So I wrote another column over at DANGEROUS: Do Lefties Live in a Parallel Universe? Let’s Explore. It’s a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor at ridiculous behavior from the political Left. Sometimes I wake up and think these people must live on another planet.
An interesting (interesting in the sense of being utterly insane) piece came from regular reader Triple Sphinctered Wombat (what a name, right?): 10 Things Every Intersectional Feminist Should Ask On a First Date. Reading this vitriolic wishlist reminds me of something I once read at The Rational Male. Back in the day, Rollo Tomassi did a little bit of investigative journalism, I suppose you’d call it. He went on a dating site and wrote profiles that were mirror inversions of typical female profiles.
Many female profiles had wish lists that were, as he put it, vastly out of proportion with what they had to offer. Women of middling looks, intelligence, and income would write long screeds about how their ideal man should be tall, have an impressive penis, be smart, funny, make more money than her, not be too clingy, but be the perfect romantic. He should be the best of the best, you see, to date a perfectly average woman. When Rollo wrote a profile explaining how he wanted smart, rich, hot supermodels, women variously complained about him being a misogynist or merely a bad joke writer.
In this day of Social Justice insanity, we must add to the unreasonable demands of the typical woman to these 10 insane political demands from an intersectional feminist. If you don’t go to the local Black Lives Matter protests, you can’t have any of whatever she’s offering. I can’t know for sure, of course, but I suspect this woman has even less to offer in terms of dating prospects than the middling women of Rollo’s date site experiments. Take a look at this demand:
5. Are you a supporter of the BDS movement?
BDS stands for “Boycott, Divest, Sanctions” — an effort to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. I grew up with Jewish (Israeli and non-Israeli) friends and Palestinian friends. Before even understanding how power and oppression worked together, we understood the trivial hatred that colonized and put in constant danger the lives of Palestinians every single day.
Well, I guess this woman is probably an anti-Semite then, by the racism standards of SJWs. She refuses to date anybody who doesn’t prioritize Palestinians over Israelis. Which, naturally, would mean most Israelis. I mean who asks about the Israel/Palestine conflict on a first date, anyway?
On a more positive note, here’s a bit of (rare) good news: 84-Year-Old Vet Still Has It, Kills Intruder With One Shot, Overpowers Another in Physical Scuffle. Nothing is more heartwarming than seeing two goblins get their asses handed to them by a bonafide senior citizen.
Lastly, I’m sure my readers expect an opinion piece on Roy Moore’s loss. I have to sort some rather longish thoughts about that whole mess before I commit to writing that out. Suffice it to say, Moore was never exactly my kind of Republican, but the smear campaign against him was ridiculous in the extreme. I haven’t seen the Democrats go all in on someone like that since Trump’s election. Roy Moore was not up to the challenge the same way Trump was. Republicans should understand that this is the new normal. Every Republican is likely going to have to weather a storm like this one, unless they are properly pliable Flakes and McCains, and even that is no guarantee of safety.
Be prepared. It’s going to get ugly next year.
Dear Dys/Thales,
Thank you for the shout-out. 🙂
Regarding politics in 2018, i’d like to make a prediction.
To those of you who think the MSM learned their lesson last week after 4 ‘trump scandal’ stories blew up in their face: guess again.
Consider:
4 absolutely stupid and ludicrously flimsy attempts to generate destructive scandals against the president all unraveled within HOURS. How is this even possible???
You must remember that the press has been assailing Trump like old school mafiosos on a blood vendetta for TWO YEARS now, including the 2016 campaign. Each time, their contrived scandals bounced back on them DOUBLE.
For big, powerful news organizations to show such utter ineptitude last week indicates their controlling editors have experienced what amounts to a nervous collapse. It’s obvious that the MSM has reached its ‘breaking point.’ They’ve completely lost the ability to be rational, let alone objective.
So, the question is: what will happen now? Will the MSM begin to sober up and act more like responsible journalists?
CNN has given us a glimpse of what we can expect in 2018. Notice how they immediately stated that there was nothing wrong on THEIR end, that their editorial process was GOLDEN, and how DARE anyone question it!
We’ll see worse than this after the New Year. The slander and libel of Roy Moore is just an ‘appetizer’ of the 7 course prime rib dinner with dessert that is coming our way in 2018.
I would bet chief editors will hold staff meetings in the first week of January and tell their reporters and newscasters “We need to MASSIVELY RAMP UP our efforts to unseat Trump! Don’t worry about fact checking – we won’t have the time. If you think you have a story, GO WITH IT. If it turns out to be wrong, we’ll just YELL LOUDER. Who cares if we make a few errors here or there? Our cause is a JUST cause. WE HAVE TO DESTROY HIM!!!”
Take a good look at the daily WH press briefings. The atmosphere generated by the press corps against Sarah Sanders isn’t merely venomous. It’s radioactive. Expect it to reach Chernobyl levels of lethality in 2018.
You’ll see this nationwide in all media channels in 2018. The MSM will actively call for open sedition. Whenever they are outwitted, outmaneuvered, proven wrong in their assertions or countered, they will yell louder, and Louder, AND LOUDER!
Their goal will be to generate red-eyed rage. They will WANT to provoke violence and mayhem. You can expect more antifa and blm demonstrations that will be larger and more violent. Future Trump rallies won’t have antifa merely throwing fireworks, molotov cocktails and bottles of urine while carrying improvised handheld weapons. They’re going to be ARMED.
Watch for the early stages of maoist urban guerilla activity, including bombings of police stations, public venues, republican offices and such. We can expect that polling places at the 2018 midterms will be ATTACKED, with voters aggressively challenged on their votes and, if they answer incorrectly, be subject to beatdowns at the very least all the way up to murder. Ballot box stuffing and bussing voters across district, county and state lines will be open and egregious. Police efforts to stop such activities will be VIOLENTLY resisted.
Granted: the above sounds lunatic even to me. I did not grow up in such a country, and my memory of things goes all the way back to the 60s when I was just a tot. So how can I predict such a horrible and dismal future?
Here’s why. By chance, I bumped into the following about two days ago:
http://www.educationviews.org/levels-control-create-social-state/
Caveat: I’ve never read “Rules for Radicals.” I don’t know if this actually appears in the text. I also don’t frequent the website linked to above and have no idea if it is credible.
However: It’s not the first time I’ve heard about at least some of these 8 steps/objectives. Furthermore, I confess that I’ve had the impression for a good 10 years now that the Democratic party was no longer the party of Truman, JFK or even Wallace and Humphrey, but had become quite radically left.
If, then, the link is factually correct, then the conclusion about what to expect in 2018 from the Left is quite reasonable. It would also indicate that the Left is playing for keeps and they will not back down until they’ve achieved total victory or total defeat. This is also why after the 2018 midterms, things will get EVEN WORSE. Their tactics against Roy Moore worked; hence, they will amplify them in the future. If the left gains seats in congress, they’ll think their tactics are working just great and will consequently further strengthen and amplify them. If, on the other hand, they LOSE seats, they’ll simply explode.
Again: they have shown at this point that they cannot and will not be patient, rational or civil. They think this is a zero sum game and that their revolutionary fervor is just.
I hate posting such a dark and depressing message and dislike even thinking about such topics. If the above is too dark, please say so. Maybe the comment should even be deleted.
Rule four gums up the works. The only way that works is confiscation and that would lead to the rivers of blood part of my prediction. Fortunately the tide on the Supreme Court and in Congress seems to be running the other way. Until they accomplish gun control they can’t win. The terror angle works in our favor in this case.
What if the military’s command structure was altered past a critical point with people who had been screened for loyalty to the state (and their leftist benefactors) above and beyond loyalty to the people?
A professional army can be corrupted beyond repair, given enough time and consistent effort. The roman legions are a prime example.
I suspect the US military is already corrupted enough to have suffered actual damage. Note, for instance, the West Point grad revealed just a few weeks back who was known to be an avowed communist with deep, angry anti-american feelings. The academy leadership knew of him well beforehand but was AFRAID to take action. I also remember that quite a few senior officers were quietly forced out during the 8 years of Obama.
If the democrats return to power, that work will resume. I am sure of it. Perhaps not the day after, but within 5-10 years afterwards, the armed forces might even be tainted down to the rank and file level, so that these forces could serve the purpose of enforcing their political masters’ will in disarming the citizenry.
I so very much want to be dead wrong about all of this. I hope to God that my fears we are approaching a historic, even existential crisis are the fears of an utter fool.
TSW, Maiorana;
Maiorana, you are very right (in my opinion) on bith the “confiscation” and direction of the tide. TSW, as I’ve said before we will suffer defeats that is in the nature of things, but the tide is running against them and the Reps in Congress who need to go.
I’ll say this again, the Left thinks in their heart that this is a fight for their very existence which is true. Therefore what do you expect them to do? Under this mind set they will do anything and justify anything to “win”. Nothing else matters, not morals, not ideology, not consistency, nothing but winning. This enables them in their rhetorical gymnastics, and is why it’s “always” a surprise to the right.
Nothing is certain about the future. The Left and the Clintonista’s made the fatal mistake that that is not true, that they were the “future”, “we are the ones we have been waiting for” blah blah blah. Well the Right made the same mistake in Alabama.
The upper ranks both enlisted and officer are already corrupt but the rank and file are poor kids and working class not the losers you see in college. I’m pretty sure they won’t blindly follow. For a better perspective Trot over to everyjoe.com and look up Tom Kratman’s posts on the subject. It’s worth the effort.
As a PS Kratman’s blog at everyjoe.com was called lines of departure.
“Granted: the above sounds lunatic even to me.”
As it does to me. However, I think it’s quite possible. Any casual student of history can see that. I read an interesting book about Germans interviewed quite some after WW2 to see how the average German looked back at things.
One stood out – a military man who said that when the Communists had the power in Russia, the average German looked down on them. The typical Russian was a simple minded-peasant falling for the most foolish of ideas, thus destroying their society. And the typical Germans was educated and sensible, so “it couldn’t happen here”. Well, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes.
Others have expressed that in recent times – FerFAL in Argentina, Selco in the Balkans, and I’m sure there are more. Normalcy bias runs deep.
Certainly the political environment is more fractured than ever. Perhaps the feelings have always existed, and sub-groups of people have tended towards violence. The difference is social media which makes connecting with like minded people very easy, and makes getting together/organizing easy as well (flash mobs of criminals), and most of all – the venomous media. 24 hours news, non-stop propaganda, talking points…. I feel like I live in Orwell’s 1984 with non-stop 2 minute hates.
So yes, I think your prediction/concern is more likely true than not, even though it is lunatic level. I blame society, not you.
The irony is that the “femme queer” author of the “10 things” piece is married…to a man.
A genetic male married to such a woman is beta at best or a gelding at worst.
These women are sick sir, sick I say. They need a doctor:
https://youtu.be/fEOlTZGuLKM
Here’s something everyone should know and internalize. thefederalistpapers.org/us/everyone-needs-understand-old-men-today