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The Left Hates Men
Last Thursday on CNN This Morning, journalist Margaret Talev, referring to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s comeback attempt as NYC mayor, posed to fellow panelists the burning question, “Can you be masculine and embrace your masculinity and also be a decent person at the same time?”
No one on the all-female panel batted an eye at this misandrist smear, of course, because it is an article of Progressive faith that Western culture is a patriarchal hellhole and that heterosexual masculinity is inherently “toxic.” These are the same Progressives who refuse to define the word “woman” and who decry women who embrace traditional femininity as victims of sexist brainwashing.
CNN host Audie Cornish began the segment with a clip of her podcast interview with Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement. Burke called the prospect of Cuomo’s nomination a “mistake” because Cuomo, you will recall, resigned as governor of New York in August 2021 after Democrat Attorney General Letitia James found he had sexually harassed 11 women. Burke argued that discounting the kind of “violence against women” of which she believes Cuomo was guilty is what makes progress for women and society impossible.
Nia-Malika Henderson of Bloomberg claimed that Democrats see “moderate white men” as the path forward. “Kind of manly white men as well. And I think if you look at Andrew Cuomo, that is the part that he’s playing,” she said.
Then Hanna Rosin of The Atlantic, author of a book called The End of Men, noted that “a right-wing radio commentator who was very popular said to me, ‘The problem with Democrats is they don’t have any manly enough candidates. That the Democrats are not manly enough, and that’s why they can’t win elections.’ What do you guys [sic] think about that?”
That’s partially true – there are a lot of problems with Democrats, a lot of reasons they lost recent elections, but no “manly enough” political candidates is definitely one of them. In the runup to the November election, Democrats tried desperately to sell the narrative that they were the party of “21st century masculinity,” defined by men who were comfortable stepping aside and letting women lead – men like Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Imhoff and her VP pick Tim Walz. Hilariously, the unmanly duo Imhoff and Walz were promoted hard as Democrat sex symbols. No one bought it.
Journalist Talev replied to Rosin, “There is a comeback movement for masculinity. The question is, can you be masculine and embrace your masculinity and also be a decent person at the same time?”
The Left is sincerely baffled by this question because gender ideologues like these panelists associate masculinity with the “rape culture” and oppressive “patriarchy” of Western culture (it would never occur to them to condemn a true rape culture like that under sharia law, because the West is the only culture it is acceptable to criticize). They genuinely can’t fathom that a man who embodies traditional manliness could be a “decent” person, despite the countless examples one could point to, because in their minds the only acceptable masculinity is a version that is submits to feminism.
Rosie Hates America
In a 9-minute TikTok video posted Tuesday, former daytime talk show host and purported comedienne Rosie O’Donnell announced that she cannot live in a “political state” under the leadership of her arch-enemy Donald Trump, so on January 15th she self-deported to Ireland.
“It’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming. And I’m very grateful,” O’Donnell said of her new home country. “I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child. And here we are.”
“I’m happy,” she continued, though
I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.
It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know.
No, the personal is not the political in a normal society, but that is the incalculable Marxist damage that the Left has wreaked on America – politicizing everything, from sports to bathrooms to personal pronouns. Making the personal political is a subversive strategy to shred the fabric of civil society.
And what rights does Rosie believe some people have here that others don’t? She didn’t specify, but being Progressive means never having to explain your disconnect from truth.
Mahmoud Khalil Hates Western Civilization
My Freedom Center colleague, Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield, noted on Tuesday that the mission of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) coalition, which is at the center of the controversy over Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia U pro-terror campus organizer from Syria, is “the total eradication of Western civilization.”
“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” CUAD said in a now-deleted Instagram post from August:
We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada is an internationalist one – we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people.
CUAD is not a “mostly peaceful” protest group – they are advocating for and actively engaged in the violent overthrow of Western states. They are a terrorist organization.
On CNN Monday, conservative gadfly Scott Jennings – the only voice of sanity in the entire network – defended President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying they were “well within their legal rights to deport this radical [Khalil]. We are either going to stand up or become Europe. I’m 100% behind the President.”
The other panelists on CNN saw nothing “radical” about being an activist for an organization that is calling for “the total eradication of Western civilization.” Of course they didn’t, because that same goal describes the Progressive mission as defined by its founder and still-primary strategist Karl Marx. The clash between Jennings and the other CNN contributors is symbolic of the larger clash between the defenders of the West and the enemies within, whether they agitate through CUAD on college campuses, or through the mainstream media at CNN.
Make no mistake: this is the fight we are engaged in – for the very existence of the West.
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My Thursday quick takes:
Rosie O’Donnell: This attention whore will be back here within 5 years when she realizes that no one cares or remembers why or if she left
Machchchchchmoud Kalil: “We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization. Make no mistake: this is the fight we are engaged in – for the very existence of the West.”
I’m so scared little man. You aren’t in the M.E. or the E.U. fu*k face. America isn’t just Columbia U,, Dearbornistan, Minneapolis or the two fake states of Michigan and Minnesota. America isn’t just whiny silly wannabe Leftist terrorists who think Muslims love them. You will be deported or eventually done away with, one way or the other.
Many left-wing women hate men because they can’t get laid.
Truthfully it’s more that they reject God. Remember Margaret Sanger wanted Free Love, she wanted to be unburdened by pregnancy so she could sleep around. Which led to PP.
I know what you ment but the grammar made the sentence kinda funny. Theres actually a lid for every lefty female pot. (not pleasant to think about, however)
Hollywood types like Rosie… are NOBODY’S IN ANOTHER COUNTRY! They wake up in the morning thinking of something to make the news, to stay important, to be in the limelight, to make Headline news… just like the Hags on Rags on The View who tweet and meet to plot and say the most outrageous comment to make the news, to get watched for ratings, and to keep their job. Our Conservative websites help them by putting on their crapola too! If they didn’t, no one would care who they are, and they’ll be forgotten.
“HEY… Don’t you know who I am? I’m Rosie… THE Rosie. DAMN IT! LOOK AT ME. I’M THE ROSIE TRUMP TALKS ABOUT. I moved here because of him but DON’T YOU KNOW ME? HEY! HEY!” People like her have huge egos and they just can’t stand not being the center of attention. What is she to do? Move back? What’s her reason? “I DON’T LIKE THIS PRESIDENT.” She moves to another country: “I don’t like this President.” On and On these psychos move but one place they’ll be happy…. CUBA! No election hassles there. No campaign ads. Raul walked into Fidel’s bedroom as a nurse is changing his colotomy bag: Fidel: “Hola hermano… you El Presidente now. Congrats.” SEE HOW EASY? Everyone equal. Live in the system they cherish and strive for here. Free Healthcare, and “Superior healthcare” according to Michael Moore.
NOW IF WE CAN GET MORE AMERICANS TO MOVE THERE TO GET OUT OF THIS “CAPITALIST HELLHOLE!”
So Rosie O’Dumbell moved to Ireland. And……?
…and according to the Babylon Bee Ireland capsized when she disembarked.
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The whole Rosie fiasco is made doubly sad because in the 90s, back before she got to be so fingernails-on -the-blackboard political, she was actually a pretty talented performer, both serious and comic. I remember a made-for-TV movie where she played a mentally handicapped young woman, and was lauded for her performance. (Maybe it was type casting?)
It’s kind of thrilling to watch the Trump team really shake things up, but I still wonder if all of this will ultimately just be a speedbump on the road to the destruction of western civilization, now so devoutly wished by so many people, even here in America.
Really? I never owned a TV until around 1994-95 and still didn’t watched that much because I just didn’t have the time or patience to watch TV. It’s only in the last 15 years and the advent of the internet that I began to watch the various TV shows I missed out on in the 80s and 90s and even the early 2000s.
I must say the only thing I truly missed was Star Trek TNG and Married With Children. The rest of TV? Meh.
I did watch some movie a while back called The Flintstones where Rosie O’Dumbell played Betty Rubble. Why they mis-cast that portly sow in that role is baffling to me but what do I know about movie making?
As far as I’m concerned, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles and Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns are the absolute best movies ever made in my lifetime!! The crap they put out today ain’t worth 10 minutes of eyeball time.
The first five seasons of Married With Children had some amazing writing and performances. After that it just became a bit tired and rather lame. But I re-watch those DVDs every five years or so, and they still make me howl.
Men are nine times as likely to go to prison as women. They are underrepresented in colleges. According to those who support “equity” rather than equality, this should be considered irrefutable proof of systemic misandry.
Maybe something other than irrational discrimination explains many unequal outcomes. For example, liberals push the nonsense that women in the U.S. earn 82 cents–it used to be 64 cents–for the same work for which a man receives one dollar. Econometric studies accounting for other factors put the lie to this divisive assertion. Before discussing the assertion and presenting evidence I poll students as to whether the assertion is true. It is not uncommon that the overwhelming majority say it is. If more students were exposed to the writings of Thomas Sowell, they’d learn repeating a falsehood doesn’t turn it into truth.
When Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL) sent out a statement stating such discrimination was taking place in her district, I contacted her office and asked why the discriminators weren’t being prosecuted. I offered to publicly debate her on the issue. Her very own office responded that the statistic doesn’t account for other factors.
It used to be true, trust me. Along with many egregious situations and treatments of women in the workplace- especially outside of the “pink collar” jobs. It was rough earning a living. . I almost think that today, compared to 40 years ago, for example, the tables have turned. Women and anyone in lefty hierarchy of fake victimhood now hold enormous power in workplaces and also when applying to colleges and graduate schools.
It is some sort of sickness, that legitimate problems aren’t solved they are just inverted and still do harm just to someone else.