If this story is true (and I’m sure it is), it is yet another embarrassing humiliation on the world stage. Did these dumb-fucks really think China was going to help us maintain influence in Eastern Europe? Could they really be that stupid?
I would be surprised if Xi isn’t already planning the invasion of Taiwan now that he is seen what a weak and incompetent moron we have directing our foreign policy. Our global adversaries have to be laughing their asses off right now.
This decrepit, senile, corrupt, crap-pants buffoon is the guy the media swore up and down was a foreign policy expert. The one who could restore our image on the world stage. The guy who would put the adults back in charge. Other world leaders no doubt love him. (Well, except for Ukraine and Afghanistan of course.) Predators love an easy mark. Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran see a weakling they can roll. The Western Europeans see a patsy who will meekly do their bidding. All of them welcome a diminished and subdued United States.
When career bullshit artist and dim-witted blowhard Joe Biden was “elected” President, I was expecting bad things to happen. But hoe-lee-crap. This fucktard is making Jimmy Carter look like a resounding success. Can the country even survive 3 more years of this utter incompetence?
Holy Crap. A study by Johns Hopkins concluded that the COVID-19 lockdowns reduced mortality from the pandemic by 0.2%. In other words, indistinguishable from zero. I always suspected the lockdowns did very little. Now we have confirmation from a very reputable source that they actually did absolutely nothing. Yet we hear crickets from all the mainstream media outlets. How is this not the story of the century? The U.S. practically imprisoned it’s citizens in their own homes for nearly a year. Our own government destroyed the life’s work of countless small business owners. Decimated the economy. Did tremendous damage to the education of our children. And caused massive suffering, division, mental anguish, and strife. All for nothing.
I was a huge Donald Trump fan. But he actually did deserve to be impeached. When he turned total control of the country over to a creepy little government bureaucrat with a god complex, it was a gross error in judgement that led to a massive over-reaction imposed with an authoritarian zeal. I think Trump realized his mistake by the fall, but by then the Cult of Fauci was more or less unstoppable. Democrats were so enamored with their covid messiah, they couldn’t possibly attack Trump for needlessly imploding the economy like he deserved to be. Comically, they instead chose to attack Trump for not doing more to turn the United States into a gulag. And they nominated a crusty old dimwit to do exactly that. (Actually, President Pants Load promised to shut down the virus, not the economy. How could a dementia-riddled dullard achieve such a miracle? Because, he is a Democrat, and Democrats are the smart ones. Duh!)
Lockdowns were a complete debacle with no historical precedent or solid scientific rationale. In fact, the whole lockdown concept was developed only recently. It was cooked up during the Bush administration based on the science project of a 15 year-old high school kid. Yet the media still worships their covid oracle without question and relentlessly pushes the government narrative. SCIENCE!
The trucker rally taking place in Canada right now has somewhat restored my faith in our neighbors to the North. After electing effeminate weirdo Justin Trudeau twice, I figured Canuckistan had gone full blown WOKE(!) The protests prove that at least a sizable minority of Canadians still have a decent bit of testosterone left in them. Some of them still remember what freedom is, and they are not going to allow themselves to be enslaved without a fight.
However, the media coverage of the Canadian trucker rally looks very familiar. It turns out the US media aren’t the only ones who are big enough assholes to lie about their political foes. The Canadian media is probably even more left wing than ours, if that is actually possible. They are certainly less subtle about their biases. The CBC is Canada’s state-funded media company. Check out some of the blatant propaganda in this hit piece they recently published.
The article starts out noting that scores of angry left wing Canadians have been breaking ties with anyone who dares to join a peaceful protest they don’t agree with:
“I think I’ve unfriended, like, 100 people — and that includes some family,” he said. ” I won’t even talk to them anymore.
– some self-righteous left wing Canadian jackass
The author assures the readers that this is a totally normal and healthy reaction to have over a political disagreement, because there are “core values” being violated by the protestors. This next gem has to be the pull quote from the entire article:
Flear said they were shocked to see that one of their friends from their Nova Scotia hometown posted that he had attended the rally. Flear, who has a master’s degree in biology, said they reached out to him, said they would talk about vaccinations, and clear up any misunderstandings or confusing science jargon related to getting a shot. “But he just replied with something along the lines of ‘Canada is a free country’ or something like that,” Flear said.
– some arrogant Canadian wanker
Wow. I can’t believe that person turned down an opportunity to be lectured by some random fuckwad with a Biology degree. What a missed opportunity. Mr. Biology could have cleared up all of this guy’s “misunderstandings” and explained all of that confusing medical jargon using simple one syllable words that even the hoi polloi could understand. He must have been brainwashed by Fox News into believing freedom was more important than submitting to your intellectual superiors for your own good. So sad. Even on the left, that level of arrogance, self-righteousness, and condescension is rare. Bravo, sir.
Still, it feels like something is missing for a left wing hit piece. Bring in the psychology professor!
“But I think what the vaccine issue and now the protests are really bringing to light are issues that are highly tied to our core values,” she said. These values include the idea of not just protecting yourself, but protecting others, she added. They also include feelings about racism, safety and personal choice versus the greater good — values that you hold that are so important, that they can’t be compromised.
– some obscure Canadian professor with a Mickey Mouse degree
Sacrifice your freedom and personal choice for the “greater good.” Basically forever. Even if the sacrifices don’t do diddly squat in reality. That is the “core value” the left is insisting on. Chairman Mao couldn’t have put it any better.
But wait, did that Professor also throw out the racism canard??? Of course she did. Any time anyone does something a leftist doesn’t like, it is motivated by racism. So we have a bunch of Canadians protesting against vaccine mandates and COVID restrictions. How could that possibly be racist, you might ask? Do they only want to restore freedom for white people? Where is the racism angle?
Swastikas and Confederate flags! These people are truly shameless. I have seen tons of pictures and videos from the protests. All you see are friendly patriotic folks smiling and waving the Canadian flag. In fact, the atmosphere seems almost celebratory. The Ottawa police were even forced to admit that the crowd was not violent, but still insisted on labeling them “dangerous” anyways. The racism and white supremacy smears against these good people are a pathetically transparent attempt to marginalize them and avoid addressing the substance of their protest. The fact the CBC would take part in it is at the same time appalling and totally expected.
I actually took the time to follow the links in the article claiming the truckers are white supremacists flying swastikas and Confederate flags. The 1st link has a total of zero pictures to back up their claims. The entirety of their evidence is one anonymous woman from Winnipeg who claims to have seen a Confederate flag on her morning drive. Seriously. That’s it. An unverifiable story told by a single person. And the evidence they give for swastikas is even weaker.
To be fair, I did see one video on YouTube where a jackass with a confederate flag tried to join in on the protest. The protestors immediately called this fool out as a left wing saboteur. With his cover blown, he quietly slinked away. I am quite confident 99% of all the other allegations of racism are astro-turf bullshit too. I’m really getting sick of the left’s slimy tactics. Maybe we should start doing the same vile shit to them. Any time they have a protest, conservatives should pose as pedophiles and join in. Then we can say, See! The left is chock full of pedophiles! Everything they do or say can be linked back to pedophilia! Only problem is, I don’t think leftists would be all that upset to be associated with pedophiles.
In the 24th paragraph, the author does finally get around to the other side’s position. Journalistic Integrity! Just like the US media!
Following the weekend rally, Sheila Mills, from Salt Spring Island, B.C., posted on Facebook that anyone who believed the media’s negative spin of the protest and accusations of racism should unfriend her. “Anyone who believes that is not my friend, they don’t know me well enough to be considered a friend,” Mills said. “Anyone who is going to label all of those people as racist or supporting white supremacy. I lose respect.”
So Canadian media is total garbage, just like in the good ole U. S. of A. All of them can choke on a bag of wangs.
Spokesman for the Canadian truckers addresses the Trudeau government
Politics / By Matt
/ December 23, 2021 December 23, 2021
In the summer of 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was merciless in her draconian measures to allegedly combat the COVID pandemic. Whitmer was very vocal and very defiant while wielding her emergency powers in legally dubious ways. Whitmer enthusiastically enforced some of the tightest lockdown orders in the country. She even denounced people who just wanted to ride their jet skis, outside, alone in the middle of a lake, for being selfish and heartlessly killing grandmothers. And her leftwing fans gleefully cheered her on at every turn. “Thank you Governor Whitmer, for saving lives!”
But the coronavirus wasn’t the only thing on Big Gretch’s mind in the summer of 2020. Whitmer had her eyes on the Vice Presidency. And she was gonna make her case. And what better way to showcase your political chops than to hold constant press conferences to tout your strong leadership during a crisis? Which she did, ad nauseum. But, there was one major problem for Gretchen’s VP dreams. The Democrats are the party of identity politics. To bamboozle voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan into slitting their own throats, the Democrats ran a crusty Old White Man who could talk in a folksy down-to-earth way that wouldn’t scare off the working class. But to their left wing base, Old White Men are evil incarnate. To counter the Old White Man at the top of the ticket, the Democrats needed a VP that would thrill the identity politics zealots. Alas, poor Gretchen could only check off the “female” box on the list. Unfortunately for her, there was another equally unimpressive candidate who could check off both the “female” and “person of color” boxes. So Gretchen lost out to Kamala Harris, an opportunistic phony who slept her way to the top and could never draw more support than a rounding error during the primaries. Even in her own home State. Yay, diversity!!!
With her 2020 VP dreams dashed, what is Gretchen Whitmer to do? Well for starters, she needs to campaign for re-election in Michigan after shitting all over the citizenry for a year. Gretchen will now have to face the voters she chastised and tortured in the summer of 2020 in the election coming up in the fall of 2022. How is she responding? By sticking to her guns and continuing her principled if-it-saves-just-one-life-it-is-worth-it leadership? Politics by damned?
Yeah, not so much. Far from vigorously defending the Biden jab decree, Gretchen is suddenly very concerned about the workers and the impact the mandate could have on their well being and the economy. What changed?
It seems that America is drifting further and further towards totalitarianism by the day. However, if you look at what is happening in Europe and Australia, it is clear that things can (and probably will) get much worse. While fighting the coronavirus has been the pretext for most of the recent thuggish government action, it certainly doesn’t account for all of it. Take this story from Sweden, for example.
From the article:
Sundquist, who is the most cited professor at her university regarding social research, is now being investigated for publishing an unauthorized research report, and may face prosecution for coming to the conclusion that the vast majority of rapes are committed by immigrants to the country.
Got that? An academic is being prosecuted in Sweden for publishing research. Not challenged. Not criticized. Not even cancelled. Criminally prosecuted for conducting and publishing “unauthorized” research. In Sweden, deviating from the State-approved “science” can actually land you in jail.
And what was the researchers big crime? Falsifying data? Defrauding their funders? Spreading (gasp) disinformation? Nope. In fact, nobody is calling their results into question in any way. The data they collected is totally valid. The conclusions drawn are sound. Their big crime was asking a question the Swedish government didn’t want their citizens to know the answer to.
“I don’t see anywhere that ethical permission is sought to test the hypothesis if immigrants are overrepresented in statistics on convicted rapists,” the body said. The scientists were also criticized for insufficient evaluation as they failed to indicate how their research should “reduce exclusion and improve integration.”
– Swedish Ministry of Truth (or whatever these tyrannical bastards actually call themselves)
Call my crazy, but it seems like a good way to “reduce exclusion and improve integration” would be for the immigrants to stop committing so many fucking rapes. SCIENCE!!!
The Swedish people aren’t stupid. They surely know why the number of rapes in their country has exploded in the last few years. But in true Orwellian fashion, it is forbidden to discuss. The Swedish bureaucrats have decided that taking in “disadvantaged” immigrants from Muslim countries is more important than the health and safety of the native citizens. And nobody is allowed to question that decision.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Western “democracies.” The Free World, indeed.
Democrats got their clocks cleaned in the election a couple of weeks ago, where even a reliably Blue state like Virginia went Red. Part of the reason is undoubtedly the unmitigated cluster-fuck that was Joe Biden’s first year as “president.” But it was also due in large part to the left’s total embrace of Critical Race Theory and WOKE(!) political activism in K-12 education. It turns out even most Blue State parents don’t want their children indoctrinated with divisive and racist Marxist bullshit. Whoda thunk?
Far from learning their lesson, it sounds like the Democrats plan to double down for 2022. My reaction: Yes, please! Push your unhinged, divisive, and racist ideology even harder. Let Americans know what you really believe. Not all Democrats have their heads in the sand. Plenty of voices are raising the alarm bells.
But the loony left base of the party doesn’t want to hear it. CRT is central to their entire worldview. To the hard core progressives, Critical Race Theory isn’t a racist and divisive ideology with no relation whatsoever to reality, designed to tear the country apart and collapse our institutions and culture. Critical Race Theory is just historical fact that the evil white supremacists want to perpetuate. To them, it is the ugly truth about America’s inherent racism that white people want to hide from their own children. Or a racist dog whistle that isn’t even taught at all. Or both at the same time. Logical consistency was never the left’s strong point.
A recent Business Insider article explores the Democrats’ thinking on CRT. The article starts off with a predictable trope. That this isn’t even a real issue at all, and the problem Democrats have is just messaging and fighting off Republican smears. The CRT debate has nothing to do with actual policy, they claim.
They’ve called it a “racist dog whistle” and a “lie.” But those messages haven’t helped Democrats tamp down the uproar Republicans are fueling over “critical race theory,” now a misused catch-all term for teaching on race and diversity in K-12 schools that’s firing up protests at school board meetings around the country.
And of course, they had to do the obligatory gas-lighting, describing CRT as “a misused catch-all term.” Nobody gives a fuck if CRT as used in the common vernacular is different from the original legal theory of Derrick Bell. When people talk about CRT, everybody understands exactly what it is they are objecting to (or advocating for.) Playing silly semantic word games is just a pathetic attempt to change the subject and shut down any debate.
In Virginia, Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin exploited the term and pledged to “ban” it in classrooms on his first day as governor, even though critical race theory — an academic approach to examining racial bias — is most often taught in law schools. Republicans plan to lean into the issue in the 2022 election cycle.
Well, they would be stupid not to lean into the issue in 2022. Especially if the Democrats are dumb enough to double down on it.
Democratic strategists say the party should hit back harder against “divisive” GOP claims while not losing sight of the priority for voters; the economy.
LOL. Democrats want to teach elementary school kids that their country is racist to it’s core, and that all the white kids are oppressors and all the POC kids are oppressed. But it is the Republicans that are “divisive.” Projection, thy name is Democrat.
Democrats haven’t yet pushed back on this issue enough, but the “good news” is the party’s response is effective and there’s time to make the case before the 2022 elections, said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist. They just need to make the case “relentlessly,” he said.
Great insight! The problem with CRT adherents is that they aren’t relentless enough. If only they weren’t so calm and reserved, they could be more effective in getting their message out. I can see why this guy is a professional “strategist.”
“Voters run from the Republicans when Democrats peel back the onion on what these claims really mean,” he said. “It’s not just that Republicans want a bigger role for parents in education, it’s that Republicans are willing to let White supremacists write curricula.”
In addition to being relentless, progressives need to call out concerned parents as racists. That is a sure way to win back their votes. Of course. It all makes such perfect sense now. This guy is a political genius.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House campaign arm for Democrats, downplayed the threat to the party in congressional races. This fall, they tested responses to false claims about critical race theory in K-12 schools. The messages they say resonate most with battleground voters: Democrats want to teach the truth about US history and honor those who fought to make the country better
So the DCCC believes that better gas-lighting will fix everything. The Democrats main problem is that the claims about CRT in K-12 schools are not false at all. Parents can see the books and homework their children bring home. They can see what their kids are being force fed. And they don’t like it. But you Dems just keep telling yourselves that it is only a “messaging” problem.
Democrats keep insisting that teaching CRT is just teaching history. And they seem to actually believe it. They believe their warped perception of America is objective truth. They have convinced themselves that it is everyone else who is racist. The ones who can’t help but notice that it is progressive Democrats who make literally everything about race. And the ones who oppose the actual Webster’s Dictionary-type of racism going on in the here in now, instead of inventing new ways for benign things to be racist.
While it might be amusing to see the Democrats take an ass-whooping of Biblical proportions in 2022, the toxicity of WOKE(!)ness on American society should not be underestimated. The long term effects, especially on impressionable young minds, will resonate for decades. And in fact, that is exactly what the progressive left is counting on. This shit has got to end.
Remember a few years back when the financial crisis in Greece was in the news? The Greeks, not known for their strong work ethic, were struggling to succeed in the new unified economy. And because they were tied to the Euro instead of having their own currency, there was nothing they could do on the monetary policy side to help save their sinking economy. The Greeks were basically at the mercy of the Germans to bail them out. And the German government demanded harsh austerity measures be imposed on the Greek citizenry in return. The Greeks, feeling entitled if not particularly motivated to work, were outraged by this imposed austerity. They took to the streets and staged massive protests against this government imposed austerity.
I remember thinking to myself how pathetic and impotent those protesters looked. Despite their huge numbers and bluster, they were completely helpless to change their situation. Like millions of tiny plankton drifting with the currents and tide. And I remember thanking God that I was born in a free country where my success or failure isn’t decided by a bunch of government bureaucrats. That I was an American, a free citizen in charge of my own destiny. Able to rise as far as my talents and ambitions would allow. Free to chose the kind of life I wanted to live.
To the globalist left, and their adherents in the Democratic Party, the level of autonomy afforded to American citizens is problematic. They believe that Americans produce and consume too many goods and use too many resources. That our (relatively) unregulated and unguided free market economy encourages mindless overproduction and consumption. That we need to reign in our lifestyles, make do with less material wealth, and live in a more equitable and sustainable manner. And that the government should impose the necessary changes whether the citizens agree or not (spoiler alert: they don’t.)
This ideology of globalist collectivism is now ubiquitous on the American left and permeates the platform of the Democrat Party. From turning our economy over to EU climate bureaucrats, to allowing massive immigration from 3rd world countries, to thwarting domestic energy production, to mandating the kind of car you must drive and the types of food you may eat. The left wants to fundamentally transform America into something unrecognizable and decidedly less free. A perfect example of this type of thinking is this recent article in Bloomberg. The author pushes all of the criticisms of American values and culture that make the globalist left smile.
The author starts out by mocking Americans’ expectation to be able to just go to a store and buy the goods and services they desire. Citizens of other countries can make do without. Why should Americans be so privileged? I’m sure it has something to do with racism or white supremacy. Ugly Americans!
But suddenly, Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa. If this continues, we may need to learn to do without — and, horrors, live more like the Europeans.
In addition to your cars and food, your home is another problematic issue for the left. Why do Americans need such large homes? And air conditioning, even in the Northern States? Really? Starting with Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing push, the American left has started to wage a stealth war on the suburbs. The people must be forced into right-sized dwellings in the big cities to keep them from taking up too much space and traveling excessively. Sustainability demands it. SCIENCE!!!
And these numbers reflect big changes in Americans’ lifestyle. The average U.S. home was 1,700 square feet in 1980, by 2015 it was 2,000 square feet, even though the number of people in the average household shrank. In 1980, 15% of households didn’t have a TV, now only about 3% don’t. In 2015, 40% of American households had three or more TVs, including 30% of households earning less than $40,000 a year! In 1980, only 13% of households had 2 or more refrigerators, in 2015 30% did — including many low-earning households.
Compare and Contrast the Messages of the Two Parties
The author then switches to the supply chain debacle which was caused by government ineptitude and mismanagement of the covid pandemic. The supply chain was just fine for many years with similar levels of consumer demand. It was politicians, not overconsumption, that broke it. And since it is Bloomberg, the author can’t admit that it was Donald Trump who renegotiated trade deals and applied tariffs which were wildly successful at bringing manufacturing back to America. She claims the Biden Administration (turns head/spits) intends to expand the policy. Call me skeptical given the “smart set” in DC have been against both for decades. If President Poopy Pants does continue Trump’s policies, he will undoubtedly do it in a stupid and counterproductive way.
The pandemic revealed vulnerabilities of this hyper-efficient global market. Ports are backed up causing shortages — for the first time in many Americans’ lives. The odds are that eventually the port issues will be resolved (we hope). But there are reasons to believe the age of over-abundance is over. Even before the pandemic the U.S. government offered more subsidies and imposed more tariffs to encourage companies to produce more goods domestically, and the Biden administration wants to expand the effort to promote resilency (sic).
“Do it for the children” used to be the refrain when some busy-body wanted to shame you into acting in a way that they approve of. Nowadays they use “Do it for the planet.” I’m going to take the first piece of advice in telling leftists like the author to go to hell. I want my children to inherit the liberty that our forefathers left for us. The planet will be just fine.
Finally, if we are truly serious about protecting the planet, being a good global citizen will take more than driving an electric car or installing solar panels. It means consuming less so that we throw less away. Maybe that means getting by with only one refrigerator or avoiding fast, disposable fashion.
This next paragraph is a howler. Bummed about having zero freedom, being crammed into a tiny urban apartment, with few possessions and a carefully rationed allotment of energy? No problem. Just take a long bike ride!
Americans tend to overspend or buy cheap substitutes rather than save up for longer-lasting, better-quality goods. That’s a function of the accessibility of cheap goods, of having more space to store our purchases, and also of a culture where buying stuff feeds the empty part of our souls. European souls are not necessarily more fulfilled, they just find other, more eco-friendly ways to shut out the darkness — like going on a long bike ride.
Take this as a warning middle America. The globalist left is coming for you. Hard. Our ancestors fought off the most powerful military in the world to secure our liberties… many of whom went to battle without even having proper shoes. The least we can do is fend off a bunch of pencil-necked authoritarian technocrats for the next generation.
Bill Maher is an old school liberal. He likes big government social programs. And he generally finds Republicans to be dumb and cruel. In short, he is exactly the kind of guy who used to feel right at home in the Democrat Party.
However, Maher still genuinely believes in classical liberal principles. He values free speech over safe spaces and censorship. He thinks we should strive to be color blind as a society instead of dividing ourselves up by skin tone. He believes socialism sucks. And he loves America. The actual America that exists today, not some progressive fantasy of what it could be. These all used to be mainstream values in the Democrat Party. Unfortunately for Maher, and those like him, these ideas are anathema to the progressives who now control the party.
Which is why Maher has been getting attacked by the left recently, and hilariously accused of “shifting right” in his politics.
To me, when people say to me sometimes, like, ‘Boy, you know, you go after the left a lot these days. Why?’ Because you’re embarrassing me!
– Bill Maher
Democrats are all on board for socialism now. Just stick the “democratic” modifier in front of the word “socialism”, and it’s internal contradictions and legacy of failure and suffering are magically erased! It wasn’t that long ago that Nancy Pelosi was mocking AOC’s Green New Deal as the “green dream.” Pelosi understood that it was economically and scientifically illiterate, as well as politically poisonous. Now it is part of the mainstream Democratic platform. I don’t think Pelosi suddenly discovered the brilliance of the Squad’s insane manifesto. She bowed to the political reality that the crazies run the show for the Democrats now.
Critical Race Theory and WOKE(!) politics are also part of the mainstream Democratic platform now. The propaganda arm of the Democrat Party (i.e. the media) understands how unpopular these toxic and racist ideologies are. That is why they refuse to acknowledge they even exist and are being implemented all across the country. But the young Democrat base believes in them fervently, so the leadership can’t denounce them. So instead, they gaslight and obfuscate.
There were some grumblings from the moderates after the shellacking the Dems took a couple weeks ago in Virginia. Many of whom blame WOKE(!) politics for provoking their ass kicking. But the Party will continue down the path it is on. All of the moderates in the Democrat Party are fossils. All of the young blood in the party are hard-left progressives. That’s where the energy is. That’s what the future leadership will look like.
Both sides always say that it is the other guys who have gotten more radical. Democrats constantly accuse Republicans of it, and vice versa. It’s mostly a diversionary tactic to convince voters you’re willing to work with the other side, but the current crop is just to crazy to deal with. But in this case, I think it is obvious the Democrats really have taken an abrupt and dramatic lunge to the left over the past decade or so. Bill Maher hasn’t changed. His opinions and attitudes are indistinguishable from a decade ago. When Barak Obama was campaigning for the presidency, he declared that marriage was between a man and woman. Were any Democrat to make that claim today they would be canceled, not just for being homophobic, but for implying that there are only two genders. And Bill Clinton? He would be burned at the stake if he were judged by todays WOKE(!) standards.
I don’t think you can say the same about Republicans. The styles and demeanors of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump are polar opposites. But on policy, there is barely a dimes worth of difference between the two. If decorum and civility are all that you care about, then I would totally agree Republicans have become more coarse over the last few years. But if policy and vision are what matters, it is the Democrats who have shifted radically. I personally don’t give a shit about respect and civility when it comes to politicians and their media lackeys. They deserve neither. DC is a cesspool of corruption, incompetence, and depravity and should be treated as such.
Maher and the other old school liberals can complain all they want, but the Democrat Party is not coming back to classical liberalism. Whether he realizes it or not, Maher is the one who is out of touch with the mainstream. The WOKE(!) progressives are the mainstream of the Democrats now. The Party has gone all in on progressivism. His logical appeals for a return to sanity won’t phase the radicals. They will just be dismissed as more reactionary “whiteness” that needs to be stamped out. And when the gulags are built, Bill Maher’s name will be near the top of the re-education list.
The right-o-sphere is making hay about an awkward comment Joe Biden made during a Veteran’s Day speech.
The gotcha phrase everyone is pouncing on is “attitude of the great Negro… at the time… pitcher in the Negro Leagues”, by claiming Biden was referring to a black man as a “great negro.” Which would certainly be politically incorrect.
It seems pretty obvious, to me at least, that Biden was trying to convey that the great pitcher Satchel Paige played in the old Negro Leagues, which is just a historical fact. And because he is a dementia-riddled stuttering old dumbass, the words came sputtering out of his clueless face as a string of out-of-sequence broken sentence fragments. Which is yet more evidence that Biden is a dementia-riddled stuttering old dumbass. Not that he is a racist. Trying to turn it into something more than that is exactly the kind of cheap ploy the left uses constantly to smear the right as racist.
One of Saul Alinksy’s 12 rules for radicals was to “make the enemy live up to it’s own book of rules.” By that standard, we should absolutely make the left walk on pins and needles when it comes to race. And interpret everything they say and do through the prism of racism, while always assuming the worst. The problem with that tactic is it means you are no better than they are. It feeds into racial divisions instead of healing them. And it makes you sound as stupid and unhinged as they do.
Joe Biden is one of the most loathsome human beings on the planet. There are a myriad of legitimate, and dire, reasons to criticize and oppose him. We don’t need to invent bogus ones. Let’s be better than that.
I love, love, love this story. A truck driver with zero political experience has just defeated the president of the New Jersey Senate. That in itself is the best news to come out of Tuesday’s election. And the cherry on top? He spent just $153 on his campaign!!! I always figured that if things got bad enough, the low information voters would be forced to wake up and actually pay attention instead of mindlessly voting the way big tech and the media tells them to. This is proof positive that it can be done. The machinery of the political class can be defeated. And money can’t always buy an office. There is still hope.
Update
Oops. Sounds like all the reports claiming he only spent $153 on his campaign are wrong. He only spent $153 on his primary campaign. Sounds like he actually spent about $5,000 on his general campaign. Still chump change for a political campaign, though.
