Well, I guess that’s me pretty well fucked by now, what with massive ammo purchases, visits to online gun shops and hotbikerbabes.com, not to mention this here blog. Send in the Morality Police.
Can one get a negative “social credit score”? Because that’s what I’m shooting for [sic].
Oh, here’s a charming little piece. The post heading reads:
The Seditionists Need A Path Back Into Society
…and it’s all about how the Left can make accommodations to learn to live with us, the poor misguided 75 million people who actually voted for Trump in 2020.
Whom she charmingly calls, “Seditionists.”
Now I’m not going to fisk the whole article because I’m trying to keep my breakfast pint of gin to only one per day, but let me just make one observation. Here’s an example of Applebaum’s towering condescension:
Not all Republicans are seditionists, nor is everyone who voted for Trump, nor is every conservative: Nothing about rejecting your country’s political system is conservative.
Here’s a tip for The Atlantic and its writers:
We’re not rejecting our country’s political system. We’re protesting the fact that our votes were nullified by massive injections of fraudulent ballots in states which would otherwise have gone overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
Or, put another way: if our political system — the one that the Left seems to have installed — is now going to systematically allow wholesale criminal alterations of voting preferences by the addition of fraudulent ballots: then fuck yes, we’re going to reject it.
Until such time as you understand this, there will never — never — be any kind of accommodation towards the Left by us conservatives.
What happened at the Capitol wasn’t an “insurrection”, it was a protest. If you want to see an insurrection — and I promise you, you don’t — just keep squeezing us: keep calling us names such as “seditionists”, keep preventing us from getting jobs because of our political philosophy, keep talking about “re-educating” or “reprogramming” us and our children into obedience to your foul Marxist doctrine, keep shutting us out of social media, keep muzzling conservative voices, keep trampling all over our First Amendment rights in general, keep trying to infringe our Second Amendment rights, and in short, keep trying to push us out of the American society and polity.
You Marxists think that the protest at the Capitol was the bite of a savage dog (you know, the one that keeps getting teased until it snaps). It wasn’t a bite — it wasn’t even a nip.
So keep trying to take away conservatives’ votes (like with the horrible “For the People Act of 2021”, which entrenches the wrongdoing of 2020). Just remember the switch in the above picture.
As your own Glenn Greenwald has written:
The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming
No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.
Good question.
If, that is, you’re going to categorize all 75 million of us as “terrorists”. That should be interesting.
When I saw this linked at Insty’s, I nearly fell over. It’s an overview of the very first bill (H.R.1) proposed by the new House of Representatives, the grand-sounding “For the People Act of 2021”, whose preamble reads:
To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and implement other anti-corruption measures for the purpose of fortifying our democracy, and for other purposes.
This has to be a hoax because the bill, if anything, entrenches all the above.
Except that it isn’t a hoax. To check on that before I posted anything, I looked it up at congress.gov, and here it is, in all its disgusting splendor.
If one — ONE — Republican legislator in either chamber votes in favor of this, they should be subject to recall in their districts and replaced with someone who understands the actual sanctity of the vote.
That’s my official position. The unofficial position I’ll leave to your imagination, but here’s a clue:
Blogging has always been fun. It’s fairly easy for me to write about, well, anything, and when all else fails, there’s always this:
…this:
…or this:
In these times, however — the times that try men’s souls (to coin a phrase) — there seems little incentive to pass comment about what just happened to us, and what is likely to happen to us. All I feel is sullen rage, resentment and a burning desire to bite the head off a rattlesnake.
I wish sometimes that I could be a Lefty, and take to the streets, burn shit down and in general act like a 10-year-old child; but I can’t do that. The very thought of causing destruction to innocent people’s property, or beating people up in the streets, or doing any of that crap that the Left are so fond of doing when they feel aggrieved — well, I’m not going to do any of it. Futile gestures are not my thing.
But at the same time, I feel like I’m living in some kind of hellish limbo. I know, this is no doubt how the Left felt after Hillary Clinton lost; but the difference is that while Trump was never going to put homosexuals into concentration camps, or overturn Roe v. Wade, or start deporting people en masse, there is every reason to suspect that the new crop of Lefties really are going to raise our taxes, try to confiscate our guns, muzzle our voices and fuck up our economy under the guise of “saving the planet” or some such bullshit.
So please forgive me if over the next few days or so the quality of this blog seems to head downhill, wherein I seem to be just mailing it in instead of giving it the gas.
Normal service will resume shortly, probably with even more invective and loathing than before. Right now, however, I just feel like tying George Soros to a chair and beating him to death with a baseball bat.
And I may just reconfigure this blog somewhat, with a new, less self-pitying name. Watch this space, and content yourself with this thought:
From some Dead White Guy:
“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
Thou play’dst most foully for’t.”
Pat Buchanan has similar, albeit less poetic thoughts on the topic.
Never have the words of the Bard seemed so appropriate:
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
See y’all tomorrow. I’m off to the range.
I was also there yesterday, btw:
Just getting the old eye in and trigger finger exercised…
Eat shit, Biden.
When they write the obituary of the Republican Party and, for that matter, the republic itself, they may as well just use this lament in its entirety.
Raised to be a Republican, I held my nose and voted for Bush, the Texas-talking blue blood from Connecticut who lied us into 2 wars and gave us the unpatriotic Patriot Act. I voted for McCain, the sociopathic neocon songbird “hero” that torpedoed the attempt to kill the Obamacare that’s killing my family financially. I held it again and voted for Romney, the vulture capitalist skunk that masquerades as a Republican while slithering over to the Democrat camp as often as they’ll tolerate his oily, loathsome presence.
And I voted for Trump, who, if he did nothing else, at least gave a resounding Bronx cheer to the richly deserving smug hypocrites of DC. Thank you for that Mr. President, on behalf of all of us nobodies. God bless you for it.
And now I have watched as people who hate me and mine and call for our destruction blatantly and openly stole the election and then gaslighted us and told us that it was honest and fair. I am watching as the GOP does NOTHING about it. They’re probably relieved that upstart Trump is gone so they can get back to their real jobs of lining their pockets and running interference for their corporate masters. I am watching as the media, in a manner that would make Stalin blush, is silencing anyone who dares question the legitimacy of this farce they call democracy. I know, it’s a republic, but I am so tired of explaining that to people I might as well give in and join them in ignorance.
I think she’s speaking for all of us.