshell Deal In The Works
Power Line: The Daily Chart: Public School Bloat, Cross-examining Hermann Goering, and A New Day In Support For Law Enforcement?
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds – Says Cori Bush “Up To No Good”, Questions Ilhan Omar’s Allegiance To US
Shot In The Dark: Like It Never Happened, Remember, and Fact-Check
STUMP: Nibbling At The Problem – Chicago Adds $306.6 Million To The Pension Pot, also, Taxing Tuesday – Much Ado Over SALT
This Ain’t Hell: Captain Larry Taylor, MoH dies age 81, Every bullet a tracer, American troops on the ground in Yemen, Israeli SF Scores Three in West Bank Raid, and Tennesse couple committed TRICARE fraud, spent lavishly
Victory Girls: State Of Montana Seizes “Alleged” Trans Teen From Parents
Volokh Conspiracy: No, Texas Has Not “Defied” The Supreme Court
Watts Up With That: Did Climate Change Cause the Fall of the Roman Empire? Farmers Protests Paralyse Europe, So Many Problems Continue to Plague the EV Industry, and Some Notes On The Trial Of Mann v. Steyn
The Federalist: Five Years Ago Today, Joe Biden Spread The Jussie Smollett Hate Crime Hoax, Dad Of 11 Convicted For Praying At Abortion Facility Alongside 5 Other Pro-Lifers Targeted By DOJ, How To Stop Cultural Marxism From Destroying Your Church, Biden Has The Power To End The Border Crisis Without Congress – He Just Doesn’t Want To, ‘Bidenomics’ Is So Bad It’s A Punchline, But Americans Aren’t Laughing, Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America’s Immigration System, and Medical Malpractice Insurance Might Just Save Our Teens From Mutilation And Castration
Mark Steyn: Consequences, The Look Of Love, The End is Nigh, Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up? and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 30, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why are we tolerating Iranian attacks? American Buffalo, Paulina Porizkova, and Wild Bill Hickok
Twitchy: STRAIGHT Into Our VEINS, NYT Discovers Southerners Have Gas Stations With Restaurants Attached, and New Republic Claims MAGA Is Tanking Border Deal In Anticipation of “Full-Blown Ethnonationalist Savagery”
Louder With Crowder: Lia Thomas is taking legal action so that it can compete against women in the Olympics, Superintendent Busted Trying To Secretly Close A School For Special Needs To Turn It Into A Migrant Facility, Elon Musk exposes the truth about Biden’s new “border security” bill and the open borders Democrats are gonna hate it, and See how “The Simpsons” predicted a media-induced “phony baloney” public health scare in 2010 that sounds eerily familiar
Vox Popoli: Battlegames, Confident or Crazy? Why Gab’s AI Will Beat Google’s AI, A Profile in Cowardice, It’s in the Script, Apparently, and No Boots for the Ground
Stoic Observations: Arthashastra
Upstream Reviews: Book vs. Movie – Jurassic Park
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Running The Numbers On Rape & Pregnancy
Draw & Talk: They Destroyed My Creativity! Don’t Let This Happen To You!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Flag of Freedom
American Conservative: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
American Greatness: Trump Has Reason to Rage—But Needs to Stay Calm and Get Even Rather than Mad, also, Our Democracy™: The Democratic Weaponization of Government and the Need for Decentralization
American Thinker: Today’s ‘Climate Crisis’ Is a Fairy Tale, Our First Gun, Biden, the Border, and Tik Tok Too, and WEF Totalitarians Seek to Euthanize the West
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictator Raul Castro appears at march with three fellow nonagenarian despots, Reports from Cuba: Havana ration store thieves had no luck: the rice had not arrived, Cuban mercenaries in Ukraine fighting alongside Malaysians, Serbians, Belarusians, Nepalese, and Dominican YouTuber traumatized after visit to communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: Follow-Up: Chinese Commies Can’t Chain Our Pianos, A Naive Look At The Homeless Industrial Complex, and Debunking The “700,000 Truckers To Texas” Story
Behind The Black: Another Red Chinese pseudo-company vertically lands a prototype 1st stage, Iran launches three satellites on single rocket, SpaceX completes two launches on Sunday, The internal structure of 19 galaxies, as seen in the infrared by Webb, and Bi-partisan bill proposed giving space traffic management to Commerce, not FCC
Cafe Hayek: Buying Votes With Your Own Money Is Illegal; Buying Votes With Other People’s Money Is Good Politics, also, New York Times: “Trade Is Not a Job Killer”
CDR Salamander: A Midrats January Free For All, also, Tower 22’s White Swan
Chicago Boyz:
Da Tech Guy: The Sincerest Form of Flattery of Don Surber so Mini Linkfest plus Thoughts, Want People to Stop Worshiping Trump? Stop Trying to Crucify Him for the People’s Sins, Leftist group of Chicago municipal staffers cheers on students cutting class to attend Gaza ceasefire rally, and To Those Who Hate America These Bugs Are Features
Dana Loesch: A Loud Absence,
Don Surber: Taylor Swift nude!
First Street Journal: Because Larry Krasner won’t put the bad guys in jail, the decent people of Philly are putting themselves behind bars, also, Why don’t we take sex crimes against children seriously?
Gates Of Vienna: Our Lady of Allahu Akhbar, Innocent Oseghale is Still Guilty, and The End of Free Speech and Thought in Europe
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Tells a Crowd of Somalians Her Only Priority is to Put Somalia First, She is Somalia First, Muslim Second (No Mention of America), Wall Street Journal: At Least 1,200 UN Employees are Actual Hamas Terrorists, 12,000 UN Staff in Gaza have Links to Islamic Terrorists, House GOP Drafts Articles Of Impeachment Against DHS Sec. Mayorkas, The Islamization of International Law, and UN Employees TOOK PART in October 7 Genocidal Massacre of Jews, Only 12 Are Fired
Glenn Reynolds: Birthday Cheer
Going It Alone: Digging Deep
Hollywood In Toto: Why Ricky Stanicky’s Trigger Warning Is … Glorious, SNL Ignores Biden’s Gibberish, Invents Attack on Trump, Meet Alan Ng, Disney’s Worst Nightmare, and Beekeeper (And Hunter Biden Stand-In) Win Box Office Weekend
Legal Insurrection: UPenn Honors Activist Prof Who Accused Israel of ‘Genocide’, Biden Pauses Liquefied Natural Gas Export Approvals in Desperate Bid to Appeal to Climate Cultists, Former National Security Officials Warn of “Multi-division Army of Young Single Adult Males” Illegally Crossing Border, This Is How You Do It: NYPD Stops Hamas Supporters From “Flooding” JFK Airport, ‘Undocumented’ U. California Student Group Staging Hunger Strike for ‘Equal Employment Opportunities’, Canadian Bureaucrats Forcing Dr. Jordan Peterson to Submit to Re-education for Criticizing Gender Ideology and Climate Change, and Oklahoma GOP Censures Sen. Lankford Over Border Deal With Democrats
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Septuagesima, and North and South, and a Squish in the Middle
Outkick: Lamar Jackson, About To Take Some Deserved Criticism, Can Only Answer With Better Play, Even In Bitter Defeat John Harbaugh Hangs His Hat On Words Out Of The Bible, Ravens, With NFL’s Best Record And No. 1 Seed, Lose Their Composure and Lose To Chiefs, Bengals QB Joe Burrow Disagrees With Soft, Egregious ‘Taunting’ Penalty Called on Ravens, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce Take Issue With Justin Tucker During Pregame Warmups, Clay Travis Pays Off Alyssa Milano’s Travel Baseball GoFundMe — With One Condition, and West Virginia Governor Endorses ‘Women’s Bill Of Rights’ To Protect Women’s Sports With Riley Gaines By His Side
Power Line: The Climate Models Are Wrong, Omar the Magnificent, and Long day’s journey into “Shoah”
Shark Tank: Republicans enlist 800,000 registered voters over Democrats in Florida
Shot In The Dark: “Regrettably Unbecoming”, Urban Progressive Privilege – Clouds Of Smug Descend, and Attention, Secret Service
STUMP: Trump v. Biden Take Two – Using Social Security Mortality Assumptions, also, The Week In Meep – Weird Saints, Dresses w/Pockets, Sumo, & Opera
The Political Hat: Xyr Loved Big Trans-Brother
This Ain’t Hell: Missing off Yemen, NPRC Records Request Status, Transgender veterans suing the Department of Veterans Affairs, British General argues for the need of a citizen army, Navy: No GED? No Problem! Drone strike results in American casualties, three killed, and UN Aid Agency Staffed by Hamas
Transterrestrial Musings: Harvard, also, Thirty Eight Years
Victory Girls: Holocaust Remembrance Day: To Educate The Next Generation, Will Biden Be All Talk And No Action After Americans Are Killed? and Ilhan Omar Openly Declares Her Own “Dual Loyalty” To Somalia
Volokh Conspiracy: L.A. County Paying $5M to Settle Case Alleging Constitutional Violations in Prosecution of Election Management Company’s Owner
Watts Up With That: WINNING – Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, NOAA’s Graph Provides Best Evidence That Solar Heating Is Warming the Oceans, Not CO2, More Revelations Emerge of How the Climate Change Committee Dupes Parliament into Voting for Net Zero Measures, Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering, Offshore Wind and the Stress on Commercial Fishermen, and Automobiles, human nature, and the challenge of building cars that people actually want
The Federalist: House Republicans Reveal Mayorkas Impeachment Articles Amid Worst Border Numbers In History, Pentagon To Pay For Soldiers To Manufacture Motherless And Fatherless Babies, Activist Medical Establishment Abandons Science On Kidney Disease To Pursue Racial ‘Equity’, Senators Propose Bipartisan Bill To Keep Lab-Grown Meat Off The School Lunch Menu, Censorship-Industrial Complex Enlists U.K. ‘Misinformation’ Group Logically.AI To Meddle In 2024 Election, and Georgia’s K-5 ‘Social Studies’ Curriculum Is A Trojan Horse For Leftism
Mark Steyn: Bumper Cars: Jacques Tati Gets Caught in Traffic, A Nobel Mann? “Excuse Me While I Puke”, “Keep an Open Mind”, and Defendants for Life

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Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Tax Double Scoop Edition

Posted on | January 29, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Tax Double Scoop Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Making up for lost time and lack of Internet…this week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.