Tag: Evil Bastards

The Actual Totalitarians

Anarchist thugs, Marxists, Riotous Assemblies, Terrorism

Victor Davis Hanson points out (in not quite so many words) that in politics, there’s nothing new under the sun — most especially since the French Revolution, that is — and that the “Democrat Party” of today should just be honest about it and rename themselves the Jacobin Party.

Why?

Jacobinism aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors.  (Sound familiar?)

And VDH then goes on to list the offenders and offences:

BLM (actually, it’s Antifa, the only omission he makes), biological men competing in women’s sports, critical legal theory normalizing cashless bail, race-based reparations, violent felons arrested and back on the street hours later, radical abortion on demand until birth, attacks on the concept of the cultural “melting pot” and opposition to organized Christianity.

Read the whole article for the full catalogue.

Here’s the question to ponder.  Never mind what they might say;  which is the political party in the U.S. that actively supports terrorism?  And let’s be clear by what we mean by “terrorism”:  threatening assassination, supporting assassinations or calling for the same, beating up political opponents, calling for violence against those who refuse to support their policies (e.g. Supreme Court justices), using “grassroots” street protests to cow and intimidate opposition… the list goes on and on.

Yup:  that list belongs to the modern-day Jacobins — just as it was back in the late eighteenth century.  They would make history repeat itself, if they could.  And never forget that the term “Reign of Terror” was also coined during the French Revolution, by the Jacobins.  Ipse dixit.

Lovely Trip, Shame About The Nazis

Travels

The Daily Mail’s Bel Mooney writes:

We took a rare holiday, on the River Danube, cruising from Passau to beautiful Budapest. It seemed amazing that in one week we could set foot in Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary – flying visits, of course, but fascinating nonetheless.

Among many memories, two things stand out in my mind. First, near Linz in Austria (which Hitler considered his hometown) is Mauthausen Memorial site. This was one of the most brutal and severe of the Nazi concentration camps; prisoners suffered not only from malnutrition, overcrowding and constant abuse and beatings, but also from exceptionally hard labour.

We saw the terrible quarry where they were broken and killed, the gas chamber, and the heart-breaking ‘Room of Names’ honouring the thousands of dead: political enemies of the Nazis, Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and (of course) the Jews, who were treated with the worst brutality.

You might think that doesn’t sound like holiday fun, and you’d be correct. But we need to bear witness to what can happen in plain sight of ‘innocent’ communities all around. Extremism and collusion can happen all too easily within societies. Mauthausen made me weep and rage – the only possible response. I shall never forget it.

It’s happier to recall the national pride of guides in (especially) Bratislava and Budapest. We heard how students and workers rose up against the Soviet oppressors and how the end of Communism enabled Slovakia and Hungary to be reborn.

I loved their delight in their own culture, their wish to protect it, and the welcoming patriotism that made me suspect they were rather sorry for us tourists – born elsewhere. It was genuine, unforced and I couldn’t help but wish we had more of it here.

I had precisely the same reaction upon visiting Dachau, outside Munich — tears of rage and sadness, even though it came in the middle of an otherwise-idyllic vacation in Austria and southern Germany.

I think it behooves us, every time we travel abroad, to take a day off from the museums and bistros and rub our noses in the history of the place.  Otherwise, we are just tourists and not travelers.

Reasonable Suggestion

Shootin' Time

I was struck by the attitude of this woman (as linked by Insty), who feels that Trump supporters should be put in a large room, like a gas chamber.  (She doesn’t actually advocate dropping the Zyklon-B crystals, of course;  she just wants to see Trump supporters wail and grovel.)

Of course, she’s living in some benighted delusion, unencumbered by the reality of what she’s suggesting.  It’s actually laughable, for all the right reasons:

  • That’s a big-ass room she’s talking about.  Even something the size of, say, Madison Square Garden would only hold about 25,000 people — of approximately 60 million Trump supporters.  I suppose she’d want to round up Trump supporters on a piecemeal basis, which leads us to:
  • Who is the “we” she’s talking about?  Who, exactly, is going to do the rounding  up?  The police?  The Army?  Has she considered the possibility that Trump’s support among these agencies might make them reluctant to go to a Trump-supporting household and politely ask us to go on a little one-way journey?  Of course, that reluctance may also manifest itself in fear for their lives, because of the next point.
  • We Trump supporters, by and large, may constitute the single-largest group of armed civilians on the planet, and would probably decline the offer of a trip to MSG from some ill-defined  Totenkopf agents.
  • Clearly, some kind of universal disarmament program must first be enacted, which in itself would be somewhat interesting.

Really, what she wants to see is Trump supporters cower in fear.  I wonder if she’s ever considered that we, as a group, are not especially fearful people?

So here’s my simple suggestion.

Even for someone as deluded as this AWFL, some testing needs to be done first, to ascertain the feasibility of what she’s advocating — a sample study, if you will.  Let’s see how disarmament and deportation to Madison Square Garden works out for them.

I will quite happily sign on to be one of the sample group.  In other words:  start with me, bitch.

Of course, what her little tirade shows is the actual depth of hatred these people have for us conservatives.  Fine:  let them hate away all they want.  But she and all her little cohorts need to understand that hatred alone will not be sufficient to enact what she’s suggesting.

But reality was never a strong suit of leftism, anyway.

Weapons-Grade Stupidity

Anti-Gun Nannies

…and no, this isn’t a dig against the .dotmil.  But you have to admit that this kind of stupidity is kinda different — an upgrade, if you will — from just the usual Congressional idiocy:

Pennsylvania state Rep. and former Democratic Party Vice-Chair Malcolm Kenyatta pushed a ban on “military-grade weapons” after the handgun/shotgun attack that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD).

Yeah, by all means let’s ban include pump-action shotguns and handguns in the category of “military-grade weapons” (whatever that means) — because after all, the military does use them, right?

Sheesh, when clowns like this can be elevated to the position of Democrat Party Vice-Chair, what does that say for the people who couldn’t make the grade?  And to use a sporting term, how deep is their bench of quality politicians?

Simple answer, of course, is that the current Democrat Party has no bench;  their talent pool, which may once have contained intelligent men like Tip O’Neill and Sam Rayburn have all been driven out of the party leadership in favor of vacuous idiots like AOC and larcenous malcontents like Ilhan Omar, all by the hard Marxists who are now the nomenklatura of the Party Of Jefferson — who by now would have used a handgun on pretty much all of them if he could see what they’ve done to it.

As for this moron Kenyatta, he’s just trying to leverage any opportunity to get guns out of the hands of citizens.  At least he’s behaving quite like his namesake, who was also an Afro-Socialist.

Because Of Course It’s The Guns

Anti-Gun Nannies, Marxists

Here we go again:

Forty-five years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton hotel in Washington, injuring the US president and three others. Obsessed with the actor Jodie Foster, and seeking to gain her attention, the shooter had initially pursued Reagan’s Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter.

On Saturday night, the hotel again rang to shots as it hosted the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. Tuxedo-clad politicians and journalists dived under tables as bangs were heard from the lobby, and Donald Trump was rushed from the stage. A secret service agent was shot, though saved by his ballistics vest. The echoes of the 1981 attack are a potent reminder that violence has long been a tragic strand of the American political tradition. Gun violence is grimly familiar. This does not diminish the seriousness of an incident that was widely and rightly condemned. Rather, it highlights its importance. …

The shooting also demonstrates once more the calamitous effect of gun culture. The US has 120 firearms for every 100 residents. While shooting homicides fell last year, on average they killed 40 people each day. A 2024 study by the violence research programme at the University of California, Davis suggested that many recent firearms purchasers were open to political violence.

Well, it’s The Guardian (no link because fukkem) so let me just address a few of the fallacies therein.

Let’s start with “the calamitous effect of gun culture.”   The really calamitous effects of an unarmed citizenry (the opposite of a gun culture) is when the government starts the wholesale massacre or imprisonment of its citizens.  To use but two such examples, we have the Soviet Union in the 1930s and the Cambodian killing fields of the 1980s.  Of course, the fucking Guardian isn’t ever going to talk about those because the massacres happened under the type of government — that would be “Marxist” — that they themselves support and wish were in power.

“While shooting homicides fell last year, on average they killed 40 people each day.”  Sounds horrible, dunnit?  Except that in 2024, the total number of deaths was 3,072,666, or 8,418 per day.  Ummmm carry the three… so gunshot deaths (assuming that 40/day is accurate hem hem) accounted for 0.48% of the total.  Let’s do a little comparison, shall we?

Gunshot deaths per day:  40.  Now the U.S. daily death rate (according to these guys) breaks down by category as follows:

  • Heart disease:  1,873 (22%)
  • Cancer:  1,698 (20%)
  • Accidents (all causes):  541 (6.4%)
  • Stroke:  457 (5.4%)
  • Chronic lower respiratory diseases:  399 (4.7%)
  • Alzheimer’s:  317 (3.8%)
  • Diabetes:  258 (3.1%)
  • Liver disease/cirrhosis:  143 (1.7%)

Oh, and I’m willing to bet that the Guardian‘s 40 gunshot deaths per day includes suicides, which each year account for about half of all gun deaths.

Okay, one last thing:  “…many recent firearms purchasers were open to political violence.”  Yeah, and considering the recent spate of would-be assassins, almost all those thus predisposed were lefties or nutcases.  In this country, they are akin to Guardian readers.

Fucking prats, the lot of them.

Yeah, We’ll Never Know

Anarchist thugs, Marxists

…what the WHPC shooter’s motives were, according to that lying sack of shit Obama:

“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it’s incumbent upon us all to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.”

Yeah, apart from the scrote’s actual published words, that is.  The guy could have been carrying a handwritten, signed note in his pocket saying “I want to kill Trump!” and I bet Obama would still have said the same thing, the mealymouthed little motherfucker.

It’s always about “plausible deniability” with these socialist scumbags, isn’t it?

Here’s how I see it.  There are two sets of “motives” with all these so-called “random shooters”.  The first set of motives is the obvious ones, e.g. what he himself said his motives were.

The second set of motives is what I referred to in last week’s post about the Anarchists’ Playbook:

All these “Ego” Anarchists had responded to the principle of Anarchy — “The Idea”, as Barbara Tuchman described it in the Proud Tower — and its primary focus was on destruction of a state or institution, perpetrated by a lone individual guided by near-insanity or else a mind infused with hatred for “the System” and its leaders.

We’re seeing it now, all over again:  Charlie Kirk of Turning Point, assassinated by Tyler Robinson;  Brian Thompson of United Healthcare, assassinated by Luigi Mangione, and various other such attempted assassinations.

…and now we can add this latest little turd to the file of “attempted assassinations”.

Barack Obama and his merry little band of Commies can bleat all they want about unknown motives, but they are flat-out lying.  They know all too well what these motives are because they’re encouraging them, they and their little lickspittles in the media and academia.

I need to quit now before I’m accused of suggesting that Obama et al. should be dragged up the gallows stairs for being guilty of fomenting insurrection and assassinations.