Should have made the trade

Before Texans QB Watson became severely damaged goods:

Tony Buzbee says he now represents 12 women who will have claims against Deshaun Watson. “We are now representing 12 women and we will file five more cases in due course,” Buzbee said Friday. “we have spoken to more than 10 additional women.”

Other information learned during Buzbee’s Friday press conference:

7 African Americans / 2 Hispanic / 3 Caucasian

3 married / 1 engaged / all others single mothers

One was referred to Deshaun by Texans

Quincy Avery (HOU QB coach) referred Deshaun to one of his clients

Agent/lawyer for Deshaun showed “dismissive behavior and incredible arrogance,” so had to go public with lawsuits

Buzbee said he doesn’t need the fame & the women don’t want it

Buzbee adds that the Houston Police Department is now looking into the allegations that are being made

An incident happened as recently as THIS month — AFTER they had been in contact with Watson’s camp

Took shots at “Arm Chair Quarterbacks” who wouldn’t say stuff to his face

Buzbee stopped counting after the 10th death threat

Buzbee says he lives near McNair family, but wouldn’t know them if he saw them

As promised, trial lawyer Tony Buzbee filed more sexual assault lawsuits in Harris County, Texas on behalf of Jane Does who claim Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson engaged in inappropriate behavior during massage therapy sessions. Lawsuits No. 4-7 were filed on Thursday and follow a similar pattern as the first three lawsuits brought against Watson, who has remained silent on the matter since releasing a statement on Tuesday claiming he’s done nothing wrong.

We’ll see. But in answer to everyone who says “well, why didn’t they go to the police?” the answer is simple. The police never do anything about credible accusations like these when sufficiently rich or famous people are involved unless they’ve been ordered to do so. So no one bothers going to them.

Notice that the police are suddenly getting involved now….

Patreon is a factory of filth

Note that the individual being accused of targeting minors is the #4 Creator on Patreon, with 22,377 patrons as of today and 819 posts on the Patreon platform:

YouTuber Yagami Yato has spoken out about accusations of providing sexually explicit material to children and of grooming minors.

Yagami Yato is a voice artist who produces voiceovers for animation videos, usually from anime. Her popular YouTube Channel has over 800,000 followers. Some of her work is considered to be NSFW (not safe for work), which has led to the recent controversy around accusations she has been promoting obscene material to children.

Her Patreon account is for more explicitly adult work, whereas her YouTube Channel is meant for material appropriate for all ages.

Fuel was added to the fire a few days ago when an anonymous Twitter account referring to themselves as Yagami Yato Confessions claimed that Yato had groomed them when they joined her Discord server as a teenager in high school. They claimed that Yato used many minors as her moderators….

Yagami Yato stated that all her NSFW material will now be locked behind her Patreon account, which has adequate safeguards.

Patreon currently has 45,054 self-identified NSFW creators with one or more patrons, which represents 23.6 percent of its 190,961 creators, and six of the top 25. A considerable number of those NSFW creators feature content on the Patreon platform that is wildly in violation of Patreon’s Community Guidelines, despite Patreon’s public claim to have “zero tolerance” for such content. 

What is significant is that Patreon was previously called on the carpet by its payment processors back in 2017, and in response, pretended to have dealt with the issue by banning a few porn stars and prostitutes. 

Patreon has begun a fresh crackdown on users who make and sell adult-related content services on its crowdsourced patronage platform. The company has begun to suspend and report users who use the site to sell suggestive material, including Vex Ashley, creator of Four Chambers. According to Motherboard, users have been told that the reason for their suspension is “implied nudity.”

This story begins last September, when Patreon raised $60 million from investors in order to further grow its business. Not long after, the company altered its content policy, replacing vague prohibitions on the sale of illegal adult content with more specific terms. This included a ban on the platform to sell images, video and other material, as well as services such as webcam sessions.

The move was surprising, since Patreon had allegedly courted, and engaged with, sex workers and performers. These people had come to rely upon Patreon as a source of income, and when the new terms were published, it caused shockwaves in the industry. After a series of news reports, the company attempted to walk back its stance. CEO Jack Conte said that it “broke” his “heart” that the individuals involved were left fearing for their livelihoods, and lives.

When Engadget spoke to a Patreon spokesperson on the matter, they said that the “the TL;DR is that if what you were doing before was okay, then probably what you’re continuing to do is okay.” There appeared to be an implication, too, that Patreon would only crack down on illegal content, such as bestiality. And that moderators would essentially turn a blind eye to content that took place between consenting adults.

But even a cursory review of the Patreon site today is sufficient to prove otherwise. For example, this is a description of a feature in the #94 creator’s NFSW adult game, Breeders of the Nephelym, despite Patreon claiming to have a zero-tolerance policy for rape. 

Wild Nephelym can be found around the Spawning Shrines. Nephelym can be caught using two different approaches, namely:

  • Surprise Sex.
  • Giving the Nephelym their preferred liquid. 

Putin bitchslapped Creepy Joe

Not-President Greenscreen has been reading some tough lines about the Russian leader. But the historical reality is just a little bit different:

I documented what happened at Joe Biden’s one and only meeting with Vladimir Putin in my book Joe Biden Unauthorized. I can attest that the title of my chapter on the incident – Bitch Slapped in Moscow – is the actual truth.

Biden got bitch slapped, and he’s pretending he didn’t.

Putin knows what happened. He was there. He knows he compromised Joe Biden, who appeared unprepared to deal with the ruthless, former-KGB agent. Regardless, Joe continues to perpetuate his “I was the tough guy” lie.

As Joe Biden’s White House stenographer, I stood directly behind Putin at a distance of five feet. Biden, seated across from Putin at an elegant conference table, was about 12 feet from me.

About 10 minutes into the meeting, Vice President Biden attempted to start lecturing about his decades-old part in U.S.-Russian negotiations with the dreaded phrase, “I’ve been around a long time. The first time I was here…”

And… cut.

Joe Biden got about one sentence further into that spiel when off went his microphone, off went the lights for the TV cameras, and stern Russian voices were commanding the press to leave. And leave they did.

They went out quickly and efficiently, with videocameras popping off of tripods. Equipment snapping shut. Portable lights clattering down retractable poles. No one spoke, and no one dared linger.

This was Putin in all his KGB ruthlessness. Whether by some prearranged signal or simply an undisclosed time limit, he had pulled the plug and done the unthinkable: he’d stolen Joe Biden’s audience and rendered him speechless. Shut him down in mid-sentence with the flick of an invisible switch.

Across the table, I could see Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, in the now dimly lit room, looking as duped as an exhausted fish in the bottom of a boat. No protest, no complaint. No, hey, I wasn’t finished. Nothing. He was humiliated.

To me, the revelation was the premeditated precision of the snub. Putin or his team had likely plotted this all out. They knew exactly what bait to use, exactly how Joe Biden would take it, and then when he did, they reeled him helplessly in.

The Russian President and his delegation sat calmly and coldly as their American counterparts realized their blustery leader’s big moment had been stolen right out from under him. The most powerful man in Russia had neither fear nor respect for Joe Biden. He had just played with him for sport.

Putin knows. He knows a lot more about what’s actually going on than we do. 

We lost a future Supreme Court justice

It’s so tragic when a man who was almost certainly on track for the Supreme Court should be derailed by such a minor incident coming to light:

A Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city’s drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.

Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik. Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.

Blomme is accused of uploading the images both from his home and from the judge’s chambers. The alleged pedophile judge was the president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the Milwaukee Drag Queen Story Hour for local children.

And this is why traditional societies have always sought to keep the gays well away from the children. Although the media does its best to bury the statistical facts, homosexual men are more than 14 times more likely to abuse children than normal men. 

Tucker 1, US Military 0

Kurt Schlichter observes that a military incapable of defeating a single talking head is unlikely to fare well against the Chinese military.

Let’s understand something – the military has been running on empty for a long time. Thirty years ago right now, I was in Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Gulf War, the high point of American power. The military was rebuilt by visionaries who embraced high standards and focused on warfighting rebuilt the devastated post-Vietnam military and proved the concept in those sands by annihilating a relatively powerful nation’s entire force in six weeks of air war and 100 hours of ground war. We were not woke. We were not politically correct. We were just unbeatable.

Fast forward to 2021, as our military is are still chasing bandits around the Hindu Kush, as our forces still in Iraq are still getting rocketed and as we are still pouring troops into Syria for some damn reason. The Chinese are eating our lunch in the Western Pacific, but our military leadership pretend it’s 1945 and that the U.S. is still dominant. It thinks we’re unbeatable, but there’s no Chester Nimitz out there, and the Chinese are deadly serious, even as our leadership pretends boys can become girls and that paying for their snip surgery will make us more combat-ready.

When the Chinese choose to do it, they will take Taiwan. They will screen their flanks by wiping out our regional bases and they will sink every U.S. ship within range that hasn’t already been knocked out of action by colliding with a cargo boat. By the way, read the investigation of the utter incompetence and total failure of leadership that led to those two devastating and fatal collisions in recent years. Sickening – a total failure of leadership starting at the top.

The Chinese are a serious military, devoted to one thing: winning the coming war against the United States. Our military leadership is not serious. It has lost its edge and devoted itself to social experimentation while cheerleading itself into thinking everything is A-okay. It’s not.

This comes from the top, but unfortunately the commander-in-chief is busy with a Matlock marathon while the people pulling his puppet strings are interested only in ensuring that the military is fully absorbed into the ranks of the woke institutions. How can you expect a civilian leadership in China’s pocket to prep to fight it?

Even worse, the Trostkyites running the current Not-Administration are desperately trying to launch their revenge war against Russia, which has already withdrawn its ambassador to the United States in response to the neoclowns’ latest diplomatic catastrophe while their puppet government in Afghanistan collapses.

I may or may not be correct about the 2033 collapse of the political union, but regardless, I see zero chance the United States makes it to 2040 intact.

Mailvox: the HoloJoe isn’t real

It was interesting to read this in my inbox not long after concluding last night’s Darkstream devoted to President Greenscreen:

People are saying that there is something wrong with the latest Biden presser outside the White House. They draw attention to the white fluffy microphone, but I think there is a much more damning bit of evidence that may fall through the cracks – which is why I’m writing this e-mail.
 
Long story short, check out the recent video where Biden’s hand obscures the boom microphone and look at the leftmost black mic on the left screen. Compare it with the video on the right side of the screen. Since the video loops back and forth, it’s easy to see that they’ve made a major mistake. They have confused the two black mics.
 
In the video on the left, Biden’s hand is to the right of that black mic. In the video on the right, Biden’s hand is to the left of that black mic.
 
If the images were consistent, Biden’s hand would be obscured by that black mic in the video on the right. Instead, he is the one obscuring it with his hand.
 
That’s because they screwed up and focused on the wrong black mic. It’s not surprising since it’s hard to spot this inconsistency without repeated watching and looping of the footage. Notice the sudden jerky movement of one of the black mics in the video on the left that confirms which black mic is which.
 
The HoloJoe isn’t real.

It’s genuinely hard to find competent help these days. Even, apparently, for the Deep State.

Mailvox: Ice is not nice

Another old medical standby is vaporized by the evidence:

As the official old guy, you might be interested that what we were always taught to ice injuries and use the RICE protocol turns out to be as accurate advice as a low-fat high-grain diet or clear soda and crackers for a cold.

Just recently discovered this myself through this article.

The inventor of the RICE protocol has even admitted he was wrong.  From the forward to Gary Reinl’s book, ICED!  The Illusionary Treatment Option

Almost 40 years ago, I coined the term RICE (Rest. Ice. Compression. Elevation.) as the treatment for acute sports injures (The Sportsmedicine Book, 1978, page 94).  Subsequent research shows that rest and ice can actually delay recovery.  Mild movement helps tissue to heal faster, and the application of cold suppresses the immune responses that start and hasten recovery.  Icing does help suppress pain, but athletes are usually far more interested in returning as quickly as possible to the playing field.  So, today, RICE is not the preferred treatment for acute athletic injury.

– Dr. Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

Another example of something that makes perfect sense when you stop and think about it, but I never did because literally everyone my whole life told me use RICE for injuries.  And of course I advised others the same way.

I never iced anything but a badly sprained ankle, but mostly because I simply didn’t like icing. And I figured out very quickly on that the best way to avoid post-exercise stiffness was a) a hot shower, b) movement, and c) stretching. While we had ice baths on the university track team, I never once took one. I mean, why would you ever get in an ice bath when they’ve got perfectly good jacuzzis next door? 

Castalia Library goes big

People have been asking when the second volume of Plutarch would be available as a one-off for non-subscribers. Both Library and Libraria editions are now available. Pictured below is the stunning Libraria edition.

The Plutarch volumes are massive and VERY expensive to ship, especially internationally. It’s taking the bindery a while to pack them, since both volumes are shipping together, but they’re working on them now and they have implemented a new tracking system that should make life considerably easier on those who are still waiting for their books to arrive. So, if you are still waiting on your books like me, just be patient. They are aware of the issue and it is being resolved.
Now, here is the intriguing thing about our delivery challenges. It struck me as very, very odd that a company that has been in the business for decades would be having so many difficulties with the international shipping, even in the Age of Covid, so I had a long conversation with one of the executives at the bindery. One particularly interesting thing I learned is that this is all entirely new to them….
In other words, the market is 2-3 times bigger than I had estimated, and we are already the market leaders on the international front. So this is all very good news from a strategic perspective. And in other good news, we have worked out an arrangement with a Big Four publisher that will permit Castalia Library to produce a set of a very important author’s works that every reader of this blog will instantly recognize. At least one of the books will be part of the subscription. So, if you haven’t subscribed yet, this is most certainly the time to do so!
Also, instead of waiting until all of the Junior Classics are published in hardcover, we plan to do the first five or six in leather this year for reasons related to production efficiency. If you’re still waiting for your hardcovers, or your hardcovers were damaged in shipment, we’ve forwarded your information to the printer and they have assured us they will be taking care of the problems soon. And please note before you comment that this blog is not tech support and I do not even live on the same continent where the books are printed, bound, and shipped. 

President Greenscreen

Actually, forget green screens. I’ve seen Skyrim mods with more realistic 3D animations than these recent Biden videos. This doesn’t looks like deepfaked video to me, it looks more like a 3D animated model with video genlock. At this point, if you still unironically believe Joe Biden is the President of the United States, you’re simply not paying attention.

The Breath of the Gods

 The Breath of the Gods

In this episode Professor Rachel Fulton Brown reveals the mystery of the Trinity hidden within Tolkien’s account of the Valar—and shows why, to create the world, the Ainur had to enter into it. Keys to the mystery are shown to lie in Owen Barfield’s explanation of spiritus and in Dorothy Sayers’s explanation of metaphor. You will never think about the Trinity the same way again—especially if you know what it is like to write a book (or a joke or a poem or a play or anything you might make with words).