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The Red Pill and ‘Opposite George’

Posted on | May 30, 2019 | Comments Off on The Red Pill and ‘Opposite George’

You may recall one of the funniest episodes of Seinfeld:

George remarks to Jerry in Monk’s Café that every decision that he has ever made has been wrong, and that his life is the exact opposite of what it should be. Jerry convinces him that “if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.” George experiments with doing the complete opposite of what he would do normally.

This is one of the things to keep in mind when discussing “Red Pill” philosophy. According to Rollo Tomassi and other students of intersexual dynamics, many of the “Blue Pill” beliefs men are taught about female behavior are so wrong that men might as well do like George Costanza and do the opposite of what we are taught.

Think about the assumptions guys are prone to make about women, based on superficial characteristics. Men are easily impressed by beauty, but I like to quote an old Johnny Rivers lyric:

Beware of pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.

If a pretty girl wishes to deceive a guy, he’s unlikely to wise up to her deception until it’s too late. Therefore, it would behoove the young bachelor to be suspicious of any unusually attractive woman he meets. Here’s the thing: One would expect, in the normal course of human events, that the most attractive women would be off the market, so to speak, at a relatively young age, yet here she is flirting with you.

If she’s good-looking and still single, why is she single?

There must be a backstory to explain why such an attractive woman hasn’t gotten herself a man already. Something must have gone wrong.

Here’s where the “Opposite George” mentality could prove advantageous. The unusually attractive woman expects guys to make a move on her, but if you can focus your mind on a realistic assessment — she must have done something wrong, or else she wouldn’t still be single — you will adopt an attitude of cautious skepticism toward her. And another “Opposite George” insight: Be honest about the reasons for your caution.

Think about it. She’s already heard every clever pickup line in the book, so instead you just speak to her honestly. You’ve got nothing to hide — obviously, she knows you find her attractive — and you’ve probably got nothing to lose, because the chances are she’s got emotional problems that explain why all her previous relationships failed. Hooking up with her would only entangle you in her psychodrama, so if being honest means you don’t score with her, you haven’t really lost anything. In fact, ignoring her would probably be the smartest move you could make, but if you’re going to take a chance, make sure you get her backstory first.

Avoid being predictable. Think about how to be different — how to set yourself apart from other guys. Don’t be an average chump, easily deceived by any pretty girl he meets. Remember: If something seems too good to be true, it’s probably not true, nor is it actually good.

Try the Red Pill. You could be more like “Opposite George.”



 

Category: The Red Pill

Bill De Blasio or a Ham Sandwich?

Posted on | May 30, 2019 | Comments Off on Bill De Blasio or a Ham Sandwich?

 

Which one has a better chance of being elected president? The New York mayor’s poll numbers are zero, and meanwhile, this morning I received an email press release from the #Ham2020 campaign:

Ham Sandwich Officially Launches Presidential Campaign
27th or 28th? Candidate for the U.S Presidency!
With a single Instagram post this friggin delicious Sandwich running for president has more support and followers than some presidential candidates. Not to say names, but, Bill *cough” De Blasio and others. (Seriously!)
Check the HAM out.
https://www.instagram.com/presidente.ham/
Team HAM 2020

Just reporting the facts here, folks. Perhaps the candidate will promise to cut back on, uh, pork-barrel spending in D.C.?



 

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 05.29.19

Posted on | May 30, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Good to be home in Las Vegas, even if the refrigerator died while I was gone.
Going to punt last weekend’s FMJRA and Rule 5 Friday and just double up this weekend; I have a funeral in New Mexico Friday,
so there may not be linkagery then.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #634 – Memorial Day Extravaganza, also, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #635
357 Magnum: So The Hyperloop Didn’t Turn Out As Planned (Or Hyped)
EBL: Bart Starr, RIP, also, Algerian National Arrested In Lyon France Bomb Attack
Twitchy: Apparently Some Gun Nut At Amazon Is Stuffing Ammo Into Customers’ Packages, also, How Much Do We Have To Donate To Get Lena Dunham To Put Clothes On?
Louder With Crowder: Justice Thomas Issues Warning On Abortion In SCOTUS Concurrence, also, #AgeGapLove Show Glorifies Pedophile Relationships

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Links & Chicks – It’s Great To Be A White Guy Edition, also, Podcast #109 – The Honor Episode
American Greatness: Comey’s FBI Ignored Sexual Abuse Victims To Play Politics, also, Mueller Takes A Parting Shot At The President
American Power: Marine Le Pen’s National Rally Tops Vote In EU Elections, also, University Libraries Seeing Precipitous Declines In Book Use
American Thinker: Time To Pay The Piper, also, Clarence Thomas Speaks The Truth For SCOTUS On Abortion
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fatness & Health Friday, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: U.S. Denies Visas To Over 200 Socialist Academics Sent By Castro Regime, also, Why Chile Prospers While Venezuela Collapses
BattleSwarm: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update, also, Twitter Primary Revisited For May
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Memorial Day 2019
Da Tech Guy: Um, Germany? also, Memorial Day Thoughts Under The Fedora, also also, Superhighway Robbery In Mexico
Don Surber: NYT Blows Obama’s Cover, also, She’s 10, Joe
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Things Go Deader With Coke
First Street Journal:  Will Mr. Sulu Swashbuckle In The Bluegrass State?
The Geller Report: Under Mayor De Blasio, NYPD Notes Record “Antisemitism Crisis”, 83% Surge In Hate Crimes, also, Ramadan Killathon – Casualties Over 1000 At End Of Third Week, 531 Deaths, 556 Injuries
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Different Kind of Cyber Warfare
Hollywood In Toto: Theater Cancels FBI Lovebirds, Citing “Violent Threats”, also, Adam Carolla – Why Safe Spaces Will Backfire On The Left
Joe For America: NM”s Dem Governor Now Begging For Immigration Help After Withdrawing Guard From Border, also, Meghan McCain Calls Out Amy Klobuchar – Leave My Father Out Of Your Politics
JustOneMinute: Ross Douthat On The Unifying Fantasy Of The Left, also, Into The Breach! The WaPo Editors Defend Charter Schools
Legal Insurrection: Mueller Breathes New Life Into Democrats’ Impeachment Push, May Have Just Reelected Trump, also, McConnell Pours Salt In Democrats’ Merrick Garland Wound
The PanAm Post: Latin Nations Must Act Against Maduro’s Allies, also, Dear NYT Editorial Board – You Don’t Know Anything About Colombia
Power Line: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Turn, also, Robert Mueller, Partisan Fraud
Shot In The Dark: Bad Optics, Part MMLCCXIV
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – BIGGER GOVERNMENT!
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – What Have We Learned From The Failure Of British Socialism? also, Light Posting This Upcoming Week
This Ain’t Hell: Make Aircrew Great Again Patch Seen During President’s Speech, also, Memorial Day Stolen Valor Callout
Victory Girls: Rolling Thunder To Ride In D.C. For The Last Time, also, NCAA – The Best Female Athlete Is A Man
Volokh Conspiracy: Are Democrats An Anti-Immigrant Party Too? also, Court Says No Tone Policing
Weasel Zippers: NYC Educators Told To Associate Objectivity, Individualism With “White Supremacy”, also, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Call For Trump Impeachment
Megan McArdle: Caution, Uber & Lyft – Wrecking Taxis May Be A Multi-Company Pileup
Mark Steyn: The Dishonored Dead, also, The Base Gets Itself A New Elite


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Category: Linkagery

Marianne Williamson Hits Key Polling Threshold in Qualifying for DNC Debates

Posted on | May 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Marianne Williamson Hits Key Polling Threshold in Qualifying for DNC Debates

According to an analysis by Politico, Marianne Williamson has now hit 1% in three national polls, one of the qualifying thresholds for the first two rounds of Democratic National Committee presidential debates beginning next month. Williamson’s campaign had earlier this month announced reaching the other qualifying hurdle — 65,000 unique donors — established by the DNC, which has limited the debate field to 20 candidates. According to Politico’s analysis, so far 13 candidates have hit both the polling threshold and the donor threshold. Among the two dozen declared Democrat candidates, the 11 who have not reached both thresholds so far include New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio. In the most recent national poll, by Morning Consult, only seven candidates are higher than 1% while 11 other candidates had 1% and DeBlasio is at 0%.

 

Category: Democrats, Polls

Good-Bye, Bob

Posted on | May 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Good-Bye, Bob

 

If you watched Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s weird valedictory appearance today, you know that he made a point of saying that he couldn’t testify to anything that wasn’t in the report of his investigation. So plans by Democrats to have Mueller dragged in front of a committee as a witness against President Trump (or against Attorney General William Barr) will evidently have to be scrapped. The headline at Ace of Spades — “Mueller Tries to Jumpstart Impeachment Effort, Throw the Deep State a Life-Line” — is an accurate assessment of Mueller’s intention. He basically said, “I’ve done my job, now Congress should do its job and impeach this guy, but don’t ask me for any more help.”

What does this mean going forward? It’s up to Nancy Pelosi, really. We can expect the media and the Democratic presidential candidates to beat the drums for impeachment, but are there really enough votes in Pelosi’s caucus to make that happen? Or is it more likely — as I think — that Democrats will just keep issuing subpoenas, holding committee hearings and talk, talk, talking about “obstruction of justice”?



 

Category: MuellerGate

Which Lunatics Are Running the Asylum?

Posted on | May 28, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Meet Cassidy Leigh “Cas” Barbour (pronouns “he/him/his”), a Peer Advisor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where “he” is majoring in Communication Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. “Cas” first came out as bisexual at age 11, identified as “gay” at age 12, and at age 18, decided she was actually “he.” Now calling herself/“himself” Casper Landyn Barbour, she/“he” has also been under treatment for mental illness since she/“he” was in third grade:

I’m nineteen and have always had a sick brain. . . .
I’ve been in therapy since I was eight and on brain pills since I was thirteen. . . .
My brain is sick. Really sick. It has been for a really long time.

Why is a mentally ill person who can’t function without “brain pills” employed as a “Peer Advisor” at a public university? Are taxpayers in North Carolina aware of this program to provide employment for insane students, by hiring them to advise other students?

 

While we’re asking questions, let’s ask this: Why does UNC-Greensboro have a department of Women’s and Gender Studies?

The central focus of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program is to explain how gender is produced within social institutions and how these institutions affect individual lives and to analyze the mutual constitution of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and religion.

So “gender is produced within social institutions,” and UNC-Greensboro has an entire academic department devoted to explaining how this happens. Y’know, anyone could send me an email if they needed a tutorial on the production of gender. As a married father of six (and grandfather of four), I think I have a certain level of expertise in this field, to say nothing of the dozens of feminist texts I’ve read as part of my research in the “Sex Trouble” project. But the reader must understand that the UNC-Greensboro faculty have a political agenda, and because I do not support that agenda, this renders my expertise irrelevant.

Normal people with normal ideas don’t get hired by universities. Apparently, you have to be full of insane rage (and synthetic hormones) to get hired as a Peer Advisor at UNC-Greensboro, and so they get Cassidy/“Casper” with her/“his” rant against the father who abandoned her/“his” mother and celebrating her/“his” newfound maleness:

It feels so amazing to finally be out and be who I really am. . . . I can’t wait to show the world the man that I’m going to become.

See, you can’t get hired by UNC-Greensboro if you are actually male. Being male is inherently wrong, because of “toxic masculinity”:

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program welcomed Michael Robinson on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 as he facilitated a conversation on “The Mind of a Man: Finding Self in the Age of Toxic Masculinity.” . . .
Michael closed by prompting us to consider, “How do we move into a space of understanding gender as something applied to us? What is the future of masculinity rooted in this level of awareness?” He left us with these final thoughts: “The less we attach ourselves to certain traits/identities the closer we get to one another, with space for more nuance to just be.”

In other words, any trait associated with masculinity is wrong, because men are bad, but if women get their breasts amputated and inject themselves with testosterone to become “men,” that’s awesome.

You have to be crazy to believe stuff like that, and Third Wave gender theory is turning our nation’s universities into lunatic asylums.



 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

Typical Democrat Voter Update

Posted on | May 28, 2019 | Comments Off on Typical Democrat Voter Update

 

Say hello to Jermaine Gaye, 34. Police arrested Gaye in January after they say he was involved in a hit-and-run accident in Norfolk, Virginia:

Police say the crash happened around 8 p.m. Wednesday. Police say officers attempted to stop a GMC Denali on Bay Street earlier that night before a short police chase.
In an attempt to get away, officers say Gaye hit a police vehicle before driving off at a high rate of speed.
Thinking about the safety for others, police officers stopped the chase because of the excessive speed.
[Greta] Trittau said she witnessed the SUV speed down Fisherman’s [Boulevard] and then crash head-on into another vehicle near a 7-Eleven before it flipped over and ejected a passenger.

Just a typical Democrat voter, committing crimes, running from police and endangering the public. Just because he’s behind bars, however, doesn’t mean that Jermaine Gaye’s criminal career is over. With the help of two girlfriends, police say, he’s been committing more felonies:

Ashley Pinkett (left); Denise Kearney (right).

Two Norfolk women [are] accused of having sex with a dog while communicating with an inmate in jail. . . .
While being held in the Norfolk Jail, court documents state that Gaye spoke to three women over the phone encouraging them to threaten the witness in his case.
Court records state that Denise Kearney and Ashley Pinkett allegedly called the witness five times over the course of a few days and tried to convince her “to either change her story or not come to court.”
It states they also allegedly went to the witness’ home.
Pinkett and Kearney are accused of having sex with Gaye’s dog while “he encouraged them over the phone from the Norfolk City Jail,” according to court records. The alleged sexual acts occurred March 18, March 27, March 29, April 2, April 3 and April 7.
Court records state Pinkett mentioned photographing the act.
Around this time, Gaye was moved from the Norfolk Jail to the Virginia Beach Jail due to his attempt to allegedly establish an improper relationship with a jail employee in Norfolk. On April 11 and April 12, during a video chat from the Virginia Beach Jail, Pinkett allegedly had sex with Gaye’s dog at home while Gaye encouraged her over video chat with what appeared to be a white towel draped over the back of his head.
Gaye is facing 34 charges including several counts of cruelty to animals. He is being held without bond.
Pinkett is facing 20 charges including bestiality, animal cruelty charges and tampering with a witness. She has court on June 13 and is currently being held without bond.
Kearney is facing seven charges and has court on Monday. She is also being held without bond.

“Incarcerated Americans” are a core constituency of the Democrat Party.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

Category: Crime

History and the High Price of Forgetting

Posted on | May 27, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Have you ever read Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War? Probably no one should ever hold any important office, or even dare to comment on public affairs, who has not studied that great lesson. What Thucydides records is nothing less than the ruin of ancient Greece, the civilization which first developed democracy as a political system. Thucydides shows how Athens and her allies were led to destruction in a long civil war against Sparta and her allies because of the foolish counsels of ambitious demagogues, culminating in the disastrous expedition to Sicily. Because Thucydides presents the arguments made both for and against the decisions that led Athens to destruction, the reader learns how often it is that, when policy is being debated, what might seem to be the “smart” decision turns out to be a catastrophic mistake. The enterprising character of the Athenians, which had led Greece to victory over Persia and enabled Athens to establish colonies throughout Asia Minor, ultimately proved their downfall, as they overestimated their ability to defeat the more stolid and conservative Spartans.

 

On this date in 1940, the British were in the second day of “Operation Dynamo,” the heroic effort that rescued the forces trapped at Dunkirk. The success in evacuating more than 300,000 troops was a tremendous achievement, but as Churchill said at time, “We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.” What had brought the mighty British Empire to this low point in its history was a policy of appeasement, especially under Neville Chamberlain, that had enabled Germany to rebuild its military power while failing to defend against the threat of war. And it is seldom now appreciated how appeasement was supported by all the “smart” people in England (and also in France), who had decided that war was unthinkable, and had therefore underestimated Hitler’s intentions.

It was not that Chamberlain and other proponents of appeasement were entirely pacifist in their policy. Rather, after the bloody nightmare of the First World War, which had ended in ignominious defeat for Germany, the appeasers simply could not imagine that Germany would risk its existence in a second World War. A crucial difference between Chamberlain and Churchill (if you haven’t read A.L. Rowse’s monograph Appeasement: A Study in Political Decline, you should) was that Chamberlain never read Mein Kampf and didn’t know the German language, whereas Churchill did. So while the appeasers were deceived by the messages about “peace” that the Nazi propaganda machine was publishing in English, Churchill was listening to what Hitler was saying in German, and realized that der Führer was planning for war.

The reason we study history is because certain patterns repeat themselves. And this is where our education system has been failing us so terribly for decades, in part because of “multiculturalism.” Circa 1990, it became fashionable to condemn the teaching of history in our society as too “Eurocentric” and this academic trend, along with a general contempt for “dead white males,” had the effect of demoting the study of the history of our own culture in favor of “inclusive” history about African, Asian and Latin American societies. But this involves a misunderstanding of why we study history at all. The peasant living under a hereditary monarchy, or a goat-herder in a nomadic tribal society, would have no use for the study of history. In a non-democratic polity, it is only the leadership caste which has need to study history, as a guide to statecraft. However, in a republic, where every citizen is eligible to participate in the decision-making process — at the very least, as a voter — the study of history as part of a general education becomes much more important. How are we to participate intelligently in politics if we don’t know history? And the reason we study ancient Greece and Rome, rather than the Mayans or the Chinese or some other culture, isn’t because of racism or “Eurocentrism.” It’s because Greco-Roman civilization produced the earliest models for representative government, and because these civilizations left behind a written record, including such valuable resources as Thucydides.

For the sake of “inclusion,” however, our schools have forsaken the teaching of history in the old-fashioned way, so that instead of learning the valuable lessons of political, diplomatic and military history — the kind of stuff that is useful to being an intelligent citizen — children are wasting time on progressive “social history” intended to inculcate a sense of identity-politics victimhood and other biases (e.g., against capitalism) useful to the political Left. You can see the fruit of this agenda-driven curriculum in, for example, the current mania among liberals to abolish the Electoral College. Anyone who has properly studied American history appreciates what genius went into the compromise that divided the legislative power between the Senate and House, with the lower chamber apportioned by population and the states equally represented in the upper house, and then combined these two systems of apportionment to elect the president. Our Constitution established the government of a federal republic, not a national democracy, and this system would be destroyed by the abolition of the Electoral College.

Yet it seems that scarcely any American under 30 has been taught anything useful about our own country’s history, much less anything about the origins of our political system in English history or its earlier development in Greco-Roman civilization. And even more recent history is taught poorly (if it is taught at all) in our schools and universities. One sees a lot of young people running around calling other people “Nazi” or “fascist” without apparently knowing much about the 20th-century history of fascism and Nazism. What kind of answers do you think you might get from the ignorant youth in an “Antifa” mob, if you asked them specific questions about European history 1918-45? They probably know little more about that period than they know about ancient Greece and Rome, which is to say, they know almost nothing at all.

It is Memorial Day, and there are very few Americans alive who are old enough to actually remember World War II. Most young Americans couldn’t tell you much about that war. They don’t know about Dunkirk, and they don’t remember the stirring conclusion of the speech in which Churchill announced the success of Operation Dynamo:

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

We must study history, or we shall pay a dreadful price for forgetting.



 

Category: Education, History
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