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In The Mailbox: 11.10.16

Posted on | November 10, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.10.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: When Will All The Homeless Stories Begin?
EBL: Election Night Behind The Scenes
Michelle Malkin: How Reagan Dealt With Snivelling Left-Wing Punks Disrupting Civil Order In Berkeley
Twitchy: Al Franken Blames Obamacare For Hillary’s Loss. Now Guess Who He Blames For Obamacare.
Louder With Crowder: Amy Schumer Says Promise To Move If Trump Won Was Just A Joke


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Honesty Is The Best Policy With A Good Woman
American Power: Israeli PM Netanyahu Congratulates Trump
American Thinker: A Democrat’s Guide To Moving To Canada
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Hunting News
Da Tech Guy: Ten Post-Election Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Your Riots, They Amuse Me
Dustbury: The Aftermath
Fred On Everything: OK, Now What? The Party Is Over, Cometh The Hangover
Jammie Wearing Fools: Let The Healing Begin – Frothing Anti-Trump Lunatic Says “People Have To Die”
Joe For America: Hillary Supporters Threatening Trump, Rioting, And Burning Flags
JustOneMinute: Russian Disinformation?
Pamela Geller: Trump’s First 100 Days – How He Can Undo Barack Obama’s America
Power Line: Violence On The Left
Shark Tank: Losing Elections Runs In Alan Grayson’s Family
Shot In The Dark: Who Says American Ingenuity Is Dead?
The Jawa Report: Jawas Welcome America’s Newest Muslima, also, Sandcrawler PSA – BOLO For Drunken Homeless Black Belt With Mean Roundhouse
The Lonely Conservative: People Need To Take A Breath And Get Hold Of Themselves
The Political Hat: Black Swans And Continental Drift
This Ain’t Hell: Happy 241st Birthday, Marines!, also, The Crumbling Clinton Criminal Enterprise
Weasel Zippers: Journalists Talking About A Trump Victory – “It’s Time For A Presidential Assassination”, also, I Am A Woman, A Muslim, And An Immigrant, And I Voted For Trump
Megan McArdle: There’s No Shame In Joining The Trump Administration
Mark Steyn: When Everyone’s Hitler, Nobody’s Hitler


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Did We Just Witness A Colossal Mindfsck?

Posted on | November 10, 2016 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Called the Ol’ Man as I was on the way home. I had seen a tweet somewhere expanding on the point that Trump crushed two political dynasties:

Were CNN other than a Commie Nematode Nest, they’d have the self-awareness to realize that, in addition to the Bush & Clinton dynasties, he’s also delivered smack-downs to all the cable “news” networks, the consultants, and, to some extent, our Progressive 1.1-party system.

He appeared to do this by appearing to run an anti-campaign. The same pundits who are eating crow by the murder are busy trying to come up with this or that Trumpological theory could be overlooking something that I’d put in this tweet:


I’ve never been a Trump proponent. Here I am back in March tweeting something that demonstrates how locked into the old worldview I was:


What I think we’ve witnessed here is a classic mindfrack. Sure, big data plays a part. But there is something as old as The Art of War at work, methinks.
Right up until Election Day, it seemed unclear whether he was actually campaigning, or just pulling off a troll for the ages:

When your commitment to un-orthodoxy sees the ideological blashemy line and blows by it full tilt boogie, you either

  1. totally know what you’re doing, or
  2. have really got to quit snorting Dran-O.

Tuesday argues the former case, which brings me back to Sun Tzu.

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

In the political case, Trump’s apparent weakness, character flaws, silver spoon upbringing, &c, in the context of 8 years of the down-is-the-new-up Obama Administration, made it all too easy to believe that the system is rigged (of course it is–it’s a system), and that we may as well start prepping our survival plans for Her Majesty’s regime.
Scott Adams has been writing wonderful blog posts, but 2012 taught us to dismiss the polls at our peril. I wanted Adams to be correct, but just wasn’t going to invest much hope, given that I live in the state of Governor Clown-tard.

But the chief result of all this was to make Her Majesty seem inevitable. There was also the drumbeat of Wikileaks, the FBI investigation, and the roar of social media. When going after a target the size of the Red Dragon of Chappaqua, Trump seemed to know just exactly how much fight to put into the moment, without giving Her he opportunity to get into victim mode. Thus “nasty woman”, a framing that gets maximal mileage without equipping the foe with ammunition.

But it was always asymmetric. There was no way he was going to out-fundraise Hillary. Trumps frugality was at once practical, while also raising the question of his seriousness.

Had Trump’s plan leaked,  the wily Podesta likely could’ve cooked up some countermeasures.

Possibly I’m over-reading all this, but I think that a lot of the Trumpology in circulation is still mis-underestimating something. Part of my early disdain for Trump was rooted in the fact that, when the Tea Party uprising occurred in 2009/10, he was not marching with the Tea Party. It seemed a crass appropriation of sincere patriotism to have this Yankee with a Tribble on his head demand my support.

Looking over the 2015/16 sequence of events, one wonders if he had not been, rather, taking notes. Plotting. Biding his time. Seeing Romney’s high-mindedness amount to a fart in a thunderstorm in 2012. Possibly even having a verbal agreement with Clinton to throw the match though Bill denies it. Whatever.

As time pulls these details into focus, and heals the wounds, it seems clear that Tribble-head’s whole loose-cannon thing is substantially disinformatzya. This Administration promises not to be boring.

Category: Donald Trump

At Yale University, Special Snowflakes™ Are Traumatized by Republican Victory

Posted on | November 10, 2016 | 5 Comments

“I cannot even function right now. As a queer, black woman, I feel unsafe in this country.”
— Isis Davis-Marks, Yale sophomore

We must remember, at moments like these, that Yale University began as a school to train puritan (Congregationalist) clergy, and that among Yale’s most eminent early graduates was Jonathan Edwards, historically famous for his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Another famous Yale graduate was John C. Calhoun (Phi Beta Kappa, Class of 1814).

It is with this history in mind that we should read the words of Isis Davis-Marks, “a queer, black woman” who “cannot even function right now” because Donald Trump was elected president. And laugh.

“I want to represent women of all shapes and colors in my work, as intersectionality is very important to me. Feminism is not just a white, affluent, cis-gendered face.”
— Isis Davis-Marks, Aug. 28, 2015

Ms. Davis-Marks is a 19-year-old native of New York City who graduated from the prestigious Bronx High School of Science and, we must assume, was highly recruited by Yale (annual tuition $49,480), where the administration is nowadays eager to maximize diversity. And what diversity actually means is that Ms. Davis-Marks will spend four years denouncing Yale and capitalism:

Yale and other universities are adopting capitalism’s ethos.
Just as capitalism gains its success on the backs of marginalized groups, the academy consistently writes marginalized groups — women, disabled bodies, minorities, LGBTQ and the poor, among others — out of the history books. This process intellectually justifies the demographic destruction capitalism yields.

In 1951 a young man named William F. Buckley Jr. described how his alma mater had departed from its Christian origins. God and Man at Yale was one of the seminal works that inspired the modern conservative movement in America. We may doubt that Ms. Davis-Marks has bothered to read the late Mr. Buckley’s book, and we may further doubt that this advocate of “intersectionality” could explain in any coherent manner how “capitalism gains its success on the backs of marginalized groups.” Of course, Ms. Davis-Marks is a beneficiary of capitalism, but evidently no one at Yale has bothered to explain this to her, and neither does she seem grateful to receive this benefit. She is not attending college in Havana or Pyongyang, after all, but is in New Haven reaping the rewards of life in the most prosperous nation the world has ever known, even while she blames capitalism for “demographic destruction.” Ms. Davis-Marks is certainly not the only Yale student who hates capitalism. The vast majority of her classmates share her anti-American worldview:

Teary eyes, bowed heads and cries of disbelief emerged from election-watching gatherings on Yale campus as prognosticators announced that Ohio’s electoral votes went to Donald Trump — essentially guaranteeing the Republican nominee the presidency.
Trump’s unexpected victory in the 2016 presidential election early Wednesday morning sent shockwaves across Yale’s campus. . . .
Among the largest gatherings on Yale’s campus was The Politic’s watch party. Students, including members of the Yale College Democrats and Yale Students for Hillary, packed the room, their eyes glued to a television tuned to CNN. . . .
Silence fell upon the room when CNN predicted that the Republican Party would maintain control of the House of Representatives.
“I expected to be feeling jubilant by now,” Yale Dems campus and community coordinator Josh Hochman ’18 said. “I was really excited for tonight. We expected a huge crowd and we got it, but we were disappointed pretty early on.”
The reactions are consistent with the results of a News survey distributed last month, in which 80.87 percent of 2,054 respondents said they supported Clinton while less than 5 percent said the same for Trump. . . .
Gabriel Groz ’19 told the News he worried about Trump’s policies towards many of his peers, particularly those who are Muslim, and called this year’s election “the rise of a fascist.” Leah Smith ’20, who attended The Politic’s watch party, expressed her concerns with what Trump’s appeal said about the nation’s attitude at large.
“I’m scared at the prospect of waking up in a country that elected Donald Trump as our president,” said Smith toward the middle of the watch party. “I am also scared at the prospect of waking up in a country where Donald Trump was almost elected president, because that means almost half of the population thinks it is okay that someone who has such vocal hatred towards women and minorities is fit to be president.”

Let the question be asked: How is it that, in a nation where the popular vote for president was almost evenly divided by Democrats and Republicans, the administration at Yale has recruited a student body composed of 81% Democrats? Isn’t it also true that the Yale faculty is at least 81% Democrat in their political alignment? Why is it that Yale University is a so disproportionately controlled by Democrats? Would the alumni of Yale be correct in suspecting that the administration of the university now deliberately discriminates against Republicans in terms of both faculty hiring and student recruitment? If it is diversity they want, why doesn’t Yale do something to recruit more Republicans?

 

Oh, the Special Snowflakes™ at Yale are angry and confused:

As the dust clears following the election of Republican nominee Donald Trump, students at Yale are struggling to come to terms with one of the biggest upsets in American political history.
Bleary-eyed students walked to class Wednesday morning in various stages of emotional distress — some anxiously calling their families, others looking silently into the distance — on a surreal day at Yale. . . .
Around 300 tearful students filled Dwight Hall after classes Wednesday to hear Shades — Yale’s only historically African-American a capella group — sing “We Shall Overcome” as well as other songs devoted to love and solitary, the theme of the event.

Yale students are “tearful,” suffering “emotional distress,” and “struggling to come to terms” with the trauma they suffer because a Republican has been elected president — “a surreal day at Yale.”

One of my sons is a college freshman, but thank God he isn’t at Yale. He attends the local community college, and if any of his classmates are dealing with “emotional distress,” my son hasn’t mentioned it. For some reason, you don’t find many Special Snowflakes™ at community college.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas on Twitter.)



 

 

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Category: Education, Election

#NotMyPresident Protests and Talk of Secession After Democrats Lose Election

Posted on | November 10, 2016 | 4 Comments

 

Yes, they call themselves the Democratic Party, but they don’t actually seem to believe in democracy, do they? The New York Times reports:

Thousands of people across the country marched, shut down highways, burned effigies and shouted angry slogans on Wednesday night to protest the election of Donald J. Trump as president.
The demonstrations, fueled by social media, continued into the early hours of Thursday. The crowds swelled as the night went on but remained mostly peaceful.
Protests were reported in cities as diverse as Dallas and Oakland and included marches in Boston; Chicago; Portland, Ore.; Seattle and Washington and at college campuses in California, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
In Oakland alone, the Police Department said, the crowd grew from about 3,000 people at 7 p.m. to 6,000 an hour later. The situation grew tense late Wednesday, with SFGate.com reporting that a group of protesters had started small fires in the street and broken windows. Police officers in riot gear were called in, and at least one officer was injured, according to other local news reports.
It was the second night of protests there, following unruly demonstrations that led to property damage and left at least one person injured shortly after Mr. Trump’s election was announced.

 

The Los Angeles Times:

Thousands of people poured into the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night, and hundreds of them later spilled onto the 101 Freeway, shutting down traffic as they forcefully denounced President-elect Donald J. Trump.
The 101 Freeway — a key thoroughfare in metropolitan Los Angeles — reopened after 4 a.m. once debris was cleaned up, according to a spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol.
In the loud and aggressive demonstration, many chanted, “Not my president,” and “Respect all women.” The mostly young crowd marched through the city before heading onto the freeway near Alameda Street.
The pack of hundreds — many screaming against both Trump and law enforcement, others riding skateboards on the freeway — caused a traffic backup that extended for miles.
At least 13 people were arrested, LAPD Officer Tony Im said. . . .
As the demonstrations got underway Wednesday evening, some demonstrators in front of City Hall torched a giant Trump head in effigy, which sent ashes raining. Marchers spray painted profanity-laced screeds on TV news vans and the Los Angeles Times building. Fireworks were also shot off near the LAPD’s headquarters.

It’s a “mostly peaceful” mob of thugs and vandals, you see? They just hate cops, spray-paint graffiti, damage property and injure people. Also, they hate America and want to dismantle the country:

“Calexit” is swiftly taking over social media.
After Donald Trump won the race to the White House, people across California took to social media Tuesday night to call for “Calexit” (or California exit), recalling Brexit, Britain’s push to leave the European Union. . . .
The group leading the charge, Yes California Independence Campaign, assembled long before Trump’s surprising victory. Its aim is to hold a referendum in 2018 that, if passed, would make California an independent country.
The movement has racked up an impressive backer already. Shervin Pishevar, an early investor in Uber and well-known angel investor, said on Twitter that he would bankroll a campaign to make California its own nation if Trump won. . . .
The fringe political movement gathered steam in June, when the UK broke from the EU.
“This is the first Western secessionist movement that worked, and I think that is going to be very profound,” Marinelli told Newsweek shortly after Brexit. “Are you going to say to people in the freest country in the world [you] don’t have the right to self-determination?”

Let me say that I am proud to support California’s secession. In fact, I have long been in favor of Texas independence, and if Hillary Clinton had won the election, I imagine there would have been rallies of disgruntled Texas conservatives urging a “Texit.” Because I am a consistent believer in “the right of self-determination” — my ancestor, Pvt. Winston Wood Bolt of the 13th Alabama Infantry, was captured at Gettysburg while making his “mostly peaceful” protest for that right — certainly I must endorse the “Calexit” movement also. However, I suspect the California secessionists are not sincere. They are “progressives,” after all, and such people are notoriously dishonest. California’s corrupt Democrat-controlled state government has “nearly $400 billion in unfunded liabilities and debt from public pensions, retiree health care and bonds,” and a state teetering on the brink of bankruptcy is scarcely capable of independence.

Nevertheless, if California wanted to remove its 53 members (39 Democrats and 14 Republicans) from the U.S. House of Representatives, and also subtract its two Democrat members from the U.S. Senate, plus ensure that California’s 55 Electoral College votes never henceforth affect the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, I won’t complain. In the immortal words of Winfield Scott, “Wayward sisters, depart in peace.”



 

Category: Crime, Election

Exit Polls: Hillary Clinton Defeated by Homophobic White Racist Patriarchy

Posted on | November 9, 2016 | 2 Comments

 

The online Left has spent the past 24 hours lashing itself into a frothing frenzy of Fear and Loathing such as I haven’t seen in years. You’d have to go back to the Bush/Gore 2000 Florida meltdown to find more rage, paranoia and partisan hatred than we’ve seen since it became apparent Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton was headed to defeat.

Stipulate that most feminists are at least half-crazy on any day of the year, but since Tuesday night, they’ve all taken complete leave of their senses, spiraling off into the outer stratosphere of insanity.

How do I tell my daughter that
America elected a racist, sexist bully?

That’s the headline on Jessica Valenti’s column today, and the only proper answer is, “The same way you tell your daughter she would have had a baby sister if you hadn’t gotten an abortion.” (Her abortions are among of the Proud Feminist Moments™ in Valenti’s new memoir, along with her revelations about spending two years on a cocaine spree.)

The Guardian did a round-up of feminist opinion Wednesday in which we learned that “a terminally diseased system of male supremacy [is] in a battle to the death with women” (Robin Morgan), America “is racist, xenophobic, fearful and ignorant” and also “hates women” (Kate Harding), and that Hillary Clinton was defeated by “hate, fear, xenophobia and primitive gut nationalism” (Polly Toynbee). This is paranoid conspiracy-theory gibberish. They might as well have blamed the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians and the CIA while they were at it.

Meanwhile, in sunny Santa Monica, California, young Sarah Lerner finds herself underneath a menacing imaginary shadow of fear:

 

White America did this. It wasn’t just white men?—?it was white women, too. Racism & sexism won last night. . . .
Our country’s reaction to the most qualified (female) candidate to ever run for President was to reject her outright in favor of an absolutely unqualified and hateful white man. . . .
Trump (and a Republican-controlled Congress) is a mandate on blatant hatred toward every person that isn’t a cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied white man. We are literally scared for our lives.

“Literally.”
And here’s Brittany Cooper at Cosmopolitan:

Donald Trump’s victory yesterday is an attempt by disgruntled white Americans to slow down the American social progress ushered in by Barack Obama’s presidency. Trump’s triumph is a victory for white supremacy.

What has inspired this pandemic of deranged hysteria? Exit polls.

Basically, some young progressives were shocked to discover that old, white people vote Republican. But this isn’t really news, is it?

If you were (a) married, (b) white and (c) Christian, you probably voted for Donald Trump, whether you were male or female. Whereas unmarried women preferred Hillary Clinton by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, married women were almost equally divided, according to the exit polls published by CNN. . . .
The typical Trump voter was over 40 and also white. Yet the fact is, even younger white voters preferred Trump to Clinton. Notice that white people amounted to more than 70% of the exit-poll survey. Despite all the talk about multiculturalism and ethnic diversity, there are still upwards of 200 million white people in America, and it’s still legal for white Americans to vote. Also notice that 64% of the electorate is over 40, and no matter how much noise you Millennials make, we old folks still got y’all outnumbered. . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree.



 

Category: Election, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 11.09.16

Posted on | November 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: “If Your Disappointment Lasts More Than Four Hours…”
EBL: Yes, It’s True! This Election May Destroy The World!
Michelle Malkin: Clinton May Have Lost The 2016 Election, But The Media Are The Losers This Year
Twitchy: Meltdown Of The Night – Rachel Maddow Loses It As Trump Wins Ohio & NC, And It’s Hilarious, also, Cubs Pitcher Jake Arrieta Says He’ll Pitch In To Help Butthurt Anti-Trump Celebs Leave The Country
Louder With Crowder: Crowder UNLOADS – “People Voted Trump Because The Democrats Screwed Them!”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Good Morning, America!
American Power: Leftists Absolutely Crushed By Donald Trump’s Victory
American Thinker: What Trump’s Victory Means For The Mainstream Media, also, Civil Service Reform Should Be At The Top Of Trump’s Agenda
Animal Magnetism: 2016 Election Reaction
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Israel by Daniel Gordis
Da Tech Guy: The Story Of Election 2016 – An Army Of Jims
Don Surber: President Trump Has A Mandate
Dustbury: Tweeting Up A Storm
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trevor Noah – “I’m Officially Shitting My Pants”
Joe For America: Libs Crash Canadian Immigration Website After Trump Victory
JustOneMinute: You Want Hot Takes?
Pamela Geller: LANDSLIDE – Trump 306 Electoral Votes, Clinton 232
Power Line: The Great Liberal Freakout
Shark Tank: A Reality Check For The LGBTQ+ Anti-Trump Coalition
Shot In The Dark: Dear Democrat Friends
STUMP: Election Prediction Aftermath – The Goat LOSES
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Booger Eaters For Hillary Crushed By Trump Victory
The Lonely Conservative: Let’s Hope Trump Surprises Us Again
This Ain’t Hell: Crybabies, also, Navy’s Big Guns
Weasel Zippers: Dow Jones Rises Above All-Time Closing High, also, Tweet Of The Day
Megan McArdle: Repeal Would Be Even Worse Than Obamacare
Mark Steyn: Building The Wall, Shattering The Ceiling


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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Posted on | November 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

The encroaching gloom that overtook liberals Tuesday night as Donald Trump’s victory became apparent was a once-in-lifetime moment of joy, made all the more joyous by how completely unexpected it was:

Shortly after 9:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, Rachel Maddow felt a need to inform MSNBC viewers they weren’t hallucinating. “You’re awake by the way,” she said, trying to smile. “You’re not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also you’re not dead and you haven’t gone to hell. This is your life now. This is our election now. This is us. This is our country. It’s real.”
Polls had been closed for two hours in Ohio and North Carolina at that point, and the early results in those states, as well as in Florida and elsewhere, were not what Maddow and her liberal media friends had been expecting.
In the final few days of the 2016 presidential campaign, polls had shown Hillary Clinton leading — she was ahead 3.3% in the final Real Clear Politics average of national polls, after all. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything, that’s what. . . .

You can read the whole thing at Medium. It’ll take less than 10 minutes, and I’m sure you want to savor this moment like a fine cigar.

 

 

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Category: Election

Terry McAuliffe’s Pyrrhack Victory

Posted on | November 9, 2016 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

The 9th of November, 2016 has a special flavor for those who live in the shadow of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. The homo bureaucratus infestation is so bad here that Her Majesty beat Trump at the polling station I support by roughly 3:1.

Elections here are a genteel affair. There is no voter suppression. Everyone is educated and friendly. You know who’s here, how the vote is going to go down (at least in our immediate vicinity), so there is no need do anything other than focus on running a clean election.

You also know that Greasy Terry McAuliffe is the governor. You know that His Lubricant was all-on for Her Majesty, granting by fiat the vote to 60k felons, who, presumably, know who their momma is come election time.

You further know that,

Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI.

And you certainly haven’t forgotten that the proposed new, $2.5B FBI headquarters is a short walk to the West of the polling station. Oh, and, by the way, the decision that was supposed to happen this December just got bumped to next March, when Barbara Mikulski’s Senate seniority won’t be such an obstruction to giving Maryland the shiv. I, for one, think that locating the facility near riot-torn Baltimore would have the effect of putting the FBI closer to its “customer” base.

Having said all that, I sure hope that The Oily One down there in Richmond understands that honorable Virginians are jeering at him like the disgusting little bottom swab he is. We can’t wait until next year, when we can replace him with somebody honorable like Ed Gillespie.

 

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