Posted on 08/21/2017 4:51:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
I took a week off from the milieu of political insanity to go out amongst the normals and chalk up another huge trial victory, and when I got back I was stunned - stunned! - to find that a consensus had formed that Nazis are bad. Beforehand, I had no idea where the establishment stood on Nazis, but now it's crystal clear. They hate Nazis because Nazis are bad. Everyone from CNN to Mitt Romney hates Nazis. I couldn't be prouder of an establishment that takes that kind of tough stand. They're going to hate Nazis, and they don't care whose jack-booted toes they step on!
I also learned that if you hate Nazis for being bad, you're not allowed to hate anybody else who’s also bad, because Nazis are so bad that you have to devote all your hating capacity to hating Nazis such that there's no room left to hate anybody else. Those hammer and sickle flag-carrying Communists? Well, you must love the Nazis if you hate them, because you have got to hate the Nazis with all your mind and all your heart since, as we learned this week, Nazis are bad. I'm so glad that our moral betters have this all figured out.
This new breed of Nazis - for whom breeding doesn't seem to be in the cards - is less menacing that the originals. Instead of schmeissers they pack Tiki torches - for reasons no one seems able to explain. The old Nazis invaded Poland and wouldn't leave; these invade their moms’ basements and will never leave. But apparently these 300 or so misfits and malcontents are a potent peril to our republic. I'm not sure if they themselves are a direct threat to anything besides the bottom line at a Golden Corral all-you-can-eat buffet unlucky enough to have them as patrons. The only thing scarier to its manager would be seeing Lena Dunham waddling in on a cheat day.
They are not utterly harmless; one of these cowardly morons ran over and murdered a woman, which fulfilled the media’s long-standing dream of being able to report on a terrorist who wasn't a radical Muslim, a Black Lives Matter fan, or a Bernie bro. But the fact remains that this scraggly collection of polo-shirted dinguses numbering in the dozens is less of a threat to our society than the gleeful attempt by the establishment and its media puppets to use the looming threat of the Third Helping Reich to crush all opposition to the status quo.
The establishment’s tactic is to paint anyone they dislike as Nazis and any ideas its members oppose as hate speech, all in support of a strategy of slamming shut the Overton Window on any kind of change. The media is running with it, and if you get on Twitter, anyone to the right of Maxine Waters is now a Nazi - especially if you dare observe that the fascist fatties are not the only scumbags out there.
Even after a week, CNN is still quivering and writhing in an earth-shattering Nazigasm. When it finally ends, I expect in the network to be cuddling and sharing a Virginia Slim with the New York Times. And everyone from Hollywood half-wits to the CEO of Starbucks are making clear that they disapprove of Nazis - and no one else.
It's also got the usual suspects of the wuss right activated. That's why you see needy Fredocons like Mitt Romney being retrieved from their well-deserved obscurity and sent out to dance eagerly for the nods and nickels tossed his way by the same media that said he gave people cancer. I don’t know, but assume the guys vying to replace John McCain as the leader of the Blue Falcon wing of the GOP, Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse, competed vigorously to see who could ignore violent leftists in order to signal the most solemn rejection of Nazis in a manner that validates the lying liberals’ premise that the Republican Party harbors Nazis. Of course, we saw another pathetic grasp at relevance in the form of finger-wagging by the has-beens at that failing cruise cabin sales organization,The Weekly Standard.
But this cheesy grab for short-term political advantage is much more dangerous than that motley collection of stormdoofuses. The Times is now running op-eds advocating the suppression of speech its coastal elite readership finds unappealing. Yeah, a newspaper advocating censorship seems like a smart long-term strategy. The ACLU has added an asterisk to its acronym that explains that the only civil liberties it's going to be protecting from now on are the ones exercised by people approved by its rich liberal donors. Yeah, abandoning the one thing that earned the ACLU grudging respect across the board, its free-speech absolutism, seems like another smart long-term strategy. Oh, and the tech twerps of Silicon Valley decided to take it upon themselves to decide what discourse may be discoursed. Yeah, that's a smart long-term strategy that couldn't possibly explode in their smug, goateed faces.
But what's the effect on normal people? Taking a break from Twitter and the media for a week to go be with normal people gave me an interesting perspective that I don't get when I'm surrounded by others invested in politics. None of them care. The exact number of times I heard normal people mention Nazis was zero. No one normal was talking about it, except on the occasional big screen I passed in my travels. No one normal was paying attention to the Wolf Blitzers or the Rachel Maddows. Everyone normal was living their lives, and this fake moral meltdown had no part in them. The fact that the whole thing is so ridiculous doesn't help it gain traction. Donald Trump is a lot of things, but a Nazi is not one of them.
And the idea that when there are two sets of idiots facing each other you can't point out that both sets of idiots are idiots just doesn't ring true. Normal people are blessedly free of the little taboos that the establishment seeks to impose, like the one that forbids pointing out that the alt left is just as scummy and slimy as the alt right. The general feeling among normals is “A pox on both your basements.”
The Great Nazi Panic of 2017 will fade away when its sponsors realize that it's not having the effect on the mass of the normal Americans they hoped for. But that doesn't mean it hasn't caused grave damage. The establishment has, in its desperation to return to unchallenged supremacy, eagerly jettisoned its dedication to the concept of free speech. It might not work out the way they hope once there is a national arbiter of what may and may not be thought or spoken. After all, as we found out last November, the person you think is going to be wielding the power isn't necessarily the person who you thought was going to be wielding the power.
Then they go for ever more intense stimulation like violence in the streets...
In 2016 Trump was a white nationalist, then a misogynist and pervert, then unfit for office, then he won in a landslide victory.
In 2017 Trump colluded with Russians, then he’s a dictator, then he’s unfit for office then he only won because of Nazis and KKK.
Rinse and repeat...liberals are as broke in ideas as Hollywood.
The commies got their asses kicked in Germany, now they want to relive their battles here on American streets believing they can cowher a free people with their violent taunts and rhetoric.
Normal American’s are getting very pissed at the demeaning mindless propaganda. And shocked at how many morons are actually out there.
The public doesn’t give a sh!t anymore.
It’s all static background noise...not one of these crisis issues impacts American lives in the least. Instead CNN/MSNBC/WAPO/NYT are just ginning up fanatics on the left to act out against those they don’t agree with.
We go from Russians to Nazis...what’s next? The Chicoms? Trump’s granddaughter is learning Chinese...
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Yet the media makes it inescapable. I picked up a WaPO the other day - first time in years, I just wanted to read the sports with breakfast - and what is one of the lead stories? Wizards player John Wall’s opinions on race in the US. John Wall is one heckuva b-ball player but I don’t think anyone would call him a deep thinker. Just to show.... you will be made to care.
Don’t get me wrong cause I truly believe these anti American groups were bused in.....I have no doubt the vast majority were paid actors, agitator scum....most likely paid by Soros & Clinton money, BUT in this day and age of everybody with phones recording everything......WHERE are the pictures of the buses? Where are the pictures of the 2 hate groups getting off those buses? Yes, I also have no doubt Youtube prob scrubbed anything posted there proving this. But you would think somebody who witnessed this has the pics on their phone....and would post it on social media...where no doubt, it would be shared and shared to the point that these lefty organizations who run FB, twitter, and the rest of social media could not keep up deleting them. We need proof...we need actual pictures and or video. Somebody has to have it?.....
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Rinse and repeat...liberals are as broke in ideas as Hollywood.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Say that to George Clooney as he eclipses Pelosi and Schumer to become leader of the Democrat Party.He likely will be the next president of the United States, and will put the fiorst Muslim 1st lqady into the White Hut.( Alah Wahoo Whackbar.)
All of it a result of Bannon’s ouster.
Great article all the way through.
Except.... I didn’t get the last sentence. Can someone explain it to me? Was that what he meant to write or did he mean to say : “ the person you think is going to be wielding the power isn’t necessarily the person who *IS* wielding the power”.
What am I missing?
everybody expected Hill to be elected. but she wasnt’
That’s what I assumed, but that’s not what he said.
Same here. That threw me off too.
that’s what he meant
I remember they went overboard lunatic on Reagan, too. And I was quite liberal at the time--the MSM kept up this constant drumbeat of how bad Reagan was, how he was about to trigger WWIII at any second, etc. etc. At some point, I began to realize that the MSM was predicting all kinds of bad stuff that never happened. That was not what finally convinced me to reject liberalism, but it was a strong life lesson that did lay a good foundation.
I can't help but think that a lot of young people are going to have a similar realization when they see that the media breathlessly expounds on the evils of Trump over and over, and nothing pans out. The Russia narrative never had substance, and the media has suddenly dropped it. Trying to blame Trump for Charlottesville looks to be a flop, as well. The calls for impeachment are just plain silly--articles of impeachment filed for the reason that President Trump did not condemn Charlottesville events the way that some Democrat senator thinks they should have been condemned? Who can possibly live up to such a standard? And so on. Some young people are actually smart enough to figure out what's happening, and they will also drop their liberal indoctrination.
Well said.
I was in college when Reagan was elected. I knew Reagan was bad because everyone said he was bad. After awhile I realized that Reagan wasn’t bad — Reagan was great! Had a huge impact on me.
My daughter is in college now. Smart, disciplined, National Guard, focused on a medical career, Churchgoer. But, like many young people, she found Bernie Sanders attractive (free college tuition! Yee Haa!) Now that Trump is in office, she has commented that he is much better than she thought he’d be. I think the next 8 years will have a huge impact on her.
The media tries to wash a lot of brains — but sometimes young people wise up.
Schlicter has written a few articles about this in the past. Mostly on Harry Reid, who used the "Nuclear Option" - getting rid of the filibuster - to ram something or other through the Senate, only to have Republicans turn around and use the rules Reid put in place to get what *they* wanted, once they were in charge.
In this particular case, liberals are making free speech rules with the assumption that they'll always be the ones holding the whip. That's not the case, as we found out in 2016.
It's roughly the equivalent of "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."
Capice?
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