Donald Trump is arrested…again. This time we get a pretty picture. The T-shirts should be out by Monday.
Let’s take a look at the debate on Wednesday. I saw so you have to hear about it.
And someone should hang over the incompetence during the Hawaiian fire.
Someone Needs to Hang for This!
According to the Daily Wire:
Survivors of the Maui fire that swept through the town of Lahaina said the only paved road out was barricaded by authorities as flames overcame the town, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said during a news conference that residents were not prevented from fleeing Lahaina, but accounts from some of the survivors suggest they were hindered from making a quick escape because of the decision to close the Honoapiilani Highway and a bypass at the south end of town.
Witnesses who survived the blaze said that traffic quickly backed up as residents attempted to flee to the south, but the road was blocked as a crew worked on downed power lines. One family ignored the barricade and swerved past the cones placed in the road, making it safely to another town nearly an hour later.
Arrested…Again
Donald Trump went to Fulton County jail to be processed for his RICO charges. He released the mug shot which everyone was looking forward to see.
The picture itself was not flattering. He put on his determined angry face. This is exactly the image he wants to portray. It’s a great picture.
He made a statement after he finished being processed right outside the jail:
He also released a campaign fundraising statement:
“The American people know what’s going on. What has taken place is a travesty of justice and ELECTION INTERFERENCE.
“If you are doing poorly due to the sinister people in control of our country right now, don’t even think about donating! But if you can, please make a contribution to evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House and SAVE AMERICA during this dark chapter in our nation’s history.”
This is backfiring for the Left. He is handling this perfectly and he is going to ride this all the way through the primaries.
The Debate
I had to watch that miserable debate, so you have to hear about it. It was terrible. First, let’s talk about the entire production and then get to the candidates.
Fox News
Fox News is touting this as a huge victory. It wasn’t. They did a terrible job. I like Bret Baher and Martha MaCallum but they stunk it up.
Here’s what I saw:
- There were too many candidates. There should have been two maybe three candidates.
- The format sucked. The candidates had 30 seconds to answer a question. What the hell are you going to learn from that?
- The moderators were in it too much. They should throw out a topic and let everyone go.
- The moderators couldn’t/wouldn’t control the candidates. I couldn’t understand a damn thing anyone said because they were all yelling at each other.
- Way too many poll question. “Raise your hand if…”
- There was actual time spent on climate change? They didn’t talk about CRT, gender ideology, or or the banning of utilities like gas powered stoves. They barely talked about the economy or the weaponization of the DOJ.
- Donald Trump needed to be there.
It was terrible and not like it used to be and it was worthless.
Ron DeSantis
He won the debate.
- He was assertive but not overly agressive.
- He pointed out he did a lot in Florida and he would do it federally. This is his main point.
- All the policy points he has already done in Florida.
- He didn’t fight with anyone.
- No one really attacked him.
- According to the Washington Post and Five-Thirty-Eight, he won the debate.
Vivek Ramaswamy
I think he came in third by a long shot. Not because he was good but because he was loud and the others were terrible.
- He was obnoxious.
- He made defamatory statements against the other candidates.
- He flip-flops.
- He does have a lot of energy.
- He showed he is inexperienced.
- He used a lot of Barrack Obama imagery which is weird.
Nikki Haley
She came in second in the debate.
- She had the best swipes against Ramaswamy.
- She was the most moderate and reasonable on controversial topics like abortion and Ukraine.
- She knows foreign policy.
- She did screech a lot which made it hard to watch.
- She brought up the I-am-woman-hear-me-roar crap that is annoying.
- She did well.
Mike Pence
The only question I have is why Mike Pence is doing this other than because his political career is over and to protect his legacy.
- He did show he was the most experienced.
- He spent a lot of his time defending the Trump administration.
- He looked really out of water when he tried to be the mean guy and burn other candidates.
- He really overdid the religion thing. He is kowtowing to the evangelical vote.
- He’s going nowhere.
The Other Candidates
Who cares. They should all drop out.
Donald Trump
A lot of people said Donald Trump won the debate because he didn’t go and did an interview with Tucker Carlson. That interview was crap.
By not participating, he looked scared to defend his presidency. Not a good look.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fivethirtyeight-wapo-poll-desantis-won-debate-haley-gains-support
Now We Have Proof
The letter that Barrack Obama wrote to his girlfriend and was redacted has been transcribed and confirmed…I guess.
Here’s what it said:
“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.
“My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men. But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency.”
Sure, Trust These Guys
There is an article called Men’s Groups Are Embracing and Alternative Conception of Masculinity by a gal named Tara Bahrampour. To say the least, it’s an interesting article. Let’s go through it.
On a Thursday in spring, as the sun set over D.C.’s Palisades neighborhood, nine men layacross awooden deck under the darkening sky. Birds trilled, their song drowned periodically by planes roaring toward Reagan National Airport. A stick of incense smoldered, its smoke curling into the mild air.
“Take in the sounds,” said Rua Williamson, who was leading the men in a breathwork session. “I invite you to maybe bring up an intention. How you want to live in this world. How you want to love in this world. How you want to be in this world.”
The men ranged from young adulthood to middle age; they were White, Black, Hispanic, Middle Eastern. As Williamson directed them to take short breaths, their bellies contracted in unison. Someone cranked up a Bluetooth device, and electronic drumming and bass rose up. Williamson laid his hand on the tummy of Alex Mero, a 52-year-old accountant in a light-purple T-shirt and black eyeglasses. He wrapped his hands around the waist of 30-year-old Dru Haynesworth, an activist and community health worker from Southeast Washington wearing a T-shirt that said “VOTE.”
He brought the men together with a collective ommmm. “Feel the vibration resonate in the floor,” Williamson said. “Feel the connection to your brothers.”
It was a kind of connection that U.S. men increasingly say is missing from their lives, leaving them lonely, disconnected and, often, angry. Earlier this year, Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared the country to be in an “epidemic of loneliness and isolation.” National suicide rates have risen in recent decades, and men in 2021 died by suicide at a rate nearly four times higher than women, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Here’s a problem, none of the above has anything to do with masculinity. It is attended by a bunch of guys who reject their masculinity.
The best time I have is during our football draft. A bunch of men get together and bullshit. We don’t express our feelings and hug while wearing purple tank tops. Because men don’t do that. We never have.
Men have always been the same way in the past and we weren’t killing ourselves. We are now. Why? Maybe that’s what should be looked at.
American men’s isolation stems in large part from a pervasive cultural belief, experts say: that men should be self-reliant and hide their emotions, especially from other men.
Again, we’ve always done that and weren’t killing ourselves. Why are we doing it now? Could it be because the tenants of masculinity have been demonized and the culture to change us to be more like women?
By the way, do you know who loves self-reliance and hiding our emotions under stress? Women. Women want a masculine man they can depend on for support and feel protected. Even the most ferocious feminists believe this.
Today, a battle over the face of American masculinity is underway. Popular music, action moviesand leaders like former president Donald Trump and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), author of the recent book “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs,” push fora more aggressive model.
Such conceptions, though, leave no room for vulnerability, said Mark Greene, founder of Remaking Manhood, a consultancy that works with organizations to help improve men’s professional relationships.
I’m going to give you a little hint about something, this article does not talk about any attack on masculinity. What the writer is doing is saying that certain men are trying to define what old school masculinity is. She doesn’t mention why these men feel the need to do this.
“If a boy expresses too much emotion or too much need for connection, is too giddy, is too joyful, what we say to that boy is, ‘What are you, a sissy? What are you, a girl? What are you, gay?’” Greene said. “It’s your job to dominate those around you, or you will lose status, and that will increase the number of individuals above you who can dish out dominance to you. And what we find is that in that system, in that structure, men are constantly in competition with each other and constantly driven by this sense of anxiety.”
This is a tad exaggerated but it is right. This does happen. It’s socialization. It’s how boys learn to be men. It still happens today except we demonize it and call it bullying. I was a sissy when I was growing up. A couple of unprovoked fights later, a couple I won, from those bullies the Left demonizes and I became the man I am today. A man that is unafraid to protect my family though I have no desire to get into a fight.
Here’s the thing, the “boys will be boys” thing is true. Boys are nothing but a pool of raw, unfiltered masculinity. That’s why boys do what they do, and will continue doing so. Those bullies teach kids how to defend themselves and, in the future, teach them how to defend the ones they love. Bullying is good.
Masculinity is also civilized by the parents, particularly, by the father, who is presumably, masculine. This is part of the problem boys have. Most families don’t have a father and our boys are not being civilized.
They are taught to be less masculine. It’s unnatural for boys to be feminine. Is it any wonder why our boys are committing crimes, including mass murders, are on drugs and are killing themselves?
Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology at New York University and the author of “Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection,” said many boys are raised with what she called “the cowboy mentality — ‘I can do it myself, I don’t need others,’” often perpetuated by “the father wanting the son to man up and not be so soft. … The whole model of getting help is part of so-called femininity.”
As a result, she said, “Women end up being the therapist for their husband, and more are getting sick of it.”
Niobe Way is a woman. She’s an expert in masculinity?? What the hell does she know about masculinity?!
She says women are tired of being therapists for men. Wait, didn’t the article say earlier that men shouldn’t show vulnerability and hide their emotions?? That’s right. Women want masculine men. They want men who can handle themselves. They want men who can deal with their problems without whining to them.
But some men are looking for alternatives, and some are finding them in fellowship organizations with names like EvryMan, the ManKind Project and the Journeymen, the group doing breathwork that night in D.C.
“We have all these groups that are just spontaneously coming into being, as men say, ‘I want a circle of men that I can call my brothers, I want a circle of men that I can express what’s going on for me emotionally, and I want a circle of men who will hold me accountable in positive ways,’” Greene said.
The theme of the Journeymen’s gathering in April, their first in-person meeting in D.C. since the pandemic, was “heartbreak and grief.” As the sky turned cobalt, Williamson implored the men to sense their emotions and “let them flow freely,” to raise their voices and “release them into the darkness.”
Yeah, this is going to turn a woman on. If I told Josie I was going to one of these things, do you know what she’d tell me? Grow up and be a man.
That’s what I’d say. Grow a pair and deal with your issues.
The men yelled, growled and bayed until neighborhood dogs started barking; voices rose to a frenzied pitch, then subsided. Williamson embraced a man who was sobbing. One man hugged himself. Then it was time to sit in a circle and open up. Joshua Cogan, the group’s founder, spoke first.
“People here have gone through a lot in our lives, some in the last few months. As we move through the world as men, sometimes it can be hard to have a sense of that,” he said. “All that which has been unnamed and unfelt, it’s actually been felt, it just hasn’t been dealt with. We put up a stiff arm and won’t let the other guy into our lane of traffic, we don’t want to make eye contact because if we did, we’d have to let him into our lane and show up really differently in the world.”
As a man, he said, “you can sense that there are deeper things that are happening in men’s lives, but when you bring it up the subject is changed. If guys’ lives are a house, they only let you see the living room with the plastic on the furniture. And you’re like, ‘Hey, I’m hearing some baying in the basement.’ But we don’t talk about that.”
Rua Williamson looks like a little girl. He is exactly what a man shouldn’t be.
But a serious question. Do you think a woman would be attracted to men who act like this? I’m going to go out on a limb and say no.
Going around the circle, they began to talk about what lurked in the basement. One had lost his sister a few months earlier. Many talked of fraught or violent relationships with their fathers — or of not having a father around.
“My mom was a single working mom in D.C.,” said Adrian Heizmann-Checa, 45, of Cathedral Heights. “I was scared she was going to get killed. I’m 7, 8, 9 years old, crying, ‘Where the hell is my dad, where the hell is my mom,’ in a basement in Adams Morgan. … So I just [had] to become a self-reliant superhero.”
What a shock. No father. He needs to teach masculinity for himself or learn it from his mother who is not a man!
The article spends the next ten paragraphs on men whining about something. Then it comes to something interesting.
Cogan, now 47, had been working through his own personal difficulties: the end of a previous relationship; his at-times fraught relationship with his father; the bullying he had suffered as a child. Now, he said, he was often the only man his male friends were talking to. “My intuition is that I was modeling openness,” he said. “They saw me talk about my relationship, crying, going to therapy. They saw me as a safe harbor.”
This is not a man. I knew this when I saw him use the word “intuition”.
For many men, he said, “The world isn’t safe. There’s no expectation that a guy in our culture can say, ‘I’m scared, I’ve got fear.’ There’s no expectation that a guy can ask for safety in our culture. A lot of the guys I know, they can’t even do this with their partner.”
Do you know when a boy learns that the world isn’t safe? When they are a boy and get beaten up for the first time by a bully. In sports, when you screw up and don’t make an effort and get shit on be your friends. By one’s father when his wrestles with you in the yard, teaching you how to defend yourself.
I’m not surprise this guy is single. No woman could handle him and his baggage.
But in recent years, Way said, men have witnessed societal movements such as the #MeToo movement and Black Lives Matter, which also challenged old paradigms. “Then covid happens, and we hit the bottom of the barrel on connections,” she noted. “We can’t walk out of our homes. We woke up to see we are a mess, and we’re not having the connections we want, and we’re not actually happy.”
#MeToo, BLM and the other paradigms this gal is talking about have gone out of their way to demonize men and masculinity. That’s what Leftist men have learned. All other men are pushing back against this, including younger men who don’t like this stuff.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/09/masculinity-journeymen-josh-hawley-trump/
I’m Going to Go Out on a Limb
According to NBC News:
A teenager says her supervisor at Chick-fil-A sent her home for having an “unnatural” hair color: Blond.
“I was very embarrassed,” Autumn Williams, 16, of Concord, North Carolina, tells TODAY.com.
According to Williams and her mother Nina Burch, the teen wears her “brownish-blond” or “dark blond” hair in box braids, which Autumn had when she attended her company’s orientation session approximately two months ago. During that session, she says, the only guidance she heard about hair was that it had to be pulled back from her face, which she said is reasonable.
During her July 13 shift at the front counter, Williams said a manager asked to speak with her in private.
“She said, ‘Our supervisor drove by yesterday and noticed blond in your hair and since blond is an unnatural color to you, we have to ask you to take the blond out of your hair and then come back when there’s none,’” says Williams.
“She said, ‘We understand that’s a long process for you so take your time and you can email me when you’re ready to come back,’” adds Williams.
The teen says she panicked.
“It was very stressful — it made me feel like there was something wrong with me and my appearance.”