In The Mailbox: 10.02.17

Posted on | October 2, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.02.17

The FMJRA and Rule 5 Monday will be posted later tonight. Apologies for the delay.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Don Malarkey, RIP
Twitchy: PuffHo Makes Walking Around Las Vegas With A Machine Gun Sound Like A Breeze
Louder With Crowder: NBA Commissioner Takes A Stand, Bans Kneeling During Anthem

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Cross-Dressing Lunatics Are Running The Asylum
American Power: No, Trump Didn’t Botch The Puerto Rico Crisis, also, Niven & Pournelle, The Mote In God’s Eye
American Thinker: Everything (That’s Not Racism) Is Sexism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Over 50 Dead From Shooter In Las Vegas
BLACKFIVE: Katharine Ashe, The Duke
Bring The HEAT: Prayer
CDR Salamander: Puerto Rico, From The Outside In
Da Tech Guy: Crook County Illinois “Soda Tax” Fueling “Free” Health Care, Pensions, also, How People Respond To Others When Self Is The Focus
Don Surber: How Trump Beat The NFL
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Groundwork Being Laid
Fred On Everything: A Vet Remembers – A Bad Mood, A Six-pack, And A Typewriter
The Geller Report: Footage Of Vegas Shooter At Anti-Trump Protest
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Hoge Vs. Kimberlin Et Al. News
Jammie Wearing Fools: Vile CBS News Exec Fired After Las Vegas Comments
Joe For America: Antifa Planning Civil War To Overthrow Government On November 4?
JustOneMinute: Horror In Las Vegas
Legal Insurrection: Tom Petty Fighting For His Life
Power Line: Edmonton Terrorist Is Somali Refugee, also, Democrats Struggle To Survive In Iowa
Shark Tank: “The Future Of Marijuana” Lights Up In Florida
Shot In The Dark: As The North Loop Burns
STUMP: Meep Media – Give Me Brain Candy
The Jawa Report: OJ Released
The Political Hat: On The Las Vegas Massacre
This Ain’t Hell: Aid To Puerto Rico, also, Hate Crimes At The Air Force Academy?
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Comments On Vegas Shooting, also, Geraldo Rivera Calls BS On San Juan Mayor’s Flase Trump Blame. “I’m Here. Who Is Dying?”
Mark Steyn: The Cat In The Racist Hat, also, Slaughter On The Strip

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Category: Linkagery

CBS Executive Fired After Saying No Sympathy for Victims in Las Vegas

Posted on | October 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

She’s a Columbia University Law School alumna:

CBS fired a legal executive Monday after she wrote on Facebook that she was not “sympathetic” to the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
“I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters,” former executive Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote.
At least 59 people were killed and more than 520 were injured after a gunman opened fire at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
“This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS,” the network said in a statement Monday.
“Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families,” the network wrote.

The Daily Caller broke the story of Geftman-Gold’s comments.

Meanwhile, we still do not know the motive of the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock. It is known that Paddock was a gambler who had “made several large gambling transactions in recent weeks”:

On several occasions, Stephen Paddock gambled more than $10,000 per day — and in some cases more than than $20,000 and $30,000 a day — at Las Vegas casinos, according to an NBC News source who read the suspect’s Multiple Currency Transaction Reports (CTR) and a casino gaming executive.

Although there is an army of Internet sleuths trying to find clues to Paddock’s motive, I have seen nothing definitive so far. Of course, this hasn’t stopped idiots from speculating and expressing stupid opinions.

In case anyone was waiting for the Male Feminist™ "smart take" on the Las Vegas massacre. pic.twitter.com/M7kY6cluQC

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 2, 2017

If you don’t know who Charles Clymer is, search the Twitter hashtag #StopClymer. About three years ago, Clymer emerged as a leading “male feminist,” but it turned out he was just another abusive “progressive” a–hole. So then he announced he was “genderqueer” and demanded to be addressed with the pronouns “they/them.” That this selfish creep decided to exploit a tragedy for politics isn’t really surprising.

Category: Crime, Nevada

Mass Shooting in Las Vegas

Posted on | October 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

Police in Las Vegas have identified 64-year-old Stephen Paddock as the perpetrator of what the Associated Press is calling the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Police say Paddock, from Mesquite, Nev., opened fire on the crowd at a country music festival:

A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Country music star Jason Aldean was performing Sunday night at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival when the gunman opened fire across the street from inside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. SWAT teams quickly descended on the concert and the casino, and officers used explosives to get into the hotel room where the suspect was inside, authorities said. The gunman died at the scene and was identified by Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as Stephen Paddock, 64. A motive was not immediately known. . . .
In addition to Paddock, police said they located a woman who may have been his roommate — Marilou Danley, 62. Lombardo said they believe this was a “lone wolf” attack.

Until we have definite information about Paddock’s motive, it is futile to speculate, but why target a country music festival? Recall that when the Pulse nightclub shooting happened in Orlando, many people rushed to claim that “homophobia” was the motive, before it was discovered that the gunman was a Muslim inspired by ISIS. If a shooting at a gay nightclub is immediately presumed to be inspired by homophobia, what should we presume about a shooting at a Jason Aldean concert?

Not that I’m presuming anything, you understand, but I’m just reminding you of how liberals jump to conclusions about such things.

Category: Crime

Transgender Social Contagion Reminds School Counselor of Salem in 1692

Posted on | October 1, 2017 | 5 Comments

We have previously discussed the “social contagion” by which so-called “rapid onset” transgenderism appears to be spreading among young people. And it is obvious that the education system is part of the problem. The feminist blog 4th Wave Now, which has become a clearinghouse for women concerned about this issue, recently got this comment:

When traveling for business recently, I sat next to a school counselor on the plane, and as we chatted about this and that, I gently raised this topic. She said something very interesting. She said that at her school, it has been nothing less than something straight out of the pages of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” — and eerily so. Much like the mass hysteria in the 1600s of Salem girls overcome with fits and trances as they thought themselves possessed and plagued by “witchcraft,” so the sudden-onset trans phenomenon has swept through her high school. She said that you can see the patterns ripple across friend groups, and teens who never experienced “symptoms” before, are suddenly at 15 and 16, making trans declarations and then reconstructing stories of their lives that assert that the “wrong body” trouble was present in them all along, lurking but unrecognized. She expressed deep concern about finding some way to mitigate or dampen what she called this “emotional contagion” because the only option the school is given is affirmation without question. And all the books the parents are reading are saying “affirm or die,” so if you raise a peep about any other kind of possibility of exploring alternatives to medical transition, you are threatened with the potential liability of having caused a suicide. She actually welled up in tears at one point as she spoke about her sense of helplessness at watching this spin out of control. Is this a return to the dynamics of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Salem witch trials? Or, has this kind of suggestibility been with us all along and teens are especially susceptible? The outbreak of fits related to “witchcraft” was a case of what some have called “social terror as communal contagion.” How might the forces of suggestibility be at work now? And is there any way to diffuse them? What kind of “Crucible” are we now going through and what will be the lasting impacts on these teens’ lives as they grow up? What play would Arthur Miller be composing today about the teen trans trend?

Exactly! If you know anything about psychology, you know that suggestibility varies greatly between individuals. Some people are easily persuaded by any clever pitch, and others are not. However, young people are quite generally vulnerable to suggestion, and the idea of transgenderism as a panacea for certain adolescent social problems is being pitched constantly online in blogs and YouTube videos that serve to glamorize this cult. The comparison to the Salem Witch Trials is apt.

Category: Education, The Transgender Cult

Feminism 2017: @Rose_Resistance — Communist Lesbians Against America

Posted on | October 1, 2017 | 2 Comments

Erika Heidewald is a German-born lesbian feminist and Democrat Party activist who hates capitalism, Christianity and white males, not necessarily in that order. Before last year’s election, Ms. Heidewald was busy with her immigrant girlfriend Frida on YouTube promoting homosexuality and also, of course, campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

Like other Democrats who have rejected democracy, Ms. Heidewald was inspired by Mrs. Clinton’s defeat to declare Donald Trump “Not My President,” and create a YouTube program “Resistance News Network.”

Ms. Heidewald denounces Republicans as “fascists” and, after the 2016 election, she created an organization called The Rose Resistance “to fight fascism and white supremacy” and “help protect the people most endangered by the Trump regime.” Ms. Heidewald claims to stand for “democracy” when, in fact, she advocates a one-party dictatorship by her rhetoric that delegitimizes Republicans. She seems to believe, and seeks to persuade others, that the 63 million Americans who voted to elect Donald Trump should have no right to be represented in government.

This rhetoric of “progressive” intolerance (reflecting the influence of Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School) is the antithesis of democracy. It is therefore not surprising to see Ms. Eichenwald with an anti-Trump poster from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).

Those readers who recall my coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention will remember that the anti-police protesters in Cleveland waved RCP posters that declared “America Was Never Great.”

“There will be no peace unless there is justice,” Professor Cornell West said Tuesday in a speech to an anti-police rally here organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Speaking through a megaphone amid a crowd of protesters gathered at Public Square in downtown Cleveland, West invoked “the legacy of white supremacy in this country that goes back 400 years” to condemn police.
West spoke in front of a giant RCP banner declaring, “Time to Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution. STOP MURDER BY POLICE.” Activists with the RCP held aloft signs that read, “America Was NEVER Great! We Need to OVERTHROW This System!”

The RCP, which advocates the “overthrow” of the American “system,” is a Maoist cult founded by Bob Avakian. The RCP became notorious in the 1980s when it called for the assassination of Ronald Reagan. The RCP and its front group Refuse Fascism have recently made headlines by announcing nationwide protests to “end the Trump/Pence Regime”:

Antifa is planning a new round of nationwide riots on November 4 as part of a plot to start a “civil war” that will lead to the overthrow of the Trump administration.
Far-left militants plan to “gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country” in the hope of building momentum for civil unrest that leads to nothing less than domestic regime change.
“Our protest must grow day after day and night after night—thousands becoming hundreds of thousands, and then millions—determined to act to put a stop to the grave danger that the Trump/Pence Regime poses to the world by demanding that this whole regime be removed from power,” states a call to action on the RefuseFascism website.
A longer screed posted on the Revolutionary Communist website makes it clear that Antifa is not prepared to wait for electoral change from Democrats, and will engage in a “ferocious struggle,” based on plans outlined in a book written by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which is called The Coming Civil War.

This extremist rhetoric — denying the legitimacy of a constitutionally elected government by denouncing it as a “regime” of fascism, white supremacy, etc. — is not merely divisive, it is dangerous, especially when accompanied by militant talk of “struggle” and “revolution.”

The RCP’s advocacy of “civil war” is not idle chatter. We have seen in the past three years how the Democrat-supported racial terrorist movement Black Lives Matter incited violent riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charlotte, and sparked assassinations of police officers. Not surprisingly, Erika Heidewald is a big fan of Black Lives Matter.

This endorsement of Black Lives Matter, like her embrace of the RCP, puts Erika Heidewald on the extreme fringe of American politics. However, this L.A.-based lesbian feminist actually represents the mainstream of young Democrats who have internalized the identity-politics ideology of their party in the post-Obama era. The irrationality of her rhetoric — including her claim that the only alternative to identity politics is “white male supremacy” — reflects the crisis of a party that is intellectually bankrupt and at a historic low ebb of influence.

Democrats have lost power at every level, as Republicans not only control the White House and both houses of Congress, but also hold the governorships of 33 states, and 68 of 99 state legislative chambers. In 32 states, which are home to 61% of the U.S. population, the GOP controls both houses of the state legislature. Hillary Clinton’s supporters like to point out she won the popular vote, with 66 million votes to Trump’s 63 million, yet nearly a quarter of her total — more than 16 million votes — were concentrated in just three states: California, New York and Illinois. Lacking effective leadership, Democrats have become deranged and desperate, and are being attracted to lunatic fringe movements.

On Sept. 26, when the RCP front group Refuse Fascism blocked the 101 expressway in downtown Los Angeles, one of the protesters was Perry Hoberman, a 62-year-old professor at the University of Southern California. Hoberman’s anti-Trump tirade is worth quoting:

“This is basically how fascism works,” Hoberman says. “It’s shock and awe. It’s the big lie. It’s doing things so absurd that no one knows how to react. It’s impossible to keep track of what they’re doing and how they’re driving us all crazy.” . . .
“They’re playing with utter destruction and it’s completely unconscionable to let it go on.” . . .
“Calls to impeach and take back the House and Senate are fine, and we support all that. But ultimately we don’t think anything will fix this but mass action by huge amounts of people gumming things up.
“This is just too serious to continue with business as usual.”

“They’re driving us all crazy.”

Hillary Clinton got 71% of the vote in Los Angeles County, and yet this was absolutely irrelevant to the outcome of the election. Liberals are politically isolated in their urban enclaves, ranting about “white supremacy” and “fascism” because too many voters in places like Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan are sick and tired of being lectured by Hollywood elitists, university professors, and CNN talking heads.

So here is Erika Heideman in her “Trump Is Not My President” T-shirt, living in Los Angeles with her Swedish lesbian girlfriend, apparently oblivious to how the rest of the electorate might read her message. This is relevant to a point I made after Roy Moore’s victory Tuesday:

In the GOP primaries, Ted Cruz was the main candidate of the Christian Right, who did not approve of Trump’s offensive language and behavior. Nevertheless, when it came to a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, conservative Christians knew which side they were on. If they didn’t, Hillary’s campaign reminded them.

The Cultural Left was empowered by Obama’s presidency, to the detriment of the Democrat Party’s appeal to mainstream Americans. As the Democrats have become more beholden to the far-left fringe, they have alienated the kind of middle-class voters who might not be “right wing,” but who damned sure aren’t going to vote for a Democrat Party that looks increasingly like the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Erika Heidewald probably doesn’t realize that gay Republicans played a key role in launching Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. The group GOProud invited Donald Trump to speak at CPAC in 2011, and my late friend Andrew Breitbart threw a party for them:

Also exciting to many attendees was the prospect of Thursday night’s GOProud party at 18th Street Lounge with Big Government publisher Andrew Breitbart, featuring ’90s alt rock performer Sophie B. Hawkins. More than 500 guests are expected at the event, according to organizers.
Breitbart, a Los Angeles conservative, reached out to GOProud about throwing the party for them as a way of welcoming gays and lesbians to the conservative conference.
“This party will highlight the story the main stream media has missed in the weeks leading up to CPAC, namely that the vast majority of the conservative movement is united and welcomes GOProud and any other conservative into the fold,” said Breitbart, who also recently joined GOProud’s Advisory Council, announcing the event in early February.

Yeah, I was at that party. Despite my status as a member of the heteropatriarchy, effective coalition politics in a two-party system requires a broad-based movement to win a majority in a diverse nation of 330 million people. To quote former GOP chairman Haley Barbour, “My old boss Ronald Reagan used to say, ‘Somebody who agrees with me 80 percent of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20 percent traitor.’”

Of course, in the 2012 GOP primaries, I ended up supporting Rick Santorum, the antithesis of GOProud, who was unfortunately defeated by the establishment candidate, Mitt Romney. Now, I hate establishment Republicans and consider Mormonism a cult, but that didn’t stop me from going all-in once Mormon Mitt locked up the GOP nomination.

Erika Heidewald is a young Democrat and a fool, but I repeat myself. Perhaps some day she will grow up, get tired of hanging around with losers, and decide instead to help Make America Great Again.

Democrats: "We're going to continue our strategy of demonizing white males, because that's really worked so well for us lately." pic.twitter.com/PJgOV2XJPS

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 30, 2017

Category: Democrats, Gays, Sex Trouble

Nation-Building President Ain’t Got Time For Backstabbery

Posted on | September 30, 2017 | Comments Off on Nation-Building President Ain’t Got Time For Backstabbery

by Smitty

Jazz Shaw over at HotAir is off the mark, methinks, with: “In three tweets, Trump undoes all the gains he made during Irma and Harvey”

Trump is showing loyalty to FEMA and military responders who are doing optimal work. If you want them to work above “adequate”, you don’t let your peoples’ efforts go under the bus, where Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz seeks to toss them.
Listen to the San Juan mayor’s sound bite over at HotAir, which could lead you to believe that Trump is to Puerto Rico as Obama was to Tennessee flood victims. Is that actually the case? What an imbalanced, straight-to-Narrative little screed. San Juan should vote her out at the next election, so that she can get a job making beds in a large hotel, where a tucking fool can feel right at home.
This is the President who not only grasps the media chess match, but doesn’t hesitate to put the opponent in check. We voted for him both out of dread of Her Majesty, and the expectation of non-flaccid response to this sort of blatant Commie propaganda. Trump’s response is tame, in context.
Unlike Irma and Harvey, the Puerto Rico situation is “over there”, and less subject to feedback from people on the ground acting as a check on the Commie media pulling #FakeNews from its nethers. The media is purely tactical. It seeks to hit hard, hit now, and then shrug later, when the truth gets out.

Once again, we’re seeing Trump getting the job substantially done, and a bunch of concern trolling over he stylistic aspects of how that job gets done.

If anything, Trump has demonstrated an almost immaculate capacity to gauge how to handle feedback from the media. The claim that he’s “undone gains” seems overblown.

Update: more at Rare.

Category: Donald Trump, Hot Air, Pureto Rico