Life inside a bubble
We are hear a lot these days from people who live inside of bubbles wholly shielded from the everyday challenges of the forgotten men and women who are the overwhelming majority of Americans. I refuse to refer to these groups of people as elite. From my background and upbringing, referring to someone or a group as elite was reserved for the best of us. These people certainly do not make the cut. Privileged they certainly are, but they fall well short of being the best of America – or the best of people for that matter. At the end of their road is self-preservation and maintenance of their perceived exalted stature.
We refer to the media elite, the Washington elite, the Hollywood elite and elitists in general based on personal wealth and its accompanying influence. It is these collectives who work every day to drive the conversational narrative attempting to steer the minds of the forgotten population in the direction of their ideologies and political aims. They divide people into groups of victims blaming their lot on a straw man enemy. The people – elitists – and their groups of useful idiots are an insignificant percentage of our population. Those who try each day to set the tone or drive the narrative attempt to make them appear the majority. It is a mirage, a potentially volatile and deadly one, but a mirage all the same.
They are failing. They have failed over the past decade and have experienced a steady decline in political power and influence. The forgotten of our country that largely exist paycheck to paycheck finally said enough. This is not their America. The social justice leveling of the playing field is a fallacy that serves to move middle class farther out of their reach. No longer are they influenced by these self-titled groups of elites who are losing their influence over the Middle America psyche daily and in great chunks.
The more our vaunted elitists fail the more extreme they become and will become. They refer to anyone who does not agree with them as fascists. It shows a level of ignorance amongst these people and their indoctrinated “protestors” that is nothing short of breathtaking. Fascism wants to silence opposing voices. It wants to control who has the ability to do business and sale their wares in the public market place. This is what we see every day. It is the narrative driven by the “elites” who refer to those disagreeing with them as brownshirts. Just for the uneducated Hollywood actors and faux journalists making these accusations, understand that it was the Nazis who sent their brownshirts to shut down opposing voices and destroy businesses and property. This is exactly what the paid for rent-a-thugs are doing almost daily. The day will come when a business owner or someone wearing the wrong kind of hat will declare enough. On that sad day for America you may just get the fight you think you want.
Peaceful dissent and protest is a hallmark of American freedom. Rioting, destroying business, and attacking people who disagree with you are hallmarks of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Communist China, North Korea… . If you are either too stupid to understand that or you actually embrace this approach, then you are not American. Not even close.
There is another group. These are the subversives inside our government agencies. These are not Presidential appointees, but career federal employees who are selected and promoted into sensitive positions because of their political connections and leanings. These are the people who willingly commit felonies by releasing transcripts of telephone conversations captured on classified signal intelligence networks. These are the people inside Congressional offices, NSA, DOJ, FBI, CIA, Homeland… who want to bring down our democratically elected government. These, not the useful idiots in the streets, are the people most dangerous to our country. These are the people who must be found and fully prosecuted under Title 18 US Code Chapter 115 Treason, Sedition and Subversive Activities.
But it is all connected. The elitists drive the media narrative and put the punks in the streets. The subversives inside the government give meat to the false narrative that “the Russians did it” then it just becomes a loop. A snowball rolling down the mountain until something pops. At least that is their hope and aim. Fortunately the indications are that they are losing this fight and will continue to lose as long as our President stands firm and takes the fight to them.
© J. D. Pendry 2017
Category: Politics
Great article JD. You hit the nail squarely. I agree that one day, somewhere (or maybe multiple somewheres) the paid punks are going to bite off more than they can chew. When that time comes, I can only hope there will be irrefutable evidence of the financiers (elitists) who are driving this & taken out. How they are taken out doesn’t matter to me.
If people who have a conservative slant had taken to the streets like these punks have (in the last 8 years or so) the lamenting would have been heard around the world.
I concur, but the vast majority of Conservatives are too busy working like hell to earn an honest paycheck from which taxes are taken and way too much of which are handed to those too lazy to work in order to buy D-rat votes in blue locales.
OH, and if President Trump is the Nazi that the left claims him to be then where are the goon squads pounding those who dissent with him? I’m talking like the mobs of violent liberal moonbats we see burning, robbing, beating and looting whenever they feel “offended” as well as assaulting whoever they think dissents with them, the leftists who act JUST LIKE Hitler’s SA, the “Brown Shirts” who orchestrated things like book burnings.
Yes.
Both parties lost the last election. Trump was a rejection of establishment power on both sides of the aisle. The DNC is in an existential internal struggle over the future of the party. Whether it will remain an intact party or have a new progressive/populist challenge party replace it. The republican party is being forced to confront internal division over social and economic issues. Many on the right do not like Trump and do not think he is fit to be president. Nor do they think he represents “conservatism” or its values in America. The GoP needs to reform so that it addresses the concerns of the American worker while maintaining its core values. The future of our nation is at stake. It is clear we are going to move in a more populist direction. Whether that is right-wing populism or left wing populism depends on which party is able to reform before the next election. Right now republicans have a structural advantage in the design of district in our country. After the last district gerrymandering effort, America went from 120+ “swing” districts in 1992 to 35 today. The number of landslide districts almost doubled from 123 to 242. This kind of redistricting essentially disenfranchises voters in hundreds of districts by making it far more difficult for voters to hold their elected officials accountable through the ballot box. However, democrats, currently, have an advantage in raw numbers. There is simply more democrats and left leaning independents than there are conservatives or right leaning independents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/11/independents-outnumber-democrats-and-republicans-but-theyre-not-very-independent/?utm_term=.1bf8769c707d There is also a possibility that a shift of the DNC to more left-wing populism will push more moderate “establishment” liberals toward the GoP. Provided the GoP finds a better balance between their current brand of populism and more moderate values. If the GoP manages to capture more left leaning moderates through party message reform they could actually overtake the DNC in percentage of voters that lean republican. One of the key things they would have to do to accomplish that is to significantly moderate their anti-LGBT rhetoric and their anti-Muslim rhetoric. Many moderates both… Read more »
Comrade, you base your premise on numbers from two organizations that consistently skew left on every poll? That told us Trump had no chance of winning? Some sources you have there. The Democrats are in the process of selecting someone to head their DNC who will be the most radical leftist ever to occupy that position. Of the two front-runners, one is a Muslim and the other a La Raza Hispanic. Whichever of them it is, he will surely attract a lot of middle of the road Americans to the party, right? Sure… And it’s not just the lawlessness of the demonstrators that is putting off the American public but also the inanity of the current congressional leadership of the Democrat party. My wife said just this morning, “I wish that bitch would retire,” referring to Nancy Pelosi. I responded, “No, no, no! We need her there.” Every time that loony old broad goes on TV and makes one of her silly pronouncements, the Democrats lose a few more supporters. The same thing happens in spades (Yes, I know) when it’s Maxine Waters. That Congressional Black Caucus is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to driving ordinary middle Americans to the right. One factor you miss, Comrade, is that the vast middle of America is working America and financially responsible America and those are folks who learn to live within their means so that their bills are paid and they meet their family obligations, folks who hope to be able to retire on a modest income someday. Do you suppose that when they look at all those cities and states run by Democrats and see them being run into the ground with reckless spending on unrealistic public service employee salaries and ridiculous pension obligations, that they say to themselves, “Yeah, those are the kind of leaders we need.”? Why do you think more state governments are going Republican, Comrade? Why do you think so many retired people are conservative, Comrade? other than being those financially responsible citizens as described above, could it be that they have lived… Read more »
Maxine Waters, a true comedy genius! https://youtu.be/o3I-PVVowFY
And the 3 ‘D’ingbats at their finest logicalocityergizing.
https://youtu.be/U68tHvs95Y8
I actually never said Trump had no chance of winning. I even posted on this board that I thought Trump might win and I warning my friends for months that Hillary’s campaign strategy risked a Trump win.
I was referring to your dubious sources.
The source was Pew Research center. It was just summarized in the WAPO article.
Just click the link to the pew results.
My source was the Pew Research center. The WAPO article just summarized it so I did not have to in my post.
Look I don’t really give a rat’s ass who your sources are because my recent experience is that ALL polling organizations are just like the media, they don’t have a clue as to the mood of the people. They also have an agenda, like the media and it is not one that is friendly to conservatives.
I attribute this inability of the media/polls to accurately gauge the temperature of the political climate to the above as well as to a growing distrust of the media (and polling organizations are considered an arm of the media by most Americans). Ordinary folks see the media/pollsters as the liberal, coastal elites JD is writing about and to that extent they avoid them or are not forthcoming with them. The media have long been considered an arm of the Democrat party by conservatives but since this last campaign that opinion is held by many Americans who are in the middle or even on the left.
The Trumpmania in the media right now is simply reinforcing and strengthening that view. It’s tickling me to death to see the media crap their pants because they no longer have a president who fears them.
We’ll see how this all shakes out but I think you are dead wrong in your belief that the Democrats have a numerical advantage.
I myself don’t have any faith or trust in most polls anymore, not after the ones braying that Brexit would go down in flames and the ones saying that President Trump would lose in a landslide, IMHO most are as rigged and biased as the moonbat snooze media!
Keep your eyes peeled, API. Frexit is next. If that succeeds, it will be the end of the Eurozone, the euro as currency, and borderless Schengen zone.
YES to that. I’m watching, Milady!
The self loving nature of the elitists is enhanced by the hero worship they receive from the naïve. I wish to live to see the day when we see the opposite of:
Al Gore = great guy, he got the Nobel Peace Prize
Irena Sendler = who’s that?
Thanks, JD. Your article immediately brought up the image of 5 million baseball fans peaceably assembled in one place when one baseball team finally got theirs, contrasted with the image of a few paid gangbangers at a tax-supported university wreaking havoc and damaging property in an attempt to show how nonviolent they are.
The contrast between the two is intense.
It is still less than a month into this administration. The most recent attempt to show how useless the ‘elitists’ are was a bubblegum bubble popping in the wind. The louder they bark, like rabid dogs, the more tiresome they become. Reasoning people, even though they may have been on the left side of the fence, are slowly and quietly stepping to the right.
They can’t hide the truth now, not the way Hitler could.
JD, you hit the nail squarely on the head… very well written and to the point.
Perfectly summed up. An example of this is in the following…
The headline reads, “Workers horrified at ‘Making Killing Great Again’ poster”. Actually, it is one worker, who is anonymous, complaining about a poster on the office door of a VA employee. The poster is a pic of Mattis with that slogan beneath. The anonymous snowflake is quoted as saying, “I’m afraid, I’m truly afraid”.
The story goes on about how this VA employee thinks the person who put up this poster is going to come into the office one day and shoot everyone. The complainer is outraged the poster of the poster hasn’t been fired, or at least put on administrative leave pending a full investigation.
Note, this is not on a door visible to clients and patrons, only other VA employees. I think it should be where clients could see it being that the clients are veterans. I love the message. “Making Killing Great Again” is what Mattis is, and needs, to do. It means making our armed forces great again in recognition of the intent and purpose of the armed forces…break things and kill people. It is recognizing the seriousness of the job of the armed forces. It instills pride once again in those who choose to dedicate even a portion of their lives to this noble and necessary purpose.
And because of the current “elitist” driven agenda, this complaining employee is getting coverage of this manufactured outrage. Starting with pluralizing the headline.
JD Pendry, I agree wholeheartedly the pendulum is swinging and momentum is increasing. But I fear it won’t swing fast enough, or hard enough, to clear the intentionally placed detritus being piled up by the “elitists”.
So where could you get the poster?
Asking for a friend.
I’ve ordered a bumper sticker. 😈
https://www.asmdssgear.com/collections/mattis
after about 9 months of working for the government I will say this about the people I work for.
It is not that they are selected for political connections or reasons, but (it seems to me) for their incompetence which can be then be leveraged by the political folks as a form of “pay to play”.
Those interested in doing a good job are not a minority per se, but are beaten down by bureaucratic nonsense and threats of replacement that they just go into laptop defilade and survive to see another day.
This is how the very few can control the actions of so many.
Legend has it that F. Scott Fitzgerald, a writer in abject awe of the elite of his time, once remarked to Ernest Hemingway:
“The rich are not like you and me.”
“Yeah,” said Hemingway. “They have more money.”
You nailed it, JD. They came pretty damn close to Orwell’s dystopia, but the Internet, and free access thereto, has been the Death Star’s exhaust pipe.
Hopefully it doesn’t come to this, but I wonder if one of these riots won’t soon run afoul of a home- or business owner who decides to do like the Koreatown shopkeepers did in the Rodney King riots: post signs clearly identifying your killzone, and enforcing it as soon as some Snowflake Liberation Front dickhead thinks you’re not serious.
That’s precisely why I don’t think they’ll try to pull off any of their crap outside of dark blue localities, TOW. I don’t see Red State American Denizens tolerating their crap, that’s where they’ll either get shot or beaten by someone who isn’t afraid to defend themselves or run over by someone on a highway that has neither the time or patience or simply doesn’t GAFF about their infantile shenanigans.
I would pay good money to see a simultaneous perp walk of a few dozen or so government officials as they are being arrested for divulging sensitive conversations/information. I don’t understand how one’s political leanings could ever allow them to commit such acts against their own government and this country’s people. They are the moral equivalent of pond scum. That is a major betrayal.
Don’t conflate “classified” with “sensitive”.
It is rare for a civilian to face criminal charges for releasing unclassified but sensitive information. Except in the case of operational security.
And that is probably a good thing. The public being informed of government activities is something that is necessary for a functional democracy. The classification system was intended to set standard to justify when it is better of the nation when information is not public.
With classifications that standard is protecting the interests of the nation itself. Not the reputations of government officials.
Of all the recent leaks I am having a hard time finding confirmation that anything classified was leaked.
The law takes a pretty dim view of “whistleblowers” when they divulge information which is classified and/or illegally obtained.
General Flynn did nothing illegal in his conversation with the Russians per se; it was his lying to Pence that ended up getting him canned and lying to the FBI that will probably get him charged.
And for that, the leaker should be allowed to walk away scot-free? Hardly.
FBI says no charges forthcoming:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/02/17/fbi-no-charges-former-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn/
I’m not conflating anything. My point is that those divulging this information, which I called sensitive, should not be doing so. Also, “The public being informed of government activities is something that is necessary for a functional democracy.” That’s pure crap. It’s probably a no-brainer that the PD of those releasing this information does not include leaks to the press. Therefore, what they are doing is, at a minimum, unethical and probably illegal. Whether the information is truly ‘classified’ is of no importance to me. Can they be criminally charged? Doesn’t matter. They can damn sure be terminated from their cushy government job.
Classified, Sensitive or otherwise, If I had an employee who took any information about a company I was running to the public with the intent of damaging the reputation of a fellow employee or the company I’d shit-can them.
The problem is that since Clinton infested the White House in 1993 there has been 16 years where the Government has, in many cases, been used as a Social Justice experiment for hiring.
Government Agencies ( including the military) have been infested with Clinton and Obama boot lickers who are enraged that the SJW gravy train has been derailed.
They don’t focus on the jobs they are paid to do by the taxpayer. They are looking for a way to get payback because their political party was rejected by The US.
They need to be shown the door, and in some cases perp-walked through it.
Not “elite”
-snobs-
Snoot in the air, self selected, ego overage, no real qualifications or talent, generally oxygen theives.
Snobs.
AKA “stolen value”
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
Daniel Webster
Man, that is a good one. By my man Daniel Webster, no less. That’s a keeper.
Do not be fooled by the commie. What he has laid out does not withstand scrutiny. The watchword is populism, which has nothing to do with popularity. It is a form of communism in which the masses arise and effect change in the political structure. It is much, much more than the thumb-to-the-eye of beltway insiders employed by Candidate Trump, an approach that won over many. This past election was a contest between outlandish and outrageous, with many of us casting a vote as much or more against the prospect of an H. Clinton presidency than for Donald J. Trump. Populism describes the inherent tension between the controllers and the controlled, the capitalists, their bourgeoisie and the proletariat. It is, to be sure, class warfare. And it is bullshit peddled by the progressives, the commies, the Marxists, and the Democrats, each it’s own circle in a Venn diagram and all overlapping. Don’t buy into it, I urge. We have a wolf in sheep’s clothing in Commissar, of late more deliberate and tempered in his attempts to win over hearts and minds, but still a wolf, a commie, despite his insistence otherwise. His approach is right out of Alinsky’s handbook. Well, we had eight years of one community organizer and that was more than enough, thanks. If American politics is anything, it is pendulum-like in its ways. President Trump is not an emperor and the Congress, in resisting and in defying some of what he seeks is doing its job as our system was designed. He is busily reversing much of the damage his predecessor effected and some of it will take more than just a couple of months to sort through. That’s fine. President Trump has nearly four more years to get it done and the blind hope of Lars and his ilk that the off-year election will bear progressive is more than a year and a half away.
Commissar is more weasel than wolf.
A few observations: Lars still can’t compose sentences in simple, plain English. My cat can do better. He is as persuasive as a 3-week-old sandwich in the vending machine down the hall. He thinks everyone who posts comments at TAH is stupid, makes false assumptions about all of us, and is repeatedly deflated, but plods on in search of the carrot dangling at the end of the stick.
Since ‘bourgeois’ simply means ‘middle class’ in French, I have never understood why it’s supposed to be an insult, but he does, as Ringo once said, hide behind a smokescreen of bourgeois cliches that are pathetically inept, dated, and unpersuasive. I don’t think he could induce a goat to eat kudzu.
You’re right: neither he nor his cronies understand or accept the true character of American stuff, because they see it all as a class struggle when it is not. Since anyone in the country can become a success through hard work, and likewise blow every opportunity offered to him, that is the true nature of this country’s politics and system.
The pendulum has swung as far to the left as it could, reached the farthest point of the arc and is returning to center. Centripetal acceleration is always directed toward the center of the arc, which means that no matter how far the pendulum in politics swings in either direction, it will always return to the center.
This is something the leftids like Lars the Piuperdink will never understand.
“because they see it all as a class struggle when it is not.” That is 100% correct. THEY WANT class struggle and they define the world in terms of classes and class struggle and it has gotten to the sickly point that many accept this lens through which to view damn near everything.
Ol’ Poe is confused; is this Commissar Commissar or not? When I called him Lars recently, someone corrected me and said that Commissar isn’t Lars.
WTF???
No, it’s him. Commissar has styled himself “commissar” and demands that nobody address him by the real name under which he posted for months.
It’s LC who gets wrongly accused of being Commissar.
This absolute nonsense.
Populism predates communism by thousands of years.
There were populist movements in Rome.
And waves of populism in the 15th and 16th and 17th centuries.
It is is not a form of communism.
And there are both left wing and right wing populist movement.
You are truly a pathological nut case. You see communist conspiracies in everything.
Non sequitur, piuperdink. Try reading for comprehension. As usual, you have no backup for your statements.
If you’re referring to Pelcher, he was merely a demagogue who assumed the role of ‘populist’ for the sole purpose of seizing power, NOTHING ELSE. In plain English, he was a wannabe dictator. You’d just drool over people like him, hoping he’d throw a few sesterces at you when his chariot passes.
You are such an idiot. You don’t even try. You are the laziest sand crab ever invented. Lazy, lazy, lazy!!!!
Only small disagreement I would have with you, JD, is that when I use the word elite, it is derisive. Always has been, and certainly is now. ‘Cause, as a good American, we don’t have a caste structure, Earls and Dukes outside of music, and all that other stuff which we lost officially after that revolution thing, so referring to an elite always is said with a it of a sneer.
Spot on otherwise.
One concept you never hear Lars pontificate about is individual liberty. It is the hallmark of this nation and few talk about it, what little I see from the newsies, anyway. As gov’t grows, it must justify itself by doing more of whatever the hell it is charged with doing. It doesn’t do things better, it just does more. Regulations are the perfect example. When regulations proliferate, individuals necessarily have less liberty. It’s that simple. President Trump’s predecessor said he had a pen and a phone. In other words, he didn’t need to respect the separation of powers b/c legally, if wrongly, he could legislate through executive orders and agency regulation. President Trump is trying now to undo some of that. But I stray. My sole point was meant to be that LIBERTY–INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY–not the collective, is what this country’s absolute beauty is. It’s never lost wholesale, only piecemeal. For the near future, we have a president who seems to be keenly aware of that truth.
One last item and then I’ll get off my soapbox. I have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of TAHers know exactly what I’m talking about. When people such as Lars get the floor, they spew collectivist garbage, groupthink, and speak about this community and that community. It’s all about unhappy, disgruntled, unfairly treated groups. In short, anything BUT the individual and his liberty. And now I bid you faithful few a good evening.
Where do you stand on LGBT rights?
Women in the combat arms?
Freedom of travel for Muslims?
Individual liberty is a COLLECTIVE concept. It is not merely your right to do what you want. It is also your RESPONSIBILITY to honor the rights of others.
That may be the single most absurd statement you’ve made here, fool. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more perfect example of Orwellian Doublespeak.
The concept of individual liberty is diametrically opposed to that of the collective – whether you’re discussing rights, action, or welfare.
Sheesh. I truly didn’t think you were stupid enough to spout something like that.
Just when you think he’s hit bottom….
I think Piuperdink the Poodle is confusing liberty with anarchy.
JUST WHEN you think Babbles McButthead can’t get any more harebrained and disconnected from reality…
Wow. He really has no concept of the meaning of what he says, nor of the contradictions in it, but he scams stuff from philosophers to try to look smart.
‘In the state of nature, liberty consists of being free from any superior power on Earth.’ – Hmmm… no ‘collective’ notions there. I think the AUTHOR of that was a whole lot smarter than the Piuperdink.
I suppose that, when he shakes his ass awake, he’ll roll in here and enact a Cheltenham tragedy when I haven’t even had breakfast yet.
“”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more perfect example of Orwellian Doublespeak.”
No scheisse!
Name one “liberty” I am unjustifiably against?
And save me your nonsense about taxes being theft.
Well, OK. Let’s try a thought experiment, Poodle.
You’re walking on the campus at UC-B. Someone stands up on a street corner and starts ranting about the LGBT community – e.g., saying they’re all just a bunch of degenerate perverts, that there should be a Constitutional amendment making such conduct illegal, and that “they deserved what they got with AIDS”. And other such ignorant dreck.
And you see that they have a permit permitting them to “protest”, issued by the UC-B administration.
Would you defend their right to spew their idiocy? Or would you join in an attempt to shout them down – or worse?
My guess is the latter. Which in turn means you only believe in freedom of speech with which you agree.
That’s precisely how most Leftists and Fascists throughout history have regarded free speech: “Free for me, but not for those who disagree.”
Freedom of speech includes offensive speech and ideas you find repugnant. There is no right to never be offended.
Well, Poodle?
24 hours later, and it’s still crickets from Piuperdink the Poodle’s corner of the room.
I’m sure he’s either getting ready for another day of babble from some freeze-dried hippie Marxist Prof or looking for some cocklebur-in-the-pantyhose PC cause to get offended and “protest” over. I doubt we’ll hear from Babbles McButthead until he gets another attention craving.
Here we go with Babbles McButthead braying yet again searching for a bowl of self-esteem and showcasing his disconnect with reality! Seriously Lars T., spend some time in the real world outside the confines of not just UC Berzerkely, somewhere out in Red State America where people living in reality work their asses off for an honest living. I’ll give you fair warning that you’ll likely get the same reception there that you do here on TAH if you decide to bray your imaginary brilliance, everyday working people usually have good working bullshit detectors!
WTF dude?
I have far more experience in the real world than you do.
I spent less than 10% of my life at Berkeley.
I lived in Texas for longer than I attended Berkeley.
Georgia, North Carolina, New Mexico. All red states that I lived.
And WTF does your idiotic response have to do with what I wrote about liberties?
YOU SAY you have more real world experience than me. How many years have you made it on your own making a living in the private sector, Babbles McButthead? You yourself have said that your only private sector job was at a McGunk franchise and they’re ALWAYS hiring! I’ve made it on my own since my first ETS in the early 90s and I’m still earning a better income in the private sector than I’m sure you ever will.
You lose yet again, Babbles McButthead.
Making assumptions and jumping to conclusions are about the only things your friend here does well.
Not just that, Babbles McButthead also does an expert job of making a fool of himself!
Babbles McButthead©2017 A Proud Infidel®™, All Rights Reserved.
NM, with the exception of the Four Corners area, is hardly a “red state”.
Try hanging out in Taos or Santa Fe sometime versus Farmington.
Ditto NC. Ask anyone around Charlotte or Raleigh-Durham.
So if you want to compare “real world” experiences, SAT scores, dick size, whatever, you’ve come to the wrong place. Most, if not all, people here know you’re as full of shit as a Christmas goose.
Again, your silence on the concept of individual liberty is very telling. But as far as your earlier question, I’ll bite.
LBGT,etc., “rights” are a wholly contrived notion. It’s not enough they want acceptance; they want America to CONDONE their lifestyle. Newsflash: ain’t happening. America is sick and tired of the tyranny of the minority being shoved down their throats (pun intended.) And make no mistake, the left does love to marginalize, categorize, and put people into convenient little grievance boxes, which makes them easier to identify and control come Election Day.
Here’s a concept: don’t treat me at white, or this, or that, or whatever. How about treating me like my own person, who far more than any nameless, faceless, give-a-shit bureaucrat, knows what’s best for me?
How bout DEM apples, Lars?
“It’s not enough they want acceptance; they want America to CONDONE their lifestyle. Newsflash: ain’t happening.”
AMEN TO THAT. I couldn’t give two hoots of a flying ratshit anymore what someone is in the confines of their own abode on their own time, IMHO it’s nunna my damn business! It’s when someone of an “alternative persuasion” waves their stuff in my face demanding that I wholeheartedly accept it that I have an issue.
The left doesn’t give a damn about gays either. They’re only a useful cudgel to beat their political opponents with and will be abandoned when the lefties think that there is a greater advantage in courting Muslims or whatever other anti-gay minority they think will advance them one step closer to power.
I wonder just where in Texas he was? If the answer is Austin then I say “BOGUS” because anyone who has been there knows it is THE most moonbat-infested part of the entire State.
Is that a challenge, Piuperdink? I have 45 years working in the private sector, AFTER two separate enlistments in the military.
You don’t.
You’re not real bright, y’know.
Come to think of it I myself have nearly 25 years experience in the private sector and came back into the NG after a nine year break in service after my ETS from AD. Has Babbles McButthead ever claimed ANY private sector experience other than his claimed time working at a McGunk franchise?
Liberties are not limitless.
The social contract requires that we accept some loss of liberty in order to function as a society.
The question is always how much liberty should be retained by the individual and how much should be surrendered for society function.
I do not have the “right” to drive my car while intoxicated.
The limits placed on liberty in society are to protect the society. The “greater good”, the “collective”, the “community”, the “public”…whatever you want to call it there is a recognition that individuals do not have the right to harm the community or put it at unjustified risk.
The debate of how much liberty should be retained by the individual and how much authority the society should have in placing limits on individual liberty.
Classically, liberals are MUCH MUCH more tolerant of individual rights and have a much lower tolerance for government infringement on the rights of the individual.
Conservatives tend to prefer much more limits on individual liberties, particularly in areas related to security and “decency”.
Somehow, purely by the use of political rhetoric, American conservatives have branded themselves as the champions of individual liberty. It is all marketing with little actual substance.
Both conservatives and liberals have curtailed liberties in the US unjustifiably. But the most persistent assault on liberty is from the right.
And neither party represents small government at this point. And hasn’t for decades.
OH, REALLY? If liberals are SO tolerant then why do we see nearly endless accounts of liberal “People of Tolerance” calling for and executing acts of violence against those who dissent with them? Where were the mobs of Trump supporters assaulting Hillarrhoids and Bernie-heads like you? Those assaulting, breaking and burning your hallowed UC Beezerkely certainly weren’t Republicans either. How many times have we heard Conservatives calling for acts of violence against libs? NO Babbles McButthead, it’s the other way around including celebrity libtards calling for an armed overthrow using the Military and NOPE, that’s not gonna happen either! As for all the libs calling for violence against Red State Americans let’s not forget that we are the vast majority of Gun Owners. JUST WHEN I thought you couldn’t get any more fart-brained and disconnected from reality you prove me wrong. Libtards call us Conservatives “Nazis” while members of YOUR SIDE act like Hitler’s SA, the “Brown Shirts” who threatened and carried out acts of violence against those who dissented with Nazi dogma.
1st, Trump supporters were attacking people as well.
It is the result of tribalism; political IDENTITY, not political ideology.
It is also why sports team fans attack each other.
2nd, there are hundreds of millions of people in the country and tens of thousands of celebrities. Naming one that said something stupid and trying to claim it is representative of American liberalism is ridiculous.
There were also dozens of rhetorical calls for armed overthrow of the Obama administration, and the Bush administration before that, and Clinton before that, and Bush, and Reagan, and Carter…
3rd, Your post is just a whiney rant about how some liberals say things that upset you. There is no substance to it whatsoever.
Just when and where were there crowds of Trump Supporters harassing and assaulting opposition supporters at their rallies? We’ve seen lots and plenty of the opposite as well as leftist PUNKS still openly calling for violence against those who dissent with them. You lose yet again, Babbles McButthead!
“Trump supporters were attacking people as well.”
When, where, how many involved on both sides, and under what circumstances, Lars? And what evidence do you have that these incidents took place and weren’t more false flags or complete fabrications? Put up or shut the fuck up.
Shut up, piuperdink, you dimwitted sack of donut holes. You haven’t had an original thought since before the day you were conceived. Since YOU did NOT write that drivel you plastered up there, you have to give credit for it or shut up and go home.
Your response does not address anything I said.
Everything I wrote above is my own words.
Hopefully, my ability to write is improving because of my meds. I was once a very good writer. I have been convinced that I lost that capacity but not able to prove it. One of the symptoms of Hashimoto’s disease is memory loss and brain fog. (Google “Hashimoto’s effect on brain”)
It is too early to tell if I am getting my health back. I felt before that I would go from periods of perfect clarity to periods of difficulty communicating, processing information, and forgetfulness. Since I had never heard of Hashimoto’s I thought it was either TBI related or my chronic insomnia.
Add to it that I have dysgraphia/dyslexia and it is challenging for me to write clearly and error-free when my health is compromised.
But i will take your assumption that I did not write the above post as a compliment and a good sign that my mental and cognitive health may be improving.
Not just mass hypocrisy in assaults over political beliefs, how about one account after the other about the EXISTING POLLUTION left behind by the DARPA protestors threatening the ecology of the Misouri River? Trucks hauling it off also have to take a roundabout route due to the bridge burned by your fellow tree-hugging candyassed shit-for-brained snowflakes.
You concocated that? You’re actually dumb enough to pretend to yourself that if you scam here and there bits and pieces of Rousseau, Locke, and Hume but don’t credit them at all, no one would know?
You aren’t fooling anyone,you know. You just think you are. Like I said, you haven’t had an original idea since before you were conceived, nor will you ever come up with one.
Frankly, if you’re trying to persuade anyone here that communism is the best thing since toilet paper, you’re wasting your time. And yes, you are a communist, Piuperdink. The Marx website is better at it than you are – far better, especially when it comes to finding suckers to fool.
Why don’t you just hike on down to Venezuela and find out what the social contract is like down there? Just so you know, that’s a RHETORICAL question that does NOT require an answer.
And the reason you comments go into moderation is not because you mistyped your e-mail addy. That little bit of fluff shows up in a pull-down in the e-mail slot. Another gotcha! on the scoreboard.
I disagree, Ex-PH2. IMO Poodle isn’t a Communist. Instead, he’s a poputchik. In English, a “fellow traveler”.
Further, IMO he’s an ignorant and unknowing poputchik as well. He truly believes that “we can do it right this time”, and that he’s not supporting Communist ideals.
That really shows off his intellectual acumen, eh?
I can grudgingly respect a committed, declared Communist – the same way I can respect any dangerous enemy. But I have little respect for someone who is so dense they don’t realize what they’re actually advocating when they advocate “Progressive” positions.
It’s obvious that Babbles McButthead is disconnected from reality. I sometimes see him as one who is quite socially disconnected and thus my hypothesis is that he comes here and screeches whenever his misfit liberal UC Berzerkely crowd ostracizes him.
I’ll accept your response, Hondo, but I would still refer to him as a common Communist, a lower-level wannabe-apparatchik who would kowtow to the the elitist levels because, like any other parasite, he thinks that would give him a place in their ranks. The ‘fellow traveler’ might apply in the beginning, but as time went on, he’d have his head buried in the sand over what they were really like.
He is so completely dense that I do believe he’d have fallen for the disastrous nonsense of Lysenkoism. Ideology is everything to people like the Lars the Piuperdink Poodle.
Are you fucking kidding me? I didn’t steal anything from them
This is all BASIC FUCKING SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY. I do not have to attribute social contract theory to them BECAUSE IT IS AN ANCIENT THEORY. It is so fucking old we do not even know for sure who was the first philosopher to discuss it.
So old we only SPECULATE on who wrote about it first.
Just because Locke, Rousseau, and Hume wrote about it does not mean I have to credit them.
Everything I wrote was my own thoughts having read far more than only Lock, Rousseau, and Hume and nothing I wrote was stolen from them except that they all influenced by thoughts on the issue. Which is not the same damn thing as stealing their ideas.
Nothing I wrote is an idea they came up with first, so none of the is THEIR ideas.
You are such a pain in the ass.
And the whole bullshit about social contract in Venezuela idiotic. What the fuck does it have to do with anything I said?
And he kicks the mine again!!!
Man, I must have really pinched a nerve there! Score 100 for me. It’s a shame, though, isn’t it? It’s just a shame that he runs away when he’s faced down and only comes back out of hiding after checking the perimeter of his gopher hole to see if anyone is watching. That way he never gets the rebuttals he fears so badly when his lack of comprehension manifests itself in angry little retorts and defensive posturing.
Typical consistent behavior. Predictable and boring.
NEXT!!!
“Add to it that I have dysgraphia/dyslexia and it is challenging for me to write clearly and error-free when my health is compromised.”
One treatment for dysgraphia is using a computer.
I’ve wondered about the use of that, myself. Personally, I view the Piuperdink as someone who is mentally lazy, but finds excuses for it that are disingenuous at the very least. But then, there’s always an excuse coming from his side of the fence.
Ex-PH2, I’m not trying to take LARS’ side on this or any other issue, but if he has Hashimoto’s disease, it could account for some of his “behavior” when he posts at TAH – my ex-wife had Hashimoto’s and she was almost psychotic before she had surgery to remove her thyroid (it got so bad that she had moments when she wanted to either kill herself or kill everyone around her and dramatic mood swings). Also, if he’s not therapeutic on his thyroid meds, memory loss and confusion are symptoms – I was able to tell when the ex didn’t take her meds just by her behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashimoto's_thyroiditis
Anything is possible, Senior Chief. It’s possible you’re right, but he doesn’t seem as disorganized mentally that way as he would if he had that problem.
False. Dysgraphia is not simply addressed by using a computer. That only helps with graphomoter issues.
I have problems with substituting words and sequential ordering. Neither is fixed with a computer. In fact the increased speed I am able to type vs handwrite INCREASES my problems with sequential ordering and word substitution.
I am really getting tired of the attempts to attack my credibility. I have dysgraphia, it should be pretty damn obvious in my writing history on this board.
My autocorrect program is literally replacing words with words that have letters tripod in the correct order as I type this.
If you say the mess that was coming out as I typed you would not be trying to sharpshoot my credibility.
Autocorrect?
That’s a lame damned excuse for not proofreading your crap before you hit ‘POST’. You’re lazy, lazy, lazy.
Found a job yet?
I see a lot of Larsfacts posted by Lars.
Just because you do not agree with it does not make it false.
It is a MATHEMATICAL UNDISPUTABLE ESTABLISHED FACT THAT WOMEN ARE DISPROPORTIONALLY EFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
There is literally not counter-narratives to this except wilful ignorance. Every study that investigates the effect of climate change has the same results with respect to the disproportionate effect on women.
The empirical and mathematical evidence is overwhelming.
HEY Babbles McButthead, may I suggest a remedial grammar course? Seriously, I had better English Composition and grammar skills than you when I was a high school Freshman! Maybe you could find yourself some self esteem as well, yelling and screaming like you do is often read by others as a sign of insecurity. AS TO your rant about *FART!* climate change, what a bunch of senseless goose shit! It depends on where one is, if it happens somewhere in the shithole third world well, they’ve been that backward for centuries. If this climate change junk is real then what about the end of the California drought as well as climate changing before the Industrial Age? *YAWN*, You lose yet again, sugarbritches!
Learn the difference between ‘EFFECT’ and ‘AFFECT’, Piuperdink. You are functionally illiterate.
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I am puzzled by the contrast of a “commissar” saying “I am not a communist”. As I understand it, the transliterated word “commissar” refers to an official of the Communist party. If someone called himself “Exalted Cyclops”, but then said “I am not a Klansman”. It would be absurd. Based on the botched advocacy, I awarded the dubious nickname of “Zampolit”. He hasn’t earned either title, but he certainly seems comfortable with them. Weirdly, far more comfortable than his own name. What I find especially fascinating, is that as a former MI and former CA person, he is singularly, even spectacularly, tone-deaf in dealing with the community of TAH. He is not persuasive in advocating his world view of the current situation or trends. He is winning no hearts or minds. He seems utterly incapable of interacting with the locals in any sort of a productive way. Presented a minefield of “prickly” people, he dons the tap-shoes and commences to dance in the minefield. Of all the MI and CA effective people I ever met, I cannot think of one, not one single one, that carries on in such a manner. There have been times I have wanted to send a Dear Jonn letter (whoops!) and say “Dude! Where did you buy the click bait “Red Piniata” simulator software?” He does generate a staggering number of counterposts, so if that were his real nature, then Bravo! But folks here assert that he is validated as human and as part of the community of those who serve or served. So my puzzlement is redoubled. How, barring a complete personality swap-out, did our Zampolit ever function in MI and CA? AM I just seeeing a small sub-group that was wildly divergent from reality? Is this sort of carrying on what we send into villages, successfully? The only place I coudl see this sort of thing working is in a mission to the Tellerite part of the Federation, in the Star Trek universe, a culture where thought-out insult and deliberate obstinate contra-positioning was normal civil discourse. Me personally, I am so far off… Read more »
I call myself “Commissar” as a response to constantly being called “communist” by the members of this board.
Originally I called myself “Commissar Poodledick” because the second most common thing I was called was “poodledick” or “poodle”.
So I owned the names.
I am not sure why you needed that explained. It was not that confusing.
I stopped using “Poodledick” because some snowflake felt the name “Poodledick” was profane.
How the fuck her serves in the military and is offended by the word “Poodledick” is quite special indeed.
WHATEVER, Poodles McPudwhack.
No one gives a flup about the word “poodledick”. Your default setting of “fly off the handle” is the oddity.
Is the objection to “communist” that it implies the everyman footsoldier of that belief, verus the “officer” status of a “commissar” in the system of communism?
You could be a more interesting participant if you could just get the hang of not being so easily needled. Study LC. He does it well.
Naw, 11B, he WANTS to be needled. He WANTS to be the victim of whatever. He WANTS it so that he can point at it and say ‘see how mean they are’ even though he brings it on himself.
He uses it as a badge of honor. It is part of a tag that was assigned to him, not of his origination. He insists he is not a commie, a tag that he earned by espousing aspects of marxist theory and embracing certain aspects of socialism, the transitional phase toward the communist utopia. There is no monolithic brand of communism so Commissar (a/k/a commissar) can insist until he turns blue that he isn’t a commie because he disagrees with this element of one brand of communism and that element of another. No matter. He’s still a commie, of whatever flavor I don’t much care.
I was mainly ambivalent about this piece until this gem: “There is another group. These are the subversives inside our government agencies. These are not Presidential appointees, but career federal employees who are selected and promoted into sensitive positions because of their political connections and leanings.”
Aside from the obvious logical flaw (who is more political, the presidential appointee or the career civil servant?), the clear implication that the “deep state” is trying to undermine Trump is a baseless charge.
I’ll assume your are speaking to the leaks from the ‘intel community’, and are implying that they are getting their revenge for Trump’s attacks.
First, the FBI/Justice would have been monitoring Flynn’s phone calls, in their counterintelligence role. Of course, if there is anyone on the planet that know or should have known that phone calls to Russian officials are monitored it is Flynn.
Second, the ‘Intel Community’ didn’t fire Flynn. Trump did that. Of course, Trump knew (or should have known) what Flynn did. He said himself that he didn’t think what Flynn did was a big deal, and certainly didn’t think it was wrong. What changed?
I think you should look a bit closer at the team of rivals Trump built in his White House staff. There’s only so much room up Trump’s ass to make his mouth move, and between Bannon and Miller they aren’t going to let anyone else have a chance.
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Karl Marx could’n’t have said it better. Boo hoo, the “elite” are keeping me down. Boo hoo, rise up against the “elite”. Everyman take your place against the elite and bourgeois. Commie drivel.
I’m laughing my ass off at how this thread has triggered Lars.
He wants to protect his bubble, just like he defends that cesspool Berkeley.
Don’t worry comrade, I’m sure the bulldozers will have enough gas left to pop the bubble after they have razed UC Berkeley to the ground and replaced it with a Trade School.
Two words describe Trade School Graduates with a work ethic in today’s job market: IN DEMAND. Any Certified Electrician, Plumber, Welder, or other crafts with a Journeyman’s Card can earn much more than the vast majority of four year graduates today and can out-earn a number of those with Masters or PhD’s.
Well, this has been fun, but I need breakfast, and I’ve put together another post that should rip the poodle another one. After all, he only shows up to get attention and pick fights.