Category: Politics

I know next to nothing except that he is in a hospital, which seems a lot better than the alternative.  As soon as I know more I will update you, but right now I just know he is under medical care.

Now that we’ve all had a chance to dissect, point and giggle at Ned the Wannabe-a-Reporter For Real, if you go back to the text of his article and read it carefully, you can see a behavior pattern buried in it that we’ve seen elsewhere.

Most of us don’t usually give away clues to our behavior, but it comes from the Leftard side of the political fence like a Banshee out of Hell, wailing ‘Doom on you! Doom on you!’ like those dodos in Disney’s ‘Ice Age II’. The dodo is extinct because it was dumber than a box of bent screws. As an inhabitant of the island of Mauritius, with no exposure to predators, the dodo had lost its ability to fly and had no instinctive flight response when attacked. They were, in fact, so unaware of danger that they’d walk right up to sailors, hence the term ‘dumb as a dodo’. The crews of 17th century spice trade ships found the 50-pound birds to be a fine source of fresh meat. The modern equivalent is that bunch of nitwits who held a protest in the dark on a busy interstate, wearing dark clothing and holding up lit-up cellphones.

The subject referenced in Poetrooper’s article about Ned Resnikof, a modern-day dodo in the truest sense of the word, is rather disturbing. There is an entire population demographic in this country of people whose sense of real danger is as extinct as the dodo’s, but whose buried anger roils and boils to the surface in strange ways. It appears in this generation of overgrown children doing things that the rest of us view as completely uncivilized. The turmoil these groups create is about imaginary wrongs, things that have either been settled and corrected, or never really happened. But they shove all of that aside in hysterical, screaming rants that do nothing more than make them look as dumb as those extinct dodo birds. They have no idea what real oppression was like and never will. They don’t understand real danger, so everything is suspect. They’ve never been allowed to lose, they don’t understand competition and don’t like it, they can barely speak in an articulate way, and they are boiling with fear and anger that they have been trained to suppress in a very unhealthy way.

They also generate Closet Monster fears over nothing.

This Neddie Resnikof calls a plumber to unclog a drain, but doesn’t think of acting like a grownup, asking the plumber smart questions about how to keep it from happening again, what to do if there’s a freeze and the water lines are compromised – you know what I mean: the normal things you’d ask a plumber who is there on your dime and you don’t really want to have to call him back. Instead, Neddie worries about the plumber’s imaginary politics, whether or not the plumber will think he’s Jewish for some odd reason, and whether or not he, Needy Numbnuts, looks ‘white’ enough to make the plumber happy with – with what?

If that plumber is real, he went back to the shop and said ‘Don’t send me to that goofball ever again. Ever.’ Personally, I doubt seriously that the plumber incident even happened, for various reasons, one reason being that apartments in Washington, DC, have building managers and janitors whose job is to keep the plumbing running smoothly. I lived in that area for several years. Kinda know what I’m talking about. This assumes, of course, that he actually lives in WDC, because I can’t imagine him living in Fairfax or Chevy Chase. On the other hand, if he still lives in NYC and telecommutes to ThinkProgress, now that he’s no longer at Al Jazeera or International Business Times, the expense of living in NYC is so outlandish that any building he might live in will definitely have its own engineering crew.

Thus the Tale of the Scary White Plumber falls flat on its face, and then you start to see the disturbing pattern of behavior in it. The Closet Monsters imagined by Needy Neddie and that idiot Kersh Guntzman are concocted out of a very desperate need to be dominated by someone else. If you recall Kuntzman’s description of his ridiculous episode of Fear and Loathing With a Gun, the adrenaline pounding through his veins over merely touching that weapon must have been at epic levels. Prior to that, there was an article online from Glamour Magazine by some female dingbat who decided to somehow Defy Something by purchasing a hand gun for herself and confessed to shaking visibly, like a leaf on a twig in a high wind, as if she’d been caught partaking of forbidden fruit. Both of them and Neddie, too, were given a jolt of adrenaline and failed to react properly to it.

Bear in mind that neither of those gun-fearing dweebs was told ‘you are required to own a gun’. It was completely voluntary. An adrenaline surge like theirs is triggered by the fight-or-flight response to danger, something that neither of those morons recognized. The same fight-or-flight response ramped up in Needie Neddy Resnikoff over nothing. In all three of these incidents, which may or may not have happened, each of them describes some sort of physical chill or thrill, something you’d expect from seeing a train coming at you when your car stalls on the train tracks. You and I would vacate the car quickly. They would sit and wait for help, quite sure that the train would stop just for them.

The adrenaline surge is something we’ve all had at one time or another. It heightens your awareness levels and makes you feel like Achilles, or maybe just like a deer in the headlights. Whatever direction it takes with you, it is a tangible response to something unusual that you did not expect, e.g., buying a ‘forbidden’ object like a gun or calling a plumber who turns out to be your misperceived enemy. This seems to be peculiar to the Leftards who view anyone or anything ‘Other’ – not their normal social contact, or maybe a weapon or a word or a color – as threatening when the implied threat exists only in their minds. Their mental Closet Monsters are present in that adrenaline surge, and they want the Closet Monsters to be in charge. They really do.

This seems to generate a universal characteristic of the worshipers of the Closet Monsters, who wept bitter tears and continue to do so over a contest they didn’t win. They were hoping desperately, almost slavishly, for the rise of the Closet Monster, someone who would dominate them the way their parents and schoolteachers did not. They’ve grown from nearly illiterate grade schoolers to college grads with useless degrees, heavy debt and no direction, forming an entire population demographic of Eloi surface dwellers who will mindlessly march to destruction once the Morlocks sound the alarm. These overgrown children really do want to be told what to do.

The difference between the worshipers of the Closet Monsters and the rest of their generation is the gathering of 5 million Cubs fans in Chicago on a chilly but sunny and welcoming October day in the fall of 2016. They were orderly, happy, nondestructive, smart, and hard-working, many wearing team shirts, and many who had come several thousand miles for that historic Homecoming Parade. There were many more millions of people who watched that parade on TV because they couldn’t get to Chicago or didn’t want to be in the crowds.

In contrast, before, during and after the 2016 elections, the worshipers of the Closet Monsters were protesting in the streets, damaging property in some cities, and shouting their hatred of anyone not like them as loudly as possible, even making death threats. Strangely, none of them were wearing team shirts of any kind.

When the election results were totaled, their tiny little minds imploded. The very things that they wanted, e.g., a demi-god dictating every minute of their silly lives, are now the horrific qualities they scream about in the media. They make up lies and then believe their own baloney and elevate their own levels of adrenaline and fear to an unconscionable degree, while the rest of us point at them and laugh.

Looks like the Closet Monsters really did win this game, after all.

A while back I wrote here about a New York Daily news reporter, aptly-named, Gersh Kuntzmann, who castrated himself with a very dull keyboard while writing a largely fictional account of his misadventures with an AR-15 rifle, a tale he foolishly tried to pass off as an authentic recounting of his trip to a firing range. Gentle Gersh, a liberal pioneer in the fake news movement, came under heavy fire from genuine, knowledgeable gun owners for his patently dishonest article and under heavy ridicule from manly men everywhere for his inadvertent, yet very public self-emasculation. Writing my critique of Kuntzmann’s feckless self-gelding, I had no idea that we would have another confession from another liberal eunuch quite so quickly. Boy was I wrong.

Brent Scher over at Washington Free Beacon reports that ThinkProgress senior editor, Ned Resnikoff, posted another one of these online orchidectomies on his Facebook page back in November wherein he describes in almost tremulous tones his onset of phobias upon inviting a plumber, a white male with a southern accent and a likely Trump voter into his apartment to unclog a drain right after the election.

Here’s the screenshot:

This afternoon had aplumber (sic) over to my apartment to fix a clogged drain. He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional. But he was also a middle aged white man with a southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week’s news. And while I had him in the apartment, I couldn’t stop thinking about whether he voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home. I have no real reason to believe he was a Trump supporter or an anti-Semite, but in my uncertainty I couldn’t shake the sense of potential danger. I was rattled for some time after he left.

I’m very privileged insofar as this sense of danger is unfamiliar to me. And I know I feel it much less acutely than a lot of other people right now. I’m still a straight, white guy who can phenotypically pass for gentile. Plus my first name is pretty WASP-y.

But today was a reminder that ambiguous social interactions now feel unsafe and unpredictable in a way that they never did before. And even if Trump is gone in four years, I don’t expect to ever reclaim that feeling of security. That’s just one more thing you voted for if you voted for him.

Aside from the fact that most American housewives can unclog a drain, I think Neddy’s reassurance to himself that he’s still a straight, white guy who can phenotypically pass for gentile is rendered a bit feeble by the inclusion of that rather tentative still. And rather than being concerned about passing for gentile, perhaps Ned should be more concerned about passing for a real guy, especially with that revelation that he was still rattled after the other guy, a possible (gasp!) Trump voter, was long gone. I must tell you, that rings just a tad too effete for comfort to this old Trump-voting, straight southerner. As for the plumber, the poor guy was probably rattled by the suspicion of furtive glances at his white, male, southern, Trump-voting, plumber’s butt crack by a sensitive, circumcised, Semitic phenotype who can easily pass for a flaming Hillary LGBTQ social justice warrior. Mind you, we’re not saying any of our suspicions about you are true, Ned, they’re just assumptions, just like those you made about your plumber.

See how all those profiling suspicions and assumptions can cut both ways, young Mr. Resnikoff?

Crossposted at American Thinker

The Washington Post says that the Russians have amassed a treasure trove of information on the president-elect that they can use to leverage American policy.

A senior U.S. official with access to the document said that the allegations were presented at least in part to underscore that Russia appeared to have collected embarrassing information on both major candidates but released only material that might harm Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — a reflection of Russian motivation that bolstered U.S. spy agencies’ conclusion that Moscow sought to help Trump win.

The inclusion of such unsubstantiated allegations in the election report, a development first reported Tuesday by CNN, adds a disturbing new dimension to existing concerns about Russia’s efforts to undermine American democracy.

And it adds another bizarre twist to an already strange election year, injecting new controversy over the Trump team’s relations with Russia just when the president-elect is trying to consolidate and launch his new administration.

As you might guess, the Russians deny that they’ve gathered any such information, according to Fox News;

Moscow denied allegations Wednesday that the Kremlin has collected compromising information about Donald Trump and called news reports on the matter a “complete fabrication and utter nonsense” — as the president-elect blasted the claims on Twitter.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, insisted that the Kremlin “does not engage in collecting compromising material.”

The Daily Beast says that the intelligence agencies got the information from 4chan;

“So they took what I told Rick Wilson and added a Russian spy angle to it. They still believe it. Guys, they’re truly fucking desperate—there’s no remaining Trump scandal that’s credible,” the anonymous post from Nov. 1 reads. Wilson is a Republican operative who managed Evan McMullin’s independent campaign and has been an outspoken critic of Trump.

There are no details in the post, which is archived here, about what was allegedly told to Wilson—simply that the user purportedly gave him fake information. It also doesn’t explain how this would have gotten to intelligence agencies.

With a straight face, CNN reports on a briefing to the president-elect by intelligence chiefs;

The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.

The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

That “former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible” was being paid by Trump’s political opponents to assemble the report.

Two things; First, is anyone really surprised that there are stories like this out there? Second, having watched Trump over the last several months, I don’t think there’s anything out there that could embarrass him into policy shifts even if the stories about him are true.

What happened to all of those sexual harassment victims that were coming out of the woodwork before the election?

On the Sean Hannity show recently, guest Larry Elder recalled an iconic American entertainer, Alan Funt, creator of the long-running, hit television show, Candid Camera. Funt’s genius was in setting up situations in which unsuspecting, ordinary humans were captured on camera just being themselves when an unexpected intrusion resulted in embarrassingly hilarious results. As Elder noted, that is precisely what this whole brouhaha about Russian interference in our recent election is all about; just like Funt’s unwary subjects, in 2016 Democrats were caught, “Just being themselves,” by an unexpected intrusion.

Consider for a moment that the likeliest largest repository of recorded scandalous behavior by American politicians is in a cavernous edifice somewhere in the Moscow environs with a close second site being Beijing, although it’s not irrational to think it could be Tel Aviv. Our NSA is far from being the only agency in the world with the capability of monitoring the daily activities of targeted individuals around the world and you can bet the farm that Russian, Chinese, Israeli and many other agencies with missions similar to the NSA are fully engaged in the process. If you think that America is not the primary target of such intelligence gathering by all of these programs then you apparently have little clue as to the realities of this world. Or you could be a Democrat.

It is a given that this process must necessarily be focused on the individuals and organizations who make up the political entities that control the behaviors of this nation towards the rest of the world. That you, if you are one of those individuals and a participant in those organizations, should be aware that you are very likely to be targeted and monitored intermittently or even constantly, depending on your level of access and importance, by one or more of these intelligence gathering programs, is also a given. Once again, if you are blissfully unaware of such attentions, you are likely to be a liberal Democrat who has no clue as to what those designations of Confidential, Secret, Top Secret or even more arcane lettered designations on your correspondence might mean to national security. With so little regard for such long-established security protocols, who knows, you just might be brazen enough to set up your own unsecured network server in a completely insecure and unsafe location, or perhaps choose “Password” as your password even though you have most surely been repeatedly briefed by security specialists that doing so invites cyber-invasion.

That you would then apply the same lack of security concern to almost all your domestic, intra-party, intra-campaign communications is not surprising; that the stealthy cyber vacuums of the great cyber powers would be sucking in all the dirt you scatter about you in your devious political dealings is no surprise either. And suck they did, you can be assured. But then one of them, just like in an episode of Candid Camera, chose to dump your political garbage smack on the front lawn of the American presidential campaign where its stench of overripe corruption, rotten back room dealings and bloody backstabbing couldn’t be ignored by ordinary Americans. Whether or not it changed many minds , we’ll never know but what we do know is that Elder was right: You Democrats wailing about Russian influence in the election amounts to nothing more than the simple truth that you got caught in the act of being yourselves, an embarrassing moment of truth that may have cost you an election.

Crossposted at American Thinker

Want to know what liberal movers and shakers really think about us, the kind of folks who read and comment here at TAH? Surf on over to Daily Caller’s article by Robert Donachie where he quotes a Silicon Valley tech CEO as to what she honestly thinks about locating some of those high-paying jobs in Middle America. Here’s the essence of it:

Melinda Byerley, MBA and founder of Timeshare CMO, a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up, tweeted out Saturday afternoon describing what middle America could do to “get more jobs in their area.”

Byerley says that the first thing those in middle America need to realize is that “no educated person wants to live in a shithole with stupid people.” Particularly, in a “shithole” filled with people who are “violent, racist, and/or misogynistic.” In Byerley’s opinion, “big corporations,” do not consider moving to the heart of America because “those towns have nothing going for them.”

The towns have “no infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.”

The MBA claims that “we,” the educated people, like herself, “would like to live a more rural lifestyle,” but they “won’t sacrifice tolerance or diversity to do so.” Especially, these folks do not want to live in “states where the majority of residents are voting for things against their own interests,” solely, because these voters “don’t want brown people to thrive.”

She declares that if middle American towns can begin fixing their schools, and, essentially, “clean up their act,” then people like Byerley will “want to live there.” She even says that the fixing these problems would bring the “best and brightest” of our youth who “would rather scrape by in SF than live in a huge house somewhere if it meant dealing with with bigots and backwards ideologies every day,” to middle America.

Boy, I guess Melinda sure set ol’ Poe straight on what we have to do here in Arkansas to get more of her kind to move here. She sure knows how to inspire folks into throwing at the welcome mat, doesn’t she? Actually, it’s refreshing to hear one of these pompous liberal assholes tell the truth about how they really view America. Wouldn’t you dearly love to hear what she honestly thinks about the military?