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Zelenskyy Gets Pimp-Slapped on Live TV by Trump in White House Meeting UPDATE: Lindsey Graham Blames Zelenskyy for ‘Complete, Utter Disaster’

Posted on | February 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Zelenskyy Gets Pimp-Slapped on Live TV by Trump in White House Meeting UPDATE: Lindsey Graham Blames Zelenskyy for ‘Complete, Utter Disaster’

“Pimp-slapped,” metaphorically speaking, of course. This event has astonished the world. When it happened, my office TV was tuned to Fox News, but I immediately switched over to MSNBC to see how they were reacting and . . . Well, it would be wrong to say it’s driven them crazy, as they’ve been non compos mentis for years, but whatever else the MSNBC crowd was obsessed over before, they’ve suddenly forgotten it and will be 24/7 on this story until further notice. The big question, really, is why Trump decided to chew out the president of Ukraine in public.

My first thought was, well, a big slice of Trump’s hard-core supporters hate Zelenskyy and don’t like the way he’s been hailed as a latter-day Winston Churchill for the past three years. So, inasmuch as what Trump did was a performance, it would be applauded by that segment of Trump’s basis. But as I contemplated it a bit longer, it occurred to me that the intended audience might be Our European Allies — i.e., the deadbeats who haven’t been paying their share for NATO, and who think American taxpayers should have no higher priority than pouring billions of dollars into Ukraine. In this analysis, Trump slapped around Zelenskyy to send a message to the Europeans: “Free ride’s over, guys. Y’all want to save Ukraine, do it on your own dime.” But that’s just my guess.

Maybe Trump just lost his temper, but I think there must have been some kind of four-dimensional chess strategy involved, and I reckon the foreign policy specialists will figure it out evenutally. In the meantime, we can just sit back and watch liberals’ heads explode.

See, this is why we voted for Trump. Would we be getting this kind of quality entertainment from Kamala Harris? I don’t think so.

UPDATE: Thanks to Evil Blogger Lady for this:

Lindsey Graham, who is very pro-Ukraine, puts the blame for this “disaster” squarely on Zelenskyy, and says he should resign.



 

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In The Mailbox: 02.27.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | February 27, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.27.25 (Afternoon Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

I have made my holy journey, and (once again) become a Secret Man.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 FBI Fun Facts – Comey Edition
357 Magnum: The 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center
EBL: The Bride | La sposa, Volkswagen Song, The Heimatdamisch : Highway to Hell, and Jake Tapper Has No Shame
Twitchy: NSA Insider Spills All The Transactivist Tea And It’s Even Creepier Than You Thought, Justine Bateman’s Response To Gov. Hairgel’s New Podcast Is Brutal Perfection, and Scott Jennings Asks CNN Panel For Examples of Trump “Shredding The Constitution” And They Have Nothing
Louder With Crowder: Maine House Democrat Majority Censures GOP Rep. After She Speaks Out Against Males In Female Sports, Are Lauren Boebert and Kid Rock a hot item?, and An anti-ICE coalition is organizing to sabotage Donald Trump’s immigration reforms
Vox Popoli: Appearances vs Reality, Batting 1.000, A Drink with a Coconut, and RIP Dawn
Bugscuffle Gazette: Random Thoughts From Rita
Cedar Sanderson: Spring’s Merry Step

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Iffy Cold War Nuclear Theory Is Only Worse Now
Dana Loesch: Activist Judges – A Look At Judge John Bates
Don Surber: Mocking Woke Speech
STUMP: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg – Some Stats On Liver Disease Mortality

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In The Mailbox: 02.26.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | February 26, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.26.25 (Afternoon Edition)

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Long drive in from Tonopah and an 0330 wakeup meant no blogging last night. If I hadn’t gotten a little sleep on the flight to Nashville, you wouldn’t be seeing this. 
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Florida Man – No Shirt, No Shoes, No Police Cruiser
EBL: Lucas Film’s Kathleen Kennedy finally exiled to the wilderness, The Charleston, Bob Dobbs Discovers Johnny Cash, How Ukraine Resisted Russia: Day 1, and The Love Witch
Twitchy: Adam Schiff Slams Jeff Bezos For Not Burning WaPo To The Ground As Democrat Propaganda Outlet, Politico Really Hopes Conservative SCOTUS Justices They Hate Will Rein In Trump’s Executive Powers, and “There’s No Bottom For These People”
Louder With Crowder: Democrat governor, who is a Twinkie away from a triple bypass, calls RFK Jr’s health views “dangerous”, False Reality: What Joy Reid’s Firing Exposes About The Left , TikToker calls for Elon Musk to be killed WHILE bragging about not paying taxes, now the US Attorney’s office is involved, Woke congresswoman goes on unhinged rant that if Trump deports too many illegal immigrants, no one will pick our food, and “The View” claims it’s anti-Christian to oppose wokeness… then mocks Christians
Vox Popoli: The Next Medical Disaster, God Mode Achieved, Her Work is Done, The Glorious History of GG, and Copyright Must Reform
Defending The Wood Perilous: Why Hasn’t God Destroyed Us Yet?
Gab: The Transhumanist Delusion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Fourth Year Of The Russo-Ukrainian War Is Upon Us
Don Surber: USA Is A Refuge For Manufacturing
STUMP: Chicago & Illinois Update

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In The Mailbox: 02.25.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | February 25, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.25.25 (Morning Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

More baby mama drama incoming?

OVER THE TRANSOM
Born Lucky: They Don’t Know What Time It Is
Director Blue: Forecasting The Future Of The West
357 Magnum: Texans Are Still Armed
EBL: Germany’s Elections Did Not Go Well For The Left, Dan Bongino Named Deputy FBI Director, Polytechnique, The Loneliest Planet, and Fat Coward Vindman got USAID Money related to Ukraine?
Twitchy: Greta Van Susteren Has The Receipts Showing Why Nobody Should Feel Sorry For Joy Reid, Adam Schiff Does AMA And Was THAT Ever Stupid, and Michael Shellenberger Drops Bombshell That FBI Employees Are Destroying Evidence
Louder With Crowder: Kamala Harris performs her most inspiring” speech yet while touring CA fire destruction, In Ilhan Omar’s latest anti-American rant, she declares YOU are the stupid one, and Jasmine Crockett goes off on another bonkers rant, declares she’s rooting for America’s FAILURE against foreign countries
Vox Popoli: Low-Wage Efficiencies, The Definition of Wishful Thinking, The Conservative Media is Fake, My New Friend, and No One Will Fight for Clown World
Bacon Time: Just Relax, This Is Going To Happen
Bugscuffle Gazette: Citizenship, also, Well
Stoic Observations: Taibbi’s Timeline Project, also, Hey Batter Batter
Gab: Gab Tells Australian & French Governments To Piss Off
Upstream Reviews: Auditors of Doom
Toni Airaksinen: Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The New Administration & China With Dean Cheng, also, German Elections – Take The W
Dana Loesch: The Eric Adams Problem
Don Surber: Orban Warfare
Glenn Reynolds: Let’s Go Privateering!
STUMP: The Week In Meep

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Career Advice for Young Men

Posted on | February 25, 2025 | Comments Off on Career Advice for Young Men

If you want to be great — not just good, mind you, but great, an all-time legend — my advice to any ambitious young man is this: Drop out of school at age 12 and go to work in a coal mine.

Such was the decisive career move of a young fellow named Johannes, one of nine children born to an immigrant family near Pittsburgh. One of the great things about being born poor — and immigrant coal miners in the late 1800s were certainly poor — is that, when you start at the bottom, there’s nowhere to go but up. For amusement, in between mining coal, young Johannes enjoyed playing baseball on local sandlots with his brothers, who were quite talented. Three of his brothers went on to play baseball professionally, but none of them were as great as Johannes. He was middling height, but stoutly built, with a barrel chest and massive hands. Despite being bowlegged, he was also astonishingly fast.

When Johannes was 21, his older brother Albert recruited him to play on a minor league team and, in his first season of pro ball, Johannes played for five different teams. He made his major league debut in 1897 at age 23, joining the Louisville Colonels in mid-season and hitting for a .338 average. During his time in the minors, Johannes had played every position in the infield and outfield, but by his second season in Louisville, he settled in at third base, where one new teammate later testified:

I’m sitting on the bench the first day I reported, and along about the third inning an opposing batter smacks a line drive down the third-base line that looked like at least a sure double. Well, this big Louisville third baseman jumped over after it like he was on steel springs, slapped it down with his bare hand, scrambled after it at least ten feet, and fired a bullet over to first base. The runner was out by two or three steps.
I’m sitting on the bench and my eyes are popping out. So I poked the guy sitting next to me, and asked him who the devil that big fellow was on third base.
“Why, that’s Wagner,” he says. “He’s the best third baseman in the league.”
And it also turned out that while Honus was the best third baseman in the league, he was also the best first baseman, the best second baseman, the best shortstop, and the best outfielder. That was in fielding. And since he led the league in batting eight times between 1900 and 1911, you know that he was the best hitter, too. As well as the best base runner.

Yes, Honus Wagner — the name “Honus” pronounced HAW-nus, being short for Johannes — was a baseball phenomenon, the most popular player of his era. He eventually settled in at shortstop and, to this day, is still recognized as the greatest shortstop ever to play the game.

After the 1899 season, the National League reduced its number of teams from 12 to eight, eliminating Louisville, and Honus Wagner became a Pittsburgh Pirate. Any fan attending a Pirates home game will pass by the statue of Wagner outside the stadium. Among other distinctions, Honus Wagner was the first player to lend his name to a signature bat, and he played in the very first World Series in 1903. He continued playing into his 40s, becoming the second player to record more than 3,000 hits, and at age 41 in 1915 became the oldest player ever to hit a grand slam home run, a record which stood for 70 years until Tony Pérez did it at age 43.

When the Baseball Hall of Fame began in 1936, Honus Wagner was one of five players — along with Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson — inducted as inaugural members. Babe Ruth called Wagner “immortal” and said he “was perhaps the greatest right-handed hitter of all time” (Ruth and Cobb both batted left-handed).

See that baseball card? If you should happen to be digging through great-grandpa’s memorabilia and find one like that, don’t throw it away — it’s a rarity worth millions of dollars. When one of those 1909 Honus Wagner cards sold at auction for $6.6 million in 2021, it was the most expensive item of sports memorabilia ever sold (although exceeded a year later by a 1952 Mickey Mantle card that went for $12.6 million).

What’s weird is that I woke up this morning after having had a dream about Honus Wagner — or rather, a dream in which somebody cited Wagner as a rival to Ty Cobb as the greatest hitter of all time. When I woke up, I grabbed my phone and checked the Wikipedia page: Johannes Peter “Honus” Wagner, born February 24, 1874.

Monday was his birthday, and I missed it! Hopefully, this belated tribute will compensate for my oversight, and I commend the example of Honus Wagner to any young fellow who hopes to achieve something in life. However far down you may start your climb to greatness, you’re not starting any lower than Honus did. Now, off to the coal mine, boy.



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Demure, Relaxed, & In Her Lane

Posted on | February 24, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Demure, Relaxed, & In Her Lane

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Another fine filly courtesy of Rule 5 Texan.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 CPAC Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Nanci Griffith, Malcolm X, Make CPAC Fun Again, Nixon In China, MAGA FBI Director Kash Patel, Sanna Marin On European Defense Spending, The Barber of Seville, John Basilone RIP, Steam Skies|Airships Above Retro Future, Tony Orlando & Dawn, The Best & Worst of 2024, The White Lotus Season 3, Margaret Brennan, The Substance, and Hookup Culture & Depression

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Madison Pettis, VA to Lift Blue Catfish Limits, Fish Pic Friday – Tay Tay, Tattoo Thursday, Get Along Little Dogies, The Wednesday Wetness, State Green Nude Eel Raising Electrical Prices, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Almost a Month In, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule 5 – The Weather Outside Is Frightful

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Aspiring to Mediocrity

Posted on | February 23, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Aspiring to Mediocrity

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Took two out of three from Atlanta on Tuesday and then lost two out of three to Pete’s Brewers. Spaceman Lee got two of the wins and Charlie Hough got the other in relief against the Bravos. Picked up several good hitters in the draft, but they ain’t hitting, and meanwhile the bullpen keeps lighting itself on fire.
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The ‘Red Pill’ Remains Undefeated
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum




FMJRA 2.0: Scalped
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Gets Mainstream Media Coverage UPDATE: Finally, the KiwiFarms Thread
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Casual
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal
The Daley Gator
EBL
357 Magnum

BREAKING: Cult Leader Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota and Michelle Zajko Arrested in Maryland UPDATE: Third Suspect Also Captured
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

MUGSHOTS: Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko, Daniel ‘Hastur’ Blank
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.17.25
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Bail Hearing Today for Cult Suspects UPDATE: Judge Orders All Three ‘Extremists’ Held Without Bond
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

The Future of Gaza is Neu Schwabenland
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Ziz’ Misgendered and Other Highlights of Tuesday’s Court Hearing for Cult Suspects
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.19.25 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

CPAC: Today Is Vice President Day
A View From The Beach
EBL
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CPAC: Too Early to Think About 2026?
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
EBL
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CPAC: New Heights of Awesomeness
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC Scenes
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 2.21.25 (Morning Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.21.25 (Evening Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending February 22:

  1.  EBL (18)
  2.  357 Magnum (16)
  3.  A View From The Beach (15)

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Joy Reid Is Out at MSNBC

Posted on | February 23, 2025 | Comments Off on Joy Reid Is Out at MSNBC

In December, I wrote about how Trump’s victory had humiliated his media enemies. It was predictable that there would be consequences, and now the consequences come home for one of Trump’s angriest critics:

MSNBC liberal mainstay Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report.
The 7 p.m. program hosted by Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders.
The final episode of Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” will air sometime this week, ending a mainstay of MSNBC’s lineup for the past five years, according to the Times.
It marks the first large-scale shake-up by MSNBC’s new president, Kutler, since she took over the liberal network earlier this month.
Reid, one of the most prominent Trump-bashers in the mainstream media, has been a long-serving anchor at the network, hosting the weekend talk show “AM Joy” since 2016 before being named anchor of the 7 p.m. slot in 2020.
She has made a series of infamous rants in recent months, including telling Trump supporters to “make your own dinner” at Thanksgiving, saying they should “suffer the consequences of your votes.” . . .
In December, Nielsen Media Research revealed that Reid had lost almost half her viewers since the election of Donald Trump, with MSNBC seeing a whopping 53% drop in primetime viewership following the Nov. 5 result.

That’s what I call Making America Great Again.



 

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