So unsurprising. [Updated: By Friday, Billingsley had also libeled her. He used a crude headline/pun to reference a woman’s vagina — in the process. Charming.]

Hinderaker goes off, half-cocked — as ever, on gender matters.

The man made the false claim that this boxer was born a man.

DNA testing has now confirmed Hinderaker was lying. Intentionally, it seems — to foment hate.

However, it turns out he and I agree though — on this much: boxing, MMA and all the combat “sports” should pass into the dust bin of history. Both male and female versions. The whole gamut should be excluded from Olympic competition. The games ought not showcase cruelty: man v. man, or woman v. woman.

I am not so naive as to believe we can end professional fighting worldwide in all its forms, but John lying about it — to try to prevent women from choosing to compete against one another… is churlish.

Update: 08.02.2024 @ 7:00 PM — The US Secretary of Defense has exercised his statutory right to veto the plea deal.

All John and Scott’s burping was a huge waste of breath. And it is clear that it would be every bit as secure, and 20X cheaper, to send them to SuperMax. Done.

And, in an unrelated footnote, Hinderaker (undeserving of its own post, as it is so trivial) also tonight stupidly blames everyone (but himself)… For the fact that KSM will now spend the rest of his life in Supermax at Florence, Colorado. It was in fact Bush 43 who made those decisions that led to this day.

Of course, Hinderaker wants everyone to believe that it was a Barack Obama decision. It was not. Own your own BS, man. [And his claim offers us a window into how embittered John’s mind is. He claims that KSM “won“ by not being shot — after unquestionably being tortured, at Gitmo. I am no fan of KSM, but he probably endured nearly a decade of unspeakable torture… and yet, in John’s telling, being transferred to a Supermax to live in solitary for the rest of one’s life (and thus likely go completely… insane)… is a win? Of course, John doesn’t really believe that. He just refuses to accept this smart Biden/Harris administration’s move.]

My own position on the matter is that the death penalty is, in all circumstances… wrong. And John’s primary complaint is that KSM will no longer be death penalty eligible.

But from my point of view, it is much cheaper and easier to keep these terrorists in a domestic super max facility, already running at about $45,000 per prisoner per year, as opposed to over $13 million per prisoner — at Gitmo. That’s over a million a year, per detainee.

The primary goal is to keep them locked away from the world. And locked away from the world, they will be — as opposed to running an entire island military camp, offshore. So on that grounds, I support the plea deal. We were already wildly overpaying to house them at Gitmo.

Out.