Why are some people afraid of the red hat?
Another post from our own VoV, who also by now needs no further introduction. Take it, V..
The video shows a young woman claiming to be frightened by the wearing of the MAGA hat. So frightened she launches into an argument about her emotions are just as important as facts. The video ends before she gets too far into explaining how her emotions are real and because they are real they are the same as facts.
It’s a ridiculous premise of course, but it’s an interesting phenomenon of late as we hear it over and over in other forms. Liberal colleges shouting down a conservative speaker, those same colleges offering safe spaces where butthurt little angels can play with sparkle ponies and relieve the stress and anguish of hearing a different viewpoint from their tender sensibilities. News shows asking about feelings and positing the idea that some words should be banned and some ideas along with them because they run counter to the current mainstream politically correct ideas about speech and speech crimes. Oblivious to the idea that once you allow some speech to become restricted it’s only a matter of time before the encroachment becomes all too overbearing and idea limiting.
Which brings me to the dreaded Red Hat, what is it about that hat that strikes terror into the hearts of so many on the left? Where did this notion of Trump the racist is causing death and destruction throughout the nation come from? Why does it propagate in the complete absence of evidence? Black unemployment and Hispanic unemployment are at nationally historic lows, murder is dropping again. Unemployment overall is low, job creation and personal incomes are up. There are no Americans being rounded up and forced into re-education camps and Trump has not even shut down the shit show that is the Mueller investigation. The factual evidence of our current situation is that we are prospering and relatively safe in these United States. Clearly something must be wrong though, how can so many people find Trump a racist monster who also hates the LGBTQ community and hastens their early death on a regular basis through his pogroms?
I think the video explains it quite well, there is a large group of Americans operating under the notion that their emotions should carry the same weight as factual evidence. That their beliefs “trump” facts because they feel that’s how it ought to be.
It certainly explains the easily frightened college students, the desire by colleges to prohibit speech that interferes with their emotional state of anti-Trump feelings.
It also sadly reveals once again how few people understand the concepts behind freedom as understood by the men who built this nation after the revolution with England. It reveals the desire for safety over freedom and it reveals just how many Americans are content to sit on their asses consuming social media, reality TV, and numbing themselves to the fact they’ve willingly become the sheep they’ve been so often referred to by the ruling elite of the nation.
I’ve made clear previously I’m not a particular fan of Trump either now or previously, I however do have the capacity to recognize when something is working and give credit to those who’ve made it work and that is where I believe we are now. Doing well as a nation largely due to the efforts of the disruptor to throw a wrench in the gears of government and make it cry out and change for the betterment of the people it purports to serve and protect.
As usual I’m reminded of Mencken when I consider Trump’s actions when Mencken wrote this: The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
Perhaps Mencken’s words apply equally to politicians, the best ones are also often deeply flawed but serve us best in spite of those flaws.
That’s it for now, let me know your thoughts.
VoV
Category: Guest Post
Last time I checked, we elect ALL politians to elective offices – not as clergy.
You want exemplary moral behavior? Go and see your Pastor/Priest/Rabbi. And even then, be prepared to be disappointed from time to time.
He can’t because he is a Marxist and atheist. He can’t consult with his dead commie heroes like Che, Karl, and Lenin. And he doesn’t have the guts to travel to Venezuela.
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I was speaking in general terms, rgr769 – not replying to or talking about a specific individual.
Sorry, I guess I immediately thought of our fave crypto-commie/Marxist.
I haven’t been to a synagogue since I joined the Army. I can’t stand the patronizing.
I used to go to Temple Moshe, a Sephardic synagogue on Normandy Drive, Miami beach, but I guess I have been losing my spirituality over the years.
I still keep Kosher though, well, Hollywood Kosher (no pork or lobster), but separation of milk and meat? Pleez.
So sad. My grandparents would never forgive me.
Separation of church and state? Sure. Separation of meat and milk? NEVER! You will have to pry that cheeseburger from my cold, dead hands.
The Cheeseburger is part of my Communion ritual.
I am not supposed to eat meat on Friday.
God will kill me if the meat doesn’t.
Those symbols tatooed on the skin head gender freaks melon scare me. I’m triggered.
Oh, and to answer the titular question two answers come to mind.
The first: they’re brainwashed fools.
The second: they’re baldfaced liars who are dissembling in order to further an agenda.
What’s wrong with a little of both?
Nah, IMO the two categories here are mutually exclusive. I was using the term “fool” to mean “a person with little or no judgment, common sense, wisdom, etc.; silly or stupid person; simpleton” – e.g., definition 1a in the second group of definitions here. Perhaps a better choice of words on my part would have been “idiot”.
Anyone who spouts that BS knowing it’s false to support an agenda is not a fool. They’re of normal or better intelligence – but are morally bankrup.
Point taken; I would think one must be at least a little brain-washed to buy into the agenda in the first place. The baldfaced lies and dissembling comes next.
Either way they are both useful idiots- I think we can agree on that.
This summarizes it pretty well.
Empty catchwords reveal a mind that’s unwilling to analyze and debate. – Thomas Sowell
They have nothing else, they cannot debate or respond logically, because they have NOTHING but slogans and jingoisms to use. Rather than support their arugment, they have no real argument to support, and could not do so if they did have an argument.
No man survives when freedom fails
Good men rot in filthy jails
And those who cried “Appease, appease”
Are hanged by those they sought to please
— Hiram Mann
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” – Sir Winston Churchill
Remember the crucifix that was placed in a jar of urine? It was called art and we as Christians should not be offended.
Today the left is offended by everything Conservatives and Christians do. The left loves being offended as it upgrades their status in the liberal hierarchy. Being offended is the lifestyle of the left and it is only going to get.
get worse.
It’s a “woman’s choice” now in NY to have a baby born alive executed because she doesn’t want it. And we’re the side of bigotry and hate.
Specifically to the red hat – it is a symbol of everything that the loony left refuses to acknowledge about itself. They persist in remaining delusional, are willfully ignorant about everything from history to the meaning of words, and completely self centered and self absorbed. If they were to stop calling me a racist, for instance, they might have to accept that they actually are racist. So, they adopt instead accusing others of being what they are. In doing so, you can bet the farm that anything and everything the left accuses others of doing they have done or are doing themselves. Every time.
The red hat reminds them of just how wrong they are about everything. If they could just get everyone else to stop wearing them the lefty loons could continue to embrace their delusions. (Consdered saying “…happily continue…” but realized that is impossible. The left is never happy no matter what you give them.)
I think it’s termed ‘deflection’, or something like that. They can’t bear to see what hypocrites they are, so they throw it all off on you and me.
Unfortunately, it does not stick.
The left has some serious projection issues.
There is no Pelosi. There is only ZUUL.
Orange man bad
Orange man bad
orange man bad
Orange man bad
Don’t confuse them with the facts…Their minds are made up.
Orange man bad
orange man bad
Orange man bad
Sadly I think this covers much of the current Democratic party platform…
Lars and his ilk have minds like concrete, they’re permanently set and all mixed up!
Lots of sheep out there…They do not want to think for themselves…
Wearing a MAGA hats says a lot about a person. “Independant thinker”!is not one of them.
The very act of wearing the hat is a form of virtue signaling to like minded sheep.
So is wearing a pussy hat, sports jersey, or anything but a plain grey shirt. What’s your point, dumbass?
The difference is I laugh at and pity the small mindedness of a pussy hat wearing lib while your side calls anyone who wears a MAGA hat a bigot, homophobic, racist Nazi.
No, actually it is a sign of courage. Knowing that by wearing it you risk being attacked by a crowd of asshats like you. Assisted ably by the MSM. It takes zero guts to protest any thing our current president does, because you know it won’t adversely effect you, rather the loud left will praise you as a “hero”.
So true; as one risks physical injury wearing such a display. And once attacked they are also subject to additional attacks by the media for inviting and inciting criminal acts against them; the same media that claims to believe in the 1st Amendment.
The true sheep are those who band together to bully others – i.e. the leftists.
How about that pussy hat you have? Would you tell the other girls the same thing? F’n moron.
Wrong again. I wear my “deplorable” T-shirt as an act of defiance; an ANTI-virtue-signalling device. A polite way of saying FU or KMA to those who insult me by calling me racist, bigot, or like minded sheep. It’s kind of amusing how many anti-Trump people say those same things, almost as if they were like minded sheep.
Spent the weekend in Prescott Az. My wife wore her Trump 2020 hat. She got dozens of people telling her they liked the hat. Me with my Sig Sauer 9mm just smiled and said thanks. She with her Smith and Wesson in her purse said thanks also. Hey asshole Lars, please send your Antifa buddies our way. Please do. This is not a fake post
Please please please send your Antifa buddies our way……. Coward.
Lars, you’re probably like that POS Commie ex-Lt that was booted out for wearing his Che-shirt beneath his uniform at West Point. I bet that you have a bunch of commie idol t-shirts that you wore beneath you uniform. You probably didn’t have the guts to tell your superiors that you’re a fan-boi for socialism/communism while in uniform… you just kissed their asses while muttering under your breath what would happen if you were in charge.
Courage is something that you have been lacking for a long, long fucking time.
Nobody is afraid of it. Literally nobody on the face of the earth is afraid of this moronic looking hat.
They just assume anyone wearing one is an ignorant ass.
So people get “unfairly” judged for wearing one.
If I saw a guy in a MAGA hat helping an old lady cross the street I would think “what a douchebag” and chances are I would be right.
You should have saved yourself some typing and just typed “I am a bigot” and you would have said the same thing.
It’s that high fallutin’ college education that Larsie has… probably has a PhD in it.
Must stand for “Phuckin’ Dumbass.
You obviously mean a “Piled higher and Deeper”!
He has no graduate degree. By his own admission he dropped out of school because he got “sick.”
What did you do when that video played? Close your eyes and put your fingers in your ears and yell “nah, nah, nah?” Apparently, you just pretend anything that happens that is inconstant with your Marxist reality and narrative didn’t happen.
He thought it was Sinead Oconner and got a woodie.
And if we saw you coming out from behind a dumpster, would we think that you were there performing sexual favors?
– Maybe you were taking the trash out?
– Closing the lid to keep stray critters out?
– Checking to see if there needed to be a call made to have it dumped/picked up?
– Hiding evidence of a crime?
But, you had to go balls deep BIGOT, didn’t you Larsie?
Don’t act like triggered snowflakes over the dumb hats. You all likely feel similar when you see Bernie shirts or pink pussy cat hats.
Or a Prius for that matter.
Unlike what Liberals do with people in red hats, we don’t assault people for wearing Bernie shirts or pink pussy hats.
Thats because noone has ever seen someone wearing a pussy hat, or a burnie shirt, or driving a prius act like a rational human being.. And it’s not “being triggered” when you point at them and laugh you dipshit
Dammit,ya beat me to it.
“pink pussy cat hats” They are pussy hats, as in vagina.
“You all likely feel similar…”
You just can’t avoid that bigotry, can you? I think it’s called projection.
Quit knocking Prius’, Commie, they have great gas mileage which is required in a “Progressive” state like California where the governed proles and plebes are taxed into oblivion for the panacea of your ilk.
Plus they last for at least a half-million miles and they’re built in America which must really piss you off.
But, Pearl Harbor. Just following the logic of “The Crusades”
Bernie shirts or pink vag caps? No, I’m not triggered. I just thank God I’m not a freaking idiot like the Bernie shirt or pink vag cap wearers.
However, I’ve known a few Prius drivers. Based on that admittedly small sample size, I’d guess at least 50% – if not more – are smug, egotistical, and conceited a-holes who falsely think they’re superior to everyone else while having absolutely no good reason to believe that about themselves.
By any chance do you drive a Prius, Poodle?
That hat is like a range flag, it warns one and all that if I’m under it I am heavily armed and probably having a bad day. Fuck with it, or me and you will have a worse day than I am.
Don’t worry about it you all will feel less attached to your hats after the Mueller report comes out.
The role of Mueller is being played by Dark Helmet in this remarkably prescient scene:
When it doesn’t come out the way you want it to are you going to riot with your fellow travelers?
Only in their own neighborhoods, where they know noone will defend their property by shooting the violent dipshits!
The Starbucks windows are nervous!
Commissar won’t riot. He’s a coward. He’ll find some safe place to flap his cock holster about how a bunch of violent leftists rioting somehow makes the rest of us ignorant racists.
He’s the fucking “agitator” – get him all wee wee’d up and he’ll get the muscle to do the dirty work… heaven forbid that Larsie-boi pick up a rock or a club and physically fight for a cause he believes in.
He stirs the pot to get his Antifa and OWS buddies all worked up and raging.
Yeah, and you predicted Trump’s certain defeat as well. Oh. I nearly forgot. You also flatly stated that Kavanaugh’s nomination was dead. So, sure. Your predictions have value. Whatever you predict, we can bank the opposite outcome.
Washington isn’t a city, it’s a colander. You cannot expect anyone to believe that nothing has leaked out of that investigation over two years … could be that there is nothing there? Maybe?
Here we go again, –
“Orange Man bad” – *CLICK*
“Orange Man bad”- *CLICK*
“Orange Man bad” – *CLICK*
“Orange Man bad” – *CLICK*
…
Love Trump’s hate, Lars. I read it on a t-shirt.
That’s pretty low, even using the standard of a Larsian metric.
Personally, if I saw a guy helping an old lady cross the street, I might be inclined to consider how there might be hope for the rest of us if there are those around still capable of altruistic kindness. The hat would have nothing to do with it.
Well< you're just smarter than Lars.
Run program NPC
“Nobody is afraid of it. Literally nobody on the face of the earth is afraid of this moronic looking hat.”
Except for all of the people whose quotes you can read if you Google “Fear of MAGA hats.” You assert as true and absolute that which is false. You really are an asshole, Lars.
No, you would be a typical left wing bigot.
Lars “Cuntholio” Taylor, AKA Comrade Dickless, lies to himself almost as much as he lies to everyone else.
Thus proving exactly what many of us have said about liberalism all along – it is completely out of touch with reality. That may be why most of us pity you. To adopt a philosophy of life where you are required to belittle others, actually kill human life, and refuse to find joy in the success that Americans find when they advance their own lot in life is beyond sad.
I’m not triggered by a red MAGA hat. I wear it as a trigger. It tends to make people show their true colors. Especially when those people are liberals, progressives, or any of those spineless, lackluster, non-producing societal leeches. People much like you. Folks that have decades of education but not a single minute’s worth of knowledge.
“Folks that have decades of education but not a single minute’s worth of knowledge.”
Nor a drop of logic, facts or common sense thus that’s what “triggers” them!
Except that’s not at so what the young lady said. She clearly says she and everyone with her were afraid of the hat. It friends then for what it represents, her words not mine.
Clearly it doesn’t frighten everyone, but it makes a lot of people uncomfortable enough they need to voice that concern. Others resort to violence. That’s a topic for a different essay.
Fear is an interesting means of directing people were you wanted them in the first place, under control for their own safety like sheep.
Goddamn auto correct it frightens them… Not friends them..
Auto correct is a real Mother Forklift from time to time!
Fuck you berkelyey faggot. Cannot get a woman can you…
Trigglypuff pegs him on Tuesdays…
“They just assume…”
Well, you know what they say about those who “assume”.
Why are leftists afraid of red is the real question. Better yet, how is that conservatism became known as red in this country while blue was hijacked by the progressives? Might the media have something to do with that a few decades back and was their choice purposeful?
Rhetorical question, I know.
Spot on Garold. They’re trying to deflect from the fact that since communism came into being , the american left has seen it as an ideal, and has actively colluded with them. I’d be willing to bet a LARGE sum of cash that EVERY traitor that has given info to the communists Rosenbergs on down, was, if not a card carrying democrat, damn sure voted that way..
Howdy, Fyrfighter, we know of Russian collusion going back to the Truman Administration. The latest evidence of same is that of Hillary and Obama and it’s always the Dems working against their country.
In fact to this day we still don’t know what Barrack was promising Putin as he was caught on an open microphone kowtowing to Putin. The media just isn’t interested in real news so they need to fake it; basically phoning it in and waiting for the next morning’s talking points from the DNC.
The Mueller investigation will be over someday and that day will be the day President Trump is no longer in office. He’s fighting the entire swamp to include the dirty cops. He truly is the new Eliot Ness.
Truman administration? Try his predecessor FDR, if not earlier. A fair number of government officials in the FDR administration are today strongly suspected of or have been proven to have been KGB or GRU sources. NSA’s Venona
Project provided the evidence for that.
You’re right, Hondo. I was working off of memory from what I read in the well researched book by Ann Coulter “Treason”. And I do me well researched; like all her books are.
It’s too bad she can be such an idiot at times. Chris Christie? Seriously?
For a moment I thought I was reading an article by Rick Moron, the dude from American Thinker.
NeverTrumpers argue things are going good despite the Trumpminator slaying all the Lords of Words, not because of it.
How’s about you and Lars go find a nice quiet spot to blow eachother, then everyone else can have a meaningful discussion.
Are you still angry at me?
Come on dude. Grow a pair.
There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with each other.
Disagreeing is fine. You calling me a fucking collectivist/communist is not. You did the latter out of left field for no apparent reason, certainly not based on anything I’ve ever said on here. I’m married into a family that escaped one of the worst commie nightmares the world has ever seen. People I love were tortured and raped by Lars’s heroes. Are you starting to pick up how that wasn’t cool yet? So yeah, Slow Joe, you can fuck yourself.
Grow a pair yourself Joe and apologize. You attacked him for no reason, maybe it was the booze. Just man up and admit it and move on. You’re an NCO. Act like it.
Hey Slow Joe, YOU FUCKED UP, now you need to realize and owe up to it!
Turn this shit around on them and use it against him. The next time you see some idiot wearing a “Fuck Trump” t-shirt, ask them why they are using the language of rape and sexual violence. Tell them that you are triggered. Ask them why they condone language that perpetuates white male sexual oppression. Ask them why they hate women and feel the need to rape them.
As Alinsky said, hold your opponent to their own standards. It works.
If they try to score points by pointing out that you are a white male, go nuke-you-lar on them for assuming your ethnicity and gender.
If you are arguing with a dude that’s making no sense and won’t shut up, then I suggest using the Dave Hardin approach and tell him “I’ve killed scarier guys than you in prison.”. I’ve seen that work remarkably well.
If you make that ‘on my back steps, trying to hold me up at gunpoint….’, I could use it.
“Tell them that you are triggered. Ask them why they condone language that perpetuates white male sexual oppression. Ask them why they hate women and feel the need to rape them. As Alinsky said, hold your opponent to their own standards. It works.” – GDC
Exactly! Use their lingo on them. It drives them crazy and you can literally watch their heads spin 360 as they’ve no response. They will start stuttering and resort back to the only lines they’ve been taught, as they’re incapable of reasoned thought and debate. When they accuse you of “white privilege” accuse them of being racist. When they attack you because you’ve more income than them tell them envy is evil. When called out for “toxic masculinity”, call them sexists. If called a “denier”, call them plant haters and destroyers of all that is actually green. If accused of “cultural appropriation”, tell them to get out of their automobiles and stop using their cell phones.
I was wondering when the guy was going to tell her that she is using her white privilege to suppress people of color to fit her emotional immaturity…
BOOM !!!!!!!!!!
I still can’t get over the fact that the MSM dictates even the words we use.
They made Republicans red and Democrats blue, the color used in wargames for friendly forces.
I am sure it was to discredit any attempt to link Democrats with red communists.
I think that color switch happened a while back, in the 1990s.
I think the last time I saw the mainstream snooze media use blue for GOP was when Ronald Reagan ran over Mondale in his 1984 reelection.
Fully half the population has below average intelligence. That explains why idiots like that girl in the video cannot handle facts. The left hand side of the curve is the below average side, which gives a new, but accurate and long overdue, meaning to the word ‘leftist’.
“Fully half the population has below average intelligence.” Tima
Absolutely. I used a similar line in one of my college classes I teach “Half the populace is below average” and a few of my students took umbrage with the statement. I had to explain statistics to them in a few short sentences.
Ya shoulda just told them That the Stanford Binet scores are representative of the Gaussian distribution and are thus a continuous function which approximates the exact binomial distribution of population IQ.
Then watches their heads ‘splode.
Now that made my head explode and I almost understand it !!!
It should be degaussed though…
It might trigger the magnetic actuators on the nearest channel migratory eliminator…
“…Liberal colleges shouting down a conservative speaker, those same colleges offering safe spaces where butthurt little angels can play with sparkle ponies and relieve the stress and anguish of hearing a different viewpoint from their tender sensibilities.”
That sentence perfectly describes play therapy inside a mental hospital. I feel more and more strongly that that is where college inhabitants and some very opinionated leftists should be. For their own well being as well as the nation’s.
OK…which one of y’all used up all the linear goal oriented thought? See WTF happens?
Lars: Get a dog and treat him well. There’s a chance, however remote, that he will actually listen to you. No one else will.
Might be a bad idea 2/17 A C. Think about it, Lars down on all fours trying to lick his dog’s private parts, and get chewed up like a bitch trying to swallow one of Fido’s canine testicles. Come to think of it, that might make a good country music song.
Wonder what was done by the prior guests of the hotel or motel room that you were in?
Well, I had a fat woman sit on my face with her bare bottom. She was facing my feet, so my whole face was covered. She did not just sit, she bounced her butt up and down. Whoop plop whoop plop whoop plop. The bed made noises. Eeeeeer rrrrr eeeee rrrrr eeee rrrrrr eeee rrrrrr eeeeee rrrrrrr.
She did this for a very long time. Kept pounding my face with her poop chute. I was stiff the whole time too.
That is what happened in the room that you are about to check into.
I heard that it wasn’t at a hotel… it was in the stock room at the “Hammer and Sickle Soy-Boi Cafe and Co-op”.
Hey Chief….remember the words to that song we used to enjoy more when we were younger?
“Welcome To The Hotel Californicate”
If a MAGA hat is the new KKK Hood, why don’t you go down the National Mall in Washington DC and demand that all of those vendors (an overwhelming number of them being 3rd World immigrants) stop selling these symbols of hate?
The sight of a MAGA hat triggers me too.
It triggers me to yell, “Merica First, Go Team Merica, Merica Fucht Yeah”.
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place.
These kids are living in the land of make-believe. Something that is the direct offshoot of the participation trophies and no criticism of them when they grew up.
They did not do these kids any favors. As time gores on they will learn just like we did, albeit at a much earlier age than they will.
When it does finally happen they will realize just how horrible their parents were.
The guy that was evicted by his parents at 30 something is exactly what they wanted for him. He was given no criticism or spankings and was given every participation trophy in existence.
I think it is funny as hell that they got exactly the kid they wanted but then realized how stupid they really were at the end.
The got what they wanted and deserved, fuck all of them…
True larsy-boi material there.
That is exactly what he wants America to be.
Lars is upset that when he performs fellatio on hi boyfriend his face turns red, just like the hat. Then his boyfriend screams out’ make me feel great again’ it’s just to close for Lars.
Lars…thanks to your crawling out from under a rock again, you’ve given me the beginning of another get rich scheme. That is, selling ushankas (AKA Russian ear flap hats) on the Internet. They will all be yellow and read “Make Commissar Great Again…Put A Banana Up His Liberal Monkey Ass” and watch him spin himself around in circles with a big shit- eating grin…begging for approval. At only $1 each, my pockets will be forever full. How else could he have a “happy ending” every day of the week?