Category: New Rules

“Rest assured that the @StateDept has revoked his visa”

New Rules The Tolerant Left 5 Comments

Those were the old rules, “Bobby”. Please review the new rules.

The Trump-Rubio U.S. State Department revoked the visa of a punk rapper who viciously and gleefully mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk at a show.

A clip of Bobby Vylan, aka Pascal Robinson-Foster, the frontman for the English punk rap duo also called Bob Vylan, sparked outrage when he ghoulishly joked and danced on stage after Kirk’s assassination. […]

Landau had already warned visa holders soon after the assassination, “In light of yesterday’s horrific assassination of a leading political figure, I want to underscore that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country. I have been disgusted to see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event, and have directed our consular officials to undertake appropriate action. Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention so that the @StateDept can protect the American people.”

This is hardly the first time the Bob Vylan duo, which just lost it next gig in the Netherlands over the shocking glorification of violence, has endorsed terrorism…

Not Entirely Similar

Forward! New Rules 2 Comments

A brief history of Cancel Culture:

Readers may wish to ponder whether the sins mentioned above – expressing doubts about rioting, or teaching Chinese pronunciation to students of Chinese – exist on the same level of inaptness as, say, a public-school teacher showing ten-year-olds shockingly graphic video of a man being shot in the neck, and killed, in front of his family, and showing that footage repeatedly, “numerous times,” while hectoring those same ten-year-olds on the merits of so-called “anti-fascism.”

Answers on a postcard, please.

New Rules

New Rules 4 Comments

Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.

Retribution is just. Wrongdoing should be punished. But there’s also the practical matter that we must show the people who support us that they’re not going to get pushed around, that we’re going to take their side, that we’re going to make anybody who screws with them pay. The Fredocons of the 2000s, whose rule sputtered out when Jeb! begged stone-faced Republicans to “Please clap,” never understood this. If you want to lead, you’ve got to convince the led that you’re going to protect them. Demanding that your followers submit to gentlemanly defeat at the hands of screaming blue-haired barbarians ain’t gonna cut it if you presume to lead real men and women instead of Beltway neuters.

Now, I would be willing to return to the Old Rules. The Old Rules make society more stable and place the emphasis on policy above personality. But we can’t unilaterally return to them. It takes two to tango, and game theory requires us to match our opponents’ moves. Both sides must agree, but both sides are not equally responsible for the present situation. There must be accountability. They changed the rules, so they’re going to pay a price if they want the Old Rules back now that they realize that the New Rules are a jagged little suppository.

Read the whole thing.

The Feds Come’a Knockin’

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Associated Press- FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton

The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said.

Scott Jennings- If you find yourself freaking out about the FBI’s John Bolton raid, I’d like to offer you the guidance John Bolton offered after the raid on Mar-a-Lago:

“Everybody ought to just calm down, whether you’re pro-Trump or anti-Trump and let the process work its way through.”

“AG Bondi says a DOJ employee has been fired after he was arrested…”

Cancelled New Rules 11 Comments

Sorry Sean. We didn’t make the new rules, but these are the new rules.

47: Just Doing Things

47 New Rules 25 Comments

Kurt Schlichter: The feminized, Ken-doll-abdomened West is getting a hard lesson in the amazing properties of Just Doing Things.

The feminized, Ken-doll-abdomened West is getting a hard lesson in the amazing properties of Just Doing Things.

Somehow, we went from iron-hearted, iron-encased knights crushing pagan skulls with maces and became a civilization that prizes posing and proclaiming our virtue instead of pummeling our opponents into submission. […]

Donald Trump understands how to say “No.” He refuses to play along with a set of norms and guardrails that only we are supposed to observe and whose sole purpose is to prevent us from exercising our power to reject the decline our alleged betters have decreed we deserve. Remember, they can’t make us do anything. They have no guns and no upper body strength.

Related: Incredible to me that left-wingers apparently thought they could spend a decade fomenting various conspiracies to try to throw Trump in jai but that he’d just forget about it if he regained power. Have you met the dude?

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

47 New Rules Russiagate 8 Comments

Fox News Exclusive;

Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter, Fox News Digital has learned.

Bondi personally ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to initiate legal proceedings and the prosecutor is expected to present department evidence to a grand jury, which would allow the department to secure a potential indictment, according to a letter from Bondi reviewed by Fox News Digital and a source familiar with the investigation.

A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on the report of an investigation but said Bondi is taking the referral from Gabbard “very seriously.” The spokesperson said Bondi believed there is “clear cause for deep concern” and a need for next steps.

America This Week is a good watch today on this, as always. In particular, spend a few minutes with this segment reviewing an Obama interview in December 2016.

Open Letter to the Columbia Journalism Review, on the Atrocious New York Times

Let That Sink In

Cronies Media New Rules 5 Comments

New York Times;

Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is struggling to withstand months of legal assaults by President Trump’s allies, offering a glimpse of what might be in store for even well-funded targets of his retribution campaigns.

The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.

The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization’s fight to survive.

That might not be enough. Media Matters tried to settle with Mr. Musk by offering concessions, but the sides were far apart and talks fizzled. Even when the group has triumphed in court, Mr. Musk has appealed or filed new cases elsewhere. As a last resort, it has considered shuttering, according to interviews and an internal document.

Publicly, the group has said that it has no plans to close, and that it is committed to defending itself as a matter of principle.

They should have read the new rules.

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