Archive for 2020
September 19, 2020
YOUR WISH FROM 2014 IS GRANTED, 2020 #NEVERTRUMPER:
OPEN THREAD: How’s everybody doing?
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: $5K Reward Available, Suspects Sought After Cyclist Fires at 3 Philly Cops. A second gunman also fired at police after the officers crashed their car.
So at what point, faced with assassination attempts, do the police go rogue and form their own death squads to neutralize their enemies? That’s what generally happens in corrupt third-world polities, which is what our Democrat-run cities are becoming.
THE OLD-FASHIONED Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “She could fight with the best of them—but I never heard or saw or even intimated anything other than respect and even, often, affection for her adversaries in these battles. No snide remarks, no nasty innuendoes, none of that. She valued civility and collegiality very, very highly.”
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Was Generation Z Miseducated about Life?
JIM TREACHER: Indianapolis Social Activist Pretended to Be Both Black And Gender-Neutral.
But that’s not what caught my eye. What hooked me was this part:
Cole — who uses pronouns they/them
Oh, okay. This is one of those people who has decided that millions of years of evolution doesn’t apply to them, they’re somehow outside the laws of nature because they discovered k.d. lang at a young age, and so now the rest of us have to tiptoe around
hishertheir pronouns.Ever since the Dolezal mess, my biggest question has been: If Bruce Jenner has become a secular saint for deciding to be a different gender, why can’t somebody decide to be a different race? If biology doesn’t determine identity, why does biology absolutely determine that aspect of identity?
And now we have this Satchuel Cole person, who embodies both contradictions at once. What a brain-teaser this will be for our friends on the left! You’re a racist if you use Cole’s preferred racial designation, and you’re a transphobe if you don’t use Cole’s preferred pronouns. One identity is rigidly enforced, and the other one is whatever a person wants it to be at any time.
As Iowahawk tweets, “What does this make now, 4? These chicks should all get together and start a singing group called the White Supremes.”
WHEN TRUMP-HATRED LEADS TO TERROR: Ricin Is Said to Have Been Sent to White House.
JOE BIDEN ON NOMINATING A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DURING AN ELECTION YEAR:
UPDATE: Joe’s former boss was even more concise:
(Updated and Bumped.)
The constitutional process unfolding as designed by the Framers is not a crisis — no amount of tweets or New York Times opinion pieces can make it so. Nor can the celebrities making threats to take to the streets while never leaving their palaces; nor can antifa activists burning down businesses. Lululemon cosplayers will once more attempt to barnstorm elevators, just as they have done for the past four months in cities across the country. If you’re the political side threatening violence if you don’t get what you want politically, perhaps you should revisit your assertion that Mitch McConnell or the Republican party are the power-hungry fascists. If the ne’er-do-well Twitter punditocracy are looking for a scapegoat, might I suggest directing your ire toward former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, without whom we would not even be entertaining this ‘crisis’.
The system is working as designed. Though it may have been Ginsburg’s final wish to not fill her seat until after the election, it’s not her call, with all due respect. Instead it falls to the people who voted for a Republican majority and a Republican president in 2016. The people threatening violence are the people without the constitution or guns on their side.
MORE:
JUST BECAUSE THEY WENT TO 11 LAST TIME DOESN’T MEAN THEY WON’T TURN IT UP TO 12 THIS TIME:
LEFTIST POLITICAL TERRORISM ACCELERATES?
RECORDING THE BEATLES: Looking Back at the Deepest Dive Ever Into the Sound of the Fab Four.
My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
(Bumped.)
FROM A JOURNALIST FRIEND ON FACEBOOK: “Big problem for the Democrats: Donald Trump has said more, and more articulately, about RBG than Joe Biden. The day after this apostle of the radical left’s death (and with <50 days to go) his [Biden's] campaign issued a lid at ***8:30am****, meaning that the candidate was done for the day, no more statements or events, journos go home, we’ll try again tomorrow."
NOT JUST IN TRAINING: Learning From Your Failures in Training. But better to learn from failures in training than failures when the stakes are higher.
REMEMBER JERRY, IT’S NOT A LIE, IF YOU BELIEVE IT: The Secret Life of Joe Biden.