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“No. Woman. President. Ever.”
                    

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Leave it to Coulter to find the silver lining.




I guess the Lindsay Clancy trial has put an end to that whole thing about a woman being president. Clancy has become a feminist hero for slaughtering her three children, whose names, in case anyone cares, were Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.


For that brave response to “postpartum depression,” she’s attracted hundreds of female admirers, who stand petulantly outside the courthouse in pink T-shirts, demanding her acquittal.


When Muslims pull this crap, blaming their gang rapes on the trauma of being asylum seekers, we’re not as understanding. But when women claim mental anguish from giving birth, we’re supposed to treat it as if it’s a disease as real as cancer and blame the doctors for not dispensing a magic pill to cure the batty lady.


Whether Lindsay has postpartum psychosis, is bipolar or a witch, to quote another witch, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” She still twisted an exercise band around the neck of her 3-year-old, his little legs kicking, then strangled her 5-year-old daughter until she went limp, before proceeding to garrote her 8-month-old baby.


A woman’s work is never done!


The pink ladies seem to think that if enough of them say, That could have been me, everyone will shout in unison, LET THAT POOR WOMAN GO! as opposed to, No. Woman. President. Ever. Thus, the organizer of the pink ladies, Renee Kimball, said of Clancy, “Any one of us could be sitting in her chair.” Okay, fine. But then none of you should ever be sitting in a chair at the Resolute Desk.




A big fat “Amen” to THAT.


    


    




    



    

        
Memezapoppin’!
                    

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“The unerring predictions of climate doom”
                    

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Gathered together in one place for the first time ever: all the busted, incorrect, failed, and patently preposterous doom ’n’ death prophecies from the climate-alarmist pants-pissers, bedwetters, and assorted ninnyheimers. To wit:




On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, John Wright provides a useful timeline of climate catastrophism in response to someone posting “projected” sea rise in Florida due to global warming:


For those of you keeping track:


    

  1. 1958 New York Times: Ice-free Arctic within 70 years.
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  2. 1967 Salt Lake City Tribute, quoting Paul Ehrlich: Global famine by AD 1975. Involuntary mass sterilization needed to curtail population growth.
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  3. 1970 Boston Globe, quoting James Lodge: Ice Age by the 21st Century.
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  4. 1971 Washington Post, quoting NASA: Ice Age within 50 years.
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  5. 1972 Brown University: Global climate deterioration due to Global Cooling.
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  6. 1974 Guardian: Ice Age coming fast.
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  7. 1974 Time Magazine: New Ice Age.
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  8. 1978 New York Times: No end in sight to cooling trend.
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NFL reality check
                    

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This isn’t your grandfather’s national professional football league anymore, kiddio. The headline alone kinda gives the game away.




Who Is the Market for Gay NFL Cheerleaders?
The NFL is all about DEI. While its bread and butter is the ruthless, survival-of-the-fittest world of the players, who all have to be men, the league has decided that everything else is subject to experimentation. While players can only play and earn the big bucks if they are good, and they are dropped the second they are of no use to a team, the front office can be packed with people who take up cubicle space and help the league check boxes for the TIDES organization (The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport—M).


To be sure, the league has been careful not to let much of this show. On Sunday, the public mostly sees an over-the-top display of patriotism and a couple of hours of wall-to-wall toxic masculinity. Just what America wants.


In the process, the league makes millions for the teams, the players, the networks, and, most importantly, the sponsors. In fact, you can pretty much assume that the product the NFL puts out is designed at every turn to be a cash-generating machine. In a stadium or on TV on game day, if it moves, someone sponsors it, and the NFL is making money.


In 1984, Lesley Visser of CBS Sports was the first woman to handle the sideline reporting duties for NFL games. Her primary job was to get real-time injury reports during games, but over the years that role has morphed into something else. Network producers, hoping to appeal to the more casual fan, now try to create mid-game narratives or storylines. The sideline reporter, who is now usually a woman, is charged with putting the focus on these storylines throughout the game if she can. Well, that, in addition to asking totally disgruntled head coaches how they feel things are going as they try to escape her for the locker room at halftime.


From a marketing and media perspective, we’ve been told that the primary reason the league wants female sideline reporters is to help grow the female demographic in the fan base. In other words, it’s a business decision. There’s no question the female fan base has grown over the years, but I have yet to meet a woman who likes football because she saw a female sideline reporter on TV.


The same is true for those halftime displays of patriotism. The reason you see them is not because Roger Goodell and his staff are model patriots; it’s because they know that their brand is wrapped in the red, white, and blue, literally. It doesn’t hurt that the league has monetized all of that by securing million-dollar sponsorships from the American armed forces and other adjacent organizations like USAA.


Do you really think those camo uniforms, flyovers, honor guards, and soldiers unfurling an American flag on the field all happen because the NFL cares about the country? Consider this: a year ago, because of the government shutdown, the NFL suspended such activities because the Pentagon’s budget was frozen. In other words, when the money ran out, so did the NFL’s demonstrations of patriotism.


The NFL is big business, and you can’t begrudge the owners for being unabashed capitalists. The country does love pro football, and people very willingly and gladly shell out their hard-earned money to enjoy what the NFL is selling. For the most part, it’s a healthy two-way business relationship where both sides feel they’re getting value out of it.


But to be clear, in the words of the great Michael Corleone in The Godfather, “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.”




Same-same, then, with the decision to stop tuning in and/or watching the NFL altogether. TPTB in the NFL’s executive board rooms think they can do without normal, patriotic American males watching and attending their games? I’d label that an open-and-shut case of Fucking Around, myself. It’s high time they damned well Found Out.


    


    




    



    

        
The Goal
                    

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The absolute last word on Dolly Parton would have to be this.




Said a mouthful there, girl. All I can really add to it is a hearty “indeed.”


Update! Unbelievable. Execute the scum. I am in NO way kidding about that.




Fury as Dolly Parton’s star on Hollywood Walk of Fame is vandalized a week after her death
Dolly Parton’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been vandalized a week after her death.


Fans of the country megastar swarmed Hollywood Boulevard last week, turning the site into a tear-soaked shrine after she died aged 80.


Visitors paying their respects Monday noticed the flowers had been stolen and that deep scratches were gouged directly across her name on the brass inlay.


The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce confirmed that crews were dispatched to repair the star.


“Dolly’s star already had cracks in it, and the chamber had scheduled it to be repaired Tuesday,” Ana Martinez, a spokesman for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce told TMZ. Martinez added it was a fan who stole the flowers and left scratches on the star.




Yeah no, not bloody likely. I think we can all imagine easily enough just what kind of person would do such a shitty, pointless, spiteful thing…and the words MAGA, Normal, conservative, and such-like form no part whatsoever of the description of said “person.”


    


    




    



    

        
Let’s make a DEAL!
                    

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Despite having won it seventy-three (73) times already, according to fucking Trump, we’re not gonna win this Iran thing, are we?




Put this one right on top of the stack of things I don’t understand.










Clue to the willfully, obstinately clueless: THEY DO NOT WANT A DEAL, THEY WILL NOT ABIDE BY ANY “DEAL” YOU DO FINALLY MAKE WITH THEM, AND THEY REGARD YOUR CRAVEN CRAWLING TO THEM BEGGING FOR SOME KIND OF STUPID-ASS DEAL AS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS, YOU STUPID FOOLS. Which it, y’know, IS, actually.


SO, in other words, exactly the same as they’ve been doing for the last, oh, round about fifty fucking years, then.




Bessent has been almost frighteningly effective in fulfilling his promise to collapse Iran’s currency, the rial. As he reminded Fox Business in that clip, the rial stood at 800,000 to the dollar last spring, but as of last week was down to two million.


That’s created real-world hardships for the regime and the Iranian people.


“Small protests occurred outside petrochemical plant and a sugar cane factory where workers were made unemployed but received no salary for last six months,” Peter Baum reported on X today. “One person killed by IRGC outside the sugar cane factory.”


Furthermore, “Academic staff at numerous universities on strike as they too have not been paid for months.”


The trick is to keep asphyxiating the regime until Tehran can’t afford to pay the thugs who keep the people in line with beatings and mass murders as required.


And these are the same theocrats Bessent thinks he can make “want to have a deal?” And that after we let go of their throats, they’ll stick to it?


What I had thought back in March might be a days-long campaign to hurt the regime has gone on too long for a deal — and the stakes are too elevated.


Once you grab somebody by the throat, you’ve got to keep squeezing until the job is done.




I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: so long as an entity still exists in the Middle East called The Islamic Republic Of Iran, with a bunch of Mad Mullahs firmly in charge of said entity, we have “won” neither Jack nor Shit.


    


    




    



    

        
“Sad creepiness”
                    

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Thompson lays out the nuts and bolts.




“You’re being yourself,” says a cross-dressing man who parades around the streets at night in a fetishistic latex maid’s uniform. With bonus dog collar and leash, obviously.


But he doesn’t want to talk about his sexuality, because “it’s complicated.”


As if we couldn’t guess.


Says our enthusiast of bondage and public humiliation, “The rush eventually wears off… I miss the rush… you do more risqué things.” And of course this chasing of transgression entails onlookers. People to be scandalised, disturbed or in some way imposed upon. Reluctant participants in his naff erotic drama.


At risk of seeming insufficiently affirming, what I see is a man being consumed by his own sad and grubby fetish. Not, I think, the most obvious basis for applause. Or indeed pride.


But hey. Modernity, baby.


We’ve recently mentioned how the realities above are difficult to convey in a normal social situation. Consequently, you may encounter people who wish to be seen as supportive of all things trans, because they’ve been watching the BBC and therefore know almost nothing about the phenomenon that they feel obliged to be seen supporting.


And so, you may find yourself in a social situation where nodding along or some affirming noise is expected, and you may then have to decide whether to sidestep the subject or introduce the other person to a world they may not care to enter or wish to spend much time in. But which is a very large part of what it is they’re affirming, if, perhaps, unwittingly.


And which isn’t necessarily what you want to think about when, say, having a meal with friends or coffee with the neighbours.



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Another commemoration
                    

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I’m a few days late with this one, but…yeah.










For my money, the hands-down best song on that whole album would have to be…




Fifty years, huh? Man, that CAN’T be right. Can it…?


Update! Just watched it again, and one thing really stuns me: some of the tastiest, most iconic classic-rock lead guitar riffage of all time, and Scholtz is playing—wait for it—KEYBOARDS? Not that Barry Goudreau doesn’t step up like a man and do a bangup job of it, but I mean, come ON, man! SRSLY?!?


    


    




    



    

        
Airport memorializing
                    

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Best and most apt Dolly memorial I’ve seen so far.







Only D and DD? Sorry, but I was married to a DD-Plus gal myself, and I can say with no little authority that Dolly was a Triple or Fourple-D, if not even larger than.


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Again: Correct
                    

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Sad but true.










Either that or, y’know, this.


StolenLand 1.


Anybody sick to death yet of being continually scolded by this self-righteous prig?


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Nail. Head. Hammer
                    

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Some assembly required.




I don’t give a sh*t that Flock and other unconstitutional searches may decrease crime. So will sending SWAT teams into every house in America to look for drugs or “illegal” weapons, or taking the medical records of every American and analyzing them for possible illegality. Or sending forensic accountants into every business in America and checking their books. Or….

The list is long how we can make ourselves “safer.” But as some very wise men understood, safety is a temporary condition that leads inexorably to totalitarianism.


Does that sound histrionic? Maybe, but provide a counter example please!


If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
— Samuel Adams


Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
— Benjamin Franklin


Government is fundamentally evil, and the expansion of its surveillance capacity simply makes it worse, and gives it more power over us. If anyone thinks that government is expanding its surveillance capacity because it will make us safer, then I have a bridge to sell you. They expand it, and all of its power, for one reason: control over the people.


We have to push back whenever we can, and Flock cameras are an excellent place to take a stand. And it’s easy! Agitate against them in every public forum, starting with your local government council. And if you ever end up on a jury for a trial of someone who destroyed a Flock camera or any other onerous surveillance technology…you know what to do.




Well, one would hope so, at any rate. Alas, one might have his doubts about that.


    


    




    



    

        
Tommy Robinson: correct, as usual
                    

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Memezapoppin’!
                    

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Welcome to this week’s installment of our Wednesday meme feature, folks. Links to the “found via” sources will be attached to the specific MiQ’s (Memes in Question) whenever I can remember them, which likely won’t be very often. Only the first two memes will appear above the fold to save on bandwidth usage, since I assume not everybody who shows up at this here websty will want to see all of them. This intro will appear at the top of each week’s Memezapoppin’! post. Enjoy, funny-pitcher lovers.






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