The Monster Vote

Truth is we surrendered our republic to the little man with a screwdriver removing the “girls” sign from the bathroom door at the elementary school where our children used to learn about Jefferson and Madison

 Indeed.

My point, I promise, and I’ll be done: is it possible that we have lost our way? When those who are said to know better entertain the possibility that a “girls” sign hung on a door is somehow discriminatory – a hate crime; maybe that’s the moment for a reality check.

What is a socialist?

Browsing Ann Althouse's blog I ran across a comment that is good.

Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and George Bernard Shaw all claimed to be socialists — yet the only thing these men had in common was a visceral dislike of certain hats. There's an interesting bit of film of newly-appointed Chancellor Adolf Hitler walking to the Reichstag to be officially installed. Protocol required formal attire for the occasion, including a silk hat. However the self-identified socialist (I love that term, don't you? Self-identified, it means instant authenticity even if self-identifier is a total fraud.) knew his fellow socialist hated toppers, so he carried it instead of wearing it.

Anybody who isn't fundamentally stupid knows that socialism is a word without meaning. It's just virtue signaling. It's alleged opposite, capitalism, is also a meaningless word invented by socialists (two of them, actually) as a means to define an enemy. And yet a sizable majority of humanities professors self-identify as socialists, which ought to tell you something about the state of higher education in this country. Effectively a socialist is somebody who wants everything you've got — your money, your property, but especially your autonomy. A capitalist just wants your money, and in order to get it, is willing to trade something of his for it, which distinguishes the capitalist from a common thief, but not always. There are lots of different flavors of socialism, however the differences just boil down to at what level the guns come out. Many socialists try to bore you into submission — Surrender your liberty, neo-colonist scum, or dangerous tedium will ensue! — others just start shooting immediately.

Poster girl for college Democrats: Cora Segal the #TrigglyPuff

Waiting for Donald

Roger Simon reports on the Trump rally in California.

In different parts of the crowd, women had stood up with hand-written posters reading "Women for Trump," "Latinas for Trump," and, to the loudest cheers, "Black Christian Women for Trump." (This is probably because -- excuse my horrifying sexism -- she was very good looking.

Prediction: We're going to be seeing a lot more of such signs in the future as the campaign goes forward. Although the vast majority of the faces filing in Thursday evening were white, the vast majority of them are not racist, unless you believe having national borders makes you a racist.

Simon says it's a Happening for middle America.

and ...

Normal candidates cannot compete with those rare charismatic leaders when they come along. That is why Cruz and Kasich could not compete with Trump, nor could the fourteen or fifteen others once on the stage with him. It is also why I predict he will defeat Hillary Clinton, who has the charisma of a dead turtle.

College more dangerous than prison for women AND men when it comes to sexual assault, says Obama admin

Don't send your kids to college where they will be sexual playthings for predators!

The Obama administration has produced new statistics on prison rape which, taken in conjunction with its widespread claims about college campuses, imply that women and even men are safer from rape in prison than they are on college campuses.

In a recent report from the White House states that 8.5 percent of female inmates and 3.7 percent of male inmates experience sexual assault while in prison. More than half of these incidents are committed by prison and jail staff, though the report acknowledges that "many abuse incidents in prisons involve other inmates as perpetrators."

If one takes these statistics at face value and compares them to other widely reported statistics used by the White House on campus sexual assault, one could conclude that sexual assault is far more common on college campuses than in America's prisons. After all, the Obama administration loves to tout deeply flawed self-reported surveys showing 20 percent of women and 5 to 8 percent of men are sexually assaulted on college campuses over a four-year college career.

This would mean that men are twice as likely and women nearly three times as likely to be raped on a college campus as they are in prison....

"Try taking that idea to its logical conclusion. Imagine the parents of a young man who has been sentenced to four years in a federal penitentiary: instead of crying, they should breathe a sigh of relief and say, 'At least he wasn't admitted to Harvard.'"

Curt Schilling: ESPN biased against political conservatives

“Some of the most racist things that I’ve ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is. You know who they are. You know what they are. I like that they are openly because then you know who they are. You know that they exist.”

Comedian Steven Crowder’s brilliant takedown of feral Social Justice Warriors is a thing of beauty

Racist Virginian Pilot Equates Felons with Blacks

The Virginian Pilot assumes most felons are Black; says people to object to giving vote to 200,000 felons are racists.

Virginia Governor Creates 200,000 New Hillary Voters

Let's not kid ourselves; the Democrats have the criminal vote locked up.

Queen: You Can Bring Only 3 Choppers, Obama

It seems that the last time Obama landed he destroyed her lawn.

JOHN KERRY APPARENTLY MISSED OBAMA’S MEMO ON THOSE EVIL OFF-SHORE TAX HAVENS:

Seems the Secretary of State and his wife, heiress Teresa Heinz, have millions of dollars invested in at least 11 off-shore tax havens, mostly registered in the Cayman Islands

Rules are for the little people.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Editor of LGBT magazine hacked to death in Bangladesh.

 No one is more at peace than the dead.  The State Department insists that this has nothing to do with Islam.

William Shakespeare

April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. The world will celebrate him as the greatest writer in the history of the English language. But his lasting fame wasn’t inevitable. It almost did not happen.

He was born in 1564 and died in 1616 on his 52nd birthday. A celebrated writer and actor who had performed for Queen Elizabeth and King James, he wrote approximately 39 plays and composed five long poems and 154 sonnets. By the time of his death, he had retired and was considered past his prime.

By the 1620s, his plays were no longer being performed in theaters. On the day he died, no one — not even Shakespeare himself — believed that his works would last, that he was a genius or that future generations would hail his writings.

He hadn’t even published his plays — during his lifetime they were considered ephemeral amusements, not serious literature. Half of them had never been published in any form and the rest had appeared only in unauthorized, pirated versions that corrupted his original language.

Enter John Heminges and Henry Condell, two of Shakespeare’s friends, fellow actors and shareholders in the King’s Men theatrical company. In his will he left them money to buy gold memorial rings to remember him. By about 1620, they conceived a better way to honor him — one that would make them the two most unsung heroes in the history of English literature. They would do what Shakespeare had never done for himself — publish a complete, definitive collection of his plays.

"Every revolution begins by attacking the collaborators."

Some interesting thoughts ...

Few people involved in what is absurdly called the “conservative media” want to shift the Overton Window to the Right or view themselves as activists. Instead, their goal is to carve out a niche, secure the loyalty of a certain market, and then push products to that market. If you are Jim Bakker (back and bigger than ever) or Glenn Beck, it’s buckets of food or packets of “survival seeds” so you can survive the End Times. If you’re some girl on Fox News, you want some subtly suggestive picture of yourself on the cover; what you are actually writing about is beyond the point. If you are Bill O’Reilly, you’re pushing a particular fantasy about “greatness” to aging white men who know the country’s best years are behind it. If you are Mark Levin, you’re offering Talmudic and convoluted knowledge about the Constitution, with Levin acting as a kind of rabbi bestowing ancient secrets on the uneducated goyim.

The point is to secure ownership of The Microphone to guarantee access to that market. The business model only works if the Narrative is predictable, the talking points are the same, and the supposed solutions are things people are used to. The recent report Erick Erickson, Mark Levin, and Glenn Beck are being paid to attack Trump isn’t some amazing revelation. It’s just business as usual.

For that reason, we may have to rethink some of our assumptions about the way the conservative movement or even the Republican Party operates. It’s tempting to say the point of the movement or the party is just to carry out the wishes of its donors. Yes, these donors want cheap labor via mass immigration, support for Israel, and a pro-corporate stance in regulatory policy. But consider the donors who blew untold millions on the campaigns of people like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio. Are they Masters of the Universe – or simply suckers?

If 2016 has shown us anything, it’s the absurdity of pretending there’s a difference between the “Republican Establishment” and some virtuous TruConservative Movement. Ted Cruz’s campaign represents the unification of these supposedly disparate forces if indeed there ever was a difference. And the key to understanding both the GOP and the Beltway Right is recognizing both are fundamentally self-interested. Talking to either about “principles” is like talking to a cafeteria Catholic about the intricacies of ecclesial law or some centuries-old papal bull. It’s completely irrelevant to their own worldview. When a TruConservative starts talking to you about “principles,” you’re simply hearing a sales pitch.

How The GOP Plans To Stop Trump

From the Onion:

• Combine inspirational charisma of Ted Cruz with raw sexual magnetism of John Kasich
• Gradually win over Trump supporters by posting subtle pro-establishment messages in YouTube comments sections of chemtrail conspiracy videos
• Stress how Trump’s most ludicrous-sounding policies really not all that different from Cruz’s and Kasich’s
• Punch a wall a few times in frustration
• Call Trump in the middle of the night and then hang up to ensure he’s constantly tired
• Publish a measured but critical op-ed suggesting Trump may possess personality traits at odds with the demands of nation’s highest office
• Quietly announce additional GOP primaries in delegate-rich states of Cruziana and Kasichberg
• Maybe a few million more dollars’ worth of ads where someone talks in a deep voice
• Make concerted effort to start taking Trump seriously eight months ago

 Now that's funny.  I think most of them have been tried.

Jersey City 9/11 Celebration Report

Remember when the lying press told us that there was never any demonstration after Trump said it happened?

UNEXPECTEDLY: Media Silent on the Clinton Mortgage Banking Scam.

Political parties are private organizations. Who knew?

This is the first election in my memory when it became clear that political parties, the organizations that nominate our political leaders and produce our congressmen, senators and presidents are private clubs.  And while you may call yourself a member and even pay dues, the leadership and direction belongs to the inner circle who can do just about anything they want even if the nominal members disagree.  Because that’s what private clubs do.

 

And while some branches of this club are quasi-democratic, allowing people who are not dues paying members to have a say, others are not, as the Colorado Republican party recently demonstrated. 

Others have reminded us in no uncertain terms that the party chooses the nominee, not the voters.

That comes as a rude awakening to many people who thought that the parties were more democratic than that.

Of course this has always been the case.  Political parties started out as unincorporated groups of people who had political or ideological goals.  And for several hundred years the power of government over our lives, the amount we paid in taxes and the rules they imposed on us left us mostly free except in wartime.  So the people who ran the government left us mostly alone.  But now government dominates our lives, for many people taxes now take more of our income than food, shelter and clothing. 

Government designs our toilet bowls, our light bulbs, the amount of salt we’re allowed to eat, the kind of insurance we can buy, who we can expect to see walking into our bathrooms, the design of our cars and the size of our electric bill.  It tells us if we can drain our swamp and forces us to take our shoes off before we board the next plane.  It reads our mail and demands that we believe that we’re responsible for the earth’s climate or go to prison.  NASA which once launched rockets to the moon now cruises Facebook to denounce the global warming unbelievers. 

Government schools teach our kids that the Founders were not brave fighters for independence but racist slave-driver patriarchs who forced their women to toil in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.  The government teaches our kids that men andwomen are not really men or women since gender is a matter of self identification.  These institutions no longer produce scholars but little Maoists ever ready to use violence to asset their will.  And if you dare chalk your dissent on the sidewalk they will hunt you down and punish you.

So now the people who run the government have gradually become much more important.  And it follows that allowing private clubs to make up the rules about who gets to run for office has become outdated.  We are now realizing that the gate-keepers in the private political parties are as big a danger to a free people as the ayatollahs in Tehran who decide who can run for office there. 

It's now clear that the leaders of the club find that belonging to the leadership is more importation than the purposes for which the club was originally founded.  The club's a big business and pays really well.  Which means that people with money who want to influence government policy for their own ends can now determine who ends up in the electoral pipeline.  

No matter what the Democrats do with their club, Republicans should resolve to correct this problem.   Electing someone who opposes the current system is a good start. 

The State of Trump's Soul

A great many people in the Conservative commentariat are couching their criticism of Trump in religious terms.  Since the primary Republican candidate standing between Trump and the Republican nomination is Ted Cruz, a man whose campaign began at Jerry Falwell's  Liberty University, the partisan divide is understandable.  

It's a shame. 

I never knew that we had so many people concerned about the state of a candidate’s soul as a condition of leadership.  While I’m a Christian I’m fully prepared to vote for someone who is not if I consider that person right for the job or at least better than the alternatives.

This entire discussion about Trump’s Christianity reminds me of the last election where Romney was asked about abortion.  The question came out of the blue for the sole purpose of bringing up the old claim that republicans were waging a war on women.  

And, of course, there was an underlying current of bigotry against Mormons which may have kept some evangelical Christians home on Election Day.

So the question of the day seems to be whether Trump is a good Christian.  I’m not aware that Trump ever brought up his faith except as the answer to a question.  Is he a great Christian?  No, not unless there's something about him we don't know.  Great Christians don’t go to church only at Christmas and Easter.  He doesn’t teach Sunday School.  And he exaggerates.  Some say he lies.  Fine.  He’s been married three times and has had had sexual relations with women not his wife.  But if we’re going to invoke Jesus let’s remember what He said about the woman caught in adultery “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” 

Is he a good person?  Compared to whom?  Saint Timothy called himself the chief of sinners so I’m shocked, shocked to find so many upright people with the authority to denounce Trump for his manifold sins.  Closer to home, we find that all his wives, present and past still like him.  His children honor and support him, which – let us remember – was not true of Saint Reagan.  Others have vouched for his charity to people in need.  And he has provided jobs for tens of thousands of people who work for him.

So hate him, denounce him, swear to vote against him, but don’t use the shopworn excuse that it’s his lack of Christian virtues that makes you do that.  It makes you a hypocrite.  Ironically, Jerry Falwell Jr. who heads Liberty University endorsed Trump.