Me, elsewhere…
Who cares? I mean that very seriously.
If there is literally no difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, in terms of policy, in terms of temperament, in terms of corruption there is no difference between them whatsoever. So you tell me, what do we gain by electing Trump? Nothing.
In fact, we lose something, we have to give up our principles to do it. I’m not playing along.
Don’t tell me about how I’m not voting for Trump is a vote for Hillary. That’s just not the case.
I cannot control what others do. Therefore I am not responsible for their deeds or their misdeeds. All I can control is what I do. I will not step outside of my principles. I will not sign my name to electing a liberal. Even if his name is Trump.
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Alas, poor Mrs. Clinton. Her aides can feed her a talking point, but they can’t make the poor demented fool actually understand it, video:
Hat tip: Thomas Lifson, American Thinker.
The way to call for more discussion in politics is not to yell at your opponents for yelling. Now if somebody on Mrs. Clinton’s staff can just explain to her the difference between role modeling, and parroting by rote.
The Trump v. Clinton question is which liar do you prefer, the liar is a bad pants suit or the liar with a bad hair piece? Camille Paglia suggests that it was the relentless hounding of social justice warrior attack dogs that swelled the ranks of the Trumpkins It certainly wasn’t anything Donald did that resembled acting presidential, or even civilized. More Paglia, from Salon:
Trump has knocked the stilts out from the GOP establishment and crushed the pretensions of a battalion of political commentators on both the Left and Right. Portraying him as a vile racist, illiterate boob, or the end of civilization as we know it hasn’t worked because his growing supporters are genuinely motivated by rational concerns about border security and bad trade deals. Whether Trump, with his erratic impulses and gratuitous crudities, can morph toward statesmanship remains to be seen. We don’t need another bumbling rube like George W. Bush, who bizarrely ambushed German chancellor Angela Merkel by grabbing and massaging her shoulders from behind as she was seated at a G8 Summit meeting in St. Petersburg in 2006.
Is Mrs. Clinton willing, or even able, to call off her attack dogs. Will the social justice warriors give us 1968 redux? Then unlike Donald Trump or Mrs. Clinton, Richard Nixon was smart.
As it stands right now, Donald Trump has done nothing whatsoever to earn our votes. Based on his output so far, it’s not unreasonable to wonder if he has the capacity to earn our vote.
The argument that I’m hearing right now from a lot of supposed conservatives is that we have to beat Hillary and therefore it Trump is the only option.
Well, no, first of all, he’s not the only option. We have a lot of options including the ones that have been exercised by the American people for the last generation or so, which includes not voting at all. For those that insist on voting, there are other options to vote for is well. All of which are valid.
Thing is, Trump has done absolutely nothing to tell us what he is going to do once he is president.
He’s going to build a wall and make the Mexicans pay for it. Oh, wait, no he isn’t either.
He’s going to make America great again. Well, how? What is he going to do for individual liberties and free markets?
What is he going to do to cut down government? What’s he going to do to reduce the size and scope of government? What’s he going to do to increase individual freedom?
He’s already told us that he’s leaning toward Single Payer for healthcare which is precisely what the Democrats had in mind anyway.
Think about it now. Single-payer is precisely what Hillary Clinton was pushing for in the nineties, remember? Single-payer has always been the Democrat wet dream. This is the conservative answer? This is the guy who believes in free markets?
He’s told is he is pro-abortion. He’s told us he’s going to raise taxes.
. He’s told us that he is going to be a protection as president, raising all kinds of tariffs which is precisely what extended the Great Depression in the thirties.
He’s now making noises that he wants John Kasich as a VP, when Kasich himself comes down to the left of Hillary Clinton.
This is not a very impressive collection of statements so far, and certainly it is not earning our votes.
It is not unreasonable for us to ask mr. Trump to give us a cogent reason for electing him that does not involve Hillary Clinton?
He hasn’t done that. And as I have suggested, I doubt he has the ability. Trump supporters, and the conservatives who have managed to capitulate to Trump and his supporters, have a lot of answers as to what he’s going to do as president, most of which conflict with each other.
Clearly the message that Trump has been sending in all these matters is at least muddled if not non-existent. And I will tell you point blank that if he doesn’t come up with an answer for those questions, he does not deserve nor will he get a broad enough base within the Republican party or outside of it for that matter to achieve the White House.
That is precisely why Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump Head to Head as this is written.
The people that are willing to vote for Hillary Clinton are not going to have their minds changed if they haven’t by now. I don’t care if we had video of Hillary Clinton’s shooting those poor people in Benghazi herself, they would still vote for her regardless. So the only minds that are to be changed are the ones who are conservatives, and reluctant to vote for Donald Trump.
Unless and until he comes up with a substantive answer to the questions I have posed he’s not going to attain the presidency.
Let me be perfectly clear, male perverts do not belong in girls’ restrooms.
Ms Spivey’s caption to her video:
ATTENTION JACKSONVILLE:
I was approached by this man yesterday in the bikini section of Target, out here in Yulee. Now the thing is is that the same guy approached me two years ago here in Jacksonville at a Publix while I was shopping. The locations were about an hour apart in distance from each other.
When he approached me yesterday he did not remember who I was, until I called him out on it in this video. When he approached me in Publix two years ago he had two small children with him under the age of three in his shopping cart. The basket of his shopping cart was filled with multiple different types of razors that were for both men and women. He starts out his conversation with the same punch line he uses here in the very beginning of this video saying, “Hey there I don’t mean to bother you but I just bought this maxi dress for my wife at Ross and I was kinda worried about the sheerness of it.”
He says his wife has put on weight after giving birth and he uses her as a way to start asking questions that get extremely inappropriate. For instance he starts asking his wife should wear the maxi dress with no panties, and if she should shave “down there” trying to make it seem very innocent in the way he’s asking. He then asks if you’re wearing panties, etc.
Whiles he’s asking these questions he’s filming you with his cell phone, and I knew he was by the way he was holding his phone. I had this feeling there was way more to what he was doing than just asking questions, it was very routine for him like he’s been doing this for a long time. So I went immediately to the front and reported him, they called the cops and he was banned from that publix. It was NOT illegal what he was doing.
However when this incident happened yesterday that was the second encounter that I have had with this guy and this time it was much worse.
After I called him out in this video when he gives me his punch line and as I’m staring at his basket full of razors, he clearly doesn’t remember who I am, and then the shock rushes over his face and he starts to run, so I chase after his sorry ass because I wanted his tag info. I wanted this guy caught. There was something not right about him.
He then took off on foot to the McDonalds across the way right by the Target, is there for about five minutes when we’re all waiting for him to come back because his truck was parked in Target’s parking lot. So he comes running back, jumped in his truck, spun out of the parking lot and he just so happen to spin out onto A1A right in front of the cop that was coming to target for the incident. He ran from the cops, they had to chase him. They finally got him to pull over, he wouldn’t get out of his truck and they had to pull him out at gunpoint.
So when they ran his background he has a history of video voyeurism and has been in trouble for putting cameras in his shoes and filming under girls skirts, in the dressing rooms when girls are changing into bikinis, etc. He filmed three different girls in one location at Neptune Beach. He’s been all over Jacksonville.
He told the police he has a problem with pornography and that he didn’t know what to do about it.
If you guys could please share this and anyone who has possibly had encounter with this creep to please contact the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office.
This guy is a huge creep and he’s only being charged with reckless driving, which in this case yesterday he didn’t do anything YET because he ran off. In not concerned about charges, I mean I am but I’m more concerned with his face getting out there and him being stopped.
He has approached minors as well, and there’s no telling how he could easily manipulate a young mind and how far he could take the situation.
Hat tip: Sara Gonzales Red State.
For some strange reason, Target seems to think that this pervert should be free to use the same restroom as your daughter. What say you?
I’ve heard this argument several times in the last 12 hours, that the will of the voters should Prevail and we should all unified behind the choice of the voter. If that’s true, wasn’t Obama the choice of the voters? What then do we say about the objections to him and his policies?
It’s not a matter of being upset about Cruz losing, per se.
We must take a stand against what the Republican party has dumped on us.
For a generation and more we’ve been voting for the lesser of two evils, constantly hoping that somehow the message will get across.. That’s how we are, right where we are.
At some point, a stand must be taken against what the party has been doing. The message must be sent, this far, no further. We’re not going to do that by voting in the most liberal candidate the GOP has ever nominated.
The idiots running the GOP didn’t get the message when Bob Dole lost, when John McCain lost, when Mitt Romney lost. It all went right by them.
So here comes the lesson again. Either you put a conservative at the top of the ticket, a genuine dyed-in-the-wool conservative, or we stay home. And you lose again. And the liberal Democrats win.
That’s not the fault of the people who stay home. That’s the fault of the party leadership. Choices have consequences. The GOP decided to ignore what the voters have been saying. That choice must have a consequence.
And before you start tuning up about how Trump attracted more primary voters etcetera etcetera, you better look at what the polls are saying about what’s going to happen in the general election. Most Americans no longer vote you see. That’s because they feel they have nobody to vote for. It’s going to happen again right before your very eyes. And I’m going to refer you back to this statement, when that happens.
I said it for Bob Dole’s loss, John McCain’s loss, and Mitt Romney’s loss. Predicted it every Blessed time.
And I’m telling you right now, Get used to saying President Clinton again.
Donald Trump, a life long democrat and demented nut case, has become the presumptive republican nominee. There will be much joy in Chappaqua. Mrs. Clinton got twice the votes in Donald’s presumed home state, New York. Jake Tapper demolished Trump. Expect this to be become a regular occurrence. Now that Trump has destroyed the Republican Party, Trump is now expendable.
With Mrs. Clinton as President, the First and Second Amendments, our national security and common decency will all be expendable.
I have never been more ashamed of our country or more fearful for its future
Social justice warrior attempts to shut down campus free speech. When you literally have nothing to say, you would be best advised to say nothing, video(warning, loud and vulgar):
And gets ruthlessly mocked by Steven Crower, video:
And noticed by Canadian blogger, Kate, Small Dead Animals.
Free speech is the open exchange of ideas. Screaming at the top of your voice demanding others to shut up is not free speech. It is petty tyranny. Social justice warriors seem to be immune to reason. Might as well use them for sport.
Secularism for whatever else it is, separates us not only from religion, but it also and more importantly to this discussion separates us from our societal sense of right and wrong… of our cultural perception of the nature of Truth. Such a foundational shift makes the building completely useless. And I expect this is exactly as intended. You have to tear the building down to replace it with something else, after all.
Who can look at today’s society and the current discussions that we are having and say that’s not precisely what’s happening?
As the old saying goes if you don’t believe in God you believe in anything. It’s not my intent to argue from a religious point of view, but from a societal point of view.
When you remove the basis of a cultural way of thinking all kinds of things pop up which tend to damage if not outright destroy that culture.
Modern-day examples, that Islam is the religion of peace.
(Interesting how as we move more towards secularism in this country, we tear down everything about Western society and its foundations in right and wrong, we establish more connections with Islam. This secularization and multiculturalism that we are exposed to from are on the left is opening the way for our cultural enemy. And yes, they are precisely that.)
That private property is no longer sacrosanct. That profit is immoral.
And so on.
Like it or not, Western society as a whole is based on and is informed almost exclusively by the judeo-christian mindset. As I have suggested in previous articles, it was Martin Luther who gave us the idea of the value… the sovereignty… of the individual. That idea in various forms is in fact the bases of our constitution our culture, and our way of life.
With government tearing us away from that foundation as they have been doing for the last 30 some odd years, the result is quite predictable… and is now most certainly visible all around us.
Ponder the words of GK Chesterton:
But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. Thus he writes one book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of women, and then he writes another book in which he insults it himself. He curses the Sultan because Christian girls lose their virginity, and then curses Mrs. Grundy because they keep it. As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic profligates for treating it as a lie. He calls a flag a bauble, and then blames the oppressors of Poland or Ireland because they take away that bauble. The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.’ (G.K. Chesterton,Orthodoxy, 1909)
Now, Chesterton was talking about the then building Russian Revolution, which was certainly at its root ripping up the then-existant culture. Then there as now here, ideas of right and wrong of the individual versus The Herd were being forcibly Rewritten by those with governmental power and/or the power of arms.
But I don’t think I’ll get much argument about the idea that this is precisely where we find ourselves in America today. And strange as it sounds, we’re in the same situation for precisely the same reason. The whole concept of communism overrules the value of the individual. It also seeks to remove religion from society and the ideas which it conveys in terms of the value of the individual etc.
With those foundations ripped away, we latch on to anything that sounds good and then are perpetually disappointed when it doesn’t work out. Witness Barack Obama. Witness Bill Clinton.
I would also point to the rise of Donald Trump. So frustrated are some, that they will latch on to anything despite rather large signs that they are heading for a betrayal.
Trump’s supporters recognize that there’s something fundamentally wrong with what’s been happening to our country the last 30 years or so but it’s been so long since we’ve actually had an American conservative in the office of president or for that matter just about any high-level office, that we as Americans have forgotten what American values are about and therefore don’t recognize when somebody doesn’t meet that standard. Since our foundations have been ripped away will latch onto anything that sounds good in the short-term.
The result in terms of both society as a whole and each individual within it, is as disastrous as giving the keys to the Ferrari to a 12 year old.
One of the major effects of this shift of the foundation of Western Society towards secularism and therefore away from the line of thinking that was uniquely American is that those within our society are becoming increasingly devoid of any hope for the future.
I noted on my Facebook page earlier today the increases of incidence that we have seen in suicide by truck suicide by train suicide by what have you. Clearly, What’s Happening Here is we have an increasing number of individuals within the society who see no hope for themselves. No future. And with the foundational shift they see going on around them, who can blame them? Like the Russian Communists before them, they decide that life itself is a waste of time.
Way back in 1998, I wrote The Following and I think it does as good a job as anything of describing precisely what it is I’m talking about here…
Travel back in time with me, to a few summers ago.. Way back when the Lewinsky scandal was under the surface, Remember? We were inundated with more and more news reports about kids going out and breaking out massive firepower, and using it to deadly result. The left was screaming (as usual) that it was all because guns were too easy to obtain, and that the only salvation was Clinton’s new gun controls. It got to the point where even President Clinton, apparently seeing a diversion from his legal problems, took a stab at it. (Pun intended.)
Clinton at the time said, among other things, something which I can actually agree with; (A fairly unique happening, I assure you…) He stated that these violent attacks the result of a changing culture,and the pressure that those changes bring to bear.
As has been pointed out by me in this medium previously, the left gets an occasional point right, but refuses to come to the only logical conclusion that such discoveries offer. Clinton it seems, is no exception, apparently understanding that at the core of the problem is the social agenda that liberals have been pushing for decades. It’s all come home to roost, now, and the left doesn’t know what to do about it, or, more likely, is unwilling to do what’s needed. What Clinton to this day doesn’t get, is that it is he, and those on his side of the political and social isle, who have been generating and encouraging those changes in our culture, which have resulted in such destruction. Each are cultural changes which, alas!, even ostensibly conservative people have been caving in on for years, now. Instead of dealing with the cultural problems he’s identified as being causal, Clinton went on to attack not that problem, but GUNS… something which despite his best efforts, we Americans can still legally own, and use.
The classes in proper gun use and care being given to young people today, including the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program have come under attack from the left, as being the cause, not the cure for such problems.
This is because, we are told, in one case in Oregon the young man in question was a part of those classes. (Notice it’s usually young boys?)
But the connection is less direct than the left makes it; There are many myriad self-defense and martial arts classes going on at any time in our country; my son attends one of the better ones. Given that one commonality they and the NRA’s gun classes share is training on the /proper use/ of their training and the tools given, why do we not see attacks by martial arts students in the news? Could there be an agenda, here, do you suppose?
Now, it is not unlike the left to use a well-publicized issue to work it’s will on another, totally unrelated issue. Race, and welfare rights, are two such. (I.E.; There are more whites than blacks on welfare, but when someone proposes a cut of welfare payments, liberals will invariably scream about how it’s racial bias against blacks.) So, I suppose I shouldn’t be overly surprised when they pull that same stunt regarding guns. One need not look too deeply to find their over-riding concern. It is, of course, the same concern expressed by every other socialist in history including Adolph Hitler; the removal of guns from society, altogether… except for the representatives of government, thereby placing the power in the hands of the government alone. (Let’s not kid ourselves; the founder put the second amendment in place to defend us from tyrants within government.)
Let’s not let the left divert us into thinking that the solution to violence is simply removing guns. Let’s hold them to the core issue; violence vis a vie cultural changes… There has been quite a bit over the last few years, said and written, about the culture’s values, and the effect the change of those values would have on the people within the culture.
Of the people affected by cultural change… a change of the roots, if you will, it is younger people, whose roots have not been established, who would be the most affected. No shock, therefore, that the largest number of crimes, particularly the massive violence under discussion, would be teenagers.
Simply put:These teenagers have lost hope.
And why?
Let’s look at the agenda of the modern America, as driven by the left…Perhaps we’ll find a pattern there.We’re told that man is destroying the earth. The problem is that too many of us exist, we’re told. We’re told that man is a problem for the further existence of the earth. We’re told that we can’t make it without that government handout. We learn quickly, thereby, that we have no real say in our lives, and therefore, no future. As if to give credence to the thinking that life is worthless, abortion has become commonplace. Jack Kevorkian is teaching us that killing ourselves is a valid option, and the government is at least powerless if not unwilling to deal with the issue. Every value we have ever had as a culture is now being abandoned by the government.. Indeed, the government has become outright hostile to the traditional values of the culture that built said government. Can such things be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.
Both parents now work regardless of wanting to or not, simply to pay the taxes… because the taxes imposed by the government consume upwards of 60-65% or our annual income. What kind of basic value will children hold of themselves when parents find they have to work? I understand well the forces that drive such choices, (being driven by
them myself;) but can such choices be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.Mothers who stay at home are universally castigated by the feminist left, as ‘not being in touch with themselves’ and ‘being a burden on the sisterhood’ whatever the hell THAT is. Can this kind of disdain for traditional family values be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.
Remember when America used to have leaders whom you could look up to? Political leaders, ball players, and to a larger degree than today, even film and TV stars were people which could be held up as examples. Granted, many were never perfect, but they were trying to live up to the then universally held American ideals. Who do we have to hold up in their place today? PeeWee Herman. Tupac Shakur. Madonna. Dennis Rodman. The Spice Girls. Larry Flynt, Bill Clinton. Can this be without consequence? The evidence suggests not.
Is anyone of sound mind, foolish enough to suggest that our governmentally induced transition from a values-based society to what is now an essentially valueless society, which provides little if any hope on an individual level, has no effect negative on the people
within it?History, I think, will record the greatest failure of the governments of the last 60 years, to be not in the financial or political areas, and not with it’s law enforcement, regarding guns, but in the cultural… I.E.; support of the majority culture, and the values that it holds dear. Because in the final view, it’s this which is causing the violence, not guns, per se’. Guns are simply a tool. What people do with guns, and for that matter, what they do with all other weapons of every type, and indeed, how they deal with all conflicts, and live their lives , is a product of their environs, as focused through their values.
And when you remove the values, our sense of right and wrong, the rest falls away.
What we need to reduce the violence, therefore, is a reinforced value structure, that, unlike what the left has been forcing on us, does not run afoul of traditional American culture.. Liberals of the last 40 years are afraid of this, they don’t want to be seen as being ‘judgmental’. This is not an issue that is going to be solved by ‘finding the middle path’. If we really want to stop the violence, instead of making political points from it…it’s time to move those of the left who have for decades be neutering our value structure, in the name of ‘cultural diversity’, out.
With that I will close on these two comments.
First, this has been a number of decades in the making and it’s not going to disappear overnight, if indeed it ever does. The move toward secularism and away from traditional American culture is far too deeply ingrained for any solution that we might apply to be a quick one.
Secondly let me point out that at no time during this discussion have I brought up the religious or spiritual aspects of this argument. I propose covering those another time. The reason that I have separated the two aspects is very simple. I think the message that I’m sending here is clear…. Even for the non-believer, the cultural aspects involved with removing the foundation of the culture are too disastrous to ignore.
But it’s a remedy that we must apply, and soon, because if we don’t we’re going to lose our country and our culture. Ronald Reagan called this country freedoms last best hope.
I, for one, tremble in fear at the notion of losing that hope. It is one I fear from which the world will never recover if we don’t get a handle on it, right now.
If Donald Trump gets the nomination, the majority of Americans will simply stay home… Just like they have the last several elections in a row.
Get it through your heads, people. A genuine conservative is what the American voter wants. How else to explain the rejection of Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole, and so on?
A vote in the primary for Donald Trump is a vote for Hillary in the general. It’s that simple.
Everything from here down is a quoted post. I can’t get a clean link on it so I’m simply going to post a text here because I think it deserves the exposure.
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I was listening to Rush this afternoon, something I haven’t done in a while and he took a call from a woman who asked him how he can justify his analysis that Ted Cruz is an outsider, that he is anti-establishment. She just couldn’t understand what his thinking is.
Incidentally, she was able to do this without insults or ridicule.
Rush then asked her a question.
He asked her if she knew of Cruz before Donald Trump came into the picture to which she said yes, she did.
He then asked her if she though he was an outsider and anti-establishment then, to which she replied yes she did.
Then Rush told her to think about that. She told her to think about the fact that the only thing that has changed her mind about where Cruz stands politically, is Donald Trump. He then acknowledged that next to Trump, just about anyone could be considered an “insider”.
He reminded her that Cruz was elected SPECIFICALLY because he was an outsider and since he’s been in the Senate he has fought the likes of Mitch McConnell and the rest of the establishment tooth and nail and with consistency.
You see (this is me now), all this birther crap and NWO garbage and blah blah blah is recycled trash from when he ran for the Senate against the anointed candidate, Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst.
Those of us that knew of Cruz before Trump are his most loyal supporters.
Why?
Because we truly know what he is all about and we aren’t going to buy the lies of the Trump machine.
It’s that simple.
Quote:
I bad a dram, dat on day me for litter chillun well nit be jedded by colour of dar skin bet ritter by the coontent of dar carricktor.
If I were to attribute the above quote to Martin Luther King, would you be offended? Video:
Hat tips: Media Research Center and Ed Driscoll, Instapundit
According to Mona Chalabi, correcting grammar is racist. What say you.
If you listen to social justice warrior, and actually believed them, you would think our problem is too many dead white males. Well the Treasury Department has announced plans to ease one despicable dead white male, and democrat Andrew Jackson off the face of the twenty dollar bill and replace him with a gun toting, freedom fighting republican woman, Harriet Tubman.
As for myself, I figure Tubman is about as good as we going to get from the Obama regime. For their part, you’d think the social justice warriors would be happy. As always, they are not, from Steven Hayward, Power Line:
Leftists Lose Their Lunch Over the Tubman 20
After years of complaining that America’s paper money featured only dead white guys, a lot of folks on the Left are in a snit that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty-dollar bill. You can practically hear them: “We didn’t mean a gun-toting, Bible-believing Republican black woman! We meant Angela Davis!”
Moral honesty and consistency are too much to expect from a social justice warrior.
