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‘Birth Strike’ Is a Stupid Idea (And We Should Encourage Liberals to Embrace It)

Posted on | April 10, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Birth Strike’ Is a Stupid Idea (And We Should Encourage Liberals to Embrace It)

The world needs more people like you — yes, you, personally.

Why do I say that with such confidence? Because:

  1. You are a highly literate person;
    and
  2. You are reading this blog.

Stupid people don’t spend their leisure hours reading about politics, culture and current events, and since you’re reading this particular blog, you’re probably someone who shares my worldview. You are therefore obviously a superior sort of person, and the world would be a better place if there were more people like you. So please, reproduce — procreate, breed, spawn, be fruitful and multiply — in sufficient numbers to ensure that the world is supplied with more of your excellent DNA. Of course, you may be past your reproductive prime, in which case you should encourage your children (or nieces and nephews) to do their part on behalf of supplying the world with more hereditary excellence.

Liberals, on the other hand, are inferior — degenerate, perverse, misguided and ungodly — and such people should be discouraged from reproducing. Fortunately, most liberals are either ugly or homosexual (or both), and are therefore steadily marching toward extinction. However, it’s possible to accelerate this process, and Katharine Schwab is helping.

 

Ms. Schwab is a 2015 Stanford graduate who writes for Fast Company, and produced a video endorsing the idea that because of “climate change,” people should stop having babies — the so-called “birth strike” movement, founded by a British feminist named Blythe Pepino.

 

Strangely enough, while endorsing this genocidal neo-Malthusian idea, Ms. Schwab makes a startling confession:

“The idea that having fewer kids can help the planet is starting to catch on. . . . It’s the single biggest thing you can do as an individual to lessen your impact on the climate, but will people do it? As a young woman who personally wants to have a family in the future, it’s a really tough decision.”

What? A Stanford-educated feminist wants a family? Doesn’t she know the family is a structure of heteropatriarchal oppression?

On the other hand, Ms. Schwab is probably not heterosexual — she is a Stanford-educated feminist, right? — so when she says she “wants to have a family in the future,” she probably means some kind of IVF arrangement with her lesbian partner, but that’s an expensive resource-intensive process, what with liquid nitrogen to freeze the donor sperm, etc., and that can’t be very good for the environment.

No, Ms. Schwab, if you really believe all that climate-change stuff, you shouldn’t have children, and it’s imperative that you spread this message to all your liberal friends. Basically, if you didn’t vote for Trump, don’t have children. Meanwhile, the Trump supporters will keep making babies the old-fashioned heteropatriarchal way, and in another 50 or 60 years, our great-great-grandchildren will ask: “Grandma, what’s a ‘liberal’?”

Our granddaughters will answer: “Well, a long time ago, when Donald Trump was president, ‘liberals’ were people who didn’t vote for him. But then the liberals decided to stop having babies, so they went extinct.”

“Why did they stop having babies?”

“Because of a video a liberal woman made in 2019.”

The “birth strike” is an excellent plan, insofar as it will encourage environmentalists, feminists and other liberal wackos to eliminate themselves from the gene pool, thus providing a decisive Darwinian advantage to conservatives. By the time it’s decisively proven that “climate change” was just another liberal fraud, like the Jussie Smollett hoax, all the environmentalists will be too old to have children, and thus the Trump voters will inherit the earth. It’s brilliant.



 

Category: Global Warming

“Conservatives and Fundamentalists are Noticing Progressive Christians.”

Posted on | April 10, 2019 | Comments Off on “Conservatives and Fundamentalists are Noticing Progressive Christians.”

by Smitty

Today in folly: Buttigieg is a symbol for a rising Christian left
The mail on this was answered early:

Mat 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

It’s one thing to make mistakes. It’s quite another to set oneself up as a leader, and then proceed to teach others falsely.
Lord, have mercy on Mayor Pete. Give him an epiphany where he can see what he needs to see, and do that which is proper.

Category: Uncategorized

Google Is Lying, Again

Posted on | April 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Gosh, it’s almost as if they’re being evil, or something:

The American Spectator is on a list of sites “blacklisted” in Google search results, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller.
Google created an “XPA news blacklist” to suppress “fake news, hate speech [and] conspiracy theories” in its search results, the Daily Caller’s J. Arthur Bloom reported in an exclusive Tuesday. This practice, approved by Google’s Trust & Safety team, contradicts congressional testimony by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who denied that the company manipulates its search results. Bloom quotes the internal Google document as saying the blacklist would be used to “filter problematic sites that violate the good neighbor and misrepresentation policies.” According to the document:

The beginning of the workflow starts when a website is placed on a watchlist which is used for monitoring of sites to determine if they violate the Good Neighbor Policy. This watchlist is maintained and stored by Ares with access restricted to policy & enforcement specialists working on the Good Neighbor Policy. … The investigation of the watchlist is done in the tool Athena, the Ares manual review tool, and intakes signals from Search, Webspan, and Ares in order to complete reviews. … Once a domain is determined to be violating the misrepresentation policy or the Good Neighbor Policy, such patterns are then added to deceptive_news_blacklist_domains.txt by the Trust & Safety team.

Sites targeted by the Google blacklist include not only The American Spectator, but also Jim Hoft’s popular Gateway Pundit site and the Conservative Tribune. Google made no explanation of how it was determined that these sites were determined to be “deceptive” or engaged in “misrepresentation,” as compared to, say, CNN, which has spent the past two years promoting a false “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory.

Just for the record, The American Spectator is more than 50 years old, and it has never promoted “fake news,” hate, or conspiracy theories.



 

Category: American Spectator

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Boost Netanyahu to Fifth Term as Israeli Prime Minister

Posted on | April 10, 2019 | Comments Off on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Boost Netanyahu to Fifth Term as Israeli Prime Minister

 

Because Jews in America are mostly secular and mostly Democrat (71% voted for Hillary), it might surprise many Americans to know that most Jews in Israel are deeply religious and right-wing:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinched a clear victory early Wednesday morning in Israel’s general elections.
With some 97 percent of votes in Tuesday’s contest counted, his Likud party was tied with Blue and White, but his right-wing/ultra-Orthodox bloc held a decisive lead and Netanyahu was thus safely en route to forming a majority governing coalition.
With more than four million votes counted as of 9 a.m., Likud had snagged 26.27% of the vote, or 35 seats in the 120-seat legislature — the party’s best result since the 2003 election (when it won 38 seats under Ariel Sharon), and its best under Netanyahu.
Likud’s main rival in the election, the Blue and White party led by Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, won 25.94% of the vote, which would also give it 35 seats, but had insufficient support from other parties to prevent Netanyahu staying in power for what will be a fifth term.
In actual numbers, only some 14,000 votes separated the two biggest parties.
No other party appeared to break double digits in number of seats.
With his Likud at 35, and five right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties managing to get some 30 seats together, Netanyahu could confidently work to form a government similar to his current right-wing coalition, with a solid 65 seats.
On the other side of the fence, four left-wing and Arab parties combined for just 20 seats, putting them en route to the opposition along with Blue and White.
Coming in at a surprising third and fourth places behind Likud and Blue and White were the ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism, with 6.10% (8 seats) and 5.90% (8 seats) respectively.

You know what would also surprise many Americans? While Democrats and the media routinely smear the 62.9 million Trump voters as anti-Semitic “white nationalists,” President Trump is actually more popular in Israel than he is in the United States. Israelis value our support and see Trump’s “Make America Great Again” message as a repudiation of the weakness of Obama’s policy. When America is weak, Israel is vulnerable.

Guess what? Israel’s enemies know this. That’s why I don’t care how often the Left in America smears conservatives as anti-Semites. If we make America stronger, Israel is safer. That’s the bottom line, in terms of realpolitik, so vote Republican, and to hell with the haters.

Oh, by the way, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Hamas) described the 9/11 attacks as “some people did something.” Another reason to vote Republican.



 

Category: Israel

Max Boot Is an Idiot

Posted on | April 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Tucker Carlson opened his show Tuesday night by taking aim at one of the most overrated neocon gasbags in Washington:

“Here’s a helpful hint about how your government works. We’re full of helpful hints on this show. If you ever see consensus forming in Washington, run — something awful is about to happen. For decades you’ll remember, there was total consensus that our trade deals could not be better. They helped everyone. Meanwhile, as they were telling you that, America’s manufacturing sector died and huge parts of the middle class died along with it. There was bipartisan consense on the Iraq War and the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction we would supposedly find there, but didn’t. A few years later, there was consensus on banking regulations; that was just before the financial crisis hit. There was still more consensus on the creation of an all-seeing surveillance state that was supposed to somehow help you, but that is now scanning your face and reading your texts. There wasn’t much debate in Washington about any of those policies. There should have been.
“So it is with some skepticism that we note a new consensus forming here, this one about our southern border. ‘It may look bad down there,’ they’re telling us, “but calm down! It’s fine! Everything’s just fine!’ That’s the new word from Max Boot. Boot is a columnist for Jeff Bezos’s newspaper, but more than that, Boot is the living repository of every warmed-over cliché, every silly half-truth, every stale scrap of stupid conventional wisdom the buffoons who run this place have thought up recently. So here’s the latest — this is from Boot’s appearance on CNN last night.

MAX BOOT ON CNN: “I’m ready to declare a national emergency. The national emergency is not on the southern border, it’s in Washington, D.C., with a president who is lawless and out of control.”

“Who is this guy? Well, Max Boot calls himself a foreign policy expert. That’s a title that doesn’t actually mean anything, but in practice, it allows Boot to agitate for more counter-productive foreign wars. In the years since 9/11, Max Boot has demanded military intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran and North Korea, and likely many other places. He’s called for the U.S. to topple the Saudi monarchy, and of course, like so many neocons, Boot fell headlong into the Russia conspiracy for more than two excruciating years. It’s hard to think of anyone in this country more discredited than Max Boot. Going to him for foreign policy advice is like giving Jeffrey Dahmer a cooking show — he’d be the last person you’d ask. So of course, Max Boot now has gigs at CNN, the Washington Post and the Council on Foreign Relations, because that’s how Washington really works. The key is, never apologize, never admit fault, no matter what. Watch Max Boot explain that the idea of toppling the Libyan government — which was deranged — was in fact brilliant. We just didn’t do it right.”

MAX BOOT, 2014: “We did a great job of overthrowing Gadhafi, but did nothing to secure the country afterwards, and there was, I might add, a similar lack of planning for our pull-out in the case of Iraq, where there was very little sense of what would happen after U.S. troops left in 2010. We can’t think about these as being kind of quick in-and-out engagements — we send some troops, kill some people and then come back home to a victory parade. Sadly, it doesn’t work that way.”

“Boot didn’t explain how exactly it does work. He didn’t need to explain. Everyone knows his assumption is the same as permanent Washington’s core assumption — military occupation is always the right answer, no matter what the question is. Sending somebody else’s kids to a foreign country is always and everywhere the right thing to do. When Donald Trump pledged to pull Americans out of Syria, Max Boot went crazy, just on principle, because no troops can ever leave, ever.”

MAX BOOT, DECEMBER 2018: “There is nobody who knows anything about the situation in Syria who recommends doing this. … This is a Christmas gift to America’s enemies. This will help ISIS, this will help Russia, this will help Iran, this will help Bashar Assad and this will hurt Israel and our Kurdish allies.”

“What did Max Boot not say? What do you notice about that? Well, he never explained how keeping Americans in Syria would help the United States. Why didn’t he mention it? Because he doesn’t care. Nobody in Washington cares, and maybe that’s why you never hear anyone ask questions about our current military commitments.”

You can watch the whole thing on video:

 

By the way, do you realize how small CNN’s audience is? Monday night, Tucker Carlson’s audience on Fox News was 2.9 million, while the 8 p.m. hour on CNN got barely 800,000 viewers. The Fox audience is more than three times larger than CNN, and in fact, CNN’s audience is also smaller than Nickelodeon, HGTV and the Discovery ID true-crime channel. Fox News is Number One in primetime cable ratings; CNN is 15th.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Several of the commenters have complained that the headline is too obvious, but it’s important to have it stated plainly for the sake of Google searches and future historians who may wonder, “What the f–k went wrong with the Republican Party during the first decade of the 21st century?” The answer: Max Boot, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, quite generally.



 

Category: CNN, Fox News

Jeffrey Toobin Is Scum

Posted on | April 9, 2019 | Comments Off on Jeffrey Toobin Is Scum

 

In the sidebar, Ace of Spades reminds us that CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is an immoral scumbag who cheated on his wife with the 20-something daughter of his colleague Jeff Greenfield. When his young paramour got pregnant, Toobin pressured her to get an abortion, but she had the baby and a DNA test proved Toobin was the father.

This was far from the only example of Toobin’s dishonesty and utter lack of moral character — he pilfered files from the independent counsel’s office back in the 1980s — but of course, no good person would work for CNN, and perhaps Toobin is not worse than, say, Don Lemon. At any rate, Toobin scraped the bottom again Monday:

Jeffrey Toobin, CNN chief legal analyst, said outgoing DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will forever be known as “the woman who put children in cages” and she will “get what she deserves.”

JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST: You know what? I don’t know. And I think the problem is that, you know, the laws allow people to seek asylum in the United States across the border; and they’re seeking it in great numbers.
But Kirstjen Nielsen, I think, is a great example of what happens when you go to work for Donald Trump. He is the great reputation killer. I mean, here’s this woman who, you know, was a reasonably admired bureaucrat. And for the rest of her life — for the rest of her life — people will look at her and think, “Oh, that’s the woman who put children in cages. That’s the woman who broke up families across the border.”
And you know what? They’ll be right. Because she implemented that policy. Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, sort of created it, but she implemented it. And, you know, she’s going to get what she deserves.

 

This is arguably libelous. The claim that children were put in “cages” originated with left-wingers recycling photos from 2014 — during the Obama administration — and the influx of Central American “refugees” trying to exploit a loophole in U.S. immigration law created an unprecedented crisis at the border, for which Nielsen was not to blame.

Leaving aside this dishonest smear by the scummy Toobin, the real news in this story is that Nielsen, who is plenty tough, was not tough enough to keep Trump happy, so that her resignation probably signals a crackdown on the border so severe that it will make the past year’s “children in cages” episode seem like a picnic by comparison.



 

Category: CNN, Immigration

In The Mailbox: 04.09.19

Posted on | April 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: OMG!!! Radiation!!!
EBL: Prosperity & Growth
Twitchy: Guardians Of Truth Fall All Over Themselves To Put Out Obama’s Family Separation Fire
Louder With Crowder: Theresa May’s Fascist Message To Social Media Companies Is Chilling

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Same People Behind Iraq War Lies Pushed Russian Collusion
American Thinker: The Destruction of Citizen Cain
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Taxation Is Theft News
Babalu Blog: Press Ignored Decades Of Cuban Human Rights Protests, Fawns Over Regime-Approved “Animal Rights” Protest, also,  Cuban Baseball Player Slave Labor Deal Nixed By Trump
BattleSwarm: MS-13 Threatens Middle School, also, The Inevitability Of Autonomous Drone Swarms In Combat
CDR Salamander: A Quarter-Century Waiting For The Salamander Strategic Reset
Da Tech Guy: We Have Our Own Heroes’ Journey To Fulfill, also, Lenten Reflections – Hidden Treasures
Don Surber: NY Wants Job Losses, also, Secret Service Glad Alles Is Gone
Dustbury: Home Of The Back Door Man
First Street Journal: Pete Buttigieg Introduces Religion To The 2020 Campaign
The Geller Report: Prison Sentence Upheld For UK Mom Who Complained Mosque’s Call To Prayer Was Too Loud, also, Third Nigerian Church Leader Kidnapped By Muslims In Two Weeks
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Joltin’ Joe
Joe For America: Chelsea Handler Whines Trump’s Victory In 2016 Drove Her To Drug Use
Legal Insurrection: AG Barr Says Mueller Declined To Review Summary, Redacted Version Will Come Out In A Week, also, LIVE – Israeli Election Results 2019
The PanAm Post: Now That I’m A “Russian Troll”, also, Bernie Sanders’ Marxist Rallying Cries
Power Line: Trump Rising, also, At The Noor Trial (5)
Shot In The Dark: Hate To Break You The News, Shells…
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – BLAH BLAH BLAH
The Political Hat: In The UK, Blindness Is Free
This Ain’t Hell: New Lighter Ammo Being Tested, also, The Last Of Doolittle’s Raiders
Victory Girls: Dear Occasional Cortex, The Definition Of Code Switching Is Pandering
Volokh Conspiracy: Anti-Libel Injunctions And The Criminal Libel Connection
Weasel Zippers: 2020 Democrats Defend MS-13 Against Tough Rhetoric To Attack Trump, also, Ilhan Omar Has Unique Description Of 9/11 – “Some People Did Something”
Mark Steyn: Heather Has Two Imams, also, Live Around The Planet

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Category: Linkagery

Democrat Congressman Calls Chicago Police ‘The Sworn Enemy of Black People’

Posted on | April 9, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrat Congressman Calls Chicago Police ‘The Sworn Enemy of Black People’

 

Democrats hate cops:

Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush blasted the Chicago police union over the weekend as “the sworn enemy of black people,” pushing back at the controversy surrounding prosecutor Kim Foxx and her office’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case.
During a press conference on Saturday, Rush, D-Ill., tore into Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police after members of the union participated in protests demanding Cook County State’s Attorney Foxx resign from her post.
“The FOP is the sworn enemy of black people, the sworn enemy of black people,” Rush said Saturday. “The FOP has always taken the position that black people can be shot down in the street by members of the Chicago Police Department, and suffer no consequences.”
He added: “Let’s be clear: Kim Foxx, her battle, is with the FOP and all of their cohorts.”
Rush’s comments came after hundreds of protesters, including members of the police union, gathered outside Foxx’s office last week. . . .
The union, though, told The Tribune Saturday that Rush’s comments were “ignorant, offensive, malicious and false.”
“These outrageous and irresponsible comments have demeaned each and every Chicago Police Officer, regardless of their race,” the union reportedly said.
Foxx has come under fire over her office’s decision to dismiss charges against Smollett following accusations he faked a hate crime.

So far this year, 100 people have been murdered in Chicago, and three-quarters of the victims were black. According to CDC data, from 2013 to 2017, Cook County, Illinois — which includes Chicago — had more homicides than 44 entire states. In fact, Cook County, with a population of 5.2 million, had nearly as many homicides (3,394) during that period as the entire state of Ohio, which has more than twice the population (11.7 million) and had 3,444 homicides. Who is killing all these people in Chicago? Is it racist cops? Is it deranged Trump supporters?

CNN headline: “Chicago’s first warm weekend of 2019 ends with 24 shootings and 5 murders.” Racism! Blame cops!



 

Category: Chicago, Crime
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