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In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 10, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Morning Edition)

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Last day for the BasedCon Based Book Sale!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

From @skscarttons on X.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: DOJ Spokesman Admits: Democrat Alvin Bragg’s Prosecution of Trump is a Perversion of Justice, also, Listen To Hayek
Twitchy: J.D. Vance Absolutely Torches The Left Over Springfield OH, Post From Smiley Leftist Was So Racist I Had To Check To See If It Was Parody, and Scott Jennings Turns CNN Harpy Into Babbling Mess Over Trump’s “Extreme Agenda”
Louder With Crowder: Springfield, Ohio Residents Warn Haitians Are Decapitating Ducks And Eating Them
Vox Popoli: Reading the Tea Leaves, The Trials of Torba, Living While Vaxxed, How to Get Your Ship Sunk, and They Always Kill the Golden Goose
Postcards From Barsoom: To Shatter Men’s Souls, 
Stoic Observations: Peasant Theory Explained, also, Incubate Debate – An AntidoteTo GenZ Mind Poisoning
Upstream Reviews: Never Again, 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Not All Who Say “Lord, Lord!”
Gab: The Urgent Need For Courage

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: September Free For All  – On Midrats, also, The Army Cut A Spruance DD Into 16 Bits
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – The Gang’s All Here
Don Surber: What happened to DEI and LGBT?
Michelle Catalano: the week in joy
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes From A Cluttered Mind
STUMP: Minnesota Hodgepodge, 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Sunday Morning Coffee

Posted on | September 9, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Sunday Morning Coffee

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I don’t know where he finds them, but Rule 5 Texan gets the best baristas.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 State of the Race Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday ight Girls With Guns, Michigan’s Partisan Secretary of State Gets Spanked, La Strada, Kacey Musgraves, Sweden’s Deputy PM, A Quiet Place Day One, Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin Reunion, Queens, The Fall Guy, Preppers, and “Candle In The Wind”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nicole Chamoun, Fish Pic Friday – Amber Lorraine, Tattoo Thursday, Beloved Russian Spy Whale Dies Near Norway, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, My Maryland, Tuesday Tanlines, Flotsam and Jetsam, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for September 6

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

 

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FMJRA 2.0: Is It October Yet?

Posted on | September 8, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Is It October Yet?

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The Big BasedCon Book Sale – Over 1100 sold so far!
The less said about this week’s series against St. Louis & Cleveland, the better. We were 1-5 on the week and are now 63-85, three games behind the A’s in the cellar of our division. Speaking of the A’s, we’ll be heading for Oakland Tuesday for a three game series and then coming home for three games against the Dodgers. The following week, we host Boston and the O’s (just two games), and finish the season at home against the Pirates.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Liberals Have a Jewish Problem (and Also, Jews Have a Liberalism Problem)
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FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme
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Jews Are Dead, Hamas Is Happy, and Podhoretz Has Got His Rage On
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Rule Five Sunday: My Next Ex-Wife
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In The Mailbox: 09.02.24
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In The Mailbox: 09.03.24
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Rhanni Davis Charged With Four Murders on Suburban Chicago Commuter Train
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Benny Johnson Is NOT a Putin Puppet: Beware the ‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’ Hype
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In The Mailbox: 09.06.24 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.06.24
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Top linkers for the week ending September 6, 2024:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  357 Magnum (10)
  3.  A View From The Beach (9)

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Thought Criminal: Eric Weinstein

Posted on | September 7, 2024 | Comments Off on Thought Criminal: Eric Weinstein

In 1992, Eric Weinstein got a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Harvard University and then did what any truly smart Harvard Ph.D. would do — he got rich working for hedge funds. This makes him the kind of role model I’d like my kids to emulate. One of my sons is a top student at his law school and I keep telling him it doesn’t matter what niche of the profession he pursues. The important thing is to become a rich lawyer.

Eric’s brother Brett Weinstein made headlines by resigning (along with his wife, Heather Heying) from Evergreen College in the wake of the college’s “Day of Absence” controversy. So the whole family is part of The Rebellion against the Empire of Woke, but I hadn’t paid much attention until last night when, by the mysterious voodoo of the algorithm, YouTube suggested I watch Chris Williamson’s interview with Eric Williamson and — wow! Mind-blowing genius on display.

The full interview is three-and-a-half hours long, and maybe you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, but here’s a 10-minute clip about Big Tech trying to influence the 2024 presidential election:



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.06.24

Posted on | September 7, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.06.24

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The Big BasedCon Based Book Sale Is On!
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Operation Praying Mantis – “Proportional Response”, Your Password Security Is Weak Sauce, 
EBL: Kamala Harris: Dangerously Liberal, also, Partisan Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson Reversed by Michigan Court of Appeals
Twitchy: WaPo Pumps Out A Pardon-Prepping Puff Piece Painting Hunter Biden As A Heroic Victim, Oh? THAT Dick Cheney? and She’s So Bad At This
Louder With Crowder: Exclusive: DOJ Chief of Public Affairs Admits Trump Indictments a ‘Perversion of Justice’; Reveals Lawfare Involved, “Election interference, is there any doubt?”, “I thought he was racist”, and Watch Mark Cuban meltdown when CNBC challenges him on Kamala’s tax plan
Vox Popoli: Synonym Not Subset, Clowns are Falling, An Incorrect Theory, Guilty as Charged, and The Evil of Copyright Stands
According To Hoyt: Why We Still Believe There Was Election Fraud in 2020 – Tom Kratman, Politics and Religion, and The Psyop Inside the Psyop
Monster Hunter Nation: Mountain of Fire, by Jason Cordova – Out Now
Upstream Reviews: Riptide
Gab: A Forged Warrant For My Arrest Is Going Viral Online, 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #8 – Bringing One-Eyed Joe Home
Stoic Observations: Hamas One Month Before 10/7, 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How to Destroy Their Democracies
American Conservative: World War II Revisionism Doesn’t Have to Be Dumb
American Greatness: The 2024 Democrat Presidential Ticket that was Twenty Years in the Making, FBI Had Georgia Shooter on Radar for Over One Year, Massie Alleges FBI, CDC & Legacy Media Conspire to Hide Armed Self Defense Data, Spokesman For Manhattan US Attorney’s Office Caught on Tape Ripping DA Bragg Over Trump Prosecution, and Media Outlets Lie About J.D. Vance’s Comments on School Shootings
American Thinker: Coming Soon to a Town Near You: The Aurora Illegals Invasion
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty III, Hunting Season Totty IV, and Rule Five State of the Race Friday
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship cashes in on island’s water crisis, sells water bottles to parched Cubans, Florida senators question Biden-Harris expansion of visas for Cuban dictatorship officials, Cuba intensifies communist doctrinal content in first grade textbooks and onwards, and The false religion of the Cuban revolution
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Rolls Out More Drone Innovations, Hunter Biden To Plead Guilty Rather Than Face Trial, and LinkSwarm for September 6
Behind The Black: China launches third batch of 10 satellites for proposed Starlink copycat constellation, NASA confirms its giant solar sail is tumbling but doing so as planned, ESA releases images taken by BepiColombo during Mercury fly-by, Local Texas authorities fine SpaceX for dumping potable water in Boca Chica, NASA cancels launch of its two Escapade Mars Orbiters due to Blue Origin delays, and Will NASA give up on Starliner after its present contracts are completed?
Cafe Hayek: Valuation Occurs At the Margin, also, They Can’t Keep Straight Even Straightforward Facts
CDR Salamander: Hospital Ships – Always Salamander Approved, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Reagan Memories, The Death Star of the Electoral System, and Visible Signs
Da Tech Guy: The Worst Part About What is Coming is That It’s been Visible for Decades, My TV told me Kamala Harris good Orange Man Bad therefore it must be true, and The #Unexpectedly Chronicles: My Shocked SHOCKED face just can’t take it California, Aurora, Joe Biden and this is FBI
Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty In Tax Case
Don Surber: Encouraged by a genuine martyr, also, They aren’t even mediocre
First Street Journal: Comrade Kamala Thinks Using The DOJ To Shut Down Free Speech Is Great, also, Bummer – Volvo Ditches 2030 Fully EV Goal
Gates Of Vienna: A Cordon Sanitaire Against the AfD in Brandenburg, Cultural Enrichment: More Lethal Than the Wall, Those Mischievous Culture-Enrichers, All Your Woman Are Belong To Us, and An Albanian Has an Allahu Akhbar Moment in Linz am Rhein
The Geller Report: Sinwar’s Secret Plan to ‘Smuggle Hostages to Iran,”
Hollywood In Toto: How Hollywood Turned Against Free Speech, Incoming Delivers R-Rated Laughs from the Past, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Brings Franchise Back from the Dead, Gwyneth Paltrow on Hamas: ‘Where Are the Feminists?’, The Dark and the Wicked Offers Sly, Slow-Burn Chills, and Babylon Bee Goes Hollywood with Jan. 6 Mockumentary
The Lid: With Concerns Over Her Flip-flopping and Lack of Leadership Some Voters are Rethinking a Harris Presidency
Legal Insurrection: The ACT College Admissions Test Making Science Section “Optional”, In Addition to Covid, Wuhan Institute of Virology May Have Released “Highly Evolved Polio Strain”, CNN Shockingly Calls Out Kamala Harris Hypocrisy Over Trump Border Wall, Newsom Vetoes Bill Allowing California Illegal Aliens to Apply for $150,000 in Home Loans, Anti-Israel Protesters Accused of Causing Millions in Damage at City College in NYC Plead Not Guilty, August: 635K Foreign-Born Workers Gained Jobs as 1.3 Million Americans Lost Jobs, and RFK Jr. Wins Appeal to Remove Name From Ballot in North Carolina
Michele Catalano: showing up
Nebraska Energy Observer: Stolen Valor and More, also, Scattershot Friday: Attacking Freedom and Freedom of Speech
Outkick: Alex Morgan Wants To Grow Women’s Sports While Also Being Pro Men In Women’s Sports – Riley Gaines Reacts, ‘We’re Gonna Kick Their Ass, Just Like Last Year’, The New York Mets Are Suddenly The Team Of Destiny, Caitlin Clark Has Big Night As Fever Blow Lead Against Minnesota Lynx, MLB Players On A’s New Sacramento Stadium: ‘It’s Going To Suck’, Stephen A. Sounds Like A Hypocrite Every Time He Talks About Skip Bayless and Max Kellerman, and Danica Patrick Surfaces At Burning Man & Might’ve Debuted A New Boyfriend, Kelce Hair Memes & Chiefs Cats
Power Line: In the Service of the PRC, Vance on Tucker, Doing the Dirty Work In Michigan, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: The Sunshine State Lives Up To Its Name
Shot In The Dark: “LOOK AT MEEEEEE!”, Pounce, A Warning, and Komissar Ellison
The Political Hat: The New Know Nothings, Quick Takes – Another Day, Another Death, and Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 2)
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Just 2 hours of online training for Donald Trump Butler agents, Vladimir Putin hinted at Kamala Harris preference, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on military issues, and Navy Recruiting Soars!
Transterrestrial Musings: EPISTEMOLOGY, Jobs, A Rare Event, The New Censorship, Jewish Democrats, Starliner Coming Home, and The Real Harris Interview
Victory Girls: Georgia School Shooter’s Father Arrested, Facing Multiple Charges
Volokh Conspiracy: QAnon “Patriot Reporter” Claims Newspaper Libeled Him by Saying He Had Admitted to “Sexual Relationship” with 15-Year-Old
Watts Up With That: AXIOS: Harris campaign dodges over EV mandate walkback, No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Destroying Bridges, What Junk Nutrition Science Looks Like, and Has the Electricity Reality Check Arrived?
The Federalist: Harris And Walz Avoiding The Press Isn’t A Savvy Campaign Strategy — They’re Just Cowards, Courts Order RFK Jr. To Be Removed From Ballots In North Carolina And Michigan, Desperate Democrats Are Pushing Yet Another Version Of The Russia Collusion Hoax, Democrats Are Terrified Of GOP Plan To Protect U.S. Election From Noncitizen Voting, Rings of Power Season 2 Doesn’t Take Tolkien Or Storytelling Seriously, ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Acts As A Shadow Legislature In Rural America, and Indictment Of Hochul Aide Shows Red China Is Far Greater Threat Than Kremlin Propaganda
Mark Steyn: Unspeakable Deeds, Happy Toothfish Day, and Drifting to Armageddon

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Liberals Have a Jewish Problem (and Also, Jews Have a Liberalism Problem)

Posted on | September 6, 2024 | Comments Off on Liberals Have a Jewish Problem (and Also, Jews Have a Liberalism Problem)

William Jacobson has been a friend for about 15 years, and has always been staunchly conservative. Unlike some “conservatives,” Jacobson has never flinched in his support for Donald Trump. He gets it.

Professor Jacobson teaches law at Cornell University, and has turned his Legal Insurrection blog into one of the most influential conservative sites on the Internet (and employs another of my good friends, Mike LaChance). Excuse me for being somewhat mind-boggled by idea that a lecture by such an eminent authority on campus anti-Semitism would be canceled because some liberals in the congregation were triggered by the thought of a Republican setting foot in their synagogue.

DO THESE PEOPLE NOT HAVE EYES?

How could any Jew look around at the current geopolitical landscape and conclude that it’s safe to ignore all the various threats to their existence — not just Hamas terrorists in Gaza, but also the various murderous entities backed by the Islamic radcical regime in Iran, to say nothing of Democratic primary voters in Dearborn, Michigan — because Trump is the real danger? What kind of cocoon are these people living in?

A mindless allegiance to the Democratic Party? A quasi-religious devotion to the Cult of Equality? What can possibly explain this seemingly suicidal mentality among liberal Jews?

David Horowitz examined these issues in Radical Son, and the question was addressed directly by Norman Podhoretz: Why Are Jews Liberals?

At a time when organized liberalism has increasingly embraced Jew-haters (e.g., Ilhan Omar, to say nothing of Democratic primary voters in Dearborn), I wish there could be more discussion of this issue.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.06.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 5, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.06.24 (Morning Edition)

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The Big BasedCon Book Sale Is On!
SOTD. I would pay good money to see Rob Halford & Judas Priest play this live, now that the Godfather of Soul has died.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guy With A Gun Stops Carjacking & Abduction
EBL: The Once and Future Potato is back at CNN
Twitchy: Putin Just Threw A Big Ol’ Wrench In The Democrat Plan To Resurrect The Russia Hoax, Greg Gutfeld Takes A Flamethrower To The Mainstream Media, and So Genuine & Authentic!
Louder With Crowder: Public schools are having children arrested for quoting memes now, also, Morning Joe claims the media is pro-Trump. Yes, Morning Joe. Let that sink in.
Vox Popoli: Reading the Economic Winds, The September Books, Based Book Sale 2024, Feminism Failed, Castalia History Goes Worldwide, and The Lead Villain of WWII
Upstream Review: Arena Manager
Stoic Observation: Stoic Bites #10 – The Struggling Practitioner
Ammo.com: Gun Death Statistics By Caliber
Gab: A Dangerous Precedent For Free Speech

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: There’s Dysfunction, And Then There’s USS Manchester (LCS 14) Gold Crews 2023
Dana Loesch: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Released, also, Latest On The Georgia School Shooting
Don Surber: If we cannot be great again, make us like El Salvador

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Benny Johnson Is NOT a Putin Puppet: Beware the ‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’ Hype

Posted on | September 5, 2024 | Comments Off on Benny Johnson Is NOT a Putin Puppet: Beware the ‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’ Hype

To quote Sarah Hoyt, “The suspicion that this was a setup honeypot with full knowledge of our government is inevitable,” which was the first thing that crossed my mind when I heard about it. Folks, I’ve known Benny Johnson since 2007, when he was a college kid having fun at a Young Americans Foundation conference in California that I attended (as did Ace of Spades, Jeff Goldstein and other conservative bloggers). So when I saw him named in connection with what FBI Director Christopher Wray calls a “covert influence campaign,” I knew it was bullshit.

Two alleged Russian operatives, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, are “charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.” Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva are said to have set up a shell company that funneled money to Tenet Media, which was created last year by YouTuber Lauren Chen and her hsuband Liam Donovan. Tenet Media in turn contracted with such well-known conservative personalities as Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and my friend Benny Johnson. Let me quote the DOJ press release here:

The Justice Department today announced the ongoing seizure of 32 internet domains used in Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaigns colloquially referred to as “Doppelganger,” in violation of U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws. As alleged in an unsealed affidavit, the Russian companies Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology (Structura), and ANO Dialog, operating under the direction and control of the Russian Presidential Administration, and in particular First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Vladilenovich Kiriyenko, used these domains, among others, to covertly spread Russian government propaganda with the aim of reducing international support for Ukraine, bolstering pro-Russian policies and interests, and influencing voters in U.S. and foreign elections, including the U.S. 2024 Presidential Election. . . .
“The Justice Department is seizing 32 internet domains that the Russian government and Russian government-sponsored actors have used to engage in a covert campaign to interfere in and influence the outcome of our country’s elections,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. . . .
“The Department’s seizure of 32 internet domains secretly deployed to spread foreign malign influence demonstrates once again that Russia remains a predominant foreign threat to our elections,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. “At Putin’s direction, Russian companies SDA, Structura, and ANO Dialog used cybersquatting, fabricated influencers, and fake profiles to covertly promote AI-generated false narratives on social media. Those narratives targeted specific American demographics and regions in a calculated effort to subvert our election. Our republic depends on elections that are free from foreign interference, and we will not rest in our efforts to expose foreign malign influence operations and protect our democracy, without fear or favor.”

Does that seem clear to you? Because it’s far from clear to me. They’ve posted a 277-page affidavit in PDF, so maybe some of y’all can go read that and explain it to me. My two questions are these:

  • Question 1: What, if anything, did these “32 internet domains” have to do with Benny Johnson, Tim Pool or Dave Rubin? Did they even know about these sites? Did any of the “Russian disinformation” content from these “32 internet domains” actually make it into any videos posted by the aforesaid personalities?
  • Question 2: At what point did the feds get involved?

Because I’m with Sarah Hoyt on this hunch: Never in my life have I seen anything that looked more like an FBI “sting” setup.

Both Benny and Tim say they’re the real victims in this case:

Prediction: Some time next year, after the election, we’ll learn that the FBI was running this whole thing from the get-go.



 

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