Welcome to Trump Territory

Posted on | November 24, 2016 | Comments Off on Welcome to Trump Territory

SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA
Donald Trump got 61% of the vote in this county, winning it by a margin of 40,000 votes. Considering that Trump’s statewide margin in Florida was only 120,000 votes, that means he got a third of his win right here.

We can explain this in four words: Rich, old, white people.

This county is nearly 90% white, about 30% of the population is 65 or older, and the median value of homes is over a quarter-million dollars. About a third of the residents have a bachelor’s degree or more.

For all the talk about the economic woes of the white working class, which supposedly explains how Trump won the “Rust Belt” states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, the fact is that middle- and upper-class voters, and especially older white folks with money, were the core of Trump’s 62 million voters. This was clearly evident in the Florida exit polls, where Trump got 57% of voters 65 and older, and 56% of those with incomes of $100,000 or more.

While progressives are trying to frighten people with the “Alt-Right” bogeyman, there are no neo-Nazis marching down the palm-tree-lined streets here. Trump won Florida by getting the votes of the same kind of people who always Republican — not angry skinheads, just regular middle-class people and, of course, old white folks with money.

There are a lot of old white folks with money in Florida, and thousands more of them move here every year. This county’s population is growing at about a 2% annual rate, and if you think about it, who retires to a Florida resort community? People with money, that’s who. OK, so go back about 20 years, to when today’s newly retired Floridians were in their 40s, what was happening? Republicans in 1994 took control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and Newt Gingrich was leading the conservative opposition to Bill Clinton’s policy agenda.

Today’s 65- or 70-year-old Republican voter doesn’t mind a bit of bombast and, in a binary choice between Hillary and Trump, the choice for Trump wasn’t difficult, even if it wasn’t enthusiastic. This isn’t to say that Trump won only because of a “least bad option” rationale. Trump’s promise to fix the immigration problem — “Build a wall” — gained him strong support from many people who have tired of the weakness of Republicans who supported the “Gang of Eight” amnesty measure.

My point is that Donald Trump’s election is not evidence of any new “extremist” tendency among Republican voters. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) have engaged in a ludicrous fear-mongering crusade intended to convince people that Trump’s election is a foreboding omen of incipient fascism, where roaming squads of Republican storm troopers will soon be rounding up Jews and homosexuals. Yet there is no rational basis for such political paranoia. The voters who elected Trump are not neo-Nazis. Most of them are the same people who would have voted Republican no matter who had won the GOP nomination, and they expect President Trump to implement a conservative policy agenda which, although it might not please Gender Studies majors or #BlackLivesMatter activists, is unlikely to justify the “Dark Nightmare of Neo-Fascism” persecution fantasies of the radical Left.

Somebody needs to tell these young kids the truth, i.e., your Republican grandma is not a Nazi, and Trump is not Hitler. Also, while we’re speaking truth, capitalism works and socialism fails, and maybe if you kids would stop moping and whining about how “oppressed” you are, you could get a real job, save your money, and 40 or 50 years from now, you’ll be living in sunny Florida, rich enough to vote Republican.

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 11.23.16

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.23.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Reason To Be Thankful – Betsy DeVos As Education Secretary
Michelle Malkin: The Return Of Assassination Fascination
Twitchy: More Trouble In Paradise? Why Are All These Dems Pissed At Donna Brazile?
Louder With Crowder: Jimmy Kimmel Relentlessly Mocks PC Thanksgiving

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Science Proves That Only Unintelligent People Are Activists
American Power: Trump Disavows The Alt-Right
American Thinker: How To Blast Away The Left’s Attacks On Manliness
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Chaos by Patricia Cornwell
Da Tech Guy: Twitter Didn’t Know Jack
Don Surber: A Humbling Review Of Trump The Press, also, Tweet Of The Day
Dustbury: The Way We Weren’t
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trump Chooses Gov. Haley For UN Ambassador
Joe For America: Trump Wants Ben Carson For HUD
JustOneMinute: On The Troll Patrol
Pamela Geller: Trump’s NSA Pick Says “Islamism Is A Vicious Cancer…It Has To Be Excised”
Power Line: Spice Wars, also, Liberals Are Losing Their Minds
Shark Tank: If You Want Your Guns On Base, You Can Bring Your Guns On Base
Shot In The Dark: Let Me Set You Straight, Snowflake
STUMP: Trump The Press – The Saga Of How the Pundits Got It Wrong And The Beginning Of A Possible Series
The Jawa Report: Jawa Reading List – Report On African Taliban Media Network, also, Refugees? What Refugees?
The Political Hat: Happy Thanksgiving For 2016!
The Quinton Report: George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Michael John Fox – Phony Navy SEAL
Weasel Zippers: NYT Public Editor Admits Paper’s Coverage Was Biased Against Trump, also, Keith Ellison Cancels NYT Interview When He Finds he’ll be Asked About Louis Farrakhan
Megan McArdle: This Year, Give Thanks For The Kindness Of Strangers
Mark Steyn: Losers On The Left

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Category: Linkagery

Women’s Studies Professor Accuses Trump Supporters of ‘Terrorism’

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

Donald Trump’s supporters are not “equal” to Democrats, a University of New Hampshire professor said in a Facebook post blaming Republicans for “terrorism” against women, gays and minorities.

Professor Siobhan Senier, a member of the core faculty of the UNH Women’s Studies program, criticized Trump supporters in a message to university officials demanding punishment of students who counter-protested at an anti-Trump walkout rally on the campus. The Nov. 15 walkout was supported by the Women’s Studies department which encouraged students to use their facilities to make anti-Trump signs.

Two counter-protesters turned out at the UNH protest in costumes depicting former president Richard Nixon and Harambe the Gorilla. This provoked Professor Senier’s letter to UNH President Mark W. Huddleston and Provost Nancy Targett, posted on Facebook.

“I applaud your recent affirmation, in your post-election letter to the community, of ‘our university’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and mutual respect,” Professor Senier wrote:

At the same time, many of us who received that letter were concerned that it treated “all sides” as equal. And yet no critically thinking person can say that people supporting and people opposing Donald Trum are “equal.” Trump’s campaign traded on an unprecedented and indeed uncivil level of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism and xenophobia. As the College Democrats so astutely pointed out on their event Facebook page, this does not mean everyone who voted for Trump are themselves bigots, but it is to point out that Trump supporters are not remotely vulnerable to the kinds of terrorism already being leveled against women, people of color, LGBTQ people, Muslims and others. . . .
President Huddleston and Provost Targett, I would urge you not to take refuge behind the kind of bland “we’re-all-in-this-together” line that is currently so prevalent in public discourse. I implore you, instead, to take a strong stand on behalf of our most vulnerable students, faculty and staff.

Professor Senier’s message was echoed by another member of the UNH Women’s Studies faculty, Professor Robin Hackett, who posted on Facebook: “Time to call for an investigation leading to the expulsion of these students.” The attempt by faculty to suppress support for Trump on the UNH campus follows in the wake of complaints that university officials violated New Hampshire state law by supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Emails obtained by Wikileaks showed Michael Ettlinger, director of UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy, contacted Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in March 2015 offering to be “helpful” to the Democrat’s campaign.

A UNH spokeswoman said the Facebook postings by the women’s studies program were inappropriate.
“UNH is troubled by the partisan nature of many social media posts by the women’s studies department. UNH encourages its students, faculty and staff to be engaged citizens but as a university we do not advocate for particular candidates or political parties. Those posts will be taken down,” said Erika Mantz, UNH director of media relations, on [Nov. 16]. . . .
The UNH women’s studies Facebook page was also used to urge people to attend UNH campus visits by Gov. and U.S. Sen.-elect Maggie Hassan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Planned Parenthood national executive Cecile Richards and NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilye Hogue.

More at Campus Reform and from Milo Yiannopoulos.

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

Rape Hoax at University of Alabama

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | Comments Off on Rape Hoax at University of Alabama

Feminists keep telling us college girls never lie about rape:

A University of Alabama student who claimed to have been raped [Nov. 13] by two men was not attacked, authorities said [Nov. 18].
The student, 18-year-old Emma Mannion, made up the incident and now is under arrest, said Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Capt. Gary Hood. Mannion is charged with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor.
The teen told police she was forced inside a red Jeep Cherokee in or near the parking area of Solomon’s parking lot at 650 Wallace Wade Ave. at 2 a.m. Sunday. She reported the assault occurred inside the vehicle by two men, one of them a Hispanic male with a wiry build.
Hood said today detectives interviewed witnesses and recovered video surveillance of the area which did not support Mannion’s initial account of the incident. After confronting Mannion with this evidence, Mannion admitted to investigators she falsified her report.
“She confessed to making up the report,” Hood said. He declined to go into the reason gave for doing so.
Mannion was with a group of people around the time of the alleged incident. Investigators spoke with people she was with immediately before and after she said the attack happened.
Fortunately, Hood said, there are multiple surveillance cameras throughout Tuscaloosa, both on and off campus. “It disputed what she told us early on,” Hood said.

It’s not her fault. The oppressive patriarchy made her do it.

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

‘F–k Your Fascist Beauty Standards’

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

Part of what is wrong with feminism is that feminists are never required to account for their blatant selfishness and dishonesty:

What I have described as “aesthetic egalitarianism” — the feminist claim that distinctions of beauty are irrelevant or oppressive — is never applied to men. Tall, handsome, muscular men obviously enjoy advantages over short, ugly, fat men, especially in terms of their romantic opportunities, but this reality is unacknowledged in feminist discourse. One does not find young feminists choosing Danny DeVito lookalikes over Gerard Butler lookalikes. . . .
When feminists denounce “double standards” as sexist, they do not mean to expose their own preferences to criticism. Every guy knows that women always prefer a rich guy to a poor guy, for example, and there is nothing the short bald guy can do that will ever make him equal, in women’s eyes, to the tall guy with a full head of hair. This is simply the way life is, and no intelligent man spends much time worrying about it. Life is unfair. Get over it.
In 1996, a 23-year-old woman living in Portland, Oregon, decided to create a T-shirt with the slogan “F–k Your Fascist Beauty Standards.” Jill Portugal’s company, “One Angry Girl,” has sold many thousands of feminist T-shirts in the past 20 years, without explaining what the phrase “beauty standards” is supposed to mean, or why such standards are “fascist.” Instead, this kind of sloganeering functions as an anti-male insult, a way for the feminist to denounce heterosexual men for preferring beautiful women to ugly women. . . .

Read the rest at The Patriarch Tree.

Why are beauty standards "fascist"? https://t.co/ED4Vrw3HAC pic.twitter.com/1myFIEfsPF

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 23, 2016

Category: Sex Trouble

Politico ‘Journalist’ Resigns After Doxing Trump Supporter Richard Spencer

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

Our Neutral Objective Media:

National editor at Politico Michael Hirsh resigned after publishing the home addresses of alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer Tuesday morning and advocating for serious violence.
Politico confirmed his resignation following requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Stop whining about Richard B. Spencer, Nazi, and exercise your rights as decent Americans,” Hirsh wrote in a public Facebook post. “Here are his two addresses.” . . .
“These posts were clearly outside the bounds of acceptable discourse, and POLITICO editors regard them as a serious lapse of newsroom standards,” Politico Editor-In-Chief John Harris and Editor Carrie Budoff Brown told TheDCNF. “They crossed a line in ways that the publication will not defend, and editors are taking steps to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again.”
While Hirsh’s initial post could have been charitably interpreted to imply advocacy of a non-violent protest outside of Spencer’s home or other similar non-violent actions, a subsequent question and answer clarified Hirsh’s intentions.
“Completely agree we should mobilize against his hateful ideas, but what does knowing his home addresses do?” one Facebook user asked Hirsh. “Send a letter? Confront him in person? . . .”
Hirsh responded in an unhinged manner: “I wasn’t thinking of a fucking letter, Doug. He lives part of the time next door to me in Arlington. Our grandfathers brought baseball bats to Bund meetings. Want to join me?”

(Via Memeorandum.) Full disclosure: I’ve known Richard Spencer since 2007, when he and I participated in a panel discussion about the Duke lacrosse case, and he published some of my columns in 2009 when he was editor at Taki’s Magazine. Richard enjoyed some of my gonzo stuff, and I was hate-listed by the SPLC before being hate-listed by the SPLC was cool, so we had that in common.

Any conservative who is willing to think outside the box — to speculate about root causes of our cultural decay — is apt to attract this kind of controversy, and I sometimes have to remind myself that I’m neither an activist nor an “intellectual,” but merely a journalist. The difference between me and most conservative journalists is that I was a journalist before I was a conservative. Earning my living as a reporter and editor covering local news for small-town Georgia newspapers wasn’t about ideology or partisan politics, it was about facts, and that experience gave me a point of view that is different from most others.

By “different,” I don’t mean better, just . . . different. And so when other journalists start freaking out over someone like Richard Spencer, it amuses me. People have freaked out over me, after all, and knowing that I’m basically harmless, I always figure that whoever is this week’s Scary Right-Wing Personality is less scary than his reputation would suggest. This is doubly true when I actually know the person who is at the center of the firestorm of controversy. As I have often said, Richard Spencer is a young guy who has read too much Nietzsche. He is highly intelligent and, because he was a graduate student at Duke during the carnival of hate and lies surround the false accusation of rape against members of the university’s lacrosse team, Richard saw the academic Left at its absolute worst. He reacted harshly against this, which hardened his commitment to a sort of mirror-reverse of the “By Any Means Necessary” mentality that prevails on the Left. Is Richard Spencer wrong to think this way?

That’s not really a question I’d care to examine. Instead, I think we ought to ask what facts — what objective reality — Richard Spencer has perceived that led him to adopt his controversial opinions. He is highly intelligent, as I say, and it is therefore a mistake to dismiss him as an ignorant bigot, or to react to him as a neo-Nazi cartoon stereotype.

For years, I have covered the “extremist fringe” of politics, both Left and Right. This was what attracted my attention to radical feminism, after all, and when you have gay Marxists protesting Donald Trump, it is wrong to suppose the Right has a monopoly on “extremist fringe” politics.

We need more balance in journalism — more honesty, more facts, more truth. We are not going to get that from the liberal media, and so we must roll up our sleeves and continue doing it ourselves. Selah.