Even though we ended up 2-4 on the week, it actually went better than expected, since with our records against the A’s and Dodgers, I fully expected to go 0-6 on the week, Still, Blue Moon Odom vultured his fifth win in relief of David Clyde against Jim Palmer & the A’s and Carl Morton outdueled Don Sutton, winning a 1-0 shutout thanks to Eddie Brinkman’s eighth homer of the year. That leaves us at 70-83 with nine games left in the season, so even if we ran the table against the Red Sox, O’s, and Tribe we’d still be just 79-83, and we all know that’s not happening. Fortunately, we have a nice crop of rookies coming up next year (including the Human Rain Delay) so maybe we’ll be able to break through for another winning season. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
Ace of Spades does this thing where he reports some bad news for the gay community and then says, “During Pride Month?” And the whole idea of “Pride Month” has become a joke — basically it’s a corporate branding opportunity, with various companies doing promotional campaigns to demonstrate their “allyship” or commitment to “inclusion” or whatever.
Then again, did “Gay Pride” ever really make sense? It started with a riot — excuse me, I meant to say, mostly peaceful protest — at an unlicensed Greenwich Village gay bar run by the Genovese crime syndicate. Police obtained a warrant to shut it down and raided it in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969. The raid went down shortly after 1 a.m., and the crowd became so violent that it took three hours to clear them out. Somehow, this relatively minor event — fighting cops over the “right” to get drunk in an illegal Mafia-owned bar — has been inflated to world-historical signficance, the Bastille of sexual deviance as it were. And that, boys and girls, is why “Pride Month” is celebrated in June.
The actual facts of the 1969 Stonewall riots are less inspiring than the glorious narrative and, while I’m at it, why “Pride”? It’s all a bullying campaign to silence critics who don’t buy into the “rights” rhetoric which radical perverts stole from the black civil rights movement. As I’ve pointed out before, you’re not even allowed to use words like pervert, deviant or abnormal, no matter how outrageous or disgusting the behavior involved, because that’s “hate speech”:
“Deviant” is a word we don’t hear much anymore, for the simple reason that its meaning has become invalid or irrelevant or, as any Democrat would say, an expression of hate. America has in recent years gradually lost its vocabulary of moral judgment. “Deviant,” “abnormal,” “perverse,” “immoral” — each of these terms for sexual behavior that is wrong and bad implies the existence of an antonym for what is right and good. Anyone who cares to research the etymology of “deviant” and “perverse,” for example, will find that both of these words suggest a turning away from something. But from what have perverts like Anthony Weiner and deviants like Sydney Leathers turned away? We simply aren’t allowed to say it. Politically correctness forbids us to assert that any form of sexual behavior is more wholesome or more normal than any other. And no one in American public life dares use the word “sin” nowadays.
Well, I could continue in that vein for 1,500 words and not exhaust the topic, but there is news to be reported. Notice that I’ve used the most inclusive version of the ever-expanding acronym, LGBTQIA2S+ — including so-called “two-spirit” identity, with the plus sign designating whatever other kinky fetishes any freak might want to celebrate in June.
Andy Ngo identifies as a G in that acronym, but not the obnoxious radical kind, and it was Andy who popularized the label “Trantifa” to describe the (disproportionately large) contingent of Antifa thugs who identify as transgender. Note my use of the phrase “identify as,” because the whole idea of passing as the opposite sex has apparently been abandoned in recent years. The Implausible Tranny type is now the prevailing norm — ugly hulking brutes wearing dresses and pretending to be what they very obviously are not. We’re not allowed to point this out, of course, nor can we be permitted to mention the stark irrationality of such behavior.
Look, if you’re an ugly dude who can’t get laid, do you really think you’re gonna do better as an ugly woman? Is it not rather obvious that, far from being a solution to your unhappiness, your new transgender identity is likely to be the source of a whole new set of problems? But crazy is as crazy does, I guess, and that brings us to the case of Christopher Hudson, a/k/a “Julie Mikela Winters.” Last December, Hudson/“Winters” posted a GoFundMe trying to raise $10,000, claiming to be a victim of brutality by police in Portland, Oregon. It included this photo:
What Christopher/“Julie” wants you to notice about that picture is the bruises on his/“her” face, but notice something else? Yeah, the photo is cropped so that you can’t see his/“her” hairline, because the obvious case of male pattern baldness sort of undermines his credibility as a “her.”
Speaking of credibility, while Hudson/“Winters” claims to be the victim of brutality, Portland Police say that he/“she” is in fact the perpetrator of violence, and in December he/“she” was charged with felony assault on a public safety officer, as well as two misdemeanors. But it’s Portland, where criminals get turned loose in the revolving-door system, so Hudson/“Winters” was back on the streets pending trial on those December charges when he/“she” was arrested during a riot outside the Portland offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):
On Tuesday, June 24, federal authorities apprehended an armed subject who advanced on officers with a large knife outside the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. Julie Mikela Winters, 47, born Christopher Hudson, has been charged with felony attempted assault of a federal officer, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
The incident occurred during the ongoing Antifa occupation at the ICE facility located at 4310 SW Macadam Avenue, which has been under siege by black-clad militants for more than two consecutive weeks.
According to an FBI affidavit, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers observed Winters attempting to ignite an incendiary device next to the guard shack of the ICE building at 11:15 pm. When officers approached Winters, the defendant allegedly reached into his backpack and pulled out a large 1-foot knife with a curved blade.
Winters proceeded to advance on federal officers with the blade in hand. “As officers attempted to get tactically positioned, Winters threw the knife at one of the officers’ heads,” according to court documents. The targeted officer was able to dodge the attack.
The defendant proceeded to run away but was subdued by an officer who deployed a Taser. When federal agents attempted to place Winters in custody, Winters resisted arrest and allegedly reached toward his waist in an attempt to pull out a second deadly weapon. “One officer saw Winters grab another knife,” which resulted in the officer kicking the weapon away from Winters, according to the FBI affidavit. The second knife was described as a kitchen butcher knife.
Yesterday’s drive to Las Vegas was long and hot and exhausting. Today’s return was somewhat better. And speaking of today
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
SCOTUS finally slaps down rogue district judges, and burns KBJ in the process.
For the past couple of days, I’ve been watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and — dear merciful God! — there are no words to describe how awful it is. On the other hand, the attempt to describe it gave me an excuse to beat that dead dog again with a 1,300-word opus:
Among the errors to which journalists are prone, none is so common as the delusion of instant expertise. Assign a reporter to do an article about theoretical physics, and by the time he files his story, he’ll be convinced he’s Stephen Hawking. You see this sort of phony expertise everywhere in the media nowadays, including sports, where every ESPN panelist offers his predictions with rock-solid confidence, and never acknowledges his mistake when the team he’d picked to win ends up on the wrong side of a lopsided blowout.
Trafficking in fake expertise is routine practice at CNN, where their dwindling audience is now expected to believe that such personalities as Kasie Hunt and Erin Burnett know more about the effectiveness of U.S. military weapons than does Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It’s worth noting in this context that CNN invested heavily in the idea that Hegseth was not qualified to be in charge of the Pentagon, despite his experience as an officer in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq.
Scarcely had the B-2 bombers returned from their bombing mission against Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility than CNN went to work to prove that the Air Force mission was a failure. . . .
Never go full Zimbabwe. You can order a $10 trillion Zimbabwe note online for under $25, which is still more than its actual value as currency, but rather reflects what it’s worth as a collector’s item, a memento of the kleptocratic regime of Robert Mugabe. New York City doesn’t issue its own currency, so we won’t be able to use that metric to judge the consequences of Zohran Mamdani being elected mayor, but a Zimbabwe-scale disaster probably can’t be avoided. Having won the Democratic primary, the socialist Mamdani is all but certain to become New York City’s next mayor. The bumbling incumbent Eric Adams is seeking re-election as an independent, Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate and the loser Andrew Cuomo may also run as an independent in the general election, but it’s difficult to see a scenario where any of them gets more votes than Mamdani in November. The writing is on the wall.
New York City is now doomed beyond hope of redemption.
Mamdani’s socialist agenda will inspire an irreversible exodus of investment from the city. It’s not just a matter of high-earning indviduals fleeing to avoid confiscatory taxation — although that will certainly happen, too — but the simple fact that Mandani’s anti-business policies will make it impossible for any company to operate profitably in the city.
Since Rudy Giuliani left office in 2001, every mayor of New York has been worse than his predecessor. Michael Bloomberg was awful, but Bill de Blasio was a catastrophe, and Eric Adams is a pathetic joke. The city is now prepared to elect a “charismatic” young radical who bids fair to make the David Dinkins era seem a mild annoyance by comparison.
There are some who say a Mamdani administration probably won’t be as bad as his campaign promises suggest. But my guess is that it will actually be much worse than most people now imagine. Which is to say, “this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions”:
Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
