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Little background: Speaking of "a pattern of toxic behavior," Erick Erickson has survived his own repeated attempted cancellations, over, for example, his vow to use a shotgun to murder US census takers for the crime of knocking on his door, thanks in large part to other conservatives, most of whom do not like him and have never considered him a useful ally, for taking a stance based entirely on principle that people ought not be cancelled for intemperate outbursts.

Again, we took this stance based entirely on the principle that no one should lose a job over some unguarded moment of unwise speech, and not based at all on political calculations (he's a decidedly poor recruiter for the cause) or personal regard (few like him).

But he, like David French, is always up for a good vindictive cancellation of his own political enemies. "Principle" is something to bloviate about on Sundays while ignoring Monday through Saturday.

And then he'll tell you how principled he is as he gleefully attempts to steal someone's livelihood. Or a he calls for some new sudden hated enemy to be murdered.

Calling for the killing of those he is momentarily annoyed at is just somewhere his highly moral mind just tends to go.

If only all of us could have lived such perfect lives of Simon Pure public speech, Erick. If only all of us, like you, were so cautious with our every public utterance we had no need of the understanding or allowance or forgiveness of others regarding our more colorful outbursts.

Not surprised that he and Noted Pharisee David French should find themselves to be so sympatico.

So much compassion, charity, temperance, and grace on display.

God save us all.

The candidate that David French supported for President has officially fallen below Donald Trump's job approval rating for this day of his presidency:

And what do you know, conveniently enough, the Deep State dials up a Narrative Disrupting Strike on an ISIS leader we didn't previously know about and killed him. Well, him and six children and four women. Well, they're claiming the terrorist killed the six children and four women.

But who knows? Maybe it wasn't the best time to try to take this guy. Maybe the timing was dictated by... domestic political considerations.

Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com @JordanSchachtel

Don't let Biden WH twist it, local reports from the raid in Syria highlight a total disaster.
-At least 10 women and children murdered.
-ISIS leader blew himself up before he was apprehended.
-US lost a helicopter and was forced to then bomb it.

There's much more to this story.

Back when Brandon was getting bad headlines over his disastrous Afghan withdrawal, there was hastily called drone strike, supposedly targeting the bomb-maker who set off the bomb at the Kabul airport gate.

The drone strike did not kill any bomb-maker. It only killed ten civilians. They targeted the wrong vehicle.

So yeah, I think there's every reason to suspect that Wrong-Way Brandon and his gang of cynical, incompetent operators will order the military to into action where their information is weak or the timing is poor just to change the headlines.

And I don't think they care how many children, women, or adult civilian men they kill.

The only thing that matters is the 24 hour news cycle. Human lives are literally nothing to this crew.

Matt Vespa has more on that "Privilige Walk" students were forced on, where white students were lined up and forced to offer apologies to non-white students.

Your daily reminder that CRT isn't taught in schools, Bigots.

A female-only app called "Giggle" is using image analyzing AI to screen out users with male features.

Which trans women say discriminates against them, which I don't understand, because I thought that trans women were women. I thought that was now the Settled Science.

Transgender women slam female-only social networking app Giggle for using facial recognition software that excludes them - but CEO doubles down and insists that it's not a place for 'men claiming to be women'

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The AI Giggle uses for face recognition works by analysing the bone structure of its members, meaning that individuals with masculine features could be prevented from creating an account on the app.

Allegations of transphobia surrounding Giggle first surfaced when the app was created in early 2020.

However, the story has emerged again after LGBTQ+ publication PinkNews approached Grover for comment for an article about the controversy.

An unnamed freelance journalist writing for the publication sent a request for comment, asking whether trans women are 'encouraged to join the Giggle app' and whether the issue of facial recognition would be 'fixed.'

Grover replied to the query, saying: 'Giggle is a social networking app for females. Males are excluded from the user base. There is no other specific demographic that is excluded from the app other than males.

'No males are encouraged to join Giggle. Giggle is clearly stated as being for females. It would be lovely, however, if male people respected female spaces and left them alone.'

An editor for the publication later asked Grover to 'unequivocally' confirm whether trans women are accepted on Giggle, to which she replied: 'Giggle is an app for females, to connect in a female environment.'

And when asked whether she personally believes trans women to be women, she wrote: ' I can find no evidence or any female trans women.'

Grover continued: 'I understand that PinkNews will be writing an article in support of trans women with the belief that they are female, with the specific purpose to condemn Giggle, an app for females.'

#Based.

Swiss man spends seventy five euros to declare himself legally a woman, just to take advantage of law that allows women to retire one year earlier than men, and with higher benefits.

Also #Based.

Good Brendan O'Neill piece at the Spectator.

But perhaps the most revealing and unsettling thing said by Goldberg was this: 'But these [were] two white groups of people.' She means the Nazis and the Jews. Both white folk. So how can it have been about race? Isn't race all about white privilege and black victimhood? Isn't it all about the 'white supremacy' and 'white fragility' that contemporary white Americans and Europeans display towards black people in their every interaction? This captures how impoverished and shrivelled the woke set's understanding of racism is. They seem to view everything, even history, even the Holocaust, from their own self-flattering, highly Americanised, Silicon Valley-approved, 2020s understanding of racism as consisting of white arrogance and black pain and unwitting slights and 'microaggressions' committed by the racially unaware masses. Goldberg was projecting this alarmingly naive and hyper-nouveau view of racism back into history, so that even the Holocaust starts to look confusing because wasn't it white folks on both sides?

Even worse, this view of the Holocaust as a clash between 'two white groups of people' points to where the Jews now appear on the racial measuring rule of 21st-century wokeness. They're white. That's all. In fact they're super white. In the view of some identitarians, the Jews are the most privileged race, the most white race, and thus the people with the most to atone for. Check that Jewish privilege. It seems pretty clear now that the woke have been blinded by 'whiteness'. They have become so obsessed with whiteness as a bad thing, as a marker of privilege, as something to be apologised for, that even their view of history has come to be distorted. The Jews suffered the worst act of racial hatred in history? But they're white. That doesn't make sense. It can't be true. You're making it up. The woke view of whiteness as the cause of all the world's ills has seriously damaged people's ability to understand the problem of anti-Semitism and even to acknowledge what a calamity the Holocaust was.

Will Disney offer Gina Carano her job back? Will they offer a settlement for their defamation of her?

Punch Out at the Golden Corral:

Our society is disintegrating. Maybe nothing can stop that.

Maybe that's necessary now.

Matt Lee, a reporter who does not believe every bit of bullshit the leftwing blob tells him, is not buying Deep Stater Ned Price's claim that they have Hot New Intelligence that Russia is going to smuggle in Crisis Actors across the border dressed, I guess, in Ukranian uniforms to stage some kind of False Flag event.

Worth watching, just to see this extremely worm-like individual squirm and turn.

Note well that this is the level of "intelligence" routinely offered by the government which the media routinely reports as "intelligence" which as been "declassified" -- it's literally just a dweeb saying a sentence, and then telling you, the sentence I just said is declassified intelligence, and now you have that intelligence.

This was all of the "intelligence" they were feeding the "journalists" about Trump. Just some shit Adam Schiff was saying, which he'd say, "And this is intelligence."

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