Posted on 07/14/2020 5:21:15 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The Jacobin Left is just now beginning to get edgy.
A few of its appeasers and abettors are becoming embarrassed by some of the outright racists and nihilists of BLM and the Maoists of Antifa — and their wannabe hangers-on who troll the Internet hoping to scalp some minor celebrity.
The woke rich too are worried over talk about substantial wealth, capital-gains, and income taxes, even though they have the resources to navigate around the legislation from their wink-and-nod brethren. Soon, even Hunter Biden and the Clintons could be checking in with their legal teams to see how much it will cost them to get around the Squad’s new tax plan.
The lines are thinning a bit for the guillotine. And the guillotiners are starting to panic as they glimpse faces of a restless mob always starved for something to top last night’s torching. Finally, even looters and arsonists get tired of doing the same old, same old each night. They get bored with the puerile bullhorn chants, the on-spec spray-paint defacement, and the petite fascists among them who hog the megaphones. For the lazy and bored, statue toppling — all of those ropes, those icky pry bars, those heavy sledgehammers, and so much pulling — becomes hard work, especially as the police, camera crews, and fisticuffs thin out on the ground. And the easy bronze and stone prey are now mostly rubble. Now it’s either the big, tough stuff like Mount Rushmore or the crazy targets like Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
NFL owners can’t yet fathom how they have conjured up a brilliant new way of destroying a 100-year heritage and an inherited huge audience. Is the message of the most non-diverse players to their most diverse fans now to be: “We don’t like your racist country and won’t stand for your toxic anthem, but you owe us to stay tuned for the commercial ads and to come out to the stadium to pay oppressed multimillionaires like us”?
Even Obama and other liberal luminaries are trying to cut their losses by saying that they don’t quite agree with the “cancel culture” of Antifa, because they know that there will be an inevitable backlash. If Biden’s handlers have any sense, they will have him do the same for as long as he can sound out words phonetically on a teleprompter.
Bkmrk
I’m gonna have to Google jacobism. I have no idea what it is.
Okay I’m back. Jacobinism is bad.
I like VDH and this piece. But this commie anarchy is a *long* way from peaking.
I’m not convinced it will burn itself out without violent retaliation from normal people.
I’m also not convinced we haven’t crossed the Rubicon into long term violence and anarchy.
Plus the NFL game ads will reflect the true demographic of America, which is 90% POC, right?
Brilliant
LMAO
We don't have that in America, yet.
Mencken said it best- ...Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public...
I tend to agree with you. In 1789 the French king needed more tax money to repay his debts for helping out the American revolution and there was a bad harvest and that kicked off a chain of events that culminated in the Terror.
Here we have a virus which has interposed itself on top of a social substrate where the younger generations have been brainwashed and social media’ed to the point that they have no values or principles. There seems to be a “snowball rolling down the hill” aspect to this stuff. And of course another wild card is that the world is a dangerous place with a lot of actors that wish us ill.
When an Atherton or Georgetown liberal calls 911, will he now first say: “One, I am not an angry white person calling to rat out a suspect of color. Two, I am not calling to save my ‘brick and mortar’ property at the expense of the life of a marginalized victim. Three, I support defunding the police. And so, four, look — an individual of unknown appearance may kind of, sort of be shattering our bedroom window and could be pondering a felonious infraction. So could you send out a community facilitator to inquire?"
I agree. The left has indoctrinated the last two generations very effectively. That's why we have to get back control of our schools.
Agree. I believe decent hard working Americans are still hoping that the institutions they support will put this anarchy to rest. If they do not, it’s “Katy bar the door” time.
But this commie anarchy is a *long* way from peaking.
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It’s on summer break, without the tedious mask...
Unusually harsh and sarcastic tone for VDH. He must have finally reached ignition temperature.
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