An elite private college in Southern California is facing a unique health and hygiene problem . .plastic bags filled with urine. are being thrown away in hallway dorm trashcans.
What.s more, .some students had even urinated into bins located within the residence hall, rather than bothering to use the lavatory facilities,. reports the Claremont Independent.
The problem is centered at Walker Hall at Pomona College, a private institution nestled near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, that costs $70,000 a year in tuition and fees to attend.
An email was recently sent to residents living in the co-ed Walker dorm. They were informed “this behavior is unacceptable, and must stop..
The email was sent by Pomona’s Residence Life Coordinator, Andrew Castro, who added the building attendants “have been taking extra precautions and steps in order to deal with these incidents. Additionally, the smells start to permeate the general hallway..
Naturally, whenever I see evidence of a “no indoor plumbing” culture I look at the racial statistics. Pomona College freshmen, then and now:
Race
2006
2017
%change
Nonresident aliens
40
186
365
Black, non-Hispanic
117
158
35
American Indian or Alaska Native
7
8
13
Asian or Pacific Islander
221
250
14
Hispanic
168
272
62
White, non-Hispanic
774
600
(22)
Multi-race or unknown
239
197
(18)
TOTAL
1,566
1,671
7
I’m seeing a lot of support for an “undocumented Honduran-Americans hiding under the bed and peeing in bags so they don’t get seen going to the bathrooms” theory. Or maybe this 32-gender-coed dormitory has a few ladies who’d rather pee in a bag than use the gender-fluid restroom while the trannie butt-boys are questioning each other.
A normal man, it goes without saying, would use a tree.
Pastor Jeff Sanders is the Pastor of Grace Family Fellowship in Canton, Ohio and pundit author of a recent “How To Defend Your Church” article on PJ Media. I’ll start with a fisking of his amazingly disproportionate article, then expose the factors of Cuck Churchianity in his background (there is some hope for him) and finish with an offering of more relevant advice for the modern church’s current threats.
Four Things You Can Do Right Now to Harden Your Place of Worship Against a Shooter
Sadly, America has experienced yet another maniac shooting up innocent people at a house of worship. On Saturday, a man armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle (which is NOT an “assault rifle” since it cannot fire automatically as only a true assault rifle can) and three semi-automatic pistols murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue and wounded several others (including four police officers).
He’s correct to care more about the media calling the rifle an “assault gun” than the actual usage of it. If he was giving this advice to all churches for use in the three weeks leading up to an election the Democrats aren’t likely to win then there’d be some merit but instead, Pastor Sanders advocates a general attitude of fear and helplessness for the American Church.
This kind of attack on houses of worship is no longer unheard of. Last year, the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, was attacked, with 26 killed and 20 wounded. In 2015 Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., was attacked and nine were murdered in cold blood. Christians and Jews are not the only ones targeted. Last year, a gunman invaded a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, and murdered six people. In 2012, a killer entered the Sikh temple in Wisconsin and gunned down six innocent people.
Why does Sanders give a damn about Jews, Muslims and Sikhs? They can handle their own business. Even so, in 8 years 58 innocents were murdered in religious institutions in North America. ANY response to that level of threat is overreaction. This guy must be selling something.
When people gather to worship, unless there are some well-thought-out security measures in place, the worshipers are going to be sitting ducks for any nut case out there who wants to come in with guns blazing. What are some specific things you and your people can do right now to harden your house of worship from an active shooter?
Ban all men expect Pastor AMOG and his castrati chorus? I’m not far wrong:
1. Form a security team
If you don’t already have this in place, you need to get on the phone right now and start calling people to form a security team. The people on this team must be reasonable and level-headed. You do not need some hot-tempered yahoo who wants to make a name for himself. Find people who have experience in law enforcement and seek out their advice on what areas in the church need to be physically watched, and how the building can be patrolled to keep violent people out while at the same time letting peaceful people in.
I’m as pro-cop as anybody in the Manosphere but come on, they’re janitors. They clean human trash off the streets with some First Responding on the side just because the public expects it. They are not counterterrorism experts. They are not our guardian angels. Furthermore, nobody who is reasonable and level-headed will work for free, let alone risk his life for free.
Put it down in writing that the church allows people who are licensed to carry concealed firearms on the premises, but stipulate that these people must be known and approved by the church leadership. Even though this is a dangerous, fallen world and you want protection, you still do not want to unnecessarily scare people into thinking that you must now worship in an armed camp.
But that’s what he’s proposing, doing worship in an armed camp patrolled by law enforcement or the closest equivalents available. Hypocrisy.
I love the police, and they are the professionals, but they cannot be everywhere at once. Seconds count. Worshipers are the first ones on the scene, so I highly recommend that you have a force of people (paid or volunteers, whatever you can do) who are well trained and licensed to carry a pistol. They should also be trained in defensive hand-to-hand tactics (not every situation calls for bullets).
A smarter pastor would have them licensed and paid as security guards, so they won’t be vigilantes in the sight of the law. Don’t forget to insure them! $$$
How many stone-cold Krav Maga deadeye-shot counterterror professionals does Pastor Sanders thinks attend the average church? It’d be lucky to have just the one guy who lied about his age to join the Army for WW1.
2. Harden the building
You want to be a hard target. You want to make it difficult for a terrorist to enter the building and start shooting or stabbing or blowing people up with a bomb vest (God forbid!).
For Fuck’s Sake, dude. USA is not Beirut. Oakland is not Beirut.
Does your church have a fence around the parking lot? That might discourage some. I notice in front of my Sam’s Club there are large cement pillars directly in front of all the doors. Shoppers can go in and out, but it would certainly prevent someone with a truck from ramming their way into the store. Can you have something like that built in front of your place of worship? If not, how about parking large pickup trucks directly in front of all entrances?
This is excellent advice because Grandma might have gotten a pussy pass on her latest driving test. That’s why Sam’s Club does concrete barricades.
Your house of worship may not be able to replace all windows with bullet-proof glass (it probably is not feasible for most), but if you can . do it. Lock all doors once activities have started. Maybe give some time (like 10-15 minutes) for latecomers, but then lock the doors and keep them locked until the activities are done. I know that sounds harsh, but being invaded by a terrorist with guns or bombs is pretty harsh too.
For. Fuck’s. Sake. Pastor Sanders desperately needs a sabbatical from reading headlines. While advocating turning our spiritual homes into literal armed camps living in fear of passers-by, he’s not saying a word about how gov’t is perverting society to the point of these steps being necessary.
What about Romans 8:15? “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons…”
Or 2 Timothy 1:7? “For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”
Pastor Sanders is a dhimmi and the Muzzies haven’t even shown up in Ohio yet.
3. Monitor the perimeter
Have cameras set up around the building to monitor any suspicious activity at all times. Bad people tend to stay away or refrain from casing out the building for an attack if they know they are being filmed. Have part of your security team roving around the building while activities are taking place inside (this includes not just regular worship services, but also when Bible studies or children’s or students’ activities are taking place throughout the week). Make sure they have the ability to communicate with each other and with the police in case there is any suspicious activity.
At this point, I’m just waiting for the sales pitch.
4. Train your leadership in active shooter response
By that, I mean train your pastoral staff, lay leaders, and teachers in a tried and true program that works, such as ALICE training. ALICE is an acrostic naming the five responses to an active shooter: Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate.
I recommend GOLD training. GOLD is an acrostic naming the two responses to an active shooter: Get Out or Lie Down. The average age of American churchgoers makes even the first response optimistic.
And I made that up just now.
I am a certified instructor in ALICE training and have educated several people in how to respond to someone coming in with guns blazing. For a detailed discussion of what to do according to ALICE training guidelines, please check out my PJ Media article from last year. Please, get your leadership together, contact someone who is qualified to teach this, and host a seminar right away.
Ah, the sales pitch. A mercifully short wait.
I can’t do a physiognomy analysis for lack of a decent picture, so let’s go to Pastor Sanders’ church website.
Pastor Jeff was born in High Point, North Carolina and raised in Savannah Georgia. He has a BA in history from Armstrong State College, an M.Div and Th.M from Capital Bible Seminary, and a D.Min from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
Not one day spent in the real world.
[From Pjmedia] Sanders is a self-defense instructor and a black belt in Okinawan Kempo with 20 years experience in martial arts.
Okay, maybe one day in the real world. But living in academia until age 30 is a terrible way to develop the spiritual maturity needed for high-level church work.
The only other staffmember of the church is Director of Music Angela Rose. A feminist, to judge from pixie haircut and crazy eyes.
Grace Martial Arts VBS
The most unique VBS in Ohio! Pastor Jeff (a black belt in kempo karate) periodically offers a martial arts-based VBS (with Bible studies) for kids age 8-14. This is a fun, non-violent, biblical approach to self defense for kids.
Interesting. I’ve seen this a few times, Pastors who are trying to foster healthy masculinity but don’t really know how. It’s tragicomic. They don’t realize that their monopoly on church authority is half the problem… and the other half is their refusal to confront the misandric evil in modern society.
Refuge of Hope’s shelter is not just a place where a homeless man can sleep at night. Rather, it’s a support center, in a safe environment, where men can come to grips with the personal, economical and societal issues that caused them to become homeless. We provide a hand up to encourage homeless men, to help them realize that positive life changes are possible regardless of their current circumstances. …
We were able to move over 132 men into permanent housing last year and through March of 2018 over 30 additional men are now living in their own apartments. Refuge of Hope is the only such shelter in Stark County for men.
Credit where it’s due, Pastor Sanders’ church is the only one I’ve heard sponsor any kind of mens’ support beyond free Thanksgiving dinners.
His favorite things in life are being with his wife and four kids, fellowshipping and worshipping with his church family, preaching/teaching the Bible, and eating really good barbeque and Italian food.
That’s bad. His first comment about his personal life is being with his family. Total cuck. At least his one picture didn’t have his wife in it also.
Pastor Jeff also spends time as a writer for the American Policy Roundtable and panelist on The Public Square radio program, writer for PJ Media, chaplain for Marketplace Ministries, and the Executive Director for Free Agents PAC.
A good but doomed effort to be politically active without compromising 501c3 status. If his church does not call out and oppose evil then it’s useless and has no reason for existing. We have many political action committees; we don’t have a single church willing to buck the Johnson Amendment. How can any church be relevant to its congregants’ lives if it refuses to comment on current events? Much less confront the feminist idols of Duluth, VAWA and sodomy.
There’s some hope for Sanders to break free of the feminist Cuck-hold but the journey will not be without cost:
1. Get rid of female staff. Don’t pretend there’s an exception for “female leaders who don’t actually, technically, lead”. This includes retasking the Womens’ Bible Study to Womens’ “Art of Making Hubby Happy” Study.
If he can’t tell women “no” then he can’t oppose feminism.
2. Preach correct marriage and sexual roles. There’s no way to do this without violating 501c3 restrictions about commenting on gov’t behavior so
3. Get rid of 501c3. Just say “no” to the devil’s tax exemptions.
4. Be held responsible to fellow believers. Pastor Sanders desperately needs to internalize the fact that his purpose is to assist his congregants, not to lead them or protect them. If he disagrees then he can convert to Catholicism but there must be an end to these “Pastor AMOG” churches. Either your peers hold you responsible or the hierarchy does, but it must be somebody besides a “board of directors” beholden first to the tax man.
5. Get a day job. He should try living as an ordinary mortal in order to better understand the people’s plight. A year in the private sector will teach him a lot about modern life, particularly if wifey divorces him because she’s no longer Queen Bee of the church. If Sanders truly intends to fight evil then he’ll need a backup career anyway.
Many of us mere congregants already have a backup career.
This is my advice on how his church can handle modern threats. Notice that all of these threats are either internal or a form of gov’t overreach. None of them are white male loners wandering in from the cold packing heat.
This Halloween proves to be way more interesting than any trick-or-treating I ever did as a kid. There’s the general increase in New Ageism, which California is unfortunately a breeding ground for. Then there’s the Trump Derangement Syndrome-fueled midterm elections. There’s pedos mailing pipe bombs to their Democrat supporters to sincerely help them out. And there’s still some fallout from the Kavanaugh hearings which went waaay more Rosemary’s Aborted Baby than a sane man would ever have guessed.
Pursuant to the latter, it turns out there’s a Catholic exorcist in San Jose Diocese who isn’t dead from overwork. Here’s Father Gary Thomas of San Jose Diocese.
Gary Thomas on the left and yes, that’s Anthony Hopkins on the right. Picture taken at the 2011 premiere of the movie The Rite, sourced from the second article below.
New York witches aim hex at Supreme Court’s Brett Kavanaugh despite death threats
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Melissa Madara was not surprised to receive death threats on Friday as her Brooklyn witchcraft store prepared to host a public hexing of newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this weekend.
I found a picture of Madame Madara. It was taken by a professional studio but Photoshop couldn’t vanish her forearm hair. She was also very fat. Her store’s name is Catland Books. That would have been my very first guess.
The planned casting of an anti-Kavanaugh spell, one of the more striking instances of politically disgruntled Americans turning to the supernatural when frustrated by democracy, has drawn backlash from some Christian groups but support from like-minded witch covens.
I’m glad to see Harry Potter isn’t the only target of the anti-occult Churchians.
As far as supporters go, some are sexual assault survivors still angry that the U.S. Senate confirmed Kavanaugh’s lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court despite accusations that he had sexually assaulted multiple women. …
Democrats hope lingering outrage over Kavanaugh, particularly among women, will translate into election gains for them on Nov. 6. Republicans are likewise trying to seize on anger among conservatives at how they perceive Kavanaugh was mistreated.
Abortion. It was all about abortion. What was the very first thought Democrats had when they considered losing control of the US Supreme Court due to Kavanaugh’s appointment? Roe fricking Wade. I saw a bumper sticker in my own neighborhood, “Protect Abortion, Oppose Kavanaugh”.
Never forgive a woman who gets an abortion. She’s a murderess.
Believers in mysticism on both sides of the political divide are taking matters into their own hands.
Plans for the Catland Books event have sparked “counter hexes” around the country by those seeking to undo the spell that the Brooklyn witches cast against Kavanaugh, Madara said.
Wasted effort. If Kavanaugh is Christian as I recall he’s claimed to be then he’ll be fine. God doesn’t do much for us by mortal standards but if He allowed this kind of spiritual attack then we’d be FUBAR all day long.
Even mainstream clergy was joining the fray. Rev. Gary Thomas of the Diocese of San Jose in California said on Friday that he would include Kavanaugh in his prayers at Saturday mass.
(Reporting by Gabriella Borter; Editing by Jessica Resnick-Ault and Cynthia Osterman)
On that note, let’s proceed to a interview of Rev. Thomas by Cosmopolitan Magazine. Not the most promising matchup of subject and media but I really can’t think of a good one outside church doors. It would be best for unbelievers if they never got curious about this sort of thing but alas.
Though horror movies have made exorcism seem like the stuff of fiction, there are still people out there who do them for a living. Father Gary Thomas has been performing exorcisms for more than a decade, working out of the Archdiocese of San Jose. His initial exorcism studies at the Vatican inspired The Rite (he was a consultant on the film) and in the years since, he’s handled over 60 cases of demonic activity. Cosmopolitan.com spoke with Thomas to get a crash course on how an exorcism really unfolds, and while he hasn’t seen any spinning heads or projectile vomit, he would like you to seriously reconsider your habit of dabbling in tarot.
How did you come to be an exorcist? That can.t be something you planned on.
I was always a lifelong Catholic and involved in my parish. After college, I just reached a point in my life where I was drawn to the priesthood, and I served in a variety of capacities in my first 22 years as a priest. After that I asked to take a sabbatical, to go to Rome and study spirituality at the Dominican University. Then, before I went, the bishop appointed me exorcist of the diocese. The first priest he had asked declined, so I spoke up and said, .I can do that..
Okay. Not a new believer, not a pedoface and not exactly a volunteer. I wouldn’t be happy about a new convert who was excited to see what’s behind the curtain.
I.m surprised they have a class for this.
The church has always performed exorcisms. People in the church will sometimes say, .We don’t do them anymore,. which is absolutely false. In 2004, Pope John Paul II issued a mandate telling every bishop in the world to select a priest and train him to be an exorcist. That was because of growing occult activity, which has reached epidemic proportions.
A prudent call on JP2’s part. It would be nice if the Protestant world was more on the ball about such matters but the RCC is indisputably the most accomplished and accessible provider of such services in the world.
I did know a Prot exorcist once, a Messianic Jew no less, but he did it as a side thing. No formal training that I knew of, just a strong knowledge of Scripture and friends he could count on.
What kind of occult activity?
All kinds of what I refer to as paganism. People using Ouija boards (which is a conjuring instrument, not a toy), tarot cards, seeking palm readers, seeking mediums, seeking out a witch, performing s?ances, getting involved in meditations like Reiki, using yoga as a form of power whereby you conjure up false gods . those and a variety of other smatterings. It’s no secret that our society is hungering for spirituality. The problem is where people are seeking it. It’s in all the wrong places.
I would add, California’s sanctuary city policies are importing a massive number of mediums and other occultists. Have I ever seen a palm reader who didn’t speak Spanish? Can’t recall one. Most of those Latinos are only socially Catholic.
For many people, Christianity is no longer relevant, so they make up their own morality, their own way of living. Unfortunately, a lot of people are seeking out what we could call divination . artificial forms of trying to discover God. The Israelites in the Old Testament did this and they experienced great calamity as a result of it. The same thing is happening in our culture today.
Nobody who dabbles in this junk is looking for God. They’re looking to rebel against God, ancient Israel being Exhibit “A” of this, or they’re looking for a god they can deal with as an equal. You sacrifice a goat and Vishnu waters your crops, or something. Why Vishnu needed your goat dead is rarely explained.
Although he has a valid point re divination. People want God to show up and do something. I suspect that’s at the heart of people being instinctively sheep, why human instinct is to prop up leaders and follow them instead of laws and other objectives boundaries. Following the leader only works for as long as the leader cares about his followers. Fewer than five seconds, in most cases.
How often do you receive requests for exorcisms? Do you handle them all alone?
Yesterday, I got five phone calls. We get several requests a week, and many more than that from outside our diocese, which we try to redirect back locally. And I don’t do any of these by myself. I have a team of medical experts . a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, and a medical doctor. Then I have a prayer team, and the prayer team does all the discernments, the intakes. These people are evaluated. You only end up doing a formal exorcism when everything else has failed.
One would imagine the false positive rate on this would be very high. It’s good Father Thomas doesn’t do this alone. That’s a really bad idea; humans are not naturally resistant to such things.
Curious that Thomas doesn’t mention any spiritual sensitivity on his part. I’ve met several Christian priests, Prot and Cat both, whose sensitivity was what led them to this kind of work in the first place. A pure book learner? Well, nothing says it can’t work but one wonders.
If you don’t know what I mean by spiritual sensitivity then be happy in your ignorance. You’re missing no fun at all.
How can you tell if someone’s really possessed?
There are six classic signs. The first is an aversion to the sacred. For example, a Catholic could have incredible difficulty receiving the [Eucharist], to the point where it’s burning as she’s consuming it. Another sign would be speaking in a language that they have no competency in. I’ve had people speaking Korean, in Chinese or Russian or Spanish, who have no understanding of those languages. Another is a person exhibiting inordinate strength. We prayed over a woman on Sunday and we needed to have five people holding her down. Another is the knowledge of hidden things, so the demon would begin eliciting information that the person wouldn’t have any access to. Another is foaming at the mouth, and that’s actually a good sign, because you’re seeing the reaction to the prayer, the casting out. The last thing would be a kind of epileptic reaction involved the distortion of the face . histrionic out-of-control movement in the arms and the legs.
Most of these are straight from Scripture so no surprise.
We see exorcisms in movies all the time. What should people know about the process that Hollywood might not show?
One thing people get wrong is thinking that Satan does not exist. Satan does exist. That’s why Jesus Christ came, and that’s important. I’m not trying to evangelize you, but this is why I give interviews. I give interviews because there are charlatans out there who will say, .I.ll come and cleanse your house,. and some of these people are just flat-out fakes. But some of these people, they have gifting . they do. They’ve just chosen to use it for the dark side.
I think one appealing aspect of the occult is that believing in the devil is much easier than believing in the Savior. Especially these days, when justice and the symbols of heaven (marriage, the old teaching the young, respect for founding traditions, valuing human life) have been corrupted. Find the Big Guy and cut a deal with him, or find someone to save you as a charity case and not because you’re special? Human nature strongly favors the former. There are many people who have rejected Christ for no reason than Christ refuses to treat with us as peers.
Jesus didn’t come just to be a nice guy. His death and resurrection defeated Satan. When I end my talks, I usually say, .Do not be afraid.. I’m not saying I’m some kind of rough and tough guy. I’m not but I’m not afraid. I didn’t know what to expect when I saw those manifestations in Italy but I was not afraid. Satan is not a metaphor. Satan is real. He’d like you to believe he doesn’t exist and that’s his greatest deception. People need to buck up and realize that we’re not the masters of our own destiny. We have to put ourselves at the disposal of God.
What do the Godless think, when they ditch God for their humanist Utopias and see all the degeneracies of paganism flood back like they never left? Women cannot be independent; she will follow either her lover or her provider. Similarly, humans are not spiritual Switzerland. We are spiritual Poland and one side or the other will claim us by war’s end.
No matter how many times the patterns repeat, we never see the pattern. To see it would be to see our place in reality and that is too bitter a pill for the human ego.
Barely four posts ago, I covered liberals claiming Trump was a pathological liar because they didn’t see any literal riots happening in California cities. Simultaneous with that claim is the arrest of a purported white supremacist cell in Los Angeles that specializes in orchestrating politically motivated riots. Charlottesville makes the news again! And perfectly timed for midterm elections, too. What a coincidence.
U.S. white nationalist leader, three others charged with inciting riots
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The leader of a California-based white nationalist group and three others have been charged with attacking demonstrators and conspiring to incite riots at political rallies across the state, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday,
Robert Rundo, 28-year-old founder of the Rise Above Movement, was taken into custody on Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport.
Note, he was arriving at LAX from out of country. He was not attempting a flight from prosecution.
Two other members of the group, Robert Boman, 25, and Tyler Laube, 22, were arrested on Wednesday morning, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Aaron Eason, 38, remains at large.
“The allegations describe an orchestrated effort to squelch free speech as members of the conspiracy traveled to multiple locations to attack those who hold different views,” U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement.
Nick should check out this group called “Berkeley Antifa”. It’s probably the group he’s thinking of.
Rundo, Boman, and Laube are accused of attacking counter-protesters and two journalists at a March 25, 2017 “Make America Great Again” rally in Rundo’s hometown of Huntington Beach, California.
Regular readers may recall that Huntington Beach is one of the California cities vocally opposing the sanctuary state crimes of Sacramento. A quick quote:
“Travis Allen, an assemblyman from Huntington Beach, said Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s warnings of prosecution and fines for voluntarily cooperating with the U.S. government were so egregious that federal officials should consider bringing charges of their own against the Democratic official.”
The prosecution of RAM might not only be a midterm election ploy, it may be a flanking attack on Huntington Beach gov’t for not toeing Sacramento’s party line.
Rundo, Boman and Eason are also charged with violence at a demonstration in Berkeley on April 15, 2017 and an “Anti-Islamic Law” protest in San Bernardino.
They are also charged with using the internet with the intent to “organize promote, encourage, participate or carry on riots.”
They used the Internet to participate in rioting? The organizing accusation is sketchy, too, because criminals don’t advertise their crimes in advance by getting city permits for them.
Rundo was ordered detained pending trial at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles earlier this week, Mrozek said. Boman, of Torrance, and Laube, of Redondo Beach, were still awaiting court appearances.
Sounds like they scheduled Rundo’s hearing for when they knew he’d be out of town. The following brackets are my personal comments:
Earlier this month, four other California men described by prosecutors as members of the Rise Above Movement . Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis, Thomas Walter Gillen and Cole Evan White . were indicted on federal riot and conspiracy charges stemming from violence they were accused of instigating during last year’s Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Neo-Nazi sympathizers and counterprotesters clashed at that event [when the counterprotesters’ ally ordered the police to stand down] and President Donald Trump was criticized at the time for appearing to equate the actions of the white nationalists, who carried Nazi flags [one flag, IIRC], with those of counterprotesters. [relevance of this criticism?]
On Wednesday, Trump denounced the suspected bombs mailed to former U.S. President Barack Obama, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and other high-profile Democrats.
Yes, this is the same article. It switched midstream from “Neo-Nazi rioters indicted” to “Trump denies bombing all of his opponents immediately before his massive election win.” TDS for six more years.
.And I just want to tell you that in these times, we have to unify, we have to come together, and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America,” he said at a White House event.
Earlier this year, Rundo and two of the men charged in the Charlottesville case traveled to Europe to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday and to meet with members of other white supremacy extremist groups, according to prosecutors.
Is this an attempt at establishing an international conspiracy? Sheesh.
So, what’s this Rise Above Movement? I haven’t heard of them despite living in Commiefornia myself.
Gymbros in skull masks. Hmm, you never see Antifa go shirtless. Where are the guns? The tattoo sleeves of swastikas? The OK salute? Pepe? Neo-Nazis are called skinheads for a reason but these guys have hair.
Most of their social media stuff has been taken down but they appear to have operated openly on twitter, gab and youTube until recently.
I’ve seen scarier groups at the airsoft field.
“Ultraviolent Neo-Nazis wear masks to conceal their identities”
This must be the Ben Daley mentioned above. That’s not a Nazi slogan.
Same Mr. Daley. Okay, we’re getting fringe but I’m not seeing a smoking gun anywhere. I can see the news crews in the background of the left image so he’s got to be posturing, not making credible threats.
His ears are very, very pointed and backswept. In Chinese face reading, that means he’s had severe emotional trauma as a child. Divorced parents is very likely. His nose flange is also pronounced enough to opine on: the creased flange means he’s much more willing to offer help than to accept help. A group identity is common for such people because “helping the group helps myself” and they can appeal to the group’s ideals instead of straight-up begging.
RAM’s “Rise Above” brand of merchandise. Odd they don’t wear it themselves.
The only “Nazi” part of this picture is the sign on the traffic pole “Smash Alt-Right Nazis”. RAM is displaying a flag of the Christian crusades, which historically were defensive actions against unproved Muslim aggression… therefore appropriate in the context of the alt-Right, which is not any form of fascism.
For a terrorist Neo-Nazi racist white supremacist international organization of riotous evil, they posted a lot of public group photos and selfies.
Let’s look at the incidents RAM was allegedly involved in.
San Bernardino anti-Islamic law rally and counter-protests trigger violence
A “protesters clash” photo from linked article. Looks like some tug-of-war going on. Antifa versus RAM. One of the participants is hiding his identity and the other is Mr. Daley of RAM.
A San Bernardino rally against Islamic law being implemented in the United States drew hundreds of protesters and counterprotesters Saturday near the site of the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack, but also sparked violence and acts of vandalism, police say.
Sponsored by the nonprofit group ACT for America, the Inland March Against Sharia was one of numerous rallies held nationwide. Sharia is Islamic law as derived from the Quran and the traditions of Islam.
In San Bernardino, protesters gathered at the memorial to the terror attack victims on the southeast corner of Waterman Avenue and Orange Show Road; counterprotesters assembled on the opposite corner.
Sharia, the protesters say, oppresses women and is a gateway to radicalization and terrorism. Protesters fear the establishment of Sharia in the U.S., which they say would erode the Constitution and American values and culture
The demonstrations were meant to be peaceful. But emotionally charged language . as well as water . was hurled.
At one point, a group of protesters crossed the street and cut a path through counterprotesters, which erupted into a fracas that immediately drew a swarm of police officers who had guns drawn and batons at the ready.
.It.s my understanding that one of the groups crossed over with the intent to antagonize. We got officers involved,. said Police Chief Jarrod Burguan, who arrived at the protests shortly after the incident. .There was a little bit of shoving or something of that nature. We got folks involved pretty quickly and were able to break it up. There were no arrests that stemmed from the incident..
He said one officer was struck by a soda can, but the officer wasn’t injured. The person who threw the can was not identified, Burguan said.
Later in the day, three men were arrested on suspicion of vandalism for smashing out the windows of a car. Their names were not immediately available, but Burguan said the men were from San Diego, San Clemente and Torrance.
This doesn’t sound like a riot.
Protesters say Sharia is incompatible with American law. They say Sharia condones, among other things, genital mutilation, domestic violence and stoning.
This is true. Anybody who cares about the welfare of women opposes Sharia.
.It.s a religion where you have the potential to become radicalized. If you become radicalized, you commit jihad,. said Gregory Maximus, clad in a black bandana with white skull imprint covering the lower half of his face as he stood in line to buy snacks at a gas station.
The cashier told him he had to remove his bandana if he wanted to buy something.
Maximus complied.
Maximus said he was with a group calling themselves Rise Above, and that about 30 of them attended Saturday’s March Against Sharia demonstration.
Either Greg violated the sacred Omerta code for a 7-11 hot dog or these aren’t the professional troublemakers the FBI looking for. Although he did give the media a false name. I doubt his family name is “Maximus”.
Counterprotester Alex Sanchez, a business agent for Teamsters Local 896 in Los Angeles, said he was offended by ACT for America’s choice of location for their protest, the IRC, where on Dec. 2, 2015, 14 people, including 13 San Bernardino County public health employees, were fatally shot and 22 others wounded in a terrorist attack implemented by radicalized Muslim spouses Syed Rizwan Farook, a county health inspector, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik. They were both killed in a shootout with police hours after the massacre.
Opposing RAM was a professional Teamsters agitator who was offended that they protested against Islam at the site of a Muslim terrorist attack. Here’s your professional troublemaker, prosecutors: Alex Sanchez of Local 896.
A pro-Trump rally in Huntington Beach Saturday morning erupted in violence, according to the LA Times. A man protesting the rally pepper sprayed a female organizer of the rally, after which other pro-Trump supporters tackled and punched him. Video of the fight shows the counter-protestor getting assaulted and running from pro-Trump supporters. Members of the rally followed him and other counter protestors with chants of “USA,” “America First,” and cries for them to “get out.” The counter protestor eventually fled and ran along Pacific Coast Highway before getting detained by California Highway Patrol officers. The other counter-protestors fled the scene.
Violence instigated by “counter-protestors”. What a surprise. I left in the video link; between 20-25 seconds, look for an Antifa goon in the top left corner. There seemed to be a shoving match of some kind prior to the twerp deploying pepper spray. But shrug, nobody is getting beaten by an ugly stick or anything. And this is being handled as Federal-level rioting?
Wow, there were a LOT of cameras at that event. It reminds me of the time I went to the Hollister motorbike rally and every other biker was an undercover cop.
The Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally is already notorious so I’ll leave off with this instead: Heavy.com has located the actual indictment of RAM and while I’m not a legal expert, it looks like amateur hour at the FBI.
4. Title 18, United States Code, Section 2101, provides that “Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent 1) to incite a riot; or 2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or 3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or 4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot” shall be guilty of a federal offense.
This is the crux of the Federal case against the RAM members. As I’ve shown on this post, “riot” is a gross exaggeration of the incidents RAM members have been involved in, to say nothing of what its members intended.
PROBABLE CAUSE
10. Through open-source research by the FBI, it was learned that RAM maintained a publicly viewable Twitter page. RAM represents itself to be a positive influence on those who join their ranks, as evidenced in the following statement posted to their publicly viewable Twitter…
“Open-source research.” Yep, this elite FBI Special Task Force LEO got his incriminating evidence from publicly available, highly opinionated websites, just like I do at no cost to the taxpayer. Said incriminating evidence consisting of:
11 . Through Twitter and other social-media platforms, RAM promotes “clean living,” physical fitness and mixed martial arts (MMA) street fighting techniques. According to an article published to http://www.nocara.blacklogs.org on 7/06/2017, entitled “DIY Division: The Violent neo-Nazi Group Central to the California Alt-Right and Alt-Light Protest Movements,” DIY, which later re-branded itself as RAM, subscribes to “equal parts Identity Evropa’s flaccid identitarian discourse … and the fetishization of masculinity, physical fitness, and violence mixed with the shallow anti -corporate and anti -consumerist themes of the film Fight Club. Propaganda by the group .. . contains … fascistic themes of emasculated young white men needing to reclaim their identities through learning to fight and engaging in purifying violence.” Accordingly, the group regularly meets in public parks in the southern California area and trains in physical fitness, boxing, and other fighting techniques. The following photographs were obtained from RAM’s public Twitter page: [amateur kickboxers].
Seriously? A activist blog of no significance is the basis for a sealed grand jury indictment?
13. RAM and its members openly identify themselves on various social media platforms as “alt-right” and “nationalist” and frequently posts videos and photographs of its adherents engaged in vigorous physical training and mixed martial arts (MMA) street-fighting techniques in order to prepare to engage in fighting and violence at political rallies.
They prepare in broad daylight and public areas, physical and Internet both, for low-level terrorism?
14. …In this video, an individual believed to be DALEY can be seen attempting to kick and/or punch a counter protestor, while wearing a half-skull face mask consistent with those depicted in RAM’s group photo previously noted.
Because half-skull masks are very rare and not $5 apiece at the local army surplus store.
15. GILLEN was also present during last year’s unrest in Berkeley, California, and can be seen in the same video repeatedly punching a counter protestor who has fallen to the ground. GILLEN, in an apparent effort to prepare to engage in physical violence, has taped his fists in the manner of boxers or MMA style fighters, as evidenced photo above, right.
The picture is so grainy that I have no idea how the FBI can tell his hand is taped. Taping the hand doesn’t make your fist hit harder; it just makes wrist injury less likely. It’s a defensive preparation, like having a first aid kit. I’d tape up, too, if I was stupid enough to go to an Antifa rally, because a padded hand & forearm can deflect thrown objects with less danger of skin cuts.
By the way, none of the “counter-protestors” referred to in the indictment are named. The FBI built this major indictment by combing through social media for a preponderance of circumstantial evidence.
The FBI should be ashamed of this.
Drain the swamp already, Mr. Trump!
25. In other video footage from the violence, WHITE can be seen headbutting a female counter protestor, while DALEY assists him in the assault. (Photo: below, left). The headbutt results in a severe laceration. (Photo: below, right).
Nobody wins in a headbutt. If White was trained in martial arts then a headbutt is more likely to have been the female’s choice, not his. A couple cell phone pics doesn’t do much to establish who the aggressor is.
29. After returning to Southern California, Daley made various admissions about committing acts of violence in Charlottesville and at other rallies in California.
But no actual statements. One would think an admission of interstate violence would be exactly what belongs in a request for an arrest warrant.
30. Based on the information set forth in this affidavit, I submit that there is probable cause to believe:
31. On or about August 11 , 2017, Defendant BENJAMIN DRAKE DALEY, MICHAEL MISELIS, COLE WHITE, and THOMAS GILLEN traveled in interstate commerce from California to Charlottesville, Virginia, within the Western District of Virginia, with intent (a) to incite a riot, (b) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, and carry on in a riot, (c) to commit an act of violence in furtherance of a riot, and (d) to aid or abet any person inciting and participating in or carrying on in a riot and committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; and during the course of such travel or thereafter performed or attempted to perform multiple overt acts, including but not limited to: inciting, promoting, encouraging, participating in, and carrying on in a riot, committing acts of violence in furtherance of a riot, and aiding and abetting other persons inciting and participating in and carrying on in a riot and committing acts of violence in furtherance of a riot, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2101 , 2.
Was the Unite the Right rally ever formally declared a riot? The police didn’t lose control, they were ordered away by the mayor.
Based on the forgoing, I request that the Court issue the proposed arrest warrant. Respectfully submitted, *signed* Dino P. Cappuzzo, Special Agent/Task Force Officer, FBI, 27 August 2018
And then sealed two months until the midterm elections were nigh. At a bare minimum, the FBI should have waited to unseal until after the elections to prevent credible accusations of political shenanigans.
There’s a lesson to be learned here. You should already know not to go to these rallies. If you do go, and there’s a male personality type that honestly is compelled to go, then don’t wear skulls & other death imagery for a uniform and don’t brag about the combat you’ve committed in self-defense after the fact. It is very, very easy for such comments to be used against you by rogue law enforcement.
RAM will get through this unharmed if they rigorously lawyer up and remain silent. All the evidence thus far is circumstantial and taken from sources in which the victims don’t look or act like victims.
Many Manospherians, particularly Mens’ Rights Activists, want to fix social problems from the inside. That’s a bad idea and the U of West England is the latest example.
University students set to elect first officer to represent men
A students’ union in Bristol is introducing a men’s officer for the first time.
Representatives for women are common at campuses across the country, but now students at the University of the West of England (UWE) will also have a separate officer to represent men.
The role has been brought in to ensure that men.s’ perspective is taken into consideration and to ensure issues that are important to male students are raised, James Knight, the only candidate running for the role, told The Independent.
It has been introduced at UWE students. union despite opposition to the proposal from the student body last year.
The roles of trans, black and minority ethnic (BME) and women’s officers have also been brought in.
Mr Knight said he wanted to stand in light of the mental health issues facing male students.
He added: “Statistically male students are much more likely to not talk about their mental health issues. They are much more likely to follow through and take their lives.”
Ten students from the University of Bristol and two from UWE, which is also based in the city, have died in the past two years. A number have been confirmed as suicides.
This guy is MRA crack. He’s definitely correct that male needs are less valued than male tears.
But the new role was criticised by some on social media.
.Can someone explain to me why a men’s officer is necessary please,” student Rebecca Sheeres asked on Twitter. “Especially when UWE students actually voted against such position. Men are not a minority at university and surely appointing a wellbeing officer would cover men’s mental health..
But Mr Knight, who is a third-year politics and international relations student, said: “It is equally important to have a part-time officer that can concentrate a lot more of their time and effort on male mental health and male suicide rates. I don’t think the necessity of a men’s officer is surrounding male liberation at all.”
From https://www1.uwe.ac.uk/about/factsandfigures/studentdemographics.aspx
Gender
Number
Male
13,494
Indeterminate
3
Female
17,235
He missed the opportunity to expose Sheeres as a liar. Meanwhile, 3 of 30,732 is about right for normal human mutation rates but does this necessitate a fully funded LGBT department? Maybe we could just pay a doctor to normalize their hormones.
Sarah Lasoye, NUS UK women’s officer, said: .NUS will always seek to champion the voices of the most marginalised students, which includes women, black, LGBT+ and disabled students. These groups of students face systematic oppression across society, and the discrimination they face can affect their participation, achievement, retention and progression in education..
It’s okay to be white, male and sexually normal. Just saying.
She added: .Student mental health continues to be a growing crisis, and men’s mental health has become a particular focus in recent years. This has opened up a much-needed discussion on the influence of toxic masculinity and societal pressures faced by men.
Bitch got no idea. “Mens’ mental health is suffering because we haven’t yet had a needed discussion about the many ways men oppress us!”
.However, when one in seven women experience a serious physical or sexual assault in their time as a student, and when 68 per cent have experienced some kind of verbal or non-verbal harassment, we must recognise that it is women, trans and gender non-conforming people bear the brunt of gender-based oppression..
Hold that thought for a few seconds.
A UWE Students. Union spokesperson said: .We have introduced three new part-time officer positions in this year’s October By-election. The three roles are women’s officer, men’s officer and trans officer. The women’s officer started as a student idea during the academic year 17-18, which was passed through student council and the trustee board, before being implemented for the October election cycle.
.The men’s and trans officer roles were brought through from our trustees who felt that there were other groups who would benefit from having a part-time officer campaigning and raising awareness for their communities. The two roles will require final ratification as per our constitution..
Okay, everybody, if we’re going to do this then let’s be fair about it! ONE DAY LATER:
Only university in UK with men’s officer scraps role after its sole candidate ‘suffers harassment’
That held thought about men not suffering harassment? You may enjoy it now.
The only university in the UK with a men’s officer has scrapped the role after the candidate withdrew due to “harassment.”
James Knight put his name forward to be men’s officer at the University of the West of England, but claims he was harassed, and has withdrawn. He was the only candidate in the race.
The University of the West of England told The Telegraph that the position has now been suspended pending review.
The roles of transgender and women’s officers have also been brought in this month.
…Mr Knight said the negative response to his campaign, coupled with alleged harassment, caused him to step down. He said in a statement: .Due to the negative reaction to the men’s officer position and continued external harassment, I have taken the difficult decision to stand down as a candidate..
A spokesman from the students. union at UWE said: .Following the withdrawal of the candidate from the Men’s Officer Role, the election for that position is no longer running. As per our previous statements, we will be seeking ratification of the role at the next Student Council. We will look to move this forward based on their decision..
James Knight. He… he tried & failed to grow a neckbeard to disguise his lack of a chin. Damn, just tattoo “pajama boy toy” on that forehead! This faguette was never going to champion the return of patriarchy. He was either controlled opposition or simply had a personal interest in male mental health services. Likely both.
Don’t try to reform a Converged institution. Hold the line until ejection time, then stay clear of that burning wreckage.
A CEO named Kyle Reyes decided to assemble a hiring test to screen out time-wasting, emo snowflakes without asking any legally prohibited questions. It’s been making the rounds for over a year, apparently.
Wow. Apparently this Snowflake Test was quite the talk of America.
I.m not going to lie . it’s been an exhausting . yet incredible . media tour. I’ve been blessed to be on Fox and Friends four times, The Kennedy Show, Varney and Co., Risk and Reward, and more than 100 radio programs.
Why so much excitement over it?
A marketing company’s CEO wonders why people are excited about him? Isn’t that his job? My bullshit detector just tripped.
“I’ve been blessed” is a phrase I only hear from charismatic Christians, New Agers and witches.
I like to think it’s because patriotic Americans are sick and tired of the sniveling, whining, entitled brats who believe that everything should be handed to them on a silver platter.
And of course that line right there is going to trigger many of them, sending them crawling out of their safe spaces with lines like “we are snowflakes but snowflakes make blizzards!. and .you’re such a sexist, racist, homophobic bigot that I’m going to burn down your business..
I’ve spent my entire life in urban California during its Queering/Convergence and I’ve never seen or heard anything like what he’s talking about.
Unfortunately for you tender souls, I’ve now had hundreds of companies reach out to me with overwhelming support and encouragement . letting me know that they too will be implementing similar tests to take out the trash before it starts stinking up their business.
Looks like summer is coming, snowflakes.
Instead of accepting a dime for the test . I’m going to go ahead and share it now with all of America.
On that note, it’s archived here with its author’s permission:
The Snowflake Test
Outside of standard benefits, what benefits should a company offer employees?
What should the national minimum wage be?
How many sick days should be given to employees?
How often should employees get raises?
How do you feel about guns?
What are your feelings about employees or clients carrying guns?
What are your feelings about safe spaces in challenging work environments?
In a creative environment like The Silent Partner Marketing, what do you envision work attire looking like?
Should “trigger warnings” be issued before we release content for clients or the company that might be considered .controversial.?
How do you feel about police?
If you owned the company and were to find out that a client is operating unethically but was a high paying client.how would you handle it?
When was the last time you cried and why?
You arrive at an event for work and there’s a major celebrity you’ve always wanted to meet. What happens next?
What.s your favorite kind of adult beverage?
What.s the best way to communicate with clients?
What.s your favorite thing to do in your free time?
What are your thoughts on the current college environment as it pertains to a future workforce?
What.s your typical breakfast?
What.s your favorite drink when you go to a coffeehouse?
How do you handle bullies?
How do you handle it when your ideas are shot down?
What do you do if a coworker comes to the table with an idea and it sucks?
What does the first amendment mean to you?
What does faith mean to you?
Who is your role model and why?
.You’re in Starbucks with two friends. Someone runs in and says someone is coming in with a gun in 15 seconds to shoot patrons. They offer you a gun. Do you take it? What do you do next?.
What does America mean to you?
You see someone stepping on an American flag. What do you do?
What does “privilege” mean to you?
What.s more important? Book smarts or street smarts? Why?
As a prospective employer, I’m not impressed with the list. The best way to snowflake-guard is simply to hire for the dirty ditch-digging jobs and then promote internally. Men will either wake up or check out. Barbie will quit the first time she breaks a nail. Not hiring college grads for work not needing college education is also a good step. No questionnaire needed.
In fact, I accuse the list of being Boomer bait. It’s not offered in good faith. Questions #1-4 are mooted by future contract negotiations; bringing them up as screening questions is how one screens out strong negotiators who know to not commit themselves so early in the hiring process. Questions about guns & politics don’t screen out liberals; I have pictures of Antifa training camps to prove it. And some of these are outright childish, such as #11, #12, #20 and #28. I hope everybody’s answer to #26 was get the heck outta there instead of ambushing a random stranger because another random stranger told them to.
A third of the questions are already common, a third are of “Are you an emotionally unstable individual?” quality and a third are the sort of thing Tradcon Republicans tell themselves to get their dicks up enough for birthday sex. Suffice to say, the practical result of armed patriots’ fearless courage against evil is that yours truly can now use the ladies’ room at Burger King. I got no time for this kind of pretention and the fact that it’s gotten Kyle a free year on the conservative talk circuit tells me he really is a damn fine marketeer… but not a good hiring manager. Kyle is a fraud.
CEO Kyle Reyes. Quite a change from the previous granite-face of Ret. Gen. McChrystal. He has the cutting eyelid on the right side of his face. Winged, rounded eyebrows like his–heavy on the inside, lightening on the outside–are “visionary” eyebrows, indicating a preference for beginning tasks rather than completing them. The reverse, “managerial” eyebrows thick at the outside and thin on the inside, indicate completing tasks over starting them… a good implementer, or manager, of a higher-up’s ideas.
He has a tribalist’s wide nostrils and no intelligence or determination lines on his face. (No intelligence lines means bad at complex topics, not a lack of wisdom or cunning. A quadlingual professional interpreter might have no intelligence (horizontal, parallel) lines on the forehead.) In the second picture, what straight man still wears a pink shirt? No chance his wardrobe is uninformed.
That half-beard screams lumbersexual but Reyes wears it better than most, so it’s a very deliberate attempt to display masculinity without actually having masculinity.
So, Reyes is a planner with poor followthrough, an emo dude projecting masculine confidence and a Machiavelli in the ways he interacts with the outside world.
Reyes is a confidence artist trolling his own customers with this Snowflake Test. He probably only made it publicly available because the scam’s profitability was dying off and now he’s off to some other get-rich-quick scheme. Marketing is a good fit for the con artist, where ego and show are more important than measurable performance.
Yet another of America’s leaders chooses to erase the South’s legacy because dem Evil Southerners were black-hearted slavers!
McChrystal’s physiognomy is what one would expect of a military commander. Aggression and concentration lines all over the forehead, small upper eyelids combined with flat lower eyelids for a very rational/impersonal perspective, expressionless low eyebrows that follow face contours, face is weathered and bony in place of the bloated indolence of too many Americans these days. Good jawline. His ears break the mold; those Dumbo-sized models indicate extreme nonconformity. Indeed, McChrystal had a reputation for speaking his mind. It got him both promoted and fired, as unpolished truths are wont to cause. I could trust a face like that to lead me in combat.
Alas, he threw that trust away along with his West Point keepsake, a picture of Robert E. Lee gifted to him by his young wife, because he’s newly ashamed that Lee “fought for slavery”. Perhaps he’s spent too much of retirement hanging around the Ivy Leagues; bad company corrupts good character, after all, and the mind goes soft with age.
Anyway, here’s McChrystal spouting the Leftoid party line in his own words:
At 63, I Threw Away My Prized Portrait of Robert E. Lee
I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot.but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.
On a Sunday morning in 2017 I took down his picture, and by afternoon it was in the alley with other rubbish awaiting transport to the local landfill for final burial. Hardly a hero’s end.
The painting had no monetary value; it was really just a print of an original overlaid with brushstrokes to appear authentic. But 40 years earlier it had been a gift from a young Army wife to her lieutenant husband when the $25 price (framed) required juggling other needs in our budget.
The dignified likeness of General Robert E. Lee in his Confederate Army uniform had been a prized possession of mine. I’d grown up not far from the Custis-Lee Mansion, and at West Point, Lee, the near-perfect cadet, Mexican War hero, academy superintendent, and, finally, the commander of the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia, cast a long, ever-present shadow. Later, in Army quarters from Fort Benning, Georgia, to Fort Lewis, Washington, the painting reflected my fascination with leadership, and it spoke of duty and selfless service.
…A mythology grew around Lee and the cause he served. For many, Lee’s qualities and accomplishments, already impressive, gained godlike proportions. This was the Lee I first came to know: a leader whose flaws and failures were sanded off, the very human figure recast as a two-dimensional hero whose shadow had eclipsed the man from whom it came.
Two-dimensional heroes rarely capture the imagination… but they make great strawmen.
But as time passed, the myth was reexamined. The darker side of Lee’s legacy, and the picture in my office, now communicated ideas about race and equality with which I sought no association. Down it came.
Bookmark that. You’ll see it again, at the end.
At age 63, the same age at which Lee died, I concluded I was wrong.to some extent wrong about Lee as a leader, but certainly about the message that Lee as a symbol conveyed. And although I was slow to appreciate it, a significant part of American society, many still impacted by the legacy of slavery, had felt it all along.
That’s a lie. Nobody is still impacted by the “legacy of slavery”. It’s been 150 years; everybody who wants to let the past die already has. Everybody who doesn’t is a grievance-mongering parasite.
Most accounts of Lee as a man, and a leader.his physical presence, demeanor, valor, and apparent serenity.reflect almost quintessentially desirable leadership traits. But staring into a bright light makes it hard to see clearly. More than most, Lee is portrayed either in a glare of adulation or, more recently, under a dark cloud of disdain.
At West Point, Lee and the other Southern heroes became icons whom other cadets and I instinctively sought to emulate. In a painful contradiction, they also betrayed the oath we shared, took up arms against their nation, and fought to kill former comrades.all in the defense of a cause committed to the morally indefensible maintenance of slavery.
Another lie, which McChrystal will disprove himself later on. Lee left the USA military honorably as his competing loyalties were forced into confrontation. He changed uniforms with honor and for as long as he wore any particular uniform, he did right by it. Anybody who wants to claim Robert E. Lee was an oath-breaking traitor has a big hill of that’s bullshit to climb.
The death in 1857 of his wife’s father, George Washington Parke Custis, caused Lee to take extended leave from his unit in order to settle family affairs. That process involved more than executing Custis’s last will and testament. The slave-worked estates were poorly run and heavily in debt, and the professional soldier found himself in an active role within the landed, slave-owning gentry for which the South was known.
Lee.s own statements on slavery are conflicting, but his overall record is clear. Although he repeatedly expressed his theoretical opposition to slavery, he in fact reflected the conventional thinking of the society from which he came and actively supported the “peculiar institution” of slavery. Well before joining the Confederacy, Lee loathed abolitionists, and his feelings hardened as the Civil War dragged on.
The abolitionists wanted instant emancipation; most Southerners wanted to phase out slavery in order to prevent economic collapse. Tsar Alexander II’s disastrous emancipation of the serfs is relevant here.
From as far back as 1859, Lee’s personal treatment of slaves has been a public issue. Although accusations that he beat his slaves are impossible to prove after 150 years, their veracity is arguably beside the point. Lee was a willing and active participant in a society and economy that rested on slavery, and he fought ferociously to defend it. Lee was a Southerner, and efforts to depict him in opposition to slavery run contrary to his actions.
The veracity of accusations is NEVER beside the point and accusations that “are impossible to prove” are worthless. This kind of statement is far, far beneath a general of McChrystal’s background.
The road to America’s Civil War, and Lee’s fateful decision to join the Confederacy, was a long one. Pressure between the North and the South grew over decades, but the final straw for most in the Deep Southern states was the November 1860 election of the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee, then commanding the 2nd United States Cavalry Regiment at Fort Mason, Texas, the immediate challenge was to lead, and to carefully manage, a mass of officers and soldiers who were individually challenged to choose between loyalty to their state, their nation, and the new Confederacy that might arise. Outside events threatened to rupture long-held loyalties and produce an assault on the very premise upon which the United States had been created some eight decades earlier.
As I mentioned above, this is where McChrystal debunks his own accusation against Lee of oath-breaking and betrayal. Political forces beyond any one man’s control forced questions of loyalty that had not previously existed. There is no treachery in this.
As pressures mounted, Lee read Edward Everett’s The Life of George Washington as if for guidance from the nation’s first president, spending these months meditating on where his own obligations lay. Was his duty, as he had sworn, to the United States, or, more basically, to its Army? Or did he owe allegiance to older ties to his beloved Virginia and, if it should secede, to the South? For Lee, the choice could not have been entirely the product of political analysis; that’s not how he functioned. Family, friendships, and visceral ties to the land and society from which he came all entered the calculus.
As we today, living in the American Empire’s collapse, have learned, if the purpose of gov’t is not to protect our family, friends and visceral ties to the land then the purpose of gov’t is to rule us against our will for the benefit of foreigners.
The example set by Robert E. Lee has never been more important or relevant. That, I claim, is why McChrystal threw out his family heirloom. He didn’t want to be reminded of what America once was or the price that restoring America will be. Instead of following Lee’s example of taking up arms in defense of his home, Stanley McChrystal has decided to “Let the past die. Kill it if you must,” to quote a villain so lame I can’t remember his name.
From his earliest days, Lee’s conduct, his diligence, and his willing sacrifices were rooted in fulfilling responsibilities he set for himself, and in meeting the expectations of others. It was a persona he crafted carefully and projected intentionally. It was not a false depiction, but instead it was remarkably accurate in reflecting the very essence of the man. For Lee, the torture came when the institutions and values to which he felt obligations came into conflict. For the first time in his life, he could not simultaneously meet all the commitments he’d made. In simply tying his decision to the course chosen by his native Virginia, he essentially passed the most important moral decision of his life to the popular vote of others. Soon he would find himself supporting the greatest evil in American history, slavery, and not only opposing, but ultimately trying to destroy, some of the very institutions and ideas he’d held dear.
Lee tied his decision to his home and his people. Not to some poorly defined mob rule.
This isn’t about slavery or the Civil War. This is about Gen. McChrystal looking at today’s destruction of the American people, the American land, the American Church and the American way of life, and throwing out the memory of a man he once admired because he himself is now faced with the exact same decision… but unlike Lee, McChrystal has decided against protecting his people and lands.
Or as McChrystal said it, above: [the] picture in my office now communicated ideas about race and equality with which I sought no association. Down it came.
Liberals can’t meme. They’re so busy trying to twist their enemies into attackable strawmen that they can’t understand idioms or metaphors. A case in point has come up in a tight campaign for Nevada’s governor.
Twitter Agog At Trump Whopper That Californians Are ‘Rioting’ Over Sanctuary Cities
President Donald Trump insisted Saturday at a Nevada campaign rally that Californians are “rioting” in protest of sanctuary cities.
No one knew what he was talking about.
Twitter was dumbfounded.
Detecting sarcasm… error. No sarcasm detected. Abort, Retry, Fail?
…Trump was stumping for Nevada GOP Sen. Dean Heller, and blasted both Waters and Heller’s Democratic rival in November’s election, Rep. Jacky Rosen, for their support of what he termed “deadly” sanctuary cities . municipalities where local officials don’t cooperate with federal authorities to deport undocumented immigrants.
.A lot of people in California don’t want. sanctuary cities, Trump said. .They’re rioting now; they wanna get out of their sanctuary cities … They’re demanding they be released from sanctuary cities.. (Check out the video above.)
No one’s rioting in California to escape sanctuary cities.
But they are trying to escape California so eagerly that moving van rental fees are triple the national average. Housing prices skyrocket wherever “huddled masses yearning to live on freebies” aren’t. A dozen local governments have formally opposed “sanctuary statehood”. And if the Leftoids haven’t heard us complaining about the tax rate, it’s only because they’re too busy spending the money.
Stunned Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale noted in a tweet that Trump is “now inventing nonexistent domestic riots..
Ted Westrup, a spokesman for California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), told Dale that “Trump and truth have long had a troubled relationship. These comments, frankly, don’t merit a response..
Other Twitter users were furious or stunned by Trump’s comments, while some expected nothing less from the president. Several tweets checked in from all over California with the exact same report: No riots.
No riots?
20 arrested after alt-right, antifa clash in Berkeley ahead of Charlottesville anniversary
Dueling demonstrations in Berkeley, Calif., by alt-right and antifa groups turned violent on Sunday afternoon, with the front of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office getting damaged in the exchange.
Twenty people were arrested, mostly for possessing banned weapons, according to a statement from the Berkeley Police Department.
“The lack of injuries is fortunate given that extremists threw explosives at Berkeley Police and Alameda County Sheriff’s Office mutual aid officers,” police wrote on Sunday.
One protester clad in black, considered a uniform for anti-fascist movement members commonly known as antifa, was recorded smashing the windows of a nearby Marine Corps recruiting post, Fox News first reported.
Unidentified man in Antifa uniform smashes the patriarchy. Picture from linked article.
The original “No to Marxism in America 2/Exposing Communism” rally in Berkeley was organized by Amber Gwen Cummings, according to the Los Angeles Times. She arranged a similar event in August 2017. The counterprotest, called “Stop the Hate,” was supported by antifa groups like SAFEBay (Solidarity Against Fascism East Bay), the newspaper added.
Mayor Schaaf backs bars. response to alt-right group’s rumored Oakland visit
OAKLAND . In a weekend tweet, Mayor Libby Schaaf threw her support behind a group of Uptown bars planning fundraisers in response to an alt-right group’s possible appearance Monday.
.We refuse to be intimidated and will not back down or stand by quietly as racist hate groups threaten violence and bring messages of hate to our neighbors,. Schaaf tweeted Sunday, linking to a post on Uptown Oakland bar Make Westing’s Facebook page.
In that post Friday evening, the bar said it had heard members of the alt-right group known as Proud Boys planned to meet Monday. In response, the bar said it would join neighboring establishments in a .pro-Oakland movement. to raise funds for causes like Black Lives Matter, Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Transgender Law Center.
Citing First Amendment rights, the Dixon City Council announced Tuesday at its meeting that it has decided against stripping Ted Hickman’s title as vice mayor after a controversial column he wrote in the town’s newspaper . calling for a Straight American Pride Month and using a derogatory term to refer to gay men . went viral.
Before the decision was announced, Randy Thomasson of Save California . a group that describes itself as a .pro-family organization: working, speaking and fighting the good fight for your values. . announced that he was going to speak at the meeting.
As a result, a small group of Hickman supporters and another, larger group of advocates for LGBTQ rights descended on the City Council meeting.
Berkeley: Alt right planning “anti communist” rally for Sunday, city braces for counter protest
BERKELEY . The alt-right is planning an afternoon rally in Berkeley on Sunday and anti-fascist groups are organizing to meet them, but it was unclear Friday just how big the event will be.
Calling the rally “No To Marxism in Berkeley,. its organizer, Contra Costa County resident Amber Cummings, posted on Facebook that it will go on even as some far right groups have pulled out it recent days. No permit had been granted for the rally as of Friday.
.We will be having the event to expose Marxism as planned,. wrote Cummings, who could not be reached for comment on Friday. .There is certainly a communist agenda in Berkeley and the commies are not happy I’m coming to protest communism..
Anti-facist groups such as Berkeley Antifa are calling for counter rallies.
Berkeley city officials are preparing for whatever the event turns into. The city manager . under authority granted by an emergency ordinance passed earlier this week . is temporarily prohibiting sticks, pipes, poles, baseball bats, bricks, rocks, mace, knives and “anything else that can be used for a riot” from Civic Center and Ohlone parks as well as the areas between Sacramento Street, Piedmont Avenue, Dwight and Bancroft ways and Oxford Street between Dwight and Delaware, according to a news release issued Friday evening. Anyone caught with those items could be arrested.
Black-clad Antifa marchers arrive at Civic Center Park, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in a counter-protest against a planned alt-right rally in Berkeley, California. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Fearing violence, California lawmakers ask National Park Service to rescind permit for San Francisco ‘alt-right’ rally
Citing concern over violent clashes at a Charlottesville rally of white nationalists last weekend, a group of California lawmakers called Tuesday for the National Park Service to rescind a permit issued for a pro-Trump rally scheduled for Aug. 26 in San Francisco.
The conservative Patriot Prayer rallies have been organized by blogger Joey Gibson. He says he condemns white supremacists. but members of the white nationalist movement have spoken at and attended the rallies.
The event is scheduled at Crissy Field, a park popular with families and tourists, wrote three San Francisco Democrats, state Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymen Phil Ting, and David Chiu in a letter to the service.
.Allowing a likely violent rally of White Supremacists so close to all of this is of deep concern to us,. the trio wrote. .While we believe in the right to free speech and free assembly, we believe the National Park Service does not have the capacity to safely control this situation and therefore should not be issuing a permit for this rally at Crissy Field.. …
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco separately called Tuesday for the National Park Service to “reconsider” the permit for Crissy Field.
.San Francisco takes great pride in being a city of peace which cherishes free speech and the right to public dissent,” Pelosi said in a statement. “However, the National Park Service’s decision to permit a white supremacist rally at Crissy Field raises grave and ongoing concerns about public safety.”
Do Leftoids think we don’t read the news? Every time we organize something in meatspace, they yank our permits, pass emergency laws, doxx us with cameras and sic Antifa on us as a countermeasure, er, “counter-protest”. We don’t have the chance to riot. That’s Antifa’s shtick, anyway, or should I say, Antifa’s hammer vandalizing the USMC recruiting station pictured above.
No, the “riots” of law-abiding taxpayers are mostly held online and anonymously because Leftoids are such stalwart defenders of free speech(tm)(c)(R)(all rights reserved by SPLC). Which allows the Left to pretend aggressive stupidity when Trump says we law-abiders are completely fed up with our Jokers elected by feminazis and Hondurans.
At least, I think they’re pretending. They couldn’t possibly be this aggressively stupid in real life.
An obsessive list-maker, Darwin once weighed the pros and cons of marriage in his correspondence. Let’s see if the sexes have evolved since Victorian England!
From the book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. / Volume 2, 1837-1843.
Marry
Children . (if it Please God) . Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one, . object to be beloved & played with. . better than a dog anyhow.” Home, & someone to take care of house . Charms of music & female chit-chat. . These things good for one’s health. . but terrible loss of time. .
My God, it is intolerable to think of spending one’s whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all. . No, no won’t do. . Imagine living all one’s day solitarily in smoky dirty London House. . Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps . Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. Marlbro. St.
Children obviously and we today still get the “do you want to die alone?” line. Darwin thought female gossip was a benefit? “Better than a dog anyhow”, hah!
It is curious that Darwin thought the alternative to marriage was endless work. He refutes that himself twice, below. He must not have had any hobbies.
Not Marry
Freedom to go where one liked . choice of Society & little of it. . Conversation of clever men at clubs . Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle. . to have the expense & anxiety of children . perhaps quarelling . Loss of time. . cannot read in the Evenings . fatness & idleness . Anxiety & responsibility . less money for books &c . if many children forced to gain one’s bread. . (But then it is very bad for ones health to work too much)
Perhaps my wife wont like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool .
Then as now, wives didn’t like their husbands having male spaces and were prone to “fatness & idleness”.
The question having been considered, the Father of Natural Selection proceeded to marry his first cousin. Thus proving that Darwin was neither MGTOW nor the Father of Healthy Genetics.
When? Soon or Late
The Governor says soon for otherwise bad if one has children . one’s character is more flexible .one’s feelings more lively & if one does not marry soon, one misses so much good pure happiness. .
But then if I married tomorrow: there would be an infinity of trouble & expense in getting & furnishing a house, .fighting about no Society “morning calls “awkwardness “loss of time every day. (without one’s wife was an angel, & made one keep industrious). Then how should I manage all my business if I were obliged to go every day walking with my wife. . Eheu!! I never should know French, .or see the Continent “or go to America, or go up in a Balloon, or take solitary trip in Wales “poor slave. .you will be worse than a negro . And then horrid poverty, (without one’s wife was better than an angel & had money) . Never mind my boy . Cheer up . One cannot live this solitary life, with groggy old age, friendless & cold, & childless staring one in ones face, already beginning to wrinkle. . Never mind, trust to chance “keep a sharp look out . There is many a happy slave .
Man, that’s depressing. Darwin went into marriage hoping to be a happy slave.
On September 26, a 20 foot-tall replica of Roman Victory Arch of Palmyra was unveiled for a three-day display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The arch perfectly framed the Capitol Building where the next day, Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Though the arch and the Senate hearings seem disconnected, there may be an underlying nefarious synchronicity bringing the idolatrous roots of the arch to the political process going on nearby.
Representative Eliot Engel (Dem-NY) spoke at the arch’s unveiling ceremony, saying, .When you look at this beautiful arch, we are seeing through the eyes of ancient civilizations, and to have it right here, set against the classical columns of the Capitol, is really extraordinary..
Engel is also proud of many things including his efforts in pro-abortion legislation.
Engel is a homosexual Jewish gun-banner & abortionist. Nobody special.
.I am proud to be a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and to have a 100% voting record with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund,. Engel wrote on his website. .In addition, I was honored to receive the Congressional Defender of Women’s Rights Award from the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion..
The controversy surrounding Kavanaugh began well before Blasey Ford stepped forward, accusing him of sexually assaulting her 36 years ago. His nomination faced fierce opposition from the left-wing at the outset due to their fear that once he became a Supreme Court Justice, he would help overturn Roe v. Wade. Blasey Ford’s allegation was used as an opportunity to prevent this and as a result, Planned Parenthood advocated strongly for Ford.
It should be remembered that Palmyra, the home of the original arch for two millennia, was a major center for idolatry, specifically the worship of Ba.al, also known as Moloch. Mentioned more than 90 times in the Bible, most notably when Elijah defeated the priests of Ba.al in a contest to bring down fire from heaven to burn a sacrifice, Ba.al became the archetypical form of idol worship. Pantheistic, his adherents worshipped Mother Nature while denying the existence of a creator. Followers of Ba.al engaged in bisexual orgies and sacrificed human infants, burning them alive. Anthropologists conjecture that the child sacrifice was to cull the population after the inevitable outcome of wanton sexuality. …
The timing is probably coincidental but I couldn’t confirm how long it had been scheduled to appear.
.People think mankind has evolved and there is no connection between our world and what happened thousands of years ago,. [Rabbi Pinchas Winston] asserted. .This leads to a feeling of hopelessness, that life is meaningless. They don’t believe in the soul and they say the Bible is irrelevant. History becomes meaningless but a cursory look reveals that our world is uncannily similar to what happened in the Bible. The Bible gives a basic understanding of life..
Palmyra was dedicated in 32 CE to the worship of Bel. Lower levels of the ground underneath the Temple of Palmyra indicate human occupation that goes back to the third millennium BCE. Converted into a Christian church during the Byzantine Era, parts of the structure were modified into a mosque by Muslims in 1132. It remained in use as a mosque until the 1920s.
The original arch was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in October 2015, but one year later, the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) used 3-D printing technology to reproduce a 20-foot full-scale replica. Before the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, Palmyra was a popular tourist attraction, drawing 105,000 visitors a year.
The reappearance of the Arch of Palmyra has been accompanied by other startling cases of synchronicity that connect to its roots in idolatry. Its debut in April 2016 in Trafalgar Square, London for the UNESCO World Heritage Week coincided with Beltane, the primary festival for Ba.al, the pagan deity for which the Temple of Palmyra was constructed.
In addition to its association with idolatry, the recreated arch is emerging as a symbol for world government. Before its appearance in the U.S. capital, the replica arch was displayed in New York’s City Hall Plaza, London’s Trafalgar Square, the G7 Summit in Florence, and Dubai’s World Government Summit, attracting more than 10 million visitors.
The replica arch will next be reassembled in the Hague, the site of the Dutch Parliament and the UN.s International Criminal Court. The Hague is described as the City of Peace and Justice. Hosted by the Centre for Global Heritage and Development, the arch will be displayed adjacent to the ICC for one month beginning October 17. The Internet announcement of the exhibit describes the arch, a replica of the victory of Roman paganism, as .a symbol of cultural resilience. that will stand as an inspiration to the Netherland’s approximately 100,000 Syrian immigrants.
The IDA and UNESCO have paired up in other projects presenting symbols of idolatry. In November 2017, a statue of the pagan goddess Athena was reconstructed by the IDA and presented at an exhibit .The Spirit in the Stone,. at the United Nations. headquarters in New York City. The exhibit described Athena as “synonymous with reason, refuge and the rule of law, all of the same values on which that historic institution was built,. but the spear lying at the statue’s feet belied her more common association as the goddess of war. Some scholars believe the Greek goddess was based on the Mesopotamian goddess al-Lat.
I like the shadow descending on the Capitol’s dome. An ominous portent.
The Arch of Baal at Trafalgar Square, London.
Replica of Syrian arch destroyed by Isis unveiled in New York City
A recreation of Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph was unveiled in New York on Monday, almost a year after Islamic State militants destroyed the original structure.
The 1,800-year-old Roman arch was blown up by the extremist group last October, but a team of archeologists at Oxford University’s Institute for Digital archeology (IDA) set about recreating it, in an act of resistance to Isis’s rampant acts of cultural destruction in Iraq and Syria.
Standing at two-thirds the scale of the original, the arch is made of Egyptian marble and was built using 3D printing technology, based on photographs of the original arch. …
The arch historically served as the entrance to the … Temple of Baal, which was then converted to a Christian church and finally, a mosque.
When the Muslims murdered & enslaved the Christians of ancient Syria.
First put on display in Trafalgar Square in London last April, it will stay at City Hall park for one week, before moving to its next destination, Dubai.
The 11-tonne arch was placed in the small park directly outside of New York’s city hall, in the heart of the financial district. The park is usually occupied by tourists visiting city hall and the nearby World Trade Center memorial and office workers on their lunch breaks. The arch is not roped off, allowing visitors to walk under it and touch it.
I avoided the more sensationalist reporting. Digitally preserving monuments is fine but this is… of interest. After seeing the witches of Congress give public invitations to let’s-hex-Kavanaugh parties, plausibility is stretched and limber. On that note, the article continues:
In a recent statement, Roger Michael, the Executive Director of the IDA, drew parallels between the destruction of Palmyra’s landmarks and the violence that has marred London and New York’s landscape.
.It is our hope that the arch, itself an icon of destruction and rebirth, will remind visitors of both the universality of suffering and the indomitable human capacity to rebuild what has been lost..
In the context of the imminent, global economic collapse, that’s totally not a disturbing sentiment. Not at all.
The IDA.s dedication to preservation, means it ultimately intends to return the arch to Palmyra.
At the unveiling, deputy mayor Alicia Glen said, the arch “was a symbol that we will not stand for acts of terrorists, we will not stand to have people murdered and thrown out of their countries..
Just two days earlier, there was a bombing in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood injuring 29 people. .What could be more appropriate than to have this symbol of freedom in front of City Hall, so close to where we had our own challenges,. Glen added.
New York (CNN)Convicted New York City bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi was sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison by a federal judge on Tuesday.
Rahimi, 30, was previously found guilty of eight federal charges in connection with a September 2016 bombing that injured 30 in the Chelsea neighborhood.
“The nature of the crime was heinous, wanton and life-threatening … it’s inexplicable that anyone would do that intentionally,” said US District Judge Richard Berman.
Rahimi, a Muslim who federal prosecutors say attempted to radicalize other jail inmates while awaiting sentencing, also was ordered to pay about $563,000 to victims.
Rahimi spoke to the judge, saying he didn’t come from Afghanistan as a child with hate in his heart.
“I grew up amongst you guys, when I started following (my religion), practicing it. That’s when I started” noticing discrimination, Rahimi said in his emotionless five-minute statement. He became a naturalized US citizen in 2011.
Rahimi talked about being targeted for being a Muslim, mentioning he was always picked out in airports by security.
Sudden Jihad Syndrome. He got tired of airport security looking twice at “Akmed son of Mohammed” so he blew up 30 people to prove them wrong. “I plead not guilty. The infidel looked at me funny while eating a ham sandwich.” (not a real quote)
He’s the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency regulating lawful immigration into the USA. Among other duties, Cissna oversees the H1b “Subcomtinental Hindu Indians who can’t speak English are White Bread Americans, too” program. Not the sort of official you often see in the news and that’s theoretically a good thing; it’s the duty of bureaucrats like him to implement policy, not dictate policy.
Kudos to Cissna, he’s been implementing some Trump into the butthurt backsides of Big Tech.
Bay Area tech CEOs say immigration policies, H-1B plans are undermining growth
Technology executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff . have urged the government to back off on tightening immigration policies for foreign workers following aggressive talk from the nation’s immigration chief.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration director Francis Cissna, talking to a group pushing for reductions in numbers of foreign workers and immigrants, cited “all sorts of fraud and abuse” in the H-1B program that many Silicon Valley companies rely on for highly skilled workers and “across all these programs..
The H-1B visa, intended for foreign workers doing specialized jobs has become a flashpoint in the immigration debate, with firms arguing it should be expanded beyond the annual 85,000 new visas so they can acquire the world’s top talent, and critics pointing to reported abuses and asserting the visa is used to replace Americans with cheaper, foreign workers.
The critics are right. Come on, which nation leads in top-talent tech? USA. But if you need numbers:
Sourced from US Dept. of State via https://www.recode.net/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h1b-visas
I don’t call Subcontinental Indians H1bbies for nothing.
Cissna said he wanted elected representatives to take action on the H-1B.
.I would really love it if Congress would just pass a one-sentence provision that would just prohibit American workers in being replaced by H-1B workers,. Cissna said in a talk last week to the Center for Immigration Studies, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
People trying to “game” the immigration system is an “eternal problem” for officials, he said.
Cissna outlined actions his agency has taken . some to satisfy President Donald Trump’s call for better screening of immigrants, he said . to crack down on potential abuse of the immigration system. Citizenship and Immigration has expanded visits to sites where workers on H-1B and other visas are employed, for example “to see if the worker is really there, to see if the business really exists,. he said.
That is an abominably low standard of compliance.
The agency also changed tactics in checking up on immigrants. claims, interviewing more people on employment-based green cards after historically focusing on those with marriage-based green cards, Cissna said.
Heh, fish don’t need bicycles to get into America anymore. Employment is easier to enforce than marriage anyway. Do thirsty Betas still marry foreign wimminz? A useful source of data: DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by… Spouses
2017: 292,909
2016: 304,358
2015: 265,367
2014: 238,852
2013: 248,332
2012: 273,429
Hmm, this is a small sample size but the thirst for foreign brides slowly dropped until Trump arrived on the political scene.
Just over a week after Cissna’s speech, 60 CEOs from a lobbying group called the “Business Roundtable. . including Apple’s Cook, Salesforce’s Benioff, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Francisco D.Souza, CEO of leading U.S. outsourcing firm Cognizant . wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to express “serious concern about changes in immigration policy that are causing considerable anxiety for many thousands of our employees while threatening to disrupt company operations,. according to a report Thursday.
U.S. businesses employing foreign workers have been scrambling to push back against changes to U.S. immigration policy that have flowed from Trump’s April 2017 “Buy American and Hire American” executive order.
Sec. 2. Policy. It shall be the policy of the executive branch to buy American and hire American. …
(b) Hire American. In order to create higher wages and employment rates for workers in the United States, and to protect their economic interests, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to rigorously enforce and administer the laws governing entry into the United States of workers from abroad, including section 212(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(5)).
Relevant portion of said 8 USC 1182a5:
In general
Any alien who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor is inadmissible, unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General that.
(I) there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified (or equally qualified in the case of an alien described in clause (ii)) and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the United States and at the place where the alien is to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and
(II) the employment of such alien will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the United States similarly employed.
That explains the “jobs Americans don’t want to do” rhetoric. The betrayers can’t argue that Americans are unable or unqualified to do typical H1bbie work so they complain we aren’t willing. At their offered wages & working conditions, few people with a choice would be.
Back to the main article.
The CEOs attacked what they called “inconsistent government action and uncertainty,. saying it “undermines economic growth and American competitiveness and creates anxiety for employees who follow the law,. according to Fortune, which published a copy of the letter.
The letter also contained a warning about the administration’s proposed work prohibition for spouses of H-1B holders.
.These spouses are often highly skilled in their own rights and have built careers and lives around their ability to contribute to companies here,. the CEOs said. .Other countries allow these valuable professionals to work, so revoking their U.S. work authorization will likely cause high-skilled immigrants to take their skills to competitors outside the United States..
Shameless lying. Men marry down, women marry up. That is normal human behavior. The corporate scientist does not fall in love with the boardroom shark.
Inconsistency on immigration policy will deter foreign citizens from attempting to move to the U.S., the CEOs wrote.
.Few will move their family and settle in a new country if, at any time and without notice, the government can force their immediate departure . often without explanation,. they said in the letter. “As the federal government undertakes its legitimate review of immigration rules, it must avoid making changes that disrupt the lives of thousands of law-abiding and skilled employees, and that inflict substantial harm on U.S. competitiveness..
They are not supposed to settle here with their families. H1b is supposed to be a TEMPORARY work visa. Not a path to citizenship!
In his talk, Cissna suggested a more comprehensive immigration crackdown is coming.
.On the things we’re doing on H-1Bs and all that, the worker visas, we haven’t really done that much yet,. Cissna said. More investigative interviews are “almost certainly” on the horizon, he indicated.
.It.s kind of remarkable that you could have somebody come to the country, get a student visa . say they come over as a tourist. Then they change to a student visa. Then they study for four years. Then they get a master’s degree. So they’re six years. Then they get an H-1B, and that’s another three years. Then they get another extension and another three,. he said, then added that such a person could also receive an Optional Practical Training work permit along the way allowing for up to three additional years of work.
.So you could have a person here for a dozen years and we never talk to them,. he said. .I don’t think that’s prudent..
Hot damn, a Federal bureaucrat who cares about doing his job right. There’s going to be more of that attitude, too, as the Commiefornia Deep State intentionally runs foul of the Federal Deep State. I’m not using hyperbole when I say Sacramento & friends’ insistence on mass immigration at all costs had already led them to openly defy and sabotage Federal border control efforts, obstruct federal law enforcement from performing their primary duties and seek political and economic ties with foreign powers considered by the Federal gov’t to be urgent national security threats. That threatens the power bases of many little fiefdoms and thus far, only Trump Derangement Syndrome is preventing a massive bureaucratic backlash.
This will be the first time I fisk an article’s comments in preference to the actual article. Normally I just participate in the comments but in this case, the blog is so heavily gatekept that participation isn’t an option for me. An interesting article came to my attention via Vox Day: .The Next Generation Of Democratic Leaders Wants To Move Up, But The Baby Boomers Are In The Way.
WASHINGTON . Ambitious, young House Democrats have a problem: At a time when the party is calling for generational change, there are few opportunities to advance.
Leadership has long been static for Democrats in the House. Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Jim Clyburn, the top three Democrats, respectively, have all been at the top of the House Democratic ladder for more than a decade. And none have shown any signs of leaving; Pelosi has said she expects to be speaker if Democrats retake the House in November.
Nancy Pel-Zombie. I feel better about those fat Congressional pensions, seeing how few of our Congressional liches are willing to actually use them. Looks like they simply didn’t want to risk trusting their families to care for them in old age.
That stagnation has some Democrats worried that their caucus is bleeding talent, and it has left two options for the party’s rising stars . try to work their way up outside of the traditional leadership structure or head for the exits. .
The House of Representatives has always been seen as a training ground for higher office, and it’s hardly surprising that members would leave for positions where they could punch higher at a time when Republicans control Congress and the White House. And while the number of Democrats exiting the House this year isn’t much different than in previous congresses, the departure of some of the caucus’s rising stars is particularly striking at a time when Democrats may be poised to win back the House in 2018.
This cycle, Reps. Beto O.Rourke, Jacky Rosen, and Kyrsten Sinema are all running for Senate seats. Reps. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Jared Polis, and Tim Walz are running for governor in their states. Rep. Keith Ellison, the number two official at the Democratic National Committee, is seeking the Minnesota attorney general position (a decision he announced months before an ex-girlfriend accused him of abuse). Rep. Colleen Hanabusa also made an unsuccessful bid for a gubernatorial seat. Rep. John Delaney is running for president.
New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney also took a stab at becoming New York attorney general, but is running for reelection to his House seat after losing that primary.
Those departures come after two lower-level members of House leadership, who were seen as potential heirs apparent, also left the House. Chris Van Hollen ran for Senate in 2016 and won, while Xavier Becerra left the House in January 2017 for a post as California’s attorney general.
Sigh, hopes dashed. Hopes for that magical .I.m leaving politics to try my hand at honest work. oh God, what have I done to my country?. moment of clarity. Instead, Democrat Representatives are.the horror.leaving their junior coffee-fetcher offices in Congress to be senior executives at the state level. Exactly what any of us would do in their position. It’s no loss to the Party if a rising star spends a term or two as California’s Attorney Fricking General. Why is this Buzzfeed twat wasting our time with this story?
Politics 101: Absent a big scandal, incumbents win reelection 90% of the time. It’s a huge advantage. The problem with all these sitting Reps leaving the House is the Dems can’t run an incumbent for that seat, which in turn means they have to thwart the Trumpslide in a fair contest.
Yep. Trump Derangement Syndrome again.
Also, old-guard Democrats believe in totalitarian control of society. Their vision for the future is that state governments will be merely the implementers (and probably fundraisers) for the grand Utopian visions of Elites so old that they might have been in the mob that crucified Jesus. From that perspective, losing control of Congress to gain control of ten state governments is a net loss. The new guard believes in identity politics and from that perspective, local control is preferable to distant control.
Dems have long been the Party of Greed. How fitting that in their last desperate grab for centralized control of USA, many of its members have put their personal agendas before that of the Party Necromancers whose only use for allies is headcount at voting time.
So, not an interesting article. But VD.s blog comments have some gold to be mined. Just semi-random thoughts on Boomerism and the direction of the working world.
9. OGRE October 16, 2018 11:27 AM I.m surprised they haven’t gone full on head-in-a-jar yet, because if anybody would do that it would be the Boomers.
More likely, the Deep State would suppress the death reports, embalm the bodies and apply robotics to create a literal puppet government. Remember Hillary’s seizures? That reeked of beta testing and formaldehyde.
24. DonReynolds October 16, 2018 12:10 PM For most of my lifetime, we used to point and snicker at the ruling Soviet Politburo, because their average age was…gasp..about 70. That was supposed to be a valid criticism. (Hillary Clinton will turn 71 a week from Friday.)
You can compare that to Japan where the MANDATORY retirement age is 55!
27. kurt9 October 16, 2018 12:13 PM As some else pointed out here, a lot of these 60.s ex-hippy types are actually late silents (born around 1940), not boomers, although the boomers followed them right over the edge. So these people are actually in their late 70.s. Nancy Pelosi is definitely experiencing age-related cognitive decline.
The thing about these people is that they are second-raters (the FDR New Deal Democrats were first-raters) and we know from the .Entrepreneur’s Manual. (Richard M. White) that second-rates tend to hire third-raters (guys like Keith Ellison) because they do not want to hire anyone competent enough to threaten their own job security.
This is why the Democratic party reads like its from the Onion these days.
29. kurt9 October 16, 2018 12:18 PM The other factor is that, starting in 1993, the Clintons treated the party as there own personal fiefdom. They tended to purge anyone competent in a very Stalinesque fashion because they did not want any possible competition to Hillary to emerge in the party. This, combined with the narcissism of the 60.s generation as well as them being second-raters hiring third-raters, is the reason why the Democratic party is in such disarray these days.
Obama made it in .08 partly because he created his own organization outside the party and because he was the ideal minority dream candidate that the left has dreamed about for 2 generations.
54. Mister Excitement October 16, 2018 1:08 PM It baffles me why these Boomers continue to hold on the way they do.
Just look at Rex Tillerson. The man is well into his older years, but before he got tapped for Sec of State, he was the CEO of a huge corporation and had been for years.
He.s just one example. Look at the CEOs at a lot of the major corps. in the US. These guys are elderly, yet are still dragging themselves out of bed every day, putting on a suit, and going off to work.
How much more money do these people need? Enjoy yourselves, Boomers. You’re not going to live forever.
It.s undeniably true that Boomers refuse to retire even when they can easily afford to and refuse to train their replacements, preferring to hire total incompetents from attractive young girls (understandable) to Third Worlders who don’t even speak English (utterly inexplicable). I don’t have a theory on why they feel so insecure; it was, until Carter, a great time to be alive. I can only point out Boomers were the first to grow up with television and the Church silently died during their youth. Also, this comment:
81. berb2000 October 16, 2018 2:55 PM I suppose my only idea of boomers is my parents and their buddies. When I look back at how I was raised I think the main thing that aggravates me is how all the women seemed to degrade their husbands at every turn. It was like a “thing” for women in the 1970.s. Then most of them would get hateful when their husbands stepped out on them or turned into drunks or whatever. I am not so sure that it is a total boomer issue as it is feminist hijacking so many minds and trying to recreate nature with false narratives. My dad always spent as much time as he could with my sister and I while he worked his ass off building F-4.s to kill communist in Vietnam. My mom stayed in bed when she wasn’t working and complained about everything all the god damn time. She has since reverted to reality and is loving and a very good woman, but man for my childhood she was a pain in the ass.
In Scripture, the best way to corrupt Israel was to corrupt the women first. Female Boomerism is probably the place to look, for researchers more savvy about women than me.
49. Richard Holmes October 16, 2018 1:00 PM Back in the 60.s, the saying was “Never trust anyone over 30.. Just add 50 years to that, and that’s what the boomers are saying now.
Yeah, I know. I am a late boomer. I have never said that stuff. I never bought into their BS. But I have been blamed for everything they did. Perhaps I could have done something. I wonder if anyone who has had computers and internet their entire life understand that we really wasn’t exposed to the baby boomer bs like they were in the 90.s and later. I was taught to stay away from they hippies, my friends and I considered them very bad. We were actually scared of them. We got our modern information from the 5 o clock news. And 75% of the time we were too busy to watch it.
I am unsure how to take this boomer bashing. I agree with it, but I’m a target. I wouldn’t mind being a target if I bought into their BS. I don’t know what to do about it. Maybe I can.t. No one under 40 trusts me. Heh, ironic eh?
60. Damelon Brinn October 16, 2018 1:19 PM I am unsure how to take this boomer bashing. I agree with it, but I’m a target.
The key is to avoid solipsism and realize that you are not the same as a group you happen to be in, so when the group is criticized, you as an individual are not the “target.” Whether the criticism applies to *you* should be completely separate from whether it’s true of the group. This seems nearly impossible for Boomers to do, but it’s worth a try.
If you criticize Xers, on the other hand, the loudest agreement will come from other Xers. That’s probably not the best way to be either, but at least it’s not Boomer.
I face this challenge myself, being a Californian. Too many Netizens can’t believe there are still nice spots & people in it.
58. Azimus October 16, 2018 1:18 PM The real problem with the boomers is that they didn’t breed. I am in SE Wisconsin, and EVERY manufacturing plant is experiencing catastrophic turnover with no backbench in the next 5-10yrs. A little more than half my plant’s workforce is Boomer, almost 3/4 of the skill positions. There is no one out there to replace them except revolving door blockheads. The best recruits we’re getting right now are from Venezuela in terms of employable, good attendance hard working good attitude . but they speak 50-100 words of English. It’s a tough time and we’re begging the boomers to stay longer because, basically, they aborted or failed to appropriately raise their children and there’s no one to replace them with.
63. Lurker October 16, 2018 1:28 PM .The real problem with the boomers is that they didn’t breed..
The ones that made it, (Xers) raised themselves.
.A little more than half my plant’s workforce is Boomer.
And still not mentoring. Big surprise! But plenty of time for vacations and ignoring the grandkids.
64. Stg58/Animal Mother October 16, 2018 1:40 PM Refineries are the same way. Lots of turnover, with a gap where the next generation of workers should be. Engineers, technicians, etc. The problem doesn’t exist in midstream and upstream, though, because unions dont really exist in those segments of oil and gas. Refineries are old guard, hidebound, and ossified places. Midstream and upstream are more flexible and open to new ideas and ways of doing things. Lots of young guys there too.
Me, I wanted in. I tried to get in. I did all that was asked of me. I was unwanted by my own people and the realization scarred me for life. Now that I managed to become a peer of my industry’s leaders, I believe the schizophrenics are on to something with their idea that most people have behavior-controlling microchips in their brains. Industry leaders simply WILL NOT STOP hiring women and minorities. They won’t even talk about it and the times I forced the issue, I saw fear and frustration. The laws aren’t making them do it. Something else is, something they don’t understand and can’t control.
Original Sin is a Hellish mindfuck.
98. Cataline Sergius October 16, 2018 4:13 PM None of those old Women’s Libbers will willingly give up a shred of personal power.
Nancy Pelosi should have stepped aside years ago and she won’t until she’s either did or loses a primary.
DiFi, is nearly senile but she won’t give up her seat in the Senate without someone getting out the pliers and prying her claws out of it. She may have just thrown the election is her quest to stay in the Senate.
Then there is .It’s My Turn. Hillary. A woman who should have accepted the judgement of her nation and retired from public life. She’s still portraying herself as the leader of the opposition despite the fact that the rank and file wish to god she would just shut up and go away.
When it comes to these old Women’s Lib types, power is the all and the everything. It’s nearly a pathological obsession for them.
If you ever study female serial killers, you will see a variant on this need. It’s all about power there too. Male serial killers hunt but females gather.
99. Azure Amaranthine October 16, 2018 4:14 PM .When it comes to these old Women’s Lib types, power is the all and the everything. It’s nearly a pathological obsession for them..
That.s more or less the definition of a witch.
As a true-crime aficionado, I haven’t really seen this. Serial killing tend to follow sexual behavior: males prefer to kill total strangers and females kill as part of serial monogamy. But the insight is intriguing.
114. Dire Badger October 16, 2018 5:33 PM Freddy wrote: The abject disdain the controllers have for the controlled can be demonstrated in the following example: type illuminati into your browser backwards followed by “com” They laugh all day long at us hiding in plain sight.
Dude, that redirect was done by a guy I knew in Provo as a Joke over a decade ago.
Get your head out of your ass. There are plenty of real conspiracies to get worked up about (Monsanto and the FDA, Big Pharma, and the globalist population-movers) without wasting your energy on practical jokes that STILL pick up suckers and thinking they are “laughing at you..
They aren’t laughing. They are deadly serious.
Yep. I only heed conspiracies that I can see for myself, too. There’s more than enough of those to keep me up at night.
109. Br.er Shaygetz October 16, 2018 5:03 PM Nobody behind me can do my job. I’m a pattern maker at a foundry.no computer programs, just real woodworking. It’s a dying yet vital trade, even in the age of printed molds.
120. Dirk Manly October 16, 2018 6:03 PM @109 .Nobody behind me can do my job. I’m a pattern maker at a foundry.no computer programs, just real woodworking. It’s a dying yet vital trade, even in the age of printed molds..
The U.S. Army (and i.m sure the other services, too) teach the following:
If you’re not teaching those behind you how to fill your shoes, you’re failing at your job.
What happens if you get hit by a bus tomorrow? If you haven’t prepared at least 2 people to step up, you’re not doing your part to continue the organization.
122. Off The Wall October 16, 2018 6:30 PM [@Dirk Manly,]
That.s military service. They pay you to do that and you get a pension.
In private industry you will just put yourself out of work, especially if the ones you are teaching are H1B types.
124. Dirk Manly October 16, 2018 7:01 PM [@#122,]
If you’re the ONLY guy who knows how to run the XYZ machine, then how can I promote you into some position OTHER than running the XYZ machine?
Training your replacement ALSO opens the door for your promotion.
.In private industry you will just put yourself out of work, especially if the ones you are teaching are H1B types..
Nobody said you have to train foreigners who aren’t supposed to even be here in the first place.
130. weka October 16, 2018 7:20 PM What happened bus that apprenticeships and trade schools were destroyed.
I have spent the last two.decades training the next generation. All that time I have been fighting bean counters who don’t care about sustainability.
Globalisation and managerialism have a lot to answer for.
Which is why I back the alt right.
A good exchange. Any highly skilled worker who doesn’t train the next generation is either a schizoid [extremely limited introvert] or heartless. One of Christ’s main examples was discipleship; that is not only for Church leadership.
It.s a sore spot with me. I have a long list of certifications and skills that I’ve been “educated” repeatedly yet I can’t do them in actual practice. I would be better off in ignorance than having a head full of untethered factoids. Book learning is no replacement for mentorship. In turn, mentorship is apparently no replacement for short-sighted returns on investment.
If your read “aromatic women” then I did, too. But no, this is the new, exciting female equivalent to incel! Fire up the hamster translator and put another A on the LGBTXYZFAQ because “not tonight, dear, I have a headache” is the latest sexual orientation. From the Huffington Post by way of Instapundit:
What It Means To Be ‘Aromantic,’ According To Aromantic People
I swear I get a banner ad for Pepto-Bismol just for linking this.
Having crushes, dating and falling in love may seem like universal human experiences, but that’s not the case for everyone. People who identify as aromantic . or “aro” for short . don’t experience romantic attraction and generally aren’t interested in romantic relationships.
Neither do “fuck her & chuck her” PUAs. Is this a counter-revolutionary “fuck him & chuck him” movement? N count overflow error!
While some people identify as both aromantic (not feeling romantic attraction) and asexual (not feeling sexual attraction), the two don’t necessarily go hand in hand. Some people are asexual but not aromantic, while others are aromantic but not asexual.
This is beginning continuing to sound made up.
Aromanticism exists on spectrum, and individual experiences vary from person to person. There’s no agreed-upon definition of what does or does not constitute romance. For example, some people might consider making out to be sexual, others might consider it romantic, and that can change depending on the circumstances.
Damn the sample size, all aromantics are females. This is so Barbie that I can’t even. Only women can think that circumstances define whether making out is sexual.
.Many aromantic people are mocked as losers, people that can’t get a date, or haven’t met the right person yet, but that’s not the case,. Lee said. “Aromanticism is a valid orientation, not something to be cured or shrugged off..
Claiming victimhood a little too early there, tits. This sounds a lot like the stereotypical incel complaint but credit to the incel community, they don’t call it a sexual orientation or find a way to claim social status with it. So, how does this “female incel”-ish thingie work?
To learn more about what it means to be aromantic, we asked three people who identify that way . illustrator Kotaline Jones [real name Lydia Nguyen, a cartoonist and 3 of 10] and Jenny W. and Milly R., admins for the Instagram account @justaroacethings . to tell us about their own experiences.
When and how did you realize you were aromantic?
Milly: I began to identify as asexual when I was 16 and first heard the term, but it never clicked that I was aromantic as well. I knew I felt some connection to aromanticism but I denied that feeling. It was hard, and took a few months to realize, but when I finally accepted that I was aromantic, I broke down and cried. I was 18. I’d never had crushes and felt uncomfortable in romantic relationships, but it still felt like something had been stolen from me. That promise of a future with true love and marriage and a fairy tale ending was suddenly gone, even though I still wanted it.
Translation: “I’m so ugly that I’ll never attract a husband!” A 16-18yo girl who never got hit on realizes her sexual orientation is not attracting male attention.
Jenny: I started to consider that I might be aromantic earlier this year when I found @justaroacethings on Instagram. I was 18 at the time and have since turned 19. I already knew I was asexual, and I was aware of what “aromantic” meant, but I hadn’t looked into it further. I had assumed it was a term that didn’t apply to me because I had been in romantic relationships before and thought that meant I must have experienced romantic attraction. However, I read practically every post by @justaroacethings and followed lots of similar accounts, so I eventually began to notice that I related to the posts about aromanticism, as well as the ones about asexuality.
This girl at the peak of her sexual attractiveness, defines her personality by not doing anything to lock down a husband. Is she ugly too or are bitter spinsters putting whispers in her head? No, not a spinster… Instagram.
GunnerQ: When I ate a bad can of chili on a camping trip.
Just checking your attention. The word count was probably a giveaway. I can’t stop reading it as “aromatic”.
What does being aromantic mean to you?
Kotaline: I don’t really think I have a right to define being aromantic broadly, but my experience with aromanticism is that I just don’t really have a drive to pursue a relationship with another person or even imagine a future relationship. I don’t want a romantic partner, I haven’t felt romantically attracted to another person for years, and it’s not really a big deal for me.
Thank God women didn’t write the dictionary. They don’t have the right!
Jenny: To me, being aromantic means freedom, as terribly cliche as that sounds. Growing up, we’re all told that we’ll one day fall in love, move in with a romantic partner, get married, have children, etc. That’s what I was told by everyone around me, so it’s what I learned to expect and I never really questioned it. But since realizing I’m aromantic, I’ve realized that’s not what I want and it never has been. It was merely what I expected of me. I am free to decide what my future looks like, rather than getting into relationships I don’t want simply because I feel obliged to.
Freedom from the expectations of men, she means. Does Jenny have a trust fund or an overprotective father? It isn’t healthy, emotionally or physically, for a young woman to not want a husband.
Are you interested in being in a relationship or partnership now or in the future?
Jenny: I’ve realized that I don’t want romantic relationships, but personally, I do still want a committed relationship, specifically a queer/quasi-platonic relationship or QPR. A QPR is a companionate relationship with a commitment level similar to that of a romantic relationship, but it is different from the typical romantic/sexual relationship. A QPR is defined by it’s lack of “traditional” romantic expectations, and can involve as many or as few sexual or romantically coded activities as the partners choose, depending on what they’re comfortable with.
Jenny doesn’t know what platonic means. No possible, legitimate definition of quasi-platonic relationship can involve “many sexual or romantically coded activities.”
Have you been in relationships in the past?
Kotaline: I really have always preferred to be alone… [141 words to the contrary omitted]
Kotaline is physically ugly.
But instead of developing a redeeming personality, she discovered her aromatic side. Er, aromantic.
HAHAHAHAAAAAA! Barbie would be MISERABLE! is she lowered her standards so she wouldn’t end up alone! By the way, Kotaline is a published cartoonist. She could attract a nerd with no difficulty despite being a 3 out of 10.
Jenny: [I’m only romantic when I’m in the mood. 124 redundant words omitted.]
So much for this being a sexual orientation.
Do you still enjoy rom-coms, romantic books and love songs?
Kotaline: I definitely still enjoy romantic media! [55 words omitted]
Hypocrisy. It’s all about the girl’s attitude towards men. Women don’t want to be playful, kindhearted, interested in us. Why bother? The government gives these females all the resources they want and their youth gives them all the attention they want, so they don’t need to give men a second thought except as a hobby. Until the Wall ends the attention and easy cash and they discover true misery in the form of bitter spinsterhood.
Milly: …I once waited a month before I finally liked romance enough to enjoy “To All the Boys I Loved Before..
The article ends with:
These interviews have been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.
I reduced it another 90%+ because WordPress limits me to one petabyte of storage space per blog post. Unlimited internet social media is truly chick crack.
The fact that William Lind’s blog is “traditionalright.com” is alone sufficient to mark him as a Tradcon. Like the Left, Tradcon interest in religion is mostly in how its tenets can be Converged to humanist purposes. Although Tradcons are a good deal less cynical while doing so.
Beginning in the 1960s, most mainline Protestant churches fractured over two divergent understandings of Christianity. In one camp are those who believe Christianity was revealed in the person of Jesus Christ, in Holy Scripture, and in the traditions of the early church. The duty of present-day Christians is to pass that heritage, unaltered and undiminished to future generations until the Lord comes again. In the other camp are those who believe the faith must reflect the Zeitgeist, altering itself as necessary to maintain a broad appeal. They see revelation as an ongoing process in which new commandments can override old.
In other words, the Prot Church split into loyalists and apostates. That was healthy and no split at all, the apostates no longer being Christian.
Under a veneer of unity, this same tension has been present within the Roman Catholic church. With the release of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano’s recent letter attributing priestly pedophilia to a widespread toleration of homosexuality among Roman clergy, the fracture is in the open. The Zeitgeist has proclaimed homosexuality normal and, as in the mainline Protestant churches, the faction within the Roman church that follows the Zeitgeist must follow suit. To traditional Christians this is anathema. Rome appears headed for schism.
To ALL Christians, sodomy is an abomination. Anybody who disagrees, disagrees with God. There’s a lot Christians can argue about with each other but God’s design of human sexuality is not one of them. Again, those Christians who accommodated the world were apostates, not Christians.
This may be good news.
It is not. It is not even “new” news. The devil always tries to subvert the Church when destroying it is not an option.
A schism within the Roman church and the emergence of a sizeable Roman “continuing church” would create the possibility of a second Reformation, with the difference that this Reformation would unify rather than divide. “Continuing church.” Protestants and Catholics would have more in common with each other than with modernizers in their own denominations; the same would be true for the other side. It is conceivable that Catholics and Protestants could unite in two new churches, one reflecting Zeitgeist, the other upholding traditional Christianity. Given the number of both Catholic and Protestants traditionalists, a new, united “continuing church” might be the larger/large enough to wield substantial cultural and political power.
I’m shocked this guy understands even the concept of nations. Prots and Cats are both Christian but sacrificing what makes us distinct is to sacrifice our God-provided identities. Just as Americans and Englishmen can be brothers without the former adopting Parliament in place of the Constitution and the latter abandoning all titles of royalty. There is no Platonic form of either “white man” or “Christian”.
To be sure, the obstacles would be significant, especially for the traditionalists. Traditional Protestants and Catholics would each have to look back before the Reformation to find common ground. Protestants would have to accept a Catholic understanding of the Eucharist and adopt a valid liturgy for their communion services (even some Baptist churches had liturgy up into the early 1900s). Catholics would have to share the Apostolic Succession with non-Catholic male clergy and forego requiring that Protestants accept the innovations arising out of the Council of Trent, Vatican I and Vatican II. The Holy Spirit would have to do some heavy lifting to make a union come about.
Lind’s ignorance of Christianity is showing. Catholics depend upon a centralized Church structure and the Protest of Protestants is trusting Church centralization. Which side is going to win in a merger?
The Church will be unified when Christ returns. Only then will Cats give up Apostolic succession and us Prots loosen our deathgrip on Scripture. Until then, unification of the Christian Church is a Globalist priority, a Satanic priority. Not a Christian priority. Why can’t Lind see this? In the same paragraph, he complains about the Vatican becoming the greatest child molestation conspiracy in human history then hopes that fact will encourage divided, hostile elements of the Church to unify into a similar, globalized organization. To repeat the cycle?
What might be the strategic implications of such a second Reformation? Since the end of the Thirty Years. War in 1648, the West has discounted religion as a strategic factor. But at present, the primary strategic weakness of the West is that it no longer believes in itself. Western culture’s will to live died in World War I, in the mud and slaughter of the Western Front. After the Somme, Verdun, and Passchendaele, the best lacked all conviction. Fascism attempted to recover by exalting the will, but fascism failed, felled by its own errors. And so today as the old West, Europe, is invaded by hordes of mendicants from strange cultures, the European elites offer their countries as doormats.
AS MANDATED AND ENFORCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION! The nations of Europe sacrificed parts of their identity into the EU and within one generation, the EU decided to exterminate all of Europe’s identity, culture and demographics. Many nations now want their individuality back but the globalists are unwilling.
Why should we Christians do the same? Why sacrifice parts of our identity, our humanity, to form yet another global organization? Historian Lind, do you not yet see a pattern?
As Russell Kirk wrote, .Culture comes from the cult.” Religion has been at the heart of most, perhaps all cultures since human culture arose. While the First World War collapsed the West’s faith in itself, the religion at the core of Western culture had long been under assault by rationalism.
Rationalism? Let’s clarify that term. Christians basically invented science. We’re the ones who believe the world is comprehensible, not the “rationalists” who value Godless reason because they think it can reason away God. Look at the current state of science to see the result of that ‘rationalist’ approach, where Pussy Pass is now more important that scholarship. Actual science, understanding Nature in order to understand Nature’s God, has given way to STEM: practical applications of what has already been learned (and not yet forgotten).
Rationalism, like Evolution, is the belief that there is no God; that in fact, there is nothing beyond observable reality. Although both rationalists and evolutionists have been increasingly uncomfortable with observable reality, too.
Fractured by the first Reformation, the church could no longer speak with the united voice necessary to reply convincingly (about this, see Brad S. Gregory’s recent book, The Unintended Reformation). To Descartes. “Cogito ergo sum,. a united church would have answered, .Non est. Dues cogitavit, ergo es..
Here, Lind rejects truth as a basis for morality in favor of authority as a basis for morality. Neither Prots nor Cats accept any human authority as the basis of morality. Whether by Scripture or established Tradition, Creator God is the source of morality because He designed us before telling us how we should live. Nothing about the Reformation invalidated God as humanity’s guiding light.
How can Western culture recover the will to live when, in Europe, the churches are empty because most of the clergy no longer believe the Nicene Creed, while in the U.S. many of the most popular churches preach a therapeutic narcissism that has little to do with taking up your cross and following Jesus? Among the ruling elites in both Europe and America, Christian faith is regarded as spiritual eczema, an unfortunate condition to be covered up in public. It can have no role to play in strategy; the very notion is absurd.
You cannot make bread without flour. This is “Christian faith”: God is real and the Creator of all. The way to restore Western culture is not to give up our uniqueness in order to form the New and Improved, and Mandatory, Pan-Catholic-Protestant Church (PCPC). This is the way: humans are a Created species; evolution is a lie. The institution of marriage was designed by God and altering it in any way, including general sexuality and gender roles, is blasphemy against reality. All men, specifically the unsexy boring ones you don’t care about, are worthy of the Elites’ respect. Believe in this and the Creator who decreed this, and you will embody all that made the Christian West great. No NGO required.
If Lind would see the West become Christian again then he can start by preaching people should believe in Christ because He is the one true God and His teachings are correct. Not by twisting Christianity into a path to power. Here’s the flour for your bread, Mister Lind: God is real!
Lind claims religion is the root of human culture but he doesn’t believe that himself. Nowhere does he uphold Christian beliefs; his only interest is in seeing us create yet another 501c3 Political Action Committee for the purpose of reenacting the secular environment he one enjoyed. Why won’t we bitter dregs unionize per the globalists’ rules? It would bring us worldly power at the low, low price of freedom of belief! We could be the next Vatican! Oops.
This, then, is the potential strategic significance of a second Reformation, one that unites all traditional Christians in one church: the West’s recovery of the will to live. Far from being strategically unimportant, religion is now as it always has been, one of the most powerful strategic factors, a lesson the Islamics teach us regularly on our own soil. Culture comes from the cult, and a united church, marching as to war, could revive Western people.s. belief in their culture and in themselves. Deus vult.
This is the practical strategic significance of a second Reformation, one that unites all traditional Christians in one church: instead of having to physically hunt down every last believer in Christ, the devil can simply co-opt our global(ist) command structure and tell us what to believe about our “Christian faith”. China is already doing this, rewriting the Bible for use by all “official” denominations. For all his education and accomplishments, William Lind is as much a cargo cultist as the original, illiterate Polynesians.
He mentions Islam and the lesson it regularly teaches us. That lesson would be “if you’re squatting on endless oil fields then it doesn’t matter what kind of lying bullshit you believe”. Muslims are unstoppable conquerors because their globalist handlers buy them bus tickets and order local police to stand down. Their marriages stay intact because they’re exempted from divorce courts. They worship a Prophet who couldn’t be bothered to practice the very religion he preached. The best ways to get into paradise are murder of unarmed unbelievers and being killed by a falling building. And paradise? It’s the place where drinking booze never makes you drunk and Twinkies never make you fat and the women are always virgins no matter how many times and holes you use.
Does that sound like any kind of revelation or truth? Or even strength? It sounds like Mohammed polled a hookah den. It is Islam that needs a Reformation, a Re-formation into Christianity. But everybody loves a winner and the Petrodollar Muzzies are the Elites’ current favorites. Does Lind wonder why we Christians won’t be more like that?
Why would we want to be? We follow Christ to be CORRECT. The truth will survive all tests, specifically including death. Christ guaranteed that with His own resurrection.
Meanwhile, Mr. Lind wants us to hold a Second Reformation to build a Global Church capable of physically conquering the world for God. Because the Almighty needs our help? God is the male in His relationship to humanity. God is in control of our situation and it’s pure arrogance to think the Almighty will ever fail because we followed Christ’s example of not casually slaughtering unbelievers. It is the devil, not Christ, who will punish us for being politically weak.
The strength of the Church is Christ. Not political solidarity, not ruthless savagery, not petrodollars and *facepalm* not in temporarily sacrificing our identity in Christ for realpolitik. That is not Christ’s example to us. He isn’t here today but one day He will return and the world will get the merciless, conquering, successful tyrant it always demanded Him to be.
It took Vox Day less time than my night nap to lock down a potential third party instigator for IndieGoGo shutting down AH:Q then lying about the reason being a freshly discovered violation of terms of service.
Jason Yungbluth. Wide, cupped ears denote an extreme nonconformist. Nose is thin and (AFAIK) straight, indicating rational over emotional. I believe he has the line on his septum which indicates his work must be personally meaningful to him, even at the cost of money. A bulbous nose is a general indicator of profit motive, which isn’t here to balance that out. Eyes are mostly neutral. Eyebrows are almost nonexistent, indicating a chameleonic personality. Determination lines on the brow. Top third of the head is dominant so he exists mainly in the intellectual plane, neither the ambitious middle-third nor the well-grounded lower third… although I see his choice of beard tries hard to give him a more masculine jawline. In other pictures of him, it’s hard to see if his jaw needs the help.
Nonconformist, organized inner life, chameleon, some determination, his chosen work will reflect his personality. This guy doesn’t conform to social norms, is happy about that and (determination plus septum line) will try to make a living off violating social norms… but in an intellectual capacity… artist/cartoonist fits.
About that chosen work. What’s the first thing you think about with that picture? Charlie Brown, because of that unique shirt. Yungbluth was advertising a comic of his when he admitted to possible tortious interference between IndieGoGo and Vox Day, links below. The name of that comic is… Weapon Brown.
Violating social norms much? And look at Mister Weapon’s forehead. That’s as unique as the shirt.
Money quote: “What am I butt hurt about, exactly? I got Vox Day’s IGG campaign cancelled, and now is worried its going to blow back on him. You’re welcome. – Jason Yungbluth, Twitter, 6:44 PM, 12 Oct 2018″
It wasn’t hard to locate Yungbluth’s general opinion towards VD. I’ll give the article a fisking. (Why do VD’s enemies feel compelled to use his real name? My guess is that doxxing him was the only time they scored a clear-cut victory off him. Calling him by his real name will give us power over him!… if we try it just one more time…)
I wonder if there are physiognometic indicators for arrested childhood development. This is a well-drawn caricature spoiled by at least four sexually infantile gestures. Like the kobolds of fantasy roleplaying, SJWs have real talents that would carry them far in the world, if only they would give up huddling in dark warrens and anklebiting the surface world of emotionally healthy people.
Lack of a disgust reflex will have to suffice.
This past Sunday, Theodore Beale, a science-fiction author who pens under the name Vox Day, concluded a month-long crowdfunding campaign he has been running to raise money for a project designed to make superheroes great again.
Beale, you should know, is not only an author, but also a well-established B-lister in online racist politics. And while he is ostensibly a man of letters, his driving purpose in recent years has been to gain glory for himself in any way that does not involve impressing the literary community with his work. Now he hopes to also not impress anyone with his new line of comic books, titled .Alt-Hero..
Beale, you should know, is a doubleplusungood cismale. Just so you know. Because you should know that you shouldn’t like him at all.
Do “men of letters” never seek glory for themselves? And why should he try to impress the “literary community”? Do liberals not occasionally value profit over artistic success?Hello, Michael Bay! What you did to my childhood’s Transformers was a profitable crime… and also had a masturbation scene, much like Yungbluth’s opening caricature.
Beale began blazing a trail of infamy in 2013 by losing an election for the presidency of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s of America organization, and subsequently being expelled from that body for tweeting bigoted insults to some of its members. He has turned defaming and trolling the author John Scalzi (his unrequited crush) into a personal Manhattan Project, dipped his toe into #Gamergate (that effort by chauvinist gamers to harass female game designers with threats of violence and rape) and most recently ran the “Rabid Puppies” campaign to stuff the ballots for the annual Hugo science fiction awards, yet another trolling campaign, one designed to get obnoxious and unqualified authors listed as finalists.
A useful scorecard for Vox Day’s rise to Dark Lord infamy, if a little one-sided. Remember, folks, the winning comes first. Only then do you get to write the history books.
Beale pitched Alt-Hero “which is about a world populated with bigoted superheroes…as a poke in the eye to Marvel and DC ; punishment, you might say, for allowing a leftist social agenda to creep into their products. …
That is not what Vox Day said. This is the promotion fallacy, if I remember my SJWs Always Double Down correctly. First they attribute motives and statements to you, then they attack you for those motives and statements.
There is no punishment VD could inflict on Marvel & DC that could match their self-inflicted wounds. The big names abandoned their core market and VD smelled money. It’s that simple. VD isn’t trying to prove a point. He’s trying to score bushels of money while you morons are too busy warping beloved old comics into loathsome parodies to be concerned with profit. Good grief, Charlie Brown!
Beale crowdfunded his comic book through a fly-by-night operation called Freestartr. Freestartr is run by a couple of reactionary dingbats who are minor names in the alt-right movement: Charles C. Johnson and Peter Duke. Freestartr’s handful of open campaigns have raised almost no money (although the site does falsely claim to have generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for people who actually raised their funds through one of Chuck Johnson’s other enterprises). Beale’s campaign is a notable exception.
Freestartr is badthink because it chose to associate with Beale. It’s a total failure except for Beale’s successful campaign.
Predictably, Freestartr’s buggy platform lacks the features that anyone who has funded a project through Kickstarter would expect, such as a ready means to enter international shipping data or to add or remove money from a pledge. Beale’s campaign was equally sloppy, offering no project overview, no breakdown of the costs, and no ETA for the project to be delivered (.It will be done when it is done,. Beale told me in an e-mail). There was little production art to speak of, and what was on display ran the gamut from “not bad” to “godawful.”
Freestartr and Beale did such a horrible job that the crowdfunding was doomed to fail, except it exceeded its target goal by 900%. A smarter humanoid would look at why it succeeded and if perhaps such metrics are these weren’t necessary, instead of dismissing it all as yet another profitable exception in a long list of profitable exceptions, all by the same guy.
The SJW would rather envy the success of others than try to duplicate it.
The stories that Beale was teasing, about white vigilantes beating up immigrants, and evil “cucked” superheroes doing battle with a nationalist European vanguard, sounded like something cooked up by a lifer at San Quentin.
Yungbluth is offending ME with this, not VD. I’m the comics customer, the awkward white male with lots of spending money because I don’t have a girlfriend, the nerd with so much cerebral horsepower that playing in a fantasy world is fun, a ordinary guy who bitterly clings to God and guns and neighbors who look & act like me.
With all these strikes against the project you might think that Beale would have had trouble raising the $25,000 he was asking for. NOPE! The project raked in $244,565, donated by a total of 2190 anonymous backers, including $47,500 from a handful who pledged between $1500 and $5000 for a chance to appear in the comic or to design a character for it. (I.ll pause while you rush to the toilet.)
Businessman: HOLY SHIT there’s a huge, untapped market here!
Social Justice Warrior: HOLY SHIT people I don’t like are even stupider than I thought!
You can’t argue with success, and you also can’t argue with Beale’s fan base, whose servility would embarrass Jim Jones. After prowling his blog’s comments sections it became clear to me that many of his fans, if not most, cared little for the product they were funding, and were motivated more by their politics and the satisfaction of trolling a fandom that could not give a rat’s ass. They thrilled to the idea that Beale’s gay villain (sigh..he.s called .Rainbow.) will portray homosexuality as deviant, and they were highly animated by the fact that Alt-Hero features a superhero who smokes (a swipe at Disney’s decision to remove all cigarettes from Marvel’s comics and movies). This, they think, will blow the comic book world’s little mind.
Will these manchildren be proven right? Is the world of soopy-doopy heroes about to receive a hot lava enema from the villainous “Vox Day.?
Through the benefit of a career spent publishing comic books and running Kickstarters, I will now do that which Teddy would not and let his fans know exactly how their money will be spent.
On a quality finished product comparable to the first two Alt-Hero series which, for all my complaints about ninja female protagonists, were expertly executed with an interesting plotline and delivered in a timely fashion despite not having an explicit shipping date. The moment VD’s comics grow beyond juvenile fan service is the moment I install a new bookshelf. If this offends you, Mr. Yungbluth, then stop despising me, my people, my culture, my country and Father God in everything you do.
Speaking of ninja female protagonists, I was going to skip this part of the article but now it’s relevant:
Sadly, I can fap to this. I love big, rubbery tits.
Tragicomic. Yungbluth admits the visceral appeal of VD’s work in the midst of vomiting his bile at it. He wants to like it but Social Justice demands he reject it. Misogynist! Confederate Nazi! but that’s the kind of woman I want NONONO I must be loyal to the Narrative! Fuck me, Trigglypuff!
What’s it like to live on your knees, Mr. Yungbluth? You’re a white male, too. You know the gov’t has officially declared you to be a second class citizen in your own society. You know the SocJus demands replacement-level immivasion from now until whites are exterminated from North America, just as in Rhodesia and South Africa and England and Canada and Australia. The only reason you aren’t in a concentration camp a la Japanese Internment right now is because fellow white men like me own guns… but given the chance, you’d turn me in to the Rainbow Gestapo before thanking me for you living free enough to betray me. I know you would. You fantasize about doing it in your comics, when you fantasize about destroying or twisting all that we hold sacred… and then literally pissing in our breakfast cereal. As you did in your caricature of Vox Day.
The article continues, I may discuss Yungbluth’s dislike for Chuck Dixon later, but what I covered is the portion relevant to his attitude towards Vox Day.
VD is indeed a cold-hearted bastard but unlike you, Mr. Yungbluth, he understand the concept of valued customer. Guess whose work I’m going to purchase.
I’m a backer of the Alt-Hero: Q project of Vox Day’s. While I’ve criticized his early comic ventures for being based around Kung Fu Princesses, which is First-Wave Feminism in my book, the simple fact is there’s nobody else in today’s publishing industry that gives even a first thought to patriarchy and good storytelling, let alone relevance to current events like illegal immigration. AH:Q looks like quality and its protagonist does not have boobs so I gave it my backing.
IndieGoGo Shuts Down Vox Day and Arkhaven Comics. Alt-Hero Q Crowdfund Campaign
Crowdfunding website IndieGoGo shut down Vox Day and Arkhaven Comics. Alt-Hero: Q crowdfunding campaign. The comic book series which is being written by Chuck Dixon with art by H?lix Haze and colors by Arklight Studios had trended #1 on the site when it first launched.
While the main IndieGoGo page has been suspended, backers for the project also received emails indicating the campaign had been shut down and transactions had been refunded, and once again stated the campaign didn’t comply with IndieGoGo’s Terms of Use.
I have trouble believing that this was not IndieGoGo’s plan from the moment they heard Vox Day was associated with the project but this is plausible:
The termination of the campaign comes after Bleeding Cool ran an interview with Vox Day. In a livestream, Vox Day believes Bleeding Cool readers lobbied IndieGoGo to get the Alt-Hero: Q book pulled from IndieGoGo.
.We.ve got everyone’s email addresses and so forth, so if we have to set up our own crowdfunding platform, we will do so. However, in light of the fact that Indiegogo has done this retroactively, we are already looking into the legal aspects of their actions. I am not yet aware of any reason, in fact, I do not even know if the scheduled payment for the campaign was delivered on schedule or not two weeks ago. I assume not, but I won’t be able to confirm that until tomorrow..
Vox also indicates he’s spoken with a lawyer and is likely to take action against IndieGoGo.
.I.ve already talked to The Perfect Aryan Male, the architect of our lawsuit against GT Interactive. Suffice it to say that the band is back together!.
Vox specifically told us:
.Looking into legal redress. If we have a good case, we will pursue it..
Unlike Leftoids, I know VD isn’t joking when he says that. Watching the SJWs go after him is like watching a self-cleaning mousetrap. They accuse him of being a cruel, cold-hearted sadist who won’t play fair with them and every time he proves them right, they double down as if success will scare him back onto the plantation that they kicked him off of a decade ago. Yo, you Sick Joke Wankers, why don’t you quit while you’re still behind? *GQ munches popcorn as another wave REEEs into the mousetrap*
As soon as VD connects with me on the next wave of crowdfunding, I’ll be upping my commitment by tapping my entertainment budget. The ride never stops and in this circus, the show isn’t started until the fat lady sings.
How does The Onion stay in business? Headlines these days mock themselves, like “Brett Kavanaugh Survives #MeToo Witch Hunt, Hires All-Female Support Staff”. Or this one:
“Emotional support” squirrel and its owner ousted from Frontier Airlines flight
A woman told Frontier Airlines she was bringing an emotional support animal along when booking a flight from Orlando, Florida, to Cleveland. But the airline says she neglected to mention a key detail: Her animal companion was a squirrel.
Cats and dogs are allowed in the cabins of Frontier flights, but squirrels and other rodents are not. The carrier said police were called when the unidentified woman boarded with a squirrel and refused to leave the plane after airline employees explained the policy to her Tuesday night.
Exotic support animals first came to my attention with a sea lion support animal but that turned out to be an April Fool’s hoax. Too much, too soon…
Flight 1612 from Orlando to Cleveland was delayed nearly two hours as law enforcement arrived on the scene…
As she is taken off in a wheelchair, the woman tells onlookers to “shut up” before raising her middle finger. Amid scattered applause, she gives a thumbs up and thanks those watching, the video shows.
Other accounts say specifically that the applause was what prompted her to throw the bird with one hand while carrying the rodent in the other.
The airline said in its statement that police were called after the passenger was advised of the policy but refused to exit the craft.
The online attention is reminiscent of that received by a woman’s attempt in January to bring her emotional support peacock on a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey.
United and other carriers have since restricted the types of comfort animals allowed on planes, and Frontier is limiting emotional support animals to a single cat or dog as of November 1.
CBS didn’t name her in order to respect her privacy, which Mizz Nutzz promptly threw away with public complaints about the flight’s passengers cheering her departure. Or should I say, Cindy Torok of Cleveland:
I don’t doubt that she needs an emotional support animal but I am surprised that a wimmin of her body mass hasn’t yet crushed little Daisy the squirrel like crackers in a fat man’s bed.
Yeah, that’s Cindy. She may have been inspired by none other than… Florida Man!
Florida man fights eviction over ’emotional support squirrel’
A Florida man has been served with an eviction notice over his emotional support squirrel.
Ryan Boylan, 40, of Clearwater, says he needs Brutis to deal with anxiety from a long ago car accident but Island Walk Condominiums says the squirrel needs to vacate the premises because she is putting other residents at risk.
“There’s absolutely no way I would give her up. I’m not sure how an animal that weighs less than two pounds can harm anybody,. he told WFTS-TV.
Boylan told the station he fell in love with Brutis after nursing her back to health after Hurricane Matthew more than a year ago. The squirrel has the run of Boylan’s apartment. One of her perches is the ceiling fan.
The condo board found out about Brutis in April when a dog chased the squirrel up a tree, WFLA-TV reported Friday.
Boyland was served with eviction papers last month.
I can sympathize with Ryan. That’s a plausible backstory, PTSD is no joke and a support animal in one’s home is not the same as a support animal in a confined space with a hundred other people. His phyiognomy strongly suggests a warm-hearted kind of guy rather than a ZFG commando. He needed someone to care about, rescued an injured squirrel and they bonded? Okay.
But the homeowner association has GUIDELINES!
.It.s just like with any animal, you can have the nicest dog and they could bite somebody, it’s no guarantee,. Sherry Arfa, a former condo board member, told WFLA. .If it was a gerbil or something that your grandkid had hiding under the bed, I’m sure that would be fine. But a squirrel is a wild animal..
Her reasoning makes no sense. An animal’s threat to humans is physical as well as behavioral. If it can’t penetrate your tennis shoe then you’re safe. Hmm… I should check that… in 2015 worldwide, the human death toll by squirrels is three German squirrel breeders. That’s three higher than I expected. Also, one attempted murder in 2008, link here:
I can’t find a picture of Sherry Arfa but anyway, it’s very rude of her group to try and kick a man out of his own property for having a pet so dangerous that it once got treed by a dog.
Meanwhile, has Chunky Torok had her rabies vaccination?
Tracking the blizzard of news Cali laws that have been enacted is so difficult, I decided to experiment with reviewing them by author than subject. Assemblymember Shirley Weber quickly popped up on the radar for her colossal, facepalm-worthy ignorance of both #MeToo and human sexuality. Ten of her bills were signed into law. Let’s do a Top Ten Countdown!
10. AB 1215: Mental Health Services Act. This bill would require a county mental health program applying for state funding under the Mental Health Services Act to consider research of the brain and its physical and biochemical processes that may have broad applications for treating mental illness.
Doctor Psychiatrist, that crazy guy you’re examining? He might, you know, have something wrong with his brain, yes? You should look at his brain. In fact, state law requires you to consider thinking about the possibility that his neurochemistry is at fault for his eating his victims’ livers. I’m telling you, you so-called expert, the problem for his behavior is his brain! Why are you looking at me like that?
What this law actually requires is mental health workers to make use of something called Cal-BRAIN, a U of California pet project. It’s apparently being underutilized by people who work for a living.
9. AB 1894: College Student Hunger Relief. This legislation builds upon previous legislation AB 1747 (2016) and AB 214 (2017) by Assemblymember Weber to address the growing crisis of hunger among California’s college students. This bill would allow greater access to the CalFresh food assistance program on college campuses.
Maybe college students wouldn’t be malnourished if they ate real food instead of soyburgers and street tacos and vegan WTF. If money is the problem then maybe the State could lower tuition?
8. AB 2133: Access to State Summary Criminal History Records. AB 2133 authorizes an attorney who is representing an individual accused of a criminal offense to access California’s Criminal Justice History Information database to obtain clients. information on prior offenses.
Why is this bill needed? “I want you to represent me but don’t ask any questions about my criminal history. I’m not in the mood.”
7. AB 2172: Census 2020 Facilitation. Will require the California Department of Corrections to provide the Citizens Redistricting Commission information on last known address of inmates, their race/ethnicity and the facility where they are incarcerated.
You can’t properly gerrymander ethnic neighborhoods without info like this.
6. AB 2289: Student Parental Leave. This bill establishes the right for a pregnant or parenting K-12 student to take eight weeks of parental leave, and requires schools to provide excused absences for students to take care of a sick child.
It takes a lot of sex-ed for kindergartners to get pregnant. This bill was a huge risk for Weber; she’s sponsored by Planned Parenthood.
5. AB 2458: Parcel Tax Exemption Transparency for Seniors & Disabled Homeowners. This bill creates a simple uniform process that will allow seniors and persons with disabilities to more easily find information on applying for a parcel tax exemption.
I despise this kind of Saul Alinskyism. First the libturds create welfare safety nets “just in case” then they tell the world so as many people sign up as possible in order to crash the system.
4. AB 2601: Sex Education in Charter Schools. This bill extends to charter schools the requirements of previous legislation, AB 329 (Weber, 2015), requiring school districts to ensure that all students in grades 7 to 12 receive updated and comprehensive healthy relationship, sexual health and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention education.
*GQ looks at #6 above* Teach the kids how not to screw up then prohibit any punishment if they do? Frigging care-based morality!
3. AB 2657: Student Restraint and Seclusion in Schools. Prohibits the use of restraint or seclusion on any student except when behavior poses a clear and present danger to the student or others. It also prohibits using for the purpose of coercion, discipline, convenience or retaliation, and requires data collection and reporting on the use of restraint and seclusion to the California Department of Education.
Don’t discipline the kids until they go on murder sprees. Remember to act shocked!
2. AB 2988: Evidence Retention: AB 2988 provides that court exhibits containing biological material are retained exclusively in the control of the courts so that evidence remains available for post-conviction testing.
Because DNA tests are best when properly aged, like venison. Pro-tip: don’t use the breakroom refrigerator at the courthouse.
Aaaand *drum roll*:
1. AB 2550: Dignity for Incarcerated Women. AB 2550 seeks to improve the treatment of women who are incarcerated and reduce potential for trauma by implementing policies that enforce gender specific practices.
California Law to Ban Male Guard Pat-Downs of Female Inmates
Male prison guards in California will be prohibited from pat-down searching of incarcerated women and viewing them while they are not fully dressed under a new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
By SOPHIA BOLLAG, Associated Press, 18 Aug 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) . Male prison guards in California will be prohibited from pat-down searching of incarcerated women and viewing them while they are not fully dressed under a new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. …
The measure, AB2550, bans male guards from entering areas such as bathrooms where women are undressed. The bill authored by San Diego Democratic Assemblywoman Shirley Weber contains exceptions for emergencies when female guards aren’t available. It also permits male guards to pat down search female inmates at risk of escaping or harming themselves or others when a female officer is not available.
In the age of #MeToo, any male guard who was already doing this is a complete and total fool. Um, is it possible to have an inmate who is NOT an escape risk? “You look escape-ish today. Bend over!” *snaps on latex glove*
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will have to adjust its policies to comply with a requirement in the law that requires reporting when male officers pat down search incarcerated women or enter prohibited areas, department spokeswoman Vicky Waters said. But for the most part, the new law codifies the department’s existing practices, Waters said.
Translation, we’re already trying to use female jailers for female inmates but women don’t want to work labor-intensive shifts in geographically isolated concrete warehouses. Women only sign up for high-status, social work like department spokeswoman. Like me!
Oh, to be on the all-male SWAT team inevitably tasked with retaking Playbunny State Prison. You know the crazy chicks give the best head!
Assemblywoman Shirley Weber neither knows nor cares how the real world functions. She only wants to care about babies and wimminz while simultaneously hating and fearing male strength.
Postscript, continuing the US News article:
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West elevated the bill’s profile by tweeting her support for it in July, using the hashtag #DignityForIncarceratedWomen. The celebrity has drawn headlines recently for her advocacy on criminal justice issues.
In preparation for her imminent trip to rehab, no doubt.
Earlier this year, Kardashian West successfully lobbied President Donald Trump to commute the sentence of a 63-year-old woman serving a life sentence for drug offenses. The woman, Alice Marie Johnson, served more than 20 years in federal prison after she was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis, Tennessee-based cocaine trafficking operation.
Wild guess here: Kim Kardashian’s favorite hobby is snowballs.
As If Millions Of Physicists Suddenly Cried Out In Terror Our beloved state broadcaster [the BBC] brings tidings of intersectional joy:
“Reading about quantum physics has really helped me understand my queer identity… It is in this model of space-time as a series of entanglements that I’m able to piece together all of the fragmented sects of my identity . being able to identify as British and Iraqi, as queer and Muslim, as someone of many genders and potentially no genders at all.”
Readers may wish to imagine the faces of, say, Erwin Schr?dinger or Max Planck on hearing their field being compared with the staggering intellectual heft and rigour of “queer theory.” By a chap with blue eyebrows, fake boobs and voluminous pink acrylic hair.
Followed by commenter Surreptitious Evil: To paraphrase: “If reading about quantum has helped you understand anything, you haven’t understood either quantum or anything else.”
You can totally use this in future conversations with trail mix (vibrant mixtures of dried fruits and nuts).
I clicked on the link. My eyeballs need bleaching!
The midterm elections are coming up. A local issue called California Proposition 6 would repeal an expensive gas tax and put controls on Sacramento to make increasing vehicle/gas taxes and related fees more difficult. Coverage of it gives me a good window to introduce the Garcetti crime family of Los Angeles.
The family tradition began with the Mexican Revolution. From the LA Times,
Eric Garcetti invokes Latino-Jewish ancestry in mayor’s race
Garcetti prides himself on his ease with L.A.’s diverse cultures. He hopes to weave a multiethnic tapestry of voters in a city that often votes along ethnic lines.
[Eric] Garcetti has Mexican roots through his father, former Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti. Eric’s grandfather, Salvador Garcetti, was born in Mexico and grew up in Boyle Heights, [California]. Salvador was brought to the United States as a baby after his father, Massimo Garcetti, a judge who had emigrated from Italy, was hanged during the Mexican Revolution that began in 1910, Garcetti says. Eric’s grandmother, Juanita Iberri, one of 19 children in a family that migrated from Sonora, Mexico, was born in Arizona.
I didn’t find much online about Massimo. From Wikipedia on the Mexican Revolution,
D?az created a formidable political machine, first working with regional strongmen and bringing them into his regime, then replacing them with jefes pol?ticos (political bosses) who were loyal to him. He skillfully managed political conflict and reined in tendencies toward autonomy. He appointed a number of military officers to state governorships, including General Bernardo Reyes, who became governor of the northern state of Nuevo Le?n, but over the years military men were largely replaced by civilians loyal to D?az.
…The political acumen and flexibility that D?az had exhibited in the early years of the Porfiriato began to decline. He brought the state governors under his control, replacing them at will. The Federal Army, while large, was increasingly an ineffective force with aging leadership and troops dragooned into service. D?az attempted the same kind of manipulation he executed with the Mexican political system with business interests, showing favoritism to European interests against those of the U.S.
The citation for that last sentence suggests that Diaz was attempting to leverage Catholics against Protestants. From all this, I theorize that Massino Garcetti was brought over as part of that power play, carpet-bagging for Diaz late in his reign. A reader more knowledgeable about the Mexican Revolution is welcome to comment.
Continuing the LA Times article,
On his mother’s side, Garcetti is a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and the Ukraine. They too settled in Boyle Heights in the early 20th century. Garcetti’s maternal grandfather, Harry Roth, turned the family’s Los Angeles clothing business, Louis Roth & Co., into a major national brand of high-end suits for men.
Eric Garcetti and seven relatives now oversee the Roth Family Foundation. On its website, it has reported giving $5.9 million in grants since 2000 to hundreds of organizations, among them the PUENTE Learning Center, Planned Parenthood LA and the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.
The Roth Family Foundation’s website hasn’t been updated since 2015. A blurb on its main page says it all: The Foundation’s mission is commitment to progressive social change. The foundation invests in organizations that inspire hope, dignity and creativity, primarily in the Los Angeles area. Grounded in a legacy of social justice and civil rights, the Foundation helps connect communities to the services, opportunities and tools for self-empowerment and self-expression.
But I’m getting ahead of myself concerning Eric. Next up is Massimo’s grandson Gil Garcetti, who was a Los Angeles district attorney… apparently favoring his Mexican side of law over his Jewish side of business. The two main events of his service were the O.J. Simpson trial… of which I am still too weary to talk about, twenty years later… and an unbelievably cruel crackdown on “deadbeat dads”. As district attorney, Gil began assessing child support against randomly chosen men and prosecuting them in absentia. I see that the Wikipedia entry has forgotten but others have not:
Los Angeles, CA–The story in my recent blog post Outrageous Injustice: Man Jailed 4 Times over Failing to Support Someone Else’s Kid—where a man was “thrown in jail four times, lost his job, become estranged from his four children and spent more than $12,000 to support the child of another man” because the child support system wrongly targeted and entrapped him—reminds me of what former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti did. In 1998 Garcetti declared a ‘get tough’ campaign against so-called ‘deadbeat dads,’ sending out thousands of summonses for paternity cases. The men were given only 30 days to respond. Many of the summonses targeted the wrong men, and many never reached the intended parties. Eighty percent of Garcetti’s paternity judgments were made by default, locking the men into 18 years of child support. Many took DNA tests proving that they were not the fathers of the children they now had to take second jobs to support. Others were assigned huge support arrearages by mistake. Many became unable to support their own children. Some of their marriages broke up, and some of the men landed in jail. Garcetti created so much chaos and heartache that even diehard feminist attorney Gloria Allred protested. Allred, who has perhaps done more than anybody to promote the phrase and concept of ‘deadbeat dads,’ called Garcetti’s office ‘an organization without a heart, without any compassion, and without a sense of priorities…[it’s] a system run amok’… Jackie Myers, a former Deputy District Attorney under Garcetti, said that she quit her job because ‘we were being told to do unethical, very unethical things.’ Garcetti later acknowledged that many of the men had been mistakenly targeted but refused to relent, instead blaming the men for not responding within 30 days. ‘The law is the law,’ he told CBS’s Bernard Goldberg. Incredibly, in 2002 Garcetti was appointed to the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission.
When Gloria Allred publicly criticizes you for being shamelessly misandrist, you’ve gone way too far. Or at least, too soon. Nevertheless, Gil Garcetti’s unlawful cruelties earned him a retirement to the LA City Ethics Commission, where he was just so ethical that by total coincidence, certainly neither shameless nepotism nor institutional corruption, his son is now the youngest mayor in Los Angeles’ history. How random!
Eric Garcetti. When the middle portion of the ear pokes out to make a kind of triangle, that’s indicative of a diplomatic personality. Wide, flared nostrils indicates tribalist attitude. Crow’s-feet at the eyes indicate marital trouble, which will be confirmed soon by upcoming pictures of his wife. Thin lips indicate against sociability; upper eyelids neither confirm nor deny this. The absence of a cupid’s-bow on the upper lip or vertical lines between the lip and nose septum indicate either low sex drive or buggery. His wife makes either seem likely. The double lines along the sides his mouth indicate he has the “gift of gab”. Overall conclusion, this guy is great at telling you what you want to hear.
Here, Eric Garcetti self-identifies as a member of the 187th Street Krips. Okay, I made that up. The photo is taken from this article documenting Mayor Garcetti being ‘forced to try harder’ to defend a massive, unpopular tax hike. Oh, the poor trust fund baby-mayor…
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Goes All-In to Stop Gas Tax Repeal
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was forced to go all-in starting Wednesday to oppose gas tax repeal on the November ballot that would save the average family $779 a year.
Yeah, sure. The Chicomms were waiting just outside the camera’s view with AK-47s at port arms because there’s no other way a fourth-generation crony bureaucrat in a notoriously corrupt city would insist on taxing the Little People.
When Eric Garcetti succeeded Antonio Villaraigosa as Mayor of America’s second largest city in 2013, he was called a “Boy Scout” by the LA Weekly. Garcetti has worked hard to craft an image of being a frugal people’s mayor by giving up the limos, gala balls and $500 bottles of wine that his predecessor was famous for.
Two seconds and an Internet connection pops THAT illusion. 2013, they say? That resolution didn’t last two years:
Eric Garcetti at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 50th Anniversary gala with his wife, Botox Garcetti, 18 April 2015. Sponsored by Christie’s.
Eric and Botox at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Opening Night Gala, 29 Sept 2015. Red carpet treatment confirmed.
Eric at… a pedo convention? No, the Make-A-Wish Greater Los Angeles 30th Anniversary Gala on December 4, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. That “frugal” election reputation didn’t even make it to Christmas. The things you find during image searches. Sam Nazarian in the middle, per Wikipedia, is a Jewish-Iranian-American businessman, investor (in Qualcomm, a major tech company) and philanthropist (mostly in nightclubs). He is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of SBE Entertainment Group. Man on the right is Thomas Barrack, Jr… interesting… he’s a frontman for the Saudis, a Deep Stater since Nixon and the owner of Harvey Weinstein’s balls in a jar.
Take a second look. That’s a Jewish-Mexican politician, a Jewish-Iranian megabankster and a billionaire Saudi agent who could be their cousin. What are the odds they’d be hanging out at the same fundraiser for sick children instead of the Four Seasons Hotel in NYC?
Closeup of Thomas Barrack Jr. Most excellent pedoface! And just in time for Halloween. He deserves his own post.
CNN reported in April that after Garcetti racked up an economic revival record in one of America’s most diverse and liberal city, his exploratory 2020 presidential campaign was meeting with Democrats in the early primary states of Iowa and South Carolina.
Here’s a timeline to document Eric’s meteoric rise to power, followed by the reasons for it:
2001-2006 Member of Los Angeles City Council (age 30 at beginning so fresh out of law school).
2006-2012 President of Los Angeles City Council
2013-now Mayor of Los Angeles
2020 President of United States? He’s already self-promoting for that. Looks like being mayor of the biggest-by-area city in North America doesn’t keep him busy.
How’s that for a promising political career? Any faster and he’d be a nobody off the street. Why so popular? As we saw in the LA Times article, Eric is a Jewish-Mexican-Italian-American which is an amazing scorecard now that identity politics are operating in the open, He was also raised by an hardline feminist father with connections. There aren’t many totalitarian Jewish-Mexican-Americans to pick from. Also, per Wikipedia Garcetti is an ally of the Clintons and at least one Saudi prince, a proven opponent of border control and most importantly, a record-setting fundraiser.
But with the “Yes on Prop 6. campaign to overturn the gas tax having raised over $2 million mostly from small donors since January and launching sustained radio and online advertising campaigns, Garcetti is being forced to actively campaign for a tax that hammers the working and middle-class voters he has politically depended on.
Garcetti was the key speaker on Wednesday at a press conference adjacent to a LAX rail station in Westchester that received $150 million from the gas tax. The Mayor who drives tried to justify the painful tax by claiming .I.d rather pay a few pennies at a pump than pay lots of dollars at my mechanic,. according to the LA Times. …
But preserving the gas tax that will raise about $5.4 billion a year for the next decade may require a hard sell to the public that is painfully aware of the additional 12 cents per gallon on gasoline, 20 cents per gallon on diesel, and up to $175 in annual car licenses fees. Californians now paying 95.5 cents per gallon in taxes and fees, or an average of about $17 per fill-up.
Although Garcetti is trying to paint the gas tax as a local pro-jobs program to improve roads and bridges, huge amounts of gas tax cash are going to the type of expensive light rail projects liberal Democrats embrace, such as the $581-million metro station at 96th Street and Aviation Boulevard to connect the Crenshaw and Green lines.
Of the “No on Prop 6. campaigns $30,664,794 in fundraising, 8 donors have given checks of $1 million or more and about $4.5 million has come from out of state interests, according to the September 22 campaign disclosure.
And there it is. $2M, mostly from small donors, to get rid of a gas tax whose funds are being expended on Libturd mass transit wet dreams, compared to $30M to keep it up, half of which came from eight persons and… foreign investment??? In keeping a local tax enacted? I took a look at those disclosures:
Mostly construction companies, some individuals. Not a list of ordinary people who are delighted at the thought of keeping a tax alive. More like a list of municipal contractors who like the idea of their “client” having lots of money to throw around. Many of the big donors are NGOs. Supporting Prop 6 is the sort of list of people one would expect to see of a population that would rather not be taxed so heavily, plus several associates of the Howard Jarvis anti-tax group. Click around on CalAccess and see for yourself.
Why does one single commuter-metro station cost half a billion dollars?
California Reform leader Carl De Maio on Wednesday filed complaints and evidence with the District Attorney offices of San Francisco and Sacramento counties, and the US Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General. De Maio alleged that state and local government officials are using taxpayer funds to illegally target vulnerable Republican members of Congress who have backed the Prop 6.
Us not being a court of law, we can notice that it would be well in keeping with the family history to play that kind of illegal political hardball.
The latest claims of misuse of taxpayer funds in a political campaign come just weeks after a criminal complaint was filed against Caltrans for openly using contracted transportation workers in San Diego to openly campaign against Prop 6 by stopping traffic to hand out “No on Prop 6. brochures.
Yeah, Californians are so eager to be taxed heavily that we’re swayed by government employees who tell us they need more money while obviously not doing their job our current taxes pay them to do. I wonder if that stunt was authored by a highly-placed black knight.
That makes a good overview of the Garcetti crime family to date. Interesting on their own merits but their curiously mixed “Russian Jew meets Italicized Latino” ancestry is very well-timed for Eric to be the Democrats’ best choice for uniting the multi-cult against Trump in 2020.
