Wednesday, August 31, 2022

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Just Get Used To It You Little 'Semi-Fascists' Pigs

One would think the Democrats might have learned from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 mistake and avoided insulting half the voters they’re supposed to win over as stupid, undemocratic buffoons. But that would require them to first stop thinking of half the electorate as morons who have a soft spot for totalitarianism — which is, apparently, too much to ask.

The guy who promised to restore civility and decency and normalcy to the Oval Office wants you to know you’re a “semi-fascist” if you voted for DJT instead of him. It’s not clear whether Biden actually knows what fascism is since, these days, he can’t be relied upon to know whose hand he shook (if there is even really someone there to shake it) within a two-minute time frame.

When asked to explain what Biden meant by “semi-fascism,” White House press secretary Karen Jong-Perrier went a step further and attributed the label to the entire Republican Party.

Karen Jong-Perrier has had enough of yo Shit

There’s no question both sides of the political aisle are drawn to hyperbole and exaggerations, but this is ridiculous. Though fascism itself is a term that has been debated since the 1920's, it is easy to say what fascism is not:

It is not an ideology that advocates robust free speech and religious rights for all people, which conservatism does. It is not a political party that supports giving voters the power to decide abortion restrictions in their states, which the GOP does. It is not a movement that opposes draconian uses of federal power, such as sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandates and costly student loan debt forgiveness, which conservatism does. And it is definitely not a political party that protests the weaponization of key institutions like Big Tech and the FBI against political dissidents, which the Republican Party does.

As George Orwell put it, “the word fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’” For Democrats, fascism simply means anything they don’t like, and anything that might possibly threaten their control over the governing establishment.

Monday, August 29, 2022

Don't Believe the Media's Midterms Homestretch Hype


Excerpted from PJM 

Summer is winding down, and the election that seemed like it would never come is just a little over two months away. The Democrats have been feeling a lot more chipper lately, and the Republicans have been greatly tempering the enthusiasm they’ve been feeling for most of the year. The Democrat propagandists in the mainstream media have been positively aglow with optimism in recent weeks, gushing about Biden’s presidency being completely transformed and rescued from the gutter. The fantastical storytelling bears no resemblance to reality, of course, but that never gets in the way of the Kool-Aid Kids.

When the Democrats recently took the lead on the RealClearPolitics generic ballot there was weeping and gnashing of teeth all throughout GOP Land. But that bump was short-lived

The Democrat media hacks will be in full-court press mode between now and election day to make it seem like everything is rainbows and puppies and Obama riding on a unicorn.

They’ll be working overtime to convince people that what’s happening isn’t really happening. And what’s happening is this fetid garbage Joe Biden economy. There aren’t any quick fixes for the Let’s Go Brandon inflation quagmire that the United States finds itself in right now. The Democratic base may be stupid enough to believe that the Inflation Reduction Act will actually reduce inflation, but the rest of us still have to buy groceries. Whatever voter apathy may have potentially been a problem for the GOP was almost certainly taken care of by Merrick Garland and the Biden Stasi. Voters who may have been willing to sit this one out are probably nice and fired up now. 

Democrats can paint all of the pretty pictures that they want to for the next couple of months but none of their efforts will gloss over the enormous damage that President Eightyonemillion and the commie cabal running his brain have done to this country.

They know it too.

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Biden Pentagon So Woke It Doesn't Want To kill Civilians Anymore!


On the surface, sounding like something dreamed up over hors d'oeuvres at a coastal elite communist sex party thrown by Joe & Hunter Biden and George Soros for their new best friends, the new 87,000 IRS paratroopers,  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has released a new plan to severely reduce the number of casualties caused by American troops in war. And you thought Biden's military was woke before, banning the high-testosterone laden Alphas and replacing them with double vaccinated drag queens? Or stopped teaching Navy SEALs to be Navy SEALs and instead just teach them how to be pronouns?

The New York Times explains that the Pentagon's new plan aims to change the whole culture so that preventing collateral damage is seen as part of the mission, rather than just some sidepiece. (Here's the whole plan if you like documents.)

As if it's not always been technically considered best practices to try not to kill civilians (DUH), but now everyone can pull out their cell phone and share very quickly with the world when American troopers do terrible awful things like kill the enemies of civilization's pet dog or Abdulla's wife/house slave accidentally gets blowed up.

Heavens forbid the military were to harm an international terrorist's gardener or his favorite sex partner's veterinarian when an American Fly Boy drops a thousand pound smart bomb through the window of Mohammed's man-cave. The directive contains 11 major objectives aimed at helping commanders and operators better understand the presence of noncombatants before any operations begin. It includes steps like embedding officials with the specific duty of mitigating civilian harm through policy components of the Pentagon. (Old Soviet Political Officers come to mind here)

The statement is short on actual mechanics, but this could be a job creator for Brandon, with a surplus of public school grief councilors and a crop of freshly graduated social workers we can imagine them hired as 'pre-attack collateral damage consultants', sent in to explaining to the civilian population what a cruise missile does to a mudbrick building, or that a 50 cal make really nasty holes and that they might consider relocating their ass down the street a piece before the shit starts.

FYI-in case you were worried we were going totally woke. This from Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon official. “This is a sea change. It doesn’t mean civilians won’t be killed in war anymore. They will."

Friday, August 26, 2022

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The Shortage Is Not Just For The Reasons Said


I have two good friends who are honored educators, both at the secondary level. One in New Orleans and the other in Kansas City. Helping a young person grow under their tutelage was all they ever wanted to do. But now, like many others of their profession, they have chosen not to return to teach this year. And not just because of reasons the media have you believe is causing a shortage. 

Both teachers have concerns about the present nature of the education system, the dumbing down of curriculum, a union that is nothing now but an extortion racket and a money bag for the democrat party.  Not to mention the exorbitant funding of councilors for the easily triggered snowflakes and the teenage gender confused and those with trendy queer allusions, all at the expense of the needs of teachers.

But both firmly agreed the one real pressing reason they and others nation wide are leaving the profession early can't be solved in today's academic atmosphere. To help me understand, one sent me a link to a academic journal.

In the article "Art Class, White Feelings, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline," an assistant professor at Appalachian State University recently argued that enforcing behavioral standards in public high schools is rooted in racism and unfairly affects Black students. Dr Albert Stabler writes that the desire to punish students for violating school rules, especially when the police are involved, is the result of “the overvaluation of White feelings.”
 
The article, in The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, which you can poke at here, contains many wonders, generally of a kind only the woke can conjure into being.  Dr Stabler confessed his innate wrongness – “I am a white teacher” – before disdaining the “white feelings” of fellow educators who objected to being punched and humiliated with increasing frequency and with something close to impunity.

Among them, our woke educator’s immediate predecessor, a female art teacher whose hair was once forcibly cut by a black student. These objections were denounced by Dr Stabler as constituting “white supremacist violence,” while the actual violence, the punching and cutting and so forth was waved aside as a display of the students’ “cultural knowledge” and “kinetic” creativity.

Apparently, hearing that your immediate predecessor was harassed and assaulted, and reduced to tears on a daily basis by the same teenagers you’re hoping to teach about art couldn’t possibly be a warning sign, or have any informational content beyond a belief that those indulging in the disruption, harassment and assault must be steeped in “cultural knowledge.”

Other examples of students displaying their “cultural knowledge”  and “kinetic” creativity  include the punching of white male teachers, who subsequently agonized over whether to press charges, and which prompts Dr. Stabler to deploy the euphemism “interpersonal conflict.” Our terribly caring educator also briefly mentions threats made against him personally by students, an atmosphere “fraught with aggression,” and the “second-hand trauma” of the violence he “witnessed and heard about.”

“In no way do I consider violence a trivial matter,” says he. And yet it seems one shouldn’t complain about such things or expect the perpetrators to face the customary consequences on account of their Magic Blackness.

Rather than relying on expectations of norms of civilized behavior, white teachers must disregard their “white feelings”,  a euphemism for dignity and physical safety, and fret about the browner, more important feelings of their assailants and tormentors, the people who wish to dominate and degrade them on grounds that thugs and budding sociopaths will be morally improved by being granted ever-greater indulgence and race-based exemptions from normal consequences.

Such are the convolutions of wokeness.
 
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Monday, August 22, 2022

Unused Tater Memes for Sale at Big Discounts!


CNN gave Tater Stelter his marching orders last Wednesday and canceled his little Sunday show. #BoycottCNN was trending Sunday, but that may not even be necessary. Because really, who is even going to bother watching? As desperately as the pundit class wants to believe in it, there just isn't some massive untapped audience of Rockefeller Republicans, and those that do exist are probably already watching.

Most people watched just to see if Tater's bulbous noggin would explode.

CNN as a network is to cable news what Yahoo! is to news aggregators, what the Labour Party is to British politics, what the Cubs are to Chicago sports. An also-ran with no clear sense of identity, no purpose, and no real reason to exist.

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Friday, August 19, 2022

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