Dumping Ballast

I've been at least partially watching the election post-mortems, particularly on the left. Here are some themes I've seen from the normal ones:

• The age of the mainstream media is ending. Joe Rogan blew MSNBC out of the water when it came to influence.
• The age of the celebrity endorsement is ending, if it ever existed. I'm sure they'll still seek them out, but probably just for fun.
• Racial voting blocs only exist for blacks and even that is beginning to crumble. Something like 25% of young, black men voted for Trump. They were excoriated by Oprah, Obama and God knows who else for even considering das Volk verraten, but it had no effect. At only 55-45 for Kamala, the Hispanics are effectively gone as a reliable bloc for the Democrats.
• Poisoning and mutilating girls is a total millstone. So are dudes beating up women in sports. The era of transgender affirmation is ending. Trump's most effective ad, the one he ran more than any other, was the one where they talked about Kamala's crazy transgender positions. From internal polling, both campaigns know that ad moved the vote by a couple of percentage points.

Any political party that loses a major election will analyze the situation and dump the positions that cost them a lot of votes. My bet is that they cannot shed the racial madness so that will stay for a couple more election cycles at least. The transgender people are a different matter entirely. There is absolutely no upside to them. They will be dropped like a bad habit.

Now dig this.

This is a strong statement from @realDonaldTrump to put an end to the gender madness. I fully support it, and hope I can help his administration make this a reality. pic.twitter.com/p6LtH5pXMs

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) November 7, 2024

One of Trump's superpowers is that he expands the Overton window because he can't help but say anything that comes into his head. Very soon, the victims of the transgender sadomasochists will find themselves with almost no support at all. Big Pharma will ditch them as will all of the large medical groups. Dittos for insurance companies. Yes, they're all making good money keeping the trans victims hooked on their endless need for hormones and doctor visits, but not enough to make standing up against the full might of the Justice Department worthwhile. That product line will be shed with a shrug.

My daughter, who has been on testosterone for 3 years now and whose body is permanently ruined, is thriving because she is surrounded by people who lie to her. It's not just people, it's the institutions that are lying to her, including the medical groups, clinics and professional associations. Almost all of that will come to an end. Her support group will dwindle as the large-scale support structures fall apart.

Now dig this from a detransitioner.

I saw my midwife/OBGYN again recently and I hated it. I’m in pain. It hurts to wipe. It hurts to be intimate. I described my vagina as a guillotine and she suggested I put lidocaine on it. I can rarely get my estrogen cream inside. There are no smaller applicators she could prescribe. She told me to try filling a small tampon with the estrogen cream and applying it that way. Tampons hurt and I can’t. She also tried to prescribe my dilators to break up scar tissue inside from years of severe dryness. I said no. 

I’m only 26. I shouldn’t be in this position. Detrans women who have been fraudulent prescribed testosterone are experiencing menopausal symptoms and painful conditions. There is no real help or relief. There are no ICD codes to bill insurance.

Without the mainstream news media acting as information gatekeepers, stories like that will begin to come out in large numbers. The public rage against what happened to these girls will grow. Any organization that supported these horrors will run for the darkness like the cockroaches they are.

The victims of the sexual degenerates who perpetrated this on us will find themselves almost completely alone and in despair, their bodies ruined by the progressives and their lunatic ideas of social constructs. The Democrat Party and the medical industry will dump them like the useless ballast they are.

Dittos for these kids.

90% of the kids at Frederick Douglass High in Baltimore are chronically absent.

These kids, almost all of whom are black and almost none of whom can read, made a rational decision given what the progressives who run their city told them. Why try if whites are going to oppress them and keep them down no matter what they do?

If black men continue to move rightwards politically, they will be jettisoned, too. Then what happens to them? Like the trans people, they will treated like the useless ballast they will be. That's a bit more of a reach than dumping the trans kids because of the deep-rooted obsession with race that occupies so much of the left's worldview, but it wouldn't be a big surprise to see it start to happen.

Still, political parties exist to win elections and if parts of your coalition are costing more votes than they bring in, it's time to throw them overboard.

Put not your trust in princes, as it were.

When Schadenfreud Is Better Than Compassion

 ... you might need to rethink things.

While researching my blog post series on romance, I came across tons of reaction videos with the theme, "Women Hitting the Wall." This one is a good example.

Snarking and sneering to these women is just evil.

Modern women didn't invent the modern dating scene. They were born into it and the current carried them along. Most people aren't strong enough to swim against the cultural tides. Heck, I've been a rebel blogger for almost 20 years now and if there's one thing this blog has taught me, it's that I have been, and still am, filled with unconscious biases and false assumptions.

It doesn't help anyone to mock these poor girls. These videos all tell a story of women who want to be wives and mothers, something any defender of civilization should embrace, support and encourage. Yes, the angry, lesbian feminists poisoned the culture for men. Yes, a lot of us men have been getting the raw end of the deal.

So what?

Man up and stop complaining. If there's a woman who is so frustrated and unhappy that she posts a video essentially telling you she wishes someone would wife her up, applaud her. Give her tips about how to be successful. 

For example, the data from the various dating apps clearly shows that women only respond to to the top 10-20% of men. Instead of laughing at the 4s, 5s, 6s and 7s who think they can bag a 9 or a 10, paint them an image of their future with a solid guy who doesn't look like a movie star or earn $100K+.

That's what these girls need, a vision of their future with warmth, love, stability and children. Yep, married men still live in the 1950s, expected to protect, provide and cherish. Yep, the angry, lesbian feminists wrecked a large part of the culture. It's tragic.

However, the only way out is through and that means through affection, compassion and empathy. The culture will be changed by changing minds and no prospect ever bought a product because they'd been told they were stupid.

In The Election, The Blue Models Broke Down

Alternate Title: The Republican Supreme Soviet must be better than the Democrat Supreme Soviet, right?

Trump won bigly. One reason he won bigly is that the Republicans 5-year-plan, managed by Elon Musk, was better than the Democrats' 5-year plan.

Axios' @JimVandeHei: "All of us have to come to grips, the legacy media is just not as important as it thinks it is ... It’s a relatively small group of people who rely on us for their information ... So if you just look empirically at the numbers, Joe Rogan is more important… pic.twitter.com/HqE4ckkFGE

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 8, 2024

Another reason is that Republicans subverted peoples' natural, racial loyalties.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott proclaims that "America doesn't deserve black women" pic.twitter.com/YffmcCKLp8

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) November 8, 2024

Yes, the party nominated an absolute donkey of a candidate, but she was a black, woman donkey and that's all that should have mattered.

The list of explanations from the left goes on and on like this. In reality, the problem was that their models don't work. There is no organized, right-wing, social-network ecosystem. The successful podcasts and channels arose organically. Elon's biggest contribution to the right was not his management of information, but his removal of information management. Joe Rogan is huge because people choose to listen to Joe Rogan.

Similarly, the model of racial solidarity is all wrong. Along the Texas-Mexico border, Hispanic communities voted overwhelming for Trump. They didn't see the illegals as their racial brothers, they saw them as a menace.

Dittos for the trans model. People recognized the poisoning and mutilation of children for what it was, not as some act of affirmation.

The Democrats can recover from this thrashing, but to do so, they'll have to ditch their top-down management models. As I listen to their analyses of what went wrong for them, that's the angle I'm following. So far, there's very, very little push to reexamine their Soviet predilections.

Drawing Lines Of Hate

This is apropos of nothing in the events of the last week, but it occurred to me yesterday, so I thought I'd share it.

The general case for allowing mass migration is that if you do not allow any given family of refugees into your country, you are heartless and probably full of hate.

How could you turn them away?

That's pretty hard to refute. At the San Diego airport, when the invasion was in full swing, almost all of the illegals you saw flying to destinations across the US were single, military-age males, but there were a few families like the one pictured above. You couldn't help but feel compassion for them. Still, can you take all such families?

Where do you draw the line? Taking an estimate at random, during the Biden-Harris years, we had 12,000,000 illegals come across the border. Many of our cities, the sanctuary ones in particular, are now having to cut services to citizens so they can care for the illegals. Some of our smaller towns who were targeted by the administration for total demographic change have been completely overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, the population of Haiti is 11.7M. Honduras' is 10.6M. Venezuela's is 28.8M. Nigeria's is 223.8M. It's a good bet that most or all of those populations would like to come here. Can you take all 275,000,000 of them? No? Where do you draw the line? Pick a number.

No matter what number you choose, there will be a family just like the one above left out in the cold, living in poverty. No matter how many you bring into the country, you can be accused of anti-immigrant hate and racism because that you don't care enough to allow that family into the US.

This is how you get to infinity, by the way. One more. Always one more.

It is the act of drawing the line that is hateful. Any limit at all is racist.

Now imagine that you don't pick a number at all. You say that we must accept anyone if they want to enter the country, yea, even unto 275,000,000 of them.

You only say that because you're full of anti-Muslim hate. Why didn't you include the 23.3M of Syria and the 240.5M of Pakistan? It's because you hate them, don't you? How can you be so cold and heartless?

Why do you hate them?

I have to stop here. It makes me sick to even have to communicate with hate-filled racists like you. You're the reason Trump won.

Trapped Like Rats

 ... DemocRATS that is.

No, I don't like that kind of name-calling, but it worked too well with the title of the post to not use it.

When Biden became too obviously senile to run, the problem of succession wasn't that it was too late for a primary, it's that they had trapped themselves by picking Kamala as the VP. Under the progressive power rankings straightjacket, a black woman cannot be bypassed for any reason at all. Kamala became the nominee because they had no other choice, given their racial and gender obsessions.

Once that happened, they were stuck with an airhead. Like I said in the previous post: 

The analogy I'd use would be watching a high school baseball prospect take batting practice. If the guy takes 50 batting-practice fastballs and grounds them all to the infield, the answer is simple. He's a lousy player. Kamala is like that. She's been served up these questions in friendly environments over and over and over again and doesn't have answers. This is as good as she gets. She's a lousy candidate. She's an airhead.

With that as their talent, there wasn't much they could do other than scream FASCIST and HITLER and TYRANT. That all ended with Joe Rogan.

All you had to do was watch a segment or two of the Trump interview on Rogan's podcast and you could see that Trump wasn't some kind of dictator maniac. 60,000,000+ views later, the central message of Kamala's campaign was flaming wreckage.

That left her with ... what? "I'm going to fix the mess that ... err ... the last guy left?" It didn't help that she couldn't answer anything more complicated than what kind of Doritos she liked unless she had a teleprompter.

With the party locked in to its racist mania and affiliated Marxist oppressor-oppressed model, they were stuck. Trump crushed her even though he was Trump. Had they not trapped themselves with a black woman as VP, they could have found a way to run Gavin Newsom and mopped the floor with Trump.

Oh well. Sucks to be them. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving crowd of racists.

My Hopes

My biggest hope coming out of this thrashing is that it will be the end of the racial insanity on the left. Trump garnered 45% of the Hispanic vote, so the Democrats' dreams of racial purity voting blocs seem to be OBE. It would be great if they ditched those.

Dittos for the climate scam. Here in California, thousands of Joshua trees are being killed so a lefty donor can get rich paving part of the desert with solar panels that won't power much at all. This being the desert where things grow slowly, those Joshua trees aren't irreplaceable, but I won't see their like in my lifetime.

Finally, on a very personal note, I fully expect that the transgender insanity will die now. It will be too late to save my daughter. I thank God that He helped me find the courage to remain honest with her and not lie to her that she was a man, but there are physical problems coming for her after 3 years of testosterone poisoning. Combine that with the national mood souring on transgenderism and you get the recipe for enormous psychological pain for my girl. Ouch.

Meanwhile, the market is rocketing upwards and a vacation home in Alabama is closer than ever. That's all good. I didn't want Trump, but I'm glad he won.

It's been a good day, Cat. A really good day.

Kamala Harris For President

 ... because nothing matters. Here's why.

Progressive policies and philosophies are completely divorced from real world performance. They float along, propelled by the looting of the future. As long as you can still borrow money, you can live in their fantasy world.

As the election draws near, I've taken to listening to Mark Halperin's excellent Two Way channel on YouTube and X. Unbiased and professional, it's expert-level sports talk radio for political junkies. On his morning briefing show, he and his guests have repeatedly wondered why Kamala can't answer simple questions, particularly when the same questions arise over and over and over again. Why hasn't her team coached her on better answers? Why doesn't she have any answers at all? The topics include:

• Biden's cognitive decline
• The invasion at the southern border
• Inflation
• What she would do different than Biden

She never has a coherent, solid answer for any of them which is why she gets asked the same questions in every single town hall and interview that isn't a complete tongue-bath.

If I took the time to join 2-Way and had a chance to interact with Mark and his cohosts, I'd say the answer is simple. The analogy I'd use would be watching a high school baseball prospect take batting practice. If the guy takes 50 batting-practice fastballs and grounds them all to the infield, the answer is simple. He's a lousy player. Kamala is like that. She's been served up these questions in friendly environments over and over and over again and doesn't have answers. This is as good as she gets. She's a lousy candidate. She's an airhead.

And yet, the Democrats can afford to run a lousy candidate since nothing is riding on the election for them. Nothing real, that is. We as a nation glide along, our path lubricated by borrowed money and a relatively peaceful world whose order was purchased by previous generations. There's no need for real accomplishments or solving real problems.

Gary, Indiana

I don't recall what prompted it, but I searched for black-majority cities in the US. One such is Gary, Indiana. It's about 70% black. The mayor is black as is almost the whole power structure in the city. It has been for some time. Naturally, it's solidly deep blue. Its schools churn out illiterate kids.

The progressives don't have to perform, not in any real sense, not even for their top-ranked demographic, blacks. It's not just that they don't perform, they don't even come close to performing. Reading doesn't require technology or fancy school rooms. As far as education goes, it's as simple as it gets and yet, the progressives aren't getting the job done. Life up to now has shown them that there isn't much of a penalty for failure. It's all covered by borrowed money.

Back To Kamala

So why not run Kamala? Why not run a woman who is clearly a figurehead? Biden's been a figurehead his whole term and that seemed to work out pretty well. Why not import voters from Haiti and similar dumps? It hasn't caused any serious problems yet. The wealthy people in DC are doing fine and they can all preen about how compassionate they are.

Trump For President

To be sure, I'm voting for Trump on Tuesday. It's not a hard choice. I'd have gladly taken DeSantis or Haley over Trump, but here we are. MAGA wanted primal scream therapy so primal scream therapy is what we got. It's not really an election about serious issues, it's simply a referendum on whether or not you hate Trump. No one really knows what Kamala thinks about anything and it doesn't matter. Is Orange Man Bad or is Orange Man Good? That's the crux of the election.

Meanwhile, the black kids in Gary, Indiana can't read. That's OK, right?