In The Mailbox: 11.15.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 15, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.15.24 (Morning Edition)

Came back to the hotel from my appointments yesterday afternoon, fell asleep, and didn’t wake up until 0700 this morning. Guess I needed the sleep.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

DEMOCRATS: CHOOSE THE FORM OF THE DESTRUCTOR

OVER THE TRANSOM
Twitchy: Lisa Boothe Drops the REAL Reason Eva Longoria Fled America, Another Stunning Woman Announces A Sex Strike After Trump’s Win – And There Was Much Rejoicing, and Joe Walsh Goes To BBC To Urge America’s Allies To Hide Information From U.S.
Louder With Crowder:Parents Go Off On Teacher Who Went On Racist Rant And Bullied Students After Trump Win, also, Disney’s woke Snow White actress lashes out AGAIN, calls for half of America to “never know peace”
Vox Popoli: The New SecDef, A Degree from Havarti, The Turks Cut Ties, Zelensky on the Way Out, and Hispanics Already Self-Deporting
Postcards From Barsoom: The Prussia of North America
Toni Airaksinen: Professor Claims Israel Guilty Of “White Jewish Supremacy”
Upstream Reviews: The Long Moonlight

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Dexter Taylor – A Political Lynching
Don Surber: Happy Islamophobia Awareness Month
Michele Catalano: so long twitter

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In The Mailbox: 11.14.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 14, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.14.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The Trump Administration has announced that Gov. Kristi Noem will be their nominee for Sectretary of Homeland Security. Some military officers distressed by the news.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: No One Is More Racist that a White Liberal
EBL: The Dead Don’t Hurt, Scott Jennings on CNN, and Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Twitchy: Elon Musk Drops The Hammer On Adam Schiff For Shrieking Over Gaetz Nomination, This Ain’t An Airport BRO, and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) Waited Until After The Election To Admit What We Already Knew
Louder With Crowder: Scott Jennings gives BLISTERING defense of “Fox News guy” Pete Hegseth being appointed by Trump, also, LA Police Chief (Of Course) Vows To Protect Criminal Aliens From Trump’s Mass Deportation
Vox Popoli: America is a Christian Nation, Fandom Imperialism, The Charade of Canterbury, Confessions of a Clown 2, and Unimpressed
Stoic Observations: Europe Wakes Up?
Toni Airaksinen: Students arrested for graffiti swastikas to be released today
Upstream Reviews: A Terrible Fall Of Angels,

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CDR Salamander: Your High Value Unit May Not Be What You Think It Is
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Draft Picks, And Then Trump’s Picks Got A Little Crazy,
Don Surber: Trump ain’t wasting time
Glenn Reynolds: Who Are You?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Humpday shrapnel

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Trump 2.0: ‘Siri, What Is Payback?’

Posted on | November 14, 2024 | Comments Off on Trump 2.0: ‘Siri, What Is Payback?’

Donald Trump has apparently decided to settle all family business, and his enemies have good reason to fear his retribution. Like nearly everybody else on the planet, I was shocked by the choice of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General, which Trump ally Thomas Massie says will be done by recess appointment, bypassing the need for Senate confirmation.

All day Wednesday, my office TV was tuned to MSNBC (I watch, so you don’t have to) and they were howling over Trump’s pick of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, which choice is perfectly defensible, given Hegseth’s combat record as an infantry officer with two bronze stars, and never mind his degrees from Princeton and Harvard. If the MSNBC talking heads were howling over Hegseth, however, their reaction to the news of Gaetz as Attorney General could best be desribed as autistic screeching, as the kids say. Their brains completely melted.

Well, first let’s get the news from Associated Press:

President-elect Donald Trump chose Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general on Wednesday, bypassing more experienced options in favor of a loyalist who has built a national reputation as a disruptor and whom Trump has tasked with dramatically overhauling the Justice Department.
Trump also announced that he had tapped Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as his nominee for secretary of state. And he selected Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic member of Congress and presidential candidate, to serve as his director of national intelligence.
The choices continued a pattern of Trump stocking his Cabinet with those he believes he can trust to execute his agenda rather than longtime officials with experience in their fields. Gaetz’s selection, in particular, was seen as a shock. The Florida lawmaker was not among the more established attorneys who had been mentioned as contenders for the job, and even his colleagues in Congress appeared stunned by the news. . . .
[Gaetz] irked fellow GOP members in early 2023 when he filed the resolution that successfully ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy then helped fund a primary challenge to Gaetz that included commercials alleging that he paid for sex with a 17-year-old, an allegation that had been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee — though that probe effectively ended Wednesday when Gaetz resigned from Congress. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and the Justice Department ended its own sex trafficking investigation without bringing charges against him.

In case you forgot, Gaetz’s friend “Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty [in 2021] to six charges, including sex trafficking of a minor, identity theft, stalking, wire fraud and conspiracy to bribe a public official, and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators as part of his plea agreement.” Gaetz’s friendship with Greenberg was the subject of all kinds of stories at the time — one might use the adjective sordid to characterize the allegations — and I have no way of knowing what was true or false in any of that. Certainly, it was damaging to Gaetz’s reputation, but he has been reelected to Congress twice since then, so at least two-thirds of voters in the 1st District of Florida didn’t mind. The AP article makes much of Gaetz’s status as a “Trump loyalist,” but it seems to me much more relevant that Gaetz has a motive for revenge against the feds, when you consider that the Justice Department sent his buddy Greenberg to prison in what may have been a prosecution whose real target was Gaetz.

Anyway, while I’m not a member of the Matt Gaetz Fan Club, his selection as Trump’s Attorney General makes sense in the context of Trump desiring to get revenge for Merrick Garland’s politically motivated targeting of Republicans. It’s not just the Mar-a-Lago raid, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg and the other prosecutions aimed at Trump personally, but also Garland’s use of the FBI and DOJ as a weapon against Republicans quite generally. Gaetz’s job is to expose everyone responsible for those abuses, and to ensure they face some serious consequences. It’s medieval justice — the victorious army has seized the besieged fortress, and the heads of the king’s enemies are going to be hoisted on pikes.

Payback is a bitch, and Gaetz’s job is to deliver payback.

Chief Russia Hoax Collusion spreader Adam Schiff is absolutely terrified. Good. pic.twitter.com/Hm2P7G3VRA

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 13, 2024

Donald Trump's nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General is telling.

In June, Gaetz ripped Attorney General Merrick Garland over the 'justice' system's coordinated effort to go after Donald Trump.

Gaetz: "You've told us it's a dangerous conspiracy theory to allege… pic.twitter.com/ZOPJBx4AKo

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 13, 2024

To all you Democrats freaking out over Trump's pics …

We're laughing at you. ? pic.twitter.com/fxNKatvewa

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 13, 2024

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In The Mailbox: 11.13.24

Posted on | November 14, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.13.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Finally finished counting ballots in Nye County last night. F*** Clark County for screwing Sam Brown out of his Senate seat, just like they screwed Adam Laxalt two years ago.
In other news, Montreal, Oakland, & Philly may be up for grabs in Pete’s 1973 league. Feel free to express your interest in the comments.
Authors! Hans Schantz is recruiting authors for the Black Friday Based Books Sale!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

A summary of today’s conversation in the White House by @skscartoons

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Revolvers – A Topic Dear to My Heart
EBL: Melania Trump says no to meeting with Jill Biden, also, Coincidence?
Twitchy: Don Lemon Joins The Twitter Quitter Train, Elon Asks If Taxpayer Money Should Go To NPR CEO Who Calls Truth “A Distraction”, and A Young Undecided NYT Voter Shares What Made Her Vote For Trump
Louder With Crowder: LOL! CNN will lay off 100s of employees after MASSIVE drop in ratings, including superstar hosts, Woman Jailed After Refusing To Close Salon During COVID Wins Seat On Texas Legislature, and Trump picks Marco Rubio for Secretary of State: Here he is crushing the hopes and dreams of leftists
Vox Popoli: No Devices at Dinner, Why the Polls Were So Off, Nukes are Not the Problem, Clown World Confessions Part I, and The Dawn of a New Media Age
Upstream Reviews: A Deep Dive Into Upstream Reviews, also, Warmaster 3 – Gamboling Coil
Stoic Observations: Relax, I Get It
Flappr: Big TDs Football Blog – Week 10
Postcards From Barsoom: The Cauldron of Reality

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CDR Salamander: Arm The Auxiliaries
Dana Loesch: Odds & Ends – Trump’s Cabinet Takes Shape, What Now For Senate?,
Don Surber: This ain’t your father’s Donald Trump
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – The Return of Trump & NYC Congestion Charges,

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‘A Historic, Flawlessly Run Campaign’

Posted on | November 12, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘A Historic, Flawlessly Run Campaign’

At some point, we will get past the Gloat Zone. Conservatives will begin to grapple with the difficult business of governance, and move on from the cheap thrills of election schadenfreude. Someday, and perhaps one day soon, we will stop mocking liberals and their idiotic “hot takes,” but my dear friends, today is not that day. In the perennial competition for Dumbest Liberal on Cable TV News, you may have your particular favorites — Brian Stelter or Brianna Kellar or whoever — but all of them are mere also-rans compared to the undefeated champion, Joy Reid.

Someone posted a “highlight” compilation video of MSNBC’s coverage on Election Night, which includes this declaration — made before any of the results were known — from the aforementioned Ms. Reid:

“So what you’ve seen in the last couple of weeks, if this is an audition for managing a complex organization like the United States, Kamala Harris has passed the audition flawlessly. This has been, in many ways, a perfect campaign.“

Joy Reid: “If this is an audition for managing a complex organization like the United States, Kamala Harris has passed the audition flawlessly. This has been in many ways a perfect campaign.” #Election2024 #Decision2024 pic.twitter.com/PYNARApL9R

— The ReidOut (@thereidout) November 5, 2024

Not to give away any surprises — in case you just logged on after a week of isolation and don’t know how the election turned out — but “flawless” and “perfect” are perhaps not the correct adjectives for describing how the Kamala Harris campaign was run. Reid’s enthusiasm early on Election Night might be excusable, when you consider that several polls had shown Harris either leading or tied in key battleground states. In Pennsylvania, for example, the final Washington Post poll had Harris ahead by one point, and a Marist College poll had her leading by two points. Even if the Real Clear Politics average of Pennsylvania showed a fractional lead for Trump, no one could blame a Democratic Party hack (which, let’s face it, is Joy Reid’s job description) from hoping that Kamala could pull out a victory there, or in any other battleground state.

As I said before the polls closed, anybody could do the arithmetic and see that if Trump won Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, that was all he needed to reach 270 Electoral College votes and win back the White House. It was past 11:30 p.m. ET before MSNBC called North Carolina for Trump, and past midnight before they called Georgia for Trump. Meanwhile, Steve Kornacki was at the map going through Pennsylvania county-by-county to show that Harris was underperforming there, compared to Joe Biden’s 2020 numbers.

KORNACKI: “This is exactly what the Trump campaign wanted to do.”
pic.twitter.com/M0RYup5XoB

— CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) November 6, 2024

All the signs of a Trump victory were obvious and, about 12:45 a.m. ET, MSNBC cut away to Howard University, where the Harris campaign co-chairman made a brief statement basically telling the crowd to go home because they wasn’t going to be a victory celebration. Then they returned to the studio where Joy Reid said:

“And nothing that was true yesterday about how flawlessly this campaign was run is not true now. I mean, this really was a historic, flawlessly run campaign. … You could not have run a better campaign.”

What was this about? It was about staking out a position, that no matter how bad it was, none of the blame could be cast on Kamala Harris.

You can watch the entire nine-minute highlight reel:

We watched MSNBC’s election night coverage so you don’t have to.

Spoiler: It didn’t go well for them. pic.twitter.com/Gy6HfB9XLw

— America 2100 (@America_2100) November 10, 2024

And now, for the post-election denouement:

She raised and spent a billion dollars in her losing presidential campaign and left behind a stunning $20 million debt.
Now, Vice President Kamala Harris is begging tired donors for more money for her “fight fund.”
In a new fundraising email to donors, Kamala HQ wrote, “Is there anything we can say to convince you to make a contribution to support the Harris Fight Fund program today?”
The memo from the Harris Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee authorized by Harris for President, the Democratic National Committee, and several state Democratic Parties, said the money will help fund races that have yet to be decided.

Absolutely flawless!

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In The Mailbox: 11.11.24

Posted on | November 12, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.11.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I wasn’t going to blog today, but there’s been so much stuff posted this weekend that the notion of leaving it until tomorrow made me tired just thinking about it.
Also, a comparison of David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers and C.J. Cherryh’s Alliance/Union universe.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Actions and Elections Have Consequences
EBL: Justice Sonia Sotomayor Staying on Supreme Court, Rules of Engagement, and European Bison in Spain
Twitchy: Kyrsten Sinema Catches Moron Jayapal In “I Told You So” Moment & It’s Glorious, MAGA Defeats Magazines As Voters Turn The Page On “Cover Girl” Kamala, and Mark Zaid Advises Clients To Flee The Country Before Inauguration Day
Louder With Crowder: Elderly Kamala Harris supporter arrested for hate crime after assaulting two girls for their skin color and political beliefs
Vox Popoli: The Plan is the Prediction, Four More Years and More, Priorities, UATV is the App, and Embrace the Hopium
Toni Airaksinen: Cornell prof denounces Jews, claims “Violence is all Zionism has to offer the world”
Against The Mountains of Madness: Trumpamania Video Edition
Stoic Observations: Anthropology, also, Finding Orthodoxy
Bacon Time: Liberalism – A Family Mental Illness
Upstream Reviews: Into The Real
Postcards From Barsoom: Vibe Shift Of Ages,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Queen of My Own Domain
Gab: The Future of Freedom & Finance

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: A Post-Election Midrats Melee, also, The 11th Day of the 11th Month,
Dana Loesch: The Swamp Picks Scott, Cornyn & Thune For Senate Leadership, also, Rick Scott Screwed Republicans In 2022 & Wants To Do It Again As Senate Leader
Don Surber: Democrats go mean girl on one another
Michele Catalano: waiting for the laughter to save us,
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
STUMP: This Week In Meep – Underwriters, Sumo, & Mozart, Movember 2024 – Veterans & Suicide,

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Rule 5 Sunday: In The Kitchen

Posted on | November 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: In The Kitchen

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Women belong in the kitchen. Men belong in the kitchen. Everybody belongs in the kitchen, because that’s where the food is!
Tonight’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on Twitter.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Fierce, fabulous, and in her lane.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Winning Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Victory, The Ten Commandments, The Last Picture Show, Margaret Brennan, Pasta Queen Carbonara, and La Guillotine Permanente

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Natalie Grace, Fish Pic Friday – Marissa Wil, “To Hear the Lamentations of Their Women”, What We’re Up Against, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends

BACON TIME: Rule Five Butt It’s Friday

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FMJRA 2.0: Folders & Holders

Posted on | November 10, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Folders & Holders

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What with all the hours I’ve been putting in on the county elections balancing board and other business, it’s a good thing Pete was feeling lenient, because it took me until yesterday to sort out my keepers list for the 1973 season. (The deadline was October 9.) Finishing as I did with the sixth worst record in the league, I got to keep 11 players, and here they are:
C Randy Hundley
2b Cookie Rojas
ss Ed Brinkman
if Vic Harris
OF Del Unser
OF John Lowenstein

P Pat Dobson
P Joe Coleman
P Reggie Cleveland
P Jim Kaat
P Carl Morton
Had to drop Ken McMullen because he’s a aprt-time player this year, and the same goes for Richie Scheinblum, who apparently had an injury that kept him from playing full-time.
The draft was going to be on the 23rd, but Pete’s got something going on, and it may get pushed back to the last week of November or maybe even into December. We’ll see.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.