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8/8 = Hitler? ‘Remember, These Are the People Who Tell Us Trump Is Crazy’

Posted on | August 8, 2019 | Comments Off on 8/8 = Hitler? ‘Remember, These Are the People Who Tell Us Trump Is Crazy’

 

So says Professor Reynolds, referring to the conspiracy theorists who babble lunatic gibberish on an obscure cable networks:

MSNBC analyst Frank Figliuzzi drew a numerical connection on Monday between neo-Naziism and the Trump administration’s decision to fly flags at half-mast until Aug. 8 in honor of the victims of a pair of mass shootings.
Figliuzzi is a former FBI assistant director who has been feted for predicting last month that white supremacist violence was potentially imminent due to President Trump’s rhetoric. . . .

Permit me to interrupt here and say that, even without his bizarre Neo-Nazi Magic Decoder Ring theory, it’s frightening to think that Figliuzzi was ever in a position of trust at the FBI, given his willingness to promote this cause-and-effect linkage between “Trump’s rhetoric” and “white supremacist violence.” In point of fact, the El Paso shooter said explicitly that he was acting as a copycat of the New Zealand mosque shootings in March. You can blame 8chan or /pol for the shooter’s action, but blaming Trump is a non sequitur. We continue with the article:

In an interview with host Brian Williams, Figliuzzi ripped Trump for not using the first-person voice to condemn white supremacism in an address on Monday, given the anti-immigrant motives of the killer in El Paso, Texas.
Part of countering the adversary of white supremacism, he said, was in understanding the significance of how they think. While he wouldn’t accuse Trump of purposefully flying flags until Aug. 8, he also darkly wondered who wrote the speech.
“If we don’t understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to counter them,” he said. “The president said that we will fly our flags at half mast, until August 8. That’s 8/8. Now, I’m not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House.
“The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them the numbers 8-8 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.’ So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8.”
“No one is thinking about this,” he added.

Is he off his meds? Has he sought counseling? Back in November 2016, I mocked liberals for claiming they were “traumatized” by Hillary’s defeat, but now I’m beginning to suspect that they have never really recovered from the psychological damage they suffered on 11/8/16 — a number that must have some arcane significance, I’m sure, but unlike MSNBC guests, I haven’t been reading Nostradamus or consulting psychics or whatever paranormal means they use to divine the auguries and omens.



 

Category: MSNBC, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 08.07.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 7, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.07.19 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Twitchy: Even More Of Joaquin Castro’s Donors Aren’t Happy To Show Up On His List of Shame
Louder With Crowder: Dear Hollywood, Enough With The Lazy Remakes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The #1 Thing You Must Do As Parents To Raise Successful Kids
American Greatness: Upcoming Movie Features Trump Supporters Being Hunted By Liberal Elites
American Power: The Lie That Latinos Are “Living In Fear” After El Paso Shooting
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: The Beto Man Is A Disgrace
BattleSwarm: Joaquin Castro Does Something Really Stupid
Camp of the Saints: “For Duty & Humanity!”
CDR Salamander: We Need A Material Condition Standdown
Da Tech Guy: All The Site Moves, Fixes, Etc. Will Cost $1000, also, No Surprises Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Today In Hate
Dustbury: In Lieu Of Actual Panic
First Street Journal: The Special Snowflakes Are Terrified
The Geller Report: Cannibal Reza Aslan Calls For Genocide Against Trump Supporters, also, Let’s Review Obama Shootings – Fort Hood Vs. El Paso
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The New York Times And Defamation
Hollywood In Toto: Are Deplorables The Good Guys In The Hunt?
Joe For America: Sara Carter – The Rats Are Turning On Each Other
Legal Insurrection: Left-Wing Mob Outside Mitch McConnell’s House Shouts Death Threats, also, Nicole Wallace Accuses Trump Of “Talking About Exterminating Latinos”, Offers Lame Apology After Uproar
Michelle Malkin: How The VA “Red Flags” Patriots
The PanAm Post: Brazil Nixes Entry For Maduro, Top Regime Officials
Power Line: A New Low For Democrats? also, Mental Illness & Mass Murder
Shark Tank: Wasserman Schultz Says Trump Gave White Supremacists “Permission” To Kill
Shot In The Dark: Just Another Kid Concerned About The Environment
The Political Hat: One Country, One Tyranny
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Dismisses More SEAL War Crimes Cases, also, ISIS Regroups
Victory Girls: Peter Strzok Sues FBI, Whines That His Privacy & Freedom Of Speech Were Violated
Volokh Conspiracy: The Growth Of The “Cultic Milieu” And The Spread Of Harmful Ideas
Weasel Zippers: 8chan Owner Says El Paso Shooter Didn’t Post Manifesto Media Are Reporting On, also, Baltimore Sun Attacks Scott Presler For Organizing Trash Cleanup In West Baltimore
Mark Steyn: The Mad Waxman

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This Was Probably Inevitable

Posted on | August 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

“Dark psychic forces,” you might say:

A group of supporters of 2020 White House hopeful and Marianne Williamson has put together an “occult task force” in support of the spiritual guru; however, her campaign is none too pleased about the move.
In an interview with the Washington Post, the anonymous individual heading up the “task force” told the Jeff-Bezos owned newspaper that 13 witches, chaos magicians, and energy workers performed “gestures” in an effort to get Williamson more speaking time during Tuesday’s Democrat presidential primary debate in Detriot, Michigan.
“The whole orb gang community is tapping into the power of memes to reflect back on, and multiply, the sort of pulsing undercurrents of our collective unconscious,” the person emailed the Post. According to the publication, Williamson supporters refer to themselves as the “orb gang,” who share memes of the candidate on social media.

Basing such a story on an anonymous email? Professional Journalism!

Leaving aside metaphysical speculation about weird occult phenomena, let’s talk real politics: The Democratic National Committee has set a deadline of Aug. 28 for presidential candidates to qualify for the next round of debates in September. One of the criteria is having 130,000 unique donors and, as of 8 p.m., Marianne Williamson was at 113,521. That means she needs to get 16,479 new donors in the next three weeks.

Even a contribution of one dollar counts toward that total.

 

Category: Democrats

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

Posted on | August 7, 2019 | Comments Off on The Hate They Create: Democrats Sow the Wind, and Reap the Whirlwind

Daniel Greenfield explains at Front Page:

Identity politics was born out of an effort by leftist activists to identify and mobilize potential supporters by breaking down a sense of national solidarity along the lines of group victimhood. Every act of terror breaks down national solidarity further and strengthens the appeals to race over nationality.
Lessons about tolerance, white privilege and racial consciousness don’t end racism. They spread it.

Keep in mind that America’s public school system is an institution wholly controlled by the Democrats, who collect millions in contributions annually from teachers unions. Because a college diploma is a prerequisite to employment by the public school system, the Left’s control of university campuses ensures that all teachers are indoctrinated with left-wing ideology. That’s why the K-12 curriculum is no longer about teaching children important facts and useful skills; rather, it is about training children to be “progressive” activists.

Public schools are now dedicated to teaching children to hate Christianity, to hate their parents, to hate capitalism — to hate America — and a crucial part of this curriculum is systematic indoctrination about race, gender and sexuality: White heterosexual males are evil!

Having been taught (at taxpayer expense) that their lives are worthless, young white males internalize a suicidal sense of self-hatred, and then everyone acts surprised when some pathetic young loser decides that it would be cool to end his life with a mass-murder rampage.

Next time one of these massacres happens, will anyone in the media mention the role of public education in turning boys into killers? No, of course not, because the media is part of the same system.

(Hat-tip: J.J. Sefton at AOSHQ.)



 

Category: Education

Police in Canada Arrest #WaxMyBalls Tranny Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv

Posted on | August 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv (@trustednerd on Twitter) has become internationally notorious for his efforts to force women who run waxing services for women to do their thing on his . . . uh, thing.

Because of Canada’s “human rights” recognition of transgenderism, Yaniv has been able to claim he is a victim of illegal discrimination — a warning of what kind of insanity America would unleash if we similarly recognize transgender rights. Yaniv’s sick behavior, and his totalitarian project of silencing critics of transgender activism like Meghan Murphy, are suggestive of a psychopathic personality. There have also been accusations that Yaniv is a pedophile, and at least one young woman says she has reported to police that Yaniv engaged in inappropriate online conversations with her when she was a minor.

Attempts to end the Yaniv menace took an interesting new turn this week when, during an online video conversation with Blaire White, Jonathan/ “Jessica” brandished a stun gun:

Jessica Yaniv, a transgender B.C. woman whose complaints over being refused intimate waxing services sparked wide controversy, was arrested Monday, apparently for brandishing a prohibited weapon during an online debate.
Yaniv said officers showed up at her apartment in Langley, B.C., shortly after the YouTube debate on transgender activism ended. The officers asked her about a stun gun, she said.
“About three minutes after (the broadcast ended), I have RCMP showing up at my door and putting me into cuffs saying I have a prohibited weapon,” she said in an interview. . . .
The RCMP detachment in Langley confirmed an arrest and search of a home in the area but could not confirm specific details, charges, timelines or named individuals, said Cpl. Craig Van Herk.
He said the RCMP received information and based on it officers have “an open investigation, an active and ongoing investigation.”
Van Herk would not confirm or deny the charges or the circumstances behind them or what Yaniv said was the reason for the RCMP’s return to her apartment.
Neighbours of Yaniv confirmed seeing her being taken away in handcuffs Monday and Yaniv did appear that day, side-by-side in a YouTube conversation with Blaire White, a U.S.-based transgender woman whose videos often deal with transgender issues.
During the heated YouTube debate, viewed by the Post, White harshly criticized Yaniv’s tactics, actions and appearance and Yaniv said she faces harassment and threats because of the prominence of her trans activism.
“I have to carry pepper spray with me because people are so freaking violent over here,” Yaniv said during the debate.
She then stood up from her seat in front of her computer, rummaged around inside her apartment for a moment before returning.
“I should not have to literally have something like this,” she said. “I don’t need to be scared in my own house.” She then held up a stun gun and zapped it towards the camera, emitting a flash and a crackle.
“Which is illegal in Canada. Just sayin,” she added.

A contemptuous attitude toward laws — taking pleasure in defying legal restrictions — is typical of sociopaths. Just sayin’ . . .



 

Category: Canada, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 08.07.19 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Welcome To The Panopticon
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #705 (and from last week, Episode #698)
EBL: The Scottish Play
Twitchy: Watch Weasel Joaquin Castro Squirm When MSNBC’s Willie Geist Backs Him Into An Accountability Corner
Louder With Crowder: Democratic Socialists Of America Demonstrate How To Become Human Weiners, also, Alleged Transgender Predator “Jessica” Yaniv Busted by RCMP

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Complete Lack Of Diversity In Downhill Mountain Biking
American Greatness: Trump Supporters Spend A Day Picking Up Trash In West Baltimore, also, Igniting Civil War
American Power: What’s Really Behind The “White Supremacy” Terrorism Scare
American Thinker: Democrats Are The Ones Who Have Been Inciting Violence Against Their Political Opponents
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Bad Advice News
Babalu Blog: Trump Freezes Venezuelan Assets In U.S., Rick Scott Calls For Naval Blockade Of Oil To Cuba
BattleSwarm: The Great Baltimore Cleanup
Camp of the Saints: On Tribes, Identity Politics, & Misfits
CDR Salamander: How Many Votes Does A Military Budget Buy?
Da Tech Guy: Five Unlinked Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, Report From Louisiana – Back To School
Don Surber: ABC Should Drop WSB-TV
Dustbury: Test Failed
First Street Journal: A Neo-Conservative At The Washington Post?
The Geller Report: Crushing Truth – Every American Mass Shooter In 2019, also, CNN’s Jake Tapper Yelps After Rashida Tlaib Rips Into Him
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Interesting Times In Hong Kong
Hollywood In Toto: Paul Rodriguez – A Closet Trump Supporter Who Rejects The Wall
Joe For America: Obama Calls For All-Out Gun Confiscation, Blames “White Supremacist” Trump For Mass Shootings
JustOneMinute: The Uneasy Compromise Of Campaign Finance Disclosure Is Ruptured
Legal Insurrection: Democrats Fundraising Off Dayton & El Paso Shootings, also, David Gibson Accuses Oberlin Of Dragging Out Litigation “Because They Know I’m Dying Of Cancer”
The PanAm Post: Should a College Degree Be Required For Those Wishing To Preside Over A Country?
Power Line: WaPo Glibly Dismisses Mental Illness As Cause Of Mass Shootings, also, A Do-Over At The NYT
Shark Tank: Florida’s Daily Political Read For 8/6
Shot In The Dark: Comrades In Caricature
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Yadda Yadda Yadda
The Political Hat: The Wane of Monoculturalism
This Ain’t Hell: What A Tangled Web – Act II Scene 3, also, US/Uruguay Tit For Tat
Victory Girls: Red Flag Laws & Due Process Concerns
Volokh Conspiracy: Sarah Palin’s Libel Case Against The NY Times Can Go Forward
Weasel Zippers: Leftards Protest At Injured Mitch McConnell’s House, Encourage People To Stab Him In The Heart, also, Kamala Harris Suggests She’d Send Cops To Homes To Confiscate Firearms
Megan McArdle: If Conservatives Want To Keep Their Guns, They’re Going To Have To Find A Way To Stop Mass Shootings
Mark Steyn: Shaving Away Profits

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Category: Linkagery

DaTechGuy 2.0

Posted on | August 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

Longtime blog buddy Pete Da Tech Guy is rattling the tip jar to fund a site upgrade, and I just threw in a few bucks, because I owe him. Pete and I go back nearly 10 years. During the Great LGF Blog War of September 2009, when Charles Johnson decided to “expose” me as a racist — a long, long story — Da Tech Guy came to my defense, even though we’d never met. When you’re in the middle of a fight for survival like that, you can only pray for deliverance and thank God for every shot fired in your defense.

A few months later, when Scott Brown ran for the Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, I took a train to Boston and Pete drove down from Fitchburg to pick me up at the station and — ZOOM! — off we went on the campaign trail for the one of the wildest weeks of my life. We ended that week in a ballroom for the Brown victory party, at which Pamela Geller and Ace of Spades joined us in the front row of the press section, with the mainstream media assigned to the rear rows.

It was during that trip that I first began wearing a fedora, borrowing one from Pete, and so I owe him for that sartorial trademark, too.

Anyway, Professor Glenn Reynolds hit Pete’s tip jar last night, and so I felt obliged to do my part in helping fund his upgrade.



 

Category: Da Tech Guy

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

Posted on | August 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

While the media have spent the past 72 hours screeching about “white supremacy” and blaming Donald Trump for the El Paso massacre, the facts emerging about the mass murderer in Dayton, Ohio, have presented a classic case of missed warning signs of dangerous craziness:

The man who killed nine people Sunday morning in Dayton’s Oregon District was once kicked out of Bellbrook High School for making a list of girls he wanted to kill, the Dayton Daily News learned in interviews with former classmates and school administrators.
Connor Betts, 24, was shot and killed by Dayton police, ending a brief yet deadly rampage in which he killed his sister, eight others and injured 27. . . .
“This isn’t a mystery to me,” said one middle school classmate. “I’m furious.”
The classmate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the shooter once said he fantasized about tying her up and slitting her throat. The fetish was so macabre that even the shooter admitted he was scared of his thoughts, the woman recalled him saying.
“He knew it wasn’t normal,” the woman said about the decade-old conversation. “He and I talked at length about him getting help.”
The woman said she and her parents told Bellbrook police about the bizarre admission, but the woman said she felt she wasn’t taken seriously, despite the would-be shooter including her on a hit list. . . .
“I think this is less of a hate crime and more of an ‘I hate everybody’ crime,” [former high-school classmate Demoy] Howell said. “I honestly feel more comfortable now knowing that he’s gone.”

More about the killer’s high-school “hit list”:

High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault.
The accounts by two former classmates emerged after police said there was nothing in the background of 24-year-old Connor Betts that would have prevented him from purchasing the .223-caliber rifle with extended ammunition magazines that he used to open fire outside a crowded bar. Police on patrol in the entertainment district fatally shot him less than a minute later.
Both former classmates told The Associated Press that Betts was suspended during their junior year at suburban Bellbrook High School after a hit list was found scrawled in a school bathroom. That followed an earlier suspension after Betts came to school with a list of female students he wanted to sexually assault, according to the two classmates, a man and a woman who are both now 24 and spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern they might face harassment.
“There was a kill list and a rape list, and my name was on the rape list,” said the female classmate.
A former cheerleader, the woman said she didn’t really know Betts and was surprised when a police officer called her cellphone during her freshman year to tell her that her name was included on a list of potential targets.
“The officer said he wouldn’t be at school for a while,” she said. “But after some time passed he was back, walking the halls. They didn’t give us any warning that he was returning to school.” . . .
The discovery of the hit list early in 2012 sparked a police investigation, and roughly one-third of Bellbrook students skipped school out of fear, according to an article in the Dayton Daily News.

More from NBC News:

As investigators attempt to piece together why a 24-year-old man opened fire outside a popular Dayton bar, people from his past point to hit lists, violent threats and a fascination with shootings that they now say were clearly red flags. . . .
“He would have known that his actions were deplorable,” Adelia Johnson, 24, said about the man she dated earlier this year.
The pair met in a psychology class at Sinclair Community College in Dayton and bonded over their shared struggle with mental illness, she said.
They began dating this spring — a brief relationship punctuated by peculiar moments that at first Johnson shrugged off.
On one date, he took her to shoot a rifle. He often brought up mass murders when they spent time together, Johnson told “Today.”
Johnson said that he performed with an extreme heavy metal band known for sexually violent lyrics.
On their first date, she said, he showed her body camera video from a mass shooting at a synagogue. Another time, he asked her to accompany him as he tried to drop off an anonymous letter to an ex-girlfriend. The letter’s message — “You can’t escape your past” — unnerved her, she said.
His fixation on the ex, Johnson said, “was the final red flag.”
“All of the other ones,” she said, “those could be written off as something else.”
She ended the relationship through a text message and said she told friends she was scared by his actions.

Oh, they “bonded over their shared struggle with mental illness.” Because no sane person would have dated this scary weirdo:

The Ohio madman who slaughtered nine people and wounded at least two dozen others in Dayton’s nightlife district had heard menacing voices in his head since he was young, and talked about “dark, evil things,” his ex-girlfriend said.
Connor Betts, 24, was a serious and reserved kid who struggled with hallucinations, Lyndsi Doll, who dated Betts seven years ago, told the Washington Post Monday.
During their high school years, Betts had told Doll he’d long suffered from psychosis and feared developing schizophrenia.
“He would cry to me sometimes,” Doll recalled, “saying how he’s afraid of himself and afraid he was going to hurt someone one day. It’s haunting now.” . . .
Her friends had warned her about his aggressiveness in previous relationships — pushing one ex-girlfriend into a roaring river and screaming at another while pinning her against a wall, she shared.
Despite that, she grew to trust him, and the pair bonded over their shared mental health struggles. Doll had suffered from anxiety and depression, she said.
As time went on, though, Doll started to realize that Betts was in desperate need of professional help, and talked often about “dark, evil” things he was hearing in his head, she told the paper.

So, this makes at least two girls he dated with whom he “bonded over their shared mental health struggles.” Every crazy girl in Dayton, Ohio, was magnetically attracted to this psychotic freak, I guess.

Did I mention he was pro-Antifa and a registered Democrat who expressed support of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren?

And there are millions of these Bernie voters out there.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.



 

Category: Crime, Ohio, Terrorism
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