Reagan: "It's not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it's that so much of what they know isn't so." Yeah, if only we could invent an incoherence/irrationality drive, leftists would have us exploring the galaxy in no time.
Pretty much covers it. Her circle of friends probably defer to her economic "education". My first Econ teacher(I took it as a college class in high school) was an unabashed leftist at that time. However he taught us supply side, etc., as vigorously as the Keynesian stuff. It is possible to do one's job correctly, despite political leanings.
I say at the time, because the way I heard the story he flipped, and got elected to the school board as an R. His own understanding of economics forced him to leave the Democratic party, and run for election because he just couldn't take the BS anymore.
Oh I see...it's worse than you thought. He was saying that Canada's dollar would always be valued higher, because of Canada's higher embrace of socialism, and that we'd be lower for resisting it. It was an insane rant, which somehow relied on taxing $ away from people, and, increasing consumer spending, at the same time. I basically stopped listening due to that, and, I had finished my business in the restroom.
I'd lump him in with the rest of the all-time unmitigated morons who have bet against the USA in history. One always loses that bet. It usually costs a lot of $, perhaps even one's possessions and freedom, and for many: their lives.
EDIT: As for the rest re: culture, etc. No awful culture is historically sustainable. This is why the Spartans: aren't. They innovated with their military training. But, that was the entirety of their innovation. The rest sucked most of the time, for most of the people. Look at hip hop/rap culture. It devastated the black community, and others to a lesser extent. It also innovated a few things, but now, it is also proving to suck. There is a massive return to the church in the black community in response, that the left refuses to even acknowledge(except when you're a failing Democratic POTUS nominee and you need to win or die, in South Carolina).
This isn't 200 years ago, therefore, violent reprisal/resistance isn't our only solution, thankfully. However, force is required. We must be forceful in our response. We must be willing to get in faces and demand answers. Our tactics must change, because theirs will not.
We don't need to punch the dude in the Sabres bathroom, but we do need to loudly confront him. We do need sites like this one, to sort out our responses and in some cases, via meme humor, weaponize them.
But it's fun to get it first, then, drop an America First load all over it. Works great! They never expect you to call, or do anything, after that. For me, ~50% of the time: after about a month or so of once again being awash in beta...they come back and want 2nds.
That's when I say no, because: no pussy is worth dealing with that. Or, I say yes, but I impose strict conditions, some of which are about political discourse, most are about...other things. Unfortunately, most of the time I end up sentencing them back to the beta pit. Didn't want to do it...I felt I owed it to them.
Does she even realize that RBG, and ACB, have next-to-0 effect on her personal situation?
Or, is she like most Canadians, who wrongly think that not only do they have a personal stake in the USA, but that this fake stake also entitles them to endless, idiotic, leftist prattling about our politics at the Bills/Sabres game pisser(where they know we are a captive audience)? My favorite all time: the Canadian clown who told me the USA was done economically, and that Canada's dollar would be superior from then on....because socialism. Yeah, during Obama. One of the many ways I see Trump: as the world's biggest dildo entering that guy.
Also, will you people please stop coming to our outlet malls and leaving trash everywhere? I know you are trying to avoid customs. Why are you avoiding trash cans?
LOL. Yeah, but I doubt they would learn anything. One needs a relatively high IQ to get anything out of LSD, which is why it was abandoned as a super-soldier drug.
Most leftists aren't even smart enough to have a bad trip. It might be funny watching them mutter, prattle, and scream for a while, but...isn't that mostly what they do anyway?
Sorry, but the times we live in require change. Most of us would rather not, and typically don't need to, get in someone's face and shout to make their point.
But, we've moved past the point where they are capable of hearing reason. We must condition their behavior. If the only thing that reaches them is loud rebukes nose to nose, then that is the course we must choose. I'm not saying be violent. I am saying: be forceful.
We can't keep failing, playing at being Paul Ryan, while telling ourselves we are "moral" for it. Failure in this leads directly to the most immoral society imaginable. One where accusation is proof, quantifiable fact is itself racist, and lowest common denominator people have power over all.
We are playing well past what our parent's taught, way out of bounds of the game as we've known it. That is where the game is being played. Denial of that is moronic. We can demand that the game be moved back to where it belongs, but that is pointless, because they refuse. Trump understands this, which is why he wins. ALL of us must stop disparaging him for simply playing the game by the rules they have created, then beating them at it.
I know it's uncomfortable. Doubly so for a people whose every effort is at least partially predicated on seeking personal comfort/comfort with others.
But there it is.
Thus the proof is reiterated: p1. We are successful...however different our definitions of it are. p2. We are compassionate. p3. They are neither.
c: They covet p1. Citing p1, they take advantage of p2, then try to justify that bad behavior by claiming that p3 is false. All three are true. The faster we all accept this logic, the better off we are.
For us, this sorta looks like what we see when a corrupted database finally shits the bed. We know we are going to have to rebuild it all from scratch.
For them, this is their brain: everything is up and running as designed. Except the Pooh Mismatch Error. All the rest will be ignored until the Pooh Error is resolved.
Some knew all of this long before Trump(and didn't require Limbaugh's help either). It's the same set of people whose positions on issues Trump simply co-opted. This is what the left/media has failed to comprehend, and perhaps cannot even conceive, due to their ego/IQ ratio.
We've known they are not even Emperors, never mind intellectually naked, for a very long time(since childhood for me). They are fools whose unearned egos prevent them from seeing their only true expertise is in failure. They have multiple Ph.Ds in it. Reagan proved this. Trump has reiterated the proof. Thus, the exposure of Chris Wallace is also: little.
Exactly. If you don't know, there's a management tool called a SWOT. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.
Trump uses SWOT practically every day...which is why leftists, being business ignorant, are never prepared.
Got a big coronavirus threat to your entire political existence? Turn that into an opportunity to get votes from college kids, via the above.
It's not magic. It's what any strong, and didactically prepared, manager can do. This is exactly how CEOs like Trump earn their "unfair" $, and why leftist clowns will never deserve it.
Coulter: yet another person who still doesn't fully understand the internet. I spent most of my career dealing with these people. Breitbart is great, but stopping or not stopping it is not the determining factor on Biden senility narrative. If a Biden "Insane in the Membrane" meme is truly funny and/or poignant, it will go viral regardless whether tech companies/media like it or not.
Moving content is their business model, and they limit that movement at their peril. The business consequences for doing so are inevitable. If they do it enough, as Reddit is finding out: they create their own competition. This is how Fox News came to exist, and thrive: the lack of discipline, leadership, and objective thought by the existing businesses created the conditions for it to succeed. It could not have been otherwise. Fox News, and this site, owe their very existence to incompetent, emotion-first business decisions and the unmitigated morons that made them.
Coulter, etc. still think in terms of gatekeepers. They think that while there may be more gatekeepers and some have changed, since the ABC/CBS/NBC/NYTimes days, that's it's still about gatekeepers.
They are wrong. Right == Content is Reddit's only feature. It's really about individual pieces of content(regardless of "good"/"bad" = 2 girls one cup), each http link itself, moving based solely on their empirical, absolute value. If that value is high, they will move. But, it's also a scale and connectivity matter. It's not one site vs. other sites/media outlets, or one "side".
Rather, it's a mass of nodes, and if the content moves on enough of those nodes consecutively? There is no stopping it. It will go everywhere. The media Coulter thinks can actively prevent this movement, will be reacting to it instead. Example: The relatively recent Ted Cruz tweets. He dropped 3-4 bombs, almost one a day, and they were so high value, the media was either compelled, to write a story about them, or avoid him for fear of getting a bomb dropped on them.
Our tasks, ladies and gentlemen, should therefore be obvious.
Ha! The look on the guy's face: "Don't laugh, asshole, it's my turn next week. I should've listened to my cousin and taken that call center job."
Or, "Dammit, you said we could find Mitt Romney in here, where the hell is he? We need to find an establishment candidate that will keep us in power and money, and all I found so far is Max Boot and Jonah Goldberg."
Does this deserve it's own song? I think it does. Full Johnny Cash style: "The man drove up and said my time was over, and he said I was getting older and older. So I grabbed my onion belt and apple turnover, and fought that lying dog face pony soldier."
TDS will be studied like the great mass hysterias in history. Ex: Salem Witch Trials. It has all the same makers. Here's the irony: 100 years from now, some dude will be trying to get grant $ from the government to study...people who demanded unearned $ from the government.
He will make the case that the dangers of these people and events necessitate that we study them, in order to prevent, or at least prepare for, them in the future.
The funny part: He will probably get the grant $.
Yes, leftists, that's what you have made yourselves into: subjects of psychological and anthropological study. The goal of these studies will either be the prevention or eradication of your anti-social and primitivist culture. Human civilization can not, and therefore, will not tolerate barbarians trying to destroy it.
Enough of the "we don't want to look like we are (insert whatever) suicide or mental health issues here" posts.
Suicide is the most selfish human action. They get to quit instantly, and the rest of us have to suffer(often for decades) as a result. Sometimes that's what they intend, which is sadistic.
I know: a close friend killed himself when I was in college. Having lived it, please: refrain from telling me...anything. I know all that is worth knowing about this topic. I had to learn it, in hopes of trying to deal with it(and stop blaming myself).
Thus, I know that we owe these people: nothing. They are trying to control us, using the most deranged way possible. A suicide bomber merely uses a different tactic than a suicide friend. The results are the same: creating chaos, fear, hate, and total life interruption...for those supposedly closest to him.
Don't let these people control you. They are a form of terrorist, who take themselves as hostages, and make demands the rest of us have to meet, or else.
To hell with that, and them. The very best thing we can do is mock their evil tactics, and use that as an example for anybody else that is thinking about deploying those tactics.
This is exactly why we need to bring back the looney bins(forget gun control), and throw people like this in them. That's the only compassionate, moral, etc. move. They are sick, and us enabling them by not committing them to a facility where they can get help, is wrong.
And this tells us everything we need to know about exactly how much principled consideration and careful thought...goes into the political opinions of white suburban women.
It's all about fear. They live in constant fear of anything that makes them look slightly less compassionate and/or slightly more superficial than the other women in their zone...not realizing that their entire theater of operations is 100% superficial, and completely devoid of authentic compassion.
Thus, if even one woman out of 100s is able to convince the others that supporting Trump means they lack compassion, or are only worried about their $(which is again, hilarious, because $ is definitional for a suburbanite), then the herd all runs away.
But, as we see here: if you get one by herself and spend a few minutes explaining things? They drop the nonsense instantly, because their objections to Trump were never predicated on their own values, it was always about what somebody else might think.
I think the only way this gets fixed is if you create Federal consequences for the local police. It sucks putting cops in that position, but, it's the only way to circumvent the local authorities. The cops will ignore their state/local officials if they know they can be personally sued/charged for not notifying ICE.
The only other way I can see: create an anonymous tip line/site for police. The problem there is that local devices can be searched.
There is no good way to fix all of this, short of full-blown Federal legislation, that needs 60 votes in the Senate.
The only thing I worry about? It's so easy that it becomes boring, and the country becomes complacent, because we "know" Trump is going to win. Yeah, yeah, I know how committed everybody is, but still.
Perhaps a solution is to focus on down-ballot races as much as POTUS.
We all have our awakening story, don't we? Mine was on tour with the Dead. I was never much into the politics to begin with, but, one day I was sorta forced to attend this meeting where they preached about corporations. Then, on the way back to our van, I observed: unregulated capitalism, tax evasion, theft of IP, fraud, and price gouging...and that was just with the sale/re-sale of legal goods!
The very things I was just lectured on, that made corporations "evil", were happening right in front of me.
I was barely in college, so I had no experience with what posing an intellectual challenge to leftists meant, and boy, I picked the worst way: I had just learned about cognitive dissonance the prior semester. So I asked why Deadhead behavior didn't match their words, and how they felt about that.
I was 1000s of miles from home, and my "family" nearly left me right there. Not because they disagreed with me; they agreed, and appreciated the irony. My mistake was saying it out loud, way too loud, in earshot of a crowd. Being associated with me meant they would be shunned, and these people did this for a living. My buddy and I were just a college kids along for the ride.
The whole thing was mind-boggling. All I did was pose a valid premise and ask a question about it. That was the day I became a libertarian, more or less. I've struggled with classifying myself politically for decades. Trump makes it easy: almost of his positions were mine, long before he ran.
Biden wants us to live the rest of our lives in a hockey penalty box.