In The Mailbox: 09.06.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 5, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.06.24 (Morning Edition)

The Big BasedCon Book Sale Is On!
SOTD. I would pay good money to see Rob Halford & Judas Priest play this live, now that the Godfather of Soul has died.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guy With A Gun Stops Carjacking & Abduction
EBL: The Once and Future Potato is back at CNN
Twitchy: Putin Just Threw A Big Ol’ Wrench In The Democrat Plan To Resurrect The Russia Hoax, Greg Gutfeld Takes A Flamethrower To The Mainstream Media, and So Genuine & Authentic!
Louder With Crowder: Public schools are having children arrested for quoting memes now, also, Morning Joe claims the media is pro-Trump. Yes, Morning Joe. Let that sink in.
Vox Popoli: Reading the Economic Winds, The September Books, Based Book Sale 2024, Feminism Failed, Castalia History Goes Worldwide, and The Lead Villain of WWII
Upstream Review: Arena Manager
Stoic Observation: Stoic Bites #10 – The Struggling Practitioner
Ammo.com: Gun Death Statistics By Caliber
Gab: A Dangerous Precedent For Free Speech

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Dana Loesch: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Released, also, Latest On The Georgia School Shooting
Don Surber: If we cannot be great again, make us like El Salvador

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Benny Johnson Is NOT a Putin Puppet: Beware the ‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’ Hype

Posted on | September 5, 2024 | Comments Off on Benny Johnson Is NOT a Putin Puppet: Beware the ‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’ Hype

To quote Sarah Hoyt, “The suspicion that this was a setup honeypot with full knowledge of our government is inevitable,” which was the first thing that crossed my mind when I heard about it. Folks, I’ve known Benny Johnson since 2007, when he was a college kid having fun at a Young Americans Foundation conference in California that I attended (as did Ace of Spades, Jeff Goldstein and other conservative bloggers). So when I saw him named in connection with what FBI Director Christopher Wray calls a “covert influence campaign,” I knew it was bullshit.

Two alleged Russian operatives, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, are “charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.” Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva are said to have set up a shell company that funneled money to Tenet Media, which was created last year by YouTuber Lauren Chen and her hsuband Liam Donovan. Tenet Media in turn contracted with such well-known conservative personalities as Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and my friend Benny Johnson. Let me quote the DOJ press release here:

The Justice Department today announced the ongoing seizure of 32 internet domains used in Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaigns colloquially referred to as “Doppelganger,” in violation of U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws. As alleged in an unsealed affidavit, the Russian companies Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology (Structura), and ANO Dialog, operating under the direction and control of the Russian Presidential Administration, and in particular First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Vladilenovich Kiriyenko, used these domains, among others, to covertly spread Russian government propaganda with the aim of reducing international support for Ukraine, bolstering pro-Russian policies and interests, and influencing voters in U.S. and foreign elections, including the U.S. 2024 Presidential Election. . . .
“The Justice Department is seizing 32 internet domains that the Russian government and Russian government-sponsored actors have used to engage in a covert campaign to interfere in and influence the outcome of our country’s elections,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. . . .
“The Department’s seizure of 32 internet domains secretly deployed to spread foreign malign influence demonstrates once again that Russia remains a predominant foreign threat to our elections,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. “At Putin’s direction, Russian companies SDA, Structura, and ANO Dialog used cybersquatting, fabricated influencers, and fake profiles to covertly promote AI-generated false narratives on social media. Those narratives targeted specific American demographics and regions in a calculated effort to subvert our election. Our republic depends on elections that are free from foreign interference, and we will not rest in our efforts to expose foreign malign influence operations and protect our democracy, without fear or favor.”

Does that seem clear to you? Because it’s far from clear to me. They’ve posted a 277-page affidavit in PDF, so maybe some of y’all can go read that and explain it to me. My two questions are these:

Question 1: What, if anything, did these “32 internet domains” have to do with Benny Johnson, Tim Pool or Dave Rubin? Did they even know about these sites? Did any of the “Russian disinformation” content from these “32 internet domains” actually make it into any videos posted by the aforesaid personalities?
Question 2: At what point did the feds get involved?

Because I’m with Sarah Hoyt on this hunch: Never in my life have I seen anything that looked more like an FBI “sting” setup.

Both Benny and Tim say they’re the real victims in this case:

A statement on the leaked DOJ indictment today:

A year ago, a media startup pitched my company to provide content as an independent contractor. Our lawyers negotiated a standard, arms length deal, which was later terminated. We are disturbed by the allegations in today’s…

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 4, 2024

My statement regarding allegations and the DOJ Indictment

Should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims. I cannot speak for anyone else at the company as to what they do or to what they are instructed…

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) September 4, 2024

Prediction: Some time next year, after the election, we’ll learn that the FBI was running this whole thing from the get-go.

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Rhanni Davis Charged With Four Murders on Suburban Chicago Commuter Train

Posted on | September 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Rhanni Davis Charged With Four Murders on Suburban Chicago Commuter Train

Murder on Labor Day weekend:

Prosecutors have approved murder charges in connection with the shootings that left four people dead on a CTA train Monday morning. Rhanni Davis, 30, is expected to appear in court for a detention hearing on Wednesday.
In another development, officials have released new information about the victims and how they died. According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, 60-year-old Adrian Collins was killed by a gunshot wound to his abdomen. Simeon Biheshi, 28, died from multiple gunshot wounds, the office said. Two victims were not identified by name: a 64-year-old woman who was shot in the head and a 52-year-old man who suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
At about 5:27 a.m. Monday, a CTA employee discovered three bodies on one train car after it reached the end of the line in Forest Park. A fourth victim was soon found in a separate car on the same train.
When police arrived, the shooter had already left. However, CTA security identified a suspect from the transit system’s surveillance footage. Based on a description provided by the CTA, Chicago cops arrested Davis at the California Pink Line station at 7 a.m. Monday. Officials said CPD recovered a firearm during the arrest.
Cook County court records list five criminal cases filed against Davis since 2012, all misdemeanors.
The most recent charge against was criminal trespass to a vehicle in Riverdale in November 2022. Prosecutors dropped the case two months later, but records show Davis did not appear for that hearing.
Davis faced charges of illegal firearm possession in the 3500 block of West 55th Street in February 2021. Prosecutors dropped that case in October 2021.
Records show Davis pleaded guilty in September 2020 to disorderly conduct after being arrested outside the former Bloomingdale’s Home & Furniture, 600 North Wabash, during the August 10 looting spree. Judge Robert Kuzas handed down a one-day sentence.
In May 2014, police arrested Davis in Boystown under the name James McDavis. After pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery, Davis successfully completed court supervision.
Evanston police arrested Davis for retail theft in October 2012, also under the name James McDavis. Records show Davis stopped appearing in court and the matter remained active until prosecutors dropped it following the Bloomingdale’s arrest in 2020.

Elsewhere in Chicago this past weekend:

At least five people were killed, and 26 others were hurt in Chicago shootings across the city during the Labor Day weekend, according to Chicago police.
The ages of the victims range from 16 to 58.

So, five shot to death in Chicago, and four more murdered on a commuter train and yet, for some reason, CNN didn’t give hourly coverage of these shootings, nor did President Biden issue a statement about the carnage. Murder in Chicago — or Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, etc. — is routine, and regarded as strictly local news. In terms of covering crime, as in every other thing they do, the national media care only about politics, and doing what they can to help Democrats win elections. And they think we’re too stupid to notice what they’re doing.

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In The Mailbox: 09.03.24

Posted on | September 4, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.03.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Playing now in Chicago and Colorado

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: A Quiet Place: Day One, Gigglin’s Island, Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch on Islam and Immigration, and Kamala is Que Mala!
Twitchy: Tucker Carlson Brings On A WW2 Revisionist, Tulsi Gabbard Expertly Reminds Dana Bash Who Should ACTUALLY Be The Focus Of The Arlington Story, and In Not So Shocking News Of The Day, Aaron Rupar Once Again Wrong About Trump
Louder With Crowder: Trans Reality Star Claims His “guard needs To Go Up” Because of Toxic Masculinity
Vox Popoli: When Retconning Works, The Triumph of #GamerGate, The Fear of All Conspiracies, William Lind Wept, The Final Stages of Feminism, and Have We Reached Peak Boomer?
Stoic Observations: Skibidi Speech

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Good People who Live in Evil Societies
American Conservative: Election Results in Thuringia and Saxony Spark More AfD Derangement Syndrome, The Cartel Takeover in Colorado Is a Dispatch From the Future, and Does Harris Have a Glass Jaw?
American Greatness: Support for Kamala Declines After Democratic National Convention, Four Minnesota National Guard Vets Blast ‘Coward’ and ‘Habitual Liar’ Tim Walz, Biden, Back From 2-Week Vacation, Delivers Remarks on His ‘Accomplishments,’ Suffers Brain Fog, Refuses to Take Questions, Former Governor Andrew Cuomo Faces Congressional Reckoning for His Covid Policies, and Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days?
American Power: We Don’t Know Ourselves, also, Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane
American Thinker: The Truth About Arlington, Stop Worrying About the Polls: Kamala’s Lead Is Fake, How Biden Skirted U.S. Law to Open Up the Border, and The Great Realignment
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty I, also, Hunting Season Totty II
Babalu Blog: Nearly 700 protests in communist Cuba during August, Nicaraguan dictatorship wages war against nuns, cancels legal status and seizes bank accounts and property, Despite severe teacher shortage Cuban dictatorship sends teachers to Jamaica, and Communist organization in U.S. sends 800 tons of flour to Cuba
BattleSwarm: Comedian Drew Dunn On The Trump Assassination Attempt, Video Tab Clearing, You’re Gonna Burn, and Another Texas Win Against Transsexual Mandates
Behind The Black: SpaceX resumes launches with a bang! Rocket startup ABL lays off a significant number of staff, Due to thruster problem, the Mercury orbiter BepiColombo will arrive at Mercury almost one year late, That sonar-type sound heard on Starliner’s speakers was simply feedback, Largest corporate investor in rocket startup Rocket Factory Augsburg finalized deal to go private, and Williams-Sonoma sued over its racist DEI hiring policies
Cafe Hayek: Other People’s Choices Made With Their Own Resources Do Not Create Externalities
CDR Salamander: Nice Budget You Have There, Army
Chicago Boyz: Goethe, the Original Gretchen, and the Hackers of 1764, You Don’t Hate the Media Enough , “Defeat” is Not an Option, and Hiroshima and Counting All the Dead
Da Tech Guy: Tips for conservatives covering leftist protests, Indulgence Calendar Time for September, Russia longing for the Days of the 1940’s when the US was carpet bombing their enemies, and Will the “She’s Not Trump” Vote Hold?
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – 2A & MJ Edition, also, Tuesday Evening Culture Track
Don Surber: Making it too big to rig
First Street Journal: Boom Diggity – IDF Kills Hamas Head In Jenin, Woke Pope Yammers On About Earth Being Sick From Hotcoldwetdry, Denver Police Searching For Person(s) Who Put Up Sign About Illegal Aliens, Youts Have A Big Vote Decision: A Good Economy Or Climate (scam) Action, and Happy BidenHarrisflation Labor Day Weekend!
Gates Of Vienna: An Excess of Tolerance, A Gold Medal for the Bladed Weapons Olympians, Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 18, An Invasion of a Culture Hostile to Our Way of Life, Afghans Gone Wild in Wuppertal, and Comrade, Make Sure You Conform to the Norm!
The Geller Report: FBI Arrests Linda Sun, Former Deputy Chief of Staff for NY Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul
Hollywood In Toto: Carolla Slams VP Harris on Biden’s Decline: ‘Stupid or Liar’, Director Dishes on Working with Kevin Spacey, These Brits Triggered by Trigger Warnings, Great Communicator vs. Word Salad Harris, and Insider: Why Reagan Biopic Matters
The Lid: Reagan Movie Gets 98% Audience Score…Naturally Critics Despise It, also, Oregon’s Failed Drug Polices Reversed: State Re-Criminalizes Hard Drugs
Legal Insurrection: Israel Facilitates Gaza Polio Vaccine Drive Despite Ongoing Terrorist Attacks and Hostage Murders, Controversial Artificial Intelligence Safety Bill Passes California Legislature, ‘Detroit Speak:’ Kamala Harris Cannot Stop With ‘Cringe’ Accents, Tennessee Shooter’s Manifesto Reveals Hatred Towards Whites, Christianity, and UNC Frat Brothers Who Defended American Flag During Protest Throw Their Big Party
Michele Catalano: the week in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: Labor Day, Prager has an name for excellence and a force for good – America’s good, Outstanding! and A Avignon – à Grande Vitesse!
Outkick: It’s Not The Time For Billy Napier To Be Joking About Florida Fans, DirecTV & ESPN Screwed Me This Weekend, Oklahoma State Hosting Mike Gundy Radio Show From Senior Citizens Home, Which Is A Fantastic Idea, Florida State Fan Who Promised To Eat Dog Poop If They Lost Is On The Run, Sexual Assault Lawsuit Dropped Against Former Jaguars Kicker Brandon McManus Over Plaintiffs’ Anonymity, Georgia Tech President Blocks Riley Gaines For Asking Why He Didn’t ‘Protect’ Her, and Kristin Cavallari’s New ‘Best Sex’ Claim Is A Huge Shot At Jay Cutler
Power Line: Netanyahu responds to Biden, School Is Back In Session, and America’s Most Effective Conservative Activist?
Shark Tank: Democrat Reyes, Republican Cordero-Stutz To Face Off In Miami-Dad Sheriff Race
Shot In The Dark: That Pesky Constitution, The Minnesota Prototype, A Time For Choosing A Movie, The New Girl On The Beat, and Far Be It From Me To Question A “Scientist”
The Political Hat: Under U.K. Knife Laws #ZombieLivesMatter
This Ain’t Hell: GA Man Charged With Receiving Money from Stolen Valor, John Thompson, SAS vet of Iran Embassy takedown, dead, Maduro’s Jet Repo’ed, USS Wasp Personnel Attacked in Izmir, and Losing the George Washington for 6 years
Transterrestrial Musings: Labor Day, Putin’s War Week, Que Mala, The Arlington Kerfuffle, and Dusk Or Dawn?
Victory Girls: Six Hostages Including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin Murdered By Hamas, Imagine This – Kamala Harris Leading Our Military, and Covenant Shooter Journal Released By The Tennessee Star
Volokh Conspiracy: Firing Teacher for Refusing Instructions Not to Call Police About Alleged Assault by Student May Violate State Law
Watts Up With That: Radical Green British Government Imposes Soviet Style Rationing of Gasoline Vehicles, The Green New Deal could make electricity 28 times more expensive, and What Happened to Your “Wettest Summer”, Met Office?
The Federalist: RNC Alleges Pennsylvania Dems Recruited Out-Of-State Poll Watchers In Defiance Of Election Law, Oklahoma Republicans Launch State’s First Freedom Caucus To Put Conservative Priorities ‘Front And Center’, The Now-Forgotten ‘Climate Crisis’ Was Just A Cynical Ploy For Democrats To Gain Power, Pennsylvania Court Says Improperly Dated Mail Ballots Must Be Counted, In ‘Untethered And Unprecedented’ Ruling, Democrat-Controlled States Refuse To Clean Voter Rolls And Fix Election Problems, and CBS News Present Leftists As ‘Experts’ To Smear Opponents As Spreading ‘Disinformation’
Mark Steyn: See the Bad Man: Blast of Silence and the Birth of Neo-Noir, Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone, The Day After Labor, and Awaiting the Next Plot Twist

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In The Mailbox: 09.02.24

Posted on | September 3, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.02.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks for everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month. Is it the shitty economy, or has Amazon deprecating image links affected sales that much?
Doing a quick link dump today because I have an appointment in Las Vegas Thursday afternoon, and lately I’ve had trouble staying on schedule when I’m on the road.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NSA Releases 1982 Lecture by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
EBL: Kamala Harris Promises To Sign Slavery Reparation Bill, Tulsi Gabbard responds to Dana Bash about Arlington Memorial, Tim Walz Is A Habitual Liar, Queens | Malkot | ?????, and Dry-Aged Lion Fish
Twitchy: Jesse Kelly Posts Letter From Aurora CO Cop Proving Politicians Are Lying Again, We Should Listen To People Who Fled Socialist Countries, and Tufts U. Study Claims Cheerios Healthier Than Eggs, Beef
Louder With Crowder: “So deep into the progressive abyss”, Kamala Harris’s pathetic attack on Donald Trump-Arlington flap gets savaged by EIGHT different Gold Star Families, and Salon owner shares how much she pays in taxes, watch her employees turn BASED in real-time
Vox Popoli: Clown World Knows No Law, Weimar Britain, The Easy Answer, What’s Wrong with Mary Sue, and Yeah, So, About That
Postcards From Barsoom: Malevolent Anal Distraction
Upstream Reviews: Dark Day, Bright Hour

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CDR Salamander: The Great Pacific War You Need To Be Ready For
Don Surber: Labor Day? Try Jobless Day
Glenn Reynolds: Thoughts On Labor On Labor Day
STUMP: Labor Day 2024 – Beauty In Work

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Rule Five Sunday: My Next Ex-Wife

Posted on | September 2, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: My Next Ex-Wife

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I have no idea where I found this, but it was probably either kbdabear or the Rule 5 Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five American Dream Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Anti-MAGA Biden-Harris, The Rings of Power Season 2, Sophia Bush, Egyptian Honey, Kamala Chameleon, Chimp Crazy, The Crow – Worst Movie of the Year? Horizon: An American Saga, “Singin’ In The Rain”, and The Dry

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Instaisabella, Even Catfish Get the Blues, Fish Pic Friday – Molly Dixon, No Eres Tan Fuerte, Bay Managers Looking at Cobia, Biden, Kamala Skip Arlington Ceremony for Abbey Gate 13, Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Censored for Biden-Harris, The Wednesday Wetness, Gone Fishin’, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and RFK Jr. Drops Out, Endorses Trump

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for August 30

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Jews Are Dead, Hamas Is Happy, and Podhoretz Has Got His Rage On

Posted on | September 1, 2024 | Comments Off on Jews Are Dead, Hamas Is Happy, and Podhoretz Has Got His Rage On

For years, I’ve said it’s impossible to have peace negotiations with the Palestinians because, to the Palestinians, “peace” means dead Jews.

Insofar as “Palestinian” describes a national identity, the essence of that identity is killing Jews. That’s all they care about. As a people, collectively, the Palestinians are devoted to revenge — the complete destruction of Israel, and the death of every Jew — and this is why the past 30-plus years of “peace negotiatians” have been a waste of time.

Excuse my speaking so bluntly about this, but I don’t know how anyone paying attention for the last three decades can see it any other way. And the latest atrocity further confirms this reality:

The bodies of six hostages abducted alive by Hamas on October 7 were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah overnight, shortly after they were murdered by terrorists, the Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday.
The hostages were Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 27.
Goldberg-Polin, Yerushalmi, Lobanov, Sarusi and Danino (an off-duty noncommissioned officer) were abducted from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, while Gat was taken from Kibbutz Be’eri.
Their bodies were found with multiple gunshot wounds, Israel’s Health Ministry said, citing an examination carried out by Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
The ministry said that the hostages were murdered between 48 and 72 hours before their autopsy, meaning between Thursday and Friday morning.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the six were “brutally murdered” by Hamas shortly before troops arrived — possibly only a day or two before they were found.
“According to an initial assessment… they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short while before we reached them. They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas terror group,” Hagari said in a press conference.
“Their bodies were found during the fighting in Rafah, in a tunnel, about a kilometer away from the tunnel from which we rescued Farhan al-Qadi a few days ago,” he said.

This was sadly predictable. Ever since last October, when dozens of hostages were kidnapped by the same Hamas terrorists who killed more than a thousand Israelis, I knew that the chances of any of the hostages surviving were practically non-existent, and any negotiations for their release were futile, because the raison d’être of Hamas is to kill Jews.

What kind of childish naïveté leads some people to think it’s possible to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with a gang of bloodthirsty killers, and they’ll just turn the hostages loose? And yet, even as I write these words, CNN is showing protesters in Israel who evidently believe this.

??? Huge Protest – Tel Aviv, Israel

Estimates of up to 300,000 people on the Israeli Capital’s Streets protesting the war on Gaza.

They are demanding a ceasefire now. pic.twitter.com/Xg84KSZL95

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) September 1, 2024

“Please, we want peace with the Jew-killers!” This is insane.

John Podhoretz certainly isn’t deceived by such delusions:

Had the Biden administration’s will not been bent and twisted in the months following the attack by the fiendish propaganda campaign causing them to worry about the war’s effect on Joe’s chances in Michigan—due to a population that effectively supported the terrorist monsters and cared not a whit for the eight Americans, let alone the 240 other innocents dragged into Hell—would Hersh and these others have survived? Imagine an Israel that had not found itself restrained and under assault, not told to pause, not scolded in pissy little phone calls with petulant American establishmentarians, without arms and aid held up, without being lectured about the geostrategic value of going slow or not going at all.
Imagine an Israel that was not told by its best friend in the world that offensive action in Gaza had become self-defeating, was not told that Israel should care more about feeding people in Gaza than about eliminating the threat to its 9 million citizens and pummelling Hamas until that evil group of thugs cried uncle and begged for way to negotiate to return the hostages.
Imagine an America that did not lose its nerve under a president whose team knew perfectly well he was infirm and was working desperately to stave off his eventual collapse and departure from the race to save their own rotten and misbegotten jobs.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

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FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme

Posted on | September 1, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A strange homestand this week at RFK: we got swept by the Yankees, in an 15-11 slugfest followed by two close 3-2 losses, but then the Twins came to town and our bats caught fire. The Twins were bludgeoned 10-2, 6-1, and 6-2, with even Don Stanhouse notching a win in his first start. Extraordinary! The Senators are 62-80, half a game ahead of the A’s, and there are other, worse teams in the league: the Dodgers are 42-100, the Cubs 54-88, KC 55-84, and the hapless O’s 56-86. There aren’t any teams with 100 wins yet, but the Yankees are close with 96.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.