Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 8, 2019 | 1 Comment

Maya ‘Alec’ McKinney (left); Devon Erickson (right).

According to a source with knowledge of the investigation, one of the suspects is an 18-year-old senior who was a student at the school. . . .
Late Tuesday evening, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office identified the 18-year-old alleged shooter as Devon Erickson. . . .
At 6:30 p.m., law enforcement officers were at a home believed to be linked to Erickson, near West Highlands Ranch Parkway and West Wildcat Reserve Parkway in Highlands Ranch. Just before 10 p.m. a car spray painted with a message saying “F— society” was towed from the home.
Multiple sources close to the investigation told Denver7 late Tuesday night that the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.
The sources said that the motive of the alleged shooters went beyond bullying and involved revenge and anger towards others at the school and that at least one of the suspects was involved in legal and illegal drug use and had been in therapy.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.) The name of the transgender suspect is Maya “Alec” McKinney. What are the lessons here?

See, if you advocate locking up teenage dopeheads as juvenile delinquents, you’re racist or something. If you advocate locking up these maladjusted weirdos in psychiatric wards, you’re stigmatizing mental illness. Disapproving of sexual perversion makes you guilty of transphobia. Instead, now everyone is required to celebrate diversity and inclusion, which means keeping the drug-addled misfits in public high school and interpreting their unpopularity as “bullying,” because how dare your normal teenager not want to hang out with a couple of losers like this? And then one day, the freaks decide it would be really cool to shoot up the school more or less randomly. which then becomes an argument for (a) gun control and (b) more “anti-bullying” policies to protect deranged misfits from social disapproval.

The world has gone crazy because expressing common sense will get you banned from social media and/or fired from your job.

Category: Crime, Education, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 05.08.17

Posted on | May 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Domestic Violence Death All The Usual Suspects Will Ignore
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #614
EBL: May 8 1945 – Victory In Europe
Twitchy: Meghan McCain Wipes The Floor With Shameless Ilhan Omar Apologist Seth Meyers
Louder With Crowder: Real Heroes – Colorado Teens Tackle Shooter, Save Lives

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Things That Are Supposed To Get Girls, But Don’t Get Girls
American Greatness: Understanding Google’s Military Mindset, also, Why The Left Mocks The Bible
American Thinker: After The Boomers Are Gone, The Bloodshed Begins
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Socialist Regime Cancels LGBT Pride Parade For Fear Of Massive Protests
BattleSwarm: More Tesla Troubles
CDR Salamander: Africa In Three Charts & A Graph
Da Tech Guy: Cyber Attack, Real World Response
Don Surber: Boston Diversifies Its Corruption
Dustbury: That’s About The Size Of It
First Street Journal: Now We Know Why President Trump Won’t Release His Tax Returns
The Geller Report: Pope Rejects “Excessive Demand For Sovereignty”, also, Muslim Migrant Detained After Hungary Discovers He Beheaded 20 For ISIS
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, NGC 2903
Hollywood In Toto: Is Caddyshack II The Worst Sequel Ever Made?
Joe For America: Britain’s Version Of Medicare For All Getting Ready To Collapse
JustOneMinute: Trump’s Taxes
Legal Insurrection: Hillary Tries To maintain Relevance By Calling Trump’s Presidency “Deplorable”, also, Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Unredacted Mueller Report
The PanAm Post: Duque Administration Demands Apology From Ordonez For Remarks On Venezuelan Migration
Power Line: Bill Clinton Is A Bitter Old Man, also, Not Just Another Google Mistake
Shot In The Dark: With The Band
STUMP: Happy Teachers Appreciation Week
The Political Hat: Academia’s Child Sexuality Field Trips
Victory Girls: Kendrick Castillo – Hero In Colorado School Shooting
Weasel Zippers: Shooters In Colorado – One Transgender, One Anti-Christian, Trump-Hating, Registered Democrat, also, Comey Claims He Has No Idea What Barr Is Talking About – “The FBI Doesn’t Spy”
Mark Steyn: Now We Are Two, also, The Post-Free Speech World

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More Thoughts on the ‘Red Pill’

Posted on | May 8, 2019 | Comments Off on More Thoughts on the ‘Red Pill’

“When he saw me at the beginning of the day and when he called me on the telephone, his first words were always, ‘Hello, Baby.’ . . . He was my mentor, my teacher and the love of my life.”
— Lauren Bacall, on Humphrey Bogart

Until Monday, I never realized that “Rollo Tomassi” (the blogger at Rational Male) was a pseudonym, borrowed from a memorable line in the 1997 neo-noir classic L.A. Confidential.

Ironic. While I was covering the 21 Convention in Orlando, I found myself talking to a guy about how young men don’t have a cultural script that shows them heroic masculinity. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind was one obvious example, but after rattling off a list of several other specific examples, I said guys should be watching old film noir in general. Film noir is always about a guy who finds himself caught in a circumstance of moral ambiguity. He has to do the right thing in a situation where it’s not clear what the right thing is. And there is always a dame involved. The Big Sleep, with Bogie and Bacall — that’s it, man.

It is often said that what women find attractive in men is confidence, but in truth it is competence that matters more. Unless your confidence is based in actually being able to get the job done — skill, knowledge, resourcefulness — your pose of confidence will be exposed as a bluff. Actively demonstrating competence is always better than talking a smooth game, but how does a guy do this in a dating scenario? Well, for example, you scout out in advance where you want to take her. You find that excellent little restaurant with good atmosphere, you know the menu, you know how to get there and where to park, so when you pick her up for your date, you’re not using your GPS to navigate.

“Be excellent,” I tell my sons. In a ruthlessly competitive world, being merely good won’t cut it. You have to be excellent to win. There is no substitute for direct experience, learning through trial and error, so to become excellent you cannot be too risk-averse. You have to be willing to roll the dice and take your chances. You win some, you lose some, but you’re always learning, always improving yourself.

When Lauren Bacall first met Humphrey Bogart, she was only 19 and he was 44. All the odds were against him, and Bacall’s family and friends tried to talk her out of getting involved with him:

Bacall’s mother was strongly against her daughter being married to “an elderly alcoholic,” while [director Howard] Hawks energetically warned her about Bogart’s womanizing, promising her she would end up abandoned pretty soon.

Some things are just meant to be, however, and what Bogart had going for him — besides being one of the biggest leading men in Hollywood — was real confidence based in real competence. He had years of experience with women. He was sophisticated. He had savoir-faire.

One of the things feminists want you to believe about “red pill” guys is that they’re bitter, angry, full of “misogynist resentment,” to quote Amanda Marcotte. And you might believe that, if all you know is anonymous creeps talking smack on Reddit or whatever. On the other hand, if you were in Orlando at the 21 Convention, you might have encountered an impeccably groomed gentleman named George Bruno.

Known as “The Sultan of Silver,” Mr. Bruno is the exact opposite of what feminists want you to think the manosphere is about. Angry? Bitter? Nah, this guy is a winner, a class act all the way. At the Sunday night reception in Orlando, I heard Mr. Bruno tell the story of how he’d recently been banned from a certain nightclub because whenever he went in, all the women flocked around him to such an extent that the other guys in the club were getting zero action. That’s winning, my friends.

What could explain why a gray-haired old guy attracts more hotties than guys half his age? Well, as I say, he’s impeccably groomed, and he’s also physically fit, well-dressed, and poised. These are just basic areas of life that any guy can work on improving at any age. Even if you could never hope to become as classy as George Bruno, you can get better, and this kind of focus on self-improvement is what the “red pill” community, at its best, is really about. In a recent video, Mr. Bruno says: “Men, you want to be good with women? Be good with people.” This is so true. One of the problems with losers is, they get so hung up on the fact they can’t get laid that they don’t even notice they don’t have friends, either. The same personality traits that make a guy a failure in romantic relationships will also be reflected in his other relationships, or lack thereof. As a natural extrovert, I see this so often in losers of the introverted type (e.g., Elliot Rodger), who are trapped inside their inability to break the ice and make pleasant small talk with women, but in such cases, you almost always find that the loser also has few other social connections. And, like Elliot Rodger, these people often have an interior monologue of superiority, where they rationalize their failure by blaming others for failing to recognize or appreciate their superior qualities.

While it’s easy for me to spot the problems of the introverted “Nice Guy,” it would be foolish for me to deny that extroverts can be losers, too. This brings me back to Rollo Tomassi and something he wrote in his third book: “Never self-deprecate.” Whoa! My entire personality is wrong? Having been the class clown from childhood, I’ve used self-deprecating humor so long I’d hardly know how to live without it. Rollo’s red-pill approach is all about using rational objectivity as a mode of pragmatic analysis and, from my perspective, self-deprecating humor is about acknowledging the obvious fact of my own absurdity. I would seem not only pompous, but lacking in self-awareness, if I couldn’t laugh at my own inherent disadvantages.

I can’t help about the shape I’m in.
I can’t sing, I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin.
But don’t ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
— Fleetwood Mac, “Oh Well”

If you’re winning despite all your disadvantages, what harm can there be in laughing at yourself while you do it? But this goes to another point Rollo makes, the solipsism that so defines the emotional reference of the female mind. Rollo notes that, whenever a man tries to express a general rule about human behavior — based upon observation and logic — a woman typically objects by citing some personal anecdote she believes refutes his general rule. This is a tactic of debate I’ve called “Arguing by Exceptions,” or the “What If?” method. Attempting to disprove your assertion of some general principle, the antagonist will cite an exception or hypothetical scenario in which the general principle is invalid. Having encountered this so many times over the years, I’ve learned not to bother arguing with people who employ this tactic. Either (a) they are hopelessly biased on the issue involved, or (b) they simply dislike you, and are arguing against you out of pure personal animosity.

I’ve long since learned to recognize scenario (b). Some people just find me annoying, on a personal level, and are offended by the suggestion that I might actually know what I’m talking about. It’s like the time I was at a party and a guy I barely knew walked up to me and said, “I don’t like your face” — obviously spoiling for a fight — and my response was to say, “Yeah, I don’t like my face, either,” and I just walked away.

You want to engage me in some sort of macho game, like two animals fighting for dominance on the Serengeti plain? No thanks.

If I know I’m telling the truth — if I’m sure of my facts and logic — I’m not going to argue with someone who wants to argue for the sake of proving his personal superiority by “winning” such an argument. Because guess what? An arrogant fool is not my superior, and what he is actually seeking to do with his “argument” is to insult me.

Learn how to walk away. Remember the scene in Gone With the Wind:

Charles Hamilton: “I refuse to listen to any renegade talk!”
Rhett Butler: “Well, I’m sorry if the truth offends you.”
Charles Hamilton: “Apologies aren’t enough sir. I hear you were turned out of West Point, Mr. Rhett Butler. And that you aren’t received in any decent family in Charleston. Not even your own.”
Rhett Butler: “I apologize again for all my shortcomings. Mr. Wilkes, perhaps you won’t mind if I walk about and look over your place. I seem to be spoiling everybody’s brandy and cigars and… dreams of victory.”

And here we return to Rollo’s rule against self-deprecation. My defense of successful rule-breaking does not prove that Rollo is wrong, and I have been contemplating how to break myself of that habit, which I learned at an early age and which seemed to work so well in my own personal circumstances. Having succeeded in life far beyond anyone’s expectations, it probably is counter-productive for me to undermine my credibility by playing the clown. Even in my own case, you see, the red-pill discourse can point the way to self-improvement, and while I don’t plan to stop making jokes — God forbid! — I want to start trying to avoid the kind of outright clowning that, however fun it might be, makes me seem to be someone whose opinions can’t be taken seriously.

Something else Rollo says in his third book is that the reason so many Beta males foolishly pedestalize women — viewing them with idolatrous reverence — is because they have never seen women at their absolute worst. If you grow up in middle-class circumstances, protected from the seamy underside of life, and your knowledge of female behavior is based on viewing them at a distance, rather than in intimate relationships, it’s much easier to imagine that the cute, sweet girl is somehow exempt from Total Depravity (cf., Calvin). But after you’ve been around a while, and if you’ve strayed outside the boundaries of suburban security, you won’t be surprised to learn that the cocaine-addicted stripper (who is still cute and sweet enough) is a former high-school cheerleader from a wholesome small-town family: “A pretty face can hide an evil mind.”

“McCain is more open to the ideas of the red pill than any other mainstream journalist on the planet. The main reason for this is that McCain is an actual journalist, which is something that they haven’t taught in journalism schools for over 30 years. He reports as opposed to emotes.”
— Adam Piggott

Grateful for the compliment, I’m mystified while looking at some of the comments on these red-pill blogs. It’s obvious that many in the community have a near-paranoid hostility to any scrutiny from outside the community, even from someone like me, hate-listed by the SPLC and banned by Twitter, which ought to be sufficient certification of my defiance of any kind of blue-pill thinking.

But subcultures gonna subcult, I guess . . .

Rollo Tomassi speaking in 2018.

One reason I’m promoting Rollo, by the way, is because he has recently come under attack by some envious fools on Reddit. Whatever else may have motivated this, the attack proves something I’ve known for a long time: Some people just can’t stand to see a winner win. Success always inspires opposition from people who, rather than praising the winner as an example to emulate, instead view his success as somehow unfair — he cheated, he “sold out,” whatever — because it would be too painful to their own ego to admit that he earned what he’s got.

This is why it’s important to defend anyone in such a circumstance. Ten years ago, in the memorable Little Green Footballs flame-war, I was grateful for those who rallied to my defense, recognizing the true motive behind Charles Johnson’s attack on me. If I hadn’t been succeeding, at the very time when Mad King Charles was destroying his own once-formidable blog through paranoid purges of commenters, I never would have become a target of his envious “Race Detective” attack. Surviving that dishonest smear proved the value of strong allies, and confirmed a lot of what I already understood about the kind of circular firing-squad scenario that so often happens when someone’s success makes them an object of envy, so that they are attacked by supposed “friends” who believe they can obtain some benefit from the target’s destruction.

Hell to the no — not on my watch, buddy. Y’all go follow Rollo Tomassi on Twitter, and please check out his books. Many fathers have bought The Rational Male as a gift for their sons. Even if Rollo has a habit of saying things that offend those who care more for “dreams of victory” than for the brutal truth, he does not deserve to be smeared by his inferiors, which is what his Reddit critics so evidently are.

Keep in mind that I say this as a Christian “tradcon” — a type that Rollo quite directly criticizes. His observations of human behavior, coming from a secular perspective, are valuable enough that I can overlook his disparagement of my own religious perspective. There is so much that is true and useful in his books (and on his blog) that sincere Christians ought to examine Rollo’s criticisms and candidly ask: Is he telling us something important we need to know? In a culture where sexual degeneracy is rapidly becoming the norm, surely the Bible-believer must listen prudently to someone who sees this problem as rooted in an effeminate tendency that has, unfortunately, manifested itself even in Christian churches that claim to serve the King of Kings.

Far be it from me to lead anyone into temptation by introducing them to the “Game” mentality, but red-pill guys like Rollo are telling truths about human nature we cannot afford to ignore. Selah.

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In The Mailbox: 05.07.19

Posted on | May 7, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
The Camp of The Saints: To All My Friends On Shore
EBL: The World Ignores Chicom Muslim Reeducation Camps
Twitchy: NYT Obtains Trump’s Tax Return Figures
Louder With Crowder: Think Progress Is Sad Game Of Thrones May Not Be About Climate Change At All

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Real Cause Of The Australian Highway Death Toll, also, Lifting To Get Girls Is Not Blue Pill
American Greatness: If Deplatforming Hoaxsters Is OK, The Mainstream Media Should Be In Trouble
American Thinker: Crushed By The Leftist Juggernaut – One Lawyer’s Story
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Daffy Uncle Joe News
Babalu Blog: The Media is Either Lazy Or Complicit With Venezuela’s Murderous Dictatorship
BattleSwarm: Library Additions
CDR Salamander: Name This Administration & Conflict
Da Tech Guy: The Big Left Herds Its Enemies, also, Diversity Of Opinion Is Not Welcome Here
Don Surber: The Cost of Obama’s Spying On Trump
Dustbury: Notable And Then Some
First Street Journal: Why I Haven’t Written Anything In A Couple Of Days
The Geller Report: Seattle School District Wants Teachers To Bless Muslim Students During Ramadan, also, Sri Lanka Expels 200 Imams After Easter Jihad
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Bennu’s Topography
Hollywood In Toto: “Superhero” AOC Pummels President Trump
Joe For America: Pelosi Unhinged – “We Cannot Accept A Second Term For Donald Trump”
Legal Insurrection: Democrats Help Trump Earn Highest Approval Rating Yet, also, Fauxcahontas’ Polling Surge Over
The PanAm Post: Marc Weisbrot Is Wrong On Venezuela – Again
Power Line: A Letter To William Barr, also, Not Just Another Twitter Mistake
Shot In The Dark: The Snowiest Flake
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Yeaaahh, Illinois
The Jawa Report: Attention Twitter Luser @str__00
The Political Hat: Assault With A Deadly Whisk
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Grants Clemency To Former Soldier Convicted Of Murder, also, Tuesdays With Tank Stories
Victory Girls: Obnoxious PA Rep Brian Sims Apologizes – To Planned Parenthood
Volokh Conspiracy: The Commencement Speaker Shuffle
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Omar Supports Group The Produced Child Beheading Skit, also, CNN Contributor Insists That Pregnant Women Don’t Have a Human Being Inside
Megan McArdle: There’s A High Cost To Making Drugs More Affordable For Americans
Mark Steyn: Tea For Two, also, “Not To Suck Your Drink”

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In The Mailbox: 05.06.19

Posted on | May 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: Dear Democrats
EBL: Riley Howell, RIP
Twitchy: Here’s A Totally Believable Anecdote From Pro-Abortion Bully Brian Sims
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg Derps His Way Into The Immigration Debate

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #106 – The Australian Election Episode, also, Women Hate Your Male Feelings
American Greatness: The Fright Of James Comey, also, CNN Is More Dangerous Than Banned Voices
American Power: OMG! No Way! We’re Doomed! also, Democrat Enthusiasm Weakens Ahead of 2020
American Thinker: When Will Trump Finally Drop The Hammer On The Deep State?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Media Ignores Castro Regime Beating Dissidents To Death, also, The Cubano Who Hunted Down Che – Glenn Beck Interviews Felix Rodriguez
BattleSwarm: Point & Laugh, Children, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Taiwan & The Challenge Of Modern Strategic Defensive Posture
Da Tech Guy: Living In Pain With Military Medicine, also, The Land of Mary Todd Lincoln Spending
Don Surber: CNN Anchor – Trump Broke Me, also, Obama’s Spies Are Running Scared
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, There Can Be Only One
Fausta: Did The Minister Of Defense Back Out At The Last Minute?
First Street Journal: The Einstein Working For The Senate Democrats
The Geller Report: Jihad Reps Omar, Tlaib Attack Israel, Defend Gaza Rocket Attacks, also, Not One Democratic Presidential Candidate Defended Israel As 700 Rockets Launched From Gaza
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I’m So Old That…
Hollywood In Toto: Homophobic Slurs A-OK If Trump Is The Target
Joe For America: Rashida Tlaib’s Father Says She Lied About Her Residence In 2010 To Get Elected
JustOneMinute: Very Interesting
Legal Insurrection: Is Joe Okay? also, Did “Green Justice” Policies Cause The Massive Midwest Floods?
The PanAm Post: Venezuelan Refugees In Cartagena Hope Maduro Falls Soon, also, Maria Corina Machado – We Must Eliminate Criminality In Venezuela From The Roots
Power Line: Google Censors The Claremont Institute, also, Ilhan Weighs In On Gaza
Shot In The Dark: Up From Zero
STUMP: Universal Basic Income – This Time, Something Something!
The Political Hat: Why Are Child Drag Shows Legal?
This Ain’t Hell: Iran Exposed For Faking US Warship Surveillance Footage, also, Funeral For WW2 2LT Walter B. Stone
Victory Girls: Omar & Tlaib Choose Hamas Terrorists Over Israel
Volokh Conspiracy: Game Of Thrones And The Perils Of Personalist Political Regimes
Weasel Zippers: Canada Removes All References To Islamic Extremism From Terror Report, also, Asians Harassed In DC For Wearing MAGA Hats Were Nork Defectors
Megan McArdle: With Its Latest Bans, Facebook Is Starting To Look More Like A News Organization
Mark Steyn: Non-Stop Nearly Number Ones, also, The Uncowardly Lioness

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Rule 5 Monday: The Next Queen Of Westeros?

Posted on | May 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, there’s only a few episodes of the hit series Game of Thrones left, and speculation over how the show’s going to wrap up is rife – all the more so since the show has outpaced its source, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire since Season Six. For a while, it looked like Daenerys Targaryen might reclaim the Iron Throne that once was her grandfather’s, then her nephew Aeron (formerly known as Jon Snow) looked like he might have a shot, but now people are thinking that Sansa Stark, having undergone the harsh tutelage of Pai MeiCersei Lannister, Littlefinger, and Ramsay Bolton, may in fact take revenge for her father’s murder by taking the Iron Throne away from Cersei. That’s what we watch the show to find out. In the meantime, enjoy this pic of Sophie Turner, the actress who plays Sansa Stark, from a photoshoot for Nylon in 2016.

Sophie Turner, looking better as a redhead.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny begins the procession of pulchritude with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #608, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Wealth Tax Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL presents the Black Widow, Audrey Hepburn, Angelababy, Margaery Tyrell, May The 4th Be With You, the Kentucky Derby, and Cinco de Mayo.

A View From The Beach lands The Sisters Mulheron, Maryland Answers Virginia’s Striped Bass Ban, Rack ‘Em Up!, It’s Practically Un-American, ASMFC Promises Striped Bass Fishing Crackdown, Dang Cats!, Gone Fishing, College Professor Claims Climate Change Causes Sex With Aliens and Who Says They Don’t Teach Anything Useful at the Universities Anymore?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night babe is Dianna Agron, and at Dustbury, it’s Ruth Chatterton and Natalie Dormer.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Totalitarians Try to Suppress Dissent

Posted on | May 6, 2019 | 3 Comments

Morning shift at the National Affairs Desk.

LAKELAND, Florida
Just as I finished my breakfast here at Burger King and was checking around the ‘net, Professor Glenn Reynolds called attention to the latest outrage from the Thought Police at Google: The Claremont Institute has been banned for “wrongthink,” as Ryan Williams explains:

What Google is really doing (like Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms) is policing the terms of American political debate to advance acceptable establishment ideology. In First Amendment parlance, Google is in the viewpoint discrimination business, and its target is heresies like ours against the prevailing orthodoxies of our time.

Indeed. Google, like the mainstream media establishment, has decided that President Trump’s election proves that freedom of speech is dangerous, and so anything that might conceivably prevent the election of a Democrat in 2020 must be suppressed as some form of “hate speech.” Remember that Google “blacklisted” The American Spectator last month, and of course I got banned from Twitter in 2016, so this increasingly totalitarian regime of online Thought Police affects me directly. As I have explained (“How Disagreement Became ‘Hate’,” March 18), the tactic of labeling conservatives as proponents of “hate” is being used by the Left in an effort to shift the Overton Window leftward.

Why was it, after all, that the 21 Convention’s location in Orlando had to be treated as top secret? The blacklisters and boycotters and Antifa goon squads might unleash their usual harassment tactics while claiming this was necessary and justified to suppress “hate speech.” What was going on at this conference that might possibly be so dangerous?

After three nights and two days at the event, having talked casually with dozens of the speakers and attendees, I still can’t imagine what harm could result from guys sitting around talking about guy stuff, but of course, the Thought Police have other ideas. My report on the event:

President Donald Trump “represents the return of the patriarchy,” popular fitness entrepreneur Elliott Hulse declared at this weekend’s 21 Convention, a gathering of so-called “red pill” men dedicated to revitalizing masculine influence in society. A muscular New York native and father of four with nearly 800,000 YouTube subscribers, Hulse gave an impassioned presentation entitled “Defending Marriage in a Degenerate Culture.” Marriage and fatherhood were the focus of this, the 16th such conference organized by Anthony Johnson’s 21 Studios, billed as “The World’s Ultimate Event for Fathers.”
While most of these guys are Trump supporters, the “red pill” is not about politics in the usual sense. The phrase, borrowed from the 1999 film The Matrix, refers to seeing through socially accepted illusions to understand the brutal truths of human nature. A major popularizer of this concept as applied to male-female relationships is Rollo Tomassi, author of the 2013 book The Rational Male and its sequels. Tomassi was introduced at the 21 Convention as the “godfather” of the red-pill community. “A lot of men are finding the red pill because they’re looking for answers,” Tomassi said during an on-stage discussion with popular Tulsa radio talk-show host Pat Campbell. Often the experience of divorce or the break-up of a romantic relationship leads men to discovering the online community known as the “manosphere,” where Tomassi’s books about “intersexual dynamics” are widely read. Campbell says he’s heard from men who say their lives were quite literally saved by reading The Rational Male. “They were ready to end it all, zero out,” Campbell told me, describing men — typically in their 40s — who were devastated by divorce. . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.

Breakfast is over, and I’m heading north on I-75.