Sunday, July 21, 2019

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.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

YES, let's break up the higher education monopoly.

Get colleges and universities out of the progressives' indoctrination business.
VIA INSTAPUNDIT: The Outrage Economy.

It's time, I think, for us to start paying attention and stop patronizing firms that attempt to commodify outrage. Hit 'em where it hurts - in the pocketbook.
ENOUGH GAMES, DEMOCRATS: The Left is having a hissy because President Trump suggested that the Squalid Squad might want return to their native lands, fix them, and then return to show us country bumpkins how to do it. What they don't want you to know is that they actually wanted to deport former Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka.

More here.
DONALD TRUMP TO NANCY PELOSI: Let me show you how to play hardball.
THE UNEXPECTED EFFECTIVENESS of President Donald Trump.

To screw up a metaphor, when you need to destroy a china shop you need a raging bull.
THE NEW YORK TIMES goes pro-Soviet for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.
EVEN BEFORE APOLLO, the New York Times was anti-space.

THE NEW YORK TIMES still can't stand America's accomplishments in space. They forgot to mention that the Soviets also killed the first dog in space.

MORE NEW YORK TIMES IDIOCY: The Soviets won the 'diversity' space race.
The NYT has been anti-American for years. It may be headquartered in the U.S. but it is a globalist propaganda waste of newsprint.
SOME APOLLO HISTORY: Here are some original design schematics of the Apollo systems that got the astronauts to the moon and back.

Remember, these - and all of Apollo, for that matter - were done BC (before computers). There was no such thing as a personal computer prior to the mid-1980's.
THE APOLLO 11 LANDING:



Even though I knew the outcome, I was still holding my breath....