MALE PRIVILEGE: Why A Good Father Prepares His Sons For War.

IT ISN’T BOMBSHELL IF IT ONLY CONFIRMS WHAT EVERYBODY KNEW: Ex-Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side.’

SALON: Millennials Aren’t Saving Because They Think Capitalism Will Fall.

The dark night of economic collapse is always descending in capitalist countries and yet lands only in the socialist ones.

REMEMBERING WHERE WE CAME FROM:  Valley Forge.

I BELIEVE THE CHILDREN ARE INFANTILE:  Political Children.

KEEPING YOUR HEAD WHEN ALL AROUND ARE LOSING THEIRS:  Where’s Waldo?

KEEPING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE:  On reviews.

THE RABID DOGS LEFTISTS OF SCIENCE FICTION:  First they came for the sad puppy.

BUT THE BENEFIT PACKAGE IS UNPARALLELED!  Being a mom is the equivalent of 2.5 full-time jobs.

BETTER? HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?  How to make bacon taste even better.

NO, YOU CAN’T BELIEVE YOUR EARS – AUDIO SYNTHESIS IS WHY:  Listen to JFK speak from beyond the grave.

SHEER INCOMPETENCE AND AN OVERWEENING DISDAIN FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS:  United Airlines In The News Again…But Is Sheer Incompetence The Only Flaw Here?

NO, HILLY, MOST OF US DON’T THINK WITH OUR VAGINAS:  Hillary Clinton Says Women Just ‘Misunderstood’ Her India Remarks.  Only your followers, Hillary.

THEY HATE US, THEY REALLY HATE US:  CNN Desperately Tries, Fails at Connecting Explosions to Race.

YOU PAID FOR HER TO INSULT YOU FROM ABROAD:  Hillary Clinton’s India Trip Cost Taxpayers More than $22k.  Shouldn’t multi-millionaire Clinton pay for her own security already?  We could call it “Hands off Deplorable Pockets!”

SJW ANGER AT GAL GADOT’S TWEET ON STEPHEN HAWKING’S DEATH EXPOSES A DISTURBING FACT ABOUT THEM:

As RedState’s Joe Cunningham pointed out, actress Gal Gadot made mention of  constraints when she tweeted out her sympathies at the recent death of Steven Hawking.

“Rest in peace Dr. Hawking,” tweeted Gadot. “Now you’re free of any physical constraints. Your brilliance and wisdom will be cherished forever.”

Disabilities come in many forms. In the case of the recently passed Hawking, his was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The disease is terrifying, and essentially stops motor function to your body. Without constant help, you’re a mind trapped in a shell you can hardly move if you can move it at all.

To any normal person, this is a sweet sentiment. It’s nice to think that Hawking is now free of his disability, and is free to do whatever he wishes for the first time in decades. It’s a sentiment that was seen quite often at his passing, including from yours truly.

As Cunningham pointed out, however, this sentiment from Gadot enraged SJWs and attacked the actress for being “ableist,” or viewing Hawking’s sickness as a negative.

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But according to the SJW crowd, merely saying that having ALS is debilitating and horrible is a grave sin worthy of labeling the person who says it as hateful toward those without properly working bodies. This is, of course, madness, but pointing this out will cause an SJW to scream “THIS IS SAFE SPACE” then attempt to kick you into a pit where you’re made to feel like a pariah, and possibly deplatformed.

But this line of thinking is disturbing.

For one, SJWs seem to be arriving at the fact that diseases are somehow a good thing. That instead of acknowledging that diseases hinder and harm, they choose to glorify the disability or disease. The disease itself, and the effects it has on a person are not to be thought of as bad according to them, but should be celebrated and applauded.

It gets worse; read the whole thing. But who knew that Mr. Spock was so ableist for wanting to return the crippled Capt. Pike to Talos IV to be free to live out the rest of his life inside the allusion of his once healthy body? Who knew Gene Roddenberry was such an alt-right reactionary? The “burn all the things” impulse regarding our pop culture past over the next few decades will be amazing to witness.

Related: Let this thread be your warning never to engage a social justice warrior at a party.

AT AMAZON, save in Safety and Security.

NAME THAT PARTY, SPECIAL “ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II” EDITION:

In Sunday’s Washington Post, art critic Philip Kennicott unloaded on images of American “fascism” in a new exhibit in New York featuring photographs of the unjust internment of Japanese Americans during World War II titled “Then They Came For Me.” That’s somehow comparable to Trump if he deported “Dreamers.” That would be a “looming civic crisis.” The online headline was “If America fails its people again, what will the catastrophe look like?” In the paper, it was simply “Images that provoke deja vu.”

In his 1,571 words, Kennicott never used these words: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Or any reference to the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, “CNN Exploits Holocaust, Suggests ICE Agents are Nazis,” Joel Pollack writes at Big Journalism:

CNN posted a tweet to promote the article, declaring: “A Jewish woman heard an undocumented immigrant and her two daughters were on the run from ICE. Driven by thoughts of the Holocaust, she risked her own comfort to offer them shelter.”

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The implication is that ICE agents are like Nazis or Gestapo secret police ready to arrest illegal aliens for legitimate reason other than their identity. Jews in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe were citizens of the countries where they were arrested, and where they were murdered or deported to death camps. They had not violated immigration laws or any other laws except laws preventing them from existing.

More at Red State:

I have to give CNN credit. Just when you think they’ve given it their best shot in lying, in manufacturing news, in encouraging hatred of people they don’t like, in deliberately maligning Republican office holders; when they’ve reached that pinnacle where you think, “my stars, they can’t possibly be more douchebaggy than this,” you find out, yes, they can.

Dude,  it’s CNN; the scale of douchebaggery there reaches to infinity and beyond – and then some.

(Classical reference in headline.)

DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY:

Eric had everything that transgender activists say they want — and still, he killed himself. The poor kid was plainly tormented, but doesn’t that indicate that the entire world can rearrange itself to suit what these people want to believe about themselves, and it still won’t be enough? What more could have been done for him?

The thing that jumped out even more about this story is this: the Miami Herald chose to call this male teenager who had not yet transitioned “she”. This might seem like a small thing, but it in fact is a massive one. In this case, the media is attempting to change the way we use language, which is to say, trying to change at a foundational level how we think.

We cannot conform to this lie. We cannot. The stakes are enormous. You change a people’s language, and you change the way they construe reality. George Orwell addressed this point in his famous essay “Politics and the English Language.” Here:

I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism? One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognise that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The Miami Herald — along with almost all our media today — insist on calling a thing what it is not, for entirely political reasons. I could understand using the feminine pronoun if Eric Verbeeck had completed his transition. I wouldn’t agree with it, but I could understand it. But Eric was still legally named Eric, and had only begun to transition. Yet here are major English language newspapers destroying the language to accommodate a politically correct mental condition. What they’re doing is accustoming their readership to accepting as real and true the claim of a mentally ill teenage male that he is in fact a female.

Read the whole thing.

OPEN THREAD: Don’t let it go to waste.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Causes Canker Sores.

HEY, IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD WRITTEN A SCHOLARLY PAPER ON THIS OR SOMETHING: Are some states headed for Splitsville? Movement grows to allow sections of states to break away.

Note this take from Joel Kotkin: “The worst thing in the world to be is the red part of a blue state.”

WEIRD: BREAKING: Brother of Parkland Shooter Arrested for Trespassing at School.

Zachary Cruz, the brother of confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz, has been arrested today for trespassing at that same school.

According to CBS Miami, the probable cause affidavit stated that the 18-year-old Cruz wanted to “reflect on the school shooting and soak it in,” and that he “surpassed all locked doors and gates.”

He was riding his skateboard around campus when he was arrested. The police report states that Cruz had received “prior warnings by school officials to refrain from entering the school campus.”

Bizarre.

DEUTSCHLAND UNTER ALLEN: “Germany has come up short once more in meeting its military obligations to NATO. Leaked readiness data indicates that a key component of the NATO rapid reaction force, which Germany is to supply in 2019, is nowhere near ready to perform duties German said it could handle.”

Raise your hand if you’re surprised. Photos or facsimiles of Sarah’s surprised face are not acceptable.

TIPS FOR PICKING the right concealed-carry pistol.