Category: Politics

Trying not to start the public floggings

Proportionate Response

Foreign Affairs, Law and Order

See, here’s the kind of statement that makes me want to reach for the old nail-studded cluebat.  (I know I know, it’s a Brit ergo a fucking dumbass / ideologue, but I’ve heard the same drivel being spouted by our Lefty assholes Over Here.)

British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has said that not all ethnic groups should be treated the same by police in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who died in police handcuffs after officers refused to believe he had been stabbed by a Sikh man.

Wait, it gets better:

Lammy, who also serves as the left-wing Labour Party government’s Justice Secretary, said that while the “starting point” should be equality before the law, it is not always appropriate to be treated “the same”, noting the disproportionate arrest rates of certain ethnic minority groups, such as Roma travellers [Gypsies] and black Britons.

…and as we all know, the reason that gypsies and Black Britons get disproportionately arrested is — wait for it — because they commit a disproportionate number of the crimes.

It stands to reason (except to people like this twerp) that if you go fishing in a pond where 80% of the fish are yellow-colored, you’re going to catch a disproportionate number of yellow fish.

I’d like to give tits like this Lammy the benefit of the doubt — i.e. that they’re just statistically ignorant — but the truth of the matter is that for them, everything is viewed through the RAAAYYYYYCISM! lens.

Which is what led to the horrible outcome for the Nowak kid, above.  (For those who don’t know what that story was all about, go here.)

No Authority

Immigration, Legal Stuff

I’m getting really sick of the judiciary usurping the Constitutional power of the POTUS.  Here’s the latest little tick on the hide of our republic:

A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from halting legal immigration and asylum applications from nearly 40 countries deemed “high-risk” by officials.

“Each of the Challenged Policies — the Global Asylum Hold Policy, the Benefits Hold Policy, the Comprehensive Re-Review Policy, and the Country-Specific Factors Policy — are declared unlawful and are hereby VACATED and SET ASIDE,” McConnell wrote in his ruling.

See, I thought that we Americans — and most especially the President — could absolutely decide who and who not to allow into the country.

Needless to say, the aforementioned judge is not only an Obama pustule, but also resident in Rhode Island (as if we needed any more proof of his Leftism).

I’m curious as to what grounds this creep used to classify all those policies as “illegal” — I’m hoping that one of my Powdered Wig Readers will be sufficiently interested to cast an eye on the actual ruling and decipher it for us.

Also just out of curiosity:  how many federal judges has Trump appointed in the past eighteen months?  Because that seems to be the only (legal) way we can overwhelm assholes like this from subverting the Executive.

Note that I’m not advocating this:

… although some might.

Excellent — Or Funny?

Budgets, Politics, Trumpism

I see that the U.S. is finally going to get serious about our energy infrastructure:

One announcement Trump is set to make is the allocation of $425 million in Defense Production Act (DPA) funds to aid 13 coal plants in Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, per the official. Funding will also support coal mines in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

The official noted that funding will enable coal plants to extend their operational life through investment in upgrades, strengthen grid reliability, and prevent electricity prices from surging with demand.

So because it’s being funded by the DPA (as it should be), there’s no haggling with Congress required.  But the very next little addendum is what got me giggling:

The president is also expected to tell reporters that $75 million in DPA funding will help construct a coal-export terminal in Oakland, California, the official said.

One wonders what the Watermelons in California will think of their beloved Golden Shower State becoming a conduit for the EEEEVIL COLE to be sent out to pollute other nations’ air.  Maybe their feelings will be assuaged by this:

The West Gateway project is anticipated to create 1,400 on-site jobs and support thousands more in the western states.

…not that California ever cared about those icky blue-collar jobs, though.

There’s a lot more good news, but read the rest of the thing to get it all.

I personally think that the coal-mining industry would be far better served by the elimination of most if not all of the tiresome Obama/Biden-era EPA restrictions, but that would involve Congress and we all know what horrors, foot-dragging and tantrums that would cause.

Quote Of The Day

QOTD, Watermelons

Concerning the inconvenient facts that confront the Climate Screamies:

Equatorial island chains stubbornly refusing to disappear below rising seas, the Great Barrier Reef hitting record coral levels, animal populations thriving, with higher CO2 levels (almost entirely from natural geological emissions) bringing record greening to parts of the planet that desperately need it. But then again with atmospheric CO2 levels of a scant 420ppm (with industrially insane mankind providing just a trace proportion of that), which in our distant past were as high as 6,000ppm, and which would witness the end to life on earth if they fell below 180ppm, reality, sadly for the cultists, is dawning. — Danny Lockwood

So long, losers.  First it was the Population Bomb, then the New Ice Age, then Glueball Wormening, then (unspecified) Climate Change.  Sprinkle liberally [sic]  with Pandemic Fairy Dust, and you have a near-complete list of bullshit that has been used to frighten the global population into some kind of societal regression.

And sadly, it’s mostly worked.  Except, of course, in places that are contributing the most towards the befoulment of the planet — that would be China, Southeast Asia, Africa and other Third World shitholes — but we can’t say anything bad about these people of course because RAAYYYYCISM! (And there’s the final item on the list.)

A pox on all of them.

Another RINO Gone

Elections, Trumpism

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (TX) was always an Establishment RINO — hell, he only ever got into the Senate because his opponent was some nutcase, and then he’s had the incumbent’s advantage ever since.  And he’s been a royal pain in the ass, too.

Cornyn promised to support Trump’s recess appointments and then blocked the nominees the very next day.  He also announced that Trump could face indictment for insurrection after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, while promoting the fake news that protestors had killed a Capitol police officer.  The incumbent senator even endorsed amnesty for illegal aliens.  Oh, and he supported “red flag” gun laws after the Uvalde school shooting, thus pissing off people like Yer Humble Narrator and a few million other gun owners.

Not anymore.  Yesterday, I and (it appears) a whole bunch of other pissed-off conservative Texans got together and kicked his RINO ass out:

He got Dallas because that’s more or less his home turf, and Austin because a) Austin is asshoe, and b) they voted for him because they must have thought Cornyn would be easier to beat in the Generals later this year, which again shows how delusional the Left can be*.  (And nobody cares what Corpus Christi thinks.)

So long, RINO.

And well done, Pax.  Get up there and start representing Texas.  Just remember who brung you to the dance, and all will be well in the future.

*The Evil Party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate race in November will be one James Talarico, who thinks God is non-binary, abortion is Christian, and Jesus was a pro-transgenderism feminist.  (I am not making this up.)

Oh, and one last thought about elections:

Those Brits…