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In the Mailbox: 01.20.17

Posted on | January 20, 2017 | Comments Off on In the Mailbox: 01.20.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: INAUGURATION DAY
Twitchy: Sally Kohn Tweets Gnarly Meme That Backfires Hilariously After Trump’s Inauguration
Louder With Crowder: Dear Leftists – Accept It. Trump Is Your President Now.
Tom Kratman: Inauguration Day – The Great Triggering


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Truth Will Set The Dutch Free
American Power: Leftists Call For Trump’s Assassination On Twitter
American Thinker: What Has Obama Done To Us, And How Was He Able To Do It?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Inauguration Day Friday
Bring The HEAT: The Army’s Next Pistol Will Be The SIG Sauer
Da Tech Guy: Sarah Hoyt Perfectly Nails #disruptj20 and #disrupthate, et al
Don Surber: About That Nancy Sinatra Tweet – “Why Do You Lie, CNN?”
Dustbury: Standard Cab
Hogewash: Was Obama A Better President Than Buchanan?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Democrats’ Real Fury Is Over Their Own Collapse
Joe For America: Fourteen Busted For $16 Million Welfare Fraud – Guess Who?
Power Line: CA Democrats Advocate Criminal Resistance To Trump, also, Trump – If You Thought I Was Kidding, Think Again!
Shark Tank: Obama Concedes Defeat On Guantanamo Bay
Shot In The Dark: A Hit, A Laugh, And A Warning
STUMP: Chicago Bond Quickie – Not Wise To Scrap With Rating Agencies
The Geller Report: Muslim Screaming “Allahu Akbar” Plows Car Into Australian Pedestrians
The Jawa Report: Only Now At The End Do You Understand
The Lonely Conservative: At Last…
The Political Hat: Obama, Just Go Away
This Ain’t Hell: Devil Dog Firearms Rebuilding After Stolen Valor Scandal
War Is Boring: Surprise, Russia’s SAMs In Syria Aren’t As Capable As Believed
Weasel Zippers: Poll – 28% Of Federal Workers Say They Might Quit/Retire Because Of Trump, also, University Of Michigan Students Plan To Protest Trump By Taking Selfies In Their Panties
Megan McArdle: Obama Stayed Out Of The Swamp, And That Hurt Him
Mark Steyn: A New Dawn, A New Don


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Fear and Loathing on Inauguration Day

Posted on | January 20, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Streisand: ‘Clueless, Reckless, Graceless,
Mindless and Heartless: Our President-Elect’
— Breitbart

Michael Moore leads massive
anti-Trump protest in NYC
— The Hill

Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin Address
Crowd at Anti-Trump Rally in NYC
— Variety

Radical Leftists Sow Chaos Outside DeploraBall
on Eve of Donald Trump’s Inauguration
— American Power

Anti-Trump Protesters Pepper Sprayed on Eve
of Inauguration Outside ‘DeploraBall’ in D.C.
— NBC News

Trump supporters, opponents clash
outside ‘DeploraBall’ in downtown D.C.
— Washington Post

Notice how (a) the anti-Trump protests are endorsed by the rich and famous, and (b) the violence of the anti-Trump mob attacking people in D.C. is depicted as a “clash” for which the victims of mob attack are made to seem equally responsible. Also (c) the violent mob getting pepper-sprayed by police is the headline, rather than the criminal activity of the mob which provoked this police crowd-control response.

The news media and the entertainment celebrities have chosen sides, and if any Trump supporters are injured as a result of the anti-Trump mob violence, the liberal elite will say, “They deserved it.”

Who is to blame for this unhinged left-wing madness?

The message drummed into the minds of students at America’s institutions of higher education is that all good people vote Democrat, and that anyone who votes Republican is a racist, sexist, homophobic ignoramus. This partisan prejudice accounts for the rage and despair reaction on campus to the election results.
You do not have to be a fan of Donald Trump to realize how absurdly unrealistic the academic reaction to the election has been. Some students actually seem to believe the partisan hype that depicts Trump’s election as a harbinger of incipient neo-fascism. There is no one on the faculty, apparently, who can explain to them that the Democrat propaganda churned out during the past presidential campaign was full of exaggeration and hyperbole. Aware that their candidate Hillary Clinton was widely unpopular among swing-state voters, Democrats resorted to fear-mongering rhetoric that depicted Hillary as The Last Hope to Save America From Republican/Nazi Trump/Hitler. . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree.



 

 

Category: Celebrities, Democrats, Donald Trump, Education

No Ideological Diversity in Academia

Posted on | January 20, 2017 | Comments Off on No Ideological Diversity in Academia

Ryan Wolfe reports the situation at Wake Forest University:

“Politics has replaced the pursuit of truth,” said a professor in the social sciences. “Ideology gets in the way of the pursuit of truth,” said a professor in literature. “It certainly lacks integrity to say I get to bring my political views to the table but someone else doesn’t,” said a professor in the humanities. . . .
A different professor in the social sciences believes that this problem stems from intellectual arrogance, “The problem is that whenever you are on the liberal left, to some degree, you don’t really see conservative ideas as even valid or worth the time and effort to allow because you have a sense that you know more and you know better.” This arrogance creates what another professor described as an “ideological vacuum.” In this vacuum he described, professors do not acknowledge counter-arguments on issues or challenge their own assumptions. . . .
One professor said that even if he tried to express his conservative views, his colleagues would suffer too much cognitive dissonance to recognize them. The assumption that all faculty are liberal has led to open derision and ridicule of Republicans and conservatism, according to a different professor in the social sciences, which has caused a sense of hostility against conservative faculty.

Read the while thing — you’ll find I’ve added my two cents in the comments — and follow Ryan Wolfe on Twitter. The kid does good work.

 

 

Category: Education

The ‘Male Feminist’ Who Understands Neither Himself Nor Feminism

Posted on | January 19, 2017 | 2 Comments

“I am a danger to myself and others.”
— Hugo Schwyzer, Sept. 30, 2013

“Let’s be clear: Hugo Schwyzer is mentally ill, he has been mentally ill for a long time, and it is highly unlikely that someone suffering from such a chronic psychiatric disorder will ever be completely sane again. . . .
“Schwyzer’s indefensible behavior should alert us to the problematic nature of feminism as an ideology, especially when that ideology is embraced by men.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, June 17, 2014

You may remember Hugo Schwyzer, The Psychotic Professor, whose status as a “male feminist” was destroyed in 2013 when he had a breakdown after the exposure of his abusive behavior toward women, including the young community college students he was having sex with. His Twitter account hasn’t been active since March and his personal blog has disappeared, but Schwyzer has kept writing at Medium.com. And by “writing,” of course I mean, embarrassing himself.

For the benefit of Hugo Schwyzer or anyone else who hasn’t figured this out yet, let me explain that the reason men don’t talk about their feelings is because nobody cares about a man’s feelings. Sure, some women say they like “sensitive” guys who are “in touch with their feelings,” but what women actually mean by that it is much easier for them to manipulate a guy who’s stupid enough to expose his weaknesses. The last thing any sane woman wants to do is to have to deal with a guy who is constantly talking about his feelings. The guy’s job, insofar as he is “sensitive,” is listening to her talk about her feelings. What women want from men is simple:

A. Shut up;
and
B. Pay the bills.

Did I mention Hugo Schwyzer has been divorced four times? Did I mention that he nearly killed a woman in a September 2013 auto crash? Did I mention who he endorsed three days before Election Day?

Hillary won me over in 1995, with her speech at the Beijing Conference, declaring “women’s rights are human rights, and human rights are women’s rights.” And what won me over far more was the hatred she engendered on the right. . . .
Please join me in voting for this incandescently talented, immensely qualified, deeply compassionate candidate. Please join me in electing Hillary.

Yeah, that didn’t work out so good, did it, Professor?

Two days after Election Day, Schwyzer wrote this:

People are scared. They have every right to be. Trump’s words speak of an intent to violate fundamental liberties; Trump’s words inveigle violence; Trump’s words abrogate a social contract that says that we should quietly respect election results.

Professor Psycho Coed-Boner Felony DUI With Four Ex-Wives is worried about the “social contract” and “fundamental liberties.” How touching!

Beyond politics, however, Hugo has been embarrassing himself by writing about how awesome it was that his parents got divorced, and how awesome it was that his high-school girlfriend got an abortion in 1985, and a bunch of self-dramatic gush about his December breakup with a 27-year-old girlfriend in Texas: “I am older than her mother.”

However, these recent embarrassments are not why I’m writing about Hugo Schwyzer today. What happened was that, while perusing feminist Tumblr, I came across someone who had reblogged this:

 

Amid the general reaction of outrage, one blogger pointed out: “Hugo Schwyzer is also a rapist, a rape apologist, and an abuser so I’m sure that comes in to play with his ‘attraction’ to lesbians.” Ouch.

It turns out this was an article Schwyzer published in 2011, and the story focuses on Schwyzer’s second wife, whom he met circa 1993:

After a disastrous and brief first marriage, I met “Courtney,” the woman who would be my second wife. We met at a Twelve Step meeting, and became fast friends. I fell hard. . . .
Our mutual friends assured us we were perfect together. One, Jenny, remarked, “You guys make so much sense. Court’s just a little bit masculine, and Hugo, you’re just a little bit femmy in some ways. You two are meant to be!”

Well, not so much, as it turns out. Their sex life was abnormal, and two weeks after they got married, she lost interest completely, and Hugo had a relapse and an affair, and they divorced after less than two years of marriage, and she almost immediately moved in with her girlfriend.

Much of the article is devoted to Schwyzer’s navel-gazing about why he’s attracted to butch women. And the true answer is this: Hugo Schwyzer is a man who is keenly aware of his own inescapable inadequacy.

Hugo Schwyzer is a loser, and he knows it. He hates himself so much that he cannot respect anyone who admires him. Obviously, if a woman likes him, there must be something wrong with her. He find women who hate him to be more attractive. This is the “male feminist,” see?

Also, dude — you met your second wife at a Twelve Step meeting?

Just get “LOSER” tattooed on your forehead, OK?

 

It’s like the fact that you, at age 49, are still trying to date women who are in their 20s. That ship has sailed, Professor. All those years you spent having sex with your college students? Over. Finished. Gone.

Flashback to Hugo Schwyzer in 2008:

I’ve been divorced three times. That doesn’t mean I’ve had three failed marriages. . . . Though all three of my divorces were painful, all three of my former marriages were, to my mind, ultimately successful in accomplishing the goal of facilitating the personal growth of the two parties involved. None were failures. I was not and am not a failure, and neither were my ex-wives.

Now, of course, his fourth marriage has ended in divorce, proving that the problem in all of Hugo Schwyzer’s marriages was Hugo Schwyzer.

“Male feminist” — a synonym for failure.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.19.17

Posted on | January 19, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stay Chubby – Sen. Gillibrand Votes Against Confirming Mattis As SecDef
Twitchy: Oh No They Didn’t! Look What Dems Are Trying To Pin On Betsy DeVos
Louder With Crowder: Katie Couric Presses Betty White To Bash Trump, Betty Shows Pure Class
Tom Kratman: All Your Safe Space Are Belong To Us


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Putin Says Leftist Anti-Trump Protesters “Worse Than Prostitutes”
American Thinker: Trump, And Obama’s Legacy Of Racism
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Professional Protester News
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – The Mighty Montana’s Maiden Voyage
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – The Silver Lining In The Left’s Incessant Anti-Trump Rhetoric
Don Surber: Fake News Manufactured By Government
Dustbury: I’m Sure Someone Can Explain This
Fred On Everything: Sidestepping The Military Leviathan – Make Money, Not War
Hogewash: Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Why Liberals Just Love To Set Terrorists Free
Joe For America: CNN Wishes For Trump Assassination At Inauguration
JustOneMinute: Red Lines And Red Faces?
Power Line: Obama Exits Stage Left, With A Lie And A Threat
Shark Tank: Trump Plans To Undo 200 Obama Executive Orders
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Those Who Just Don’t Get It Yet
STUMP: Tales Of The Obvious – No Such Thing As Risk-Free, Don’t Do Stupid Stuff
The Geller Report: Taliban’s Leading Bomb Maker Blows Up Himself And Four Sons
The Political Hat: The War On “Man”, The Word “Man”, The Comments Of “Man”, The Existence Of “Man”
This Ain’t Hell: Manning’s Sentence Commuted
War Is Boring: The F-35 Isn’t Too Big To Fail
Weasel Zippers: CNN Hires Valerie Jarrett’s Daughter To Cover Trump’s DOJ, also, Every Candidate For DNC Chair Thinks Democrats Should Take Part In “Street Fighting” Protests Against Trump
Megan McArdle: The Guessing Games Republicans Play On Health Care
Mark Steyn: Flash Bang


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The Worst People in America: Commie #DisruptJ20 Protests Led by Perverts

Posted on | January 19, 2017 | 2 Comments

Anti-Trump activist Luke Kuhn.

Democrats attract support from The Worst People in America — selfish and dishonest people, criminals and perverts — and not by coincidence. The Democrat Party’s policy agenda and rhetoric are deliberately designed to appeal to the worst impulses of the vile dregs of humanity:

Six days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, dozens of people — from college students to gray-haired hippies — gathered in a classroom at American University in Washington D.C. to listen a lawyer offer tips on how to handle getting arrested.
A woman in her late 30s raised her hand. She was worried that, since she’s a teacher, an arrest could get her fired and maybe hurt her chances at landing another job.
“We’ve had teachers get arrested,” the lawyer said. “It’s not the end of the world.” That’s likely reassuring, since for many of those in attendance, the kind of disruption that could end in arrest is the goal.
The morning’s legal training session was one of several classes offered by a group of anti-Trump activists calling themselves DisruptJ20 — “J20” standing for January 20. The event was a training camp of sorts for protesters aiming to “shut down” the nation’s capitol during president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday. . . .
The activists have planned marches, permitted protests, and other unpermitted protests, including a 10 a.m. “anticapitalist march” on Logan Circle.
“Colorful disruptions will occur right at the Inaugural Parade Route,” DisruptJ20 organizer Lacy MaCauley said. DisruptJ20 organizers, she said, “have identified twelve checkpoints that participants will have to pass through in order to attend the inaugural festivities.”

Among the #DisruptJ20 activists is “Boy Love” advocate Luke Kuhn:

Yes, I support the right of young people to CHOOSE to be sexually active if they so desire. As I stated in my original posts on the subject, I started having sex by my own choice when I was 12. My partner was 15 or 16. He asked first, but I kept going back for more-and never, ever regretted it.

Luke Kuhn was one of the “Anti-Fascist” protesters captured on video by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, but in the late 1990s, Kuhn was notorious for advocating pedophilia to his anarchist allies:

Mr. Kuhn made the posts while a member of the Utopian Anarchist Party (UAP) during the late 1990’s. The Utopian Anarchist Party has been identified in other online postings as having links to international child pornography and child exploitation. . . .
A May 8, 2008 article from freerepublic.com listed Luke Kuhn as being a “well known radical” whose home was searched by the Washington D.C. police as part of an investigation into domestic terrorists.

Has anyone asked why American University is permitting anti-Trump protesters to use its classrooms for their organizing sessions? What do we know about the history of American University?

In 1990, American University’s president, Richard Berendzen, was calling day cares seeking sex with children when he contacted Susan Eva Allen; a mother operating a home-based day care whose husband was a detective with Fairfax County Police Department. A search warrant was obtained.
Susan Allen recorded more than 30 hours of conversation with Berendzen. He asked Susan Allen if “she and her husband included their children in sex” and begged to have sex with Susan Allen’s children. He told her he masturbated while talking with her and offered to procure a child for her to use as a “sex slave.”

Washington, D.C., is a wretched hive of scum and villainy:

Brandishing rainbow flags and signs that read “Queer Love” and “Trans Power,” scores of activists marched Wednesday night toward Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s rental home in Northwest Washington, D.C.
Days before Donald Trump’s administration is expected to take over the White House, activists planned what they described as the “Queer Dance Party at Mike Pence’s House.” . . .
Pence, a former senator and the governor of Indiana, believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.
LGBT rights advocates worry about what policies Pence would promote as vice president and how they would affect the LGBT community. . . .

 

Flying the rainbow LGBT banner, you see, permits progressive perverts to hide their agenda behind rhetoric of “diversity” and “tolerance,” which in turn allows Democrats to claim that you’re a “fascist” if you don’t want Luke Kuhn to have sex with your 12-year-old son. Democrat Party perverts are on every campus in the D.C. area:

Anti-Trump protesters disrupted multiple Georgetown classrooms last week in an effort to resist the presidency of Donald Trump.
Members of the RefuseFascism.org movement infiltrated classrooms across campus including the Reiss and ICC lecture halls, where they distributed flyers and denounced the President-elect. The individuals, who were not affiliated with Georgetown University, continued their protest in Red Square before being removed from campus by GUPD.Witnesses in Professor Arsenault’s International Relations class reported that two individuals pried open an exterior door and entered the ICC auditorium.
Harrison Nugent (SFS ’20) said that two men ran to the center aisle and passed out flyers, while bragging that they were the men who were arrested during Senator Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing.
The men proclaimed that they would not stop protesting until they “prevented fascism from entering the White House.” They urged students to rebuke the policies of Donald Trump and Mike Pence and to “join the fight against fascism” by participating in their protest.
In Professor Arsenault’s class, the protesters were forcibly removed by two teaching assistants, both of whom had prior military experience. The TAs grabbed the protesters and pulled them outside of the auditorium.
“This is what fascism will look like if we don’t act now,” the protesters shouted as they were removed from the room.

 

Why do you think these people want to smear the incoming Attorney General as a “fascist”? Are they afraid Jeff Sessions is going to crack down on pornography, prostitution and other favorite Democrat activities? There are reports that ex-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta has been photographed meeting with #DisruptJ20, but for some reason the liberal media doesn’t want to pursue the story and connect the dots.



 

 

Category: Crime, Democrats, Gays, Liberals

The Worst President in History

Posted on | January 19, 2017 | 3 Comments

Barack Obama has made Bradley Manning the symbol of his disgraceful legacy.

“Look at the way Obama treats America’s friends and compare it to the way he treats America’s enemies, and it’s obvious that Obama’s interests and America’s only rarely coincide.”
— Stephen Green, Jan. 18, 2017

Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan’s book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama should be required reading in America’s schools. The media are never going to admit the scope of failure — and beyond failure, deliberate destruction — that has characterized the eight-year reign of error that comes to an end tomorrow. Obama inflicted more damage on the nation this week by pardoning a Puerto Rican terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera, and commuting the sentence of the traitor Bradley “Chelsea” Manning. The extent of Manning’s damage to America’s interests is beyond calculation. Manning “knowingly and intentionally placed lives in danger by indiscriminately placing our nation’s secrets in the public domain,” as David French writes at National Review:

It’s not that long ago that actions like Manning’s would merit execution, and he should be grateful that he merely received a 35-year sentence. Instead, however, both the [New York] Times and the Obama administration treat him more like a messed-up kid than a soldier who betrayed his nation.

Every soldier in the Army has sworn an oath to follow orders. Military discipline cannot be maintained otherwise. The authority that the sergeant exercises over the privates in his squad, and the colonel’s authority over the soldiers in his regiment, is derived from that duty of obedience which extends all the way up to the Commander-in-Chief who, like every soldier, is sworn to an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Every soldier in the ranks is volunteer, a servant of the nation willing to die for his country, and our troops deserve a Commander-in-Chief who appreciates their service because he loves their country the way the soldier loves his country.

Bradley Manning disobeyed orders. He deliberately violated his oath. Every day, soldiers are punished for such violations. A failure to obey orders can be punished in many ways. Squads of soldiers are “smoked” — put through punitive physical training, made to run and do push-ups until they’re soaked in sweat and panting from exhaustion — because they have failed as a unit to meet their sergeant’s expectations. The good soldiers must sweat along with the bad soldiers, because combat troops must function as a unit, responding to orders, or else they will suffer defeat as a result of the failure to instill unit cohesion through proper discipline.

 

Bradley Manning did more than merely fail. He betrayed his country. The very fact that someone like Bradley Manning was deployed to Iraq, as a member of a military intelligence unit, speaks volumes about the Obama administration’s disregard for America’s national security.

In his Bible Belt hometown that he once mockingly wrote in an e-mail had “more pews than people,” Private Manning refused to recite the parts of the Pledge of Allegiance that referred to God or do homework assignments that involved the Scriptures. And if a teacher challenged his views, former classmates said, he was quick to push back.
“He would get upset, slam books on the desk if people wouldn’t listen to him or understand his point of view,” said Chera Moore, who attended elementary and junior high school with him. “He would get really mad, and the teacher would say, ‘O.K., Bradley, get out.’ ” . . .
He enlisted in the Army in 2007, to try to give his life some direction and to help to pay for college, friends said. . . .
He was granted a security clearance and trained as an intelligence analyst at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., before being assigned to the Second Brigade 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y.
Before being deployed to Iraq, Private Manning met Tyler Watkins, who described himself on his blog as a classical musician, singer and drag queen. A friend said the two had little in common, but Private Manning fell head over heels. Mr. Watkins, who did not respond to interview requests for this article, was a student at Brandeis University. On trips to visit him here in Cambridge, Private Manning got to know many in Mr. Watkins’ wide network of friends, including some who were part of this university town’s tight-knit hacker community.

Read the rest of that 2010 profile of Bradley Manning and ask yourself, “Who was responsible for putting this guy in an Army intelligence unit?”

The apprehension of Bradley Manning should have prompted a massive investigation at the Pentagon to ascertain what kind of lapses in training — and laxity in personnel policy — had resulted in the failure to drum that worthless cowardly son of a bitch out of the Army long before he could have had a chance to betray his country. One of the obvious sources of the problem was that, as a result of the long war in Iraq, the military lowered its standards and by 2007 was accepting recruits who should have been rejected for service. Another source of the problem could be traced back to the Clinton administration’s misguided 1993 decision to abrogate the Uniform Code of Military Justice, resulting in the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Democrats hate the American military, and whenever a Democrat is in the White House, our troops are subjected to absurd social-engineering experiments that undermine unit discipline and morale, so that when Republican presidents take office, they must try to undo the damage done by their predecessors. Because 9/11 happened so shortly after George W. Bush became president, however, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were fought without having fixed the problems created by the eight years of Bill Clinton’s anti-military policy.

Now, President Trump will take over as Commander-in-Chief of a military that has been under the perfidious command of anti-American Democrat presidents for 16 of the past 24 years. Our new president’s promise to “Make America Great Again” will first require him to fix the problems at the Pentagon which allowed Bradley Manning to wear an Army uniform long enough to betray his country by violating his oath:

President Obama defended his decision to commute the remainder of Chelsea Manning’s sentence during his final press conference as President on Wednesday, arguing that she’d done enough time already.
“Given she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received, and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute, and not pardon, her sentence,” he said of the woman who as a private leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. “I feel very comfortable that justice has been served and a message has still been sent.”

No, sir, a firing squad would have been the proper “message” for Manning, and by commuting the sentence of this traitor, Barack Obama has permanently secured his legacy as The Worst President in History.



 

Category: Barack Obama, Military

Florida Man Who Threatened Trump Is Well-Connected Democrat Donor

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | 1 Comment

Dominic Puopolo Jr. (left); Bill Clinton with Puopolo’s sister and mother (right).

Earlier today, I treated this as a joke — a guy in Florida used Twitter to post a video threatening to kill Donald Trump — but that was before I learned the details about Dominic Puopolo Jr.:

The man arrested by Miami Beach police Tuesday for allegedly threatening President-elect Donald Trump online is a member of a prominent northeast family close to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
He once gave $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee, DailyMail.com has learned.
Suspect Dominic Puopolo Jr., 51, sat near Hillary Clinton when she delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Puopolo’s mother, Sonia, who died in one of the jets that flew into the World Trade Center on 9-11.
During that eulogy on Oct. 6, 2001 in Boston, the former presidential candidate referred to ‘Dom Jr.’s latest computer wizardry.’
The ‘wizard’ is now being held in a Miami-Dade County jail after using Twitter to threaten Trump’s life. . . .
On various social media platforms, where he posts as JesusChrist1701, the computer consultant claims to have testified in terror cases as an expert witness in a German federal court in Hamburg from 2003 to 2008. . . .
Puopolo has published a number of pictures of outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry, whom he calls a friend. . . .
According to news archives his mother, Sonia Mercedes Morales Puopolo was married to the wealthy Nantucket businessman Dominic J. Puopolo Sr.
She was once a professional ballet dancer and became a major philanthropist and political donor.
However, Sonia was among 92 people on American Airlines Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001, when it crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower in New York City. . . .
The family is also known in political circles for its generosity toward Democratic organizations and candidates.
The threat suspect, according to federal elections records, gave $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1996. He also contributed to Kerry and deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy in the mid-1990s. His name popped up again in contributions in 2006 when he gave $4,000 to Florida Sen. Bill Nelson’s campaign.
His sister Sonia gave $4,000 to Hillary Clinton’s various campaigns.
In Miami, meanwhile, Dom Puopolo was arrested four times for petty crimes since 2006, twice for petty theft and once for defrauding an innkeeper. . . .
There’s also evidence he was the target of mental health court proceedings in 2016 although the details are not public.
When he was arrested in March, the judge ordered Puopolo to be represented by a tax-funded public defender after declaring him ‘indigent.’
Property records, however, indicate Puopolo sold a family home in Dover, Mass. in 2013 for $4 million. And in 2004, he sold a condo in downtown Miami for $3.3 million.
He currently lives in a run-down $60,000, one-bedroom flat in Miami Beach.

This is evidently a case of a guy who has gone downhill badly in the past decade or so, whose wealth has been dissipated, and for whom the defeat of Hillary Clinton was a shattering emotional blow.

 

Category: Crime
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