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The use of the word ‘mansplain’ should be punishable by banishment into the cursed earth

Oct 9, 2020 J. Kb 6 comments

I did my best to avoid the debates.  I knew that they would test my blood pressure, but unfortunately, avoiding any discussion of them has proven impossible.

The thing that I learned is the Pence mansplained to Harris and kept running over her.  Except that:

Overall, Pence spoke for 36 minutes and 27 seconds, while Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, spoke for 36 minutes and 24 seconds, according to a CNN count.

So what did Pence really do?

Yup, that’s what happened.

I hate the word mansplain.

According to Merriam-Webster:

Mansplaining is, at its core, a very specific thing. It’s what occurs when a man talks condescendingly to someone (especially a woman) about something he has incomplete knowledge of, with the mistaken assumption that he knows more about it than the person he’s talking to does.

Well, Mike Pence is the VP so arguably he knows more of that that she does.

Merrian-Webster continues:

The word’s death knell has been sounded—it’s so broadly applied that some say that any time a man opens his mouth he’s accused of mansplaining—but mansplain is clearly not going to be dropping out of use any time soon.

This is true.

Slate.  Fucking Lefty Slate published this article:

RIP “mansplaining”: The Internet ruined one of our most useful terms

And the word “mansplain” — a useful neologism with a proud history, whose definition was once clear as a window pane — has increasingly come to mean “men saying things to, or about, women.”

The word “mansplain” can been traced to Rebecca Solnit, a writer whose 2008 essay “Men Explain Things to Me” laid out the mansplaining fundamentals (though the actual term only began croppping up on feminist blogs months later). In its early incarnation, it had a straightforward definition: when a man condescendingly lectures a woman on the basics of a topic about which he knows very little, under the mistaken assumption that she knows even less.

But along the way, mansplaining has morphed from a useful descriptor of a real problem in contemporary gender dynamics to an increasingly vague catchall expression that seems to be inflaming the Internet gender wars more than clarifying them.

It wasn’t a useful word.  It is a terrible, one-sided word.  It felt like the linguistic/semantic equivalent to the argument about job parity.  Where feminists would demand an equal proportion of women to men in the board room, C-Suite, or partners, but not want equal proportions in jobs that lead in workplace injuries and deaths on the other end of the spectrum.   You never see feminists argue that women need to make up half of America’s truckers, roofers, or trash collectors.

Mansplaining was always something done to women in white-collar positions on technical subjects.  I.e.,  one man explaining to a female scientist a topic she knows a lot about.  It finally took until 2020 and the COVID for the converse, Karening, to enter the popular lexicon.  The equally prevalent phenomenon of predominantly upper-middle-class women to harangue men, especially men in subordinate roles, over overly-emotional or petty bullshit.

But I digress…

In the world of identity politics, throwing out mansplaining to cover for Pence’s superior performance is just fucking annoying precisely because it suffers from the connotative drift of meaning “anytime a man talks to a woman.”

I have concluded that whenever a talking head on TV uses that word, they should be punished by banishment to the cursed earth.  By that, I mean pulled out of their NYC/DC bubble, cut off from their wealth, and forced to live in a small town in Oklahoma or Arkansas as a Denny’s waiter.

 

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And then you know you have the right webhost

Oct 9, 2020 Miguel.GFZ 0 comments

AWA Troglodite had me upgrade security in the blog and since he sent me the appropriate instructions. One made my day:

I love dealing with Gun people.

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The situation in Michigan is a total cluster-f**k

Oct 9, 2020 J. Kb 9 comments

This is such an absolute shit show it’s hard to know where to start, so let’s go all the way back to the beginning.

Gretchen Whitmer is the Governor of Michigan.  When the lockdowns started, Whitmer’s response was noted for being obscenely arbitrary and nonsensical.

For instance, hardware stores sold essential items so were open, but paint and seeds were considered non-essential, so those items were taped off with caution tape.

 

Whitmer banned people who owned multiple homes in-state to going to their non-primary residences.  So if you lived in a city, and wanted to enjoy some fresh air at your cabin in the UP, you couldn’t travel to your second home and shelter in place there.  In the same state.

On the other hand, Whitmer was one of several governors who put COVID positive patients into nursing homes, going so far as to use nursing homes as storage for COVID positive patients from mental hospitals and group homes.

People got fed up with Governor Whitmer’s emergency power grab and lockdown shenanigans and sued her.  It went all the way up to the Michigan Supreme Court, which decided against Whitmer.

Michigan’s highest court confirmed in a landmark decision Friday that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had overstepped her authority by repeatedly issuing emergency COVID-19 declarations without ever getting the approval of state lawmakers.

In a narrow, 4-3 vote, the court held that Whitmer violated state law by not working with the legislature, The Detroit News reported.

Whitmer, in a brazen act of totalitarianism, told the court to go fuck itself and refused to give up power.

Seriously, she released an official statement on the Governor’s webpage.

Governor’s Orders Remain In Effect for At Least 21 Days; Thereafter, Many Public Health and Other Rules Will Continue Under Alternative Authorities

“Today’s Supreme Court ruling, handed down by a narrow majority of Republican justices, is deeply disappointing, and I vehemently disagree with the court’s interpretation of the Michigan Constitution. Right now, every state and the federal government have some form of declared emergency. With this decision, Michigan will become the sole outlier at a time when the Upper Peninsula is experiencing rates of COVID infection not seen in our state since April.

“It is important to note that this ruling does not take effect for at least 21 days, and until then, my emergency declaration and orders retain the force of law. Furthermore, after 21 days, many of the responsive measures I have put in place to control the spread of the virus will continue under alternative sources of authority that were not at issue in today’s ruling.

As the Babylon Bee so eloquently put it:

Remember, when the Democrats say that Trump is a tyrant who oversteps his authority and will refuse to give up power, that’s just projection.  Whitmer was a forerunner to be Biden’s VP until the BLM uprising required the Democrats to pander by picking a POC VP candidate.

Now the stage is set for what comes next.

From the Detroit News:

Plans to kidnap Whitmer, overthrow government spoiled, officials say

Federal agents said Thursday they thwarted a plot to violently overthrow the government as well as kidnap and harm Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — a conspiracy that included visits to her home in northern Michigan and training with firearms and explosive devices.

The alleged plot mainly involved six conspirators unhappy in part about Whitmer’s coronavirus restrictions, calling her a “tyrant.” They wanted to create a “self-sufficient” society free from what they called unconstitutional state governments and discussed plans to storm the Capitol and take hostages, according to FBI documents filed in court.

From the Detroit Free Press:

Feds say plot was bigger than kidnapping Gov. Whitmer. It was civil war attempt.

The Wolverine Watchmen militia group didn’t just plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, but they were on a mission to attack the state Capitol and target police officers at their homes as part of a broader mission to instigate a civil war, authorities said Thursday in announcing felony charges against 13 militia members accused in a sensational case of domestic terrorism.

Nessel’s comments follow the filing of an FBI affidavit in U.S. District Court that alleges six militia members plotted a revolt on the government that included kidnapping Whitmer.

Nessel said the suspects called on other members to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them, “made threats of violence to instigate a civil war leading to societal collapse” and engaged in the planning and training for an operation to attack the state Capitol building and kidnap government officials, including Whitmer.

According to the FBI affidavit, the accused purchased items including a Taser and night goggles, conducted surveillance at Whitmer’s cottage, and discussed blowing up a bridge to divert police, kidnapping Whitmer, and taking her to Wisconsin to face a “trial” for treason.

The three bullet points to take away are:

      1. They wanted to kidnap the Governor for “treason.”
      2. They wanted to attack police/law enforcement
      3. They wanted to bring about societal collapse

Points 2 and 3 really don’t seem like Conservative, Republican, Right Wing positions, considering that Trump has positioned himself as the law-and-order candidate and the Right has gone “back the blue” against Antifa and BLM anti-cop rhetoric.

Good thing there is video of one of the leaders of this group to tell us what he believes in his own words.

Allow me to direct your attention to the big anarchist flag hanging in his background as he spouts off Anarchist views.

This guy sounds more like Antifa than a Proud Boy.

And just in case you hear they are white supremacists, another member of this group can put that notion to rest.

 

So we have racially sensitive violent anarchists who hate cops and Trump.

But because they went after a Democrat governor, this is clearly Trump’s fault.

From NBC News:

Whitmer says Trump ‘complicit’ after feds reveal thwarted plot to kidnap her
“Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry,” she said

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday that President Donald Trump is “complicit” in fomenting extremists as she addressed a thwarted plot to kidnap her revealed earlier Thursday.

“Just last week, the president of the United States stood before the American people and refused to condemn white supremacists and hate groups like these two Michigan militia groups,” she said, pointing to Trump’s comments about the “Proud Boys” group during last week’s presidential debate. “‘Stand back and stand by,’ he told them. Stand back and stand by.”

“Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry,” she said. “As a call to action. When our leaders speak, their words matter. They carry weight. When our leaders meet with, encourage, or fraternize with domestic terrorists, they legitimize their actions and they are complicit.”

The evidence is just not there for that.

Of course, Trump shot back on Twitter:

 

He’s not wrong.

Which means that Trump is “inciting more violence” against Whitmer.

So let us recap:

      • Governor Whitmer imposes ridiculous and unpopular lockdown restrictions
      • Governor Whitmer imposes policies that increase COVID deaths in nursing homes among the most COVID vulnerable population in the state
      • Governor Whitmer’s emergency powers are denied by the state supreme court
      • Governor Whitmer refuses to give up her power despite the court ruling
      • Trump-hating, anti-cop, anarchists try to kidnap Governor Whitmer
      • The FBI/DOJ stops it and arrests the anarchists
      • Governor Whitmer blames Trump for the plot against her by misquoting him/taking him out of context
      • Trump criticizes back

Yeah, I think absolute shit-show cluster-fuck is a good way to describe this whole situation.

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Defending Against Riots and Mobs – Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network

Oct 9, 2020 Miguel.GFZ 0 comments

And as usual, I need to readjust a couple of my strategies to follow the good advice given my Marty Hays and Massad Ayoob.  This is not a Chest Thumping video, this is a survive (in more ways than one) video.  Make time since it is long and pay attention.

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Tell me again Antifa does not get special treatment.

Oct 9, 2020 Miguel.GFZ 5 comments

Between May 29 and Oct. 5, there were 974 cases brought to the MCDA’s office by Portland Police. Many involve repeat offenders though the number isn’t published in the report. Nearly 70 percent of these cases were dropped. 543 cases were rejected in the “interest of justice,” 44 cases due to “insufficient evidence,” 12 cases due to “a legal impediment,” and 67 cases are “pending investigative follow-up from law enforcement.”

Portland DA rejects over 540 riot-related cases in ‘interest of justice’

But if regular guy so much as passes gas downwind, he gets the full force of the law for denying Global Warming.

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So the answer is “yes”

Oct 8, 2020 J. Kb 6 comments

So the answer is “Yes, I’ll pack the court, but I don’t want to say it and mobilize the shit out of the Trump base and any wishy-washy Republicans.”

Also, can we put all this horseshit aside about SCOTUS and an election.  None of that is in the Constitution.  The President has the right to nominate a Justice and the Senate has the authority to confirm or reject.  It’s that simple.  When a vacancy opens up, the President nominates.  If the Senate is of the same party, they confirm.  If not, they reject.

“But the people have the right to weigh in… blah blah blah.”  We weighed in in 2016 when Trump was elected and 2018 when the Senate stayed in the hands of the Republicans.

This is just a bullshit stall tactic and it’s annoying as fuck.

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