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Democrats Have Standards

Posted on | March 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrats Have Standards

 

They have two standards — one for them, and one for everybody else:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the most outspoken advocates of the #MeToo movement who has made fighting sexual misconduct a centerpiece of her presidential campaign, spent last summer pressing legislators to update Congress’ “broken” system of handling sexual harassment.
At the same time, a mid-20s female aide to Gillibrand resigned in protest over the handling of her sexual harassment complaint by Gillibrand‘s office, and criticized the senator for failing to abide by her own public standards.
In July, the female staffer alleged one of Gillibrand’s closest aides — who was a decade her senior and married — repeatedly made unwelcome advances after the senator had told him he would be promoted to a supervisory role over her. She also said the male aide regularly made crude, misogynistic remarks in the office about his female colleagues and potential female hires.
Less than three weeks after reporting the alleged harassment and subsequently claiming that the man retaliated against her for doing so, the woman told chief of staff Jess Fassler that she was resigning because of the office’s handling of the matter.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

What’s important to remember here is Sen. Gillibrand’s role in promoting the bogus “campus rape epidemic” myth circa 2014, when the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter resulted in male students being systematically deprived of due-process protections. Ask yourself what would have happened to a college boy who “repeatedly made unwelcome advances” and “regularly made crude, misogynistic remarks” under the campus regime supported by Democrats like Sen. Gillibrand.

So now this 30-something married man, who is “one of Gillibrand’s closest aides,” stands accused of behavior that might have gotten him expelled from any university and, rather than protecting the young women on her staff, Sen. Gillibrand seems to have abetted a cover-up, in which her female staffer was subjected to retaliation.

You can always trust Democrats to do the wrong thing, whenever doing the right thing might impede their shameless pursuit of power.



 

Category: Democrats, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Monday: Komi-san Has A Communication Problem

Posted on | March 11, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

High school freshman Shuko Komi has the kind of aloof classical beauty that makes her classmates (male and female) swoon, but what they don’t know is that the aloof quality stems from terrible anxiety and great difficulty in talking to people. Hitohito Tadano winds up sitting next to her in class and discovers that Komi isn’t snotty, she’s terribly shy, and all she wants to do is somehow make one hundred friends. This comes out in a “conversation” conducted after class on the blackboard, and so begins a story that appeals to a lot of us that have problems with the words getting in the way. The manga has been running in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump since May 2016, and an English translation is coming in June.

Komi gets ready for school.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny starts with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #552, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule 5 Schadenfreude Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Rio Carnival, Tartar Sauce, Ilhan Omar, Women’s Day, Crab Meat, Alexandra Stepanova, Dido, and Marie’s The Name Of His Latest Flame.

A View From The Beach brings us The Song of Siren with Eline Powell,  Thursday,  Goes the Extra Mile in Paris, Dispatches from the Peoples Republic of Maryland, My Cup Runneth Over with Russiagate, Anyone Else Ready To Boycott Capt. Marvel?, It’s Fat Tuesday!,  New Advances in Human Evolution, Russiagate Expansion, Modern Madness,  New Level of Climate Guilt and No Bones About It.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Nazneen Contractor and his Vintage Babe is Jennifer Tilly. At Dustbury, it’s Taylor Swift and Cindy Bradley.


Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

Tucker Carlson: Sorry, Not Sorry

Posted on | March 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Tucker Carlson must have read Vox Day’s SJWs Always Lie, because he is following Vox’s advice to those under SJW attack: Do not apologize!

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Sunday refused to apologize for a series of past comments about women and issues like statutory rape that surfaced in a YouTube compilation by Media Matters for America (MMFA).
During call-in segments on “Bubba the Love Sponge Show” between 2006 and 2011, the future Fox News host said that women enjoy being told to “be quiet and kind of do what you’re told” suggested that statutory rape isn’t like “pulling a child from a bus stop and sexually assaulting” them and described Martha Stewart’s daughter, radio and TV personality Alexis Stewart, as “c–ty.”
In a statement on Sunday night, Carlson said, “Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago.” (He sidestepped the fact that some of the highlighted comments occurred as recently as 2011.)
“Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour,” Carlson continued. “If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why.”

If you don’t know who “Bubba the Love Sponge” is, he’s a working-class guy from Indiana who became a successful morning radio host in Tampa, Florida, with a “shock jock” style similar to Howard Stern. He was repeatedly fined by the FCC for his crude humor. There is something absurd in Media Matters pretending that guests on Bubba’s show are expected to offer serious public-policy insights. As for the comments themselves, what did Tucker say that was actually wrong? It is true that statutory rape is not the same as a violent sexual attack, and everybody knows it; the purpose of statutory rape laws is to protect young people from those who may take advantage of their, uh, youthful enthusiasm. To go back to the 2013 Kaitlyn Hunt case, for example, no one alleged that the 18-year-old used physical force to compel her 14-year-old girlfriend into lesbian activity. It was a crime, but not a crime of violence.

Anyway, Tucker went on this “morning zoo” type of show — a radio frat-house, basically — and said the sort of things one might say on such a program, and you’ve got to be amazed at the desperation of the Left in assigning someone to wade through hours of decades-old audio archives in order to catch Tucker saying “offensive” things.

To repeat Vox Day’s advice: Do not apologize.



 

Category: Fox News, Sex Trouble

Bad Sex Advice

Posted on | March 10, 2019 | Comments Off on Bad Sex Advice

 

Carina Hsieh is a “Sex & Relationships Editor” at Cosmopolitan who has a rather interesting confession. She’s bad at sex:

“I don’t even know where to begin, but I really have zero confidence about anything I do when it comes to sex.
“You name it, it’s an insecurity point for me. Kissing: I hate tongues. Foreplay: don’t look at me. Blowjobs: I think my mouth is too dry. Actual sex: hate my body too much to get on top. Orgasming: doesn’t happen. . . .
“Every time I don’t orgasm, not only do I feel like I have to soothe my partner’s ego, I also feel like I need to quash my own expectations because, duh, I’m the one who didn’t come. . . .
“I feel like a huge failure because feigning a loud moan a few times is easier than explaining that all the antidepressants I’m on make it impossible for me to climax. . . . I can sometimes orgasm through oral sex, but it is so rare that when it happens, I find myself questioning if it ever really happened in the first place. Suffice to say, all the sex I’ve ever had is performative and reverse-engineered to fulfill some horny fantasy of mine that I’m not even sure I’m turned on by.”

Shouldn’t someone who is getting paid to publish “Sex & Relationship” advice in a leading women’s magazine at least, y’know, be good at it?

Also, did you note Ms. Hsieh’s reference to “antidepressants”? On her Twitter account, she mentions that she has been hospitalized for her psychiatric problems and, also, she is infected with herpes:

 

 

 

 

Want to become mentally unbalanced, sexually dysfunctional and infected with an incurable virus? Cosmo has got some advice for you!

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!


 

Category: Sex Trouble

Iowa Poll Shows More Than Half of Democrat Voters Support Old White Guys

Posted on | March 10, 2019 | 4 Comments

 

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the latest Iowa poll with 27%, followed by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders with 25% — between them accounting for more than half the support among likely Democrat caucus voters in the 2020 presidential field. Biden is 76, Sanders is 77, and so the Iowa results may damage the idea that Democrats are the vibrant, young, inclusive party of women and minorities. And even though the third-place candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (9%), is female, her minority status has been shown to be bogus and she’s 69 years old. These three old white people are supported by 61% of Democrats in the Iowa poll.

Sen. Kamala Harris has 7% and another white guy, former Texas Rep. Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, has 5% and every other Democrat candidate is down there at the bottom of the Iowa poll, gasping for air.

It’s still very early, and Biden is not yet even an official candidate, although it has been reported that he’s “95% sure” he’s in for 2020, but Democrat strategists must be starting to worry about whether they can stop President Trump’s re-election with any of the candidates now in the field. This continues a problem that became apparent for Democrats in 2016. The Obama years were a wipeout for Democrats at the state and local level. Beginning in November 2009, when Republicans captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, continuing through the Tea Party election of 2010 and on into 2014, the GOP defeated scores of incumbent Democrats in House, Senate, gubernatorial and legislative elections. The damage was particularly brutal on so-called “Blue Dog” moderate Democrats, forced to defend Obama’s unpopular policies in swing states like Ohio and Florida. This had the effect of depleting the “bench” of Democrats who might have contended with Hillary Clinton for the 2016 nomination, so that only the socialist Sanders, with his fanatical base of young left-wing supporters, was able to challenge the anointed establishment front-runner in the Democrat primary campaign.

Once the candidates start having televised debates — the first are scheduled for late June/early July — we can expect these early poll numbers to shift substantially, but there is a larger and deeper problem for Democrats. While the nation is rather evenly split, with Trump’s support around 45% and the hardcore anti-Trump vote at about the same level, the anti-Trump vote is unevenly distributed. Six states — California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts and Maryland — accounted for more than 22 million (about one-third) of Hillary’s votes in 2016. In those states, Hillary won by an average margin of nearly 2-to-1 — 65.6% to Trump’s 34.4% — but in the remaining 44 states, Trump’s vote total (51.3 million) easily exceeded Clinton’s total (43.6 million).

Because Democratic voters are mainly concentrated in a few urban states, there is a disconnect between the party’s message and the rest of the country, including states like Iowa, which Trump flipped from blue to red in 2016. Despite every disadvantage Trump may face in his re-election bid, the 2020 race will ultimately come down to a head-to-head contest between the Republican incumbent and his Democrat challenger — unless, of course, the networks decide that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz deserves a place on the debate stage. Frankly, that’s the best hope that Democrats have. None of their 2020 candidates is likely to defeat Trump in a two-way race, and in fact, he could win re-election by an impressive margin. Democrats who still believe they are on “the right side of history” may be in for another ugly surprise in November 2020.


 

Category: Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Iowa, Joe Biden

FMJRA 2.0: Four Wheel Drive

Posted on | March 10, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Four Wheel Drive

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Michelle Malkin
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

CPAC: Guilt by Association
EBL

CPAC: Who Brought the Gonzo?
EBL

CPAC: The Final Wisdom
EBL

Remember, Insanity Is Hereditary
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Toccata & Fugue In D Minor
A View From The Beach
EBL

Emergency? What Emergency?
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL

Madness Takes Its Toll
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.03.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

‘No Fatties in the Club’
Rotten Chestnuts
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.04.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.06.19
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.07.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Left-Wing Democrats: ‘If Hating Israel Is Wrong, We Don’t Want to Be Right’
First Street Journal
Doug Santo
Transterrestrial Musings
EBL

The Binary Intersectional Tyrannical Cis-Hetero Slave Lord Anti-woke Patriarchy (BITCHSLAP) Mourns @TitaniaMcGrath
EBL

VD Hanson’s “The Case For Trump” Part 1
EBL

Happy Talk On Congressional Reform From The Federalist
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.08.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending March 8:

  1.  EBL (19)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (9)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Violence Results in Arrests at Chicago Gay Bar

Posted on | March 9, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Violence Results in Arrests at Chicago Gay Bar

Nothing good ever happens at 4 a.m. on Sunday in Chicago, especially if you’re in a North Side gay bar called Jackhammer:

Chicago police were called to Jackhammer at 4:24 a.m. Sunday for a report of several people fighting in front of the bar.
Teri Yaki, a Chicago drag performer, captured video showing patrons leaving the bar and then fighting on the sidewalk. Police are called, and a doorman can be heard turning away new customers: “We’re done. Absolutely done.” Exiting patrons are told to use a secondary door to avoid the fight.
Police arrived and 22-year-old Itsi Mayra Tovar, a transgender woman, was taken into custody after a 50-year-old patron of the bar signed a complaint that she “struck him on the top of the head with a closed fist, causing pain and a small bump,” according to a CPD spokesperson.
While Tovar was being taken into custody, 21-year-old Shelby Lynn Morris, who later identified herself to police as transgender, interfered with the arrest and grabbed a police sergeant’s arm, the CPD spokesperson said. Morris was arrested and charged with battery and resisting or obstructing police.
A police unit remained outside of Jackhammer to maintain the peace until the bar was emptied out at its usual 5 a.m. closing time, according to dispatch records.
Within hours, allegations of anti-trans and racist behavior by club personnel began making the rounds online . . .

You can read the whole thing, but my advice is to avoid Chicago altogether. Between Jussie Smollett’s fake hate crime and this kind of deranged violence, the city is just too crazy.

 

 

Category: Chicago, Crime, Gays

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | March 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

Some are known to history,
Some by neighbors known,
Some fall prey to gluttony,
Of food and things they own.

Youth is spent in pleasure’s chase,
While flesh can still support it,
And life can feel a treadmill race,
By pressure so distorted.

Love matures the youthful heart,
Binding the sympathizer,
Through trials that stop & start,
Hopefully leaving us wiser.

Joy is sought above all fame,
By those who wisdom grasp,
More precious than the richest game,
And likelier to last.

Fret’ee not the world’s allures,
And shiny objects proffered:
Pursue instead that which endures,
As though by Heaven offered.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction
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