The Other McCain

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

Dear GOP: No Zipper Problems, Please

Posted on | March 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Dear GOP: No Zipper Problems, Please

Last week, I got a phone call from a reporter, asking if I had contact information for a certain conservative woman. No, I did not, but the request aroused my curiosity — what’s a journalist, if not curious? — and after a bit of badgering, the reporter disclosed to me that he had obtained screen caps of text messages between this woman and a certain conservative man. Because I obtained this information under promise of confidentiality, I can’t disclose any more than this and, of course, it may be that the reporter’s inquiries will not produce an actual story.

While I cannot discuss this case specifically, however, I can articulate a general principle: If you are a conservative in public life — especially if you are a Republican politician — you have an obligation to avoid any behavior that might become a sex scandal. Or to put it another way, if you have a “zipper problem” (i.e., you’re unable to resist sexual temptation) probably you should not get into politics as a Republican.

The GOP has long suffered from a reputation as a stuffy bunch of puritanical prudes — the “No Fun Allowed” party. This was never entirely accurate, even during the heyday of the Christian Coalition, but it was exploited by Democrats who sought to create the impression (especially among young people) that Republicans were the “anti-sex” party.

Two decades after the Lewinsky scandal, however, Democrats now have a new propaganda theme: Republicans are the party of “rape culture.”

The #MeToo crusade, which took down Hollywood scumbags like Harvey Weinstein, was inspired by the rage of feminists toward Donald Trump, whose reputation as a womanizer — “grab ’em” by the you-know-what — was perceived as a vulnerability by Democrat strategists. So we might say that Weinstein and other celebrity scumbags (nearly all of whom were liberal Democrats) were destroyed as “battlespace preparation” for future efforts by Democrats to exploit feminism’s anti-Trump rage.

No one can go back in time and change the events of their past, and if any Republican politician or conservative spokesman has skeletons rattling around in his closet, well, that can’t be helped. On the other hand, we can say that concern for such issues is justified in an environment where Democrats (a) are eager to expose GOP sex scandals and (b) will be assisted by the liberal media in publicizing such scandals. And young people considering careers in conservative politics need to be advised to avoid behavior that might give their enemies ammunition with which to destroy or discredit them. Particularly in the era of online dating, social media and smartphones, prudence suggests that those who seek to enter the arena of politics ought to be discreet in their personal lives.

Ah, but what does “discretion” mean in the digital age? A man might believe there is no harm in exchanging flirty text messages with a woman who seems to be flattered by his attention, but we have seen (e.g., in the case of Texas Rep. Joe Barton) how easily men can be blackmailed by their formerly “consenting adult” partners. Indeed, some have perceived in such #MeToo revelations an element of “revenge porn.”

We are now less than eight months away from the midterm elections, and it certainly behooves Republicans to be on their best behavior. Otherwise, they will make it too easy for the liberal media to unleash a tsunami of coverage of GOP sex scandals. Is an overwhelming flood of such stories in the works? Was the phone call I got last week just the tip of an iceberg of journalistic inquiries into alleged misbehavior by conservatives and GOP politicians? Honestly, I don’t know, but it pays to be careful.

The Mike Pence rule is looking smarter every day.

 

Category: Scandal, Sex

Lauren Southern Banned from the U.K.

Posted on | March 12, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Lauren Southern, a Canadian who became famous for challenging feminists in 2015, has been banned from Great Britain. She was detained by British immigration officials at the tunnel underneath the English Channel and prohibited from entering under an anti-terrorism provision, accused of “racism.” The argument apparently used to justify this prohibition was not that Southern posed any actual terrorist threat, nor that she has actually expressed any racist views, but rather because she has associated with others accused of racism.

This is a disturbing trend. Five years ago, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were banned from the U.K. because apparently it is deemed “racist” to tell the truth about radical Islamic terrorism.

There was a famous British writer who warned about the Thought Police, but I suppose George Orwell would be banned from England now.

By the way, my friend Pete Da Tech Guy informs us that Anni Cyrus, an Iranian-born critic of Sharia Law, will speak Friday in Worcester, Mass. She would probably be banned from Britain, too.

UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who pointed out the Conservative Treehouse post linking to a story at Gateway Pundit:

Austrian activist Martin Sellner of Génération Identitaire and his girlfriend, American author and YouTuber Brittany Pettibone, have been detained by airport police in England for nearly three days.
Nobody from the US State Department or embassy contacted Pettibone’s family.
Sellner was on his way to give a speech that authorities say would cause “tension among local communities and possibly incite hatred.”

No one is more dangerous than those who insist on telling the truth in an age of lies, as Orwell himself said.

 

Category: Great Britain

FMJRA 2.0: Listening To The Music The Machines Make

Posted on | March 12, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Larger Than Life
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The Other Podcast Returns
EBL

The Transgender Victimhood Narrative Continues to Sustain Damage
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Modern Love
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Left Is Attacking Free Speech — and Helping ISIS Target Its Enemies
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.05.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.06.18
Proof Positive
EBL

History, Race and ‘Science’
The Pirate’s Cove
Darkness Over The Land
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.07.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The Attitude
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Tucker Carlson: ‘Something Ominous Is Happening to Men in America’
EBL

Baltimore Mayor Uses Taxpayer Money to Send Students to Gun-Control Event
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.08.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Milwaukee: More Than 100 Infected in ‘Cluster’ Outbreak of HIV and Syphilis
EBL

Mexican Criminal Pro-Abortion Activist Detained by ICE, May Be Deported
EBL

Jew-Hating as ‘Intersectionality’? The Women’s March Farrakhan Problem
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.09.18
Proof Positive

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (17)
  2. Proof Positive (6)
  3. A View From the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!



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Category: FMJRA Award

Vote Democrat and You Can Get Killed by a Foreigner Who Will Walk Free!

Posted on | March 11, 2018 | 1 Comment

Ivan Zamarripa-Castaneda, poster boy for the Democrat Party.

Democrats sure love them some foreigner criminals:

An illegal immigrant charged with vehicular homicide in a fiery crash on a Colorado interstate bonded out of jail Saturday, a week after the deadly hit-and-run incident, despite being wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Ivan Zamarripa-Castaneda, 26, allegedly fled the scene of the accident on Interstate 70 involving a tractor-trailer that caught on fire last week, leaving the driver to die, according to the Denver Police Department.
Zamarripa-Castaneda bonded out on Saturday, according to jail records . . .
The 26-year-old had bond posted at $25,000, meaning he could get out of jail for $2,500 and avoid federal immigration officials until his next court date. That’s because the Denver Police Department and other state agencies stopped honoring detainer orders from ICE since 2013 after courts ruled it was illegal.
The Denver Sheriff Department, which operates the jail, told Fox News last week that unless ICE gets a federal criminal warrant that Zamarripa-Castaneda could leave detention after posting bond.
“The Denver Sheriff Department will not honor civil detainers as it is considered unconstitutional,” the agency said in a statement.

Is that what Americans want? A coast-to-coast sanctuary for foreign criminals? Vote for Democrats, and that’s what you’ll get!

 

Category: Colorado, Crime, Immigration

Disgusting ‘Trans Lesbian’ Exposed

Posted on | March 10, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Last month, I highlighted Cynthia Yockey’s discussion of autogynephilia:

Autogynephilia is a self-induced, chronic, progressive disorder . . .
Sexual fetishes occur almost exclusively in men, and men who have one sexual fetish usually have several . . .

This kind of “transgenderism” is actually a fetish, a perverse obsession which is an acquired psychological disorder. No one is “born that way,” and extending to such people recognition as members of an identity group in a “civil rights” context is very dangerous. A libertarian might stipulate that most fetishists are harmless, and the Supreme Court’s “emerging awareness” doctrine (Lawrence v. Texas, 2013) almost certainly extends to freaky perverts, who cannot be subjected to criminal prosecution on the basis of whatever weird things they do in the privacy of their basement BDSM dungeons. However, even the most fanatical libertarian might pause when considering the possibility of a middle-aged weirdo with all kinds of bizarre fetishes identifying as female as a way to gain access to unsuspecting women and girls.

“Doxxing” is bad. “Doxxing” is wrong. Let me just enter that caveat here, because I have been targeted by harassment in the past, in a “SWATting” case that sent a criminal hacker to federal prison. Because I do not approve of “doxxing,” I had to think twice before reporting on the case of “trans lesbian” Tumblr blogger “sammyrey42.” Read more

Category: Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | March 9, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

They walked past the arcade on a Friday for, yeah, about the 500th time, with a smile.
Decades ago when the club had had an outing here, her coin jammed in a machine. Full of bravado, he’d hit it with the heel of his hand.
Freed the coin, sure. His eyes had welled with tears as he’d managed to fracture his wrist.
They peered at the boys and girls therein, all waving smart phones at the game sensors to run them. Wasn’t the same.
“Maybe a boy can polish his sweetheart’s screen or something,” he mused aloud, and she laughed.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

In The Mailbox: 03.09.18

Posted on | March 9, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: What’s Really Behind The Trump/Kim Jong Un Meeting?
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Renders Chris Cuomo Speechless Over Dems Blocking Bill To Jail Felons Trying To Buy Guns
Louder With Crowder: Tommy Robinson Attacked In Italy for Filming In No-Go Zone
Fort Worth Star-Telegram: These Communities Sued Big Oil Over Climate Change, And Now The Backlash Is Coming (h/t NeoWayland)
According To Hoyt: Black Rednecks & White Liberals, Part II
Monster Hunter Nation: Book Bomb! Sins Of Her Father, By Mike Kupari
Vox Popoli: “California Represents The Future”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Post-Modernist Science Edition
American Power: American Men Are Failing, also, The Womens’ March And Louis Farrakhan
American Thinker: Exposing Eric Holder’s Obstruction Of Justice
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five “Gunsplaining” Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 9
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: A Tale Well Told, also, Leave The Kids Alone (Unless They’re Pam Geller’s, Then Destroy Them)
Don Surber: Trump Wins Korean War
Dustbury: Skeezy Reader
The Geller Report: The Long Walk, By An Armenian, also, New App Allows Travelers To Avoid Paris No-Go Zones
Hogewash: A Stupid Gun Stunt, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Democrats Change Rules On Limits Of Politicians’ Sexual Behavior
JustOneMinute: Our Peace And Prosperity President
Legal Insurrection: Dispatch Records Show Florida Officer Heard Shots Inside School, also, ATF Investigating Democrat Candidate Who Sawed Barrel Off AR-15 In Campaign Ad
Power Line: Thoughts From The Ammo Line, also, Run, Richard, Run!
Shark Tank: Florida Senate Poised To Approve Tax Package
Shot In The Dark: You Have The Right To Remain Off The Record. Should You Choose To Waive That Right…
STUMP: Divestment & Activist Investing Follies – Don’t Let The Evil Ones Bank!
The Jawa Report: Trump To Meet Kim Jong Un
The Political Hat: Cultural Appropriation – De-Appropriating Teaching, De-Appropriating College, De-Appropriating Yourself
This Ain’t Hell: Karen Mallard, Idiot With A Gun, also, Army Tells Savannah To Quit Kissing Soldiers
Victory Girls: Trump Will Meet With Kim Jong Un, And He Should Go Full Reagan
Weasel Zippers: Valerie Jarrett Compares Meeting Farrakhan To Meeting Koch Bros., also, Economy Adds 313,000 Jobs In February – Unemployment Rate Holds Steady
Megan McArdle: Would A Higher Minimum Wage For DC’s Restaurant Workers Backfire?
Mark Steyn: Louis Farrakhan’s Favorite Numbers


Category: Linkagery

Jew-Hating as ‘Intersectionality’? The Women’s March Farrakhan Problem

Posted on | March 9, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The Atlantic‘s John-Paul Pagano tries to provide “context” for this feminist controversy, but the essential facts cannot be avoided:

Mass movements are sewn together from a wide variety of sources, so they often sweep in unwanted companions as they move toward their goals. No one, however, expected to discover that three Women’s March co-chairs — Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Tamika Mallory — had ties to Farrakhan. More mysterious and disturbing was the extended reluctance of the Women’s March, nearly a year since it became public, to acknowledge Farrakhan’s extremist views and disassociate themselves from them.
It all came to a head last week, after Farrakhan delivered his address to the annual Nation of Islam gathering for Saviours’ Day, the sect’s three-day holiday honoring its founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad. Farrakhan denounced “Satanic Jews,” said that “when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door,” and at the climax of his speech, proclaimed, “White folks are going down, and Satan is going down, and Farrakhan by God’s grace has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew — and I’m here to say, your time is up.”
Naturally, this renewed interest in just what the Women’s March was thinking. . . .

“Naturally”! It was no secret, however, that Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian radical with ties to terrorists like Rasmea Odeh. And it has been more than six months since Daniel Isaac Abraham of the Times of Israel showed the Instagram image in which Tamika Mallory posed with Farrakhan and Sarsour commented, “God bless him.”

All of this has been known for many months. The evil things Sarsour said about Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2011? Known. Blaming the CIA for an Islamic terrorist bomber in 2012? Known.

It is rather too late for The Atlantic to attempt to “contextualize” this with a history lesson about anti-Semitism in black culture. The “intersectionality” of radical feminists leads them into a de facto alliance with some of the worst people in the world. At a time when feminists have fallen into the habit of smearing their critics as “fascist,” the alliances of feminists like Linda Sarsour deserve scrutiny.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

UPDATE: “Third-Highest House Democrat Shared Stage With Farrakhan, Now Refuses To Denounce” (also via Instapundit).

 

Category: Racism, Sex Trouble
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