Here’s the common thread connecting today’s posts from me: the biggest problem the right has to overcome in order to salvage the republic is, in fact, the right itself — from those in the ruling class who actively conspire with the Democrats in deconstructing the country’s founding ideals to those who act as kneejerk defenders of the party under the guise of “realism” or “pragmatism,” guaranteeing themselves a shot at future employment within the establishment structure (with its attendant media mouthpieces) while guaranteeing that the rest of us will continue right on being forced to lose more slowly.
It is what it is what it is.
Thus endeth the sermon.
Amen.
Ahyup.
Jeff,
The stupid arrogant bastards in Washington are playing musical chairs and figure they’re quick enough and smart enough to grab the right chair when the music stops.
They’re stupid, because they don’t realize that, at some point, there are not any more chairs.
We probably have the most venal and corrupt government in the history of our republic.
Given this, Jeff, the fundamental truth we as Americans all need to accept is that we’re already looking at this once great nation in the past tense.
It is not bad, it is not really bad, and it is not fucked, as goes the vernacular.
It is over. We are looking at our own smoldering Rome. By any rational definition of American or original or structural or what-have-you as it relates to classical American liberalism and its lights, this is not what we were.
This is what we were established precisely to never become.
And with this truth finally permeating the airwaves and print medium, the inevitable next truth is that the establishment right not only did this — by way of its not being constitutional at all — but did this still thinking it can sift the ruins for jobs. Graft. Booty. Treasure.
These are not only tools of its demise, they are fools of at least as great a stripe as the overt fascists and socialists and worse who they aided. And they are cowards. They didn’t stand for what obviously were never their convictions.
Nice job, right wing. In hindsight you were not only wrong, your were both duplicitous and self-deceived. You were liars.
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As I mentioned the other day, Chambers thought he was joining the losing side when he abandonded communism. Also, I expect that when Buckley first chose to stand athwart History and yell “STOP!” he expected History to run him over.
In a sense, Reagan spoiled us. We thought by winning abroad, we’d win at home by default.
No disrespect to PP, the TP or to you, newrouter, but hahaha. We need to make sure the warden gives us our gruel.
– Don’t know Howard. “The Warden” seems to be absent from his office 100% of the time.
The only possible explanation if they are telling the truth, Beck said, is that President Obama is “completely disengaged and out of the loop.”
“That would mean he is not in charge of what is happening in the agencies that answer to him. If that is true, are you comfortable with it?” he asked. “Why is he so uninformed and out of touch? How could he possibly effectively govern if he is that far removed? …If he is not the one being informed and updated and steering the ship, who is? Is there anyone?”
– Apparently Chrissy tingles Mathews, of all people, now agrees with Beck, and you know when you’ve lost the ankle lick of “O as a God” Mathews, you’ve lost it period.
The more likely explaination is that this administration has organized itself like a Mafia family. Which would explain why nobody wants to be this guy’s chief of staff for very long.
It the Wan sends Chrissie a heart-shaped box of chocolates, all will be forgiven, BBH.
Greetings:
Or, as Alice Cooper used to sing, “No More Mr. Nice Guy”.
Trying to treat honorably with those of no discernible honor is lunacy.
In a Dashiel Hammet story from the 20s, the Continental Op ends up in a European country and there is this observation that some peoples just want to be ruled. I wasn’t sure I bought it at the time I read it but, now I do.
Modern liberals, progressive, whatever just want to re-create European royalty and plenty of folks are will to go along. Individualism is just too hard.
How could he possibly effectively govern if he is that far removed? …If he is not the one being informed and updated and steering the ship, who is? Is there anyone?
“….a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody-or at least some force – is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel. ” –HST
Levin scours the president’s daily schedule and notes how little he does.
It’s entirely possible that Obama really didn’t know, but only because he’s too much of a narcissist to give a damn.
OR, he knew in general, but his lieutenants were running the show anyway, and he was 100% down with what they intended to do, so he didn’t want to be bothered with knowledge.
Either way, his role in this farce is to be the suave symbol, the Golden Calf, the object of worship, while the others do their thuggish little jobs.
His role never was to call the shots: I imagine Soros and/or others like him are doing plenty of that.
OR, given that the proggs already know what they want to do and how to do it, a lot of this can be run on autopilot.
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Out with the old Republicans, in with the new Republicans
the revolution
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Beta testing the Cloward-Piven scandal defense system.
Tangentially-related link from one of nr’s links:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-25/swedish-police-face-fifth-night-of-riots/4712662
“Swedish young people” rioting and torching cars. Note the typical Swedes in the picture.
32-bit reality will come crashing down on their 8-bit world.
Dood. Sixty-four.
If geoffb meant that as the scandals will come so fast and furiously that the media coverage, investigations, etc. all get overwhelmed and crash in a sound and fury signifying nothing, then I agree with him.
I mean, really, do they even have to beta-test a scandal defense system? Wasn’t that what the Clinton administration was for?
The spree of destruction has seen masked youths vandalise schools, libraries and police stations, setting cars alight and hurling stones at police and firefighters.
Sweden’s integration minister Erik Ullenhag said the priority was to return the affected neighbourhoods to normal everyday life.
“In the long run, we need to create positive spirals in these neighbourhoods,” he said.
Would that be before or after you restore law and order Mr. Ullenhag
we need to create positive spirals in these neighbourhoods????
because deporting jerks is a no no swen?
That was my meaning indeed Ernst.
5.56×45 with a 1×9 right hand twist can create those “positive spirals” when generously applied.
Wasn’t sure if it was that, or if the scandals would finally overwhelm and burn out the scandal deflector shields (aka “the media”) and leave the administration powerless and adrift.
So long as the delivery system cycles virtuously.
overwhelm and burn out the scandal deflector shields (aka “the media”) and leave the administration powerless and adrift.
Anybody got an anti-orbital ion cannon to help with that effort?
Clinton beta tested two protective systems. One was the conviction defense system which is still in placed and expected to remain functional.
The other is the MSM scandal defense system which operated best before the internet was in common use. Now they are getting a bit ragged around the edges so a new one has to be tested to take up the slack.
In place not in placed.
a golden oldie
Yes – Close To The Edge (
sorry lang and jeff weekend
some havel from 1977
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This is this administration perfected.
And 27 years after that album, they were still releasing cool stuff that still sounds like Yes.
– This months required essay: “The post-totalitarian system, an example in post modern society”. All essays must be at least 300 words, double spaced, and neatly typed. Variance earns a dnc. Work must be tendered by the third Friday in the current month. Grades count as 1/5th of the semester total. Grading will be based on freshness of ideas and discussion, as added to the base argumentation. Simple rewrite of existing works is unacceptable.Example.
Holder investigating Holder just about makes the case for appointing a Special Prosecutor, doesn’t it?
– Yes Ernst, thats a no brainer. However there’s no need to rush it. The more traps the rats talk themselves into the better, and the hotter the fires at 2014 election time, the better still.
OT: When seconds count, the police are unavailable due to budget cuts.
(via Glenn Reynolds)
when seconds count you need to hurry the fuck up
chop chop
shake a leg
get the lead out
In this case, Joe Biden gave better advice.
so sick of joe biden i can’t even tell you
i think he could beat roobs though in a 2016 presidential contest if it came to it
he’s untouched by scandal, this joe biden
has anybody noticed that?
i know it just speaks to his irrelevance, but still
keep an eye on that fucker
This is interesting:
something about condoms is the takeaway there
Hard work and nose to the old grindstone.
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From the post geoff linked:
I’m not so sure that’s really the case. And even if it is, I’m not sure that it’s at all helpful.
meanwhile roobs is just gonna slip in the tip of his turgid immigration scheme would you like another glass of cabernet
In fact, I’m fairly sure it’s not any consolation, because, even though you can’t motivate them to do the work, you can motivate them to work against you by theatening their rice bowls.
And what is the tea party other than a movement of tax payers tired of paying for other peoples’ rice bowls?
– Unfortunately, a few rotten apples, strategically placed, can ruin the entire harvest.
And left has been strategically placing those rotten apples since the thirties, at least.
I’d like to complete the quote.
So ideologues as the bosses and incompetent/lazy slugs below them who just want to keep the bosses apple polished so those travel budgets and other perks keep on keepin’ on.
How to spend 3 1/2 trillion and have nothing much to show for it other than some nice trips, with pictures and golfing, and a fully funded gold plated pension.
That was the point Lord made in the AmSpec blog post I linked.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding formerspook’s point, but I don’t find it any consolation that the bureaucrats, for the most part, aren’t out to get me for ideological reasons. It’s sufficient that they’re after me because they expect me to keep supporting them in the style to which they’ve been accustomed.
His conclusion.
thanks for the reminder.
But what it’s really time to do is to start lopping heads off of this hydra.
Agreed.
G’Nite.
To you as well.
We had a big storm in Austin today. Nothing like the thing that smashed into Oklahoma and Kansas, last week, but it got pretty loud and what with it being almost Memorial Day I did worry a little bit. It added up to 2.8″ of rain though which the yard will appreciate greatly.
Imagine a Leviathan staffed top-to-bottom with Lois Lerners?
Unless we’re assuming such a State would of necessity be much, much smaller and less able to impose its malevolence, which, I’m not sure that’s a safe assumption.
In more hopeful news, Brandon Raub is suing the bastards.