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In The Mailbox: 04.08.19

Posted on | April 9, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.08.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Kristjen Nielsen Out At Homeland Security
Twitchy: Congrats To Matt Yglesias, Who Just Admitted How Progressives Lie About Trump’s Tax Cuts
Louder With Crowder: Britain’s NHS Forces Elderly To Go Blind To Save Money, also, Another Child Sex Offender Discovered At Houston Library’s “Drag Queen Story Time”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Who Will You Choose To Marry? also, You People Are Morons
American Greatness: Democrats Will Regret Not Walking Away When They Could
American Thinker: Trump Is Popping In the Polls
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Mexico Deports Over 100 Refugees Back To Cuba While Allowing Central American Migrants To Remain, also, The Polar Bears – Forgotten American Soldiers Who Died Fighting Soviet Communism
BattleSwarm: Video Gaming As A Career, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, What About The Naval Reserve?
Da Tech Guy: Unplanned Features Abby Johnson As Saul, also, Black Americans, Freedom, & Gratitude
Don Surber: Trump Dinner Draws Only Ten Protesters, also, Oh, Now Democrats Need Us
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Stick Several Forks In It
First Street Journal: The Libertarian Party Should Be Strong, But It’s Run By Idiots, also, Now The NYT Is Pushing For Involvement In Libya
The Geller Report: Pope Francis Praises Multiculturalism, also, Maryland Jihadi Planned Mass Murder By Ramming Crowds At National Harbor With Truck
Hogewash: Collusion? What Collusion? also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Liberal Film Critics Lose It Over The Best Of Enemies, also, Gary Sinise Makes It An Even 100 USO Tours
Joe For America: Is Obama Running A Shadow Government? also, President Calls For “Treasonous” Coup Plotters To Face Justice
JustOneMinute: Darn, They Held That Tiger
Legal Insurrection: Chicago Prosecutor Kim Foxx Blames Criticism Of Smollett Decision On Racism, also, Sad! Fauxcahontas Polling In Third – In Massachusetts
The PanAm Post: State Dept Spox Berates PanAm Post, also, Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Is As Popular As He Is Disastrous
Power Line: Voters Say On Illegal Immigration, The Democrats Are Nuts, also, At The Noor Trial (2)
Shot In The Dark: CRISIS AVERTED!
The Political Hat: The Healthcare Crisis Goes Silly
This Ain’t Hell: India Now Has ASAT Missiles, also, Missing In America Project Buries 42 “Unclaimed” Veterans In Florida & Texas
Victory Girls: Obama Could Save Biden – So Where Is He? also, Censorship Wars Using Jargon
Volokh Conspiracy: The Death of Section 230
Weasel Zippers: Atheism Becomes Largest “Religion” In America, also,  Dem Rep Schiff Spreads Debunked Lie About Trump, Charlottesville Nazis
Mark Steyn: The Matrix, also, Some Enchanted Evening

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Category: Linkagery

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Insanity Inspired by Racist Clown Meme

Posted on | April 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

OK, this will require a bit of set-up: “Honkler the Clown” is an account that might legitimately be called “hate,” although supporters would probably call it “red-pilled,” i.e., cutting through propaganda to expose reality. But we don’t have to do a deep-dive into the ideological content of “Honkler the Clown” right now; the point is, the account uses clown imagery to advance an “alt-right” message, and this enraged a YouTuber named Bri Washington, a/k/a “Lil Lunchbox,” an obese mixed-race young woman who identifies as a clown:

“I’m ready to go to war. I’m ready to go to motherf–ing war.
You’re not going to take a symbol of happiness and acceptance
and multiculturalism and turn it into something racist
and anti-Semitic and homophobic and transphobic.
You’re not going to do that on my watch.”

 

“Nurse! Thorazine, stat!”

Why isn’t this person locked up in a padded cell? What kind of person goes to war — “motherf–ing war”! — over such things? Even if you dismiss this as just “Internet drama,” some attention-seeking woman desperate for relevance and video subscribers, isn’t that pathological?

What does it say about this woman that she would spend her time ranting on YouTube in clown makeup for an audience of barely 600 subscribers?

Beyond that craziness, however, is the insanity of how “progressives” have reacted to the “Honkler the Clown” account. Jared Holt, the guy credited with getting Alex Jones de-platformed, wrote this:

Online personalities in far-right and white nationalist online circles are attempting to attribute racism and anti-Semitism to an image of cartoon character Pepe the Frog depicted poorly drawn and as a clown . . .
The clown render of Pepe the Frog, which KnowYourMeme researchers have identified as being known as “Honk Honk” or “Honkler,” began spreading across the internet last year. In recent months, the meme has gained a foothold in the far-right and is bleeding into racist propaganda. . . .
On February 11, users on 4chan’s “politically incorrect” forum board launched “operation honk,” a campaign with the mission of spreading the character across the internet and boosting its popularity, and then returning the character back to 4chan where it could be associated with racism.

Dude, don’t you see that you’re being trolled?

The obvious purpose of the “Honkler” meme was to get “hate”-watchers like Jared Holt to invest their credibility in claiming that clowns are a symbol of racism — an obvious absurdity — and thereby destroy their own credibility. If everything is racist, nothing is racist, see?

By trolling the “hate”-watchers into beclowning themselves this way, the trolls seek to obscure the difference between actually dangerous beliefs and the ordinary attitudes of ordinary people. If you were an anti-Semite trying to mainstream such views, what could be more perfect than getting your enemies to make ridiculous claims: “CLOWNS ARE RACIST!”

 

It’s like the Jussie Smollett hoax, OK? It’s a self-inflicted wound. If you want the threat of racism to be taken seriously, you don’t run around shouting “RACISM!” at everything and everybody, and you don’t foster a paranoid climate of fear that causes people to freak out over things that are trivial or marginal. Furthermore, if you were serious about fighting “hate,” you wouldn’t engage in the kind of partisan smear-mongering operation that is constantly trying to point the finger at Republicans as purveyors of “hate.” That was how the SPLC destroyed its credibility, expanding its definition of “hate groups” in order to exaggerate the sense of menace by including mainstream conservative groups for the obvious purpose of enabling guilt-by-association smears against Republicans.

Running around applying the “far-right white nationalist” label so promiscuously as to smear all 62.9 million Trump voters? Not smart.

Tim Pool analyzes the “Honkler the Clown” meme:

 

People need to calm down. Stop panicking over Internet drama. That thing on the Internet you’re “ready to go to motherf–ing war” about? Guarantee you that 99.9% of people have no idea it exists.



 

Category: Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: Satellite Girl

Posted on | April 8, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m starting to really hate WordPress. I had this post completely finished, and then it booted me out and destroyed the entire post in the process. Anyway, go watch Satellite Girl and Milk Cow, and enjoy this pic of ROK actress Jung Yu-mi, who voices Satellite Girl.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #580, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Seattle’s Downhill Slide Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Melanie Hamrick, Ashley Bratcher, Bingbing Fan, National Tweed Day, Annie Starke, Spring Is Here, and Vintage Hollywood.

A View From The Beach:  Sorry I Missed It!, A Friend Will Help You Move . . ., Go Get Crabs!, Belexit?, Oh No! Not Avocados!, Our Bags are Packed, We’re Ready to Go, I Belize, A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican. . ., Still Fishin?, Still Fishin’,  Still Fishin’, Still Fishin’, Gone Fishin!, Proving Her Point . . ., and You Don’t Have to Be a Genius to Wear Clothes

Proof Positive: Mindy Robinson and Polly Walters

Dustbury: Bijou Phillips and Rena Takeda.

Thanks for all the luscious linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

More Stupid Criminal News

Posted on | April 7, 2019 | Comments Off on More Stupid Criminal News

 

The stupidity is piling up high in Oklahoma, folks:

A 69-year-old Alva man, and co-owner of a number of vape shops and a medical marijuana business in the state, appeared in Oklahoma City federal court Thursday on a charge of allegedly trying to hire someone to kill a former employee and one-time lover, and her new boyfriend, according to a criminal complaint.
Vernon Brock made an initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge Thursday on one count of using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. Brock was remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshals and due back in court April 10 for a preliminary and detention hearing.
“We don’t have any comment on the charge,” said Ky Corley, Brock’s business attorney, when reached by phone. Corley is listed as the registered agent for Brock’s medical marijuana company, Pure Country Medical Cannabis. . . .
Brock was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Woods County Sheriff’s deputies and FBI special agents during a traffic stop near Alva, after he allegedly handed off a $5,000 check to a business associate in Harper, Kansas. Brock believed the man was lining up a hit man. The business associate was working with the FBI, according to court documents. . . .
Brock is the co-owner of Big E Vapor Shops, which has 17 stores in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, including one in Stillwater, according to its website. Court filings allege Brock approached a Kansas business associate about a month ago, asking him to find someone to murder an Oklahoma City woman and her boyfriend . . . The woman is a former vape shop employee and was previously in a relationship with Brock.
The woman, according to an affidavit, has worked off and on for Brock for six years and said she had sex with him under threat of not being paid, and didn’t believe Brock wanted a relationship but wanted the ability to have sex with her whenever he wanted.

Let’s be clear: Anyone who ever tries to hire a “hit man” will find himself in a recorded conversation with an undercover cop or an informant. Everybody who has watched true-crime TV has seen these hidden-camera “sting” videos. It takes a phenomenally stupid person to believe that you’re going to be the one person who gets away with such a crime, in the same way that stupid guys who think they’re talking to a horny teenager online are always shocked when they show up for their rendezvous only to discover that the horny teenager was actually an undercover cop.

We should be grateful criminals are so stupid. Imagine how much more evil there would be in the world if criminals got away with this stuff.

Category: Crime, Oklahoma

Woman Arrested in Hate Graffiti Case

Posted on | April 7, 2019 | Comments Off on Woman Arrested in Hate Graffiti Case

 

Wednesday, under the headline “Stupid Is as Stupid Does,” I reported on this woman whose crimes were captured on video:

The Norman Police Department arrested 45-year-old Allison Johnson in connection to the recent vandalism incidents in both Norman and Oklahoma City this afternoon.
Police say she turned herself in for the crimes.
Johnson was booked into the Cleveland County Detention Center on a complaint of Terroristic Threats.
The investigation is ongoing, but for now police say they believe she was working alone.
McKinley Elementary School, the Firehouse Arts Center and the Cleveland County Democratic Headquarters were all covered in racial slurs and hate-filled messages on Wednesday morning.
The Oklahoma Democratic Party Headquarters and the Chickasaw Nation Headquarters both were vandalized with racist and threatening messages last Thursday.
According to voter registration records, in 2007 Johnson had voted twice as a registered Democrat in Edmond. Now she’s registered as a Republican in Norman.
One of Johnson’s neighbors said her daughter grew up with her, and that Johnson and her family have always been kind and generous. The news came as a total shock.
Another neighbor, Chris Tripp, also shocked. He said he couldn’t believe the person who police say vandalized his daughter’s elementary school lives just across the street.
“It’s really shocking, and really surprising to see this in Norman,” Tripp said. “You just never know who might be living near you.”

According to Heavy.com, a Facebook commenter who claims to know Johnson say she has “severe mental problems likely schizophrenia.” She apparently has no prior criminal record, and her motive for this vandalism spree — beyond craziness and stupidity — is unknown.

Category: Crime, Oklahoma, Racism

FMJRA 2.0: Let’s Dance

Posted on | April 6, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Let’s Dance

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Self-Esteem and Other Deadly Evils
Western Rifle Shooters
Be John Galt
Dirt People
Free Matt Podcast
Pushing Rubber Downhill

‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ Gets Busted by #MeToo (Hint: She’s a Bernie Supporter)
EBL

Guatemalan Immigrant Kept 33 Illegal Aliens in Her Illinois Home
EBL

Border Crisis at ‘Breaking Point’ in Texas
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Frozen Ones
EBL

Operation ‘Unplanned’ Maintenance
EBL

Democrat Ex-Sen. David Boren Accused of Being Creepy Old Gay Closet Case
EBL
Dustbury

Rule 5 Monday: Tania Mallet, RIP
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Proof Positive
EBL
Animal Magnetism

Don’t Say Nobody Tried to Warn You
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.01.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Violence Against Women Update
357 Magnum
Nebraska Energy Observer
EBL

Got It Covered Like Jimmy’s Hat
EBL

The Fake ‘Hate’ Epidemic
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.02.19
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.04.19
Proof Positive

‘Seventeen Hours by Air’
EBL

DNA Leads Police to Serial Rape Suspect
EBL

#GetWokeGoBroke Update: Gillette Now Pandering to Fat Feminist Market?
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Burned by His Own Fire: Joe Biden Promoted Campus ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria
EBL

Another Public-Relations Debacle for Houston’s ‘Drag Queen Story Time’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.05.19
Proof Positive
EBL

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Joan of Argghh! on Equality

Posted on | April 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Joan of Argghh! on Equality

by Smitty

Joan posts a fine little poem about poetry over at her blog.
It seems related to a new (to me) social media site called Minds.com, which uses crypto to pay people for social media posts. I guess that might be a good thing.
Does anybody know what Twitter’s “Promote Mode” thingy does?

I’m trying to figure out if failure to pay a vig is why tweets seem to go nowhere.
The idea of paying for social media reach seems like paying for affection.
But if I were to treat the social media site like a escort service, Minds.com might be more exciting.

Category: Uncategorized

Are You an ‘Anti-Fat Troll’?

Posted on | April 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Are You an ‘Anti-Fat Troll’?

 

Elizabeth Di Filippo (@mselizabethr on Twitter) is a Canadian feminist who is a “lifestyle editor” for Yahoo News, and she is offended that some people consider it unhealthy to be fat:

Earlier this week, Gillette Venus’s social media accounts shared a photo of Anna O’Brien . . . frolicking in the ocean with the caption, “Go out there and slay the day.”
Almost immediately, Venus came under fire for “promoting” and “glorifying obesity,” with the brand’s multiple social media channels overflowed with anti-fat hate speech. One scroll through Instagram and Twitter and I witnessed everything from debates about diabetes and heart disease, to requests for the company to delete the post.
This latest “controversy” for Gillette follows closely on the heels of its commercial that sparked outrage for calling out toxic masculinity, with many branding the company “anti-male.” It just so happens to have occurred while I’m in the middle of building a series about the body positivity movement, and its impact of social media.
For the past month, I’ve spent countless hours researching and speaking to advocates and health experts about health, weight and weight-stigma. The process has been one of tremendous self-reflection and humility, as I realize that my own deep-seated biases and fatphobia, which I thought had been addressed and resolved, are still very much alive.
One of the things that has stood out for me the most is the disservice of the medical field to pathologize weight, and declare a “war on obesity.”
Despite what we’ve been told through sound bites on television and eye-catching headlines, weight has very little to do with a person’s overall health.

Except, of course, obesity does impact health, quite negatively, and this impact is not a result of “biases and fatphobia.” While on the one hand, a slightly pudgy person is not necessarily less healthy than a skinnier person, it is a completely different matter — indeed, it is irresponsible — to pretend that morbid obesity is harmless. It is not “anti-fat hate speech” to point out the health risks of being as obese as Ann O’Brien, who weighs over 300 pounds. One would think that a feminist like Elizabeth Di Filippo would be aware of how Andrea Dworkin suffered in her later years, and died at age 58, due to complications of decades of obesity.

Of course, matters of health are not why feminists celebrate obesity. Rather, this is part of their attack on “patriarchal beauty standards,” which is to say that feminists consider it oppression for men to prefer beauty to ugliness. By the way, I must ask, why would a news organization hire an avowed ideologue as a “lifestyle editor”? Why is it that a woman who declares herself a feminist isn’t viewed as skeptically as, say, a Muslim who pledges allegiance to Hamas? Feminists hate men at least as much as Palestinian terrorists hate Israelis, but we’re not allowed to say this, because a man will be accused of “misogyny” if he objects to being demonized as an oppressor of women. So while Yahoo News would never employ an avowed conservative as a “lifestyle editor,” Ms. Di Filippo is paid to wage an ideological crusade against men and call this propaganda “journalism.” But I digress . . .

Adam Piggott invokes Rollo Tomassi’s “feminine imperative” concept to analyze Gillette’s celebration of female obesity as an aspect of “the feminist desire to maximize female sexual selection opportunities whilst limiting male selection strategies as much as possible”:

Obese and unhealthy women being promoted in this way and openly celebrated by men feeds into this premise. On the one hand over 80% of men are ignored on dating apps as they do not fit the female selection criteria, a criteria that has not changed for millennia. . . .
Women are able to have extraordinary lists of attributes that potential male suitors must possess, but men are not allowed to have any whatsoever. Men cannot have similar selection criteria because that is deemed offensive to women.

Adam is very close to nailing the point here. Feminism is a collectivist political movement based on a zero-sum-game mentality that seeks to inflict punishment on males in the belief that anything that harms men (as a group) must necessarily benefit women (as a group). This perverse belief system manifests itself in the tendency of feminists to find “oppression” in ordinary male behaviors and attitudes that are entirely harmless. Any male expression of admiration for female beauty, for example, is punished as “harassment” or “objectification,” and why? Simply because men enjoy beauty, and anything men enjoy must be wrong, according to feminism’s zero-sum calculus. Thus, feminism becomes a campaign to eliminate every source of male joy in the world.

This is what “fat feminism” (what Ms. Di Filippo calls “the body positivity movement”) is really about. As Adam Piggott points out, feminists have no intention of lowering the standards by which men are judged; indeed, feminists judge males by a standard so impossibly harsh that all men are condemned as sexist oppressors. “Body positivity” is about protecting women from any comparable standard of male judgment. You may be sure that Ms. Di Filippo would dump her boyfriend if he became a bloated slob, but “body positivity” means he cannot complain if she gains 50 pounds. In this as in so many other things, feminism is not really about “equality,” but rather a unilateral attack against men, motivated by a zero-sum-game calculus that views an increase in male unhappiness as a positive good, regardless of whether women benefit from the harm inflicted on men. Whatever is bad for men must be good, the feminist believes, and even if an obese woman might be happier and healthier if she lost some weight, feminism would rather her stay fat, because her obesity is a defiance of “patriarchal beauty standards,” or whatever.

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and this destruction takes many different forms, including a razor company promoting a 330-pound lesbian as a role model.



 

Category: Sex Trouble
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