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Happy Fourth of July, You Fascists!

Posted on | July 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

The Democrats are now a party of paranoid conspiracy theorists:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a new interview that she believes the United States is heading in a fascist direction under President Trump.
“Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don’t think there’s a question,” Ocasio-Cortez told Yahoo News earlier this week after she visited migrant detention facilities managed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
“If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes.”

They define fascism as “whenever Democrats lose elections,” and therefore when Ocasio-Cortez says we are “headed to fascism,” what she means is that Trump will be re-elected. After all, Democrats believe the Betsy Ross flag is a symbol of “white supremacy,” so we shouldn’t be surprised that they consider patriotism a synonym for “hate.”

Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, where Republicans and journalists are brutally attacked by left-wing mobs in open daylight, liberals are becoming so paranoid, they’ve started gun clubs:

Liberals are notoriously loath to take their own side in a fight. But their reticence may well be changing in an age of vigilante, white nationalist terror—openly condoned and supported by an incumbent president who has suggested that his armed devotees won’t stand for his removal from office. Increasingly, the antifa left is arguing — and training — in response. They are worried not only about an armed reckoning following a contested election, but also about rising violence from the paramilitaries loyal to President Donald Trump. . . .
As a result, many leftists and even some liberals are beginning to reconsider their feelings about firearms, joining a loose amalgamation of gun groups, from John Brown Gun Clubs (which take their name from the abolitionist) to the Pink Pistols (an LGBTQ group), Liberal Gun Club, and Socialist Rifle Association. Some of these organizations are moderate and traditionalist, others radical and revolutionary. . . . Some of their members hope such efforts will at least make Republicans think twice before attempting a massacre. . . .
A third of the Socialist Rifle Association’s 2,000 members identify as LGBTQ, and 8 percent are transgender.

What is happening here? What explains the hysterical rhetoric coming from Democrats and their media allies this Fourth of July?

They’re living inside an imaginary universe where CNN is “mainstream” journalism, instead of an obscure cable TV channel with fewer viewers than HGTV and Nickelodeon, where Oberlin College is a reputable institution, where transgenderism is more acceptable than patriotism:

The Left’s hysteria over Trump’s victory in 2016 has escalated into something quite beyond mere hysteria. Now the leftists are well and truly dangerous. Antifa, the fascist organization that protests anything and everything with which it disagrees, is violent, very violent. These people show up with weapons, wearing masks, and attack anyone they perceive to be in opposition to their own warped ideology.
CNN has long defended the group as good guys, social justice warriors. That is how off the rails CNN is. Like Antifa, CNN is officially and openly anti-American.

In a nation with a two-party politicial system, where each party has roughly equal levels of core support, but where one party’s strength is concentrated in urban enclaves, we should expect this kind of derangement whenever the urban party loses elections. If you live in New York, San Francisco, or Portland, Oregon, you are immersed in a community where 80% of people vote Democrat, and where Republican voters aren’t likely to speak up about their political beliefs, since doing so would make them targets of hatred. This echo-chamber effect is compounded by the fact that most of the people who produce media — not just journalism, but also entertainment — are members of the same urban Democrat community. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, whose father was the Democrat governor of New York and whose brother is New York’s current Democrat governor, doesn’t socialize with the kind of people who vote Republican. Nobody that Chris Cuomo considers a friend has ever served in the U.S. military, and he views members of the military as scum, unworthy of respect from elite people like himself.

Why do you think Democrats are freaking out because President Trump wanted some tanks in the Fourth of July parade? Because the U.S. military symbolizes everything they hate about America. They hate to be reminded that what happened on July 4, 1776, was the publication of our Declaration of Independence, but it was not the words on parchment which made America free. No, we are free because of the service and sacrifice of men whose names are not famous, who marched barefoot through the snow to Trenton, who suffered at Valley Forge, who died in battle against the “elite” troops of the British Empire. America is independent not because of the Declaration, but because courageous men were willing to fight and die for their freedom. When we celebrate the heroism of these brave patriots, it makes cowardly liberals like Chris Cuomo feel ashamed of themselves (as well they should).

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Today I’ll be working in a West Virginia fireworks store, where military members and veterans are eligible for a special discount. And I know what you’re thinking: I’m gonna get paid in fireworks. Unfortunately, however, my wife has insisted that I be paid in cash, so the only way I’ll be able to afford to buy any fireworks is if readers remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Thanks in advance, and God bless America!



 

Category: Fireworks, History, Media Bias, Military

In The Mailbox: 07.03.19

Posted on | July 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There might be an Independence Day post tomorrow. There might not. Tune in tomorrow and find out.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #670
357 Magnum: The So-called Affordable Care Act and 911 Calls
EBL: Lee Iacocca, RIP
Twitchy: Blue-Checked Garbage Person Brags About Her Cameo In Video Of Antifa Assaulting Andy Ngo
Louder With Crowder: Ricky Gervais Scolds Violent Leftists Like Antifa And Their Milkshake-Throwing Ways, also, NATIONAL HEROES – CVT Ice Cream Charges Social Media “Influencers” Double

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: There Is No Judeo-Western Anything
American Greatness: The Real “Toxic Masculinity”
American Power: “Mini-AOC” Gets Doxxed, Receives Death Threats
American Thinker: The Left’s Endgame Is Not Chaos – It’s Worse
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Two More Cubans Defect From National Team In New Jersey, also, To Celebrate The 4th, Nike Chooses Colin Kaepernick Over Betsy Ross
BattleSwarm: Still More On The NRA’s Troubles
Camp of the Saints: @RealDonaldTrump Gets His Roman Triumph
CDR Salamander: LCS 2.0
Da Tech Guy: Pintastic NE 2019 – The Big Finish
Don Surber: Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Schemer Exposed
The Geller Report: ABC/CBS/NBC Announce They Won’t Televise July 4th “Salute To America”, also, Iran Threatens To Wipe Out Israel If U.S. Attacks
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Punching Back Legally (Part One) (Part Two)
Hollywood In Toto: Why Hollywood Can’t Quit The Mueller Report
JustOneMinute: Ebb & Flow
Legal Insurrection: Charlottesville Decides To Stop Celebrating Jefferson’s Birthday, also, MSNBC’s Joy Reid Raves That Trump’s “Salute To America” Meant As Threat To Americans
Michelle Malkin: America Takes An Antifa Beating
The PanAm Post: The Vicious Legacy Of Argentina’s Left-Wing Terrorism
Power Line: The Democrats’ Wrong-Way Bus, also, Two Cheers For Trump’s Nork Policy
Shot In The Dark: #Resistance Is Feudal
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Guessing At Trends
The Political Hat: Hong Kong Protests With A Stiff Upper Lip
This Ain’t Hell: New Sniper Rifles For Airborne Units, also, Censoring & Suppressing Conservative Speech On Social Media
Victory Girls: Chief Gallagher Not Guilty – And The Liberal Media Spin Begins
Volokh Conspiracy: Prominent Porn Researcher Frames Defamation As Sexual Harassment
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris Threatens To Enact “Gun Safety” By Executive Order If Elected, also, Video Montage – Obama’s History Of Politicizing Independence Day
Mark Steyn: Steyn Wins Again

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Was Ayoola Ajayi a Scammer?

Posted on | July 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

Does the name Osei Kwadwo Boakye ring a bell? No, you’ve never heard of the guy, and if someone by that name sent you an email asking for money, you’d never do it. Osei Kwadwo Boakye is an Internet scammer from Ghana whose online aliases include “Brandon Smith,” a fake U.S. Army officer who is part of a variation of the Nigerian email scam. Using fabricated military profiles, these scammers target older women. Such scams are a billion-dollar industry, according to tech executive Yaacov Apelbaum, who used a fake profile (“Olga Schmatova”) to lure Boakye into a trap: Yaacov’s replies as “Olga” included spy software that mapped the network of Boakye’s scammer ring and you can read Yaacov’s report “Military Romantic Scams — The Theory and Practice” for the rest.

An alert reader tipped me to Yaacov’s article after I’d blogged about the murder of Mackenzie Lueck by Nigerian immigrant Ayoola Ajayi. Since his arrest last week, we’ve learned a lot about Ajayi. For instance, he had been reported to ICE in 2012, when federal officials said he’d overstayed his visa, and was apparently in the country illegally. We also know that he was married to a woman who lives in Texas:

Ajayi’s ex-wife, Tenisha Ajayi, told KUTV for a story that aired Monday that she hasn’t spoken to her estranged husband in years. Though she was shocked by the most recent accusations, she said there were also signs of violence in their relationship.
“I just stopped talking to him because I was fearing for my life,” Tenisha Ajayi told KUTV’s Ginna Roe.
The ex-wife lives in Texas, and said she first met Ajayi through a family friend. The two never lived together, KUTV reports — he was in Utah, while she was in Dallas. She said he would send her money for her two children, but she stopped speaking with him when he began threatening her.
“If I wouldn’t do what he told me to do, he got real aggressive,” Tenisha Ajayi told KUTV. “He was like, I’ll have someone come kidnap you and kill you.”

Doesn’t it seem weird that Ajayi and his “wife” never lived together? Shouldn’t we suspect that this “marriage” was a fraud arranged to prevent Ajayi from being deported? What was Ajayi doing when he was caught at Utah State University with a stolen iPad in 2012?

An officer searched the iPad’s web history and found that, though Ajayi was married, he accessed dating sites, listed himself as single and was pursuing “a female as a prospect to marry to keep from being deported.”

Seven years ago, then, Ajayi was running scams on dating sites, and given what we know about about the Mackenzie Lueck case, isn’t it possible she was lured to her death by some other scam he was running?

Watch this report by Inside Edition:

 

The owner of a model and talent agency in Salt Lake City is opening up about her close encounter with murder suspect Ayoola Ajayi. Evie Keener said Ajayi, an avid bodybuilder and wannabe model, first approached her at a networking event for models and their agents last summer. She said he wanted to sign with her agency, but there was something about him that she found off-putting. After going to several networking parties, Ajayi began reaching out to Keener on social media, she said.
“Once the surface, he seemed perfect. He seemed very smart, very good looking. . . . He wanted to sign on with my agency and I did not feel comfortable having him in the same room with my young models. So I just listened to my gut and I didn’t have anything further to do with him.”

She listened to her gut — there was something “off” about this guy. We still don’t know how Ajayi convinced Mackenzie Lueck to meet him at a park at 3 a.m., but it seems likely that Ajayi must have used some kind of deception to get her to do something so stupid.



 

Category: Utah, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 07.02.19

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.02.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: John Wayne Movies With Mustaches
357 Magnum: Defend Yourself In Australia, Get Charged With Murder
EBL: Stephanie Grishman, The New WH Press Secretary
Twitchy: Dem Rep Frederica Wilson Says People Mocking Congresscritters Online “Should Be Prosecuted”
Louder With Crowder: AZ Governor Pulls Nike Tax Break Over Recalled Amrican Flag Sneakers

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #113 – The Consistency Episode
American Greatness: Andy Ngo Was Beaten By Antifa Just A Stone’s Throw Away From Portland Police Precinct, Sheriff’s Office
American Power: Niall Ferguson Becomes An American
American Thinker: Democrats Circling The Electoral Drain
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Random Notes News
Babalu Blog: Photo Of The Day – How Food Is Transported In Socialist Cuba
BattleSwarm: City Of Austin Votes To Let Addicts Poop In The Streets
Camp of the Saints: Coming Soon? Thought Transformation Camps
CDR Salamander: Double-Pumping Truman – I Thought We Weren’t Doing This Any More?
Da Tech Guy: Tanks & Independence, also, Kamala & The San Francisco Machine
Don Surber: Proof That Liberalism Is Hazardous To Your Health
Dustbury: Doesn’t Sound Krafty To Me
The Geller Report: Antifa Plans Acid Attacks For July 6 Free Speech Rally, also, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher Found Not Guilty
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Dust Biting
Hollywood In Toto: Spiderman: Far From Home – Trouble In MCU-Ville
Legal Insurrection: Census Going To Print Without Citizenship Question, also, Leftist Media, Activists Blame Andy Ngo For “Provoking” Antifa Attack
The PanAm Post: Top FARC Leader, Wanted For Drug Trafficking, Flees To Venezuela
Power Line: The Screaming Of AOC, also, Anti-Americanism Working For Nike
Shark Tank: Trump Campaign Hauls In $150 Million
Shot In The Dark: The Divine Right Of Ward Heelers
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – SALT Cap Zero! Great New Taste!
The Political Hat: Pre-Teen Drag Queen’s Mom Shocked That Her Son Is Seen As Sex Object
This Ain’t Hell: Retired AF Combat Vet Harassed By Security Guard, also, NOT GUILTY!
Victory Girls: Advice Columnist Apologizes & Promptly Steps On Her Wiener Again
Volokh Conspiracy: Want To Donate Your Papers To A University? Choose A Private, Not Public, School
Weasel Zippers: Hispanic Pastors Contradict AOC On Conditions At Detention Center, also, Facebook Allows Racist Louis Farrakhan’s Page To Reopen
Megan McArdle: The Democrats Are In Disunity – How Long Can Pelosi Hold Them Together?
Mark Steyn: I’ll Be Seeing You, also, Portlantifa

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Friends Decry the Slut-Shaming of Mackenzie Lueck: ‘It’s Just Not Fair!’

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Friends Decry the Slut-Shaming of Mackenzie Lueck: ‘It’s Just Not Fair!’

Ayoola Ajayi (left) is accused of murdering Mackenzie Lueck (right).

Last Wednesday, while Mackenzie Lueck was still considered “missing” and before Ayoola Ajayi had been named as a “person of interest” in the University of Utah senior’s disappearance, the Daily Mail broke an important exclusive: The 23-year-old sorority girl had been using social media and dating apps to seek out “sugar baby” arrangements with older men, boasting about it as “NovaBaby96” in private Facebook messages.

Given the circumstances surrounding her disappearance (e.g., arranging to meet a guy at 3 a.m. in a park) this struck me as ominous, and led me to a strongly-worded declaration of unfortunate truth:

Let’s be blunt: Mackenzie Lueck was a whore. Also notice my use of the past-tense verb “was” — they won’t find her alive. And her parents will have to ask themselves how they failed so badly: Why did their daughter turn into a whore?

We should not pretend that “seeking arrangements” as a “sugar baby” is anything other than prostitution, and if participants in such “arrangements” don’t enjoy being told the truth, that’s not my fault. No one should blame a college girl for preferring the companionship of an older, successful man to the typical “date” with a college boy. What girl wouldn’t rather be wined and dined by a guy with a good job than to engage in a makeout session in a dorm room with a drunk fratboy? But the “arrangements” being brokered via “sugar baby” sites (or Tinder) are more of a fee-for-service transaction, and not sophisticated romantic adventures. Where do we draw the line? At what point does such behavior cease to be “dating” and begin to be prostitution? What is the difference between a girlfriend and a common whore?

My suggestion (and I think most parents would agree) is that a woman who doesn’t want to be treated like a whore should scrupulously avoid any situation that might put her in such a light. We don’t yet know exactly how Mackenzie Lueck was lured to her death, but the 2+2 deduction is that Ayoola Ajayi was a prospective “sugar daddy” client, and her sorority sisters are angry that people are making that deduction:

“There’s a lot of people that say she deserved this because she put herself in this situation and we don’t officially know that,” Kennedy Stoner, a sorority sister and friend of Lueck’s, told Fox News in an exclusive interview on Sunday.
Two other friends, Ashley Fine and Katie Kvam, speaking to Fox News, called out people on social media who were blaming Lueck for her own death.
“No person regardless of their gender or dating life deserves to die,” Fine said. “Mackenzie is not responsible for the death and murder of Mackenzie. There’s only one person responsible for that, and we’re here to hold him responsible and we’re going to keep holding him responsible.”
“If Kenzie knew what was gonna happen she would not have met that individual at the park,” Kvam said. “Her death is not her fault… and for people to say things other than that is hurtful. It’s hurtful to us. It’s hurtful to her family. It’s hurtful to other victims out there. It just doesn’t make sense.”

Well, critical comments are less “hurtful” than being strangled to death and having your dismembered corpse burned beyond recognition, but you see that the sisters of Alpha Chi Omega are in denial about the predictable risks of using the Internet to arrange sex with strangers. One suspects that such behavior is not rare at AXO, and that by defending Mackenie’s behavior, these sorority girls are defending their own promiscuity. And there’s more sorority girl philosophizing:

“All of her friends and her family can see what a huge light of our lives is,” Fine said, “and this man stole our friend away from us and she’s gone way too soon. And, it’s just not fair.”
Lueck’s friends said people closely following this case have speculated that Ajayi’s heritage as an African man who “survived a tyrannical dictatorship, escaped a real-life crime, traveled internationally,” according to an author page on Amazon, somehow played a role in his alleged crime, but the girls said his race was irrelevant.
“Evil comes in every color, every gender. Just because you know Mackenzie was white and he is African-American, the suspect, it doesn’t matter to me,” Fine said. “It doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t play a part in this story, it never played a part in this story. Mackenzie’s death and murder did not have anything to do with race. It had to do with an evil person with bad intentions who is a danger to society.”
“I’d feel [a] strong amount of hate for not just him because of his color, that shouldn’t matter. Her color doesn’t matter. It was just an evil, sick person,” Kvam said.

An entirely random coincidence, you see. There is no pattern to evil, according to these AXO philosophers, and it is “hurtful” to suggest that their deceased friend probably should have avoided meeting a Nigerian immigrant at a park on the north side of town at 3 a.m. Yes, of course, her error is apparent in hindsight, the sorority girls are willing to admit, but that doesn’t mean there are any lessons to be learned in terms of future hookups with exotic strangers arranged via dating apps: “YOLO!”

What makes Internet dating so dangerous is the lack of social context. Like, if a guy from work or school asks a girl on a date, she can evaluate him by his appearance and demeanor: Does he seem like a potential serial killer? Or she can ask around among her friends to get their feedback: What is this guy’s reputation? But if all she’s got to judge him by is his profile on a dating site, or maybe his Instagram account, how can she evaluate whether he poses a safety risk?

Only a fool would meet a total stranger at 3 a.m. in a public park. No matter how committed to the YOLO creed a sorority girl might be, a basic concern for her personal safety would suggest that the first meeting should occur during daylight hours — coffee at Starbucks — rather than at night. And while it is nowadays considered unacceptable to criticize anyone’s sexual preferences (“De gustibus non est disputandum”), are we really required to suppose that it was just random coincidence that the blonde Mormon girl fell prey to a Nigerian immigrant? These white college girls are understandably defensive about saying anything that might be deemed “racist,” but the facts are the facts, and random evil is an inadequate answer to the question of how and why this happened. Stipulating that we don’t yet know exactly how this tryst was arranged, or whether Ajayi used some sort of subterfuge to lure Mackenzie to her death, wouldn’t it make more sense to suspect that race was a factor in how these two met? “Opposites attract,” or whatever?

Our fear of being accused of racism, like our reluctance to engage in “slut-shaming,” serves to inhibit the kind of common-sense discussion that might be helpful to young women seeking to avoid certain risks, like getting murdered and dismembered by your next Tinder hookup.

“It’s just not fair,” as Mackenzie’s friend says, but I can hear my late father’s voice: “Son, who ever told you life was supposed to be fair?”

UPDATE: More developments in the story:

Utah State University barred Ayoola Ajayi, who is in jail on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering MacKenzie Lueck, from its campus after a theft investigation, according to documents from the school.
Campus police reports also describe Ajayi, a Nigerian immigrant, as overstaying his visa and perhaps using a stolen iPad to find a wife to reduce his chances of being deported. When USU police booked Ajayi into the Cache County jail in 2012 on suspicion of misdemeanor theft, officers notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a Nigerian consulate. . . .
“This letter is to inform you that if you feel you need to visit our campus,” Eric R. Olsen, the associate vice president for student services, wrote to Ajayi on Aug. 2, 2012, “you must first contact the Utah State University Police Department and have them escort you on and off campus. If you violate this mandate, you will be cited for trespassing and will face additional legal consequences.” . . .
USU said Ajayi attended classes off and on between 2009 and 2016, with a break in attendance between 2011 and 2015. He did not obtain a degree. . . .
The first report is from May 18, 2012. Officers on patrol found Ajayi sleeping in the lounge at San Juan Hall apartments. Ajayi told officers he was waiting on his girlfriend, who lived in another campus housing complex, Aggie Village. The officers told Ajayi he was not allowed to sleep in a building where he didn’t live.
Officers later went to Aggie Village to find the girlfriend and check out Ajayi’s story. The report says a woman told police she knew Ajayi but neither he nor any girlfriend lived in Aggie Village. Reports written over May 20 and 21, 2012, describe officers reaching Ajayi by phone and then in person, accusing him of being “deceitful” and warning him that he would be charged with trespassing if he was found on campus again.
The final sentence of the report says USU police contacted ICE. The federal agency informed officers Ajayi had overstayed his visa and ICE needed to be contacted if he was arrested.
Then, on July 22, 2012, campus police investigated the theft of an iPad. The next day, campus technology staff found that someone was using the tablet to access the internet. Police found Ajayi using the iPad in the iconic academic building known as Old Main, a report says.
An officer searched the iPad’s web history and found that, though Ajayi was married, he accessed dating sites, listed himself as single and was pursuing “a female as a prospect to marry to keep from being deported.”

So here was a guy with a history of immigration fraud, theft and using the Internet for illicit purposes, and how did he manage to convince Mackenzie Lueck to meet him at a park at 3 a.m.?



 

Category: Immigration, Utah, Violence Against Women

The Red Pill Never Lies

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | Comments Off on The Red Pill Never Lies

 

Rollo Tomassi has a post about how our culture increasingly encourages female promiscuity; women’s irresponsible behavior is called “empowerment,” and and men are expected to accept the consequences. In a feminine-primary social order, as Rollo calls it, male preferences are considered irrelevant at best, harmful at worst, but quite generally wrong in every case. Whatever a woman wants is inherently right, and men are judged failures if they fail to perform according to her preferences. Women’s behavior is immune to criticism (so long as she doesn’t vote Republican) whereas men’s behavior is endlessly criticized; you could fill an entire library with feminist books devoted to condemning men.

What is remarkable, in reading Rollo’s work, is how he calls attention to things which should be obvious — the evidence in support of his argument is everywhere, once we start looking for it — but which is seemingly invisible to most people. Third Wave feminists have been shouting louder and louder in recent years about how oppressed they are, but the reality is almost exactly the mirror-reverse. Why are young feminists so angry? In part, it’s because a basic goal of feminism is to make women angry, to inspire them with revolutionary rage. In terms of their own lives, however, women are angry because feminism inspires expectations about the rewards of “empowerment” that are unrealistic.

Never at any time in human history have women had so many opportunities, but never have so many women spent so much time complaining about how miserable they are. The explanation of this seemingly inexplicable phenomenon is obvious, once you start looking at it from a Red Pill perspective. To quote the late Stan Lee: “With great power there must also come — great responsibility!”

What happens when society devotes so much energy to the “empowerment” of women, teaching girls an utterly one-sided worldview, and sending them off into adult life with swollen egos and unrealistic expectations? She is taught to disregard male opinons, to consider male companionship worthless, and to reject male judgment as “sexist.” To fulfill her mission of “empowerment,” the feminist must be entirely independent of men, to view them only as useful for hedonistic pleasure or as providers of resources. (“Alpha f–ks, Beta bucks,” as the saying goes.) The “empowered” young woman has been taught to reject the possibility that a man — any man — might actually possess greater knowledge or skill than she does. The feminist believes herself omniscient and omnipotent, endowed with infinite ability, and any failure in her life is explained as a result of patriarchal oppression. In other words, the “empowered” woman is never truly responsible. If she is unhappy or unsuccessful, men are always to blame.

This is a surefire formula for insanity, and when I hear young men complain about how many crazy women they encounter, I believe them.

Well, there have been new developments in the Mackenzie Lueck story, so I must cut short this philosophical discussion, but I just wanted to urge readers to consult Rollo Tomassi’s work. He’s onto something, and more people should be paying attention to his insights.

UPDATE: “Friends Decry the Slut-Shaming of Mackenzie Lueck: ‘It’s Just Not Fair!’”



 

Category: The Red Pill

In The Mailbox: 07.01.19

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links this month.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ali Alexander Isn’t Alone – Kamala Harris’ Ties To The African American Experience Are Mostly Nonexistent
Twitchy: Looks Like AOC Got Busted For Lying About Her “Horrifying” Experience At A CBP Detention Center
Louder With Crowder: Dear Media – Your Failure To Condemn Antifa Proves Donald Trump Is Right About You

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Dear Janet – You Embody The Whole Feminist Problem
American Greatness: Journalist Andy Ngo In Hospital With Brain Bleed After Being Attacked By Antifa
American Power: RIP Angels Pitcher Tyler Skaggs
American Thinker: Democrats Officially The Party Of Derangement
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Democrats Who Praised Obama’s Long Visit To Cuba Blast Trump’s Step Into North Korea
BattleSwarm: The Twitter Primary Post-Debate Update, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp Of The Saints: The Disgusting Assault On @MrAndyNgo
CDR Salamander: Countering China In The South China Sea With Hunter Stires On Midrats, also, Vice Adm. Thomas Moore Goes Salamander On Corrosion
Da Tech Guy: A Slice Of CA Voter Fraud Pie, also, Shoplifters, Come To Chicago & Cook County
Don Surber: They Can’t Spin History At The DMZ
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries (#700!), also, It’s A Medical Device
First Street Journal: Elizabeth Warren & Health Care
The Geller Report: Left-Wing Savages Bash Old Man’s Skull In Weekend Of Democrat-Inspired Riot, also, Exodus From Londonistan Hits Record High As Over 300,000 Leave Capitol City Last Year
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Note On The First & Second Amendments
Hollywood In Toto: Saul‘s Micheal McKean Shares Double Blast of Twitter Hate
Joe For America: Former CIA Officer Says Those Who Planned Coup Against Trump About To Be Indicted
JustOneMinute: Dow Poised To, Well, Pounce
Legal Insurrection: “Mayor Pete” Gets $25 Million 2Q Campaign Haul, But There’s No Joy In South Bend, also, Andy Ngo Update – Ted Cruz Calls Out Portland Mayor For Abandoning Streets To Antifa
The PanAm Post: Why 92% Of Left-Wing Activists Live With Their Parents
Power Line: A Fascist Attack In Portland, also, Loose Threads In The Curious Case
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio Threatens Trump With “Veto Proof” Huawei Ban Bill
Shot In The Dark: An Exercise In Imagination
STUMP: Geeking Out – Improving Public Pension Dataviz
The Political Hat: Europe’s War On Plastic Straws
This Ain’t Hell: Followup To Marine Jarheads Biker Group Accident, also, Female Vets Harassed At VA
Victory Girls: Ellis Island Descendants Are Bigots? Thanks, AOC, also, The Left Has An Antifa Problem
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Rules Against Trump In Border Wall Cases
Weasel Zippers: Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Defends Putting Kids In “Cages”, also, Manhattan Chick-Fil-A Vandalized During Pride Event
Mark Steyn: Westward The Women, also, Happy Dominion Day!

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Is Barrett Brown Back on the Junk?

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Is Barrett Brown Back on the Junk?

 

Judging from his disheveled appearance and incoherent manner in a recent YouTube video, I think it’s entirely possible that Barrett Brown has returned to his heroin habit. He’s definitely returned to his idée fixe — the “Team Themis” conspiracy theory he spent so much time babbling about before his epic September 2012 YouTube meltdown, when he threatened an FBI agent and eventually ended up in federal prison.

Having gone months without giving any thought whatsoever to Barrett Brown, I was startled when my brother called me late Monday to inform me that the former spokesman for Anonymous had shown up in the comments of my post about Portland’s Antifa terrorists:

Hey there, Stacy!
Did you happen to know that the Neal Rauhauser fellow you and Pat Frey decided to tie me to despite my efforts to assist Frey was working for both Infragard and the FBI? In fact, for the same FBI handler that ran Jennifer Emick, Daniel Borsuk?
Did you happen to know of this, Stacy? Because it kind of seems like you were cooperating pretty hard with the FBI and Emick to smooth the way into prison for me, and no bond, etc. And that does sound like the sort of cowardly thing that a neo-confederate man-child mediocrity would pull against someone whom he was never comfortable actually linking to when trying to refute him. Sounds like a Sons of Confederate Veterans move.
Want to see those documents, and the call I had with the agent this morning?
Go back and read the articles you had Emick write here, and the ones you wrote about me before I got back out and you shut right the fuck back up again. Then look at Neal here checking in with Emick’s scummy FBI handler. You’re not even a snitch; you’re a greasy little police informant disinformation artist.
That’s how you’ll be remembered, Stacy.

What, exactly, is he ranting about? It was not a secret that Neal Rauhauser frequently communicated with the FBI — Neal boasted about it, and many people believed he was being “protected” by the FBI because of his value as an informant. Was Neal “working for . . . the FBI”? Was he on their payroll? Considering the vast sums Neal owed in unpaid child-support, I would consider it highly unlikely the feds would hire him, even if they could possibly get him a security clearance, which of course they couldn’t. And screen-shot copies of emails as “evidence” of such a relationship? As if this kind of “evidence” couldn’t be forged?

This last time I paid any attention to Barrett was in November 2016 (“Notoriously Crazy Felon Barrett Brown Has Been Released From Federal Prison”) at which time I wrote this:

This “investigative journalist” bullshit is the hero-martyr narrative Barrett’s paranoid anarchist fanboys want to believe, in the same way some people want to believe Jim Garrison’s crackpot conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, but it simply is not true.
Brown was an opportunistic famewhore who got in over his head trying to cash in on the “Anonymous” criminal hacking spree of 2010-2011. He appointed himself the unofficial spokesman for Anonymous, fooled quite a few clueless mainstream journalists into taking him seriously, hustled a book deal for himself and a co-author and then . . .
Oh, it’s a long, sad story.

You can read the rest of that. As to why Barrett decided to drop in on the comments here, my guess is he’s lonely and wants attention. But who knows what goes on in the mind of a madman?



 

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