In The Mailbox: 03.08.19

Posted on | March 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The State Of Higher Education
EBL: What I Hear When NeverTrumpers Whine
Twitchy: Pelosi Doubles Down On Defending Ilhan Omar With This “Condescendingly Racist Word Salad”
Louder With Crowder: Dan Crenshaw Addresses Sex Trafficking Problem Due To Illegal Immigration
According To Hoyt: People Who Hate People
Vox Popoli: Captain Marvel Fails To Impress

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Disease At The Heart Of The Empire
American Thinker: The Democrats Can’t Hide Their Antisemitism Problem
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Schadenfreudelicious Friday
Babalu Blog: “Free People” Clothing Line Does Photo Shoot In Cuba, Where There Are No Free People
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 8
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: What’s Wrong With Retail, Part II, also, The Difference Between Omar & Her Enablers
Don Surber: Rahm Rues What He Wrought
Dustbury: Tons Of Money, STAT!
First Street Journal: Schadenfreude! The Truth About The Democrats’ Antisemitism Is Exposed
The Geller Report: Watch As Linda Sarsour Orders CAIR Thugs To Block Reporters From Rep. Tlaib, also, JEXODUS – Jewish Millennials Launch a “Liberation Movement” From The Neo-Nazi Democrat Party
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Consequences of Commenting
Hollywood In Toto: Why Bleeding Fool Is Unlike Most Geek News Sites
Joe For America: Teacher Forces 4th Grader To Remove Ash Wednesday Ashes In Class
JustOneMinute: All Hate Matters
Legal Insurrection: Ilhan Omar dunks On Meghan McCain’s “Faux Outrage”, also, Judge Dismisses Stormy Daniels’ Lawsuit Over $130,000 NDA
The PanAm Post: From Democratic Socialism To Total Destruction In Venezuela
Power Line: Changing Of The Guard, also, Good Thing There Are No Statues Of Joe Biden
Shark Tank: Rep. Waltz Calls For More Women In STEM
Shot In The Dark: Portrait Of A Narcissist
STUMP: IL Governor Pritzker’s Insane Tax Proposal
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Hate America
This Ain’t Hell: Federal Judge Backs Trump’s Transgender Military Ban, also, Vietnam’s Memorial To North Korea
Victory Girls: Dem Rep Tlaib Wants To Impeach Trump Because He Was A CEO
Volokh Conspiracy: Georgia Universities Entitled To Reject Illegal Alien Applicants, Including DACA Recipients
Weasel Zippers: Adam Schiff & Staff Reportedly Met With Michael Cohen For Ten Hours Before The Hearing, also, Man Who Assaulted Conservative Activist At Berkeley Previously Involved In Almost A Dozen Lawsuits, Had To Surrender Guns
Megan McArdle: Democratic Socialists Are Selling Us A System That No Longer Works
Mark Steyn: What Trump Is Accused Of, Trudeau Did, also, Debagged & Unwoke

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Category: Linkagery

Help Bri Pritchett Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay!

Posted on | March 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Help Bri Pritchett Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay!

Bri Pritchett (@BPtheGasStation on Twitter) graduated in 2018 from Northern Arizona University where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority and dated a boy named Kyle. They broke up not long before she graduated and Ms. Pritchett has more or less dedicated her social-media presence to humiliating her ex-boyfriend. It appears that she went through her old Instagram photos of herself and Kyle as a couple, changing all the captions to disparage him as the Worst Boyfriend Ever (e.g., “Wow do I love roasting this a–hole”). Last month, she deliberately humiliated him on Twitter in a message that went viral, getting more than 90,000 responses:

Was this necessary? Was it wise? Does it represent the values that the Chi Omega sorority seeks to instill in its membership? You can answer those questions for yourself, and I don’t wish to provoke a quarrel by disagreeing with whatever opinion the reader may have. What struck me about that post was, first of all, its vindictive cruelty. Anyone who has experienced a breakup can, perhaps, understand the bitterness Ms. Pritchett feels toward the boyfriend she dated for more than two years and who, she implies in one of her many Instagram postings, dumped her in favor of a girl she once considered her best friend. Even though we might sympathize with Ms. Pritchett’s resentment toward Kyle, however, we must recoil in horror at the way she has expressed that resentment.

“Never let ’em see you sweat” — that’s a lesson I learned as a young man, which I’ve endeavored to pass on to my children. A proper concern for your own dignity requires that you should never give your enemies the satisfaction of seeing how much they have hurt you. Cruel people take pleasure in inflicting pain on others, so if you have been a victim of undeserved cruelty, the wisest thing you can do is to conduct yourself as if you never felt the knife in your back. If you can survive their betrayal and keep smiling, your cheerfulness will deprive them of the sadistic pleasure they crave: “Never let ’em see you sweat.”

Not only is this the wise thing to do, it is also the Christian thing to do. “And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” as Jesus taught his disciples to pray. Knowing that we are ourselves sinners (Romans 3:23), ought we not fear the consequences if we should adopt a merciless attitude toward our enemies? “Vengeance is mine,” saith the Lord, and what will become of us, should the Lord decide to cease His mercy toward us, to withhold His protection, so that we are required to pay the full price of all our sins? God forbid!

Faith and reason alike counsel us against retaliation and, as a parent, I would be horrified if any of my children ever did what Bri Pritchett has done to her ex-boyfriend Kyle. It does not matter whether Kyle is as bad as she says; he may be worse or better than other guys she could have chosen instead, but she chose him. If she regrets her choice, she has no one to blame but herself. How many times have I seen guys disparaging their ex-wives and tried to explain to them how bad that looks?

She may indeed be a lying evil whore, but what kind of fool would marry such a woman? You’re impugning your own judgment. Far better, in such a circumstance, to shrug it off and move on. Nobody really wants to hear about what a miserable bitch your ex-wife is, and it doesn’t reflect well on you to badmouth your ex. Love is a game. You win some, you lose some. Try to be a good sport about it. Better luck next time.

Here’s the bottom line: If you consider yourself a person of high value, someone who would be a “catch” for anyone lucky enough to win your heart, who is the loser if it doesn’t work out? Not you.

Well, what about Bri Pritchett? She is a former competitive gymnast who, although she’s gotten a little pudgy, is still kinda cute at 22. No doubt she could find a nice guy who would be happy to have her, but . . .

If a girl makes a point of publicly humiliating her ex-boyfriend, disparaging his sexual prowess, would any intelligent man date her? After all, if she’s in the habit of blabbing such things all over the Internet, what can we expect her to do to her next boyfriend, if that doesn’t work out?

God forbid any of my children should be such fools! And if readers wish to do something useful for International Women’s Day, maybe they can go advise Bri Pritchett to change her wicked ways.

Congratulations, Bri — you’re gonna be famous. Not in a good way.

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Category: Sex Trouble

Happy Talk On Congressional Reform From The Federalist

Posted on | March 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Happy Talk On Congressional Reform From The Federalist

by Smitty

Via The Federalist:

4. We should ratify a balanced budget amendment establishing a firm cap on spending. It couldn’t simply be lifted like a debt ceiling with a majority in Congress. This would give constitutional preeminence to balanced budgeting and at a minimum prevent new deficits.
5. There should also be a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to pass a legitimate budget every year. It is already the law,

The thing with a balanced budget amendment is that there will always be a loophole, and everything will be driven through that loophole. The article confesses that there is a law to pass a legitimate budget annually.
The things that has a chance of affecting Congressional malfeasance are voters, and a Convention of States.

Category: Uncategorized

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

Posted on | March 8, 2019 | Comments Off on VD Hanson’s “The Case For Trump” Part 1

by Smitty

On the short list of academics/intellectuals worthy of the title, Victor Davis Hanson looms large. His new outing, “The Case for Trump” is on my phone in the Kindle app, and I’ll be trying to read through a chapter a day and post about it.

Of course, I can’t claim to have foreseen Trump’s 2016 triumph in the slightest. I thought (as doubtless Her Majesty’s campaign did) that he’d be an easy mark, given his checkered past. Mitt Romney, hold the Ward Cleaver. But I am trapped in +20D Occupied Northern Virginia, so my non-grasp of the American pulse is blamed on the high concentration of oxygen theives clogging the roadways*.

Here are some tweets and quotations as I go through this wonderful book:

VDH is off to a great start: pic.twitter.com/xsz8F4QoCx

— Jussie Smollett Can't Get Over Macho Grande Either (@smitty_one_each) March 6, 2019

Via https://t.co/tNVfPunBv8

— Jussie Smollett Can't Get Over Macho Grande Either (@smitty_one_each) March 6, 2019

I freely admit that the older I get, the less I "know" about politics. pic.twitter.com/rWgeu8Qtbi

— Jussie Smollett Can't Get Over Macho Grande Either (@smitty_one_each) March 6, 2019

But the thing is, Trump is transient.

What matters more than Trump is building upon his energy to deconstruct not *American* culture, but the Progressive culture striving to supplant it.

— Jussie Smollett Can't Get Over Macho Grande Either (@smitty_one_each) March 6, 2019

We need to get past the antiquated notion that there is any sort of rational dialog to be had with the Left. Like Joshua and Caleb working on the next stage of the mission, we’re simply going to have to outlive the generation of lunkheads whose minds have been polluted by the Left.

Pray for them; try to listen. But understand that Commie indoctrination has stunted their imaginations, and they may no longer be capable of understanding those “fact” thingies that we cherish so dearly.

*Is that pejorative?

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

Posted on | March 7, 2019 | Comments Off on The Binary Intersectional Tyrannical Cis-Hetero Slave Lord Anti-woke Patriarchy (BITCHSLAP) Mourns @TitaniaMcGrath

by Smitty

Many far wiser than I have long since abandoned the Twitter necropolis. But there are still some accounts that really bring the fun, including Poe’s Law All-Star Titania McGrath:

Race is a social construct.

It is surely no coincidence that it is only ever privileged white people who dispute this.

— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) March 7, 2019

Thus it was with sadness the news was greeted today that Titania McGrath is merely a hypothetical psychotic battle-axe:

Submissives the world over are weeping at this news. @karmaniverous

— Jussie Smollett Can't Get Over Macho Grande Either (@smitty_one_each) March 7, 2019

I guess this is conjunction with the release of this tome, which you should buy via Stacy’s Amazon link so that he scores a few schillings.

I’m working through the new Hanson release, which I’ll start posting about tomorrow. In the meantime, disseminate the BITCHSLAP far and wide. And remember: it’s not swearing if it’s an acronym.

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Left-Wing Democrats: ‘If Hating Israel Is Wrong, We Don’t Want to Be Right’

Posted on | March 7, 2019 | 3 Comments

That tweet by Colorado leftist Saira Rao perfectly encapsulates the problems of the new Democrat majority in the House. Nancy Pelosi wanted to pass a resolution — obviously aimed at Ilhan Omar — condemning anti-Semitism. But this has failed, because the Left has welcomed Jew-haters into their ranks, and anti-Semitism is particularly prevalent among radical “women of color” (WOC, in social-justice shorthand) like Linda Sarsour. On elite university campuses now, the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement unites radical students and, not incidentally, serves as a Trojan Horse for anti-white racism. What is meant, after all, by BDS rhetoric condemning Israel as an “apartheid state”? Conservative Jews like David Horowitz and William Jacobson have been warning about this tendency for years. When you see Nancy Pelosi linked to David Duke (!!!) in left-wing rhetoric, you see how serious this threat is in Democrat politics.

Ilhan Omar keeps doubling down, and Pelosi is trapped:

Democrats have had the majority in the House of Representatives for just two months, but they’ve already been sidetracked by an ugly divide over anti-Semitism and other bigotry.
For weeks, tensions on Capitol Hill have been rising over remarks from freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota questioning the allegiance of Israel supporters in Congress. Her comments drew condemnation from many of her fellow Democrats and prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California to push for a vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. Rather than putting the issue behind them, however, the move has prolonged the controversy and put a spotlight on divisions inside the party around a highly sensitive issue.
The resolution came after Omar criticized politicians by using anti-Semitic tropes, prompting condemnation from several Jewish Democratic lawmakers and an apology from Omar last month. But Omar later dug in when she suggested pro-Israel interests pushed members of Congress to pledge allegiance to a “foreign country,” drawing further outrage from her colleagues.
Pelosi had a choice: She could issue piecemeal condemnations and hope the issue disappeared, or nip it in the bud with a strong resolution staking out the House’s stance on anti-Semitism. She chose the latter but didn’t count on the resistance from allies of Omar. After an ugly scrum broke out on Wednesday behind closed doors, the vote was tabled. Leadership is now rewriting the resolution to condemn all hate, not just anti-Semitism.
Members from both the Congressional Black Caucus and the younger, far-left wing of the party were furious about the leadership’s gambit. They questioned singling out Omar for condemnation. What about bigotry from Republicans, including President Donald Trump? And why were Democrats so focused on a woman of color, one of just two Muslims in Congress? Could the added scrutiny even put Omar in danger?
“Like some of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk,” California Sen. Kamala Harris told reporters Wednesday. Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — who like Harris are running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — also voiced their support for Omar.
Others on the left asked why Democrats were condemning only bigotry against Jews. “We think that hate and racism in our country is growing. American Jewish, LGBTQ, Latino, immigrant, Muslim — it is something that needs to be looked at as a whole instead of just trying to come up with a hierarchy of hurt and pain,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, another freshman Democrat and the other Muslim in Congress, told CNN on Wednesday.

So, Democrats can’t condemn anti-Semitism because, without anti-Semitism, they’d lose “the younger, far-left wing of the party” — the Jew-haters who support Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

In case I haven’t reminded you lately, some of my cousins are Jewish Democrats. They despise Donald Trump, but I wonder: How long will they be able to maintain their anti-Trump stance if Pelosi fails to suppress the Jew-haters in her coalition? You can go back as far as the 1960s and see how this poisonous weed has grown on the Left.

Anti-Israel politics functioned as a proxy for anti-Semitism among “Black Power” radicals, and anti-Semitism was a proxy for anti-white racism. In 1996, I interviewed a former activist for SNCC who bemoaned how “Stokely Carmichael and that crowd ran the white people out of the movement” circa 1966. That tendency flourished again in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and, while it seemed to fade during the Obama years, it continued growing with the BDS movement on college campuses. Now, with Trump in the White House and Democrats controlling the House, Pelosi finds herself yoked to this radicalism and it will be difficult, if not impossible, for her to disentangle herself from the anti-Israel/anti-white sentiment that flourishes among “the younger, far-left wing of the party.”

“All is proceeding as I have foreseen . . .”