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A Distressing Encounter

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I generally try to avoid conversations with leftids. I mean, what’s the point? You might as well be talking to the bird bath. I have no gift for it.

So this morning, walking home from the auto shop, I was hailed by an old black man on his porch, whom I hadn’t seen outdoors for months. “I’m glad to see you!” I said.

And somehow that opened up the floodgates.

Donald Trump is an agent of the devil. He is Putin’s servant. And a racist who hates women. And everyone who voted for him is a racist, too. And a hater. You’re all haters. (“I don’t hear a lot of love coming out of you,” I said; but he didn’t hear me.) He hates haters. And if you’re against abortion, you’re against “women’s health” and against women.

This went on and on. I guess it’s my penance for the day. Not really a conversation, because he never paused to let me get a word in. I thought he was my friend, at least sort of. He would say he is. And I call him “old” because he always makes a point of stating his age, which currently is 89. He and I have a lot of memories in common, pertaining to our home town. It would be nice to talk about those.

I suppose I could’ve just walked away while he was talking. He might not even have noticed. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Just had to wait until the opportunity presented itself.

*Sigh* If the possibility of mutually rewarding dialogue truly has passed away, what’s left? The strongest and most ferocious side wins? Is that how we’re going to live?

But that’s better than surrender.

Where Have the ‘Pregnant People’ Gone?

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iPhone update adds 'pregnant man' emoji, other gender neutral cartoons

A few days ago it was “pregnant people,” and if you said “pregnant women,” you were a “transphobe” and a hater: you denied that men could get pregnant! Boo! Hiss! And in the Portland, Oregon, school lavatories, they were making “period products” available to boys. ‘Cause boys can have periods, too, dontcha know.

Suddenly that’s all gone. Suddenly we’re back to “women’s health”–the Far Left Crazy’s euphemism for abortion. Killing unborn babies is “women’s health.” Restricting abortion is back to restricting “a woman’s right to choose.”

Where was “My body, my choice” when they were talking about vaccine mandates? What happened to that choice?

The hypocrisy is deafening. Well, when you’re dealing with people who deny there’s any such thing as truth, you have to expect that.

As our friend “Unknowable” says, if abortion is the hill they want to die on, let them.

 

Britain Bans ‘Noisy Protests’ (?)

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BBC news crew threatened by COVID-19 protesters in UK - Committee to Protect Journalists

At least it’s not “noisy.”

American leftids will be licking their lips for envy when they see the nice new anti-protest law passed this week by the UK’s House of Lords.

Britain’s Police Bill will restrict protests “deemed too noisy”–deemed by whom, we aren’t sure. A few harsher measures, such as a ban on “individual protests,” didn’t make it into the bill. But critics say the bill as passed is more than bad enough.

Are they going to demand that protests can only be made by sign language, or semaphore? What exactly is “too noisy”? Here in America, Democrats refuse to rein in actual riots… as long as the rioters are out there for some Far Left cause. A lot of noise gets generated by Trump rallies. Think the Dems would like to ban those?

The difference is that we have a First Amendment and Britain doesn’t. Parliament has unlimited authority. We have checks and balances. But the First Amendment has no authority if the government declines to enforce it–like they refuse to enforce our immigration laws. Those laws are on the books, but The Regime just laughs at them.

Our Constitution is only as strong as the people’s willingness to defend it.

Yes, They’re Crazy

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Our current Biden-era inflation really hurts! It’s eroding the value of our money–sort of like getting a pay cut every week.

But not to worry! Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Monster Island) has a plan. And it’s simplicity itself (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4058301/posts)

*The government should keep on spending like there’s no tomorrow.

*Raise everybody’s taxes.

*Repeal the Trump-era tax cuts.

Acting as a spokesman for the New York nitwit, a lunatic in a straitjacket said “Of course it’ll work! Inflation will stop when no one can afford to buy anything!

“Imagine the thrill,” he added, “of in effect working for nothing. Just like a slave! The government can see to your room and board, just like slaves were seen to by their owners. Whoever thought up this should get a medal–and Chuck should be president!”

CNN Headed for the Glue Factory?

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They won’t even be able to pay for the sign.

Mainstream nooze has been in trouble for years now. I remember when “Moesha” re-runs did better in the ratings than Dan Rather’s nightly nooze show.

Back before Christmas Bill O’Reilly predicted CNN would be sold this year and all the Far Left fake nooze artists would be fired as the new owners tried to reconfigure CNN into an actual news network. Well, Discovery is about to close a merger deal that will give them ownership of CNN; and meanwhile CNN’s new streaming service, “CNN+,” has tanked, big-time–an “epic failure,” as some describe it, with less than ten thousand daily viewers. That’s the first part of O’Reilly’s prediction come true.

And the sub-headline: “Big Cuts Loom.” The left-wing chatterboxes are going to wind up pumping gas or sweeping the floor at their local 7-11.

They’ve brought it on themselves–not a dry eye in the house. Their four-year orgy of Trump-bashing, seasoned with heaping spoonfuls of outright lies, has carried them to the brink of extinction. Whether the new owners can successfully set up a network that people will watch remains to be seen. They’ll have to deal with the fact that CNN has lost some 90% of its viewership.

This is not rocket science. If your thing is mocking and berating more than half of your potential customer base, you have no right to expect anything but failure.

We need news outlets that actually give us the news, as accurately and honestly as possible. Our Far Left major nooze networks refuse to do this. So don’t watch them. Ever. Let them join CNN on the great media landfill.

‘NY Governor: “I’m Undocumented”‘ (2018)

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Well, we’ve dodged this bullet, at least.

What a difference a year makes!

Only a year ago or so, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo–famous for lines like “America was never that great”–was the Democrats’ Great Anti-Trump, he’d come in after Biden and Fundamentally Change our country.

No inanity was too large to escape his mouth. Including this one:

NY Governor: ‘I’m Undocumented’

Posing as an illegal alien was a bit much, even for Democrats.

Sexual harassment charges forced this jidrool out of office. Now, after spending beaucoup bucks on TV and radio ads, Cuomo couldn’t scare up enough signatures to put him on the ballot  for this year’s Democrat gubernatorial primary. Sorry, sunshine, you’re last week’s cat-food.

The Ghost of Biden

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Now he knows how a ghost feels.

SloJo Biden was present at *Batteries Not Included’s return to the White House. Watch him wandering aimlessly around the crowded room. No one’s lookin’ at him, no one’s talkin’ to him. It’s like he’s invisible, inaudible. He tries to talk to Obama, but it’s as if Obama can neither see nor hear him. The former president totally ignores his former vice president. Won’t even make eye contact.

Not that the other world leaders have any respect for him. They know he’s a nonentity.

It’s like he’s dead.

At a very trying time in America’s history, the supposed leader of our country… is a ghost.

My Newswithviews Column, April 7 (‘Do We Still Need the Consent of the Governed?’)

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Biden VP pick: Kamala Harris chosen as running mate - BBC News

The Two Stooges

Democrats are pursuing insane policies that have little or no public support–that are, in fact, making people very angry. Why? Why are they behaving as if they know they don’t need the public’s approval anymore?

Do We Still Need the Consent of the Governed?

Are they clued into some great secret that makes them independent of popular support? Have they got another 81 million phantom voters lined up for November? Why do they batter us with one disaster after another… and still expect to win elections?

I’ll bet more than a few of us can guess the answer.

Very Strange Politics

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Animated Brewing Witch Trio | Grandin Road

It’s gonna take more than witches’ brew to make this plan work!

I have an honors degree in Political Science and I’m supposed to understand this stuff. Ha, ha, ha.  I don’t.

I’ve been hearing this scenario bandied about in just the past few days.

Joe Biden’s polls are awful–probably worse than the 38-40% approval cited in the nooze. With the mid-term elections coming up, Dems are afraid Biden will lead them off the cliff.

Solution! You get rid of SloJo somehow (think of the aged Tiberius, smothered under a pillow as he waited for his beef cutlet) and Kamala Whatsirname becomes president. Her polls are even worse than Biden’s, but somehow that doesn’t bother Democrats. One commentator warned, “You’ll know the game is on when the media suddenly begins to discover hidden depths of wisdom in Kamala.” This presumes the public is even more easily fooled than anybody thought.

Next, Kamala appoints Hillary Clinton vice-president. That Hillary is probably the most widely unpopular and least trusted politician in America is not a consideration.

And then, shazzam! Kamala resigns (why?) and gets a seat on the Supreme Court where she can cackle mindlessly away for the rest of her life, and two-time loser Hillary becomes president without having had to win an election.

And America lives happily ever after! Somehow the consent of the governed, public approval, and popular support have become completely unnecessary.

Honk if you think this is any more than a psychotic episode.

More Stupidworld! On Our Border

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Border patrol agents try and drag a fugitive border jumper as he tries to get back to Mexico in this colorized picture from 1920 [640x442] : r/HistoryPorn

They’re too busy defending Ukraine’s borders to bother with ours.

Hey! Did you know last Thursday was “International Trans Day of Visibility”? Damn–I missed it!

But the Biden administration didn’t miss it. They celebrated it by ordering Customs and Border Patrol officers to use “preferred pronouns” and “gender-neutral language” in dealing with border jumpers (https://justthenews.com/government/security/already-stretched-thin-border-agents-must-now-used-politically-correct-pronouns). They also decided that “non-binary” American citizens–and humans who identify as  centaurs, gotta be “inclusive”!–can now put an “X” on their passports instead of Male or Female.

“While we briefly question you for breaking our law and illegally crossing our border, putting our very republic at risk and making a mockery of our national sovereignty, before we let you go to commit crimes and get free stuff from our defenseless taxpayers… what pronouns do you want us to use? Xe? Zer? Xum? Whatever you want, we’re going along with it!”

The Western world’s ruling class has gone completely bonkers. They are an existential threat to the countries that they govern. They push “transgender” as if their lives depended on it.

Why?

Actually, we know why: so they can collapse their respective countries, throw of their hands, and tell us “The only solution is a global government! Nation-states just don’t work anymore!”

That’s why.