In The Mailbox: 05.29.26 (Normal Evening Edition)

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So I got the day off to annoy people on X and do this post.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With MSG Roy Benavidez In Cambodia (1968), A Day on Okinawa With Desmond Doss (1945),
EBL: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Memorial Day Snook, The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, “Arlington”, and Housemaid
Twitchy: Mike Pence Tries Scolding Republicans About Civility and OUCH, Daily Mail Roasted By Funniest Community Note Ever On Troon Yoinked From Womens Locker Room, and Iran’s About To Get Dog-Walked
Louder With Crowder: Three teens film themselves raping schoolgirls they targeted online, but the judge is giving them a second chance, Sunny Hostin Rants 2020 BLM Riots Were Not That Bad, Claims Jan. 6 Was Far Worse, Spencer Pratt fires back at Chelsea Handler’s attack on him being straight, white, and male, LAPD Releases Videos of SHOCKING Rat-Filled Conditions Homeless People Live In, and Brawl Breaks Out At Kindergarten Graduation After Family Confronted For Hogging Seats
Vox Popoli: PROBABILITY ZERO 2nd Edition, Round Three Warning, A Certain Degree of Irony, Rejecting the Empire’s Protection, and The Atheist’s Genetic Fallacy
Upstream Reviews: Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe (3/4)
Cedar Sanderson: Why Do You Read Books? also, Memorial Day
Jim McCoy: Minutegirls, Reluctant Emissaries, Edenet, also, Storm Between The Stars
Stoic Observations: Outfitting
Based Book Sale: Craig Wilson Makes Hard SF Meet Deep Time
Defending The Wood Perilous: Defending The Wood Perilous {part 1 of 8, start here}
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: AI Mania

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Don Surber: Sheriff or inmate?
Elizabeth Nickson: Elite Confiscation of Property Rights Is The Base Of Our Collapsing Prosperity
STUMP: Memorial Day 2026 Weekend Warnings {Better late than never. W-s.}

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Congo: ‘The Horror! The Horror!’

Posted on | May 25, 2026 | Comments Off on Congo: ‘The Horror! The Horror!’

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formerly known as Zaire, and before that, the Belgian Congo, is one of those Third World nightmare hellholes that I describe as being “worse than Baltimore.” However, since a new federal prosecutor has brought Baltimore’s homicide problem under control, I’ll describe the DRC as worse than Memphis.

Joseph Conrad famously used the Belgian Congo as the scene for Heart of Darkness, with the madman Kurtz dying of fever, his final words being: “The horror! The horror!” The situation has not much improved lately, as the State Department warns: “Do not travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to crime, civil unrest, and health. Some areas have increased risk due to armed conflict.”

And then there’s the deadly ebola outbreak:

A second incident of Congolese youths storming an Ebola clinic to demand the return of infected bodies for funerals took place on Sunday evening, as the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced the number of suspected infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has surpassed 900.
Eyewitnesses reported gunfire at the Mongbwalu General Hospital in the eastern DRC province of Ituri, the epicenter of the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak, as a mob of angry youths stormed the treatment center to demand the return of two bodies of Ebola victims. Some reports said members of the mob were armed, while others said police fired the shots in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
“There was gunfire and the medics were trying to evacuate the patients and the staff,” said Dr. Richard Lokudu, medical director of Mongbwalu General Hospital.
Lokudu said the hospital remained “on general alert” as of Monday morning. It was not clear from official reports if anyone was injured during the altercation.
A similar incident occurred on Thursday at Rwampara Hospital near Bunia, the capital of Ituri province. In that case, a mob of angry youths set fire to the Ebola treatment center when the hospital refused to hand over the body of a popular local soccer player who was believed to have died from Ebola.
On Saturday, another mob attacked an Ebola treatment clinic in Mongbwalu operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and set fire to one of its tents. No injuries were reported, but 18 people who were undergoing Ebola testing fled from the facility and could not immediately be located to resume treatment. . . .
Officials in the northeastern DRC banned funerals and gatherings of over 50 people on Friday, in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly disease. Funerals in the outbreak region are seen as super-spreader events because the bodies of dead Ebola victims can be highly contagious and people tend to come into physical contact with them during funeral ceremonies. . . .
Parts of the eastern Congo are controlled by violent insurgent and jihadi groups with links to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and over a million people have been displaced from their homes, making treatment and contact tracing for Ebola exceptionally difficult.

If Joe Biden was still president, he’d be bringing ebola-infected Congo refugees to America. “The horror! The horror!”

Category: Democratic Republic of Congo

Rule 5 Sunday: A Common Enemy

Posted on | May 25, 2026 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Some Chicom dufus has been posting pics of high-stepping Chinese babes in uniform on parade. As I commented to Tom Kratman, too bad we’re probably going to have to turn them into dogmeat just like we did their grandfathers in Korea. On a more cheerful note, here’s some waifus from East Asian countries that don’t much care for the PRC.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

L to R: ROC, Japan, and ROK. Sisters in arms.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Memorial Day Tribute, Amelia Earhart, “Forever In Blue Jeans”, Maldives Disaster – Italian Tourists, Croatia & Eurovision 2026, Spencer Pratt For Mayor – You Are Not Alone, Panem et Circenses, Is This Thing On? The Odyssey Firestorm Gets Worse, and MAGA – Julia Letlow Bags A RINO

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Aurela Hoxha, Fish Pic Friday, Pooptomac River Reopens for Recreation, Thursday Tanlines, Massie Gets the Boot, The Wednesday Wetness, Night at the Opera, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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‘Crash Out Kylie’: How a Queer Feminist Became Famous (Not in a Good Way)

Posted on | May 24, 2026 | Comments Off on ‘Crash Out Kylie’: How a Queer Feminist Became Famous (Not in a Good Way)

Kylie Brewer a/k/a ‘Crash Out Kylie’

Because I don’t pay much attention to podcasts, I overlooked some delicious drama last year, when an Ivy League-educated “queer feminist” named Kylie Brewer went on the popular “Whatever” show, hosted by Brian Atlas. The show flew her out from Chicago to California for her spotlight appearance, where she was confronted by a well-known Christian debater, Andrew Wilson (he’s “controversial,” and good luck finding a biography of him). Wilson was well-prepared for this meeting, whereas Ms. Brewer had apparently never been in the situation of being confronted by an intelligent person who disagreed with her.

Question: How do people defend irrational beliefs?
Answer: With irrational defenses.

By early 2025, Kylie Brewer had developed a fairly large following on TikTok and Instagram, with an audience of tens of thousands for her short-form feminist videos. However, her audience as a drop in the bucket compared to the Whatever podcast, which has 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube. On her own TikTok/IG channels, Kylie occasionally had people leave rude comments, but these people were not skilled polemicists — knowledgeable and articulate, communications professionals capable of making persuasive arguments. As mentioned previously, I’ve been unable to find an online biography of Andrew Wilson, so I don’t know anything about his educational background or career experience, but it is obvious that he is highly skilled as a debater, and Kylie Brewer was not ready to meet such an antagonist.

She got embarrassed in front of an audience of millions, and it completely freaked her out. She had an episode of Bell’s palsy — partial paralysis of her facial muscles, almost certainly a stress response — and threatened a lawsuit against the “Whatever” podcast. That’s how she became notorious as “Crash Out Kylie,” and she’s been living with that notoriety ever since.

What happened to Kylie Brewer highlights what’s fundamentally wrong with contemporary elite education. A native of California, she was such a promising high school student that she was admitted to Brown University. Conservative faculty are extremely rare in Ivy League institutions. Studies have shown that academia, which was always tilted toward liberalism, has shifted even more leftward in the past 25 years.

The result is that most universities are now ideological cocoons, political echo chambers where only left-wing voices are heard. The only prominent conservative faculty member at Brown University is economics professor emeritus Glenn Loury, and I seriously doubt that Kylie Brewer — who majored in psychology and creative writing at Brown — had any interaction with Professor Loury. What kind of thinking does this educational experience encourage?

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Here you have Kylie Brewer declaring that there are four kinds of conservatives — (1) greedy, (2) racist, (3) ignorant or (4) apathetic. I would reply with a question: What does “conservative” mean?

Until the mid-1990s, I was a Democrat, born and bred, a fierce partisan loyalist who put a Clinton-Gore bumper sticker on my old Chevy in 1992. The first two years of the Clinton presidency were enough to cure me of that allegiance, permanently. It would take too long to cite every grievance that contributed to my disillusionment with the Democratic Party, or to provide a reading list of the books that I read during those years that led me to embrace a conservative worldview. The point is that I was a responsible adult — a married father of three, in my mid-30s — when my political opinions decisively shifted, whereas Kylie Brewer is a 24-year-old fresh out off college, presuming to lecture me (and everyone else) about who conservatives are, and caricaturing their motives in the most negative way. Ma’am, I’ve got T-shirts older than you.

What is conservatism?

The simple answer: Opposition to liberalism.

Intellectuals get hung up trying to define conservatism as some kind of coherent philosophy — “first principles” and all that — but it’s really nothing more than what happens when you look at liberalism in action and decide for yourself, “This sucks. I’m against it.”

Because the policy agenda and rhetorical message of liberalism changes over time, the conservative opposition also much shift its ground, defending society against new forms of liberal aggression.

Almost anyone who cares about preserving what is good about America must eventually join the ranks of conservatives. The fact that much of what my generation inherited from our parents’ generation had been built by New Deal liberalism does not in any way change that understanding of what conservatism is and what we strive to do.

The reality is that liberalism (or progressivism, or whatever else you might wish to call the agenda of the left wing of the Democratic Party) is not a stable set of policies. Liberalism always demands new initiatives, new programs, new classes of allegedly “oppressed” people to be made beneficiaries of taxpayer-funded boondoggles. You don’t have to denounce and repudiate the New Deal in order to oppose, e.g., providing “free” sex-change surgery to prison inmates. The fact that you supported some previous iteration of liberalism does not require you to support unlimited foreign immigration or subsidies for “green energy.”

A conservative might be a laissez-faire idealist — willing to rip apart the whole rotten structure of the Welfare State erected since the Wilson administration — but it is not necessary to be so inclined. Within the existing two-party system, all you have to do is recognize that the Democrats are never going to stop trying to expand the bureaucratic apparatus of government, seeking power of totalitarian proportions, in order to decide: “This sucks. I’m against it.” Welcome to the club.

Kylie Brewer’s biggest problem is that she’s so perilously young, and living in an era when people her age can talk into their iPhone cameras and have careers as “content creators” — influencers! When I was her age, I was playing in rock-and-roll bands, working as a nightclub DJ, driving a forklift, etc. Lecturing the world about politics at age 24? Never crossed my mind circa 1984, and I can’t imagine why Kylie Brewer or anyone else would imagine the world needs such lectures.

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Yes, you need a DEI dating agenda, Kylie says, and if you’re skeptical of that recommendation, you must be some kind of Nazi! Did I mention, by the way, that Kylie Brewer is a queer feminist? Not exactly sure what she means by that proclamation — “queer” is a sort of umbrella term, and I haven’t watched enough of her videos to know if she’s been very specific in this regard — but we can assume it to mean a repudiation of heterosexuality, per se. Just as it is wrong to date only members of your own race, according to Kylie, so it is also wrong to be exclusively heterosexual. You must date everybody, of every race and gender, or else you’re guilty of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and probably some other “-isms” and “-phobias” yet to be discovered.

Whatever happened to liberals being “tolerant”? Some of us are old enough to remember when “tolerance” was a rallying cry for liberals, and yet nowadays they’re all about bossing us around, telling us what we can and cannot do, arrogating to themselves the authority of Thought Police to censor anyone who disagrees with them: “RAAAAACIST!”

If you needed any further incentive to vote Republican in the November midterms, now you have it — if Democrats win, the Kylie Brewer agenda could become federal law, and we’ll all be sent to Maoist re-education camps to endure “struggle sessions,” under the supervision of 24-year-old Ivy League graduates as our latter-day Red Guards.

Kylie Brewer is very young, and probably doesn’t know the first thing about Maoist China, or the Cold War, the Soviet Union, the Khmer Rouge, etc. She wasn’t even born when 9/11 happened, and was only 14 when Hillary lost to Donald Trump, so that her frame of reference for politics is a tiny slice of very recent history. Whereas I was born during the Eisenhower administration, and am old enough to remember seeing JFK’s funeral on our black-and-white TV when I was four years old. The Vietnam War played out on the nightly news during my childhood and I was 14 when Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal.

Having an extra four decades of direct experience of political history gives me a much different perspective on current politics than Kylie Brewer possesses, and as much as I lament the necessity of invoking seniority, how did we reach this weird cultural moment where kids fresh out of college think we are in need of their tutelage? Probably goes back to an impertinent young Yale alumnus, with that book of his in 1951 . . .

Buckley was just 26 when God and Man at Yale was published, but he was an old 26. He’d been commissioned an Army lieutenant at 19, after completing Officer Candidate School amid World War II, then served two years in the OSS/CIA before matriculating at Yale. Rather than lecturing his elders about their faults and shortcomings, what Buckley did was to expose to the outside world what was actually transpiring on the Yale campus which then had the reputation as a bastion of conservatism. In fact, as Buckley demonstrated, liberalism had crept into the curriculum — he particularly focused on what students were taught about religion and economics — and this exposure had quite an extraordinary effect, coming as it did at a time when America was just beginning its “long twilight struggle” against the worldwide Communist menace. Buckley found himself denounced by eminent Yale alumni (McGeorge Bundy among them), even as he became the hero of conservatives nationwide.

According to Kylie Brewer’s definition, Buckley was either greedy, racist, ignorant or apathetic — although perhaps some combination of all four — and she considers herself qualified to deliver this verdict without ever having read a single paragraph Buckley ever wrote.

Well, having expended more than 1,500 words on “Crash Out Kylie,” I’ll leave you with this: Time itself is “white supremacy.”

Crash Out Kylie thinks time is racist, possibly one of the other stupidest things ever said by her. pic.twitter.com/wUJhM0HTiH

— Brian Atlas (@BrianAtlas) August 5, 2025

Category: Feminism, Intellectuals, The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

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