Category: Trump

ArthurinCali Fisks Jamelle Bouie’s Diatribe Against Trump

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Arthur has dissected the NYT leftist’s screed complaining that Trump is not being persecuted enough!

Good long form analysis of all the Left’s talking points against the man they love to hate.

https://arthurincali.substack.com/p/the-left-burns-down-every-institution

My favorite line:

“Keep in mind that you do not have to be a fan or even a supporter of Donald Trump to be able to see the different set of standards currently being deployed against him, and how that is a danger to the entire faith and allegiance to our political system and institutions.”

Nikki, We Hardly Knew Ye. And Even That Was Too Much.

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Well, the obnoxious Nikki Haley finally, finally figured it out.  She’s been the patsy of the Never-Trump cavalcade of clowns like the Koch Brother (after all if there’s only one left is he still a brother?).  Now even she can see that if the only ones who vote for you are Never Trumpers and Democrats, the only places you can win are Vermont and Washington DC where there isn’t anyone else.

Don’t go away mad Nikki.  Just go away.

 

 

 

 

Nikki Haley and Joe Scarborough Agree on Trump

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What would Nikki Haley and Joe Scarborough have in common?  Well, they’re both in a panic that Americans might re-elect Donald Trump President of the United States of America.  Here are their latest statements as headlines in today’s new reports:

Haley: Nominating Trump Means ‘Suicide for Our Country

Scarborough: “How Stupid Would You Have to Be” To Vote for Trump?”

Apparently, we would have to be so stupid that we would be willing to commit suicide by nominating Donald Trump for Republican candidate for President.

Well, thank our lucky stars that we have Nikki Haley and Joe Scarborough, two of the most extreme conservatives out there to alert us to our danger.  And that is a relief because suicide is bad.  Very bad.  After suicide there really isn’t much upside left.  Of course, I’m not exactly sure what it looks like when a nation of 273 million people commits suicide all at once.

That’s a lot of corpses.  And if we’re all dead who buries the bodies.  And it will have to be burial.  The cremation of 273 million people would be an awful lot of carbon dioxide released all at once.  The Canadians are even more strict than Biden about CO2 so if they’re going to be stuck disposing of their neighbors’ bodies, they’re not going to burn them.  So, I guess it’ll be burial.  Or maybe composting.  That’s kind of green.  Maybe they’ll do that.

Now I wonder if the suicide will occur immediately after the Republican Convention nominates him.  That’s on July 18th so I had better take my summer vacation before that.  And probably around the Fourth of July I’ll probably buy an expensive sports car and a diamond tennis bracelet for Camera Girl.  The first payment will come due in August.  Hah!

 

I guess I better start figuring out how I want to commit suicide.  I’ve never really given it enough thought.  It’s kind of complicated.  If I were Canadian (Canada again!) I could get some help from the government.  I hear they’re always willing to lend a helping hand when someone wants to off himself.

I read somewhere that if you drink too much water, like ten gallons or so, your electrolyte levels in your blood get too low and your heart will stop.  That sounds pretty painless but I’d have to spend my last hours on Earth in the bathroom urinating and that doesn’t sound very dignified.

Maybe pills.  Currently I know we have a lot of heartworm medicine for the dogs.  Could I do myself in with those?  Nah, I’d just end up dewormed.

Maybe I could get like ten COVID vaccine boosters all in one day.  That would probably kill anyone.  But I don’t like needles.

I have heard of the “death by a thousand cuts.”  Hopefully paper cuts count.  Over the course of my career around the office I must be in the high nine hundreds by now.  I’ll buy myself a ream of really sharp paper and begin playing around with it.  I’m bound to reach my goal in a day or two.  And as a man who spends a lot of his time writing down words, death by paper seems a fitting end.

I guess all that remains is for me to figure out my epitaph.  “He died with his boots on?”  “Stranger, go tell the Spartans?”  “Tippecanoe and Tyler too?”  “Haste makes waste?”  “Dammit, I’ll take the garbage out later?”  I don’t know.  Nothing grabs me.

You know this whole thing is more complicated than I thought.  I’m sorry Nikki, Joe.  I may have to put off this whole suicide thing for a while.  If it’s all the same with you maybe we can nominate Donald Trump and somehow keep breathing for a short while.  If you don’t mind.  But feel free yourselves to drop dead.  I don’t think anyone will really care that much.  I know I won’t.

Look, who does Nikki Haley think she’s kidding?  Regardless of whether Trump succeeds in fixing our government or not he’s the lone possibility of it.  Nikki Haley, at best would be Jeb Bush in a skirt.  At worst, she’d be the new Hillary Clinton putting the deplorables in their place.  Nope, I’ll take my chances with Trump.  At least he hates the same people I do.

What Do We Keep and What Let Go? – Part 3 – Gullibility

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The first two installments were about things we must keep.  Let’s look at something that has to go. One word for it might be idealism.  For lack of a better term, I’ll call it gullibility.  It’s the willingness to give those in charge the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their intentions.  The recent COVID debacle is a prime example.  The various health agencies and the drug companies probably in concert with the intelligence agencies and the media came up with a plan to shut the country down during an election year and then force us to take a dangerous experimental drug all while shutting down dissent in the media and social media.

And half of the country adopted the plan like sheep and the other half were hounded out of their careers and demonized by the government.  And the truth about the disease and the “cure” were hidden for many months while the whole country went through chaos and economic and emotional turmoil.  And after all that no one was held accountable and nothing was acknowledged about the disastrous decisions that were made.

We can no longer give the people in charge the benefit of the doubt.  If they screw up, we have to assume that they are either stupid or criminal.  And in either case they must be held accountable.  At the very least we need to fire them.  So that means if Trump comes back to the White House what we must demand is that he fires every single idiot responsible for the COVID debacle.  And he needs to set up a special prosecutor to punish these people.  And the prosecutor needs to be in a jurisdiction where there won’t be a bunch of blue city jurors and the prosecutor can’t be a regime toady.

And Trump himself owes us an apology for being a gullible fool himself.  In fact, if he wasn’t the only hope for straightening out the mess we’re in, I’d say we should prosecute him for letting Fauci torture us during his term in office.  But I’ll cut him some slack.  But at the very least everyone in the US government who had anything to do with funding the Wuhan lab needs to be fired and prosecuted.

And a special prosecutor should employ unbiased scientists to review the data on the COVID virus and the vaccines and decide whether the drug companies and the FDA are complicit in the deaths of the people who were injured and died from the use of the vaccines.  I have no doubt that some people need to go to prison.

As another example, the George Floyd riots were at least tolerated and possibly abetted by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.  And several local and state governments, notably Minneapolis and Minnesota, allowed their citizens to be harassed and in some cases assaulted and killed while a mob stalked the country.  This also needs to be investigated and those responsible prosecuted.  At the very least, most of the upper echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department need to be cleared out.

After all, the FBI has been unrelenting and brutal in their persecution of the poor souls who dared to protest inside the Capitol building.  Harmless people have been imprisoned and some of them forced into suicide for a riot in which no one was armed and no one killed.  But the George Floyd riots burned down countless properties and even managed to murder a number of people.  And the FBI did nothing to stop it or punish those responsible.  Those in charge need to be fired and punished for unequal application of the law.

Finally, the horror show caused by the open border is a crime that must be investigated and punished.  If President Trump can be prosecuted for his part in January 6th, then undoubtedly Joe Biden can be punished for allowing our country to be invaded.  And the immigration laws must be changed to end the invasion.

In general, we need to hold our leaders and their agents accountable for their actions and inactions.  And to do this we have to give up our idealistic ideas about government.  We have to stop being so gullible and replace it with mental toughness.  The power these people have over our lives is immense.  It’s time we started holding them responsible for the immense damage they do.

Mittromneyplex

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So, Mitch McConnell is a monstrosity.  This senile fossil of a crooked politician is a millstone around the necks of Senate Republicans.  His highest priority (so he said) is sending as many billions of dollars to Ukraine as is humanly possible.  Or even as is inhumanly possible.  Why that should be his highest priority, has absolutely nothing to do with American national defense or NATO or even geopolitical strategy.  It’s just naked greed.  Mitch McConnell gets his money from the defense contractors and the other vested interests that get their money from government contracts.  He’s so deep in the pocket of these people that nothing else matters at all but keeping them happy.

So regardless of how many millions of illegal aliens Joe Biden lets into the country or however else the administration punishes normal Americans, McConnell’s highest priority is sending money to Ukraine.  Therefore, if the House of Representatives is unwilling to give Biden that money then McConnell has no qualms about announcing publicly that the lack of a deal is Donald Trump’s fault because he’s afraid the deal will also solve the immigration problem.

Now the magnitude of stupidity necessary to believe that Joe Biden suddenly wants to close the border is so enormous that there isn’t even a number yet invented to cover it.  A googol is one with a hundred zeroes after it.  And a googolplex is ten raised to the googol power.  That is:

1010,000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000,​000,000,000

That’s a really big number.  But a googolplex worth of stupid pales into insignificance compared to how moronic you’d have to be to believe in such a thing.  And when you find out that the “border deal” hasn’t even been written down anywhere and just has to be approved sight unseen by the Republicans.  Well, what can I say?  The only thing stupider than that would be the mittromneyplex (10MITTROMNEY), a stupid so large that it would a tear a hole in the very fabric of space-time, the absolute black hole of stupid.

So far, the House Republicans have managed to resist being sucked into this monstrous farce of a sell-out.  I don’t know if Mike Johnson is doing the right thing or the MAGA wing is holding his feet to the fire.  But I think if we witness the Republicans refusing to give the Biden administration the Ukraine money altogether then we will have witnessed an actual Republican victory.  Because let’s face it.  Even if Joe Biden closed the southern border tighter than a drum that would just be a temporary cosmetic action.  He would be doing it during an election year when he knows his immigration policy is as popular as Ebola.  On November 6th the border would just open up again regardless of whether Joe or Trump wins.  And of course, Joe wouldn’t do anything to remove the millions upon millions of illegals he’s let in during the last three years.  It’s strictly cosmetic.  And you can bet that the “deal” will also include amnesty.  What a surprise!

But if the Republicans manage to withhold the Ukraine money, that foreign policy defeat will reverberate around the world.  The Ukrainians will be forced to negotiate with the Russians and the European Union will have to come to terms with the reality that Russia is a country that doesn’t bend the knee to Washington.  And once Russia doesn’t invade Poland, the EU may start rethinking exactly what their relationship is with Washington and Moscow and why.

Meanwhile, the Texans and the twenty-five red states that approve of what Texas is doing are breaking new ground on standing up to the malfeasance that Washington practices.  And if they’re brave enough to continue on this road, we may see that a hell of a lot of our problems with federal unconstitutional overreach may be at least partially fixable.  But either way, the days of buckling under when Mitch McConnell says mean things about you may be behind us for good.  Let’s hope that old fossil sinks into a tar pit as soon as possible.

I’ve Found the Leftist Pundit of the Week

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PBS’s ‘Firing Line’ host Margaret Hoover does her best George Stephanopoulos impression trying to shame RINO Chris Sununu into saying he would vote for Biden over Trump.  To his credit Sununu wasn’t cowardly enough to let her force him into that.  She keeps pecking away at him to say that January 6th was such an abomination that Biden would be the only legitimate choice because of “our democracy.”

When she parrots the line about Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his enemies Sununu amusingly mentions that some people say that the Democrats have already been doing just that.  You can see the frustration in her AWFL face.

So as much as Sununu is a typical New England Republican, meaning a libertarian Democrat, he has the basic political survival instincts not to completely betray his own party on air.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/20/chris_sununu_trump_is_gasoline_on_fire_but_i_would_vote_for_him_because_thats_how_bad_joe_biden_is.html

If even Chris Sununu has the sense to see that Donald Trump is popular enough to get enough votes to become president then the Democrats must be feeling the heat in this campaign environment.  I bet they force Joe Biden out.  Some people say he won’t be pushed.  But the FBI has all the evidence they could possibly need to expose the Biden Crime Family for what it is.  Biden is not a courageous man.  He’s a stooge.  He’ll do what he’s told.

Poor Margaret Hoover.  Even Chris Sununu has begun telling her that the Biden jig is up.

Strapping In for a Long Political Season

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I was watching some footage of the pro-Palestinian rioters scaling the outer fence at the White House and thinking, “Is there a chance they might get Joe?”  But, no.  It was all Kabuki theater, of course.  Some people are screaming,” Hey, how come they didn’t arrest them like they did the January 6th protesters?”  But you don’t arrest your friends when they’re playacting.  You know, making believe that they expect the White House to throw the Israelis under the bus.  Ask the former president of Harvard how that worked out for her.  No this is a fig leaf to try and minimize the electoral penalty they expect to pay in Michigan from the Arab voters there.  Well, someone did the math and decided this was the better play.

So, tomorrow is the Iowa Caucus.  Trump will win it by twenty or more percent.  If Haley comes in second then maybe DeSantis may drop out.  I’m not sure if Ramaswamy stays in.  Maybe he wants to do New Hampshire too.  I really don’t know how all this works for him.  I think with all the Democrat and Independent crossover, Haley has a shot at winning in New Hampshire.  But New Hampshire is now just North Massachusetts.  Of course, they don’t want Trump.  Every time the idiot governor Sununu shows up on MSNBC, he yammers on about how independent their voters are.  What a load of crap.  Anywhere else in the country a New England “Republican” is a radical progressive.

But if Haley manages to squeak out a victory in New Hampshire the press will trumpet how this means she’s got a shot at the nomination.  Now that’s a crock.  I don’t even think she has a chance of winning in her home state of South Carolina.  But we’ll be hearing that drivel all the way up to February 24th when the primary occurs.  Then mercifully, the wind will collapse out of their sails and the next sideshow will be the court trials to try and put Trump in jail.  And on and on until the conventions and then the election.

Well, I really don’t have the interest to follow all of the minutia.  I’ll just look at the headlines and look for some talking head to say something really stupid that I can mock.  And there’s no end to those.  I can’t make up my mind which are more pathetic the idiots on CNN and MSNBC or the fakes at Fox News.  They’re both contemptible but somehow the fake conservatives are more contemptible.  The pundits on the Left are so obviously cretinous numbskulls that you almost feel sorry for them; being paraded in front of cameras and allowed to prove themselves morons.  Someone like Joy Reid isn’t playing with a full deck.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/13/joy_reid_black_folks_see_those_palestinians_and_they_see_themselves.html

She’s annoying for sure but no one is thinking, “Hey, that Joy Reid really has a point there.”  Well, no one with an IQ over 65.  So, it’s not very important to try and discredit her jabbering.

But the Fox News people are of at least functional human intelligence and yet they lie and deceive their viewers by carrying water for the likes of Joe Biden.  More and more the likes of Bret Baier strike me as the worst problem in news.  He’s the voice of the Republican establishment and the worst offender when it comes to trying to sell people on Nikki Haley as some kind of conservative.  So, Brett and his clones will probably provide the best fodder for my mockery.  I’m sure if I search round in his history, I’ll find his elevator speech for why Republicans should embrace pediatric transgender affirmation surgery.  But somehow he hasn’t volunteered to try it out himself.

As I said at New Year’s Day, I intend to try to avoid beating the same dead horses I’ve been pummeling for the last few years.  It’s not very amusing anymore but when there is something amusing or enlightening that I can think of I’ll pass it along.  Well, let’s see what shows up in Iowa.

Can You Top This?

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In 2020 the Democrats had to beat a popular incumbent president.  What they came up with was a race war and a lame bioweapon release to justify massive election fraud.  So, for 2024, with Joe Biden as popular as a prostate exam how will the CIA and FBI top their last effort?

Since Joe is the incumbent, they can’t make the country vote for him with another race war.  And I think we’re through with pandemics.  The only thing I can think of is a false flag attack.  Or rather, a real attack that the feds allow to happen.  And with all the millions of illegal aliens marching up out of Mexico it’s a cinch that it will be easy enough to orchestrate.  The only question is who will they attack?

One possibility is the Palestinians, or some Islamists that sympathize with them, attack a symbolic target in New York or even Washington DC.  So, if they blow up the Freedom Tower or the White House what is supposed to happen?  Would we rally round the flag?  Would we vote to appropriate ten trillion dollars to get Raytheon to build a billion drones and blow up some more third world villages?  And then what?  Import whoever was left in the Middle East to come live in Michigan and Minnesota?  And is that to punish them or us or both?  I don’t know.  It seems stale.

Another possibility is some Ukrainians pass themselves as Russians and attack a civilian target that will produce mass casualties.  Maybe they’ll attack a business district at lunch time.  Unfortunately, all the city downtowns have already been emptied out by remote work practices.  If they attacked San Francisco at noon the only ones at risk are the homeless encampments and, honestly, I don’t think anyone would notice or care.

So, this is a conundrum for the Deep State’s best and brightest.  If I could make a suggestion, maybe they could have their proxies attack Martha’s Vineyard.  They could emulate what Hamas did in Southern Israel and slaughter the inhabitants in an orgy of sadistic violence.  And after their paroxysm of mayhem had eliminated most of the managerial elite and their families, Americans would rise up to avenge them.  Wouldn’t they?  Surely the military recruiting stations in Cambridge MA and Berkley CA and Williamsburg Brooklyn would be inundated by trust fund babies lining up to enlist and get revenge for all those billionaires massacred on the sand dunes and along the bike paths of Martha’s Vineyard.  And even if they didn’t, surely, it’s worth a try.

Seriously, no one knows what the powers that be will come up with for 2024.  One thing they’re desperately attempting is to revive the economy.  Every hour on the hour the talking heads on tv tell us just how wonderful the economy is.  We’re assured that the rise in the cost of living is more than compensated for by the incredible increases in salaries.  And anyone who says otherwise is a stooge for Putin.  But unfortunately, Putin must be paying off something like two hundred million stooges because that’s about the proportion of Americans who want to fire Joe Biden for turning us all into paupers.

After all that buildup, will 2024 be free from fireworks?  I guess it’s possible.  My only thought is be a little more careful than you think you need to be.  There are a lot of really sick people who may react to bad news by doing crazy things.  Some of those sick people may live in your area.  Don’t volunteer to set them off.  In the new year attend to your business.  Do what you need to do to live a better life.  Protect your family and make sure they have what they need to thrive.  Get involved in your local politics.  Everything else is just the sideshow that’s outside of your control.  Watch that from a distance and act according to how it plays out.

Welcome to 2024.

Mirror Image

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Recently, I had a short conversation with someone on the Left.  In New England, that’s hardly an unexpected situation.  But for me to discuss the political situation with people on the other side of the political divide is quite rare.  Basically, I don’t bother to debate the political issues with those on the Left.  It serves no useful purpose for me.  We would not be able to even agree on the definitions of the things about which we disagree.  There’s no point of contact between our world views.

But a funny thing happened.  Someone I met in town while waiting in a line asked me what I thought would happen after the November election.  We had been standing in line and we were talking about Christmas get togethers and then we mentioned the New Year and he reminded me it was an election year.  I said in a neutral way that it was going to be an ugly campaign.  He agreed but said he thought that it would provide closure.  Specifically, he asked whether I thought that things would go back to normal if Trump lost.

I answered his question with a question.  I asked, “Would things go back to normal if Trump won?”  He flinched and said, “No, of course not!”  I asked why and he said, “Because that would be intolerable.”  I replied, “You’ve just given the answer to your question.”  He seemed very surprised and then thoughtful.  He stopped talking to me and we stood in silence until his turn in the line was called.  I can’t be sure but I think I witnessed an epiphany.

The people on the Left, a lot of them anyway, think Trump is some kind of a hypnotist that has mesmerized otherwise normal people into saying and doing things that they would otherwise not do.  They think that Trump voters are acting against their own best interests and even against their own beliefs.  They figure if Trump is eliminated then Republicans will go back to voting for Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Liz Cheney.  We’ll cheer for illegal aliens sucking up all the federal government’s resources.  We’ll come around to accepting doctors castrating boys and neutering girls and allowing perverts to groom young children in grade school.

They blame Trump for the revolt that he spearheaded.  They either believe or pretend to believe that all the stuff like Russia-gate and the suppression of Hunter’s laptop and COVID lab leak are just rightwing conspiracy theories.  So, they either believe or just hope that once Trump leaves the scene more reasonable Republicans will take control of the party and steer us back into the calmer days of George W Bush, or better still, Mitt Romney.  Mitt is every Democrat’s favorite Republican; technically competent, ethically spineless and willing to take any amount of abuse without uttering a single word in his own defense.

But I think I impinged on this one Democrat’s reassuring bubble.  I think I revealed to him that there is a mirror image to his world view.  And that it rules out the old status quo.  The old world where Democrats and Republicans were two ends of a single spectrum of American voters is completely gone.  It’s been replaced by a landscape where close to half the population feels like they’re living through an occupation complete with gestapo and fake elections.  They may be afraid to revolt against the army of occupation but that doesn’t mean they feel any kinship with their occupiers.

I think I convinced him that November isn’t going to end anything.  It’s just the beginning of the next phase, one way or the other.