Scary Trump-Deranged/Wokified Facebook Friend Update

/ Jack Marshall / 5 Comments

BOO!

With great sadness I post the following ignorant progressive crap I just saw on a cherished friend and long time professional associate’s Facebook feed. He’s a smart, caring, talented man who was the star of my wife Grace’s “Celebration of Life.” I will owe him forever, but he’s a professional musician and performer who is surrounded by dolts and knee-jerks most of his days, so he has some excuse for believing this garbage…

…since almost everyone he works with, talks to or cares about does. But Christ on a cracker, if I ever post or say anything that stupid, please, PLEASE, somebody come up behind me and cave in my head with a brick.

Don’t make me fisk that junk. “Empathy” has nothing to do with responsible voting in a democracy for any citizen over the age of six. And it’s ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS YOU MORONS!

As I just said, my bubble-dwelling, toxic empathy-infected, MSNOW talking points-poisoned musician friend has some excuse; another Facebook friend, who is a Stage 4 Trump Deranged retired lawyer referenced here before who should know better and once did before his brain asked to leave the building does not. He just posted that Cassidy Hutchinson, the irredeemable “star witness” of Nancy Pelosi’s Star Chamber, the rigged partisan inquiry into the J-6 riot, is a “hero”—you know, for flagrantly lying in her testimony after being coached by vengeance Fury Liz Cheney.

A DC grand jury just refused to indict Cassidy, proving exactly nothing. For any lawyer, regardless of partisan tilt, to call this weak, dishonest, unconscionable woman heroic is evidence of mental illness or creeping dementia. Her EA dossier is here. She’s disgusting. My friend the distinguished retired lawyer is just…depressing.

A Timely Exposition On Just How Awful—and Unethical—Barack Obama Was and Is

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In comments on today’s first posts, both Grandma Lisa and peanutclearly45eb6e57bb referenced the destructive path of Barack Obama’s Presidency. Shortly thereafter, I stumbled upon this, a recent interview with Victor Davis Hanson, the conservative scholar and pundit in which he was moved to spontaneously detail Obama’s record of hypocrisy, dishonesty, narcissism, stupidity, and corruption. It is both convincing and impressive, and regarding EA today, timely.

Hansen’s revelations of Obama’s hypocrisy in attacking President Trump’s ballroom is amusingly damning, though it is far from the most significant of the particulars in Hansen’s indictment. Again, the only conclusion an objective reader could reach about Obama is, as I have stated repeatedly, “What an asshole!”

I’ll just whet your appetite with a few excerpts, but you should read it all:

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Belated Unethical Tweet Of The Month

/ Jack Marshall / 7 Comments

That nasty and completely inexcusable tweet from the White House popped up on several websites last week. I hadn’t seen it before or the 2016 post by Clinton that inspired it. Because of the way it was deceptively posted, I assumed Hillary had finally sunk to the bottom of her well of self-pity. The White House post went up on July 1, which is apparently Social Media Day. I didn’t know that either, and what a stupid designation THAT is. Every day is social media day, unfortunately.

But back to the White House’s trolling: how petty, mean and cruel. I can’t imagine anything more frustrating and devastating to an American than winning the popular vote in a Presidential election and losing the election anyway. It’s a fluke when it occurs (that doesn’t mean that the Electoral College isn’t a net benefit to our democracy, because it is), and only Andrew Jackson, Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Al Gore and Hillary have suffered that fate. Jackson and Cleveland became Presidents anyway, so only three candidates saw their future places in U.S. history go from defining to footnote because of an anomaly, and of those three, Hillary Clinton was the only one who had good reason to believe she couldn’t lose.

I don’t like Hillary Clinton and we are all lucky that she lost, but mocking someone for suffering a devastating misfortune is unethical no matter who is the target. The tweet basically says, “Nyah, nyah, nyah!”

Presidents of the United States shouldn’t say Nyah, nyah, nyah!” They are supposed to be better than that.

The Judge Flipped At Dawn*

/ Jack Marshall / 11 Comments

Texas lawyer Ezra Young (right, above) filed a judicial complaint against Judge Ada Brown (left) of the Northern District of Texas who went bonkers during a hearing last April. Brown excoriated Young for—wait for it!— being white. Young corrected her, saying that he is Hispanic (which is white, but the Left’s group-labeling obsession has obliterated that detail for all time), so Judge Brown said he was“white-presenting.” Here’s a description of the exchange from Bloomberg Law:

Throughout the hearing, the judge, a Black woman with Native American ancestry, accused Young of mistreating Black attorneys, took “judicial notice” of her own background in making findings against Young, and repeatedly referred to Young, who is Latino, as being White. Brown called the hearing months after she revoked Young’s ability to practice in her courtroom to weigh whether the lawyer should face sanctions.

“I think what’s happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?,” Brown said, according to the transcript. “You should write that down. I mean, you — I’m — you look like a White man, right?”

“I’m not White, Your Honor,” Young replied, adding that he’s Latino. “Well, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?” Brown said, according to the transcript. Young said that he’s “fair-skinned,” and Brown said that Young had “White privilege” when he argued his client didn’t receive key evidence in the case.

“You’re the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York,” Brown later said, according to the transcript. . . .

During the April 24, 2026 hearing, Brown accused Young of “racial bullying” toward Black attorneys in the case. Brown also said that Young was acting like a “Chad,” a term Young wasn’t familiar with. The judge said it was the male version of a “Karen.” “It’s someone who calls the manager when they don’t get their way. They stomp their foot when the rules are supposed to apply to them, right?” Brown said, according to the transcript. . . .

During the April hearing, Brown took issue with an article headline describing the case when it went before the Supreme Court of Texas. The article quoted a brief filed by Young that referenced another law professor apparently comparing what happened in the tenure denial to a “lynching.” The judge accused Young of making up that quote to “get a headline.”

“And so when I read a headline — a sensationalized, very racialized headline that says, ‘it’s like I’ve been lynched,’ and it’s literally got no connection to this case, I have to ask you, Mr. Social Media, Main Character Chad, White Hero, Savior, Loves to Help Black People Be An Ally, where the lynching in this case came from?” Brown said, according to the transcript.

She also apparently gave Young a copy of a 1920 newspaper article that described a lynching. “So we don’t find lynching jokes funny down here, sir,” Brown said, according to the transcript.

Fascinating. Brown is a Trump appointee, which means that even supposedly conservative clack judges may have had their brains addled from years of anti-white, anti-male indoctrination, propaganda and an implanted victim mentality. Of she just snapped like a dry twig in the wind. She has been suspended pending psychiatric testing; apparently the judge had been acting strangely for quite a while. Brown has refused to decide some cases and hasn’t shown up to face her disciplinary proceedings. This, Josh Blackman deduces at The Volokh Conspiracy, suggests that “something is amiss” with this judge.

Ya think?

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On the Kelly Clarkson “Pretty Woman” Kerfuffle…[Too Many Typos Finally Fixed (Sorry)]

/ Jack Marshall / 30 Comments

[ I didn’t do my final typo check because I had phone consult, and the result was about 12 typos that I just fixed. I am properly remorseful]

I opened this can of worms (celebrity ethics) so it’s only right that I put the squirmy things on the hook.

After delving into the annoying Crystal Hefner-Jon Lovitz feud (D-list celebrity vs. fading C-list celebrity), I was tasked by esteemed commenter John Paul to weigh in on the incident earlier this month when singer and talk-show hostess Kelly Clarkson claimed on social media that she got the “Pretty Woman treatment” when she went shopping at the Brooklyn-based Art of Play store, which sells home goods, puzzles, games, toys and books and also features a 26-seat theater for performances by magicians. This prompted a social media rebuttal by the store’s owner, and another rebuke by Clarkson.

I was aware of the incident but chose to organize my sock drawer instead of investigating. One reason is that “Pretty Woman” is one of the few famous movies I have never been moved to see. I have it on my list, but Richard Gere irritates me, and romantic comedies about prostitutes have never been my cup of metaphorical tea. So, until I researched it today, I didn’t know what the “Pretty Woman” treatment even is. As a cultural literacy bug, I deserve a rebuke for that—sorry. In the 1990 romantic comedy Roberts plays Vivian, a prostitute who walks into an upscale boutique on Rodeo Drive and is instantly treated by a sales clerk as unworthy of service because she does not appear to be sufficiently wealthy or cultured. The clerk refuses to show Julia any merchandise, and tells her to leave because she does not fit their clientele. Julia returns after she has entranced her sugar-daddy (I’m beginning to remember why the movie didn’t appeal to me), flashes expensive accessories from rival boutiques, and delivers an apparently classic “So there!” kill shot.

Clarkson had posted: “Just drove all the way to Brooklyn to check out this store I thought looked really rad and had a few things in mind to buy and literally was looked at as if I couldn’t afford it and was told he could find something comparable for me. Wow, dude. You’re an idiot and just lost a huge sale. But y’all should go check out Art of Play in Brooklyn if you enjoy being treated like Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman. For sure, check it out 👎”

The store slapped back,

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Friday Open Forum, and a Blazing Hypocrisy Episode

/ Jack Marshall / 20 Comments

Celebrity dust-ups are usually too trivial even for me to get concerned about, but the behavior of pseudo-celebrity Crystal Hefner, Hugh’s gold-digger widow, is truly gobsmacking, and attention must be paid.

Crystal married the wealthy Playboy founder in his dotage after she was a centerfold in the magazine, for love, I’m sure. Now, having become rich herself (estimated worth: $20-30 million)on the profits from Hugh Hefner’s female objectifying enterprises, she is a feminist. Recently she decided to impugn has-been Saturday Night Live alum Jon Lovitz, saying that he had been the “Playboy Mansion’s No. 1 customer.” Lovitz responded that “Any time someone says I’m No. 1, it’s a compliment.” For some reason, the former Mrs. Hefner thought it made sense to get in a war of words with someone a lot quicker on the uptake than she is.

“I think Jon Lovitz is part of the problem,” she told Page Six. “I think many men who came up to that mansion [and] were very sexist and misogynistic are all part of that problem. If I could dismantle that toxic masculinity and patriarchy just a little bit, I will feel happy. It’s very sad.”

The woman married the man who invited everyone to the Playboy mansion! She was at those parties flaunting her sexual assets; she is ethically estopped from wielding the woke patriarchy blather when she owes her status in life to embracing and promoting it.

She targeting Lovitz after a July exchange, when the comic reacted to her Instagram statement that she “regretted” marrying Hugh. “Do you regret the house he bought for you to live in, after his death?” Lovitz responded. “And keeping the money, after you sold it?… And do you regret all he did for you?”

Good questions. Hefner, proving she was fighting above her metaphorical weight class, said, “Jon Lovitz had mentioned to me that Hef had bought something for me or paid for something and that I have no reason to speak because of that. I think his thinking is very outdated. That’s really sad that, just because someone buys you something, it guarantees silence.”

Once a bimbo, always a bimbo.

Well, as Jimmy Durante would say, “I’m glad I got that out: on my x-ray, it showed up as a safety pin!”

This is the last Open Forum before the Most Important Election In The History of Mankind. Make it count!

More on the Democrats’ “Confuse the Voters!” Plot In Alaska

/ Jack Marshall / 8 Comments

The big story yesterday was the revelation of the Democratic Party’s plot to steal an Alaska U.S. Senate seat by confusing voters.…well, that, and the fact that the New York Times reported damning conduct by the party it pimps for most of the year. Stephen Green, usually an astute political analyst from the Right, thinks that the scandal may have national impact, that the GOP should use it nationally as it makes the final pitch to voters. He says, “[I]f the Republicans play their cards right, they can make the fallout go national. Because it DESERVES to go national. In fact, this ought to be one of the defining issues of the 2026 midterms.” Got it. Since it ought to be, it will be. Welcome to Fantasy Land. Green adds, [O]nce again, the same people screaming about “saving democracy” and “democracy is on the ballot” have been caught trying to rig an election.”

Also, trees have leaves! Why would any indoctrinated, progressive, Trump Deranged voter anywhere but Alaska—heck, even in Alaska!—suddenly think “THIS is the final straw!”? The Democratic Party had its puppet President call Republicans Nazis and threat to democracy…

…as it knowingly inflicted a demented POTUS on the nation, let a former President pull the strings, had its captive media lie that the shuffling geezer was “sharp as a tack,” and then replaced him as the 2024 candidate with a far left dim bulb who never faced a single primary opponent or a competitive convention vote. Its favorite Communism-loving Senator, Bernie Sanders, assured radical voters that what she was saying on the campaign trail were just lies to placate moderates until she was elected. The party has been trying to inflame its wackos to kill Donald Trump for years, and came within inches of succeeding—then tried to claim the assassination attempt was a MAGA hoax. It has repeatedly tried to defy election results by concocting one scheme after another (and the Big Lies to support them) to remove an opposing party’s President, including an audacious, Obama White House-engineered investigation of “collusion” with Russia.

It flooded the nation with illegal aliens, all the better to get census results that give Democratic states more electoral votes and representatives. Democrats in Virginia tried to sneak an illegal and unconstitutional redistricting scheme into law by lying about it on a referendum. In Maine, Democratic leadership kept insisting that a fake oyster fisherman who abuses women was a legitimate Senate candidate while he lied about the Nazi tattoo he had on his chest. In Minnesota, a Democratic rep almost certainly engaged in fraud to become a U.S. citizen and has been lying about it ever since, while stating that her first loyalty is to a foreign, Muslim nation. House Democrats let one of their Reps break the law to delay a House vote and lie about it. The party has successfully blocked efforts to ensure election integrity on multiple fronts, but the late revelation of another Democratic cheat in Alaska is going to finally make Americans figure out where the real danger to democracy comes from?

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Attempted Government Halloween Censorship In Bristol Borough, Pa.

/ Jack Marshall / 14 Comments

Guess what the political affiliation of those responsible is. Come on, guess.

A homeowner in Bristol Borough, a suburb near Philadelphia, festooned his yard with a small graveyard, two scary scarecrows, and five mannequins hanging from a rope on a large tree. The “bodies” are wrapped in black plastic and circled with duct tape. At an Oct. 12 borough council meeting, Karla Scott complained about the display, calling the decorations are “very offensive, not just to the black people in the community, but the community as a whole.” Scott told reporters that her “mind went back to what my ancestors went through being hung from trees with nooses around their neck.”

Huh. Did her mind go back to when victims of lynchings were covered with black plastic and duct tape? Because there never was such a time. The decorations reminded me of this scene, the hanging of John Wilkes Booth’s conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.

But then I don’t make up history to advance social justice narratives [See: the “1619 Project”], I just study it.

Now government officials are visiting the house and pressuring the owner to remove the “offensive” display, even though there is no claim that there is anything illegal about it. He refuses. Council President Ralph DiGuiseppe says that the town will “continue” to do this. I wish I could find out the name of the owner because I would declare him an Ethics Hero: he has told officials that his Halloween decorations are staying up. No weenie he!

Says FIRE:

“This behavior by borough leadership and staff looks very much like jawboning, which is when government officials try to chill private citizens from exercising their constitutional rights through pressure or indirect threats.While Scott and other community members may prefer there be a rule to prevent such decorations, an ordinance banning “offensive” lawn displays would be dead on arrival, constitutionally speaking. It would be viewpoint discrimination and a direct violation of the First Amendment.”

The local NAACP chapter has weighed in on behalf of the censors because of course they have. Here’s another chance to show power and bend others to their will. It said in a statement on Facebook, “Something can be legally permissible and still be profoundly harmful.” The statement also called for “continued engagement by borough leadership and voluntary reconsideration of the display. This is not about restricting Halloween celebrations or freedom of expression. It is about historical awareness, empathy, and respect for our neighbors.”

Translation: “We want the government to bully the law abiding citizen into bowing to our contrived sensitivities.” Their position is precisely about restricting freedom of expression, and worse, using government power to do it.

The so far unnamed Halloween decorator now says that he might have considered removing the display then had officials not tried to pressure him into it but that now it’s “a matter of principle.”

Damn right.

Confronting My Biases #33: Not Liking When People Say “Like”

/ Jack Marshall / 31 Comments

That’s Erin Andrews above. She’s a broadcast professional, a long-time sidelines reporter in NFL games. She a professional public communicator. Here she is on one of her recent podcasts:

“And then I’m like, ‘Wait, wait, fuck, what did he say about going for it?’ Because I never want to quote a coach and get it wrong, so I’m like, ‘Oh my god’…I’m fully fucking out of breath, which is inappropriate. Like, get it together, sister! In through the nose, out through the mouth. It was all because the ramp was so long. And I’m like, ‘Oh my god, how many people are watching … I’m so much better than that!”

And I’m like, “You sound like a moron, Erin, and this kind of illiterate blather just further embeds that toxic speech pattern in the next generation.”

Never mind the gratuitous “fucks,” that usage of “like” is worse than “um,” which was metaphorically beaten out of me as a child, and since I speak in public for a living, thanks, Mom, Dad, Miss Barrett, Mrs. Penwarden and the rest of my vigilent teachers. Are today’s teachers even trying to stop the “like” contagion? I doubt it: I bet they are infected themselves, and besides, they are too busy teaching kids to be communists.

My own daughter, after being taught by two articulate parents to speak grammatical and articulate English, now uses “like” every seven words, because that’s the kind of speech everyone around her all day uses. And I’m not about to correct a 32-year-old. Nonetheless, when I hear someone use “like” that way, my respect for them takes a nosedive, just as when I hear someone use “ain’t” or “we was” or “irregardless.” I can’t help it.

Frankly, I don’t want to.

From The “Res Ipsa Loquitur” Files:

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I am genuinely afraid to ask my Facebook friends if they find this tweet trenchant. It’s a perfect “Has bias made you stupid?” test.

Of course, none of the Brewers are illegal immigrants.

Details, details….