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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | November 5, 2025 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to 35-year-old Emerson Jeffrey. In November 2021, when he came before a judge in Guernsey County, Ohio, he’d already had five prior felony convictions, but the prosecutor and the defense attorney had a plea agreement that would have kept Jeffrey out of prison. Why? Because, your honor, the perp had a history of mental illness:

A man who confessed to authorities he was trying to get law enforcement to shoot and kill him during a pursuit on Interstate 77 earlier this year, was sentenced to four years in prison Monday in the Guernsey County Common Pleas Court.
Emerson Jeffrey, 31, of Jefferson, previously plead guilty to single counts of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony, and an amended count of obstructing official business, a fifth-degree felony, as part of a negotiated plea.
The plea agreement requested Judge Daniel G. Padden impose a three-year sentence for the failure to comply conviction and a consecutive year for the obstructing conviction, and suspend the prison term in favor of five years of community control sanctions.
Citing a need to protect the public from future crimes by Jeffrey and other criminals, Padden ignored the request and ordered the defendant to serve the full prison term.
“These types of cases are difficult,” said Padden, while acknowledging Jeffrey’s long history of mental health issues. “They are hard and they have competing interests. But, the prison term is not suspended because of the need to protect the public.”
The judge told Jeffrey that Ohio law requires him to first protect the public from future crimes and then punish the offender and promote their effective rehabilitation.
Padden pointed to lengthy criminal history in Ohio and Florida as a factor in determining the sentence.
“This is his sixth felony case,” said Padden.

Somebody please ask Judge Padden to run for Congress. He’s a former prosecutor and obviously understands the public safety aspect of law enforcement better than most judges do, and we need somebody at the national level who can make America understand what I keep telling y’all: Crazy People Are Dangerous. (This is the 55th time I’ve used that phrase in a headline, because crazy people keep doing things to prove me right.)

We return to that November 2021 story:

Prior offenses reportedly included multiple theft charges, a burglary conviction and drug-related offenses in both states. Jeffrey served a prison sentence for the third-degree felony burglary conviction in Hardin County. . . .
In court Monday, Jeffrey admitted he told State Highway Patrol Trooper Adam Masinelli that officers would have to shoot and kill him after initially being stopped for a traffic violation.
“He said please don’t do this, but I drove away,” Jeffrey told the judge.
Masinelli and other law enforcement pursued Jeffrey south at approximately 65 mph until he allegedly accelerated to 109 mph upon approaching a spike strip deployed by a trooper.
Jeffrey said he was trying to harm himself.
“I was only trying to get them to kill me,” said Jeffrey in court. “If I was trying to hurt anybody else, I would have swerved at the cop instead of swerving to hit the spike strip. I wanted to flip my car to hurt myself and I jerked the steering wheel after hitting the spikes, but it just spun on the road.”
The vehicle slid off the right side of I-77 and came to rest in a wooded area along the highway where Jeffrey refused to exit the car while surrounded by troopers and sheriff’s deputies from Guernsey and Noble counties.
After crashing, Jeffrey consumed a significant amount of pills before finally exiting the vehicle some time later.
But instead of surrendering, Jeffrey emerged brandishing a knife and held authorities at bay until a Taser was eventually used to gain control of him approximately three hours after the crash.
“I really was on a mission to die,” said Jeffrey.

(Alas, he was unsuccessful.)

Guernsey County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kent Biegler and defense attorney Matthew Mollica asked Paden to suspend the maximum four-year sentence in favor of community control sanctions Monday.
Both attorneys cited Jeffrey’s lengthy mental health history and the need for treatment as reasons for the request. . . .
Mollica explained Jeffrey’s mental condition in the days following his arrest.
“He stabbed himself with a pen at the initial hearing and he wrapped a cord around himself in an attempt to harm himself,” said Mollica of his client’s desire to die in January. “He had toilet paper jammed tightly in his ears at the jail to stop the voices.”
Mollica told Padden his client is better because he is taking his medication and attending mental health counseling appointments.
“I fear if he goes to prison and then gets out, what happens then,” said Mollica. “He is not the same person as when this offense occurred. Give him a chance.”
Jeffrey also asked Padden to give him a chance when called upon by the judge.
“I have insurance to get meds and a place to live with food and someone who loves me,” said an emotional Jeffrey. “Please give me a chance to show you.”

(As we will learn — patience, dear reader — the judge was wise in rejecting these pleadings.)

Jeffrey said he started drinking alcohol at age 6 and smoking marijuana with his mother at age 7. He was removed from his home at age 11 after allegedly being sexually assaulted by his father, according to court testimony.
He was reportedly in and out of multiple foster homes and group homes over the next several years.
Following the arrest, Mollica filed a motion seeking a competency evaluation and filed a not guilty by reason of insanity plea on March 4.
Dr. Daniel Hrinko of the Forensic Diagnostic Center of Region 9 determined Jeffrey was competent to stand trial following an evaluation, according to report revealed during a competency hearing on May 25.
An initial indictment of felonious assault, a second-degree felony, returned by a grand jury on Feb. 18 was amended to the obstructing official business on Aug. 19 when Jeffrey entered the negotiated pleas.
A sentencing hearing slated for Oct. 27 was continued to Monday after Jeffrey was arrested and charged with persistent disorderly conduct following an altercation with a female relative four days earlier in Belmont County.
Jeffrey was incarcerated in the Belmont County Jail at the time of the sentencing hearing, but was released after pleading no contest to the fourth-degree misdemeanor offense.
He was sentenced in Belmont County Western Court to 30 days in jail with four days credit for time served and 26 days suspended. He was ordered to pay a $200 fine and court costs totaling $105.

Did you catch that? While he was out on bail awaiting trial for an armed standoff with police, Jeffrey got himself arrested for “an altercation with a female relative.” Even his own family members have to call the cops to protect themselves from this dangerous psycho. The testimony about his horrific childhood? Some may consider that an argument for leniency, but it could just as easily be interpreted as evidence indicating how unlikely it is that Jeffrey could ever be rehabilitated. If your mother’s a negligent dopehead and your father is a child molester, well, the acorn seldom falls far from the oak, does it? Some grad student in criminal justice might try researching the family histories of criminals like this, to discover how many of their relatives are also habitual felons.

Anyway, the point is, Judge Padden rejected the plea deal that would have turned Jeffrey loose on a suspended sentence and instead sentenced him to four years in prison. Jeffrey got out a few weeks early, it seems, because he was a passenger in the back seat of a car that got pulled over by cops last Friday night in Lima, Ohio:

The Lima Police Department has released additional information about the officer-involved shooting incident Oct. 31 that left an officer injured and the suspect transported to Columbus for medical treatment. This information includes the identities of the officers involved and both dashboard and body camera footage of the incident.
The shooting took place during a traffic stop at 10:40 p.m. Friday at St. John’s Avenue and Second Street. The footage of that traffic stop was released during a press conference Monday evening at the Lima Municipal Building, with the faces of two other occupants of the vehicle being blurred out and portions of audio muted. Body camera footage was taken from the camera of Patrolman Bryce Metz, the officer injured during the shooting.
As seen on the dashboard video, three officers approached the vehicle, with Metz approaching from the passenger side, a standard procedure for situations with multiple vehicle occupants, according to Lima Police Chief Curtis Hile.
“There were three occupants in the car, so more officers arrived for standard safety with more occupants in the car,” he said. “We typically have more officers try to respond.”
According to Metz’s body camera video, Emerson Jeffrey, 35, who was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle, called to get Metz’s attention.
“I’m about to do something just cause that’s who I am, bro,” he said before motioning to the two people in the front seats and telling Metz to have them “get out of here.”
After Metz asked Jeffrey why and did not receive an answer, he told another officer to get Jeffrey out of the vehicle, pointing at him and saying, “Get him out.” Immediately afterward, shots began coming out from the vehicle hitting Metz and causing him to fall to the ground.
“Shots fired, shots fired! I’m hit! I’m hit!” Metz said.
Shots could be heard in both videos as other cruisers quickly arrived at the scene. Commands were issued for Jeffrey to show his hands and for the occupants to get out of the car and get down on the ground.
“He’s got the gun in his hand,” an officer could be heard saying on the dashboard camera video. “He’s in the back seat.” . . .
Commands were issued for Jeffrey to put his hands up. The video footage then recorded additional shots being fired, prompting several gunshots from police at the vehicle.
Once officers determined the threat from Jeffrey was neutralized, officers began life-saving procedures on both Jeffrey and Metz, according to releases from the police department.
Speaking at Monday’s press conference, Hile said Metz was released earlier in the day from Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center. Jeffrey remains in hospital under law enforcement supervision at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. . . .
Hile expressed pride in how his officers conducted themselves during the incident, especially Metz, whom Hile praised for remaining calm even after taking gunfire.
“I’m incredibly proud of how (Metz) responded, and I think we’re incredibly lucky that we still have him with us,” he said.

How crazy is this? Jeffrey had just gotten out of prison, and is not legally able to possess firearms, yet he’s riding around with a pistol and gets in a shootout with cops after they pull him over. The investigation into this shooting will need to determine how Jeffrey got that gun. My guess is that he either stole it himself or bought it from someone else who had stolen it. Most arguments for gun control laws completely overlook this factor: Imposing new restrictions on the legal sale of firearms will have no impact on criminals, who will always be able to get guns by stealing them. Stealing is one of the things criminals do, you know.

It’s likely that shooting a cop will land Jeffrey in prison for a long time — 20 years at a minimum, I’d guess — but there are still a lot of lunatics running around out there. Virginia just elected a psychopath as their Attorney General, and a Communist got elected mayor of New York City. Crazy people are dangerous — and they vote Democrat.



 

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In The Mailbox: 11.04.25

Posted on | November 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.04.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
I’m so far behind on everything.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The only thing left to do after Mamdani’s victory.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The night I was roasted by the cast of Kill Tony, The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXVI, Top 20 Chilling Insights From Yuri Bezmenov
357 Magnum: Hollywood Box Office Crashes to 1997 Levels
EBL: Moonfish or Opah, “Moan : A Song for Space Dog Laika”, Amelia Clarkson, The Feast of All Souls Day, and Balfour Declaration Song
Twitchy: Mike Davis Says Evidence To Dismiss Comey’s Indictment Contains Damning Bombshell, Shenanigans & Blatant Incompetence – Just Another Election Day In Josh Shapiro’s Pennsylvania, and Fauxcahontas Heap Big Angry Trump Won’t Intervene In Chiefs/Redskins YouTube TV Kerfluffle
Louder With Crowder: “He is the exact opposite of what real strength looks like”, Actress Jennifer Lawrence’s shocking revelation: Trump derangement is pointless, and America doesn’t care what Hollywood thinks, Woman gets thrown out of a Gold’s Gym in Mamdani’s NYC for protesting men being allowed to go d*cks out in the girls’ room, Amid ICE raids in Chicago, inner city tenants say it’s unfair that their rent is going up, so they’re unionizing, and Refugee From Iraq Claims He Can’t Afford To Stay In America Without Food Stamps
Vox Popoli: The Kataskocracy in Action, Too Good to be True, AI is More Accurate, A Boomer Looks Back, and Who Will Sanction the US?
Cedar Sanderson: Erdu, also, Looking back at October
The Bugscuffle Gazette: When charity becomes entitlement, also, Mew mew mew!
Upstream Reviews: Favorite Pulp SF of 2025, also, Bunker Bit – John Williams Rejects Film Music?
The Abbey of Misrule: Of Slugs & Saints
Draw & Talk Comics: You Won’t Believe What They Said About Me
Gab: Their Panic Proves Our Persuasive Power

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: First Australia, Then South Korea – Who Else Wants To Be In The SSN Club?
Dana Loesch: Tucker Carlson & The Civil War on the Right,
Don Surber: Taking on foreign cash to Democrats
Elizabeth Nickson: The Old, Bad, Demon-Inflicted Culture Is Dead – MAGA Is The Reset
Matt Taibbi: Meet The Man Who Inspired Former CIA Director John Brennan’s Viral Meltdown,
STUMP: Movember 2025 – The Need Continues, The Week In Meep, and Chicago Head Tax – So Many More Reactions,

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Rule 5 Sunday: Barbara Eden

Posted on | November 3, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Barbara Eden

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Jeannie gets a little witchy for her Master.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Schumer Shutdown Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Vintage Halloween, More Halloween, Sydney Sweeney, The Last Frontier, “Behind The Wall of Sleep”, “Hava Nagila”, Halloween Comes Early At CBS News, Harriet Slater, “Those Were The Days”, Chronicles of the Sun, Weapons, June Lockhart RIP, and MAGA Sure Like To Ball

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Summer Soderstrom, Go To Hell, Superstition, All Hallows’ Eve, Fish Pic Friday – Jacqui Woods, Zombie, Who Will Save Your Soul?, It’s Good to Be Alive, Thursday Tattoos, The Witch That’s on Your Back, ASMFC Nixes Steep Menhaden Catch Cuts, Forget It Jake, It’s Baltimore, The Wednesday Wetness, The Annual ‘Don’t Rake Your Leaves’ Post, He Came in Like a Wrecking Ball, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

BACON TIME: Rule Five – The Weather Outside Is Frightful

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Another Fine Mess

Posted on | November 2, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Another Fine Mess

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What a wretched week to be a Senators fan. First we got swept by the Giants – and none of those games were close except Game 1, in which Nolan Ryan outdueled Jim Kaat – and then we lost the home opener against the Angels’ Frank Tanana. Game Two was tight before our boys went ham on John Cumberland for six runs in the sixth, four of which got charged to Clay Kirby, and we pulled out a 7-2 win for Carl Morton. Still, we’re in the cellar at 5-9 with the Oakland Robots, and are due to play the 11-3 Yankees on Tuesday.
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This week in Senators baseball…

Is Jack Ciattarelli Winning in New Jersey?
A View From The Beach
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Breaking Even On The Road
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: Fall Colors
Animal Magnetism
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In The Mailbox: 10.27.25
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EBL
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Who Is Paying the ‘Racist Trolls’ Who Disagree With Alonso Gurmendi?
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)
Targowiska Tribune
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Evening Edition)
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Who Democrats Are, What Democrats Do
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In The Mailbox: 10.30.25
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In The Mailbox: 10.31.25
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Keep Giving Nick Fuentes More Rope

Posted on | November 2, 2025 | Comments Off on Keep Giving Nick Fuentes More Rope

Does this man look sane to you?

One of the great arguments in favor of free speech is that it allows fools to discredit themselves, and Nick Fuentes is an excellent example of why the First Amendment guarantees that even the most ridiculous fool should never be censored. If Adolf Hitler were alive today, he might tune into a Nick Fuentes podcast and then conclude, “If this insufferable clown agrees with me, maybe I was wrong about the Jews.” Nothing could be better publicity for Israel than having Nick Fuentes as an enemy.

The best thing to do with Nick Fuentes — legally, that is, since it would be a felony to shove him feet-first into a wood chipper — is to ignore him, which is what I would still be doing had it not been for the fact that Tucker Carlson interviewed Fuentes for two hours this week, and the entire conservative movement has gone crazy because of it.

Welcome to your 15 minutes of fame, Mr. Fuentes!

“All right, why would we let this fat guy, who’s married to a jeet and worked for a gay CIA fed — why would we let him … It’s like so insane. The J.D. Vance operation is in full swing, man. Think about it. Andrew Tate and Bronze Age Pervert and all these people, for years, all they talk about is going to the gym, being a vitalist, fighting the Matrix, ‘India smells bad,’ all this kind of s–t, and now they’re all in favor of a fat race-mixer who’s married to a jeet, who named his son Vivek, who was mentored by a Jewish neocon and a gay fed — Peter Thiel — and the guy’s in bed with f–king Israel. And that’s your guy? And I’m the controlled opposition, really? Your guy is literally a fat gay race traitor . . . and the dude’s in bed with Israel. And he wears eyeliner. You know, Andrew Tate said the groypers need to go to the gym. J.D. Vance needs to go to the gym. He’s fat and it’s disgusting. . . . Peter Thiel is an openly gay man who informed to the FBI and worked for the CIA. Everything they accuse me of, they are guilty of. It’s crazy. It’s actually crazy. And Tucker told Trump, ‘If you don’t pick Vance, the Deep State will kill you.’ Super weird s–t, man. It’s weird.”

Made just a few minor elisions there, since Nick kept repeating the same things so much, but how many times do we need to be told that Peter Thiel is gay and Jewish? Not that either of these things about Thiel were ever secret, but ad hominem is the only argument Nick’s got and, oh, yeah, I had to Google jeet: “A person of South Asian (especially Indian) ancestry,” although this could be deduced from context.

Jerry Springer, long-time talk show provocateur

As to Fuentes calling Vance a “race traitor,” once upon a time — before Nick was born, in fact — I got in trouble for making an argument that people had the right to their own opinions about interracial relationships. It is an indisputable fact that many people disapprove of such relationships, but what inspired me was that I’d just watched a late-night rerun of an episode of The Jerry Springer Show where he’d staged a confrontation between siblings over such a conflict. Jerry began the show by introducing a white guy who objected to interracial relationships. The audience howled their denunciations. Next, Jerry introduced a black woman who expressed her objection to interracial relationships. Again, boos and hisses and angry shouting from the audience.

So, here you have a white guy and a black woman onstage, both voicing their disapproval of interracial relationships, and then Jerry introduces two new guests: The sister of the white guy and the brother of the black woman who — you guessed, didn’t you? — were dating each other.

AUDIENCE GOES ABSOLUTELY WILD!

If you remember what The Jerry Spring Show‘s audience was like, it’s not difficult for you to imagine how the rest of this episode proceeded, with the host wandering through the crowd with the microphone, giving various angry dimwits their chance to shout indignantly. And then, at the end, Jerry delivers a little sermonette about love and tolerance, blah blah blah, as if he hadn’t just spent the past hour deliberately stirring up useless rage over what was, really, somebody’s private family drama.

As obnoxious TV spectacles go, this ranked up there with Geraldo Rivera and Al Capone’s secret vault, and so I wrote something on a message board, which got interpreted as me being some kind of latter-day Theodore Bilbo, when all I was trying to say was, people have the right to their own opinions. We used to believe that in America, before political correctness took hold in the 1990s and suddenly everybody was required to have the same exact opinion about everything. This intolerance of disagreement tends toward a dictatorial attitude, where people believe they have the right to tell other people what to think — Nineteen Eighty-Four, with everyone afraid to offend the Thought Police.

Anyway, I related that incident about Jerry Springer in order to point out that I became notorious as a Thought Criminal at least two decades before Nick Fuentes came along, so it’s not as if I’m some kind of cowardly conformist, much less that I want to censor people I disagree with, including Nick Fuentes. No, by all means, give him enough rope to hang himself, and I assure you that this is exactly what he’ll do.

The more attention he gets, the more he’ll be exposed as a fool, to say nothing at all about his creepy sexual obsessions. Far be it from me to sic the feds on anyone, but I feel reasonably confident that a forensic search of Nick Fuentes’ electronic devices would discover enough felonies to put him in prison for a long, long time. My advice to him is not to give Pam Bondi an excuse to ask a federal judge for a search warrant.

At any rate, Fuentes has gathered a remarkably large audience of fools who find him entertaining, and I doubt they’re more than a point or two above the average of the audiences that Jerry Springer once entertained. An abysmal level of stupidity is necessary to admire Nick Fuentes, and his insults toward J.D. Vance (or anyone else) are obviously not intended to persuade any intelligent person about any substantive public policy: “He married a jeet! He worked for a gay Jew! He’s fat!”

You can’t even turn this into a syllogism. It’s not any kind of argument, but I doubt that anyone listening to Nick Fuentes even understands the basic principles of logic. Bad causes attract bad people, and there is a German word for the kind of people that Nick Fuentes attracts — untermenschen. They are subhuman, flawed and defective.

Having expended 1,200 words on this topic, I hope that soon it will be safe once again to ignore Nick Fuentes. Bottom line, he’s crazy.

Have I mentioned lately that Crazy People Are Dangerous?



 

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Has Tucker Carlson Lost His Mind? (And Is This Kind of Insanity Contagious?)

Posted on | November 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Has Tucker Carlson Lost His Mind? (And Is This Kind of Insanity Contagious?)

About three weeks ago, I found myself on the phone with my buddy Evan Sayet, who had become very concerned about the growing influence of a certain type of “Christian nationalist” rhetoric on the Right. We talked a long time about it, and my argument was that the size and influence of this specifically anti-Jewish crowd has been exaggerated.

Here’s the thing: I don’t watch or listen to podcasts. The written word is my métier, and I can read a lot faster than anyone can talk, so that spending even 30 minutes listening to somebody talk is to me a sort of torture, a painful waste of time. This is true without regard to whether I agree or disagree with what the person is saying.

All of which is to say that the problem which concerned Evan Sayet was basically invisible to me, and I was dismissive of his concern. Who cares what some fringe kooks are saying on podcasts? Imagine my chagrin, therefore, when the whole Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes thing blew up this week, with the exclamation mark being supplied by students at a Turning Point USA event asking anti-Israel questions of Vice President J.D. Vance. Then the president of the Heritage Foundation waded into the controversy, and suddenly everybody is talking about the problem that Evan Sayet was trying to alert me about just three weeks ago.

Canary, coal mine, some assembly required.

It is astonishing to me that Nick Fuentes has sufficient influence to cause this much trouble, or that he and others (Candace Owens is frequently mentioned in this context) have succeeded in spreading their Jew-hating nonsense so widely among young MAGA types that J.D. Vance found himself having to deal with it at a TPUSA event. The question of why Tucker Carlson has drifted in that direction in the two years since he left Fox News is also worth investigating. My guess is that Carlson is engaged in some sort of destructive vendetta against those he blames for his ouster from Fox News. Here’s the Wikipedia summary of that:

On the morning of Monday, April 24, 2023, Fox News dismissed Carlson and the executive producer of his evening show. It does not appear that Carlson received advance notice of his dismissal, given that on Friday, April 21, in what became his final show’s sign-off, he told his viewers that he would “be back on Monday” . . .
Fox did not provide a reason for Carlson’s termination. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Chairman of Fox Corporation Rupert Murdoch was responsible for the firing, and that a pending lawsuit from former Fox producer Abby Grossberg and Carlson’s coverage of the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection both influenced the decision. The Wall Street Journal wrote that Carlson was dismissed due to private messages in which he criticized Fox’s management, using vulgar and offensive language.

A thirst for revenge can make someone do crazy things, and I don’t for a minute doubt that Tucker feels justified in viewing “mainstream conservatives” as less than honorable, considering how many of them didn’t take his side in the dispute with his former employer. So the split between Fox and Carlson had the effect of making Carlson feel that most conservatives are spineless wimps, leading him off into the Dark Side where paranoid mutterings about the “Israel lobby” are a permanent obsession — or that’s my theory, anyway. Your mileage may vary.

The aftermath of the past week’s drama is that a lot of people are now choosing sides in a grand internecine squabble on the Right, a Jets-versus-Sharks situation I lament. And I must ask: Cui bono?

Who benefits from this conflict? And is it possible that the participants in this fight are being manipulated by agents provocateurs? Is it paranoid to suspect that someone — China, Russia, Qatar, Iran, the CIA, whoever — has infiltrated the online Right in order to stir up chaos and conflict?

Put that thought aside for a moment and, if you have the stomach for it, watch the whole two-hour Carlson-Fuentes interview:

If you don’t feel like wasting two hours of your life, permit me to quote Dominic Green in the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Carlson’s hosting of Mr. Fuentes on his podcast, which aired Oct. 27, was a watershed in the campaign to make racism cool again. Mr. Carlson has come a long way since the bow-tied folly of his neoconservative youth. After leaving Fox News in 2023, he went over the edge. He donned the plaid shirt of the people, rediscovered Christianity, cashed in on his legacy status as a ringmaster of the right, and reinvented himself as the second coming of Alex Jones. Mr. Carlson has interviewed a podcaster who thinks Winston Churchill was the villain of World War II, raised discredited claims that Ashkenazi Jews are immune to Covid, and claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu openly tells Israelis, “I control the United States. I control Donald Trump.”
There is always a market for the circus, but Mr. Carlson has become one of the freaks. Though the sunshine of free speech remains the best antiseptic against poison, Mr. Carlson is more interested in the spotlight than serious debate. He “normalized” his guest with the gentlest of questioning, nodding along as Mr. Fuentes said the country can’t be held together unless “organized Jewry in America” is defeated. But there is nothing normal about Mr. Fuentes. He denies the facts of the Holocaust, opposes interracial marriage, seeks “total Aryan victory,” and urges the rule of a “Catholic Taliban.” He calls for “the death penalty” for an “occult element at the high levels of society, specifically among the Jews,” that is “suppressing” Christianity.

Now, I do not like Green’s use of the phrase “make racism cool again” to describe this anti-Israel message because, among other things, the Left attacks Israel as being “racist” against Palestinians. But his listing of some of the more obnoxious things Fuentes said in this interview is at least helpful in understanding what the controversy is about. If you’re going to nod along amiably to stuff like that, maybe it’s time for you to log off the podcast and check into a psychiatric facility.

My friends, remain calm. Do not panic. Just suppose, for the sake of argument, that the Nick Fuentes/Candace Owens crowd is a million people, or two million, or even five million. Last year, Donald Trump got 77 million votes, so it’s not like this Jew-hating tail is large enough to wag the MAGA dog. On the other hand, given the closeness of the partisan divide — Trump’s national margin of victory was about 2 million votes, and it was very close in most of the “battleground” states — we have to contemplate whether the disaffection of even a few million MAGA voters might be enough to enable the Democrats to regain power.

Certainly we’re doomed if the Republican Party returns to being a neocon/uniparty swindle with an agenda of empty slogans, open borders and “forever wars.” Given a choice between Bushism and Trumpism, I choose Trumpism for the simple reason that Bushism has proven to be a losing formula, both in terms of politics and policy. But you’re not going to make me accept Jew-hating bile from my supposed MAGA “friends” anymore than I’m going to accept it from the pro-Hamas “progressives.”

How this controversy plays out over the next few weeks or months, I can’t predict, but I have been forced to start paying attention, at least.

Not a battle I wanted to fight, but not one I aim to lose, either.



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.31.25

Posted on | November 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.31.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy Nevada Day, and a blessed All Hallows Eve to you all!
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Komi Shouko dresses up for Halloween.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXV
EBL: Kingfish Steaks, Halloween, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, More Halloween, and Sidney Sweeney Dress
Twitchy: Clueless & Jobless Pair “Didn’t Ask” For Kids They Made, Beg Taxpayers To Feed their Mystery Brood, JD Vance Just Fat-Faced The Meme & Stole Halloween – Libs In Shambles, and Woman Rejects “White-Centric” Donations, Sparks Outrage At SNAP Entitlement
Louder With Crowder: A monkey in a diaper causes a Texas Spirit Halloween store to go bananas, Jasmine Crockett has a hilarious theory on why the GOP is so obsessed with every dumb thing she says, As if Kamala Harris wanting 16-year-olds to vote isn’t silly enough, and Congresswoman attempts anti-GOP talking points about the Schumer Shutdown, watch her panic over a single follow-up question
Vox Popoli: Halloween in the City, Book Porn, The Creativity Divide, and London Throws in the Towel
According To Hoyt: On the road again, For The Times They Are Achanging, Bubbles, The Chinchilla of Hope, and Happy All Hallows’ Eve
Upstream Reviews: Between Home & Ruin,
Cedar Sanderson: Book release!, 
Gab: A Christian Declaration of Independence

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American Conservative: Heritage Foundation Declines to Condemn Carlson Over Fuentes Interview
American Greatness: Trump Tells Senate Republicans to Use ‘Nuclear Option’ to End Shutdown, also, Communist Front Group Plans Mass Occupation in DC Starting Nov. 5, Wants Millions to Surround White House & Drive Trump From Office
American Thinker: From Ethnocentric to ‘Racist’
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Schumer Shutdown Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 31
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites, Two former NASA administrators express wildly different opinions on NASA’s Artemis lunar program, ISS study suggests that weightlessness impacts the eyes of men more than women, Webb captures spectacular false-color image of planetary nebula, and China launches three astronauts to its Tiangong-3 space station
Cafe Hayek: Full Text of Gramm and Boudreaux: “The Economic Cost of Trump’s Tariff Revival”, also, Protectionists Have No Sound Theory (And Free Traders Must More Carefully Use Language)
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: When the Bough SNAPS, also, Anti-Semitism on the Right–How Much of a Trend?
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora: A Cunning Halloween/All Saints EWTN Suggestion, Missing Dad on his Birthday, C. S. Lewis Prophet, Trump Obsessed Left, The Democrats 11th Doctor Shorted out Paper Moment
Don Surber: Democrat Devolution forces U.S. officials into hiding
Gates Of Vienna: All the Noose That’s Fit to Print, also, Pumpkin Day Jihad Attack Thwarted
The Geller Report: Obama Pushes for Government Regulation of Speech, Top Trump Officials Forced to Move to Military Bases Amid Escalating Democrat Violence and Death Threats, TERROR Attack Foiled in Michigan, Multiple Suspects Arrested, and Backstabbing RINOS Break Ranks, Join Democrats to Pass Anti-Tariff Resolution
Hollywood In Toto: Stitch Head Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts, Buckle In for Bugonia – The Year’s Wildest Ride, and Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift Saved by Genre Fave
Legal Insurrection: The battle with my child’s school district over unauthorized “social and emotional learning” survey, Happy Halloween – Cultural Borrowings and Religious Syncretism, Nuclear Götterdämmerung in Germany as Two Cooling Towers Demolished, University of Virginia Employees Admit DEI Programs Still Exist, Only Names Have Changed, and Illinois State U. Teaching Assistant Who Flipped TPUSA Table Now Arrested for Threatening Trump
Matt Taibbi: Orwell Watch – On Bill Gates & Climate “Denialism”
Outkick: It Will Be Arch Manning Vs. Diego Pavia On Saturday, Miami Dolphins Part Ways (Fire) With GM Chris Grier And Fans Are Rejoicing, Dodgers Force World Series Game 7 With Absolutely Insane 9th Inning Ending, BYU Is The Team No Title Contender Wants To Face In The CFP, and Scream Queen Danielle Harris Squeezes Into Halloween Lingerie, Stephen A. Whines About Race & Tanked Kamala?
Power Line: Nuclear option, There’s something about Masih, Suffer the children, and It’s the sudden stop at the end
Shark Tank: FL House GOP Campaign Committee Endorses Jon Maples For HD87
Shot In The Dark: It’s SCIENCE!
The Political Hat: Happy Halloween! (2025)
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, US Must Halt Drug Boat Strikes- UN, The US Senate revolts against President Trump on tariffs, Generation Z Democrat interfered with immigration enforcement, called it First Amendment rights, and No more magnetic catapults?
Transterrestrial Musings: Bill Gates, also, Elon Strikes Back
Victory Girls: Marjorie Taylor-Greene Does Not “View” Republicans Favorably
Watts Up With That: Aussie Climate Council Tries to Explain Why Abandoning Net Zero is a Problem, Greta Thunberg Announces Plan to Copyright “How DARE You!”, Climate Skeptic Naomi Seibt Petitions President Trump for Political Asylum, Land of the Living Dead – Paul Ehrlich this Halloween, and A Cautionary Solar Tale – Billions Wasted Thanks to a Rush to Market
The Federalist: How Respecting Women’s Biology Fosters A Culture of Life, 5 States Handed Out $1.4B In Federal Medicaid Funding To Illegals, National Review’s Unfortunate Attack On Phyllis Schlafly Gets Conservative History All Wrong, Insubordinate Officers Publicly Attack The Secretary Of War, and Democrats Choose Supporting LGBT Activists Over Stopping Child Rape
Mark Steyn: The Good Old Days, also, “Utmost Sympathies”

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In The Mailbox: 10.30.25

Posted on | October 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.30.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Trump Administration revises refugee policy, Left butthurt as usual

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hurricane Melissa Hit Jamaica Hard
EBL: DAY 30 OF THE SCHUMER SHUTDOWN, Invasive Snakehead, The Last Frontier, and Hava Nagila
Twitchy: Left-Wing Threats Force Miller, Rubio, & Noem Into Hiding, Federally Indicted Democrat Kat Abughazaleh Quits Interview After Clip Of Her Blocking ICE SUV Is Shown, and Kamala Harris Says She Was In A “State Of Shock” When Trump Crushed He In 2024
Louder With Crowder: JD Vance calls on conservatives to stop being pussies (paraphrasing) afraid of using the power voters gave us, Even the Australian press won’t let Kamala Harris off the hook for covering up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, Woman runs over NYPD officer to “teach him a lesson,” the sentence the judge gives her is a pathetic joke, and Glamour honors their “women” of the year; place your bets on how many of them are dudes
Vox Popoli: He Wasn’t Wrong, Diversity Uber Alles, and Adios, Mr. Windsor
Upstream Reviews: November New Releases
Stoic Observations: Agents! also, The Coming American Social Credit Apocalypse,
Cedar Sanderson: Claus of War
Jim McCoy: Star Trek/Green Lantern – The Spectrum War

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American Conservative: Trump Slashes China Tariff in Apparent Xi Fentanyl Deal 
American Greatness: GOP Lawmakers Renew Calls For Judge Boasberg’s Impeachment Over Arctic Frost Surveillance Abuses, Feds Arrest 97 Agitators Involved in Los Angeles Anti-Ice Riots Over the Summer, and Are Americans Better or Worse Off Since January?
American Thinker: Parsing the Appeal of Socialism to Today’s Young People
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: A Small Flood Avoided (or Why You Should Have Water Leak Detectors)
Behind The Black: New orbital radar data confirms large ice deposits in Phelgra Mountains near Starship landing zone, SpaceX Says Starship will be going to the Moon, with or without NASA, Colorado sues the Trump administration over its decision to move Space Force headquarters to Alabama, Roscosmos forced to replace next manned Soyuz capsule due to damage during test, and A slew of propaganda today from China’s state-run press attempts to hide the delays in its manned lunar program
Cafe Hayek: Jeff Ferry Replies to Me
Dana Loesch: Thoughts on the Carlson interview
Don Surber: CBS wants Fox News ratings
The Geller Report: Corrupt Jack Smith Spied on Over 400 Republicans, ‘Entire Republican Political Apparatus’, also, Trump Hails Breakthrough with China President Xi, Rated Meeting “A 12 Out Of 10”
Glenn Reynolds: In My Life
Hollywood In Toto: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh Made the Monster Matter, Why Taylor Sheridan Rules Hollywood, Jon Stewart Betrays 9/11 Work with Fawning Mamdani Interview, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Sad Backpedal Captures Hollywood Cowardice, and Don’t Let a Man-Eating Tree Scare You from The Guardian
Legal Insurrection: Maryland, Illinois Democrats Backing Away From Redistricting, Heritage Foundation Soils Itself, Embraces Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, Several University Leaders Say ‘Organized Networks’ Drove Anti-Israel Unrest on Campus, President Trump Declares Victory in Battle against Climate Crisis Hoax, and Study Shows Tax Dollars Earmarked for Solving Homeless Crisis Used to Bankroll Far Left Agenda
Outkick: LSU, AD Scott Woodward Part Ways After Brian Kelly Firing And Governor Jeff Landry Feud, Matt Rhule Stays At Nebraska: Penn State Must Look Elsewhere After Firing James Franklin, Dodgers Already Off To Bad Start As Manager Face-Plants Ahead of ‘Do-or-Die’ World Series Game 6, SEC Teams Remain Hypothetically Undefeated, Even After Taking Bad On-Field Losses, and Sydney Sweeney Shows Rotten Hollywood Libs What Real, Republican Boobs Look Like
Power Line: A time for choosing, The Tucker tailwind, “Green” Calculations: Wrong Again, and Judge orders involuntary work without pay
Shark Tank: Anna Paulina Luna Warns Of 764 Online Child Exploitation Ring
Shot In The Dark: House Rules, also, Perfect Storm Of Blah
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Killing The Mentally Ill: Death Is The Cure; Killing When The Family Desires Death; Killing When They Don’t
This Ain’t Hell: Drone killer, also, Good Luck With That, Pakistan
Victory Girls: Jennifer Welch Is A Whole New Level Of Ugly
Watts Up With That: Guardian Ramps Up Efforts to Ban All Climate Dissent, Windmills Spin, Returns Vanish, Taxpayers Foot The Bill, Lee Zeldin Says It’s ‘Very Telling’ China Wants To Keep ‘Biden EPA Rule In Place’, and DOE Grid Policy & Data Centers: New Thinking Ahead?
The Federalist: Josh Hawley Is Making The Wrong Argument For More Food Stamp Welfare, Speaker Johnson Silent After GOP Senators Urge House Hearings, Impeachment Over Arctic Frost, The Child-Rape Phase Of Liberalism Has Arrived In Ireland, Arctic Frost Is ‘100 Times Worse Than Watergate’ But Corporate Media Refuse To Cover It, and VA Dems Use Special Session To Pull Sears Off Campaign Trail, Taking A Page From Trump Lawfare Playbook
Mark Steyn: Big Apple, Big Allah, Build Back Better, Live Around the Planet – It’s A Mam Mam Mam Mamdani World,  and A Crown Fit for a Leader

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