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Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.07.18

Posted on | September 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Cory Booker – I Am Spartacus
Twitchy: New Liberal Fanfic – Kavanaugh Will Win Confirmation But Then Should Be Impeached
Louder With Crowder: Obama Attacks GOP While Decrying “Division & Resentment”
According To Hoyt: Living In Niches
Monster Hunter Nation: Back From DragonCon, also, Target Rich Environment Is Out Now
Vox Popoli: Bounding Into Comics – Negativity & ComicsGate

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It Turns Out That Men Are The Ones Who Can Have It All, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Running Shoes Edition
American Power: NFL Season Opener Fumbles, also, Dennis Prager – The Left Is Your Enemy
American Thinker: Democrat Election Scam Just Chose Wyoming’s Next Republican Governor
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Airline Prices Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 7
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: While Divisive Political Stunts Rock DC…
Don Surber: Obama Is Now The Pussyhat-In-Chief
Dustbury: And A Speedy Cat It Is
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Child Marriage, Forced Marriage Reports Spike In Sweden, also, Pro-Sharia Party Leader Claims Belgium Will Be Majority Muslim Within Twelve Years
Hogewash: Congress Vs. The Courts, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day (and Bonus!)
Legal Insurrection: Barack To The Rescue, also, Cory Booker Really Wants You To Know He’s Spartacus
Michelle Malkin:
The PanAm Post: Colombian President Duque Pledges NewWar On Drugs, also, Conservative Candidate For Brazilian Presidency Bolsonaro Stabbed At Rally
Power Line: Democrats’ Hostility To The Constitution Laid Bare, also, Academic Cowardice Reaches A New Low
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Makes The case For Voting Republican
Shot In The Dark: See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon
The Political Hat: Milk – It Does A Nanny State Good
This Ain’t Hell: Vets Want The Wacky Weed, also, Police Raid Home Of Couple Who Raised $400k For Homeless Vet
Victory Girls: Why Are American Taxpayers Subsidizing Chinese Companies?
Volokh Conspiracy: Discipline Of UNM Med Student For “Unduly Inflammatory” Anti-Abortion Post Upheld
Weasel Zippers: U.S. Job Growth Surges – Annual Wage Gain Largest Since 2009, also, San Francisco Taxi Drivers Told To Stop Excreting Outside Airport
Megan McArdle: Nike Bet That Politics Would Sell. Looks Like It Was Wrong.
Mark Steyn: The Lost Frontier


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Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | September 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

“We left our Safe Space a week ago,” started Randy, striding with his walking stick.
“Yes. The legend said Progress Tower lay toward sunrise. It was true,” replied Jeff.
“HALT! YOUR. PRESENCE. ON. THIS. PUBLIC. LAND. IS. NOT. AUTHORIZED.” a ‘bird’ above their heads made swift, perfect circles and shrieked metalically.
“Is that a LawDrone?” asked Randy.
“I’ve never seen one that small or maneuverable.”
“DISPERSE. YOU. ARE. UNAUTHORIZED.” chided the drone, maneuvering to hover before them at eye level.
Randy swung his stick rapidly. Would have been a homer. The drone traced an arc; crashed; exploded.
The Uprising began.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Who’s Up For A Tall, Cold ICE #TeaParty?

Posted on | September 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Who’s Up For A Tall, Cold ICE #TeaParty?

by Smitty

Patriots:

It’s time to get out your Tea Party moxy and tell the Left to return its shock troops to the Central American crevice from which they crawled forth.

Via the Corey Stewart campaign site:

We’re rallying to support ICE on Saturday, September 15th, at 6 PM outside ICE headquarters in Fairfax.

The brave men and women who protect us from dangerous criminal illegal aliens are being attacked by the far-left. It’s time we show our support for the members of ICE, who put themselves in harm’s way to keep our communities safe.

These are the SAME headquarters the radical left went to, to attack members of ICE for doing their jobs.

Tim Kaine joined a rally to “abolish ICE” on June 30th in Richmond. Kaine’s liberal stance on ICE is DANGEROUS.

Join us on Saturday, September 15th, at 6 PM at 2675 in Fairfax!

Rally to Support ICE
Fairfax ICE HQ
2675 Prosperity Ave
Fairfax, VA 22031
September 15th, at 6 PM
RSVP Website – RSVP Facebook

In Prince William County, Corey passed the nation’s toughest crackdown on illegal immigration and by doing this, over 8,000 criminal illegal aliens were turned over to ICE for deportation, reducing the crime rate by 48.7% in 2-years!

Once elected Senator, Corey will sponsor a bill to ensure all states & localities work with ICE to deport CRIMINAL illegal aliens. 

If you’re unable to attend, please consider donating $10, $25, $50, or even $100 to help us stay on the road fighting to defeat Tim Kaine. 

For Virginia, 

Team Corey

“We must secure our borders, BUILD THE WALL, end birthright citizenship, defund so-called ‘sanctuary cities’, and ensure not one penny of taxpayer money goes to welfare for those who entered our country illegally.” – Corey

Category: Immigration, Republicans

Exit Strategy: Did This Guy ‘Red Pill’ His Way Out of a Doomed Relationship?

Posted on | September 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Meghan Murphy called attention to this Twitter thread by a female lawyer describing the recent end of her relationship, an exit that was prompted by an “out of the blue” remark by the guy who said he found it “intimidating” that she thinks “so much.” We don’t have his side of the story, and can only analyze what we’ve been told by this woman. According to her, he told her he was “depressed because he feels like less of a man around me,” and she says she was “dumbfounded and blindsided by this confession” from a guy she had just recently moved in with and had agreed to marry. Should we accept this story at face value?

Something seems off here and, as I say, we don’t have his side of the story, so we don’t know what other factors may have been involved. If we accept the story as told, this successful man — “well respected and accomplished in his field” — nonetheless felt diminished by his fiancée’s career, despite the fact that his income and assets were significantly greater than hers. As she says, this “makes no logical sense.” He knew she was a lawyer when he asked her to move in with him, but after a month, declares “out of the blue” that he’s “intimidated” because she thinks too much? He’s “depressed” and “feels like less of a man”?

If taken at face value, what does this story tell us? Well, guys, when women say they want you to “share your feelings”? Don’t believe it.

All that stuff you read about how women want men who are “sensitive” and “vulnerable”? This is a gigantic load of crap. Don’t fall for it.

Maybe what happened here is that this guy had been reading a bunch of “male feminist” baloney (e.g., Professor Michael Kimmel) which gave him the idea that he should share his genuine emotions, innermost thoughts, and deep-seated insecurities. Oops — male feminism fails again!

Women don’t like “emotionally sensitive” men, at least not in the sense that a man gains any advantage in a relationship by sharing his doubts and insecurities. Women interpret male emotionalism as weakness; they value men who are stable, calm and resourceful. Being “vulnerable” with a woman is guaranteed to inspire her contempt. When a woman says she wants men to be “sensitive,” what she means is she wants you to be sensitive to her emotions. She doesn’t give a damn about your feelings.

However, that’s just one interpretation, based on a face-value assumption that the guy was sincere. But I agree with her, that the guy’s remark “makes no logical sense” and therefore suspect that it cannot be taken at face value. This could very well be some kind of tactic, straight out of the “Red Pill” handbook of the “manosphere.” The big clue here is that she had no clue anything was wrong in the relationship. From her perspective, everything was fine — she was in love, they were going to get married, they had moved in together — and she was “thinking all is great and loving life” before he hit her with this “bombshell.”

Shit test — Often unconscious (and sometimes conscious) tests that women throw at men in order to quickly determine their social status. . . . A shit test is when a woman gives a guy a hard time, usually for the purpose of seeing how he will react. Because women (especially attractive women) are hit on all the time, they have developed behaviors that quickly disqualify potential suitors that are not of a high enough value for her. The shit test is one way to do this.

When guys turn the tables, the “shit test” becomes the tactic known as “negging,” a putdown that serves to signal outcome independence. The “game” tactics of pickup artists (PUAs) in seeking the “score” can be generalized into an overall “Red Pill” strategy in dealing with women, and shouldn’t we expect that the guy in this Twitter tale would be familiar with these ideas? He’s successful, with a high income and significant assets, “well respected and accomplished in his field,” and he was well on his way to closing the deal with this female lawyer. You’re telling me a guy like that doesn’t know anything about PUA “game”?

Consider this scenario: The guy’s a success, owns his own home, now he’s looking for “wife material.” Finds this female lawyer, probably in her late 20s (about to “hit the wall”) and considers her a suitable candidate. He says the “M-word” (marriage) and she’s dreaming of happily ever after.

At last my love has come along.
My lonely days are over,
And life is like a song.

He invites her to move in with him — a “wife material” audition, as it were. But he doesn’t tell her this, see? As far as she knows, he’s 100% committed to the deal, and she can start planning the wedding. In fact, however, the offer of marriage was conditional, and here’s how it goes: The guy doesn’t make any demands or set any rules, but rather lets her do whatever makes her happy, which is why she’s “thinking all is great.”

Ah, but she’s failing the audition and doesn’t realize it.

We don’t know what she was doing wrong, but evidently — if this interpretation is correct — the guy had invited her to move in so that he could conduct close observation, to see what she’s really like, her day-to-day habits, to evaluate her qualifications as a wife. He’s almost certainly had previous live-in girlfriends, and has an idea of what he wants (and doesn’t want), and this lawyer chick isn’t making the grade.

OK, so how does he get out of this trap? “Shit test.”

He throws this line on her — “You think too much. It intimidates me. I feel depressed, like less of a man.” — knowing full well that this “bombshell” from “out of the blue” is going to wreck her mind.

A successful guy like this can’t be totally clueless, can he? It “makes no logical sense” that he would feel so “intimidated” by her, but it does make sense that, if he wanted to give her an excuse to leave, this would do the trick. Hey, he’s got assets to protect, right? If it’s not going to work out, the “Red Pill” thing to do is find a way to end it quick, before she can make any claim on those assets. So he hits her with this weird “confession” right before he’s due to leave on a business trip (probably not a coincidence), and it’s like a “fork” move in chess: Either she collapses in abject, apologetic groveling (“I’ll do anything for you! I’ll quit my job! I love you so much!”) or else she can walk away.

Either way, he’s a winner.

If she stays, she’ll be staying on his terms — he’s established outcome independence — but if she goes, it’s no loss to him. He’s still got his successful career, his own home and other assets, and there’s plenty of fish in the sea. But if he’d let her stay without passing the test, he could eventually expect to find himself in a divorce court, with an ex-wife lawyer trying to take every cent he had. It is this threat, implicit in the modern idea of marriage, which every man must guard against in considering whether a woman is “wife material.”

Do I know that this is what he was thinking? No, as I say, we only have her side of the story, and have no idea whether this guy was sincere in saying he felt “intimidated” by his lawyer-fiancée’s career. Whatever the case may be, however, he really lost nothing when she left, and has every reason to congratulate himself on dodging a bullet. Better to have her walk out before the wedding than to be crushed in a divorce.

Whatever your interpretation of this story is, at least it’s instructive as a surefire tactic to get rid of a woman: “You intimidate me!”

Let the “Red Pill” guys take note.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Pro-Trump Jewish CUNY Professor Says He’s Targeted by ‘Progressive’ Faculty

Posted on | September 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Pro-Trump Jewish CUNY Professor Says He’s Targeted by ‘Progressive’ Faculty

Anti-Israel protesters at CUNY.

Two years ago, there was a lawsuit claiming anti-Jewish bias in hiring at CUNY’s Kingsborough campus, and now the “progressive” campus mob is targeting Jewish faculty again:

A City University of New York (CUNY) administrator is demanding that the school protect him from a “coordinated harassment and discrimination campaign” that has left him “fearing for his life.”
In a demand letter sent to the chancellor of the CUNY system Thursday, Michael Goldstein claims he has experienced “targeted harassment and discrimination” while working at the CUNY Kingsborough Community College (KCC) for being an “outwardly observant Jew and Zionist” as well as a public supporter of President Trump. . . .
The demand letter, addressed to CUNY Interim Chancellor Vita Rabinowitz, takes issue with what it describes as an “ongoing discrimination campaign” against Goldstein, who is both an administrator and an adjunct professor of communications and government relations.
Goldstein, who has worked at KCC for over 20 years, says he has been harassed and targeted since February by members of an unsanctioned group of KCC faculty known as the Progressive Faculty Caucus (PFC), according to the letter.
“Over the past year alone, Jewish faculty and staff members have filed five internal complaints against the PFC with CUNY administrators,” the letter states.
“There have also been two federal EEOC complaints filed related to anti-Semitism by members of the PFC,” it adds, noting that the PFC “has also been accused of regularly, actively, and illegally lobbying against ‘non-progressive’ faculty members for various positions and employment roles on campus, including elected positions.” . . .
Campus Reform originally reported on the initial harassment of Goldstein in February, when unknown perpetrators wrote anti-Semitic and anti-Trump messages on a photograph that was posted on a bulletin board outside of Goldstein’s office.
The message, “F**k Trump Goldstein. Kill Zionist Entity,” was written on an image of Goldstein’s late father and former president of Kingsborough Community College, Leon M. Goldstein. None of the other images of other former faculty members on the board were touched. . . .
The letter identifies one woman, sociology professor Katia Perea, as a “leader” of PFC who allegedly made several attempts to get Goldstein fired for his views despite having never met him before. Perea allegedly filed numerous complaints with KCC Human Resources and Chief Diversity Office about Goldstein, accusing him of being “anti-Muslim”, “pro-slavery”, “anti-trans”, and “anti-gay.”

Read the whole thing. This is a story that highlights why the Left’s smear of Trump’s supporters as “fascists” or “Nazis” is so misguided. This insult implies that Trump is an agent of anti-Semitic authoritarianism, but where do we find anti-Semites using intimidation tactics today? On college campuses, where the Jew-haters are “progressives.”

There are a lot more pro-Trump Jews than some people might imagine, and when you look at the politics of the Left nowadays, it’s surprising that more Jews don’t recognize how soon they might be confronted by the kind of danger that Michael Goldstein is facing at CUNY-KCC.



 

Category: Education

What Happened to Oliver Darcy?

Posted on | September 7, 2018 | 2 Comments

Oliver Darcy as a young conservative in 2013.

The purge of Alex Jones and his Infowars site from social media is the work of one man, CNN’s Oliver Darcy, who in recent months has been on a sort of jihad again Jones. While I have never been an admirer of Jones (a 9/11 “Truther” who led an enraged mob against Michelle Malkin at the 2008 DNC in Denver), his site InfoWars has published some good reporting about various issues, and it is wrong to suppose that any “right-wing” voice is safe from the tactics used against Jones. If conservatives are afraid to fight against efforts to silence “controversial” figures on the Right, this will produce a steady retreat, as various figures are targeted for destruction the way Oliver Darcy targeted Alex Jones.

What I can’t understand is why Oliver Darcy would volunteer for this destructive mission. I remember Darcy when he was at Campus Reform, the college-beat site run by the Leadership Institute. From there, he went to Glenn Beck’s site, The Blaze, becoming deputy managing editor. In mid-2016, however, Darcy left The Blaze, joining Business Insider as politics editor, before signing on with CNN in spring 2017.

So why did Oliver Darcy — who called himself a “conservative-leaning libertarian” in 2013 — become a Torquemada leading an online Inquisition against right-wingers? While I have no inside information to account for this transformation, and I’m not sure if Darcy has ever explained his anti-free-speech crusade, my hunch is that his experience working at The Blaze for three years might have been pivotal.

Glenn Beck’s operation once generated $90 million a year in revenue, but since 2014 the company has become increasingly troubled, and when there were mass layoffs in 2017, the story included this:

Meanwhile, as Beck himself has acknowledged, his staunch opposition to Donald Trump has cost him dearly in alienated former fans, and even his most reliable source of income, his daily Premiere Radio Networks syndicated talk show, has not been immune from the consequences of his Never Trumpism. An industry observer noted that Beck’s radio audience is also taking a hit.

The rise of Trump was also the decline of Beck, and we may imagine that there would be some bitterness in Darcy’s heart about that.

But why go after Alex Jones? Well, there was never any love lost between Beck and Jones. Beck called Jones a “fascist” and Jones called Beck a “global operative,” so here, too, it may be said that Darcy is doing Beck’s work in attacking a hostile rival. And let’s face it, ratings at CNN are so low that Alex Jones probably reaches a larger audience than the “Clinton News Network.” The primetime audience for the week of Aug. 27 was 2.3 million at Fox, 1.9 million at MSNBC and 1.1 million at CNN. In attacking Jones, Darcy was depriving a CNN competitor of social-media access. And who will be next on Darcy’s hit list? Once a purge gets rolling, it’s difficult to predict who will be targeted next.



 

Category: CNN, Media Bias

Soros-Funded Group Paid Protesters Who Disrupted Kavanaugh Hearings

Posted on | September 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Gateway Pundit reports:

On Tuesday several Texas doctors attended the Kavanaugh hearing in Washington DC. After the hearing the doctors told reporter Adam Schindler that they witnessed organized activists with a bag of cash paying the rent-a-mob protesters.
Adam Schindler later posted a photo of a protester being paid after being removed from the Kavanaugh hearing.
Now the activist with the bag of cash has been identified.
The man’s name is Vinay Krishnan.
Vinay is an “organizer of civil disobedience” who works for a Soros-funded group — Center for Popular Democracy.

The Center for Popular Democracy promotes an anti-white, anti-capitalism, anti-American agenda it calls “racial justice.”

This was an organized mob action. Remember that it was confirmed during Tuesday’s hearing that Democrats planned their disruptions in a weekend conference call led by Sen. Chuck Schumer. But the people who get their news from CNN have no idea about this, because CNN and the rest of the liberal media are promoting the Democrat agenda.



 

Category: Supreme Court

In The Mailbox: 09.06.18

Posted on | September 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Burt Reynolds, RIP
Twitchy: Paul Krugman Fails High School Civics Again – Kavanaugh Illegitimate Because Trump “Eked Out A Win In The Electoral College”
Louder With Crowder: Egg, Meet Face – Cory Booker’s Release Of “Classified Documents” A Giant Ruse

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Demanding That A Woman Do Her Job Is Bullying
American Power: Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All, also, Laura Ingraham Rips Democrats’ Behavior At Kavanaugh Hearings
American Thinker: Is The Queer Reckoning Upon Us?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Ivory Trade News
BattleSwarm: Tucker Carlson On NBC’s Burgeoning Weinstein Scandal
CDR Salamander: Follow The Money, also, Fat Leonard A Big Scandal? No, I Think We’ve Topped It
Da Tech Guy: The Rude Are Inheriting The Earth, also, Imagine How Successful President Trump Would Be Without A Saboteur Within
Don Surber: What If Trump Wrote That NYT Op-Ed?
Dustbury: Too Old To Understand Tech
The Geller Report: Four Muslim Migrants Beat & Gang-Rape Retarded Swedish Woman – Court Sets Them Free, also, Imam Arrested For Involvement In Bombings
Hogewash: A Rose Of Galaxies, also, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
JustOneMinute: Harris v. Kavanaugh, also, On The Fast Track To Crazytown
Legal Insurrection: Cory Booker T-Bones It On Confidential Kavanaugh Document, also, Worst Performance Of Hearings Day 2 – Sheldon Whitehouse
The PanAm Post: Ecuador’s Ex-President Rafael Correa Requests Asylum In Belgium
Power Line: Crazytown, also, The Minneapolis Follies
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio, Alex Jones Argue On Capitol Hill
Shot In The Dark: For Love Or Money
STUMP: Shoe’s On The Other Foot – Police Unions Call For Divestment From Nike
This Ain’t Hell: “I’ve Killed People For A Living. If You Call Me Again, I’m Going To F**king Send You To Afghanistan.” also, SFC Nickolas Clarke Keeps Saving The World
Victory Girls: Kamala Harris Couldn’t “Senator” If You Paid Her
Volokh Conspiracy: Guberspace
Weasel Zippers: Unemployment Claims Fall To 49-Year Low, also, Kim Jong Un Reaffirms Commitment To Denuclearization, Expresses Faith In Trump
Megan McArdle: President Trump, The Small Business Owner With A Big Problem
Mark Steyn: The Handmaid’s Tailspin, also, We The People Who Know Better Than You The People


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