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Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 25, 2020
If ex-men getting to shower in the women’s locker room is “the civil rights issue of our time,” then civil rights is pretty much done and over.
Which it is, of course. Civil rights is a zombie movement looking for increasingly absurd justifications to not declare victory and close up shop.
As you may recall, I first realized The Establishment was going to go all in on promoting ex-men as The Next Phase in the spring of 2013 when the New York Times ran a huge article about how horrible it was that an ex-man mixed martial arts fighter named Fallon Foxx wasn’t being allowed to beat up women for money.
Not surprisingly, Rogan, a UFC color commentator who is to MMA fighting today sort of what Howard Cosell was to boxing in the 1970s, was in on the controversy earlier a couple of months earlier. He was against ex-men punching women for pay.
But Joe Biden wants you to know that the right of ex-men to hit women is the civil rights issue of our time.
The back story is Rogan, who has an immensely popular podcast of long form interviews, recently more or less endorsed Sanders, saying:
“He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that, in and of itself, is a very powerful structure to operate from.”
But that’s unfair to Biden, who was elected to the Senate in 1972 on a platform of Drag Queen Story Hours.
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Whenever someone starts with on-ramp words like “Let’s be clear”, you can be sure that what follows is a grandstanding pseudo-message, a vaguely syntactically correct phrase whose meaning is a bit elusive. It will necessarily include an appeal to the “we”, whoever “we” is. After a couple of seconds of thinking, you will find that said message could appeal only to the professionally outraged.
Punishment will be immediate de-resolution.
This tweet captures the essence of the main problem of American politics in 2020. I would argue that the entire point of democracy and the main job of politicians is compromise. As a citizen in a democracy, why do I follow the law? Why don’t I seek to overthrow the government if it is run by a party I disagree with? Because I trust that the politicians we elect will consider all sides of an issue when formulating our laws and policies, and make reasonable compromises to accommodate the opinions of both the majority and minority. That’s how a democratic republic works.
No democracy or quasi-democracy has ever worked that way, and it's extremely obvious why: given such straight-down-the-middle policy, any determined minority can rule by being sufficiently extreme and intransigent, resulting in either oligarchy, civil war, secession, or all of the above. Sound familiar?Replies: @Autochthon
This tweet captures the essence of the main problem of American politics in 2020. The main job of politicians in a democracy is compromise. As a citizen in a democracy, why do I follow the law? Why don’t I seek to overthrow the government if it is run by a party I disagree with? Because I trust that the politicians we elect will consider all sides of an issue when formulating our laws and policies, and make reasonable compromises to accommodate the opinions of both the majority and minority. That’s how a democratic republic works.
If we still had the demographic that elected Reagan we would be looking at a Reagan-type 49 to 50 state landslide against a party which chose to promote such nonsense.
And each day we still continue to take 3000 legal residents who will go into the pipeline to become citizens 5 to 7 years down the road. Which means an even crazier version of Biden will have an even better chance at winning in the future.Replies: @AnotherDad
“Which it is, of course. Civil rights is a zombie movement looking for increasingly absurd justifications to not declare victory and close up shop.”
ah, but you misunderstand.
they have moved on from equality of opportunity, to equality of outcome.
thus, the civil rights campaign has become the equal rights campaign, and can continue on forever.
didn’t you just do a book review about this exact thing?
New Jersey?!
Out of my way, bigot! I need to find the nearest little girls’ room to drain my ladylizard.
I'm all for guys, who--baring a hot war--have an urge for psuedo combat to suit up and go smash into other guys. But guys who want to go beat up girls ... society should deal with them harshly.Replies: @anon
I agree with Biden. There is no compromise on the transgender issue.
Enough is enough.
Was someone deny trannies freedom of speech? freedom of religion? trial by jury? the right to bear arms? (Ok, maybe that one.)
No, of course not.
Like all of minoritarianism this has absolutely nothing to do with “basic human rights”. Rather it is a demand that the majority get in-line, cede it’s right to have an opinion and to live in a sane society organized along the norms and values of the majority.
We really need so called “conservative” politicians to stop being pathetic little gnomes, state this tyrannical bullying nature of minoritarianism clearly and oppose it ferociously.
Creepy, but doable.
There can be no push back in a civil society because to do so would invite arrest by the police, media morality campaigns, beatings by the armed anti fa wing, and investigations by the FBI, DOJ, State, and Local law enforcement.
Most people lack the resources that Sandmann had, or the desire for martyrdom. Kafka described this well. Of course, such societies don't inspire battlefield devotion and the US has many enemies and is very vulnerable to energy shocks even with fracking. This stuff falls apart when there is no more power for three months and people starve and freeze to death in places like Chicago and Cleveland.
But worship of Trannies and other weirdos is the official State Religion and it guards against heresy and unbelief jealously. Look at the punishments demanded for "deniers" of the global warming religion.
https://artandtheology.org/tag/fumi-e/
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/0215/24/1783-print-japanese-anti-christian_1_034f5fcc8fc6a63702bfdbf6f5d923c4.jpgWhether the bullies are a minority or a majority should be irrelevant in a free country.
http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/sportal_com_au/99/95/hannah-mouncey_1r2nuyh8vs8951py0z3jlsfagf.jpg
https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/xtb7LvhUpWdRyX3MGXCxS3/05f2410e-9a92-4c4c-94d6-81fb574258a4.JPG/r0_15_799_466_w1200_h678_fmax.jpgReplies: @Charon, @AnotherDad
Ewww that’s gross. Also gross is the fact that the insanity isn’t abating, despite the logical reason Steve gives above. It’s just ramping up is my guess. What’ll the next steps be? I shudder to think.
Clarity ended right there.
Zombie voting rights should be next. But just as women voted in Utah a half century before Missouri, Maryland, or Massachusetts, so have the dead voted in Chicago and other forward-looking cities for over a century.
Let’s be clear, Joe…
The main problem of American politics in 2020 is that demographic change means that an idiot like Biden has better than a 50-50 chance of winning the general election in November because he represents the party whose fortunes are soaring by said demographic change.
If we still had the demographic that elected Reagan we would be looking at a Reagan-type 49 to 50 state landslide against a party which chose to promote such nonsense.
And each day we still continue to take 3000 legal residents who will go into the pipeline to become citizens 5 to 7 years down the road. Which means an even crazier version of Biden will have an even better chance at winning in the future.
http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/sportal_com_au/99/95/hannah-mouncey_1r2nuyh8vs8951py0z3jlsfagf.jpg
https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/xtb7LvhUpWdRyX3MGXCxS3/05f2410e-9a92-4c4c-94d6-81fb574258a4.JPG/r0_15_799_466_w1200_h678_fmax.jpgReplies: @Charon, @AnotherDad
Not opposing this is symptom of sickness.
I’m all for guys, who–baring a hot war–have an urge for psuedo combat to suit up and go smash into other guys. But guys who want to go beat up girls … society should deal with them harshly.
OK Boomer!
Dude, they're not girls. Just ask them. They are strong, independent women who don't need no man for nothin', and that includes your babble. Here's a "girl" that you for sure want to protect. Get your son to marry her. Invite her into your family. Right, Dad?
Just look at the delicate flower of American womanhood...
https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2019/06/26/Photos/ZH/MW-HM215_MeganR_20190626095854_ZH.jpg
The only good thing about the trans insanity is it may obliterate stupid stuff like women's rugby and soccer.Replies: @Chris Mallory
We could use a political party that looks out for the rights of normal Americans, but we don’t have anything of the kind. Not sure I can remember when we did. And that’s probably how we got here.
Oh no no Steve. Sorry you give too much credit to our system and its political and cultural and social and economic leaders.
What is the oldest, most vile dream of mankind? Why slavery of course! From Sargon of Akkad (the real one not the internet person) the dream has been to enslave people for power. The entire society of Mesopotamia was built on slavery — a strong military force conquers its neighbors, deports them to the inner homeland, and works them to death building canals, buildings, etc. to create more food and wealth for the military force. Rinse and repeat. This pretty much describes nearly every society in and around the Middle East maybe save the Egyptians who had religious/cultural reasons for donating labor and faced until late no real threats protected by deserts on two sides and the Nile and Med on the other flanks. This would include Rome which had higher IQ European slaves and Al Andalus and the Turks who also had high IQ European slaves.
The whole point of Civil Rights is to enslave the average straight White man, provide a moral justification: blood guilt and eternal punishment for Emmet Till and Michelle Obama getting mean looks, and providing wealth and power and profit for the few lucky enslavers.
As a practical matter, the permanent Civil Rights bureaucracy will never do away with itself declaring victory, it will always seek to expand and find new enemies to crush (more and more straight White men). This means getting rid of White men in jobs, not allowing them to vote, or hold office, and a host of other things now on the table as the bureaucracy inherent in the Civil Rights system: Federal, State, Local, Corporate, Media, entertainment, NGO etc. seeks more jobs for the non-White boys.
And the money is running out: Macron is not battling the Yellow Vests over Global Warming taxes, but rather more money to pay Muslims so they don’t overthow him and set up their own European Islamic Republic. Which will come soon anyway.
Caldwell points out how financing Civil Rights went from direct taxes and high inflation in the 1960s-70s, to deficit financing in the 1980s, to private debt in the 1990s and early 2000s, to now just seizing stuff from White people on the basis of “racism.” I.E. every White man bears blood guilt for being a straight White man so must pay and pay and pay and pay.
Eventually the system can only be paid for by explicit enslavement of White men to create wealth. There is no other source of wealth to grab. White men are like the Monasteries and Church holdings tempting Henry VIII.
Next question.Replies: @byrresheim
If we still had the demographic that elected Reagan we would be looking at a Reagan-type 49 to 50 state landslide against a party which chose to promote such nonsense.
And each day we still continue to take 3000 legal residents who will go into the pipeline to become citizens 5 to 7 years down the road. Which means an even crazier version of Biden will have an even better chance at winning in the future.Replies: @AnotherDad
Exactly.
So… although Bruce Jenner identifies as a woman, yet refuses to have his dick cut off, and insists on continuing having sex with women… he’s still supposed to be allowed to use women’s restrooms and women’s public showers?
If so, then this will create a significant wellspring of “shadow-voters” come next election, much like the Trump “”shadow voters” who were against open borders in the last election. And it won’t work out well for the Dems again.
That's how drag queens rolled for fifty years and it was a nonissue. You DO NOT have a right to flaunt non sex compliance. Use the family restroom or be good at it or stay the fuck home.
It’s kind of amusing to watch Bernie try to politic like it’s 1969. Going on Fox News! Getting endorsements from center-right figures!
I wouldn’t vote for him, but it’s nice to see a lefty who isn’t obsessed with purity tests.
You misunderstood. Trannies are demanding the right to bare arms.
Creepy, but doable.
The Majority can’t. That’s the whole point. Power, real power, is held by the permanent and pervasive Civil Rights bureaucracy described by Caldwell. Which can order the military, executive, state, federal, corporate, and private spheres to do whatever a judge, bureaucrat, or official demands.
There can be no push back in a civil society because to do so would invite arrest by the police, media morality campaigns, beatings by the armed anti fa wing, and investigations by the FBI, DOJ, State, and Local law enforcement.
Most people lack the resources that Sandmann had, or the desire for martyrdom. Kafka described this well. Of course, such societies don’t inspire battlefield devotion and the US has many enemies and is very vulnerable to energy shocks even with fracking. This stuff falls apart when there is no more power for three months and people starve and freeze to death in places like Chicago and Cleveland.
But worship of Trannies and other weirdos is the official State Religion and it guards against heresy and unbelief jealously. Look at the punishments demanded for “deniers” of the global warming religion.
It’s the modern fumi-e:
https://artandtheology.org/tag/fumi-e/
Whether the bullies are a minority or a majority should be irrelevant in a free country.
I wouldn't vote for him, but it's nice to see a lefty who isn't obsessed with purity tests.Replies: @nebulafox, @The Wild Geese Howard
It’s a real shame that he won’t label unrestricted immigration as the plutocratic fantasy as it is anymore, though. If even Bernie is giving on that, then that means this has become the Democratic equivalent of GOP free market fundamentalism. Equally self-defeating.
It's bad for the country...Replies: @notsaying
Funny how Biden incorporates genuine identity politics enthusiasm–he loves to brag about being an early adopter of “gay marriage”–and, apparently, a genuine regular guy persona. But to see the one guy left on the Democratic side who resembles the classic American politician, giant white capped smile beaming from his suntanned face, demanding drag queen story hour, it just shows how crazy things have gotten.
America eff yeah.
https://politics.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732
Rogan’s main point as someone who covers MMA is a fighter born biologically male fighting as a female is very likely to have a huge advantage against opponents born female, and possibly to cause them great physical harm. That simply is neither fair nor safe. It’s common sense. But at this point the on the cusp of senility Biden will saying anything his handlers tell him to say.
Also what would Biden, if he could pull his thoughts together, think if the not so fair Jessica Yaniv decided to use the same bathroom as his granddaughters?
When enough "good liberals" start to have their daughters lose athletic scholarships due to ex-boys, the tide will turn.
OT: reports of a 5 DAY INCUBATION PERIOD is the most disturbing news on the China coronavirus issue.
Several western nations are now evacuating citizens out of Wuhan by air …but there is no media discussion of quarantine in western countries on the receiving end.
Western news outlets are avoiding the word “quarantine” let alone “travel ban” …anybody can see the western media synchronization by downloading the news apps. France24 Sky News BBC CNN Bloomberg etc. They’re all on the same page.
Btw we dump trillions into the pentagon and yet the Army can’t set up quarantine areas at American airports that receive Chinese flight passengers?
How many airports receive China flights …maybe 10?
Scott Adams just made an angry video about the non-response from our gov but he didn’t mention the coordinated non-response across the western world.
There are way too many convenient, "coincidences," surrounding this outbreak.
Oh, it's just coincidence that it's Chinese New Year when hundreds of millions are expected to travel.
Oh, it's just coincidence that Wuhan happens to be China's main rail hub and a significant international flight hub.
Oh, it's just coincidence that a BSL-4 classified biohazard lab was opened in Wuhan in 2017.Replies: @Rob
We have to look at this from Joe’s POV. The more men pretending to be women that there are, the more opportunities there are for Joe to get fresh with all of them during photo ops.
I mean after 40 plus years, feeling up little kids probably gets boring. Joe probably can’t wait to get in the kitchen and start checking drawers for the uncured salami.
I clicked your website link, and google warned me that the connection was not secure, you might try to steal my financial information, and that I should go back. I did, and googled you. The link was the same, so I wonder if this is a new way to mess with UNZ comment links, or just a strange accident. Would someone else try and report back?
The 50’s and 60’s era “civil rights” movement was just as destructive and evil as today’s trans rights movement.
No, that’s how a fantasy world run by magical elves works.
No democracy or quasi-democracy has ever worked that way, and it’s extremely obvious why: given such straight-down-the-middle policy, any determined minority can rule by being sufficiently extreme and intransigent, resulting in either oligarchy, civil war, secession, or all of the above. Sound familiar?
This is true of most organizations. One example is Mothers Against Drunk Driving. They were founded in 1980. The national 21 drinking age became law in 1984 and the 0.08% BAC law took effect in 2004. Its founder, Candace Lightner, quit the organization in 1985 because she felt it had gone beyond its original purpose. Yet the organization still exists.
The March of Dimes was so successful that FDR was put on the dime. Now that polio is a relic of history, they have moved on to birth defects and infant mortality.
Rogan has probably done too many drugs in his life and I find him to be a tremendous bore. Having said that, he is absolutely correct that ex-men should not be allowed to fight women professionally. Someone could die.
When enough “good liberals” start to have their daughters lose athletic scholarships due to ex-boys, the tide will turn.
For the Democrats, it’s a rational strategy. Let ’em in and they’ll vote for you when they get citizenship.
It’s bad for the country…
I'm all for guys, who--baring a hot war--have an urge for psuedo combat to suit up and go smash into other guys. But guys who want to go beat up girls ... society should deal with them harshly.Replies: @anon
But guys who want to go beat up girls … society should deal with them harshly.
OK Boomer!
Dude, they’re not girls. Just ask them. They are strong, independent women who don’t need no man for nothin’, and that includes your babble. Here’s a “girl” that you for sure want to protect. Get your son to marry her. Invite her into your family. Right, Dad?
Just look at the delicate flower of American womanhood…
The only good thing about the trans insanity is it may obliterate stupid stuff like women’s rugby and soccer.
Chix with dix earn peak Pokemon points, says Boomer with balls.
Or, How white men continue digging their own graves.
I don’t know. The site thinks I’m a spammer or something. It’s a blogspot blog. Harmless.
Isn’t it insulting to blacks that their civil rights movement is now being used to promote this transgender stuff?
Biden is a senile pillock who will just say whatever he thinks people want to hear, but has few ideas of his own, and who frequently contradicts himself.
These are a few of the reasons why I will not be voting for him.
At one time he seemed like a fairly decent guy, the one guy in the Senate who was not wealthy and commuted to work in Washington on the train from Delaware and who was a moderate Democrat with a receding hairline.
Then came Kinnockgate, and his real character was revealed. He would say anything to get elected, but he was an empty vessel who deserved to be kicked down the road like a tin can.
In 1988 Biden had a ruptured brain aneurysm and nearly died. In fact he was expected to die and his surgeon warned that if he survived, he might have permanent brain damage. Well he did survive, and his brain did not appear to be damaged and his hair grew back. He also survived a second aneurysm that was found in a routine screening. Fortunately Biden had excellent health insurance, otherwise he would have been bankrupted.
Although Biden might have once been a man of the people, 8 years as vice-president, with all the bodyguards and pomp, plus all that time in the Senate means that he is done for, and now he acts like he is entitled and continues to style himself as vice-president.
Always a family man, Biden found tragedy when his first wife was killed in a car wreck and his elder son died in his prime. He was always in favor of jobs for his boys, and like the missionaries in Hawaii, he went out into the world to do good, and he did very well for himself. Whether he personally enriched himself by extorting Ukrainian oligarchs is not clear at this point in time, and so far the Trump administration has not convened a grand jury.
His son Hunter was paid a large amount for several years by a Ukrainian drilling company, but apparently he just got lucky when he applied for the job online on Indeed.com, and the Ukrainians liked his surname which they took to be a typical American name. Some people say that the fix was in, but as far as we knew Biden senior knew nothing about his son getting this lucrative sinecure.
In the Senate Biden bestrode the aisle like a colossus and with one foot in either camp it was impossible to tell whether he was a Democrat or a Republic. He has regularly run for the presidency as a pro forma candidate but until this year has never been in danger of being elected.
Never Biden.
Though the democrats don't have any non-Whites not named obama ready to take the helm, their non-White voting bloc can be counted on to vote for any White with a heartbeat and a (D) after their name.
If Biden is still alive in 2024, assuming he wins the democrat primary, he will have an even better chance of winning in the general.
It's all down to demographics which is why they are currently being transformed across the entire European world.
OK Boomer!
Dude, they're not girls. Just ask them. They are strong, independent women who don't need no man for nothin', and that includes your babble. Here's a "girl" that you for sure want to protect. Get your son to marry her. Invite her into your family. Right, Dad?
Just look at the delicate flower of American womanhood...
https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2019/06/26/Photos/ZH/MW-HM215_MeganR_20190626095854_ZH.jpg
The only good thing about the trans insanity is it may obliterate stupid stuff like women's rugby and soccer.Replies: @Chris Mallory
I know, I know. You are such a pitiful specimen that no woman would even think of being physical with you so you have to denigrate the entire sex. I can see why you post as “anon”. Can you show us on the doll where the girl hit you when she beat you up?
I wouldn't vote for him, but it's nice to see a lefty who isn't obsessed with purity tests.Replies: @nebulafox, @The Wild Geese Howard
For a dyed-in-the-wool socialist Bernie is quite well-mannered. Possibly even chivalrous.
Several western nations are now evacuating citizens out of Wuhan by air ...but there is no media discussion of quarantine in western countries on the receiving end.
Western news outlets are avoiding the word "quarantine" let alone "travel ban" ...anybody can see the western media synchronization by downloading the news apps. France24 Sky News BBC CNN Bloomberg etc. They're all on the same page.
Btw we dump trillions into the pentagon and yet the Army can't set up quarantine areas at American airports that receive Chinese flight passengers?
How many airports receive China flights ...maybe 10?
Scott Adams just made an angry video about the non-response from our gov but he didn't mention the coordinated non-response across the western world.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @Anonymous
I saw this and find the lax attitude absolutely sickening. They should be provisioning those people in place rather than evacuating them.
There are way too many convenient, “coincidences,” surrounding this outbreak.
Oh, it’s just coincidence that it’s Chinese New Year when hundreds of millions are expected to travel.
Oh, it’s just coincidence that Wuhan happens to be China’s main rail hub and a significant international flight hub.
Oh, it’s just coincidence that a BSL-4 classified biohazard lab was opened in Wuhan in 2017.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/24/42658513/seattle-school-board-takes-steps-to-dismantle-gifted-programReplies: @Dacian Julian Soros, @The Wild Geese Howard
If so, then this will create a significant wellspring of "shadow-voters" come next election, much like the Trump ""shadow voters" who were against open borders in the last election. And it won’t work out well for the Dems again.Replies: @Anonymous
The rule on “Transgenders” should be “no active male genitalia in the showers, restrooms, or other female only designated areas, no impregnable vaginas in male only areas”. If they go all the way once they are completed then let them use the facilities for their “new” pseudo-sex, sure. But if they are in between they should be expected to take advantage of the “family restroom’ single use facilities, or if thy are slick enough to get away with no one noticing they can relieve themselves in the “other” john, it becomes an issue only if it becomes an issue but the onus is on them.
If you’re discreet and can actually pull it off, whether transvestite or transgender, it’s a nonissue. BUT if you screw up it’s on you. Pull out the schlong or attempt to hassle the broads in the ladies’ room and be prepared for an arrest on charges.
That’s how drag queens rolled for fifty years and it was a nonissue. You DO NOT have a right to flaunt non sex compliance. Use the family restroom or be good at it or stay the fuck home.
What is the oldest, most vile dream of mankind? Why slavery of course! From Sargon of Akkad (the real one not the internet person) the dream has been to enslave people for power. The entire society of Mesopotamia was built on slavery -- a strong military force conquers its neighbors, deports them to the inner homeland, and works them to death building canals, buildings, etc. to create more food and wealth for the military force. Rinse and repeat. This pretty much describes nearly every society in and around the Middle East maybe save the Egyptians who had religious/cultural reasons for donating labor and faced until late no real threats protected by deserts on two sides and the Nile and Med on the other flanks. This would include Rome which had higher IQ European slaves and Al Andalus and the Turks who also had high IQ European slaves.
The whole point of Civil Rights is to enslave the average straight White man, provide a moral justification: blood guilt and eternal punishment for Emmet Till and Michelle Obama getting mean looks, and providing wealth and power and profit for the few lucky enslavers.
As a practical matter, the permanent Civil Rights bureaucracy will never do away with itself declaring victory, it will always seek to expand and find new enemies to crush (more and more straight White men). This means getting rid of White men in jobs, not allowing them to vote, or hold office, and a host of other things now on the table as the bureaucracy inherent in the Civil Rights system: Federal, State, Local, Corporate, Media, entertainment, NGO etc. seeks more jobs for the non-White boys.
And the money is running out: Macron is not battling the Yellow Vests over Global Warming taxes, but rather more money to pay Muslims so they don't overthow him and set up their own European Islamic Republic. Which will come soon anyway.
Caldwell points out how financing Civil Rights went from direct taxes and high inflation in the 1960s-70s, to deficit financing in the 1980s, to private debt in the 1990s and early 2000s, to now just seizing stuff from White people on the basis of "racism." I.E. every White man bears blood guilt for being a straight White man so must pay and pay and pay and pay.
Eventually the system can only be paid for by explicit enslavement of White men to create wealth. There is no other source of wealth to grab. White men are like the Monasteries and Church holdings tempting Henry VIII.Replies: @istevefan
Which is why our founders gave us the 2A.
Next question.
If an old geezer like Sanders, uh, a person of age, has been thinking and saying the same thing all his life, it can only mean he’s an idiot not capable of maturing and expanding his views.
Being endorsed by a low IQ MMA guy/stand-up comedian guy/youtuber like Joe Rogan must be the high point of Sanders run.
These are a few of the reasons why I will not be voting for him.
At one time he seemed like a fairly decent guy, the one guy in the Senate who was not wealthy and commuted to work in Washington on the train from Delaware and who was a moderate Democrat with a receding hairline.
Then came Kinnockgate, and his real character was revealed. He would say anything to get elected, but he was an empty vessel who deserved to be kicked down the road like a tin can.
In 1988 Biden had a ruptured brain aneurysm and nearly died. In fact he was expected to die and his surgeon warned that if he survived, he might have permanent brain damage. Well he did survive, and his brain did not appear to be damaged and his hair grew back. He also survived a second aneurysm that was found in a routine screening. Fortunately Biden had excellent health insurance, otherwise he would have been bankrupted.
Although Biden might have once been a man of the people, 8 years as vice-president, with all the bodyguards and pomp, plus all that time in the Senate means that he is done for, and now he acts like he is entitled and continues to style himself as vice-president.
Always a family man, Biden found tragedy when his first wife was killed in a car wreck and his elder son died in his prime. He was always in favor of jobs for his boys, and like the missionaries in Hawaii, he went out into the world to do good, and he did very well for himself. Whether he personally enriched himself by extorting Ukrainian oligarchs is not clear at this point in time, and so far the Trump administration has not convened a grand jury.
His son Hunter was paid a large amount for several years by a Ukrainian drilling company, but apparently he just got lucky when he applied for the job online on Indeed.com, and the Ukrainians liked his surname which they took to be a typical American name. Some people say that the fix was in, but as far as we knew Biden senior knew nothing about his son getting this lucrative sinecure.
In the Senate Biden bestrode the aisle like a colossus and with one foot in either camp it was impossible to tell whether he was a Democrat or a Republic. He has regularly run for the presidency as a pro forma candidate but until this year has never been in danger of being elected.
Never Biden.Replies: @istevefan
Because every 4 years the proportion of the electorate that is White has been decreasing at a consistent rate. It’s changed enough that he has better than a coin toss chance to win in 2020.
Though the democrats don’t have any non-Whites not named obama ready to take the helm, their non-White voting bloc can be counted on to vote for any White with a heartbeat and a (D) after their name.
If Biden is still alive in 2024, assuming he wins the democrat primary, he will have an even better chance of winning in the general.
It’s all down to demographics which is why they are currently being transformed across the entire European world.
Sanders voted against Defense of Marriage Act. Biden voted for it. Mongrelians can’t be bothered with the recent history of their own country.
Or, to paraphrase Karl Marx, if Jim Crow in the South was a tragedy, the battle for transgender rights is a farse
Next question.Replies: @byrresheim
Come to think of it … were your founders not slaveholders?
Communists were initially focused on class, economic power, and not race, gender, and sexual preference. Indeed, Cuba put homosexuals into prisons, though that has been memory-holed. But even though they agree with i-Stevers on that focus, they are still advocating a profoundly evil ideology. Socialism doesn’t just lead to economic stagnation, but also the absence of free speech, which we see the glimpses of at universities. It creates a totalitarian society where everything is conspiring with those in charge, and they don’t have to compete with anybody. Further, as much as Sanders himself is not a believer in modern wokeness, he is more than willing to institutionalize preferences for non-white, non-cis-gendered, non-normal people, to achieve power.
The Scandinavian countries have all pulled back a great deal over the past 30 years in their socialist policies, with much lower corporate tax rates, capital gains taxes, and regulation in general. Their tax rates are much more regressive than in the US (but still higher). Yet, of the hundred crappy socialist countries Sweden-Norway-Finland-Denmark stand out as exceptions, even if they are far from socialist. The problem is that such policies work much better in homogeneous white countries, but you can’t make that argument in respectable forums.
BSo let me see if I got this straight…
When Trump won the presidency, the Democrats had a collective brain aneurysm, denied the legitimacy of the election, actively sought to nullify it, actually went so far as to /physically threaten the Electoral College/, then swore to impeach a duly-elected President before he’d even been sworn in.
That was just round one.
Since then, these people have had nothing but several years to gather their wits, marshal their forces, carefully select and vet a winnable candidate, then unite behind him.
Instead, this is what they came up with:
1. Shrieking communist Larry David,
2. Some weird senile hybrid of Jerry Stiller and Peter Boyle, as the bumbling dementia-addled TV sitcom dad,
3. An aging no longer funny Dana Carvey in socialist Church Lady drag as the vinegar-drinking scold,
4. A smirking gay dude whose qualifications appear to be the moral equivalent of winning on Jeopardy! for four days in a row,
5. Bald gay stupid black dude who everybody just politely smiles and nods at, as per federal law, because bald gay stupid black dude,
6. Irritating control-freak super-wealthy annoying Jew who nobody likes,
7. Amazingly, a SECOND irritating control-freak super-wealthy annoying Jew who nobody likes,
8. Unbelievably, a THIRD irritating control-freak annoying Jew who nobody likes, only this time female and only wealthy instead of super-wealthy….
After three years of late-night planning sessions, and full control of the courts, the universities, all of Wall Street, and the entire MSM… this is what they came up with, to conquer Orange Super Resurrected Robo-Hitler.
The scary part is, they might still win.
Is your blog at dennisdale.blogspot.com or http://www.dennisdale.blogspot.com? Blogspot blogs do not normally use www addresses. I think it is because you put the www in when that’s not the actual address.
Although it might also be something with the s in https. Either getting rid of that s or getting rid of the www or both should fix that.
“He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that, in and of itself, is a very powerful structure to operate from.”
That Joe Rogan thinks he has made a powerful argument for supporting Sanders indicates that he’s incapable of rigorous thought. Since when is not changing your mind for your entire life an impressive characteristic? Soviet Communism collapsed of its internal contradictions during Bernie Sanders’ lifetime and yet that doesn’t seem to have given him pause. Go, Communism! says Bernie.
Or was Rogan speaking literally when he says Bernie has been “insanely consistent”? Because that would make sense.
BTW, whatever someone thinks of Bernie’s policies, he is a weak, ineffectual person and as president would get nothing done that displeased Wall Street, the Interagency Group, and the Military Industrial Complex .
The other civil rights issue of our time?
There are way too many convenient, "coincidences," surrounding this outbreak.
Oh, it's just coincidence that it's Chinese New Year when hundreds of millions are expected to travel.
Oh, it's just coincidence that Wuhan happens to be China's main rail hub and a significant international flight hub.
Oh, it's just coincidence that a BSL-4 classified biohazard lab was opened in Wuhan in 2017.Replies: @Rob
A chinaman and (I was think) a female chinaman in Canada were stealing coronavirus from the Canadian biohazard lab where they worked. (this is a rumor which I could not confirm) Even if not true, why do western countries even have Chinese working in scientific jobs? Oh, cuz we won’t produce a technical class. Oh, because we’re too focused on uplifting the lower races to educate the gifted. See:
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/24/42658513/seattle-school-board-takes-steps-to-dismantle-gifted-program
The best source in that story is the link to the CBC YT clip. Looking at the other sources it appears this couple may have been able to install a few other plants in Canada's biohazard research apparatus.This country incentivizes everyone to go into STEM other than those folks who are talented and interested in STEM.
It's disgusting how every major US STEM institution is bending over backwards to spoonfeed women and PoCs through STEM degrees so they can trumpet their graduation statistics. The vast majority of these will achieve nothing with their misbegotten credentials. Many of them will be handed lucrative do-nothing/no-show jobs merely for existing.
Thus, a lot of the intelligent folks that would have done well in STEM land on Wall Street, where it's far, far easier to make six figures and enjoy life but none of the, "work," helps progress science, technology, etc.Replies: @Autochthon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UMtPczKd-QReplies: @Anonymous
“Let’s be clear (pause)” is definitely an Obamaism, probably intentionally so. I can’t even read it without hearing it in Obama’s voice/inflection/timing.
Fixed it. Thanks.
Let’s be clear, folks, that’s not who we are.
Trump gets Sanders against him in the election, just as he wants. His Iran strategy is doing fine, for now. The guy is winning. Though, I bet Iran will make an another strike. Then it will be a war. Trump still wins, in war times, people will trust a strong man.
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1221201717825503232
The Scandinavian countries have all pulled back a great deal over the past 30 years in their socialist policies, with much lower corporate tax rates, capital gains taxes, and regulation in general. Their tax rates are much more regressive than in the US (but still higher). Yet, of the hundred crappy socialist countries Sweden-Norway-Finland-Denmark stand out as exceptions, even if they are far from socialist. The problem is that such policies work much better in homogeneous white countries, but you can't make that argument in respectable forums.Replies: @Dacian Julian Soros
“Cuba put homosexuals into prisons”. At that time, everybody was putting gays in prison, save for dysfunctional countries in the heart of Africa. Those were making do with lynching.
This woke-style complaint that people of the fifties did not have a liberal mindset culminates with whining about muh Nazi eugenics, when eugenics were an British invention, with a first implementation in US.
For example, California forcibly sterilized its inmates from 1909 until 1979. (Surely, by the end of this period, its was not the poor whose balls were cut.) On the other hand, California jailed all gays, and in fact all sodomites, until 1975. Again, by the end of it, it was mostly the poor and the morons who preferred al fresco, but California did in fact had laws against oral sex long after Cuba.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/24/42658513/seattle-school-board-takes-steps-to-dismantle-gifted-programReplies: @Dacian Julian Soros, @The Wild Geese Howard
Because American “gifted” are Wojcickes – can’t do squat, and demand millions.
In 2015 Sanders called open borders a”Koch brothers idea.” Now he’s all in for it. Consistent his whole life? Not even for the last 5 years on the most important issue of the day. Never go to Grug Rogan for keen insights. His grugness sometimes causes his guests to reveal uncomfortable things about themselves, but that’s about it with him.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/24/42658513/seattle-school-board-takes-steps-to-dismantle-gifted-programReplies: @Dacian Julian Soros, @The Wild Geese Howard
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coronavirus-canada-and-weaponize-it
The best source in that story is the link to the CBC YT clip. Looking at the other sources it appears this couple may have been able to install a few other plants in Canada’s biohazard research apparatus.
This country incentivizes everyone to go into STEM other than those folks who are talented and interested in STEM.
It’s disgusting how every major US STEM institution is bending over backwards to spoonfeed women and PoCs through STEM degrees so they can trumpet their graduation statistics. The vast majority of these will achieve nothing with their misbegotten credentials. Many of them will be handed lucrative do-nothing/no-show jobs merely for existing.
Thus, a lot of the intelligent folks that would have done well in STEM land on Wall Street, where it’s far, far easier to make six figures and enjoy life but none of the, “work,” helps progress science, technology, etc.
Nixon’s version was “I want to be perfectly clear…”
I saw AOC and Sanders on C-Span today. I ended up watching a lot more of their talks than I intended. They brought up issues that are important to me. I do not always agree with their solutions and I also worry about the tremendous amount of money they want to spend. I doubt that many of their proposals would get passed by even Democratic Senate and House. Still, it was both strange and very comforting and appealing to feel that my concerns were their concerns too.
But for me the sticking point was immigration, as it always is. Seeing the Democrats talk about immigration during the debates has made me even more of an “immigration voter” than I was in 2016, and in that election it was the determining factor in my voting for Trump.
The official Democratic line on immigration is now past any rational appeals. Immigration is now seen as an act of necessary charity — we must allow anybody in who wants in because we must save them from their lives in their home country. The Democratic policies on immigration have become a moral crusade and they will not be stopped until immigration reaches such a high level that it becomes undeniably evident that we can’t handle the increased numbers. Since we are big and rich country that will take some time, I believe. They also stupidly believe the various ridiculous claims libertarians make about the country being economically better off from having lots more people even though so many are poor and uneducated.
All this is actually worse than GOP ideas about the free market which can always be changed. Our decisions about immigration, though, get locked in by the presence of tens of millions of additional people and their descendants. There is no going back. Future Americans can only stop the madness, they cannot undo the damage.
It's bad for the country...Replies: @notsaying
It may have started out as a rational strategy up to a point — it was always bad for American workers — but with climate change and the upcoming mass permanent job losses predicted by Andrew Young and many experts, it is madness.
There’s really no excuse the Democratic politicians can offer. That is something they will find out in the future once people decide that continuous mass migration is unsustainable and a big mistake.
Unlimited migration provides an effectively unlimited pool of D voters, creating a one-party state. That’s the goal of the entire DNC, the one-party state. Everything else is just pretty lies, boob-bait for Bubbas and so forth. What kind of one-party state?
The D-wing one party state; a race-based spoils system with a tiny minority dispensing goodies. The tiny minority gibs-dispensers will get to take their cut off of the top. Everyone else gets in line.
South Africa is one example. There are others.
No democracy or quasi-democracy has ever worked that way, and it's extremely obvious why: given such straight-down-the-middle policy, any determined minority can rule by being sufficiently extreme and intransigent, resulting in either oligarchy, civil war, secession, or all of the above. Sound familiar?Replies: @Autochthon
If I may say a word for magical elves: even they are not so preposterously naïve and disingenuous – certainly they had the sense (that most white people now lack) to rebuke ungrateful parasites….
The best source in that story is the link to the CBC YT clip. Looking at the other sources it appears this couple may have been able to install a few other plants in Canada's biohazard research apparatus.This country incentivizes everyone to go into STEM other than those folks who are talented and interested in STEM.
It's disgusting how every major US STEM institution is bending over backwards to spoonfeed women and PoCs through STEM degrees so they can trumpet their graduation statistics. The vast majority of these will achieve nothing with their misbegotten credentials. Many of them will be handed lucrative do-nothing/no-show jobs merely for existing.
Thus, a lot of the intelligent folks that would have done well in STEM land on Wall Street, where it's far, far easier to make six figures and enjoy life but none of the, "work," helps progress science, technology, etc.Replies: @Autochthon
Can confirm.
Several western nations are now evacuating citizens out of Wuhan by air ...but there is no media discussion of quarantine in western countries on the receiving end.
Western news outlets are avoiding the word "quarantine" let alone "travel ban" ...anybody can see the western media synchronization by downloading the news apps. France24 Sky News BBC CNN Bloomberg etc. They're all on the same page.
Btw we dump trillions into the pentagon and yet the Army can't set up quarantine areas at American airports that receive Chinese flight passengers?
How many airports receive China flights ...maybe 10?
Scott Adams just made an angry video about the non-response from our gov but he didn't mention the coordinated non-response across the western world.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @Anonymous
Quarantine is a civil rights violation. This principle was established during the AIDS epidemic. Under no circumstances is the government going to throw a bunch of mostly-Chinese people in prison because they ‘might’ have a disease.