Category: Politics

Trying not to start the public floggings

Unnamed Drivers (And Voters)

Bureaucracy, Marxists

Exhibit #1:

Additional note:  3 years is a “limited term”.

I’m not often in favor of yet more laws to be passed, but I think that if someone is injured or killed in an accident caused by one of these no-name drivers (or an illegal alien driver), the state in which the accident happened should have a prima facie  legal cause for suing the issuing state, for millions of dollars.

That, and the affected state should impose a mandatory life sentence without parole on the no-name (or illegal alien) driver — public executions no longer being fashionable.

I am getting so sick of this bullshit.

Cascade Options

Marxists, Resistance

Following from the Quote Of The Day above comes this observation about the political scenarios following Charlie Kirk’s murder, in order of awfulness:

  1. Popular revulsion against aboveground leftists
  2. A period of Caudillismo
  3. Low-grade civil war

Read the article to have each explained.

I’m not so sure that the last two options are realistic in the United States, because at the end of the day I think that the non-hysterical-Lefties (i.e. most of the country’s population) is too civilized for the second scenario (the appearance of a Franco/Pinochet type as the head of government), and indeed the Constitutional subjugation of the Armed Forces to civilian authority is a great deal stronger than in other countries, especially the volatile Latino ones.  I’m aware that Hitler’s rise to power came in an ordinarily-orderly society (Germany), but then again we’ve not just lost a World War and had to pay crippling reparations either.

In fact, I would suggest that Donald Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to a “strongman” head of state, and compared to (say) Augusto Pinochet, Trump is a complete softy.  And I think he’s unlikely to turn into a modern-day tyrant because he has only three more years in power and he’s getting old.

As for the third scenario (when the switch gets flipped, so to speak):

…it’s not gonna happen.  If the second scenario is unlikely, the civil war thing is exponentially less likely.

I know, I know, it’s a little disappointing as we all want to experience the Glorious Day (as Mr. Free Market describes it), but let’s be honest here:  it’s been over a hundred and fifty years since our last exposure to that little game, and frankly, I think we’re out of practice.   We still vote, for one thing, instead of manufacturing fake ballots.

Plus we have jobs to do, families to raise and laws to obey — unlike those assholes on the Dark Side.

But “highly unlikely” does not mean “impossible”.  Something the Left needs to be aware of.

Scrambling

Resistance

After years of calling conservatives “Nazis” and “right-wingers” and “fascists”, and then shooting at conservatives they disagree with, the Left are now urging restraint?

David Axelrod said Thursday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that conservatives saying we are at war in response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk were being “despicable.”

Wait… I thought we were “deplorable”?  Anyway:

Political commentator Dave Urban said, “It’s incumbent on every American. Don’t sit back on social media. Don’t don’t gripe about your neighbors. Reach out to people you disagree with, talk to them.”

What, and get murdered, like Charlie Kirk?

Ah don’ thank so, Scooter.  The time for polite engagement and civilized discussion is over.  Y’all have sown the wind — now prepare for the fucking whirlwind.

Weeping & Wailing

Resistance

As the various reptiles on the Left start facing the consequences of their actions, we get plaintive wails like this one:

…and the perfect response:

The old expression comes to mind, something about sowing winds and reaping whirlwinds.

And it’s only just started.  We are not done with these people.

Lottery Odds

Elections, Foreign Affairs, Politics

No, not the lottery;  the odds against this happening by pure coincidence:

Several candidates for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) have died in the lead-up to this month’s local elections in the country’s most populous state.

According to the German paper of record Die Welt, at least seven AfD candidates have died ahead of the September 14th elections in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Germany’s Deutsche Presse-Agentur wire service noted that a total of 16 candidates have died before the upcoming vote. Yet, no other party besides the Eurosceptic right-wing party has suffered more than one death..

And then this:

Authorities have stressed that there is so far no evidence of foul play in any of the deaths.

Considering that there’s a non-zero chance that the “authorities” may have been behind at least some of these deaths… well, okay.

Let’s look at it more closely:

Police have already confirmed natural causes in four of the AfD candidate deaths and said there are so far no indications of foul play in the others.

So (counting on fingers) that leaves a dozen or so “non-natural” causes.

Then there’s the “it happens all the time” rationale:

A North Rhine-Westphalia election commission spokesman told the DPA that the number of deaths was “not significantly higher” than in past elections, with tens of thousands of people running for seats in the state.

Speaking as a one-time analyst of data, though, I’d love to see a per-thousand number of deaths by party affiliation.

I’m not by nature a conspiracy theorist, but when I’m confronted by a low-probability / massively-coincidental series of events, I do become suspicious.  The scale of untimely pre-election and party-specific deaths here is positively Clintonian.

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that the high mortality of AfD candidates is extremely suspicious.