Filed under: Bureaucracy, Crime, Democrat Corruption, Domestic Policy, Free Speech, History, Law, Media Bias, Politics, Regulation, The United States
We calls ’em as we sees ’em:
Republicans are usually too polite to call our opponents a “name”. but some occasions call for more drastic tactics. We won. You lost. And you are behaving very badly. Your people are perhaps not accustomed to being called a “mob.” Nancy Pelosi tipped your hand when she described the “Wrap-Up Smear” and explained the tactic.
Michael Avenatti kept dragging preposterous victims in only to have them laughed at for their poorly conceived stories. We learned that many of your protesters were paid to protest.
Finally the only supposed victim was exposed as a liar, and none of those who were supposed to confirm her stories would confirm them. I don’t know if she thought she could just make her complaint, which would do a part in dumping Kavanaugh, and she wouldn’t have to testify. Seems as if someone should check out her background a little more carefully. Phony accusations, phony protests.
The final outcry about having to believe in women, and women were survivors, and women were all abused because they were women went somewhat flat. What did you expect when you sent protesters out to scream and pound on the doors to the Supreme Court? A screaming mob doesn’t get some pretty euphemism — it’s just a mob.
And just what are they angry about? They’re not angry about abused women, as far as we can tell, no women in this particular situation have been abused. They are angry about power. Their entire aim is to be in control. To do things, all things, their way. To tell Republicans what they can and can’t do. They don’t really have all that much of a plan except to do away with all the shameful things from America’s terrible past, and raise taxes and make everybody equal and give them good things that will make them vote for Democrats forever. Like free college education and free health care and free….
Filed under: Education, Entertainment, Free Speech, Freedom, History, Intelligence, Literature, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, The United States | Tags: Blame Us., Introspection, Richard Mitchell
“The intellectual climate of the nation today came from the public schools, where almost every one of us was schooled in the work of the mind. We are a people who imagine that we are weighing important issues when we exchange generalizations and well-known opinions. We decide how to vote or what to buy according to whim or fancied self-interest, either of which is easily engendered in us by the manipulation of language, which we have neither the will nor the ability to analyze. We believe that we can reach conclusions without having the faintest idea of the difference between inferences and statements of fact, often without any suspicions that there are such things and that they are different. We are easily persuaded and repersuaded by what seems authoritative, without any notion of those attributes and abilities that characterize authority. We do not notice elementary fallacies in logic; it doesn’t even occur to us to look for them; few of us are even aware that such things exist. We make no regular distinction between those kinds of things that can be known and objectively verified and those that can only be believed or not. Nor are we likely to examine, when we believe or not, the induced predispositions that may make us do the one or the other. We are easy prey.“
—Richard Mitchell: The Graves of Academe
American Elephants 