UPDATE: Max Boot Is Still an Idiot
Posted on | August 15, 2019 | 1 Comment
Monday, I noticed an unexplained surge of traffic to my April 14 post with the simple title “Max Boot Is an Idiot,” in which I described the Trump-hating former Wall Street Journal writer as “one of the most overrated neocon gasbags in Washington.” What could have caused this increase of interest in Max Boot’s idiocy? I had no idea, and because I spent Monday driving back from Georgia, there was no opportunity to investigate this mysterious phenomenon. Who cares about Max Boot? Certainly, I never have, even when he was an influential advocate of our ill-fated invasion of Mesopotamia. Once the Bush era ended, so also did Max Boot’s influence, and no one paid any attention to him for the next eight years, but then Boot jumped on the #NeverTrump bandwagon as the vehicle by which he intended to return to relevance. Still, I have made a habit of ignoring him, as every conservative should, so what could explain this week’s sudden uptick of search traffic for Max Boot?
Well, last week, he published a Washington Post column headlined, “Get a grip white people. We’re not the victims,” arguing, e.g.:
Like many of his followers, Trump must imagine that white supremacy is the natural order of things and that any attempt to deliver justice for minorities who have been discriminated against for centuries is an indicator of anti-white prejudice. The most extreme form of this outlook can be found among white supremacists such as the gunman who allegedly slaughtered 22 people in El Paso on Saturday. The suspect claimed to be acting in response “to the Hispanic invasion of Texas” — a state that was part of Mexico before being invaded by Anglos. Even many whites who aren’t driven to violence display a version of this victimhood mind-set. They view accusations of racism as a far bigger problem than racism itself, and blame “social justice warriors” rather than white racists for inflaming racial tensions.
There’s a lot that could be said here: Texas was a sparsely populated wilderness when American settlers began arriving there in large numbers in the early 1800s, and the Republic fought a war to win its independence from Mexico. Is Max Boot’s intent to delegitimize that result? Does he seriously mean to join MALDEF and the National Council of La Raza in advocating the Reconquista? No, he’s just engaged in intellectual laziness of the same variety as his arguments for invading Mesopotamia. As for “justice for minorities” — who shall decide what “justice” is, and which “minorities” are entitled to it? This is just liberal sloganeering, not a serious argument, and notice that Max engages in a sloppy categorical claim about what “many whites” allegedly believe, without even bothering to offer evidence that their alleged beliefs are wrong.
A line-by-line fisking of Max Boot’s column might easily consume half a day’s work for me, but I need not bother, because what caused the sudden surge of traffic to my “Max Boot Is an Idiot” post this week was that Max got a memorable smackdown by a National Review columnist. John Hirschauer, a 2018 graduate of Fairfield University, had his laser guidance system zeroed in on the coordinates of Boot’s idiocy:
In effect, however, Boot sets up a Faustian choice for “white” readers: Side with the white supremacists and their detestable program, or sell your political soul to Max Boot and become one of the self-loathing whites so paralyzed by intersectional deference that they can hardly advance an argument without first reciting that neutered prelude: “As a straight, white, cisgender man with privilege, I . . .”
If Boot believes what he is saying — and I’m not sure he does — and assumes that “many” Trump supporters believe “that white supremacy is the natural order of things,” then he’d do well to provide them with a better set of options than white nationalism on the one hand and political impotence on the other. Surely there is a third way between a full-throated embrace of white identity and a supine adoption of the politics of self-hatred.
This is excellent stuff, and I especially admire the Buckleyesque style of Hirschauer’s prose (“Faustian choice,” “intersectional deference,” “supine”) which reminds me of reading WFB’s newspaper column 40+ years ago and having to look up his fancy words in the dictionary. What happened next was that Max Boot took to Twitter to label Hirschauer a white supremacist and assert rather directly that this column was evidence that National Review had been taken over by a racialist cabal.
A real online donnybrook ensued, with Hirschauer responding forcefully:
Boot makes my point for me: In the world of Max Boot’s creation, there is only Max Boot’s policy preferences on the one hand, and white nationalism on the other. It’s toxic, and predictable from someone who writes so casually about “fears” that plague “white people” as an indiscriminate bloc in the Washington Post.
Others sprang to Hirschauer’s defense and the irony, as Ace of Spades explained at some length, is this is about “Soyboy Beta Cucks” defending themselves against the kind of dishonest smears the rest of us have been dealing with for many years. Rich Lowry and his crew have more than once thrown potential allies under the bus of Conservatism Inc., tut-tutting about the de-platforming of uncouth right-wingers while imagining that the crocodile of wokeness would eat them last.
As someone who counts Peter Brimelow among his friends, it would be easy enough for me to laugh at the discomfiture of Lowry’s gang, but this laughter would be hollow, because every sensible conservative must hope that this episode would inspire the National Review crowd to reconsider their disastrous course of appeasing the Left by sacrificing victims to the bonfires of political correctness. This week’s Max Boot episode, in addition to bringing me a bonus of blog traffic, resulted in Max Boot being given a platform on an obscure cable channel with lower ratings than Spongebob Squarepants:
A few excerpts of Max’s deranged remarks in that interview:
So it’s heart breaking for me to see what is happening to this magazine, which once chased John Bircher’s and anti-Semites out of the conservative movement and now it is indulging in this kind of white supremacist rhetoric. . . .
It was a very strange article, because basically it was saying that, you know, Boot attacks, you know — attacks on white people, you know, are basically driving them into the arms of the white nationalists and they’re forcing them to choose between the white nationalists and Boot and his self-loathing whites. . . .
It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s just incredibly shocking and offensive for me to see this kind of language appear in what is a mainstream publication and it’s sadly, I think, as a reflection of how even mainstream conservative publications are being Trumpified and are going down the same road that you see at Fox News. . . .
No, they don’t want to go the way of The Weekly Standard, which collapsed, but, you know, to my mind, it’s tragic because, again, I revered National Review. I thought as if for something better and sadly I think it’s a sign of how far over the edge Donald Trump is leading, not just the Republican Party, but even the conservative movement, even the intellectual gatekeepers who I think have a lot to answer for in opening the gates wide open to the kind of racism and xenophobia that Donald Trump represents.
Really? Go back and read John Hirschauer’s column in its entirety and tell me where you find “racism and xenophobia.” (Hint: It’s not there.)
You see how Max Boot is following the Left’s lead in an effort to shift the Overton Window so as to expand the definition of “racism” (or “white supremacy” or “white nationalism”) to include just about any opinion a conservative might express. This is part of the problem that Hirschauer was trying to address: If allegedly serious intellectuals are going to start behaving like SJW outrage mobs, incinerating the reputations of anyone who says anything that doesn’t pass their wokeness test, then our First Amendment right to free speech is under threat and — here we come full circle — if the loss of free speech means we aren’t able to have a factual and rational discussion of immigration policy, then political correctness will destroy our entire civilization. Not to endorse any madman’s “manifesto,” you understand, but there is a reason why borders matter. Max Boot would not wish to live in Ciudad Juárez, and yet his open-borders policy preference would have the inevitable effect of turning many parts of the U.S. into Ciudad Juárez.
Anyway, I’ve spent more time on this than it was worth, but I thought readers might need this breaking news: Max Boot is still an idiot.
In The Mailbox: 08.14.19
Posted on | August 14, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #712
EBL: Jeffrey Epstein’s Art – Bill Clinton In Blue
Twitchy: Remember That Crazy Thread About Exposing Your White Teenage Boys To Conservative Political Comedy? This Reply Is Worse
Louder With Crowder: Pro-Union AOC Challenges Barstool Sports Prez On Twitter, He Fires The Anti-PC Cannon
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t Think Your Isolated Farm Will Save You
American Greatness: Democrats & Media Collude With Red China To Influence 2020 Election
American Thinker: Can The Democratic Party Actually Govern America?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Pedophile Epstein Flew Colombian President In His Private Jet To Cuba To Meet Castro In 2003
BattleSwarm: A Crackdown In Hong Kong
Camp of the Saints: Steppin’ Into The Twilight Zone
CDR Salamander: Three COAs – Blue Most Likely, Blue Most Dangerous, & Blue Most Unpossible
Da Tech Guy: Guess What Didn’t Happen In NH Last Week?
Don Surber: Attacking Trump Still Doesn’t Work
Dustbury: Crazy From The Heat?
First Street Journal: Illegal Immigration Skews The Supply & Demand For Labor & Wages
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Google Insider Turns In 900+ Pages Of Docs, Laptop To Justice Dept., also, Sanders Compares Israel To South Africa
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Some Jobs Are Inherently Dangerous
Hollywood In Toto: Why Ripley In Aliens Is The Ultimate Anti-Mary Sue
Joe For America: AG Barr Means Business – Dispatches A Dozen FBI Agents To Scour Epstein’s Pedophile Lair
Legal Insurrection: Stacey Abrams Won’t Run For President, But She’s Willing To Be VP, also, California Sues Trump Over Rescinding Obama Restrictions On Coal-Burning Power Plants
Michelle Malkin: Open Borders, Inc. – Who’s Funding The Wicked War On ICE?
The PanAm Post: Maduro Regime Incapable of Controlling Border With Venezuela, also, Mexico Becoming Less Free, More Socialist
Power Line: The Bloomberg-Ellison Corruption Connection, also, Sheriff Sued For Cooperating With ICE Vindicated
Shark Tank: Study Suggests Legalized Weed Reduces Opioid Deaths
Shot In The Dark: Linguistics 1, Intersectional Feminism 0
The Political Hat: Species Is Just A Social Construct
This Ain’t Hell: Cold War Redux? also, Board Says Marine Who Warned Of Insider Threat Should Remain In The Corps
Victory Girls: Portland Mayor Promises Protests Will Be Different This Weekend
Volokh Conspiracy: FL Senate Member Gets Restraining Order Against Critic
Weasel Zippers: 57 Miles Of New Border Wall In San Diego Sector Already Making A Difference, also, Congressman Introduces “Unmasking” Act Against Antifa
Megan McArdle: The Problem With Making “Yes Means Yes” The Standard For Sexual Assault
Mark Steyn: Nothing Suspicious Here At All! Don’t Even Think It! also, Right Said Fredo
Suspect in Mackenzie Lueck’s Murder Now Charged With Child Pornography
Posted on | August 14, 2019 | Comments Off on Suspect in Mackenzie Lueck’s Murder Now Charged With Child Pornography
Ayoola Ajayi (left) is accused of murdering Mackenzie Lueck (right).
He is an immigrant from Nigeria:
The man accused of killing University of Utah sorority sister Mackenzie Lueck was hit with unrelated child pornography charges this week after investigators probed his computer, according to a new report.
Ayoola Ajayi — accused of killing 23-year-old Lueck and then burning her remains — was charged Tuesday with 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after authorities combed through his computer and found pornographic images of children, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Authorities seized Ajayi’s computer June 26 as they investigated Lueck’s death, according to the report.
On July 2, a forensic lab discovered multiple images of images of children engaged in sex acts on the device, according to charging documents filed Tuesday and obtained by the Tribune.
Nineteen of the photos are described in graphic detail in the documents — which mention children posing on a “floral mattress” five times, according to the report.
For now, the charges only encompass child pornography possession, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sam Gill told the paper. He added that prosecutors will use federal resources to find out when the images were taken, who took them, and potentially identify the victims.
Not a single feminist has mentioned this case, for some reason.
PREVIOUSLY:
- July 10: Nigerian Immigrant Could Face Death Penalty in ‘Sugar Baby’ Murder Case
- July 5: Police Find Body of Mackenzie Lueck; Suspect’s Family Worries About Fair Trial
- July 2: Friends Decry the Slut-Shaming of Mackenzie Lueck: ‘It’s Just Not Fair!’
- June 28: UPDATE: Mackenzie Lueck Is Dead; Police Charge Ayoola Ajayi With Murder
Death by ‘Blue Pill’
Posted on | August 14, 2019 | 2 Comments
In January, I wrote about the case of Grant Amato (“Florida Man Kills Family After Stealing Money to Contact a Bulgarian Whore”), sarcastically making what seemed to me a rather obvious point:
If you were going to steal $200,000 for a whore, why wouldn’t you find a local whore, instead of some whore in Bulgaria you met via the Internet? Like, I don’t know the going rate for whores in Seminole County, Florida, but I’m pretty sure $200,000 would buy a lot of time with whores.
Amato killed his parents and younger brother because he believed he was in a “relationship” with this Bulgarian camgirl, and his family — understandably angry that he had stole money from them to pay for Internet sessions with her — had insisted that he seek treatment for his “sex addiction.” Instead, he left the psychiatric treatment center early and murdered his family in cold blood:
He first shot his mother as she sat at her computer desk. He then waited for his father to return home from work to shoot him too. Finally, several hours later, he shot dead his brother, who had come by the house to visit.
Amato was sentenced to life in prison Monday, which prompted an opaque comment by Rational Male author Rollo Tomassi:
This is why I say the Blue Pill is dangerous https://t.co/c6TMO5iXdq
— Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale) August 14, 2019
Now, you may not catch Rollo’s meaning, even if you know that “red pill” is a phrase “borrowed from the 1999 film The Matrix [which] refers to seeing through socially accepted illusions to understand the brutal truths of human nature.” By contrast, when Rollo refers to “blue pill” thinking, he means among other things the unrealistic idealization of women which makes someone like Grant Amato think he’s in a “relationship” with a whore whose performances he has viewed via webcam.
More generally, however, if “blue pill” thinking leads to sexual failure — and by definition, any man paying money to a camgirl is failing — then the consequences can be dangerous, as Rollo says.
The common feminist complaint that the “red pill” community is about misogyny (hatred of women) rests upon the implicit premise that sexual behavior is a zero-sum game in which male success is inherently oppressive to women. Feminists believe that women should possess a sort of totalitarian monopoly on sexual power, and generally seek to exercise this power by enforcing rules that make heterosexual relationships an ordeal in which men, like lab rats in a Skinner box, are required to respond exactly as women wish, or risk disastrous punishment.
Men who attempt to cooperate with these rules — “blue pill” men — are playing a losing game, because such cooperation ultimately renders them uninteresting to women, who become bored with their easy conquest of the kind of man who is willing to be a woman’s household pet.
What the “blue pill” approach produces is men who are so completely oriented toward doing whatever women want that he ceases to have any independent identity. He becomes something like Andrew Golis, an obscure nonentity known only as “Jessica Valenti’s husband” (and her recent memoir expressed how thoroughly she despises him). Oh, and speaking of the she-devil:
I’ve written before about the lack of resources for young men during critical times in their lives. What feminism does for women — providing girls with alternative media, cultural norms, and a language to understand sexism — is what we need for boys and young men.
Jessica Valenti’s status as an authority on “what we need for boys and young men” is rather suspect, given that she only ever writes about males for the purpose of further demonizing and humiliating them. It would be impossible to exaggerate her hatred of men. Ilhan Omar doesn’t hate Jews as much as Jessica Valenti hates men. If her husband committed suicide tomorrow, it would be the happiest day of Jessica Valenti’s life.
There actually are “resources for young men,” namely the three Rational Male books by Rollo Tomassi. Has he written some things that I might quibble with? Is he too bluntly cynical about women? Perhaps, but many readers have attested that The Rational Male is a life-saving book, one that provides men a positive approach to masculinity, especially in terms of helping them understand problems of relationships with women. I don’t know if there was much hope for Grant Amato — some losers are just too far gone down the road to destruction — but men who have read Rollo’s books say that he has helped them analyze their problems and find construction solutions. Pretty doggone sure he’s against spending $200,000 on a Bulgarian camgirl, anyway.
Further Epstein ‘Mystery’
Posted on | August 14, 2019 | Comments Off on Further Epstein ‘Mystery’
The warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) where Jeffrey Epstein died has been temporarily reassigned to the Bureau’s Northeast Regional Office by Attorney General William Barr, according to a Tuesday statement by the Justice Department. Meanwhile, two prison employees who had been assigned to Epstein’s unit have been placed on administrative leave pending ongoing investigations, according to CNBC.
Department of Justice spokewoman Kerri Kupec, in a prepared statement said, “Today, the Attorney General directed the Bureau of Prisons to temporarily assign the warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York to the Bureau’s Northeast Regional Office pending the outcome of the FBI and OIG investigations into the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, a former MCC inmate.”
“FCI Otisville Warden James Petrucci has been named Acting Warden of the MCC New York. The Bureau of Prisons also placed on administrative leave two MCC staff assigned to Mr. Epstein’s unit pending the outcome of the investigations. Additional actions may be taken as the circumstances warrant.” –CNBC
The morning of Jeffrey Epstein’s death, “shouting and shrieking” could be heard from his jail cell, according to CBS News – while guards attempting to revive him were saying “breathe, Epstein, breathe.”
The old adage is that one should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence and, when federal employees are involved, there’s never a shortage of incompetence.
But still, Vince Foster could not be reached for comment.
(Hat-tip: 90 Miles From Tyranny.)
Two Illegal Aliens in Maryland Accused of Raping 11-Year-Old Girl
Posted on | August 14, 2019 | Comments Off on Two Illegal Aliens in Maryland Accused of Raping 11-Year-Old Girl
In July, Democrats in Montgomery County, Maryland, banned local officials from cooperating with ICE:
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, on Monday signed the Promoting Community Trust Executive Order, prohibiting all executive-branch departments from, among other things, using local government resources to assist federal agents in civil immigration investigations.
That means they cannot allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers into nonpublic spaces in government buildings or give them access to individuals in county government custody — unless they are in possession of a court order or criminal warrant. . . .
Police in Montgomery, where immigrants make up 30% of the 1 million residents, have refused since 2014 to cooperate with ICE agents on immigration enforcement, which is considered a civil matter rather than a criminal one.
Now, the latest news from Montgomery County:
Two undocumented immigrants are accused of raping an 11-year-old girl on different occasions, the common denominator being a friendship with the victim’s older brother.
Montgomery County Police have arrested Mauricio Barrera-Navidad, 29, of Damascus, and Carlos Palacios-Amaya, 28, of Gaithersburg, and charged each with second-degree rape.
Last month, the victim — now 12-years-old — spoke with a social worker at her middle school in Germantown. Talking through tears, the girl shared the painful details about what both men allegedly did to her. . . .
In September 2018, the victim was introduced to her older brother’s friend, Palacios-Amaya. Over the course of the next few months, the then 27-year-old man raped the middle schooler on multiple occasions, authorities allege. The victim recalled one instance where Palacios-Amaya “used his cell phone to video record the two of them having sex,” police noted in court documents.
The victim told the social worker that Palacios-Amaya would often pressure her not to attend school so that she could stay home while her parents were at work. That gave Palacios-Amaya unsupervised access to the girl.
Investigators say while reviewing the victim’s cell phone, they located numerous photographs of Palacios-Amaya with the girl.
The other suspect, Barrera-Navidad, reportedly attended the victim’s older brother’s birthday party on July 2018. The celebration took place at a mobile home park in Germantown.
At one point in the evening, Barrera-Navidad and the 11-year-old victim entered a bedroom. According to police, Barrera-Navidad raped the girl and then continued to communicate with her via cell phone for an undisclosed period of time thereafter. . . .
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tells ABC7 that Barrera-Navidad and Palacios-Amaya are both living in the country illegally.
In December 2016, an immigration judge issued Barrera-Navidad a “final order of removal.” It’s unclear why the Salvadoran national remained in the country.
In 2014, federal authorities removed Palacios-Amaya from the U.S. for an undisclosed reason. The 28-year-old — who ICE referred to as a “repeat immigration violator” — returned to the U.S. on an unknown date.
More violence against women feminists won’t notice, for some reason.
If an 11-yo girl crying after a Mississippi ICE raid can be a viral video played repeatedly on every network for days, certainly an 11-yo girl raped multiple times after a Maryland county wouldn't allow ICE to do their job should be a viral story as well.
Right? https://t.co/l9r77C9JS4
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 14, 2019
In The Mailbox: 08.13.19
Posted on | August 13, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.13.19
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Why Schools?” – That’s The Wrong Question
EBL: Hong Kong – What’s Next?
Twitchy: Surveillance Video Appears To Show April Ryan’s Security Guard Strong-Arming Reporter Out Of Event
Louder With Crowder: Whoops! Chris Cuomo Referred To Himself As Fredo In Radio Interview
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #117 – The I Will Survive Episode
American Greatness: The White Supremacy Hoax
American Thinker: Leaving The Democrats
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Touch Of Perspective News
Babalu Blog: While Cuba Continues Raking In Cash From The Medical Slave Trade, Foreign Debt Skyrockets
BattleSwarm: Olive Garden Is A Bad Prepping Strategy
Camp of the Saints: Taking A Knee To The Knee-Takers
CDR Salamander: Some Unsolicited Advice For a New CNO
Da Tech Guy: Chris Cuomo & The Left Suddenly Don’t Like The New Rules
Don Surber: Saving Hong Kong
Dustbury: Not Part Of The Plan
First Street Journal: A Good Start, But Not Enough
The Geller Report: Pamela Geller Event To Proceed Despite Eventbrite Blacklisting, also, Former Miss Iraq Says Ilhan Omar Trying To Push Sharia Law In The U.S.
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Why Celebrities’ Boycott Fever May Haunt Hollywood
Joe For America: AG Barr Says “It’s On” – President Intends To Expose And Prosecute Anyone Complicit With Epstein
JustOneMinute: Neither Trump Nor Epstein! Fredo Breaks Bad!
Legal Insurrection: Democrat Threaten SCOTUS With Restructuring If They Decide “Wrong” On 2A Case, also, Iowa Nursing Home Resident Tells Kamala Harris “Leave Our Healthcare Alone”
The PanAm Post: Macri Has One Last Chance, But He Refuses To Accept Reality
Power Line: All The President’s Men, Obama-Style, also, Trump Administration Tightens “Public Charge” Rule
Shark Tank: DeSantis Attacked By Loser Gwen Graham
Shot In The Dark: Minnesota’s Intellectual Titan Strikes Again
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – How Can You Tax Your Pudding If You Don’t Tax Your Meat?
The Political Hat: New Zealand’s War On Plastic Bags
This Ain’t Hell: Another One Passes…, also, Update On Russian Explosion
Victory Girls: Eight Questions About The FBI Raid On Epstein’s “Pedophile Island”
Volokh Conspiracy: The Administration’s New “Public Charge” Rule Is A Plan To Cut Immigration, Not Reduce Burden On The Welfare State
Weasel Zippers: Ghislaine Maxwell Told Friend Epstein’s Entire Island Was Wired For Video, also, California Has Donated More To Trump Than Any Democrat Except Harris & Buttigieg
Megan McArdle: The NRA & The Media Need To Reevaluate Guns & Mass Shootings
Mark Steyn: The Song Of Bernadette, also, Lullaby Of Birdland
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The Antonym of ‘Dignity’: Guys, Never Do What Liam Hemsworth Did
Posted on | August 13, 2019 | 1 Comment
Do I want to write about Miley Cyrus again? No, like every other human being with any sense of decency, I’d prefer to ignore her existence. She is a disgrace to humanity, a noxious stain on the planet. After my Monday post (“Never Trust a Bisexual”) about how Miley had betrayed her husband Liam Hemsworth, I did not intend to pay any further attention to her, but then I saw the latest update on the Cyrus-Hemsworth split:
Liam Hemsworth spoke out about his separation from Miley Cyrus in a statement on Monday night.
“Just a quick note to say that Miley and I have recently separated and I wish her nothing but health and happiness going forward,” the 29-year-old “Hunger Games” star wrote on Instagram. “This is a private matter and I have not made, nor will I be making, any comments to any journalists or media outlets. Any reported quotes attributed to me are false. Peace and Love.” . . .
Some reports suggested Cyrus wanted an open relationship with Hemsworth that allowed her to “have fun” with other men and women while remaining married to him. On Monday, a source told People that Cyrus wanted to go to couple’s therapy with Hemsworth to be in “a healthy and focused place.” . . .
An insider told Entertainment Tonight that [Hemsworth] wasn’t shocked by her hookup with Carter but that the marriage may not be totally over.
“Liam loves Miley and is hurt, but he knows that she does this,” a source said. “Miley and Liam very recently separated. Miley’s behavior is no shock to Liam. He is hurt but not surprised. The last several months they’ve been talking about taking a break. Liam’s been frustrated with some of her antics and, in turn, Miley claims she ‘needs her space.’ This seems to be a pattern in their relationship.”
The insider added, “Miley and Liam love each other and always will. Most of their friends feel they’ll be back together. No one thinks Miley and Kaitlynn are in a real relationship, they believe it’s more fun on vacation.”
Now, we must doubt that the “insider” source quoted here was speaking with Hemsworth’s permission, but he himself was responsible for wishing “nothing but health and happiness” to Cyrus — which is something that no intelligent man would ever say about someone who had humiliated him in such a public fashion as Cyrus had done to Hemsworth.
Liam Hemsworth has let himself be played for a chump. Miley Cyrus has wiped her feet on his reputation, quite deliberately, and he seems to have no comprehension of what has happened to him, or why it happened.
Of course, if he had any concern for his own dignity, Liam Hemsworth never would have gotten involved with a trashy slut like that, but then to permit her to drag his reputation through the mud — which is what she has done, and not accidentally so — and act as if she is still deserving of his further sincere good wishes, can only be explained as expressive of a profound masochistic tendency on Hemsworth’s part.
Consider how this split has been reported by the tabloid press. We are told that “they’ve been talking about taking a break” for months, even though they only married in December. So it appears that Miley’s “antics” became a problem quite quickly, and yet rather than act decisively — leave, and tell her he wouldn’t consider returning unless she changed her ways — Hemsworth was evidently content to drift along. In other words, he ceded the initiative to her, giving her the option of making a de facto announcement of their separation by her public make-out session with Kaitlynn Carter. This is not the way to play the game, Liam.
Of course, we cannot expect sound judgment from a man fool enough to marry a slut like that, and having made that first mistake, every subsequent move he’s made has been consistently wrong, proving the truth of the ancient maxim, Quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat.
A man would have to be crazy to get involved with someone like Miley Cyrus, and God forbid any of my sons should ever make such an error. Yet if any of them were so unfortunate, I would hope when it became apparent to them that they’d made a mistake — “Dad always said never trust a bisexual” — they would have the sense to exit with their dignity intact, rather than permit themselves to played for a chump the way that Miley Cyrus has played Liam Hemsworth.
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