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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Germany Silencing the Jews?

Posted on | July 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The Merkel government is desperate to defend its policy of mass Muslim immigrations, and is apparently suppressing free speech to do it:

A number of my readers in Germany have emailed me in distress. The Geller Report has been banned in Germany. I do not know if this is a national ban or regional. I ask my German readers to advise me if they are experiencing the same difficulties. Here is what my German readers get when they try to access Geller Report.
This is Chancellor Merkel’s response to the catastrophic consequences of her mass Muslim migration policies? Ban truth. Ban freedom of free speech and freedom of the press. It is evocative of another Chancellor of Germany (from 1933 to 1945) who also imposed bans on elemental freedoms. How long before the book burnings begin? Don’t kid yourself, this is exactly how it begins.

This seems incredible, and we may hope it’s a misunderstanding, but just think about this fact: Pamela Geller has readers in Germany. That is to say, the facts are so completely suppressed in the German media establishment that readers in Germany must turn to a Jewish woman in New York to tell them what’s happening in their own country.

What is happening in Germany is that the government is classifying truth as “hate speech.” You’re accused of Islamophobia if you tell the people about the problems caused by Merkel’s immigration policy.

 

Category: Germany

Unexpectedly: ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’ Meets ‘The Higher Education Bubble’ at Mizzou

Posted on | July 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Remember when left-wing students at the University of Missouri threw a massive temper tantrum on campus? Remember how the #BlackLivesMatter mobs were egged on by radical faculty members like Melissa Click? “Social justice” can be quite expensive:

The University of Missouri recently announced major budget and staffing cuts, the latest move the university has made in response to financial and political crises following racial protests that rocked the public system’s flagship campus in fall 2015.
The school has suffered from a negative public image and reduced funding in the wake of the protests. State funding cuts and continuing depressed enrollment resulted in a $49 million budget shortfall. To cope, the administration laid off 30 employees and permanently eliminated 155 vacant positions.
A Missouri state representative told The College Fix that the university is “more concerned about the money, and image, than the student.” College students who decided not to attend University of Missouri said that the environment created by the protests, as well as high costs and unfavorable funding options, caused them to turn to other schools.

This is the “Get Woke, Go Broke” phenomenon (e.g., plummeting attendance and shrinking TV audiences for the NFL) demonstrated in the context of Glenn Reynolds’ warning about The Higher Education Bubble.

“Unexpectedly,” you might say.

Exit question: What does this portend for Claire McCaskill’s re-election?

 

Category: Education, Missouri

Good-Bye, #NeverTrump!

Posted on | July 1, 2018 | Comments Off on Good-Bye, #NeverTrump!

 

Honestly, I’ve found it easy to ignore the #NeverTrump Republican crybabies most days, but reading their epitaph was enjoyable:

The Never Trump intellectual crowd has no momentum and no popular following these days. Consider the trajectory of their would-be leader [Bill] Kristol, who appears to be indulging in a personal fantasy by putting himself forward as a candidate, as his rapport with GOP voters includes trying to run Evan McMullin in Utah to throw the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton. When that stunt failed, Kristol personally insulted the pro-Trump writer Michael Anton for his influential essay “The Flight 93 election.” Then Kristol’s commentator gig with Fox was not renewed, and he was soon accusing Tucker Carlson of “ethno-nationalism” and “racism.” Overshadowing all of these breaks was Kristol’s personal history of being the conservative’s answer to Bob Shrum, a political “pro” who was always very wrong about politics.
Of course, Kristol was not alone in his contempt for Trump — he was only the most vocal and unhinged. Alongside him were other conservatives like Jennifer Rubin and George Will and Michael Gerson at the Washington Post; Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal; David Brooks and Ross Douthat at the New York Times; Jonah Goldberg and David French at National Review; Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg; and Erick Erickson at RedState. A number of others, people like David Frum and Ana Navarro, committed political seppuku early and endorsed Hillary Clinton. Needless to say, the careers of most of these people have been curtailed dramatically. . . .

You can read the whole thing. There is no substitute for victory. The inability of self-declared True Conservative™ types to organize a winning GOP primary campaign, or to persuade voters to support the candidate of their choice, was their own damned fault. Rather than accept responsibility for their failures and incompetence, the #NeverTrump crowd demonized the guy who beat them and also smeared the character of anyone who refused to join their sour-grapes coalition.

It’s not that I don’t share some of the concerns expressed by, e.g., Erick Erickson, about Trump’s rhetorical crudeness or his offensive behavior toward women, and I have always been an advocate of free trade. When Trump gave his first CPAC speech in 2011, I walked out after he started in on a China-bashing protectionist tirade. When he announced his candidacy in June 2015, I dismissed this as an ego-driven publicity stunt until, in September 2015, I got a call from Pete Da Tech Guy, who was covering a Trump rally in New Hampshire. “Stacy, this Trump thing is for real,” Pete told me. “You wouldn’t believe the size of this crowd.”

Hmmm. Not long thereafter, the anti-Trump Republicans began to emerge as a distinct and coherent bloc among conservative pundits.

Who was their candidate? That was the real problem. You can’t beat somebody with nobody, and there was no consensus among the future #NeverTrump crowd as to which of the other GOP candidates to support. Whoever got the Republican nomination would eventually have to share the debate stage with Hillary Clinton. How would those candidates fare against her? As much as I admire Ted Cruz, the visual image of him against Hillary just didn’t look like a winning match-up. Marco Rubio? A much better visual image — the handsome young Cuban-American against the septuagenarian liberal — but Rubio had ruined his hopes of winning the GOP primary by supporting the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty plan. And then there was . . . Jeb Bush.

This was my personal nightmare, that somehow, in the effort to stop Trump from getting the nomination, Team #NeverTrump might clear the way for the Bushies to ram Jeb down our throats. Hell, no, I wouldn’t stand for that, and there was yet another nightmare scenario: What if the #NeverTrump crowd succeeded in keeping Trump from the nomination, and he decided to go the third-party route — 1992 all over again?

Pundits who think of themselves as The Deciders, with the ability to dictate political outcomes according to their own preferences, were unprepared to cope with the effect of Trump’s populist charisma. There had always been conservatives (among them the late Sam Francis) who argued that an “America First” nationalism could appeal to alienated working-class white voters who might not otherwise bother to vote at all. And when Trump won — a shocking upset, decided by blue-collar votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — I could imagine Sam’s ghost chortling in glee, not only at the discomfiture of liberals, but also the embarrassment of neoconservative elites who tried to stop Trump.

We do not yet know how this will turn out in the long run. It is too early for conservative self-congratulation over Trump’s remarkable success although, as I kept asking my colleague John Hoge on Saturday night’s podcast: “Are you tired of all this winning yet?” Trump has forced Democrats to remove the mask and reveal their true character.

A political suicide march’: Trump aims
to inflict political pain on Democrats over calls
to abolish immigration enforcement agency

That’s a headline we never would have seen, had the #NeverTrump crowd prevailed. While all the GOP Smart Guys keep telling us Trump is an ignorant dimwit, he nevertheless was cunning enough to maneuver Democrats into declaring their anti-enforcement open-borders position, an issue where two-thirds of American voters are on Trump’s side.

Mobs of deranged Democrats are demonstrating their craziness coast-to-coast — insulting Pam Bondi in Florida and attacking reporters in Oregon — while the streets of San Francisco are crowded with smelly drug-addled bums, showing what America would look like if Democrats regain power.

Will voters hand Nancy Pelosi a congressional majority in November? That will be the real test of whether Trumpism succeeds. If the GOP can turn back the liberal “blue wave” this fall, depriving Democrats of what by all historical precedent should have been an easy win, the paroxysms of despair and rage on the Left may be enough to lead Democrats into the kind of long exile in powerlessness they deserve. It would be foolish, of course, to let our hopes run ahead of us, to imagine the fruits of a victory that we have not yet won.

All that can be said at this point is, so far, so good. Keep praying.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Donald Trump, Politics

FMJRA 2.0: Station To Station

Posted on | June 30, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Girls In The Desert
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Trump Titanium
Testicle Territory
Treads Triumphantly
EBL

Media Publishes SJW Lies About Violent Transgender Psycho’s Public Suicide
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Desert Plains
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

No Republicans Allowed: Restaurant Owner Ejects WH Spokeswoman
A View From The Beach
EBL

Immigration Facts the Media Ignore
EBL

Adolphology for the Godwin-Win
EBL

News That @CNN Is Ignoring
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.25.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Summer Reading List
EBL

Fear and Loathing in a Highgate Mansion: Johnny Depp Is Decadent and Depraved
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.26.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Heterosexual White Male Democrat Loses Primary to Socialist Puerto Rican Woman
Proof Positive
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.27.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

UPDATED: At Least Five Dead in Shooting at Annapolis, Md., Newspaper Office, Suspect Is a Young White Male
EBL

The Worst People in the World Are in Charge of Our Public Education System
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.28.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Jarrod Ramos Identified as Shooter in Maryland Newspaper Mass Murder
A View From The Beach
EBL

Friday Fiction: ‘Ozzysandersous’
EBL

They Told Me If I Voted for Trump, Gay Men Would Be Tortured to Death …
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.29.18
Proof Positive
EBL

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Radical Feminists: Right and Wrong

Posted on | June 30, 2018 | 1 Comment

“I am a mother of sons and the thought of them growing up within a culture of rampant male sexual entitlement terrifies me. Right now they are six and seven — still innocent, still able to see their female peers as fellow humans — but as adolescence approaches, I fear that a deluge of misogyny will engulf them as they encounter the adult world and so-called ‘normal’ attitudes to sex.”
— Victoria Smith, New Statesman, July 17, 2015

Victoria Smith (@glosswitch on Twitter) is raising three children with her “partner” and, while I’m sure my American readers are concerned about the cost of psychiatric therapy her children will eventually need, don’t worry: She’s British, so the NHS will take care of that problem.

As a pro-life conservative Christian, of course, I’m against abortion, and also a creationist, but if you’re willing to examine the subject from a Darwinian perspective, you cannot really doubt that the world would be a much worse place if, by government policy, millions more children were being raised by the kind of women who believe in “choice.” When it was reported that Lena Dunham got a hysterectomy, perhaps I wasn’t the only person who thought, “Well, that is certainly good news.”

Do I feel guilty about such thoughts? Yes, but then I consider what hell on earth life would have been like for any child raised by Lena Dunham, and remember that God moves in mysterious ways. Selah.

There are so many blessings for which to be grateful, even amid the torments and travails of the 21st century, that the sincere Christian should never doubt God’s gracious mercy toward us.

Researching feminism as an ideology — a belief system, a political philosophy, a comprehensive weltanschauung — has been both a horrifying and instructive experience, requiring me to question my own core assumptions. Many aspects of human behavior that I had never previously bothered to examine were made the daily subject of my journalistic inquiry and, as I contemplated the possibility of the feminist movement’s “success” (i.e., gaining absolute cultural and political hegemony, as is the case on our university campuses), I found myself staring into the abyss — the desolation of all hope for humanity.

 

 

If “The Future Is Female,” as feminists so insistently tell us, what sort of females will inhabit this allegedly inevitable future? Let any parent contemplate this — your own daughters and granddaughters being indoctrinated into this radical ideology, and your own sons and grandsons forced to live under a totalitarian regime governed by such women — and it’s difficult to avoid a feeling of existential horror.

Is anyone surprised that Victoria Smith, Ph.D., spent 22 years on antidepressants? If you were an atheist, you might be gobbling SSRIs on a daily basis, too, but there’s also a Darwinian aspect to Dr. Smith’s mental health issues: Her brother is a paranoid schizophrenic, so either (a) crazy runs in the family, or (b) they are victims of some sort of curse.

Far be it from me, having spent four years researching feminism, to deny the power of diabolical evil to warp the human mind.

Two days before the 2016 election — a coincidence? — Dr. Smith opined:

Leftwing men are worse than right. There’s something almost respectful about honest sexism – “I think you’re inferior and will exploit you”

While I obviously disagree that men on the “right” believe women are “inferior” and “exploit” them, I wholeheartedly endorse Dr. Smith’s assertion about the general awfulness of left-wing men. Indeed, I would theorize that a cause-and-effect relationship may be involved:

  • A. Because feminists only associate with left-wing men;
    and
  • B. Because left-wing men are always dishonest scumbags;
    therefore
  • C. Feminists believe all men are dishonest scumbags.

Perhaps this syllogism is a bit too obvious in its oversimplification, but that doesn’t mean my theory is entirely wrong. The Left generally is hostile to the rule of law and property rights, and why would anyone expect such men to behave respectfully toward women?

Months after Dr. Smith’s tweet, her sentiments were echoed by Jess Phillips, a Labour member of the British parliament:

Jess Phillips, the Labour MP, has claimed left-wing men are the “actual worst” sexists.
The MP for Birmingham Yardley was speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival when she said many on the left don’t think of women “on the same level”. . . .
When asked if the “out and out sexists of the right” were worse than the “well-meaning” of the left she claimed: “They [the left-wing men] are the worst, the actual worst.
“Men said they supported better female representation but, when it came to losing their own jobs, they would say, ‘Oh, you mean me? But I am so clever. I’ve got so much to offer the world’.
“They are literally the worst.”

You see that, in the zero-sum-game calculus of the Left, “better female representation” translates to men in the Labour Party “losing their own jobs,” and these men resisted this redistribution of political power, even while advocating the redistribution of other people’s money, which is and always has been the Labour Party’s economic agenda.

No intelligent Christan could vote Labour — what part of “Thou shalt not steal” do I have to explain? — and so the squabbles over power within the party are really just a quarrel among a band of thieves. Say what you will about men of the Right, if a conservative robs you, cheats you or molests you, at least he doesn’t claim this is “social justice.”

Feminists aren’t very good at either examining their premises or following their arguments to their logical conclusion, or else they’d all be living in Marxist lesbian commune by now. Why don’t British feminists dump Labour and start their own party? A radical feminist party could not possibly be more absurdly futile than Labour’s been lately, and yet there are some British feminists who still refuse to accept this reality. Among them is a young woman named Megan Nolan:

Of course, I understand why the belief exists that left-wing sexists are worse. The idea is that it’s better for your enemy to declare that he’s your enemy and attack you, than to weedily undermine you from within your own side. That way you know what you’re dealing with instead of having to second guess motives and deal with internal opposition constantly. It’s the hypocrisy, the duplicity, the abandonment of supposedly core egalitarian ideals. I empathise with this, I truly do. I’m not going to deny that sexism on the left is hard to stomach. . . .
Sexists on the left are not worse than sexists on the right. This is not only because it’s childish and impossible to rank the worst sexists hierarchically, especially through the limited prisms of parliamentary politics. It’s also because sexism on the right is absolutely not a safer proposition. . . .

Well, you can read the rest of that, if you wish, although there’s not much of an actual argument to it beyond the assertion that Tories have a sexist agenda that is “implemented systemically throughout Britain.”

Let’s cut through this baloney with a machete:

Most of what feminists call “sexism” or “misogyny” nowadays seems to be synonymous with “guys trying to get laid.” If left-wing politics is considered to be the sine qua non of sexual access to young women? Hello, “male feminist”!
Can the left-wing politics of the “male feminist” ever be entirely sincere? Shouldn’t we suspect the progressive guy is running a three-card monte hustle? He conceals his selfishness behind ostentatious “social justice” gestures.
What? You say progressive men abuse women while giving lip service to “choice” and “social justice”? I’m shocked — shocked, I tell you! . . .

You can and should read the rest of that. And when you’re done, please remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Thanks in advance.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 06.29.18

Posted on | June 29, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.29.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tamra Maiochi, RIP
Twitchy: Young Turks Reporter Gets Dragged HARD By Blue Checks For Hot Take After Capital Gazette Shooting
Louder With Crowder: Net Neutrality Activist Threatens To Murder FCC Chairman’s Children
According To Hoyt: Pervasive
Monster Hunter Nation: Don’t Forget To Nominate (Somebody Else) For The Dragon Awards
Vox Popoli: Quelle Surprise

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Juggernaut Of Doom Edition
American Power: Expect Ocasio-Cortez To Be Among Congress’ Fanatical Israel-Bashers, also, “The Only Good Democratic Socialist Is A Dead One”
American Thinker: How To Humanely Reduce Unlawful Immigration And Shut Down Open-Borders Democrats
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Utter Horseshit Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 29
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Two Big Men At PinTastic NE
Don Surber: 84% Say Report Illegal Aliens To ICE
Dustbury: Manage This, Pal
The Geller Report: NY’s New Socialist Candidate Claims Israel Guilty Of Massacring Palestinians, also,  130 Mexican Political Candidates Assassinated In Ten Months
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Newspaper Shooting
Legal Insurrection: Just Desserts – Peter Fonda’s New Movie Crashes & Burns, also, Ballotpedia Report Crushes Democrats’ Hopes For A Blue Wave
The PanAm Post: Daniel Ortega, The Butcher Of Nicaragua, also, Bloomberg Reports Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado Is Respected By Venezuela’s Military
Power Line: How Can You Tell It’s Over For Liberals? also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: NH Gov Hassan Endorses Gwen Graham For FL Gov
Shot In The Dark: Why I Worry About The American Left
This Ain’t Hell: Jesse Iwuji Saving The World, also, Harlan Ellison RIP
Victory Girls: Suspect In Capital Gazette Shooting Had Seven-Year Personal Grudge Against Paper
Volokh Conspiracy: Congrats To Orin On The Oregon Supreme Court Computer Warrant Decision, also, Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Democrats Introduce Bill To Strip Workers Of Rights Won In Janus Decision, also, Tom Steyer Wants Nuclear War To Provide “Course Correction” To Trump


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Category: Linkagery

They Told Me If I Voted for Trump, Gay Men Would Be Tortured to Death …

Posted on | June 29, 2018 | 2 Comments

. . . and they were right!

At 6:20 p.m., [Skip] Chasey noticed that [Doran] George was “not reacting properly.” Upon closer inspection, he realized George was not breathing at all. He then placed a call to 911 and, according to the coroner’s report, began cutting all of the plastic and tape off of George’s body. Paramedics arrived to find George lying face-up on the ground, naked save for the heavy chain and padlock around his neck and chastity cage on his penis. (A chastity cage is a device which locks around a flaccid penis, preventing erections; only the master holds the key to unlock it, giving him control over when the wearer can get an erection.) A trash can in the corner was filled with the clear plastic and tape that had encased him. Resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful, and George was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. Two officers with the LAPD arrived at the scene not long after and interviewed Chasey, followed by McKibben from the Coroner’s Office.
An autopsy report filed on Nov. 22, 2017, concluded the immediate cause was “sudden death during recreational mummification bondage.”

Chasey is a top Hollywood agent. George was on the faculty of UCLA. Apparently, everybody in Los Angeles has a rape dungeon in their basement.

(Hat-tip: An Open Secret on Twitter.)

 

Category: Hollywood

Friday Fiction: ‘Ozzysandersous’

Posted on | June 29, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: ‘Ozzysandersous’

by Smitty

The wizened old man in a land antique,
Sat in the shade before a market ruined.
He hailed to me: “Man, what do you seek,
In the Fair Trade Bazaar of Xanaxind?”
“Some cold water, since English you speak,
If one can such in this ancient rubble find.
How must the former sights have been unique,
When time to this place was less unkind.”

“What, then? This place is glorious,
For hundreds of years a Socialist paradise.
Rectifying at a pace most furious,
That steep, unpayable capitalist price.”
“Socialist works, a despair so tortuous,
Mighty often bring with their ‘nice’.”

—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction
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