…here’s that old Stalinist yapping again:
Senator Bernie Sanders (C-VT) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that if former President Donald Trump wins the presidential election, billionaire businessman Elon Musk would likely be “running the government.”
Running it? No. Helping Trump take it down? We can only hope.
Here’s a little more news from California, this time over a ballot measure that will install rent control.
The only honest assertion that proponents of a rent control initiative make in their campaign ads is the fact that rent is too high in California. But rent control will make things even worse. As it is, most developers will not do business in California. Why try to build a subdivision in Silicon Valley, where the permits may take 10-20 years to get approved, when they can go to Texas and get plans approved in 10-20 weeks? Why build anything in a state where at any moment another environmentalist organization can file a lawsuit that will take millions of dollars and several years to resolve?
I have a clear and simple philosophy in terms of anything to do with the Golden Shower State and its doings: California’s example in the “laboratory of the states” is where we learn precisely what not to do — i.e. when California does some thing or other, the best policy is to do the polar opposite.
Rent control is just the latest in a long, long line of stupid policies from the Left.
And yes, we all know (or should) that rent control eventually causes a shortage of housing — we’ve already seen that on Planet Manhattan — but hey; if California wants to compound their stupidity (e.g. as in the above, of making new home builds almost impossible) with still further stupidity (rent control of existing homes), why should the rest of the states with a cumulative IQ above room temperature not just sit back, point and giggle when the whole state blows up?
Sorry, I just had a vision of California blowing up cataclysmically. So please forgive me while I go off to that warm, wonderful place created by the prospect.
Speaking of foul political females, I see that Her Filthiness has opened her fat yap again:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called for Americans to be “criminally charged” if they engage in speech that sounds like Russian propaganda.
Some might say that just a few decades ago, such charges could have been brought against Clinton herself.
But of course, four decades ago it wasn’t “Russia” but the “Soviet Union”.
Rancid Stalinist bitch.
From Insty, referring to this post:
“Let’s be honest, the people running the world are not only corrupt, but spectacularly incompetent. For their lousy performance alone they should be tarred and feathered; for their “impudence” in attempting dictatorship they deserve worse. But it really seems that over the past few years the ruling class of the West has been preparing for war against its owns citizenry. Again: Why?”
Because, Professor Reynolds, the socialist state has always been better at waging war against its own people than against foreigners. The French Revolution’s Reign of Terror was not directed at the Germans, Spanish or the Italians, but against the very French citizens the Revolution had purported to liberate. The Communist Revolution in 1917 Russia ended up slaughtering and imprisoning far more working- and middle-class Russians than had ever been killed under the Romanovs.
And it will be far easier for the West’s ruling class to oppress the populace than t would be to, say, oppress foreigners. The ubiquitous surveillance cameras are in London, Los Angeles, Paris and Berlin — not in Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro or Manila. And the coming clampdown on free speech will affect Musk’s TwitterX, Bill Whittle and me and the Readers of this website, not Burmese peasants or Masai cattle herders.
Not only was it untrue that Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia; there’s a distinct possibility that Oceania had never been at war with Eastasia — the war being simply a propaganda concoction to justify the repression of the inhabitants of Oceania.
So when the lackeys of the ruling class — that would be, say, the police forces of Britain and the FBI here in the US — start muttering darkly about the “hard-Right” or “MAGA-followers” as they prepare for mass arrests and imprisonments, it’s us they’ll be coming for.
As for Glenn’s why? the answer’s simple: because they can. Glenn is a thoughtful, intelligent and civilized man, and he simply cannot comprehend the feral nature of those who would rule over us.
They — to a man — are amoral cocksuckers. And the sooner we recognize that and start treating them accordingly, the better.
Reader Mike S. tells me he has taken out a bank loan to afford all the popcorn he’s going to need for this little shit-show:
Things are quickly heating up in Chicago. Nervous Democrats are wondering if the city might come under siege by swarms of pro-Palestinian protesters and/or if they will face riots by extremists – with the explicit goal of defeating Kamala Harris. Public estimates are that between 30,000 to 50,000 protesters are expected to enter the city.
A vast coalition comprising of more than 200 Palestinian, Marxist, anti-imperialist and progressive organizations have signed on to join the “March on the DNC 2024” which is planning marches and rallies between August 19 and 21.
Meanwhile, Chicago authorities have opened a defunct courthouse to streamline arrests and have cleared 30 additional courtrooms if there are mass arrests, according to NewsNation.
The city has postponed all criminal jury trials scheduled for next week and “criminal judges from other divisions of Cook County have been asked to clear their calendars in case they need to be called into action to help process those arrested,” according to the news channel.
Read the whole thing to get a full flavor of all the participants.
And I never ever thought I’d say this, but:
“Where’s Mayor Richard J. Daley when we really need him?”
Oh, and thanks, Mike; I’ll have a bowl of that popcorn, with extra butter please.
Here’s one little story that shouldn’t really surprise anybody, but apparently it has.
This man went to a Kamala event wearing a Trump shirt, and a Trump event wearing a Kamala shirt. The difference in how he was treated was stunning.
Look, the Left (especially in the Western hemisphere) has always been characterized by its boorish (and often dangerous) behavior when it comes to dealing with people who don’t share their loony little vision of a perfect world.
Of course, that boorishness extends to “Establishment” institutions as well. I remember Brando’s immortal line from On The Waterfront The Wild One where he is asked just what, exactly, he has got against the Establishment (or, in the modern idiom, the belittling term “normies”). His snarled answer of “What have you got?” typifies the attitude.
“Whatever we want is great and wonderful; opposition to that — no matter how well-founded or realistic — is not only wrong, but evil.”
Hence the vituperative reaction of Lefties to a Trump t-shirt at one of their rallies.
Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to be a lot more tolerant, even accommodating in the opposite scenario, which is probably one reason why the Left has been able to extend and indeed entrench its various little substitutions: free love for morality, intolerance for opposition, and so on.
Taking just one comparison: when the Left — in the shape of the loathsome Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman and their cohorts — took over college campuses in the late 1960s and the decades which followed, conservatives allowed them to occupy campus administration buildings in the name of “Free Speech!”, only evicting them when their behavior became too extreme to bear. Of course, that takeover had dolorous consequences, because those Leftists and their philosophical progeny took over campuses really took over universities and entrenched their foul little political philosophy by becoming lecturers and administrators. (One has only to look at what the Ivy League colleges have become to see exactly how rotten this takeover has made them.)
Now, of course, as the Left occupies most of academia and the media, not to mention popular culture, any opposition to them is not treated with the same respect as they were accorded, but with feral hostility. (One has only to see the reaction of the Left when Elon Musk turned Twitter from a Leftist organ into something more open-platformed to find evidence of such.)
One would expect such hostility from younger people, because young people are often passionate about their beliefs (even when, as is often the case, when they are demonstrably wrong). But if there’s one unifying characteristic of the modern Left, it’s that even their older adherents are similarly intolerant, and often as violent.
The comments to the above post are quite telling, and mostly reveal the stark differences between conservatives and the Left, e.g.:
You see, we make jokes about tossing Lefties from helicopters (thank you, General Pinochet); but the Left is the side which actually has the death squads, mass executions, gulags and “re-education camps”.
And if you think that such an outcome is impossible in the United States, you’re as delusional as they are.