Swedish Feminists Banging Refugees

Posted on June 11, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

The big scandal in Sweden right now is that Feminist SJWs who work in various social service jobs seem to be doing so in order to have access to swarthy young men from 3rd world countries with lots of testosterone. Narrative Collapse has the story.

Swedish social service workers tend to be older women that are outspoken advocates of socialism, feminism, multiculturalism, ect. It is now being alleged that many of these women actually get involved in social services in order to have sex with young immigrant men. Some Swedish media outlets are even accusing these women of “exploiting teenagers” for sex.

These women are being called”Batikhäxor,” which is sometimes translated into English as “Dye Witch.” It is a derogatory Swedish slang term for an unattractive woman who is an outspoken advocate of feminism and political correctness. Similar to what is called a “Social Justice Warrior” in the USA, but specifically for older women.

The ongoing double-murder trial of Johanna Moller has brought the scandal to the forefront. Moller is accused of having an Afghan refugee murder her husband and father. During the trial, it has been alleged that she routinely plied underage refugees with drugs and alcohol and had sex with them. She even took naked pictures with them, which were leaked to the press.

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The White House Press Corps Unmasked

Posted on June 8, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

Vice News is a left-wing outlet that created this video designed to criticize Sean Spicer, but if you ask me the real effect is to illustrate the contempt that The Elite Media Monoculture has for anyone who isn’t them.

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Evolutionary Sex Differences and the Left’s Fake Science

Posted on June 6, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

Common wisdom and conventional thinking is quick to assume that Democrats, and the left in general, own the monopoly on science and scientific thinking. But if we take a closer look we find that assumption to be incorrect. Indeed what we discover when looking at the left’s agenda is that they argue in favor of supposedly scientific theories that have little or no actual basis in fact, or at the very least are the subject of ongoing, and therefore, unsettled scientific debate.

This article on Breitbart takes a closer look at the leftist assumption of absolute equality between the sexes and new research coming out of Stanford University that shows many ingrained cognitive sex differences that are likely the product of many thousands of years of Darwinian evolution. These findings directly contradict the “blank slate” assumptions that underlie so many components of the leftist agenda including in this particular case, Feminism.

Leftists must argue that humans are infinitely malleable in order to propose their various schemes to socially engineer society. Schemes that can only be put into action if it is possible to change human action and the human nature from which it derives. But if many, or most, human characteristics are genetically hard-wired in humans, then it logically follows that our ability to change society is necessarily limited. And that would include the distinct characteristics of men and women and the relationship between the two.

Progressives have been somewhat successful in convincing the public that the Democratic Party is the party of science. But research into sex-based cognitive differences seriously brings this into question by confirming that the human mind does, in fact, have static and innate properties that influence behavior.

Consider Harvard professor Steven Pinker’s 2002 book, The Blank Slate. Pinker, who is politically moderate, argues that the denial of innate human instincts runs deep and pervasive in modern society, despite significant scientific [evidence] that the mind has static properties that shape our behaviors. The mind isn’t a blank slate waiting to be shaped by society, Pinker argues.

The denial of human nature has spread beyond the academy and has led to a disconnect between intellectual life and common sense. I first had the idea of writing this book when I started a collection of astonishing claims from pundits and social critics about the malleability of the human psyche: that little boys quarrel and fight because they are encouraged to do so; that children enjoy sweets because their parents use them as a reward for eating vegetables; that teenagers get the idea to compete in looks and fashion from spelling bees and academic prizes; that men think the goal of sex is an orgasm because of the way they were socialized. The problem is not just that these claims are preposterous but that the writers did not acknowledge they were saying things that common sense might call into question. This is the mentality of a cult, in which fantastical beliefs are flaunted as proof of one’s piety.

Rollo Tomassi has an excellent post on Evolutionary Psychology which you can find here which takes on many of the objections that are common when debating this subject. And of course I highly recommend AC’s book on The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics. We are not blank slates; not by a long shot. And the leftist agenda cannot be made to succeed because humans simply do not work the way the left wants them to.

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Men Saying “No Thanks” to College

Posted on June 6, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

In this article from the Denver Post, we confirm a fact that is already known. More and more, colleges and universities are a hostile environment for men who are either dropping out or never going in the first place. Some don’t want to be saddled with outrageous levels of debt that they will never be able to repay. Others don’t want to have to navigate the SJW fake date rape accusation circus. And others believe that they can succeed in the world without what has become a rapidly declining status symbol.

Some of the young men shunning campus say they don’t want to take on massive student-loan debt.

“If you don’t want to go to college you can go to a trade school and come away with something and not be on the hook for $150,000,” said 28-year-old Adam Stark, who dropped out of college and now is thriving in the music business in Denver.

Others say the campus environment has become testy, even hostile, toward men. “You definitely get the sense you are the problem,” said Maxwell. “One woman once told me that she could use statistics to determine how many of my friends were rapists.”

Whatever the reason, enrollment data show men are becoming less of a presence on college campuses both in Colorado and across the United States.

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Stephen Molynuex Comments on the London Terrorist Attack

Posted on June 4, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

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Draining the Swamp is Messy

Posted on June 4, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

Via The Conservative Party Group on FaceBook:

DRAINING THE SWAMP IS MESSY! By Michael Master

Our home is in a community of 2,000 homes located on the intercoastal in North Carolina. Everything lives here. Alligators. Water moccasins. Rattle snakes. Sea hawks. Egrets. Giant blue heron. Mosquitoes…blood sucking mosquitoes. We’ve watched from our back porch as dolphins chased sail boats and motor boats up the intercostal and watched the moon rise over the ocean to cast its glow over the intercoastal.

When the community decided to drain the swamp in the center of the community, it was a big deal.

Draining the swamp was messy. The swamp was about 10 football fields, about 6 feet deep, with lots of creatures living in it. It was a dangerous swamp. Not one that you would walk or swim. You would not dare sit next to it in the dark of a moonless night. If not the snakes, then the mosquitoes would eat you alive.

As the water level decreased, the creatures were exposed. As the water level disappeared, all that was left was 3 feet of yucky black mud and the roots to dying cypress trees. The fish, snakes, frogs, rats, and birds were all stranded in the yucky mud.

Those creatures of the swamp fought for their lives as the swamp disappeared. The fish flopped around in the black mud looking for some water for life. The frogs croaked incessantly all night while their young pollywogs were stranded lifeless at the top of the black mud. Snakes slithered in every direction in the black mud in search of food. The rats that live in hollows all along the water abandoned their nests while the birds that feed off the swamp creatures also abandoned the area.

Finally, the mud dried out. No more snakes. No more rats. No more fish. No more frogs. No more mosquitoes. And no more birds that feed off those creatures of the swamp.

That same thing is happening to the political swamp in America.
Trump is draining the swamp. His picks for his cabinet are all swamp drainers. Yeah, 3 are from Goldman Sachs. 3 of 23. Practically all of his cabinet have executive experience (military, or government, or private sector) .. and it is the executive branch, now isn’t it?

The mud is becoming visible as all the creatures who live in the
swamp are fighting for their lives. Government employees at the IRS, PA, and Education are flapping in the mud like dying fish. The lobbyists are slithering here and there looking for government funds like the snakes in the mud … especially those who wrote Obamacare.

The liberal media cartel is chirping and croaking all the time like frogs trying to reverse the draining. The tax and spend politicians are dying off like the blood sucking mosquitoes. The political appointees of Obama are fleeing DC for other jobs like the birds who lost their meal tickets. And the information leakers like Comey and Lynch are looking for new places to nest like the rats that left the swamp. Soon, all that will remain will be the dying institutions like public education as the dying cypress trees of our society.

Everyone who lived off the swamp is praying for rain. Election rain so Democrats might win some elections from Republicans since the Democrats suffered such horrible defeats during the 8 years of Obama. Impeachment rain so the professional politicians can get rid of Trump as the swamp drainer. Low approval rating rain so the media can claim they were correct about Trump. Virtual rain, fake rain, so pundits can claim that Trump is not making any progress even though the results say the opposite.

Draining the swamp is messy, muddy. But the mud will soon dry. Democrats just lost special elections in Arkansas and Omaha after sinking millions into them. Democrats might grab an election here or there in places like Georgia where the demographics are changing to black communities, but not without millions and millions of campaign money … and Democrats cannot afford to do that for all the elections in 2018. Democrats must defend 23 Senators in 2018 as compared to 10 for Republicans and Democrats must win 25 seats in the US House from Republicans and then win back 900 state legislative seats and 14 governorships. If Georgia is an example, that will cost Democrats hundreds of millions to try.

SCOTUS will be rendering its decisions about Trump executive orders just before the 2018 elections … and more than likely, SCOTUS will rule against the Obama appointed judges who live in the lower court swamps. SCOTUS will help Trump.

Comey is gone. Lynch is in trouble. Clinton is back in trouble. The Clinton Foundation donors are talking. Clapper and Yates both said that there is no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians.

Schumer is gasping for rain like one of those stranded fish. His Republican swamp buddies like McCain will abandon him as he dies … a rat leaving the swamp even though they shared an apartment together. His Wall Street swamp buddies cannot help him. The Washington Post and The New York Times and CNN and NBC are all trying to seed the clouds. But none of it is producing enough rain to help Schumer stop Trump from draining the swamp.

Draining the swamp is loud. Listen to all the hysterical liberal media cartel who are trying to make it rain in order to save the swamp where they live. Chanting. Lies. Rain dances. But no real rain is coming. Only fake rain.

The swamp will soon be dry. And when it is, then the next task is to make America great again.

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Hillary’s Excuse Factory

Posted on June 2, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

She just can’t stop whining, can she? And I can’t help but point out that if there was a double standard during the recent election, and of course there was, it worked in favor of the Democrats. The Legacy Media was on her side, the Establishment was on her side, RINO Republicans were on her side, Academia was on her side, Wall Street was on her side and Hollywood was on her side. The only people not on her side were us, the regular “Deplorables.”

Was there ever a candidate in recent history who had as many advantages going in as Hillary Clinton?

But in the end, she still lost. And one would think that given all of those advantages going in, a person capable of reflection and self-evaluation might realize that they themselves were, at least in part, responsible for the outcome.

But Hillary is clearly not capable of that kind of self-awareness.

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Today’s Left is Kathy Griffin

Posted on June 1, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

CNN fired Kathy Griffin after she posed for a photo showing her holding a fake, but gory, decapitated head resembling the President. New York Daily News reports the story.

Kathy Griffin won’t be spending her New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper.

The comedian was fired by CNN — a day after a gory photo of her holding a blood-stained, beheaded President Trump mask outraged the masses.

“CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year’s Eve program,” the network’s communications team announced Wednesday in a tweet.

The shocking picture, which shows a stone-faced Griffin holding the bloodied Trump replica by the hair, left both sides of the political spectrum fuming after it surfaced online Tuesday. Griffin apologized hours after she proudly tweeted the image out.

“I sincerely apologize,” Griffin said in a video posted Tuesday night. “I am just now seeing the reaction of these images. I’m a comic. I crossed the line. I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it.”

For those of you who identify with the right or consider yourselves to be more or less conservative, which is to say a normal person, you need to understand that this is what the left wants to do to you and me. This image is not just about President Trump and his policies; it’s about all of us who support him, who voted for him and who are not supportive of or a part of the left.

The left does not recognize your humanity or mine. That is why during the 20th century they could put 100 million people in gulags, concentration camps, killing fields and ultimately in the grave without ever admitting responsibility or having any remorse whatsoever. The left sees anyone who is not them as sub-human and not worthy of existence. And it is vital to understand that they are not ever going to change. Those who kill without reason or remorse cannot be reasoned with.

This is War.

And so you, as a member of the right, need to start thinking about how to hurt the left at every opportunity. I don’t mean you should go around sneaking up on leftists and clubbing them from behind. We’re not in a shooting war yet, and if we take the initiative it won’t be necessary. But the left is waging a real culture war against us and if we let things go too far then eventually there will be real mass violence.

So we need to do to them what they have been doing to us. We need to get leftists fired from their jobs at every opportunity. We need to deny them income from their activities. We need to make sure they are shunned from civil society. We need to undermine their organizations and goals whenever possible. We need to break up their alliances. We need to deny them any government funding of any kind. We need to sue them at the slightest drop of the hat for any law they break or any rule they don’t follow. Sun Tzu said, “When the enemy must defend everywhere, he is weak everywhere.” We need to harass the enemy at every opportunity because the left does not learn and they will not stop unless forced to do so. Our survival depends on this.

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Sorry Democrats, There is No Blue Wave

Posted on May 31, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

I don’t ordinarily link to left-wing FakeNews™ outlets such as Salon.com, but in this case, I must make an exception. Writer Andrew O’Hehir argues that there is no Democratic “blue wave” election coming in the next mid-term cycle and that the problems of the Democrats and the left are really long-term structural issues that the party has not, as yet, addressed.

The Obama years have been a disaster for the Anti-American party as we have previously pointed out. They are now a weak and regional shadow of their former selves. But even after losing over 1000 seats nationwide and all three branches at the federal level, they still refuse to take responsibility for their actions. They will not admit that their rejection at the hands of the American voters is largely their own fault. The Democrats themselves rejected the white, working class voters but do not acknowledge their mistake in doing so. And so they are hobbled by their refusal to face reality. For as long as they keep their eyes shut, they will continue to make the same mistakes.

We received a message from the future this week, directed to the outraged liberals of the so-called anti-Trump resistance. It was delivered by an unlikely intermediary, Greg Gianforte, the Republican who won a special election on Thursday and will soon take his seat in Congress as Montana’s lone representative. (Here’s a trivia question to distract you from the doom and gloom: Without recourse to Google, how many other states can you name that have only one House seat?)

If you found yourself ashen-faced and dismayed on Friday morning, because you really believed the Montana election would bring a sign of hope and mark the beginning of a return to sanity in American politics, then the message encoded in Gianforte’s victory is for you. It goes something like this:

Get over Montana already — and stop trolling yourself with that stupid special election in Georgia too. They don’t mean anything, and anyway — that dude Jon Ossoff? He’s about the lamest excuse for a national progressive hero in the entire history of Democratic Party milquetoast triangulation. Oh, and since we’re on the subject: Forget about the “blue wave” of 2018. Forget about the Democratic majority of 2019. Forget about the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Have you even been paying attention? Because none of that stuff is happening and it’s all a massive distraction.

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Liberals Are Shocked to Find We Now Hate Them Back

Posted on May 31, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

Kurt Schlichter writes this column at Townhall.com in which he points out that there is a limit to how much violence, hatred, and abuse we are willing to take before there is an equal and opposite reaction that falls on the heads of the delusional left. The catalyst for this essay is the (so-called) body-slamming of journalist Ben Jacobs by then Republican candidate Greg Gianforte. (Who won the election by the way)

The left has been surprised by the fact that not only do people on the right not care that the journalist was body slammed, but that we think the legacy media and the left, in general, had it coming and that they are to blame because eventually, people will no longer care about double standards that always work against them. Ayn Rand once wrote about “The Sanction of the Victim” saying that much of what the left accomplishes is done because we, the victims of the left, allow it. That sanction is now being revoked.

The left should be very worried about this because it means that the protection from the violence that the left uses against others is now off the table. If the left uses violence against the normal people, it will now be more likely to boomerang right back at them.

We don’t like the new rules – I’d sure prefer a society where no one was getting attacked, having walked through the ruins of a country that took that path – but we normals didn’t choose the new rules. The left did. It gave us Ferguson, Middlebury College, Berkeley, and “Punch a Nazi” – which, conveniently for the left, translates as “punch normals.” And many of us have had personal experiences with this New Hate – jobs lost, hassles, and worse. Some scumbags at an anti-Trump rally attacked my friend and horribly injured his dog. His freaking dog.

So when we start to adopt their rules, they’re shocked? Have they ever met human beings before? It’s not a surprise. It’s inevitable.

Or take the Trump-Russia black hole of idiocy – please. Remember how Obama whispered to the Russkies, “I’ll have more flexibility after election” and that was cool? But – according to an anonymous source reading a bar tab over the phone to some credulous WaPo hack – one of Trump’s relatives ordered a vodka once and it’s TREASON TREASON TREASON!!!!!!

It certainly applies to, “What about when they hit conservatives with a lock in a sock and the liberal media didn’t care?” Yeah, what about that? Where was the sackcloth and ashes act from Schumer, Pelosi, and Felonia von Pantsuit when our side was being bloodied and beaten? There wasn’t one, because the left supports us getting bloodied and beaten. It likes the zesty zing of violence. It makes them feel big and tough and edgy, except that it starts being a heck of a lot less fun when we right-wingers start adopting the same rules and punching back.

The left is shocked that the right has now stopped caring about the old rules, since for so long the left relied on the right to subordinate its human instincts and conform to those rules even when the left ignored them. We refused to stoop to their level, and for a long time, we were “better than that.” But you can only have one side being “better than that” for so long before people get sick of being the butt of the hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is poison not because it makes people stop knowing right from wrong, but because it makes its victims stop caring about right and wrong. Ben Jacobs got smacked around, and millions of us just don’t give a damn.

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Fox News Drops to Third After 17 Years on Top

Posted on May 23, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

Breitbart reports that Fox News has fallen in the ratings to third place for the first time in 17 years of being on the air.

For the week of May 15-19, Fox News averaged just 497,000 viewers in the advertiser-coveted key demo of adults 25-54 during primetime hours, compared to CNN’s 589,00 and MSNBC’s 611,000, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which cited data from ratings tracker Nielsen.

However, the longtime cable news king remained second in total viewership, with an average of 2.41 million viewers over the course of the week, compared with CNN’s 1.65 million and MSNBC’s leading 2.44 million. Fox News also remained in the lead in primetime and total day viewership for the month of May.

Flagship shows such as CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show performed particularly well, while Fox has seemingly struggled with the loss of Bill O’Reilly’s The O’Reilly Factor, which had consistently led all cable news programs in the ratings for the better part of two decades. O’Reilly departed the network last month following a report that he had allegedly settled multiple claims of sexual harassment with high-dollar payouts.

As a result, Fox News’ primetime lineup has undergone perhaps its most significant shake-up ever, with anchor Tucker Carlson now hosting the 8 p.m. hour and the panel show The Five moving to 9 p.m.

Someone once coined a law, I forget who, that any organization that is not specifically conservative on principle will eventually become left-leaning. That is what we are seeing at Fox as the younger Murdoch brothers, who are reputed to be big liberals, are taking over the leadership and remaking the network according to their own views. The older staff that built the network and created the brand have been pushed aside to make room for a more liberal management that will eventually make FOX just like every other liberal news outlet.

Some conservatives are upset by this development and understandably so, but the long-term trends for television point to fundamental change that is going to happen anyway. Younger generations are simply not watching TV and do not have the habit of doing so as is common for older generations. These younger people get their information from the internet. And that could be a very good development.

Given these facts, I don’t think it is a stretch to predict that conservative news media will eventually move to the internet. Low overhead and startup costs and no left-wing corporate culture suits to prevent you from having an opinion make it a logical option. Mark Levin’s CRTV is just one example of what we may see from new media in the future. Fox commentator Tammy Bruce’s radio show has been entirely internet based for nearly ten years now and has been able to carve out a regular and loyal audience. Already many people don’t watch TV and that confirms that regular Americans are on to the scam.

There are also tons of independent commentators using YouTube to get out their own particular views and opinions. Some of this stuff is really first-rate. It’s only a matter of time before this becomes the best way to avoid having your network taken over by leftists who think they can “improve” the product. Alternative media is where the truth is and people are figuring it out.

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U of I Dis-invites Nobel Laureate James Watson

Posted on May 21, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

The university of Illinois has decided to cancel a planned lecture by James Watson, one of the two co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. As you might guess, the reason for this development is that Dr. Watson is guilty of thought crimes that are not allowed at colleges and universities where degrees are sold.

As we have pointed out before, the field of genetic research is providing evidence on a regular basis that we are strongly influenced by our genetic inheritance and that not only is this true of individuals, it is true of groups as well.

But the modern left who control our institutions of higher learning, will not allow their religious belief in blank slate equalism to be questioned, even by a famous Nobel Prize winner. And so those views and ideas that are anathema to the leftist guardians of The Narrative will not be heard at The University of Illinois, at least anytime soon. The academic establishmentarians have decided to prevent their students from hearing anything would not fit with the accepted doctrines.

There are those who have argued that the days of the current academic university system are numbered and as I consider this story I am inclined to agree. Students are paying out ever larger sums of money for degrees that are ever more useless. It is widely understood that today’s college exists primarily for the purpose of indoctrinating students in leftist ideology and little else. The doctrines of leftist Marxism have infected nearly every area of the modern university, rendering them worthless as an environment for learning anything that might be true or even useful.

At the same time, the development of the internet has made knowledge and information available to everyone for a minimal cost and often for the mere price of an internet connection. If one wants to learn about any subject at all, one only has to search for it. Practically any area of knowledge is available on the web for little to no money. One has only to put forth the effort to acquire the knowledge in question. When businesses and students come to this realization, how long will the current system be able to last?

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The Democrats Attack the Markets

Posted on May 17, 2017 by RedMoonJournal

This article from Fox Business reports that today saw a large sell-off in the stock market due to the Democrat’s attack on Trump and the resulting concern that the administration might be prevented from pushing through its health-care and tax reform agenda. The Left does not care about you or your problems. They don’t care about destroying your savings or your lifetime of hard work. They are hateful robots who only know how to destroy things they did not and could never create themselves.

 

Investors shook off their weeks-long calm façade Wednesday, sending U.S. stocks sharply lower as investors doubted the viability of President Donald Trump’s fiscal policy follow through while controversy continued to swirl around the White House.

Losses on Wall Street steepened in afternoon action as NYSE composite volume spiked 12% above its one-month average. Stocks ended at session lows as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 372 points, or 1.78% to 20606, while the broader S&P 500 declined 43 points or 1.82% to 2357. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite shed 145 points or 2.78% to 5578.

Sparking the selloff was a New York Times report that claimed President Donald Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to drop a probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Sources close to Comey told Fox News on Wednesday that the NYT reporting is accurate. The White House has denied the report.

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