“Shout #ViveLEmpereur or else ” Explained

Posted: February 25, 2019 by datechguy in Uncategorized, Vive L'Empereur

As I’ve been hitting a lot of tweets on twitter with the hashtag
#ViveLEmpereur and the phrase “#ViveLEmpereur or else” or “Shout
#ViveLEmpereur or else” I thought I would once more explain exactly what I mean by this. It’s very simple.

Let’s say a person decides that irregardless of actual reality they are in fact Napoleon Bonaparte.

If that person decides to dress like Napoleon, speak like Napoleon, decorates their house in a Napoleonic fashion, adopts the mannerisms and habits of Napoleon and even surgically alters themselves so they resemble Napoleon then and lives their life as if they are in fact Napoleon then that’s their business and not mine. I don’t care if my waiter, or mechanic or co-works thinks they are Napoleon but still takes my order properly, or fixes my brakes right or does their job without interfering with mine. I don’t care.

The moment said person decides to try to not only force me to pay for his delusion with my tax. Dollars or attempts to use the law to force me to cry Vive L’Empereur whenever he passes by, then it becomes my problem.

The Transgender movement is all enabling people who are lying to themselves and people have discovered that this enabling can be used as a means for to obtain power and wealth and as a weapon against their political enemies.

It is those folks who are declaring to the world “Shout #ViveLEmpereur or else “.

I refuse.

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Why Stacey Abrams Will Give the Democrats’ Response to the SOTU

Posted: January 29, 2019 by julietteochieng in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics
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In which I solve yet another mystery

by baldilocks

The latest in the Democrat Party’s lowered expectations for People of Color™: now, they don’t even have to win an election for the party to choose him/her as its representative.

Stacey Abrams will deliver the response to President Donald Trump’s

Stacey Abrams

State of the Union address next week, giving the state’s top Democrat one of the nation’s most prominent pulpits as she considers whether to run for U.S. Senate in 2020.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday he asked Abrams to deliver the address, which will air shortly after Trump finishes his address to a joint session of Congress next week, because “she has led the charge for voting rights, which is at the root of just about everything else.”

The speech will be a pivotal moment for Abrams, who narrowly lost last year’s gubernatorial race to Republican Brian Kemp and refused to formally concede the race, citing what she said was a vote marred by irregularities and his refusal to step down as the state’s top elections official.

Why Abrams? Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) and Ilhan Omar (MN-5) seem like better choices on the surface – they’ve actually won elections and all three allow the party to check the same two boxes that Abrams does: not-white women. Tlaib and Omar, of course, give the added benefit of being Muslims. (In fairness, Tlaib is only kinda Muslim.)

All that precious diversity at their fingertips but they forgo it?

It’s easy to see why none of them were chosen, though: no one will be able to control what they say in front of a national audience, especially not Nancy Pelosi. It’s entertaining to imagine Tlaib or Omar sign off with “Death to that Motherf****r Trump and to America” or Ocasio-Cortez with “God bless Socialist Utopia America.” Same thing, really.

And, call it a female hunch, but I bet each of them has told the Speaker of the House to her face that she can kiss their backsides or something equivalent.

Not that Abrams wouldn’t do that, too, were she in office. But she’s not and, therefore, she is much more apt to stay on the message outlined for her by the Speaker and by Senator Schumer. They need her, but she needs them much more. So, she gets the spotlight.

I’m sure that, during the response, the strings extending from her back will be well concealed.

Juliette Akinyi Ochieng has been blogging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here.  She published her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012.

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Andre Galloway Jazmine Barnes & DaTechGuy’s Third Law of Media Outrage

Posted: January 11, 2019 by datechguy in media
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The are few things more predictable than the MSM’s reaction to a potential news story and it is that predictability that is the basis of DaTechGuy’s Laws of Media Outrage the first is this:


The level of Outrage or interest of the media and their allies on the left concerning any insult or prevarication concerning a person or thing will routinely be equal to the inverse of the degree of the political distance between said media / leftists and the target of said insult or prevarication at the time it is made

DaTechGuy’s 1st Law of Media Outrage

This was quickly followed by the 2nd

The level of acceptance of the positions and/or actions of any group or organization by the left and media is directly proportional to their current or potential value in electing liberal Democrats.

DatechGuy’s 2nd Law of Media Outrage

While these laws are pretty solid while writing yesterdays piece on the murders of Andre Galloway, a 16 year old black youth in Baltimore with no criminal history, and Jazmine Barnes a black seven year old girl also with no criminal history. It occured to me that while my two existing laws were correct they only covered events involving activists and pols and did not address how the media reactions when the people involved are not national figures.

Jazmine Barnes murder became a national cause célèbre repeatedly promoted, discussed and debated all across the msm right up until it turned out that the killers were two black men and not the white fellow that witnesses had all claimed at the beginning. This incidentally hasn’t stopped the person originally fingered by activists from remaining under threat:

The family of a man whose photo went viral on social media as a possible suspect in the murder of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes is telling everyone to “back off.”
Hailey Cantrell says despite the arrests of two suspects in the murder case, as recent as Monday, there have been threatening comments on her Facebook page regarding her uncle, Robert Cantrell.
“I hear, ‘Someone is going to rape, torture and murder the women and children in your family,” Hailey read from one comment.

I suspect this had a lot to do with Sean “I’m black really I am” King fingering the man via twitter but King insists it has nothing to do with race:

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Meanwhile after a full year neither the MSM nor King has had anything to say about the still unsolved murder of Andre Galloway which gained the scant prominence it did due to the fact that his was the 1st of Baltimore’s 300+ murders of 2018.

Clearly the lack of a racial angle made Andre Galloway’s murder uninteresting to the MSM but if a racial angle can be found even the most mundane events can, facts not withstanding become a national story


The media claimed that a white woman called the police on a black woman who was merely standing in the doorway of an apartment building because she hates The Blacks.
But the woman waiting in the doorway wasn’t black. She was Hispanic. Her name is Obregon. This should have been a tip-off that she was Hispanic rather than black.
The woman who called the cops wasn’t white. She, too, was Hispanic. Her name is Torres. This should have been a tip-off that she was also Hispanic rather than white.
So we have a truly non-racial situation here — a person of one race calling the cops on a person of the same race.
And she called the cops because she’s autistic and found the presence of a strange woman in her doorway out-of-the-ordinary and therefore #Triggering in the real, non-stupid sense of the word.
Other than that — great job, media!

and isn’t all that interested in correcting the story when they’re wrong:


Months later, the internet still knows Torres as “Doorway Debbie.” She has made numerous attempts at suicide. “I felt that nobody was going to do anything, no one was going to face any repercussions unless I were to kill myself,” Torres said. “I tried to kill myself, I cut myself. I just felt so done and I felt ‘this is never going to get better,’” Emily Crane’s story
 covering Obregon’s and Torres’ interaction at the Daily Mail was deleted without any sort of retraction. Others still have not corrected their stories (Newsweek 
, Ebony Magazine, etc.) . Others made changes to the headline from “white woman calls the cops on black woman” to “woman calls cops on woman” without explaining on the bottom of the article that the original post was corrected, as journalistic ethics require.

And it’s stuff like this that has encouraged race hoaxers such as the one in Lunenberg years ago that cost the town it’s Thanksgiving football game that year figuring that there would be no legal repercussions if caught. As I wrote at the time:

You see the primary suspect in this story is no longer the largely white football team in a small town but the mother of the supposed target of the racist graffiti. It is no longer a story about racism, it is about yet another race hoax. If the team had still been the suspect and racism been the theme and the DA a republican the decision to not press charges would be a source of national outrage and coverage but remember the rule we stated yesterday.

I submit & suggest it’s because all of these stories involve Democrats and their national memes and Democrats understand that when it comes to such stories MSM immediately recognizes them as unnewsworthy.

We have reached a point where it is no longer necessary to submit and suggest this idea so it is now time to formalize DaTechGuy’s Third Law of Media Outrage:

The MSM’s elevation and continued classification of any story as Nationally Newsworthy rather than only of local interest is in direct correlation to said story’s current ability to affirm any current Democrat/Liberal/Media meme/talking point, particularly on the subject of race or sexuality.

It’s worth noting that nowhere in the law listed above does the actual subject of the story mentioned. Graffiti on on the side of a house? A call to the police over a person in an apartment? A person having problems ordering a pizza? All are stories are worth national attention from the moment they support Democrats talking points and remain so right up until the moment that the facts fail that test.

Meanwhile drive by shootings, beatings and murder, even if they are race based, are not national stories if they don’t support the talking points and memes that the left wishes to advance.

That’s not how it should be, but that’s how it is.

Under the Fedora 10 Years at DaTechGuyblog

Posted: November 29, 2018 by datechguy in under the fedora
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datechguy and breitbart via camp of the saints

10 Years ago when the internet and the blogisphere was much younger I launched this blog to keep me busy as I searched for the replacement for the best job I ever had. When I did I had no idea where that would lead, here are some thoughts on the subject combined with some observations on the news that are relevant to that anniversary.

The greatest difference between then and now was illustrated by the news two days ago of GM getting ready to lay off 15,000 workers. Unlike Obama who was very generous with a government bailout which financed losers like the Chevy Volt noted that Trump is willing to play Hardball

….for electric cars. General Motors made a big China bet years ago when they built plants there (and in Mexico) – don’t think that bet is going to pay off. I am here to protect America’s Workers!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2018

which had the following effect

BREAKING: GM shares hit session low after President Trump tweets that “we are now looking at cutting all GM subsidies including for electric cars” after company announced 14K+ job cuts and plant closures. https://t.co/jn8limUSe7 pic.twitter.com/Rg7oknGclB

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) November 27, 2018

and that effect tends to hit the executives holding stock a lot more than the workers threatened with job loss.

Perhaps if Trump was in place in 2008 my life would have been very different.

Another big difference, let’s say that GM goes though with those closings without retooling the plants for more popular models and those 15k jobs along with say 30k more are lost in the supply chain. Those 45 thousand people who will be on unemployment and looking for work would be doing so in one of the strongest economies in my lifetime.

In contrast when I lost my job, it was during the Obama years. At the time I had no debts other than a mortgage and retirement money put away. All that retirement money is gone, I’m carrying nearly seven grand in debt these days and only the blog income allowed me to contribute to the house and It was seven years before I had any other employment (other than the blog itself). And it was not until this year one year after Trump was in office that that I managed to get employment with benefits again though still at only 55% of what I was making during the Bush years.

Would that Donald Trump was elected eight years earlier.

One of my earliest posts here was the argument that all of the self righteous people pushing gay marriage had been silent on the subject for decades and suddenly had jumped to it when it became the fad, it’s become the same with transgenderm but to a much worse point.

I see the advocates of Transgenderism in the same way as I see the advocates of gay marriage and the advocates of Jim crow and the advocates of the old miscegenation laws against interracial marriage. They are all narcissists who wish to redefine natural law to advance their cultural prejudices and punish those who do not confirm and justify themselves. The bigot who declares that black men and women are not really men and women and thus can’t marry a white person nor are entitled to the same rights as whites and do so to justify their own position is no different in my mind to the bigot who insists that the idea marriage is a union between a man and a woman is a cultural imposition whose believers need to be punished by law, rather than simple biology or that to declare that the statement men have a penis and women a vagina is bigotry beyond the pale is the same bigotry with a different spin. Namely folks who deny reality for the sake of their own egos.-

There is an old saying that familiarity breeds contempt and nothing has increased by contempt for the MSM then observing them closely for 10 years except for one thing, that is being in the room with them as credentialed press and simply watching and listening to what they say and do. Those who decry the words “fake news” live in a bubble, I’ve entered their bubble world and like an immigrant who sees the grandeur of American freedom have seen first hand what is obvious to anyone outside of the bubble. I think Glenn Reynolds put it best when interviewed by the BBC after to 2016 election when he said 90% of journalists give the other 10% a bad name. The interviewer passed over the remark either assuming that he simply misspoke reversing the ratio and not wanting to waste time to correct it or realizing that he meant what he said and didn’t want him to risk elaborating on the point. Let me make a point of mentioning Byron York and Carl Cameron as grand exceptions who it has been a pleasure to meet and speak with. They represent the best of their institution.

It’s pretty sad that the ten years of the blog have produced both the worst president of my lifetime (Obama) and the worst Pope of my lifetime (Francis) although in fairness to Obama given his qualification he had no business being elected and in fairness to Francis with the still living Benedict the XVI and the Venerable Pope John Paul I every other pope in my lifetime has been a saint which is actually pretty unusual. The failures of president Obama, given his lack of experience and qualifications was not much of a surprise. Francis however has no such excuse.

I never thought I’d see in my lifetime an objectively anti-american President of the United States and a Pope who when you crack the old joke “Is the Pope Catholic?” makes you actually wonder about the answer. These are the days when one works hard and trusts in God to get through things.

One huge contrast from 10 years ago is travel. I did almost no traveling before the blog, since them I’ve been all over the country, met all kinds of people and interviewed a ton of them. I’ve seen the country that I have in a way manicure to what Shelby Foote described of the soldiers coming home from the civil war although with much less risk.

It’s a really good country and we’re lucky to have it.

I also discovered that the blogging community consists of some of the finest people I’ve had the pleasure to meet. Many have become friends and those friendships have been a fine compensation for the financial woes of the decade. When I see folks like Evan Sayet, Nice Deb, Ed Morrissey Yid with Lid and too many others to list here it brings a smile to my face and one of the greatest joys of last year at CPAC was introducing my sons to many of these fine folks.

The Axis of Fedora

No list of friends would be complete without Pam Geller and Robert Spencer (my brother says hello and opened that champagne this thanksgiving celebrating his 1st grandson btw) two of the bravest people I’ve ever met and of course Robert Stacy McCain, Smitty, the Lonely Conservative and Barbara Espinsoa who have all on occasion taken me into their homes while covering stories.

The very act of typing your names makes me smile.

As some of you might know I was on secular radio for a while with DaTechGuy on DaRadio and DaTechGuy Podcast, neither one caught on enough to make a living out of it but there was a lot of good opinion there and fine interviews that came of it. Today I’m still on the radio doing catholic radio for WQPH 89.3 FM with my show Your Prayer intentions every Saturday at noon EST A second interview show “Words on the Word” which will be part of a rotation at 11 AM on Saturday’s launched last week.

I’ve been a lot more involved in my faith since the blog particularly over the last five years. My both in terms of what it’s based on and how I approach it has improved over these years. The primary credit goes to God who took a much more active role in my life but I give credit also to my leaving my old parish of St. Anthony’s and going to St. Bernards parish at St. Camillus where I had been going to daily mass since 2015 as it was one I could catch after my then overnight shift. Between these and the work I’ve done for WQPH I’ve seen the faith in action beyond the walls of the parish I spent a lifetime in. While it might surprise some what I’ve seen has affirmed my faith in the doctrines of the church as true but it’s also taught me that in the end while I and others can be used as the tools to open doors for others in the end no amount of argument, fact or reason will reach a mind closed to this truth. Only God can do that and only if such a person is willing to walk though that opening the God provides.

That’s really the bottom line that all Catholic apologists need to remember, no matter how good the works we do either by deed or word in the end Jesus Christ is God and we’re not.

That realization is, in many ways, the most necessary step to salvation.

As for the future of the site? My work is taking up much more of my time as I start to advance. I’ll still be posting daily and hopefully the magnificent seven will keep on writing but in the end I’ve given up on being bigger than I am. I don’t see a revival of DaTechGuy on DaRadio I’ve done that, or DaTechGuy on Fox News again or another piece in the NY Post or anything beyond that. It’s not going to become my job and while I’ll still be recognized here and there I’m not going to become a household name.

I’m going to remain what I am, a blogger, doing some original reporting, short interviews, some features like my Interviews with immigrants which I think is some of my best work. Maybe I’ll do an occasional event, perhaps time will permit a 2nd book and maybe finances will allow CPAC once in a while. My final ambition would be to snag a ten minute interview with President Trump on his rise and time in office but I won’t be holding my breath waiting for it to happen.

In the end I’ll and my writers on behalf of me will continue to serve you, the readers who have been with us for these years in the way that we have in the past. I’m very grateful for your readership and patronage over the years. We’ll do our best to continue to produce content worth your time and financial support to pay for it.

It’s a small thing when you look at this great big world and the span of history within it, but it’s enough.

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