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It's Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Mid-Week Open Thread.

The forecast for next week is bedlam and insanity are to continue, with a major proliferation of lies, insults, misrepresentations, kicking and spitting, and media meltdowns.

And your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, wants to make clear to her readers there will be no acceptance on her part of any offer or bribe or attempt to draft her as a token Vice President for any candidate or party. She refuses to take the pay cut. 

Regular ground rules apply...... and don't give the Sasquatch any liquor.  The floor is yours.......

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America’s Elites are a Dangerous Fringe Group

The Commentary Magazine Podcast discussed an article in The Wall Street Journal by Kim Strassel (behind a paywall). She lists the findings of a poll done by the founder of Rasmussen.  He interviewed “the elites”: Those who make over $150,000 per year, have a post-graduate degree, and live in a high density area. He listed them as 1% of the population. Some identified as Democrats, some Republicans, and some independents. But their views were remarkably homogeneous: 

74% say their finances are getting better (compared to 20% of other voters). 

Their Approval ratings:

Biden: 84% 

University professors: 89% 

Journalists: 79% 

Lawyers: 78% 

Union leaders: 78%

Members of Congress: 67%

2/3 say teachers, not parents, should determine what children are taught. Nearly 50% say USA has too much individual freedom. 77% support strict rationing of gasoline, meat, and electricity to fight climate change. These are incredible numbers. So 84% of these “elites” approve of the job Biden is doing? 

Holy Shit! It’s no wonder these people don’t understand, well, nearly everybody else in America. It’s like they’re living on another fucking planet.  Which, I suppose, they sort of are. They’re getting wealthier. They like where they are, and they fear change. Leftism’s centralized control systems stifle change. Which is great, if you don’t want change. 

Capitalism is unpredictable. If we’re allowed to compete, you never know who might win. And if you’re winning, the last thing you want is open competition. So they say Americans have too much freedom, and we should ration food and energy to the masses. The successful become risk-averse, and naturally tend to support the establishment which maintains the status quo.

Makes sense, I guess. But this is also a window into the dark corners of the human soul. I got mine. So screw the rest of you. If you get rich, and then you want to prevent others from becoming rich, that says a lot about you. And it’s not good.  

The elites are a powerful group, and they are much more politically active than everyone else. And their views don’t sound like hippy-dippy college kids. These are people that consider themselves our betters. 

They sound more like communists.

This is scary, scary stuff…

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Gentlemen, Stop It! Just Stop It!

By Stop It I mean stop wearing, over a shirt and tie, sleeveless fleece pullovers underneath Suit Coats! Stop it. Just Stop It!!  Do you not look in the mirror? Your collars sticking out like a malignant growth saying 'Look at Me' I'm Kool!  No, You Look Ridiculous! You look homeless with everything you own on all at once!

Tell me I'm wrong......

Pete Whats'isname.

The first time I noticed this ridiculous combination it was on NYT reporter Michal Schmidt, who just happened to be recently married to the MSNBC wacko Nicole Wallace. I thought okay, this little toad couldn't be very bright if he married her. But now I see it has spread to places I would not expect to see such clownish recklessness in appearance.  

Find out who started this disgusting trend and bring them to me!

And while I'm at it, who started this unshaven three days of growth look? First it was the bedhead look in hairstyles, and then the 'I only shave every third month' because I'm kool like the guys in GQ. No, the guys in GQ are fags, and it makes you look like a derelict, it's not sexy and doesn't feel good to the touch. My Gawd man, either grow a nice short beard or shave your face!

That is all.

We now return you to the regular scheduled chaos......

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A Good Monday Morning

The Hysterical Style in American Politics

The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of conspiracy-fed extremism.

But far more common, especially in the 21 century, has been a left-wing, hysterical style of inventing scandals and manipulating perceived tensions for political advantage......... 

Nothing was off limits—not forging a federal court document, calling for a military coup, rioting on Inauguration Day, or radically changing the way Americans voted in presidential elections.

- Victor Davis Hanson 

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