“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” may be the most self-aggrandizing, self-satisfied, self-projecting campaign slogan ever adopted, but among the liberal elite the conceit is even stronger today than it was in 2008.No. No, you're not.
“We should be in charge—not those guys!” is the subtext of every statement in the recent Democratic presidential primary debates. “We are the professional ones, not the Trump crowd”....
“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,” is a line from a poem by Longfellow. It’s not Biblical, but the Bible often talks about the lofty being made low, and the prophet Isaiah talks about God causing the wisdom of the wise to perish. Much of the elite and the Left have been hostile to God for years, and as their anger has grown so has their irrationality. At the 2012 convention, the Democrats even booed God, and that’s when things started really getting crazy. To be fair, the Democrats are neither crazy nor stupid, but they are in rebellion against God and God is making them look stupid.I'm betting against the 'unhinged Left'. And I'm not convinced they aren't both crazy and stupid.
[I]t is not just a moral distinction, though there is that, that drives liberal disdain — it is a fierce desire to maintain a social distinction wherein liberals believe themselves to be intellectually and culturally superior to conservatives. The central appeal of liberalism is the sense of superiority it confers on its followers, no matter how hollow its basis. The appeal of liberalism is to know, indisputably and at every moment of one's life, that you, as a liberal, are better than those mindless ordinary persons that you grew up with.They're not nearly as 'superior' as they think they are. It's why their bubble is so dense.
Having recently moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, my wife and I decided, as part of our intention to integrate into the community, to attend a Vancouver Canucks hockey game. It was something of a special occasion as the game featured the only meeting of the season at the Rogers Arena between the Canucks and the Montreal Canadiens, the team I grew up rooting for and, indeed, once dreamed of playing for.It's a long piece, but very much a worthy reads. Go there.
What surprised us was that the stadium seemed packed with Canadien fans, red white and blue sweaters everywhere around us, cries of “Go Habs Go” (from the team’s French nickname, les habitants) and loud cheers erupting for every Canadien goal dwarfing the vocal enthusiasm for the home team. Raised in Vancouver, Janice was appalled. Where was the municipal spirit, the fan loyalty, the pride of place? Was this the residue of rampant multiculturalism? I, of course, a native Quebecker, was delighted. And after all, win or lose, les Canadiens are a storied franchise akin to myth, going back to the founding of the National Hockey League in 1927, recalling the “flying Frenchman” of old, and comprising a pantheon of hockey greats that dominates the history of the sport. Canadien games are always sold out.
But there was something else we found equally if not more conspicuous, namely, the good nature, spirit of camaraderie, courtesy, respect and conviviality we were surrounded by. Recovering from a serious soccer injury, I was hobbling on a cane, as a result of which I was treated as a VIP. Security personnel escorted us to the Call Wicket and picked up our reserved tickets for us. The jammed corridors parted like the red sea for my halting passage. The fast-food vendors were patient, not fast, in serving us. Our row and seat neighbors were the soul of concern and graciousness. The aisle usher was unfailingly attentive. We were among real people, the so-called common folk from all walks of life, some well-off, some not so much, all standing for the anthem (no one, so to speak, taking a knee), most participating in the spirit of the game in an amiable and welcoming atmosphere.
On the Skytrain back to our new home, Janice and I, both early-retired professors after years of exposure to the nasty complexities of academic life, fell into conversation about the gaping difference between “the world” and “the academy,” between ordinary folk doing the world’s work and the cloistered parasites of the university hothouse, between lively people in the stands and bored students in the amphitheaters, between practical people and theoretical people, in short, between the do-ers and the talkers.
This summary is obviously to some extent a facile generalization -- there are some estimable people in Academe and unprepossessing people among the general public -- but it expresses a larger truth. We have far better relations and interesting encounters with tradespeople, for example, than we do with the general run of academics. Academe, we agreed, has increasingly come to resemble a hen party of professional backstabbers, cultural sycophants, sanctimonious prigs, administrative mercenaries and intellectual supremacists who regard themselves as elite opinion-makers and bellwethers of social progress. And, of course, they are the most influential pedlars of leftist hallucinations, graduating an army of gainfully unemployable millennials and propagandized radicals trained to carry forth their program of social destabilization and “egalitarian” coercion.
One more thing - after restoring functioning gas cans, President Trump should assemble the EPA team and ask every executive and manager in the EPA if they personally support the current non-functioning gas cans. Any EPA employee who replies in the affirmative should be terminated on the spot - with insults, derision, and mockery.Those no-spill gas cans have been a recurring nightmare I've written about a number of times. No more, though; I've ripped the no-spill guts out of every one I own.
Most of us, myself included, do not often reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. Christ came to earth to save flawed human beings. We tend to think of this on a personal level, but it applies to every facet of history. Some of the greatest men in history have been seriously flawed....Read the whole post.
I am inclined to think that God has his hand on Trump, who, as flawed as he is, is a lot more humble than many of his sanctimonious critics.
Demanding that government step in and give us "free stuff" is clinging to a childish vision of life. It is always a guaranteed recipe for waste, high costs, rationing, and low quality. So yes, indeed, Bernie and Elizabeth and Mayor Pete, I say, grow up; get a job; run a donut shop; pay some light bills and employee salaries and some depreciation and service contracts before you leap on that stage and spout your foolish, utterly childish notions about all this free stuff you kind, compassionate woke folks of government are going to give us. It's just a Disney fantasy, and most American adults still have the sense to change the channel. They changed that channel in 2016 and hopefully will do it again in 2020.The only difference is that actual two-year-olds aren't as destructive.
Yo, check this out: The wife and I withdrew six figures from the retirement account in 2019 and MADE MONEY FOR THE YEAR. MAJOR props to Mr. T and his economic team!!We're not in their league, but we also made more money than we withdrew.
The only way to face an existential threat is to kill it before it kills you. Otherwise, it is not a threat. And certainly not “existential.”Somehow I don't think war is exactly the Democrats' answer - bloviating before surrendering is more their style.
During World War II, America did not face the existential threat of Hitler by fighting Nazis at home. We did not face down the existential threat of the Cold War with speeches. When Muslim extremists brought existential violence to our nation on 9/11, we took the fight to them.
No. In every existential threat we have faced, we brought war, and millions of men and women have served, some paying the ultimate price. Enacting the radical “Green New Deal,” which all the Democratic presidential candidates have endorsed, is not enough as the threat is global. That was the purpose of the Paris Climate Accord: bind us all to the same resolution and conscript us to the duty of eradication.
What country is leading the global existential threat? China.
China is the world’s leading polluter of air and ocean. It is the world’s leader in CO2 emissions and has no intention of decreasing them.
It’s time to tell climate nannies to relax, share the love, and have a cup of good cheer -- and most importantly, if they can’t be happy, to leave the rest of us alone, at least for the duration of the Christmas season, so that we can dream our little dreams of hope and love for all the peoples of the world!The 'climatistas' should all take a long winter's nap.
If and when fascism comes to America, it will not arrive with jackboots, stiff arms, and military uniforms. To modern progressives, laws are fluid, to be enforced when they champion the “good,” to be ignored or subverted when they empower the “bad.”Read it all.
I know that's not very Christmassy and all, but then I am an Old Testament sort of guy who wants to see my enemies smitten by a vengeful God. I wish disaster upon the world's oldest political party, the Democrat party; at a minimum, I want to see the Dem Party suffer the fate of British Labour for what it has done to America and the West. That clown show long ago ceased to be even mildly amusing.#MeToo. And a Merry Christmas to you, sir.
We got very lucky in 2016: Donald Trump provided us a life boat to get away from the Democratic Titanic. We need to take advantage of that to the full.
Those pathological haters and congenital liars impeached not only President Trump on Wednesday night. They impeached us. This time it is personal. That is my vote they are trying to take away. As an Orthodox Jew, I know plenty about governments taking away my vote. Rome did it to me in Talmudic times. Western Europe did it to me in the Medieval ages. The Ottoman Sultan did it to me. Sheiks did it to me. The Tsar did it to me. Hitler did it to me. Stalin did it to me. Damned if I am going to let a mob of socialist and lying Democrats do it to me. The muck stops here.Fischer may be an Orthodox Jew, but he speaks for much of real America.
For four years, polling has documented that the president’s strongest support demographic is America’s Orthodox Jews. The support runs between 70 percent in radical Los Angeles to 90 percent most everywhere else. This has been documented here and here and here and here and here. Much of that support stems from a deep affinity with his stands on the whole gamut of traditional American cultural and social issues. Many faithful Christians, including devout and committed Catholics, small business owners, and working-class households with traditional values in the heartland between the two coasts all feel the same, determined to rush in to protect this president’s back.
Mr. President, you are not alone.
The process by which these articles were drafted was a procedural abomination, pure Kafka, executed by, to be kind, morons.Minor correction: insane morons.
So egregious have been the ruling class’s attacks on Donald Trump, so shameless has been the sanctimony with which men such as William Webster have defended their biased governing rules, that the rest of us are well nigh compelled to give it a double dose of its own medicine.It's time to use the other edge of that double-edged sword.
People capable of feeling shame would not have immediately followed up the Russiagate hoax fiasco with another transparently phony—and in “substance” nearly identical—attempt to remove President Trump from office, overturn the 2016 election, and shower deplorable-Americans with contempt and hatred. But our ruling elites have no shame.It's long, but read it all. And carefully.
That is not to say, however, that they are entirely cynical. The means by which they’ve so far tried to crush the Trump presidency may be nasty and illegitimate, but our overlords are 100% convinced of the righteousness of their cause, and of themselves. Hence they do not even need recourse to the cliché that the ends justify the means. The means are good because the end is sacred; they cannot countenance even the thought that the means might be suspect or (ahem) trumped up.
They may be calling it “natural organic reduction” but having grown up in farm country, my family had a different name for it. Composting.Colorado is a bit late; Heinlein beat them to it with The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress in 1966.
There's probably no group of arrogants out there with less capacity for introspection about their own abysmal record than the foreign policy establishment. These are the deep staters who launched the current impeachment bid against Trump on the pious grounds of "national security" that only they can know about, but they're also the big-headed boffins populating the abundant think tanks, foundations and universities, writing for all those high-toned foreign policy journals.Their performance history sucks; Trump's doesn't.
All 5 [of my] books, which I have put out in just 13 months, sport vibrant, pretty covers. So if you are one of those people who just like to display books rather than read them, they will make an attractive addition to any bookshelf. Since each individual column takes but 5-8 minutes to read, you can see how perfect the book would be for the bathroom. They are also good for bedtime reading before you crash. Which, in my case, is usually about 6 minutes. At this rate I hope to finish Green Eggs and Ham by New Year’s Day.If you don't read her weekly as I do, it's a great Christmas gift.
From now on, impeachment can be used against any first-term president with a record of success. It will be used solely as a political strategy by the opposition party that controls the House to weaken a president’s reelection chances. That’s the Democratic Party’s legacy and Democrats will live to rue it.Read it all.
In what they believe to be an affirmation of the popularity of their vile attacks, the Left only marches faster and blindly towards the electoral cliff. Everyone sees it coming, except for the Democrats. It is precisely this delusional mindset that made their defeat in 2016 so satisfying, and we could very well get an encore in 2020.I am so looking forward to it....
Yet that’s exactly what Pelosi is doing.But to paraphrase Whoopi Goldberg, it's not 'hate-hate'.
No matter how she dresses it up, her impeachment is a pig.
Does Pelosi hate Donald Trump? Of course she does. She hates that he’s president, that he’s building an economy that is the envy of the world and that he appeals to voters her party used to own. She’s turned him into such a villain that every success of his is a failure for her.
Conservatives know the Left destroys everything it touches. That destruction takes many forms. The worst is obliterating the strength of individuals in order to grow a population of weaklings.Don't let them.
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, and microaggressions are just a few of the ways the Left encourages weakness. Evoking fear is another. For fear to be an effective tool, the Left needs its followers to be fragile and helpless.
Although the Left’s crusade of making individuals weaker may be succeeding, mainly it shows that the Left will do anything, stoop to any level, to gain control.
[T]his clown show of an impeachment showed the Democrats to be a vindictive bunch of petty haters determined to avenge the C-Hag’s [Hillary's] losses in 2016, which will surely result in votes for Trump next November, if for no other reason than to shove a rag in the Democrats’ collective maws.The Democrats know they're going to lose.
Maybe you hear it in the Beltway, but you don’t hear normal people out in America demanding, “Let these people rule over us unimpeded by our electoral choices!” After all, these are the same people who think your kid ought to die defending the Turkish-Syrian border but tell you it’s a crime against humanity to defend our own border with Cartelistan.Democrats seem to think that the biggest problem America faces is that they do not have more power. They're wrong.
[T]his sort of mandate from on high about every new structure allowing homeless encampments should encourage even more people to flee Portland and move somewhere with a local government that still exhibits a modicum of sanity and respect for its taxpayers.Goodbye, Portland....
The Hill reported "47% of black voters said Biden was their first choice and 12% said both Warren and Sanders. Only 4% said Harris."Democrats offer diversity, not competence. And black voters appear to understand.
[T]he Common Core standards will be updated next year to include feelings as acceptable responses to any and all questions pertaining to biology, chemistry, grammar, and history, while sources claim that English literature teachers have already been accepting emotions as responses for years.Is it satire? Or accurate reporting? You decide.
If these globalists truly thought the climate was in as dire shape as the U.N. suggests, you'd think they would prioritize their beliefs over their own convenience. But that's not what is happening.What's happening is that they're prioritizing their beliefs over your convenience.
