Posse Incitatus

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.

Pizzagate, James Gunn and when sick humor isn't just a joke

Sometimes the truth is hiding in plain sight.  We may avert our eyes, try to disregard what we are seeing, and rationalize it as something else, but it's still there, right out in the open.

Hollywood has long been a haven for sexual deviancy.  From the earliest days of the silent era it served as a magnet for people who rejected conventional morality.  It's easy to see why - the money at stake offered an almost unlimited license to sate one's perverted appetites.

It's possible that things were marginally better during the Golden Age, when fear of discovery at least forced the pervs to be more cautious, but whatever restraint the studio system provided vanished long ago.

Thus we have the spectacle of James Gunn tweeting over a period of many years about pedophilia and other disturbing topics.  The standard excuse - which is being revived in an attempt to rehabilitate him - is that he was only kidding.  He got his start working for Troma Films, which specialize in schlock outrage horror, so child rape was a laugh line, not something to be taken seriously.

The prevailing response is that Roseanne Barr was only kidding, but that shut down her show.  Lots of people make ill-timed jokes and the only kidding defense doesn't save them from career ruin.

There's clearly a political and economic bias here (Gunn's films have far more earning potential than Barr's retreat sitcom ever-could), but there's another aspect that bears examination, which is the content of the material in question.

Breitbart is reporting that child rape was a recurring theme with Gunn.  When someone keeps bringing up the same topic again and again, even going to extent of holding themed costume parties involving it, this is a sign that something more serious is going on. 

To put it another way, if someone constantly talks on social media about the US Civil War, makes jokes about the period, peppers remarks with references to the slang used during the time, comes up with scenarios involving the battles and then participates in costumed re-enactments, it's a reasonable surmise that the top interests them greatly. 

If asked it, you would expect them to say:  "Yes, I'm fascinated by the period.  So much history, so much going on."  

You would not expect them to say:  "Oh no, I'm not really interested in it, it's just a thing to kill time on social media."

As the late John McLaughlin would say, "On a scale of 1 to 10, with one being zero certitude and 10 being metaphysical certitude, what are the odds that pedophilia is going on in Hollywood?"

Well, we know that the answer is 10.  A number of child actors have come out after decades of hiding it.  The tragic career crises of former child actors make a lot more sense once we realize that they were not only traumatized by sexual abuse but that the system itself prevented them from even discussing it, let along getting proper treatment.

Willie Sutton famously explained that he robbed banks because "that's where the money is."  Hollywood is a child molestation factory because that's where one has the easiest access to vulnerable young people and the money to shield yourself from the consequences.

Harvey Weinstein preyed aspiring actresses because that was his thing.  Kevin Spacey went after young men (and maybe women, we don't really know) because that was what he liked. 

Joss Whedon made his leading ladies sleep with him and - like Weinstein - proudly boasted of how he was supporting feminism all the while he was doing it.

Over the UK, child molestation proceeded for decades at the BBC.  In a sense, the Muslim rape gangs  in Rotherham aren't doing anything new, they're simply democratizing elite culture.  Call it a rare success story for cultural assimilation.

With all of this background, it's understandable that the Pizzagate concept would emerge.  This popped up from time to time during the 2016 campaign, largely fueled by some particularly strange emails leaked from John Podesta's account.

The mainstream press pronounced the story anathema and the conservatives generally stayed away since it seemed too far-fetched.  I never gave it much thought.

But in retrospect, it is likely that there is something there.  We know Bill Clinton and others participated in the "Lolita Express" and while New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez may have escaped jail for bribery, the case also included allegations of using underage Dominican prostitutes. 

Here again the likelihood of at least some of this being true is a 10 on the McLaughlin scale.  

We also know - with metaphysical certitude - that people identifying themselves as "feminists" are utterly complicit in this sort of thing.  Supposed Feminist Super-Avenger Gloria Allred's daughter was Harvey Weinstein's personal fixer.  If you think she didn't talk shop with mom, I have a bridge to sell you.

The State of California bans all sorts of things, but it was only recently that they required background checks for agents working with children to ensure child-predators weren't playing their twisted trade. 

So they passed the law - but it's never been enforced.

And prominent directors like to joke about getting away with breaking it.

Far be it from an obscure blogger to give advice to the image-makers of Sunset Boulevard, but if one's industry is already accused of heinous crimes, acting like they're both true and funny probably isn't the best way to alley public concern.

 

 

Do all the 'feminist' Hollywood executives have rape-locks on their offices?

Turns out, Matt Lauer wasn't the only one with a discreet, remotely-operated lock on his office door.  CBS God-Emperor Les Moonves is claimed to have had one as well.

I'm wondering if these are a standard executive perk.

The more we learn about the predatory environment of the movie/news/entertainment industry, the more I begin to understand the lunatic ravings of the feminist actresses who work there.

They really do live in a world where men demand sex in exchange for advancement.  It's pervasive.

The "Handmaid's Tale" isn't the future of Trump's America, it's the cafeteria at ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN.

It's also clear that "male feminists" are deceitful sociopaths, since every high-profile one in the entertainment-industrial complex has a well-used casting couch.  Joss Whedon forced all of his leading ladies to whore themselves out so that he could go on Twitter and tell everyone how righteous he is. 

(Well, maybe not all of them, but a bunch.  More than zero, which makes his a perv and hypocrite).

Liberals are really big on projection.  Michael Savage famously observed that liberalism is a mental disorder but I'm thinking that he has it backwards:  people with mental disorders choose liberalism because it lets them feed their sickness while cloaking themselves in moral righteousness.

Meanwhile, this is more good news for the skilled trades since a LOT of offices in New York and L.A. are going to need quick alterations to get those remote door-locks pulled out before the lawsuits are filed.

When heresy gives way to outright paganism

One of the core tenets of the Protestant Reformation was the primacy of scripture over all other sources of divine inspiration.  Martin Luther was inconsistent in this (and his successors went much farther), but the source of most - if not all - variations on Catholic/Orthodox Christianity is a differing interpretation of the Bible.

The Church of England was unique among the Protestants insofar as its split from Rome was entirely on secular grounds:  Henry VIII wanted to marry again so he could produce a male heir.

In time, some differences in use emerged, but they were quite minor.  It was probably because the distinctions were so small that Anglicans made such a big deal about their independent thought and threw so much hate at Catholics (that and it was a way to piss all over their Irish subjects).

The collapse of the Church of England is fascinating to see and the pace of its devolution is accelerating.  The new hotness - which has popped up before in nominally Lutheran Sweden - is "de-gendering" God. 

The reasons are the same as for the Swedish Church - supposedly it makes it more "inclusive," which means traditionalists are to be driven out entirely.

The article referenced above indicates that the new Book of Common Prayer could be ready for approval as early as 2030.

I think it will take effect long before that.  Once the left decides it wants something, it never lets an established process slow it down.  In the short run, individual parishes will simply make up their own version knowing full well that no one in the Anglican Communion will ever face discipline for violating their rules.

Like the United Methodists, the Anglicans have for some time been having an unofficial contest to see just how many commandments its clergy can break with impunity.

The end result won't be recognizable as a Christian church, it will be either Unitarian or overtly pagan, centered around a "Mother Earth" goddess.

This is what the left does.  It burrows into institutions, hollows them out and then pretends the corpse is still a living, sentient being. 

There is of course a certain amount of irony that an institution that once burned witches will likely be run by them in the very near future.

 

When Mothers Day became a revolutionary act

The prolonged winter has led to  an amazing burst of growth.  Trees and flowers are practically exploding into bloom an in effort to catch up on lost time.  A couple of weeks ago my neighborhood was brown and bare, but now it is awash in every imaginable shade of green punctuated with brilliant hues of purple, white, yellow and red (to name jut a few).

It's no accident that Mothers Day falls on a Sunday in May.  From time immemorial women have symbolized fertility, growth and hope for the future, just as spring frees us from the seeming death of winter.

Yet to the cultural left, motherhood is no longer a blessing. "Choice" is more important - and by this they of course mean violent death to the unborn or being-born. 

Many commentators (including us on this blog) have offered alternative definitions of "feminism," but perhaps its most striking feature is its rejection of femininity itself.  Women are uniquely capable of motherhood, a sacred and crucial rule, honored in every culture in every epoch.  Yet feminists have nothing but contempt for women who choose to make this role the centerpiece of their lives.  Some go so far as to denounce fecund women as "breeders" and blame them for every evil in the world. 

The chimera of overpopulation vanished long ago, yet feminists still raise it as a way to explain, justify and even exalt in their barrenness.

For what history will surely look on as a fleeting instant, a strange group calling themselves "pro-sex feminists" at least celebrated female sexuality, but even that is being buried in the "yes means yes" and "#metoo" movement, which hold as their core teaching that women no longer have the force of will or mental ability to truly consent to sexual activity.

Simply telling a man who makes an ungallant offer to get lost is too much to expect.  Why he might get angry, or break up with her, or refuse a second date!  And so they acquiesce, but reserve the right to ruin him later on by smearing him as a rapist without a shred of proof.

Even Her Hillaryness Herself is insisting that she lost the vote of married women because of pressure exercised on them by their fathers, husbands and sons.  Is she saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote, or marry?  But even then, they still have fathers.

It is a puzzlement.

There is a tendency among aging Boomers to try to defend "original" feminism and claim it ran off the rails, but this nonsense has been baked into it from the beginning.  Feminism owes its origins and world view to the experience of idle, rich, white women. 

It is deeply ironic - and indicative - that the glamorous life of Hollywood feminists, with its endless stream of ex-husbands, lovers and random children with different fathers, has now been exposed as a colossal lie.

Even Hollywood royalty like Angelina Jolie now claim to have been pressured into sex.  We've already discussed how "male feminist" is really just a synonym for a sexual predator who targets only the most vulnerable women.

Left out of this lamentable tale is one group, still the most despised in all of feminism:  happily married mothers.  They committed to marriage for life, raised their children and stand by their man.  The culture hates them for it, but jealously always hates what it can't have.

In an age of destruction where the sacred is constantly being profaned, honoring tradition becomes a revolutionary act.  It warms my ice-cold heart to know today millions of mothers will be thanked and honored by their children.

Another day, another massive rape scandal in the UK

It is difficulty for me to express my complete and utter contempt for the useless creatures that style themselves "feminists."

One would think that if they were truly concerned about the plight of women, they might bestir themselves to remove their pussy hats and rise up against the callous government of Great Britain, which seems to - as a matter of habit - look the other way while thousands of underage girls are raped and tortured.

Why is Theresa May still Prime Minister?  Sure they scandal should have toppled her government and resulted in mass resignations?

Where are the national protest marches demanding justice for these victims? 

This is why I regard feminists as a waste of good biomass.  They trumpet universal concerns, but in the end most of their issues are trivial.  Pronouns, botched come-ons and bad dates dominate their discourse.  Organized rape gangs?  Sorry, they're not interested.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but I find it telling that the same media that gave wall-to-wall coverage about a single pervert doctor (who has been duly sentenced to two centuries in prison) is more preoccupied with Donald Trump's ex-lovers than pre-teen girls being repeatedly beaten and sodomized while law enforcement openly looked the other way.

But by all means, let's talk about this imaginary "affirmative consent" standard!  I'm sure that will fix the problem of rape gangs.