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Study: We Don’t Hate Bisexuals Enough

Posted on | December 8, 2016 | 2 Comments

 

“Never Trust a Bisexual,” as I have previously warned, and this is an important warning because bisexuality has been increasing in recent years among young people. You can blame the Obama administration’s policies or the plague of Third-Wave feminism on college campuses, but whatever the cause of this phenomenon, the danger is real, and those sneaky bisexuals are not suffering as much hate as they deserve:

Among LGBT Americans, bisexuals stand out
when it comes to identity, acceptance
Compared with gay men and lesbians, bisexuals have a different perspective on their sexual orientation and a distinct set of experiences, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 1,200 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults. . . .
Bisexuals are also much less likely than gay men or lesbians to have “come out” to the important people in their life. Only 28% of bisexuals say all or most of the important people in their life know they are bisexual. . . .
Relatively few bisexuals report that they have experienced discrimination because of their sexual orientation. . . .
There’s also a sense among all LGBT adults that society is more accepting of bisexual women than it is of gay men, lesbians or bisexual men. A third of LGBT adults say there is a lot of acceptance for bisexual women. Fewer (25%) say there’s a lot of acceptance for lesbian women, and fewer still see a lot of acceptance for gay men (15%) and bisexual men (8%). . . .

Let me interrupt here to say that “acceptance for bisexual women” is (a) a bad idea, which is (b) caused by the Internet pornography epidemic. The online tsunami of that nasty stuff has popularized all kinds of bad ideas, including anal sex, BDSM, transgenderism and, of course, the bisexual ménage-à-trois fantasy. This particular kinky idea was popularized in the 1970s by Penthouse magazine, and then in the 1980s by VHS porn videos, so that “lesbian” came to connote two really hot girls going at it for the voyeuristic satisfaction of a guy who, as spectator, imagined himself also as a participant in this scene. Over the past 20 years, the Internet has unleashed the hounds of hell in this regard.

Guys, wake up: There is a reason this is called a “fantasy.”

In reality, (a) lesbians have zero interest in having some weirdo guy participate in their intimacies, (b) most actual lesbians look nothing like those hot girls going at it on video, and (c) if you talk your girlfriend into fulfilling your ménage-à-trois fantasy, this greatly increases the likelihood of her becoming your ex-girlfriend. Maybe you think monogamy and normal sex are boring, but what if your girlfriend — pressured by you into doing a threesome to “spice up” your sex life — decides that she prefers a twosome, minus you? Being normal may be boring, but it’s better than being alone, and I could tell you about guys who learned that lesson the hard way. Now, back to the research:

Bisexuals are much more likely than gay men or lesbians to be married, and most have a spouse of the opposite sex. Roughly a third (32%) of the bisexual women in our survey were married, as were 23% of bisexual men. . . .
Only 9% of bisexuals have same-sex partners; fully 84% are involved with someone of the opposite sex.

See what I’m talking about? Bisexuals are less likely to “come out,” preferring to operate in stealth predator mode, avoiding “discrimination” by concealing themselves in ostensibly heterosexual relationships. My friend Cynthia Yockey, the Conservative Lesbian, was the one who originally warned me about what we may call The Bisexual Menace.

If lesbians understand this — bisexuals are untrustworthy, selfish and emotionally unstable — why do bisexuals suffer less discrimination? Mainly it’s their success at operating in stealth-predator mode, but it’s also because these sneaky freaks have allied themselves with the LGBT coalition, as opportunistic passengers on the bandwagon of “tolerance.”

My habit of sarcastic hyperbole may lead readers to suppose that I am being entirely humorous here, but aside from my jocular pose as a notorious hater — just ask the SPLC, which still hasn’t caught on to this — there is nevertheless a real danger of too much “tolerance.” Some of us have long memories, and it took about a dozen years to go from the Stonewall riot to the AIDS epidemic. That interval, which we might call The Disco Decade, was very tolerant of a lot of things that, in hindsight, never should have been tolerated. You can read Randy Shilts’ history of the AIDS epidemic, And the Band Played On, to get an idea of what the 1970s gay bathhouse scene was like. If you’re really serious about understanding this history, you might want to check out Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader, Chapter 9 of which is about The Catacombs, a San Francisco BDSM club that specialized in particularly dangerous practices that no sane person would ever want to imagine.

Knowing the actual history of that era — most of which was (and continues to be) concealed by the liberal media, and thus seldom given the kind of critical scrutiny it deserves — I am concerned about the consequences of current trends. (See “Sexual Anarchy: Progress, Perversion and the ‘Emerging Awareness’ Doctrine.”)

The liberal pose of enlightened sophistication — all the Smart People™ assuring us that there is nothing to worry about — is usually a precursor to catastrophe, and who knows what new varieties of wickedness we shall behold emerging from the shadows in years to come?

Who to blame? Al Gore. He invented the Internet, you know.



 

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Category: Gays, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 12.07.16

Posted on | December 7, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.07.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Remember Pearl Harbor


OVER THE TRANSOM
Battleswarm: “Mad Dog” Mattis Tidbits
EBL: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
Michelle Malkin: The Messy Truth About Van Jones
Twitchy: Colin Kaepernick Zinged At Pearl Harbor
Louder With Crowder: Why “Hate Speech” Doesn’t Exist


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Fake News – Everything Is Backwards
American Power: Senator Sessions Isn’t A Racist, His Left-Wing Accusers Are
American Thinker: The Left’s Retreat Into Fantasy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Only One Question Concerning Notre Dame And Trump
Don Surber: Macy’s No Longer A Sponsor Of Planned Parenthood, also, US Steel To Add 10,000 Jobs Thanks To Trump’s Election
Dustbury: Still Living In Infamy, also, The Sin of Gluteny
Jammie Wearing Fools: Feelgood Story Of The Day – Hollywood PR Firm Cancels Holiday Parties Due To Depression Over Trump
Joe For America: Germany Changes Course – Merkel Calls For Ban On Burkas
JustOneMinute: Don’t Know Much About Economy…
Power Line: NYT Reporter Asks “Why Can’t We Assassinate Conservatives?”, also, On Ellison, Pass the Popcorn
Shark Tank: Veterans Should Expect To Receive More Help From Trump Administration
Shot In The Dark: Things I’ve Learned Over The Last Eight Years
STUMP: Pension Nastiness In Jacksonville
The Geller Report: Detroit Muslim Planned To Use Explosives In Jihad Attack
The Jawa Report: Reader Love Mail – Omar, Omar, Wherefore Art Thou Omar Edition
This Ain’t Hell: Judge Overturns Brezler Decision, also, Mandy Lea Whipple Steals Vet’s ID
Weasel Zippers: GOP Bill Defunds Schools That Ban American Flag, also, Dem Rep Lofgren Calls For Constitutional Convention So Lib States Can Secede After Trump Win
Megan McArdle: You Can Argue What Ought To Be, or Make It Happen
Mark Steyn: The Spike On the Oscilloscope


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Rule 5 Tuesday: Girls With Guns

Posted on | December 7, 2016 | 5 Comments

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Weekend blogging was pretty badly derailed by the Concealed Handgun Permit class I took Saturday, which lasted all day and (fortunately) started with range qualification. Since I was awake today as well, I turned in my paperwork, and within 120 days I’ll have my Nevada CHP. This of course brought to mind some Twitter accounts worth following if you like armed women, preferably with not too many clothes: @GunGirlPic, @HotGirlsAndGuns, and @GirlsGun, which provided the appetizer for this week’s post.
As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW; the management is not responsible for misfeeds, cookoffs, jams, poorly aligned headspace, failure to zero, premature detonation, or any other problem caused by your failure to click only at appropriate times and places.

Reminiscent of Emily Blunt in EDGE OF TOMORROW, no?

Reminiscent of Emily Blunt in EDGE OF TOMORROW, no?

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns, followed by Goodstuff, exploring Weird Science with Kelly LeBrock. Animal Magnetism adds Rule Five Time Travel Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon; we also heard from The Last Tradition with Joanne Borgella and Lily Aldridge.



EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Sofia Boutella, Hope Hicks (maybe), Naughty Librarians,  Megyn Kelly To CNN?, Tomi Lahren, Joanna Gaines, and Suzanne Malveaux.

A View from the Beach contributes Jessica Gomes is Afraid of Snakes, “Shake”, “Free Bird”, It Ain’t the Size of the Rod, Islamic TV Advises Women on How to Cover Up Abuse, Pussy Riot Over Trump, What’s a Brother For, Anyway?, and Boobs Against Trump.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation Sensation, Humpday Hawtness Piercing Pagoda, Fursday At The Falls, Latent Lingerie, and Bath Night Weekender With Lesbians.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Susan Ward, his Vintage Babe is Vikki Dougan, Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret, and there’s also Your Schadenfreude NFL/Niners Report. At Dustbury, it’s Ramya (Divya Spandana) and Yuja Wang.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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UCLA Feminist Identifies as Heterosexual, Blames ‘White Feminism’ for Trump

Posted on | December 6, 2016 | 2 Comments

UCLA sophomore Graciela Barada is not LGBT.

A feminist student at the University of California at Los Angeles has admitted she is heterosexual. Sophomore Graciela Barada confessed her heterosexuality in Fem (“UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973”), in a Nov. 17 column about the recent presidential election, entitled “Dear White Liberal Friends, Family, and Peers.”

“Our feelings are confusing and overwhelming to say the least,” Barada wrote of UCLA students “experiencing uncertainty, fear, anger, despair, frustration” because Republican Donald Trump won the election. “Since Tuesday, my social media timelines have been flooded by a seemingly perpetual stream of fake-woke liberal white feminist proverbs that, frankly, are painfully problematic and extremely frustrating.”

Saying she is “opposed to virtually all that [Trump] embodies and the so-called Conservative ‘values’ he stands for,” Barada wrote:

Like many of you, I have yet to come to terms fully with what Trump’s victory will mean for the future of our planet and for millions of people (both domestic and abroad) in years to come. . . .
My own privilege has protected me from enduring many of the daily horrors that countless minorities have faced since the election. The daughter of Spanish-speaking immigrants, I proudly identify as a woman of color and “first-generation” American citizen. I am also financially secure, cissexual, heterosexual, able-bodied, and in the process of completing my undergraduate education at a world-renowned institution. And despite the presence of Trump supporters and sympathizers amongst my peers, the UCLA community is overwhelmingly comprised of other students of color.

Only 8,000 white students are enrolled at UCLA, where whites are a minority (26%) of the university’s 30,000 undergraduate students, the majority of whom (56%) are female. Asian students are 32% of UCLA undergraduates, Hispanics are 21% and black students are 5%.

“White feminism” has been under attack since the Nov. 8 election, as feminist critics of Hillary Clinton’s campaign have pointed to exit-polls showing that Trump got a majority (53%) of white women’s votes:

White women preferred Trump to Clinton. And who is Hillary Clinton if not a representative of white-woman-ness, that is, of so-called White Feminism? . . .
In Slate, L.V. Anderson interprets the results to mean that “[m]ost white women don’t want to be part of an intersectional feminist sisterhood.” . . .
To be a Donald Trump woman was to be heterosexually desired. To be a Hillary Clinton woman . . . was to throw on a pantsuit and ask to be valued, instead, for your abilities.

“White feminism played a huge part in this election: it focused on the issues of being a white woman and disregarded all the hate and oppression that white women inflict on others,” Etienne Rodriguez wrote the day after the election at the teen feminist site Affinity.

Graciela Barada similarly condemned her white classmates at UCLA:

For the white women still donning the “I’m With Her” slogan, please inform yourself of the ways in which your demographic chose Trump (a misogynist candidate) over Clinton-Kane, whose political platforms embraced progression of women’s rights in America. In actuality, this adamant focus on what the GOP victory means for “women everywhere” often exclusively refers to the circumstances of white women and is thus the embodiment of white feminism. This white feminist stance is a reflection of white privilege, a privilege that many white liberal women seem reluctant to admit exists and prevails in spite of the oppressions they may face due to their gender and other marginalizing factors. . . .
Trump-like figures are the product of our White Supremacist capitalist patriarchy, 230 years in the making. . . .
Recognize the legacies of oppressive American power structures for what they are. When I speak of complicity, I do not mean that each white American is single-handedly responsible for committing verbal and physical violence against marginalized groups. Rather, I am hinting at the fact that the “white” identity — and the place of many white people in our great American tale — is rooted in the oppression of less dominant groups.

Graciela Barada’s mother is a white immigrant from Spain and her father, a businessman in Washington, D.C., is a black immigrant from Cuba. Graciela Barada’s suffering of “oppression” from “White Supremacist capitalist patriarchy” consists of attending a university in Los Angeles where annual tuition is $39,518 for out-of-state students and room and board are $15,069 a year. A majority (58%) of UCLA students are non-white, and yet “white privilege” is still the problem.

“White feminism” was the topic of a discussion last month hosted by UCLA’s Intergroup Relations (IGR) program, the Daily Bruin reported:

Students discussed feminist issues and considered their visions for gender equality at student-run event on the Hill on Wednesday.
The Intergroup Relations Program hosted a dinner dialogue about what they call white feminism. About 20 students attended the event held at Bruin Plate. . . .
At these events, students can talk about topics they might be uncomfortable with, said Celia Cody-Carrese, an intern with Intergroup Relations and third-year geography and environmental studies student.
Cody-Carrese said the organizers chose white feminism as the topic of Wednesday’s event because they think feminism has traditional ties with white supremacies. . . .
Intergroup Relations leaders discussed how celebrities approach feminism. Some asked the group what the difference was between the empowerment messages in Taylor Swift’s vs. Beyonce’s music.
Some students said they thought Swift’s music does not have the same impact as Beyonce’s because of her privilege, even if her music has messages of empowerment. Conversation later spread into European patriarchy as an instrument of subjugation during the colonial era in world history.
Cody-Carrese said she thinks the word “feminism” is usually applied to white women. . . .
Cody-Carrese said she thinks white feminism disregards the concept of intersectionality. For example, a white woman cannot completely understand the specific plight of a black woman, she said.

Taylor Swift vs. Beyoncé and colonial subjugation by European patriarchy  — this is what parents send their children to UCLA to learn:

Mitali Gupta, a UCLA Senior who attended the event, told Campus Reform that feminism’s link to white supremacy was indeed discussed during the meeting, adding that she agrees that such a connection exists.
“As a woman of color I was curious to know what ‘white feminism’ really was,” Gupta explained. . . .
Anna Yeakly, the director of the Intergroup Relations Center, said in a statement to Campus Reform that the dinner dialogue program is in its 5th year, and that the program is a partnership between various administrative offices on campus.
“White feminism was a topic suggested by the students, based on their interest in discussing the issue of intersectionality that is often left out of conversations about feminism” Yeakly said.
According to the Center’s website, recent dinner dialogues have focused on issues such as the “Intersections of Social Media, Culture, and Social Justice Issues” and “Race and Police Enforcement.”

Arguments over racism have not distracted feminists at UCLA from their main agenda, i.e., accusing men of rape. Seventeen rapes were reported at UCLA in 2014, the same year the California legislature enacted its controversial “affirmative consent” law, which effectively criminalizes all sexual activity on university campuses in the state:

The way this bill defines “affirmative consent” could open the door to a flood of sexual assault accusations, but provides no clear way for the accused to prove they obtained consent. . . .
In fact, asked in June, the bill’s principal co-author, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, had no clue how one could prove they received affirmative consent.
“Your guess is as good as mine,” Lowenthal told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. “I think it’s a legal issue. Like any legal issue, that goes to court.”
But if one of the bill’s co-sponsors can’t explain how to prove one obtained consent, how is a college student supposed to figure it out?

UCLA has numerous programs to encourage accusations of rape, including “Sexual Assault Awareness Month,” as well as Campus Assault Resources & Education (CARE). Ariana Damavandi, a staff writer for Fem (“UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973”) has identified the problem as “rape culture . . . centered around a heteronormative narrative, meaning heterosexuality is unconsciously prioritized as the most normal and acceptable sexual orientation and non-heterosexual narratives are often ignored.” Sophia Galluccio, another staff writer for Fem (“UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973”), demands “Zero Tolerance” for “rape culture.” Another article in Fem (“UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973”) blamed “toxic masculinity and the hegemonic roles . . . that delineate how men are supposed to behave themselves — as violent, unemotional, aggressive, dominant, tough, sexual, and confident”:

As a result, men feel pressure to actively enforce their masculinity, which often occurs through this sexually explicit, misogynistic or racist language. . . .
This derogatory language normalizes behaviors associated with sexual violence and racial discrimination, and preserves a rape culture in which men behave in ways under the assumption that sexual aggression and objectification are natural qualities of masculinity. This is one reason for the alarmingly high rates, underreporting, and limited punishment of sexual assault on college campuses. When faced with charges of sexual assault or rape, college men often face little scrutiny, excused by a “boys will be boys” mentality, implying that they are simply acting out of a natural sexual impulse.

Did I mention that Fem has been “UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973”? This is kind of relevant, because if college girls writing articles in a magazine were the solution to “rape culture” (or “toxic masculinity” or anything else), don’t you think that 43 years of this would have eliminated these problems? What they have done instead is to create a climate of irrational hostility toward men, where male students are a minority (44% of undergraduates at UCLA), so that there are nearly 4,000 more women than men on campus. Yet anyone who thinks heterosexuality is “normal and acceptable” is accused of “rape culture” by UCLA feminists, who insist that sexual assault occurs at “alarmingly high rates” at their school.

 

Behold the staff of Fem — do they look “oppressed” to you? Do they appear to be victimized by a “heteronormative narrative”?

Earlier this year, the staff of Fem participated in the International Women’s Day march, carrying signs denouncing “capitalist exploitation” and declaring, “It is our duty to fight for freedom from the imperialist white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchy.”

 

Capitalism is wrong, according to the staff of Fem (“UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973”), and heterosexuality is also wrong:

At some point in human history, men decided that women belonged to them. Today, in the United States, women are allowed to have property, money, and lots of other things they couldn’t have in the past, but for some reason we haven’t quite gained control of our bodies.
Heterosexual men control women’s bodies in a variety of ways, including restricting our access to abortion and healthcare, sympathizing with accused rapists, and objectifying and trivializing our sexuality. That last one is especially true for non-heterosexual women, who are consistently a target of objectification and fetishization for heterosexual men.

The author of that article is Laura Jue. Click here to see her photo. Is she “a target of objectification and fetishization for heterosexual men”? Or is this merely a paranoid delusion, like Graciela Barada’s claim that she is a victim of “the legacies of oppressive American power structures . . . rooted in the oppression of less dominant groups”?

Speaking of “less dominant groups,” UCLA’s football team went 4-8 this season, losing to Stanford, USC and Cal-Berkeley. Maybe if their punter hadn’t been arrested on a bogus rape charge . . .

Anyway, Graciela Barada says she is heterosexual, but why? How? More importantly, who? Has any guy at UCLA ever admitted to having sex with a staff member of “UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973”?

I doubt it, but if it happened, I blame “toxic masculinity.”

(Hat-tip: The Political Hat.)



 

Category: Education, Election, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 12.06.16

Posted on | December 6, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: There’s A Hunger Problem On America’s College Campuses
Battleswarm: Texas SEIU Declares Bankruptcy To Avoid Judgment
EBL: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Twitchy: NARAL Board Member Had Sex, Got Pregnant – But It’s Not Her Fault!
Louder With Crowder: Tucker Carlson Dropkicks Smug College Kid Over Trump & The Environment


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Simplicity Of The Lunatic Left
American Power: The Social Justice Left Vs. The Identitarian Alt-Right
American Thinker: The Problem Isn’t The Alt-Right, It’s The Alt-Reality
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
Da Tech Guy: One Critical Point To Add To #LashEquality, also, Baldilocks – California Prepares Its Final Blunder
Don Surber: Infrastructure Projects ARE Conservative
Dustbury: We Have All Been Here Before
Jammie Wearing Fools: Diary Of A Hillblazer – How I Ended Up In A Psych Ward On Election Night
Joe For America: Major Voter Fraud Uncovered In Key Battleground State Of Nevada
JustOneMinute: Ben Carson?
Power Line: “Post-Truth” Media Should Look In The Mirror, also, Ellison Remembers To Forget (Again)
Shark Tank: Florida Legislators File “Booze Bills” To Kill Prohibition-Era Law
Shot In The Dark: NPR’s “On The Media” – Fake Analysis Of “Fake News”
The Geller Report: Muslim Council Of Britain Says It’s Up To Kufr To Integrate, Not Us
The Political Hat: On Equality
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday Morning Feelgood Stories
Weasel Zippers: Senate Dems Regret Changing Senate Rules Now That Trump Is President, also, White House Says “Embittered” WW2 Vets Should Get Over Pearl Harbor Attack
Megan McArdle: Start Worrying About Long-Term Care
Mark Steyn: Dark Waters


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FMJRA 2.0: Spiral

Posted on | December 6, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday
The Pirate’s Cove
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro Just Became the Only Kind of Good Communist
A View from the Beach

‘Girl Power’ and Honor in Pakistan: The Unsurprising Death of Qandeel Baloch
A View from the Beach

Personal Or Ethnic, Slobodan Miloševic Clearly Understood Hygeine #TrudeauEulogies
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

FMJRA 2.0: After Black Friday
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

‘Little Old Liberal White Ladies’
The Political Hat
EBL@RedState

Herbert Kornfeld Was Certainly Smarter Than Krugman, My Basset Hound. Also, The NYT Economist Dude. #TrudeauEulogies
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.28.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Some Stereotypes Are True
The Political Hat
EBL@RedState

The Intifada at Ohio State Proves the Immigration-Terrorism Connection
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.29.16
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Notoriously Crazy Felon Barrett Brown Has Been Released From Federal Prison
EBL@RedState

War on Women: Democrats Ready to Throw Nancy Pelosi Under the Bus?
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.30.16
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.01.16
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

‘Hashtag He’s Your President’
The Political Hat
EBL@RedState

#FreeStacy Quoting My Favorite Source
Regular Right Guy
BattleSwarm Blog
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

Guess What Swarthmore College Will Teach Your Children for $63,550 a Year?
Regular Right Guy

In The Mailbox: 12.02.16
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL@RedState (15)
  2.  A View from the Beach (7)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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In The Mailbox: 12.05.16

Posted on | December 5, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


This week’s FMJRA and Rule 5 Monday will follow later this evening, if I can stay awake…


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Renzi In Ruins – Populism Prevails In Italy
Twitchy: Gloriously Idiotic Paul Krugman Leads Another Parade Of Denial About Why Hillary Lost
Louder With Crowder: McDonald’s Hits Back Hard At #FightFor15 With Touching Ad Campaign


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Listen Up, Faggots – You’re Being Used
American Power: Death Toll Rises To 36 In Oakland “Ghost Ship” Fire
American Thinker: The Left’s Coming Counterattack
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – A Voice For Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens by Lydie Denier
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Trump Just Got Into China’s Head
Don Surber: Phony Cries Of Phony Capitalism
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Meanwhile In Arkansas
Jammie Wearing Fools: Oh Look, That SPLC Survey On Post-election “Hate Crimes” Left Out 2000 Committed Against White Students
Joe For America: Thug Shoots Newlywed Soldier And Wife – Where’s Al Sharpton?
JustOneMinute: Positive Thinking At The Times!
Power Line: A Fitting End – Castro’s Hearse Breaks Down
Shark Tank: Allen West Going Back To Washington, DC?
Shot In The Dark: At Least Neville Chamberlain Realized He Was Wrong
STUMP: Dead Men Collect Pensions – Update On Pension Fraud
The Geller Report: Watch As Muslim Men Threaten British Schoolgirls With Brutal Rape & Beatings DAILY
The Jawa Report: War Porn, also, Fidel Castro Pushed Into Grave
The Lonely Conservative: The Left Needs To Get A Grip, And So Do Trump’s Biggest Fans
The Political Hat: The Enwokening Of White People
This Ain’t Hell: Four Resign From VA Ahead Of Discipline, also, #Pizzagate
Weasel Zippers: Green Berets Fighting Daesh Frustrated By Top-Level Micromanagement, also, Dem Rep Ellison Says Democrats Will Do Nothing But Vote No While Trump Is President
Megan McArdle: The Allure Of “Repeal And Delay” For Obamacare Critics
Mark Steyn: The Road To Wellville


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Amid Dow Boom, Liberal Media Gloom

Posted on | December 5, 2016 | 3 Comments

In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 8 election, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) warned of economic disaster if Donald Trump won.

“Economists: A Trump win would tank the markets,” was the Oct. 21 headline at Politico, and on Nov. 6 — two days before the election, when some polls showed Hillary Clinton’s numbers had sagged — the headline at Huffington Post was, “Donald Trump Has Caused A Historic Drop In The Stock Market,” with writer Ben Walsh warning:

Deporting some 11 million undocumented immigrants, building a wall along the border with America’s third biggest trading partner, starting a trade war with Mexico and China that would destroy 4 million U.S. jobs: These are all deeply harmful economic policies.
Moody’s says Trump’s policies would throw the U.S. economy into the longest recession since the Great Depression. Citigroup thinks a Trump win could cause a global depression. By a different measure, Trump in the White House would cause the American economy to shrink by $1 trillion over five years, according to British research firm Oxford Economics.

As Democrat campaign propaganda, this may have been effective, but as financial journalism, it has proven woefully incorrect. The day after Trump’s stunning victory, the Dow gained more than 250 points, and by Nov. 22, hit a record high above 19,000 points. This “Trump boom” shows no sign of fading. The Dow jumped 100 points after the opening bell this morning and, as of 11 a.m., was at 19,260. And yet the media are still looking for gloom amid the economic sunshine:

“It’s hard to know how President-elect Trump will be in 54 days or 53 days when he is President Trump,” Joann Weiner, director of the department of economics at George Washington University, told Circa.
“I think the biggest worry for anyone getting out of college is, ‘Will these policies tip the economy into a recession?'”

What liberals don’t seem to understand . . . Well, they don’t really understand anything very well, but they especially don’t understand economics, having paid little if any attention to the subject, except to seek justification for their crypto-Marxist antipathy to profit.

Communist protesters at the GOP convention in July.

It’s bad for companies to earn profits, the liberal believes in his heart, because profits are the result of capitalist greed, and this is bad for women and children and racial minorities and spotted owls. Liberal hostility toward capitalism — expressed in a discourse where “big business” and “corporate America” are used as pejorative terms — is an emotional reflex, closely related to the liberal’s hatred of America. Anything that is distinctly American, including college football and the U.S. military, must be a force for evil in the world, the liberal believes.

“They always blame America first,” as Jeanne Kirkpatrick said of the Democrats’ typical stance during the Cold War and, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Democrats have devoted themselves to destroying the America that sent the Bolshevik dream to “the ash-heap of history.” Instead of honestly admitting the destructive purpose, however, Democrats now speak in poll-tested phrases about “Hope and Change,” promising to “fundamentally transform” America — into what?

Questions like that don’t get asked often enough. What was so bad about the America that twice elected Ronald Reagan by landslide margins? If Democrats believe the America of 1984 was evil, why?

The problem with Republicans is that they are too polite. It would be rude to confront the phony “journalists” at CNN, to crowd one of those liars into a corner and ask: “Why do you hate America so much?”

No, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) don’t want to admit the real nature of their own irrational prejudices, and Republicans are too polite to call them out on it. Has anyone in the Republican Party asked, for example, how much federal aid to education goes to elite private schools like Swarthmore College (annual tuition $49,104), where students enroll in “Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology”? Why should the devout Catholic or Baptist be taxed to support such nonsense? Where are the GOP senators and congressmen demanding to know what kind of “education” taxpayers are being required to subsidize?

Because the Republicans are too polite (or too stupid) to call attention to what’s going on in our taxpayer-funded schools, a generation of young people has been indoctrinated in the anti-American prejudices of the Democrats who control university campuses. Meanwhile, Democrat operatives in the teachers unions who run the K-12 education system ensure there is No Child Left Believing in Christianity or Capitalism. Public schools teach atheism and universities teach “Queer Theology,” and nowhere in the educational process does a child ever encounter the arguments of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek or Thomas Sowell. Therefore, in their continuing crusade to “fundamentally transform” America, the Democrats are always moving to the left. If a Democrat wins the White House — Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama — he will appoint a left-wing administration to implement a left-wing policy. However, when Democrats lose elections, they invariably interpret their defeat as evidence that they aren’t far-left enough.

This post-election demand for a “Radical Vision to Defeat Trump” comes from Zack Exley, whose resumé includes six years as a labor-union organizer, a stint with MoveOn.org, a gig with the doomed 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign and, most recently working for Bernie Sanders — the avowed socialist who would have won the Democrat nomination, were it not for the blatant cheating of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Zack Exley speaks for the majority of Democrat voters, the mobs of dangerous lunatics who riot in the streets, openly avow their Marxist hatred of capitalism, and proclaim “America Was Never Great.”

If Trump succeeds, these fringe-kook extremists will lead the Democrats into political oblivion. If Trump fails . . . Well, good-bye, America.



 

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