What goes around comes around

Victor Davis Hanson writes in part in American Greatness,

Barack Obama’s 21st-century intelligence hierarchs and their minions systematically outdid Richard Nixon’s plumbers, spooks, and spies. Obama appointees and loyalists surveilled American citizens, doctored or destroyed evidence, and monitored their communications. They deceived FISA courts to justify such illegal surveillance, set perjury ambushes to snare perceived political opponents, and used informants to spy on political enemies. They leaked classified information to damage opponents, paid foreign nationals during a political campaign to gather dirt on a presidential candidate, and repeatedly either flat out lied under oath to Congress or on hundreds of occasions claimed they “could not remember” when asked factual questions.

...Move Nancy Pelosi’s palazzo to sit on the border, subject Bill Gates to Bernie Sanders’s wealth tax and his envisioned 70 percent income tax rate, have Dianne Feinstein or Gavin Newsom live in an inner-city neighborhood or make NBA stars follow Chinese rules of collective bargaining and state-mandated compensation, or subject Samantha Power, Bruce Ohr, John Brennan, and Andrew McCabe to federal indictments, and Barack Obama to the sort of impeachment charade we witnessed months ago, and we would not have what is now the progressive party.

Read more here.

Who is fooling whom?

"The level of disrespect in this is off the charts."

In PJ Media, Roger L. Simon asks,

Why do liberals and Progressives lie to blacks? ...The obvious is that they are fishing for votes. Warren has a putative weakness with African American voters. Tom Steyer is unknown to them (as he is to a lot of people). Harris is sinking fast and needs to shore up her rep and Julián Castro's campaign has barely been registering enough to keep him on the debate stage.

But beneath this are more disturbing beliefs, one of which is on the edge of disgusting and actually racist: that African Americans prefer to be lied to than told the truth. The corollary to this is that they are easily lied to if you stir them up. The level of disrespect in this is off the charts.

\Read more here.

"Our speech is violence. Their violence is speech!"

From JJ Sefton's Morning Report. Read it here and choose what links you want to click on.

Are we going to "nice" ourselves to death?

Andrew plays a clip of Michael Moore trying to convince Michelle Obama to enter the 2020 race. It would be the ultimate Right vs. Left matchup. It is amazing how Obama destroyed the Democratic party while remaining popular himself.

The one word you never hear in a Democratic debate is liberty. Everything the government controls comes at the expense of your liberty.

They are also not talking about growth, building stuff.

Andrew plays a clip of Elijah Cummings from 20 years ago talking about how his District in Baltimore is a "drug-infested area, where 14- or 15-year-old children are walking around like zombies!"

"Progressive" is a competition of who can be the nicest. If Donald Trump said something like what Cummings said he would be crucified! The internet is the worst thing that could happen to the Democrats, because it preserves videos or words they said in the past when they were not as "progressive" as they are now! Of course, many of these old clips vanish as the candidates become more progressive!

The media were shocked that the candidates kept picking on Obama. Progressives always progress away from the past. The guy behind you has always been doing wrong. Progressives try to make you feel guilty so they can justify taking stuff from you. If you elect Donald Trump, you will not be nice!

Peter Whittle is today's guest. He is a British author and politician who hosts a YouTube show entitled "So what you're saying is." People voted to Brexit but the liberal establishment still doesn't understand why people voted to Brexit. The only thing that is discussed is what is the effect going to be on the economy. He doubts Britain will be out of the European Union by October 31.

Bellyaching, sore losers, crybabies

Oregon Muse muses,

"Every time the progs lose at something, they start bellyaching about how it needs to be 'fixed'. By 'fixed', I believe they mean, 'rigged in our favor so our side wins all the time.' So recently progs are wondering why there are 9 SCOTUS judges and not some larger number. Some of them are even advocating that the Supreme Court be expanded to, say, 15 judges. Why would they argue this? Do they actually want President Pence to be able to appoint 6 more justices? Of course they don't, their proposals probably include some cockamamie provision wherein these new appointments are made by someone else, i.e. a Democrat. And, as progs watch helplessly as Trump is appointing a continuous stream of conservative justices who are in their early to mid 50s, the progs are also complaining about how unfair it is that judicial appointments are for life, and how the "founding fathers", whom they have never cared one whit about until now, would not have wanted this. Boo f*ing hoo. All of these are basically Calvinball objections made by sore losers to justify their abject electoral failures. Bunch of crybabies. And speaking of crying, whatever happened to those little children whom Trump forcibly separated from their parents at the border and locked into cages? Don't Democrats care about them anymore?"

Progressive? More Like Regressive!

Guest post
2018-01-12
by Suzann Darnall

Democrats, Liberals, Democratic Socialists, and many other such groups often identify as being Progressive. Of course, these groups, which sometimes also include Communists and Socialists, often change their names to protect the guilty and to try to keep their heinous truths hidden in the shadows of deception. In truth, no matter which name they choose, they are not progressive but regressive.
The definition of regressive includes: becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state. Such as, “the regressive, infantile wish for the perfect parent of early childhood". Sounds like today’s societal snowflakes and politically left flakes to me!

In my experience Progressives do not create, they only destroy. They seem to be in favor of all things destructive. Abortions are their forever “go to” in anything even remotely political or societal. Then, there is the war they are constantly waging on traditional families, American values, and most religions. And, don’t even get me started on their efforts to erase history. In particular, right now, the tearing down of historical monuments across the South.

In Progressives’ efforts to control anything and everything, they bring nothing but chaos. They are in constant turmoil. Their messages are so inane or insane that even their most ardent followers get confused. They are often the definition of “comedy of errors”!

Except that it is not really a laughing matter. Progressive stupidity and cupidity brings about true tragedies on the stage that is real life.They cause people to lose lives, homes, businesses, rights, and more.

Progressives are bad for America. Their regressive practices are bringing to the forefront such evils as inequality, racism, sexism, poor health, bigotry, racketeering, and the list just goes on. It is not just the Progressive politicians, it is the common Progressive citizens. Government theft is bad enough. But, now there was court cases where citizens are being stripped of rights and possessions in frivolous lawsuits that are being upheld by activists judges.

I am not saying Progressives do not have the right to believe as they wish. I am saying they do not have the right to impose on others who do not believe the same. Their beliefs cannot trample the rights of others. This is exactly what they do when they push push push for so-called Political Correctness and Tolerance. Most Progressive ideas are neither correct politically nor are they tolerant!

We must stand up for our rights and freedoms. We must fight Progressives trying to force all Americans to kow-tow to their ideals. We do not all fit into the same size little boxes and I am not gonna be stuffed into one just to make some snowflake or political flake happy!

Liberty can really only be achieved as individuals. Once forced into a collective, we have already lost a measure of our freedom. I refuse to regress to becoming a lesser being. I am an American. I am an individual. I am free! Come join me in truly progressing back towards the rights, freedom, and liberty endowed by our Creator and acknowledged by our Founding Fathers!

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"But, outside of the UN, there is some good news!"

Thanks to Bookworm, who provides this link to the delightful Nikki Haley in her first UN press conference.

Do go to Bookworm's site where she brilliantly exposes a Leftist hiding behind Anne Frank's skirts.

Today'a progressivism has become a faux moral movement

"When you’re reduced to championing the rights of mentally ill men in sundresses, you have run out of victims."

Z Man writes,

...That’s an important lesson to keep in mind when watching the antics of the Left of late. Their lunacy is not directed at the rest of us. They don’t care what you or anyone else thinks about what’s happening. Their public acts are about signaling to the rest of the believers. By holding protests and making fools of themselves in a public way, they are providing support for one another as they work through the disconfirmation. Like herd animals, they are huddling together in the face if danger. It is pure instinct.

If they were left to sit alone at home, they would have no one around to help them through their doubts. These are people whose entire sense of self is dependent on the identity of the group, so getting out and “making their voices heard” lets them focus on something other than the disconfirmation. Trump as Hitler provides a short-term bridge between the failed prophecy and whatever comes next for the New Religion. They can tell themselves that their faith was not wrong, it was just subverted by mysterious forces, or Hitler.

In the mean time, the rage of the true believers will result in more public displays of incoherent misery. The reason they have no point is they cannot face the cause of their pain. It has nothing to with Trump or his policies. It is an unspeakable rage at having failed to reach the promised land. The rage is a distraction and a source of comfort to the believers as the Cult of Modern Liberalism comes to terms with the great disconfirmation of the last decade. Let’s hope they to make their way through it.

Read more here.

Sneering

Bookworm has some nice things to say about a Leftist!

Of course the self-styled “elites” on America’s coasts sneer at the Heartland. Kevin Drum is a hardcore Leftist who writes for Mother Jones. He’s also surprisingly honest and I’ve quoted him before for his willingness to admit that his side has problems. Here he is acknowledging that people in the derisively named “flyover” country aren’t imagining the coastal condescension aimed at them:

is there really any question that liberal city folks tend to sneer at rural working-class folks? I’m not even talking about stuff like abortion and guns and gay marriage, where we disagree over major points of policy. I’m talking about lifestyle. Krugman talks about fast food, and that’s a decent example. Working-class folks like fast food,1 which explains why Donald Trump liked to show pictures of himself eating McDonald’s or KFC. It’s a sign that he’s one of them. Ditto for Trump’s famous trucker hat. (Did you even know that it’s a trucker hat, not a baseball cap? He did.)

If I felt like this was something that actually needs evidence, I could produce a million examples in a very short time. But everyone gets this, don’t they? We sneer at their starchy food. We sneer at their holy-roller megachurches. (But not at black churches; never that.) We sneer at their favorite TV shows. We sneer at their reading habits. We sneer at their guns. We sneer at their double-wides. We sneer at the tchotchkes that litter their houses. We sneer at their supermarket tabloids. We sneer at their music. We sneer at their leisure activities. We sneer at their blunt patriotism. We sneer at—

"The sophistry has already begun!"

Kevin Williamson writes in National Review,

...The non-negotiability of progressive victories is going to be a large factor in Senator Chuck Schumer’s resistance to various Trump cabinet picks. The sophistry already has begun, with Democrats arguing that no one can lead the Department of Education or the EPA or Department of Labor unless he signs off on the progressive version of what that agency should do. So if you think that the present federal role in education is excessive and ought to be reduced, or that the EPA’s boot is a little too heavy on the neck of American industry, or that a federal court was right to put the brakes on the Obama administration’s daffy overtime rules, then you cannot lead the Department of Education, the EPA, or the Department of Labor. Which is to say, these departments exist, in the progressive view, only to pursue progressive policies.

Read more here.

"...Nancy Pelosi should count her blessings."

Z Man writes,

After an election, there are two things that almost always happen. One is the winning side draws the wrong lesson from their victory. The lesson they usually draw is that that they are on the right side of history or that the gods are on their side. Same idea, different magic. One of the anomalies of the recent US Presidential election is that Trump is not prone to magical thinking and his own party hates him, so he seems fairly level headed about his win. His party is acting like they lost so no gloating there.

The losing side, on the other hand, draws any number of wrong conclusions. Republicans generally assume they lost because they were too far to the Right, so they immediately start adopting the positions of the Left. The Democrats will often conjure up some sort of conspiracy theory, thus the ridiculous recount efforts now under way. The point is the losers never learn from their mistakes and therefore just rely on the other side burning itself out or screwing up so they can be the default option in the next election.

...progressivism cannot be the core of a majority coalition, at least not in anything resembling a liberal democracy. At best, it can be an influential part of a coalition, but never the dominant part. In the fullness of time, it may be understood that the worst thing to happen to American Progressives was their final victory over one of the parties. They may have discredited themselves to the point where their thing is never the same again. Robespierre lost his head learning this lesson so Nancy Pelosi should count her blessings.

Read more here.

#War

Ace writes,

The left is determined to pressure all corporations to join them in the culture war, and most corporate personnel -- being largely socially liberal anway, and viewing compliance with the left's demands to be the path of least resistance-- tend to sign up to be part of the Left's Social Justice Army.

...The left is a bully, the right is a patsy who will go along with anything, including its own denigration.

...But we should use the same tactic -- if you defy us, we will punish you economically.

We will change the incentive scheme: It will no longer be the case that you can give in to every leftist demand without negative consequence.

We will start imposing consequences on you for doing so.

The left has demanded Kellogg's stop advertising on Breitbart, Kellogg's has eagerly joined the leftist army.

Ace links to John Hinderaker at PowerLine, who writes,

The AP helpfully explains:

Breitbart has been condemned for featuring racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content.

Really? Condemned by whom? For what? The AP ritually recites these allegations against the site without citing any evidence whatsoever. The claims are false, if not ridiculous. But readers who rely on America’s daily newspapers won’t know this.

...I am not generally a fan of boycotts, but this, like so much else in our civic life, has been a one-way street. Executives at companies like Kellogg need to understand that ours is not a one-party state. For decades, surveys have shown that self-identified conservatives outnumber liberals by a ratio of one and a half to two to one. If Kellogg wants to go out of its way to align itself with a vicious, bullying left-wing minority, fine. But the company should understand that such decisions have consequences. No more Frosted Flakes. No more Fruit Loops. No more Rice Krispies. No more Nutri-Grain.

Ace continues,

How long are we going to play this game where we accept that left can organize boycotts against corporations to forceably (or even not-so-forceably) enlist them in the leftist army in the Culture War, but we are to act "principled" and do nothing as the left continues organizing every institution, media group, and corporation as bases of operation to destroy us?

Kellogg's wants to be a part of their army -- fine. They they are now Enemies and to be treated as such.

Read more here.

"Progressives seek to overthrow the entire American system."

Bookworm writes,

Trump’s Electoral College victory continues unabated and has gone from the merely undemocratic practice of street violence and personal abuse to the seriously, dangerously undemocratic practice of seeking to undermine the legitimacy of an election. To the Progressive defense that conservatives were just as bad in 2008 or 2012 . . . well, as always, the Progressives are wrong.

Conservatives never took to the streets and abandoned themselves to mob violence. That is a strictly Leftist activity. There’s a straight line from shakedown artist Al Sharpton’s Tawana Brawley circus to the dangerous freeway obstructions that the Left currently loves to so much. These are not about freedom of expression; they are a form of blackmail directed at a functioning society.

Even worse than mob violence, though, is the Progressive attack on democracy itself. What Progressives are doing is drastically more dangerous than the fact that a significant subsection of conservatives were convinced that Obama, who baited them by hiding his birth certificate, failed to meet the constitutional requirement that he be a native-born American.

(Incidentally, my feeling has long been that he was indeed born in Hawaii. What I think he’s hiding is in the transcripts, which will probably show that he falsely claimed Kenyan or Indonesian birth to get admitted into college and to obtain financial aid. And of course, they’ll show that “the smartest president ever” was a really bad student. This is just a theory, though, and I freely admit that I have no evidence to support it.)

Yes, many conservatives did attack Obama vigorously in an effort to roust him from office and, as the Progressives love to note, Trump was part of that “birth certificate” constituency. The important thing to remember, though, is that this conduct was directed against Obama. The goal was to prove that Obama was unqualified ab initio and had no right to be in the White House.

Progressives are doing something much more extreme than attacking a candidate (although their frenzied effort to equate him to Hitler is dire and dangerous): They are challenging the entire republican democratic process that underlies America’s smooth and safe transition of power every four to eight years. While their hatred is directed at Trump, they’re attacking the heart of the country itself. Moreover, they’re escalating.

It started with the Progressives’ risible claims about Russian interference. I’ve assembled arguments debunking the Russian lie here, so I won’t repeat them. The whole thing is especially silly when one considers a state such as Michigan, in which Jill Stein wanted to use her millions to demand a recount, which only has paper not computer voting. Even Nate Silver’s Progressive-leaning — but impressively honest — 538 says that the theory that the Russians rigged the election is entirely inconsistent with actual voting patterns and, indeed, with the reality that each state has a different way of recording votes.

Not content with ludicrous and impossible theories involving cagey Russians (who were our friends when Hillary sold them 20% of our uranium reserves or when Obama promised more flexibility and then invited them into Syria), Progressives moved on to attacking the Electoral College (“EC”). One of their core attacks is the boring trope that, as is true of everything else in America, it’s “raaacist.” To that end, CNN found some pathetic and ill-informed Yale-educated law professor to broadcast his ignorance to the world when he said the purpose behind the EC was to mark blacks as less than fully human (three-fifths of human, to be exact). This is embarrassingly wrong.

The EC was intended to serve two purposes: (1) To remove mobs from directly electing the president (and we can see with Progressives how out of control and damn stupid mobs can be); and (2) to ensure that more populous states do not entirely remove the less populous states from the election process. Moreover, the growing repulsion against slavery meant that preventing the larger states from controlling the federal government was a matter of special concern to the Founders because, at that time, it was the slave states’ that enjoyed numerical power, especially if the slaves, who had no civil rights, were counted for purposes of apportioning House members and Electoral College votes.

In 1770, Virginia was the most populous state in the new nation. Moreover, three of the five most populous states were also slave states. With all states jealously guarding their prerogatives, the last thing any small state wanted was to be ruled permanently by the larger states’ interests, especially when those states were invested in the pernicious practice of slavery.

There is a method to the Progressives’ madness, though. Richard Baehr achieved deserved nationwide fame (thanks to a nod from Drudge) when he pointed out that the EC attack is intended to undermine President Trump’s legitimacy. If Progressives can derail the EC process, they will use their myriad bully pulpits to proclaim that, not only did Trump fail to gain the popular vote, he also failed to “win” at the electoral college. That will deny him the ability to resist political opponents by saying, as Obama did in 2008, “I won.”

Trump, wisely or not, waded into the fray when he countered the recount demand by insisting that, but for two million or so illegal votes for Hillary, he would have won the popular vote as well. My Lefty friends on Facebook fell over themselves laughing at how stupid and dishonest Trump was. Indeed, there’s been a debate among Leftists about whether to ban Trump from Twitter for “lying.”

...The reality is that, as of now, we have no systematic way to measure how many people are illegally voting. Moreover, you have to keep in mind that, when we talk about “illegal” voting, we not just talking about illegal aliens. Illegal voting includes dead people, felons who live in places that don’t reinstate voting rights after time served, green card holders, and the garden-variety fraudsters who cast multiple votes.

Just for fun, you can keep three facts in your mind as you contemplate Trump’s veracity:

(1) California is home to over 2.5 illegal aliens.

(2) Hillary won the popular vote in California by a significant margin, and this margin which constitutes the largest portion of her “I won the popular vote” argument.

(3) At least one study, focusing only on illegal aliens and green card holders, concluded that they voted in significant numbers in 2014, ranging from possible lows in the ten thousands to possible highs in the millions.

Another thing about the EC: Hillary knew what it was going in. It was she who made the decision to focus on the states with the most votes in the EC, forgetting that, if you add a lot of little states together, you can end up with a very large number, especially if you win (no question) Pennsylvania and Florida.

Meanwhile, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law (an ethnic and religious identity I emphasize because of the gross canard that Trump is antisemitic) looked at the numbers and devised a different, and plainly better, strategy for Trump. Both parties knew the rules going in, both parties made choices about playing by those rules, and now that the Democrats lost because their candidate made a bad play, they’re crying foul.

...While conservatives sought to remove from office a single man with a mysterious past, Progressives seek to overthrow the entire American system.

Read more here.

Celebrating the death of Fidel Castro

David Warren writes, "Pass the Cigars!" Of course, he is referring to the passing of Fidel Castro at age 90.

...Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro — among Castro’s spiritual heirs — is quoted by the BBC: “Revolutionaries of the world must follow his legacy.” For once I agree: they should all drop dead.

One could enter into a long recitation of Fidel Castro’s monstrous crimes; itemize from the scroll of the coldly murdered; the imprisoned and tortured; the exiled, at the risk of their lives; nod to a whole people enslaved, their whole lives on the Cuban plantation. One might spend the morning contending with the coolies of political fashion in the West, who have embraced so many real monsters; yet go hog wild over a little waterboarding. Or with media that instinctively applaud the crushing of media and free speech in foreign countries, provided only that the perpetrators claim to serve the progressive cause, on what we might call “the left side of history.”

But no, not today. Today we have something to celebrate.

Read more here.

Know nothing leftists

Bookworm writes,

The professional Left cares nothing about antisemitism, seeing it only as a tool in the arsenal when it can be used against Republicans and conservatives. And why does this tool work?

These tools work because all those Progressives, the ones who read The New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post; who listen to NPR; and who watch the Progressive gamut of TV from MSNBC to ESPN are know nothings. I mean, they really know nothing.

I had an interesting conversation today with a very nice neighbor who is a solid Progressive, who is Ivy League educated, and who knows I’m conservative — and who very nicely (really very nicely) asked me my opinion about all the bad things he’d learned about Trump as well as expressing his bewilderment that anyone could support Trump. I wish more people were like this neighbor who, being genuinely curious instead of actively hostile, allowed me to bestow upon him a wealth of new information: ...Question: “Doesn’t Trump want to register all Muslims?”

Answer: No, Trump simply wants to reinstate a law that was put in place after 9/11, and then without much fanfare. It requires that people coming into the US from known terror-sponsoring or terror-infested countries register so that they can be located if there is a terrorism scare as well as tracked to ensure that they don’t overstay their visas (as the 9/11 terrorists did). In fact, if you look at Trump’s agenda, the vast majority of his promises boil down to laws placed on the books in the last twenty or thirty years that the current administration stopped enforcing.

Question: “Doesn’t Trump hate women?”

Answer: No, Trump is from our parents’ generation. He likes women a lot, but he’s a boor (no dressing that up). Having made that point, I also got my neighbor to agree that, when you’re as rich as Trump, there are a lot of women that, as Trump said, are happy to have the billionaire grab their bits and pieces and, indeed, encourage that behavior. If you’re a crude billionaire, you might take advantage of these offers . . . but it’s neither sexual assault nor rape.

Question: “But doesn’t his conduct encourage rape and sexual assault?” (Further questioning elicited that he was thinking about campus rape.)

Answer: Absolutely not. What’s going on at America’s colleges is a travesty of justice that the Obama administration mandated, instructing colleges to abandon due process (which includes referring genuine rape claims to the criminal justice system) and, instead, to have kangaroo courts that deprive young men of all rights.

Question: “Yeah, I’ve heard about that. I know that there are a lot of false claims, but the Stanford rape . . . that was real, wasn’t it?”

Answer: No, it wasn’t. I gave my neighbor variations of this post and this post. He was unfamiliar with the facts, most specifically the fact that both parties to whatever happened at Stanford were so drunk that neither could remember the night’s events. What that means is that there was no way to determine a central element of a rape claim, which is lack of consent. The woman’s regret the next day that she got blind drunk and blacked out does not equal lack of consent the evening before.

Question: “But won’t Trump destroy the environment?”

Answer: No. I’m a little older than the neighbor, so I told him that I remember a filthy America, with air and water that had the look of modern China or India. The original laws environmental protection laws and regulations cleaned up America. The current laws and regulations are simply impositions on business without adding anything to what was already done.

Question: “But isn’t it great that we give incentives for buying electric cars?”

Answer: No, it’s utterly unprincipled that we use taxes from working class people to inveigle people like us into buying cars that we can afford but that those helping to subsidize them cannot afford — and, in the process, we leave those people with even less money than before, thanks to the taxman, and push them further away from buying new, clean energy cars. Nor is it relevant that working class people pay a fraction of the tax money that the rich pay. (That is, because I’m in a higher tax bracket, more of my money goes to the subsidies than comes from a working class family.) They shouldn’t have to subsidize us in any way.

I used this as an opportunity to say that all people should pay taxes in order to avoid a situation in which non-payers vote for parties and policies that strip wealth from the rich and hard working, to say that there’s no reason why hard working innovative people should be forced to turn their wealth over to the government, and to point out that the US has the highest corporate tax rate in the free world, driving capital out of the country. These were new ideas for him.

Question: “But Trump and his followers are racist?”

Answer: No, they’re not. But the important thing is the free market. As Milton Friedman said, the free market is color blind. In a competitive market, without a monopoly, people who want to profit will make their business available to anyone. And those who put principles, good or bad, over profit, will have to accept that they won’t do as well in the market. I reminded him that Jim Crow was so effective because it was government action that barred the free market from working and allowing those who weren’t racist to show that it was good business to deal with blacks.

The conversation ended there. Had we talked longer, I suspect that I would have given my neighbor data he didn’t know about guns, abortion, race relations, the economy, the huge constitutional problems with the Supreme Court’s gay marriage bodice ripper romance (er, I mean opinion), transgender rights, etc. Some of what I said was definitely opinion. All of what I said was supported by verifiable facts that were completely unfamiliar to my neighbor thanks to the information ghetto in which he lives.

Again, this conversation was possible because you couldn’t ask for a nicer man, one who sought to learn, not to insult. If more Progressives were like him, I can imagine a future in which there is an inevitable drift to the right. I say this because, contrary to the imaginary world the Progressives inhabit, actual facts are intrinsically conservative:

Read more here.

"Progressives are seldom deterred by missing facts."

Bookworm tells us what she does on Facebook under her real name

I daily link to news stories about rampant, naked antisemitism on America’s college and university campuses; the antisemitism powering the BDS movement; the antisemitism that’s become integral to the Black Lives Matter movement; the antisemitism that animates intersectionality; and the antisemitism in the Nation of Islam, which gave birth to Keith Ellison. Each of those incubators for antisemitism, of course, is a core Democrat constituency that neither the DNC nor any Democrat candidate (including Hillary) has ever disavowed.

For international stories, I point daily to the doings at the UN, to Iran’s routine assertions that it will annihilate Israel (a goal closer to reality thanks to Obama’s willingness to hand hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran), to the blatantly antisemitic attacks that terrorists have folded into the larger terrorist attacks that grabbed headlines; and to the endless Palestinian depredations against Israeli citizens. During the knife intifada, I was posting stories about murderous attacks every day — and sometimes several times a day.

...Throughout the years, my Facebook friends have responded to these posts in two ways: my few conservative friends invariably commented on these posts; the rest of my friends — all of whom are Progressives — ignored them entirely.

...So let me sum up here: For the last decade at least, the American mainstream media has downplayed or ignored rampant antisemitism at home and abroad, including antisemitism at the heart of the Democrat party. Likewise, for the last several years, my Progressive friends have been equally willing to turn a blind eye to this antisemitism. Indeed, they’ve been supportive of Obama’s increasingly overt efforts to isolate Israel from both the US and America, leaving it (and the Jews within it) prey to the thugs surrounding her, including a potentially nuclear Iran.

Let me distill that summation even more: Throughout the Bush and the Obama years, Progressives have been entirely okay with surging, violent antisemitism, both at home and abroad.

That is, they’ve been okay until suddenly they saw a benefit to attaching the “antisemitic” label to Trump. Instantly, my Facebook feed was crawling with posts claiming that, overnight, antisemitism has become a major threat in America.

The Progressives’ evidence? Well, it’s pretty slim. Wolf Howling has already attacked the paucity of any data supporting the claim that Steve Bannon is an antisemite or that Breitbart News, which is heavily staffed by conservative and Orthodox Jews, all of whom are pro-Israel, is a hotbed of right wing antisemitism. Progressives are seldom deterred by missing facts.

Read more here.

"Once the progressive dogs smell fear, they are on you."

David Warren urges us

Make a stand, and at worst, one may lose the election, though too, one might win. Appease, and lose one’s soul, … in addition to the election. For moral cowardice is never rewarded — not by Heaven, nor even by the Earthlings.

“Do not accept intimidation.” Ever. This, I realize, is more easily said than done; especially at a time when our public institutions are descending into the bottomless moral darkness of “secular humanism.”

...Similarly, in all other circumstances. Once the progressive dogs smell fear, they are on you. They have a view only to your destruction; they thrive on your fear, your wish to cut and run. They will leap on your backside, when you turn. Your task is to turn the tables on them. It is to show that they have picked the wrong target; that you grasp the game is for keeps; that you will die, before you will surrender your children to these hyenas. And that far from granting them little concessions, for the sake of some momentary peace and quiet, you will take great pleasure in destroying them.

Read more here.

"You're fired!"

From Ed Bonderenka:

"You were supposed to be seeing that America's children were getting a top education, but you indoctrinated them with socialist ideals and Common Core.
You're Fired!"

"You were responsible for protecting our borders and you let people invade this country,
You're Fired!"

"You were supposed to be protecting America's environment and you put Americans out of work.
You're Fired!"

"You were supposed to be fighting America's enemies and you restrained our soldiers from prosecuting the war.
You're Fired!"

"You were charged with collecting taxes and you persecuted conservatives. You're Fired!"