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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

How You Got Hasan Piker: It Started With Cowardice in the Public School System

Posted on | August 29, 2026 | No Comments

A couple of months ago, I saw this brief video clip on X, and grabbed the transcript of what Piker said:

“This is such an insane and fundamentally un-American concept. I cannot begin to explain this to you, okay? Ellis Island, like, every — every American citizen that currently is a natural-born U.S. citizen has — is like a couple generations removed from not being a U.S. citizen, that became a U.S. citizen due to birthright, Okay? Not just birthright, but also especially due to birthright. Like, go back far enough and every single American, every single American — go back far enough — is the children of migrants. Okay? This is literally the United States Of America. This is the most un-American thing that you could push for. I don’t understand how you can even push for it.”

What a Gordian knot of misunderstanding! What Piker is sharing here is not, however, a fringe extremist belief, but rather what has become a mainstream view of American history. We hear similar things said by Democrats and Republicans alike, and said so often that many Americans don’t even realize that it’s wrong. Why? Because our schools long ago stopped telling the truth — which some might consider offensive — and instead promoted the “Nation of Immigrants” myth Piker now preaches.

The pioneer settlers of the British colonies in North America were not “immigrants.” The territories in which they settled, claimed by the British crown, were not a nation-state with a government that might grant them a visa. Rather, they came to a remote wilderness whose only human inhabitants were illiterate heathens lacking any written law or any government beyond tribal alliances to whatever chieftains and warlords might emerge from time to time among them. However much anyone may romanticize those natives as “noble savages,” they didn’t have established ports of entry where immigrants could apply for admission. It is absurd and insulting for Hasan Piker to compare the first English settlers of Jamestown, Plymouth, etc., to 21st-century “migrants.”

When Daniel Boone led a group of pioneer settlers through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky in 1775, how in any sense were they “migrants” comparable to the people Hasan Piker was defending as entitled to automatic citizenship for their offspring, without regard to the legality of the parents’ residency in the United States? It is absurd. I would argue that it is because so many have been miseducated.

How has this confusion arisen? Why does this kind of rhetoric not meet with universal condemnation from educated Americans? I would argue that it is because so many have been miseducated about our history.

This miseducation has its roots in the 19th century. From the time of our War of Independence until about 1840, there was not much foreign immigration to the United States. Europe became embroiled in the Napoleonic wars, which consumed whatever excess energies might otherwise have led adventurous young Europeans to seek their fortunes in the New World and, when that era ended, the Industrial Revolution supplied new opportunities (including a demand for wage laborers) that sufficed to keep the population of Europe too busy at home to think of sailing off to America. The dramatic population growth of the United States, from about 4 million at the first census in 1790, to more than 17 million in the 1840 census, was almost entirely due to natural increase among the Americans who had fought the Revolution, with only small additions from new immigrants. That changed after 1840, however.

First there was the wave of Potato Famine Irish, and then there were refugees (mostly German) from the failed revolutions in Europe in 1848. The arrival of these thousands of foreigners in the 1840s spawned a new political party that came to be known as the “Know Nothings.”

“Bill the Butcher” in Gangs of New York is based on an actual historic figure, William Poole, who was an enforcer for the Know Nothings in their battles against the Democrats of Tammany Hall. The Know Nothings gained their greatest power in Massachusetts, where in 1854 they won a landslide, electing Henry Gardner as governor and a massive majority in the state legislature. Having arisen from the remains of the Whig Party, the Know Nothings quickly dissolved in the mid-1850s, however, and were largely absorbed by the new Republican Party as the chief opposition to the Democrats. In the intervening 1856 presidential election, however, divisions among this opposition (John Fremont as the Republican candidate and Millard Fillmore as a fusion “Whig American” candidate) made possible the election of Democrat James Buchanan with 45% of the popular vote. For years later, crisis produced the Civil War.

Once the war (and Reconstruction) ended, new issues arose in politics that led Americans to forget the controversies over immigration that fueled the brief life of the Know Nothing party, and both Democrats and Republicans sought to attract support from the immigrants (and their descendants) whose arrival in the 1840s had caused such a remarkable surge of nativist sentiment. There gradually emerged from this a tendency toward what has been called “The Proposition Nation” thesis, whose most emininent recent advocate is George F. Will. Supposedly, as long as anyone accedes to sentiments expressed in the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, it doesn’t matter who he is, where he comes from, how or when he got here, or whatever else he might believe, that fellow is just as much an American as any descendant of the First Families of Virginia. This is obviously nonsense — idiotic and counter-factual — yet it has been promulgated by our educational system largely because teachers wanted to flatter the offspring of immigrants, and not risk offending them by any veneration of the colonial Old Stock.

Many of my conservative friends are Catholics, more often Italians or Poles than Irish, and none of them are offended by my recitations of the actual history of our nation as it pertains to immigration. They understand that I do not wish to insult them or their ancestors, nor to vaunt my status as a “Heritage American” in attempting to counteract the damage done by misleading rhetoric of the sort emitted by Hasan Piker. Most of our problems in America today can be traced to the decline of our public schools, and it would not be necessary for me to write at such length on this subject, if Americans had not been so misled by teachers whose cowardly refusal to speak the truth has helped foster the “Nation of Immigrants” mythology that Piker uses a weapon, daring to accuse us of being “un-American”! Shall we blame Emma Lazarus?

 

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

However fine this is as poetry, should it really be given the status of constitutional authority? This is an issue I’ve addressed before (e.g,, “American History 101: No, Emma Lazarus Did Not Write the U.S. Constitution,” Sept. 10, 2018) and reiterate here merely to demonstrate how we got to the point where we have Hasan Piker, who grew up in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey, presuming to lecture us about our own Constitution, particularly the Fourteenth Amendment, which had nothing to do with Turkish immigrants, and everything to do with the erstwhile slaves and their descendants. What nerve he has!

Would the slaves ever have been freed — would there have been a Civil War, a Union victory, a Fourteenth Amendment — had it not been for the Know Nothing nativists who battled the Tammany Hall Democrats before eventually becoming Republicans? Of course, being the descendant of Confederates, I’ve often contemplated questions of alternative history like this, but as it relates to our current crisis, I am more allied with Bill the Butcher than with the Democrats whom my ancestors supported.

Public policy ought to be based on reason, not sentiment, and we should prefer fact to falsehood. Hasan Piker tells an outright lie, claiming “every American citizen … is like a couple generations removed from not being a U.S. citizen,” and then accuses us of being “un-American” for disputing his falsehood. Only a coward would be shamed into silence by this tactic, and say what you will about me, I am not the descendant of cowards.

It’s time to stand up and tell the truth, America.



 

Category: Foreigners, History, Immigration

In The Mailbox: 08.28.26

Posted on | August 29, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day Escaping The Warsaw Ghetto (1943),
357 Magnum: Professor Yamane Takes College Students to a Gun Range
EBL: Red Snapper, TranGolf Canada , Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, Lake Ontario : Dear Landlord, and MAGA Lake America
Twitchy: Oompa-Loompa Sized Activist Calls America A Dictatorship – Somehow Walks Off Unarrested, Stepstool Abdul Can’t Leave Other Mens’ Wives Alone, and Jeffries Accuses GOP & Trump Of “Jim Crow-Like Tactics” and “Wickedness”
Louder With Crowder: The worst women you know were outside the Lindsey Clancy trial, Jasmine Crockett Refuses To Campaign For James Talarico, The Media Tries To Spin Up Another Sob Story Deportation Hoax, Count how many jump cuts Dems need to make this Kamala Harris claim sound intelligible, and AWFL NYT reporter confronts Nick Shirley on “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” but realizes it affects HER job too
Vox Popoli: The Failure was Predicted, also, The Exile of an Economist
According To Hoyt: Sleight of Hand, These People Don’t Mean You Well, The Right to Go to Hell, Still About Men And Women, and Building Walls
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: AI Dinosaur Extinction Coming?
Cedar Sanderson: The Power of Cosy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Illegal Aliens Deported Last Week Include Murders, Rapists, Arsonists, Five Nuclear Energy Companies Selected to Build Micro Reactors at US Army Bases, Federal Judge Again Blocks Trump Mail-In Voting Rules Ahead of Midterms, Trump Declares National Emergency Over Foreign Equipment in U.S. Power Grid, and Trump Administration Eyes Major Stake in Venezuela’s Vast Oil Reserves
American Thinker: Hollow Resolve, Congress’s Unconstitutional Spending Spree Must End to Stop Fraud, Socialism and New York City’s Housing Crisis, The British Nanny State: No Guns Allowed, and The Mohammunist Manifesto—Punishment of Apostasy and Defection
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 28
Behind The Black: JPL’s co-developer of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter wins contract for the Skyfall Mars helicopters, Assets of liquidated Sutherland spaceport in the UK bought by local government agency, Spaceport startup Nordspace obtains $5 million more from Canadian government, Turkey to sign Artemis Accords, and Incompetence and bigotry at NASA and Lockheed Martin
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Don Surber: Saudis will build nuclear reactors
First Street Journal: Thank the Lord that I am not an attorney!
Flopping Aces: The Week in Radical Leftism, 08/28/2026 – Back to The Economist!
The Geller Report:  THE ISLAMIC TAKEOVER IS HERE, Canada’s CBC Orders Reporters Not To Call 9/11 a Terrorist Attack, Murderer-Mourning Mamdani Grieves for Meat-Cleaver Killer, The Beast Descends On Texas, and Trump Admin Set to Target George Soros ‘Nonprofit”, Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR in Major Tax Crackdown
Hollywood In Toto: MindTravel Concert Brings Peace, Melodies to Denver, also, Ali G Controversy Comes at Perfect Time for Sacha Baron Cohen
Legal Insurrection: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Targets Companies Working With ICE, Israel, Trump Administration Renews Push to Return Education to the States, Former Transgender Player Case Complicates WNBA’s Effort to Exclude Men, Milo Yiannopoulos Taken Into ICE Custody, and Colorado River Crisis Brings Major Cuts for California, Nevada, and Arizona
Nebraska Energy Observer: Aluminum Overcast: Rearmed, Reengined, Ready
Outkick: Umpire Bill Miller Goes 0 for 8 in ABS Challenges As Reds Top Cubs At Wrigley, Clark & Fever Go Into FIBA Break With Big Win Over Connecticut, Falcons QB Tagovailoa Booed By Dolphins Fans, Chris Sale Turns Back The Clock As Braves Sweep Dodgers, and Viral nature video catches albino deer in Wisconsin Northwoods
Power Line: Reconquista, The fraud never stopped, “I just go berserk”, Who’s Behind Attacks on Data Centers? and Why Isn’t Oil at $150 a Barrel?
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Secures 17 More Sheriff Endorsements
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Role of the Church Militant
Transterrestrial Musings: Brightline, Another Civil-Rights Victory, and Starlink Out Of The Cape
Victory Girls: Crybaby Stars and Stripes Reporters Want Their Jobs Back
Watts Up With That: Adapt, Europe (stop whining), Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, & Widespread, Climate change activists want to make California insurance crisis even worse, Global Wildfires At Record Low This Year, and Net Zero ideology ‘putting NHS patients at risk’, warn top doctors
The Federalist: How China’s Attempt To Ban A Book Backfired, Federal Judge Rules Child Sex Abuse Images Are OK As Long As They’re Made With AI, Antifa Networks Panic After Trump Administration Sanctions Their Secret Tech Collective, Leftists Will Never Self-Reflect, And They Will Never Apologize For The Horrors They Inflict, and Opposition To Data Centers Isn’t What The Tech Right Thinks It Is
Mark Steyn: The 179-Year Background Check

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 28, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Former NIAID Adviser Pleads Guilty in COVID-19 Case
Doug Ross: Top 20 Suicidal Policies of the Last Democrat Administration
EBL: Irina Demick, Grilled Sardines, San Francisco 49ers Owner Jed York Arrest Video, “Too much fun with so many men…”, and “Slow Blues”
Twitchy: Ms. Rachel Said Black People Don’t Hang Themselves – Then The Cameras Rolled, Police Raid Apartment Of Ilhan Omar’s Son, Seize Guns, Make Arrest, and Jessica Tarlov Whines That Trump’s Tweets Make Her Cry
Louder With Crowder: Trump drops a new hilarious name for “Lake Ontario” with his latest bomb dropped in trade war with Canada, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has once again proves his racism,  bragging about lack of whites in government, Greg Bovino, Tucker Carlson Claims Are Wrong About Trump’s Immigration Enforcement, and Democrats’ newest socialist diva has meltdown while recreating scene from “Mean Girls”
Vox Popoli: The Response to the Retraction, The Great Bifurcation Advances, Never Bluff a Bluffer, and Progress Report 001
Cedar Sanderson: Transporting Ragnarok (Ch. 10), Lightly Toasted Marshmallow – Synchronized Schedules,
Jim McCoy: Tanager’s Fleet

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: PA Governor Josh Shapiro Accused of ‘Fearmongering,’, Armed Vet Arrested at Trump’s LA Golf Course Had Dossier With Melania’s Schedule, Info on Secret Service Personnel, State Department Institutes Sanctions Against Far-Left Transnational Terrorist Groups, Feds Say Chinese Hackers Broke Into DoJ, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and Meta Agrees to $18 Billion Settlement Over Claims Facebook, Instagram Harmed Children
American Thinker: Four Murderers and a Scapegoat, Why Are Liberal White Women So Angry? Cloward, Piven, And Zinn Told Us They Wanted To Bankrupt America, Making Children’s Programming Great Again, and ‘It Can’t Happen Here’? Are You Sure?
BattleSwarm: Paxton Pulls $1 Billion From Meta Over Child Safety, also, Austin Seeking Another Rail Boondoggle?
Behind The Black: Slope streaks in the Martian southern cratered highlands, ESA selects four European rocket startups for future launches, Musk’s other unstated reasons for shutting down Falcon 9 in Florida, SpaceX recovers floating Starship from test flight 13, and Spaceports: What works and what doesn’t
Cafe Hayek: Peter Navarro Is to Economics What Trofim Lysenko Is to Genetics, On U.S. Trade Deficits, as Well as on Manufacturing Jobs, and Bill Gates’s Imagination Is Not Reality
CDR Salamander: Kabul’s Child Sacrifice – Five Years On
Chicago Boyz: Branding Data Centers, also, New attack on pancreatic cancer
Da Tech Guy: Today’s Book Quote: The “Crusade” to Re-Write History
Don Surber: Hillbilly elegance
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an asshole to do things right, also, The problem isn’t mass incarceration
Flopping Aces: Abdul El-Sayed’s goals would end the US, also, El-Sayed teams up with Piker against Jews
Gates Of Vienna: So You Can Beat Up Women — That’s Brave, also, High-Spirited Hijinks in Heidelberg
The Geller Report: President Trump Says “I Would Absolutely Prohibit Sharia Law!”, More Than 100 UN Employees Referred for Taking Part in Hamas’ October 7 Atrocities, Marines Say CIA-trained Afghan Units ‘Executed’ Civilians to Clear Kabul Airport, Homeland Security Warns of Chinese parts in Election Machines, Will Require Paper Ballot Audits, and Trump Administration Honors Heroes of Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster – Abbey Gate
Hollywood In Toto: Why ‘Mary Sue’ Short Should Scare Hollywood Silly, Is How to Rob a Bank Really Hasan Piker: The Movie? Buddy Turns Barney Into Horror Movie Psychopath, and Colbert’s Replacement Beats Jelly Roll-led ‘Kimmel’ in Key Demo
Legal Insurrection: Meta Agrees to $17.1 Billion Multistate Settlement Over Alleged Harm to Young Users, California High-Speed Rail Route Blocked by 1,200-Home Development, Trump Admin Moves to Strip ABA of Law School Accreditation Power, Maryland Judge Blocks Democrat Redistricting Amendment From November Ballot, and Desperate Democrats Try Running Away From Hasan Piker as Controversies Grow
Nebraska Energy Observer: “I Will Always Love You”, also, Canada – Standing for Nothing, Falling for Everything
Outkick: Aliyah Boston addresses Caitlin Clark’s viral smile at Angel Reese during podcast, Tony Romo hit with new citations after DUI bust, Al Michaels stumbles through awkward Trump jab during TNF broadcast, Dodgers owner Mark Walters insists “There has been no fraud”, and Man in trouble for using Roomba to record wife’s affair/FWB lease up/Hall passes
Power Line: You’re a grand old flag, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb [Updated], On the National Stage, Justice Delayed, and Annals of Newspeak
Shark Tank: DeSantis Rips Reporter Over Leaked Grand Jury Report
Shot In The Dark: A Morality Play In One Act
STUMP: RIP Dolly Parton – Cancer & History
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Nature Rights, also, Organoids vs. A.I.: Will Catgirls Lead The Butlerian Jihad?
Victory Girls: Parents Sue Over Mosque Field Trip, also, Democrats: Are The Newspeak Buzzwords Working For Them?
Watts Up With That: Wrong, Reuters – An Early Champagne Harvest Isn’t Proof of Climate Change, Attorney General Hilgers Files Lawsuit Against First Street for Harming Nebraska Homeowners, Net Zero Is Dying, EU Decarbonization Is a Security Threat for the West, and Kathleen Stock is Right About UK’s Role in Climate – But Wrong About What’s Making Things Worse for Brits
The Federalist: Suburbs Import Policies That Ruined American Cities And Expect Different Results, Virginia AG Launches Office To Protect Illegals And Bureaucrats From Federal Accountability, Democrats’ Racial Grievances Are Just A Cynical Grift, Altadena’s Post-Fire Rebuild Proves You Can Have Woke Or Effective Leaders But Not Both, and Dolly Parton Proved Artists Don’t Need Vulgarity To Be Successful
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet – Wednesday August 26th, An American Dream, and They’re Baaaackkkkk

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In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Early Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 27, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Call for Authors! 2026 BasedCon Based Books Sale!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The School Bus & The Mosque
EBL: To Barcelona, With Love, Agnez Mo, Tim Curry RIP, Nepal Mudslide, and Dolly Parton – “Hillbilly Heaven”
Twitchy: Ro Khanna Tries Trashing Former Bernie Jewish Staffer – Then The Staffer Shows Up, Mexican Illegal Thought It Would Be A Good Idea To Interfere With ICE – #FAFO, and Mehdi Hasan Flips Out On Dana Bash For Telling The Truth About Hasan Piker’s 10/7 Comments
Louder With Crowder: WNBA Player Natasha Cloud Mocks Christians, Demands You Support Illegal Immigration, Woman Claims She Loved Her Baby So Much, She Aborted Him, Moms for Liberty Files Federal Lawsuit Against School District That Secretly Transitioned Students, James Talarico brags about his legislation making schools teach DEI instead of things like math and reading and stuff, and TEXAS man goes viral attacking Texans, saying the state needs MORE Indians
Vox Popoli: When the Ships Aren’t Sunk, The Irrelevance of k = ? , and The War on US Farmers
Upstream Reviews: JR Handley’s Incomplete List of Epic Military SF (Part III)
The Abbey of Misrule: The Trap
Cedar Sanderson: It Couldn’t Be Done
John C. Wright: Atheism is Solipsism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Oh, A New Floating Dry Dock? I’ll Take Four More – To Start
Dana Loesch: The Pharisaitical Approach of False Shepherds Makes Modern Feminism Worse
Don Surber: A story the media won’t cover
Elizabeth Nickson: U.S. Median Income $90k, Canadian Median Income $60k – That’s All You Need To Know

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Did You Know That @ElonMusk Has Reinstated the @X Accounts of ‘Noted Neo-Nazis, Anti-Semites, and More’?

Posted on | August 27, 2026 | No Comments

Perhaps I should mention that I have friends and family members in the legal community, and it has not escaped my notice that the decade-long suspension of my @rsmccain Twitter account has certain negative implications constituting reputational damage to myself.

Something on Wednesday brought this to mind, but first let me remind you of what I wrote for The American Spectator in March 2016:

In an age of lies, the truth is dangerous. When Twitter announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council” last month, every intelligent observer understood that censorship would be the result.
The purpose was obvious in Twitter’s choice for members of this Orwellian-named “council,” which includes many left-wing activist organizations, but not a single conservative or libertarian group. Most ominous was Twitter’s decision to ally itself with radical feminism by making Anita Sarkeesian a member of this advisory group. Sarkeesian’s non-profit group Feminist Frequency, formed in 2014, is a tax-exempt vehicle to promote the 32-year-old’s “gender theory” attacks on the videogame industry. . . .
All of that is preamble to explaining why my Twitter account @rsmccain was shut down Feb. 19, and how this resulted in a protest against Twitter’s policies, using the #FreeStacy hashtag. . . . When I attempted to get my Twitter account reinstated, I received a cryptic message that I had been “participating in targeted abuse,” although no evidence was offered to support this accusation. Who was targeted? What was the abuse? How did I participate? No one will say. In a statement to Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle, Twitter officials cited “privacy” to justify this silence as to the nature of my alleged offense against Trust and Safety.

Whose “privacy” was being protected by this silence? More than a decade later, we still don’t know. My suspension in February 2016 was the first foreshadowing of a wave of Twitter banishments that followed, ultimately including President Donald Trump himself. In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter (subsequently renamed X) and began reinstating formerly banned accounts. How many once-banned accounts were restored? Many thousands, as Kyle Barr reported at Gizmodo in December 2022:

Twitter owner Elon Musk’s goal for “general amnesty” towards banned accounts is in full swing. Since taking over, the multi-billionaire owner has given thousands of once-banned users access to their accounts once again. His extreme laissez faire-attitude has attracted some of Twitter’s worst characters back to the social network.
Just how many accounts once-suspended or banned accounts are now back on Twitter? Germany-based software developer Travis Brown has been tracking and publishing the unique Twitter IDs and screen names of banned accounts on a public Github list. Brown’s list has close to 12,000 accounts reinstated since Oct. 27. Since Nov. 8, there have been several hundred account reinstatements every day. On Nov. 21 in particular, there were close to 2,500 accounts allowed back. . . .
A cursory look at some of the once-suspended accounts include several promoting vaccine misinformation (a kind of misinformation that Musk doesn’t have much time for anymore), obvious spam accounts, profiles that share copyrighted material, and adult content creators. . . . Twitter re-verified neo-Nazis Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler as part of Musk’s ill-fated expansion of subscriptions on the social network. . . .
White nationalist Patrick Casey is back on Twitter even though he once ran a major group that advocated for a white ethnostate, Identity Europa, and coined the notorious slogan “you will not replace us.”
Other subjects given a second chance on Twitter include Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi who has been running from a $14 million judgement made back in 2019 for leading a doxxing and harassment campaign against Jewish Montana residents.

At the time this was happening, when formerly banned accounts were being reinstated at the pace of thousands per day, I also applied for reinstatement of @rsmccain and was turned cold. Since then, I have occasionally repeated my appeal — denied, denied, denied.

People widely considered the vilest scum of the earth had their accounts reinstated, yet Elon Musk would not restore @rsmccain. Why? He has never explained. And what is most frustrating to me is that not a single one of my many alleged “friends” in the conservative journalism community will write a single word of protest against the continuation of this banishment, nor will they ask Elon Musk to answer for it. Is it wrong for me to feel butt-hurt over this? “Never let em see you sweat” has always been my mantra, as I would not wish to give any of my enemies the satisfaction of knowing what actual harm they have inflicted on me, but what about the neglect of friends? Over many years, I have striven for collegiality, trying to do favors for friends whenever such an opportunity presented itself, and it wounds my pride that I should have to actually solicit help when I am the one in need. Everyone has known how grievous this Twitter ban was to me, and knowing this, wouldn’t they voluntarily act on my behalf, without my having to ask? Yet after the initial uproar in February 2016, it seems my injury was forgotten, though I still suffered.

Well, enough with my personal feelings, about which no one cares. When this crossed my mind Wednesday, I logged on and once again appealed the suspension of @rsmccain, then sent this email:

Dear Sirs:
While I am by no means certain that any human being is actually reading this, permit me to repeat what I just wrote in an appeal today for the reinstatement of my account (@rsmccain):

In February 2016, my account was banned. It made headlines at the time, e.g.:

https://thefederalist.com/2016/02/24/the-freestacy-twitter-exodus-has-begun/

There was no adequate explanation. I was informed that I had been “found to be violating … our rules around participating in targeted abuse,” although they never did tell me (a) who had been “targeted,” (b) how they were “abused,” or (c) how I had been “participating” in this alleged abuse.
No specifics were given, nor was any opportunity offered to remedy whatever may have caused this inexplicable decision. Despite repeated appeals by me since the site changed ownership, nothing has been done by the new management to rectify this unexplained suspension.
Isn’t it time, after more than a decade, to do the right thing?

After Mr. Musk purchased the site in 2022, I dared hope that he would act promptly to end the censorship regime that had preceded his ownership. I was heartened to see some other banned accounts restored (more than 12,000 it was reported), and yet my account remains suspended, which by implication suggests that I am a worse person than the “noted neo-Nazis, anti-semites, and more,” as Gizmodo said of the accounts restored in December 2022. While it has never been my habit to suggest litigation as a solution to disagreements, it occurs to me that the continuation of this suspension might be construed as defamatory in nature, and that every day that @rsmccain remains suspended, the defamatory implication is effectively repeated.
Having once again gone through the appeals process, and having reiterated my appeal by email, please inform me what else I can or should do to fix this unfortunate problem. I include my phone number, and would be pleased to discuss this with you at any time, as I desire ever to remain,
Your most humble and obedient servant,
Robert Stacy McCain
[ phone number redacted ]

Note the extreme courtesy of the closing. When I conclude a letter with the “humble and obedient servant” phrasing of a 19th-century gentleman, you know it’s serious. They may consider themselves given due notice.



 

Category: Elon Musk

In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 26, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Good night, sweet princess.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

A sign from God that Dolly made it.
(h/t @SwedishCanary on X)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Police Officer Abusing Flock Cameras
Doug Ross: The Day The British Left New York City (1783)
EBL: Dolly Parton RIP, Cheapest vs Most Expensive Fish, Social Security: 62, 67, or 70, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, and Abdul El Sayed -Are You Circumcised?
Twitchy: ABC News Interviews Alex Pretti’s Grieving Family, Active Duty AF Major Who Called For Trumps Impeachment On Capital Steps Charged Under UCMJ, and Mayor Agrees With Don Lemon That Gary IN Is Being Neglected Because It’s Black & Working-Class
Louder With Crowder: New York Governor announces new law proving she cares more about illegal immigrants than any NYer born in America, Charles Barkley unloads on NBA/WNBA commissioners too cowardly to just say the ‘w’ stands for women, Canada Responds to Trump Tariffs, But Of Course Not Without A Land Acknowledgment First, Minnesota official left begging Somali gangs to, if they would please, not turn the State Fair into a violent mess, and Blackpillers down bad when they see these latest Trump wins
Vox Popoli: Fact Check, Not NATO – Middle East Edition, Foreign Affairs Throws in the Towel, THE CRUMBLING ABYSS, and The NFL and CTE
Defending The Wood Perilous: Divine Canon – Who Is The Custodian?,
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow – Flower Princess,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Trump Orders Flags to be Lowered to Half Staff to Honor Dolly Parton, Florida Becomes First State to Ban Use of EBT Cards to Purchase ‘Inappropriate’ Non-Essential Items, Justice Department Unveils New National Fraud Detection Center, Supreme Court Allows Trump Election Integrity Order to Take Effect, and Trump Administration to Revoke Visas of Foreigners Who Seek Asylum
American Thinker: Limousine Liberals and Country Club Conservatives are Destroying America’s Moderates, The Fake Populist Spawn of the Educated and the Privileged, AI Data Centers are America First in Action, The Mohammunist Manifesto—Surveillance, Informants, And Social Enforcement Networks, and The Cost of Belonging
BattleSwarm: Ungodly Doings In Godley, Paramount Moving To Austin? VDH – America Dominates Tech, and Why Isn’t The Muslim Brotherhood A Designated Terrorist Organization?
Behind The Black: NASA cuts ribbon on new Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Side cracks in the crack that almost split Mars, SpaceX confirms its purchase of Pecan Island launch site in Louisiana, Two launches, by China and SpaceX, and A tour of a mock-up of the interior of Voyager’s Starlab space station
Cafe Hayek: U.S. Tariffs are Paid Overwhelmingly by Americans, also, Worse than Lipstick on a Pig
CDR Salamander: Saildrone’s Spectre – Making Sub Chasers Great Again?
Chicago Boyz: StarMind, Trump Administration To Strip ABA Of Law School Oversight, USA 250 – Inventions, Innovations, & Infrastructure, and Cost centers & the space race
Da Tech Guy: Today’s Book Quote: Reading (was) fundamental, New Dynasty Waivers Rules for 1975 (And general draft rules for all my future leagues), and 100 Word Fan Fiction: Seizing Home Field Advantage
Dana Loesch: Operation Economic Outcast – An Economic D-Day For Iran, also, Post-Liberalism 101
Don Surber: Mocking Trump bores people
First Street Journal: The WNBA is different from the NBA in more ways than one, also, Killadelphia
Flopping Aces: The Week in Radical Leftism, Hasan Piker jumps the shark, and The Yin and Yang of American Prosperity – Freedom and Entrepreneurship
Gates Of Vienna: Dhimmi Media Roundup, Ceuta Today, A German-Led Invasion of Italy, and Kashmir is…Whose?
The Geller Report: TRUMP VICTORY: ALL IRANIAN MINES CLEARED From Strait of Hormuz, ISLAMIC TERROR BLITZ IN THAILAND, Girl Scouts Offers Muslim Faith Awards To Be Earned by Learning Pillars of Islam, Trump Admin to Rescind 200,000 Visas in the Largest Mass Revocation Ever, and MASSIVE WIN – Supreme Court Upholds Trump Administration Effort to Overhaul Mail-in Ballots
Hollywood In Toto: Pop Culture Puts Antisemitism on Blast (Finally), Summer’s Super Box Office Winners, Losers, Colony – These Zombies Get Smarter—and Deadlier, New Comedy Rules? Fat Jokes A-OK (If Aimed at Trump), and The Dog Stars Loses Post-Apocalyptic Plot
Legal Insurrection: Darlene Graham Wins South Carolina Republican Senate Nomination, HUD To Investigate UMass-Amherst and U. Nevada-Reno Over Race-Focused Dorms, Abdul El-Sayed Tries to Compare Gender Transitioning of Children to Circumcision, Canada Fires Back With Tariffs on Variety of U.S. Items, and Iran Threatens U.S. With ‘Seismic’ Attack as Trump Admin Launches ‘Operation Economic Outcast’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Why Canada Did Not Get a Trade Deal, Root, Root, Root for the Home Team, Sea Lines of Communication, and What Voter Fraud?
Outkick: College Athletics Latest Mess, Falcons Starting QB Spot Is Michael Penix Jr’s To Lose As Tua Struggles, Timbermutts’ LaMelo Ball Hires Driver After Reckless Driving Incidents, Freedom 250 Race In DC Pulls Massive Ratings, and Serial Shitter On The Loose In Tulsa
Power Line: Dolly passes, Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Order Goes Forward, Banned from Texas [Updated: no MN charges], A Twit streamer’s threat, and America’s Weirdest Politician?
Racket News: Karen Attiah & The Right To Suck,
Shark Tank: Florida Voters Overwhelmingly Back Updated Flu Vaccine Approval
The Political Hat: Socialism By Any Other Name, also, Towards A Weaker Dollar
Transterrestrial Musings: Therapy, Off The Air, Solid Rocket Motors, and A Sad Day
Victory Girls: Log Cabin Republicans Remove Support For Transgender Movement, Hasan Piker “Lowers” The Temperature By Mocking Charlie Kirk, Socialists Or Deadbeats? One And The Same, and WNBA Reportedly Will Not Let Freedom And White Enter The Draft
Watts Up With That: California Lawmakers Chase Unicorns While Real Crises Mount, Net zero grid upgrade costs spiralling out of control, Desperate Climate Crisis Cultists Turn to OnlyFans for ‘Sexy’ Messaging, Western water fight also impacts power generation, and Now That’s (Public) Service!
The Federalist: Treasury Dept. Closes More Loopholes That Gave Illegal Aliens Your Tax Dollars, Dolly Parton’s Catalog Is More Than Just Catchy Tunes, Declassified Docs Show Deep State Letting Chinese Espionage Slide If It Helps Democrats, We Chased A California Paper Trail To Show What Happens A Few Years Before A Nick Shirley Moment, and How Leftist Nonprofits Connected To Republicans And Judges Enable Crime Sprees In Red States Like Oklahoma
Mark Steyn: “All of Me”, Make Rome Great Again, and Lake America

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In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 25, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Elbows up, LOL

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day In Ancient Rome (100 AD), Americastan, and  The Blackpilling of America – Escaping The Fear
357 Magnum: When Leftists Complain About US Passenger Trains, Bring Up Freight, also Cooperating With Criminals Is No Guarantee of Safety
EBL: PETA ?? Maine Lobster Festival , Vesuvius, Karmelo Anthony New Trial Denied, Mangrove Snapper, and Battle Of Bosworth
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Shreds Abdul El-Sayed For His Hasan Pike Bromance, Bill Melugin Fills In The Gaps In GOP Congressman’s Self-Deportation Sob Story,  and John Cleese May Finally Be Catching On
Louder With Crowder: Former NBA Player Kicked Out Of WNBA Game After Wearing Shirt That Defines What A Woman Is, AWFL Wisconsin TikToker is armed with a bow and arrows to rally an uprising for Lindsey Clancy, CNN sheds what’s left of its dignity “fact” checking RFK Jr’s cooking show, CNN sheds what’s left of its dignity “fact” checking RFK Jr’s cooking show, and James O’Keefe dressed up as a Muslim to expose voter fraud in Minnesota; now Islamic groups are demanding he be prosecuted
Vox Popoli: The Satanic Inversion of FROZEN, Byron AI Volunteers Wanted, Chalub and the Kimura Cancellation, and The Manufacture of Alzheimer’s
Cedar Sanderson: Witches Float, The Antarctica Cookbook, and Monday Mixtape – The Dryad’s Ball
John C. Wright: Windrose of Political Heresy, also, Not Tired of Winning Yet CCLX
Draw & Talk Comics: Where I’ve Been
Weird Catholic: The Skin of St. Bart

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Don’t Do This
CDR Salamander: Battle Damage Repair for Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers – On Midrats, also, NAVAIR’s Counter-Air Gets Back In The Range Game
Dana Loesch: Why Are We Celebrating Huey Long?
Don Surber: Handicapping the Senate races
Elizabeth Nickson: The Great Spitting Out Continues
STUMP: CTU Lawsuit Followup – Reactions
Mark Steyn: Dealing Aces, also, My Dinner with André: Stuck at a Table with You

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A Distraction From the Distraction

Posted on | August 24, 2026 | No Comments

Would you believe he’s a multi-millionaire?

Y’all know football season is almost here, right? The college football season kicks off Saturday, and the NFL season begins September 9. Even though I know many readers don’t care for football, it’s important for me as a way to distract myself from the endless craziness of politics. Following my favorite quarterback, Alabama alumnus Mac Jones, now with the San Francisco 49ers, has helped keep me sane amid all the swirling insanity of the past few years. Even though Mac is now the backup in San Francisco behind Brock Purdy, it’s still something to give me a rooting interest in the Niners. Mac looked great in his preseason debut last week, and all the fans in San Francisco are excited about rookie wide receiver De’Zhaun Stribling. The big worries for 49ers fans involve the left guard position on the offensive line, and whether edge rusher Nick Bosa will be back 100% after his injury. Or, at least, those were the big worries, until the team owner made headlines:

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York — whose family is worth an estimated $8.5 billion — was arrested on Sunday at 9:35 a.m. for trying to pay just $140 for sex in a Ohio trailer park, according to court documents obtained by the California Post.
York responded to an advertisement on Sunday from a known prostitution website in Columbiana County, Ohio and “arranged to have sexual activity with the female in exchange for $140.”
However, when York was on the way to a meeting [at] a trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio, he was taken into custody by an agent from the Mahoning Valley Human trafficking Task Force, who had orchestrated the sting operation. . . .

(Pause to note that, not only is he trying to score with a cheap trailer park hooker, he’s too dumb to realize it’s a police sting operation.)

The trailer park, Wheat Hill MHP, later claimed on Facebook that York was arrested there because that’s where he was pulled over, not that the police were using one of the homes as part of their sting operation.
York had “in his possession his cellular device which was used to arrange the criminal act,” according to the court documents.
The documents show York was booked into county jail on two separate charges — one count of engaging in prostitution and one count of possessing criminal tools.
On Monday, however, York cut a plea deal with prosecutors, according to Columbiana County Municipal Court records.
York, who was initially released on $5,000 bond, pled no contest to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct as well as no contest to one count of possessing criminal tools, the records show.

Kind of hard to focus on football when the owner’s getting busted in an Ohio trailer park trying to hookup with a whore for $140. And the whole thing makes no sense at all. You’re a big-shot NFL executive, worth more than $100 million personally, not to mention being heir to a share of your family’s multi-billion-dollar fortune, and you’re trolling for hookers in a trailer park? Like, you couldn’t have a sugar baby mistress on your payroll, put her up in a nice apartment, etc.? Instead you’re responding to ads for $140 whores in Columbiana County, Ohio? This is crazy.

Anyway, I’ve told my kids what I want for Christmas is an official Mac Jones jersey, which costs more than the team owner was willing to spend on a hooker. But I ain’t going near no Ohio trailer parks.



 

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