Below is my column in the Hill on how some on the American left have learned how to hate. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones is actually leading in the polls after admitting that he wanted to see a political opponent and his children killed. It appears that many Democratic voters have now embraced the rage as leaders ratchet up violent rhetoric. Those who once demanded the criminalization of hate speech appear to relish it.
Here is the column:
In Shakespeare’s Richard III, Queen Elizabeth — whose husband King Edward IV was overthrown and her twins taken to the Tower — asks the older Queen Margaret (widow of the murdered King Henry VI) to “teach me how to curse mine enemies.” The Queen responds that it is easy: “Think that thy babes were sweeter than they were, And he that slew them fouler than he is.”
The lesson: The key to hate is to decouple it entirely from reason and reality. Only then can you hate completely without restraint or regret.
It seems that the left has learned how to hate. Hateful speech is in vogue as Democratic leaders ramp up violent rhetoric and political violence rises. The key is to get voters to hate your opponent so much that they forget how much they dislike you.
The irony is crushing. For years, liberals have sought to criminalize hate speech while expanding the range of viewpoints considered to fall within this category. Democratic leaders, from senators to former presidential candidates, have falsely claimed that hate speech is not protected under the First Amendment.
In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about rage and the uncomfortable fact: “What few today want to admit is that they like it. They like the freedom that it affords, the ability to hate and harass without a sense of responsibility.” Rage is addictive, and it is contagious.
This week, Bravo star and liberal podcast host Jennifer Welch praised footage of a “No Kings” protester celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, holding her up as an example for all liberals.
In the clip, the elderly woman said, “Charlie Kirk is horrible. Yes. I’m glad he’s not here.” When pressed if she was actually happy that the husband and father of two had been murdered, the woman said “Yes…because he was horrible on the campuses. Horrible person.”
After playing the clip, Welch laughed with joy and declared, “So listen up, Democratic establishment. You can either jump on board with this s—, or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period.”
Celebrities like Jamie Lee Curtis certainly got that message. The actress was facing a social and professional meltdown after openly mourning Kirk’s death in a podcast interview. “I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,” she said. “But I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith, even though his ideas were abhorrent to me.”
It appeared to be a moment of weakness that briefly overrode wokeness. Curtis quickly found herself persona non grata in Hollywood, as an angry liberal mob began to circle her. Curtis quickly saw the light and effectively retracted her fleeting expression of humanity, claiming it had been “mistranslated.” It is said that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But that does not apply if you then gouge out your own eye. Now fully and comfortably blinded by her own hand, Curtis is back as a member of good standing in Hollywood.
Internationally, the left has pushed for criminalizing the speech of those with opposing views as hateful and harmful. UNESCO works off a definition of hate speech as including “pejorative or discriminatory language with reference to a person or a group on the basis of who they are, in other words, based on their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, color, descent, gender or other identity factor.” This includes “scapegoating, stereotyping, stigmatization and the use of derogatory language” based on any “identity factor.”
Countries are also “required to prohibit” speech tied to “conspiracy theories, disinformation and denial and distortion of historical events.”
In the past, some leftists have included political criticism or parodies of their leaders as hate speech. For example, when a rodeo clown, Tuffy Gessling, donned a President Barack Obama mask at the Missouri State Fair as part of a skit years ago, the response was calls for his arrest. The President of the Missouri chapter of the NAACP, Mary Radliff, insisted that it constituted criminal hate speech.
But things have changed. The left has now discovered the thrill of uninhibited hate.
Recently, in Chicago, elementary school teacher Lucy Martinez was shown on video reacting to an image of Kirk by mockingly making a gesture akin to being shot in the neck, mimicking how Kirk had been assassinated.
Another educator, Wilbur Wright College Adult Education Manager Moises Bernal, screamed to a crowd that “ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out.” Bernal told the crowd, “You gotta grab a gun!” and “We gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system!”
In academia, hateful speech has long been a way to establish one’s bona fides as a faculty member. By attacking and excluding others, you reaffirm your own protected status.
Faculty have thrilled their colleagues and students by talking about “detonating white people,” abolishing white people, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, and supporting the murder of conservative protesters.
Even school board members have referred to taking faculty “to the slaughterhouse” for questioning diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Last week, Democratic strategist James Carville went on a hate-filled rant, to the delight of his podcast audience. He declared that anyone supporting Trump and the Republicans will be treated like collaborators in World War II who were publicly abused and paraded by mobs.
“You know what we do with collaborators?” he said. “I think these corporations [funding White House renovations] — my fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029 and I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all ought to have their heads shaven, they should be put in orange pajamas and they should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and the public should be invited to spit on them.”
Carville later repeated the call that “The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed and spit on.”
For years, Democratic leaders have given their base the license for such blind rage by calling Republicans “Nazis” and claiming that democracy will die unless their opponents are stopped.
The effect has been transformative across the party. In the current race for Virginia Attorney General, Democratic nominee Jay Jones admitted to sending text messages expressing the desire to kill a political opponent, “piss on the grave” of a dead Republican, and kill his children, whom he dismissed as “little fascists,” in their mother’s arms.
There was a time when such a candidate would be denounced by those on the ticket from his party and made a nonentity in politics. Instead, the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Abigail Spanberger (who had previously told her supporters to “Let your rage fuel you”), has refused to withdraw her endorsement. Moreover, the race remains close, with most Democratic voters still planning to cast their ballots for him.
It is a lesson many hope will take hold in the midterm elections. Like Queen Elizabeth, these voters have overcome all inhibitions and can now teach others “how to curse.”
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of the bestselling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
OT, Mississippi mother kills escaped monkey fearing for her children’s safety
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
“If it attacked somebody’s kid, and I could have stopped it, that would be a lot on me,” said Bond Ferguson, a 35-year-old professional chef. “It’s kind of scary and dangerous that they are running around, and people have kids playing in their yards.”
https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-monkey-tulane-animal-research-159b37892421e404d300fd751a7f5e2e
And that right there sounds like something a responsible person would do.
The bus of Republican Lt Governor Winsome Earle-Sears caught fire for unknown reasons. Democrat AG Nominee Jay Jones is being accused of setting the bus on fire but he denies any wrongdoing. However, in the spirit of Black Lives Matter, Jay Jones left a political rally where Trump and other Republicans were being burned in effigy, got into his car and sped at 116 mph to the burning bus. He grabbed his pistol to look for Republicans in pain so as to take them out of their misery
It is unknown whether George Soros paid for this incidence, but Abigail Spanberger had strong words for Jay Jones with regard to the fire leaving a carbon footprint. The casings of the hollow-points in his pistol had the initials of WES and her pronouns engraved in them
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I just finished drinking a 12 pack of Lite beer, that down stream piss.
I’ll put out the fire in a jiffy because nobody cares about how it gets done as long as it gets done.
The source of this unfettered hatred against conservatives is the public school system.
The hard Left took over the education system, K-grad school, including the teachers who teach the teachers in education credentials. One can observe far Left ideology in elementary school, pushing ideas like praising kids who say they want to become another gender, saying conservatives hate the poor and are racist fascists, and otherwise demonizing conservatives. The Left even heavily influences textbooks and curriculum. Children grow up hearing from trusted teachers that conservatives are evil, until they become adults who celebrate political violence against conservatives.
The right complained about the political takeover of the education system, but were entirely ineffective to stop it.
Take your children out …
Privatize.
Karen S,
Well said. And we see why they, the left, are pushing so hard against School Choice, Parents Rights. They want their captive audience, who they can then indoctrinate, not educate, in woke leftists ideology. They want a Mao’s like Culture Revolution, where the children turn in their own parents to the commie government for sedition of independent thinking.
They aren’t pushing hard against school choice. They are pushing hard against those who use the cover of “school choice” to transfer public funds to private organizations that already have wealthy parents paying for the private education. Those organizations merely raise the tuition to match the change in funding, negating the benefit to the parents and not lowering barriers already set by the initial price.
I might support giving those parents who take their children out of school a direct refund of the amount of the portion of their taxes that go to educating a public school student. Instead, they want to transfer, along with the student, the full cost at the public school given solely to the benefit of the private schools.
Even there, there is a danger. In countries where the wealthy are able to easily bypass the public infrastructure, the public infrastructure ends up being supported by those with little economic margin to provide that support. as it decays, the range of wealth decreases, eventually ending in ruin. In countries where the wealthy are required to participate, such as in public schools, they appear, as if by magic, to be well funded, kept up to date, and kept in good repair, with well compensated teachers and smaller classes.
One of the unintended consequences of the Left’s covid shutdown of schools and going remote is that parents got to see the woke poison being injected into their kids’ minds and souls.
We were watching over a couple of great grandkids school assignments during the pandemic. We were appalled at what was being taught. And, I might add, it’s still going on.
Had they been paying attention all along it would not have been a surprise; but I thought that conservatives were all about self-reliance and would not have simply accepted what the schools were doing without performing due diligence.
Here’s the weird part. If injection of such poison was so easy to do, why haven’t conservative schools taken those same techniques to inject calculus, organic chemistry, quantum physics, a broad study of literature or foreign languages? They could be graduating teens with doctorate level amounts of education. Or is it the case that the “poison” is what Mr. Rogers taught – be kind to people, even when they are different from you? Maybe it isn’t that they are injected, but that the message is so simple that it only requires mentioning the choice to do so.
Karen S says: One can observe far Left ideology in elementary school, pushing ideas like praising kids who say they want to become another gender, saying conservatives hate the poor and are racist fascists, and otherwise demonizing conservatives.
Which really isn’t all that different than the madrassas run by the Arab terrorists in Gaza and Judea and Sumaria, and before that the madrassas in Pakistan and elsewhere after the Russians left Afghanistan to return to the USSR as their country started falling apart.
In Afghanistan, widowed mothers who had lost their husbands in the fighting and could not support their children, were approached by the hajjis who gave them a Sophie’s Choice. If they didn’t want their children to starve to death beside them, the hajjis promised to take them into their madrassas, where they would be comfortable, warm, well fed – and get a free education! But only the boys… the girls would have to stay behind with their mothers and try to figure out a way to survive.
The children taken into those neo-Nazi hajji madrassas were well fed and clothed, and got a wonderful education. The primary subject being that the ultimate goal in life was to butcher Jews, Americans and any other non-believers. And the best way for a guaranteed trip to stand beside Mohammad in paradise was to be a martyr, blowing yourself up as a suicide bomber in one Antifada or another.
The Democrat public school madrassas have only gotten so far as to inspire children praise hajji terrorism, and perhaps to attempt to murder some Republican political leaders.
Anti Jewish mamdani running for office from Uganda, visiting Uganda a known gun running nation. Christians being killed in Nigeria? Any connection?
This is an amazing ChatGPT template. The content? Not so amazing.
So, the Right, which controls all three branches of the Federal Government, is too weak to handle a school board election?
There are two states that historically drove elementary school textbook contents – California and Texas. Why are all the conservative states not choosing the Texan versions of text books? And a third player recently joined – Florida, which apparently doesn’t like to brand of Right that the Texans do.
Illinois and New York are also large customers, but Texas, for example, has strict limits on the books they allow school districts can buy so they buy a great number of a small number of titles, making it less profitable for publishers to offer greater variety.
TACO
Trump Always Chickens Out
Trump caves on funding SNAP
Of course the reasons are obvious.
Trump has been taking major heat from farmers over the soybean debacle, and his promise to import beef from Argentina.
Now he is taking heat from farmers about the SNAP funding.
You MAGA dimwits probably don’t realize that the SNAP program is primarily a subsidy for farmers. It is funded and administered by the Dept. of Agriculture.
It was originally instituted as a plan to stabilize prices for farm products and provide subsidies for farmers. The main purpose of the program is to increase increase demand for food and keep prices stable.
Consider the following.
When a SNAP recipient goes to Kroger’s and buys a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and some hamburger, what happens to the money that the government provides for those purchases ???
Kroger’s uses MOST of that money to buy inventory.
They buy milk from a distributor who in turn buys milk from farmers.
They buy bread from a bakery, who in turn buys wheat from a milling company, who in turn buys wheat from a farmer.
They buy beef from a distributor, who in turn buys beef from a meat packing plant, who in turn buys cattle from a farmer.
So you see, the program is designed to create increased demand for food that might otherwise not have been created. The increased demand keeps farm commodity prices higher than they otherwise would have been.
Farmers are happy, food processors are happy and grocery stores are happy.
It has been estimated that every $1 spent on SNAP creates $1.50 to $1.80 in increased economic activity.
Farmers love SNAP and do not want to see it eliminated.
“TACO” is the most delusional little meme the Left has come up with yet.
As a farmer, I can tell you, “Wrong.”
We see the crap people buy with SNAP. We see how unhealthy they and their children are. I was at the grocery store and watch a woman and her obese child, checking out using SNAP and her cart was loaded with mostly crap food stuff. I had to educate a young couple with a baby as to why the pre-sliced processed cheese food stuff did not qualify for SNAP as it was over 50% oil and not milk. But, because of the lobby industry, some how soda pop qualifies as “food.”
“They buy milk from a distributor who in turn buys milk from farmers.
They buy bread from a bakery, who in turn buys wheat from a milling company, who in turn buys wheat from a farmer.
They buy beef from a distributor, who in turn buys beef from a meat packing plant, who in turn buys cattle from a farmer.”
And this paradigm is flawed. It screws the farmer and the end consumer over. Cut out the middle man. Direct sales. That is what I do. And that is how I am profitable. And I run a polyculture farm. Not a monoculture farm. We say, “Dont put all your eggs in one basket!” Or we advise a diversified stock portfolio. And then farmers grow only one type of crop, or one type of livestock and then are in shock when that years harvest is bad and they take a beating. My family and I have not taken any government assistance as we see that as not only socialism, but failure. We might take a beating on one crop, but others or livestock come out ahead.
Farmer Upthere —- Not the way it works here on the Palouse. The farmers grow soft white wheat 2 years out of 3 and a legume to improve the soil in the 3rd. USDA crop insurance covers losses due to drought, etc. Still, the farmers need several thousand acres to break even, on average.
Upstatefarmer
This has to be far and away the stupidest comment you have ever made, and perhaps the stupidest comment of all time on this blog.
It is completely irrelevant WHAT is purchased by SNAP recipients.
They are buying food. You may not make like their choices of food but who cares. The point is that they are buying FOOD. If they are buying food then ultimately a farmer benefits for producing the ingredients of that food, and all the processors along the chain of production also benefit.
Everyone in the supply chain is better off from more business.
12% of Americans get SNAP benefits.
No business can afford to walk away from 12% of their customer base.
Grocers, food distributors and farmers all get huge benefits from SNAP
Why do you think SNAP is administered by the Dept. of Agriculture ???
The bottom line is that SNAP is a major contributor to the economy. The multiplier effect of the money moving through the supply chain produces a net increase in GDP, as multiple independent studies have proven.
Your “solution” of direct sales is complete and utter insanity!!!
Are you seriously suggesting that everyone should just go to their local farm to buy all their food ???
You are completely out of your mind, and even more insane than I had already suspected.
Very serious inflation? So the snap is a 30/80 split, correct? Sort of the gubment does a copay? Who pays the 30%? The gubment? Produce receipts and gubment pays 30%. Or do you think the “supplement ” is 80% by gubment? You don’t know? Neither does the dept.
You guys are 🤪.
“The bottom line is that SNAP is a major contributor to the economy.”
About like breaking a store’s window.
SNAP is unconstitutional; SNAP can’t be taxed for or funded.
FINE. just forget snap and subsidies straight to producers . In that way ALL people benefit with lower food prices. John Locke and Jeremy bentham figured that out 300 years ago????
Set the price by the poorest … RECLAIM YOUR FREAKING TAX MONEY.
Rabble:
Trump said (paraphrasing) he’d follow the judges order when it is with “proper legal/legislative action.” Now, as far as I know, the president does not control the domestic purse, and emergency funds still go through approval. That power belongs to Congress, specifically, Appropriations and whoever oversees the USDA. So, once the judge gets her head out of her ass, sends the order to the Legislative, and it is approved, then and only then, will trump spend the money he has no control over.
That is incorrect. Judges can’t order the legislature to do anything. But they can order the executive to obey the law that Congress made. Here we have money that Congress has appropriated, and Trump wants to use it, but his legal advice is that he can’t. So he welcomes a court ordering him to do it, because if it then turns out that it was illegal he can just point to the court and it’s no longer his problem.
TACO Trump Always Chickens Out
This Tranny Democrat from the Democrats’ New Hitler Youth University Brigades hasn’t emerged from the Democrat Borg in so long that he hasn’t yet learned that Trump was the first American president with a set of balls big enough to bomb the Democrat President’s Head Nazis in Iran’s nuclear program back to the stone age.
But hey…. Homos For Hamas!
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by a low-IQ perpetrator of those they hope to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
What a maroon. Your fundamental premise is incorrect. Trump has not caved, he got the result he wanted, and is delighted. Trump always wanted to use this contingency fund for SNAP. But his legal advice was that he couldn’t. So when two courts ordered him to do it, his reaction was “Oh noes! Don’t throw me into that briar patch!”
Or rather, it was “Thank you very kindly, your honors. Now if you’d just put that order in writing, telling me specifically what I must do, I’d be delighted to do it”. Now if anyone comes at him later for breaking the law, he can just point at the court orders and legitimately say that he had no choice, he just obeyed the courts.
Trump caves on funding SNAP
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Nope he followed the judges ruling. Bad as it is.
The Founders didn’t let them in.
The Founders didn’t let them vote.
The Founders strictly adhered to the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution and Bill of Rights of 1789.
Figure it out.
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
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Turnout was 11.6% in 1789, and voters must have been male, European, and 21, with 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres, generally and by state legislatures.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what [their powers] forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“[We gave you] a [severely restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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You couldn’t.
You damnable fools couldn’t.
Off Topic
Pastor Franklin Graham wants DJT to send US troops to Nigeria.
“Off Topic
Pastor Franklin Graham wants DJT to send US troops to Nigeria.”
Oh… and Pastor Jeremiah Wright spent 20 years telling President Barack and Michelle Obama he should keep repeating his speeches telling Americans that our country is systemically racist, run by White Supremacists.
Yeah,
It’s about 1000 years when these tribes used bow & arrows and spears.
Now they use assault rifles and RPG’s. Ever see the missionary videos?
There are only women with children in the village. Where are all the men?
The men are in another village, raping, robbing, and pillaging the village.
AI Overview
Franklin Graham has not made a specific recent statement about sending U.S. troops to Nigeria. His public comments and social media posts regarding Nigeria have primarily focused on praying for persecuted Christians in the region and the activities of terrorist groups.
So . . . you got a link for that, or you just making sh!t up hoping nobody will question you?
Nope.
Franklin Graham is doing to DJT what his daddy did to Nixon about the VC. Bomb them.
“Franklin Graham is doing to DJT what his daddy did to Nixon about the VC. Bomb them.”
The deranged Democrat children of LBJ’s War On Poverty (to “get those Darkies voting Democrat for a thousand years”) want us to believe that neither JFK or LBJ ever dropped a single bomb on those VC. If they’re not lyin’, they’re denyin’. Or projecting in hopes to deflect….
Operation Rolling Thunder
Lyndon B. Johnson’s bombing campaign against North Vietnam, known as Operation Rolling Thunder, lasted from March 2, 1965, to November 2, 1968. Its goals included boosting South Vietnamese morale, disrupting North Vietnam’s supply lines, and deterring their support for the Viet Cong, but it ultimately failed to achieve its objectives and led to significant casualties on both sides.
I read Uganda is the gin runner nation. Weaponry should be examined for any American made and tracked by serial number. Halt all arms sakes into the region from the US and meet with other suppliers to shut it down.
YAWN
Those who once demanded the criminalization of hate speech appear to relish it.
It could be worse. We could be living in Canada and “enjoying” their “free” healthcare system. Sure you might have to wait 11-13 or maybe 24 hours but in the interim you can relish hate speech and cussing out the Canadian health system
Nurse at large Canadian hospital says they’re ‘surprised more people haven’t died while waiting’
“It’s chaos 24/7.” These are the words used by one nurse working at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre (HSC). On Monday, the Manitoba Nurses Union (MNU), in a Facebook post, said that the average wait time at HSC at 7:05 p.m. was 11.5 hours. The nurse we spoke to said 13 hours is somewhat normal, saying they tell patients that it’s “pretty good for us.” “A lot of those times, the wait times soar to 24 hours,” they said. “The highest I’ve ever seen is 36 hours, waiting to see a physician.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/surprised-more-people-havent-died-while-waiting-nurse-shares-life-inside-manitobas-largest-hospital/
You can’t blame COVID for Canada’s woes.
More good news for MAHA: It’s not RFK Jr’s fault.
The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status
Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, has recorded nearly 2,400 measles cases this year, all but 54 of which were part of the ongoing national outbreak. Ontario believes transmission there has stopped; its outbreak was declared over on Oct. 6. Canada overall has recorded more than 5,100 confirmed and probable measles cases in 2025, and two deaths of babies born with congenital measles who were infected in utero. The country hasn’t seen this scale of measles transmission in decades.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/measles-elimination-status-canada-united-states-mexico/
NB: In the U.S., death from neurologic or respiratory complications of measles occurs in one to three of every 1,000 cases.
(3/1000) =0.003 * 100 = 0.3 %
uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/pediatrics-articles/measles-is-still-a-very-dangerous-disease
Actually you can blame COVID and vax skepticism for Canada’s woes.
Alberta is one of the hardest hit provinces, and only 70% of children are fully vaccinated because schools in AB don’t have mandatory immunization requirements for school enrollment (which is where idiotic states Florida want us to go). The conservative province was a hotbed of protests against COVID-19 vax mandates.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/more-measles-cases-us-infections-canada-balloon
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At least it is understandable why the ‘monkey see – monkey do’ village idiots ostracized the innocent little boy that blurted out that the emperor had no clothes.
On 60 minutes last night Trump was asked why he pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the crypto billionaire who helped set up his crypto business, World Liberty Financial, that is operated by Don Jr. and Eric.
Trump said he does not know Changpeng Zhao, and knows nothing about the pardon.
Today at his news conference, Mike Johnson was asked about this.
Question: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering. Is that also concerning?
Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
What news service told this story?
On 60 Minutes last night, after repeatedly being pressed by Trump asking O’Donnell if she now feelsmuch safer living in Washington DC, the host Nora O’Donnell confessed that, yes, she felt much safer now with Trump’s federal police and National Guard there to protect her from Democrat Identity Politics street animals.
Democrat condemnation of that confession quickly fell on their former anti-Trump unbiased and impartial journalist hero, O’Donnell.
O’Donnell was so shaken she forgot to ask Trump if he saw his pardons as the same thing as President AutoPen pardoning his son after he lining the Biden’s pockets with bribes extracted from ChiCom operatives like Changpeng Zhao, the crypto billionaire, as well as pardoning thousands of wealthy drug cartel millionaires and Democrat street criminals.
When they were asked about this, these were the responses:
VP Harris: I don’t know anything about it.
Pelosi: I don’t know anything about it.
Schumer: I don’t know anything about it.
Hakeem Jeffries: I don’t know anything about it – but he’s been working his young White House staff into the ground every day of his presidency.
Nothing To See Here, Please Believe Us, Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes™
clown anonymous @ 12:55
You and MSM just won’t stop looking under every rock. What a joke. Trump indicated that it was a “witch hunt.” He was probably referring to the fact that (1) Democrats leave no stone unturned in trying to make him look bad, and (2) Zhao committed such a horrible and egregious crime that Zhao was sentenced to a total of FOUR MONTHS in jail for “failing to implement an effective anti-money laundering program.” https://www.justice.gov/criminal/case/united-states-v-changpeng-zhao
Wow.
Got any more good ones that you didn’t lift off of Google?
Rabble:
Had my non-political sister ask me about that today over text. Looking, and I can’t find any articles nor video of Trump actually pardoning the guy, just the stuff from the weekend about him forgetting the guy’s name.
Doesn’t that seem a little suspicious, from the administration that has televised every signing action the president has taken?
Trump said he does not know Changpeng Zhao, and knows nothing about the pardon.
He did not say that he knew nothing about the pardon. He said he didn’t know the guy personally, couldn’t say anything positive about him, but he knew that he had pardoned him, and why. He said as he understands it the guy was railroaded by the Biden administration, and got a very short sentence, indicating that he hadn’t done much wrong, so he decided to pardon him.
There is NO REQUIREMENT WHATSOEVER that the president personally know the details of every pardon he makes. Typically he doesn’t. No president does. Pardons are recommended to the president, and he typically decides whether to grant them based on what he’s told, not on his personal knowledge of the person involved.
The problem with Biden is that it’s likely he never decided to pardon those people at all. That it was signed and issued without his specific authorization. The bare minimum that is constitutionally required is that the president, for any reason whatsoever, tells his staff “issue a pardon to John Smith”, or “to everyone who fits these criteria”. Then they can go and do it, and it makes no difference who signs it, or whether it’s signed at all. But if he never gives that instruction it’s invalid. He can’t just delegate it, and say “Go pardon whomever you like”.
There’s a great video collection of clips with Johnson saying “I don’t know” and “I haven’t heard” and the like. He’s one of the no-see, no-hear, no-speak monkey trio.
Sir, it seems obvious America is destined for civil unrest, if not a civil war. I’ve been commenting on this subject on various platforms over the past decade, and a few have responded that they’ve observed the same trend.
Just on your blog, the vitriol has increased to levels not seen before. We see this everywhere, and now platforms are created just for ideologies to gather together under the same common hatred.
I can only see the country splitting, at least in two, at some period in the future. We have crossed the line where reconciliation is even possible. We already see acts of political violence and murder. And, as you have reported, even political leaders are ramping up violent rhetoric as if giving permission for their supporters to act out in violence.
Historically, it is clear what the next level of violence will become if this trend stays on track.
“Just on your blog, the vitriol has increased to levels not seen before.” You got that right buddy. Lots of unstable nuts infesting this place.
“Unstable nuts,” I say!
Is that you, King George?
I can only see the country splitting, at least in two, at some period in the future.
Could happen. If it does, better a peaceful divorce than a civil war.
If it has to be, I say we split as follows: The Dems get Hawaii and the west coast (other than San Diego), a strip along the Canadian border that reaches down at strategic places to scoop in large northern cities such as Minneapolis and Detroit, and the East Coast down to Washington DC, including all the large cities in the Northeast. The Republicans get the rest. That’s about as good a split between Red and Blue that we’re gonna get . . . while keeping both new nations contiguous apart from Alaska and Hawaii.
OldManFromKS,
I respectfully disagree. I would rather see two differing societies, economies, cultures, education systems, operating in parallel, with the two never meeting. If you are a business of this mindset, set up a flag, sign, whatever, and only those who agree with that mindset frequent your business. Differing education systems based on their mindsets. We have already had banking systems try to defund or close conservatives accounts for nothing other them being conservatives. So, differing banking systems.
See someone of the other mindset walking down the street, ignore them. You do you, I do me, we will be fine.
Of course I do not expect to see anything like that happen. Leftist cannot tolerate anything they cannot control. When they cannot control, they destroy.
Upstate – in a divorce scenario, the leftists will be able to make all the authoritarian laws they want, set up all the censorship-industrial complexes they want, debank truckers with vaccine hesitancy all they want, etc. . . . but those authoritarian laws and actions will not apply to the free states of America.
Divorce, but the left wants power, so the divorce might occur, but the fight will never end. The communism envisioned by the hard left is international and revolutionary.
Meyer – history supports your assertion that the worldwide fight against Communism never ends. In fact, it’s just one manifestation of the cosmic battle between light and darkness that has been raging since time immemorial. That will only end with the events of eschatology.
But . . . a divorce would to some extent make it harder for the forces of darkness to rule over freedom-loving Americans and make their lives miserable, at least for a while.
I hear what you say, but under divorce, the divided America would have to face the communist America and the world.
The Civil War led to an intact America, but had it divided, war would have eventually broken out.
OldManFromKS,
As I have stated before, I am not religious. So the whole light vs dark thing is something of a questionable thing to me. I get it as the concept is as old as the written word. Star Wars is full of light vs dark references.
However, what I do see, is that under socialism or communism is really a elite, one party, centralized government that wants to dictate to all those they rule over, how to live their lives. And that includes everything from how they think, to how they speak, what words they may use or not use. What kind of education they get. What is approved or not approved to buy, even food. I would not put it past our leftist friends to deem some foods as non-inclusive, like fried chicken or pasta salad.
BTW, I prefer Japanese Karaage to American fried chicken. Just me.
S. Meyer,
You have a point there. Like a divorced couple, one wants to just walk away, never to hear from their Ex- again. The other, still wants power and control over their Ex-. Usually this kind of situation ends in a murder/suicide.
As you point out below, “We need to be ready to push back in ways we never previously considered.”
It is an idea that I have said more than a few times in the past on the good professor’s blog, civil war needs to be avoided at all costs.
However, IF they really want to go there, let them start it. We shall finish it.
As for the wackadoodle who said, “. . . or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period.” . . . you just may not like our response when coming after us.
“We need to be ready to push back in ways we never previously considered.”
I said that with a chill travelling down my back. Then, almost immediately afterward, I came across the “False Patriots” piece and a few related articles in The Free Press.
I judge movements by what they actually stand for, not the label they wear. “Left” and “right” are becoming almost meaningless. In fact, many of the loudest so-called “extreme right” voices eventually appear aligned with the same authoritarian desires that dominate the left. The article shows that drift very clearly.
The hatred on the left and extreme is polarizing the country in dangerous ways. The kooks are becoming too visible and too mainstream. They may not ultimately prevail, but they create the conditions for more ruthless actors to gain power. That’s what concerns me: the abuse of power. The left and extemes are cultivating the mindset and mechanisms for it, and the guardrails that once protected us are deteriorating. We are drifting toward a structural showdown.
That’s ludicrous. No bank is turning down anyone for their political leanings, particularly conservative leaning, unless they are linked to some violent behavior or other reputation risk .
What they do is look at the financials and, if they are dead-beats, refuse to do business with them.
For banks the only color in America is green.
The main driver of this claim is Trump co-mingling his own story of being turned down by American banks as if it was because he’s conservative and deflecting from his multiple cases of filing for bankruptcy. How is one so terrible a businessman as to bankrupt a casino?
“…[Better] a peaceful divorce than a civil war.”
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Oh, —- yes! Not prohibited and fully constitutional secession—precisely what the Southern states did so peacefully until “Crazy Abe” decided to illicitly and unconstitutionally deploy a military force and invade South Carolina, a state in a sovereign foreign country.
Do you wonder why America is now a third-world s—-hole country?
Answer: Abraham “Crazy Abe” Lincoln, who illicitly and unconstitutionally threw the baby out with the bathwater—he threw the Constitution out with reprehensible slavery.
So long, goodbye, America!
Thanks, Abe.
“Sir, it seems obvious America is destined for civil unrest, if not a civil war.”
I don’t believe there will be a point where bug-eyed crazy Democrats like GeorgeX, or even their most violent and fascist street animal thugs like Antifa and Black Liars & Marxists who hate America, are going to willingly risk assuming room temperature by taking up arms to once again make war on Americans. Particularly when those they would attack are Republicans who are in the majority of Americans that own guns that are the best choice for putting down rebel insurrections.
And furthermore, those Republicans are the vast majority of the Americans who spent time in the military the last 30 years serving in combat arms, learning how to apply the 5.56 Solution to murderous thugs in asymmetrical modern warfare.
“It’s the [6.8×51], stupid!”
– James Carville
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5.56 and 7.62 are obsolete.
Aninny Warfighter—Striking Fear Into the Hearts of Men!
You go, girl!
Aninny Warfighter—Striking Fear Into the Hearts of Men! And BTW, we Couch Potato Keyboard Warriors are coming for your guns!
The Left cannot even agree that murder is wrong. If that weren’t enough, the Left now ostracizes or persecutes anyone who disagrees that the cold-blooded murder of a conservative commentator is wrong. We are not dealing with mentally healthy people here, folks. These people are mentally deranged.
“We are not dealing with mentally healthy people here, folks. These people are mentally deranged.”
And you’re part of it.
Ano
And you’re part of it.
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Back it up with PROOF bud.
U
You said it bud. Now prove it. Which we know you won’t
What about U, don’t U, understand?
You prove my point. I say murder is wrong, and I say that people should be able to say so without being persecuted. You think me deranged for saying that. Only a deranged person would think someone else is deranged for saying (a) murder is wrong, and (b) people should be able to say so without being persecuted.
Since you get paid by your DNC or Chinese communist task-masters for each response you get, you’re welcome.
OldManFromKS,
Well said. Once again, our leftist trolls prove to us of their lack of critical thinking skills, lack of logic, lack of common sense. One would figure they might get the idea that they are making not only fools of themselves but of the leftist DNC. One would figure they might possess a degree of self-awareness. One would figure they might even have a sense of shame when they get proven wrong time and time again.
Nope.
From what oldmanfromkansas wrote:
“The Left cannot even agree that murder is wrong.”
Has oldman asked everyone on the Left? Is there complete agreement on this matter among every single person on the Left or is this just more broad-brush libel?
“If that weren’t enough, the Left now ostracizes or persecutes anyone who disagrees that the cold-blooded murder of a conservative commentator is wrong.”
That’s a triple negative. From the end, working backwards:
The cold-blooded murder of a conservative commentator is wrong. Yes.
There are those who disagree with that.
The Left ostracizes or persecutes anyone who does disagree.
Put together: oldman said that the Left is against those in favor of the murder of a conservative commentator.
Seems like that would be the correct position for anyone to take. Oldman states that is the position of the Left; in other words the Left does agree that murder is wrong, but then oldman says they are the ones who are deranged.
And here’s Upstatefarmer agreeing that it is wrong for the Left to ostracize or persecute anyone who in favor of murdering conservative commentators and claiming the Left lacks of critical thinking skills, lacks logic, lacks common sense – yet you are proving to have none of those. Good job.
Not sure why you think half the country doesn’t understand murder is wrong. Do you any evidence/polls to back that up? Or is that just the crap they spew on Fox these days?
Even if in alternate universe where there was some semblance of truth to it, we literally have a GOP president who thinks that murder is ok, when he does it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/trump-immunity-prosecution-assassination.html
Even worse, he is literally murdering people in the Caribbean right now.
Is Trump “mentally healthy”?
I don’t watch Fox (I don’t even own a TV), and I don’t consider the Left to be “half the country.” But my assertion is supported by the facts, including the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, the thousands of gleeful and joyful reactions to the murder among the Left on social media, and the very topic of the above article in which an actress was roundly persecuted for suggesting murder was wrong. Do you have reading comprehension issues? And this is not to mention other examples, like the Left making a folk hero out of Mangione who murdered a health-insurance executive in cold blood. Why don’t you just admit there’s something wrong on the Left instead of posting garbage, which – surprise! – you always post anonymously. Oh, that’s right, you’re a mindless drone getting paid by the DNC or CCP.
OldManFromKS,
I do not watch Fox either but yes, I too saw all those celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk. Takes a real sick mind to take joy in another’s death. I think that is the point the good professor is trying to make. The hate and rage has consumed many of the far-leftists to the point they gladly, with joy, celebrate the death of people. Just like they will say something to the effect of, “I wish he was a better shot!”
These people are not mentally well. They need to be seeing an entire team of psychologists, medicated, not allowed to operate heavy machinery, not allowed to own real estate, reproduce, or vote.
Why is it that the shooter at Trump and the killer of Kirk both came from right wing, 2nd Amendment worshiping families with strong religious backgrounds? How fragile is that upbringing if contact with anyone outside of that tiny bubble can be thought a cause to go from “Murder is wrong” to “Get my gun.”?
Where did anyone celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk? Did they throw a party, dance in the street, open a bottle of old bourbon or scotch saved for a special event?
I can imagine they expressed some thought about the fact, after yet another school shooting, that Charlie said the blood of children was OK to be spilled rather than risk any curtailment of the 2nd Amendment. Some might even lean towards a Darwin Award if the connection was just a bit closer and he had not already reproduced.
Charlie was worth tens of millions of dollars; his organization was taking in $80 Million a year from billionaire patrons. So odd they did not insist on protecting their investment with even a mediocre security team. Pennywise and pound foolish.
He died doing what he loved – being a millionaire taking money from billionaires to tell the middle and lower class to be minions for the wealthy.
Just before his death he crossed one of his patrons who was contributing $2 Million a year to push the Israeli side about Gaza and I guess seeing children pulverized in wrecked buildings was a bridge too far. I would rather that he had continued down that path than getting shot but, again, a child of a conservative family with a “guns solve problems” upbringing sought to solve some problem by killing Kirk.
The guy Mangione murdered was responsible for causing hundreds of thousands of people, both patients and their families, to worry they might not get medical treatment or might be bankrupted getting treatment for procedures and prescriptions that the insurance policies they paid for certainly covered. He oversaw the development of software to automatically reject, without human review, those claims. I have no doubt that there were hundreds to thousands of people who died as a direct result of his actions, having delayed treatment to gather funds or because they could not afford treatment, like getting insulin. But he was far above the tiny people he would never meet, using software to keep his hands clean, taking a huge salary and huge bonuses for siphoning healthcare insurance payments to the stock holders.
Am I glad he is gone? Absolutely.
Would I have preferred he spend life in prison even more than being shot? Also, absolutely. Much better he had died in a small concrete enclosure with food slipped under the door at a very great age.
There are a large number of others similarly deserving, but the lesson they all learned was to spend more on security, hide their faces, become anonymous deciders of who is too expensive to let live.
That industry siphons off so much money that the US could take money from every paycheck, increase the healthcare benefits, and still leave more money in the pockets of workers with a government managed, single-payer system, like most other developed nations have managed to operate. This is the industry the Republicans protect. They do so because they take some of that money that was siphoned off as campaign contributions.
OK, you don’t like insurance. Go bare. You are pure self-centered emotion without any understanding of the subject matter.
Trump kills narco-terrorists to prevent them from bringing more illegal drugs into our communities and killing more Americans from over doses. Then there is the secondary effects of the drug trade like destroying lives and not just of the junkies but what it does to their families. Then there is the related crime.
Trump’s actions, protecting Americans, is exactly what I voted for. I am not about to waaa! Waaaa! About some narco-terrorists like you and the NYT. Just like you Waaaa!Waaa! over criminal illegals who assaulted, attempt to rape and murdered Laken Riley.
The supply of street drugs into the country is so vast that picking off a couple of boats won’t possibly lower the number of overdose deaths. Even if it could, the actual result is addicts going cold turkey, a potentially fatal event. On the way there limiting the supply will increase the price, which means even more desperation by the addicts and therefore more robberies, burglaries, shoplifting – in general a vast increase in low level crime.
Since that hasn’t happened, that addicts are committing daylight robberies of stores, for example, that indicates the drug prices on the street have not gone up much, if at all.
However, there is a class of narcotics that is even more effective than fentanyl, meaning a far smaller dose for the same result – I think they have a 10X effectiveness. Just to get to the “even” point would required interdiction of more than 90% of the current weight of fentanyl. If not, the remaining 10% of the current pipeline could deliver exactly the same effects as fentanyl does now, but with even higher lethality if the dose is not more carefully controlled.
So, not only will crime go up, so will overdose deaths. If that happens remember “Trump did that.”
Why the casual racism? Laken Riley isn’t the only one attacked in America. The home grown rapists, attackers, and murderers are far more likely, on a population basis, than any grouping of immigrants. Most immigrants came to the US, a foreign country with unfamiliar language and customs, because they wanted to escape that sort of violence. But take 1 million American born citizens and 1 million foreign born immigrants and both groups will have some horrible people; there will be more in the group of American born citizens than in the other group.
Perhaps, to you, no one killed by an American born citizen is worth even thinking about.
The evidence that the Left is normalizing “assassination culture” is overwhelming. You don’t have to be a Fox viewer to see it (I do not watch Fox). You only have to be somewhat informed. And honest with yourself.
Pollsters affiliated with Rutgers University found that 56% of those who identify as “left of center” (i.e., Democrats) said it would be somewhat justifiable to assassinate President Trump. Half said the same thing about Musk.
https://networkcontagion.us/reports/4-7-25-ncri-assassination-culture-brief/
We saw massive numbers of center-left people go on Tik Tok and other social media platforms to celebrate the premeditated assassination of Charlie Kirk and the CEO of a healthcare insurer. I did not personally see or watch videos of left wingers celebrating the two attempted assassinations of Trump and the planned assassination of Kavanaugh, but I would be shocked it none exist.
we literally have a GOP president who thinks that murder is ok, when he does it.
That is an outright lie. He has never said and never hinted and never given any grounds for supposing that that is what he thinks. It’s purely your own invention.
Yes, he did take the position that IF a president were to order the US armed forces to commit a murder, he could not be prosecuted for it. Or rather, he could be prosecuted, but only if he was first impeached and removed from office. That’s a perfectly reasonable position to take, whether or not it’s correct. And it is NOT a statement that such an order would be OK.
Right now, judges and prosecutors have absolute immunity, at least from civil suits, for their official acts. Do you think that means it’s OK for them to act corruptly?! Of course not. But if they do they can’t be sued, and perhaps can’t even be prosecuted.
And the reason in both cases is because it’s often difficult to draw a bright line between legitimate and illegitimate exercises of authority. The president undoubtedly and indisputably has the authority AND THE RIGHT to order the US armed forces to kill enemies of the United States, wherever they may be and by whatever means is most convenient. That is how war works. The constitution gives him the authority to wage the USA’s wars (which need NOT be declared, by Congress or by anyone else).
So if he tells the armed forces that so-and-so is an enemy and must be killed, how are we to know whether he’s correct? They certainly have no right to second-guess his determination. Who else does? A judge?! How can a judge possibly be in a position to know? More importantly, if he is called on to make such a decision, how can he do it while worrying that some judge will second-guess him and throw him in prison for it? So he needs immunity.
As for his military actions in the Caribbean, they are certainly not murder. He has the legal authority to order those killings, and that makes them not murder.
Mephisto
“The Left cannot even agree that murder is wrong.”
Have you asked everyone on the Left? Is there complete agreement on this matter among every single person on the Left or is this just more broad-brush libel?
“If that weren’t enough, the Left now ostracizes or persecutes anyone who disagrees that the cold-blooded murder of a conservative commentator is wrong.”
That’s a triple negative. From the end, working backwards:
The cold-blooded murder of a conservative commentator is wrong. Yes.
There are those who disagree with that.
The Left ostracizes or persecutes anyone who does disagree.
Put together: You said that the Left is against those in favor of the murder of a conservative commentator.
Seems like that would be the correct position for anyone to take. You state that is the position of the Left; in other words the Left does agree that murder is wrong, but then you say they are the ones who are deranged.
Anon – 11:44am Your adolescent-level comments should be confined to your mother’s basement – grow up.
Time to bring back dueling.. that will address the issue!
Trump threw a Halloween party at Mar-a-Largo with a Great Gatsby theme.
“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
If MAGA could read, they would know the Great Gatsby is about the death of the American Dream, and how it became a lie that the rich sold to the poor.
You know not one of them read The Great Gatsby and so never got the moral of the story, and they never care to.
Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a tragedy.
The Trump family uses it as a manual.
^ Poor, poor TDS sufferers acting out ^
Rabble:
Notice the time stamps. This is all one person, doing their damndest to make us think there’s a hivemind, when it’s just one sad loser with 3 computers being paid pittance of whatever trickle of dwindling NGO-USAID fund gates are left open.
Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a tragedy. The Trump family uses it as a manual.
Skipping right over the drug addicts and sexual perverts and convicted criminals with their crimes beyond any appeal to higher courts that are President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Pedophile Showers and his family.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.
This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
Rabble:
I’d like to see his proof how a fiction novel about the overindulgences and eccentricities of the rich in the Roaring Twenties became a manual for a smooth 90s real-estate dealer.
Hell, I’d like to know who his handlers are. Doesn’t he know he’s only allowed to use Mien Kampf as reference to Trump’s reading material?(/s)
It is about the inability to crack the glass ceiling of the chosen elite, in this case, old money. Trump is rather Gatsby-like, in that the political insiders will never welcome him, even if 100% of votes went his way.
The careless people are the old moneyed elites, and Gatsby is the casualty of their carelessness and callousness toward those who don’t belong.
Ellen – good analysis. Trump is even greater than Jay Gatsby. He succeeded where Gatsby failed. Gatsby had many elements of greatness, but his fatal flaw was holding onto a dream – Daisy’s exclusive love – that had passed and could never be recovered.
The Dems and the deep state threw everything at Trump, much more than Tom Buchanan threw at Jay Gatsby, and Trump not only succeeded but thrived. The difference: Trump is forward-looking, not trying desperately to hold onto some dream that could never be. He has brought inflation down, re-invigorated the energy sector, begun deportations of dangerous criminals who have no right to be here, and stopped or helped stop eight wars, all in 10 months. His greatness far exceeds that of Jay Gatsby. He is a much better representation of the American dream. Fitzgerald suggested at the end that the tide would always bring the boats rowing against it back into the past, but Trump has proved that thesis wrong.
I wish I agreed more fully, sir. But until the political establishment welcomes Trump wholly – and we know from Dr. Battarchaya and others that orders are slow-walked, disregarded, disobeyed outright when they come from the President’s appointees – I don’t believe I can.
Of course, whether Trump is great will be the call of those who write the histories, and Gatsby is a tragic figure of some personal stature, yes, but hardly the stuff of greatness.
How is the son of someone with hundreds of millions of dollars a man who can understand the inability to crack the glass ceiling of the chosen elite?
That is so ridiculous that it is hilarious that someone can try to draw that connection.
The glass ceiling she referred to is the social circles of the old moneyed elite. Read her comment again, this time for comprehension.
Since you need your hand held, please note that I compared Gatsby’s attempting to join with new money the world of old money to Trump’s ostracization by the political establishment. Would you say that establishment – and especially the unelected agencies which are in fact part of the executive branch, therefore subordinate the the chief executive – has embraced him? Because that is not what I see.
Psychobabble from ANON as usual. If the left could only learn to think!
@Anonymi
Hm. Check those reading scores again, by state. My wife happens to be an educator (as are many other members of my family, and have been, for generations, including professorships. Just my wife is a double master with a law degree), and you are straight up full of sheet. Not even debatable at this point, the stats are very clear, as is our actual experience in blue states, particularly since common core and covid lockdowns.
Try again, though at least you tried. 🥲 You don’t seem to realize you too will have to live in the world you are attempting to create, unless you are actual royalty (and not ostentatious self-perceived American royalty, and there are lots of you). Someday you might thank the rest of us for righting the ship. Or not, because you are an oblivious and entitled tw*t with nothing better to do.
MAGA READS: Your trite and not-so-clever Cliff-Notes analysis of The Great Gatsby is quite sophomoric.
Gatsby’s character reveals far more than the obvious “death of the American Dream,” via your simplistic wealth analogy and connecting it to Trump with “the rich selling a lie,” which is NOT what the book is about. “The American dream” is but a liefmotif, or vehicle, for a much deeper statement about personal-ideological economy, that of socio-political inculcation, which you represent quite well: while you declaim socio-economic supremacy, you perpetuate it.
Your sole justification for demanding other people’s money is the fact that they have it.
Which is so ridiculous and unworthy as to be no justification at all.
Which is precisely what you have: Absolutely NO rationale for demanding payment of other people’s money.
You have the justification of thieves.
Nutjob—you and that stinking, invalid, demented drunk, Karl Effing Marx!
Create an enterprise; get a job!
Damn, what did your mother and father teach you?
“Turley missed this one. We have a dictator-wanna be with a political party of “Yes-Men” and “Yes-Women” that follow like lemmings – even at the local and state government level.”
Unlike President My Phone And Pen Replace Congress and President Oval Office House Plant, with their brain dead zombie political party marching in lock step behind them.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate instead.
Also: the war cry of Marxist losers of elections: BBBBUUUTTTTT…. MUH TRUMMMPPPPP!!!!!
The MAGAs were very good teachers on how to hate. It worked. I hate them and there is nothing bad that could happen to a MAGA that I would care about.
You became a hater long before Trump, when Bolshevik Barack told you to hate America because he was declaring it systemically racist – right after white Americans voted his caramel-colored Marxist mulatto ass right into the White House.
Anon 12:07PM Your childish rage is duly noted, now go get a job.
Did someone forget to put some butt-cream on that diaper rash?
But why would you hate MAGAs? For wanting a secure border? For wanting law and order? For wanting biological males out of women’s sports, locker rooms, bathrooms? For wanting pornography out of elementary school libraries? For wanting voter integrity laws? For wanting the best person for the job, regardless of their sex, or skin color?For wanting to MAHA? For being for the Constitution?
Hatred of political opponents is nothing new. Democrats hate Republicans and Republicans hate Democrats. They even went to war once – after their ancestors went to war with the British because they hated them. Hatred is nothing new in the political world. Talk about something else, such as how todays Democrats are yesterday’s communists. As for Charlie Kirk, the man believed in Christian nationalism and rejected the concepts of the First Amendment while claiming to support them.
There’s hate if there’s an underlying pathology of vice. Commonly , Jealousy produces hatred. People are familiar with it in murder cases.
Vices are well loved by those having them. This want, desire to keep them, live them is known as perversion. It’s perversion because it produces a misshapen soul desiring hatred.
Wars can be fought by duty and those wars do not contain hatred.
^&^^^ some learn. Gamblers stay away from casinos, alcoholics from bars, etc.
Addiction to rage is correct as vices are addictive. Vices are traits that are inborn. The grief they cause is known as fate. Destiny are the choices so it’s safe to say the left is ill-fated.
*. The grandest cases get the attention of demons, Mephistopholes and others. The OJ murders reached that degree and he probably knew it. That case was truly eery.
May they RIP one and all.
The left is eery.
Adieu
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule
Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Muslims
And everybody hates the Jews
Ah, I remember both National Brotherhood Week and Tom Lehrer, on whose songs I grew up. Thank you.
PSYCHOphants
Turls speaks about rage addiction from a first person point of view. He’s paid well to hate them and his job is to whip up deluded magats into a frenzy. Those magats gladly comply because they’re treasonists and seditionists.
clearly under-educated, you have learned lots of big words just on this site. Now learn how to correctly use them.
Only when you learn to capitalize your letters properly.
^ Paid Chinese Communist troll. Ignore. ^
Turls speaks about rage addiction from a first person point of view.
This Democrat Antifa fascist needs a battalion of psychiatrists to help them learn to cope with their undeveloped prefrontal cortex.
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts
Made a statement. Not seeking answers, nor debate. Why don’t you understand that?
Rabble:
Have you ever thought that maybe not every thought that escapes to the front of your cortex needs to be publicized? Why put it here, if not to bait response?
Made a statement. Not seeking answers, nor debate. Why don’t you understand that?
Made a statement to project your rage addiction on to others. We understand that perfectly. We’re just wondering if the cause of your affliction is being under-educated, under-medicated… or both?
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.
This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
“Jamie Lee Curtis certainly got that message. The actress was facing a social and professional meltdown after openly mourning Kirk’s death.”
The left enforces ideological conformity by intimidation and threatening violence. That leftist political figures adopt violent rhetoric even while campaigning tells us their violent words can turn into violent action. We saw that in Nazi Germany.
We need to be ready to push back in ways we never previously considered.
@S.Meyer
Yes, people in Hollywood and its extensions are cowards, and though I have a great deal of sympathy for her, and I admire her as an actress, she is someone that totally fried herself with substance abuse. It doesn’t surprise me that she is paranoid and capitulating, and I honestly think at least in her case – she is not an opportunist, it is what she mistakenly believes is self-preservation.
There is no sane justification for hating anyone at this level, period, or for apologizing for one’s self speaking their truth. The fact that for the modern left it is all based on calculated falsehood is concerning in the extreme. We are not dealing with sane people.
James, I am glad others feel the same way. I offer Jamie Lee some slack, but the hate mongers attacking her should be punished.