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First Round of Democrat Presidential Debates Tonight at 9 p.m. ET on MSNBC

Posted on | June 26, 2019 | Comments Off on First Round of Democrat Presidential Debates Tonight at 9 p.m. ET on MSNBC

Ten candidates, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and washed-out wonderboy Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, will take the stage tonight in Miami, and i’ve got my TV tuned to MSNBC already. The pre-debate discussion — currently being anchored by Nicolle Wallace — is insane. Can’t imagine how the actual debate will be.

UPDATE: Swear to God, watching a half-hour of MSNBC is like stepping through the looking-glass into an alternate reality. They’re sitting around talking about the traumatic experience of 2016. Yeah, it was so traumatic — I nearly laughed myself to death.

UPDATE 9:07 p.m. ET: Beto just spoke Spanish and went overtime.

UPDATE 9:09 p.m. ET: Corey Booker, “famous heterosexual” as Ace calls him, just said some stuff about how “this economy is not working for average Americans.” Booker lumped Amazon in with Enron?

UPDATE 9:12 p.m. ET: Julian Castro just talked about growing up poor and immediately segued into passing the Equal Rights Amendment.

UPDATE 9:13 p.m. ET: “For too long, our leadership failed us,” says Tulsi Gabbard, speaking of U.S. foreign policy.

UPDATE 9:14 p.m. ET: Mayor Bill DeBlasio just endorsed a 70% top tax rate.

UPDATE 9:15 p.m. ET: John Delaney has zero chance. The man has no charisma. He is not merely charisma deficient, he is the opposite of charismatic.

UPDATE 9:16 p.m. ET: Some guy — I missed his name — just went on a rant in favor of wind turbines as the jobs of the future or something.

UPDATE 9:19 p.m. ET: Elizabeth Warren hates giant corporations. She loves “green technology,” claiming there is a $23 trillion market for green products.

UPDATE 9:21 p.m. ET: Amy Klobuchar wants a “public option” for health care. Accuses Trump of “giveaways” to pharmaceutical companies.

UPDATE 9:22 p.m. ET: Elizabeth Warren hates insurance companies, because profits and stuff. She endorses “Medicare for all.”

UPDATE 9:24 p.m. ET: Beto wants “high-quality universal health care.” He considers abortion basic health care.

UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET: DeBlasio jumped in and started lecturing Beto, then Delaney jumps in and says “Medicare for all” will put hospitals out of business.

UPDATE 9:27 p.m. ET: Tulsi Gabbard is very attractive. I mean, just looking at her versus looking at Elizabeth Warren? It’s Gabbard by a landslide. So I’ll guess she will gain a point or so in the polls, on that basis alone.

UPDATE 9:28 p.m. ET: Elizabeth Warren really hates profit. Health insurance companies are profitable, so she hates them.

UPDATE 9:29 p.m. ET: Everybody started talking at once, and then Amy Klobuchar started talking about women’s “right to choose.”

UPDATE 9:30 p.m. ET: Julian Castro just endorsed taxpayer-funded abortion for the “trans community,” and the audience cheered.

UPDATE 9:32 p.m. ET: OK, I’ve watched a half-hour of this circus, and I need to go smoke a cigarette to try to calm down. It’s crazy.

UPDATE 9:45 p.m. ET: Sorry I was gone so long. Fixed myself a couple of hot dogs while I was out. When I got back, Beto was arguing with Julian Castro about immigration. They’re both for open borders, so I don’t know what the argument was really about.

UPDATE 9:47 p.m. ET: Tim Ryan loves immigrants almost as much as he hates Republicans. The audience applauds.

UPDATE 9:52 p.m. ET: A few reactions from Twitter:

UPDATE 9:55 p.m. ET: Did I mention that Tulsi Gabbard is very attractive? I mean, I don’t care what kind of crazy socialist talk comes out of her mouth, I just enjoy watching her talk.

UPDATE 10:02 p.m. ET: There was some kind of microphone problem while Chuck Todd was asking Elizabeth Warren about gun control. Mass confusion on stage, so they’re taking another commercial break.

Greedy corporate profit opportunity!

UPDATE 10:08 p.m. ET: “Gun violence is a national health emergency,” says Warren, failing to explain what she’d do about it.

UPDATE 10:12 p.m. ET: “We need trauma care in schools,” says Tim Ryan, portraying school shooters as victims of bullying.

UPDATE 10:14 p.m. ET: Beto talking about how he promoted gun control in Texas, without explaining that this is one reason he’s currently unemployed.

UPDATE 10:31 p.m. ET: Cory Booker just said we need to talk about “trans Americans,” particularly “trans Americans of color.” Fiercely heterosexual!

UPDATE 10:31 p.m. ET: More Twitter reactions:

UPDATE 10:39 p.m. ET: Tulsi Gabbard just called for withdrawal from Afghanistan, and looked very attractive while doing so.

UPDATE 10:41 p.m. ET: Tim Ryan disagrees with Tulsi Gabbard. He’s much less attractive than her. Just sayin’ . . .

UPDATE 10:43 p.m. ET: Beto gets a question from Chuck Todd about impeachment. This makes no sense. Beto’s not in Congress. He’s running for president. If he wins . . . no need for impeachment, right?

UPDATE 10:47 p.m. ET: Rachel Maddow just asked John Delaney if President Trump should be prosecuted after leaving office. Delaney said this is not an issue that the American people care about. True, sir, but this is MSNBC, and their audience cares about nothing else.

UPDATE 11 p.m. ET: It’s over, thank God. I don’t know what it means. I suppose we’ll have to wait for Thursday’s debate, and then after that wait for the next few polls to see if this had any impact.



 

Category: Debates, Democrats

Stalinist Regime at Google Is Still Lying

Posted on | June 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Several executives at Google have deleted their social-media accounts after Project Veritas exposed their partisan bias. One of the totalitarians at Google, “Responsible Innovation” Commissar Jen Genai, has resorted to claiming that Project Veritas “edited the video” to create a false impression about the company’s efforts to prevent Trump’s re-election.

Meanwhile, Project Veritas has published a leaked email in which another Google totalitarian, Liam Hopkins, smears PragerU, Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro as “nazis” producing “right-wing content.”

This all goes back to what we learned from the firing of James Damore: Google is staffed by left-wing ideologues, who consider any dissent from their radical agenda to be “hate,” and they are determined to prevent conservative ideas from being disseminated on their platform.



 

Category: Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 06.25.19

Posted on | June 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Knowledge Buffet: Diversity Is Tyranny
EBL: Occasional Cortex Should Go Visit Real Concentration Camps
Twitchy: Enjoy This Video Of A Screaming Antifa Protester Being Arrested For Assault
Louder With Crowder: YouTube Pulls Project Veritas Video Exposing Google’s Anti-Trump Schemes, also, Leaked Google E-Mail Describes Prager U., Ben Shapiro, And Jordan Peterson As “Nazis”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t Shoot The Messenger, Girls
American Greatness: The Steele Dossier Has Been Discredited – Is The IC Report Next?
American Power: Too Many F**king Democrats In The Race
American Thinker: Democrats Are Planning To Steal The 2020 Election
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty II
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Socialist Dictatorship Backing Iran’s Religious Dictatorship In Conflict With U.S., also, Top Defector Confirms Venezuela Under Cuba’s Thumb…And Other Unsavory Details
BattleSwarm: The Case Against Narrowing The Democratic Presidential Field, also, The Twitter Primary  – June 2019
Camp Of The Saints: On The Strategy Of Despots
CDR Salamander: Orwell’s China
Da Tech Guy: Let It Go, also, Ravelry Gets Woke And Other Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: The Donald Has Dirt On Biden
Dustbury: Lack Of Stodge
First Street Journal: The Neocons Are Aghast!
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Claims Student Loan Debt Held Her Back From Fulfilling Her Dreams, also, Shocking Honor Killing – Toronto Muslim Neurosurgeon Beats Wife To Death, Stuffs Body In Suitcase
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, This Is My (Un)Shocked Face
Hollywood In Toto: Roger Waters Sings Maduro’s Praises While Venezuela Burns
Joe For America: General Flynn Goes For The Jugular
JustOneMinute: Here We Go Again
Legal Insurrection: South Bend Police Union Accuses Buttigieg Of Focusing On Shooting For Political Gain, also, Oberlin College Asks For Reduction In Damages Under Ohio Tort Reforms
Power Line: Looking At Clouds From Both Sides, also, Slow Learners On The Left
Shark Tank: Rubio Calls Out Biden For Opposing Maduro Sanctions
Shot In The Dark: Suckin’ On A Chili Dog Outside The Tastee Freeze
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Connecticut Advertising To Me
This Ain’t Hell: Tanker Tuesdays
Victory Girls: Medal of Honor Recipent David Bellavia Is Someone You Should Know
Volokh Conspiracy: Facebook Posts Lewdly Insulting Public Official Are Criminally Punishable If They Relate To A Private Dispute
Weasel Zippers: House Approves $383 Billion Spending Package; Crenshaw Excoriates Democrats For Not Passing Border Aid, also, Occasional Cortex Claims We Need To Cancel Student Loan Debt So People Can Go To Their “Dream Colleges”
Megan McArdle: Sanders Had A Good Brand, But He Knew He Needed A Refresh
Mark Steyn: The Man That Got Away, also, When Normal Is Insufficient


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Category: Linkagery

New Left-Wing Website Is Doomed

Posted on | June 25, 2019 | Comments Off on New Left-Wing Website Is Doomed

The story is about former Fox News correspondent “Campaign Carl” Cameron joining a website called Front Page Live, but that’s not the real story. Instead, what caught my eye is that the site is run by Joseph Romm, a former Clinton administration official who has spent more than a decade at John Podesta’s Center for American Progress:

Cameron teamed up with Joseph Romm, the founding editor of ClimateProgress, to create Front Page Live, the Post reported, which describes itself as “a site dedicated to helping diverse voices and content go viral, and a news source that reflects the values of the majority of good people on our amazing planet.”
“Part of our goal is to be an antidote to the Drudge Report. But whereas Drudge aggregates and viralizes right-wing content, which includes a lot of disinformation and climate science denial, we will aim to aggregate and viralize accurate news,” Romm, who serves as editor-in-chief and CEO, said in a statement to The Hill. “We are ‘liberal’ only in the sense that climate science has been labeled ‘liberal’ by climate science deniers.”
“We are trying to be a place that will save people time because it’s simply way too hard for anyone to sip quality water from the open fire hydrant that is online news and social media — especially because there is so much sewage thrown in,” he added.
Romm told The Washington Post that he views the organization as a “viralizing engine” for the left.

You want to launch a news site and you start by smearing Drudge?

The assertion that what Drudge does is “right-wing . . . disinformation” shows how out of touch with reality Joseph Romm is. He is a monomaniacal fanatic, obsessed with “climate change,” and if you put somebody like that in charge of a news site, failure is guaranteed.



 

Category: Journalism

In The Mailbox: 06.24.19

Posted on | June 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: My First Chick-Fil-A
EBL: Brexit 2019 – Leave Means Leave, also, Erdogan’s AKP Loses Again In Istanbul Mayor Election
Twitchy: Chicago PD Releases More Smollett Hate Crime Hoax Footage, And We’re Going To Need A Lot More Popcorn
Louder With Crowder: Only Losers Demand Their Student Debt Be Canceled, also, Google Exec Admits Plan To Stop “Trump Situation” In 2020

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s Better To Be A Man Than A Woman, also, Aging Hag Claims Trump Raped Her
American Greatness: Project Veritas Video – Google Is “A Highly Biased Political Machine”, also, Crackups At The Crossroads Of Intersectionality
American Power: Blacks Unload On Mayor Buttigieg, also, Herman Wouk’s True Subject Was Moral Weakness
American Thinker: Clapper Hears Barr’s “Chilling” Footsteps
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty I
Babalu Blog: Son Of Former Mexican President Embroiled In NXIVM Cult Scandal Reportedly Fleeing To Cuba, also, John McAfee Takes Time Off From Whale Sex To Open Presidential Campaign HQ In Havana
BattleSwarm: Gutfeld – “The Side That’s Having The Most Fun Usually Wins”, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp Of The Saints: “A New Birth Of Freedom”
CDR Salamander: Small Boats & Daring Men On Midrats, also, Weak Knees & Clay Feet At The Army War College
Da Tech Guy: Limitless, also, Tales From The Illinois Exodus, Part 4
Don Surber: Peggy Noonan Is Tired Of Trump Winning, also, Why No One Believes Trump’s Accuser
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The American Space Program
First Street Journal: Harvard Normalizes Pedophilia, Goes Out Of Their Way To Say It Has Nothing To Do With Homosexuality
The Geller Report: UN Poised To Launch Global Ban On Criticism Of Islam, also, US Hits Iran With Cyberattacks Instead of Missiles, Cripples Iranian Command & Control Systems
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, First Amendment News
Hollywood In Toto: Why Andrew Dice Clay & Roseanne Pairing Matters In 2019
Joe For America: DHS Chief Accused Of Leaking ICE Raid Info To WaPo, Sabotaging Operation
Legal Insurrection: Google Employee Discusses Google’s Plan To Prevent “Trump Situation” In 2020 (update: Google Removes Video) also, Newly Released Documents Shine Brighter Light On Rep. Omar’s Alleged Immigration, Marriage, & Tax Fraud
The PanAm Post: SCOTUS Rules Against Argentina In YPF Nationalization Case
Power Line: From The Mixed-up Files Of Ilhan Omar – Finale, also, The Bad Economics Of Reparations
Shark Tank: Julian Castro Claims He’ll Beat Trump, Win Hispanic Vote
Shot In The Dark: MyLyssa Has Questions. Mitch Has Answers.
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Even More Deaths In The Dominican
The Political Hat: Authoritarian Pixels & Brexit, also, Hiatus For Jury Duty
This Ain’t Hell: President Trump Nominates Army Secretary Esper For SecDef, also, Spotting Incels In The Wild
Victory Girls: Kamala Harris Adopts “America Was Never Great” Strategy
Volokh Conspiracy: Rhode Island Court Issues TRO Requiring Blogger To Take Down All Posts About A Person
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi On Enforcing Immigration Laws – “What’s The Point?” also, Ravelry.com Bans All Posts Supporting President Trump
Mark Steyn: The Least Worst Man, and Pather Panchali


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Rule 5 Monday: Camila Cabello

Posted on | June 24, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Cuban-American pop singer Camila Cabello made her debut as a member of girl group Fifth Harmony via The X Factor back in 2012, and went on to a successful solo career – her debut album Camila went platinum – in December 2016. She’s been the opening act for Taylor Swift on the latter’s Reputation tour, been a model for Guess, and is going to star in a remake of Cinderella.

Rocking it on stage

Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #657, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Bigfoot Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Gloria Vanderbilt, I Am Mother, Shaft, Minnesota Nice vs. Wisconsin Whiny, Allison Mack & Kirsten Gillibrand, Summer & Summer Music, Judy Garland, and Brexit 2019.

A View From The Beach brings it bigly with The Chinese Wonder – Mai Ping Guo, It’s in C# minor, Sir, Russiagate Recession, Busted Russian Spy Fears Mammoth Infection, A Bad Year for Bees, Russiagate: A New Hope?, That’s One Way to Foil a Blackmailer, Frederick County Floats a Plastics Ban, Banning Bags Won’t Save the Bay, What Was She Thinking?, Reason #6377 that Trump was Elected, Too Soon Old,Too Late Smart, The Last Straw, Can Beavers Save the Bay?, Nothing Exceeds Like Excess, Snakeheads Attempt Invasion of Pennsylvania and Buying into Russiagate.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Rachel Clugston, and his Vintage Babe is Marilyn Monroe. At Dustbury, it’s Kerry Washington and Rebecca Black.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Cody’s Excellent Fourth of July Plan

Posted on | June 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Cody’s Excellent Fourth of July Plan

It’s that time of year, when patriotic Americans have their garages stacked to the rafters with cases full of fireworks:

 

“Yeah, I know what you’re thinking — this has ‘divorce’ written all over it. . . . I did some math on this stuff, because we’ve got such a ridiculous quantity of fireworks here. So I did some math, and I found out that I have enough fireworks here that, if sold at retail value in the U.S.A., I could pay off all of my credit-card debt and the remaining loan on my pickup, and still have money left over to buy more fireworks.”

Nice you’ve got a sense of humor about it, Cody. Remind me some day to tell you the story about the time the ATF raided my house . . .

 

Category: Fireworks

Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead: The Broke Wokeness of Anita Sarkeesian

Posted on | June 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Remember when the name “Anita Sarkeesian” was influential? When the feminist commissar was named to Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council”? The anti-male hatemonger rose to fame from 2012 to 2016 by demonizing men in the videogame industry and claiming to be a victim of sexist harassment. In 2014, the year of the #GamerGate controversy, Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency project raised more than $400,000 and, over a five-year-period, her organization raised nearly $1.6 million. Yet as Brad Glasgow explains in a remarkable YouTube video, Sarkeesian’s non-profit is now essentially bankrupt, having begun the year with a balance of barely $30,000 and laying off its employees:

 

John Sexton at Hot Air calls attention to a recent profile of Sarkeesian at the videogame blog Polygon, which is interesting in terms of confirming pretty much everything you’d expect about her, for example that she has always hated America. She was 15 when her immigrant family moved from Canada to Orange County, California, and instead of being happy — sunshine! beaches! palm trees! — Sarkeesian was miserable and angry:

“I went hard into counterculture. . . . I liked anything that was angry. I didn’t like anything that was normal.”

The teenage misfit never grew up, extending her adolescent tantrums into adulthood by protesting against the Iraq War in college:

“There were rooms where the Anarchists would meet across the hall from where the Marxists would meet and they didn’t get along,” she says. “I didn’t know any of the philosophy or politics behind any of this stuff, so I started reading a lot more political theory.”
“I learned about public speaking and audience analysis and understanding what gets people emotionally engaged,” she adds. “I ended up doing a lot of organizing; spending time in horribly ventilated back-rooms, having meetings and discussions.” . . .
Sarkeesian gained a bachelor’s degree in communications studies at California State. Her work was increasingly focused on economic theory and alternatives to modern capitalism.
She then moved to New York, where she once again joined forces with political action groups, while working various jobs.
“I got really interested in performance and guerrilla theater as a mode of activism,” she says. “I supported nonviolent direct actions. . . .
“We would figure out how to send out press releases, and how to get the media to cover this. He worked on crafting our message. I was interested in getting the message out there.”
Sarkeesian did not want the protestors’ actions to go unnoticed. “You can do a die-in in front of the [military] recruiter’s office, but it doesn’t matter if only three people see it. You need to get more people to see it.” . ..
Sarkeesian recalls attending workshops and group meetings and speeches by activists like Noam Chomsky. “I had already been politicized but I realized then that this is a life of work that people commit themselves to doing,” she says.
She began to focus more on feminist ideas. “I had done all this work on economic theory but I literally had no idea about identity politics. So I started learning about feminism.” She linked up with women who had been activists since the Vietnam era, who had experienced hostility and marginalization from male protest leaders. She listened to the stories of how women had to force their way into the conversation, sometimes storming the stage.
“The thing about the activist’s life is there are a lot of meetings,” she says. “You’re sitting on these conference calls with a hundred people. There’s all this sectarian politics and all this strife. It’s just the same bulls–t that is everywhere else. I was watching these young people reproduce the same systems as white, male-dominated spaces.”

So, she hates males, she hates white people, she hates the military, she hates capitalism — why would you give money to such a person? And of course, the money she raised was squandered to no good purpose, concluding with the same misfit attitude she began with:

But she knows that the job of educating game-makers about representation is far from over. “There is progress being made, but I struggle with how to talk about it. It’s like a pendulum swinging: This one thing is great, and then, oh, this other thing is shitty.
“When we talk about, oh, we solved the problem, we’re moving forward … no, we haven’t even begun to solve the problem. We’re just taking the next step to the greater vision. I’m always trying to remind people to look at the vision of what we’re fighting for. Understanding that helps influence how we work. It influences how we tell our stories and what stories we want to tell. It influences students coming out of school and the careers and jobs that they want.”
Part of the problem is that many of those who are willing to be persuaded have been persuaded. And those who are not will never come around. “They’re either not paying attention to the conversation or they are, and they’re on the other side of it. And I don’t like talking about it as a ‘sides’ thing. Because you either care about the humanity of people or you don’t. That’s the side you’re on.”

Despite wasting $1.6 million, Sarkeesian “hasn’t even begun to solve the problem,” and if you disagree with her, that’s because you don’t “care about the humanity of people.” Is anyone really surprised that sane people don’t want to support this fanatical ideologue?

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

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