- In this uncertain world, some things are always predictable.
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was informed that the Republican National Committee had adopted a resolution
“saying you were pretty much of a failure.”
Laughter filled the room as Kennedy responded:
I’m sure it was passed unanimously.
In spite of what us lefties who drink the commie koolaid might think, my long time friend Darrell, at Unabashedly American, and other real Americans know that Biden wants to allow immigrant Democrats to cross the southern border legally, that the administration has caused gas shortages, that the President has emboldened evil regimes around the world – authoritarians that very tough Trump had kept under control, including Putin, and the list goes on and on and on until, because of Democrats, everything has generally gone to hell.
It’s almost as if Darrell couldn’t come up with anything convincing, so he throws every conceivable accusation his imagination can contrive, in case anything might take hold.
Finally, he wonders how long before our flag consists of
a white hammer and cycle.
Yup. White hammer and cycle.
Kind of like the label on a box of Harley Davidson Baking Soda.
If he had thought of it, he might have added that since Biden had taken office, my friend had lost his car keys.
So, in his mind’s eye, the failure passes unanimously.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, is irritated by Republican lying liars and the lies they tell (I know. I stole that from Al Franken). But she advises Democrats generally and Biden specifically on the best way to deal with the lies, and the lying liars who repeat them.
- Prominent conservatives never tire of making accusations, but this one has some validity. Andy Borowitz reports on Republican claims that President Biden is artificially inflating his job-approval rating by displaying competence.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz explains why we don’t see a ton of Biden flags, Biden decals, or Biden bumper stickers on big wheel pickups. Has something to do with having more need for building thoughtful, intelligent government than building altars to a golden Trump idol.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson looks to the polls and finds that President Biden is gaining traction. Once-upon-a-president Trump is gliding downward, while Republicans don’t just shoot themselves in their feet, they go all nuclear from knee to toe. In Maricopa County, Arizona, they go on snipe hunts for bamboo slivers.
- Americans have been pessimists about the direction of the country for years. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger looks at the trends and discovers a bit of what might be a reversal, with those thinking the country is on the right track edging up above those saying we’re on the wrong track …by a margin of Holy Mother of Mercy!
- Iron Knee at Political Irony asks whether vaccines actually work, and answers his own question with well, Duh.
- Michigan rolls back mask requirements for fully vaccinated people, and @momwino98 reacts:
@momwino98 ##greenscreensticker ##provaccine ##proscience ##tiktokmom ##foryourpage
- The Black Death in fourteenth century Europe was ghastly. Infidel753 says those times carry lessons beyond our current pandemic, a lesson on how workers may gain a new economic advantage and a lesson on how the Democratic Party may rediscover its soul.
- Hackwhackers reminds us of the horrible humanitarian tragedy still going on in India.
- News Corpse does the research and discovers proof the Democratic 2020 voter-fraud-steal-the-vote conspiracy really and truly happened. Trumpers look into the camera and tell us they witnessed it themselves. On television. With Fox personalities explaining Fox News. It couldn’t be on Fox if it wasn’t true.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac has a new way for the folks at the Arizona Recount Project to detect bamboo ballots from Asia.
- Ideologues do sometimes get tied into pretzels. A question is posed:
The constitution gives the right to vote. I haven’t heard any valid reason to restrict other than felony crimes. Why are so many state legislatures trying to put restrictions?.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara gets into philosophy on whether the Constitution gives rights or secures them, then draws a false binary:
If you’re against suppressing the right to vote then you are for
chaotic free-for-alls in which anyone can vote without registration or identity, as many times as they want, on behalf of anyone they please, dead or alive, whether one month old or 100, under as many different names as they feel like, with votes counted in any way anyone feels like counting them.
Besides, state legislatures are expanding ease of voting and biased news coverage just blasts Republicans because they don’t like Republicans.
Yeah, that’s what he says.
- Frances Langum exposes the dark money group behind all those racist voter suppression bills.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life feels pessimistic about Republican plans to suppress their way to a 2022 steal, but sees a plausible argument for optimism.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has the video as Congressional Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) insists the January 6 Trump riot in the nation’s Capitol Building was nothing more than a group of innocent tourists strolling the halls. He has a point:
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil includes Kinloch, around the corner from us here in Missouri, as he lists the largest seven of last weekend’s gun violence carnage.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson got teary eyed when he saw the original Star Spangled Banner, the flag itself, at the Smithsonian years ago. He contemplates state efforts to make the playing of the National Anthem legally manditory at sporting events. He’s against laws forcing citizens to sing about freedom.
- FISA courts are set up to secretly issue secret warrants allowing secret surveillance of secret foreign spies in the United States. Julian Sanchez and colleagues at the CATO institute join in podcast to examine what FISA courts do about it when US agencies illegally spy on Americans. Not much, apparently.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes contrasts, sort of, the views of ideal womanhood through history with today’s feminism, and ends up sort of wondering what it’s all about.
- Reductress reports on a woman in a meeting who hopes she’s not bothering anybody by bringing up a good point.
- At The Moderate Voice Donald Harrison says President George W. Bush is showing a warm embrace for immigrants to the US.
- Imani Gandy, of Rewire News Group, sees the Biden administration reversing illegal Trump policies and restoring healthcare protections for LGBTQ people.
- It’s a slippery slope argument. At The Onion, Republicans insist that if DC is provided statehood, along with representation in the Senate, it is only a matter of time before the District becomes its own planet.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit comments on the result of panic buying, then transporting, a dangerous amount of gasoline in the passenger compartment of a vehicle, and pausing to light a cigarette.
- Nan’s Notebook draws lessons from the unfortunate experience of Scottie, of Scottie’s Toybox, who had to divorce WordPress.com.
- And YES, Scottie is back! Yay-y-y-y! Scotties Toy Box covers a prominent Christian Nationalist, a pastor and my brother-in-Christ, who threatens to publish the address of a news reporter who accurately refers to him as a Christian Nationalist. Isn’t that what Jesus would do?
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce has a very brief exchange with an Evangelical Christian, each explaining what God is telling them to say.
- Tommy Christopher introduces us to another instance of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki cheerfully performing vivisection on a conservative critic, this time, by proxy, Senator Tom Cotton, thus sending the good Senator into a rage.
- PZ Myers checks to see how things are going at Donald Trump’s new website, and…
ruh roh.
- Sarah Cooper goes all Elon Musk talking to Joe Rogan about naming his kid X Æ A-12:
- What about all those former leftists we’re told about who have become radical rightists? The Propaganda Professor notices they seem all to be the usual suspects, and examines their stories, their various epiphanies, and notices another suspicious pattern.
- driftglass remembers a few huge things that did not work out as planned, including one political party.
- MadMikesAmerica points out that AI is not confined to 1950s conceptions of humanoid robots, and uses a Facebook example to ask whether control by technology over humanity can be controlled by humanity.
- nojo rates cinematic predictions of the end of pretty much everything.
- John Scalzi at Whatever reacts, perhaps with a touch of irrational anger, at how donuts are marketed.
- The folks at The Journal of Improbable Research discover a study at Western Research Laboratory, sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation, on how to use electricity to make a pickle glow in the dark.
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You know! The hammer and cycle! The universal (we don’t like that word, we’re Nationalists) symbol of exercise and “green” commuting to work. We use power tools and drive big cars just as God intended in Two Corinthians 69:420
Darrell selected me as his lucky lefty who drinks the commie koolaid. Serves me right, for waving my white hammer and cycle flag ALL the tyme. I’m honored and flattered by his fanciful accusations and probing assessment of my thinking. I’ve learned a few things from Darrell.
While I learned, “The last election had myriads of irregularities and fraud”. I’m disappointed to have to continue my extended wait for any examples. He seems to want to keep the evidence secret.
He expressed his righteous projection-tinged indignation at any notion by Democrats if, “they want to pack the Supreme Court. What they cannot get passed through the legislature, they will be able to legislate from the bench.”
Yes, that’s quite devious of those treacherous socialist commies.
When I noted it was McConnell’s contempt for our Constitution that canceled Merrick Garland, he sagely said, “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” As long as the first wrong benefits the Right.
I foolishly stated, “By popular vote the American people chose a Democrat in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, yet the court is stacked with Right wing partisans. Now the Radical Right is outraged by Americans wanting a more balanced court.”
Darrell properly put me in my place. “As for your justification for the court packing, you are a pathetic symptom of the problem.” He kindly confirmed my creeping feeling that I was to blame all along.
After his copious airing of resentments that would fill a Festivus celebration, this is what Darrell sarcastically wrote on May 13th: “Yep, Biden has made America respected again!
I agreed, and linked to polling showing higher US approval rates across the world.
This is what Darrell wrote on May 15, 2021, after I reported the world likes America better without Trump. “Well of course it does. The socialist Europeans and authoritarian regimes don’t want a strong America…”
I don’t suppose it was at all nationalistic of him to deride the world for not liking Trump.
I was most happy to learn that white conservatives are the true experts on racism. Turns out there’s no such thing as systemic racism. “THAT is the big lie!” he tells me. This good news brings a wonderful sense of relief to all, doesn’t it?
When I mentioned Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are very angry with minorities who in their view, seek to “further debase our culture” (Darrell’s term), he admitted, “I don’t know about those groups”. Given his keen insight and understanding of the 1/6 insurrection, I’m impressed he didn’t know about them. Maybe they had nothing to do with any misbehavior?
Darrell cleared up any possible misconception about Trump’s “stop the steal” mob storming of the Capitol to overturn the election.
This is what Darrell wrote at my blog on Jan 8, 2021:
“Dave, Trump was wrong to give encouragement and a wink and a nod to the protestors and delaying any attempt to rein them back. He was complicit. Sadly this ego maniacal narcissist tarnished the myriad of good things he has done for our country with this latest escapade.”
This is what Darrell wrote on May 15, 2021: “Trump instigates a riot according to the left and the media, but then I repeat myself. (He didn’t.)”
His golden words are a lesson and blessing to every one of us America-hating socialist far left commies.
Our guide has spoken. Let us go into the light of the Right with grateful hearts, comrades.