Category: Current Events

What Do the Democrats Say They Want?

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Now that the first two Democrat Presidential Primary debates have occurred, we have some information about what exactly they are offering the Democrat voters.  One of the more interesting results occurred in Debate 2 and included all the major candidates except for Elizabeth Warren (or as she’s affectionately known in Massachusetts, Liarwatha) who unfortunately, was trapped at the kiddie table in Debate 1.  The question was a show hands as to who thought illegal aliens should have the right to free health care insurance.  Every single hand went up.  That includes Biden, Sanders, Harris, Buttigieg and the rest of the clown brigade that drew the long straw.  Think about that, at least all but one of the major candidates has agreed with the position that illegal aliens should have better health care insurance than many actual American citizens.  The fact that it was a show of hands probably made some of the serious contenders feel that they’d been ambushed by NBC into saying something that would bite them in the butt once the general election started but they felt they had to raise their hands anyway.

What other Democrat issues are apparently universally held?  Undoubtedly, Global Warming Alarmism is right up there.  That’s low hanging fruit and so vague in its outlines that they can sign on and grandstand about how they’ll save the planet without any fear of having to explain what the hell they’re talking about.

But past that we get into issues and policy stances that become more varied.  As befits a card-carrying Communist Bernie Sanders is right in the vanguard of those handing out the most gimmees.  College tuition debt forgiveness, free college, guaranteed universal income, elimination of private health insurance and the institution of free health coverage for all, you name it he’s giving it away.

Behind him the other candidates are a spectrum of entitlements and one big entitlement that many of them have latched onto is African American Reparations for Slavery.

Another big plank in the Democrat platform is the legalization of all immigration and elimination of the border.

Liarwatha does have one interesting proposal and that is the regulation of the Tech Giants.  But far from curtailing their ability to discriminate against conservatives she wants to force them to infringe on free speech even more oppressively.

And finally, they want to reinstate the globalist policies that sent all the manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China and devastated life in the Rust Belt.

So, let’s recap.  The Democrats want to raise taxes on the middle class to pay for Slavery reparations, free college, free universal income, college debt forgiveness, free health care for illegal immigrants and taxing oil, gas and the electricity that they generate out of the reach of anyone but the rich.

They want to flood the country with unlimited illegal aliens from the poorest countries on Earth thereby eliminating all blue-collar jobs and exposing us to the violence and disease that will become the norm all across America.  And they want to roll back all tariffs and empower China to control all the manufacturing activity on the planet.

All right.  Does it seem to you that there won’t be much problem crafting an advertising campaign to deny more or less every single middle class and working-class vote that isn’t already bought and paid for?  I mean shame on the Republicans if they don’t use this platform to win back the House and consolidate their hold on the Senate.  And I can’t imagine President Trump failing to make hay with all the ammunition they’ve provided him.  I mean Christmas in July is not just for the Hallmark Channel, it’s right here in our laps as the Democrats bury themselves under piles of madness.  Actually, I’m starting to suspect that they want to lose this one.  But why that would be I can’t imagine.

And despite all the ballyhoo in the media I still think they’ll anoint Creepy Uncle Joe the candidate.  He’s just too weird not to stand out even in this slush pile.  Stay tuned for the next debate, it should be a hoot.

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04JUL2019 – OCF Update – Happy Fourth of July

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Just a quick update.  I’m, of course, going to a family barbecue today.  But I’m off for a couple of weeks and will use the time to test out some lenses I’ve rented the following lenses:

Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS and the Sony 1.4 and 2.0 teleconverters and the

Mitakon SpeedMaster 50mm f/0.95 Lens for Sony E.

I hope to have some interesting conclusions about these two products.  I’ve been looking for a telephoto and think the 100-400 might be a more useful lens that the 200-600 that is coming out next month.  And the 50mm 0.95 is probably not something I need but it might be fun to have such an extremely thin plane of focus in certain shots.

Shatner-Khan was postponed due to illness but I have plans to publish important original research on the subject in the weeks ahead.

And I plan to eat my share of hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob (hand shucked!) and watermelon in the days to come.  To all of you enjoy our Independence Day and make sure that your children and grandchildren know the truth and don’t let them be misled by the Colin Kaepernicks and Nikes of the world.  We had to separate ourselves from tyranny once before and we can do it again.  In fact just by how we think of these people, we already have.

Here’s a little reminder.

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: George Read, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

 

 

03JUL2019 – American Greatness Post of the Day – From Bake Sales to Boardrooms, ‘Woke’ Is Good For Business – by Jackson Scott

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Mr. Scott’s thesis is simple.  Corporate America has joined with the academy and the media in telling us what we have to believe.

https://amgreatness.com/2019/07/02/from-bake-sales-to-boardrooms-progressive-morality-is-good-for-business/

At the end of the article though he points to the recent example of Arizona telling Nike to forget about getting incentives if they accept leftist cant about the American Revolution being racist.  I like his final line on that:

“The message should be clear: if your company wants to insist on California pieties, you can pay the California price.”

02JUL2019 – American Greatness Post of the Day – Governor Nixes Financial Incentives to Relocated Nike to Arizona After Flag Sneaker Pulled – Liz Sheld

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The governor of Arizona wasn’t pleased with Nike caving to the whims of unemployed football player Colin Kaepernick.  Apparently  old Colin thinks that the  American Revolution was racist so he told Nike to cancel their sneaker with the 13 star Betsy Ross flag on it.  So Arizona Governor Doug Ducey cancelled Nike’s incentive package for moving to Arizona.  Good!  Someone with backbone.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2019/07/02/governor-nixes-financial-incentives-to-relocated-nike-to-arizona-after-flag-sneaker-pulled/

 

 

Observations on the First Two Democrat Debates

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I had planned to ignore the first few Democrat debates.  There are so many awful candidates that I figured if I could let them whittle it down to a dozen or so I could skip a lot of the really mush-headed nonsense that the truly hopeless candidates say.  But after I saw a few of the highlights on the news sites I realized that there isn’t anything but mush-headed Democrats in this race.  So, I did a viewing of the telecasts and I was able to come to a few conclusions.

The first thing that I decided was that the script for this soap opera is written to allow some of the truly stupidest members of the clown college to have their moment in the sun.  The kabuki theater about Joe Biden’s involvement with anti-bussing legislation was a well planned and choreographed operation.  I’m sure even Creepy Uncle Joe was in on the gag.  Elizabeth Warren was thrown some softballs to allow her to give her set speeches on climate change and health care.  Pete Buttigieg was allowed the opportunity to address the killing of a South Bend black man by a white cop in a venue where he could display the requisite amount of anguish to defuse the disqualifying nature of this offense against Democrat sensibilities.  And all podium denizens were allowed a couple of shots at President Trump just to prove their woke bona fides.

The second thing I decided was that despite the beating Biden took at the hands of Kamala Harris he would still be the candidate.  I believe the set pieces that the also-rans are being handed are for the purpose of deciding who will be the running mate to Creepy Uncle Joe.  A lot of headlines and gallons of electronic ink were expended trying to make us think that Warren, Buttigieg or Harris are now within striking distance of being the front-runner.  The latest poll (for what it’s worth) has Biden dropping from about 38 to 31 percent.  That still leaves him about 12 points ahead of the second-place candidate Comrade Bernie Sanders.  Let’s face it, adding a woman and especially a minority woman as his running mate will help Biden overcome the creep factor associated with his shoulder clutching, hair-sniffing fetish activities.  This is meant to counteract the disappointment that the more “woke” sections of the Democrat coalition will experience when Joe has to pivot hard right to avoid losing all the less crazy inhabitants of the United States during the general election.  So, until that time comes, we are regaled with tales of green energy and the “millions of green energy jobs” that always are just over the rainbow of a democrat election victory.  And the tweaks to Obamacare that will render it a panacea for all healthcare problems.  And repeal of the Second Amendment and retroactive abortions and universal college loan debt forgiveness and free college for all and transgender emotional support animals for blue haired women and, and, and.  Well you get the picture.  Right now, it’s all about throwing the base red meat (or in this case tofu) and inspiring the true believers to think Pete Buttigieg could actually be Commander in Chief of the United States which of course is absurd.

And the third thing I decided was that barring a rollicking simultaneous visit by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse President Trump will steamroll Creepy Uncle Joe or any of the lesser members of the Democrat Travelling Freak Show in the 2020 election.  Seriously, these people are an embarrassment.  And without a doubt, the more intelligent members of that party are skipping this election to avoid the stigma of losing.  Chuck Schumer is no Einstein but he looks like him when compared to Corey Booker or Kamala Harris.  I imagine he thinks he’d have a much better chance running after President Trump is term limited.  I have to assume we won’t be seeing any of these people running in 2024.  Obviously, Biden and Sanders will be, at best, in nursing homes.  Harris, Booker, Gillibrand and Warren will be hiding out in the Senate making believe they are important but the kookier members of this group will have disappeared down rat holes never to be heard from again.  I guess I can continue to watch snippets of the Democrat debates but honestly it will only be so I can confirm my Biden prediction and guess which of the sideshow attractions will be his running mate.  And maybe just to get a few laughs.

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What Needs Doing this Year to Guarantee the 2020 Reelection

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In an earlier post I said that the last two years had revolutionized the situation in the US.  But as everyone knows Americans embody the attitude, “what have you done for me lately?”

So in the spirit of trying to make Deplorable America scream, “It’s too much winning!”  Here is what I think should be the agenda for the next six months.

  • Codify, normalize and accelerate the deportations.
  • Prosecute Google and Facebook for demonetizing and de-platforming their customers on the basis of political ideology.
  • Finish a deal with China that brings even more jobs to America.
  • Fiscally punish the Sanctuary states.
  • Work with the new British Prime Minister on a trade deal that will facilitate a hard Brexit.
  • Come up with a great nick-name for each of the Democrat Clown Car Gang (although some of them have picked the names out themselves, I’m looking at you Spartacus).
  • Have the indictments of the Justice Department coup leaders a reality by early fall.
  • Get something to finally stick to the Clintons and lock her up.
  • Prosecute employers who employ illegal aliens.
  • Do an exclusive interview for Orion’s Cold Fire and appear in a cameo scene in the next Deadpool movie (alright, I made up those last two for myself).

And most of these agenda items have both a positive and negative aspect.  Weakening Google and Facebook for instance, not only energizes our side but also depresses the Left.  There’s nothing that bums them out like being zinged on social media.  For them that’s like a thumb in the eye.  And just imagine how deportations and targeting employers of illegal aliens will depress the fraudulent vote situation.

So these are the priorities that I see.  If the President accomplishes even most of these he will ensure his re-election and also improve the Republicans’ outcomes in the Senate, House and even state elections.  And based on his actions over the last couple of years I know he is well aware of the importance of these priorities and I fully expect to see them move forward.

But it’s the summer and things slow down a good deal and bloggers and other talkers get bored of not having something big going on all the time.

But if I had to pick the one thing that would most powerfully improve the chances of re-election, I say prosecuting the DOJ conspirators.  If the true story is as juicy as it seems, it will be like a modern day Watergate and will surely tar the Democrats in the eyes of the American voters, including especially the Independents.  And the cherry on the float would be if Biden ends up involved in the Russia-gate thing as a distraction from his own Russia and Ukraine involvements.  I’d love to see the the Beau Biden Ukraine story blow up in the DNC’s face after Creepy Joe is the nominee.

I’m very impatient to see this get going but I’m guessing that saving something for the Fall and Winter are tactically important.  Well, patient is a virtue they say.  Unfortunately for me, it’s one I do not possess.

 

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Apparently Even Knitting is Political

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Here’s an article on the Federalist that informs us that the biggest knitting and crocheting website won’t allow Trump supporters to just get along.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/25/tech-bias-became-kitchen-table-issue/

The author reminds us that those pink hats that the old ladies wore to protest President Trump had to be made somewhere.  Sounds like an opportunity for a new platform.

 

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Vox Day Has a Post on Creators Working Around Demonitizing by YouTube

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Vox links to an article on the Verge lamenting that YouTube demonitizing someone like Steven Crowder didn’t do much damage to his business.

https://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/06/sjws-lament-failure-of-demonetization.html

In the comments I found a link to an alternative to PayPal and other payment processors who have denied service to gun merchants and othe deplorables.

https://www.secondamendmentprocessing.com/

Finding alternatives to converged institutions is a real problem for people on the right doing business.

 

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Who Will Emerge from the Democrat Clown Car as the Nominee?

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When you look at the 2020 Democratic Presidential field it almost takes your breath away.  The sheer range of nitwittery is stunning.  Joe Biden, a serial plagiarist, shoulder clutcher and hair sniffer with bad hair plugs.  Corey Booker, a man who declared himself Spartacus in front of a tv camera.  Elizabeth Warren, an Okie who couldn’t be whiter trying to pass herself off as a Cherokee in order to get a job at Harvard.  Kamala Harris, a woman who slept her way to the top in California politics.  Bernie Sanders, a septuagenarian communist who looks and sounds like Larry David’s stunt double from “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”  Pete Buttigieg?  I won’t even bother.  And on and on and on.  The candidates who might actually have something to offer like Michael Bloomberg aren’t running because they sense that President Trump is very likely to get re-elected without much effort.  Bloomberg is probably waiting for 2024 to see if a better opportunity presents itself.

And it’s not just the abnormality of the candidates that strikes you.  It’s the fact that weirdness is actually their greatest selling point.  Bernie is popular because he is a communist.  Mayor Pete is popular because he’s married to a man.  Booker is exciting because he’ll say outlandish things that even he’s not sure make any sense.  Kamala wants to turn the United States in California, the first “Third World State” in the Union.

But in handicapping this race I think you have to assume that the weirdo pageant is really a selection process for the VP sweepstakes.  Whichever of the wackos produces the most excitement and brings the largest constituency of unlikely voters to the Democratic ticket will end up as running mate to either Creepy Uncle Joe or Crazy Uncle Bernie.  Because when push comes to shove, they’ll put an old white guy at the head of the ticket to try and give some semblance of normality to their platform.  The Obama experiment opened up a lot of eyes about just “who they are” on the Left.  Now in order to drag any middle-class men at all to the Democrat side they have to flee from the fringe when the general election starts.  But if they can tack on a woman or a minority or a homosexual on as running mate, they hope it will energize enough of their own base to put them over the top.

My guess is it will be the Creepy Uncle Joe/Fauxcahontas ticket.  And that is just marginally more likely than Kamala Harris or Corey Booker in the second spot.  But I’m pretty sure Biden will be their candidate.  He checks all the boxes.  His link to Obama and his folksy regular guy act is pretty close to what the Democrats think will appeal to both black voters and working-class white men.  Fauxcahontas is the best lure for suburban white women.  So that’s the ticket I think we’ll see.

Wow.  That’s some “dream team.”  I suspect President Trump will pummel them mercilessly in the general election and on Twitter (unless he’s banned by that outlet).  It should be a very entertaining primary and general election season.  Stay tuned to see if my prognostication is accurate.

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Vox Day Links to an Article About an Australian Rugby Star Fired for His Religious Beliefs

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Israel Folau was a star of the Australian Rugby league.  But his comments about his christian beliefs on homosexuality got him fired from his team and when he set up a crowdfunding effort to contest the firing in court, GoFundMe cancelled the account after it received over $500,000.

https://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/06/deplatforming-christian-morality.html

Folau is a Polynesian (Tongan) raised in a christian family and his biblical beliefs about the immorality of abnormal sexual practices have clashed with the LGBTQ mafia that more and more ruthlessly attempts to silence any voices that won’t burn a pinch of incense to the Caesar of our time.  Kudos to Vox for highlighting this story from “Down Under.”

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