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Transgender Totalitarianism

Posted on | June 21, 2018 | 3 Comments

 

Jesse Singal is a journalist whose “progressive” credentials were never questioned until he wrote a cover story in The Atlantic about the growing phenomenon of “gender transition” for children. The article begins by focusing on a girl who “desisted” — Claire, who at age 12 began binge-watching YouTube transition videos, became convinced that she was transgender, but has since changed her mind:

“I think I really had it set in stone what a guy was supposed to be like and what a girl was supposed to be like. I thought that if you didn’t follow the stereotypes of a girl, you were a guy, and if you didn’t follow the stereotypes of a guy, you were a girl.”

Claire is an example of what has been called “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” and Singal’s examination of this problem made him a target for online activists. Bestselling feminist author Roxane Gay called Singal’s article a “travesty” and asserted that the article should have been “vetted” by transgender advocates. What this was, of course, was an endorsement of censorship, and Meghan Murphy — a radical feminist critic of transgenderism — was having none of it.

 

The belief that transgender activists should exercise a veto over media coverage of transgenderism — that journalists owe their “blind allegiance” to the transgender cause — is an obviously bad idea, as Ms. Murphy says. However, the same could be said in regard to feminism and progressivism more generally. How did we get here, after all?

Isn’t it true that so-called “mainstream” journalism has been captured by “social justice warriors” (SJWs) like Jesse Singal, who helped smear #GamerGate? Didn’t Donald Trump get elected president in large measure because he was willing to call out the “fake news” media?

The whole architecture of 21st-century progressivism, rooted in an “intersectional” calculus of privilege and oppression, tends toward the silencing of certain viewpoints, and the monopolization of discourse by those who claim unquestioned authority on the basis of their identity.

What disturbs Ms. Murphy and other feminist critics of transgenderism — beyond the stark insanity of “transitioning” 12-year-olds — is that the intersectional agenda is now being used to attack the definition of womanhood, delegitimizing feminism’s identitarian basis. After all, if Corey Dale Ehmke can declare himself to be a woman named “Coraline Ada” Ehmke, and thus allow an employer to fill a quota of females for the purposes of “diversity,” this will leave actual women with a smaller slice of the affirmative-action pie. In Mexico, which has imposed quotas for female office-holders, it was recently discovered that 17 male candidates had falsely claimed to be transgender “women.”

Many of my conservative readers have enjoyed the schadenfreude of the clash between radical feminists and transgender activists, as man-hating ideologues like Meghan Murphy are hoisted by the petard of their own identity-politics formulae. Yet the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend, and any intelligent person can perceive that (a) Ms. Murphy and her allies are correct in saying that biological reality cannot be vanquished by abstract concepts of “gender” and (b) this conflict has forced feminists to make important admissions about fundamental differences between male and female. And thank God for that.

Ever since I began my deep dive into this abyss of insanity four years ago, radical feminism’s “war against human nature” has been my focus. As I have documented — e.g., in the presentation I gave last fall in Leominster, Massachusetts — the logic and rhetoric of feminism is not only anti-male, but also anti-marriage and anti-motherhood and, in the final analysis, feminist ideology is anti-heterosexuality, per se.

For years, this radical logic was masked by a public-relations agenda that sought to sell the Feminist™ brand as an innocuous commodity. A few months after I began the Sex Trouble project, Emma Watson made her debut as  spokeswoman for the U.N.’s “He for She” campaign designed to convince men that they, too, could (and should) be feminists.

 

Anyone with two eyes and a brain could see that the object of this was to give a celebrity boost to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, but this transparent charade was embraced by any number of progressive “male feminist” types, to the consternation of actual feminists like Meghan Murphy. She raged against “male feminists” like Noah Berlatsky and Charles Clymer (who announced earlier this year that he is a “woman” named Charlotte). No amount of self-abnegation can rescue a man from Ms. Murphy’s implacable anti-male hatred, and there is thus no incentive for men to support feminism, except insofar as such support is necessary to employment in academia, media or “progressive” politics.

The danger of making feminism mandatory, so that anyone who dissented could be purged from public life and branded a “misogynist,” should have been obvious. Imposing ideological conformity not only shielded the feminist belief system from fact-based challenges, but produced on the part of many “progressive” males an envy of feminist power. If all that is necessary to boss people around — to silence anyone who disagrees with you — is to wield the totalitarian authority of feminism, isn’t it predictable that some men will crave that power?

“The totalitarian can never be appeased. . . . Feminists have an appetite for power that is ultimately insatiable.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Feb. 21, 2017

The feminist movement was always incoherent, its public rhetoric of “gender equality” contradicted by an anti-male ideology that, in fact, amounts to an unlimited belief in female supremacy. Meghan Murphy categorically condemns males as sexually useless and socially harmful. Like other feminists, she is against “the patriarchal institution of marriage,” and considers motherhood “unappealing to say the least”: Women have no “real desire” to become mothers, she says, but are instead the victims of “powerful forces at play that convince women they must reproduce in order to fulfill their destiny as women.”

Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy.

No husbands, no babies — this is what feminist ideology requires and, while Ms. Murphy calls herself “heterosexual,” one has difficulty imagining how this could happen in practice. She never speaks of men except to condemn them as misogynists, afflicted with toxic masculinity, wrongfully benefiting from male privilege and complicit in rape culture. If men are as universally awful as Ms. Murphy seems to believe, how could she possibly find any of them sexually attractive? Beyond that, however, why would any man find Ms. Murphy attractive, unless he had some sort of weird masochistic appetite for humiliation?

Her feminism would seem to render Meghan Murphy’s heterosexuality mysterious, or perhaps a moot hypothetical, and this is equally true of any feminist who claims to be heterosexual. The goal of feminism is to destroy men — “Smash Patriarchy!” — not to love them.

 

Confronted with this hateful and destructive ideology, the kind of “progressive” men who consider themselves feminist allies are forced into a degrading condition of servile self-hatred or, alternately, must become dishonest hypocrites like Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein, who prey on women in private while praising “equality” in public. Because feminist theory borrows from Marxism a zero-sum-game mentality, pitting women against the male enemy in an all-or-nothing “class struggle,” feminism makes honest male-female cooperation impossible. Insofar as the Left embraces feminism, the effect of this embrace would logically tend toward purging men from positions of power and influence in the progressive ranks — unless men can become “women” like Charles/“Charlotte” Clymer, Justin/“Riley” Dennis, et al.

That the rise of transgenderism was not a result intended by feminists does not mean that it does not logically follow from their premises. After all, it was not the intent of Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” to trap millions of black people in hopeless dependency on welfare, even though this was the actual legacy of LBJ’s so-called “Great Society.” Failure to anticipate unintended consequences has been a hallmark of liberalism for many decades, and feminists are now confronted by a repetition of this lesson. Having demonized males so that the “cishet white male” becomes what the Jew was in Nazi propaganda — the scapegoat blamed for every ill in society — feminists become enraged when “progressive” men, having internalized this anti-male ideology, claim to be “women” and expect to be praised as courageous for doing so. Is transgenderism insane? Yes. Is it consistent with the logic of “gender equality”? Also, yes.

Amanda McKenna in 2014 (left); ‘Miles’ McKenna after surgery and hormones (right).

The online Pied Pipers of transgenderism like Amanda “Miles” McKenna consider their advocacy of “transition” an expression of the progressive feminist claim that the gender binary is socially constructed by the heterosexual matrix (to summarize Judith Butler’s influential 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity). Because there are no natural differences between men and women, according to this theory, and because heterosexuality is a system of oppression imposed by patriarchy, there is no reason why Amanda McKenna shouldn’t inject herself with testosterone, have her breasts amputated and thereby reject her (socially constructed) female identity.

“This is not what we wanted!” the radical feminists scream, yet the logic of their own theory says that “Miles” McKenna is the same as any male, just as “Zinnia Jones” must be equal to any woman. Why should mere biology be allowed to obstruct the practical results of their theory?

If so eminent a feminist as Roxane Gay can defend the transgender cult, what right have Meghan Murphy and others to say that Amanda becoming “Miles” is not consistent with feminism? The feminist movement has no equivalent of the Pope to settle such disputes, so that there are rival feminist sects each denouncing the other as heretics.

Half a century after the schizophrenic Shulamith Firestone organized the first radical feminist collective in New York (and six years since her body was discovered a week after she died alone in her apartment in 2012) the consequences of her insane ideology have become apparent. Every criticism of the movement made by men was dismissed as “sexism.” Once all male influence was rejected, so that only women’s voices could be heard, the momentum of feminism rapidly shifted toward lesbian separatism (e.g., Charlotte Bunch and the Furies collective) and by the 1980s, “revolutionary feminists” in England were denouncing heterosexual women as “collaborators” with the male enemy.

Having watched feminists wield the whip of identity politics for so long, now transgender activists have gotten their hands on the whip. Their commandments are simple and familiar: SHUT UP AND OBEY!

Clinton James Crawford, a/k/a “Char Vortryss” a/k/a “Char the Butcher.”

All radical movements end up resembling one another in this way. From Robespierre to Pol Pot, from the Bolsheviks to the Black Panthers, the revolutionaries prove themselves to be murderous power-mad monsters, who must destroy anyone who opposes or criticizes them. When “Char Vortryss” and his/“her” transgender comrades threaten violence against their feminists critics, do feminists expect their progressive “male allies” to defend them, and if so, why? When teenagers insist on their “right” to hormones and surgery, does anyone expect progressives to say “no”?

Advocates of transgenderism cannot permit an open and honest discussion of this issue, or the public will take alarm at what’s happening. Instead, as on so many other issues in our society, progressives want to control the terms of discussion, to promote a one-sided propaganda campaign, as a means to produce the “correct” public opinion. Millions of dollars are being spent to promote pro-transgender propaganda campaign, which Jesse Singal’s story has disrupted. Meghan Murphy and her allies should not be surprised their feminist comrades like Roxane Gay are advocating censorship to appease transgender activists, when feminists have so often sought to silence their own critics.

Because I share Ms. Murphy’s concerns about the transgender agenda, this makes us de facto allies in the cause of liberty. I do not believe that the transgender cult can withstand public scrutiny, if people are adequately informed of the facts. Men and women are different, these differences are not imaginary, nor are they insignificant, and they cannot be wished away by saying they are “socially constructed.”

That’s not feminism. That’s simply the truth.




 

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Category: Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 06.20.18

Posted on | June 20, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.20.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Senator Chuck “Fagin” Schumer (D-NY) Reveals His Love Of Little Immigrant Children
Twitchy: Troll Level – GRAND MASTER! Trump Wastes No Time Rubbing Democrats’ Faces In His EO
Louder With Crowder: FLOTUS Takes Swift Action Against Peter Fonda, Calls Secret Service

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I’m A Single Middle-Aged Woman, And I’m Really Happy!
American Thinker: IG Report Confirms Our Republic Is Under Existential Threat, also, Magical Wind Power – Illusions Vs. Reality
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: EU Votes To Censor The Internet, also, Voters Reject Klein ISD’s Tax Hike
CDR Salamander: ASW – Making Your Brain Hurt For 104 Years
Da Tech Guy: SCOTUS Abandoned The Constitution A Long Time Ago, also, The SJC Gives Us A Victory, But…
Don Surber: Peter Fonda Wants Barron Trump Raped, And No Democrats Object
Dustbury: They Got Something On Her
Fausta: Hauser Tango
The Geller Report: IG Report Questions Why FBI Didn’t Investigate Huma’s E-Mails During Hillary Probe, also, 13 Facts The Media Don’t Want You To Know About “Border Family Separation”
Hogewash: Gilmore v. Jones et al News, also, Another Amicus Brief, also also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: On The Border
Legal Insurrection: Colombia Rejects Socialism, Elects Conservative President, also, Tolerant PA State Rep Welcomes VP To Philly With Middle Finger
Michelle Malkin: Weapons Of Mass Manipulation
Power Line: Understanding Hillary’s Crimes, also, Desperately Seeking Supremacists
Shark Tank: Rubio Pushes Family Border Detention Bill In Senate
Shot In The Dark: Durantied
The Political Hat: Legally Motherless In Britain
This Ain’t Hell: Straight Shooters Don’t Shoot So Straight, also, Wednesday Morning Feelgood Stories
Victory Girls: Peter Fonda Posts Vile Twitter Rant, Wants Barron Trump Caged With Pedophiles
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS To Hear Excessive Fines Case That Could Curb Asset Forfeiture Abuse
Weasel Zippers: Obama Rips Trump On Family Separation, Forgot He Kept Kids In Cages And Gave Them To Traffickers, also, Socialist Activist Who Harassed Homeland Security Chief Works At Justice Department
Megan McArdle: Five Shows More People Should Be Watching
Mark Steyn: Bangs, Borders, Blarney, & Brino, also, A Note To My Readers


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Fat, Gay and Stupid: Update

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Fat, Gay and Stupid: Update

 

Flashback to Dec. 14:

Say hello to Albert Maruna, a 22-year-old student at Youngstown State University in Ohio. Albert Maruna is evidently gay, and so stupid he doesn’t know that if you ever encounter a minor on the Internet trying to hook up for sex, it’s actually an undercover cop.

Update:

An Ohio man who police say tried to lure an underage boy with Sprite and a popular chicken dish was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty.
Albert Maruna, now 23, will serve seven days in the Mahoning County jail, WFMJ reported. He was arrested in December after the 15-year-old boy he planned to meet turned out to be an undercover cop.
Maruna will also spend 120 days on house arrest after his week in jail, and will be on probation for three years. He must also register as a Tier 1 sex offender, according to the news station.
Maruna had traveled to Austintown after meeting who he thought was the teenager on a dating app. The police officer told the then-22-year-old he was 15, to which Maruna reportedly replied he didn’t believe in age.
Police, according to WKBN, said Maruna began to develop feelings for the teen and reportedly told the undercover officer, “You are my one and only,” and said he wanted to be his husband one day.
Investigators said Maruna sent naked photos of himself to the teen, and ahead of their meet-up agreed to bring lubricant, a chicken Alfredo dish and Sprite. He reportedly requested the teen wear a jock strap during the time they had planned together.

Only seven days in jail? But maybe it’s a mitigating circumstance when the gay pedophile “develops feelings” for the 15-year-old boy who, of course, is an undercover cop. At least he brought lubricant.

“21st-Century Relationships,” as the Professor would say.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Gays

In The Mailbox: 06.19.18

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: National Martini Day
Twitchy: Chuck Schumer Just Exposed The Democrats’ Whole Border Crisis Charade
Louder With Crowder: Chris Pratt Shocks MTV Awards Audience – God Is Real, also, Hidden Camera – SvenComputer Crashes Another LGBTQ Panel

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Sunday Lifting Thread, also, At This Point, You May As Well Come Out As A Misogynist
American Thinker: The IG Report – They’re Guilty But It’s Okay, also, Sleazy Sex Games And Dirty Politics In The Southern Baptist Convention
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Good Guy With Gun News
BattleSwarm: Labour Live Was Merely Pining For The Fjords, also, Clinton Corruption Update For June 19, 2018
CDR Salamander: The NATSEC Marketplace Of Ideas Ain’t Beanbag
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Media/Left Suddenly Stop Quoting Pope Francis, also, Figment Jesus
Don Surber: Proof That Hillary, Michelle, And Laura Lied
Dustbury: A Woman With Whom You Do Not Mess
Fausta: On The Mend
First Street Journal: Harvard And Affirmative Action, also, Hold Them Accountable!
The Geller Report: SecDHS Nielsen – “Vast Majority Of Underage Illegals Sent Here By Parents”, also, Spanish Students Evicted From Housing To Make Room For Muslim Migrants
Hogewash: Social Justice Math, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Withdraws From UN Human Rights Council, a/k/a “Cesspool Of Political Bias”, also, Trump Says “We Must Always Arrest People Coming Into Our Country Illegally”
Power Line: Trey Gowdy, We’re Going To Miss You, also, I Have Seen The Future
Shark Tank: Bondi Endorses Patel For Hillsborough Commission
Shot In The Dark: Down The Memory Hole, also, More, Faster!
STUMP: Mornings With Meep, also, Taxing Tuesday
This Ain’t Hell: Commie Lieutenant Submits Resignation
Victory Girls: Merkel’s Migrants – Two Weeks To Save Her Government
Volokh Conspiracy: KS Secretary Of State Stuck With CLE Sanction
Weasel Zippers: Flashback – Obama Punishing Mexican Border-Crossing Kids By Holding Them Months Without Family, also, McCabe Pleads The Fifth While Comey & Lynch Refuse To Appear
Megan McArdle: In Defense Of IHOb
Mark Steyn: The Sentimentalization Of Public Policy, also, Live Around The Planet, June 19


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Autistic Teenage Neckbeard Charged With Raping and Murdering Australian Woman

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Autistic Teenage Neckbeard Charged With Raping and Murdering Australian Woman

 

Police in Australia don’t release mug shots of criminal suspects, and their laws require media to conceal the faces of those arrested, but as you can see, murder suspect Jaymes Todd is a neckbeard — the stereotype of an obese, poorly groomed, basement-dwelling teenage geek.

Far be it from me to suggest all fat geeks are a menace to public safety, but Melbourne police say this neckbeard was dangerous:

An autistic teenager charged with the rape and murder of a young woman appeared disinterested and yawned while he sat in the dock in court on Thursday.
Aspiring comedian Eurydice Dixon’s body was found on a soccer field in Princes Park in Carlton North, inner Melbourne, at about 3am on Wednesday by a passerby.
The 22-year-old was on her way home from a Tuesday night performance at Highlander Bar in Melbourne’s CBD [central business district] when she was allegedly raped and murdered. . . .
Jaymes Todd handed himself in to police on Wednesday night and was charged over the alleged killing and sexual assault on Thursday morning.
The 19-year-old man, who police said did not know Ms Dixon, surrendered himself at Broadmeadows Police Station after officers released CCTV images.
Mr Todd did not say anything for the full hour he spent sitting in Melbourne Magistrates Court dock — although at one point he was seen putting a hand over his mouth in order to conceal a yawn.
His Legal Aid lawyer John Riordan argued that Mr Todd’s mental health condition, as well as his age and appearance, would put the teenager at high risk in prison, The Age reports.
Mr Riordan told the court that Mr Todd’s family had ‘indicated his condition makes him socially regressive.
‘He struggles in certain social environments and that may have a significant impact on him in custody,’ said the lawyer.
The court further heard that Mr Todd was on prescribed medication for his condition. . . .

We are expected to sympathize with the accused killer’s “mental health condition” — autistic geeks are “socially regressive,” after all. The suspect’s family are predictably clueless:

The father of accused killer Jaymes Todd has described how his shocked family is struggling to comes to terms with his son’s arrest and had “no inkling” Jaymes could allegedly be connected to the Carlton North attack.
Jason Todd told The Age on Friday his family was stunned when told the 19-year-old had been charged with the rape and murder of aspiring comedian Eurydice Dixon.
“We are struggling obviously — it’s a huge thing we didn’t think we would ever have to deal with in our lives,” he said.
“We had no inkling anything like this was possible to happen.”
Facebook posts from several years ago show Jaymes interacting with his parents and grandparents, and celebrating being in the top 100 Australian students in online education program Mathletics. He also posted about playing Farmville and dice game Farkle.

Again, the geek stereotypes — good at math and playing videogames, but “socially regressive,” and his family had “no inkling” he was dangerous.

Perhaps by now, some of my readers are wondering, “Hey, what’s the deal with gratuitous bashing on neckbeards here?” Well, I found this story via a feminist site which reported it this way:

Earlier this week, Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered while walking home through a park in Melbourne, Australia. Police responded by warning “people” to be vigilant when walking home alone. 19-year-old Jaymes Todd — a stranger to Dixon — has now been charged. Dixon is the thirtieth woman who has been murdered in Australia this year.

You see the feminist angle on this story is “male violence,” as if rapists and murderers are a random and representative sample of all men, so that men bear a collective responsibility for such crimes. Feminism’s anti-male hate rhetoric promotes negative stereotypes of men, generally, encouraging a paranoid fear of “male violence,” implying that there can be no rational basis for distinguishing between ordinary law-abiding men and dangerous killers who exhibit known risk factors for violence.

Feminists want to make this neurologically impaired endomorph a symbol in their Atrocity Narrative about “male violence,” and expect us not to notice that this is simplistic anti-male propaganda.

Notice that the feminist website says Ms. Dixon’s death was “the thirtieth woman who has been murdered in Australia this year,” which would put the country on pace for about 60 such murders annually, or five women murdered per month. There are 24.8 million people in Australia, about half of whom are women. Does an average of five murders a month represent an “epidemic” of violence against women in a population that size? The 2016 homicide rate in Illinois was 8.2 per 100,000, where there were 1,016 murders that year. The population of Illinois is 12.8 million. If we were to extrapolate that rate for a population the size of Australia’s, there would be 2,034 murders annually. Well, as bad as crime may be in Melbourne, it ain’t Chicago, where there have been more than 200 homicides this year, including 29 female victims. In other words, Chicago alone, with a population of 2.7 million, has produced nearly as many female homicide victims this year as the entire country of Australia.

Gosh, why don’t feminist websites talk about “violence against women” in Chicago? Because nearly all those perpetrators are black or Hispanic. You would be accused of promoting racist stereotypes if you were to make the crime rate in Chicago the basis of an argument suggesting that black and Hispanic men pose a particular danger to women, but somehow feminists get a pass when they seize upon a crime like the rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon as “evidence” to condemn all men, collectively.

It is seldom necessary to “get down in the tall grass” and argue about details when countering this kind of propaganda. Too often, men permit feminists to incite their anger. Do not be provoked into defensive reactions or indulge in insults and name-calling. It is far more effective simply to point out that hate propaganda is hate propaganda.

What is implied by feminism’s categorical rhetoric is that all men bear a collective responsibility for everything done wrong by any man anywhere. By calling attention to their dishonest tactics — i.e., implying a prejudicial belief that would be rejected as obviously false, if stated explicitly — you force your antagonist onto the defensive and demonstrate that they are arguing in bad faith. You cannot argue with hate; facts and logic will never persuade the feminist to abandon her anti-male prejudice. What you can do, however, is to discredit her by exposing her use of propaganda tactics by which feminists promote their ideology.

One man is accused of killing Eurydice Dixon. It is absurd — a hateful and dishonest guilt-by-association smear — to suggest that all men are somehow implicated in this obese autistic Australian’s crime. When I describe the suspect as obese and autistic, this seems prejudicial, but it is no less prejudicial than the way feminists routinely use criminal atrocities to scapegoat men, collectively and categorically. It is only because we have become accustomed to this tactic (or are afraid of being accused of “sexism” for criticizing feminists) that it usually goes unremarked.

Am I inciting hate against basement-dwelling neckbeards? Maybe, but if so, you must admit that feminists are inciting anti-male hatred. If we consistently call attention to the rhetorical tactics of propaganda employed by feminists, they will be effectively disarmed.





 

 

Category: Australia, Crime, Sex Trouble

Democrats and Media Are Lying: Behind the Phony ‘Family Separation’ Propaganda

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrats and Media Are Lying: Behind the Phony ‘Family Separation’ Propaganda

 

The media headlines are deliberately misleading:

Nielsen becomes face
of Trump’s border separations
— Politico

All four living former first ladies
condemn Trump border policy
— NBC News

Less Than One-Third Of The Public
Supports Family Separations
— Huffington Post

The myth being promoted by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) is that the so-called “Trump border policy” is something new. This is a media-manufactured fiction — a hoax — ginned up for partisan political purposes. If the public opposes the current policy, this may be because the media have intentionally published disinformation about the policy. Here is a New York Times article from July 2014:

Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking
It was one of the final pieces of legislation signed into law by President George W. Bush, a measure that passed without controversy, along with a pension bill and another one calling for national parks to be commemorated on quarters.
“This is a piece of legislation we’re very proud to sign,” a White House spokesman, Tony Fratto, told reporters on Dec. 23, 2008, as the president put his pen to the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, named for a 19th-century British abolitionist. “This program has been very effective around the world in trying to stop trafficking in persons.”
Now the legislation, enacted quietly during the transition to the Obama administration, is at the root of the potentially calamitous flow of unaccompanied minors to the nation’s southern border.
Originally pushed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers as well as by evangelical groups to combat sex trafficking, the bill gave substantial new protections to children entering the country alone who were not from Mexico or Canada by prohibiting them from being quickly sent back to their country of origin.
Instead, it required that they be given an opportunity to appear at an immigration hearing and consult with an advocate, and it recommended that they have access to counsel. It also required that they be turned over to the care of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the agency was directed to place the minor “in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child” and to explore reuniting those children with family members.
The Obama administration says the law is partly responsible for tying its hands in dealing with the current influx of children. Officials have suggested that the White House might seek flexibility in the law’s requirements when it asks Congress to provide emergency funds to contend with the latest immigration crisis, a request that could come as early as Tuesday. About 52,000 minors without their parents have been caught at the Southwest border since October [2013].

The problem is caused by this 10-year-old law, which passed Congress with the kind of good intentions that pave the road to Hell. The flaws in this law have been recognized — indeed, the liberal media and the Obama administration complained about it — for more than four years.

In a press release Monday, the White House said:

Following the 2014 child migrant crisis, Republicans sought repeatedly to close “catch-and-release” loopholes that incentivize child smuggling and endangerment. As early as October of last year, President Trump sent a letter to Congressional leadership in which he specifically asked lawmakers to “amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVRPA)”. Yet Congressional Democrats continue to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to close loopholes that would put criminal child smuggling organizations out of business.

Congress failed to act, and the Trump administration has tried to enforce existing law while preventing smugglers from exploiting the loopholes. Democrats and their media allies have orchestrated a dishonest propaganda campaign to create the false impression that President Trump has caused a problem which he is in fact trying to solve.

Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are complaining about a “crisis” at the border which they have helped caused, and which is only continuing because Democrats don’t want to fix the problem.

 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Immigration, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 06.18.18

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Lies, Damned Lies, And Democrats/Never Trumpers
Twitchy: Sean Spicier Shares His Plan For Keeping Families Together At The Border, And The Left Just Can’t Deal
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Beats Jimmy Kimmel In Charity Basketball Game

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Whoa! Phat Edition
American Thinker: A Guide To Spygate, also, They’re Calling You Stupid. That’s Right – You.
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Chuck Schumer Says Trump Is “All Cattle, No Hat”
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXIV
Da Tech Guy: Five Second Rule, also, The Unspoken Truth – It Was Obama Who Weaponized The Government, And The Media That Let Him Do It
Don Surber: Laura Bush Shows The Democrats’ Desperation, also, Three Years Ago Today, The Experts Beclowned Themselves
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Woman’s Got Seoul
First Street Journal: KY Dem House Candidate McGrath Calls Voters Un-American, “Enemies Of America”
The Geller Report: Muslima On Portland (ME) Police Force Resigns After Charges Of Assault, Battery, And Resisting Arrest, also, German Pol Predicts Merkel’s Ouster By End Of Next Week
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Privacy Overwatch
Legal Insurrection: Trump Says Germans “Turning Against Their Leadership” On Mass Immigration, also, Legal Insurrection Semi-Annual Fundraiser
Power Line: A Civil Rights Commissioner Weighs In On Children At The Border, also, Does Trump Have “Dictator Envy”?
Shark Tank: Democrats Fear Nelson’s Loss To Scott
Shot In The Dark: The Wrong Lesson? also, Toxic Social “Justice”
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere, also, Memory Monday – Second Week Of June 1918
The Jawa Report: Note From Iran – Annihilate Da Yahood
The Political Hat: Just When You Thought The Rotherham Rape Gang Scandal Couldn’t Get Any Worse
This Ain’t Hell: 2@LT Robert Keown Comes Home, also, Veteran Cemetery Vandals Identified
Victory Girls: Trump Haters Go Full Godwin On Migrant Kids In Detention Camps
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Rule 5 Monday: Shakira Law And The Rock Sharky

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“A wave of the Fendy’s fingers sent the man from the room…’Meanwhile, be thou my guest and I shall call in women who know a little of the rock sharky and we shall dine on sweetmeats and dates’…The dancing girls, as promised, did not stumble much, although considering in how many directions they shook their bodies, it was a marvel that they did not…The dancers wore petal skirts and halter tops, except for the boys, of course, who wore only white cotton sirwals. The Fudir found his pulse quickening to the rock beat, the tinkling zills, and the undulating bodies of the dancers…”

-from Michael Flynn’s The January Dancer

I like to joke about people whose grasp on Islamic ideas is so loose that they can’t tell the difference between sharia law and Shakira, a Colombian pop star of Lebanese descent who has been known to delight her fans by performing the raqs sharqi in concert, and it follows that if Shakira Law were imposed upon us, she might require that all women do the dance. Let’s face it, there are some women who would benefit from the exercise. But now that I have scarred you for life by making you imagine Lindy West undulating to Middle Eastern music, let me make amends by presenting Shakira doing the dance of her ancestors.

I don’t care if she plays the zills or not, that there is hot.

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, Morning Mistress, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #286, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism is next with Rule Five Fleecing The Rubes Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Cheers, Dexterity, Miss Iraq and Miss Israel, National Bourbon Day, Flag Day, Corn on The Cob, Seat Belts Are Important, Elastigirl, Ann Margret, and Bloomsday.

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Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Nicole Mitchell Murphy and his Vintage Babe is Karen Steele. At Dustbury, it’s Kira Kosarin and Vanessa Hudgens.

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