The Loser Derby
Posted on | October 17, 2019 | Comments Off on The Loser Derby
“There is no personality lurking over there that is going to lay waste to the field by providing a fighting alternative. They pretended they loved Biden because he was the most electable, but now the two raving socialists are raking in all of the money in what could be the Mother of All Ironies.”
(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) For the past few weeks, I’ve paid no attention to the polls of Democrat presidential candidates, because it dawned on me how irrelevant it’s likely to be. Once the debates began, it became apparent that Biden is not a viable challenger to Trump. He is simply too old, and has too much baggage — not least of which being his son’s deals in Ukraine and China — and cannot inspire the left-wing grassroots. The idea that Biden is a “moderate” who can appeal to blue-collar voters was, perhaps, wishful thinking for Democrats, who have become the anti-white, anti-male, anti-American party. If they nominated Biden, Democrats would be symbolically repudiating everything on which their identity-politics “social justice” agenda is based. Therefore, even if Biden could win the primaries, this would set up the Democrats for defeat in November 2020, because so many of their supporters — especially of the purple-hair feminist SJW variety — would not bother to vote.
So now look at the polls: Since July, Biden has hovered in the vicinity of 30% while Elizabeth Warren has zoomed from about 15% to around 25% — mostly at the expense of Bernie Sanders, who recently had a heart attack and is stuck permanently at around 15% support. Everybody else in the Democrat primary field is in single digits, and only Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris likely have what it takes to make it past Iowa and New Hampshire. Beto O’Rourke? Doomed. Corey Booker? No chance. By the end of next February, the choice for Democrats will be down to two or three candidates who have pledged themselves to the far-left agenda of the party base, and it’s far from certain that Biden will still be a candidate at that point. Frankly, his money situation may doom Biden worse than any other factor, because his campaign’s most recent cash-on-hand total (about $9 million) was less than half of the $23.4 million Buttigieg reported, and not even a third of Warren’s whopping $33.7 million. Everything now favors Warren to be next year’s Democrat nominee, and Trump will stomp Warren like Godzilla stomped Tokyo.
WATCH: Meghan McCain says it's "breaking my heart" that Warren is leading Biden in the polls https://t.co/j4k8XlxJKP pic.twitter.com/WfF1UaZxb4
— The Hill (@thehill) October 15, 2019
Oh, so sorry, my #NeverTrump cousin — you’re hopelessly doomed.
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Democrat Impeachment Leader Dies
Posted on | October 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrat Impeachment Leader Dies
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who chaired the House committee leading Democrat efforts to impeach President Trump, died early this morning.
UPDATE: “De mortuis nihil nisi bonum,” is generally good advice, but many people disliked Elijah Cummings, and they are not silent.
THANK YOU… ELIJAH CUMMING FOR LEAVING BALTIMORE A RAT INFESTED CRACK DEN… GOOD JOB!
— Eugene Trimble (@EugeneTrimble6) October 17, 2019
Elijah Cumming dead at 68. Baltimore City will not miss him. He participated in destroying that city and profited greatly personally for decades. @RepCummings https://t.co/brZ55Na881
— Michelewith1L (@3buzygirls) October 17, 2019
I was trying hard to keep this about the honorable work Mr. Cummings did as a civil rights leader, but since you decided to bring up alleged corruption by Mr. Trump…
Mr. Cummings violated campaign finance laws, ducked child support and the IRS, and left Baltimore a mess.
— #Dizzology?? (@TalkMMA) October 17, 2019
What I recall about Cummings was that he never missed an opportunity to accuse Republicans of racism, while doing nothing to help actual black voters in his own Baltimore district. It was all scapegoating, all the time, with Cummings, and the same can be said of Democrats generally.
Well, don’t worry about Elijah Cummings. Like all dead Democrats in Baltimore, he’ll still be voting in elections for many years to come.
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In The Mailbox: 10.16.19
Posted on | October 17, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #775
357 Magnum: Did They Think They Were In New Jersey?
EBL: So How Was Joe Biden Last Night?
Twitchy: President Trump’s Pic Of Nancy Pelosi’s Meltdown Is Now Her Twitter Header Photo – Trump Escalates
Louder With Crowder: Watch Beta O’Rourke Admit He’ll Send The Police to Confiscate Your AR-15
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Her First Loyalty Is To Team Woman
American Greatness: Elite Universities Have Failed To Produce Elites, also, Imagining Donald Trump’s Future For America
American Thinker: When Does Serial Lying Become Disqualifying, Liz?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: A Warning For America From A Chinese-American Who Escaped Socialism
BattleSwarm: Project Veritas Takes On CNN
Camp of the Saints: What The Elitist Leftist Future Holds
Cafe Hayek: Free Trade, Properly Defined And Understood
CDR Salamander: No, You Can’t Get Enough Salamander, Really, also, What’s Better Than 13 F-35s On An LHA?
Da Tech Guy: The Unsuitable 90 Day Fiances, also, If Only She Wore a “Little Drag Queen” T-Shirt To School Instead
Don Surber: Why 2020 Is Looking Good, also, Do We Want Another Fox News?
First Street Journal: You Just Cannot Present Adult Solutions To Children
The Geller Report: Canadian Imam Orders Muslims Not To Vote For Filthy Christian & Jewish Candidates, also, SCOTUS Denies Cert To Christian Student Forced To Recite Islamic Prayer Of Conversion In Public School
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Still The Least Insane Of The Bunch
Hollywood In Toto: From Hanoi Jane To Climate Hypocrite, Jane Fonda Does It All
Joe For America: Pelosi & Dems Pitch A Fit, Storm Out Of Meeting With Trump
Legal Insurrection: Minneapolis Mayor Says Trump Supporters On The Internet Made Him Feel Like A Woman, also, Three #Squad Members To Endorse Bernie Sanders?
The PanAm Post: CBH, The Swiss Bank That Guarded Millions Stolen By Chavismo
Power Line: Renaming Places, Revising History, also, Title VII, Gay Rights, & Justice Gorsuch
Shark Tank: Rep. Ross Spano Bounces Back, Raises $500K YTD
Shot In The Dark: Soon To Be The Subject Of ACLU Litigation
STUMP: When The Money Runs Out – Some Thoughts On Public Finance & Pensions
The Political Hat: The Hydra Of Equity – Silent & Venomous
This Ain’t Hell: May They Rot For It, also, Two Medals Of Honor
Victory Girls: Vote Kamala for Tyrant In Chief
Volokh Conspiracy: Mysterious Swastika Incident At Yale Law School
Weasel Zippers: Schiff Pressed Volker To Say Ukraine Felt Pressure From Trump, also, HK Protestors Don Masks Of LeBron James
Megan McArdle: On Health Care, Warren Sounded Like A Student Who Hadn’t Done Her Reading
Mark Steyn: A Cure Worse Than The Disease, also, Happy International Pronouns Day!
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More Pedophiles Going to Prison in ‘Sickening’ Child Pornography Case
Posted on | October 17, 2019 | Comments Off on More Pedophiles Going to Prison in ‘Sickening’ Child Pornography Case
Good news from the Justice Department:
U.S. authorities followed a bitcoin trail to break up what they described as one of the largest dark web child porn marketplaces.
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a South Korean man, Jong Woo Son, who allegedly ran “Welcome to Video,” which contained more than 200,000 videos displaying sexual acts involving children, toddlers and infants, NBC News reported, citing a criminal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Bloomberg reported that investigators were able to track down Son and the location of his “darknet” server by targeting users’ bitcoin transactions.
Darknet involves encrypted online content that is not accessible through common search engines.
“Our agency’s ability to analyze the blockchain and de-anonymize Bitcoin transactions allowed for the identification of hundreds of predators around the world,” Don Fort, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, said, according to Bloomberg. “The scale of this crime is eye-popping and sickening.”
The website, which was in operation from June 2015 to March 2018, handled 7,300 bitcoin transactions, translating to more than $730,000, according to NBC.
NBC also reported that authorities discovered that Son ran the site as he serves an 18-month prison sentence for being convicted of child pornography-related charges. He was indicted on federal child porn charges in August 2018, but the records were unsealed Wednesday.
More than 300 users of the website have been arrested in 11 countries, Bloomberg reported.
Ooh, there’s the story: Once the feds tracked down this Korean source, they used a sealed indictment — meaning that there was no news coverage of their investigation, so that users of this network didn’t know the feds were onto them. Brilliant work, because if the suspects had known they were being watched, they might have started destroying their hard drives, etc., and tried to disappear. Instead, they had no clue their network had been breached, and the creeps must have been surprised when they got busted — more than 300 of them! Also, there was big money involved, averaging about a quarter-million dollars a year over three years. One of the arrests related to this network, we now know, was a 26-year-old British man who was sentenced to prison in March:
A dark web film paedophile who raped a five-year-old boy and sexually abused a three-year-old girl has been locked up.
Kyle Fox, who had started abusing the little girl when she was still a baby, filmed his “shocking and dreadful abuse of children”.
He was snared after a video uploaded to a dark web website was traced back to him by National Crime Agency (NCA) detectives.
When officers raided Fox’s home in Epsom, Surrey, in the early hours of the morning, they found his male victim naked on a bed. . . .
The court heard there were 13,000 photographs and videos of indecent child images on the defendant’s computers.
Some of these videos showed his male victim being sexually abused, while others were of the girl. In total a staggering 4,743 images were Category A — the most serious kind of abuse.
Another creep arrested in this roundup, according to NBC News, was “a Washington, D.C., man who was caught with the equivalent of 50 years worth of video footage he had downloaded.”
Washington, D.C., you say? Did this involve pizza, by any chance?
At any rate, I’m sure these baby-rapers will be popular in prison.
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Proving @RationalMale Right Again
Posted on | October 16, 2019 | 1 Comment
In Australia, there has been an uproar since Pauline Hanson of the right-populist One Nation party asserted that false accusations of domestic abuse are a problem in child-custody cases. This is relevant to proposals to reform Australia’s family court system, and Hanson’s remarks have prompted outrage from feminists and the Left generally, where the Women Never Lie Myth is sacrosanct. This mirrors the Left’s position on “rape culture,” where mere accusation is considered tantamount to proof.
The dispute over Australia’s family court system highlights something Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale on Twitter) has noted: “Child support is the defining feature of our modern family model, since it is the replacement for marriage whether or not a wedding has occurred.”
By actively creating a social order that incentivizes the removal of men from the home as the default. Look up the Duluth Model of feminism. We've socially engineered a society that shifted from marriage as the norm to child support as the norm.
— Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale) August 30, 2018
Because of the desanctification of marriage in our secular, sexualized, feminist-dominated culture, wedding vows now come with asterisks next to them, pointing to footnotes that in essence declare, “We don’t actually mean all this stuff about ‘death do us part’ and so forth.”
Every couple now goes to the wedding altar under the threatening shadow of potential divorce, and it is generally acknowledged that divorce is a punitive procedure by which aggrieved women are authorized to obtain a sadistic revenge against their ex-husbands. Because accusations of abuse give women greater leverage in divorce proceedings, we should not be surprised that (a) such accusations are often exaggerated or even sometimes fabricated from whole cloth, and (b) anyone who expresses skepticism toward these accusations will be accused of being anti-woman, an enabler of male violence against women.
Rollo’s comment about the Child Support Model of family structure, where it is more or less assumed on the wedding day that the couple will eventually divorce, highlights how radically our society’s basic institutions have been altered. Between the startling rise in illegitimate births and the frequency of divorce, a majority of children in most Western countries will not be raised in a traditional family. This in turn has produced what Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, in her book The Divorce Culture, has called the “Love Family” ideology, a mentality in which the loyalties once demanded by permanent ties of blood or marriage are replaced by an imagined system of kinship based on mere sentiment.
The problem with the celebration of “love” as a basis for social organization is that human emotions can be ephemeral, and that “love” can be so easily exploited by selfish and dishonest people. For years, I have disavowed any accusation that I am a “men’s rights activist” (MRA) because, in the first place, I reject the identity-politics formula of group “rights.” Secondly, however, I recognize that most MRAs bring a particular axe to grind against women. Many MRAs — if not a majority, certainly an influential plurality — are men who have gone through the ordeal of divorce and custody disputes which are no part of my direct experience and, I pray to God, never will be. Yet while I am not an MRA, this doesn’t mean that they have not made important points about male-female relationships, especially in regard to how divorce has become a state-sponsored instrument to punish and humiliate men. And this is such a fundamental and relatively sudden shift in our culture that most older people (I’m 60 now, and certainly qualify as such) have no idea what absolute hell many young men now face in their relationships. Statistics showing a decline in men’s willingness to commit to marriage, accompanied by a significant drop in birth rates, testify to how the institutions of marriage and fatherhood have been made into something like a medieval torture device to inflict punishment on men. No matter how much a woman may profess to “love” a man, he must take into consideration that if his relationship leads to marriage and fatherhood, he will be at risk of personal destruction if her “love” ever fades.
Quite often, it seems, women seeking divorce view child custody as a weapon to wield in an all-out war to destroy their ex-husbands. It is not enough, for such women, to be free to pursue their own lives; instead, they develop an appetite for revenge against the man they once vowed to love until “death do us part.” Those of us who have been fortunate enough to avoid such a hell-on-earth are generally horrified to watch our friends or relatives endure the ordeal of divorce. We don’t enjoy the pressure to choose sides in the kind of interminable warfare that goes on between divorcing couples, but our court system seems to enable (and indeed, to encourage) the scorched-earth tactics so commonly employed in these disputes. Pauline Hanson has provoked controversy in Australia by saying aloud what everybody actually knows, i.e., that some women will invent or exaggerate incidents of abuse in order to “win” court proceedings against their ex-husbands. This threat hovers like a shadow in every divorce involving children: If her ex tries to dispute custody, or if he doesn’t make child-support payments in a timely manner, he may find himself facing accusations of abuse, and such accusations generally amount to a “he-said/she-said” conflict, where the real matter at issue is the credibility of the accuser. Feminists tend to deny that women ever make false accusations, or else contend that false accusations are so rare that we can disregard the possibility that a woman might be lying, and therefore feminists must destroy Pauline Hanson.
It doesn’t have to be like this. There is no objective reason why men and women should view each other as eternal enemies, but unless and until we are willing to take a hard look at how public policy now offers incentives for male-female conflict — especially including divorce — we are doomed to endure the continuing destruction of our society.
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Beto Beaten by Buttigieg in Debate
Posted on | October 16, 2019 | Comments Off on Beto Beaten by Buttigieg in Debate
The very first time I heard Pete Buttigieg speak — during my trip to South Carolina in March — I was impressed by him. Of course, his policy ideas are all entirely wrong, but Buttigieg’s demeanor and delivery are excellent. He combines a policy wonk’s mastery of details with a folksy Midwestern manner in a way that would certainly inspire confidence if (and this is a very important “if”) his ideas weren’t the usual “progressive” prescription of vastly expanding the power (and cost) of the centralized Welfare State. During Tuesday night’s debate on CNN, Mayor Pete delivered a scolding lecture to Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, as Professor Glenn Reynolds observes:
He made mincemeat of Beto O’Rourke, who dodged a question from Anderson Cooper on how he would enforce a ban on assault weapons. Beto was left looking flustered and trying to claim that Mayor Pete was insensitive to victims of violence, which was a bad look for him. . . .
Numerous fellow candidates criticized him for his “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s” remarks. Between that and the drubbing that Mayor Pete administered, he had a very bad night.
We should be grateful to Buttigieg for his skill in demolishing the Great White Hope of Texas Democrats in front of a national audience.
As to the debate overall, Roger Simon summarizes it well:
If there is one thing that Tuesday night’s Democratic debate showed us — as if we didn’t know it in the first place — it’s just to what degree the media is in the tank for the Democrats. They’re not only in the tank — they built it, filled it with water up to the brim, and would turn up the temperature to boil Donald Trump alive if they could. And maybe they can.
You knew this from the outset when CNN’s lead moderator Anderson Cooper, along with his compatriots, one from the New York Times, opened the festivities with a round of leading impeachment questions, giving each candidate in turn a chance to outdo each other in bashing Trump.
This will do nothing to rescue CNN from the ratings basement, of course. There is no new audience to be gained by Trump-bashing at this point. CNN’s decision to become the “Clinton News Network” in 2016 was a strategic error, but instead of reversing course, they keep doubling down.
Meanwhile, Beto’s on MSNBC threatening again to take away your guns:
.@BetoORourke says if someone refuses to turn in their AR-15s then "in that case I think there would be a visit by law enforcement to recover that firearm…"https://t.co/i0eRK7w63H pic.twitter.com/QdxsBV7Kyr
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) October 16, 2019
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In The Mailbox: 10.15.19
Posted on | October 16, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
Locomotive Breath: 2019 Fall Foliage Prediction Map
EBL: Feds Shooting Barred Owls To Save Spotted Owls
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Smacks CNN & NYT At Debate They’re Sponsoring
Louder With Crowder: Project Veritas Confirms CNN Only Cares About Impeaching Trump
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Plant Burgers? You Wouldn’t Feed Your Dog This Rubbish
American Greatness: Ukraine, The Poorly Written Hoax Sequel, also, No, James Comey, America Doesn’t Want Your Help
American Thinker: Corrupt Senators Took Ukraine Cash, also, Destroying America’s History One Icon At A Time
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Scammer Payback News
Babalu Blog: Many Florida Hispanics Going For Trump Because Of His Strong Anti-Socialism Stance
BattleSwarm: Turkey vs. The Kurds, also, Ten Years Of Blogging
Camp of the Saints: The Old Left Is Confused & Pathetic
Cafe Hayek: Cleaned By Capitalism – It’s More Than A Wash
CDR Salamander: Syria, A Festival Of Bad Options
Da Tech Guy: Life Is Not Fair, also, Fake News & Me
Don Surber: Hunter Becomes The Prey
First Street Journal: Hold Them Accountable!
The Geller Report: 20,000 Sign Petition Demanding BBC Remove Expose On Imams Selling Little Girls For Sex, also, Two French Muslims Sentenced to 25+ Years For Jihad Attack On Notre Dame
Hogewash: They’re Not Gonna Like The New Rules, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: When Late Night TV Told An Inconvenient Truth
JustOneMinute: Tell Us What You Really Think, John Bolton
Legal Insurrection: House Republicans Back Resolution To Censure Rep. Schiff, also, #ExposeCNN Part 1 – Zucker’s Impeachment Vendetta Against The President
The PanAm Post: Correa Plotted Moreno’s Removal From Cuba & Venezuela
Power Line: Dairy Cows, Tangled Up In The Green New Deal, also, Exposed – The CNN Hatefest
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Dunks On LeBron James
Shot In The Dark: Requirements
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Poor Little Rich People & The SALT Cap
This Ain’t Hell: Changes To Special Forces Training, also, Veteran Gets Penis Transplant
Victory Girls: LeBron Sticks His Nike In His Mouth
Volokh Conspiracy: U. Louisville Students Can’t Sue Escort For Exposing Prostitution In Louisville Basketball Program
Weasel Zippers: Protesters & Antifa Harass Police, Attack Trump Supporters, also, Rutgers Professor Blames Black Female Obesity On Trump, Racism
Megan McArdle: It’s Democratic Voters, Not Candidates, Who Might Want To Reassess
Mark Steyn: Trump After Trump, also, They All Laughed
What Causes Misogyny?
Posted on | October 15, 2019 | 2 Comments
Oh, ain’t it funny how a heart
That loved you one time
Could be filled with so much anger
For you and your kind?
I hate you.
Oh, how I try to hate you.
I get bitter every time you run through my mind.
Between love and hate
There’s a little thin line,
And I’m trying to hate you right out of my mind.
— Ronnie Milsap, 1973
When modern feminism began as the “Women’s Liberation Movement” in the late 1960s, the men they hated were accused of male chauvinism, defined as “the belief that men are superior to women.” Thus, any man was a “male chauvinist pig” if he opposed the feminist movement. Within a few years, however, feminists changed their vocabulary so that their male enemies were accused of sexism, a word intended to have a meaning analogous to racism, and thus to imply a parallel between feminism and the Civil Rights movement. After a few years of slinging around that accusation, however, feminists realized that “sexism” had lost its rhetorical power, and so they upped the ante, accusing men of misogyny, defined as the hatred of women. And I plead not guilty, Your Honor.
Anyone who would accuse me of hating women is so completely wrong that, in a just world, I would be able to sue them for libel. The deliberate dishonesty of feminists in using this accusation — any man who disagrees with a feminist is automatically a woman-hater — offends me, and I suspect that many other men feel the same way. Yet feminists habitually engage in such slander, which I suspect tends to make this accusation operate like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Falsely accuse a man of “misogyny” and he’s likely to respond by calling you a bitch and then, “See? He called me a bitch! That proves he hates women!”
Nevertheless, there actually are men who hate women, and in such cases, it behooves us to ask the obvious question, “Why?” What is the root cause of the misogynist’s prejudice against women? Is it possible that some men are so badly mistreated by women that, from their individual perspective, it might seem that women deserve to be hated?
This is not merely a hypothetical question. Some women are just evil, and if a man doesn’t learn to recognize such monsters and avoid them, his experience might cause him to hate women quite generally. Did I mention that Miley Cyrus has got a new boyfriend? But I digress . . .
A bad woman can wreck a man’s life, but there is no recognition of this in feminist discourse, where men (yes, all men) are always to blame.
Do they actually believe their own rhetoric? In general, feminist discourse conveys the idea that women are so vastly superior to men that there is no female deserving of criticism, nor any male deserving of praise. It’s impossible to believe this, when you encounter stories like this:
Earlier this year, after buying his now-15-year-old daughter an AncestryDNA test, Christopher found out that he is not her biological father. His wife had an affair. (They also have a 13-year-old son, who is his biological child.)
Two and a half weeks after the discovery, he filed for divorce. We spoke about how [this] revelation has changed his family, what it’s like to parent a teen going through this, and the particular difficulties of talking about this as a man.
Cuckolded, quite literally. For 15 years, his two-timing no-good wife believed she had gotten away with her deception. Some quotes from him:
I’m into genealogy, and so myself, my ex-wife, and the grandparents are all taking the DNA tests. They had a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale back last year, and my daughter was curious about her ethnicity and so she asked us for a test. My ex said, “No, you already know who you are because everybody’s tested.” I knew she was lying, so I said, “Okay, I’ll buy you a test.” . . .
I knew my ex-wife was having affairs back then, and I couldn’t catch her. When I bought the test, my daughter went and told her mom, and then an hour and a half, two hours later, in the middle of the night, my ex gets up and she says, “I need to talk to you ’cause I had an affair. I think it was a two-year-long affair.”
The worst was to see the reaction of my daughter. She just cried and cried. It was like a nuclear bomb going off. . . .
On the day that I found out, I was like, I wanted to reject her, because I said my boundary was I will not raise another man’s child from an affair. My mom put me straight. She was like, “She’s innocent in this. Don’t blame her.” So I consider her my daughter. I just say she’s my daughter.
Your mom is wrong, sir. She took your wife’s side against you, and your willingness to go along with this charade — pretending that this child is your daughter, because that’s what your mother told you to do — is a microcosm of what’s wrong with your entire life.
Hey, chump: Wake up. It’s not your daughter’s fault that her mother is a worthless cheating whore, but it’s not your fault, either.
Except, then again, maybe it is your fault. You say you “knew” she was having affairs before your daughter was born, and yet . . . you stayed?
Parents, show this to your sons and tell them to take notes:
DO NOT BE A WOMAN’S FOOL!
When you volunteer to be a doormat, you forfeit the right to complain about the footprints on your back. If you don’t understand this — if someone has taught you that “love” requires a man to suffer mistreatment without complaint — you need to forget what you’ve been taught, because hell to the no. LEARN TO WALK AWAY!
This is an example of what Rollo Tomassi calls “one-itis.”
We must assume that this man’s ex-wife is (or once was) quite good-looking. Men seldom make fools of themselves for ugly women. Fifteen years ago, she was such a hottie that not only did she have her husband wrapped around her finger, but she had other men chasing after her, too.
You might think the chump would have wised up, but no:
[E]ven in infidelity-support groups and domestic-dispute support groups, it’s a ton of women talking and only a few men. I think it’s shameful for a man to be open about it. It’s really hard on a man’s self-esteem and ego knowing that their wife or girlfriend got pregnant by another man. Men are more quiet about it. . . .
I told my ex-wife, “If you had told me back then, we would have had a greater chance of saving the marriage.” I would have maybe worked with her, so there’s that. I might not have divorced her 15 years ago if she had come clean. Lying to me for that long — to me, that was worse.
What the absolute hell is wrong with you, sir? Why would you care about “saving the marriage” to this worthless whore?
Oh, I forgot: She’s good-looking, so therefore you lost all self-respect and made a complete fool of yourself. You deserve your fate, sir.
Parents who do not instill in their children a sense of personal dignity are setting their kids up for a life of failure as adults. Everybody must suffer some damage in life. We all have our disappointments, and when those moments come, we must be able to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and move on with our lives. You can’t go through life holding grudges and brooding over everybody who’s done you wrong. As I frequently advise young people, “Keep your enemies list short.”
However, don’t let somebody play you for a chump. If you get played, whose fault is that? There are still honest people in the world, and you could have associated yourself with them; instead you got yourself involved with a worthless cheating whore. That’s on you, buddy.
Oh, I hate you.
Each time I cry I hate you.
Little drops of anger
Fall from my eyes.
You said that you loved me.
Tell me how could this fool be so blind?
And I’m trying to hate you right out of my mind.
See, that’s what country music is all about — crying over a two-timing, no-good low-down cheating woman that done you wrong. But whose fault is it that you went and fell in love with her, fool? Go look in the mirror and you’ll see a fool staring back at you. Blame him.
No, I don’t hate women generally, but what feminists never acknowledge when they’re ranting on about “toxic masculinity,” blah blah blah, is that there are some women in this world who deserve to be hated.
Sing it one more time, Ronnie.