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No, SJWs, There Wasn’t A “Social Activist” Bone In Jesus’ Body

Posted on | November 12, 2016 | Comments Off on No, SJWs, There Wasn’t A “Social Activist” Bone In Jesus’ Body

by Smitty

I was triggered today by a bumper sticker:

The Obama and Hillary stickers you’d expect were around this little bit of noise.

If you have the guts to read the Gospels, all four, you will quickly see that the modern SJWs are the antithesis of what Christ was here about.

I can understand, here in Northern Virginia, literally half a mile from Franconia Road (boasting every denomination you’ve ever heard of, and then some), people would be wanting to find some way to rationalize treating the State as God, so that they have some theological cover for doing the Devil’s work.

This was the third temptation of Christ:

Matt 4:8-9 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Oh, deluded one: the Gospel has everything to do with your internal renewal, and nothing whatsoever to so with “social” anything. You want to know who the social acivists of Jesus’ day were? The Pharisees!

That’s right: this driver has fooled zitself into becoming precisely the thing it claims to oppose, attempting to come up with external measures from bullying to legislation to accomplish that which can only be done by grace.

Northern Virginia is a land of copious churches and scant faith. Whatever your faith, if you want to claim to follow Christ, do, please, read the Gospel prayerfully and let it revitalize your life. If you cherry pick the Bible for bumper stickers you think can be repurposed to serve some secular agenda, you might be working for the wrong team.

 

Category: Culture, Religion

In The Mailbox: 11.11.16

Posted on | November 11, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Hacksaw Ridge – A Review
EBL: Leonard Cohen RIP
Twitchy: Was the Picture of Hillary And The Woman On A Hike A Setup?
Louder With Crowder: Black Trump Supporter Has Hilarious Message For Trump’s Haters
Monster Hunter Nation: I’m Glad That’s Over With!
The Liberty Zone: Stop Scaring Your Children!
Vox Popoli: Two Paths For The Alt-Right


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s The Culture, Stupid
American Power: Leftist Anti-Trump Protester – “People Have To Die”
American Thinker: Time To Criminalize Tyranny
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five One Last Electoral College Friday
Da Tech Guy: An Open Letter To The Protesting Students And A Suggestion
Don Surber: Is Chris Cilizza Dumber Than Chuck Todd?
Dustbury: After A Hot Morning Mess
Jammie Wearing Fools: Best Protest Sign Ever – “Deport Fashisom”
Joe For America: Guess Who’s Bussing In All Those Protesters Who Are Burning Flags And Rioting?
JustOneMinute: Remaining Calm And Carrying On
Pamela Geller: Soros Exposed As Money Behind Anti-Trump Protests
Power Line: Thoughts From The Ammo Line – No Hugging, No Learning
Shark Tank: Trump Announces Transition Team
Shot In The Dark: The Eternal Genius Of Paul Krugman
STUMP: What A Week – Meep, Music, And Mulling
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Lying To Kuffar To Advance Islam Is Halal
The Lonely Conservative: Oh The Irony
The Political Hat: For Those Who Remain
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans’ Day
Weasel Zippers: Chelsea Clinton Being Groomed To Run For Congress, also, Celebrities Who Promised To Leave If Trump Elected Already Punking Out
Mark Steyn: Snowflake Meltdown


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Parents: Warn Your Children Not to Apply to George Mason University

Posted on | November 11, 2016 | 1 Comment

GMU admissions officer Andrew Bunting hates Republicans.

George Mason University’s admissions office is staffed by intolerant Democrats who hate anyone who disagrees with them:

On his public Facebook page, GMU’s Senior Assistant Director of Admissions Andrew Bunting claimed he is fearful of Donald Trump’s presidency because the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a group that believes in traditional marriage, said it is hopeful for Trump’s presidency.
Bunting stated NOM’s views are “not representative of the key pillars of American society.” He then added, “If you agree with them then that is your opinion. Just know that to the rest of us, you are a piece of worthless trash.” . . .

In a message on his Facebook page Wednesday morning, the George Mason University official blamed Republican voters for “racism and bigotry,” saying: “Today I woke up in a less safe world. . . . Today, I woke up in Donald Trump’s America.”

 

Bunting has called for collecting information on students’ sexual orientation, presumably so GMU can discriminate against heterosexuals.

 

Category: Education, Election

The Blunders of Hillary’s Campaign

Posted on | November 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

 

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Well, to Democrats trying to figure out exactly how Hillary Clinton lost the election, it makes a lot of difference, Ed Morrissey explains:

For forty-eight hours, Democrats stunned by the most shocking presidential-race outcome in at least 68 years seemed more than willing to follow Team Hillary’s lead in blaming the loss on a string of factors other than the campaign or the candidate herself. . . .
After a couple of days, though, these excuses are wearing thin, even with Hillary’s campaign surrogates. . . .
Hillary Clinton never even set foot in Wisconsin after the convention, apparently assuming for some reason that the state was safe.

Hillary lost Wisconsin because “more than 57,000 people who voted from Milwaukee County in 2012 stayed home in 2016,” according to Steve Chamraz of WTMJ-TV. “Donald Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 28,000 votes.” Even a token effort by Hillary — a couple of October campaign stops in Madison and Milwaukee — might have closed that gap. Clinton’s loss of Michigan, where it appears Trump won by about 13,000 votes, was almost beyond comprehension. In an overwhelmingly Democrat state like Michigan, it required a high degree of ineptitude for the Clinton campaign to lose. By the way, Green Party candidate Jill Stein got more than 50,000 votes in Michigan, nearly four times the margin of Hillary’s loss. In Wisconsin, Stein got 30,000 votes, about 2,000 beyond Clinton’s margin of defeat. The real shocker to me was Pennsylvania, where Trump won by about 60,000 votes in a state no Republican has carried since 1992. So that’s 20 Electoral College votes in Pennsylvania, 16 in Michigan, and 10 in Wisconsin — a total of 46 in states Hillary could not afford to lose. Even without the key battlegrounds of Florida and Ohio, she still might have squeaked by, but she lost three states that were considered “safe” for Democrats. The question is: How?

Sexism. The media. James Comey.
On a call with surrogates Thursday afternoon, top advisers John Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri pinned blame for Hillary Clinton’s loss on a host of uncontrollable headwinds that ultimately felled a well-run campaign that executed a sensible strategy, and a soldier of a candidate who appealed to the broadest coalition of voters in the country. . . .
“They are saying they did nothing wrong, which is ridiculous,” said one Clinton surrogate. “She was the wrong messenger and everyone misjudged how pissed working class people were.” . . .
Despite being the wrong candidate for the moment, many allies who have helped the campaign for months were still in disbelief that Clinton did not succeed in putting away a man they see as unqualified to serve as commander in chief.
“She got this gift of this complete idiot who says bizarre things and hates women and she still lost,” said one longtime Clinton ally and fundraiser. “They lost in a race they obviously should have won. They need to take some blame.” . . .
“They spent their time protecting her, explaining her, defending her, with all these issues, the speeches, the Foundation, the emails — that became the energy of the campaign,” sighed one longtime Clinton confidante.
The paid speeches and the glitzy fundraisers, they said, did not paint a picture of a woman connected to the real suffering in the country. . . .
And some began pointing fingers at the young campaign manager, Robby Mook, who spearheaded a strategy supported by the senior campaign team that included only limited outreach to [working-class white] voters — a theory of the case that Bill Clinton had railed against for months, wondering aloud at meetings why the campaign was not making more of an attempt to even ask that population for its votes. . . .
Internally, staff felt that Clinton’s loss ultimately boiled down to white working class voters rejecting her because she was a woman.
At Brooklyn headquarters on Wednesday, Podesta expressed his gratitude and support for the team, and for Mook. “We have the No. 1 campaign manager,” he said, in a staffwide gathering in the afternoon. “I’ve been doing this since 1968, and I’ve never seen a culture and a spirit like we created in this campaign.”

Chumps. All the people that gave money to the Clinton campaign, the volunteers who went door-to-door for the campaign — chumps, all of them. At the end of the day, Democrat operatives like Robby Mook, Jennifer Palmieri and John Podesta get paid big money, even when they lose. They collected huge salaries, and delivered . . . failure.

When allegedly “smart” people get paid money to do a job and fail as spectacularly as Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff failed, there ought to be some consequence, but they’re Democrats, see? Democrats don’t believe in consequences. Screw up and blame your failures on “racism.”

Basically, that’s the history of liberalism since 1963.



 

 

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Category: Election

Laci Green (@gogreen18) Is a Lying Atheist Democrat, But I Repeat Myself

Posted on | November 11, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

Laci Green is a pervert who likes talking to kids about sex. Basically, she’s a female Anthony Weiner, but because she calls herself a “sex educator,” some people don’t realize what a sick freak she is. Then on Tuesday night, she erupted in an obscenity-strewn meltdown: “We are now under total Republican rule. Textbook fascism. F–k you, white America. F–k you, you racist, misogynist pieces of sh–.”

Laci Green is on the payroll of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America. Laci Green is a feminist who is against motherhood and marriage. Laci Green is an atheist who hates Christians.

 

Laci Green’s pro-abortion, anti-Christian politics were long overlooked because she was viewed as a mere entertainer, someone with a YouTube channel who occasionally appeared on MTV. During the past two years, however, Laci Green has been promoting an increasingly militant feminist message and openly campaigning for Democrats. She attended the Democratic National Convention, where she fangirled Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and ex-MSNBC hatemonger Melissa Harris-Perry.

 

Laci Green is a left-wing extremist who hates all Republicans: “F–k you, white America. F–k you, you racist, misogynist pieces of sh–.”

The dishonesty of these hateful accusations — her false claim that every American who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton is a “racist” and a “misogynist” — should require no explanation. Laci Green is an atheist liar whose entire career has been devoted to corrupting young people in order to promote the anti-Christian agenda of the Democrat Party.

Democrats are just bad people. They hate Jesus. They hate babies. They hate America. And they think everybody else should hate America, too.



 

 

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Category: Election, Sex Trouble

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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Category: Linkagery

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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