Both picked up in the comments thread on this Powerline post: HASTA LA VISTA, SOCIALISM?
And no one is ever safe from ideas that appeal to the ignorant.
Make Venezuela Great Again
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What is the Democrat response to the Venezuelan counter-revolution?
MADURO ON BRINK?
USA RECOGNIZES GUAIDO AS PRESIDENT
BATTLE OF CARACAS
The news is a few hours old but I am still waiting for the reaction of any of the Democrats, and of course, Miss Ocasio-Cortez. The left are the bringers of misery and destruction. The most blatantly socialist regime in the world today. No one in their right mind could support such manifest horrors. But our Marxist-Progressive loons, and their brothers in the media and elsewhere, are so ideologically blind that the misery and harm of others is nothing compared with the misery they would feel having to give up their idiotic economic and political ideas. Unless you are personally relieved to see these efforts to rid Venezuela of its socialist experiment you are yourself as loony as the rest of your socialist confreres.
I cannot think the Dems have much choice other than to welcome the change in public, but I suspect whatever they might say, they do not believe it for a moment, not in their secret heart of hearts.
What’s she going to do to stop him coming, build a wall?
There’s never been anyone like him with the above letter published on Instagram.
The key sentences:
Therefore, I will be honoring your invitation, and fulfilling my Constitutional duty, to deliver important information to the people and Congress of the United States of America regarding the state of our union.
I look forward to seeing you on the evening of January 29th in the Chamber of the House of Representatives. It would be so very sad for our Country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very important, on location!
And do notice the exclamation mark. What’s she going to do to stop him coming, build a wall?
UPDATE: From the comments: “Trump canceled the SOTU speech about half an hour before you posted this.”
We’ll just have to see what the next stage is going to be. The latest from the now anti-Trump Drudge:
Week 5: Shutdown votes set up political test for Senate...
Centrist Dems urge Pelosi to break stalemate...
New Offer? Green Cards...
IRS Warns of Tax Refund Delay...
POLL: Trump Disapproval Hits High...
'Build a Wall & Crime Will Fall!'
White House: Economy May Not Grow In First Quarter...
NANCY: NO STATE OF UNION!
President Looking At 'Alternative'...
An amazing test of wills. This is Pelosi’s letter in reply.
Dear Mr. President:
When I extended an invitation on January 3rd for you to deliver the State of the Union address, it was on the mutually agreed upon date, January 29th. At that time, there was no thought that the government would still be shut down.
In my further correspondence of January 16th, I said we should work together to find a mutually agreeable date when government has re-opened and I hope that we can still do that.
I am writing to inform you that the House of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the President’s State of the Union address in the House Chamber until government has opened.
Again, I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened.
Sincerely,
Nancy Pelosi
Envy is the worst and most corrupting
Steve Hayward has a post that deals with one of favourite books on one of my favourite topics: Helmut Schoeck’s Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior, from which he pulls this quote:
It would be a miracle if the democratic political process were ever to renounce the use of the envy-motive. Its usefulness derives, if for no other reason, from the fact that all that is needed, in principle, is to promise the envious the destruction or the confiscation of assets enjoyed by the others; beyond that there is no need to promise anything more constructive. The negativism of envy permits even the weakest of candidates to sound reasonably plausible, since anybody, once in office, can confiscate or destroy. To enlarge the country’s capital assets, to create employment etc., requires a more precise programme. Candidates will naturally try to make some positive proposals, but it is often all too apparent that envy looms large in their calculations. The more precarious the nation’s economy at election time, the stronger the temptations for politicians to make ‘redistribution’ their main plank, even when they know how little margin is left for redistributive measures, and, worse still, how likely they are to retard economic growth.
Then in the comments there was this which I thought rounded out the point:
I have been maintaining for some time now that the Democrat party platform basically incorporates all of the Seven Deadly Sins. The envy is obvious, as noted above. Sloth is seen is the idea of easily obtained welfare or a “universal basic income” granted to everyone just for existing. Pride in their overwhelming belief that they are so much better and wiser than “normals.” Lust from their championing any and every sexual aberration and perversion. Gluttony is embodied in the idea that one should be able to do everything and have everything, never having to deny oneself any pleasure or experience or pay for it themselves (free college and healthcare are just the beginning), and avarice plays its role in their desire to have the state take what everyone else has produced. And anger … well, just look at their attitude towards their inability to elect Hillary and their hatred of Trump. But I do think that the worst and most corrupting of all these is envy.
Envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that provides no personal gain. You get nothing by being envious – unlike say from gluttony or lust – merely bile and self-loathing. But it works wonders for politics on the left in its own repulsive way.
Who’d a thought she’s a virgin?
Climate fantasies never go away
Nothing changes with these kooks. First this.
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. —The Observer, 22 February 2004
Now this.
The world is going to end in 12 years unless the government takes action, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Monday at a Martin Luther King forum in New York City.
Here’s an excerpt from her interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates:
“And I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II. And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3,000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system?
How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down. It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King spoke of. That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable. Until, we start pitching in and holding people accountable, I’m just gonna let them have it.”
OCASIO-CORTEZ ON MILLENNIALS: ‘WE’RE LIKE THE WORLD IS GOING TO END IN 12 YEARS IF WE DON’T ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE’
‘At some point these chronic realities do reach a breaking point’
Covington boys invited to the White House
From Covington Kids Going To The White House.
On Tuesday, Nick Sandmann, the student from Covington Catholic High school who was at the center of the controversy with Native American Nathan Phillips last Friday near the Lincoln Memorial, confirmed to The Daily Wire that the White House has reached out to host the students. Sandmann said, “The President wants to send a plane down to get us.”
The article speculates on why he might have extended the invitation, with this their final conclusion: “Trump simply wants to support the boys whom he thinks have been wronged.”
The actual reason is that PDT is the greatest marketing genius ever to become President, who is also aware that we are in a war for the survival of Western Civilisation, which has all those features dispensable on the left, such as free market economies, freedom of thought and freedom of religion, none of which is actually free but must be fought for and defended. And if you don’t think all of this is at risk, let me therefore bring this to your attention: 74% of Democrats would vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for President.
A new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll finds that 74% of Democrats (and people who lean Dem) would consider voting for Ocasio-Cortez if she were old enough to run for president. (She’s 29; you have to be at least 35.)
- That includes the 17% who would “definitely” vote for her.
- Jon Cohen, SurveyMonkey’s chief research officer, tells me: “These data show the phenomenon is real — she tops Sen. Schumer in favorability among Democrats and overall nearly rivals Speaker Pelosi.”
There are no principles on the left, only a will to power plus an astonishing level of ignorance.
(Cheers and applause)
There are a lot of stupid ignorant people around.
It’s “immoral” how America’s economic system “allows billionaires to exist,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), said Monday at a Martin Luther King forum in New York City.
Here’s an excerpt from her interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates:
COATES: “I hate to personalize this, but do you think it is immoral for individuals to, for instance — do we live in a moral world that allows for billionaires? Is that a moral outcome and and of itself?”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “No, it’s not. It’s not.
(Cheers and applause)
It’s not, and I think it is important to say that — I don’t think that necessarily means that all billionaires are immoral. It is not to say that someone like Bill Gates,for example, or Warren Buffett are immoral people. I do not believe that.”
COATES: “Like, he kicks his dog, stuff like that.”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “Yeah, I don’t — I’m not saying that, but I do think a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong.
(Applause)
And I think it’s wrong that — I think that it’s wrong that a vast majority of the country does not make a living great wage. I think it’s wrong that you can work 100 hours and not feed your kids. I think it’s wrong that corporations like Walmart and Amazon can get paid, they can get paid by the Government essentially, experience a wealth transfer from the public for paying people less than a minimum wage.”
From OCASIO-CORTEZ: ‘IMMORAL’ OUR SYSTEM ‘ALLOWS BILLIONAIRES TO EXIST’. And then this from Drudge.
CORTEZ CRACKS: WORLD ENDING IN 12 YEARS!
Which comes with this: Ray Dalio Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Ideas Are Taking Root
Cat in the Hat
A MAGA hat!
The Covington Boys
My interest in ideology goes back as far as I can remember. No one can live without ideology. It is a sorting mechanism that gives everyone a perspective on the events of life. In the West, there are at the present two broad ideologies that are at an almost 50-50 division, and its outcome will determine our future as a civilisation. There is on the one hand, the Judeo-Christian ethic that has evolved across the past two millennia and is itself built on the Greek and Roman ethos that goes back further still. It is the basis for our free market economic system and our democratic form of political organisation.
On the other side there is a Marxist-Progressive ideology that has as its base a absurd Utopian perspective that believes all of our social and economic problems would disappear if we rid ourselves of our Judeo-Christian ethic and replaced it with some form of dictatorship of the representatives of the proletariat. Name the problem – racism, inequality, poverty – they will fix it. Just put power into their hands and all will be done. The carriers of this ideological perspective have a track record so abysmal that you can barely believe anyone would admit to believing such vile nonsense, but that’s the role of ideology. Once you accept a perspective on the world, you are impervious to criticism.
Which brings me to The Covington Boys, an issue I thought of as so trivial that it was hardly worth a passing moment. Even if a bunch of high school kids had said some mean things to an Aboriginal American war veteran, it never really seemed much of anything. Yet it is turning out to be a true watershed moment. Here is the summary: YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO HOW THE MEDIA TRIED RUINING THE LIVES OF INNOCENT TEENAGERS.
- The media smelled blood when a video seemingly showed a group of teenage boys bullying an older Native American protester.
- Newer videos showed that the protester had actually approached the students, who were also receiving slurs shouted by a group of radical activists.
- The media’s misleading reports happened at a time when the students were facing death threats.
Not stated above is that the boys were attending an anti-abortion rally in Washington while wearing MAGA hats. That they are only high school students meant nothing since any symbol will do for a Progressive-Marxist ideologue. If you would like a longer explanation, you can find it here: Lessons From an Online Lynching (Why #StandWithCovington Is Going Viral).
LET ME ADD THIS:
Law of Markets 