[PJMedia] Remember when the Atlantic complained about “Christian nationalists,” whose “social-media pages are saturated with images of rosaries draped over firearms, warriors in prayer, Deus Vult (‘God wills it’) crusader memes, and exhortations for men to rise up and become Church Militants”?
This was a frustrated admission of something the so-called “Left” secretly fears: that Western peoples might one day reclaim their Christian heritage — their true Christian heritage, not the “Doormat Christianity” variety that was manufactured, nurtured and led by subversive leftist elements, wolves in sheep’s clothing, seeking to undermine the West’s Judeo-Christian ethos.
The Left fears such Crusader imagery precisely because they invoke something innately appealing. For example, most of the eight men profiled in my recent book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, sacrificed their lives — though they were emperors, kings and lords who had much to live for — fighting in defense of the Faith.
These included Godfrey of Bouillon, a wealthy duke who forsook his many possessions in Europe to take the cross and fight for the cause of Christendom during the First Crusade; El Cid, who almost single-handedly stopped and even turned the tide against the jihadist infiltration of Spain; Richard Lionheart, a king who nearly lost everything — and complained to God in Job-like fashion — in his attempt to liberate the Holy Land; Ferdinand III, the Castilian monarch who spearheaded the Reconquista and liberated Spain from Islamic tyranny; Louis IX, the French king and tragic hero who, never once complaining, sacrificed all that was dear to him in the cause of Christ; John Hunyadi, Hungary’s champion who fought both the jihadists and their elitist Western collaborators; Skanderbeg, the Albanian Braveheart who abandoned a life of wealth and honors to fight and die alongside his countrymen in the name of freedom; and even Vlad the Impaler — Hollywood’s bloodsucking “Count Dracula” — who defended his kingdom against Islamic invasions, including by fighting fire with fire (that is, impalement with impalement).
"There are now apps that offer virtual girlfriends for men who want an AI lover to talk to them, allow them to live out their sexual fantasies, and learn, through data, exactly what they like"
Which are all things that women used to do.
The fault, of course, cannot be with the young women...they sare, like Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way.
But if you are a young woman looking for a young man, you might ask yourself the first question of Marketing: "What does he (the customer/prospective boyfriend or husband) want?
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All I can think of is Harry Mudd saying "Stella! Shut up!"
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How'd we get from a celebration of Christian values to yet another feminist "men suck" rant?
Can we take ten minutes to fucking celebrate without the negative waves?
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[The Federalist] Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg’s potential cage match was the talk of the summer, and it was easy to dismiss it as idle threats made by two unathletic billionaires. After reading "Elon Musk," the new biography by Walter Isaacson, I’m not so sure.
When Max Levchin wanted PayPal to use Unix rather than Musk’s preferred option, Windows, Musk challenged him to arm-wrestle to settle the dispute. Musk won the match and, eventually, the software debate.
At his first start-up, he would regularly get into fights with his co-founder and brother Kimbal. The worst one ended with Kimbal biting off a hunk of Elon’s hand, sending him to the emergency room for stitches and a tetanus shot. At a Gilbert and Sullivan—themed 42nd birthday party, Musk successfully threw a 350-pound sumo champion, but blew out a disc at the base of his neck in the process. Professionally and physically, Musk seeks the thrill of danger.
Musk has made a career out of navigating crises and questioning authority, and he combines that with a sci-fi-inflected concern for the fate of humanity. The problems that captivate Musk are world-altering and mind-bogglingly numerous: multi-planetary civilization, infinite energy, human-machine implants, humanoid robots, free speech, democracy, and the declining birth rate. He has sired 11 children by three women so far.
Yet he remains slightly detached — seemingly a product of his Asperger’s — fixating on physics, engineering, and programming rather than human interactions. As one SpaceX employee put it, "Elon cares a lot about humanity, but humanity in more of a very macro sense." At times, this can make him a flat, robotic main character.
While his rockets and cars iterate and improve, personally, he has difficulty growing. At a Christmas family gathering in 2022, he said, "My main regret is how often I stab myself in the thigh with a fork, how often I shoot my own feet and stab myself in the eye."
I would however, enjoy learning a little more about his family's alleged support of the ANC and SA's transition to 'majority rule' in the 1990's. His cozy relationship with the CCP is also of concern.
[Fox Biz] The U.S. housing market has been over the past year walloped by high mortgage rates and a worsening inventory shortage.
It may soon face another obstacle: student loan repayments.
Real estate experts are bracing for a significant blow to the market when the pandemic-era freeze on federal student loan payments comes to an end at the beginning of October.
A recent poll conducted by Pulsenomics found that most economists said homeownership rates will be affected for at least a year by the resumption of student loan payments — and many predicted the impact could be longer than that.
ge over the past year. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg / File / Getty Images)
For more than three years, federal student loan borrowers have not had to make monthly payments.
However, the pandemic-era pause is officially coming to an end, setting up a potential financial shock for millions of Americans. Payments will officially come due on Oct. 1, although interest started accruing at the beginning of September.
More than 75% of the survey respondents said that the payments will have a negative effect on homeownership that lasts for a year or more. About 40% predicted an even longer impact of at least three years.
On top of that, many of the economists believe the resumption of payments could significantly hit the U.S. homeownership rate, and nearly one-quarter expect it would cause an uptick in the delinquency rate.
About 44 million borrowers in the U.S. were affected by the payment pause, which initially began in March 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden administration extended the pause for the eighth time last November and will not do so again as part of the bipartisan debt ceiling deal approved by Congress.
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American involvement in Afghanistan and Ukraine should prompt a high-level investigation into motives, finances, and long-term geopolitical impacts.
All overseas deployments should be closely scrutinized. 'Anomalous Sources' graphic is yet another reason for policy examination.
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Advisors escalate the conflict without a chance of changing the outcome. Also all the most corrupt people are recommending the action. Other than that it is a good idea. The only advisor I would approve of would be Sam Kinnison if he was still alive.
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That worked out so well in Vietnam.
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/\ Yes indeed. Worked out so well that the 'Zonies' ("Americans") living in the Panama Canal Zone were reluctant to assist our pre-invasion logistics planning. It seems they were fearful they might be left high-and-dry should events NOT result in the removal of General Manuel Noriega.
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I thought that Ukrainian troops were already the most baddest assest, whip all comers with one hand tied behind the back fighters on the planet. Now with Nazism™ added!
What could "advisors" possibly bring to the table?
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"BE BOLD
Sending advisers to Ukraine will, of course, require substantial political will on the part of the Biden administration. Biden may struggle to muster such will, especially as he prepares for the 2024 election and faces political opponents much more hesitant to aid Kyiv.
But Biden should not underestimate the ability of Americans to grasp why it is important to support Ukraine. It is true that recent polls show that U.S. support for Ukraine has fallen, but the dip is slight and to be expected over any long intervention. On the whole, support for helping Kyiv remains remarkably strong. A September CBS News poll, for example, found that 67 percent of Americans want the United States to give aid to Ukraine." (From the unsigned editorial)
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/\ .....CBS News poll, for example, found that 67 percent of Americans want the United States to give aid to Ukraine." (From the unsigned editorial)
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US soldiers on the ground will absolutely change the face of this war. The Russian army has already been decisively weakened and they're running out of healthy, non-tuberculosis men.
We'll be in Moscow a few weeks after US troops arrive in Ukraine. Regime change, and a major threat to the entire rules-based order is gone.
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This is actually good. The more incompetent the US military grows, the less good they will be in a fight. And the last thing we need right now is another fight.
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CBS News poll found that 67 percent of Americans want the United States to give aid to Ukraine.
"It's true, man! Two of the three people we asked about supporting Ukraine said 'Yeah, whatever' and the third one was a flat 'No effing way!'. Two thirds is 0.6666666666666666 decimal, rounded up is 67%. You can't argue with facts, man!"
[NY Post] Joe Biden’s defenders have been on a wild ride this past year.
It began with them arguing that the president knew absolutely nothing about his family’s influence-peddling business to arguing that it’s no big deal that ChiCom wire payoffs happen to have Biden’s home address listed on them.
The quality of the excuses, unsurprisingly, has been deteriorating rapidly.
They largely entail repeating the words "no" and "evidence" in a perpetual loop.
But this week, when James Comer released financial records of Hunter Biden receiving two wire transfers totaling $260,000 in 2019 from Beijing with the president’s Delaware home listed as the beneficiary address, the White House jumped into action.
"Imagine them arguing that, if someone stayed at their parents’ house during the pandemic, listed it as their permanent address for work, and got a paycheck, the parents somehow also worked for the employer," wrote White House spokesman Ian Sams. "It’s bananas. Yet this is what extreme House Republicans have sunken to."
Speaking of bananas, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States wasn’t reported until January 2020, and shutdowns were still a year away when Hunter Biden used his dad’s house as a beneficiary address on a wire payment.
According to Hunter’s memoir, he was living in Los Angeles with his new wife at the time.
Of course, even if the pandemic had been raging by summer 2019, Hunter Biden wasn’t a college student visiting home; he was a 49-year-old who had the wherewithal to craft numerous international million-dollar deals — not to mention allegedly evade taxes, buy firearms illegally and score crack and prostitutes.
Why would Hunter need to stay at Daddy’s house?
Why do they keep talking about this grown man as if he’s a toddler?
For God’s sake, this is an accomplished artist whose work goes for upwards of a million dollars.
And it wasn’t a "paycheck," but a wire transfer from a ChiCom investment firm that his father repeatedly lied about to the American people.
In an October 2019 presidential debate, Joe Biden incredulously claimed that Hunter never benefited from Chinese interests — "My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China."
It was weird, even then, that Biden could make such an assertion with confidence, considering that not long before he had claimed to "never" have spoken to Hunter about his "overseas business dealings."
Perhaps one day the president will be asked by the political media why he made this claim, and whether he knew his address was being used on Biden Inc. paperwork at the time.
And while they’re at it, they could ask him whether he was at his Wilmington house in 2017 when his son threatened his Chinese partner, Henry Zhao, with the words, "I am sitting here with my father."
Let’s also remember that not only did Joe Biden fly his son to Beijing aboard Air Force Two during an official visit in 2013 to meet with potential investors, but the vice president met Jonathan Li, whose name is on the 2019 wire transfer, for coffee.
The two would talk again on the phone — probably just some "casual conversations" or "niceties about the weather."
Joe was even kind enough to write college recommendation letters for Li’s son and daughter.
It’s a really weird coincidence that the same guy happens to have Joe Biden’s address on a wire transfer.
A cynic might start to piece together these stories and come to the conclusion that there’s actually plenty of evidence the president had created the "illusion" of access to the White House on his son’s behalf — at the very least, enriching his entire family.
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As Josef Goebbels famously said, if you repeat the Big Lie often enough, people will come to believe it.
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[WFB, ht Insty] I LOL'd Big stick energy: This pro-gun, anti-tax American capitalist is doing everything he can to take down the Democratic president
Right-wing conservative patriots are understandably frustrated with America's political leaders. It often seems as though no one in a position of prominence has the courage or testicular fortitude to stand up and fight for their values.
They need a hero who gets them. Someone who understands their passion for freedom and capitalism. Someone who respects the military. Someone who fights. A hero who is willing to do whatever it takes to stop President Joe Biden from destroying this great country.
Perhaps this hero does exist. A ruthless capitalist who loves the Second Amendment as much as he hates the IRS, and is doing more than any Republican leader to bring down the Biden administration. We've just been looking for him in all the wrong places.
Meet Robert Hunter Biden. You probably already know who he is. (The delinquent adult son of President Joe Biden.) So you're probably more likely to think of him as a liberal scumbag than as a right-wing freedom fighter.
Perhaps we should consider the facts and examine the evidence before rushing to judgment. Now more than ever, we mustn't let our partisan biases cloud our judgment and deprive us of potential allies in the fight to Make America Great Again again.
The case for Hunter Biden, conservative hero:
He's an anti-tax crusader
Like most hardworking American patriots, Hunter hates having to fork over a chunk of his paycheck to the federal government so that feckless bureaucrats can fund trauma therapy for journalists (no, we're not kidding) and other boondoggles.
Hunter doesn't just complain about the IRS. For years, he has nonviolently protested injustice by withholding tax payments, refusing to disclose hard-earned foreign income, and writing off his prostitution-related endeavors as legitimate business expenses.
That's not all. Hunter is suing the IRS for failing to safeguard his privacy after two so-called whistleblowers revealed sensitive information about the agency's investigation of his taxes. He's not just another schmuck who talks the talk. He fights the fight!
He's a gun rights pioneer
Throughout his troubled life, Hunter has proudly exercised his right to bear arms in accordance with the Second Amendment. Rather than accept a plea deal, Hunter is contesting the federal government's case against him for allegedly lying about his so-called substance abuse on a form to acquire a handgun.
Hunter's lawyers are likely to point out the government's lack of hard evidence—in the form of illicit drugs seized from their client—in a case alleging that Hunter was not legally allowed to possess a firearm. (Witch hunt?) They may also argue that the law barring drug users from owning guns violates the U.S. Constitution by infringing on the rights of American citizens to bear arms.
He's an unapologetic capitalist
Liberals love to complain about "greedy" capitalists who only care about getting rich. As former president B. Hussein Obama once said, "at a certain point you've made enough money." Real Americans know that's a bunch of bulls—t, and Hunter Biden couldn't agree more.
Hunter knows that the whole point of American capitalism is that winners win and losers lose. This guys knows how to win, and couldn't care less if they think the way in which he earned his fortune—peddling access to his father to shady foreign entities—was "unethical." (Cry more, loser.)
He's a military enthusiast
Hunter tried to serve his country with honor, but regrettably our military lacked the wherewithal to accommodate individuals with special needs. (Cocaine.) Nevertheless, he has always been a staunch supporter of military veterans such as his brother, Beau Biden.
When it comes to fulfilling the particular needs of military wives and widows, Hunter has gone above and beyond the call of duty. After his brother passed away from cancer in 2015, Hunter was there to enthusiastically console the grieving widow, Hallie Biden, as well as her married older sister, Elizabeth Secundy. Where's his Medal of Honor?
He is Joe Biden's biggest threat
Republican politicians claim they want to save America from President Biden and his radical left-wing allies, but their efforts thus far have yielded diddly squat. Hunter might not be a Republican on paper, but it's fair to say that no one has done more to undermine the Biden administration and weaken the president's chances of winning reelection.
God bless you, Hunter Biden. Keep up the great work!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NY Post] Joe Biden’s defenders have been on a wild ride this past year.
