Posted on 06/21/2018 5:04:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
So what are we supposed to be outraged about today? There’s always something, and it’s always the worst thing in the history of ever. And it’s almost always a scam designed to manipulate you into obeying the liberal elite.
That’s the real outrage.
My friend and fellow Townhall columnist Derek Hunter has a new book out designed to help you detect and defeat this shameless grift, Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood. It’s essential reading because the sooner we can get people woke to the con, the sooner people will stop falling for this nonsense.
What's the latest? Kids in cages, separated from their moms! Oh no! That only happens to every other criminal ever. Well, every American criminal ever. Illegal alien criminals, who drag their kids through scorching deserts to break the law because their own countries are The Term That May Not Be Spoken But Trump Spoke It (which itself created a mini outrage a while ago) are, I guess, supposed to be a special kind of criminal that doesn’t get separated from his/her/xer kids upon arrest. Wait, does that sound right? Why would they be treated differently…I don’t think…STOP!
Don’t think! Get outraged! Let your feelings run free, feelings generated by pictures of kids in cages (under Obama, but shhhhhh!), by super selective Bible readings on MSNBC, and by pious Fredocons whining about how we’re better than that and oh well I never!
That’s the thing – when you’re caught in an outrage monsoon, you aren’t supposed to think. You are supposed to be infuriated, aroused, and activated, like a ravenous running zombie hungering for the virtue signaling lobe of the human brain. You are not supposed to ask questions that interrupt the narrative, like why would this particular subset of criminal get special privileges? Don’t we separate families every day when mommy (or daddy) commits a crime? Why don’t they just not come here?
Facts are the enemy when it comes to liberal policies, so they don’t want you messing with the message by bringing them up. Instead, they want you outraged, and your mind clouded with ginned-up anger, ready to do their bidding.
Someone, oh someone, please think of the children! But not about how their illegal alien parents put them in that position. Because if you start thinking too much, the truth starts to become clear. Liberals want illegal aliens in the country because they want to replace intransigent American citizens like you with pliable foreigners who won’t be so darn uppity. So, they don’t want illegal aliens to be treated like the criminals they are (because entering the country illegally is a crime) because they want to let them stay here – this is all about reinstating catch and release. So, they create a fake outrage about how these criminals are – oh no! – being treated like any other criminal so, they hope, you will demand we go back to catching and releasing them. Before the zero tolerance policy, we caught them and released them on their promise to show up at their hearing, which of course they never, ever did, thereby swelling the ranks of Replacement Americans, which liberals hope to someday amnesty (assisted by the GOP establishment saps) and turn into Democrat voters.
Talk about an outrage.
But kids in cages is only the most recent iteration of the recurring phenomenon. There are hundreds of others. Building up some sort of bogus outrage with the help of the liberal media is now standard operating procedure. Derek’s book chronicles how this obnoxious strategy came into being, tracing such Fauxtrage Classics as the climate change scam from its cheesy origins as global freezing to global warming and finally global everything.
The idea is to create a crisis, to which – surprise – the liberals hyping it have a solution. And it’s inevitably a solution that benefits the liberal elite.
How do you deal with this ploy? How do you resist the tugging of your heartstrings or the pulling at your patriotism (“Everybody hates Russians – let’s say Trump loves the Russians. And so does the NRA!”) that they employ to make you fall into line? You get woke to the scam.
Look for the indicators. Is it something that seems unreasonably horrible? Well, like something that sounds too good to be true probably is, something that sounds too bad to be true likewise is probably not true either. Does Trump ordering screaming babies to be wrenched from their innocent mommies’ arms and cast into dungeons sound pretty extreme? Yeah, because it is. And it’s a lie.
Is it something where the proposed solution benefits the liberal elite? For global warming, the answer they give to this threat THAT WE MUST ACT UPON RIGHT THIS MINUTE is to give liberals more power. Same with global cooling. And same with global staying the same.
Are you allowed to ask questions? If you start pointing out that maybe a good way to avoid being arrested for illegal entry and being separated from Junior is to not enter the U.S. illegally with a kid, is the response that you are a hating hater of hatred and probably a Nazi too? If they are trying to shout you down or browbeat you into silence, that’s an indicator that you’re in the midst of another Cat 5 outrage.
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time, and human beings tend to tire of constant crisis-mongering. Did you notice how most people kind of shrugged about the kids in cages thing? And did you notice how the Trump administration hasn’t stopped locking up illegals and recognizing Get Out of Jail Free Kids?
That’s how you deal with Outrage, Inc. You ignore it, and watch it sputter and fade away.
1. Believers
2. Haters
3. Jokers
4. Junkers
5. Nazis
Believers, of course, are those naive and clueless individuals that really, really think socialism will work this time around. We can put some % of academics in this category.
Haters are those like the BLM mobs that are envious and jealous about everything that made America, and are so filled with hate that they wish for nothing more than to bring it down, degrading the backbone of the country.
Jokers are the media/entertainers. Since they are actually in a commercial business, they need to generate revenues. Ad sales are supported by content, so the name of the game is the constant search for interesting content. Even if there wasn't a political slant, the media would have to engage in controversy just to keep their core audience.
Junkers are the GOPe - the US's version of aristocratic Germans that thought they could control Hitler. (Shirer noted it was a combination of the general staff & Junkers that allowed his rise.) Like the Germans, the GOPe goes along with the program because it's worth an incredible amount of $ money for them eg CoC.
And last, we have the true Nazis - the people/groups determined to game the system in order to achieve and wield power. These are psychopaths like Clinton, Obama, et al who view the constitutional system not as an fair, ordered whole, but a tool to leverage control.
Take an issue, any issue really, and I think you'll find the reference guide provides a handy means of shorthand to quickly ID the players, their roles, and typical behaviors/techniques.
“What outrages me is how much is it costing us to put these kids in cages?”
Laura Ingraham said on her show that the government was spending around 1/3 of million dollars per year per child. Boy, those cages Obama built must be expensive!
She made the point that there are millions of American children who don’t get anywhere near that amount spent on them, and the left doesn’t seem to care nearly as much about them as the children coming in illegally.
>>Why?
Because he fell for the fauxtrage scam of this week.
>>We ought to give the left something to TRULY be outraged by.
My favorite reply to some breathless outraged Prog who is shouting about me or Trump being a fascist is, “I wish he was the Fascist you say he is.”
They sputter and then go into overload like one of Mudd’s Women.
This is an excellent article. This guy really gets what’s happening to a T.
What in the hell is that?
I still say Trump fell for it too, he really didn’t have to do anything, but he reacted to the outrage and played right into their hands.
Their only objective is to have an issue to win with that blames Trump.
"Trump is beating and jailing babies color in cages like rats in the desert heat" is a good enough narrative for them to hammer Trump and the Republicans in the mid-terms.
Now that he has signed an EO to stop the separation policy, it is still not good enough for the Left.
They want Trump to own an issue that the previous three administrations engaged in all the time, so they can blame him.
Good ideas...but I wouldn’t be that cruel to my dog.
Yep! Offense/Cause du jour for liberals!
Good Lord. Pres Trump does not fall for anything. He calculates and decides what needs to be done to advance his goals. Pres Trump is not hampered by what the left might take comfort in because they will twist and turn whatever he does in order to discredit him. He stopped the faux outrage being pushed by the lying media by giving Chuck Schumer his EO and nothing has changed except now the children are sharing the same quarters as their illegal, law breaking, parents. Now it is on to the next horrible outrage that will surely take out the legally elected US Pres and immediately install puppet crooked Hillary Clinton on the commie, globalist, throne. Also the whole episode has stripped another layer of deceit from the leftist narrative of selective outrage. Trump marches on and works for the American people. God bless Pres Trump and protect him and his family from the evil that pervades the anti American left.
Thank you for summing up how ludicrous this entire thing is. People are so easily manipulated it makes me sick.
Where is the outrage for the American citizens hurt or killed by illegal aliens? These hypocritical POS need to have all the families harmed ask liberals why they are more concerned about illegal aliens than their own people.
Disgusting.
You’re quite welcome. Not only are people easily manipulated, but this the whole new “virtue signaling” industry has been built up into this glorified pedestal like an Olympic gold/silver/bronze stand. So, perversely yet inversely: in the same way it is possible to anonymously hurl inane teenage insults that would ordinarily get one’s face smashed in if they were stated in person; now you can anonymously proclaim your moral superiority (an absolutely fundamental tenet of liberalism) to the world. For free. Don’t have to actually do anything; just proclaim your heartfelt emotions and curse America. It’s in effect a contest that encourages people to show how completely stupid and gullible they are, as long as they have more stimulating emotions than the ones you have. It’s galling to me because I get to asking “how great a country can we really be if so many of the people are this dumb?” Never do they consider the emotional storm they get to go through over a picture that could have been taken anywhere.
Right on!
Yes. I was profoundly disappointed in him.
Donald Trump has this all figured out.
A wall 500 ft high, 50 ft deep and 10 ft wide will NOT stop THOUSANDS from showing up at the legal ports-of-entry and wanting sanctuary!
We will STILL let them in to escape the boogymen 'til they get 'processed'!
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