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In case you missed the news, a black man was shot by police after attacking them with a knife.

Biden attempted to pander to the Black Community by supporting the man to attacked the police with a weapon.

Our hearts are broken for the family of Walter Wallace Jr., and for all those suffering the emotional weight of learning about another Black life in America lost.

Walter’s life mattered. https://t.co/mGki28Cpyr

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 27, 2020

Of course riots happened.  During the riots, t

Black Lives Matter rioters in Philadelphia threaten, assault, and chase out Jewish residents claiming "you don't live here" and call them members of the "Synagogue of Satan." https://t.co/pKEssPeGLi

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 28, 2020

Woke Leftist antisemitism.

Jews can support the Left but the Left will always turn in them.  Always.

I believe you may have heard about Hunter Biden’s “business partner”  Tony Bobulinski and specially after he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Apparently this has been the October Surprise for this election cycle and if you do a Google search for his last named, you will find some media outlets covering it in some way or another:

In the meantime at CNN:

‘Nuff said?

Hat Tip ILoH (AKA Larry Correia)

Just had this popped in my timeline:

Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the white man in his 20s had carjacked and stabbed an Uber driver earlier Tuesday evening in neighboring Broward County.

Deputies stopped the vehicle around 8 p.m. and the man got out holding the knife, Bradshaw said. He added that deputies put some distance between themselves and the man, but the situation rapidly escalated when the man lunged toward them

Suspected Broward Carjacker Fatally Shot by Deputies in Palm Beach County: Sheriff

I am sorry if I am a bit sceptic of the reasons for mentioning the skin color of the deceased other than trying to avoid BLM to set shit on fire and go loot stores in the name of racial equality and whatever other happy horseshit they would blab about.

I’ve been thinking about this some more.

The Left pushes the politics of vengence.  They see everything as a dynamic between oppressor and oppressed.  They claim that they stand with the oppressed for liberation and equality, but what they want is vengence.

This is why Leftist revolutions always end in death camps, mass executions, and political re-education.  It’s not about living as equals but putting the boot on the necks of those they claim put the boot on their necks.

To listen to the feminists of the sexual revolution, they said marriage is sex slavery or prostitution by other means.  Men oppress women.  Husbands oppress wives. They see The Handmaid’s Tale as reality.

They want revenge.

I wrote a post about a feminist book called The Power, in which women develop the ability to generate electricity like electric eels.

They use that power to become androcidal oppressors.  A man who didn’t live in fear of women was murdered. Cat call a woman and they would be zapped until their heads exploded.

The left thought this horror story was the zenith of feminist literature.

I think this is where sex work becomes feminist empowerment.

It’s revenge.

It’s  them turning the tables on men.

It’s taking advantage of lonely men, making them pay through the nose for a look at a naked woman.

I’ve been reading about Simps.  Men who pay OnlyFans girls to pretend to be their girlfriends.  These girls go on virtual pretend dates for hundreds or thousands of dollars.

That’s not empowerment. That’s preying on lonely men.  Taking advantage of them.

I believe on the eyes of feminists, this is righteousness vengence.   Make men simp and be exploited for sex.

That these girls will end up emotionally harmed, and harmed in other ways by this isn’t the concern of feminists.  The Left has never had a problem with sacrificing its own or anyone else.

I honestly believe that the push for the normalization of sex work it to convince women not to marry but prey on men for money using sex as retribution for their twisted view of marriage.

From Buzzfeed:

“We’re In Hard Times Right Now.” Meet The Nursing Students Turning To OnlyFans To Get By.

Yesterday I covered how the lockdowns that effectively shut down hospitals for all but COVID have harmed or killed countless cancer patients by delaying diagnosis or treatment.

All the way back in April, I wrote a post about the budget shortfalls that were hitting hospitals because of these lockdown measures.  Medical staff were being furloughed or laid off because to make room for the tidal wave of COVID patients who were going to be dying in the hallways from a ventilator shortage (which never materialized outside of a couple of hospitals in NYC), oncology, orthopedics, cardiology, and other departments were deemed less essential than liquor stores.

Buzzfeed decided to track down some of these nurses.

When Clara thinks about balancing her business as a sex worker and her life as a nursing student, she tries to channel the Disney character Hannah Montana.

In the show, the main character Miley Stewart seems like a normal teenager, but she has a double life as pop star Hannah Montana, and Clara said keeping her own identities separate is the key.

“Hannah Montana,” said Clara, 20, who asked to keep her last name private over concerns about discrimination. “Best of both worlds, but you keep them separate. You don’t mix business with pleasure.”

Clara, who goes to college in Florida, was working in the university hospital as a patient care assistant until she said at least a dozen nurses caught the coronavirus, and the hospital changed staffing, leaving Clara without a job. Without a paycheck and bills to pay, she decided to open an account on OnlyFans, a site known for homemade pornography. It’s been a hectic couple of months for Clara, and even with the TV character in the back of her head, she said it’s still been a challenge to manage it all.

Once something is out on the internet you can’t take it back.  I know she says that she tries to separate her internet peepshow life separate from her nursing career, but I don’t think that is as possible as she thinks it is.

Stories of young women paying their way through school with sex work are nothing new, but in the seven months since the WHO declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic, online sex work — often left out of discussions of ride-hailing and food delivery apps — has become an increasingly mainstream facet of the gig economy, and people like Clara say the risks are worth it to keep themselves afloat.

The Left is out to destroy society and normalizing sex work, even using the phrase “sex work,” the way they do is a massive leap in that direction.

There is a substantial difference between serving someone coffee as a barista and masturbating on command on a webcam.

Commoditizing sex strips turns one of the deepest and most important of emotional human connections into a meaningless and superficial business transaction.  It actually makes the ugly attitude of incels mainstream, that women are a commodity and sex is something transactional.  Where I disagree with the Left is that this also hurts women, who come to see men as just a source of cash for sex.

In the spring, when cities across the country were cheering each night to celebrate healthcare workers as heroes, Michelle Bleimeyer was fired from her job as a home-care nurse.

Bleimeyer got her nursing degree in 2009, and said it was hard to find a job in the aftermath of the Great Recession. “I was panicking because my student loans were coming due, and I wound up really liking [home care],” she said.

She knew about OnlyFans from Twitter and decided to open an account when she realized the money she was getting from unemployment wasn’t enough to live on.

In many ways, this is how sex work has always functioned. “People who were not sex workers started using OnlyFans and became sex workers due to losing their other jobs during COVID-19. So, again you see sex work, as it often is, as a sort of gig of last resort for people,” said sex worker rights advocate Kate Zen. “This is the way it’s always been. Not just during this pandemic. For a lot of the people … sex work is not necessarily their only occupation, or the main occupation even, it’s this emergency source of informal income that they can get when they’re in a bind.”

Sex isn’t just another part of the gig economy.  A vagina isn’t like a car, where you just sign up for Uber and share it with anyone willing to pay for a ride.  That is the soulless destruction of human intimacy.

I really can’t imagine the emotional transformation that happens in a person when they go from helping a child with a chromosomal disorder to making fetish porn for tips.

While the notion of sex work itself may be new to many users, Clara and others said posting on the site didn’t feel like a huge leap because the content is not that different from what they’re already posting on Twitter or Instagram.

That is a major problem right there.  I have never taken a selfie and I am proud of that.  Social media only started when I was in college and I missed the Twitter craze because I had already cut the Facebook cord before that came along.  The idea of posting images of myself, especially risque ones, online is very alien to me.  I actually work hard to avoid pictures of myself online.  If you knew my real name, you’d find exactly one picture of me, it’s my LinkedIn profile.

These women are clearly of a younger generation than myself, where posting bikini pics is such a regular occurrence, they have been desensitized to the point where showing their tits is just a small step.

The internet has made us a society of voyeurs and exhibitionists.

Nikki, another nursing student who is based in Detroit and also asked to go by the name she uses on her OnlyFans account for privacy reasons, had a similar perspective.

Nikki decided to go back to school for a nursing program in May, after dropping out of college a few years ago when she got injured in a lacrosse game. She said she’s always wanted to be a nurse, but the tuition fees are based on her father’s salary even though he’s not paying for school.

“I’ve heard nothing but bad things about student loans… I just don’t do the payments. I never have, I never really want to,” she said. “I think it’s stupid to pay extra for something I could just pay for now and pay less. Interest is crazy on school loans especially.”

If you see nothing wrong with “I wanted to be a nurse so I’m going to pay for that by showing men my crotch online,” I can’t help you.  I don’t know how that woman could ever expect to have a normal, healthy relationship after that.  Not to mention the risk that a patient will know of her from her OnlyFans fame.

Nikki — who was working as an Uber driver before she started on OnlyFans — said making money from online sex work has made her life easier.

What did I say about sex and Uber above?

Mia decided to pursue work as a certified nursing assistant after caring for her grandfather, who had Alzheimer’s disease, and she had been doing the work for nine years before she was laid off in April.

“I used to care for my grandad back in 2011. When he passed away, my boyfriend at the time was saying, ‘You know you could go to school for this type of stuff,’” she said. “I [was] basically trying to fill that void because I had spent almost two years every day taking care of him because he lived next door to me.”

She said she’s always wanted to pursue a nursing degree, but between work and family obligations there had never been enough time. Since she’s only working about two hours a day on OnlyFans right now, she’s using the extra time to enroll in a nursing program.

“I want to help people with Alzheimer’s, but I’m going to get there through pornography.”

Clara has gone back to work in the hospital again and was doing sex work alongside her work as a patient care assistant, but she tested positive for COVID-19 after working with a patient who had it last week and is stuck at home again while she and her boyfriend recover.

She said the experience of working both jobs has been eye-opening.

“Just because I’m someone who’s basically a cam girl doesn’t mean that I deserve less than anybody else. People have to stop being so judgmental. We’re in hard times right now. The way people choose to support themselves is their own business,” she said.

“If it’s not hurting you, then why is it such a big deal?”

Because it harms society.

Because it decreases the quality of human interaction.

Because it accelerates the alienation of human beings who only see one another as transactional sex objects.

Because how are you supposed to have a husband and children and a happy life when there are webcam videos of you selling yourself for tips?

The long term damage is not worth the short term payoff.

How long until “doing OnlyFans to get through the Lockdown and pay for school” turns into “don’t bother with a career, just do OnlyFans.”

From The New York Times:

Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’
Liberal arts departments, graduate student aid and even tenured teaching positions are targets as the coronavirus causes shortfalls.

This is going to be good.

Ohio Wesleyan University is eliminating 18 majors. The University of Florida’s trustees this month took the first steps toward letting the school furlough faculty. The University of California, Berkeley, has paused admissions to its Ph.D. programs in anthropology, sociology and art history.

Oh no, not sociology and art history…

As it resurges across the country, the coronavirus is forcing universities large and small to make deep and possibly lasting cuts to close widening budget shortfalls. By one estimate, the pandemic has cost colleges at least $120 billion, with even Harvard University, despite its $41.9 billion endowment, reporting a $10 million deficit that has prompted belt tightening.

Aw…is the investment in David Hogg not paying off?  Is he not sharing his monetized social media money with Harvard?

“We haven’t seen a budget crisis like this in a generation,” said Robert Kelchen, a Seton Hall University associate professor of higher education who has been tracking the administrative response to the pandemic. “There’s nothing off-limits at this point.”

How about all those fucking Deans of Equity and Diversity and Deans of Student Life?  I bet there are a lot of six-figure administrators who never set foot in a classroom and could be shit-canned in a blink.

That’s the problem.  The bureaucracy always protects itself.  A bunch of professors get laid off but the worthless administrative staff keeps their jobs.

Even before the pandemic, colleges and universities were grappling with a growing financial crisis, brought on by years of shrinking state support, declining enrollment, and student concerns with skyrocketing tuition and burdensome debt. Now the coronavirus has amplified the financial trouble systemwide, though elite, well-endowed colleges seem sure to weather it with far less pain.

Maybe bankrolling an army of deans and administrators and their vanity projects while raising tuition to unaffordable levels was a bad idea.

Education was a bubble.  I’ve seen it said that COVID accelerates trends and bursting the education bubble was one of those trends.

Students and families, facing skyrocketing unemployment, have balked at the prospect of paying full fare for largely online instruction, opting instead for gap years or less expensive schools closer to home.

Abso-fucking-lutely!

I’m going back to school for a second Master’s.  The program is available both in class and virtual, but they shut down the campus for COVID.  So in-state students and distance ed students (like myself) were taking the same classes all online, but I would have to pay much more.  Then that got eliminated and I’m paying in-state tuition.  Once’s it’s online, does it really matter where you log in from?  No.  More schools should adjust to that reality.  Those that fail to evolve will face more budget shortfalls.

Scores of graduate programs, including some at elite research universities such as Harvard, Princeton and U.C. Berkeley, have temporarily stopped taking new Ph.D. students — the result of financial aid budgets strained by current doctoral candidates whose research is taking more time because of the pandemic.

Rice University, which paused admissions to all five of the Ph.D. programs in its school of humanities.

Most of the suspensions are in social sciences and humanities programs where the universities — rather than outside funders such as corporations, foundations and the federal government — typically underwrite the multiyear financial aid packages offered to doctoral students.

Ha ha ha ha ha, fuck ’em.  When money gets tight it’s not worth the money to train the next generation of Grievance Studies professors.

Engineering on the other hand, keeps on trucking.

As schools exhaust the possibilities of trims around the margins, what is left, administrators say, is payroll, typically the largest line item in higher education. Since February, when the coronavirus hit, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that colleges and universities have shed more than 300,000 mostly nonfaculty jobs.

Only after they fired all the professors, they will shed some of the administrative dead weight.

I know I’ve criticized school administrations a lot in this post, but I want to make it clear, I’m not really on the side of most of the professors either.

Take this bit from the Columbus Dispatch on Wesleyan University is eliminating 18 majors.

Ohio Wesleyan also announced it will consolidate the following:

• • Black World Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies to develop a new Department of Critical Identity Studies.
  • Music and Theatre & Dance departments to create a new Department of Performing Arts.
  • Classics and Modern Foreign Language into a new Department of World Languages.
  • Philosophy and Religion to form a new Department of Philosophy and Religion.

So it’s not like they totally eliminated the majors, they just sort of condensed them into larger departments.

I’d be more excited if they eliminated Critical Identity Studies all together… by demolishing the building… with the faculty still inside.

A lot of people this year were laid off because they were non-essential.

I feel bad for them, but at the same time, many of them chose to go into worthless fields.

I’m not talking about restauranteurs, salon owners, and others in that sort of service industry who are plainly essential to normal life.

I’m talking about people like this girl from a previous post.

Not just was she non-essential, but so is every professor she ever had.

Ohio Wesleyan University cut its journalism major.  Good.  We’ve seen little but bias, partisan hackery, and panic porn coming out of the Media for years.

When I want good on-the-ground reporting, I turn to the social media pages of independent journalists, most of who didn’t go to journalism school.

To pay $47,000 per semester to try and become a lying shit-spewer for a media network that has zero credibility left is a waste of money.  You’re better off with a GoPro and a YouTube channel.

Schools are hemorrhaging the useless humanities and social sciences, which have mostly been perverted into political indoctrination programs anyway.  Show me a classics program that actually teaches the classics and not Marxist criticism of the classics (other than Hillsdale).

Every gray cloud has a silver lining, and perhaps one of the silver streaks in the COVID cloud is the bursting of the education bubble, and perhaps tens of thousands of Grievance Studies professors left destitute and homeless, unable to corrupt young minds with their poison.

There is 143 years of lead in the side of that mountain.  What a club of 20 guys shooting weekend matches will add to that is a drop-in insubstantial by comparison.

This is why it is so important for gun owners and shooters to be involved in local politics as well as national politics.

Just like with the lawsuits against gun manufacturers for “safety,” they will use every other excuse to attack our rights by destroying our gun culture.  That starts with eliminating our gun ranges.  Indoor ranges are extremely expensive to build and maintain, roughly $100,000 per lane because of air filtration and hazmat waste disposal.  Outdoor ranges, which are far more affordable, are subject to environmental and noise pollution attacks, even when they don’t pose a real threat.

We must defend our gun rights.  That doesn’t include just our right to buy guns, but our right to shoot them.  Be active in your community and protect your outdoor ranges.