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Snitch Culture: @LenaDunham Auditions for PC Thought Police Commissar

Posted on | August 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Snitch Culture: @LenaDunham Auditions for PC Thought Police Commissar

 

Progressivism (noun) — A political ideology typified by a desire to destroy other people’s lives and call the result “progress.”

If you’re a show-business multimillionaire, what do you do for fun? In the case of feminist TV performer Lena Dunham, you try to ruin the lives of people who have to actually work for a living:

Lena Dunham is calling out American Airlines after the actress claimed to have overheard two apparent employees engaged in “transphobic talk.”
The “Girls” creator said her flight on another airline was delayed for hours Wednesday at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Dunham, 31, wrote that the “worst part of this night” waiting at the airport came when she overheard two American Airlines’ “attendants having a transphobic talk.”
“At this moment in history we should be teaching our employees about love and inclusivity @AmericanAir,” she added in a subsequent tweet. “That was worst part of this night.”
Dunham then seemingly posted a screenshot of a direct message conversation she said she’d had with the airline.
n the message, the actress goes into further detail about what she claims to have overheard, writing that they were “talking about how trans kids are a trend they’d never accept a trans child and transness is gross.”
“I think it reflects badly on uniformed employees of your company to have that kind of dialogue going on,” Dunham continued. “What if a trans teen was walking behind them? Awareness starts at home but jobs can set standards of practice. Thanks for your consideration!”

Dunham claimed she overheard this conversation “in the arrivals hall coming from gate B30 to baggage … By the Hudson news across from the wine bar.” In other words, wherever she goes nowadays, Dunham is ready to snitch out anyone expressing an opinion she dislikes.

The social justice warrior (SJW) mentality is that of a third-grade tattletale, running to tell the teacher that the other kids aren’t playing nice. We all hated those spiteful brats when we were kids, and we don’t like them any better as grownups. Whatever happened to “mind your own business”? What sort of Stalinist impulse leads to this snitch culture, with self-appointed commissars acting as informers against those suspected of deviation from correct thought? Who does Lena Dunham think she’s “helping” by trying to get a couple of otherwise anonymous airline employees fired for the crime of having a private conversation near the Hudson News stand at JFK airport? But we know Lena Dunham is a liar, and perhaps she just made up this “transphobic” incident.

 

Category: Celebrities

PURGE? The Firing of Rich Higgins Is a Dangerous Omen at the White House

Posted on | August 3, 2017 | 1 Comment

Rich Higgins is an experienced national-security specialist.

For months, I’ve been deliberately ignoring the “White House chaos” stories about the Trump administration, which I discounted as (a) the usual shakedown-cruise stuff of a new team in office, (b) typical staff infighting, and (c) hyped-up scandal-bait produced by the anti-Trump Beltway media. However, I cannot ignore the ill omens surrounding today’s news about the ouster of Rich Higgins:

A top official on the National Security Council was fired last month by National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster reportedly after he argued in a memo that President Trump’s administration is under sustained attack from globalists and Islamists.
Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning was fired on July 21, The Atlantic first reported.
The memo, written in late May, described threats to the administration by globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists.
“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” it said.
Higgins was called into the White House counsel’s office two weeks ago and asked about the memo. Later that week, he was told by McMaster’s deputy that he was losing his job.

Now, I don’t know Rich Higgins personally, but he’s a friend of several of my friends, and a guy with solid national-security credentials. While his “deep state” memo was widely ridiculed, many of the main points Higgins made are actually more mainstream in the conservative movement than his Republican critics are willing to admit, e.g.:

Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed. … Islamists ally with cultural Marxists because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical points, Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety at some future point.

This is basically the point that David Horowitz made in his 2004 book Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left. This is not any kind of “alt-right” or “white nationalist” argument, but rather a geopolitical explanation for why the Left, which claims to stand for “progressive values,” including feminism and gay rights, so often functions as a de facto ally of Islamic fundamentalism, an ideology antithetical to progressivism. If making such an argument it now grounds for termination within a Republican administration, what hope is there that Trump can win his political fight against the Left? And the firing of Rich Higgins isn’t an isolated event. Adam Kredo at the Free Beacon:

An ongoing staffing purge being conducted by White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has thrown the West Wing into chaos, according to more than half a dozen Trump administration insiders who told the Washington Free Beacon that McMaster has been targeting long-time Trump loyalists who were clashing with career government staffers and holdovers from the Obama administration. . . .
More purges are said to be on the way, according to multiple insiders who described a list of at least four other senior NSC officials McMaster intends to target. Other sources confirmed the likelihood of more purges, but disputed some details on that list. . . .
The latest victim of this purge is Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a senior NSC official originally hired by ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. The White House acknowledged in a statement late Wednesday evening on Cohen-Watnick’s departure that McMaster viewed him as in conflict with his vision for the NSC.
A second senior official, Rich Higgins, who worked in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was fired last month. The president was not informed of the move until after Higgins was fired, according to one source who is in regular contact with senior NSC figures.
Published reports described Higgins’ firing as a “lasting victory” for McMaster over longtime Trump officials who helped get the president into office.

Michael Warren at the Weekly Standard analyzes the firing of Higgins as part of a White House purge whose ultimate target is Steve Bannon.

This is serious enough that I have broken my long silence about the “White House chaos” narrative. It is certainly time to take alarm when an experienced staffer like Higgins is fired for speaking the truth.



 

Category: Donald Trump

Everybody’s ‘Far Right’ Now

Posted on | August 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

Jake Tapper is Hitler, because everybody’s Hitler now.

As a notorious right-wing extremist banned from Twitter, I’d like to welcome the latecomers to our (alleged) fascist movement. Frankly, it’s getting overcrowded. There’s hardly enough room here for a guy to goose-step and sieg-heil without bumping into another crypto-Nazi.

CNN’s Jake Tapper, for example.

You probably didn’t realize Jake was a fascist, and neither did he, until he had the temerity to take issue with the Women’s March celebrating fugitive murderer JoAnne Chesimard a/k/a “Assata Shakur.”

 

This is not a matter of allegation, it’s a fact: JoAnne Chesimard was convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper, escaped prison and fled to Cuba. She was a member of the Black Liberation Army, “a splinter group comprised of the most radical members of the Black Panthers,” and “was the leader of a notorious New York City BLA cell that hunted down police officers for brutal assassinations.” She was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List at the time she killed state trooper Werner Foerster:

At about 12:45 a.m. on the morning of May 2, 1973, the fugitive Shakur was being driven to a new hideout in Philadelphia by BPP Information Minister Zayd Malik Shakur (Assata’s brother-in-law) and BLA member Sundiata Acoli, when their car was pulled over by state trooper James Harper for a tail-light violation on the New Jersey Turnpike. Fellow trooper Werner Foerster provided backup for Harper. While the lawmen conducted routine questioning of the vehicle’s occupants, Shakur (who was in the front passenger’s seat) and her companions suddenly fired upon them with semi-automatic pistols. As Foerster grappled with the driver, Shakur shot the trooper twice before her gun apparently jammed. With Foerster on the ground wounded and helpless, Shakur grabbed the trooper’s own firearm and blasted two fatal shots into his head, execution-style. (Zayd Malik Shakur was also killed in the melee.)
Assata Shakur fled the scene but was apprehended by police a short time later, about five miles away. . . . Shakur was found guilty of first-degree murder and seven additional felonies, resulting in a prison sentence of life plus 33 years.
Shakur escaped from prison on November 2, 1979 — probably with the help of Cuban or Cuban-trained terrorists posing as visitors.

Anyone wishing “happy birthday” to this terrorist is, in effect, endorsing murder. As Vox Day says, however, “SJWs Always Double Down,” and the Women’s March blamed their critics as “the far right”:

 

So (a) the Women’s March invoked “solidarity” as justification for praising the “revolutionary” murderer, (b) it is an “attack” to tell the truth about who Assata Shakur actually is, and (c) Jake Tapper is “far right” for wondering whether progressives should be celebrating cop-killers.

Women’s March founder Linda Sarsour accused Tapper of “joining the ranks of the alt-right to target me online” despite the fact that, as the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, Tapper “was named one of the Jewish journalists most frequently harassed by the alt-right online during the 2016 election campaign.” Even feminists like Bari Weiss rejected the rhetoric of the Women’s March: “Since when did criticizing a domestic terrorist become a signal issue of the far right? Last I checked, that position was a matter of basic decency and patriotism.”

 

The characterization of Tapper as “far right” or “alt-right” is intended to imply that anyone who criticizes a “revolutionary” cop-killer is sympathetic to Nazis and engaged in “hate speech.” This tendency of the Left to label all opposition as “extremist” leads to the problem identified by Mark Steyn: “When Everyone’s Hitler, Nobody’s Hitler.”

What the Left is doing is “working the refs,” trying to make the mainstream media even more liberal than it already is, by making conservative viewpoints politically radioactive. This tactic is why you can’t condemn a cop-killer without being “far right,” and why you cannot defend Christians without being labeled a “hate group.”

“Time and again, I see the SPLC using the reputation it gained decades ago fighting the Klan as a tool to bludgeon mainstream politically conservative opponents. For groups that do not threaten violence, the use of SPLC ‘hate group’ or ‘extremist’ designations frequently are exploited as an excuse to silence speech and speakers.”
— Professor William Jacobson, June 28, 2017

Your right to free speech is being targeted by the same intolerant forces of the Left that got me banned from Twitter. How do totalitarian enemies of the First Amendment dare label others “extremists”?



 

 

Category: Media Bias, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 08.02.2017

Posted on | August 2, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.02.2017

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Birthday, Rush Limbaugh!
Michelle Malkin: Procter & Gamble’s Identity Politics Pandering
Twitchy: To Avoid Reality, Socialist Party Claims Soviet Union Had WHAT System Of Government?
Louder With Crowder: Chesapeake Bay Mayor Smacks Down Al Gore On Global Warming
Kurt Schlichter: The 2018 Military Coup Against Donald Trump, Part I, also, Part II


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Breaking The Boundaries Of Civilization
American Power: Is Germany A Normal Country?, also, Robert Leckie, None Died In Vain
American Thinker: The Identity Crisis Of The American Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Dukes Plea Deal Expires, Case Headed For Trial
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – Seven Kill Kraken
Da Tech Guy: Atheists In London Braver Than American Counterparts
Don Surber: Sanders Is The Voice Trump Needs
Dustbury: Report From The Crust Inspector
The Geller Report: Inflatable Mosques Appear On French Beaches
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Clinton Confidant Blumenthal Back Under Microscope Amid Trump Scrutiny
Joe For America: California City Demands Churches Stop Providing Counseling, Teaching Music
JustOneMinute: Is This Really In The Failing NY Times?
Power Line: The Administrative State Declares Independence, also, Stocks Shatter Records, BUT DON’T GIVE TRUMP CREDIT!
Shark Tank: National Republicans Target Curbelo’s Democratic Challenger
Shot In The Dark: The Man Without A Party
STUMP: Public Pension Assets – Our Funds Were In Alternatives, And All We Got Were These Lousy High Fees
The Political Hat: The Othering Of Cis-Normative Unpersons
This Ain’t Hell: Coast Guard Commandant Says He Won’t Break Faith With Trannies, also, Mack Cole Jr. Convicted Of Defrauding VA
Weasel Zippers: Al Gore’s Home Devours 34% More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household, also, Insurers Seek Huge Hikes On Obamacare Plan Premiums
Megan McArdle: How Dodd-Frank Hurts The Poor
Mark Steyn: Question Mark, also, Zip-A-Dee Akbar!


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Category: Linkagery

Kamala Harris: Democrat ‘It Girl’

Posted on | August 2, 2017 | Comments Off on Kamala Harris: Democrat ‘It Girl’

 

Michael Krieger highlights a story about California’s freshman Sen. Kamala Harris, who will spend the weekend in the Hamptons being courted as a 2020 presidential candidate by big-money Democrats:

The California senator is being fêted in Bridgehampton on Saturday at the home of MWWPR guru Michael Kempner, a staunch Clinton supporter who was one of her national-finance co-chairs and a led fund-raiser for her 2008 bid for the presidency. He was also listed as one of the top “bundlers” for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, having raised $3 million.
Guests there to greet Harris are expected to include Margo Alexander, a member of Clinton’s inner circle; Dennis Mehiel, a Democratic donor who is the chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, even though he lives between a sprawling Westchester estate and an Upper East Side pad; designer Steven Gambrel and Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman.
Washington lobbyist Liz Robbins is also hosting a separate Hamptons lunch for Harris.

So, the deep-pocket donors, the D.C. lobbyists and the public-relations hacks all agree that this woman from California is their ticket for 2020. Remember when Democrats were the party of “the little guy”?

 

Category: Democrats

When Your Plan To Kill Everyone At The Staff Meeting Has To Cover Aliens

Posted on | August 1, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Mattis thought bubble

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 08.01.17

Posted on | August 1, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.01.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Dunkirk, A Movie Review (Sort Of)
EBL: Sam Shepard RIP
Twitchy: “Beyonce Professor” Who Wished Someone Would Shoot Trump Whines About Being Fired
Louder With Crowder: DOJ Resumes Using Term “Illegal Immigrant”, Liberals Rage


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Break Up With Someone
American Power: John Kelly’s Military Approach To The Media, also, Bruce Levine, Fall Of The House Of Dixie
American Thinker: Wasserman-Schultz Subverted Democracy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Bat-Guano Crazy News
BattleSwarm: Sh0eOnHead’s Feminist Makeup Tutorial
BLACKFIVE: C.J. Box, Paradise Valley
Bring The HEAT: The Ration Review – MRE Ravioli In Meat Sauce
Da Tech Guy: A Brief Review Of Presidential Competence And Morality, also, The Good News
Don Surber: A Paragraph That Explains Why Trump
Dustbury: Go Ahead And Ask For Seconds
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: In UK, Muslim Ringleader Of Child Rape/Prostitution Gang To Be Released From Prison 17 Years Early
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign
Jammie Wearing Fools: Nude Illegals Harass Tourists In Times Square, Mayor Big Bird Doesn’t Care
Joe For America: Sheriff Joe Found Guilty Of Criminal Contempt, Will Appeal
JustOneMinute: The Party That Can’t Govern Versus The Party That Can’t Campaign, also, Some Trump-Bashing
Power Line: “Light My Fire” At 50, NC Enacts Restore Campus Free Speech Act
Shark Tank: Fired Dem House IT Aide Has Connections To “Hezbollah-Like” Character
Shot In The Dark: 15,000
STUMP: Pension Assets – Investment Returns Are In For FY 2017 And THEY’RE GREAT!
The Jawa Report: Meanwhile In That Communist Utopia Known As Venezuela
The Political Hat: Venezuela’s Not-So-Cold Civil War Gets Hotter
This Ain’t Hell: If You Want To See A Real Liberal Jerk In Action, Part II, also, Defense Logistics Agency To Fix Loophole
Weasel Zippers: Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Tells Players “Stand For The Anthem Or You’re Off The Team”, also, One Million Illegal Aliens To Have California Drivers Licenses By Next Year
Megan McArdle: Demonizing School Choice Won’t Help Education
Mark Steyn: The Democrats’ Bet Pays Off, also, Light My Fire


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Can Queer Feminist Emma Lindsay Possibly Avoid a Crazy Cat Lady Future?

Posted on | August 1, 2017 | 1 Comment

“I’m a queer white woman, and I think I hold considerable privilege over many straight white men in the USA, primarily because of the benefit of my education. . . . People who are not educated well enough, and who lack the verbals signals of being well educated, are un-hirable right now.”
— Emma Lindsay, Nov. 13, 2016

Emma Lindsay is a 32-year-old queer feminist who lives in San Francisco, where everybody is gay except for desperate heterosexual men. How desperate are they? Desperate enough to date Emma Lindsay.

Last year, Emma Lindsay’s blogging about sex — sex! sex! sex! — was the subject of an article I wrote called “Whatever Happened to Normal?”

When did every woman on the planet suddenly decide that she needs to relate her every sexual experience — and every thought she’s ever had about sex — for the entire Internet to read? Who would want to date someone like that, knowing that your every interaction is likely to be conveyed in detail (and critically analyzed) for the enjoyment of everybody with a Wifi hookup?

Like all queer feminists, Emma Lindsay is crazy. She dated men until she was in her mid-20s, then switched to dating women before she apparently noticed that her relationships with women were going the same place that her relationships with men had gone — nowhere.

One of her therapists, “who specialized in LGBTQ issues” asked her if she “was really bisexual, or just attached to the identity of bisexual.” She tried identifying as straight for a while, but that made her “miserable,” and later on she decided to “briefly identify as a lesbian, and assumed that my prior attractions to men had been due to the heteronormative brainwashing of society.” Hey, did I mention that Emma Lindsay is a queer feminist? And that “queer feminist” is a synonym for crazy?

Why Straight White Women Perpetuate the Patriarchy

That’s the headline on an article Emma Lindsay wrote last fall, denouncing “a highly insidious, type of patriarchy as women are denied access to success on their own and are reliant on their husbands.” Oh, what a terrible thing it is for wives to rely on their husbands, because patriarchy denies women “access to success on their own.”

Readers would be mistaken to think I dislike Emma Lindsay, because in fact I am deeply sympathetic to her. She is a victim of feminism, part of a generation of young women doomed to a future of barren loneliness by their belief in a false ideology, the Cult of Social Justice. Read more

Category: Sex Trouble
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