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In The Mailbox: 12.02.24

Posted on | December 2, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.02.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month!
Speaking of buying things, the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Books sale ends today. Go buy books from people that don’t hate you.
This post is being done before I head down to Las Vegas 1) because of the aforementioned Based Books Sale and B. to make sure it doesn’t get skipped/postponed because I’m too tired when I get to the Stratosphere tonight.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Apparently some dimwit at Jalopnik slammed Buc-ee’s over the weekend. Shaitan requite them for their evil.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The 2024 Election Dissected by My Favorite Leftist, also Georgetown University Study – 1.67 Million Self-Defense Incidents Per Year
EBL:Crap Weasel Andrew McCabe does not like Kash Patel running the FBI, Kamala Harris still panhandling for donations, JOE BIDEN PARDONS HUNDER BIDEN, and Coup Happening in Syria?
Twitchy: Bill Maher Repeatedly Fact-Checks Startlingly Stupid Jane Fonda About All Things Far Left, DNC Finance Committee Member Calls For Audit Of Kamala’s Campaign, and New Damning Stat Comes Out About Kamala’s Election Results
Louder With Crowder: Geico Employees Forced To Undergo Mandatory Pronoun Training, Actress Sharon Stone Calls Americans “ignorant and arrogant” for Electing Trump, and “I’ll be the first one to call up ICE”:  NY Governor claims she’s gonna deport illegals now
Vox Popoli: The Takeaway, Darkness in London, Never Sell Out, Color Revolution in Georgia, and Yes, Fake and Gay
Upstream Reviews: An Empire of Bones, Upstream for the Holidays, and Shoot The Devil – Martyr’s Militia
Cedar Sanderson: Sandwich Rules, and Get Stuffed 
Stoic Observations: David Brooks Is Right, David Mayer & The Freysa Hack. Enemies, and Upserts into Redshift with AWS Glue
Bacon Time: 5k #8 – The Turkey Trot

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Dana Loesch: President Biden Pardons His Son, 
Don Surber: Tale of two Cabinets
Michele Catalano: the week in joy
STUMP: Election Post-Post Mortem, The Week In Meep – Happy Advent 2024! and Movember 2024 – Heart Disease, Cardiac Arrest, & Winter Activities, 

 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Cheerful Bikini

Posted on | December 2, 2024 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Almost sounds like some kind of top secret codeword, doesn’t it? It’s been a while, but I think I yoinked this from kbdabear on X.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five LUCA Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Heretic, Clara Jumi Kang, Thanksgiving Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Trumpsgiving, Downfall of Democrats, Sweethearts, and Saturday Night Girls With Guns.

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends For 11.29

BACON TIME: Rule Five Butt Its Friday

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The Dumbest Take on the 2024 Election

Posted on | December 1, 2024 | Comments Off on The Dumbest Take on the 2024 Election

A few weeks ago, I bought a copy of Thomas Sowell’s 1987 book A Conflict of Visions as a gift for a young man who was struggling with his political views. My intention is, once he’s finished reading that, to give him the second book of that Sowell trilogy, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (1995), which I consider the best analysis of liberalism as a psychological phenomenon.

You will never understand that Left until you come to grips with how their ultimate motivation is deeply rooted in their self-image, their belief in their own moral superiority to others. They view themselves as enlightened, and consider those who don’t share their politics to be benighted, ignorant, morally inferior. All of us see the stark irrationality of leftists, but Sowell explains the cause of this irrationality with a remarkable clarity — the aspect of “self-congratulation” involved, where liberals continually applaud themselves for their good intentions, without regard for the practical consequences of the policies they advocate.

This solipsistic factor in the liberal worldview — politics as an exercise in the display of one’s moral superiority — is profoundly relevant to Sarah Bernstein’s take on the 2024 election in the New York Times op-ed page. Like so many other Democrats, Bernstein has become fixated on exit-poll data about which demographic blocs voted for Donald Trump, and particularly on the pro-Trump preferences of young men:

Joe Rogan. Elon Musk. Representatives of bro culture are on the ascent, bringing with them an army of disaffected young men. But where did they come from? Many argue that a generation of men are resentful because they have fallen behind women in work and school. I believe this shift would not have been so destabilizing were it not for the fact that our society still has one glass-slippered foot in the world of Cinderella. . . .

Resisting the temptation to fisk the whole thing, I’ll just say that it’s difficult reading, because it’s so obnoxiously stupid. Merely by skimming through it, I’m sure my IQ decreased by a couple of points in the process. If you read the whole thing word-for-word, you’d be completely retarded by the time you finished. What Bernstein has done (and this kind of “analysis” is everywhere among liberal commentators the past few weeks) is to hyperfocus on a few facts as the basis of a syllogism:

  • Elon Musk bought Twitter;
  • Donald Trump did an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast;
  • Trump beat Kamala Harris;
    and
  • Exit polls showed young men favored Trump.

Ergo, “bro culture” is to blame for Kamala’s defeat.

Because I do not want to “smarten a chump,” I won’t explain in detail why this analysis is so wrong, but if you’re willing to risk retardation, you can read the entirety of Sarah Bernstein’s op-ed column and notice that she never once entertains the possibility that the Biden administration’s policies were unpopular because they were bad policies. Nor does it seem to cross Bernstein’s mind that perhaps Kamala Harris was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign. No, if Democrats lose an election, Bernstein automatically assumes, it’s because the voters are wrong.

But how is “dating culture” to blame? Bernstein explains:

[O]ur cultural narratives still reflect the idea that a woman’s status can be elevated by marrying a more successful man — and a man’s diminished by pairing with a more successful woman. Now that women are pulling ahead, the fairy tale has become increasingly unattainable. This development is causing both men and women to backslide to old gender stereotypes and creating a hostile division between them that provides fuel for the exploding manosphere.

Again, note her assumption that “the exploding manosphere” explains the election result. Would you care to guess what percentage of men under 30 voted for Donald Trump? Forty-nine percent, according to exit polls. However much the “manosphere” may be exploding, in other words, Kamala still got about half of the votes of under-30 men (assuming, that is, that exit polls are reliable). But never mind this, Bernstein is fixated on the idea that hypergamy (the general preference of women for higher-status males as romantic partners) is the ultimate explanation for why “bro culture” elected Donald Trump:

Recently, men’s and women’s fortunes have been trending in opposite directions. Women’s college enrollment first eclipsed men’s around 1980, but in the past two decades or so this gap has become a chasm. In 2022, men made up only 42 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds at four-year schools, and their graduation rates were lower than women’s as well. Since 2019, there have been more college-educated women in the work force than men. . . .
Women’s growing success, coupled with the belief that a male partner must always be more successful, gives the shrinking pool of more successful men tremendous power. . . .

All of this may be true, but how does it explain why Kamala lost the election? This is where Bernstein’s solipsism is starkly displayed. Because she is a 30-something single woman with high-status credentials (BA, Brown University; MFA, Hunter College), whose marital prospects are near-zero because of the relative shortage of high-status men, she engages in psychological projection, assuming that men are similarly motivated — politics is personal, and therefore . . . ?

According to Richard Reeves, whose book “Of Boys and Men” explores the reasons behind the growing gender achievement gap, heterosexual men who fall behind their female peers often experience a hit to both their romantic prospects and their sense of identity, leaving them searching for ways to affirm their manhood.
Enter the manosphere: a space occupied by new media podcasters and their favored politicians who win eyeballs, votes and dollars by selling a retrograde version of masculinity as the fix for men’s woes. In the final month of his presidential campaign, Mr. Trump skipped traditional outlets for a manosphere media blitz, which many credit for his 14-point lead among young men.

This is a non sequitur. The Trump campaign decided to focus on young men, and therefore aimed to reach that audience through podcasters who had large followings among young men. But it does not follow from this bit of campaign strategy that the young men who voted for Trump are more likely than those who voted for Harris to be suffering from a “gender achievement gap” that harms “their romantic prospects.” Are young men who listen to Joe Rogan more or less likely to be in romantic relationships compared to other young men? If Sarah Bernstein doesn’t have data to support such a claim — if she can’t show that Rogan’s young male listeners are low-status losers seeking to “affirm their manhood” — then her argument falls apart. Of course, she doesn’t even consider the possibility that she is the one dealing in “gender stereotypes” here.

Something else that never seems to occur to Sarah Bernstein is the role of government policy in producing the social problems affecting young men. Like most feminists, she takes it for granted that “women’s growing success” is something that just happened, rather than the result of any anti-male bias in government policy. She never even thinks to ask whether the declining percentage of men on college campuses may be due to the fact that college administrators treat men as persona non grata.

Bernstein was a student at Brown University at a time when a male student at Brown was denied due process after being falsely accused of rape. This happened during the same time-frame as the University of Virginia’s rape hoax, when the fictitious “Haven Monahan” was proclaimed to be conclusive proof that men had made university campuses into a hive of “rape culture.” Bernstein wishes us to forget all this, to deny the role that feminists have played in fomenting anti-male prejudice in the educational system, and in particular, making it hazardous for any college boy to seek romantic involvement with his female classmates, who have been empowered — as a matter of policy — to ruin his life in a campus kangaroo court system where he will be denied basic due process. Maybe this doesn’t have anything to do with who won this year’s election, or why young men listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast, but if a “gender achievement gap” played some role in any of this, why does Sarah Bernstein automatically assume that male grievances are illegitimate? There are other women (e.g., Christina Hoff Sommers) who don’t make such assumptions, who believe that public policy is implicated in the socioeconomic trends that Bernstein cites, but feminists denounce Sommers as a traitor to “women’s rights,” and she can’t speak on any university campus without provoking a riot.

Intolerance of dissent has become a central tenet of liberalism during the past decade, which is why Sarah Bernstein is able to ramble on about “bro culture” without fear of contradiction, because the New York Times would never publish anyone who disagrees with Bernstein’s point of view. Anyone who doesn’t vote for Democrats is always wrong — they are bad people — according to the New York Times, and thus Bernstein is permitted to rant for 1,300 words about What’s Wrong With Men. And here is the stupid conclusion to her stupid column:

Over the past 60 years, as girls and women have fought their way into classrooms and boardrooms, society has expanded its idea of womanhood accordingly, yet our definition of manhood has failed to evolve alongside it.
Letting go of the male breadwinner norm is not an instant fix for our culture, but we can’t move forward without that step. After all, “breadwinner” is not only a limiting identity; it’s also a relative one. If we don’t release men from the expectation, any plan to help them regain lost ground will have to also ensure that women never catch up.
This zero-sum paradigm has always been a feature of Trumpism, which is all about keeping resources with the right kind of people. But if we are willing to reject the manosphere’s narrow ideas of masculinity, we will find that it is possible for both men and women to thrive at the same time — in work and in love. This future is ours to create. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s a fairy tale.

Whatever truth there may be in any of this, it is utterly useless in terms of explaining why Kamala lost and Trump won. And she engages in some wild projection, claiming that the “zero-sum paradigm” is central to “Trumpism,” ignoring the fact that feminism has always been rooted in such a paradigm, e.g., systematically destroying all-male institutions based on the theory that anything which is good for men is inherently bad for women (and, of course, vice-versa). Feminists like Sarah Bernstein are always oblivious to this element of their ideology, and will deny any malicious intent toward men in the same breath as they advocate anti-male policies, which can only be justified on the basis of an assumption that women will automatically benefit from any policy that harms men — abolish the Boy Scouts and make VMI go coed, because how dare we let men have anything of their own!

Being a liberal means never being called to account for your own hypocrisy, and Sarah Bernstein is confident that she can denounce “the breadwinner norm” as part of “old gender stereotypes” without anyone saying to her, “OK, you go first.” If hypergamy is so problematic, Ms. Bernstein, why don’t you go out there and find yourself a low-income uneducated husband? How about you stop dating college-educated guys with professional careers and instead start hooking up with working-class dudes or low-status nerds living in their mother’s basements?

Of course she’s not going to do any such thing because, in her feminist worldview, women are never the problem. If Donald Trump won the election, it’s because men — who are inherently bad — voted for Trump. And if contemporary dating culture is “messed up,” this can’t be blamed on anything that women are doing; no, men are to blame, because men are always to blame. This is how Sarah Bernstein thinks, and no argument will ever persuade her otherwise, mainly because she would never encounter such an argument, living as she does in a liberal cocoon, an echo chamber of ideology conformity where dissent is not permitted.

Trump’s election has provoked a state of cognitive dissonance among liberals, who are struggling to explain to themselves how something they deemed impossible could have become reality, thus leading to what Mark Halperin accurately predicted as “the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.” Sarah Bernstein is Patient Zero.



 

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FMJRA 2.0: Roster Like A Hole

Posted on | December 1, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Roster Like A Hole

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not looking forward to the impending 1973 draft in Pete’s league. After relying on Ken McMullen for so many years as my go-to third baseman, I have to find somebody else to fill in since Ken’s missing most of the season. Also, a bunch of my regulars from last season turned into pumpkins, so I need replacements for them, too, and I need to completely rebuild the bullpen after last season’s disaster. Going to be interesting.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

omfg what happened to Super Jew?

FMJRA 2.0: Not Thinking About Baseball For Once
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: Nothing’s Fishy
Animal Magnetism
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In The Mailbox: 11.25.24
A View From The Beach
EBL
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The Agony of #NeverTrump: His Comeback Has Destroyed Their Prestige
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Evening Edition)
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EBL
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Happy Thanksgiving to All!
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Democrats: Please Do Not Listen to Advice From This Attractive Young Woman
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In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Belated Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Edition)
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Black Friday Evening Edition)
EBL
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Top linkers for the week ending November 29:

  1.  (tied) A View From The Beach & EBL (10)
  2.  357 Magnum (8)

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Are Democrats Starting to Get a Clue?

Posted on | November 30, 2024 | 1 Comment

In case anybody missed the message yesterday, I am against Democrats figuring out why they lost the election. My preference is for them to engage in a lot of finger-pointing and misguided scapegoating, making excuses and engaging in self-serving rationalization, rather than learning their lessons and correcting their actual errors. We want Democrats to stay clueless, to keep drifting leftward into fringe irrelevance and permanent minority status. So this story is not good news:

Democrat senators are reportedly admitting their party’s failure on border security was part of the reason President-elect Donald Trump (R) won the 2024 election.
During a recent meeting, the senators discussed why their party lost the election, the Hill reported Friday. . . .
One Democrat senator said, “We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable. We utterly mismanaged that issue, including our Democratic caucus here.” . . .
According to the Hill, Democrat lawmakers said they lost a lot of votes because of how their party handled border issues and they want to figure out why Vice President Kamala Harris (D), who lost to Trump, failed to secure the seven battleground states:

“We need to look at exactly what happened. We know we lost men, we lost Hispanics, we lost women. We’re not connecting with people, but also it’s part of the pendulum swinging” back to the right and “Trump appealing to people in ways” that Harris couldn’t, said a third Democratic senator who requested anonymity to comment on internal Senate Democratic Caucus discussions about what went wrong.
This lawmaker said social media platforms such as X — formerly known as Twitter — and TikTok spread Trump’s message more effectively than Biden’s or Harris’s.

So, it’s bad news that Democrats realize they “utterly mismanaged” the immigration issue — we’d prefer them to remain oblivious, of course — but at the same time, we can take consolation that they’re still trying to frame this as a “message” failure, rather than actually admitting Democrats are wrong in terms of the underlying policy question.

We don’t want Democrats to be right on immigration. We want them to keep singing from the oper-borders hymnal, openly espousing their real preferences — Democraats love foreigners, because Democrats hate Americans. “The Great Replacement” is not a right-wing conspiracy theory, it is the actual policy of the Democratic Party. And please, Democrats, don’t ever change. Keep on keeping on, and we will keep voting against you, and you will never win another election.



 

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In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Black Friday Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 30, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Black Friday Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: MAGA Trumpsgiving, also, Downfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election
Twitchy: JD Vance Triggers The Left & Makes America Laugh Again, Writer’s Ridiculous Rant About Buc-ee’s Fuels Readers Roadside Rage, and Democrats Melt Down As Joe Rogan Entertains Second Trump interview – At Mar-A-Lago
Louder With Crowder: Scott Presler Demolishes CNN Reporter’s Trying To Paint Him And Conservatives As Violent
Vox Popoli: Thanksgiving Sale: Libraria Edition, also, Too Egregious for Employment
According To Hoyt: Eighties Democrats, Things To Be Thankful For, and The Great, Extraordinary Winter Fundraiser
Monster Hunter Nation: 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #21 – The War Begins
Based Book Sale: Based Book Projects – And the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale!

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American Conservative: When Suburbia Was Weird
American Greatness: Standing Firm: BSU Women’s Volleyball Team Forfeits Semi-final Match Against Team with Male Player, also, A Top Priority for the Musk/Ramaswamy DOGE Commission: Decentralizing the Federal Government
American Thinker: This Thanksgiving, Let Us Listen, also, Noonan’s Downfall
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Rule Five LUCA Friday
Babalu Blog: As relief materials pour into Cuba from abroad, the dictatorship keeps selling those goods to disaster victims, Cuban dictator’s stepson sports $3,400 outfit in Madrid alongside possibly pregnant actress Ana de Armas, The state of tourism in communist Cuba, and Cruel Joke of the Day: Cuba’s fake president promises bright future ahead through ‘perfection of the socialist model’
BattleSwarm: A Babylon Bee Thanksgiving, also, Prepper/Black Friday Shopping Guide
Behind The Black: “Toxic smell” at Progress hatch was hypergolic fuel, Strange mesas in the glacier country of Mars, Russia launches radar satellite, Update on Astroscale’s mission to de-orbit a OneWeb satellite, and Lincoln proclaims a day of Thanksgiving — in the middle of the Civil War
Cafe Hayek: The Market Is Rational, Words Matter, and Twenty Years Ago Today at Cafe Hayek: The Importance of the Margin
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Make Family Holidays Great Again, also, What do American Indians Have to be Thankful For?
Da Tech Guy: A Happy But Sad Story of Black Lives Actually Mattering (plus a warning), This Thanksgiving every American should be Thankful that President Trump defeated Kamala Harris, and Trump will be a great 70% President and That’s OK
Don Surber: Watching the left lose
First Street Journal: Oh, those poor babies!
Gates Of Vienna: Giving Thanks for the Marvelous Peace of God, ISIS Plans to Blow Up Heinz in Mainz, and Pay Up, Islamophobe!
The Geller Report: Declassified Susan Rice Email Confirms Michael Flynn Was Personally Targeted In Oval Office Meeting, also, Another Late Counting Race Flips From Republican to Democrat
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan Hails Trump’s ‘Progressive’ Free Speech Fight, also, Is This the Craziest Trigger Warning Yet?
The Lid: Shocking Map Shows How All 50 States Moved to the Right on Election Day
Legal Insurrection: Russia Reportedly Now Recruiting Yemen Fighters For Ukraine War, German Security Services Warn of Jihadist Attacks on Christmas Markets, Thugs Attack and Board Jewish Foundation School Buses in England While Shouting ‘F**k Israel’ at Children, Tech Billionaire Tells Joe Rogan the Govt. Plan ‘to Control AI’ is Why He Left WH Meeting, Endorsed Trump, and Democrat Megadonor Suggests Political Career of Kamala Harris is Finished
Michele Catalano: a holiday in retail
Nebraska Energy Observer: Happy Thanksgiving, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: The Lone Star Showdown Is Back, Multiple Colorado State Volleyball Players Kneel During National Anthem At MWC Tournament, Dabo Swinney Goes After Notre Dame, SEC, CFB Playoff Selection Committee, Columbus Blue Jackets’ Mathieu Olivier Is A One-Man Wrecking Crew Against Calgary Flames,, and Sofia Vergara Starts The Holiday Season In A Bikini, Rosie O’Donnell Meltdown Pt. 3 & Tiff Ann’s T-Day Dress
Power Line: Insurrection at DOD? The doctor who came in from the fringe, Men Who Think Slogans and Talk Bullets, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Donalds Claims U.S. Currently Leaderless Under Biden
Shot In The Dark: Hear Me Out, Worse For Wear, Thanksgiving 2024, and How It Started
STUMP: Movember 2024 – Testicular Cancer Trends 1999-2023
The Political Hat: Happy Thanksgiving for 2024!
This Ain’t Hell: Follow-up on OLD case, Valor Friday, Donald Trump nominates John Phelan for Secretary of the Navy, Team Biden imposes sanctions on Venezuelan officials for post-election crackdown, and Man arrested for making threats against Donald Trump and his family
Transterrestrial Musings: On Getting Along On Thanksgiving, also, Marc Andreeson
Victory Girls: Democrats Consider Their 2028 Presidential Candidate Options
Watts Up With That: Loving the Brine Shrimp: Hydrosexuals, Queer Theory, and the Posthumanities’ Descent into Madness, British Government Climate Advisors Demand Everyone Live like Poor People, and Dairy cows given synthetic additive in feed to hit net zero
The Federalist: Al Michaels’ Quirks Define Amazon’s NFL Broadcasts, MN City ‘Likely Disposed Of’ 21 Ballots In Race Decided For Dem Candidate By 14 Votes, Parents Keep Filling Up Schools Where Children Learn To Love Western Civilization, Lori Chavez-DeRemer Would Be A Disaster As Labor Secretary, and Trump’s Victory Alone Won’t Make America Great Again. We Have To Do That Ourselves
Mark Steyn: Talking Turkey, Puccini in Avalon, Theme from New York, New York, Over the River & Through the Years, and Black Friday Specials at SteynOnline

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In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Belated Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Edition)

Posted on | November 29, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Belated Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today’s illo is by @N_chanAGE on X, based on a panel from the Kamen America webtoon.
Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving!
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“Hehehe, I’m just a humble Pilgrim, sir…”

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Thanksgiving Night Girls With Guns
Twitchy: NYT Report On What “Progressive Influencers” Want Shows The Left Still Doesn’t Get It, Projection Alert!, and Tone Deaf White House Cuts Down NC Tree That Survived Hurricane Helene For Christmas Decor
Vox Popoli: Occupied Britain, Happy Thanksgiving, Refuse to Play – Refuse to Lose, Winning is Not on the Table, and Excellence in Everything
Born Lucky: The meaning of Thanksgiving
Postcards From Barsoom: Shameless shillposting
Upstream Reviews: A Quick Word On Star Trek: Unification

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Don Surber: Thank the Lord for the Pilgrims
Glenn Reynolds: Giving Thanks
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Happy Thanksgiving

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Democrats: Please Do Not Listen to Advice From This Attractive Young Woman

Posted on | November 29, 2024 | Comments Off on Democrats: Please Do Not Listen to Advice From This Attractive Young Woman

One of the great things about being an ex-Democrat is that you don’t have to stop hating Republicans, you just hate them for different reasons. Like, when I was a Democrat, I hated Republicans for being greedy warmongers, but now I hate them for being phony sellouts who pay lip service to conservative principles, but never conserve anything. As a Democrat, I wanted Republicans to be more “moderate” (i.e., willing to vote support Democratic policies) but now I despite all “moderates.” The more right-wing, the better, as far as I’m concerned. You can take John Thune and John Cornyn and put them on the same boat with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and leave them all together on an ice floe.

One of the things that puts me at odds with most other journalists is that I didn’t become a journalist because of politics. I became a journalist because I needed a job, and as a small-town newspaper reporter, politics doesn’t really matter. You’re not trying to change the world or influence people’s opinions, you’re just trying to get the facts right and file your story before deadline. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-30s that I stopped being a Democrat, and then got hired at the Washington Times, and everything else has proceeded from there. But I was never a Young Republican type and didn’t spend my youth doing the kind of things that most would-be political commentators do, which is important to explaining my renegade attitude toward politics, generally.

All that is preamble to my praise of @Shoe0nHead. Back in the day — 10 years ago or thereabouts — I remember being a fan of hers on Twitter and sort of assumed she was a conservative, but in fact, she’s a kind of female Bernie Bro, a left-wing populist who hated Hillary Clinton for basically the same reason I hate John Cornyn, i.e., for being an unprincipled sellout. She no doubt strongly disagrees with me on most policy issues, but shares my contempt for “mainstream” politics and “establishment” politicians, and is hated by a lot of her fellow leftists simply because she tells the truth about such things. She did a post-election analysis of why Democrats lost that is so on-target that you simply must watch it:

 

It’s very important that Democrats ignore her advice, because otherwise, Democrats might win the next election, and bad things always happen when Democrats win elections. In the aftermath of their latest shocking defeat, the last thing we want is for Democrats to get a clue about why their “joy” campaign with Kamala Harris didn’t work. Please, Democrats, keep nominating idiots like Kamala Harris forever. Keep pandering to your grassroots “base” of disgruntled identity-politics crybabies and deranged fanatics who shut down Thanksgiving parades while chanting pro-Hamas slogans. That is obviously such a winning formula!

Sooner or later, I suspect, @Shoe0nHead will just give up on the Democratic Party, as everybody with any common sense eventually does. Whatever issue you care most about — the thing that makes you identify as a Democrat — one day the Democratic Party will fuck you over on that issue. They’ll sell you out in a heartbeat, if they think they can get some kind of advantage out of it, and if you complain about getting fucked over by Democrats, they’ll tell you that you are the problem.

Just ask my friend Cynthia Yockey, a lesbian ex-Democrat who somehow ended up as a Republican Party activist in Iowa, where she just helped Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks get reelected by a razor-thin margin.

Cynthia was (and in some sense, still is) a devoted feminist who, in 2008, was enraged by the Obama campaign’s mistreatment of Hillary Clinton. Eight years later, she supported Trump over Clinton and, while Cythnia can tell her own story, I’m sure she will agree with me that the great thing about being an ex-Democrat is that, at least when you get fucked over by the Republicans, they don’t call it “social justice.” See, that’s why this transgender thing was such a loser for Kamala Harris: Democrats are telling women that “social justice” requires them to surrender their rights and yield everything to men in dresses. And never mind the fact that thousands of young women are being permanently mutilated because of what I’ve called “The Rocky Horror Ideology Show.” Democrats insist that this is “progressive,” and therefore Cynthia Yockey or any other woman who objects to it must be denounced as a traitorous enemy.

Whose fault is it that Democrats lost? @Shoe0nHead is telling them exactly why they lost, which means that she is now a traitorous enemy, too. Anybody who tells the truth is an enemy to Democrats. And so, if the American people value truth, Democrats will keep losing elections forever. Let’s just hope they don’t listen to @Shoe0nHead.



 

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