Netanyahu Survives

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The Great Stephen Miller Talks Fraud

Go to Hell Other Dan Sullivan. Also Mary Peltola. Also Just the Dems in General.

I'm no big fan of the Pubs...but the Dems just lack any semblance of honor.

Recruiting Other Dan Sullivan specifically in order to trick voters...just disgusting.

Cigarettes After Sex: Neon Moon

LOL probably the most notable breakup song of my life--the Brooks and Dunn version, of course.

Heard this the other day on Chad Powers (which I also recommend...).

Hard to say it, but I think I like this version more:

All This Internet Stuff About the Psychology of Women

I have had gfs who...well...this kinda fits. I had never heard about all this at the time--and I was kinda brainwashed by blank-slate feminism way back then...but...it does fit...

   But here's the big however...

   It might not surprise you to hear that I've rarely had more than short relationships with such women.

   Though I should add: I've known women who this stuff seems to fit...but, honestly, not all that many...

   However, women I've really been into, and with whom I've had longer relationships, were absolutely not like this at all.

   JQ, my longest relationship by miles, is not at all like this. She's much more reasonable, objective, level-headed, and completely-not-like-this than I am...

   So anyhoo, I kind of hate to see otherwise reasonable guys making generalizations like this about women...for one thing, reminds me of the kind of generalizations wacko feminists make about men.

   Still, of possible interest:

MDS

Musk Derangement Syndrome.

That is all.

Helen Andrews: Overcoming the Feminization of Culture

I'm not completely onboard...I'm skeptical that an increase in the number of women in important institutions has been the biggest driver of the Woke plague of lunacy... But women do definitely lean left...and the left is a largely feminine ideology... I expect there's some kind of feedback loop at work...and, undoubtedly, some other things...but I'm not that sure she'd actually disagree:

Sabine Hossenfelder: New Climate Report (Justifiably) Sparks Outrage

So the climate hysteriac left's newest scheme: make up some bullshit models that pretend to show how much worse certain natural disasters are...BECAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE REEEEEEEEEEEE...and then pretend to calculate how much particular industries or companies have contributed to it...and then sue them for $$$.

In brief, the plan is:

Bullshit

More bullshit

Profit!

(Fund leftist causes)

   Look, I neither have nor deserve a fixed opinion on climate change. The people I find most credible generally think that (i) there's some warming; (ii) we did some of it; (iii) we should be concerned and move to stop doing it...

   Anyway, I do try to take it seriously.

   I also realize that a climate catastrophe isn't impossible--and, so, given the horrific nature of such a thing...well, we have to keep that possibility on the table...even if it ought to be over on the edge and not in the center...

   But these people just don't make it easy.

   The left is its own worst enemy.

   Even when lefties have a point, they surround it with so much insane bullshit that they become more dangerous than whatever it is they're crying wolf about...

   Oh and: the NAS is in the thick of this scheme/scam.

  Oh and: as for "extreme event attribution:" the IPCC itself says we have no appreciable evidence that climate change is affecting any adverse weather events...with the possible exception of heat waves...

   Anyway, over to you, Sabine:

James Freeman: NYT Goes with Argumentum ad Hitlerum in Defense of "Ilhan Omar"

...which seems not to be her name...but I suppose the jury is still more-or-less out on that...

Freeman is absolutely right: as is so often the case, the NYT lets its leftist commitments trump reason.

It's already clear that there's substantial reason to suspect that "Omar" is involved in all kinds of financial and immigration-related shenanigans. It absolutely needs to be investigated. It should have been investigated more thoroughly long ago. Nobody's talking about stripping her of her citizenship because she is an opponent of the administration, you dolts. That's on the table because there's a good chance that she committed immigration fraud. In which case she should be stripped of her citizenship--and, consequently, of her status as Congressman.

   She's presumed innocent by the legal system--but we're not obligated to make any such presumption in our ordinary judgments. I mean...I did start out presuming that...but at this point, it's lookin' kinda 50/50 for her at best.

Winston Marshall Interviews Larry Sanger on the Ideological Capture of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a cesspool of leftist bullshit...but, honestly, I think it's gotten less bad over the last couple of years. The entries on race and "gender" used to be pretty pure propaganda...both have improved.
   I've mentioned here before that I think there ought to be a site that comments on Wikipedia entries...and Sanger had the same idea...but instead of just taking about it, he's actually putting it up!

Slotkin is the Latest Lefty to Admit That They're Coming After Us

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I don't think she should be investigated...

...because we already know they're all soft totalitarians...

But I don't see what could be illegal about making their plans knowns to us.

No-Gi Sasae --> Harai Goshi

Despite Democrat Denials, Anifa Exists Afterall

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When it comes to the left, we're repeatedly forced to ask ourselves: are they lying or are they delusional? Often it's a bizarro combination of the two.

And, like Trump, they often assert things that generally cohere with the way they want things to be, without regard for how they actually are.

Ramaswamy's Loathsome Ad

I was interested in VR for awhile. Read part of his book but lost interest. Didn't really know enough to form much of an opinion. His drug-company shenanigans sounded sort of slimy to me...but I don't know enough to say for sure.

   I saw something about that ad the other day, though and...Jesus Christ... I mean, a lot depends on the actual facts of the case...but even a little bit of poking around seems to indicate that Acton's mom is shit...which makes the ad utterly beyond the pale. Though there's absolutely no reason for any legitimate political campaign to go there anyway. If Acton is/were such a liar, it would show up elsewhere.

   Bad as it might be for Ohio...part of me kinda hopes VR gets stomped because of this.

Colin Wright, Andrew Hartz: The Inmates Run the Asylum at the American Psychological Association

I could literally not agree with this more.

The Psychology APA--like the Philosophy APA--has gone batshit crazy.

I especially agree with this bit:

   The APA’s antisemitism problem might have captured the attention of the federal government for being a glaring example of ideological capture. But the purpose of accreditation is to guarantee more than the mere absence of one specific—albeit serious—form of discrimination. It is supposed to be an earnest commitment to professional competence, intellectual seriousness and standards worthy of public trust.
   The Education Department should therefore ask whether a professional association so thoroughly committed to political activism should continue enjoying the government’s imprimatur as a guardian of psychological training. No amount of denying objectivity can shield it from those consequences.

So very right.

   Antisemitism sucks...but it seems a bit crazy to me that a professional organization can go completely. fucking. insane, and be so thoroughly ideologically captured by a cultish, extremist political/cultural/intellectual faction...and that's just fine...and overtly bash men and Caucasians all the time...hell, turn it into an area of specialization...all dandy... But, hey, discriminate against a minority group...TOO FAR, MOFO...

   I'm also worried that we're making the left stronger by agreeing to play their game at some level. We let them get away with becoming an arm of the left, and saying and doing utterly insane things...and only go after them over a kind of racial/ethnic discrimination. It's as if we're kind of agreeing with them that it's the worst thing--and the only thing--that's off limits...

Trump Fatigue, Episode MCXVIII

I'm sick to death of that guy.