One thing you can say about Fox News and Trump and Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter--they are cartoons, but they are so obvious and in a sense, honest, about their vitriol.
Oh, they do their own dances, trying to portray themselves as the ones under attack, after they've unleashed some diatribe about those Central American caravans being the second coming of Attila the Hun, but they are water off the duck's back.
What drives Mad Dog mad, what gets under his skin and gets him frothing at the mouth, in fact, is the inanity on the left.
To wit:
1/ Knee jerk calls for the resignation of the Lt. Governor of Virginia because two women have come forward with "credible accusations" of sexual assault/rape against him.
2/ And everything which is not overtly or subtly "racist" is "racist." That word has been so over used it has ceased to have any meaning at all.
When Trumpsky says we need more blond Norwegian immigrants but (brown) Central Americans are an "infestation," that needs no further characterization.
But Heaven forbid you fail to call for the resignation of any Southerner who has appeared in blackface 30 years ago--this can only be because YOU are racist for being willing to tolerate this miscreant.
Did you know that the governor of Virginia went to VMI? Did you know Robert E. Lee is buried at VMI, NEXT TO HIS HORSE! And you are worried about blackface in Virginia? The man is buried next to his horse.
Seems to me we have far more to worry about, psychologically speaking, about Virginians.
3/ And then there is the constant refrain about needing to stand up and defend the LGBT-Q community.
First of all, if Q is fore "queer" then what is the "G" for? I am out of it, but I thought that was "gay." And in fact, when you get right down to it, is "L" not for lesbian which is simply gay female? Do lesbians need their own distinct letter?
But let that pass.
Then there is the mixing of "transgender or trans-sexual" with the homosexual as if this is simply the same thing.
Nobody should be attacked or demeaned because of his/her sexual orientation, preferences, gender identity. That much we can agree on, but being corrected because of the use of the wrong pronoun or being told to refer to someone as cis or trans? How does that play on Main Street? And do we not care if we alienate the masses over this because it's RIGHT? Pick your fights people.
I beg to differ.
One simple distinction is lesbians, gays, bisexuals need no prescriptions, no medical intervention whatsoever to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, whereas transgenders ask for hormones, and sometimes not all that frequently, surgery. But there are many other differences, which, if you read widely enough, homosexuals have begun to note and comment upon.
4/ And then there is the #METOO "movement," which, as far as I'm concerned has "liberals" abrogating all notions of fairness, due process in the name of "believe the woman," as if no woman has ever accused a man of sexual transgression and not been completely correct, as if memory is infallible and no woman has ever suffered from any sort of psychopathology.
I get the fact there are sexual predators. Bill Cosby was likely one. Al Franken, not so much. An idiot, tasteless, awkward, gauche in the extreme, but not in the Cosby, drug 'em and have intercourse with their unconscious bodies category.
It makes Mad Dog crazy that his fellow liberals have driven him into the arms of Betsy DeVos, a really disgusting prospect, but she has justly attacked the star chambers cum "student committees" on college campuses which have expelled boys who were never allowed to confront their accusers or even, in some cases, to learn the particulars of the offense which prompted their punishment.
Good Lord, do we really need to discuss this in detail? There are plenty of details available on line about campus "trials" which would make Kafka and Arthur Koestler blanch.
If you think someone has been a sexual predator or a rapist: BRING HIM TO TRIAL. Defenders of #METOO have argued the legal system is stacked against the accuser, victimizes the victim.
But the American legal system does this deliberately, for a reason. The idea is that to unjustly convict someone of a crime is worse than allowing a guilty man to walk free.
Is there not the possibility that by simply granting a woman her "justice" by virtue of her accusation, we have made it too easy for women who may not have been violated in quite the way they now remember it to exact punishment on the men they accuse? I'm not saying this is the case even in the majority of cases, but is this not even a possibility?
And if the legal system is broken, then let us fix it. But to simply say, oh, let's forget the legal system and all its fairness and safeguards, let's just get vengeance, then where are we?
5/ Endless nurturing, sympathy and expressions of grief for "survivors" and "victims." Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. Oh, that must have been so awful, come let me give you a hug. Liberals do this.
Trumpsky gets a little dewy when he is speaking about a white woman raped by a brown man, but for the most part, he does not get deeply into sympathy. There was enough of that at the State of the Union with teary eyed white female victims having their moment in the gallery, but for the most part, hurt females are gathered up by liberal women.
Really, Mad Dog could just howl at the moon for all this faux empathy. The left is drowning in victimhood and empathy and oh-how-damaged-you-must be. Please.
Let's find some liberals who push past all that, who are not survivors or victims, who do not want to wallow in safe spaces, who can shrug off moronic sexist, racist remarks and go for the jugular.
Where is a virtuous Democrat?
Give me a combat veteran, so he doesn't have to prove how tough he is. Make him a man, but we could take a woman if she's an Ann Richards type woman who can say stuff like, "Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Or, when told she has to remove the nativity scene from the state capitol grounds, says, "That's too bad. This has been on the only time we've ever seen 3 wise men gathered together in Austin."
And make him a real liberal, who goes after anyone who trespasses in ways that matter--like when our own Democrats vote for a bill which guts Dodd Frank protections against too big to fail banks after receiving significant contributions from the banking industry. Make him able to sling a zinger as in, "You know, with all the divisions we have in this country I thought, maybe I'm naive, but I thought we could all agree: There IS NO SUCH THING AS A VERY FINE NAZI."
Let him push for clean energy because it's likely to help our economy. Let him observe how even after a fire, rebuilding tends to build new wealth and more. Let him say there will be more jobs for all levels of worker building windmills and solar panels than were ever employed in coal mining. Let him say: Look, I don't know enough science to be sure about climate change, but the evidence looks good enough to make me want to go for the Green New Deal. If we are wrong, the jobs it creates will still be a benefit. It just won't benefit the Koch brothers.
Let him say science is a work in progress but we can, after a certain amount of experience, say we believe as a working hypothesis that the heart pumps blood to the brain and that vaccinations cause a lot more good than harm. And that if you want to be a member of the herd, you have to be vaccinated, no philosophical exceptions allowed.
And let him give a three minute explanation of how he thinks abortion is different from infanticide. And let him risk confusing his audience, the national media and risk the wrath of Planned Parenthood and NOW by saying that the distinction between abortion and infanticide is all about line drawing and he might be willing to draw the line earlier than 21 weeks, as science and discussion guide us, with exceptions for exceptional and rare cases.
And let him not worry about hurting feelings more than he cares about doing the right thing.
Where is that Democrat?
Oh, they do their own dances, trying to portray themselves as the ones under attack, after they've unleashed some diatribe about those Central American caravans being the second coming of Attila the Hun, but they are water off the duck's back.
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What drives Mad Dog mad, what gets under his skin and gets him frothing at the mouth, in fact, is the inanity on the left.
To wit:
1/ Knee jerk calls for the resignation of the Lt. Governor of Virginia because two women have come forward with "credible accusations" of sexual assault/rape against him.
2/ And everything which is not overtly or subtly "racist" is "racist." That word has been so over used it has ceased to have any meaning at all.
When Trumpsky says we need more blond Norwegian immigrants but (brown) Central Americans are an "infestation," that needs no further characterization.
But Heaven forbid you fail to call for the resignation of any Southerner who has appeared in blackface 30 years ago--this can only be because YOU are racist for being willing to tolerate this miscreant.
Did you know that the governor of Virginia went to VMI? Did you know Robert E. Lee is buried at VMI, NEXT TO HIS HORSE! And you are worried about blackface in Virginia? The man is buried next to his horse.
Seems to me we have far more to worry about, psychologically speaking, about Virginians.
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| Actual racism |
3/ And then there is the constant refrain about needing to stand up and defend the LGBT-Q community.
First of all, if Q is fore "queer" then what is the "G" for? I am out of it, but I thought that was "gay." And in fact, when you get right down to it, is "L" not for lesbian which is simply gay female? Do lesbians need their own distinct letter?
But let that pass.
Then there is the mixing of "transgender or trans-sexual" with the homosexual as if this is simply the same thing.
Nobody should be attacked or demeaned because of his/her sexual orientation, preferences, gender identity. That much we can agree on, but being corrected because of the use of the wrong pronoun or being told to refer to someone as cis or trans? How does that play on Main Street? And do we not care if we alienate the masses over this because it's RIGHT? Pick your fights people.
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| A Very Koch Brothers Childhood |
I beg to differ.
One simple distinction is lesbians, gays, bisexuals need no prescriptions, no medical intervention whatsoever to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, whereas transgenders ask for hormones, and sometimes not all that frequently, surgery. But there are many other differences, which, if you read widely enough, homosexuals have begun to note and comment upon.
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| Might be sexist, but you are not a victim |
4/ And then there is the #METOO "movement," which, as far as I'm concerned has "liberals" abrogating all notions of fairness, due process in the name of "believe the woman," as if no woman has ever accused a man of sexual transgression and not been completely correct, as if memory is infallible and no woman has ever suffered from any sort of psychopathology.
I get the fact there are sexual predators. Bill Cosby was likely one. Al Franken, not so much. An idiot, tasteless, awkward, gauche in the extreme, but not in the Cosby, drug 'em and have intercourse with their unconscious bodies category.
It makes Mad Dog crazy that his fellow liberals have driven him into the arms of Betsy DeVos, a really disgusting prospect, but she has justly attacked the star chambers cum "student committees" on college campuses which have expelled boys who were never allowed to confront their accusers or even, in some cases, to learn the particulars of the offense which prompted their punishment.
Good Lord, do we really need to discuss this in detail? There are plenty of details available on line about campus "trials" which would make Kafka and Arthur Koestler blanch.
If you think someone has been a sexual predator or a rapist: BRING HIM TO TRIAL. Defenders of #METOO have argued the legal system is stacked against the accuser, victimizes the victim.
But the American legal system does this deliberately, for a reason. The idea is that to unjustly convict someone of a crime is worse than allowing a guilty man to walk free.
Is there not the possibility that by simply granting a woman her "justice" by virtue of her accusation, we have made it too easy for women who may not have been violated in quite the way they now remember it to exact punishment on the men they accuse? I'm not saying this is the case even in the majority of cases, but is this not even a possibility?
And if the legal system is broken, then let us fix it. But to simply say, oh, let's forget the legal system and all its fairness and safeguards, let's just get vengeance, then where are we?
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| Marketing vs Science |
5/ Endless nurturing, sympathy and expressions of grief for "survivors" and "victims." Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. Oh, that must have been so awful, come let me give you a hug. Liberals do this.
Trumpsky gets a little dewy when he is speaking about a white woman raped by a brown man, but for the most part, he does not get deeply into sympathy. There was enough of that at the State of the Union with teary eyed white female victims having their moment in the gallery, but for the most part, hurt females are gathered up by liberal women.
Really, Mad Dog could just howl at the moon for all this faux empathy. The left is drowning in victimhood and empathy and oh-how-damaged-you-must be. Please.
Let's find some liberals who push past all that, who are not survivors or victims, who do not want to wallow in safe spaces, who can shrug off moronic sexist, racist remarks and go for the jugular.
Where is a virtuous Democrat?
Give me a combat veteran, so he doesn't have to prove how tough he is. Make him a man, but we could take a woman if she's an Ann Richards type woman who can say stuff like, "Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Or, when told she has to remove the nativity scene from the state capitol grounds, says, "That's too bad. This has been on the only time we've ever seen 3 wise men gathered together in Austin."
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| It Can Happen Here |
And make him a real liberal, who goes after anyone who trespasses in ways that matter--like when our own Democrats vote for a bill which guts Dodd Frank protections against too big to fail banks after receiving significant contributions from the banking industry. Make him able to sling a zinger as in, "You know, with all the divisions we have in this country I thought, maybe I'm naive, but I thought we could all agree: There IS NO SUCH THING AS A VERY FINE NAZI."
Let him push for clean energy because it's likely to help our economy. Let him observe how even after a fire, rebuilding tends to build new wealth and more. Let him say there will be more jobs for all levels of worker building windmills and solar panels than were ever employed in coal mining. Let him say: Look, I don't know enough science to be sure about climate change, but the evidence looks good enough to make me want to go for the Green New Deal. If we are wrong, the jobs it creates will still be a benefit. It just won't benefit the Koch brothers.
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| Keep in mind the real problem |
Let him say science is a work in progress but we can, after a certain amount of experience, say we believe as a working hypothesis that the heart pumps blood to the brain and that vaccinations cause a lot more good than harm. And that if you want to be a member of the herd, you have to be vaccinated, no philosophical exceptions allowed.
And let him give a three minute explanation of how he thinks abortion is different from infanticide. And let him risk confusing his audience, the national media and risk the wrath of Planned Parenthood and NOW by saying that the distinction between abortion and infanticide is all about line drawing and he might be willing to draw the line earlier than 21 weeks, as science and discussion guide us, with exceptions for exceptional and rare cases.
And let him not worry about hurting feelings more than he cares about doing the right thing.
Where is that Democrat?
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