THOSE WHO ARE NO LONGER OUR COUNTRYMEN:

[C]ertain people, politicians, media, intellectual and entertainment figures of note, or even the establishments they work for – are no longer our countrymen. In fact, those certain people and their establishments deeply despise us ordinary, moderately-conservative, content and hard-working middle class citizens. They hate us, indeed – with a passion that convulses their souls, and drips in their every word like corrosive acid. They hate that we are individual, un-biddable, independent and proud. They hate it even more ferociously that we are not humble in the manner of the 19th century lower class Europeans in the face of nobles and bureaucrats, and they despise everything that we honor and relish, from church membership, to where we choose to shop, to adorn our homes and what we do for hobbies. They hate it that we have the franchise and exercise it, too – and even assume that it is our right and duty to be politically-involved; most recently with movements like the Tea Party. (Which, inter alia, shook and is still shaking the current ruling class down to its bones – hence the viciousness of the reaction to it, from the media, to popular entertainment and to the long-established political parties.) Most of all, I think – they despise us for not giving a damn what they think particularly, and rejecting practically everything that they tell us to do – ride public transportation, move into urban stack-a-prole housing, give up eating meat (or much of anything else), and continuing to believe that we can raise our own children and sort out our own lives without self-elected nannies breathing down our necks 24-7. Very likely the well-manicured and delicate hands of the new ruling class itch for a whip to give us all a good thrashing for our temerity. Indeed – they are no longer our countrymen in spirit, any more than the Tory sympathizers who departed the American colonies two hundred years and more ago are.

The most galling quality of the TWANLOC ruling class is how they constantly preen themselves on being so cultured, so tolerant, intellectual, competent and so very, very non-racist … unlike the ordinary rest of us; the veteran, the blue-collar working stiff, the stay-at-home-mom, the cashier working at the local grocery store, the owners of companies large and small. Alas, nine out of ten, the TWANLOC ruling class is not particularly cultured, tolerant or intellectual. Nine out of ten, the most vicious bigotries and stereotypes drop from their lips and into their narratives … and yet they remain blissfully unaware of their own faults and shortcomings.

For those of you who want to dump on us 'Trumpkins' for this, it was written in 2014 - two years before Donald J. Trump became president.

MORE HATE SPEECH FROM THE DEMOCRATS: Don’t run away from Trump — ‘Punch him in the face.’

I wonder what Sen. Tester [D-MT] would say if someone from the Right threatened to 'punch him in the face'. I doubt it would be civil.

RHETORIC IS ONLY DANGEROUS when it comes from the Right, because the Left is afraid it will inspire people on the right to act like leftists.

THE TIME IS COMING:

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

A reminder for Democratic Socialists.

LIBERALS: If you can't punch a Nazi shove a priest.

LIBERALS TWEET: "White people love dogs because they miss owning slaves."

I'm reminded of that old aphorism that dogs have masters; cats have staff (slaves?).

So ... Black people love cats because they miss being slaves.

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO: Bernie Sanders isn't paying staffers the $15 minimum wage he champions.

Translation: rules are for other people....

THERE ARE MANY GOOD ONES in this Mod Squad Edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures, but this one has to take the favorite spot:

Now go see the rest, especially the Twitter ones.