THEY SHOOT COWS, DON’T THEY?
Related: Dem Sen. Tester campaigns on hunting, hasn’t had license in 6 years.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
Archive for 2018
October 9, 2018
OPEN THREAD: Be bold.
GLORIA ALVAREZ ON REASON TV: Socialism Fails Every Time (Video):
It certainly has a lot of bad luck associated with it, for some inexplicable reason.
SKYNET SMILES: Driverless Cars Could Become WMDs.
As Iowahawk likes to say, we need the equivalent of the Second Amendment to protect the right to drive. The coming war on driving will not be fun, even if driverless cars are never weaponized.
DAVE CHAPPELLE ON #METOO: ‘I Wish They Would Speak to Black Women More.’
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING, BESIDES EVERYONE WITH A BRAIN? Human resources study shows a stunning unintended backlash to the ‘Me Too’ movement.
“There were men who specifically said I will not hire a woman going forward,” he explained.
“Those who said they would hire a woman said they would not travel with one, and they, more importantly they would not engage in activities after business hours,” Taylor added.
“And you know oftentimes, that’s when the relationships are built,” he continued, “after hours dinners with clients, et cetera, trips, I’m a lawyer for example, and you know, you’re the associate, and the partner won’t travel with you for fear that it could be perceived, or he could be subject to a sexual harassment claim.”
Shocking.
Related (From Ed): Mike Pence increasingly looking like the smartest man in DC.
THE JOURNOLIST IS HOPPING:
● Republicans have a new name for Democrats: ‘mob.’
—CNN, Sunday.
● ‘An angry mob’: Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy.
—The Washington Post, yesterday.
● Republicans Seize On Stoking Fears Of Left-Leaning Mob To Mobilize Voters.
—Talking Points Memo, today.
● The GOP’s sneaky attempt to paint the majority as an angry left-wing mob.
—The Week, today.
● Republicans: Protesters Are an Unruly Mob — Unless They’re Heavily Armed and Support Us.
—New York magazine, today.
—Mediaite, today.
Earlier: “Here’s the thing: though there is no question that the GOP, like Democrats, play to the anxieties of its base — this is normal politics — there really were, and are, mobs out to get conservatives.”
Related: As Ace of Spades writes, “I keep saying this but now that the leftist media has expressly endorsed the tactic of nonstop public harassment of public political figures, such as the Democrats’ PR arm the Media, it is only a matter of time before these same threatening, likely-to-lead to violence tactics are visited upon them. When Brooke Baldwin can never eat in public in peace, she’ll start asking Republicans to white knight for her and condemn the tactic.”
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:
The first few seconds of this are key. Hillary says there can be no civility until the Democrats are back in power. That is the language of would-be totalitarians. And watch @camanpour try and hold back her smile when she says it… https://t.co/EqBf96KbcR
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) October 9, 2018
Related: Rand Paul on political climate: ‘I really worry that someone is going to be killed.’ Note the replies from Democrats to The Hill’s tweet of this quote, basically hoping he’s right.
Previously:
● Democrat Doxxer Threatened To Reveal Senators’ Children’s Health Information.
● DC restaurant: We’ve received death threats after Ted Cruz, wife forced out by protesters.
● Networks Silent On Attempted Stabbing of GOP Candidate By Anti-Trump Attacker.
● Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) Jokes About Threatening Trump Supporters ‘All The Time.’
Why is the Democratic party such a cesspit of hate and violence?
UPDATE (From Ed):
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: When it comes to being ghosted, our columnist has one piece of advice: track him down and find out the truth. When men do it, it’s creepy and stalkerish. But when women do it, it’s empowering!
GREAT MOMENTS IN SOVIET PSYCHIATRY: The View Hosts Write Off Kanye’s Trump Openness As Mental Illness.
This type of discussion is not just denigrating to people who suffer from bipolar disorder and their families, by implying they are incapable of thinking for themselves or floating ideas, but it is also writing off black Republicans or any minorities who dare to think differently, who don’t fit their Hollywood mold, as crazy and “off his meds.”
Kanye has been open about suffering from mental illness and taking medication in the past, but using someone’s mental illness as an explanation for why his political views are different from yours is vile. Furthermore, it’s shameless to insinuate that Kardashian is incapable of caring for her husband’s health, when in reality she simply refusing to be a part of the silencing mob. Kardashian has publicly and repeatedly shown support for her husband’s political thoughts.
Related: How the Soviets used their own twisted version of psychiatry to suppress political dissent.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I was raised to think sex was shameful. Then I opened a brothel.
DEMOCRATIC CAPITOL HILL STAFFER HELD WITHOUT BOND IN SENATE ‘DOXXING’ CASE: “Prosecutors revealed investigators found cocaine and methamphetamine during a search of his things, and speculated he may have been under the influence when, according to police, he used his government credentials to post personal information of some lawmakers, and broke into a senator’s office while threatening to release other information.”
CONTRARY TO PREDICTIONS MADE BY… ABSOLUTELY NO ONE: A Woman Is Helming Doctor Who, and the World Has Not Collapsed.
“SEXY HANDMAID” SHOULD HAVE RANKED MUCH HIGHER: Top 10 Halloween Costumes To Troll Your Leftist Friends In 2018.
THE MEDIA & THE MOB: Responding to a Washington Post reporter, who as Twitchy notes, “does the Republicans pounce angle on the out-of-control Kavanaugh mob,” Rod Dreher writes:
Here’s the thing: though there is no question that the GOP, like Democrats, play to the anxieties of its base — this is normal politics — there really were, and are, mobs out to get conservatives.
Conservatives didn’t just imagine the anti-Kavanaugh protesters filling the halls of Congress, harassing GOP senators. Conservatives aren’t imagining campus mobs shouting down conservatives. Republican political consultants didn’t invent the mob at Middlebury College last year that chased Charles Murray off of campus, and physically injured a (liberal) professor who was his host. Nor did the GOP conjure the Yale mob that abused the Christakises over Halloween costumes in 2016.
And on and on. More to the point, Republicans did not invent the mob-like behavior of the news media in the Kavanaugh affair. In the last 24 hours, I’ve heard from three friends — two Democrats, and one anti-Republican independent — who have written to express profound concern about this political moment, and the behavior of the liberal mob. One of the Democrats — no fan of Trump or Kavanaugh — told me that her party has lost her over all this. The independent told me he hasn’t voted GOP in 30 years, but that may change this November, because of the “malice” (his word) on the left. And the third remains a devoted Democrat, but he is agonizing over the demons now taking over his political side, and worries if they can ever be reined in.
In “After Kavanaugh,” Kevin Williamson adds, “The Democrats have created an environment that will render ordinary political discourse almost impossible for years to come:”
This has been shameful, and there should be a reckoning.
That reckoning will not come from the New York Times or from the faculty of the Yale Law School. And it will not come from mind-killed partisans who will believe — or at least pretend to believe — anything that justifies and facilitates their pursuit of power. “She sounded credible to me!” they say. People who are telling us what we want to hear often do. That isn’t good enough — and this cynical smear campaign cannot be allowed to go unanswered. Everybody likes to think that they would have had the good sense and spine to stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy or the House Un-American Activities Committee.
But as the Democrats in rodential retreat go slinking sideways away from this failed attempt at character assassination, what will we do? Not only in November, but after? They would very much like to make this election about Donald Trump, but this has very little to do with the president. They tried to do the same thing to Mitt Romney that they tried with Brett Kavanaugh, and they would have done the same thing if it had been President Romney naming a new justice.
If you don’t punish a political party for this, what do you punish one for?
Indeed. And how does the media recover from their role in the anti-Kavanaugh debacle? The Washington Free Beacon notes that Joe Scarborough(!) “issued a pointed challenge to editors across the country:”
“I challenge New York Times reporters this morning — not reporters, editors — I challenge Washington Post editors, I challenge Wall Street Journal editors, I challenge editors across America, write that story. What happened with Dr. Ford’s agreement with a congresswoman, with Dianne Feinstein? Why did they leak that story? And more importantly, look at yourself and ask yourself the question, why didn’t we report on this in real time when you sure as hell would have reported on it if [Sen. Chuck] Grassley (R., Iowa) and his office had done the same thing?”
Just think of the media as Democratic operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense — or as “Comfortably Smug” tweets, “Journalists are the most insidious of paid protesters.”
UPDATE: Forget ‘boobs’! CNN’s Brooke Baldwin now clutching her pearls over ‘the M word.’
EVIDENTLY HILLARY DIDN’T GET THE MEMO:
● Shot: Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush to Open National Civility Center.
—Headline, Forbes, February 21, 2011.
● Chaser: [Hillary] Clinton: ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.’
—CNN.com, today.
Found via Glenn, who adds, “Better put some ice on that.”
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WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Bionic Limbs ‘Learn’ to Open a Beer.