Thursday, January 10, 2019

HUBRIS: the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates.


I wouldn't vote for any of them for dogcatcher; dogcatchers are too valuable.
OH COME NOW: Judge rules Florida election official Brenda Snipes' constitutional rights were violated.

And whose constitutional rights did Brenda Snipes violate? Oh, that's right; we're just little people. Sorry, I forgot.
ED ROLLINS: Here's what we saw on Tuesday night.
THERE'S NEVER ENVIRONMENTAL OUTRAGE unless committed by the white American Republican patriarchy.
SO WHAT? The IRS has 4,500 guns, 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition.
UNFORTUNATELY too true.
SEAN SPICER ON THE DEMOCRATS' BORDER WALL RESISTANCE: If we called it the 'Schumer Border Security Bill' they'd pass it.

In a heartbeat.
IT'S TIME MAGAZINE SO YOU KNOW IT'S STUPID: Of course non-parents are happier than parents.
Having children is an open invitation to the universe to visit misery upon you. Suddenly, a formerly carefree human who has just about figured out how to meet his or her basic needs has to provide for the needs of another human, who is (a) completely dependent (b) apparently intent on self-destruction and (c) incapable of expressing what those needs are — or anything resembling gratitude. And that's just when they're teenagers.

People who have children are pouring much of their emotional capital — and capital capital — into an investment fund they cannot control, nor withdraw from. If that fund goes belly-up, it takes their happiness with it. Their well-being is permanently under existential threat. As is their wealth. And their sanity.
Obviously written by a non-parent. As Instapundit noted, there are many (including my wife and I) whose biggest regret is that we didn't have more children.
YES, LET'S DESTROY THE NUCLEAR FAMILY: The Left's grand plan to outsource parenting.

Why wait 6 or 12 or 18 years to start indoctrinating children?
TENNIS ELBOW HAS A COMPETITOR. Big pharma is on it.
SHOT: Is Michelle Obama plotting to retake the White House?

CHASER: Why not a conservative woman president Nikki Haley?
VIDEO: Here's how to shoot like John Wick.
TO BEGIN WITH, IT'S MISREPRESENTATION TO CALL THEM 'SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS': The scientific experts who hate science.
REP. TULSI GABBARD [D-HI] accuses fellow Democrats of stoking ‘bigotry’ for questioning U.S District Court nominee Brian Buescher's Knights of Columbus ties.

Finally even some progressives are showing signs of getting tired of their progressive wing's 'showboat-ery'.
COMMUTING BY BICYCLE is not the wave of our urban future. I commuted to work every day during the years I was a grad student/instructor while finishing up my doctoral studies. Even in mid-winter it was an easy commute.

BUT ... it was a short commute (just over a mile or so), not in an urban environment, not on major roads, and my wife had to have our one car for her 10-plus mile commute to her pay-the-groceries-and-rent job.

Commuting by bicycle in 'urbania' is just another overrated utopian scheme.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY exhibits all the symptoms of terminal lucidity.
Sometimes called “the end-of-life rally,” this phenomenon involves temporary bursts of physical and mental activity in terminally ill patients immediately prior to death.... But such episodes rarely indicate any real change in the patient’s underlying condition, and the Democrat Party remains infected by fatal strains of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), utopian socialist fantasies, and identity politics.
Fevered activity, yes; real solutions, no.
HAVE THE TWITTER TWITS been insulted?
VETS CELEBRATE WELCOME TO CONGRESS: '5 eyes. 5 arms. 4 legs. All American.'
FANTASY VERSUS FACT: "Political violence is conventionally feared from the Right, but in fact comes overwhelmingly from the Left."
DEMOCRATS, drones are not the solution to our border problem.

Unless all you want to do is count the number of potential Democrat voters.
SOCIALIST REP. OCASIO-CORTEZ [D-NY] accidentally endorses social security privatization, minimum wage repeal, and corporate tax cuts among many other essentially conservative positions.

She may actually be our best hope for progress.
DILBERT explains progressives.
A LIBERTARIAN SOCIETY looks a lot like ... America. Or at least an America not besotten by progressives.
A COMMENT ON AOC: You will note that I never refer to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as 'AOC'; that's because the Association of Old Crows [the real AOC] is an independent, nonprofit, international professional association promoting the science and practice of Electronic Warfare, of which I have been a member for nearly 50 years.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: the gift that keeps on giving.
GUN BUYBACKS: turning scrap into cash for gun purchases.
NEVER TRUMP HATE EXPLAINED: Successful businessmen don't need oligarch money to bail out their debt.