Archive for 2019
July 31, 2019
HEY, I THOUGHT KAMALA WAS THE COP IN THE ELECTION: Joe Biden Calls for Jail Time for Insurance Execs ‘Who Totally Oppose My Plan.’
You may not be interested in the Gleichschaltung, but the Gleichschaltung is interested in you.
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EVERY BATTLE IS WON BEFORE IT IS EVER FOUGHT: Did Joe Biden Lose the Debate During the Introductions? Liberals Are Already Triggered.
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OPEN THREAD: Put it to good use.
RENEE ANDERSON: Frankenstein at 200.
I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS A CIVIL LIBERTIES ORGANIZATION: ACLU Stumps for the New Transgender Patriarchy. Meanwhile, the men’s-rights activists are basically fine with this: You go to war with the patriarchy you have, not the patriarchy you want.
TO CELEBRATE, I’M GOING TO MIX MYSELF AN “OSAMA:” Two shots and a splash of water. Hamza bin Laden, Son of Qaeda Founder, Is Dead. “The United States had a role in the operation that killed the younger Mr. bin Laden, officials said. But other details, including where he died, remained unknown.”
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Gillette becomes the billion-dollar losing segment of parent company following its toxic masculinity commercial.
Their appeal is becoming “selective,” as legendary fictitious rock & roll manager Ian Faith would say: Gillette boss: Alienating some consumers with #metoo campaign was a price worth paying.
Flashbacks:
● Gillette Releases Its First Trans Commercial: A Proud Father Helps His Daughter Shave Her Beard.
● Why Are Dove And Gillette Pushing Us To Lie About What’s Beautiful?
THERE HE GOES AGAIN: Drunkblogging the Second Democratic Debate – Night Two.
WHY LIBERTARIANS distrust political power. “If our understanding of how political power works is such that we have reason to doubt it will serve the public interest as opposed to the private interests of public actors, then our reluctance to deploy it is not a matter of discomfort or skepticism, but of a grounding in political economy.”
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ANALYSIS: TRUE. Overpopulation, Not Climate Change, Caused California’s Water Crisis.
Though not so much overpopulation, as fallout from the Malthusian enviro-freakouts of the 1970s and the concomitant “regulatory explosion.” Then-Gov. Jerry Brown, dealing with California’s water crisis in the mid-2010s, had to deal with the mid-1970s efforts of then-Gov. Jerry Brown to deliberately hamstring future generations of Californians. Or as Victor Davis Hanson wrote in 2015, “Brown and other Democratic leaders will never concede that their own opposition in the 1970s (when California had about half its present population) to the completion of state and federal water projects, along with their more recent allowance of massive water diversions for fish and river enhancement, left no margin for error in a state now home to 40 million people.”
WATCH: Video Emerges Of Elijah Cummings Calling Baltimore ‘Drug Infested.’
I’m so old, I can remember two days ago when the word “infested” was a racist dog whistle, according to CNN.
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF SCIENCE: DNC Chair Tom Perez Freaks Out Before Debate: Climate Change ‘Threatens Our Universe.’
VIOLENT, HATEFUL RHETORIC: Actor Jeff Daniels to CBS’s Stephen Colbert: ‘We Need Someone That Can Punch Trump in the Face.’
Earlier:
● Ilhan Omar Retweet Suggests Rand Paul Deserved to Be Assaulted.
● Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) to 2020 Dems: Don’t Run Away from Trump — ‘Punch Him in the Face.’
● Joe Biden: I Want to ‘Beat the Hell Out of’ President Trump.
● Patti LuPone defends violent attack on Rand Paul.
● CNN Host Palled Around with, Promoted ICE Firebomber’s Antifa Group.
● Leftist Thug Caught on Video Assaulting Conservative Berkeley Student While Fellow Students Laugh.
● Journalist Andy Ngo Milkshaked Beaten Up at Portland Antifa Rally.
● John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation and the “political director” for CBS, wrote an article for Slate in 2013 charmingly titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”
Related: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II: Critics Couldn’t Beat Boris Johnson, So Now They’re Calling Him ‘Hard Right.’
Silly comments are to be expected from silly people. But some of Johnson’s erstwhile colleagues were quick to warn of nascent fascism.
Nick Boles, a former Conservative member of parliament now sitting as an independent, complained, “The hard right has taken over the Conservative Party.” Anna Soubry, another former Conservative member of parliament who is now all that is left of the risible Independent Group, parroted Boles, saying, “The hard right has captured my old party.”
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “hard right?” Perhaps you think of skin heads. Perhaps you think of goons in brown shirts. Perhaps you think of ethnic politics. Calling someone “hard right” is probably the most serious charge there is in democratic politics today. It must be used sparingly, and only when it is actually appropriate.
Curiously, with “hard right,” they’re not implying he’s a libertarian, as a Stalinist smear from the 1930s is still alive in the 21st century. Though Johnson is a Tory Brit fighting against totalitarian socialist forces on the Continent. To place the battle into the Orwellian language of the EU, it’s the latest chapter in “the European Civil War.” As in 1945, hopefully England will win this battle as well.
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DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM THE WASHINGTON POST: Was Lincoln Really Into Marx?
Did Abraham Lincoln share a common economic vision with Karl Marx?
That’s the thesis of a recent article in the Washington Post, which claims that the 16th president and the socialist philosopher “were friendly and influenced each other.” According to an essay by Gillian Brockell, “Lincoln was regularly reading Karl Marx” and appears to have adapted a Marxist conceptualization of the labor-capital relationship to the discussion of slavery in his first annual message to Congress.
While Brockell stops short of ascribing socialist beliefs to Lincoln himself, she uses this purported historical kinship with Marx to secure a place for socialism within the mainstream of American politics. Modern “democratic socialists” such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, it follows, are merely successors to Lincoln’s own accommodating assessment of Marxist thought.
The Post’s article instantly found an audience on the academic left, with Princeton historian and Twitter warrior Kevin M. Kruse broadcasting his stamp of approval for its message to his followers. The result is a textbook example of modern-day pundits and activists attempting to enlist the past as an electioneering tool for their favored political causes in the present.
Brockell badly misreads her sources and reaches faulty conclusions about the relationship between the two historical contemporaries. Contrary to her assertion, there is no evidence that Lincoln ever read or absorbed Marx’s economic theories. In fact, it’s unlikely that Lincoln even knew who Karl Marx was, as distinct from the thousands of well-wishers who sent him congratulatory notes after his reelection.
Sad.
JUST OUT FROM PJMEDIA’S OWN MATT MARGOLIS: Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama’s Legacy.
HEH, INDEED: Photograph Emerges Of Al Sharpton Arriving At Scene Where Cain Killed Abel In Order To Cry Racism.
Note to Snopes: This is the Babylon Bee, so it’s satire – but this isn’t: No joke: Babylon Bee sics lawyers on Snopes over “fact checks.”
UPDATE As Erick Erickson tweets, “Interesting how [the Babylon Bee] upsets a lot of people who view themselves as journalists. The site engages in satire and parody, but more often than the Onion, it pokes at the sacred cows of the left. The contempt it generates is revealing and not of the Bee.”
AMELIA HAMILTON’S ‘GROWING PATRIOTS’ PODCAST: The Boston Massacre.
Mark Linehan from the Boston Freedom Trail sits down with Amelia, fielding questions from Number One VodkaSon.
