Yesterday at the annual Netroots Nation conference a white candidate for the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor was “de-platformed“, in-the-parlance-of-our-time, when a gang of black activists surrounded her and shouted her down, demanding we “trust black women.” Stacey Evans is a state House representative running for governor against Stacey Abrams, Who Is Black, Peace Be Upon HerContinue reading “Today in Dispossession”
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Golden Archers
“Drunk girls wait an hour to pee…”–LCD Soundsystem, Drunk Girls Steve Sailer on America’s Current Year Qualified Navy: Boys like everything about projecting (in the physical sense, rather than that useful Freudian sense of “projection”). That’s why many (male) toddlers will immediately pick up a stick as soon as they step outdoors and brandish itContinue reading “Golden Archers”
A Confederacy of Dindus
HBO announces it’s developing an alternative history of the South. The show-runners from something called Game of Thrones, that appears to have had a bit of success, are writing and producing. Let the games begin. They’re White Guys! If only it were so; I’m always a little depressed for our side to learn, as so often, it’s just anotherContinue reading “A Confederacy of Dindus”
Searching for Hillary
Something propelled Hillary Clinton along all this time, something that doesn’t translate on television and isn’t documented in history, something more than cunning and Bill Clinton, some genuine ability. Other pols and media hacks have often claimed to come away impressed with her intelligence.It could be that the Real Hillary is wise and farsighted, andContinue reading “Searching for Hillary”
Catching the Pitch
Punk and Politics
I was at the bar at Kelly’s Olympian in downtown Portland for three pints of Irish stout before I realized the leftist fundraiser in the next room was already in progress. Unaware of the live show annex next door, I had thought they were going to set up somewhere in the back of the bar.Continue reading “Punk and Politics”
I believe children are the dystopian future
“We need to be allies to children. Children do not have the capacity to articulate their feelings, they do not have power over their own beings to come to the rallies…they are not in control of their own destiny. They need to see you, transgender children need to see you, transgender children, even those whoContinue reading “I believe children are the dystopian future”
Reality’s Trump-et
Is this Washington Post article trying to imply Donald Trump’s recent comments on Sweden’s Muslim problem provoked Muslim rioting afterwards? Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in theContinue reading “Reality’s Trump-et”
Periscope Chat, Feb. 16, 2017
War with the NEETs
The assault on Richard Spencer turns out to be a watershed moment for the Trump opposition. The response from the mainstream has gone all the way from tepid, qualified disapproval to enthusiastic cheering. Then cultural figures joined in, most notably when an Emmy Awards audience applauded an award-winner’s visceral call for more. It isn’t asContinue reading “War with the NEETs”
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