SOTU Reaction
Tag: politics
Quote of the Day – Thomas Sowell Edition
The 2020 Iowa Caucus is a Disaster
And yet these people want to run OUR HEALTH CARE.
They had THREE YEARS to implement whatever changes they wanted to improve the system, and what did they get? A clusterfuck.
I seem to remember the Obamacare website took about three years to develop, too, before it was rolled out to similar results. How much did the Iowa caucus disaster cost the DNC?
The memes are funny, though:
Did You Ever Wonder…
…why we red-necked, knuckle-dragging, gun-hugging, bible-thumping, cousin-humping, racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, Islamophobic Neanderthals with low sloping foreheads won’t vote Democrat?
These guys do:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dvalDyYHEY]
Wait until November. Who’ll be laughing then?
UPDATE: The RNC has (timely for a change) responded, and done it well:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuzfmxSvnD0]
Petition for Redress of Grievances
So, after a week of “news” about the gun-rights protest held in Virginia yesterday, predicting a repeat of Charlottesville (or worse), the declaration of a State of Emergency by Gov. Blackf… Ralph Northam, etc, the media hasn’t been more disappointed in a lack of violence since the premiere of
The Joker.
The Narrative™ has been well and truly busted.
Not that that will change anything.
On Quora I have seen a myriad of (and answered a few) questions about gun control, the power of the NRA, why Americans won’t surrender their guns like civilized Europeans, etc. I have seen answers accusing gun owners of being nothing but angry, racist, sexist, bigoted aging fat white men with small penises, mentally ill, brainwashed, homicidal, and pretty much every slander you can think of. (For the record, I’m an aging fat white man with a standard-issue penis, thank you.) What did the Richmond protest show us? Well, if you watch ABCNNBCBS, not much. If you went on the web to the sites of multiple groups who attended, this:
Bigots:
Angry people:
And this was not a small protest. THOUSANDS of people showed up. And they didn’t all get MLK day off from work.
It wasn’t the National Rifle Association behind this – it was the grassroots Virginia Citizens Defense League. How do you know it was grassroots? Most signs were hand-lettered, not printed up and handed out to protesters bussed in by third-parties.
No, this was people petitioning their government for redress of grievances, and out of all the attendees, I think this man said it best:
And first runner-up for the “Well Said” Award:
Why is the “gun lobby” so powerful? Because EVERY SINGLE STATE has people like these, and we will not be disarmed.
Oh, and unlike after Leftist protests, our people clean up after themselves:
Shot
Project Veritas has a new video out:
Author Larry Corriea: “Vote for Bernie or Milwaukee Gets It”
Chaser:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2d3DMC6qyg]
Me: “Let Milwaukee burn.”
Quote of the Day – Oren Litwin Edition
From the comments here many many moons ago when he was still a PhD candidate in Political Science, (and followed this blog) Oren Litwin wrote this:
If the non-socialist end of the political spectrum cannot create a political philosophy that is both good theory and emotionally appealing, we’re doomed.
Any political philosophy that is not self-reinforcing is by definition not the best political philosophy. Libertarianism (with a small “l”) features a stoic acceptance of individual risk (i.e. the lack of government intervention) for the sake of long-term freedom and prosperity–yet takes no measures to ensure that the society educates its young to maintain that acceptance of risk. The equilibrium, if it ever exists in the first place, is unstable and will collapse.
This aside from the fact that libertarianism is emotionally cold and unfulfilling to most people, who have not trained themselves to consider lack of outside restraint to be worth cherishing.
Yup. We’re doomed.
Got a Couple of Hours?
I’m not a fan of Glenn Beck, but as a friend put it, “sometimes he lays down information that’s tough to refute.” Give this a watch. Your tinfoil hat might blow off. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si-vMj-FB88]
“Political Gaffe” – When a Politician Accidentally Tells the Truth
Alexandria Occasionally Coherent on the impeachment of Donald Trump, Wednesday: “This is not just about something that has occurred, this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.
IOW, “We’re impeaching him because we couldn’t beat him in 2016, and we can’t beat him in 2020.”
What Do You Mean “AS THOUGH”?!?
Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono: ‘Believe in Climate Change as Though It’s a Religion’
Maybe this wouldn’t be such a divided country if skeptics weren’t treated like heretics. Maybe these times would be more normal if Democrats thought before they spoke. Of course, they thrive on division. They can’t exist without it. Their modus operandi is to set people against each other and then profit from the conflict. And of course, the whole time they have to blame their opponents. That’s how they’ve always done it, and they’ll keep doing so as long as it keeps working.
Word.