All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
Not to feel exasperated or defeated or despondent because your days aren’t packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit you’ve embarked on.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I’ve got guests this week and Camera Girl is killing the fatted calf and there will be much rejoicing. And there is not as much time for writing. But still enough. Today I’m in an upbeat mood. No doom and gloom today.
I went out and scraped some ice off the driveway and bought about five hundred pounds of tubesand (yes, that’s a real thing) and scratch it into the ice with a garden rake and voila! Traction. And I’ve been exposed to the joys of ice spikes and chains that can be attached to boots or shoes. With these wonder devices I can sneer at glass smooth ice fields. I feel like some kind of winter super hero. New vistas have opened up. Even the dogs; those canine klutzes, are now in awe of my agility and speed on ice fields. So yeah, I’ve fully adapted to winter and relish the next snowstorm. But just in time for my new attitude I read that warmer weather and rain is due by Wednesday. Bah.
Well, I listened to a bunch of lefty loons today. Eric Holder, Joy Reid, Claire McCaskill, Gretchen Whitmer, Rachel Maddow, Kamala Harris, James Carville, David Axelrod and on and on and on. And they’re all freaking out. Trump’s Hitler and he’s going to open concentration camps and he’s going to force women to wear those funny costumes from the Handmaid’s Tale and travel around the country in Air Force One groping them randomly and he’s going to paint the White House gold. And OUR DEMOCRACY!
Wonderful. It’s wonderful to see them running in circles trying to figure out how to make Nikki Haley the Republican nominee for president. And they can’t make up their minds whether Biden must get out of the race right now or that he must be the nominee but younger, smarter, faster and better than the doddering old doofus who keeps showing up at the White House podium announcing which airstrikes he’s approving against people whose name he can’t pronounce, never mind locate on a map.
Next Tuesday is the New Hampshire primary and presently it looks like Trump will win that too, even though so many Democrat ringers will be crossing the border from Massachusetts to vote that it might temporarily raise the IQ of Massachusetts by ten or twenty points. It’s said that if he beats her by fifteen points the nomination is more or less decided. And the prospect of this has Bill Kristol and the rest of the GOP establishment going crazier than the Democrats. The Bulwark and the Atlantic have called in suicide prevention professionals to coax most of their RINO pundits off the ledge.
Now does all this mean Trump is a shoo-in to win the November election? Oh, far from it. States are trying to ban Trump from the ballots and you know the absentee ballots are being printed up by fraud squads in all the precincts of Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit and various other Democrat strongholds across the swing states. There will be cheating on a scale that will make 2020 look fair and transparent. No, there’s every chance they’ll cheat us again.
But today I don’t care. I won’t borrow the trouble that’s due in ten months. Why should I? I’m just luxuriating in the agita and panic radiating off of these mental midgets. They’re honestly scared and that’s just fine by me. People do stupid things when they’re scared and that’s what we need. They need to say stupid things, which they are. That shows who they really are and that makes them look unhinged to moderates and independents. And that’s a good look for them going into this election season.
The second half of January is starting pretty well. Everyone’s healthy and working hard so what else can I ask for in this lunatic asylum called America? Our enemies are scared. We need to pay attention to our own affairs and stay alert to what is going on in the outside world. It’s a dangerous place and requires a lot of careful thought to navigate safely. Keep your balance and don’t slip on the ice.
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Chris Rufo has written what I think is an interesting article in the City Journal. It’s called, “A New Civil Rights Agenda:
The only hope for a diverse nation is a regime of colorblind equality.”
Rufo points to the Civil rights Act of 1964 and some of the later additions to it for our unfortunate situation. He claims that both Libertarians and the Dissident Right advocate solutions that he feels are unworkable.
“The question is what to do about it. Libertarians have long argued that the Civil Rights Act compromises core freedoms of speech and association to such a degree that only repealing the law can restore them. Another faction argues that the solution to minoritarian identity politics is majoritarian identity politics—that is, if the legal regime has become a racial spoils system, then Americans of European descent must develop “white racial consciousness” and fight for their share.”
Instead, he outlines three steps that he feels would eliminate reverse discrimination:
“First, reformers should outlaw affirmative action and racial preferences of any kind. … The next president should rescind Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246, which established “affirmative action” and marked the initial deviation from the standard of colorblind equality.
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Second, reformers must eliminate the “disparate impact” provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co., both of which have entrenched the doctrine that disparate group outcomes are de facto evidence of racial discrimination.
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Third, legislators should abolish the DEI bureaucracies in all American institutions, which openly discriminate against disfavored racial groups, impose ideological orthodoxies on American citizens, and restrict freedoms of speech and association. In addition, federal legislators should radically reduce the size of the federal departments of civil rights enforcement.”
I am not a politician or a lawyer but even an uninformed layman can see that those changes will require either control of both houses of Congress and the president or the Supreme Court to get involved in outlawing whole bureaus of the executive branch out of existence.
I’m not saying it can’t be done but I can understand why there might be a high degree of skepticism on the part of dissidents. Conservatives have been bamboozled by the Republican establishment into hoping for colorblind reform forever and it’s never happened.
But recently we had the Supreme Court strike down affirmative action in college admissions. If they decide to strike it down entirely then possibly all of the three actions that Rufo outlines might actually be covered under this decision. With a conservative president and the Supreme Court outlawing reverse discrimination we might see sixty years of injustice eliminated in short order.
Okay, enough happy, happy talk. Rufo’s thesis is that conservative government would be well within its rights to eliminate almost all of the most obnoxious components of today’s racial reverse discrimination policies. But what he describes would take a courageous Supreme Court and a conservative president willing to use his authority as head of the executive branch to bring the various agencies to heel.
Let’s just say that I completely understand the Dissident’s Right’s skepticism. And all this depends on a conservative president. Will we ever see another one of those? Stay tuned till November.
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I’ve had a lot of fun mocking our heroic pundits on the Left. Whether it’s Joy Reid and her completely hollow skull or Rachel Maddow and her total lack of self-awareness or Jeffrey Toobin and his missing boundaries; all these people share the circumstance that they are unqualified to act as journalists. Granted, their employers really don’t expect or want them to perform that function. The last thing that MSNBC or CNN want is honesty and objectivity. Heaven forbid!
What these dullards and liars are supposed to do is mouth the talking points they are handed and pretend to be serious adults. In some cases, this is impossible. Joy Reid can’t even pronounce the word objectivity. Jeffrey Toobin couldn’t forego autoerotic activities while at work. And the Rachel Maddows and Chris Hayeses and Chris Lemons simply crawl with tics and mannerisms that announce to the world, “Here is a nut job.”
So, yeah, it’s a lot of fun and beyond easy to slap these meat puppets around whenever one of them takes to the airwaves and pontificates about Donald Trump or someone else on the Right who won’t kowtow to Barack Obama or some other creepy “lightworker” who they pull out of the woodworks. It’s easy because they’re idiots and because the things they say have become demonstrably false. COVID was built in a lab and the vaccine didn’t protect us from it. Biden has let in ten million illegal aliens and they are overwhelming New York, Chicago and every sanctuary city that claims to want them. Biden has inflated cost of everything from food to gasoline to rent until now working-class people can’t afford to live.
As I say, it’s easy to slap them around. But that only helps if so many people demand change that even the fake election producers can’t fake the results. And unfortunately, there are plenty of people like the Karens of the world who would rather see working class people starve to death rather than allow Donald Trump in the White House. The Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFL’s) are perfectly happy to pretend that Joy Reid is a genius if it validates their own intelligence.
But the final laugh will be on them. White females have finally fallen off the edge of the critical race table. Whiteness has finally sunk them too. There just isn’t enough room in the zero-sum game that is the Democrat coalition to allow them to keep their heads above water. BIPoC women need their jobs and their status. So, it’s time for them to go. And at the same time if the Supreme Court invalidates sex based affirmative action in the workplace, then there won’t be anything at all left for them to console themselves with as they come home to their little apartments filled with boxes; wine boxes and cat litter boxes.
But one thing they’ll still have will be MSNBC. Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid will always be there to remind them that black women and white lesbians can go on tv and tell them all the things that white people (including AWFL’s) have done to harm this world and why they need to be punished.
So, these dullards and liars have a real function. It’s to tell fake news to stupid people. I stand corrected.
In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
