Progressives Desperately Try to Rehabilitate Big Government

2 Comments / Biden, Media, Politics / By / April 21, 2022

The New York Times’ daily newsletter is an endless fountain of stupidity. Sometimes it is annoying. Sometimes it is unintentionally hilarious. Most of the time it is just tedious. But sometimes, it is just so off-the-charts stupid that it defies belief. Yesterday’s edition was one of those times.

The American left has been trying to rehabilitate big government since at least Barack Obama’s first term, if not longer. Obama got shellacked in the 2010 midterms after forcing the Obamacare shit sandwich down the nation’s throat. However, unlike Bill Clinton before him, Obama was not about to change course after his drubbing. It would be a cold day in hell before Obama would declare that the “era of big government is over.” When it was clear his legislative agenda was dead, Obama famously declared he still had a pen and a phone… i.e. he would implement his agenda by executive fiat, if necessary. Despite his immense personal popularity, the actual Obama agenda was never popular with the American people.

Obama’s economic policies were bad for the country. They led to anemic growth and chronic high unemployment. They caused Americans to be limited to a standard of living far below what they were capable of achieving. But, they weren’t so bad that people faced immediate hardship and suffering. They weren’t bad enough to cause a wide scale revolt. Enter loud-mouthed buffoon Joe Biden.

Drooling dementia-riddled “President” Pants Load has done more to discredit the progressive vision of big government than all of the right wing pundits combined. From the humiliating withdrawal out of Afghanistan, to the supply chain debacle, to the Russia-Ukraine impotence, to the empty store shelves, to the $4.50/gallon gas, to the 40-year high levels of inflation. Literally everything paste-eating dumbass Joe Biden touches turns to shit. He has the Midas touch, except in reverse.

Spin as they may, progressives realize the damage he is doing to their movement. They already know the mid-term election is going to be a blood bath for the Democrats. Even worse (for them), young (i.e. gullible) people might be turned off of big government solutions for the rest of their lives. Some serious damage control is needed. So in steps the New York Times. Their defense of big government is so weak and tone deaf, it almost sounds like a troll.

More than a decade ago, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler coined the phrase “the submerged state” to describe a core feature of modern American government: Many people don’t realize when they are benefiting from a government program.

So, according to the New York Times, the only problem with Big Government is that all of the awesome things it does are hidden from average citizens. The people would love Big Government if they could just understand how much it does for them. The fundamental problem with Big Government is actually just a messaging problem. Or so they claim.

Her main examples were tax breaks, including those that help people buy homes, pay for medical care and save for retirement. The concept also included programs so complex or removed from everyday life that many people did not understand them, like federal subsidies for local governments.

Wow. The best examples she could come up with were instances of the government confiscating less of your money. Golly gee, thanks. And the Feds giving money back to local governments after taking it from the citizens of those local governments seems like a wash at best. Surely, you can do better than that?

Mettler’s thesis is both a defense of government’s role and a criticism of the modern Democratic Party’s preference for technocratically elegant and often invisible policies. It wasn’t always this way, she points out. Social Security, Medicare and the G.I. Bill — as well as New Deal parks, roads and bridges, many with signs marking them as federal projects — helped popularize government action because they were so obvious.

I didn’t realize that “technocratically elegant” was a euphemism for corrupt and incompetent. Apparently grift is a thing of beauty to the left. And it is quite telling that they had to go all the way back to the fucking New Deal to find examples of infrastructure spending that actually went to things humans would recognize as infrastructure.

Unlike the New Deal, however, this $1.9 trillion federal investment in American communities has barely registered with voters. Rather than a trophy for Mr. Biden and his party, the program has become a case study in how easily voters can overlook even a lavishly funded government initiative delivering benefits close to home.

Delivering benefits? Really? Like a 40-year high in inflation? Like using tax-payer money to fund progressive pet projects and pay off Democrat donors instead of purchasing goods and services people actually want? Those kinds of benefits? The Times seems to be genuinely shocked that the American people are not more grateful to the Democrats for printing piles of money to blow on their whims and fantasies. How fucking dense do you have to be to think the American Rescue Plan has been in any way beneficial? I am convinced that the average Democrat is completely illiterate on economics. Every dollar that Big Government (inefficiently) spends on pork and pet projects is a dollar a citizen doesn’t get to spend himself to buy the things he actually wants and needs.

This is so obvious that it resonates with people on a gut level. They see sleazy morons like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi on TV and instinctively know they can spend their own money better than the government can. Over the last couple decades, Democrats have gotten around this obstacle largely by promising they will be throwing around someone else’s money. Be it the “evil rich” or “greedy corporations” or whatever other bogey-man they can dredge up. However, the truth is that the people who will be paying for all of today’s government handouts are our children. Our national debt is exploding, and it will be crippling to future generations. And both political parties are responsible. The Democrats used to be Tax-and-Spend. The Republicans used to be Tax-Cuts-and-Spending-Cuts. Now both parties are Borrow-and-Spend. The only difference between the two is which team’s donors get a cut. Playing to voters’ greed wins elections.

Examples in the American Rescue Plan include community center renovations, housing initiatives and health programs. Collectively, the projects may be valuable. Individually, many may be so modest as to go unnoticed. Americans also may not realize that the projects are connected to a federal law.

Even the money that isn’t wasted and stolen through corruption is largely spent on stupid shit. It wouldn’t matter very much if the world ran on Monopoly money like progressives seem to think it does. But when the federal government printed up a shit ton of dollars to pay for this dumpster fire, every dollar resting in the average citizen’s pocket was instantly worth less than before. Who gives a shit about community center renovations when you can’t even afford to buy groceries for your family? The tone-deafness is stunning. And in no fucking sane universe should Americans be expected to be “grateful” when the government spends our money in ways that actually benefit us. If Kamala Harris goes out and gets a second job to buy me shit, then I will be grateful. But while those DC assholes continue to confiscate my money and give me tiny scraps in return, they can all go fuck themselves.

Many Democrats know that voters remain unsure about how their party has used its control of government over the past 15 months to help people. With their poll numbers sagging, Democrats in Congress are trying to figure out what new pieces of legislation they may be able to pass in coming weeks.

Spoiler alert: Democrats haven’t done shit to help average Americans. They have spent like drunken sailors to please their progressive base and grease the palms of their supporters. And if they do manage to spend even more money they don’t have, it will not be for your benefit. But you will have the privilege of paying for it…. or your children will.

“Democrats win elections when we show we understand the painful economic realities facing American families and convince voters we will deliver meaningful change,” Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote this week. “To put it bluntly: if we fail to use the months remaining before the elections to deliver on more of our agenda, Democrats are headed toward big losses in the midterms.”

Democrats win elections when they censor their opponents, stuff ballot boxes, and bribe voters with other peoples’ money. Their only agenda is to spend more. Always more, more, more. If not for Joe Manchin, inflation might be closer to 40% right now.

It’s a reasonable argument. But the party still does not seem to be reckoning with the problems of the submerged state.

Which raises the question: If a policy passes in Washington and nobody can hear it, does it make any political noise?

There you have it, the New York Times’ best case for Big Government. Convinced yet? I assume that last line is just a throwaway intended to be a cute play on the old if-a-tree-falls-in-the-woods riddle. What a dumbass.

Is Proof of 2020 Election Fraud Finally Coming?

1 Comment / Election 2020, Election Fraud, Politics / By / April 15, 2022

The 2020 election was rigged, full stop. I’ve already went into detail about how media bias and big tech censorship tilted the playing field heavily towards senile old dirt bag Joe Biden and the Democrats. While propaganda and censorship were a huge piece of the puzzle, the other side of the story was the actual fraud in the vote. While I’m sure some amount of funny business went on with the vote counting, I never believed this is where the widespread fraud occurred. Ballot harvesting was obviously where the real potential for fraud existed. The problem was, with a massive amount of mail-in and drop box voting taking place over a period of weeks or even months, proving it after the fact would be impossible. Or would it? The video below is amazing and kind of scary at the same time.

I had no idea that kind of cell phone data was saved and available for purchase. That is some serious 1984-level shit. Big Brother really is watching us. However, this looks like bullet proof evidence of widespread voter fraud in 2020. The True the Vote people sound very credible. I’m definitely interested in diving deeper and seeing how their evidence holds up to intense scrutiny. There have been plenty of frauds and crackpots before them, but this sounds legit on it’s surface.

They can call it whatever they want. Romney didn’t win did he?

Harry Reid – unusually blunt scumbag politician

Politics is about winning. Period. There is no honor in losing with dignity. No pride in playing by the rules and having integrity. Winning means you get to implement your agenda. Losing means you bend over and take what the other guy is giving. And the Democrats, along with their media and big tech allies, stole an election they didn’t deserve to win. Joe Biden was installed as the President, and nothing we uncover now is going to change that. They won. Game over. We shouldn’t have to have a wide open southern border. We shouldn’t be waging a war on our own energy production. We shouldn’t be pushing racial division. We shouldn’t be spending ourselves into an economic meltdown. In a just world, Americans wouldn’t be subjected to any of those abominations right now. But the establishment won. They cheated to do it. But the bottom line is, they still won. And we lost.

But hopefully, evidence like this will be enough to force a change in our voting system. It certainly should be. As long as there is any doubt about what happened, the media is still going to stick with their “Big Lie” lie. The establishment got their guy in through ballot harvesting enabled by widespread and extended mail-in and drop box voting. They won’t give up that power without a fight. The right either needs to thoroughly expose this and get it banned, or build up our own ballot harvesting organization to compete.

Obviously, I would prefer the former option. It is far better for the country if elections are decided by who has the most support, rather than by who has the better vote harvesting scheme. But, if ballot harvesting is going to be part of the game, the Right needs to learn how to play. We can’t allow the Left to be the only ones allowed to cheat.

Left Still Can’t Admit What CRT is Really About

1 Comment / Critical Race Theory / By / April 15, 2022

Zogby recently released a poll for Virginia. The poll showed Governor Glen Younkin and Lt Governor Winsome Sears both enjoying widespread popularity, which is good news. The poll also showed that a majority of Virginians oppose teaching Critical Race Theory to their children, but just barely. I’m disappointed that the opposition to the toxic garbage of CRT isn’t even higher. Part of the explanation may lie in how the poll described CRT.

Zogby poll question softening CRT

In their question, the pollsters define Critical Race Theory as “the movement based on the premise that race is not a natural attribute, but a socially constructed category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color.” The idea that race is not a biological distinction but a social construct is pretty well established and not really controversial. And the fact that race has historically been used as a justification for oppression is beyond argument. So why would 51.3% of people oppose teaching that??? The answer is, they know better. That is NOT what is at the heart of Critical Race Theory. The main argument of Critical Race Theory is that the systems, customs, and culture of the United States are based on racism and white supremacy. That all people of color in America are oppressed, and all white people enjoy an unearned privilege at their expense. CRT goes on to assert that racism and white supremacy are so ingrained in every facet of American institutions that they are irredeemable. The only solution is to completely tear them down and start over from scratch. The Founding. The Constitution. The Bill of Rights. Our economic system. All of them are racist and evil. All of them must go. That is what Critical Race Theory espouses. If 48.7% of citizens agree with that, we are in seriously deep trouble.

SCOTUS Pick Doesn’t Know What a Woman Is

Supreme Court / By / March 23, 2022

I haven’t been following the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson. However, this exchange tells me everything I need to know about her.

Jackson claims she can’t define what a woman is because she is “not a biologist.” That is a clear signal KBJ is more interested in liberal activism than facts or truth. And the fact she claims you have to be a biologist to know what a woman is means she buys into the left’s delusion that trans-activism is based on science. The biological answer to that question is trivial: a person with two X chromosomes. Children learn that in the 5th grade (at least they used to.) There haven’t been any great advances in the biology of sex in recent years.

All the recent changes to the definition of “woman” have come from the gender studies departments. You know, the social scientists. Or as rational people like to refer to them: not scientists at all. The terms gender and sex were synonymous for eons. Then one day, some gender studies “researchers” “discovered” that gender is actually a social construct decoupled from biological sex. They co-opted the word “woman” to mean how an individual feels inside and chooses to identify to the world. Then, they amazingly started discovering new genders right and left. And they act like all these genders are real things that they have uncovered, and not something they made up themselves out of whole cloth.

The trans activists could have invented a new word to describe how someone self-identifies, but they chose to steal the words “woman” and “gender” instead. The tactics of this co-option are intentional. The trans-activists want to separate “woman” from “female”, but only when it suits their agenda. When it serves their purposes, they still treat the two terms as synonymous. It is a kind of verbal shell game. And it is intended to obscure the utter silliness of their ideas and give a false patina of science and scholarship to their lunar rantings. Had they invented new terms for all the goofy ideas that they pulled from their butts, the absurdity would have been even more blatant.

I’m 100% certain Ketanji Brown Jackson knows what a woman is. But the left wants to redefine the word to mean nothing at all. Other than how a particular person is feeling inside at any given time. The left basically wants to undefine the word “woman”, so that it can mean anything they need it to mean at any given time to fit with their agenda. That Jackson would choose to bow to political correctness over acknowledging scientific fact in a Senate hearing should be disqualifying. We need Justices on the Court who will faithfully interpret the Constitution to ensure it is followed. Not activists who will ignore the plain meaning of words when they don’t fit an agenda. When the plain words of the Constitution cease to mean what they say, then they mean nothing at all. We no longer have liberty or self-government. We have the tyranny of activist lawyers.

SOTU Gaslight Fail

Biden, Politics / By / March 22, 2022

So-called “President” Biden gave his State of the Union speech a couple weeks ago. The SOTU has basically devolved into an elaborate campaign ad, regardless of which Party is giving it. Presidents routinely get a bump in popularity after giving their annual rah-rah speech. Not so for President Poopy Pants. Sleazy Joe’s approval numbers remain stuck in the mid to upper 30s… basically the territory where only rabid Democrat partisans still support him.

Biden insanely used his SOTU to brag about how great things have gone so far. And promised more of the same in the future… more spending, more bureaucracy, more regulation, and less energy (cuz wind and solar are bullshit pipe dreams.) Which means less freedom, less prosperity, and a reduced standard of living for regular Americans. And yet, Ole Crusty Shorts tried to gaslight the American people into thinking things are going just swimmingly. Biden boasted that he had the “highest rate of job growth on record.” The truth is America is still down millions of jobs from the pre-covid levels of 2019. The government destroyed 10’s of millions of jobs during the covid panic. When you are starting from such a deep chasm, even a partial rebound will look like “amazing growth” on paper. Biden also bragged about wages going up. Yet inflation has eaten up all of those meager wage gains and much, much more. People actually feel poorer under the Democrats. Because they are.

The lack of any bump in his poll numbers suggest Biden’s pathetic attempt to gaslight the people failed miserably. Just add it to the ever-growing list of Biden Miserable Failures™. Another data point comes from this University of Michigan poll of consumer confidence. According to the chart, the Biden “Presidency” is on a par with 9/11 and the bursting of the Housing Bubble in it’s effect on how consumers view the economy. A 3rd quarter recession is looking like a real possibility. Let’s go, Brandon!!!

Biden’s failure to gaslight the American people is totally unsurprising. They are feeling the effects of his incompetence in a very direct way on a daily basis. He can’t hide from the empty shelves, skyrocketing prices, unstaffed businesses, and $4.50/gallon gas. Dems will try to blame Putin, corporations, Trump, COVID, and anything else they can think of for the abject failures of this administration. It won’t work. Come November, they will own this mess.

Fuck the New York Times

Election 2020, Media, Politics / By / March 17, 2022

A lot of people in the right-wing blogosphere are gloating because the New York Times stealthily admitted that the Hunter Biden laptop story was true. Well whoop-de-fucking doo. We already knew this back in 2020. Not suspected. Knew it. For a fact. And guess what? So did the New York Fucking Times. But it would have hurt Biden and helped Trump, so they declared it to be unsubstantiated and probably “Russian disinformation.” The Times is stupid. But not that stupid. They knew it wasn’t Russian disinformation. In fact, they could have confirmed (or disproved) the New York Post / Tucker Carlson reporting in a few hours if they wanted to. But they already knew the answer, so they deliberately chose not to ask the question. Now a year and a half later, when all the news bandwidth is being sucked up by Ukraine, they quietly admit the truth. All to keep up the façade that the Times is a real news organization with journalistic integrity. Just like Politico did a few months ago. “See, wingnuts? We didn’t bury a story we didn’t like. We reported on it just like everyone else. Don’t dare question our integrity. We are journalists!” It is the digital version of pissing in your face and telling you it is raining.

Anyways, who cares what the partisan hacks at the New York Times admit to (or not)? The arrogant amoral bastards that run that sleazy rag fancy themselves the arbiters of truth. And a lot of people on the right agree, judging by how they act. Especially within the media. That undeserved reverence needs to stop. Fuck the Times and the horse they rode in on. Stop treating them as the one and only gatekeepers of what is factual. One of the things supporters of Donald Trump absolutely loved about him was the way he called out and disrespected the “Fake News” media. They don’t deserve our respect. They don’t even deserve our attention. They are truly trash. Why pretend otherwise?

Send In the Hyena

1 Comment / Ukraine, VP Harris / By / March 10, 2022

This is what you get when you choose a VP based on identity politics. The US can’t send Dementia Joe to address the Ukraine situation. Letting President Pants Load spontaneously respond to genuine questions would likely lead to World War 3. Even reading answers to pre-screened questions off a teleprompter is a challenge for Joe’s dementia-riddled brain. Unfortunately, VP “Heels Up” Harris is not much better. Watch below as she begins cackling uncontrollably when asked a serious question about an on-going humanitarian crisis. WTF? At least she can be counted on not to say anything at all of consequence. Word salads and meaningless bromides generally don’t lead to wars. Yet, the consequences of stupidly guffawing at completely inappropriate times on the world stage are still unknown.

Kamala as a news anchor

President Pants Load Poops on Motorists

Biden, Current Events, Energy, Politics, Ukraine / By / March 8, 2022

Joe Biden is a lying sack of shit. Or a moron. Or both. On thing for sure, he is a detestable asshole.

Gas prices have already skyrocketed on his watch. And they are about to shoot into the stratosphere. And the rotting corpse occupying the White House just went on TV and had the absolute gall to say it has nothing to do with the policies of him or his party. Even ignoring the effect his weakness and incompetence had on encouraging Russia to invade Ukraine, that claim is just infuriating. It is so obviously false as to be insulting to our intelligence. Biden is the guy who halted new drilling leases. Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. Oh, but that pipeline wouldn’t be finished for years his apologists will whine. You can’t blame Dementia Joe for what is happening now. It’s a total dodge. It is true that a lot of the pain we are feeling now is due to anti-energy policies that date back to the Obama years. And the direct consequences of Joey Hair Sniffer’s recent stupid decisions might not be felt for years.

None of that changes the fact that Dementia Joe, and the Party he represents, have been waging a war on domestic oil production for years. Democrats want oil prices to skyrocket. To their fevered way of thinking, $7 per gallon gasoline is a good thing. They believe making fossil fuels unaffordable will force people to adopt expensive and unreliable Green energy sources they favor for ideological reasons. Their leaders have the temerity to claim transitioning our energy production to moonbeams and unicorn farts will be good for our economy and standard of living. And their voters are dense enough to believe it. To quote our decrepit ruler, “Let me be perfectly clear.” The Democrats want to punish you at the gas station. And they will do everything they can to drive the price of gas up. They want to force you into a into a much more restricted and meager life style (equity and sustainability, they call it.) They just don’t want to take the blame for it.

Stunning Admission from Pro-Mask/Lockdown Doctor

Coronavirus, Media / By / March 8, 2022

Check out this mea culpa from a Doctor who used to support mask mandates and lockdowns.

I find this extraordinary on several levels. It takes some real integrity, and balls, to admit you were so completely wrong about such a bitterly contentious issue and to publicly apologize for it. And this was a real apology. No excuses. No blame shifting. No what-about-isms. Just a total concession he was wrong, and an apology to those he maligned.

Do not expect any of the left wing politicians or media to own up in a similar way. Their whole self-image is based on being the smart ones. The people who follow (and understand) “the science.” To admit they were wrong about such a huge issue would just crush them. Worse, they would have to admit the demonization and mocking of their political enemies was unjustified. And all of their preening, virtue signaling, and hysterical shaming were totally baseless. Definitely a bridge too far for their fragile egos.