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The thumb nail of a swine is PERFECT for representing Demonrats.
Oh, they’ll all now say Trump’s policies worked better and Biden’s are ruinous. But they’ll still vote Democrat because they are p-whipped by college-educated white women. Even if they’re gay. Even if they know better. You see the idiocy of the “c-e ww”s now calling for the Palestinians to be protected and the Jews to be punished. Heck, college-educated white jewish women are protesting against the Israelis. That whole demographic has been poisoned, and they’re dragging beta males along with them.
Trump is standing in the way of the globalists. That is the bigger picture.
A short anecdote with a preface that I think shows that there is, in fact, a chink in the Leftist armor.
Ronette is 23 and a year out of college. So she is of the Vine/TikTok generation. Her best friend, whom I always thought was just a gay guy, somehow decided that he actually wants to live as a woman. Fortunately, his parents got him significant counselling as he has done nothing permanent, yet. But he did go on hormone therapy when he was 19. He has a good support system and realized that the estrogen was making him crazy, and suicidal, so he stopped taking them. But he still considers himself Trans. Ronette loves him dearly.
Monday, Ronette wanted to show me this cool Tik Tok clip of her new favorite personality. With some trepidation I watched. It was a clip of Candace Owens at a college. Some purple haired person who called themselves binary made a statement about hateful language. Candace’s reply, which is what Ronette loved – Life is hard, wear a helmet.
Ronette then said the thing that really made me feel hopeful. She said the biggest mistake the LGB community made was letting the T in.
Think about that for a minute. This is a Gen z, 23 yr old whose best friend since 4 years old considers himself a Trans-woman.
The pendulum swings.
While I despise the destruction of proper grammar, you may have made the correct pronoun selection with …
I suppose anyone who refers to himself as “binary” must suffer from a form of psychosis that implies the perception of plural.
God knows I pray that the “pendulum swings” back to some sanity in our culture; however, like Thomas of the New Testament, I’m doubtful that humanity will benefit before its own end.
In the brief clip, I could not be sure if it was male or female making the statement. I think it was a girl, but could have easily have been skinny boy trying to look androgynous. I went we person and themselves as himself or herself would specify something of which I could not be certain. I suppose itself might have been closer, at least singular.
I just read your comment, now. 4 times. Third sentence was mind bending in a painful way. Clarification?
“The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot —
And whether pigs have wings.'”
I hope that clears things up for you but … I doubt it somehow. Still, the video thumbnail is of a winged pig so I’m sure it pertains. In some obscure manner it must.
Eh- Er…I should have been much more specific as to whom I was referencing, which was RSAE’s 3rd sentence….I’ll do better next time. However, and this is rather off point…my parents, probably the year I was born, bought a set of Collier’s encyclopedia. With it came the Collier’s Handyman’s encyclopedia (1958 woodworker’s dream), as well as a small collection of “They Young Folks Shelf of Books” set of the Junior Classics. 10 hardbound books in all. It’s in those books, perhaps 5 or 6 years old, I found Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter. I kept the entire collection, but finally tossed the actual encyclopedia when it was clear it was a little out dated (and large and heavy, and a tad musty).
Thanks for posting that, brought back memories, and brought me to the bookshelf once again.
I will endeavor to do so.
The speaker was a young college student dressed as a generic student: hoodie and denim jacket. Relatively short haircut dyed several colors. The person was slender and to my eye looked female, but easily could have been a very slender, petite guy with dyed hair.
I just couldn’t tell from the short clip. Therefore I chose not to use himself or herself, not because of the state non-binary, but because I really could not tell.
Itself seemed harsh.
I would have gone with harsh and derogatory. Kindness isn’t always a virtue. The critter in the video addressed by Candace is a parasitic vermiform appendage on society, sucking the vitality from our civilization and giving little or nothing in return. It merits harsh words and it should not be denied its due.
A couple friends of mine were over last night. One of them is a retired Master Chief who for whatever odd reason has taken a deep dive into learning Spanish*. He had just returned from a college in Maine that hosts an 8 week immersive language course. He was only there for 8 weeks and he had Wokenista horror stories to last the whole evening. I had no idea how bad things had gotten in higher education. I mean, I knew they were bad but holy crap I didn’t think they were that bad.
Not all but part of the reason things are this bad and getting worse is misplaced kindness.
It sounds like Ronette’s friend has a serious problem. It also sounds like someone loves him enough to do the right thing by him in order to prevent him damaging himself any more than can be helped. Neither the love of his parents/people nor of Ronette is misplaced on him. Nor is kindness to him unwarranted. Because he has serious problems does not make him unlovable or disposable.
However, the odds are very good that person is going to die young and horribly either by his own hand or the hand of another who also has a similar serious problem. Or by other very dangerous complications of his mental problems like incurable diseases and hazardous pursuits. So you might think about helping Ronette prepare her mind for that possibility.
I get it, my (ex) sister-in-law is gay, a great person and I love her dearly. Hanging out with her is like hanging out with other guys except that she’s a beautiful woman. But there is zero sexual tension. These are the same reasons straight girls find good friends in gay men.
Someone does not love the multihued coiffed androgyne you’re trying not to be harsh to. This is obvious because in its upbringing no one gave it the helmet Candace is suggesting it needs. It’s a poseur and very likely more of a spoiled, adored pet than a child to its parents. It needs some harsh in its world. Before we’re all destroyed trying so hard to be kind to erratic aberrations like itself that it and its ilk become the norm.
That is the certain destruction of humanity. We’re flirting way to closely with that as it is.
Kindness is not unequivocally universally positive. No more than unchecked capitalism is the perfect economic system. Kindness applied in the right circumstances is noble and laudable. Capitalism properly regulated and steered by moral people is the best economic system ever devised. Kindness loses its own meaning and potence when slathered on like cheap peanut butter on every slice of bread. Just like the Left calling us all “racists” has lost its potency and meaning. Dilute kindness enough and it loses its nobility and value.
Sometimes the kindest thing to do involves harshness and derision. That’s what keeps people from pursuing the wrong things unto their own destruction. Enough people pursuing the wrong things to their own destruction will drag the rest of us down with them.
(*Spanish is a useful study if you intend to spend time in Spain. Which is a socialist European failure but also about the best environment where you’re going to run into Spanish. Anywhere else is worse. Often much, much worse. When it came time for my kids to choose a foreign language in high school I told them to pick anything but Spanish. Because the thing about Spanish is that if you really need to speak it, you really need to get the hell out of wherever you are. If everyone speaks Spanish the odds are very high that you ought not be there, or at least not for long enough that knowing Spanish is significantly helpful.)
That and undeserved praise sum up the root causes of the problems we face in current society. Medals for everyone! There are no consequences for MY child, because he/she/it can do no wrong.
A lack of moral and scholarly discipline has been evolving into the current catastrophe since I was in grade school in the 70’s. It’s why my parents blessed my sister and I with a private, christian school education through 8th grade — even thought they really could not afford to do so. Grades 1- 8 were what the local church offered, so we were afforded discipline in school when we most needed it — unlike most of my high school peers.
Interesting that you went to a private Christian school that your parents had a hard time affording.
We did the same with my two boys. The church we went to had a very good private school. We couldn’t afford the tuition, it was pretty steep. The school principal found grants and scholarships for my two sons every year. For which I’m forever in his debt.
They entered high school after completing grade 8, which was like your school as high as the grades went. They were way ahead of the class in public school that they walked into but that worked out OK too. Mind you, the public high school was/is in a medium-small midwestern town with a great tax base (farms and resort homes on all of the surrounding lakes) and so was a pretty good school. For a public school.
The way social development works at least in part is that the shameful are shamed. Which hurts. It also tends to strongly discourage shameful behavior. Which leads to better behavior. The boundaries set by shaming the shameful act to funnel developing human beings in to the direction they should go. This direction is then the path of least resistance because getting off that path creates more resistance.
To put it another way, my advice to young men joining the Marine Corps regarding Boot Camp is —
“Do what they tell you to do, as fast and as well as you can possibly do it and then do it faster and better yet. Do not shirk, malinger, balk, grumble, whine or sass. This is the path of least resistance through Recruit Training. Anything outside of that becomes more difficult and more painful and it can be VERY difficult and painful if you make it so.”
This is how the Marines train dipsticks and make them into warriors. The very same principle applies to other endeavors. Make the path of the least resistance the one you want the person to follow and make anything off that path harder and more painful. The further off, the harder and the more it hurts.
Conversely, remove those boundaries so that any path is the same as any other with no more and no less difficulty and pain and you get the problems we’re seeing today.
I will buy a hungry person a meal. I will not under any circumstances give an addict who says he’s hungry any money. Both these situations involve a form of kindness. In the first instance is compassionate kindness and the second is also a kindness by refraining from supporting his addiction and doing what I can to dissuade him from his shameful behavior. I won’t be mean to the first and I will be whatever degree of unpleasant is needful to the second.
Someone who is taking a crap on social norms falls in the latter category. They’re not just disagreeing or holding a different opinion. They’re displaying their disdain for civilized society with their multihued manes and every piercing and tattoo you can see on their body.
One time my Dad and I were sitting at the bar in the local Municipal Liquor Store having a beer with some friends. One of whom was a pretty hefty heavy equipment operator and a man well respected by all. None of those present were mean-spirited, looking for a fight or “harsh” by any measure any of us would apply among us.
In walks this nose-ringed skinny weirdo no one had ever seen before. OK, well to each his own and we ignored him. He sat down next to the burly equipment operator. He took off his jacket. Underneath he was wearing a wife-beater and on the tricep at the top of his arm facing my friend was a tattoo.
The tattoo was a fist, middle finger rampant and underneath were the words “F*ck You”.
My friend looked over, saw that, stood up, tapped the tattoo and knocked that kid off his stool and on his ass. Then he said “F*ck YOU, too” and calmly sat down and resumed the conversation as though nothing had happened. The kid got up and left his drink on the bar. We never saw him again.
I think that boy got exactly what he deserved. No more, no less. If you’re going to do things like that, you might ought to consider the consequences.
If someone is going to act like an it, they should be treated like an it.
I may be what most people consider as “harsh”. Being harsh is not a bad thing when it’s merited. It is not a shameful thing when it is deserved. When someone calls me or what I say harsh, that does not injure me in any way. I’m pretty meticulous about how I dole out harshness and who I dole it out to. Some may not agree with me, and that’s OK too. However, in my view of the world if you deserve kindness you’re going to get it from me and if you ask for harshness and derision I’ll serve that up for you with the same enthusiasm as I will be kind to the deserving.
Thanks “Ron”. Now I understand. BTW, “itself” does not seem harsh to me. I’m on the periphery of this nonsense with a friend of one of my daughters. I do use terms like “itself” just to illustrate the stupidity of bending reality in impossible ways.
Naw… IMHO, I think Hating Trump is a cover for eliminating his policies. The Democratic party is too monolithicly unified in supporting policies that are dragging us toward a totalitarian government controlled society. Hating Trump is a good cover for this.
Therein lies the strategy of the Left … deflect and deceive. one only needs to study the Quran to realize that the modern Left emulates the deceitful practices that is so-called “prophet” promoted. In fact, we can look at the Old Testament story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden where, when asked by God, Adam blamed “the woman” for his violation of God’s one rule to not eat the fruit of the Tree of Life. Similarly, Eve blamed the Serpent for her own transgression.
Those of the Left constantly deflect their own culpability upon others — especially their political and philosophical enemies. Total subjugation, through the manipulation of lies and deceit, is its goal. The leftist belief is one that the modern, fictional story of the Borg has revealed: “Resistance is futile.” However, in the end, that is just another lie.
I’ve never like Trump, but his policies worked in a way that America most needed, then and now!!!
I never liked Trump as a person, I liked some of what he did as POTUS. SOME of his policies worked in a way that America MORE needed.
The ‘special’ thing about Donald Trump as POTUS was that he exercised some of the common sense and good judgement on policy that we really ought to expect from every President no matter what party he belongs to.
Right up until he didn’t and ran into something he was not up to meeting the challenge over. Then he abdicated the power we gave him to an evil little twit named Anthony Fauci. The consequence were what should have been a very upsetting but manageable crisis became an actual existential threat to our Republic.
COVID-19 was a problem but an even worse, and a potentially more persistently devastating problem and even more of a threat was the politics behind COVID-19.
If Trump had stood his ground and fired Fauci when Fauci challenged him publicly, when it was clear Fauci had exceeded his billet and was way, way outside his lane … Had not let Fauci and Co. have their way — The balloting systems such as unsupervised, unwarranted mail in voting and other avenues that we all KNOW promote election cheating would not have been possible. Or at least would have been tamped down as they normally are. Hell, even high ranking Democrats like Barry Big Ears have stated unequivocally that mail in balloting is absolutely going to be a strong vector for election cheating. Barry and other Democrats were against this sort of thing right up until it became a mechanism for their side to cheat and thereby “win”.
How did that come about? Because Trump let freakin’ Fauci lock down the entire nation, that’s how. The lockdown directly led to mail in voting. Trump was set up and like a good patsy fell for the whole scam hook, line and sinker.
The Left and their lapdog lackeys in the subverted press saw and seized an opportunity to move Trump in the direction they wanted him to go to his own detriment. While Trump acceded because there was no way to salve his own ego by puerile Tweets at his enemies. He made the wrong choices for fear that his enemies would make him look bad. They would do that because he was not up to the challenge that COVID presented. So he gave up and let them have their way.
Angry that Donald Trump was cheated out of being the POTUS right now? Upset that we have a walking mashed potato going to rot in the Oval Office? Afraid of what the unelected committee that runs that mashed potato will do to our country? Want the war in Ukraine to have never happened and the war in the Middle East to have been prevented? Well you can blame Donald Trump and his ego for those things.
People on “Team Trump” are not on Team America and neither is Donald Trump. Or else he was just too spineless and incompetent to do the right thing for this country. Those are the only two choices I can see.
All of that said, he was a far better choice than the alternative in Hildebeast McKankles. Better choice, not savior of our nation. If he gets the nomination I’ll vote for him for a third time while also for the third time holding my nose and selecting not what’s good, just what’s better than horrible.
I see one other. And it has a long history with The Donald. He is a self-described germaphobe. There is an interview with Howard Stern from 1993 (back when the left loved The Donald and he was buddies with Bill and Hil) where he states he is a germaphobe and doesn’t like when people cough or sneeze around him. There are later interviews from before running for office where he decries shaking hands as a bad thing. He is not as bad as Howie Mandel, but it is known.
I think PDT may have been genuinely afraid that Covid was a very bad and deadly virus and his fear allowed him to cede decision making to the experts.
Now, that explains the first round of decisions, it doesn’t explain holding the course when it was demonstrably shown that Covid was only dangerous to a finite subset of people with other underlying issues and that Fauci lied to him and was aligned with the Left.
But I think it does explain why he allowed Fauci to exert such influence.
I also recall that at the beginning of the “outbreak” PDT had said that Mike Pence was going to be the Executive Branch point man for the pandemic. Then when there were daily briefings, PDT was at all of them. His love of himself on camera took over.
There were a myriad of bad things that happened after allowing Covid to shut everything down, but I have always wondered if his fear of illness and germs and viruses didn’t adversely color his typical decision making processes.
You may be right, and if you are it’s all the more shame on Donald Trump. Allowing his purported germophobia to influence national policy to the degree he did would be akin to an arachnophobic cop refusing to enter a basement to save a child — Because there might be spiders down there.
If he did what you think he might have, he isn’t fit to be the leader of America, let alone the Free World. Bravery is overcoming fear, not submitting to it. Submitting to fear is cowardice and the very last thing we need right now is a cowardly POTUS.
The job is bigger than personal phobias. If we were placed in the position that his policies placed us in as I pointed out above — Because of his own egocentric fears … That would be a wholly despicable thing for him to do.
All of that said, I don’t know that he did that. If so it’s not a valid excuse and nothing else I pointed out is in any way diminished were that the case. In fact, it would leave him even less excuse.
Bill, please keep your fig leaf on and extend an olive branch instead.
I like these guys because of their balance. I love Bill’s analysis, I love Steve’s wit and I love Scott’s sense of proportion. These things are so rare today as to become priceless in their difficulty to obtain.
If one of them borrows another’s schtick that works well too. Because it reinforces their unity of purpose.
I just now watched a video with Victor Davis Hanson where VDH pointed out an observation he’s made and calls “The Monastery of the Mind”. We all know this type: “The Left owns everything cultural, political and educational so I’m not going to participate in any of it!”
That’s not a staunch stand on good sound Conservative principles. It’s a chickenshit surrender and nothing less than taking the easy way out.
If we don’t engage the enemy, the enemy wins. This is an unequivocal universal truth. It really is as simple as that. The enemy wants you to throw up your hands, declare all is lost, and retreat to the hills of Tennessee or your own private bunker wherever that might be. You don’t even need to go that far, just give up and refuse to participate. That works just dandy for their purposes too.
The enemy would love you even more if you picked up your rifle and plinked a few Leftists before you ran away to hide from the world. They have lots and lots of useful idiots to spare. Like Hamas, they’re more than willing to spend some of them on juicy propaganda opportunities.
There’s a sentence clause in the synopsis of this video that says “… but things seem to be crawling in that direction.”
The operative word there is “crawling”. It’s taken decades of lies, half truths, hyperbole and sophistry for the Left to get to the point where it is today. Every bit of that underpinned by empty promises of a glorious egalitarian Jacobin utopia. Enough people have bought into that nonsense that the ideology has seriously set back human progress.
Promises and persuasion are one thing. Delivering on those promises as a means of continuing persuasion is another thing entirely. That which cannot exist will not exist. This is an immutable law of the physical universe. It takes time for the hollow unicorn pharts of the Left to dissipate.
The question then is how much time, do we have enough time, and is there enough time before the damage is irreversible and the whole of society comes crashing down?
The surest thing that you personally can do to assure there is not time for this utopian nonsense to run its course and be undone so that civilization will be saved — Is to run off somewhere and stick your head in the sand.
If you want the worst thing to become reality go ahead and retreat to the monastery of your own mind. If that’s your choice you are every bit the enemy of what is good, right and reasonable that the leadership of the Left is.
On the other hand, if you want a better future for you and your progeny then do not abandon hope. Things have been as bad or worse before and that’s why you need to maintain a correct perspective. All you need to do as an individual person is participate and apply the principles you already know work.
There is a danger from the Left, the threat of universal destruction. The even worse danger is that there will be no one to take this call when it comes in …
“How do we get out of this mess?”
I wonder if we will continue to see shifts in Metropolitan centers toward conservative thinking as we get closer to the elections – there are one-off’s now, but will we see the VOTERS shift enough to change the course of the supertanker election?
Therein lies the rub. Since JFK — perhaps much earlier — people have seemed to be enamored with perception over product, form over function, fantasy over reality (i.e., Camelot), …. I think you get my drift.
All I say to that is do the damned job — nothing more, nothing less — and leave the rest of us alone!
I would argue that this “form over function” problem while very real goes back much,much further than JFK. The Romans had beautiful architecture, which they filled with decadence and hedonism.
The problem goes at least as far back as New Testament times. In Romans, Paul says …
Romans 3:13 NLT“Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with lies.” “Snake venom drips from their lips.”
To any modern Conservative that description should be painfully familiar. Our political enemies attempt to appear virtuous all the while promoting Evil and making excuses for evil people. Their talk is not only ‘like’ the stench from an open grave, it actually creates real graves in its application. They tell lies to promote their own agenda even when those lies are patently and obviously false. Like Rashida Talibe’s recent claim that Israel destroyed a hospital, a claim made well after the truth of the matter was known. Venom drips from the lips of nearly everyone on the Left. Their condescending snark is the least of it. They will try to destroy your life if you point out any of the false premises of their arguments.
The modern Left does not have a monopoly on this sort of thing. This is nothing new. The Left is not did not invent this it merely exploits it. Very successfully exploits it.
Neither was Paul speaking about just one group of people. In context he was talking about every single human being that ever lived or will live. The difference is that Paul in making us aware of this situation from God’s perspective was warning us against not only this sort of behavior but the people who behave this way. We choose to at least try to avoid acting like this because we are aware of it. While the Left also being well aware chooses to embrace this fault in human nature and amplify it through exploitation.
The choice of appearances over substance is a very old issue. You’re right, the form it has taken which has been so successful began around the time of JFK but the substance preceding that particular form has been around for a very, very long time.
We need to resist this modern form of this very old problem. In my opinion, and this is just my own opinion, we also need to recognize and attack the roots of this toxic weed if we hope to ever get back to a time when it did not flourish.
There was such a time before the Left successfully hijacked one of two dominant political parties in our land. Which leaves the other party yet to be subsumed. We must be vigilant and bold in resistance to being absorbed by this particular form of Evil and I can’t in good conscience say we’ve been doing a very good job of that. By “we” of course I mean the Republican Party, I have done what I can and do not count myself as culpable for this.
The temptations are great and that particular poison has a sweet taste. The only way we avoid that poison is with the Truth, no matter how bitter that may seem in the short term.
I do not dispute your assertions; however, conversations about such things of antiquity with people now-a-days is likened to banging one’s head against a stone wall covered in nails. At least the JFK reference brings it closer to our own age.
I struggle to not hate people, but those on the Left (i.e., the squids on the squad) make such aspirations difficult indeed. That being said …
… I’m thankful that, to me, such lies and deceit are not sweet at all.
You’re right about matters of antiquity but I was using the examples I did not because I expect people to relate to them, rather in support of my claim that there’s a much larger picture here. It doesn’t really matter if those who are uneducated about these things understand them or not. The truth is still the truth.
While the JFK reference may bring things closer to our own time, our time, yours and mine, are already considered antiquity by ignorant idiots who don’t know what WWII was or think that because 911 happened before they were old enough to know what was happening it’s thereby unimportant and irrelevant.
I’m not disagreeing with you or trying to criticise what you said. I’m just trying to point out, and prove, that this situation you address is nothing new or novel.
A big part of the problem with the other side is a matter of the lack of perspective. People who think the greatest crisis of their generation is Elon Musk acquiring Twitter have nearly no perspective. For many of them getting their feelings hurt just a little bit for any reason at all and especially when they’re wrong — Merits a “safe space” to retreat to in order to avoid having their stinkin’ thinkin’ pointed out to them.
So I never cater to that sort of thing. It’s absurd and it’s ignorant.
We have that problem on our side too. We have people who are in a virtual full-on panic because they don’t understand this is not some new threat. It’s a very old threat and it has been overcome before. If history is any teacher at all, it will be overcome again.
In the meanwhile if me providing historical evidence and examples in an educated and thoughtful manner is so useless to some that it is the equivalent of banging my head on a wall full of nails … I’ll bleed all over those bastards. 🙂
Absolutely! “Ignorant idiots,” indeed. In fact, they can’t even lay claim to the additional adjective, savant, because they ain’t that bright.
I never thought you did. We’re just discussing.
… and, as for “bleed[ing] all over those bastards,” I’d prefer that they would do so, but I get the point. Keep it comin’.