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Obama’s Legacy Is Still Kicking

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

As I stand adjacent the crater
Of “Obama’s legacy”, who’s the debater,
Saying that No-Talent Rodeo Clown
Sought to bring us ought but down?

Call him “idealist”; call him “naive”;
Call him “brilliant”: did he deceive?
Or was he as honest as they get:
Postmodernists against the simple truth bet.

Who say “It is all just so much baloney.
Fake it until you are no longer phony.”
Falsehood is a tactical call,
A lying Lucy teeing a ball.

And Charlie, be he white or Brown,
Simpleton running, bearing down,
Kicks and misses, cratering, then,
Strategically blaming others again.

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats

‘Too Valuable’

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

Eric Schneiderman (right) poses with other sleazy Democrats.

Another “progressive” Democrat is exposed as a vile scumbag:

New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman has resigned, just hours after it was reported that he had been accused of violent assaults on women he had dated. These allegations, which include threats that Schneiderman made to stalk and kill the women if they told on him, came as a shock — except to anyone who has followed his career in politics. Schneiderman’s louche ethics have been well known. You didn’t need an “in” at Albany watering holes; just reading the newspapers would have told you plenty.
In 2010, when Schneiderman first ran for statewide office, he was involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then a state senator, he claimed to have been a passenger in his own car when his 22-year-old staffer Rachel Kagan — niece of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan — smashed into a parked car and drove away, after causing $3,000 worth of damage. A passerby witnessed the crash and wrote down Schneiderman’s license plate. Schneiderman later told the owner of the parked car that he “disciplined the staffer,” and offered to pay for the damage, though his office insisted that it was “outrageous” to call the incident a hit-and-run.
Schneiderman later had a brush with trouble regarding his close relations with prominent Hasidic businessman Moshe Stern, the federal government’s chief informant in a major 2013 corruption case involving former state senate president Malcolm Smith. . . .
In 2014, when Schneiderman ran for reelection, Randy Credico, a comedian and New York City gadfly who perennially runs for local office on the issue of drug legalization, alleged that he had sniffed cocaine with Schneiderman, then a state senator, in the back of a bar. Schneiderman denied it, admitting to having used marijuana and cocaine up until 1998, but Credico insisted that Schneiderman was doing “bumps” of white powder with him and a group of others. Given the reports from women he dated and beat that Schneiderman was a raging alcoholic who would routinely bring a bottle of scotch to bed, Credico’s story sounds more credible.
Plenty of hints existed, then, that Schneiderman’s public image was not the whole story. And there were rumors about his private life, too, as suggested by President Trump’s 2013 tweet, “Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone—next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner.”
But Schneiderman was such an exemplar of a progressive-activist hero — suing Exxon, working in concert with Robert Mueller to obtain pardon-proof convictions against Trump associates, speaking at the Women’s March — that people who probably knew better looked away from evidence of his wrongdoing. Even the closest friends of one of Schneiderman’s victims encouraged her not to speak out, “arguing that Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit on Twitter.)

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 05.07.18

Posted on | May 7, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Reanimated Brains – What Could Go Wrong?
Twitchy: Kanye Gave Ta-Nehisi Coates A Raging Case Of Verbal Diarrhea & Racism
Louder With Crowder: Alyssa Milano Shares “NoRA” Gun Violence “Bill Of Rights”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Late, Late Edition, also, The Likelihood Is That You Are Not Red-Pilled
American Power: Chloe Sevigny On Why She Didn’t Join In #MeToo, also, Political Scientist Ned Lebow Won’t Apologize For Lingerie Joke
American Thinker: Judge Ellis Wants To See Mueller’s Fishing License
Animal Magnetism: Dad (1923-2018)
BattleSwarm: Waco Biker Trials Update – More Dismissals, also, Did Kerry Tell The Palestinians Not To Make Peace?
Bring The HEAT: AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, STEM And The Education Of A Navy Leader – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Bringing Back Second Fleet…And Maybe Some Real Training, also, Will 2018 Be The Year Of Glamor Shots For The Democrats?
Don Surber: Blankenship May Be Up 16, also, Media Lies Are The Real Scandal
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, A Goddess For Our Times
The Geller Report: San Diego Area School Has Mural With Trump’s Head On A Spear, also, Facebook Accused Of Introducing Jihadis To Each Other
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: “March For Our Rights” Nationwide Rally Led by Legal Immigrant, also, Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Not Going Out Gracefully
JustOneMinute: Like They Can Help Themselves, also, Resistance Journalism, Kerry The Shadow Secretary, And The Logan Act
Legal Insurrection: McCain Regrets Choosing Palin As Running Mate, also, Retired LTC Oliver North Taking Over As NRA President
Power Line: Mysteries Of The Probe (1) and (2), also, Admiral Cuomo Prepares For War
Shark Tank: Nelson Makes Puerto Rico His Second Home, also, Gubernatorial Candidates Weigh In On D’Souza Controversy
Shot In The Dark: Things That Keep Democrats Up At Night, also, “Great Job, Rahm”
STUMP: Mornings With Meep – A Modest Proposal For Social Security
The Political Hat: Dear Comrade Bernie, The Hunger Games Is Not A How-To Guide
This Ain’t Hell: AP Goes All In For Manning, also, Dan Helmer, Gun Show Loophole Liar
Victory Girls: The Maverick In Winter
Weasel Zippers: Jihadi Work Accident – 11 Killed When Bomb Detonates Prematurely In Mosque, also, Illinois Counties Declare “Sanctuary Status” For Gun Owners
Mark Steyn: Scouts’ Honor, also, The Matter Of Size


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Category: Linkagery

Notorious Transgender Activist Compares Feminist Critics to Drug Addicts

Posted on | May 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Feminist critics of transgenderism are “dogmatic” and debating them is “pointless,” according to Char Vortryss, a member of a controversial group that will hold a panel Saturday at the San Francisco Public Library.

“Until you come to understand that your dogma is harmful [and] decide to find another way, ‘debate’ is pointless,” Vortryss said in a Twitter thread. “It’s like with an addict. Interventions don’t work. You gotta find your own bottom, decide on your own that you’ve had enough [and] want to change for the better. Until then, all we can do is protect ourselves from the harm you’re trying to cause.”

A male-to-female transgender also known as “Char the Butcher,” Vortryss became notorious for having the slogan “Die Cis Scum” tattooed on his/“her” arm, posing with a baseball bat in a photo that was perceived by many as a threat to feminist critics of transgenderism.

 

“Cis” is the antonym of “trans.” Disparaging biological women as “cis scum” was part of a long-running conflict between transgender activists and critics they call “TERFs” (trans-exclusive radical feminists).

Last month, the San Francisco Public Library announced that it had made changes to an exhibit by Vortryss’s group, the Degenderettes, after complaints from patrons about “artwork that could be interpreted as promoting violence.” Among the exhibits in the Degenderettes display was a blood-stained T-shirt with the slogan, “I punch TERFs.”

The Degenderettes library exhibit (above) included a T-shirt by Mya Byrne (below).

 

The feminist blog Gender Trender pointed out that the shirt displayed in the library exhibit had been worn at the San Francisco Pride Parade by Degenderettes member, 40-year-old “Mya Byrne.” A folk singer formerly known as Jeremiah Birnbaum, Byrne was criticized in 2015 for “misogyny” after publishing a poem about the adolescent experience of masturbating while wearing his/“her” sister’s underwear.

Warning against “a crazy-ass woman-hating subculture of straight men who identify as transwomen and . . . call themselves TransDykes,” the Gender Trender blog condemned Byrne as part of a movement of “deranged” heterosexual men who advocate “violence against women.”

 

Char Vortryss is the transgender alias of 34-year-old Clinton James Crawford, who in February 2017 was one of three people granted petitions by a San Francisco judge “to change their gender to ‘non-binary’ — meaning they are legally neither male nor female” according to California courts. Vortryss’s spouse Xin Farrish is also “non-binary.” Vortryss concluded his/“her” Twitter thread by announcing a panel the Degenderettes will host Saturday at the San Francisco library.

 

Vortryss linked a Facebook announcement that included this:

Furthermore, the exhibition of art created by the Degenderettes at the Hormel Center has been subject to a misinformation campaign run by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and far-right extremists. Pieces of the exhibit have been decontextualized and misrepresented in order to draw negative attention to both the Degenderettes and the San Francisco Public Library. The talk-back will feature moderation and steps will be taken to ensure the safety of attendees, but it is important for us to note that there may be greater attention on the event due to the above.

 

Transgender activists have done more that merely threaten their feminist critics with violence. Last year, 60-year-old Maria Maria MacLachlan was attacked by a transgender activist in London’s Hyde Park, an incident that made international headlines. More recently, British police have investigated “hate speech” accusations against feminists, including long-time lesbian activist Linda Bellos, who was “interviewed under caution” last month for remarks she made at a November event.



 

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Category: Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

Rule 5 Sunday: Crash Test Girl

Posted on | May 6, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Fans of the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters show are well acquainted with Kari Byron, easily the most attractive member of the show’s “B Team”. The rest of us probably have only heard of the show because it had Kari in it. At any rate, she’s got a book out now, Crash Test Girl, in which she maintains that not only do scientific questions yield to the scientific method but so can your life questions. Here we see Ms. Byron tastefully attired in an R2D2 dress.

I’m pretty sure this is the droid I’m looking for.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings us Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #244, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; meanwhile, Animal Magnetism goes into the swamp for Rule Five CDC Lies By Omission Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Sarah Edmondson, Cultural Appropriation Rule 5, Linda Vester, Westworld Season 2, OMG Please No, Mercedes Schlapp, Sophia Hutchins, Split, Jojo Fletcher, Stretch, May The 4th Be With You, Vintage Hollywood Cinco De Mayo, and Derby Day Rule 5.

A View From The Beach gives us Amanda Peet, Paging Dr. Frankenstein!, The Revolving Door of Russiagate, “Stacy’s Mom”, First World Problems, More Random Russiagate, In New York, Pussy Grabs You, America is Ready for Sexbots, Soulless Ginger Attempts Humor, Fails, Wind Farms Foul Weather Forecasts, and I’m Not Sure This is Sound Science, But Why Take Chances?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Olga Kurylenko, his Vintage Babe is Nancy Kovack, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Griffin. At Dustbury, it’s it’s Marilyn Milian and Adele.


Thanks to everyone for their luscious linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Mexican Radio

Posted on | May 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Bikini Barrel Racing?
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

The Rhetoric of ‘Social Justice’
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Other Podcast: Episode 10
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Exactly What You Wanted
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.30.18
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 05.01.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Yes, America, Erynn Brook Hates You
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 05.02.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

‘Preying on Vulnerable Teenagers’?
EBL

What the Democrat Party Wants to Teach America’s Children About ‘Gender’
EBL

‘Big Brother’ Gets a Sex-Change
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 05.03.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Some Advice for You ‘Incel’ Losers
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 05.04.18
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (14)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach & Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Predator

Posted on | May 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Nice career you had for a while there, Professor Diaz:

Author Junot Díaz has withdrawn from a writers’ festival in Australia after fellow writers accused him of past sexual misconduct and misogyny, organizers said Saturday, adding that a moment of reckoning had arrived for the Pulitzer Prize winner.
Díaz was confronted Friday in a Q&A session at the Sydney Writers’ Festival by author Zinzi Clemmons. She asked Díaz about his recent New Yorker essay detailing his sexual assault as an 8-year-old boy and then asked him why he had put her in a vulnerable position when she was a student six years ago.
Clemmons . . . later tweeted that when she was a 26-year-old graduate student, Díaz cornered her and forcibly kissed her after she invited him to speak at a workshop.
Subsequently, writers Carmen Maria Machado and Monica Byrne tweeted they had also been subjected to inappropriate and aggressive behavior from Díaz. . . .
Clemmons told The Associated Press she believed she was far from being the only woman “exploited” by Díaz, a creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and said she could not bear to think of the others.
“Junot Díaz has made his behavior the burden of young women — particularly women of color — for far too long, enabled by his team and the institutions that employ him,” Clemmons wrote in a statement to the AP. . . . .

Yeah, I’m totally shocked that a “progressive” advocate of “social justice” has been exposed as a sexual predator, for the millionth time.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Education, Progressivism, Racism, Sex Trouble

Transgender Supremacy: Understanding the Ideology of a Totalitarian Menace

Posted on | May 5, 2018 | 3 Comments

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

Nobody actually believes in “equality.” No such thing as “equality” has ever existed in human history, nor is there any policy agenda which could feasibly bring about “equality” in the future. (You could read Thomas Sowell’s The Quest for Cosmic Justice, which has a chapter entitled “The Mirage of Equality,” if you are unclear on this subject, but if everyone read Sowell, we wouldn’t be having these arguments, would we?)

Everyone has their own hierarchy of values, and humans are naturally concerned for their own selfish interests, so it is absurd to think that anyone would propose a policy of “equality” with the intent that this would harm their interests, or negate their preferred values. When we see people advocating “equality,” therefore, we know that they are either deluded or dishonest, or perhaps both. So-called “social justice warriors” (SJWs) are not to be trusted, because their egalitarian “progressive” ideology is based upon false beliefs. To claim that the existing social order is inherently unjust requires the claimant to offer a feasible proposal for a more just society. Students of history know that such schemes have a sordid and blood-soaked record. During the 20th century, Marxist-Leninist regimes killed an estimated 100 million of their own citizens in pursuit of “social justice” and, if these regimes could not bring about a condition of “equality” despite exercising all the powers of totalitarian dictatorship, should we suppose “social justice” could be implemented through the less rigorous measures of democratic governments?

Cynic that I am, it is always my suspicion that those who speak of “equality” and “social justice” seek some personal advantage by such advocacy, if only to enhance their reputations by putting themselves on “the right side of history.” The question of motive always comes to mind when we encounter leftist arguments, and the title of this blog post might well have been, “Why Does Yonatan Zunger Hate Lesbians?”

In January 2017, a couple of weeks before President Trump’s inauguration, Zunger wrote an article entitled “Tolerance is not a moral precept.” This was essentially a clumsy restatement of the arguments that Herbert Marcuse notoriously made in “Repressive Tolerance” (1965), i.e., that the Left should not extend “tolerance” to the Right. Keep in mind, of course, that scarcely 10 years earlier, the Left had demanded (and liberals had defended) “tolerance” for Communists who were, after all, pawns of Stalin’s brutal dictatorship. By the mid-1960s, however, especially after LBJ’s crushing landslide re-election, the Left decided that liberal “tolerance” was now a hindrance to its ambitions, as opponents of the Left might have equal right to assert that their opinions and beliefs also deserved a fair hearing and protection against reprisal.

The subtext of Zunger’s article was, of course, that the Left should not extend “tolerance” to supporters of President Trump, and he chose to illustrate his argument with a curious photo.

 

This photo of a radical transgender activist with a baseball bat, Zunger captioned “perhaps the perfect summary of the appropriate limits of tolerance,” and it must be noted that the person in the photo is a member of a San Francisco group called “The Degenderettes.”

The Degenderettes slogan “Die Cis Scum” was popularized in 2012 by transgender White Nationalist “Char The Butcher”.

So says the feminist blog Gender Trender in reporting on a recent controversy at the San Francisco Public Library, which hosted an “art exhibit” put together by this bizarre gang of demented freaks:

The San Francisco Public Library unveiled an exhibit [in April] featuring blood stained t-shirts encouraging patrons to “punch” feminists, along with several installations of deadly weapons painted pink: baseball bats covered in barbed wire, axes, among others, all designed by men to kill feminist women.
The male creators of the exhibit also included a helpful manifesto, blaming lesbians, feminists and other uppity women for causing more deaths (by “harassing” men with their dastardly opinions!) than all the actual real murders committed by violent men.
The display, launched mere days after the mass murder of women in Toronto by “incel” terrorist Alek Minassian and echoing his philosophy, was funded by the non-profit Friends of The San Francisco Public Library and created by The Degenderettes, led by Scout Tran Caffee, founder of Trans Dykes: the anti-lesbian Antifa.  The group specifically targets lesbians as “oppressors” of men — because they exclude males from their dating pools. The men in the group identify as transgender and consider themselves to be male lesbians. . . .

You can read the rest of that at Gender Trender. Because I have been writing about the conflict between transgender activists and their feminist critics (“TERFs,” trans-exclusive radical feminists) since January 2014, I am quite familiar with this ideological dispute and its participants. Although I am an outspoken opponent of feminism, this is a controversy in which any sane person must agree with radical feminists. There is no such thing as a “male lesbian” and, whatever else one might say about the phenomenon of transgenderism, it is wrong for men who enjoy pretending to be women to accuse people who actually are women of “hate” for not wanting to date so-called “transwomen.”

 

“Would you date a trans person? Honestly? . . . Well, if you said ‘no,’ I’m sorry, but that’s pretty discriminatory.”
— Riley J. Dennis, November 2016

Accusing people of bigotry because they don’t want to date you? If that’s not a textbook definition of “entitlement,” I don’t know what is. If a Chinese man prefers to date only Chinese women, this doesn’t make him a racist, nor does it make him a homophobe but, according to Riley Dennis, heterosexuality per se is a form of unjust discrimination. More to the point, however, homosexuality — specifically, lesbianism — is condemned as “discriminatory” because, like nearly all autogynephiles, Dennis considers himself/“herself” a transgender “lesbian.”

This is absolute insanity, and the totalitarianism of the transgender cult consists of (a) their effort to compel others to participate in their delusions and (b) their attempts to silence anyone who criticizes this agenda. Meanwhile, back in San Francisco . . .

Evidently, the Degenderettes “art show” generated some bad publicity, because the library was forced to make changes:

SFPL exhibits are intended to address social issues of the time. We do not endorse nor advocate the viewpoints of the exhibits. Due to concerns raised by library patrons, we are altering the degenderettes antifa art exhibit at the Main Library to remove a shirt, a piece of artwork that could be interpreted as promoting violence, which is incompatible with our exhibitions policy.

And in announcing these changes on their Facebook page, the library attached a copy of a poster for the exhibit, which included a quote from Yonatan Zunger’s January 2017 article about “tolerance.”

 

Why does Yonatan Zunger hate lesbians? Why does he support these baseball-bat-carrying freaks who want to inflict violence on feminists? Because they align themselves with “Antifa”? Because they don’t like Republicans? By the obverse of that logic, I should be celebrating neo-Nazis. On the contrary, however, I find myself defending lesbian feminists who, whatever their other errors may be, at least understand that the categories of “male” and “female” are biological facts, and not political ideologies or fashion statements which can be claimed as “identities” by anyone on the basis of any whim that suits them.

We must think back to 1938, when Hitler demanded the Sudetenland. The question at issue was not whether one liked Germans, or whether one thought that the lines on the map of Central Europe as drawn in the aftermath of the First World War were ideal. No, what was at issue — Churchill saw this clearly, as Chamberlain did not — was Hitler’s implacable aggression. Hitler had not been subtle in Mein Kampf about the scope of his ambitions, and his totalitarian regime was devoted to military conquest. All radical movements are like this: One is never confronted by their final demand. Give them everything they demand today, and tomorrow they will return with a new list of demands.

Chamberlain and the appeasers never understood this about Hitler, but Churchill saw it quite clearly: To appease such an aggressor, he said, was to feed the crocodile, hoping to be eaten last.

We need not speculate why the bullies with baseball bats imagine they can impose their will on us, and silence all opposition by accusing their critics of “hate.” Anyone who has paid attention to the Culture War knows very well what inspired them to this aggression, and it is intensely ironic that lesbian feminists are the ones now manning the front-line trenches against the bizarre ideology of the transgender cult. Yet it will do little good to recount the history which has brought us to this desperate predicament, or to scorn alliance with those who, in some sense, were complicit in the decades-long descent into the ungodly madness of “gender theory.” No, let us make no recriminations nor indulge any I-told-so lectures now, when we are confronted by the implacable foe. All who fight on the side of truth are our allies, so long as the battle rages.

 

Nobody actually believes in “equality,” and the transgender cult’s rhetoric is an implausible farrago of nonsense. “Transwomen are women” is one of their oft-repeated slogans, which no honest and intelligent person could possibly believe. Hormone injections and surgery can turn a man into a simulacrum of a woman, but this artificial creation is not actually the same thing as a woman, and everybody knows this. In arguing for “equality” based on such fraud, what the transgender cult is actually doing is asserting their own superiority. These deranged fanatics claim the authority to decide who is or is not a woman and, if you deny that they have such authority, they will accuse you of “hate.”

This non-negotiable demand of transgender ideologues — that everyone else must defer to their authority — is totalitarian, an imposition of power, as dishonest as Hitler’s claim to the Sudetenland.

If we wish to be free — to defend our liberty, including our right to speak the truth — we must reject the transgender lie of “equality.”

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.



 

 

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Category: The Transgender Cult
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