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What Mueller Did With Our Money

Posted on | April 25, 2019 | Comments Off on What Mueller Did With Our Money

My podcasting partner John Hoge calls attention to this summary of the Mueller investigation by Victor Davis Hanson:

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia.
Despite compiling private allegations of loud and obnoxious Trump behavior, Mueller also concluded that there was not any actionable case of obstruction of justice by the president. . . .
Yet Mueller’s team went down every blind alley relating to its investigation — except where Obama-era officials were likely culpable for relevant unethical or illegal behavior. . . .
The problem with the Muller investigation, and with former intelligence officials such as Brennan, Clapper, Comey and McCabe, is pious hypocrisy. Those who have lectured America on Trump’s unproven crimes have written books and appeared on TV to publicize their own superior virtue. Yet they themselves have engaged in all sorts of unethical and illegal behavior.

Without regard to Mueller’s failure to find any evidence of the fictitious “Russian collusion,” Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are acting as if obstruction of justice is a proven fact, raising the question of how an innocent man’s effort to prove his innocence can obstruct justice. If you’re not a witch, and yet you’ve become the target of a witch-hunt, is it wrong to try to stop the witch-hunt? You’re never going to see anyone make that point on CNN, but then again, unless you’re stuck in airport, you’ll probably never see CNN at all.

 

Category: MuellerGate

Nerd Prom Drama Queens: Employees of Minor Cable Network Are Pouting

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Nerd Prom Drama Queens: Employees of Minor Cable Network Are Pouting

 

You may have never heard of this thing called “CNN,” an obscure cable TV network with lower ratings than the Food Network. Anyway, Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter are employees of CNN, and they are unhappy because the President of the United States doesn’t like their annual party:

The White House has ordered Trump administration officials to boycott the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, according to a senior administration official.
The order was issued Tuesday morning by White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley, who announced that all Trump administration officials are being ordered to boycott the dinner, scheduled for Saturday night.
An administration official adds that the order came from Trump personally, though staffers have been trying to talk him out of it.
The move marks yet another deterioration in relations between the White House press office and the press corps, though President Donald Trump had announced earlier this month that he would be skipping the annual dinner for the third year in a row. The President will instead hold a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the same evening. . . .
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders also previously told CNN she would not be attending the dinner, instead traveling to the Trump rally with the President.
Sanders had attended the two previous dinners under the Trump administration. Last year, she was infamously roasted by comedian Michelle Wolf while sitting at the head table on stage.
Afterward, while commentators debated whether the performance was too mean-spirited, Trump said Wolf “bombed” and set her up as a symbol of Hollywood elitism, someone for his base to oppose.

Last year’s so-called “roast” was (a) grossly insulting and (b) not funny. Anyway, Ace of Spades points out that Tapper and Stelter falsely claim the purpose of the White House Corresponsdents’ Association dinner (a/k/a “nerd prom”) is to raise money for journalism scholarships. In fact, the percentage of proceeds going to fund scholarships has declined sharply, from nearly 60 percent in 2009 to less than 13 percent in 2016. So the lying liars at CNN are, you guessed it, lying again.



 

Category: CNN

In The Mailbox: 04.24.19

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.24.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #600
EBL: Make Turkey Armenia Again, also, Rush Limbaugh – The Nigerian Brothers Sue Everyone!
Twitchy: Diets Are Sexual Assault? Fitness Is White Supremacy?
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg Insults Military With Imperialism Tweet, And Veterans Respond

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Mitt Romney, American Oligarch
American Thinker: Should Natural Born Citizenship Be A Requirement For All Federal Elected Offices?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Socialist Healthcare – Rotting Corpse Found In Cuban Hospital’s Water Tank
BattleSwarm: Clinton Corruption Update For April 24
Da Tech Guy: I’m Old Enough To Remember When Democrats Pretended To Be Anti-War
Don Surber: The Flight 93 Election Revisited
Dustbury: Like Four Hours Is Tolerable
The Geller Report: Sri Lanka Arrests 40 Muslims As Easter Bombing Death Toll Hits 310, also, PolitiFact Fact Checker Admits They Lied And Pam Geller Was Right
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Habitable Zone Unplugged, Part 2
Hollywood In Toto: Avengers: Endgame Gives Fans Service On Steroids
Joe For America: Latina Mom Tells Pete Buttigieg “Don’t Force Your Sexual Ideology On me & My Children”
Legal Insurrection: Rush Says Hillary “Needs To Be Investigated, Needs To Be Indicted, And Needs To Be In Jail”, also, Cher Goes MAGA Over Bernie Saying Imprisoned Terrorists, Murderers, & Rapists Should Get To Vote
Michelle Malkin: Beware Soros-Funded Hijacking Of US Census
The PanAm Post: What Would Be Worse For Argentina, Macri’s Second Term Or The Return Of Cristina Kirchner?
Power Line: The Ideologue Who Wrote The textbook Calling Trump & His Supporters Racists, also, At The Noor Trial (15)
Shot In The Dark: A New Tradition
The Political Hat: Aryan Environmentalism Redux
This Ain’t Hell: Wee Willy Wannabe, The “USMC Private”, also, Occasional Cortex Claims VA Not Broken, Provides Top Notch Care
Victory Girls: FL Supremes Rule Against The Coward Of Broward
Volokh Conspiracy: The Trial Court “Did Not Consider American Law And Fundamental Precepts Of Due Process”
Weasel Zippers: Newsweek Defends Ilhan Omar’s Attack On American Soldiers, also, WaPo Responds To Sri Lanka Attacks By Focusing On “Far Right Anger”
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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#GetWokeGoBroke: Australian Feminist Coffee Shop Goes Out of Business

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

In August 2017, a female-owned coffee shop in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, made headlines by announcing an unusual policy:

The owners of Victorian cafe, Handsome Her, have found themselves at the centre of a polarising debate after its introduction of an 18 per cent “gender surcharge” for its male customers.
The vegan cafe in Melbourne’s inner north suburb of Brunswick, which labels itself as a cafe “by women, for women” stipulates three anti-patriarchal “house rules,” including priority seating for women, a premium charge for males and respect for both genders.
“House Rules, Rule #1: women have priority seating. Rule #2: men will be charged an 18% premium to reflect the gender pay gap (2016) which is donated to a women’s service. Rule #3 respect goes both ways,” the chalkboard reads in the cafe.
While Handsome Her’s main goal is to help give back to women’s charities, according to Broadsheet Melbourne who spoke to owner Alexandra O’Brien, it also hopes that the initiative that runs for one week every month will help spark conversations about the gender pay gap.

Their über-woke commitment to radical ideology was confirmed last year when, on their one-year anniversary, they hosted “a delicious three course vegan dinner . . . along with a panel discussion and Q&A with some of Melbourne’s fiercest feminists,” including Clementine Ford. They promoted an anti-heterosexual agenda with a series of events called “Queer Conversations,” which last month focused on condemning marriage as a “way of treating women as property.”

 

Can you guess how many man-hating radical lesbians there are in the suburbs of Melbourne? Not enough to support this feminist business:

A restaurant that declared it would charge men 18% more than women for the same service will close its doors at the end of the month.
Handsome Her, a vegan café in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, will close its doors on April 28, writing on Facebook that the two women responsible for running the business “are off to our next adventure up north where we will be doing some hands-on work, something we have missed sorely whilst being at 206 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.” . . .
The question naturally arose as to how an establishment can claim to respect both genders when it is clearly discriminating against one.
The wage gap in Australia, as in the United States, comes not from discrimination (though that’s not to say discrimination never happens) but from the different choices men and women make in their careers. Women tend to go into lower-paying fields or positions that offer more flexibility – leading to fewer hours worked. Women also tend to leave the workforce to have children. The “wage” gap does not compare the actual earnings of men and women working the exact same job, but the average earnings of men and women across all jobs and industries.
Yet activists, like those at the Handsome Her café, use the difference in average earnings to claim women are not treated equally in society, or are undervalued. . . .
In addition to a policy of charging men more, Handsome Her also wrote in its farewell note that it “tried to demonstrate ways of doing business more ethically and responsibly by abandoning take-away cups, single use straws and napkins, by shopping locally and supporting women owned businesses.”
The business said it donated to multiple feminist causes and “strived to bring lesbianism back into fashion.”

Nevertheless, she persisted . . . until the business went bankrupt.

(Hat-tip: Rita Panahi on Twitter.)



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Has The Mythical T-Bone Been Found?

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Has The Mythical T-Bone Been Found?

by Smitty

At first the Easter Bunny was just a garden-variety capeless hero:

Did I say “garden”? It seems some folks in the Garden State may be interested in this capeless crusader:

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In The Mailbox: 04.23.19

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.23.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The WiFi Alliance HATES Security
EBL: The Barkley Marathons
Twitchy: Media Matters Editor Reminds Us Twitter Has “A Major Pro-Conservative Bias”
Louder With Crowder: Ilhan Omar’s Uncovered Tweet Calls American Soldiers Terrorists, also, Dear Hollywood, Enough With The Gratuitous Sex Scenes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Anning Is A Moderate, So Go And Vote For Him
American Greatness: To Conquer Chaos, Court It, also, Was Mueller Colluding With Russia?
American Power: Islamic Jihad Is World’s Greatest Threat
American Thinker: Four Reasons The Dems Will Lose In 2020
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Ohio News
Babalu Blog: Cubana Evelyn Sanguinetti Announces Run For IL-6
BattleSwarm: How CNN Chose Michael Avenatti Over Alan Dershowitz
CDR Salamander: More Breakers, Now, And Keep Them Coming
Da Tech Guy: WaPo’s Latest Weapon, also, If Your Big Racism Issue Is Kate Smith Singing “God Bless America”…
Don Surber: Obama’s “Tourists & Easter Worshippers”
Dustbury: On The Regicide Of The Street
First Street Journal: Patterico & I Have Had A Difference Of Opinion
The Geller Report: Harris & Sanders Say Convicts Including Boston Bomber Should Be Allowed To Vote In Prison, also, If We Cancel Kate Smith, We Must Cancel The Flyers & Yankees
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Habitable Zone Unplugged, Part 1
Hollywood In Toto: How Tina Fey’s 30 Rock Predicted Trump’s Rise
Joe For America: John Kerry Facing Felony Charges For Logan Act Violations, Colluding With Iran
JustOneMinute: Unexpected Candor In The NYT, also, Fauxcahontas’ Latest Worst Idea Yet
Legal Insurrection: ISIS Takes Credit For Sri Lanka Bombings, Releases Photos Of Suicide Bombers, also, Democrats Oppose NH Law Requiring College Students To Be Permanent Residents To Vote
The PanAm Post: Trump Tempts Maduro Allies, Offers Large Rewards For Info On Hezbollah
Power Line: AP US History Textbook Calls Trump racist, Questions His Mental Stability, also, Banned By Google For Opposing Infanticide
Shot In The Dark: Attention All “Progressives”
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – NY State Tax Revenues & Population Down
The Political Hat: Libraries Are Tools Of Racist Oppression…Or Something
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Cook Booted For Running With Biker Gang, also, U.S. Soldiers Surrender Weapons At The Border
Victory Girls: Ilhan Omar Blames U.S. Soldiers For Something Somebody Did During Black Hawk Down Incident
Volokh Conspiracy: Chalking Tires & The Fourth Amendment
Weasel Zippers: Judicial Watch – FBI Admits Hillary E-Mails Found In Obama White House, also, In Pelosi’s Far-Left San Francisco District, Over 135,000 Human Poop Incidents
Megan McArdle: Who Will Really Benefit From Warren’s Student Debt Plan?
Mark Steyn: Taqiyya For Easter, also, Don’t Mention The Jihad


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‘Hypergamy Doesn’t Care’

Posted on | April 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

Rollo Tomassi (left) and Anthony Johnson (right) at the 21 Convention.

As previously mentioned, I’ve been invited to cover next month’s 21 Convention in Orlando, featuring an all-star schedule of “red pill” speakers, including Rollo Tomassi, author of The Rational Male.

If you follow Rollo on Twitter, you know he has a habit of speaking brutal truth, and a few years ago, he coined a phrase that young men should be required to memorize: “Hypergamy Doesn’t Care.” A preference for high-status males is hard-wired into female psychology, and young men must understand that there is no way to avoid the consequences of how basic human nature operates. Unlike feminism — a blame game that demonizes males for being male — the “red pill” philosophy is not about trying to impose a radical ideology on the world; it’s about understanding the reality of what Rollo calls “intersexual dynamics.”

Here’s a simple question: Why do some men fail with women?

It’s not women’s fault. Turning this into a blame game, avoiding responsibility for your own failure by externalizing blame, is as harmful and counter-productive as the feminist approach of blaming “patriarchy” for everything. Men fail with women because they do not understand women. Men fail with women because they do not properly estimate their own Sexual Market Value. Men fail with women because of self-defeating behavior patterns they developed as teenagers. And men fail because they do not devote themselves to learning how to succeed.

Monday afternoon, I talked by phone with Anthony “Dream” Johnson, co-founder of “The Red Man” group and leader of the 21 Convention. Anthony is 30 years old and has learned some lessons the hard way, as he explained in a presentation to the 21 Convention in 2016:

“I want to warn you that you are highly attractive targets, and you are at high risk of the same thing happening to you. . . . Psychopaths and predators and monsters of this magnitude are very attracted to quality targets.”

This is frightening. Guys worry about being losers — the low-status Beta male who can’t score with women — but if you’re a high-status winner, you are vulnerable as a target for exploitation. Why do feminists accuse “red pill” guys of being misogynists? Is this perhaps because such men have witnessed (or been victims of) women’s most toxic patterns of behavior, and feel they have a duty to warn other men?

Talking to Anthony confirmed a lot of what I’d already suspected about the toxicity of the dating pool in the age of Tinder and social-media. He explained that the area of Florida where he attended college has been identified as one of the top “sugar baby” locations in America. Thanks to the wonders of 21st-century communications technology, young women — indeed, teenage girls — are very aware that they are in possession of a valuable commodity which can be leveraged for cash money. This behavior doesn’t necessarily involve the most obvious fee-for-service transactions, but in general, a young woman with an Instagram account full of sexy selfies isn’t just posting those bikini pictures for her own self-validation; this is marketing, and her body is the product.

Ask yourself: If every good-looking girl knows she can leverage her youth and beauty for financial advantage — “Hit me up on Venmo” — simply by posting her photos online, what sort of influence does that have on their attitudes toward men? Answer: Not a good influence.

Many thousands of young women have been utterly corrupted this way. Once this pattern of behavior becomes a habit, it’s quite nearly impossible for a woman to see men as anything other than potential customers — chumps to be exploited for financial gain.

Anthony Johnson described to me his experience of going out to local nightclubs and seeing young women — seemingly innocent, whom no untutored observer would suspect of being dates-for-hire — whom he recognized from their online “seeking arrangements” profiles. Once you become aware of this phenomenon, a lot of otherwise mysterious behavior by young women becomes less mysterious. Consider, for example, the so-called “wanderlust” culture of young women traveling the world, recording their experiences on blogs, YouTube, Instagram, etc. How is she paying the bills for that trip to a resort in Bali, huh?

Or what about the Anthony Weiner scandal? Remember how shocked we were to learn that a member of Congress was “sexting”? And that he continued doing this until he ended up in federal prison? There are many men in the world — including men with money and positions of high social status — who are more or less helplessly out of control, seeking sexual thrills online, and these men represent the demand side of a market equation that, as any economist could explain, has summoned into existence an industry on the supply side of that equation.

A fool and his money are soon parted, and there are plenty of fools willing to make online payments to any reasonably attractive woman who will give them even a minimal amount of attention in return.

It should not be necessary to say that I condemn the male attitudes and behaviors that create this kind of sexual marketplace, but it’s important to understand how postmodern feminism contributes to this problem. What nowadays passes for feminism is an ideology that exempts women from responsibility by making “patriarchy” — “toxic masculinity,” “rape culture,” “objectification,” etc. — the all-purpose scapegoat for whatever unpleasantness a woman might experience in her life.

This ethos of irresponsibility has the effect of telling young women that they should never face consequences if they make foolish choices and engage in obviously harmful behaviors. Contemporary feminist rhetoric specifically excuses excuses (indeed, encourages) promiscuity by claiming that it is “slut-shaming” to condemn such behavior.

This is how you end up with someone like self-declared herpes-infected “slut” Ella Dawson being praised by Hillary Clinton.

 

 

In what kind of upside-down world is this considered praiseworthy? And how frightening is it that Hillary Clinton nearly became president? This is very relevant to what Anthony Johnson describes in his “Married to Medusa” video — the unscrupulous predator, the cunning psychopath, the sharks who swim so deep that it is nearly impossible to detect them. Feminism encourages, enables and justifies such behavior in women.

More than 350,000 people have viewed that video and, as I told Anthony on the phone, what he’s warning young men about reflects a lot of the advice I tell my own sons. Young men are living in a world of dangers that simply didn’t exist when I was a bachelor in the 1970s and ’80s. One reason things have gone so haywire for the Millennial generation is that for the most part their parents have no idea how, for example, social media and other such technologies have impacted the dating scene. My brothers and I have talked about this. Like, when we were “out there” back in the day, there were no cellphones, no Facebook, nothing like that, so if you got mixed up with a crazy woman, it was relatively easy to “ghost” her, as the kids say nowadays. Yeah, bad breakups happened, but there wasn’t a digital archive to wreck your reputation, and your crazy ex-girlfriend couldn’t stalk you on social media. Because of feminism’s hegemonic influence in our culture, we hear much more about the toxic behaviors of men in this context (e.g., “revenge porn”), but it is dangerous to pretend that all women are innocent angels.

Well, I could go on about this subject forever, but the point is, it’s going to be $300 for three nights in a hotel for this conference, to say nothing of my transportation expenses, which is why I must remind you again that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.22.19

Posted on | April 22, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Last linkagery from Wombat’s Temporary Southern Command TLAC*, for this year anyway…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Anti-Gunners Think Guns Really Do Have Magical Properties
EBL: Why The Disparity Of Coverage Between The Sri Lanka & New Zealand Massacres?
Twitchy: Brit Hume Reminds WaPo Who Was President While Russians Interfered With The Election
Louder With Crowder: Leftists Refer To Christians Killed In Sri Lanka As “Easter Worshippers”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Pussy Or The Pistol, also, Fraser Anning Is Not The Savior We’ve Been Looking For
American Greatness: The Party Of Bias & Bigotry
American Thinker: Democrats’ Rejection of Mueller’s Exoneration of Trump Endangers The Republic
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: U.S. Sanctions On Cuba Punish Castro’s Dictatorship For Exporting Its Police State To Venezuela
BattleSwarm: Norman Podhoretz Not Pleased With His Former Associates, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Hope In Ukraine
Da Tech Guy: Invincible Ignorance From The NYT…Again, also, Tales From The Illinois Exodus, Part Three
Don Surber: We Cannot Quit Because They Won’t Quit
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Snark Plug
First Street Journal: Mitt Romney Clutches His Pearls
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Attacks Soldiers Involved In Black Hawk Down Incident, also, St. Cloud MN Orders Cease & Desist On Muslims’ Lookalike Police Car
Hogewash: A Prediction From Earth Day 1970, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Dennis Miller – Sam Kinison Couldn’t Survive Our PC Age
Joe For America: Obama, Clinton Blasted For Refusing To Say “Christians” After Sri Lanka Terrorist Attack
JustOneMinute: As I Trudge Through The Mueller Report, also, Send Better Watchdogs
Legal Insurrection: Trump Sues To Protect Personal Financial Records From House Democrat Subpoenas, also, Catholic Churches Being Vandalized Across America
The PanAm Post: Colombia’s Proposal To Ban Private Gold Sales Faces Opposition, also, Trump 2020’s Anti-Socialism Message Will Play Well In Florida
Power Line: Learning From Legutko At Middlebury, also, Microsoft Confuses The Workplace With A Wokeplace
Shot In The Dark: I, Problem Solver
STUMP: Dickens Update – Videos You May Have Missed
The Political Hat: First They Came For The Drinking Straws
This Ain’t Hell: FBI Arrests Leader Of Militia That Detained Illegals In NM, also, U.S. Soldiers Uncovered In Atomwaffen Division Nazi Satanic Death Cult Terror Group
Victory Girls: Kate Smith And “God Bless America”  – Political Correctness Out Of Control
Volokh Conspiracy: What Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrong About Daenerys Targaryen
Weasel Zippers: Video Montage – Which Side Is Inciting Violence? also, CNN Ratings Continue To Plummet, Lowest Primetime Weekly Ratings Of The Year
Megan McArdle: Both Republicans & Democrats Could Use Some Serious Post-Mueller Introspection
Mark Steyn: The Gay Blade, also, Edelweiss Uber Alles

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