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‘Social Justice’ and the Death Gap

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.'”
— Thomas Sowell

Whenever you encounter a leftist advocating “equality,” you can be sure you are dealing with a fool. No such thing as “equality” has ever existed in human history, and none of the policies suggested by the Left can ever bring about this impossible condition. This is why, as the Nobel Prize-winning Friedrich Hayek famously explained, “social justice” is a mirage. Any policy agenda aimed at achieving this utopian goal is doomed to failure, although it does usually succeed at inciting envy. Because envy can be so easily mobilized as a political force, however, the Left continually tells us that our misfortunes are the result of an unjust inequality: Rich people are hogging up all the money, white people are the beneficiaries of “privilege” and, of course, as every feminist knows, men enjoy the wrongful advantages of the “wage gap.”

Yes, it’s unfair that my son with a high-school diploma earns more roofing houses than the typical feminist with her Gender Studies degree can earn as a barista at Starbucks. On the other hand, being a roofer is far more dangerous than serving coffee (or writing term papers about the patriarchy), and this danger may explain the pay differential:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that, in 2015, men dominated the 20 most dangerous occupations in the United States. Logging is the most dangerous job in the U.S., followed by fishing. Mining is the 20th most dangerous profession. More men than women occupied these jobs by anywhere from 85.4 to 99.9 percent.
Still, very few feminists, or anyone really, make a stink about the gender gap in casualties on the job. Perhaps because men earn so much doing it? Or they don’t deserve recognition because the patriarchy discovered logging and it’s getting what it deserved? Whatever the reason, it’s rarely mentioned, certainly not by feminists. I didn’t see “safety at work” anywhere in the #HumanRightsDay memes or tweets — but I did see calls for healthcare, contraception, and awareness of global warming as human rights.
Jordan Peterson, America’s favorite Canadian psychologist and gender rabble-rouser, wrote about this recently on his blog. He said studies, and his anecdotal research (he’s traveled to Scandinavia several times this last year), show that all this work to make men and women more equal has actually had the opposite effect. “Societies become more gender-equal in their social and political policies, men and women become more different in certain aspects, rather than more similar,” he wrote. However, when it comes to work and safety at work, men really do fill roles that are not only dangerous, but essential for a functioning, safe society.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

As you will note from the chart above, roofing is one of the top 5 most dangerous jobs and the workforce is 97.7% male. Why do you think that feminists are more concerned about increasing the percentage of women in high-tech jobs than in helping women become roofers — or working in the logging or fishing industries? Isn’t obvious that these are jobs women don’t want to do? Toting heavy bundles of shingles up a ladder is rigorous exercise, but women would rather pay money for a yoga class or a gym membership than to get paid for the kind of exercise my son does, and yet feminists believe women are victims of discrimination.

What feminists want is not “equality,” in the sense of basic fairness — the equal application of recognized standards of merit — but rather they seek to impose quotas in hiring for certain categories of employment. Feminists use a rhetoric of “diversity” and “inclusion” to justify discrimination against males in certain occupational fields. For example, what percentage of degrees in sociology and psychology go to male students? Less than 20%, because young men have learned that they cannot get hired in those fields. Academic jobs in the humanities and social sciences have become practically a “no-go zone” for males during the past two decades. Because there are no employment opportunities for men as university professors of English or psychology, therefore male students don’t even bother enrolling in those majors as undergraduates.

It is only such jobs — sitting at a desk in a nice air-conditioned office — that feminists care about when advocating “equality” and, by filing lawsuits over dubious claims of sexist discrimination, feminists have succeeded in compelling universities and corporations to institute de facto hiring quotas that favor women. It has been alleged, for example, that Google implemented a policy of not hiring (indeed, not even considering for job interviews) white male engineers. A deliberate policy of anti-male discrimination is what feminists endorse in the pursuit of “diversity,” and the fact that women are now a sizable majority (57%) of U.S. college students shows how feminists have succeed in discouraging men from pursuing higher education. My son is working in an occupational field with an on-the-job fatality rate more than three times that of police officers, and do you suppose that any feminist (e.g., Jessica Valenti) would give a damn if he fell off a roof tomorrow?

Don’t be absurd. Feminists want all men to die. If Jessica Valenti’s husband committed suicide, she’d be celebrating his death.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 12.17.18

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Obamacare Challenge – Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Twitchy: New York Times Doing Their Part To Mainstream Raging Anti-Semitism
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC Uses Video From Obaam Years To Claim Trump Is Cruel To Illegal Immigrants

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Greasy Pole Podcast #9 – Aaron Clarey’s Twelve Rules For Life
American Power: Zito & Todd’s The Great Revolt Makes Foreign Affairs’ 2018 List Of Top Books, also, Singer & Brooking, LikeWar: The Weaponization Of Social Media
American Thinker: Gun Confiscation Begins In New Jersey
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Is Samuel Little America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer? also, Ex-Radical Says Wokeness = Misery
CDR Salamander: Military Ethics & The Profession With Pauline Shanks Kaurin On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Illinois Is Only A Partially Free State, also, Non-Tweets Under The Fedora For December 16
Don Surber: Libs Brace For Another Humiliation, also, A College Where Men Menstruate
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Quote Of The Week
Fred On Everything: Intelligence If Any
The Geller Report: Amazon’s Muslim Workers In Minneapolis Demand More Prayer Time During Work Hours, also, NY Synagogue Hosts Jew-Haters Sarsour & Mallory To Debunk Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much Biology
Hollywood In Toto: Disney Princesses Under Feminist Attack, also, Five Exhausted Movie Tropes That Need To Die
Joe For America: Farmer Sprays Poop On Greenpeace And Emma Thompson
JustOneMinute: We’ll Always Have Paris, also, Big If True
Legal Insurrection: Washington State Womens’ March Closing Due To National Org’s Antisemitism, also, IG Reports Strzok, Page Phones Wiped Clean – Thousands Of Texts Destroyed Before They Could Be Reviewed
The PanAm Post: How Long Will The World Turn A Blind Eye To Cuba’s Domination Of Venezuela?
Power Line: Will The Mueller Switch Project Collapse? also, A No-Nonsense Judge Looks At The Flynn Prosecution
Shark Tank: Rep. Yoho Blasts Red China In Support Of Taiwan
Shot In The Dark: Politifact – Smear By Association
The Jawa Report: Al-Kabaabs Roasting On An Open Fire
The Political Hat: A Socialist Boot Stamping On A Venezuelan Face, Forever
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Joins Wreaths Across America In Laying Wreaths At Arlington, also, Two Marines Testify On Harrowing Attack By Antifa Mob
Victory Girls: Melania Trump Spreads Christmas Cheer To Military Families, also, College Conservative Beats Chicago Machine
Volokh Conspiracy: Happy Saturnalia!
Weasel Zippers: A Year After Net Neutrality’s Demise, The Internet Is Faster, also, Left Eats Left – DNC Chair Tom Perez Goes To War Against State Parties
Megan McArdle: Who Should Decide What Topics Are Off-Limits?
Mark Steyn: A Frizzy Christmas, also, “Blue Christmas”


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Rule 5 Sunday: Eliza Dushku

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I first became aware of Eliza Dushku (as I suspect most people did) from her portrayal of the “bad girl” Faith on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel; I was aware that she’d gone on to other roles in other Joss Whedon shows like Dollhouse and Tru Calling, but I was too busy with other things to follow those series. Anyhow, she was in the news this week following a #MeToo flap on the set of the CBS series Bull, which EBL covered in more detail here. Anyhow, here she is in a shot from Dollhouse.

A programmable, disposable assassin…in leather.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #468, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Chicago Machine Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL offers Bronze Age Dystopia Rule 5, Dystopian Warrior Women, Mark Zuckerberg’s Scarlet Letter & Lillian Gish, Karen McDougal, Troy: Fall of A City, Nancy Wilson, Eliza Dushku, Titania McGrath, and Aisling Franciosi.

A View From The Beach brings us How Much Crazy is a Billion Dollars Worth? Ask Talulah Riley, Friends in High Places, Russiagate: Cohen Gets Three Year in the Clink, And I Thought Music, Like Sex, Is Better Under Socialism, Real Clear Russiagate, “Let It Snow”, If I Hear One More Celebrity PSA . . ., Bettors Bet on Political Correctness, Oh The Weather Outside is Frightful, The Left Hand of Sharkness and Teach Women Not To . . . Oh, You Know the Rest.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Natalie Coughlin, his Vintage Babe is Mari Blanchard, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Miss Microsheen. At Dustbury, it’s Brenda Lee and Nancy Wilson.

Thanks to everyone for their luscious linkagery!


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‘It Was Just Rejection After Rejection’

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘It Was Just Rejection After Rejection’

After I began my deep-dive into radical feminism four years ago, I discovered the extent to which the movement’s ideology is rooted in the bizarre narcissistic belief that women have a monopoly on suffering. Many other critics of feminism have noted the victimhood mentality that emerges from the movement’s paranoid cult-like certainty that women — yes, all women — are oppressed by patriarchy, a systemic conspiracy against women in which all men are complicit. One of the major themes of feminism is that women are victimized by patriarchal beauty standards, compelled by “society” to conform to an unrealistic ideal. This theme is endlessly reiterated in memoirs (e.g., Sex Object by Jessica Valenti) that dramatize the agony of being an awkward or unattractive girl, and then relate how the discovery of feminist consciousness empowered the heroine to Fight Back Against the Patriarchy.

This is a rationalization of anti-male cruelty as revenge.

It’s not my fault that Jessica Valenti has a big nose. I am not responsible for how “society” made her feel insecure about her hairy arms or whatever other source of inadequacy inspired her childhood unhappiness. But this fixated claim to victimhood — her resentment of “society” as essentially unfair to her, and thus “oppressive” of all women — causes Ms. Valenti (like all other feminists) to believe she is justified in an attitude of infinite hostility toward males. The feminist therefore considers herself entitled to celebrate male suffering, and to mock the pain of any man who complains of his personal misfortunes.

 

Delighting in “male tears,” the feminist seeks to encourage other women to join her crusade of deliberate cruelty toward men. Feminism is not really about “equality,” it’s about a sadistic desire for revenge.

You see this, for example, in the way feminists habitually mock their male targets as sexually inadequate. Any man who criticizes a feminist, or who is otherwise identified as an opponent of their movement (e.g., Republican politicians) will predictably ridiculed by feminists as a nerd, a basement-dwelling “neckbeard,” a needle-dick loser who’s just angry because he can’t get laid. This kind of ad hominem is first and most obviously a substitute for argument, an attempt to discredit their antagonists and thus avoid having to defend their destructive anti-social ideology against intelligent criticism. However, these sexualized insults are also a revealing form of projection. SWJs Always Project, as Vox Day says and, by accusing their male critics of sexual inadequacy, feminists reveal the psychic root of their own grievance-based worldview.

The characteristic trait of the sociopath is a lack of empathy for others, and feminists manifest this trait in their indifference to male suffering. Because the feminist regards males collectively as perpetrators of oppression, she considers all men worthless and deserving of any pain or hardship inflicted upon them. (Jessica Valenti recently published a column entitled “Dear Men, Feminism Needs You,” and one wonders what sort of masochist would accept her invitation.)

Recently, Showtime produced a documentary about Brian “Head” Welch, guitarist for the heavy metal band Korn, who left the band after he committed his life to Christ in 2005:

In the film, Welch revealed that despite having it all — fame, fortune and a child he adored — he was still suffering from unhappiness.
“I think the root was the self-hatred that was going on due to unresolved issues growing up,” Welch explained. “I didn’t have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly. … Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, ‘You’re not good enough.’ ‘There’s always someone more popular.’ ‘There’s always someone more gifted in music.’
“… I feel like I was too sensitive to things. And they would get to me. And I would let them just tear me down. And no matter how successful I got later on, I just felt like, if people really got to know me, got close to me, they wouldn’t like me. That’s the lie I believed about myself. And so I would just mask it with drugs and alcohol for years and years… It wasn’t until I found my faith that I learned to love myself.”

Here is what Welch looked like in 1999, at the pinnacle of his fame:

 

What a brutally handsome guy he was, but as a teenage boy?

“It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.”

Show of hands: How many guys can relate to Brian Welch’s experience?

It escapes the notice of feminists that the vast majority of boys suffer the way Brian Welch did. Girls can be cruel and cold-hearted creatures, and boys are generally at their mercy. Watching my sons endure the adolescent ordeal of rejection and break-ups reminded me of my own teenage woes and, like Brian Welch, I understand that no amount of adult achievement can ever compensate for the youthful pain of unrequited love. What happens, too often, is that young men’s pain gets turned around into an attitude of vengeance against women — the mirror-obverse of Jessica Valenti’s anti-male ideology, rooted in her resentment of the “injustice” of being a big-nosed hairy-armed girl.

Thank God that Brian Welch found Jesus. The Christian must forsake the path of vengeance, learning to turn the other cheek, to endure suffering rather than to retaliate in violence. It always shocks me that feminists like Jessica Valenti embrace atheism and ridicule Christians, for what do feminists suppose would happen to women in an entirely godless society?

Well, “better put some ice on that,” eh?



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Are You Listening?

Posted on | December 16, 2018 | Comments Off on Are You Listening?

In case you haven’t been listening to The Other Podcast, you really should. My podcasting partner John Hoge has applied his decades of audio engineering expertise to the program and, when the BlogTalkRadio software doesn’t go glitchy on us (as sometimes happens), it’s a lot of fun.

Saturday night, we had a call-in from a Democrat (!!!) who had found our program randomly, and he wanted to talk about the #NeverTrump phenomenon, as inspired by our bon voyage to The Weekly Standard. In case you don’t know it, John didn’t even vote for Trump, and is therefore sympathetic to such sincere Christian conservatives as David French, whom I also consider a friend (while also considering him sadly misguided). As I indicated (“So Much Ahoy,” Dec. 14), I’m more in agreement with Ace of Spades, a regular conservative who has a profound resentment toward Movement Leaders™ who were de facto pro-Hillary and are now de facto pro-Pelosi. Those of us who do not rank as Movement Leaders™ are compelled to go to war with the army we’ve got and to fight or battles as we find them, rather than wistfully wishing we were in an ideal army fighting the battles of our choice. But I digress . . .

 

Saturday’s podcast was also interesting in that I found myself in mid-show reading a Vox article by Murray Waas in which he talked about Michael Avenatti’s newest client, Alexandra Chalupa, attributing his information to a “source with direct knowledge of the matter.” As an experienced editor, what I noticed about this article was that, while Waas conveys the impression his “source” is someone close to the Mueller investigation, he never specifically characterizes his source(s) this way. If you know how investigative reporting works, you understand that if Waas was getting this from a law enforcement source, he would say so, because that would give the story more credibility. Waas wants his readers to believe he knows for a fact that (a) Paul Manafort advised the White House “to specifically target Alexandra Chalupa, a political strategist and consultant for the DNC, for allegedly working with Ukrainian officials”; (b) it was this advice which Mueller was referencing in saying Manafort “lied about his contacts” with the White House; and (c) we should accept this “exclusive” story as true, based on the authority of Waas’s “source with direct knowledge of the matter.” However . . . 

What if Murray Waas’s source is a clever sociopath?

We know that Alexandra Chalupa was working with Brett Kimberlin, one of the most notorious sociopaths on the planet. Furthermore, Kimberlin is a known associate of Neal Rauhauser, an operative whose skill in misleading journalists is remarkable. So that’s at least two known liars who could be sources for Waas’s “exclusive,” and now that Michael Avenatti’s representing Chalupa, that makes three known liars. Of course, we cannot rule out Chalupa herself as this “source” and, because she is a former DNC operative . . . well, that makes four.

Question: If this Murray Waas “exclusive” were true, wouldn’t other reporters be able to match the story? Because if it is true that Manafort was acting as a White House advisor on this DNC/Ukraine angle, and that this was what Mueller was referencing, that would be newsworthy. Wouldn’t we expect to see this story picked up and expanded by the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, Associated Press, etc.?

But those dogs are not barking, are they?

There is a distinct aroma of bovine excrement here, you see, and I didn’t notice it until John and I were in the middle of our podcast Saturday night. After we got off the air, I put in a call to Lee Stranahan, who’s one of the few reporters following the Chalupa/Kimberlin story, and his hunch about the story closely matched my own.

See John Hoge’s latest “Team Kimberlin Post of the Day.”

Stay tuned, dear readers . . .



 

Category: Russia, The Kimberlin Files, Ukraine

FMJRA 2.0: Distant Smile

Posted on | December 16, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Babe In Toyland
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Jungle Love
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Police: Former Miss Kentucky Admitted Sending Nude Photos to 15-Year-Old Boy
A View From The Beach

EBL

Two Former Obama Aides Are Certain Mueller Can Prove Russian ‘Collusion’
A View From The Beach
EBL

Breaking News: Heisman Trophy Winner Once Used ‘Queers’ as a Slur on Twitter
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

Career Criminal Arrested for Kidnapping, Rape, Murder of N.C. Girl, 13
EBL

Macron Deploys E.U. Army in Paris?
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.10.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Grandfather’s Transgender Lover Charged With Murdering 1-Year-Old Girl in Texas
EBL

Pro-Choice Activist of the Year
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.11.18
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The Miracle of Saint Nancy
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.12.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Known Wolf: ‘Allahu Akbar’ Killer in France Had 27 Criminal Convictions
EBL

The Tumblrina Terrorist
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.13.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

So Much ‘Ahoy’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.14.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending December 14:

  1.  EBL (17)
  2.  A View From The Beach (9)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!


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In The Mailbox: 12.14.18

Posted on | December 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Eliza Dushku And CBS Bull
Twitchy: Federal Judge Rules Key Parts Of Obamacare Unconstitutional
Louder With Crowder: John Stossel Exposes The Real Numbers on Global Mass Shootings
According To Hoyt: Bad Bad Futures That Didn’t Happen – The Serial Number Version
Monster Hunter Nation: Noir Fatale Cover Reveal
Vox Popoli: The Yellow Vest Protest Continues

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The New System Edition
American Power: Checking Robert Mueller
American Thinker: The GOP Needs To Stop Being The Stupid Party
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Chicago Machine Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 14
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: No Pasaran! Details The Straw That Broke The French Drivers’ Backs, also, Non-Tweets Under The Fedora For December 14
Don Surber: Weekly Standard Gone, Trump Still Standing
Dustbury: Gently Down The Streams
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Obama’s FBI Paid More On Russian Dirt & Fake News In The 2016 Election Than The Russians, also, Jewicidal Leftist Natalie Portman Slams Israel’s Nation-State Law As “Racist”
Hogewash: Another Statue Bites The Dust
Hollywood In Toto: Mortal Engines (Mostly) Delivers What We Need
Joe For America: FL School Soars To #1 In State After Ditching Common Core
JustOneMinute: Traditional Market Meltdown Open Thread
Legal Insurrection: Fauxcahontas Finally Admits She’s Not A “Person Of Color”, also, CNN Poll Says Biden Tops Democratic Nominees
The PanAm Post: Maduro Regime Arrests German Journalist On Espionage Charges
Power Line: Flynn’s Fate, also, Trump Names Mulvaney Acting WH COS
Shark Tank: FL Unemployment Rate Hits Lowest Percentage Since 2007
Shot In The Dark: “Die, Apostates!”
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Day 2
This Ain’t Hell: “Captain Dan” Strikes Again, also, Last Ride For Rolling Thunder
Victory Girls: That Danged Constitution
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Obama Administration Reportedly Gave Classified Info To Senators For Use Against Trump, also, Democrats Voted For Border Wall In 2006, Now Oppose It
Mark Steyn: Pot For Pensions, also, I’ll Be Holmes For Christmas


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So Much ‘Ahoy’

Posted on | December 14, 2018 | Comments Off on So Much ‘Ahoy’

 

Two major differences between my blog and the Weekly Standard:

  1. I never sold any cruises to my readers;
    and
  2. I’m still publishing.

Also, I never whored out to the open-borders #NeverTrump crowd:

The Weekly Standard, a conservative opinion magazine turned Never-Trump publication, will shut down, according to a Friday announcement from the publisher’s owner, Clarity Media Group.
Earlier Friday, Weekly Standard editor-in-chief Stephen Hayes sat down with MediaDC chairman Ryan McKibben to discuss the magazine’s fate. Hayes sent a letter to employees notifying them of this morning’s meeting with McKibben, saying he was “not sure what today will bring”
“This is a volatile time in American journalism and politics,” Hayes’ letter to staffers read. “Many media outlets have responded to the challenges of the moment by prioritizing affirmation over information, giving into the pull of polarization and the lure of clickbait.” . . .
The Weekly Standard, a once-influential neoconservative magazine, was co-founded by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes in 1995 and published by Newscorp.
Clarity Media Group acquired The Weekly Standard in 2009.

That’s a carefully restrained version of the story, like saying the Hindenburg “experienced problems” on its arrival at Lakehurst, N.J.

 

Having previously said what I had to say on this topic (“The Bankruptcy of #NeverTrump,” Dec. 5, and “Be Not Conformed to This World,” Dec. 6), I’ll refrain from doing a happy dance on the grave of “elite” conservative folly. Instead, I’ll just quote a bit of Ace of Spades:

There’s a lot of whining by NeverTrumpers that this is terrible because we need dissenting voices in media, and the closing of the Weekly Standard means that we must all “kneel” to one rich arrogant man’s ego.
Well, you know who might agree with that? Lee Smith, who was fired — purged — from The Weekly Standard last October immediately having offered them an article exposing FusionGPS, the firm that Bill Kristol hired to try to take out Trump and Cruz, for those who like to forget that last name.
I know a lot of NeverTrumpers pretend they were Cruz supporters but funny, when I was supporting Cruz, I didn’t see them anywhere near me. They were taking snarky shots at Cruz and seemed to be rather enamored of Ruuuuubioooo.
Anyway, Lee Smith offered a rich (well, at least he lives richly off other people’s money) arrogant man whose ego cannot bear to hear any dissenting voices a story about the company he paid (or rather, used his donors’ money to pay) for dirt on Trump and Cruz, and was canned. . . .
So to all of those Weekly Standard people upset about losing your jobs — Lee Smith lost his job last Christmas (he was fired in October, but generously paid through Christmas), and none of you said a g–damn thing.

Read the whole thing and remember that Ace is not any kind of paleoconservative or “alt-right” white nationalist. He’s just a regular conservative who is living in reality, rather than in some opium-den pipe dream of a “Proposition Nation” or whatever other intellectual abstraction these genius controlled opposition types have spent 25 years peddling to Fox News viewers as True Conservative™ Principles.

So now their crooked hustle is busted, because the suckers got wise to the scam, and I’m right here where I’ve been for more than a decade, doing straightforward fee-for-service blogging, and reminding you again that The Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Really. Please. It’s Christmas. Thanks in advance.



 

Category: Media Bias
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