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Trump Goes to Iraq, #FakeNews Media Embarrass Themselves

Posted on | December 27, 2018 | Comments Off on Trump Goes to Iraq, #FakeNews Media Embarrass Themselves

 

After the #FakeNews media and #NeverTrump ex-Republicans had gone all-in on President Trump’s supposedly historic lack of patriotism, it was discovered that the Commander-in-Chief had been secretly in transit to Iraq even while these headlines and tweets were being written:

President Donald Trump made a surprise trip to Iraq on Wednesday to visit the troops over Christmas, praising them for fighting terrorism.
The president spoke to about 100 special operations troops who were engaged in combat with the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria.
“If we see something happening with ISIS that we don’t like, we can hit them so fast and so hard they really won’t know what the hell happened,” he said to White House reporters who traveled with him.”We’ve knocked them out. We’ve knocked them silly.” . . .
He also defended his decision to withdraw troops from Syria in a discussion with the media who traveled with him.
“The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world,” he said. “It’s not fair when the burden is all on us, the United States.”

 

Once the media got over their embarrassment of having been proved wrong (again), the Usual Suspects then began claiming that it was “inappropriate” for the president to sign “Make America Great Again” hats for the troops. They’re all anti-Trump, all the time, 24/7.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Media Bias, Military

In The Mailbox: 12.26.18

Posted on | December 27, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.26.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

From our temporary virtual office among the gooney birds of Midway Island, where it’s still Boxing Day for about ten more minutes…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: President Trump – Don’t Abandon Our Kurdish Allies In Syria
Twitchy: Brit Hume Dumps Ice-Cold Water On Soledad O’Brien’s “Genius Take” On Trump’s Iraq Visit
Louder With Crowder: The UK Is Now Teaching Boys That They Can Menstruate

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Holidays, also, Merry Christmas 2018
American Power: Twitter Now Enforcing Pakistani Law, also, Modern Parenting
American Thinker: Are The Investigations The Coverup? also, The Democrats’ Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Cops Behaving Badly
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: The Demographics Of Naval Supremacy
Da Tech Guy: Begotten, also, The Second Day of Christmas – St. Stephen’s Martyrdom
Don Surber: Day 4 Of No Government, also, Obama Created ISIS, Trump Destroyed It
Dustbury: Now Go Over There & Lie Down, also, This Will Not End Well
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Liverpool Muslim Star Saleh May Quit If Israeli Joins Team, also, Mastermind of Morocco Backpacker Beheadings, 18 Others In Custody 
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, On Retirement
Hollywood In Toto: Nine Huge Liberal TV & Movie Flops In 2018
Joe For America: Las Vegas Girl Walk Stays In Vegas (Millions Of Hits & Counting!), also, Teacher Writes Eye-Opening Resignation Letter
JustOneMinute: The Grinch Who Tweeted Away Christmas
Legal Insurrection: Trump Surprises Troops In Iraq, also, Dashing Resistance Hopes, Dow Surges To Record One-Day Gain
The PanAm Post: Christianity, Capitalism, & Democracy – The Road To Propserity
Power Line: Jamal Khashoggi’s Fake Op-Eds, also, Three Million Venezuelans Flee Socialism
Shark Tank: Occasional Cortex Loves Big Labor, Hates Corporate America
Shot In The Dark: “What’s The Difference Between The GOP And Democrats?”
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Keeps Up Drumbeat For Border Wall, also, The Russians Now Have A Hypersonic Missile
Victory Girls: POTUS & FLOTUS Surprise Troops In Iraq For Christmas
Volokh Conspiracy: Progress In The Struggle Against Exclusionary Zoning
Weasel Zippers: 18-Year-Old Illegal From Jamaica Charged With Murder Of  12-Year-Old Connecticut Boy, also, No, Trump Didn’t Destroy Child’s Faith In Santa; Parents Say Stop Politicizing It
Megan McArdle: Trump Has Always Been Erratic & Impulsive, Why Is Wall Street Surprised Now?
Mark Steyn: Steyn Goes Full Humbug, also, Happy Christmas Bank Holiday Thursday!


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Category: Linkagery

[AykroydVoice] Jonah, You Ignorant (Something Like ‘Unrecoverable Twit’) [/AykroydVoice]

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | Comments Off on [AykroydVoice] Jonah, You Ignorant (Something Like ‘Unrecoverable Twit’) [/AykroydVoice]

by Smitty

In defense of Goldberg, he’s writing for the LA Times, so the readers want to hear Yet Another Trump-is-the-wurst Spleen Dump. “The Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destiny.“

Step back and face the broader problem, Jonah: our government seems to stagger from crisis to crisis, with everything hinging on just one hero/villain, is THE issue.

We’ve seen it in the last week, where suddenly Mattis became the lone dude holding everything together.

OH. SHUT. UP.
Donald Trump is not cuckoo for cocoa-puffs. Pretty much every character assessment of him thus far has been R. O. N. N. G. G. Ronngg! Maddening and mercurial he may be; and perhaps NOT the purported 7-dimensional chess genius of his fanbois: but he’s playing the game his way.
He seems to be thriving in the conflict. Maybe just shutting up and letting him go would be the best way to get him to implode. That is the goal, correct? Is it not the case that the will of the voters only matters when congruent with the will of our Progressive Overlords?
Why don’t we focus on trimming the executive? Has anybody noticed that the actual, documented Constitutional components of the government are at least viewed as legitimate, if not loved? Aren’t the real bones we have to pick the ones coming from the scope creep of the last century?
Time for a Convention of States. If we are actually bothered by Trump, why not make a substantive change? Or, maybe we just want something to whine about in the newspaper column.

Category: Uncategorized

The @emrazz Thread: Feminist Dreams of Eliminating All Male Life on Earth

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

It seems likely that soon — perhaps within 72 hours — the crew at 4chan will have outed and doxxed “Feminist Next Door” (@emrazz), who will then have a conniption about this “harassment.” But you see she engages in behavior that is typical of feminists: They insult men categorically, and then claim victimhood when men respond with anger.

 

It should be obvious that “not all men” is never a proper reply to feminist insults. The way to deal with this kind of anti-male hate rhetoric is not to get up in her face on Twitter, spewing out whatever comes to mind, but rather to point out the rhetorical error. She asks her female followers to imagine the blessings of a male-free world as if males as a category are universally dangerous to women (yes, all women). This assertion is clearly false, as even she admits in another context:

 

Were we to stipulate, arguendo, that this “1-in-5” statistic is accurate, this would mean that 80% of U.S. women are never raped. Thus, despite the pervasive menace of “toxic masculinity,” “rape culture,” etc., the vast majority of American women live in comparative safety. Well, then, who are the victims, and who are the perpetrators, of rape and other forms of violence against women? That is to say: Who is raping whom?

Rape doesn’t happen randomly, as can be demonstrated by statistics provided by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), the largest U.S. anti-sexual violence organization. For example, females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault, and more than two-thirds of victims (69%) are between the ages of 12 and 34. Nor are the perpetrators of sexual violence randomly distributed in the population. More than half of all accused rapists have at least one prior criminal conviction, and nearly 40% have two or more convictions. Furthermore, according to RAINN, 27% of rapists are black, which is nearly twice their percentage of the overall U.S. population (14%). Feminist rhetoric about “violence against women” doesn’t acknowledge these realities, preferring to stigmatize males categorically. Merely to be male is to be complicit in “rape culture,” according to feminists who commonly assert that all women are equally vulnerable to what @emrazz calls “targeted violence.”

Because the vast majority of men are not rapists, they are offended by feminist rhetoric that implies they represent a threat to women. And because the vast majority of women are never victims of sexual assault, men perceive that feminists are promoting irrational anti-male prejudice — seeking to inspire a paranoid fear and hatred of men.

Feminists who demonize males, per se (as @emrazz does), are engaged in what would be called “hate speech” if it were directed against immigrants, racial minorities or homosexuals, and yet feminism denies that men have any right to object to this demonizing rhetoric. When men attempt to address the problem of sexual violence in a rational way (e.g., risk reduction), feminists will accuse them of “victim-blaming.” We know, for example, that female college students are most vulnerable to sexual assault in situations involving alcohol consumption. Because the legal drinking age in the U.S. is 21, and most college students are younger than 21, colleges might reduce the incidence of rape on campus simply by cracking down on underage drinking. To suggest such a practical solution, however, is to engage in “victim-blaming,” according to feminists, who are clearly more interested in stigmatizing male students (all of them, collectively) as rapists than in preventing rape.

Using deceptive rhetoric to demonize all men — imagining a world without males as a feminist ideal — will predictably provoke many men to make angry responses, some of which will be obscene, and these responses will then be cited by feminists as proof that men “just don’t get it.” This is a sort of game feminists like to play, and they don’t seem to understand that this is dishonest and unfair. But if they cared about honesty and fairness, they wouldn’t be feminists, would they?

Now, I have predicted that @emrazz will be doxxed as a result of her insulting rhetoric and I should hasten to add I am against doxxing. But I point out this likelihood in order to prepare you to see her doxxing cited by feminists as evidence that Twitter needs to do more to silence the opponents of feminism. The banishments will continue until feminists and other SJWs exercise totalitarian control of all social media.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Worst Santa Ever

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Worst Santa Ever

 

Elwyn Crocker Sr., 50, once worked as Santa Claus at the local Wal-Mart in Effingham County, Georgia, but that’s not why he’s in the news this holiday season. The bodies of two of his children, Elwyn Crocker Jr. and Mary Crocker, were found buried in the backyard of his home:

As expected by authorities, autopsies have confirmed the identities of two children found buried in their family’s backyard in Effingham County, though many questions remain about the deaths, coroner David Exley said Monday.
“The cause and manner of death is still pending,” he said, adding it could take weeks.
The trouble, he said, is partly that Mary Crocker and Elwyn Crocker Jr. had been buried so long ago — Mary for perhaps a few months, Elwyn for maybe as long as two years. The remains of the siblings, who were both 14 years old when they were last seen but hadn’t been reported missing, were discovered Thursday in the rural town of Guyton by the Effingham Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies went to the house after a tipster called 911 to express concern regarding the whereabouts of the girl. An interview with the father, Elwyn Crocker Sr., revealed information that sent deputies to check the backyard for the bodies.
The father, who turns 50 on Christmas and until recently played Santa at a nearby Walmart in Rincon, has been charged with child cruelty and concealing a death. The same charges have also been filed against his wife, Candice Crocker, 33, her mother, Kim Wright, 50, and Wright’s boyfriend, Roy Anthony Prater, 55. All lived in the home and could face additional charges, authorities have said. They remain in the county jail without bond.

Left to right: Candice Crocker, Roy Prater, Kim Wright.

What a classy looking crew they are, huh?

Of course, they’re all presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but if ugly was a crime . . . Well, I rest my case, your honor.



 

Category: Crime, Georgia

Happy (High) Holidays

Posted on | December 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Happy (High) Holidays

Or perhaps Merry(juana) Christmas:

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) — 73-year-old Judy gave the gift of pot to herself, unafraid to vape and smoke inside the lounge at the Magnolia dispensary in Oakland.
She said she has been smoking marijuana since the 1960s, and thought the perfect way to relax on Christmas Eve was to buy some marijuana.
“I just learned about this place a year ago,” Judy said. “I’m doing great now.”
Just like her, dozens of customers have been lining up and packing into Bay Area cannabis dispensaries to buy holiday gifts including gummies, chocolates, cartridges and flowers.
“From the moment we were open at 9 o’clock we had a line,” Magnolia assistant general manager Kysa Butler said. “We’ve been knocking the lines out quickly but they’ve been steady, too.”
Pot presents are pretty popular as many visited for the first time to get gifts. Christopher and his dog Frankie were picking up some edibles and said they make the perfect stocking stuffers. . . .
Many cannabis businesses report having five times as many customers or more during the days leading up to Christmas.
“People start stocking up,” Butler said. “Sometimes you need a little stress reliever from Christmas shopping or sometimes you need a little something when you meet your family.”

Grandma’s getting stoned for Christmas. Because it’s California.

 

Category: California

Democrats: Government Is Christmas, and Trump Is the Grinch or Something

Posted on | December 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrats: Government Is Christmas, and Trump Is the Grinch or Something

 

Their talking points are always so . . . original:

Several Democrats called President Donald Trump “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” during the government shutdown fight over wall funding last weekend.
During the government shutdown fight over Trump’s proposed $5 billion in wall funding, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) compared the president to Dr. Suess’s “the Grinch” on CNN.
Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential candidate during the 2016 election, said, “Donald J. Trump is about to be ‘The Grinch that Stole Christmas.’”
“He’s the only person who wants a shutdown and he seems intent on doing it,” Kaine said.
In reaction to the pending government shutdown, the Virginia Democrat said, “I don’t negotiate with bullies, and I don’t think the Senate should negotiate with bullies,” implying that the president is both the Grinch and a bully.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) tweeted a picture on Friday, implying that the president is the Grinch.
“To celebrate Christmas, [Donald Trump] is giving over 420,000 working families the gift of going to work but not being paid,” Merkley wrote. “That means law enforcement, air traffic controllers, and TSA agents are working one of their busiest times of year — with no pay.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti had a different approach, suggesting that it “would be offensive” to compare Trump to the Grinch.
“To call realDonaldTrump a Grinch to the countless Americans impacted by his threats of a shutdown would be offensive to the Grinch,” Garcetti tweeted on Friday. “This is a season to enjoy time with friends & family. Instead, the consequences of Trump’s disastrous leadership are on full display.”
Several of these Democrat criticisms of Trump arise as the New York Daily News released their Saturday cover, portraying Trump as the Grinch.
The headline reads, “How the Trump Stole Christmas!”

If you’re old enough to remember the 1990s, this is nothing new.

 

 

After Republicans took over Congress in the 1994 midterms, Time and Newsweek featured GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Christmas season covers as the Grinch or as Ebenezer Scrooge. In point of fact, however, it isn’t Republicans but Democrats who really hate Christmas, because the Democrat Party is against Christianity, per se. For decades, Democrats have advocated atheism, abortion and homosexuality, openly mocking both the faith and morality of Christians. Perhaps more perverse than this, however, is the way Democrats consider the oppressive force of government — the parasitic existence of which requires the use of coercion to obtain taxpayer funding — as an instrument of charity, as if federal bureaucrats are beneficent humanitarians and members of Congress are engaged in philanthropy, rather than politics.

Generally speaking, whatever Democrats say is the exact opposite of truth. How is it that, when then GOP was in control of Congress and Bill Clinton was in the White House, the government shutdown was blamed on Republicans, but now that a Republican is president, the shutdown is blamed on Congress? Of course, the responsibility for the 1995 shutdown actually rested with Clinton, who repeatedly vetoed the budget bills passed by Congress and, in fact, Democrats are responsible for the current government shutdown. Because the funding bill includes money for the border wall, it is being filibustered by Senate Democrats, who are against any measure to enforce our immigration laws, in the same way Democrats are against Christianity. The reason why Democrats tell such predictable lies, other than their own intrinsic dishonesty, is because they know that the liberal news media will “report” their lies as facts.



 

Category: Christmas, Democrats, Media Bias

#MeToo: ‘No Idea That the Famous Actor Was an Alleged Sexual Predator’

Posted on | December 25, 2018 | Comments Off on #MeToo: ‘No Idea That the Famous Actor Was an Alleged Sexual Predator’

Kevin Spacey (right) with Hillary and Bill Clinton.

One of the ironic consequences of Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 is the #MeToo movement, which has destroyed the careers and reputations of so many prominent liberal men, including movie producer Harvey Weinstein, CBS chief Les Moonves and NBC Today host Matt Lauer.

Perhaps none of these famous men would have been exposed if not for Hillary’s defeat, which inspired a feminist fury seeking male targets to satiate their appetite for vengeance. In the summer of 2016, however, the homosexual actor Kevin Spacey still enjoyed liberal protection:

Actor Kevin Spacey is facing a felony charge in an alleged sexual assault of the teenage son of former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh at a Nantucket bar in July 2016, the latest legal entanglement for the two-time Academy Award winner over claims of sexual misconduct.
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said Monday that Spacey, 59, was scheduled to be arraigned on a charge of indecent assault and battery at Nantucket District Court on Jan. 7, after a Dec. 20 public show-cause hearing where clerk magistrate Ryan Kearney issued a criminal complaint. . . .
Spacey is being investigated after numerous sexual assault accusations, which began surfacing in the fall of 2017 and prompted his removal from Netflix’s “House of Cards,” the former popular political drama. His role in a Ridley Scott film was also cut.
The charge Spacey faces carries penalties of up to five years in prison or up to two and a half years in jail or house of correction and a requirement to register as a sex offender, according to court documents.
“I’m pleased that the case is moving forward in the judicial system,” Unruh, who had worked for WCVB-TV, said Monday. . . .
The case emerged during an emotional news conference in November 2017, when Unruh publicly accused Spacey of sexually assaulting her son.
Unruh said that in July 2016 her then 18-year-old son was at The Club Car, where the actor was among the late-night crowd in the dimly lit restaurant. Her son was mesmerized by Spacey and told him he was old enough to drink, Unruh said previously.
Unruh said Spacey purchased alcohol for her son until he was drunk and then stuck his hand inside the teenager’s pants and grabbed his genitals. During the encounter, Unruh said, her son tried to shift his body away from Spacey but was “only momentarily successful.” The actor urged her son to accompany him to an after-hours party to drink more, she said.
Unruh said her son fled the restaurant when Spacey excused himself to use the bathroom and a woman urged the youth to run. He sprinted to his grandmother’s house and told his sister what happened, Unruh said. The siblings then called Unruh, who traveled to Nantucket in the morning, she said.
“The victim, my son, was a star-struck, straight 18-year-old young man who had no idea that the famous actor was an alleged sexual predator or that he was about to become his next victim,” Unruh said at the 2017 press conference accompanied by attorney Mitchell Garabedian and her daughter, Kyla. “This was a criminal act.”
Unruh said her son reported the incident to Nantucket police in the fall of 2017 and provided evidence to investigators.

The important question is why the famous actor’s reputation as a sexual predator was kept secret for so long. Isn’t it true that, as with Bill Clinton, liberals were devoted to protecting men like Kevin Spacey from scandal as they pursued their predatory sexual habits? In the same way that Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood liberals purchased protection by their support of the Clintons, Kevin Spacey was a loyal supporter who emceed the 2014 gala tribute for the 10th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library, and who described his friendship with Bill Clinton in a 2015 television interview:

“Well, we’ve known each other a long time. We’ve had a lot of different experiences over the years,” Spacey said. “Both in his first and second terms, I did a great number of things for him either at the White House or for the Democratic Party, hosted a lot of events, did a lot of things privately, did a lot of things on the campaign.”
Spacey said that he never doubted Clinton and was always there for him.
“And I suppose that perhaps I never waited to see which way the wind would blow in respect to him. I was always there,” Spacey said. “And I was a true friend. And never doubted him. Never stopped believing in him. Thought he was an extraordinary man.”
“Took him as he was?” Rose interjected.
“Took him as he was,” Spacey said. “And I think that may be part of the reason why we became close.”

Birds of a feather, etc.



 

Category: Celebrities, Crime, Democrats, Scandal
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