Step Back From The Wall And Consider

Posted on | January 9, 2019 | Comments Off on Step Back From The Wall And Consider

by Smitty

This urinary struggle over pocket change is a proxy for impeachment.

Giving up the on wall is essentially giving up on both the next two years, and any hope of reelection.

“We the People” had the temerity to assert that the first three words of the Constitution are worth more

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 9, 2019

…than rubber poo.

Our Progressive Overlords are having none of this.

They have got to break Trump, and us by proxy. We must learn to enjoy our ersatz liberty.

Trump, on the other hand shops at BMFWallets. Com (@lush_cmte) and really knows how to be a “giver” as a result.

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 9, 2019

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. After the 2016 disaster of Her Majesty’s loss, ol’ Robert Swan was tasked with being the fixer.

Two years on, he’s “fixing” as effectively as Congress budgets.

The Vichy @Gop committed seppuku on command, so that Princess Pelosi rode again.

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 9, 2019

But Trump’s non-command of adhering to the Vichy @Gop script continues to blaspheme Holy Progress.

Do American’s grasp what’s at stake?

Surely even the most radical #KristolMeth heads in #NeverTrump land must grasp that any hope of continued economic recovery is predicated upon

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 9, 2019

…supporting the @POTUS, even if his style chafes from time to time.

We need:
– immigration reform
– voting reform
– tax reform
and who’s going to deliver that–the Democrats?

They literally want to convince you that carving up one’s flesh unnaturally & killing babies is good!

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 9, 2019

Support the @POTUS.

We keep staggering along the edge of the cliff with these elections. Trump rose from the ashes of the Tea Party to get us to the next election. pic.twitter.com/cmr7uqvPGY

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 9, 2019

Category: Uncategorized

Schumer and Pelosi Own the Shutdown Even as They Try to Blame Trump

Posted on | January 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

Democrat leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have adopted an anti-American position by insisting that nothing be done to secure the southern border against the flood of illegal aliens. Because they represent constituencies that hate Americans and love foreigners, the Democrat leaders believe that they can “win” the confrontation with President Trump over the partial federal government shutdown. And because their allies in the media share the same attitude — they love big government, and hate the American people — Schumer and Pelosi live inside an echo chamber where everyone is telling them that they are doing the right thing: No wall, not today, not tomorrow, never.

President Trump believes he can win this fight, no matter how much the Democrats and the anti-American media attack him, and in his speech to the nation Tuesday night, he made his case:

Every day, Customs and Border Patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country. We are out of space to hold them, and we have no way to promptly return them back home to their country.
America proudly welcomes millions of lawful immigrants who enrich our society and contribute to our nation. But all Americans are hurt by uncontrolled, illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages. Among those hardest hit are African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
Our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs, including meth, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90 percent of which floods across from our southern border. More Americans will die from drugs this year than were killed in the entire Vietnam War.
In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we don’t act right now.
This is a humanitarian crisis — a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.
Last month, 20,000 migrant children were illegally brought into the United States — a dramatic increase. These children are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs. One in three women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico. Women and children are the biggest victims, by far, of our broken system.
This is the tragic reality of illegal immigration on our southern border. This is the cycle of human suffering that I am determined to end. . . .

You can read the whole thing. The anti-American media have responded by publishing “fact checks” full of Democrat talking points and polls claiming that the president’s position is unpopular. The real question is: Who will Americans believe?

President Trump is taking the side of ICE agents; Democrats are taking the side of the drug dealers and human traffickers. The president doesn’t have to get everyone to believe him in order to win this fight. He is aiming his argument directly at the voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio who elected him in 2016. They want him to stand strong against illegal immigration, and he understands this. Molly Hemingway notes that the response to Trump’s speech confirms that the media are “out of their minds with rage about Trump,” a rage that is the majority opinion in New York and California, the states represented by Schumer and Pelosi. However, the 2020 election will not be decided in New York and California. No matter how much anti-Trump rage the Democrats can gin up among the coastal elites, it is heartland voters who wield the decisive power in American politics, and they’re still on Trump’s side.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, Immigration, Nancy Pelosi

In The Mailbox: 01.08.19

Posted on | January 9, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.08.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Faron Young, “Hello Walls”
Twitchy: Democrat Response To Trump’s Border Speech – Optics Fail
Louder With Crowder: British Satirist Jonathan Pie – Not Everyone Who Disagrees With You Is A Nazi

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: A Year Of Shunning And Lawsuits At A Canadian University, also, Yellow Vest Update
American Thinker: The Electoral College Must Remain
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Secession Round II News
BattleSwarm: 2019 Texas Legislative Session Starts Today
CDR Salamander: The New SASC
Da Tech Guy: Guns For Teachers, also, Why Big GOP Hates Donald Trump
Don Surber: Mueller Grasps At Another Straw
Dustbury: Go Thou And Do Likewise
The Geller Report: Muslim Leader Sharifa Alkhateeb Talks About Using Public Schools To Convert America To Islam, also, Gov. DeSantis Suspends Broward County Sheriff Over Parkland Shooting Nonresponse
Hogewash: A Year Of No Net Neutrality, also, Connections?
Hollywood In Toto: Eight Brave Comedians Who Shun Woke Rules
Joe For America: Second Dead Male Escort Found In Democrat Donor Ed Buck’s Apartment, LGBT Activists Demand Murder Charges
JustOneMinute: The Wall is Coming!
Legal Insurrection: Kellyanne Conway Tells CNN’s Acosta “You’re Such A Smartass…A Lot Of These People Don’t Like You”, also, CA Gov Newsom Proposes Free Healthcare For Illegals Under 26
The PanAm Post: U.S. Targets Maduro/Chavez Corruption & Embezzlement Ring
Power Line: Trump Kills It, also, DeBlasio Has A Plan
Shark Tank: Nunez, Casey DeSantis Champion Women In DeSantis Administration
Shot In The Dark: Legalizing Harassment
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Time To Make The Doughnuts
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – How Not To Defect To Cuba
The Political Hat: Transgender Propaganda & The Breaking Of The Sane
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday Feel Good Stories, also, New Beginnings Or Status Quo?
Victory Girls: CA Gov Newsom To Provide Free Healthcare & Sanctuary For Illegals, No Questions Asked
Volokh Conspiracy: Harold Demsetz, RIP
Weasel Zippers: Students Hate Trump’s Immigration & Border Wall Quotes, Don’t Realize They’re From Dems, also, RNC Video Shows The Harmful Effects Of Immigration On Families
Megan McArdle: What if We Paid People To Donate Their Kidneys To Strangers?
Mark Steyn: Tippy-Topping Tripping

Category: Linkagery

Rule Five Tuesday

Posted on | January 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Running way behind and pressed for time, so no appetizer this week.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #489, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Socialist Sweden Friday and a rare Saturday Blondepocalypse.

EBL: Medici The Magnificent, Why Are IQ Levels Dropping?, Captain & Tennille, Monica Bellucci & Spaghetti, Marie Kondo, National Whipped Cream Day, and Malin Akerman as the Silk Spectre.

A View From The Beach: My Spidey Sense Tingles for Emma Stone, The Straw That Broke the Bay’s Back?, Google Gets Down with Deuteronomy, Washington D.C Focuses on the Big Issues, And I’m Going to Eat Bacon Until We Get World Peace, RIP: Ray Sawyer, Aka Dr. Hook, “Bombastic”, Happy New Year!, All Kneel Before the Illuminati!, Honestly, How Much Worse Could it Be? and My Plan for Living Forever is Going Swimmingly.

Proof Positive: Megan Boone, Allison Hayes, and Sex in Advertising with Victoria’s Secret.

Dustbury: Yoon Se-ah and Carrie Ann Inaba

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Florida Stripper Had Mass Murder Fantasies

Posted on | January 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Florida Stripper Had Mass Murder Fantasies

News from The Crazy State:

An exotic dancer in Florida was arrested Wednesday after writing about her “urges” to undertake a mass shooting in a crowded area, police said.
Brein Basarich, 31, who worked at the Showgirls Men’s Club in Plant City, admitted to posting the threats on her Tumblr account under the username “taking-lives,” Lakeland police said.

(Oh, of course she had a Tumblr blog. Of course.)

She wrote about her “vision” of using an assault rifle to fire into a crowded bar or club that only had one entrance, thus preventing people from escaping, Bay News 9 reported.
“I had a vision… of a very public place, only one way in and one way out,” Basarich wrote, according to the Bradenton Herald. “Preferably a bar/club on a busy night. 2019 has a lot in store if my plans go according!”
Basarich described herself to police officers as a true-crime lover and a “great admirer of serial killers and mass murderers,” according to the station.
“… A lot of us have urges, whether they will admit or not is the question. So yes, I have,” she wrote to another Tumblr user who asked whether she had homicidal urges, according to Action Jax 30.
Basarich was charged with making a written threat to kill or injure. She was taken to Polk County Jail but bonded out Thursday.

See, it’s not illegal in Florida to fantasize about killing people. It’s only illegal if you put it in writing on your Tumblr blog.

By the way, why call a stripper an “exotic dancer”? There’s nothing exotic about taking off your clothes for money. But I suppose it’s like how the word “gay” replaced homosexual — the more descriptive term is considered offensive, because the people to whom it is applied don’t want you to think about what it actually means. And if you were to use certain descriptive Anglo-Saxon slang terms (e.g., synonymous with performer of fellatio) this would be considered “hate speech.” In the Victorian era, the use of euphemisms was intended to uphold public decency, because it was felt that certain unsavory topics should not be discussed in the presence of women and children, lest they be degraded or corrupted by their knowledge of immoral and illegal behaviors. Since the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas ruling, however, every form of sexual behavior is not only legal, but also protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, so that strippers might conceivably claim they have a constitutional right to take their clothes off for money. If you call them what they are, by describing what they actually do, this might indicate prejudice against strippers — how dare you disapprove? — and you might as well be Hitler.

You see that the use of euphemisms — prostitutes are now “sex workers” and pornography is “adult entertainment” — has a different purpose in the 21st century than it did in the Victoria era. Instead of suppressing knowledge of sordid behaviors for the sake of moral decency, we now use euphemisms to abet and encourage immoral behaviors. The corruption of language creates a sort of unreality, wherein we are all required to pretend we don’t know what we actually know. What does “gay” actually mean? What do homosexuals actually do? We know, but we are compelled by political correctness to pretend that we don’t know, and it’s the same thing with “sex workers,” including “exotic dancers.”

Being forced to live in a world of make-believe has consequences; this is not conducive to good mental health. It should be obvious that women who work as “exotic dancers” are not recruited from the more sober and responsible elements of the community, and Brein Basaric’s employment at Showgirls Men’s Club was psychological stressful. While I’m not qualified to speak as an expert on current working conditions in the “adult entertainment industry,” back in the day, strippers were known to consume copious amounts of drugs and alcohol to enable themselves to get through a shift. Quaaludes and cocaine were the drugs of choice.

Social workers might speak of strippers as an “at-risk” group for mental health problems, and less politically correct people would simply say that a lot of these women are just plain crazy. So if Brein Basaric was secretly fantasizing about going on a mass-murder rampage with an assault rifle, well . . . crazy people are dangerous.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Crime, Florida

In The Mailbox: 01.07.19

Posted on | January 8, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.07.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I have not been well, and today was extremely busy. so Rule 5 Tuesday will post tomorrow,
most likely in the morning.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Ed Buck May Have A Problem
Twitchy: Meltdown In Progress! Occasional Cortex Is Pissed At MSM Fact-Checkers Calling Her On Her BS
Louder With Crowder: Rep. Dan Crenshaw Calmly Annihilates “Cowardly” Hank Johnson

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Australian Nationalism On The Beach, also, He Prefers Much Younger Women
American Power: Brazil’s Primal Scream For Freedom, also, How To Write About The Right
American Thinker: The Great Wall of America Will Break The Democrats
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Borepatch On The Failure Of The War On Drugs, also, Tucker Carlson On Rick Wilson’s Slam Of Trump Voters
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXIX
Da Tech Guy: Silenced & Broke, also, Non-Twitter Under The Fedora Thoughts For January 7
Don Surber: Public Sides With Trump On The Shutdown
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Sunrise Awaits
Fred On Everything: China Overrated By Right-Wing Kooks
The Geller Report: American Muslims Captured Fighting For Islamic State In Syria, also, Amazon Cravenly Submits To CAIR’s Jihad Demands, Removes Items With Arabic Script
Hogewash: Math & Facts Are Harder, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Did Twitter Just Lock Rob Schneider’s Account?
Joe For America: Embarrassed Constituents Pen Open Letter To Foul-Mouthed Rep Tlaib
JustOneMinute: Slow-Walking Out Of Syria
Legal Insurrection: Lindsey Graham On Border Wall – “We’re Not Giving In To This Radical Left, Never”, also, Mia Love Joins CNN As Commentator
The PanAm Post: Foreign Investment In Colombian Companies Soaring
Power Line: Anti-Semitism Breaking Out Among Congressional Democrats, also, She’s The Tippy Tops
Shark Tank: Senate GOP Moves To Strengthen “Strategic Alliance” With Israel”
Shot In The Dark: May You Get Your Wish, Dumb*ss
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – The Jedi Are Relentless
The Political Hat: New Mexico Poised To Tell You To Shut Up And Die
This Ain’t Hell: Ten Worst Air Forces In The World, 2018, also, SecNav Names Future Destroyer For Vietnam War Vet & POW Admiral Jeremiah Denton
Victory Girls: Trump Befuddles Pelosi During Shutdown Meeting
Volokh Conspiracy: Trump’s Terrible Record On Property Rights
Weasel Zippers: Gov. Moonbeam Denies Cpl. Singh’s Death Had Anything To Do With Sanctuary Laws, also, Whoopi Goldberg Tells Occasional Cortex “Stop Pooping On People”
Mark Steyn: A Forest Of Bare Branches, also, Freaks

Category: Linkagery

Media’s Anti-White Bias Makes Houston Drive-By Shooting National News

Posted on | January 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

When 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes was killed in a drive-by shooting in Houston Dec. 30, the story “captured nationwide attention,” because Jazmine’s family claimed that the shooter was a white man:

The teen and her mother described the suspect as a white man with blue eyes, a thin build and no beard. They say he “looked sick” with sunken cheekbones and a pale face with a “five o’clock shadow.” He was wearing a black hoodie.

CNN jumped on the story — RAAAAACISM! — and the usual crew of #BlackLivesMatter hate-hustlers leaped into action, raising money and sending out incendiary tweets. Unfortunately for the purveyors of this narrative, it was false. The white man in the red truck that Jazmine’s family had seen wasn’t the shooter, but an innocent guy who was himself caught in the line of fire. The actual perpetrators were driving a KIA.

Murder suspects Larry Woodruffe (left) and Eric Black Jr. (right).

Larry Woodruffe, 24, was the shooter, and was riding with Eric Black Jr., 20, according to the police, when Woodruffe spotted the vehicle that Jazmine’s mother was driving and, apparently, mistook it for the vehicle of one of their drug-gang rivals. Woodruffe opened fire with a 9mm pistol and he and Black didn’t realize they had targeted an innocent family until they saw news reports the next day. So the “white killer” angle that made this story a subject of “nationwide attention” was false, and now the media that exploited the death of Jazmine Barnes to gin up a firestorm of racial fear will now drop the story entirely.

Houston ranks 22nd on the list of most dangerous cities in America, with 269 homicides in 2017. The top five most dangerous cities:

1. St. Louis
2. Detroit
3. Baltimore
4. Memphis
5. Kansas City

In 2017, those cities reported a combined total of 1,145 homicides. How many of those crimes “captured national attention”? You see the national media do not randomly pick murders as newsworthy. They believed the shooting of Jazmine Barnes might be evidence of a surge of right-wing white supremacist hate crime that they could blame on President Trump and, now that this angle has proven false . . . never mind.

(Hat-tips: Kirby McCain on Twitter and Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)