Posse Incitatus

More great moments in male feminism

I don't watch much television, so stories about various media personalities usually take a while to reach me.

Thus, the story of how Tucker Carlson's daughter was called a "cunt" and a "whore" at some ritzy country club completely passed me by.  I've seen some of Carlson's videos on youtube, but never watch him live (and I've now 'cut the cord' so I can't even if i want to).

Still, the news that the vulgarian who crudely insulted a young woman is in fact a board member for The Women's Initiative surprises me not at all.

By now it should be painfully obvious to all but the most deluded leftists that all male feminists are actually sexual predators and/or hard-core misogynists. 

Do I need to bring up Joss Whedon?  Harvey Weinstein?  Bill Clinton?  The entire staff at NBC News?

Male feminism is a means to an end.  A man who has issues with women can find easy acceptance as a male feminist ally.  In this role, he gains access to vulnerable women who are unable to process his actions or offer firm resistance.  If he's powerful enough, they will rationalize tolerating his behavior for "the cause," fearing that exposing him might hurt "the movement."

One of the reasons why the infamous "n-word" has become so toxic to white folks is the understanding that people don't blurt out bigoted words in the heat of passion unless they are accustomed to using them.

So it's telling that such a paragon of womanhood would immediately launch into what the Cool Kids call "slut-shaming" when seeking for ways to insult Carlson's daughter. 

It's not unusual, of course, for leftists to project their bigoted attitudes on their conservative opponents.  In fact, it's pretty much par for the course.  If you're a leftist in good standing, you can use whatever racial or sexist slurs you want, so long as the target is on the approved list.

Michael Savage has argued that liberalism is a mental illness, but I think he gets it backwards - mentally ill people are inherently attracted to liberalism because it allows them to freely project all of their problems onto conservatives.  If one is violent, racist, sexist or homophobic, one can use every single slur against conservatives with zero pushback.  Oh, and violence against women professors is totally allowed if they allow the wrong speaker on campus.

If you're crazy, what's not to like?

Of course, this gives the lie to the "it's never okay to -" line of reasoning, but the left has always been obsessed with the classic "who, whom?" context.

The funny thing about this is that if the Dems achieve their dream and the GOP is reduced to minority status, the number of "male ally" feminists will only multiply, until they once more find themselves being beaten and abused.  And they will have brought in it onto themselves.

The coming economic reckoning will cripple political correctness

For people of a certain age, the political behavior of businesses these days is utterly nonsensical.  Once upon a time it was understood that the point of a business was to make money.

To do this, businesses were usually utterly apolitical and insofar as their officers or owners took political positions, they were purely based on what was good for their business.

The notion of purposely striking a controversial position was simply absurd.  Whenever anti-capitalist extremists threatened a boycott, the company public relations department would usually offer a tepid response and reiterate that they sell to everyone.

All that's gone away.  Now you have major retailers falling over themselves to piss off core customers.  The whole "get woke, go broke" syndrome is an actual thing.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in entertainment. 

Hollywood has always leaned to the left, but it had enough common sense to also produce products for middle America.  For every "Murphy Brown," there were two or three detective shows, or apolitical sitcoms.

The same was true of movies.  Hollywood has always had a fetish for "niche" or "prestige" films that raked in awards and got praise from the wine and croissants crowd, but the understanding was that these were diversions.  The studios knew that they still needed mass-appeal movies to pay the bills.

No longer.  The television industry recently witnessed two otherwise inexplicable acts: the cancellation of Last Man Standing and the resurrection and immediate execution of the rebooted Roseanne.

Both of these shows performed well.  That is to say, they found an audience and made money.

And in both cases, the network executives decided they didn't want that money.

Better to take a financial loss that make a show that icky people might like.

The situation in the movie industry is even worse.  Disney paid something like four billion dollars for Star Wars and they are systematically dismantling both the franchise and its fan base.

Who does that?  Who makes a major investment and then blows it up?  It's like Gomez Addams trying (and failing) to lose money in the stock market.

Apparently the shareholders are starting to notice and while Disney and the other megacorps still have a lot of cash to burn, they're reaching the point where the bottom line is starting to be affected.

The key thing to remember in dealing with progressives is that they will never sacrifice the slightest convenience for their beliefs.  The richer they are, the more this holds true.  The saps in the aspiring middle class will put up with composting, but not the elites.  Even the fixation on fair trade, organic or whatever food is based on the fact that they can afford it.  It's just another form of conspicuous consumption.

Star Wars as a franchise is dead in the water and the executives that killed it are completely unrepentant.  It's the money men who will force the changes.

Never forget that Harvey Weinstein was above all things a guy who made money.  Hollywood is famously tolerant of pervs, but they're not going to whore their daughters out for pennies.

 

Where'd all the leftist non-violence advocates go?

I'm old enough to remember when Democrats had a "peace movement" that constantly harped on the evils of violence.

Indeed, they often talked about a "cycle of violence" where each new outrage begat an even greater one.

Then again, that was back when Dems also pretended to care about blue-collar workers and the dignity of all women.  Oh, and they wanted to keep abortion save, legal and rare.

The truth of course was the left never had a problem with violence - so long as they were the ones directing it.

Code Pink basically disappeared while Barack Obama waged wars of choice.  The same people who carried "No Blood For Oil!" signs and peace symbols are now supporting masked thugs physically beating their political opponents.

Despite it's cliche, there was some truth in the old cycle.  Escalation does occur and crises have a tendency to spin out of the control of those who try to engineer them.

Right now the Dems think Antifa is a fine thing, and if a few GOP staff or politicians get bloody noses, it's all good because they deserve it.

But in politics as in war, there is an adaptive element.  A tactic that works for one side will soon by adopted by the other. 

There's also the fact that regardless of how the midterms go, Donald Trump will still be the president.  He will have enormous power to prosecute and roll up the Antifa chapters as well as trace their funding sources.  Many on the right wonder why this hasn't happened yet.

The answer is that the process of cleaning up the FBI and DoJ is a lengthy one and we are only now seeing the fruits ripening from the effort.

The fact that we keep seeing more and more of them indicates that this hitherto modest harvest may well become a bumper crop.

To take our metaphor further, the administration is still going for the low-hanging fruit, but that's because they are just getting started.

If I'm wrong, and the government is powerless to intervene, then the left's tactics will get emulated - and the Republic will shudder closer to outright civil war.

Max Boot finds his new friends don't like him much

I'm trying to ignore the increasingly irrelevant Quisling Never Trump crowd, but I will take time to acknowledge when yet another one of my predictions has come true.

On May 18 of this year, I posted the following:

But Boot and his ilk were never really allies. They were hitchhikers and grifters, buttering us up to sell their "invade the world/invite the world" agenda.

On the critical issues of personal freedom (the right to live, the right to self-defense, limiting government power to bully us) Boot is progressive right down the line.

Good riddens. I hope he realizes that his new friends will tire of him quickly and that having ratted once, it will be much harder to re-rat in the future. [emphasis added]

Looks like that day has finally come.

The left isn't interesting in converts.  It doesn't want to convince people and more.

It wants to destroy them.

The Antifa goons in Portland aren't a debating society.  The release of personal addresses wasn't to facilitate cocktail parties.

Doorknobs like Max Boot, Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg are hoping that they'll be kept on as window dressings when the Dems finally gain their revolutionary victory. 

It is far more likely that they will be shot first, out of pure spite.  Indeed, they're far easier to reach than hardened targets.

If we know anything about the left, they always prey on the weak rather than the strong.  That's why Democrats like to beat up women so much, particularly liberal women.

The Never Trump soyboys are as weak as they come, and their mewling pleas for mercy are music to their tormentors' ears.

They may try to run back to our lines, but they won't get in.  They made their decision, and now they can live with it.

 

Imagining a new civil war

Today's ill-considered remarks by Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder have me reconsidering my previous thoughts about a new civil war.

I still find the left to be utterly cowardly, but those explicit calls to violence coupled with the disturbing decision of the Portland, Oregon police to simply hand over the streets to Antifa make me wonder if something at last approaching an insurgency may be on the way.

Certainly the Democrats seem willing to flirt with it, and their followers are increasingly unhinged.  As I pointed out two years ago, one way to flip control of the legislature is to simply kill your way to a majority.

This is why a second American civil war would be very unlike the first.  For one thing, there aren't homogenous geographic regions that balance each other.  Instead, we have a patchwork of polarized enclaves.  A better model would be Spain in 1936.

There are of course considerable differences between Spain's political situation and our own.  For one thing, Spain's institutions of government were far weaker than ours are now.  Spain had recent experience of a successful military coup and had gone from dictator to monarchy to republic in the space of 20 years.

Yet the political ferment is very much similar and social division every bit as profound.  One can easily see American leftist radicals happily butchering priests and desecrating churches much in the way their Spanish counterparts did.

And while our institutions are stronger, they are rapidly being eroded.  Nominally respectable political commentators are calling for the effective overthrow of the existing Constitutional order.  That's very close to what was going on in Spain.

I don't there we're there yet, but we are a lot closer than I ever thought we would get.  I really did figure that after a while, Hillary, her husband and her flying monkeys would go off into retirement - likely in a place with weak extradition treaties and permissive laws regarding child prostitution.

What I don't fully grasp is why so many on the left are determined to go down with her.  The Clintons have been a disaster for the Democrats, and Barack Obama finished their demolition job.  Even if Democrats manage to gain political control, they no longer have a governing coalition united on issues.  Instead they have a Popular Front united only by hating the same groups.

That may help hold people together, but at some point one can't paper over the inherent contradiction between - for example - demanding absolute protection of women while also demanding that they allow men in drag to enter their locker rooms and watch them shower.

The only thing that amuses me in this scenario is the likelihood that if things really do heat up, the first ones to go down will be the Quisling Never Trumpers since they will have become useless to everyone but themselves.

That also happened in Spain, with the leftist factions repeatedly turning on each other.  That in turn gave Franco the win.

Those hoping that the cold culture war gets hot ought to read up on the Spanish Civil War if they want an idea how nasty things can get.

Will the Kavanaugh gambit be the Democrats' Stalingrad?

I've been writing a bunch about the tactics of the Kavanaugh nomination fight, but now I want to look at the bigger picture - even beyond the current election.

Donald Trump is unique in many ways, but what really sets him apart from other politicians is his long-term planning.  He offers a public persona of an impulsive, outspoken buffoon, but one can't make money in real estate without the ability to craft and execute a detailed yet flexible long-term plan.

Consider his approach vs alleged political genius Karl Rove.  Rove's strategy was based in trimming the margins in micro-targeted demographics.  By picking up a point here and a half-point there, he'd get the GOP to 52 percent of the popular vote, which would in turn get them over 270 electoral votes.

Trump's approach is completely different, as I noted before.  He isn't interesting in goosing a few more independent voters in this district or getting the base to come through and squeak in.  He's attacking the very core of the Democrat coalition and exploiting their known (and often bitter) fissures.

That's what's going on right.  The hard-hat wing of the Dems gave Trump the win in 2016 and he's working hard to keep them happy.  Big Labor's leadership may remain nominally Democrat, but the rank and file are following the man who gave them their jobs and dignity back.

The Kavanaugh nomination fight exposed another fault line - that between affluent white women and everyone else.  I saw some really disturbing images being passed around last week, as black voters recalled what happened the last time society bought into the whole "women never lie about rape" concept.

It's hard to believe that the Democrats could be so stupid as to hearken back to that dark lamentable episode in American history and treat it like it was a good thing.

Even more amazing was the way that once-respected institutions felt the need to destroy themselves.  The American Civil Liberties Union has been in decline for a while, but for them to come out and abandon the principle of innocent until proven guilty marks a watershed.  They can't be taken seriously.

This was a battle the Dems didn't need to fight.  They had put Kavanaugh through the ringer, riled up their base and the GOP was going to be hard-pressed to squeak the guy through as it was.  The final confirmation vote would have probably been just as close, but GOP faithful would be outraged once again as the RINOs failed to hang together. 

Meanwhile, other events, like yet another bloated budget, would have dampened base turnout.  It may not have been a "blue wave" but it wouldn't have been good.

All that has changed.  The GOP is unified in a way I've not seen in a long time.  There's a sense of swagger and confidence and now Lindsey Graham of all people is a conservative folk hero.

At the same time, a lot of suburban women who might have been sensitive to protecting Roe v. Wade are now incensed at the thought that their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons could have their lives ruined by an unsubstantiated allegation of decades-old misbehavior.

The core charges in the case were so remote and so petty that it meant that pretty much any man could be destroyed at any time.  Here again, the Dems betrayed their own principles.  Where once they advocated forgiveness for criminals and sweeping away "youthful indiscretions," they now demanded an impossible standard of personal behavior and one that we all know none of them can meet.

The spectacle of the United States Senate reviewing a high school yearbook and demanding detailed explanations of 80s slang demonstrated beyond any doubt that they have no intellectual core, merely hatred and a thirst for power.

Finally, there is the fact that the Democrats are rapidly showing that they cannot behave with any responsibility whatsoever.  The media is downplaying the episode, but it was no unpaid intern who leaked personal information on GOP senators and threatened to expose their children and grandchildren.  He was a seasoned operative who worked for multiple offices.

We've gotten used to left-wing violence but the level has increased from kabuki-type protests and random ruffianism to a low-level insurgency. 

Even committed liberals don't want to see militias roaming the streets and ambushing people for their choice of yard signs or bumper stickers. 

The key element in all this is that not only did Kavanaugh's appointment shape the judicial landscape, it's changed the cultural landscape as well by inflicting long-term damage on the Democrats.

Like Stalingrad this was not a battle the Dems had to fight, but once they went in, they kept escalating, which has had the effect of magnifying their losses far beyond any potential gain.

 

 

The masculinization of Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Grahamnesty.  Miss Lindsey.

For years there were few figures in the Senate more reviled than the Republican from South Carolina. 

He was John McCain's sidekick, a military veteran who advocated the Bush policy of "import the world, invade the world."

 And then, suddenly...

What was more remarkable was that Graham didn't stop there.  He's been positively Trumpian his in language and behavior, even mugging for the camera to adjust his tie after bantering with protestors.

What does this mean?

As Andrew Breitbart was fond of saying, politics is downstream from culture.  For years American culture has degenerated into a system of meaningless, empty platitudes about civility while paradoxically become more coarse.

We were told to be extra gentle and so very solicitous of everyone's feelings (mustn't be offensive!) while at the same time the left destroyed anyone who fell under their baleful gaze.

Donald Trump's election was in part a rejection of that attitude, but he was an outlier.

Graham's transformation shows that more people are daring to defy the media and cultural gatekeepers. 

I'm sure that at some point he'll vote in a way conservatives dislike, but I'll deal with that when and if it happens.

In the mean time, it's great to see one of the most notorious GOP squishes suddenly dropping truth bombs and walking with some swagger.

Did the Dems just trick themselves with the FBI demand?

I didn't watch the clown shown in Washington this week.  I saw some of the choice clips, but frankly I knew it was all for show.

The Dems were never going to vote for Kavanaugh.  The hearing were just about coming up with thin reasons to gull the stupid.

Thus when the issue of having the FBI investigate an unverifiable event came up, my immediate thought was:  Trump will say yes.

And so he did.

A lot of conservatives are taking this as a defeat.  This is because they are locked into what Dilbert creator Scott Adams calls two-dimensional thinking.  Donald Trump operates in three dimensions.  This is why he keeps winning.

To a two-dimensional thinker, this is a cave to the Dems, a needless delay and an opportunity for a rogue agency to wreak more havoc.

But if one ventures into the third dimension, a few crucial details emerge.

First in foremost, there is nothing left for them to look at with Judge Kavanaugh.  His life is an open book.  Everyone he knows or has known has already been vetted.

This means the investigation must necessarily center on the charges before him and therefore the story of the accuser.  Each inconsistency must be teased out and instead of weeping for the camera, Ford will have to give straight answers on penalty of lying to federal investigators.

Now I'm sure there are some folks who think that the Deep State FBI will go easy on her.  What they don't realize is that the ultimate Deep State is the federal judiciary, with whom the FBI must work each and every day.

Kavanaugh is a sitting judge.  He has lots and lots of friends in the judiciary.  Moreover, all judges - liberal and conservative - want to see this business of careers getting wrecked through unverifiable accusations stopped in its tracks.

The FBI is loyal to one thing and one thing only - itself.  If its agents participate in this smear, judges will take notice and their decisions regarding other matters regarding the FBI will not be so benevolent.

Naturally, Donald Trump knows this.  He also knows that the FBI will want to find out where the money for the polygraph came from and what Senator Feinstein knew and when she knew it.  In short, there are a lot of things that a thorough investigation will bring out that the Dems don't want revealed.

Indeed, I expect that rather than face an unflinching interrogation, Ford will find an excuse to drop the matter - say for her mental health - that leaves the charges unresolved.

Faced with an uncooperative witness, the GOP squishes will get their fig leaf to vote yes (along with the hefty bribes they wanted) and the Dems will do their usual lockstep "no."

And Kavanaugh will be confirmed.

Wake me when the confirmation circus is over

I've been busy for the last few days and, after surveying today's news cycle, I'm hard-pressed to care about any of it.

The Democrats have basically given up being a serious party.  Their media allies have likewise decided that "fake news" is who they are and what they do.

To even repeat their nonsense is to embarrass oneself.  I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next guy, but this is cringe-inducing.  Even worse is the way the Quisling Never Trumpers are licking their masters' fingers, eagerly parroting their pathetic lies while wrapping themselves in the threadbare borrowed cloak of "conservative principles."

I think there was a point at which the GOP squishes in the Senate were breaking out their well-used white flags and preparing for another half-hearted performance of failure theater, but the Dem clown show has made it too degrading even for seasoned cabana boys like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker.

Which just shows you have decadent and depraved these people have become.

A telescope with a warped lens

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

The polling data is coming in and it looks bad for the GOP.   Their divisive policies and extreme rhetoric are driving people back to the Democrats who are poised to build a long-lasting progressive ruling coalition.

Yeah, it's drearily familiar because we hear it ever two years.

The interesting thing about polling is that the last few years have demonstrated it has almost no predictive value.

Given the expense of conducting them, one would think that the people paying for them would demand better quality for their work, but one would be wrong.

Polls, like news media and internet searches, are now seen as nothing more than additional weapons in the left's information warfare campaign.   A few polls get it right, but they are regarded as pariahs, "outliers" who lack the sophistication of the always-wrong Washington Post or New York Times.

it's a strange situation.  Polls are supposed to offer a glimpse of the present which leads to a vision of the future.  Like a telescope, they help politicians understand what's coming.

When one warps polls by oversampling or using "push" questions, the accuracy and predictive value of the device is destroyed.  It's like looking through a telescope with a warped lens. 

Sure, the resulting image may provide a close-up of something far away, but it distorts it the point that it can't be trusted.  A mariner using such a device would surely risk collision or running aground, and yet the left swears by them.

Part of this has to do with the fact that the left has basically checked out on reality.  If a man says he is a woman, he is a woman.  Not all women have vaginas and not all men have penises, and if you disagree with that, you are an unredeemable deplorable bigot.

This explains how a trans-female (that is to say a man claiming to be a woman), could be placed in a female-only prison where he freely assaulted his fellow women.  For some people this may be surprising, but everyone else regards it as utterly predictable.

Polls are generally prefaced with:  "if the election were held today," but it isn't being held today.  Especially in today's Deep State-influenced environment, timing is everything.

Hillary Clinton boasted a 20-point lead over Bernie Sanders right before the Michigan Democrat primary and yet she lost.  It was a huge miss, and it presaged the later upset victory.

Back then, the Clinton machine had myriad tools to cement its conquest of the White House, including almost the entire intelligence and investigative apparatus of the United States.  That crutch has been removed.

Instead it is the turn of the Democrats to wonder if the rumored sealed indictments are going to be unsealed come October.

And that's the other problem with the polling telescope - it can only show what is visible now.  For the moment, the course ahead may look clear, but there's a looming freighter moving quickly through the mists.  When it appears, while the distorted lens show its true course?  How will the captain know until it is too late?

The Democrats have always built their politics on a plan of deception, but the difference is that they now believe their own lies.  That's why the collision of 2016 shook them to the core and a similar shipwreck if 2018 might drive them over the edge.